Yup. And look at the scrawny little arms on that poor little hero. He hardly had a chance. Yet he still jumped into the fray to save someone he loved... The very definition of what a hero does, without regard for his own life. We, society, lost a 14-year-old. But it feels like we lost a hundred of them.
How terrifying it must’ve been, for him and his little sister.
Yes - he became a man in that moment. He should be alive and enjoying his youth with a long life ahead of him, but some piece of trash took that all away.
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori.