It isn't that you have to have a beard to be a man (I just shaved mine off). It's that you have to have earned the right to consider yourself a man, to be a man. Oh sure, there's plenty of people who are going to tell you that you don't have to serve to be a man (99% of America to be exact), but let's face it, you and I both know that there's something that sets us apart. But maybe the 99% are right and us 1 percenters are wrong.