Apr 3, 2020
'But what are we going to do?' Colonel Cathcart exclaimed with distress. 'The others are all waiting outside.' 'Why don't we give him a medal?' Colonel Korn proposed. 'For going around twice? What can we give him a medal for?' 'For going around twice,' Colonel Korn answered with a reflective, self-satisfied smile. 'After all, I suppose it did take a lot of courage to go over that target a second time with no other planes around to divert the antiaircraft fire. And he did hit the bridge. You know, that might be the answer — to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.'
p.160, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
