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...heroism and conduct there, Chesty Puller got his fourth Navy Cross-a record in the Corps...
...same applies to portraying the Soviet Army and the Russian people. It is quite natural that in wartime a patriotic writer is moved mainly by the people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
Some day Chinese chronicles will record the whole story of the South China campaign in all its glory and disgrace, its heroism and cowardice, its sacrifices and intrigues...
Last week the President awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for heroism, to six of them. Two of the heroes, both marines, were dead. Their mothers came to the White House in their place. From El Paso came Mrs. C. Jane Hawkins, whose son, Lieut. William D. Hawkins, after being wounded on Betio Island, had fought on for hours-to die from Jap gunfire. From Worcester, Mass, came Mrs. George F. Power, whose son, Lieut. John V. Power, died outside a Jap pillbox on Namur Island, holding his left hand to a stomach wound...
...fire, the other aid men and I have left our slit trenches to give aid to our wounded buddies. At the same time we saw our litter bearers risking their lives trying to evacuate the casualties from the field. Several of us were awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in combat...