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But, today's not about honoring wars. It's about honoring the people who have chosen to volunteer their lives to military service (so that the rest of us don't have to). For so many members of our volunteer military, over the last four years, that's meant sometimes three and four tours on a battlefield that millions of their countrymen would like for us to abandon. It's meant lifelong injuries (both mental and physical), among other things. True, we may disagree with some of the missions that have been concocted for these folks, but we're grateful someone is willing to take the job.

So says the P-I:

U.S. troops in Muslim nations where pig-eating is a religious no-no, have been requesting the local startup's product, dreamed up by two guys who stayed up late into the night brainstorming in 2006, to sprinkle on their MREs and anything else edible overseas.

The result? Operation Bacon Salt—an organized effort by the makers of the ingenious condiment to send a little bacon salty love to troops stationed overseas. As they say on their website, "While we don't have the resources yet to send Bacon Salt to everyone stationed overseas, we plan on sponsoring one group of soldiers per month until our troops come home."