Long, long ago and far, far away, America went to war and called its young men to battle. Millions answered, but nearly 60,000 never returned, hundreds of thousands suffered life-changing physical and mental injuries, and all were changed forever. One was former Rep. Stevan Pearce (R-NM), whom President Donald Trump nominated to serve as director of the Bureau of Land Management, and who honored those veterans with his second, just-released, book, You Had a Good Home, But You Left … .

Born a sharecropper’s son in north Texas , Pearce was raised on a five-acre farm in Nadine, south of Hobbs, New Mexico (“It’s not ‘new’ and it’s not Mexico,” quips Pearce), west of the Texas Panhandle. Up to work on a neighbor’s farm at 4:30 a.m. at the age of 9, Pearce played baseball, raised li

See Full Page