Word: heroisms
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...Truman's epic 1948 campaign against the overwhelmingly favored Dewcy was heroism in the American tradition...
...Difficulty of Being a Contemporary Hero" [June 24]: let us not forget to ascribe to heroism the secondary place that, Albert Camus says, rightly falls to it, "just after, never before, the noble claim of happiness...
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...President then described Williams' 14 hours of heroism during the bloody battle of Dongxoai (TIME, June 18, 1965), in which the Special Forces officer repeatedly faced enemy fire to rally a score of beleaguered Americans; he was wounded five times. "Few men," the President added, "understand what it means to draw deep from the wellsprings of such bravery. Few have ever made that kind of journey, and far fewer have returned...
...fellow South Carolinian, Brigadier General John F. T. Kennedy, 80, who had received the Medal of Honor for action against Philippine guerrillas in 1909, and stood proudly by last week as Johnson hung the nation's highest emblem of heroism -only the fourth awarded for action in Viet Nam-around Lieut. Williams' neck. "This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and the greatest thing that ever will happen," said Williams. He recalled that one Commander-in-Chief-it was Truman-had said he would rather have the Medal of Honor than be President, adding...