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* British regiments are kind of like tribes or more like (as they are not necessarily kin-based or self-reproducing though serving in them can be a family tradition) guilds. They will have esoteric ceremonies, eccentric totems, something almost like ancestor veneration, and traditional friendships and enmities including feuds carried on with bar brawls and practical jokes.
* One officer on the USS San Francisco while coming into port with [[Covered in Scars|twenty-six shell holes]], commented that one of the greatest compensations for service was the acclaim from fellow sailors.
* In the 1800's and early nineteen hundreds, reserve regiments were commonly raised from the same areas of a given country. That meant that the [[Band of Brothers]] often were literal brothers. [[Deconstruction|Unfortunately]] it could mean large portions of the country stripped of their male population the first time there was a hard battle.
**The German towns along the Rhine (though they were hardly in a position to say so) resented when the Nazi leadership implied they were surrendering out of cowardice when the Americans were knocking at their gates. All their young men had been taken by Stalingrad.
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