The Road to Valor

The road to valor is built on the corpse of enemies

Valor is honor plus dignity. It’s gallant bravery and strength, especially on the battlefield or in the face of danger. Saint George displayed valor when he finally slayed the dragon. It’s a trait fit for a hero. -Valor - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

In 1945, Ho Chi Minh was asked to reviewed some national athems or songs. One song wanted to drink the blood of enemies, but Ho Chi Minh rephrased it to the road to valor is built on the corpse of enemies.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are. This formulation is, however, a paraphrase of Shakespeare's actual language. Juliet compares Romeo to a rose saying that if he were not a Montague, he would still be just as handsome and be Juliet's love. This states that if he were not Romeo, then he would not be a Montague and she would be able to marry him without hindrances.

The world we live in is so far removed from the daily struggle, that we no longer have roots in reality. We would see people who uses language we do not approve, as inferior. We elevate ourselves so far beyond the field of struggle, that we no longer understand a simple message when it is not in our approved linguistic norm.

Reality actually has no words. As soon as you resort to using words, you already removed yourself from reality. While neurolink may help bridge some of that, but I highly doubt we can link minds within the next 1,000 years. I would think we have a better chance of going extinct before becoming fully capable of communicating realities.

Military general looks good when war are won and fought. when there is no war, people starts to wonder why we're feeding this army. The solution to such a position is simple, start a war so that one may look the hero.

By 9th grade, I already finish a few history books. While class in 5th grade allotted 9 months to reading California history, I finish in 2 and slept the other 7 in class. Librarian convinced me to write a book, a biography about growing up in Vietnam and display it proudly at the library of Norwalk Elementary school. They introduced me to the public library, and soon I was just stuffing myself with as much books as fast as I could. Mein Kempf looks like something I don't understand. The words look so foreign compared to all the books next to it. So I took it home and devoured it as if it was just another book. It unlocked several questions in a young boy's mind and those doors have never closed. The question of injustice and justice. Within a few years, I because more interested in adult fiction and fantasy than the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drews. One such example was The Executioner by Don Pendleton.

When it was my turn to return home to America and found the legal system unable to do what it was tasked with. Providing justice. I understood without a doubt that if I was to find justice, it would be by my hands. As many military people like to joke, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. You can find my initial work here. My first thriller summing up my understanding of problem and solution to the American problem. The Executioner: Prelude to Justice: Ho, Nghia Chanh: 9798352591321: Amazon.com: Books

While the Harvard course on jurisprudence can dance around the subject of justice, you can hardly depend on a Harvard graduate to provide justice. While students' protests are credited with ending the war in Vietnam, ending the genocide in Gaze, they conveniently left out the barrel of justice that found in flipflop, in rain, in snow, in mud, and in destitute.

No the road to valor is not in the classroom. You will not find valor in academic discourse or polite pleasantries around why genocide exists, and which model of political system would alleviate the issue. These people could never fix this problem, because they are the problem. Without them there would not be this Gaza genocide. Without these people, the genocide would stop in less than 30 days. Even if it means nothing will ever grow in in the region again. But at least there will be peace.

The road to valor is so dependent on war that, when I was looking for a role model to be in life. I lamented that I grew up in the wrong age. We do not need warlords and generals. As world war 3 increase in dismantling the world order, I cannot help but ask if my time have come.

I immigrated to the USA in September of 1989. for 1-2 years, I clocked 10-20 hours day watching Chinese movies. That is a minimum of 3,600 hours a year, or 5,000 hours to be realistic. Everything was about justice and injustice. You fuck with the king, he cut off the head of all your family, your cousins, and their cousins. The king cut off the head of your father, so you went around the world finding a mean to kill the king.

The Three Kingdoms period (220-280 AD) is one of the most fascinating and complex epochs in Chinese history. It was marked by the division of China into three rival states: Cao Wei (曹魏), Shu Han (蜀汉), and Eastern Wu (东吴). Just imagine Game of Throne but 10x deeper, 10x more complex, and 10x for educational on political science. Political science, as in thick face, black heart. If you don't understand what thick face black heart is, go look up Hillary Clinton. But if anyone is interested in political science and international relations, no phd program can offer a comparable value to this epic tales of justice, injustice, loyalties, deceptions, betrayals, human suffering and hope and realities. Truths are still applicable a thousand years later.

The only complaint is that, in these Chinese movie. people want to die for everything. sort of like the duel between Abraham Lincoln and his insulted foe. Or the duel between Pierre in War and Peace.

Pierre is challenged to a duel after a dinner at the English Club. During the dinner, Dolokhov, who is rumored to be having an affair with Pierre's wife Helene, makes a toast to "beautiful women." Pierre interprets this as a deliberate insult and challenges Dolokhov to a duel on the spot.

But the truth of it all is that valor do actually build on the carcasses of dead enemies. you can't achieve valor writing 300 page book reports on war like General Patreus's dissertation.

The road to valor is build on the corpse of your dead enemies.