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Listen,learn,react.

Love, honor and respect your country and the flag its under because there is other place like it on earth, give back to community and leave no one behind.

RallyPoint News In the Army, learned to be a good Leader: with the traits of- Compassion; Respect; Honor; and, Love.

I've done my best to teach my kids and grandkids
1) Show up on time
2) Do what you've agreed to do - and a little more
3) Make sure you could pass inspection - shave, hair, shoes, press, ...

Thoroughness and legibility.

What, apparently did pass to my two sons, is personal honor, personal accountability, personal integrity, loyalty to the Constitution and Country, but most importantly, duty, honor and loyalty to one's honor. Burned into my brain was the statement "they can take my fortune, health and position; but only I can give up my honor. What I learned is bravery under fire in Combat is easy - the need to stay alive and keep others alive, but the bravery in garrison, to do the right thing in spite of pressure to conform, is the hardest of all. I thank God for pointing me to the hard road.

Brotherhood

Don’t get lost in the world. Your life is your life, it does not belong to them. Don’t give your life up for causes that won’t remember your name in the morning.

“Pain is fear leaving the body.” I saw that inscribed on a base gym wall and never and have never forgotten it.

Don’t quite…ever.