I like to think that I’d have gone down fighting in similar circumstances, but when you’re that age and have no military training or violent background it takes a while to gear yourself up for that kind of do or die activity.
Yes, I understand. I was simply remarking on the “literary” aspect of the headline. If I ever have the misfortune of dying under a desk, I’d rather have my last words remembered as more “epic heroic” (again, in the literary sense).