Word: unafraidness
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...goes much further. Psychoneurotics who have never heard a shot fired in anger are now being discharged from the Army (current strength: 5,500,000) at the rate of 1,000 a week. The Army's explanations: 1) lack of emotional elasticity in men who want to be unafraid but are driven to nervous crack-ups by uncontrollable subconscious fear; 2) soldiers' anxiety about their families; 3) their lack of ability to adjust themselves to Army regimentation; 4) inability to stand the physical rigors of military life...
Book No. 2 is about MacArthur's men, the men of Bataan, "unafraid in their foxholes, good young men who loved their mothers and had all the usual hobbies, hunters, men who liked flowers, men who were good to their little sisters, men who could do the muscle grind and who were very active around their vicinity, never letting no one put nothing over on them...
...Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . But through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men, still unafraid...
...days Cebu's people had taken to the hills every time a ship appeared in the roadstead. After each false, alarm, lean, grey, Lieut. Colonel Howard J. Edmands and his little denim-clad Filipino M.P.s tramped back from the dock areas through the street, jaunty and unafraid with their rifles and their single machine gun. The remains of Cebu's population quieted down, and waited...
This focusing of responsibility troubled Elzie and Early. They crossed the fields to ask their mother what to do. She told them to take the Negro back to jail and let the law take its course. At midnight, bruised but still unafraid, Spivey was back in his cell. The boys in his cell said they had figured there was a better chance of seeing their mothers come back from the grave than of ever seeing him alive again...