This is Jockel Podcast number 392 with Carrie Heldon and me, Jockel Willink, good evening, Carrie. Good evening.

The truth is we died together once before.

We died together once before, so says the character Thomas Shelby in the series Peaky Blinders.

He's

speaking of himself and his brothers who had served as British soldiers in World War One.

He and his brothers Arthur and John as well as three of their friends.

Danny Wisbang, Jeremiah and Freddie Thorn

were in the field and they were caught off from the British retreat.

As the British left the battle, they couldn't get away.

They had no bullets left.

They were simply waiting for the Prussian cavalry to finish them off.

And while they waited, they decided they should sing the old hymn in the bleak midwinter.

And they waited to die.

But in the end they were spared for whatever reason, fate or

Providence or chance or destiny, the enemy never came and so they lived.

And Thomas Shelby says at the end of the story that we all agreed

everything after that was extra.

Bonus. And that attitude, that perspective permeates in the way that the Shelby brothers lived.

And the way many veterans live after war.

This is something that war can do to a person.

If you've accepted death, then the rest is all extra.

It's all a bonus.

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