Word: valor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brigadier-general. Pierce fell off his horse, sprained his knee and fainted at the battle of Contreras, fainted again the next day at the battle of Churubusco. No less a writer than Nathaniel Hawthorne (another old friend) said this showed how America's battles were won-by the valor and dash of citizen-soldiers rather than stuffy professionals like Scott...
When Sergeant Hubert Lee had finished his story last week, the Army announced that he would be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor "above and beyond the call of duty." He was the 39th fighting man to win the nation's highest decoration in Korea. Said the shy sergeant: "I'll be glad when this day is over...
...came out of all these experiences," Hoover notes, "with one absolute conviction, which was: America, with its skill in organization and the valor of its sons, could win great wars. But it could not make lasting peace. I was convinced we must keep out of Old World wars, lend ourselves to measures preventing war, maintaining peace and healing the wounds of war." There is no reason today, Herbert Hoover implies, to change that judgment...
Deeps Unvisited. Sometimes the infinite prospect of God's "desertion" was too much for even Cowper's "passive valor." "I now see a long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...
Last week the Army announced the names of eleven more heroes of the Korean war, who had received posthumous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor beyond the call of duty. Among them was Pfc. Willie Thompson, the first Negro to win the nation's highest military honor since the Spanish-American...