They -- I mean we -- usually don't get too hung up on ceremony. The point is, to get out there and do it. The President has already said, in much the same words, we ARE the ground troops.

We are the front line. We are the first line of defense. We are expected to be brave.

We are not going to be rewarded, and should not hope to be rewarded, for doing that which is expected of us.

-- Craig