And if no one tries, nothing is accomplished. Heroes among men you two for refusing to fight because you were afraid of the outcome.
Good Comment
The following was also quoted by the late Captain Nichola Goddard when she quoted from the late President Theodore Roosevelt in the "Man in the Arena" speech in Paris in 1910:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".
Our hats off to Fenceline and Legions like him or her. The following passage is from the book, On Combat, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (Ret.), and is reprinted by permission of the author.
"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?"
— William J. Bennett, in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy, November 24, 1997
If would like to read more here it is
https://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/1709289-Book-Excerpt-On-Sheep-Wolves-and-Sheepdogs/
BTW Dave's Book is excellent (I need to finish it
) and if you would like to attend any of his presentations which he also holds in Canada (Civilians, Police. Military, First responders, hey they will even let in sheep!) you will like it. This much I know:
https://www.killology.com/
KILLOLOGY,
: The scholarly study of the destructive act, just as ###ology is the scholarly study of the procreative act. In particular, killology focuses on the reactions of healthy people in killing circumstances (such as police and military in combat) and the factors that enable and restrain killing in these situations.
Lt Col. Hope, now Col. Hope, had the "On Combat: book as reading for his people in the field before they deployed to Afghanistan. It not only preps them for the stresses, it might even help lessen the effects of PTSD as a result? You decide; however, good reading
