A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.