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