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who hate to be different and jump on the bandwagon to be part of the procession once it starts. 
Something that happened in the old army just before the first World War will close my remarks. At a post in Arizona a soldier was put in the guardhouse for insubordination. His captain ordered him gagged, and bound to the rock pile at which the prisoners worked. Then he said to him, "I am going to the ball-game. While I'm gone I want you to be thinking that when you buck the orders of your Corporal you are bucking all the Corporals in the United States Army, all the Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains, Majors, Colonels, and Generals; and also you are bucking the President of the United States, and all the people of the United States." After the ball-game the officer returned, had the soldier unbound and the gag removed, and asked him how he felt now about his insubordination. He replied, "I don't think I can buck all those people, sir." 
If the high commanding officers do not success in giving equality of opportunity and treatment in all our armed forces, they will be bucking the desires of a very large number of officers and men and women under them, of the President, and of a majority of the people in the United States who last year put Civil Rights planks into the platforms of five political parties.