For his contributions to the men and women of the armed forces, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England presented Ben Stein with the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Exceptional Public Service Award during a ceremony at the Pentagon. [snip]
“My work is incredibly trivial and unimportant compared with their work,” Stein said. “My whole 63 years, [what I’ve done is] not as important as what a man or a woman going out on patrol in Basra or Ar Ramadi or An Nasiriyah does in five minutes, maybe five seconds.”
One of his latest public acts of gratitude to the military is the book “The Real Stars.” It’s an answer to a question Stein, who has a home in Malibu, Calif., hears frequently regarding living among the real stars. His answer to askers is that he doesn’t live among the real stars, but highly paid entertainers.
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