Saturday, August 25, 2018

Courage, and the Lack Thereof


On Thursday, I watched the movie “Dunkirk” for a second time.  Christopher Nolan’s account of the mass evacuation of British and French forces from the French coast in June 1940 is a rumination on the meaning of courage.  That is something no one will ever accuse Urban Meyer of having.

The Ohio State football coach was suspended three games without pay for the way he handled a situation involving an assistant coach; that man may have beaten his wife with some regularity.  The wife sent pictures of her bruises to Meyer’s wife, who apparently didn’t feel the need to call authorities or have her husband do so.  Meyer said he didn’t know the details, then he said he did.  Mistakes were made, and Meyer admits that he followed with his heart rather than his head.  Blah, blah, blah. 

Just imagine Meyer at Dunkirk.  I can’t.

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