
In excruciating pain from the shrapnel wounds that would later kill him, Captain David Hicks was supposed to be evacuated to safety.
But the 26-year-old refused to abandon his men and ordered them to let him return to his post, even refusing pain-killing morphine to keep his mind clear for the rearguard action against a Taliban rocket attack. "
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“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
Thomas Babington Macaulay (English Historian, 1800-1859)
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