Courage and duty are often misinterpreted as what?

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Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe's 1944 Christmas message to the Germans

Courage and duty are often misinterpreted as what?

Antagonism.

Brigadier General McAuliffe wasn’t trying to antagonize the Germans in 1944. He was exercising courage and obeying a solemn oath of duty.

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