Word: valor
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...there are two things that characterize America in war," he told the U.S. embassy staff in Saigon, "they are disagreement and valor." At the burgeoning base of Chu Lai, where he awarded medals to soldiers of the America Division, Humphrey reminded his audience that "nation-building is our business," and warned that "unless we win it here, America doesn't have another chance." In sessions with Thieu and Ky, he urged development of sound political parties and an end to the corruption and wrangling that has so often disrupted Vietnamese political life. To one and all, he passed along...
...Drang Valley in late 1965, when U.S. troops first engaged the Communists in a major battle and handed them a bloody defeat, there has been little doubt that American power would eventually tell. Fittingly, in a White House ceremony last week, Johnson awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for valor to Lieut. General Harry Kinnard in behalf of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) which he commanded in that hard-fought action...
...Jarrell at 51 was killed by a truck while walking on a highway near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he had ?. lived and taught for many years. In a touching memoir, his widow recalls the "desperate valor" with which he faced the final nervous breakdown before his death. He was "granted a few magic weeks" in which "poems flew at him, short ones, quatrains, haiku, aphorisms, parts of speech, parts of poems, ideas for poems, until just words beat at his head like many wings...
...years, only 3,188 U.S. fighting men have qualified to wear the star-spangled blue silk neckband and bronze star of the nation's highest award for valor. And with each war the Med al of Honor becomes harder...
House to hear the President extol their leader's "towering valor." But the grizzled, close-cropped veteran of 17 years in the corps could only point to his platoon and mumble: "That's the guys who did it right there...