Courage Is Calling – Quote #122

Love makes us heroic. Stockdale and his fellow POWs would signal back and forth to one another the letters U and S. What did it mean? United States? No: Unity over Self. They would say that to one another when they were lonely, when they were pulled away to be tortured, and when they sat in the cells beating themselves up for what they might have said under torture. What unified whole are you a part of? What is the love that’s powering you? Country? Cause? Comrade? That’s the flip side of what about me. That’s how we rise above our limits.