Word: honored
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...York prevented Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. Wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have had on dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and waited to see what might happen. Bernhard Schroeder, Freiburg, Germany...
MARCUS LUTTRELL (right), the sole surviving member of a Navy SEAL squad caught in a firefight with the Taliban; on Oct. 22, President George W. Bush awarded the Medal of Honor to the family of Lieut. Michael Murphy, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team...
...When you see a Medal of Honor, you know whatever they went through is pretty horrible. You don't congratulate anyone when...
...order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and over the fierce objections of the state’s governor. Each day they passed a gauntlet of violent parents and students, and the nine students became symbols of the civil rights movement. Last night, LaNier and her fellow classmates guests of honor spoke before a crowd of more than 300 that included Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. It was a role she had never imagined. “I had no idea we would be honored in this great city of Boston...
Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), told a small audience at the Institute of Politics last night he is wary of the increasing role of government-controlled corporations and sovereign wealth funds in U.S. markets. Speaking in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Cox said such corporations and wealth funds are growing relative to their private counterparts. He added that foreign governments pose the greatest risk, citing government-controlled firms in which private investors hold a minority stake...