What happened to honor in the military?

Charles Piroth killed himself at Dien Bien Phu saying "I am completely dishonored." Now it seems like they blame stuff on underlings like Lynndie England and Rumsfeld blamed low level soldiers for torture. One of the reasons that officers and non coms are supposed to have side arms is to defend their honor (by suicide) that, and to make sure their subordinates go "over the wall." a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Piroth" rel="nofollow"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pir…/a