WillowRain
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Willing to fight for your beliefs is not being stupid brave but Honorable. Stupid brave is a personal term. To me it represents when someone is brave beyond all reason, past the point of sense. Many firefighters, heck, goodness, think back to 911 and all the brave police officers, and medical personel, and heck firemen that went inside after the first tower had already collapsed. They set asside the very human desire for self preservation to help others, to do their job. That takes a certain level of courage and internal strength that not everyone has. It is a place where courage and duty can overpower wisdom. I do not consider the term a negative, although I can understand why others would think I meant it that way. I agree with you that being willing to fight for your beliefs is honerable. In this particular case it was more than fight, it was fight and die, for something even more profound than something so small as personal honor, they died for others, for their people, for their country, for freedom. It is easy to speak of honor and sacrafise, of codes and ideals, to manifest that in ones life is a whole other kingdom. These men held to a code of honor that did not just cover their own shadows, it spread across nations, it changed the tide of a war and the way war is fought. Thanks everyone for your recomendations. :)
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