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- Source:
- Flickr
- Collection:
- Ronnie Pitman
- Date:
- 2019-12-31 17:25:38
- Region:
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Richmond, Virginia
(inherited from collection) - Description:
- "The third kind [of heroism] has become tragically common. It is that quality which men summon up from within themselves to deal with the hopeless fate dealt them by incompetent commanders. This courage is a form of individual dignity which makes the pointlessness of that man's death aceptable to his family and to society. Unfortunately, that same dignity also has the effect of camouflaging both the commander's incompetence and the military structure which caused the man's death. "When we talk of valour and courage in the nation-state, we are more often than not talking about this dignified suicide of the inadvertently condemned. As for the medals which accompany such a waste of life, they are a trick of military incompetence. In lieu of victory and/or life, the individual is given a medal." John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. New York: Vintage, 1993. page 230.
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- By:
- Anonymous
- Date:
- Aug 22, 2026
- Total:
- 1 submission
- Confidence:
- High
- Validations:
- 0
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This is a 23-foot-tall marble woman statue at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond. It is named Memory, sculpted by Leo F. Friedlander.
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All georeferencing activity and comments for this imageGeoreferenced by Anonymous Current
Aug 22, 2026 1:26 PM
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This is a 23-foot-tall marble woman statue at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond. It is named Memory, sculpted by Leo F. Friedlander.