When I was a child, my mother told me the story of her uncle who, during a WWII bombing raid, rushed into a burning house to rescue children trapped inside. He saved their lives by throwing them from a window down into the arms of others, however the house collapsed, killing him. I remember asking my mother if she thought he was scared. “I’m sure he was,” she said, “but sometimes people see what needs to be done, and they do it.” It was my first brush with the notion of courage, which Aristotle named as a Virtue. Yet what is courage to one person, might be all in a day’s work to another.
In 2017, Rebecca Cushman, an equestrian trainer in Sonoma County, California,
