Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raised by the Cheyennes, who call themselves "human beings" and who rewarded his early heroism by bestowing upon him the name Little Big Man. (Or did they...
...were sent to fight, and it eventually slipped out from under their combat boots. They were trained to work in small teams, to meet the guerrilla enemy one-to-one in any remote paddy or jungle where he could be found. As the war has turned, the nimbus of heroism dissolved. At the beginning of the year, the Green Berets turned over their last camps to the South Vietnamese troops. Last week, the Army announced that as an official unit the Green Berets have ceased to function in Viet...
...author admires for his heroism one Werner Borner, radio operator aboard a crippled German Dornier 17 bomber. Borner's distinction: he tried to kill Townsend-and nearly succeeded. Flying a Hurricane. Townsend closed with the Dornier as the Germans, elated after a successful attack on shipping in the harbor at Lowestoft, were flying back across the North Sea derisively singing Goodbye, Johnny. Townsend wounded two of the four crew members. Talking with Townsend after the war, Borner, the only man left besides the pilot, recalled that "with a last effort I shot at the Hurricane, which was so close...
...superintendent at Annapolis, Admiral James F. Calvert, believes that Zumwalt is "the best thing that's happened to the Navy in a long time," but he does not want his academy to adapt too completely to the world outside its walls. Calvert praises "team spirit, the battle cry, camaraderie, heroism, the desperate fight against impossible odds," and deplores the fact that higher education in the U.S. tends to reject "authority, tradition, moral values?anything that smacks of absolutes. Annapolis cannot go along with that." And if a midshipman does not believe "in the essential goodness of the country...
...United States military glory from books and movies. The massacre of American Indians by soldiers in the late 1800s became "the Winning of the West" as novelists and then filmmakers throughout the next century popularized the killing. In the last 25 years, countless stories about individual acts of American heroism in World War II have emerged as glorified tales in novels and movies. War makes good copy for dramatic adventures, and it is interesting to conjecture about the effect such stories have on attitudes and thinking about war. Who is more American than its war heroes? What is more honorable...