Colonel Brown's War

To think, when Scott Brown finally retires from the Maryland National Guard as a bird Colonel, he will likely be in line to collect a much bigger pension than the disability allowance collected by my white haired old father.
Oh Elias do be fair, Colonel Scott Brown earned that pension by working hard in the Judge Advocate's Office writing briefs, making useful contacts, making with the glad hand.
Herculean labors indeed for the barefoot boy from Wakefield.

All my father ever did was make a Last Stand for the Republic in the Ardenne Forest and then stopping a shell with his head on the German side of the Rhine River.

Fair is fair after all.