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And I think that veterans (including me) yern for the sense of fairness and honor that used to be everywhere in our daily military lives. Something that we'll never get inside the current system no matter how hard we try.

Despite the regimentation, discipline and endless waste and often inefficiency, the military at least offered an evenhandedness and virtues [including honour] that were at least generally followed, if sometimes left in the breech for expediency's sake.

But the current system not only disregards such things but considers them as an anathema to their continuation, and rightfully so. You've read Heinlein's Starship Troopers I bet. *Those people* never had a History& Moral Philosophy course, much less fulfilled the first duty of a citizen....

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*Those people* never had a History& Moral Philosophy course, much less fulfilled the first duty of a citizen....

Isn't it a shame what they did to that book? So now, the people who saw the flick but never read the book will never understand your comments....