He who as soon as born keen - thoughted, foremost, Surpassed the gods, himself, a god, in power; Before whose vehemence the worlds trembled Through
his great valour; he, O men, is Indra.
With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest
valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the
great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.