"Grace" - seldom mentioned outside of Combat Infantrymen & Jarheads & the occasional War Movie.
Usually dispensed with all available honor to enemy combatants who are already dying of their wounds,
but do not wish to dishonor themselves by succumbing to the pain and being "Un-manly".
Or to put it another way, you sort of act as their Kaishakunin for their Seppuku, if that helps.
Downside is you usually have to write a frickin report about it...Army lives for paperwork...
the memory you just compartmentalize & deal with later.
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A gun should be a tool in the hands of a deadly weapon, not a deadly weapon in the hands of a tool.
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