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Courage is usually described in battlefield terms — the charge forward, the split‑second decision, the willingness to risk one’s life. But for veterans exposed to Agent Orange, courage took on a different shape. It became a long, quiet practice: the courage to live with uncertainty, to face diagnoses that arrived decades after service, and to keep building a life even when the future felt fragile. 1. The Courage of Knowing What Might Come For many veterans, the first act of courage was simply absorbing the truth. Learning that a chemical they barely noticed in Vietnam could cause cancer, heart disease, neuropathy, or Parkinsonism required a kind of emotional steadiness that few people ever need to summon. It meant living with the knowledge that: bad news could arrive at any time, symptoms might appear without warning, and the body might carry a danger planted years earlier. This is not fearlessness. It is the courage of continuing anyway — of going to work, raising children, paying bi...

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  Today's meditation from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -32-   You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Do the thing you think you cannot do… do one thing every day that scares you.   Eleanor Roosevelt   I admire stories of courage. Can you imagine the courage of the Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the moon, facing the very real possibility of being stranded looking down at the earth 250,000 miles away with no way to return? (If your car battery dies outside the hardware store, it’s one thing, but for them…). No less inspiring are stories of everyday courage. I have had many patients like the man who was terrified to leave his home but summoned the courage to walk to the mailbox, then drive down the street, and then go to the grocery store. Or my neighbor who spoke to the unpopular opinion of supporting the scho...