> And there is a big difference between being brave and being stupid. <
I would argue that being brave involves at least a little bit of what we might call stupidity. For it is kinda stupid to jump off of a boat right in front of a Nazi machine gun nest. Yet many men did just that on D-Day.
I don’t mean to be preachy here. But we expect our fire fighters, our police officers, and our soldiers to take great risks on occasion. It’s the nature of the job.
Generational thing maybe? Guess from the pictures which men ran across a paddy with no cover under withering machine gun fire to build positions to take on the enemy and lay some waste to enemy positions? And which men did not advance for some reason and found themselves hopelessly pinned down and chewed up by the fire?
*note the lack of 'ballistic shields', vests etc. just uniform shirts.