A Farmer's Son on the World's Highest Battlefield: Lt. Gen. Cherish Mathson

Podcast: The Dr. Rod Berger Channel - Stories That Meet The Moment · Dr. Rod Berger

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

The Dr. Rod Berger Show is presented by Fair Observer. In ninth or tenth grade, a boy from a pepper and coconut village in Kerala wrote an essay about his ambition and landed, almost by accident, on "general." He spent the next four decades proving the essay right. Dr. Rod Berger sits down with Lieutenant General Cherish Mathson, who grew up in a Syrian Christian farming family on the banks of the Manimala River. His maternal grandmother judged him "a little indisciplined" and pushed for military school, so at 10 he traded village mischief for 5 a...