Word: valor
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...heat of battle Invariably produces a certain number of men who distinguish themselves by heroic service. The world has learned to expect such results from soldiers, and therefore it reads of the frequent awards for valor to them without surprise. The rarity with, which civiliane. receive such honors however, causes a much deeper impression upon the mind when these events do occur. Hence, America will pause longer and more approvingly than usual over the news that Frank Herbert Simonds '00, was decorated a knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris on Saturday...
...months of service which earned for him and his commission, the publicly expressed gratitude of the Italian King and Pope, Major Guy Lowell '92, director of the Department of Military Affairs of the American Red Cross in Italy, is back in Boston. He has been awarded the Medal of Valor, which is the Italian counterpart of the Distinguished Service Cross, and also the Italian Military Cross, a military medal awarded for distinguished work on the Italian front...
...went to Italy to drive ambulances last summer, seventeen received the Italian War Cross and two were decorated with silver medals of Valor...
...secret of true greatness, as it is revealed to us in the lives of great men is comprehended in the sum of the two terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which...
Supplmentary to vision is the requisite of valor or moral courage. The world is filled with men gifted with a divine power of vision, but who lack the valor that is necessary to put what they have seen to some use. What would Theodore Roosevelt have been worth without the moral stimulus which prompted his determination to "make the world over"? There are hosts of men who have failed to achieve all that they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality...