Just to be clear, I do not question the man's courage in the least since he chose to overlook the First Rule and do something rather than just stand there. I guess what I have a problem with is the noisy would-be hero when compared to the quiet real hero archetype (Gary Cooper in "High Noon", Alan Ladd in "Shane", The Lone Ranger - "Who was that masked man?"). Guess I watched too many Westerns, huh?
As I said in my initial post, if he is "bragging" and self inflating, that would tend to downplay and cast doubt on his version of events...but I cannot say whether he has or has not been doing that.
If he was dismayed with the lack of action by a guard, and had to take action, unarmed, to try and stop a killer, I can understand how he would be frustrated. Speaking of that out of frsutration, or particularly out of a desire to help make sure it does not happen again, is not being a braggard. I m just not in a position to judge that part oof it at this point.
I think so. Some people are introverts, and don't talk. Some people are extroverts, and there is nothing more natural to them than talking about what they've been through. In fact, if they've been through a crisis and you ask them to shut up, it's like smothering their personhood.