Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley shares stories of his own Catholic upbringing with nuns who run "Grange de la Paix," a modern peace institute in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France on June 4, 2023. The peace institute has a beautiful wooden cone-shaped inner sanctuary that requires total silence. The talkative Milley joked about how long he might last in there. Milley was on his last visit to Normandy as a soldier and spent a lot of time soaking in the conversations …
September 29, 2023
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Traveling with Milley: A reporter recalls how America's top soldier was most at home with his troops
Once soldiers get a coin as high-ranking as Milley’s, any time they are at a bar and are challenged to show what coin they carry, well, they win and the other soldier buys the drinks. So it’s a valuable coin to have.