What hurt, and bothers me, personally is that while driving on the interstate with my kid we pass a convoy of NG gas trucks heading back north to whatever state they came from. My kid says "one good thing about the hurricane is that it taught me these soldier guys do something other than fight all the time." She's only 10, and I've no doubt her perspective will broaden, but it made me sad to think that she and most of her friends have concluded that the military is at best useless to her and something bad inflicted upon others. We've come full circle back to 1976. Ronald Reagan should be turning in his grave. I left her statement alone, because she doesn't have the experience levels of the cold war or any other threat to national security aside from 9-11.
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