Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
Given that the Iraq War officially ended this past week, I’ve been thinking about the nature of that experience, and how it shaped me, along with the experiences that came after. “Courage” is one of those…things that people talk about in the context of war, and yet, I think that many people don’t comprehend it fully.
