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Description
Mr. Parker talks about bravery and duty, and how duty is so drilled into you as a new recruit that it can make you do dangerous things, unless mitigated with a sense of discretion.
Transcription
I often think to myself, "Is that real? " Can one be so dedicated to duty that he knows that if he walks in there, into the river, that there's a possibility, a great possibility, that he'd never come out. But Robert walked in there. Now I think that is what bravery is all about, with an "if" to it. If he'd had that missing sense would he, would he have done that? I don't think he would have, you know. I guess it's a sense of duty because of the fact the day you sign the dotted line and you become a soldier and not a human being anymore but a number, one of the things that's pounded into you, and I helped do that pounding, is discipline. Discipline, discipline, discipline. That if you have to do something, you do it. But at the same time I think that I can remember well that there was the idea of preservation, survival and fear is a sense that's used for survival. An easy term, a term that's neither here nor there, but it is a term and it's a worthwhile term, is discretion. I wonder, "Well will, will something happen if I do that, maybe, maybe I won't do it." That's discretion.