Courage and Patriotism
Heroes Remember
It's, it's a, it's, it's a very... courage is a very,
very difficult thing. I think the first thing you have to do is
look at everybody and anybody who served. And we're all
different. We're all different, and when I came down on the
parachutes, everything was quite routine. I don't know whether it
was stupidity on my part, or what it was, but I, I felt quite in
control. And yet I've seen people who go, who went to pieces.Went
to pieces when things went wrong. There were those who . . . and,
and then there were those who picked up the pieces and brought
them back together again. So, it's, it's very difficult to look
at a person, or people, and know or say that they are courageous
or they weren't. They were there, and that's enough.
I think if you live in an environment, in order to make
that environment work for you and for those around you, you have
to be patriotic. Unfortunately, in many, many instances,
patriotism is formed from lack of knowledge. That is, that's,
an unfortunate part. Patriotism, very often, is a zeal, and it,
and it's, and it's, and it's usually, it's very often a lack
of knowledge of the real thing. If you knew the real thing you'd
probably wouldn't be as patriotic. But patriotism is
necessary in an environment to keep a, a unit together. It's the
same as, as, as a, as a, a, a group that's fighting, bonding.
When you bond, you're patriotic to one another. If you live in a
country, you're patriotic to that country. If you know the
truth, the real truth, your patriotism wanes, it wanes. So
you have to, you have to weigh one against the other. You have
to weigh them both, you have to, you have to be very careful
with patriotism, I think. I think it's necessary, but it's gotta
be truly patriotism. The right kind.
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