Military Review English Edition November-December 2013 | Page 112

LETTERS
a set, are responsible for both the existence and the
maintenance of the myths soldiers live by. Without
the generals’ imprimatur, none of these myths our
authors describe could take hold in military culture.
The camel is called ambition. And more than his
nose is under the tent.
How did we get the generals we have?
Though I have met second lieutenants whose
* *hit the commissioner’s birthing table with a
decided penchant for stardom, the majority of our
generals begin their service for the right reasons
and in the right way. They love America’s ideals
and rightly judge them worth dying for. They keep
their heads down, their shoulders to the wheel, and
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