JD Vance: How Charlie Kirk's Legacy Changes My Fatherhood
There have been a lot of beautiful tributes to the late Charlie Kirk, but JD's is the one that touched me most.
JD Vance, Vice President of America and a close friend of Charlie Kirk's had this to say when he hosted the Charlie Kirk show yesterday:
" People from the Turning Points family, a lot of people from, from Charlie's family. And she said to me that Charlie never raised his voice. That he was never cross or mean-spirited to her. And look, I am, I'm a husband. I'm proud of being a husband. I think that on the great balance of things, that I'm a pretty good husband, but I can never say that I was never unpleasant with my wife.
I can never say that. I've never raised my voice to my wife. Like most husbands, even the good ones were sometimes imperfect. And I took from that moment that I needed to be a better husband and I needed to be a better father because of all these moments that I shared just in the last few days. The books that I've read to my kids, going up to their bedroom and kissing them and hugging them before bed.
I just realized that all of these moments that I get to have Charlie. Is not able to have them anymore. And Charlie's kids and his beautiful wife are not able to have them anymore. And maybe the best way that I can contribute and the best way that I could honor my dear friend is to be the best husband that I can be, to be the kind of husband to my wife that he was to his.
You know, we talked all the time about the most important thing you could do is not vote for a particular candidate. It was to become, if you were a young man, a husband, and a father. He talked about the joy that came from fatherhood, the joy that came from raising a family and being part of their growth and their development and all the incredible things that happen.
When you get to be a husband and father, and that is the way that I'm gonna honor my friend, is to be the very best at that most important job that I can be. But that's not the only way that I'm gonna honor Charlie. And there's gonna be a lot of discussion over the next two hours of this radio program about what exactly that looks like.
It's important, and Erica asked me this to make sure that his."