At What Price?

Where the rewards of valor are the greatest, there you will find also the best and bravest spirits among the people.
—  Pericles’ Funeral Oration
(from Thucydides, 430 B. C. E.)
[This quote brought to mind General Patton’s famous quote: “Your job is not do die for your country.  Your job is to make the other poor, dumb, bastard die for his country.”  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2014	Intricate And Subtle Order
2013	Attention To Detail
2012	Aequanimitas!
2011	Consider This