Comments on: Study: Loyalty And Esprit De Corps Main Forces Behind Heroism https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/ Eventually, I learned the joys of killing. But I’m skipping ahead of myself. I landed in Iraq in November 2004 armed with a video camera instead of a weapon... Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:46:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Kevin M https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65090 Kevin M Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:53:19 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65090 Fascinating study, even if not at all surprising. Why do people rise to any occasion? It's because of the values they learned or were taught. What kind of values do we see being taught in schools and universities today? Distrust everyone, especially the government, cultivate the status of victim, see conspiracies in every dark corner and, above all, nurture the cult of the self. It's getting to the point that I think, far from banning ROTC and other leadership programs, they should be mandatory across the country! When the day comes that I can read in the headlines, "Students rush mad gunman, hospitalizing/killing him," then we'll know the tide had turned. Until then, we are raising a generation of selfish cowards. Fascinating study, even if not at all surprising. Why do people rise to any occasion? It’s because of the values they learned or were taught. What kind of values do we see being taught in schools and universities today? Distrust everyone, especially the government, cultivate the status of victim, see conspiracies in every dark corner and, above all, nurture the cult of the self.

It’s getting to the point that I think, far from banning ROTC and other leadership programs, they should be mandatory across the country!

When the day comes that I can read in the headlines, “Students rush mad gunman, hospitalizing/killing him,” then we’ll know the tide had turned. Until then, we are raising a generation of selfish cowards.

]]> By: Dan(The Infidel) https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65148 Dan(The Infidel) Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:26:18 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65148 Hereoes are just common, ordinary people who rise to the occasion when called...because of how they were brought up or what they may have learned in the military...or both. In my experience in the military, men would share their last cigarette, last morsel of food, or last swig of water, beacuse they cared more about their fellow trooper than they did their self. Selflessness has not quite gone out of style. You saw it on 9-11, you see and read about it on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. You read about it in the newspaper when a fireman or a cop rescues someone. Courage is the art of rising above fear, and placing the needs of another above the needs or even the survival of self. To put it another way: "Greater love hath no man, than to give his life for a friend." Hereoes are just common, ordinary people who rise to the occasion when called…because of how they were brought up or what they may have learned in the military…or both.

In my experience in the military, men would share their last cigarette, last morsel of food, or last swig of water, beacuse they cared more about their fellow trooper than they did their self.

Selflessness has not quite gone out of style. You saw it on 9-11, you see and read about it on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. You read about it in the newspaper when a fireman or a cop rescues someone.

Courage is the art of rising above fear, and placing the needs of another above the needs or even the survival of self.

To put it another way: “Greater love hath no man, than to give his life for a friend.”

]]> By: Clyde Conneer https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65168 Clyde Conneer Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:10:09 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65168 “Brave? Well, I don’t know about that,” Murz said. “I did what I had to do at the time that I did it.” That's it. That and "being scared" will get ya goin', there isn't time to deliberate, so... “Brave? Well, I don’t know about that,” Murz said. “I did what I had to do at the time that I did it.”

That’s it. That and “being scared” will get ya goin’, there isn’t time to deliberate, so…

]]> By: mindy abraham https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65221 mindy abraham Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:15:22 +0000 https://pat-dollard.com/2007/11/10/study-loyalty-and-esprit-de-corps-behind-heroism/#comment-65221 Nice article. I agree that leadership programs are a good idea. might encourage people to look for the best in them. Nice article. I agree that leadership programs are a good idea. might encourage people to look for the best in them.

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