Never be afraid to live because you’re afraid to die.
“How is it you can keep so serene and stay so utterly insensible with a storm of shells and bullets raining about your head?”
“Captain Smith, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death, I do not concern myself with that—but to be always ready, whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live. Then all men would be equally brave.”
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson in Gods and Generals (2003)
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That text should be used, verbatim, to request a religious exemption from the vaccine nonsense.
Didn’t Senator Robert KKK Byrd, D-WV (Writhe in Hell), have a role in that flick?
I never realized that but, you’re correct according to IMDb.
Byrd was known by his closest friends as just “Sheets” Byrd.
A story of bravery I’ve always admired was about a WWII Navy Pilot who was trying to limp back to his Carrier. His plane had been hit, he was running low on fuel and night had fallen so the Carrier was blacked out and could not chance a light to guide him in. His last transmission before disappearing into the Pacific Ocean was:
“I’m lost. But I’m making record time.”
That definitely resounds. It always depends on where your focus is.
I was at a family picnic yesterday. I am now roughly the same age the older relatives were when my bride dragged me home to meet the family. That has really been sticking with me as my own children are making the generational transition more apparent.
One of the uncles who I love and respect was holding court with other family members. Since they are all getting glimpses of the reaper as they age, talk of death came up. He said, “We’re gonna die soon enough.” Another was shocked by his comment and asked if he was scared. He said he was not.
“Everybody dies. Not everybody lives.”
Stonewall in some cases didn’t believe in giving the enemy quarter…maybe that is something to keep in mind in the future if rope is in short supply .