Word: valor
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...doctors are positively forgetting that the human organism possesses in itself the defenses, a potential for cure, which they should utilize more often, with more faith. Who in our day thinks of the resources of another age-morale, the will to health, valor . . .? But these things are still powerful . . . The faith of the patient, his will to recover and to live, to recover by life and for life, are a powerful support for our prudent counsels...
Individual as well as collective U.S. valor ran high during the fight on Hwachon's camel's head. One sergeant who wanted to rejoin his unit in spite of a broken foot protested violently against evacuation. "It ain't broken, it ain't broken," he cried to a medical corpsman. "I'm going back up!" The corpsman applied pressure to the foot, moved the broken bones. The sergeant's face contorted with pain, but he uttered no sound. The corpsman shook his head, then ordered the fighter out of combat...
...being the better part of valor to get my car out of there, I held my breath, climbed in through a window and pressed the starter. It wouldn't start. Early the next morning the Cambridge rescue squad dug me out. There was a ticket on the other windshield wiper...
Skill, suffering and valor were making history and legend in Korea this week; the U.S. forces and their U.N. allies, suffering heavy casualties, had fought free of the threat of annihilation and were as safe as soldiers could expect to be while the battle still raged. But the cold end-fact was that the U.S. had met defeat in Korea-a defeat that would have to be retrieved somehow, somewhere, if the world-wide march of Communism was to be halted...
...bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...