It is not brain washing...it is that finallity in knowing you serve something...that if you can't buy into God, Country, apple pie and the flag...you can buy into serving with your brother next to you...that since the time of Shakespeare
We few
We happy few
We Band of brothers
For whoever would shed his blood with me
Is my brother
That final realization that you have looked into the mouth of the dragon and it didn't command you...that you joined the millions of men and women that have served since the time of Washington....that in the great brotherhood of history, you stood
Damn, soapbox again GLTA