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2018-02-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

Courage is a choice. | MountainGuerrilla

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Posted by newc 2018-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Unless you are paid for it en-masse and fail to have any.
Then it's just Graft.

Posted by newc 2018-02-28 01:37|| 2018-02-28 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 It’s long but worth the read. We seem to have forgotten core truths about family and genuine community. A good reminder of those principles !

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-02-28 11:56|| 2018-02-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The Duke's opinion on courage

Posted by Bobby 2018-02-28 14:36|| 2018-02-28 14:36|| Front Page Top

#4 People often are confused on the difference between Courage and Bravery. A kitten attacking a pit bull is brave, while a mother cat sacrificing herself to save her kittens is courageous.

Posted by magpie 2018-02-28 15:24|| 2018-02-28 15:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep,

Courage is a choice. Courage is also a learned behavior. Few people are born courageous. I had to learn. My 1st taught me a lot and counseled me on how the men expected me to be both brave and courageous in combat. I cannot tell you how many times the first six months I was a platoon leader that I pissed myself and after the shooting stopped finding a quiet private place to puke.

It got easier over time. I quit pissing myself and by the time I was a company commander I had quit puking. Eventually, you learn that if your number is up, it will get you whether you hunker down in that foxhole safe and sound or asleep in your hooch at night or running in front of your men leading from the front.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-28 19:08|| 2018-02-28 19:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Sock Puppet of Doom: The hardest part is dealing with giving orders to men you know will likely die doing their duty. It is one thing to put your own butt on the line and "Follow Me". But to assign men to their possible death while duty demands they go without you? Anyone with honor carries those men with him foreer.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-02-28 20:32|| 2018-02-28 20:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Injun
Yep there are 26 names on the wall that are mine to remember in my heart forever

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-28 21:22|| 2018-02-28 21:22|| Front Page Top

23:35 Fairbanks
22:58 Zhang Fei
22:47 3dc
21:27 Sock Puppet of Doom
21:22 Sock Puppet of Doom
21:11 Michael Stokes
20:56 Frank G
20:48 Omeger Gray6606
20:48 Injun Bucket8891
20:45 trailing wife
20:32 Injun Bucket8891
20:20 Injun Bucket8891
20:15 Eltoroverde
19:57 Skidmark
19:47 Frank G
19:46 magpie
19:44 Frank G
19:40 magpie
19:28 Frank G
19:28 charger
19:21 Airandee
19:21 Frank G
19:18 Frank G
19:17 Frank G