McCain realized later that the Academy had taught him that "to sustain my self-respect for a lifetime it would be necessary for me to have the honor of serving something greater than my self-interest", a lesson that he would need to carry him through a "desperate and uncertain" time a decade later.
I think it's sort of revelatory to see the Kid who does it for the honor of doing something incredibly well -- that the sweet science of boxing, it as an institution, is worthy of putting all of your sacrificing, all of your blood, sweat, and tears into it in order to create, if not art, then something sort of transcendent.
Computer proficiency is kind of badge of honor, something that, since the dawn of computing platforms, has been earned through effort, time and mental labor.
"Fan art is revolutionary, in a way, as it offers the fan a vast variety of ways to honor their love of something without going through the traditional channels, and allows one to be a distinguishing consumer.
"They're about making something beautiful, they're about fixing what is broken [and] honoring the history of something while making it work in the present day.
I hope he translates the honor of office into something noteworthy for the world's poor.
It's not a badge of honor, but a vestige of something in the past".
In order to honor the high value of something or someone who has been lost, we don't have to inflict on ourselves the other great losses that would result from being totally overwhelmed and shut down for a long period of time by overly intense or prolonged grief.
Getting by on four or five hours is seen as a measure of strength -- a badge of honor -- something to be remarked upon and admired by others.
In the yakuza community, a sick liver is a badge of honor, something that a proud samurai like Goto brags about in his memoirs.
