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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
The surgeons in your picture are very highly paid skilled craftsmen but they didn't sacrifice their lives to protect their country. A admirable skill but not a noble person (unless they always do it all for virtually free and risk their lives doing it).
Soldiers risk paying the ultimate price for very poor reward and no fame. The guards honor those that paid the ultimate price and we don't even know who or where they are. Only the best of the best are worthy of honoring the ultimate sacrifice.
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But they aren't better or more honourable then any grunt that got wounded in action or that got any other decoration or commendation for action they did in battle. Or even a regular joe schmoe that served away from family for a year, in the rear somewhere in A hole stan or I wreck or did gruesome shifts on board a carrier as a any color shirt on deck, or any regular sailor on a boat, on or under water.
Ceremonial duty cannot be more important then ACTUAL duty, that's what i'm saying.
It's ceremonial. There is NO risk.
The idea of remembrance they guard does not make them heroes themself.
Second only to Astronaut is what the OP said.. That's rubbish and you know it.
Don't tell me I have no understanding or respect for those who payed the ultimate price. We honour them every day in Ypres.. We stop traffic for it.
