My father, an ex-Marine who fought the Japanese during World War II, told me there was never a soldier in the history of warfare who “give his life for his country.” What happens is that a bullet or a grenade or a shell fragment catches you and sometimes kills you. So Donald “bone spurs” Trump talking about the beauty of doctors and nurses “running into death just like soldiers run into bullets”…odious bullshit. Bullets catch you like coronavirus spray lands on you when the wrong person coughs in your immediate vicinity. Analogy-wise “firemen running into a burning building” more or less works, but that didn’t come to him. Kamikaze death is not “beautiful” — it’s fictitious.
