Although much of Pastrana's popularity stems from his disregard for danger, he joined Nascar partly for its comparatively safe working conditions.
Iraqis who appear to be perfectly normal, coping human beings to outside observers may actually be suffering from varying degrees of P.T.S.D. in the form of frequent nightmares, sleep disturbances, emotional numbness, violent and frightening thoughts, a disregard for danger, irritability, anxiety and fits of anger.
His citation read: "During the worst of the bombardment, Piper Laidlaw, seeing that his company was badly shaken from the effects of gas, with absolute coolness and disregard of danger, mounted the parapet, marched up and down and played the company out of the trench.
Without any hesitation he collected six other ranks and with entire disregard of danger he charged and captured the position.
MacNamara being killed or captured was so great that even had he not been wounded he would have been justified in not attempting my rescue – the fact of his already being wounded makes his action one of outstanding gallantry – his determination and resource and utter disregard of danger throughout the operation was worthy of the highest praise".
Neither author disregards the danger posed by extremists (underlined this week by the attempted car-bombing in New York).
More than 800 were killed; an official Israeli court found that Mr Sharon bore "personal responsibility" for disregarding the danger that such acts might occur.Stripped of his ministry for that, he climbed back slowly.
But the Kahan commission concluded that he "disregarded the danger" and recommended that he resign from office.
After the war's end, Modotti disregards the danger to her life that returning to Mexico poses.
