I agree with tompaine--I find here a "genuine" man--someone that wakes up the notion of  "hero" again in my aging, somewhat jaded hopefulness bucket. He exemplifies what to me is the goal for us as parents, educators, citizens--to see to it that we raise our children with  that sense of personal confidence so clearly centered that,  as they  mature, they know intuitively how to share that strength of character with their society and nation in ways that bring healing, not war! Marcus reminds us of what our "civic duties," were we to claim them, could entail.