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Al - I think we're going to see an even worse problem as time passes for this generation. Their "fighting load" is as heavy as some of the non-como rucks we used to carry. Add wearing it all day, every day and include the wear and tear of bouncing around in those vehicles you mentioned, and I hope the "kids" are documenting the damage better than we did. Arthritis, especially spinal, is a royal PITA as we both know. What they'll get from the VA when they've finished (after the current administration and its successors get through gutting it) doesn't bear thinking about.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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