Pi; The Weakest Link of Lucidity

A lifetime ago, my squad responded to back up to Interpol trying to put a stop to Serbian People Purple Eaters para-military police going door to door and kicking Bosnians and such out of their homes. They were attempting to resume at least forced relocation. We brought in more back up. There were hundreds of them. My squad and the Interpol cop partners were outnumbered, but literally, it didn’t take long for the rest of the cavalry to arrive. Eventually, weapons were charged, and it looked like it would be a massacre of some sorts. Guns were locked and loaded, and I got an order that would have likely been suicide if I had to follow it out. The both sides stood down. Nobody wanted to kill each other that day. Probably the greater truth is nobody wanted to die. It would have only taken one person to fire, and it would have been over. There were tanks on a perimeter that would have likely wiped us all out. I was on a 50 cal mounted to a Humvee in the thick of it. I would have been the first target. I think people should stop glorifying killing. The fact we avoided killing each other in even the weakest link had insight as to the lucidity we all had in the moment. There was actually an investigation into our unwillingness to shoot even when a grenade was thrown during a civilian riot which the other half of my platoon was dealing with outside our observation post at the same time.