Word: valores
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...garrison at Pantelleria, told to "hold the line" by Mussolini, did so with commendable valor, an indication that the universally maligned and notoriously misled Italian troops will not necessarily wilt away before the first invasion troops...
...Thach got handsome recognition: his second Navy Cross (for valor in battle) and the Distinguished Service Medal (for leadership, pilot-training and the development of combat tactics...
...that the Coast Guard, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton, is older than the U.S. Navy (which took it over from the Treasury Department in June 1941). He takes pride in the Coast Guard motto (Semper Paratus-always ready). But the front cover of his new booklet, Deeds of Valor from the Annals of the Coast Guard, displays a more familiar Coast Guard maxim: "You have to go out but you don't have to come back...
President Roosevelt last week awarded World War II's 43rd Congressional Medal of Honor. The citation: "for conspicuous leadership" and "personal valor and intrepidity at an extreme hazard to life." The recipient: Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, Air Forces. But General Walker was not at the White House to receive the medal. He had been missing in action in the Southwest Pacific since January...
...know the faith that was latent in [our young men], their strength to carry burdens, their unassuming valor and fortitude. . . . This spring they will use them in battle. The blossoming time of 1943 will not soon be forgotten. It will be a legend reverently told and listened to in the winter of their generation. They will be fighting so that springs in time to come may not be like this...