Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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And when we're in situations where we're concerned about others and others need us, it's almost like a painkiller.
It's like, oh, I feel no fear.
I'm good.
But I just have to make sure everyone else is good.
It happened in New York on 9-11, after 9-11, right?
Hurricanes, an earthquake.
It was an earthquake in Italy that I looked at in 1916, I think it was.
And it killed something like 95% of the population in a minute, right?
It was like a nuclear bomb.
It hit that area, Avizzano, Italy.
And the people that survived it had to make it another four or five days until help could get there.
And this guy wrote, he said, I mean, one of the amazing things about crises like this is everyone's the same.
So all these awful social strata, sort of like rich, poor, white, black, whatever, every conceivable category just goes away, right?
And so this guy said, it's such an amazing sentence, he said,
that the earthquake had produced what the law promises but cannot, in fact, deliver, which is the equality of all men.
And what I would say, in those circumstances, you're absolutely right, but I would say the word hero is like a civilian concept, right?
In combat itself, no one thinks of being a hero.
I mean, the people that have received, and I know some of them that have received the Medal of Honor, our highest medal in this country,
They're like, universally, like without exception, they're like, I didn't do, I just did, I did the minimum that I was supposed to do for a brother who was in distress, in danger, right?
I'm not a hero.
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