> > *Pointlessly* dying for your country will not
> >benefit it. Sneaking deep into enemy territory and
> >sabotaging a biological weapons factory sacrificing
> >yourself for your country, will benefit it. Have you
> >seen Air Force One? (The movie). The president is
> >going to get killed, but the pilot sacrifices
> >himself and flies his plane into the course of the
> >missle. In a similar situation, sacrificing yourself
> >*does* benefit your country.
>
> This is the second time you've mentioned a movie or television show in support of your ideas. And yet you vehemently denied it when Brunnen-G suggested maybe you have too rosy a picture of military service from your years of watching action movies. Huh.
>
> Perhaps a quote from Patton (the man *and* the movie) will help. "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other poor bastard die for his."
>
> -- Dave

I am using the movie as a mere example. A do not have a rosy picture or a hero's life in the military. If a similar situation should arise, dying for your country and saving someone of much more importance *would* benefit the country.

If while making the other poor bastard die, he does something that is going to make the 5 Star General bastard or the Secretary of State bastard die, sacrificing yourself to save him will help.