"I" is a word that unnamed GUESTS should avoid using, since there is no real way of telling whether the "I" in one post is the same as the "I" in the next one.

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This whole thing reads as a really cheap example of the Dirty Tricks Campaign handbook. No doubt it'll get a lot dirtier. I'm not surprised Doug R prefers to dissociate himself from the people who go in for this kind of crap.

Suggesting that a soldier who turns against a government, which he feels has betrayed his country and his comrades, is somehow attacking those comrades, is as dishonest as you can get.

And nitpicking like that about medals and ribbons is ridiculous. Anyway, surely a ribbon that goes with a medal is technically a part of that medal?