'The Charge Of The Light Brigade'

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What is courage and honor? Courage is the ability to do something without fearing the thing you are doing.Honor is when no matter what happens you do the thing you have to do with pride. In the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and in a football game you need honor and courage. In a football game and in a war you have an commander, someone who gives you orders and tells you what you need to do.Even if the commander gives off the wrong order or if the couch tells you to do the wrong thing the football team and the army still do what they are told.In “The Charge of the Light Brigade” their commander had blundered but the six hundred still went and fought in the war.

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