> My father was a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Republican. He liked to say that women belong in the kitchen. > Until the end, he was convinced that being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam had caused the disease. He had lived half a century longer than many of the young men he’d served with, and he felt ashamed, I think, of the extra time. > In the weeks after his death, I looked up the logbooks of his aircraft car…
I find it pretty lame that there are more comments in the HN discussion section upset about these few lines in the backstory intro than comments about the actual content of this article.
If a highly motivated audience that's sympathetic to your argument has trouble getting past your tone, that's a problem with the piece, not the comment section.