On Ribbons on Your Chest and Letters Around Your Name

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
-Mark Twain

Honor is a thing that eventually reveals itself – one way or the other. It is best not to claim too loudly any honor that is not truly ours in solitude of our own contemplation. It is then that we realize that sort of “honor” is little more than hubris and foolishness.