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Originally Posted by Arlo
Not all Americans are the same. Some of us do indeed believe in personal responsibility and our responsibility to each other in society. This was the hallmark of our greatest generation and they tried their best to endow succeeding generations with a sense of it. Then there are some who use platitudes built from historical patriotic phrases of which they have very little contextual understanding. I would like to think the ratio falls more to the former. Good thing not all of us measure by volume (the noise to signal ratio, that is).
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I knew a bomber pilot who flew two B-17 missions over Europe then was sent to fly B29’s over Japan. He joined because he was trying to impress a girl he later married, most of his friends he said joined simply out of peer pressure. I joined because it was that or jail. Not sure if any of those qualify as hallmark moments in American history.
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