They had gone down to the root of things, and knew how to judge and value, each man his neighbor, whether that neighbor was rich or poor, neither envying him because of his wealth nor despising him because of his poverty.
Roosevelt concludes that the veterans' wartime experiences taught them to judge others fundamentally, without envy for wealth or contempt for poverty.
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