Just keep that yellow ribbon on your car's rear, ignore the rest and be happy ...

For those who wish some understanding: Trained to Harm: How the Military Abuses Its Own by JoAnn Wypijewski

The truth is, a system dedicated to transforming psychologically healthy people into people capable of performing what in any other setting is considered a pathological act can't help behaving badly -- not all the time or in all of its realms, not monolithically so that everyone associated with it is scathed. But inevitably the ends deform the means, and inevitably someone pays. No one is talking about it, but what happened at Walter Reed to soldiers injured in war is not shocking at all if one ponders what happens at Army posts to soldiers injured in basic training.