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What was the best one-on-one game you've ever had? Adam Speakman, BOSTON...
Overwhelmingly, grandparents say, the greatest benefit is getting to know their grandchildren better--and having their grandchildren know them. Phyllis Bierstedt, 68, of Wilmington, Del., took her 16-year-old granddaughter Calli Speakman of Dover, Del.--one of 11 grandkids--to France last summer on a Familyhostel tour. "Having her alone and learning and seeing together created a bond that didn't exist before," she says. "It was really a gift to me as well, because my husband died a year...
...autumn day in 1951 when Private William Speakman of the Black Watch won the Victoria Cross for heroically beating off a Chinese assault with hand grenades (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952), Private Patrick E. Lydon, 26, lay in a nearby trench, cringing with fear. Last week, before a court-martial, his lieutenant told what had happened...
...agreed at last to stop while medical corpsmen bandaged his wound, but as soon as their backs were turned, off he hobbled on another series of charges. "At the critical moment," says the citation, "amidst an inferno of enemy machine-gun and mortar fire . . . Speakman led a final charge to clear the crest of the hill and hold it whilst the remainder of his company withdrew." When his grenades ran out, he threw stones...
This week, Private Speakman became the first living* soldier to receive Britain's coveted Victoria Cross in the Korean...