Posted by: ThePredkiller2
"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it's price." (Sun Tzu)
"Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH." (Ueshiba Morihei)
"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." (Sun Tzu)
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious." (Sun Tzu)
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." (Sun Tzu)
Read the above quotes, and really think on them for a moment, before going onto read my post.
Those who die in battle, are the only ones who are ever truly victorious, their names are engraved in stone, and they are remembered, as they inspire. What disturbs me, is that people on this forum are so ignorant to the fact of what a warrior truly is, and what it really means to die in battle.
I think using the Spartan Code is an appropriate example for this subject.
The Spartan Code
The power and pride of Sparta was in its army above all else, for in its courage, discipline, and skill of the troops, Sparta found its security, and its' ideal. Every citizen was trained for war, and was liable to military service from his twentieth to his sixtieth year. Around its army, Sparta formed its moral code: to be good was to be strong and brave; to die in battle was the highest honor and happiness...
So you see, by dying in battle, one could consider Noble Six and NOBLE Team the ultimate representation of the symbolism the entirety of the SPARTAN program represents, making them, in my personal opinion, the best SPARTANS. Noble Six inspired Halsey enough for her to write a eulogy about him (I'm assuming in her Journal somewhere), but even that is beside the point. I'm not saying Master Chief is inferior to Noble Six, nowhere do I imply that, I am simply saying, Noble Six is NOT inferior to Master Chief in any way, shape, or form, and is in fact, once again in my opinion, a better representation for what a SPARTAN is truly meant to symbolize, the ultimate victory, the highest victory any SPARTAN can hope to achieve, to die exactly the way in which he was brought into this world, screaming... and bathed in blood, in a manner of speaking.
Master Chief.