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    THE JAG FILE

    Dec 03, 2018 5 minutes
    With John Adams-Graf

    YOU Get a Prize, and YOU Get a prize…

    Did you read my title in an Oprah-like voice? That’s how I intended it.

    I know I am turning into an old fogey, because too many of my blogs begin with either, “When I was a kid…” or “Kids these days…” Lately, though, I have been mixing it up a bit by adding to my repertoire of introductions, “People these days…” And that is the impetus for my Oprah impersonation.

    EVERYONE GETS A RIBBON

    Giving everyone a “participation award” is a common theme among people complaining about the problems with kids these days. I suspect the practice peaked in the late 1990s, or maybe that is just when I had to attend a whole bunch of soccer matches, swimming events, and junior baseball games. You know the scene: EVERYONE got a

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