yea obviously mate,but what i mean is aftyer getting your family to safety,would you give up your place for somone elses kids and wife?
i honestly believe in by gone days,that men were more concerned of what was the right thing to do than self preservation.
Funny ya should mention this as i was watching a programme about Scott's fatal mission to Antarctica last night and i thought the same thing about captain Oates sacrifice " I'm just going outside, i may be some time". It was the right thing to do at the time in his opinion, stiff upper lip and self sacrifice, and as captain Scott said