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Courage. An ambiguous word used to describe the motive behind numerous acts, encompassing a variety of definitions. Courage manifests itself in many different forms, most commonly, acts of physical courage; pushing the body into an act of br ....

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... own instinct? In Tim O’Brien’s non-fictional “On the Rainy River”, he concludes his personal account of being drafted with the admission, “I was a coward. I went to the war”, thus reinforcing the superior strength required behind an act of moral courage, as opposed to one of physical courage. Prior to being drafted, O’Brien admits to political naïveté. His perspective of the Vietnam War is not a passionate one; however, he is decidedly in opposition of the war, feeling that blood is being shed for unstable reasons. He saw “no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law” and has defined the war simply as “wro ...