[Robert A Cook PE]

The balls and the dances ARE the social events that make the hardships worth going through for years.

The military “pomp and circumstance” have - sice the Babylonian era, the Greeks and Romans, the middle ages and the Napoleonic wars, been what builds the social “attitude” and morale behind the armed forces between the troops and the officers and their wives behind them..

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Robert A. Cook, PE wrote:

"The balls and the dances ARE the social events that make the hardships worth going through for years.

The military “pomp and circumstance” have - sice the Babylonian era, the Greeks and Romans, the middle ages and the Napoleonic wars, been what builds the social “attitude” and morale behind the armed forces between the troops and the officers and their wives behind them.

Well said. ======>worth repeating<======