Word: heroisms
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...about time the Army, Navy and Air Force got together on the subject of "What price heroism," and lowered the boom on the deskbound members of the armed forces medals and awards sections...
...general's office during and after the last war. It was on behalf of a fellow infantry squad leader who hauled a wounded MP out of the line of fire while the MP's commanding officer, a major, stood by and watched. For his eyewitnessed act of heroism the major got the award. No foolin...
...Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...Physical heroism was once a conspicuous and necessary quality of all Christians. It is becoming so again in many parts of the world, especially in China. In the current issue of the new Roman Catholic quarterly, Worldmission, under the pen name of Gregory Grady, a Jesuit missionary in the Far East tells of the heroism his fellow Catholics are showing in the face of Communist persecution...
MacArthur topped this off with another Cross to Stratemeyer for "continually subjecting himself to great danger" in directing the evacuation of U.S. civilians from advanced airfields. And Stratemeyer awarded MacArthur the Distinguished Flying Cross ("for heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight"), on the ground that MacArthur's flying visits to Korea were made "under conditions presenting the threat of hostile air interception...