We don't have full frontal battles, like the Battle of the Bulge.

My father was a decorated soldier who fought at the Battle of the Bulge,

It is a full-frontal attack on our revolution itself.

Pessimism never won any battle.

The things you have to do to win (a Medal of Honor) are so rare, so unusual. Millions of people have served in the armed forces, and only a couple thousand have received one. What they would have to do would be so phenomenal, so over the top, that it just doesn't happen very often.

Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.