Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

