Comments on: The Ability and the Duty to Be Heroic http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/05/29/archives/post-perspective/ability-duty-heroic.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ability-duty-heroic Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Chris http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/05/29/archives/post-perspective/ability-duty-heroic.html/comment-page-1#comment-75456 Chris Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:00:19 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=23024#comment-75456 Thunder – A few weeks prior to his death, then-Sergeant Young requested demotion to private. He was concerned that his deteriorating hearing could cause him to miss an order at a critical moment, costing his men their lives. His request was honored.

He could probably have been sent home, but chose to remain with his company. That is part of what makes his story so remarkable.

]]> By: Thunder http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/05/29/archives/post-perspective/ability-duty-heroic.html/comment-page-1#comment-13739 Thunder Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:28:46 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=23024#comment-13739 Help me out here. It’s says” Private Rodger Young” had no responsibility!
The picture shows SARGENT Rodger Young who died in Battle as a private?
Not Nit Picking just Curious

]]> By: Frank James Davis http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/05/29/archives/post-perspective/ability-duty-heroic.html/comment-page-1#comment-12771 Frank James Davis Mon, 31 May 2010 22:16:41 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=23024#comment-12771 For me, this single sentence captures Rodger Young’s heroism–that uncommon courage of a supposedly quite common man: “And yet he elected to die violently on a remote and ugly island he had probably never heard of a few weeks before he was buried there.”
Simultaneously chilling and magnificent!

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