Thread by @erichhartmann

There's a scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where a US soldier fights a Nazi soldier, hand-to-hand in small room. It quite intense 😳

At first it seems like the US soldier could win, but soon the Nazi starts to get the better of him.

It is a well-acted and powerful scene.

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But outside, at that very moment, another US soldier hears this all go down. He knows he must help his friend.

If they both fight the Nazi, they'll win. All he has to do is open that door and help his fellow soldier.

But the Coward cannot act. Frozen with fear, he folds.

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The brave US soldier fights valiantly for his life, but is ultimately overcome by the Nazi.

The Nazi even gives a little "shh" as the light drains from our soldier's eyes.

It's over.

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The Nazi emerges to find the Coward sniveling outside. But… the Nazi doesn't kill him. It's as if the coward is just so loathsome that even a Nazi would rather just leave him to stew in his own ignoble failure.

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For the last 22 months so many of our friends, relatives, colleagues, leaders, and so-called "experts" have revealed themselves to be exactly these cowards.

All they had to do was show a tiny bit of courage, speak up & say "this is wrong".

But they did not.
They folded.

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