American hero!-----Men With Chests and Those Without - American Greatness

Men With Chests and Those Without - American Greatness
"Last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school reminds us yet again that to live well—to live free—requires men with chests. 
That is a fundamental requirement of free government.
One young man in particular, Peter Wang, died with his chest out for all to see. 
As the Daily Mail reports, Wang was killed while “holding the door for classmates, dressed in his grey ROTC uniform.”
For his heroism, the Army posthumously awarded Wang with the JROTC Medal of Heroism.
In addition, the United States Military Academy appointed Wang to West Point’s class of 2025, as it was his dream to attend the academy.
Such honors are fitting, but they are not sufficient.
Peter Wang exhibited extraordinary courage under fire for a young man, and his example serves as a stark reminder of the republican virtue required to live in a free nation. 
His sacrifice deserves extraordinary attention to match his deeds. 
With that in mind, Trump should do one of the things he does best: dispensing honors to the deserving to teach our citizens what republican virtue really is.
The idea of men with or without chests comes from C.S. Lewis’s description in The Abolition of Man. 
Lewis ends his first chapter with an important passage:
And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more “drive,” or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or “creativity.” In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
This, it seems, captures our predicament today.
A man’s chest—the organ that enables one to know right from wrong and the source of virtues like courage—is a laughable idea to many today.
This utter disbelief in the need for boys (especially) but even adult self-governing citizens more generally, to develop manly chests in order to act like free men, is systemic...
...And thankfully, there are still some men out there with chests.
Which brings us back to Peter Wang.
While others died well that day, doing their duty and protecting the innocent, Cadet Wang’s courage was extraordinary. 
We should expect that any self-respecting man would have to charge someone shooting children, but we do not expect it of those as young as Cadet Wang. 
At the mere age of 15, Wang died a man’s death so that others might live.
For such heroism, we should honor Peter Wang. 
We should raise what he did up high in our minds, not simply because of the nobility of his actions, but because Wang vindicated himself in a way that represents what is required of all of us in lesser measure if we want to live free."
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