The US military has entirely too many medals and awards. Every general or admiral has ribbons up to his shoulder and everyone with 10 years or more has four or five rows of ribbons. Mainly for little or nothing.

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We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.