when i was 16 years old bruce carl invited me to go down to work in a homeless shelter in downtown st. louis. as a kid i have done a lot of community service work and i had done some things that a homeless shelter but what bruce said to me is not only are you going to go down to the homeless shelter but i'm going to take you and other students down and i am going to ask you to spend the night. and spend some nights in the homeless shelter and what bruce said is it is important for you to understand how all of your neighbors live. it is important for you to understand how all of your neighbors live. one of the things i tried to do in "the warrior's heart" is i asked kids to step into the shoes of rwanda refugee children and children of the streets of bolivia and navy seals and think about the choices they would make so they can exercise their moral imagination and think about the world. one of the things bruce did that was powerful for me was bruce also said to me it is important to understand how your neighbors are living because you can do something about it. and after you graduated

and one of the people who i write about was one of my mentors, a guy named bruce carl, who ran a program called youth leadership st. louis. and when i was 16 years old, bruce carl once invited me to go down to work at a homeless shelter in downtown st. louis. as a kid, i'd done a lot of community service work before, and i'd done some things at a homeless sherlt, but what bruce said to me was not only are you going to go down to the homeless shelter, he said i'm going to take you and other students down, and what i'm going to ask you to do is actually spend the night there. i want you to spend the night in the homeless shelter. and what bruce said that was really powerful is it's important for you to understand how all of your neighbors are living. and one of the things that i've tried toot in "the warrior's heart" is ask kids to step into the shoes of rwandan refugee children, step into the shoes of navy seals to think about the kinds of choices that they would make so they can exercise their moral imagination and think about the world. now, one of the other things that bruce did that w

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