Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will you please convey to Sergeant Robert Ward's twice-bereaved Cherokee Indian mother my personal appreciation of her permitting his return to combat duty . . . Her heroic action honors herself, her son, her people and her nation...
...something all American people should know" . . . "Keep up the good work, TIME". . . "Expressed my views perfectly". . . "If I were a reporter or writer, that is what I would have written". . . "I praise your staff on the excellent coverage of the Korean war." Corporal "Tex" Herzog of the heroic 27th Regiment called TIME "the best magazine in the world," but wanted us to change the name to the Weekly World Magazine...
When the wreckage had cooled, firemen climbed in to bring out seven bodiesfive women, two infants. One of the women was heroic Frankie Housley. She was found lying in the aisle with the body of four-month-old Brenda Joyce Smith in her arms...
Since then, the Korean war has been well looped up. There was the heroic and brilliant loop around Hungnam, and the less brilliant one around Seoul, and next, apparently, will be a loop around Pusan. Perimeters, however, even brilliant and heroic ones, have only two military purposes: to get out of and to move forward from. Where is the U.S. going to move from its Pusan perimeter (or from any of the other perimeters drawn by the participants in the Great Debate...
...would like to express my appreciation for the timely piece in your Dec. 11 issue about the heroic Turks in Korea...