When Pete Hegseth walks into the Pentagon for the first time he will likely pass one of the most famous works of art in the building. It is one I think will resonate with the 29th Secretary of Defense.

Hanging between the third and fourth level of the Pentagon’s outer E-ring, the painting by Arnold Friberg depicts an Air Force officer and his family kneeling at prayer beneath a stained-glass window.

Its words are from Isaiah 6:8: “Here am I; send me.”

What a minor miracle that such a work of art — graced with a message of faith, family and sacrifice — survived the Biden administration’s goon squad of DEI mandarins. They probably dismiss it as a patriarchal, chauvinistic, anachronistic symbol of white Christian nationalists.

But the reverent officer depicted in Friberg’s work is exactly the sort of man Hegseth writes about in his bestseller, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.”

In Washington, D.C., many politicians who haven’t served talk about “honoring our service men and women” with more benefits: a pay raise, more G.I. Bills, more healthcare, more free........

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