Quote Originally Posted by Rob Thornton View Post
While RTK (and the rest of us) may have a set of beliefs or opinions that are hard to quantify or qualify, they were not cheap in the making - and we are going to weight them against others with regard to what they understand without us having to say or write a word - that is the bias of having been there.
Here's another way of saying it:

Unless you've been covered in your brother's blood, stood at attention while your First Sergeant calls his name three times, and written that damnable letter to a family none of us wishes ever to write, then you don't understand the reasons why we feel the way we feel.