Getting and Giving: Manhood and Service

Getting and Giving: Manhood and Service
Volunteer firefighter Bruce Brunstad poses in Gates, Ore., on Sept. 10, 2020. Benjamin Franklin founded the first all-volunteer fire department in the United States. KATHRYN ELSESSER/AFP via Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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“We make a living by what we get,” Winston Churchill once said, “but we make a life by what we give.”
Unless we are fabulously wealthy or living in a monastery, we men are interested in making a living. As I wrote earlier, work has a special meaning for men, and part of that meaning has to do with making an income. At the least, we want to earn enough money to supply our needs and the needs of those depending on us.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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