Others are newly come to war, experiencing the fear of combat for the first time.
The next morning, June 6, Ellet personally helmed the ram Queen of the West – which he had taken over after two of its pilots, its first mate, and all of its engineers had quit out of fear of combat – to Memphis, moving past Davis's dormant flotilla (with Flag Officer Davis still not communicating his plans).
Two reasons: 1) fear of combat and 2) a failure to recognize the gathering danger.
A mass migration movement was observedin search of new existential possibilities, particularly among the male population in response to fears of combat and the consequences of civil war [ 20].
I was finally able to talk of the death and maimings and fear of those combat days (and I was a Roman Catholic chaplain and had killed no one).
Managers, few of whom have military experience themselves, may fear the aftereffects of combat or losing reservists to another deployment.
From the enthusiasm of the early days, through enlistment, training, the boredom of army life, the misery (but sometimes black humour) of the trenches, the obsession with food and tobacco, the joy of a parcel from loved ones, the fear and danger of combat, the randomness of death and injury, and the final return home for those lucky enough to make it.
Fearing the threat of combat, residents stayed in their homes.
The move came as a source of tremendous relief to Democrats, who had feared the continuation of combat between the Obama and Clinton camps could cost them the White House.
"Because New York is so important, you've got it ringed with missiles, more Nike missiles than anywhere else, more than Washington, D.C.," said Steven H. Jaffe, a historian and the author of "New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham".
As I watched the film, the overwhelming complexity of combat — the fear, the sweat and the sense of unleashed aggression — came rushing back to me.
