Many readers with military or religious backgrounds found my portrayal of their morality accurate and useful, as in this email: I recently retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after 22 years of service.… After I retired, I took a job with [a government science agency]. The [new office’s] culture tends more towards the liberal independent model.… What I am finding here is an organization rife with individualism and infighting, at the expense of larger goals. In the military, I was always impressed with the great deeds that could be accomplished by a small number of dedicated people with limited
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