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ness, or rather selfishness, is anothers the willingness to lay down one's
life for a friend or for & Cause, Patriotism is another; willingness in
the final analysis to lay dow inne life for one's country. Leadership and
. faith in lbadership, Wer tests these virtues out. It marks the difference

between the men who have them and the men who don't. Without war or somee

 

thing similar those virtues would rot bad |

‘The captain speaking had a brother who was killed in a P 38 a day or
two before. He had another brother who was in action who, he thought, might
get it. He had lost most of his best friends and still he didn’t think that
would change his mind, ,

"Besides," he continued, "I don't say war is a good thing in itself,
I don't know about that, I only know that under our present standard of
virtues it seems to me, and as long as men continue to admire these virtues,
there will be war, and I get sick and tired of all this talk about war
being terrible and how we are going to stop it with a world police force.
They might delay another war, but they won't stop it. It is our standard
of virtues. If courage and chivalry and patriotism and leadership and
faith in a cause or a country on virtues, are worthy of dying for, then war
is partly a good thing for it keeps them alive and active, If they are not
worth dying for, then war is certainly a terrible thing. But the only way
we will stop it is to revise our standard of virtues."

_ "You are crazy", a bitter youth said slowly. "You're wrong. I can’t
tell you exactly where, but your reasoning is haywire somehow. War is wrong.
That's all I know. I don't know about virtues." :

Another captain said, “Well, I know there is no virtue in staying ~
all night listening to you guys argue. I em going to hit the sack, We've
got another tough early mission in the morning."