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[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The desire for a glorious death in honorable combat.

I will settle for dying while charging a heavily entrenched position. or alternativlely im ok to be blasted apart by heavy artillery.

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

I read about this one Vietnamese soldier, Phan Dinh Giot, who died on the first day of fighting the French colonialists at Dien Bien Phu (Strongpoint Beatrice iirc). Before he joined the PAVN, his father had starved to death under French-Japanese occupation.

Phan Dinh Giot charged an entrenched machine gun dugout while throwing grenades at and into the MG loophole, got shot multiple times, then plugged said loophole with his own mangled body thus trapping the Fr*nch MG crew inside with his grenade and disabling the machine gun. He was mortally wounded by point blank fire and his own grenades but reportedly his last words to his comrades charging up behind him after he cleared the nest were: "3 for 1, not bad!"

His comrades went on to win the battle so decisively that one of the Frog commanders chose to permanently decolonize himself with a grenade in humiliation and Paris surrendered their colonial rule over Northern Vietnam- not bad indeed comrade. uncle-ho-2 france-cool

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ideally I'd like to win but be mortally wounded, then take a seat and fade out on the W, leaving a cool corpse and a legendary weapon for the person who's been following my trail of audio logs.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Oh. Yeah I for sure would like to leave some purple loot behind.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Excellent choices.