Word: honored
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...Flags of Our Fathers, the story behind that Iwo Jima image, Clint Eastwood has crafted a bold and meticulous epic. The script, by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis, is faithful both to the honor of young men who became warriors in their country's service and to the tangle of impulses--noble and venal--leading a nation to demand that a war create simple messages and clear-cut heroes. The movie is about the real theater of war: how a battle campaign morphed into a p.r. campaign and, implicitly, how later generations of politicians have used symbols to sell...
Rosenthal always claimed that if he'd composed it, he would have ruined it, because he would have said, "I can't see your faces." It symbolized the whole country being heroic rather than an individual Medal of Honor winner...
...claimed that if he'd composed it he would have ruined it - because he would have said I can't see your faces, and "Come on, fellows, clear your hands there." You know how people do. It symbolized the whole country being heroic, rather than an individual Medal of Honor winner...
...there are the countries which cover up their women in veils ostensibly to protect their decency and chastity. So much for decency, when a woman is raped every two hours in Pakistan, according to the country’s independent Human Rights Commission, and numerous others become victims of honor killings, domestic violence, and murder every year. And so much for peaceful chastity, when Google Trends reveals the quite shocking data that, internationally, the most search queries for "sex" originate from countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, and Iran. These are the same countries with cultures of aggressive sexual suppression that...
Some believed that the group would become more moderate once in power. That hasn’t happened. By repeatedly refusing to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and honor previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements—the conditions set by the West for restarting the flow of millions of dollars in aid and the transfer of taxes collected by Israel to the Palestinian Authority—Hamas has prolonged the suffering of the Palestinians and showed the world just how extreme it has become...