redvet wrote:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wel...91117-252.html

Wow! what a great article! Here is the beginning:

There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral
courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and
women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in harm's
way.

Moral courage, however, is quite rare. According to Chris Hedges, the
brilliant New York Times war correspondent who survived wars in Latin
America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, “I rarely saw moral
courage. Moral courage is harder. It requires the bearer to walk away
from the warm embrace of comradeship and denounce the myth of war as a
fraud, to name it as an enterprise of death and immorality, to condemn
himself, and those around him, as killers. It requires the bearer to
become an outcast. There are times when taking a moral stance, perhaps
the highest form of patriotism, means facing down the community, even
the nation.”

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Each person has an individual responsibility to determine if his actions are moral, and
no government or army may ever take that responsibility away.

definition:
murder - the unjustifiable and intentional killing of people, NO EXCEPTIONS.