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Cowerdly does not simply mean bad. Saying that sacraficing your life to achive a goal is cowardly is nonsense.
They suppressed there fears, that's what bravery means. You can be brave doing horrible things. Mao was brave, Hitler was (at times) brave. You are falling into the halo issue, saying that if an act was bad it must be bad in all ways.