I salute you.
Truly. What you express is noble. Many of us will go down with a lot less nobility than you show.
But we are going down, regardless.
It wouldn’t be the first time we rose again when the great possibility of defeat was bearing down on us.
(I’m glad you weren’t at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Omaha Beach or Iwo...Those men didn’t say ‘We are going down’.)