User:Meyerj
This is a special sentiment that I like:
From a Wikipedia contributor - I'm a university student. Textbooks for one semester cost me $500. On Wikipedia, I get thousands of books' worth of information for free. That’s why I don’t just read Wikipedia, I help create it. It’s really important to me to keep this resource available to everyone, free of charge. With 470 million readers per month, Wikipedia is important to many people all over the world.
Wikipedia should have fallen to pieces long ago. It is consensus-driven, unlike just about any other community. There’s no real overarching administration, no board of executives determining every edit and every policy. Instead, a great community of volunteers work together to create this source of knowledge, free to use and free of ads.
Working that way, our community of millions of editors works together to create encyclopedias in 283 languages, containing a combined total of over 20 million articles.
We do this on a tiny budget compared to other top websites. For us to do our work, we need a stable infrastructure: servers, bandwidth, programmers, and even lawyers to protect our independence. It’s all funded by donations from Wikipedia readers. You might think a few dollars is just a drop in the bucket, but it’s actually what makes this whole operation possible.
Thanks so much.
Honors and awards
LTG H Aaron is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
- Defense Distinguished Service Medal
- Army Distinguished Service Medal with bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
- Bronze Star with "V" device and two Oak leaf clusters
- Purple Heart
- Air Medal with numeral two
- Army Commendation Medal
- American Campaign Medal
- European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three campaign stars
- World War II Victory Medal
- Army of Occupation Medal with "Germany" clasp
- National Defense Service Medalwith two campaign stars
- Vietnam Service Medalwith three campaign stars
- Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with 1960 clasp
- Gallantry Cross (South Vietnam) Individual Citation
- Army Presidential Unit Citation
- Army Meritorious Unit Commendation
- Vietnam Gallantry Cross ribbon with palm device unit citation
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Awards and decorations
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