A MAN does his duty.
Doing your duty is a reward in and of itself.
It makes you honorable.
The officers who held the line at the Seattle Police precinct until the Mayor gave it away did no fail....they did their duty and maintained their honor. The Mayir has no honor
It goes the same for you and me and all the other Vets. Did we do our duty? Of we did so then we maintained our honor as men and then it was 100% worth it.
That is all we can control.
Excellent post and thank you...