Sources? beagle3 offers concrete examples, you don't. I'd love to be proven wrong here, but I've found nothing that suggests honor was ever valued in the united states and certainly not the way you say it was. Japan, certainly...
- Woodrow T. Wilson
Unfortunately the internet is an intellectual ghetto and so there are no good links that describe honour. But cmon you ignorant computer scientists, read a fucking history book. Honor was the most important code of conduct for American aristocrats and lasted until the mid-20th century. If they were publicly dishonoured they could lose everything they cared about.
This is why people fought duels to defend their honour. People were willing to die to maintain their honour.
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/03/05/man-knowledge-an-affair...