Word: honored
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...back of the head. She shook it off and even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache for a day or two," Anson, now 17, says. Instead, she started showing symptoms of a concussion: lack of concentration, bad balance, delayed reactions. Soon the onetime honor student could read at only a third-grade level. After a year of intensive neurological therapy, she finally recovered...
Raise your hand if you knew that Mitt Romney's given name was actually Willard Milton. Anyone? Both names honor men close to Romney's father, former Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Mitt--short for Milton--comes from a cousin who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925 to '29. And Willard is derived from the elder Romney's close friend and fellow Mormon J. Willard Marriott, who founded the eponymous hotel chain...
...nearly out of gas and he knew he could not make it back to base. He swam eight miles to an island, where one indigenous tribe traded him to another--which helped ferry him to safety--for a 10-lb. sack of rice. DeBlanc was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart and other decorations...
...David knew he was David Halberstam, in that he knew he could honor people and ensure a forgotten war would no longer be forgotten,” Power said...
Admirers gathered last night at the Brattle Theatre to honor the life and work of the late author and journalist David L. Halberstam...