War breeds heroes — and a deep need to anoint them. the soldier who sacrifices himself for his comrades, the civilian who walks 10 kilometers to get help for a wounded prisoner of war, the medic who ...
” A HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world,” /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America’s world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that “Ballot-boxes and ...