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Some comments.

Most of the proposals out there are to change "Men of" to "True to". NONE propose change/removing "Brothers".

As I've said before, the problem is that too many forget that the terms "Man/Men" ALSO refer to 'mankind'. Watch the LOTR movies, and you'll see that they use the term "Men/Men" to refer to humans (as opposed to dwards, elves, etc).

If you can't believe that people get riled up about 'changing a couple of words' in the Toast Song, I recommend you come to Nationals and find out when several hundred of your Brothers deal with the issue.


One thing I do get annoyed of in this discussion is those that try to use history/tradition to prevent change. What is annoying is that many of those people don't seem to really be aware of the many changes that HAVE occured in APO. Our Coat of Arms is NOT what the Founders had. We've made radical changes in our national structure. The Service Pin came out a decade or so after our founding, etc. But I feel that our fundamentals have not changed.