Chief Bones - I am no warrior, but I have known many warriors.
On another thread, forum members have been discussing just who are heroes and who are not.
Putting that to one side now, Here, I am would like to discuss warriors.
You might say that all soldiers are heroes, and that all warriors are heroes; and I might be with you some of the way there, but I am trying to be a bit more specific, warriors you come face to face with, not claiming perfection but striving for invincibility, and you want on your side.
Chief, you strike me as a typical warrior IMHO, by your record and in temperament; I grew up among warriors (sea-faring island, WW1 vets and WW11 etc.) and eventually married into a warrior family. (30 year professionals etc.)
I have found professional warriors to be the first and sharpest to re-act in anger( or pleasure), the hardest to move, the first to offer or accept or recognise fair compromise and bury the hatchet. Particularly, they hate being 'talked back' to, so you have to grit your teeth and look them steadily in the eye. I believe the eyes have it. (IMHO from personal exp.)
Hot temper/bad temper can be part and parcel, but they know that themselves.
Here is my personal boy-hood hero, a warrior now gone but never forgotten, My uncle Fred, my Dad's youngest brother, Chief Petty Officer on the Hood ; volunteer for submarine service, sunk twice on seperate subs, spent some days in the water, didn't speak of that but it affected his long term health.
About 5ft 6" tall, fast pro/am. boxer with the greatest one- punch KO specialist around, boy sailor served 30s and WW11. Very smart, always friendly and well-met in company, could take his drink comfortably and kept a pub laughing, off duty.
Scared of no-one and nothing in the world, fought throat cancer, with artificial voice box, for many years and visited hospitals encouraging victims facing the same treatment. Fred, God Bless Him.
I suppose that in modern day warfare, so moved on, we have perhaps an entirely different warrior in temperament and technique, which will make my impressions long- gone and irrelevant. Ah well, such is life.
(Edit : Pic 1 is actually under the guns of the Hood.)
On another thread, forum members have been discussing just who are heroes and who are not.
Putting that to one side now, Here, I am would like to discuss warriors.
You might say that all soldiers are heroes, and that all warriors are heroes; and I might be with you some of the way there, but I am trying to be a bit more specific, warriors you come face to face with, not claiming perfection but striving for invincibility, and you want on your side.
Chief, you strike me as a typical warrior IMHO, by your record and in temperament; I grew up among warriors (sea-faring island, WW1 vets and WW11 etc.) and eventually married into a warrior family. (30 year professionals etc.)
I have found professional warriors to be the first and sharpest to re-act in anger( or pleasure), the hardest to move, the first to offer or accept or recognise fair compromise and bury the hatchet. Particularly, they hate being 'talked back' to, so you have to grit your teeth and look them steadily in the eye. I believe the eyes have it. (IMHO from personal exp.)
Hot temper/bad temper can be part and parcel, but they know that themselves.
Here is my personal boy-hood hero, a warrior now gone but never forgotten, My uncle Fred, my Dad's youngest brother, Chief Petty Officer on the Hood ; volunteer for submarine service, sunk twice on seperate subs, spent some days in the water, didn't speak of that but it affected his long term health.
About 5ft 6" tall, fast pro/am. boxer with the greatest one- punch KO specialist around, boy sailor served 30s and WW11. Very smart, always friendly and well-met in company, could take his drink comfortably and kept a pub laughing, off duty.
Scared of no-one and nothing in the world, fought throat cancer, with artificial voice box, for many years and visited hospitals encouraging victims facing the same treatment. Fred, God Bless Him.
I suppose that in modern day warfare, so moved on, we have perhaps an entirely different warrior in temperament and technique, which will make my impressions long- gone and irrelevant. Ah well, such is life.
(Edit : Pic 1 is actually under the guns of the Hood.)
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