The Best Recipe for a Meaningful Life

Four words we should all live by

Illustrations by John P. Weiss

Imagine being a naval aviator in 1965, flying your second combat tour over North Vietnam. Enemy fire completely disables your A-4 fighter bomber, and you’re forced to eject.

You parachute down into a village where the enemy captures and severely beats you. For the next seven-and-a-half years, you are a prisoner of war…