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[CompanyFirstSergeant]

92. "If being armed and prepared made people safe, no soldier would ever die."

Beautifully written.

However, service members have something to fear, but control that fear through teamwork and unit cohesion.

Soldier friendships are very close friendships.

As a society, it is almost as if these petty arguments - for example, the ones swirling around us on DU - are encouraged and 'baited' if you will, to keep people bickering just enough so that they cannot find common ground in anything.

Someone posted a very lighthearted post in GD just saying hello, and hoping (jokingly) not to be banned for doing so.

I commented (again, jokingly - sort of) that being on DU has made me confirm moving to an sparsely populated area was a good idea.

Have we been encouraged to distrust?

To see something and say something?

Can we be on a war footing forever?