When I wake up, I snap my eyes open and there's just blood everywhere.

And I push myself up off the ground and I look at my driver who looks at me and gasps

with a look of horror on his face and I'm like, oh, yep, nope, this is bad.

Most of the time when we're doing something, we're either doing it for ourselves or for

someone else.

But in the case of our duty, things get a little less clear.

You see, when duty is the thing we're doing, we're kind of doing it for everybody to

live up to a promise that we made that we would fill a specific role in our society.

Kenny Lion was all about finding roles and filling them.

Whenever he could see the world as a set of instructions, he could follow along nicely.

And that got him pretty far as a Marine.

One of the toughest requirements he had to meet, though, was figuring out how to go beyond

instructions.

To see them as a template, but to make your life your own.

Doing that takes its own particular gift.

You don't always have to wait for the Cormin.

You can start something.

And he got to me and I was saying it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts.

And the only thing he could do is scream Cormin out.

What is true bravery?

What makes a hero a hero?

Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality

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