Were any of them ever brave or were they always yellow-bellied cowards? Well some of them like lindsay grahamcracker are on tape excoriating don so mebbe once upon a time the cracker wasn't brave so much as he was honest. No longer.
Cowardice in action by any one body is tragic. That it occurs in a body with power to do good and abrogates that power on the altar of evil? That is a travesty a tragedy. It is what it is. GET OVER IT!