"Had they followed their instincts, it would have made no difference for the victim, and given the suicidal fervour of the killers, we would now be talking about six or more dead soldiers and probably the women tending to the victim as well."


Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word cowardice , but that's the very attitude I was talking about Don. Had a hundred soldiers come running out to assist their fallen comrade, it's very unlikely that six of them would have been killed . The people who killed Drummer Rigby were not supermen .