Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.

Jonathan Shay

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Homer suggest that if you forget your pain, you forget your homeland-you 'lose your hope of home.'"-pg.39

Jonathan Shay

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