Rise up, warriors, take your stand at one another’s sides, our feet set wide and rooted like oaks in the ground.

…learn to love death’s ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn.

Here is courage, mankind’s finest possession, here is the noblest prize that a young man can endeavor to win.

— Tyrtaeus, Spartan poet; heard in reference to the US Marine’s stand at the Battle of Hue