A Hero's Gift

Heroes and generals, generals and heroes.

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The hero knows not when he will return, asks the way home, yet knows not where home is;

The general knows not when he will return, asks the way home, yet knows not where home is.

The hero knows not the way home, asks when he will return, and asks where home is;

The general knows not the way home, asks when he will return, and asks where home is.

A hero gives himself to the general, and the general gives himself to the hero.

A hero's origins need not be asked, nor should a general be asked where he will return.

"No one is destined to be a general, and no one is born a hero."

"The nation is in peril, so I became a general. The people are in danger, so I became a hero."

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