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7 For gratitude toward a teacher did not require every later question to become disloyalty.

8 A painter came to record their courage and asked them to stand as though none had ever needed assistance.

9 Helaman asked why the record of strength required the concealment of care.

10 The painter lowered his brush and watched two companions repair a shield for a third whose hand was injured.

11 This, said Helaman, is also what the armies are doing.

12 They trained to protect rather than delight in injury. They did not declare that the person across the field was a lesser kind of being.

13 And when a young person could not bear a task safely, the answer was not to purchase courage with humiliation.

14 The task was reconsidered; help was given; the responsibility remained real.

15 A singer later gave the camp a splendid chorus, and the chorus encouraged many.

16 But nobody supposed that a strong singing voice made a wound unreal, or that a wounded person had sung incorrectly.

17 Helaman’s account preserved the danger and the help, rather than polishing the people into a banner.

18 And the painter found that two figures carrying water could stand as firmly upon a page as a figure carrying a sword.