Off earning today. Here's a thought, though. Why, people ask, does the armed services have honor codes they live by? It's too complicated for me to answer but I might offer this. When all that we consider good and desirable in life is taken away: food, shelter, comfort, safety—the entire Maslovian Hierarchy in other words, life becomes precious. When all one has is the protection and support of the comrades nearby, it is honor that supplies the basic belief that that one will survive.
Everything that Donald Trump does or says is, and always has been, from a warm room on a full stomach as Alistair Cooke once said of H. L. Mencken. It is no wonder that honor is a foreign concept to the president of our United States. What is terrifying is that he is the commander-in-chief of our armed services, composed of brave and dedicated people he could never understand.
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