Some time ago they started handing out awards to everybody who started the race, or every team gets a different size trophy. I never liked that idea, to raise children with that thought process. That is not the valor that adorned us. The mentality associated with this thought process enables the entitlement gene, found in more modern generations.
A medal in the military no longer carries any weight. We never actually felt like we deserved a medal. It does not help that anybody can earn one.
Valor has gone down with reason, in the United States. Regrettably, valor is not something that can be recovered. It must be instilled. In America we have become totally disabled at our moral center. And we never actually rated very high to begin with.
Maybe it is a good thing that our valor has died, along side free speech and our ability to reason as a whole.
Jailhouse mentality, or tribal -same soup different bowl; meaning – individuality has died, as well. Extinct beyond technical creation. The world has re-factioned itself. Instead of flags we now use symbols.
(A society comprised of hair grease and hand shakes, just like the ghetto. But we still have the ghetto.)