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The Lion's Courage In All Quiet On The Western Front

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The Lion’s Characteristic “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important”- Ambrose Redmoon. There are many displays of courage in the military and other jobs such as firemen, police officers. These people put their life on the line to save a life from a drunk driver or rescue someone from a burning house. Doing these jobs doesn’t mean they're not scared it just means they put aside their own fears to save others. To me courage is when my cousin went into the Marines and enlisted for eight years. He was scared, but went on anyway he came back he was glad that he got to serve his country. Paul is similar to him because he probably thought of things to get the war of his mind like maybe his memories.

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