I second that emotion. To be honest, I’ve always been uncomfortable with those presidential awards you’ll encounter at high-school graduation ceremonies, too. Clearly ridding the world of presidential physical-fitness awards isn’t on the top of any serious person’s priority list, but there is something a little not-us about the whole business. Daughters of the American Revolution, have a ball. But imagine the President’s Good Citizen Award to high-school seniors. Perhaps to the student who best served him. Nah. Not here.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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