Though I would not be so daft as to suggest that heroism in war depends merely on conditions that would allow for the personhood or instrumentality of the soldier, for that would be laughable. As if being killed or maimed in some ‘honorable’ mode of combat, which one had no interest in being installed in, or recruited for, anyway, is much preferable to being blown apart by a missile that one never sees coming. For surely the biggest lie that mankind perpetuates, with regard to war, is that it is as necessary as it is made out to be. The second biggest being that those who must fight it (the young, the unmoneyed, the disenfranchised) should care about it as much as those who instigate it or profit from it, but who rarely volunteer or are drafted for it (the old, the affluent, the connected).