Would you trust those who have always been betrayed?
It is said that “I do not know what I do not know.” - Plato’s Apology.
By extension, would this also mean:
We don’t know how to trust, when we have never known trust?
And if so, should we trust those who have never known trust?
Especially if our father had traveled across the seas, lost his family during the sea voyage, and risked everything so we may live a better life?
I’m here with John Badal, an Assyrian American grandfather whose family was separated by a raging war, who had then serve in the Army, who survived the jungle nights in Panama, and who now had to earn the trust of one of the most fearless, yet betrayed, Native American tribes in America: The Navajo Nation.
Previously: “The words that get you in anywhere.”
(Part 1 of 3 with John Badal)
In this episode:
“We were training foreign militaries in the ways of jungle warfare.”
“So I didn't go with the rest of my unit to Vietnam.”
“I had to learn how to eat things that the average person doesn't find on his dinner plate.”
“It was dead in the middle of the night … I was on the platform looking at the jungle.”
“All of these sounds that you wouldn't have even heard during the day.”
“A lot of animals are nocturnal. They go hunting at night.”
“The doors weren't open wide enough with the Navajo people. A lot of distrust there.”
“And that caught their attention …”
