They Thought About It

[larry_cockerham]

I'm not sure its just testosterone. To have put in so much sacrifice and to have victory in sight only to have it yanked away by a gutless coward...

Okay, so maybe that is sort of what you meant. But to me there's a difference between just being too stubborn to quit and not wanting your sacrifices to reach this point to be thrown away when you can win it.

Not sure we can tell which was the case, though.

Imagine the soldiers of the AOT who had been brutally beaten at Franklin and Nashville. Wounded and shoeless in the snow and mud, they fought on. They weren't stubborn; they simply had a choice between fight or die.

 

[wilber6150]

I'm not sure its just testosterone. To have put in so much sacrifice and to have victory in sight only to have it yanked away by a gutless coward...

Okay, so maybe that is sort of what you meant. But to me there's a difference between just being too stubborn to quit and not wanting your sacrifices to reach this point to be thrown away when you can win it.

Not sure we can tell which was the case, though.

Nicely put, but maybe it was also just the determination to see it through to the end, no matter what...