Oliver North’s military devotion and patriotism rendered him an evangelical hero

Evidence

TO EVANGELICALS, it was clear that North did what he did “for the love of God and for the love of country.” By all accounts, North was a true believer. He had grown up in a patriotic Catholic household in upstate New York. His father had served under General Patton in the Second World War, and as a boy he had briefly attended a Catholic military school. One year into college, he enlisted in a marine corps officer’s training program at Camp Lejeune, where he was smitten with the mystique of the marines, whom he saw as “the toughest, the bravest and the best.” Before long he secured a transfer to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 278

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Oliver North fused religious piety with National Security Council operations — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 284; Evangelicals embraced Oliver North even as mainstream Americans forgot him — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 274; Oliver North framed his lawbreaking as loyal submission to a commander in chief — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 270 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Oliver North fused religious piety with National Security Council operations — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 284; Evangelicals embraced Oliver North even as mainstream Americans forgot him — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 274; Oliver North framed his lawbreaking as loyal submission to a commander in chief — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 270 (+3 more)