There's a movie, "The Expendables" from 2010, and a new one, "Expendables II" coming out in August. I like thinking about expendable from that point of view; they send these guys in, thinking they will fail, unable to give them additional help if they have trouble, etc. and what happens? In actuality, what the people sending them in think, doesn't matter; they succeed, they don't need outside help, they are strong and their own persons, able to deal with the situations without the people who think they are their superiors.

Other people's labels of us have no bearing on us! We are not other people's to define.