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At the same time, even if they weren't "helpless" in appearance, I guess we should have put more thought into the fact that they were still poorer and may have really needed the clothes. (honestly, I think my brothers just saw the janitor and the two guys as just normal people)

Again, these events were unprecedented, and the idea of being protective about our letters was more in the context of the narrow college world immediately surrounding us (we were concerned about actual college students who knew what the letters meant), and so we just didn't even know how to think about the situation clearly when we suddenly saw people outside our campus or who were not really part of college life wearing our gear.
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In any case, it turns out from what people are saying that regardless if someone wearing your letters is poor or not, there's not much one can do. oh well.