Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.