Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time he was going back to the front with handsome recognition from his country: the Distinguished Service Cross* and Silver Star Medal for gallantry, the Purple Heart with two clasps, signifying his three battle wounds. Two of his wounds were still bandaged; the third did not show. In his last brush with the Jap, Arthur Wermuth had been shot in the chest, close to the heart. When he announced that he was going back to the front, the doctors in the tent hospital shook their heads and let him go. The wound was still open and draining as Wermuth...
...seemed certain that Lieut. Roland G. Sauinier would get a medal soon, or that the infuriated Jap would sacrifice scores of men to kill him. Bullets so far have nicked Sauinier "on the bottom of an elbow" and have "clipped holes" in his pants. Undismayed, the Lieutenant breaks the daily monotony by shouting across foxholes and trenches, in his broad French-Canadian accent...
...fast-moving aviation business, Breech is a sprinter. Son of an Ozark blacksmith, he took up accounting, in 1921 won a gold medal for top grades in Illinois State CPA exams. Breech's first real job was auditor for Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Six years later he joined Yellow Truck & Coach. When G.M. took over Yellow in 1925, Breech went along as bookkeeper. In 1939 he was a G.M. vice president...
...have been given medals for bravery. Have you ever heard of a man being given a medal for honesty? No, and the reason is that our way of life, our whole system is based on the fact that a man is presumed to be as good as his word. And that goes for Government...
...Pointer. He joined the Coast Artillery as a second lieutenant in 1909, after graduating as a civil engineer from the University of Missouri. (One of his contemporaries at Missouri was War Production Administrator Donald Nelson.) He served with the Field Artillery in World War I, got the Distinguished Service Medal in 1922. After the war he commanded a battalion in the Philippines...