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It is easy to stand up and cheer for your favorite government activity. It is quite another to acknowledge what it means in the real world.

Me. Ricky Recruit. 1983.

I almost never try to speak for other people. However, I think it is fairly safe to say that the average military recruit firmly believes that he joins the military so that you and I can live and breathe in freedom. To be sure, he had other reasons for joining, but I think the defense of liberty is a fairly common characteristic.

That is certainly what I thought when I was in Navy…