“The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.” — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.” — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.” — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance—teachers tell… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s about being engaged, listening, paying attention. Despite conventional wisdom, you don’t need to talk a lot to… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad.… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“This is my worst fear. It’s not keeping my students safe from terrorists, it’s knowing what to do when the Chaplain comes… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I have this thought, it’s horrible, and it makes me sick, but it’s true: one day these students will grow up and… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“The men and women who made up DoDDS Korea during the time I was there were an eclectic group to say the… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl I’d found on the staircase nearly a year earlier;… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“DPRK translates to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—and if the words Democratic and Republic sound like a good thing, well, it’s oxymoronic… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“All my life my dad felt this need to protect his kids from a war he fought, a war I believed could… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Ahead in the distance we could see the main gate, but there was a sea of cars, none moving, people standing, milling… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I felt a hand on my back, movement behind me, my guys making room, someone squeezing into our circle, and then one… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“In my life I’ve been very lucky to travel around the world and see students and teachers in nearly two dozen countries—but… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“As calls rang out the world over for new treaties and organizations to be established with the intent of preventing future wars,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“The last two days I’ve been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I’m in my classroom and I’m looking at this girl, but all I can see is my dad on the ground, in… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families—and DOD schools provide a world-class education that… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
