This Week’s Wow – Duty
Following the president’s announcement of the pending deployment of 30,000 more of our men and women in uniform to Afghanistan, we thought the word duty a fitting WOW.
This week we take a moment to examine exactly what duty means and contemplate not the duty of the men and women in uniform, but the duty we owe them – to be upstanding citizens, to give back to our communities, be kind to our neighbors, the elderly and those in need and to be true in every way possible to the freedoms that their service affords us as American citizens.
Thanks to all of our reserved and active duty military.
du·ty - Pronunciation: \ˈdü-tē also ˈdyü-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural duties
Etymology: Middle English duete, from Anglo-French deueté, dueté, from deu due
Date: 13th century
1 : conduct due to parents and superiors : respect
2 a : obligatory tasks, conduct, service, or functions that arise from one’s position (as in life or in a group) b (1) :assigned service or business (2) : active military service (3) : a period of being on duty
3 a : a moral or legal obligation b : the force of moral obligation
4 : tax; especially : a tax on imports
5 a : work 1a b (1) : the service required (as of an electric machine) under specified conditions (2) : functional application : use <got double duty out of the trip> (3) : use as a substitute <making the word do duty for the thing — Edward Sapir>
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