It's so difficult to be different and not follow the crowd especially when your very life is at stake. But it is so important to do so. Could I have done it, be beheaded, shamed, leave my family behind, my husband and children? I probably would have rationalized how it would be ok if I just went along even killing innocent people when I had to. Allowing myself to become everything I despised, dying a little inside with each injustice. He is a true hero!