Rest in Peace

[RetiredGySgt]

A Hero dies.

John Ripley, Vietnam War hero, dies at age 69 - Yahoo! News

Read about this long a go. The guy was under fire the majority of the time he was stringing the explosives.

 

[Diuretic]

"When you know you're not going to make it, a wonderful thing happens: You stop being cluttered by the feeling that you're going to save your butt."

I was just the other day reading Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics. And reading this obit something jumped out at me from my recent memory. Aristotle is describing how he has plotted out in a diagram the elements supporting his doctrine of the Mean (Book 2- Goodness)

"In the field of Fear and Confidence the mean is Courage;"

I think I can use that quote.

No, not Aristotle's, the one from Col. Ripley.

It truly describes courage.

Rest in peace Colonel Ripley.

 

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