The movie Pearl Harbor has been No. 1 at the box office for two weekends. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are working on an homage to those same soldiers in a cable TV epic. And earlier this year, William Ian Miller's book The Mystery of Courage was published. It's hard to define the virtue and its effect on people. For U.S. Navy Cmdr.
Psychologists say few people have ever studied courage, but it's important in a basic, human way.
You have to test yourself to know who you are. It helps you become a powerful, self-assured person who can navigate this life. You're a stronger person because you stared down the tiger. And tigers abound in the thicket, regardless of who you are. Courage isn't exclusively within the soldier's domain.