“Live for something rather than die for nothing.”
"There is no greater love than this, to lay down one's life for his friends". (John 15:3).
Military men fighting to keep their own men alive and to keep them from capture by a brutal enemy would hardly amount to fighting or dying "for nothing". It's a blight upon mankind that modern morals and values, (like yours), are pretty much the reverse of old. Political correctness and faithlessness have done an insideously grand job of surgically removing man's spine from him and leaving him without honor.