Musings of the Chronologically Challenged™ Fourth Generation

 

BILL WHITTLE ON COURAGE

Bill has given us another essay. Here are a few excerpts from his gift.


"I’ve thought a lot about courage in the last few years. And what I’ve come to realize is that behind courage is a greater emotion still, and that emotion, not surprisingly, is love
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"Think about it. Think of the infantryman who throws himself onto a hand grenade. Perhaps love of country brought him to that time and place. Certainly he loved his family, his wife and children. And more than that, even, he loved his own life, his chance to watch his sons grow into honorable manhood, to give his daughter away in a small church on a Sunday morning. All of this love may have given him the courage to come to the place where he would face that grenade, but it was his love of his buddies that overcame all of that in that one instant where the heart rules the mind and courage rises unbidden from its mysterious, deep harbor.

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is taking action in the face of fear."

Bill's entire essay on COURAGE can be found here. You'll be glad you went there.



posted by HCL at 11:42 AM