History can do things like that to you, you know?
It hink watching Black Hawk Down did it for me. Shugart / Gordon and their ordeal is often enough to make my emotions stir.
But to be honest, the period of history that makes me swell the most is the Napoleonic wars - there is something about the stories of the men of that conflict that makes me want to cry. I don't know why - but I would probably begin to look around the definition of the word "Honor". Not that this is a dead concept and perhaps it has been glorified and expanded over the years, but it is still enough for me to stop and think.
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