The valorous soldier versus the pusillanimous civilian and the patriotic soldier versus unpatriotic civilian are false binaries on which a militarised society thrives.
I think one of the greatest stumbling blocks on our path as a nation is that we have chosen to be pusillanimous about confronting our problems headlong.
Many of them are victims of a system that should have been reformed decades ago but was allowed to develop into a monster by a succession of pusillanimous governments.