[Gator101]

Probably since the beginning of history there has been a tradition of warriors telling family members back home that a man “died heroically while fighting the enemy” even when that wasn’t exactly the case. The fact that he was there side-by-side on the front with them and happened to suffer a different bit of bad luck than those actually killed by the enemy was just something that others didn’t need to know. The omission of the details isn’t some government conspiracy...it is a respect paid between fighting men.

I think this escaped Kevin Tillman somehow.

[Terabitten]

Probably since the beginning of history there has been a tradition of warriors telling family members back home that a man “died heroically while fighting the enemy” even when that wasn’t exactly the case.

There's a long standing, unspoken tradition that every soldier who dies in combat dies a hero -- even if they died of because of their own stupid mistake.