Word: heroisms
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There are even more embarrassing footnotes. After Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the citation of her son's heroism reached Mrs. Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...
While cab drivers are frequent victims of crime, they are also frequent heroes-tipping off police to fights and robberies and often joining in the pursuit and capture of lawbreakers. Two months ago, while honoring 75 of them for heroism, Police Commissioner Howard Leary called them "the city's second police force...
...SAVE A SOLDIER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda narrates a documentary recording the everyday heroism of helicopter pilots, doctors and flight nurses in Viet Nam. Repeat...
Though the article lauded their "heroism," the Hills were so upset by the publicity that they charged LIFE with having "fictionalized" their experience to serve "commercial purposes." While accurately reporting the play, they argued, LIFE inaccurately reported them as having been mistreated. However sympathetic the story, they said, the magazine had "perpetrated a hoax on its readers...
...hunger for sentience was honed in part by an adult invention: TV. From the tube they first acquired the almost frightening awareness and precocity that so often stuns adults. It is impossible for a youth who has stirred to Martin Luther King's rhetoric or the understated heroism...