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...less profligate in assessing heroism were the Navy and Marine Corps, with award-to-soldier ratios of less than 1:7. The Marines sent ashore 1000 men and later granted 10 Purple Hearts for combat deaths and wounds, and the Navy handed out seven Purple Hearts to members of its 50-strong contingent...
They developed clan loyalties like those of Highland Scotland, complete with tales of heroism and treachery. The legacy of the Crusades even now is reflected in the snipings, kidnapings and crossfire that recur in the mountains between Christian and Muslim militias. Part of this legacy is a penchant for violence, a belief that the gun as much as the cross is a source of salvation. Says Professor Majid Fakhri of the American University of Beirut: "There is something very medieval about the Christian outlook. A type of feudalism exists in which politics and religion are intertwined in a literal...
Each in his own way vividly symbolized the two contrasting views of the State of the Union. President Reagan led a standing ovation for the heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, moderator of the Democratic response to Reagan, cited the death in Beirut of Marine Corporal Edward Gargano from Quincy, Mass., as tragic proof that the Administration's Lebanon policy is wrongheaded...
Trujillo, 23, studied at the University of Colorado for two years before joining the Army in December 1979. After the invasion, according to his father, Trujillo called to say that he had "done some pretty good things in Grenada." His parents did not learn the extent of his heroism until they heard Reagan on TV. The sergeant was sensitive to charges that he had been used for political purposes: "I was incredibly embarrassed. I felt very unworthy. You can say I was used. But the President was in no way jeopardizing my integrity." As for war and this combat...
...loud applause that "the blood shed by the heroic collaborators who fell in Grenada will never be forgotten." Nor, he said, would the Cuban revolution "tremble or vacillate" should the time come to defend itself. Harking back yet again to the Santiago triumph of 1959, Castro invoked the "heroism, patriotism and revolutionary spirit" of that day to achieve the same aim: "Victory...