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Good to the Last Squad. Out of Wake on the 20th came the last report from the men who went down fighting two days later. Released last week by the Navy at Washington, it added new fuel to the imperishable flame of their heroism. It also proved that the Jap had had to pay a bitter price for the capture of the outpost and its thin line of defenders...
...heroism can be compared, the most illustrious of America's first heroes was Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. His citation was recorded in a single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...
Commenting on the Japanese war, his letter said, in part, "I want to take this opportunity to express my disgust of the treacherous actions of the Japanese aggressors and to say that I am sure that the American people will show as much heroism and staying power in repelling the Japanese as have shown the Russian defenders during the past six months...
...TIME'S Man of the Year is in no sense an award for merit or heroism. It is an attempt to pick the man whose accomplishments, good or evil, have been most outstanding...
...comments on the Catholic missionaries are enthusiastic. In New Mexico the Franciscans soon "did not want to be disturbed in their comfortable sloth" In California a decade before U.S. annexation "the Indian converts drifted away ; the churches were falling into ruins ; few priests were left." And despite the undoubted heroism of the French missionaries among the Iroquois, they "snatched no more than a few individual souls for salvation...