Word: valorize
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...Even so, the story is a fairly good reflection of how Germans view war today. After decades of official pacifism, German soldiers are once again seeing action outside of the country, notably in Afghanistan. The government is even considering resurrecting the Iron Cross medal as a symbol of valor. At the same time, many Germans still feel a deep ambivalence about the German military. "The film," says Castan, "provides a fundamentally German perspective on World War I, with certain heroic elements. But [the Red Baron] is an ambiguous hero, who at the end sees war in a negative light...
...firsthand. "The testimony is just unbelievable," says Paul Shapiro, director of research for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, which is honoring Desbois at a dinner in the capital in April. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish-rights organization in Los Angeles, is awarding Desbois a Medal of Valor in May. The center's international director, Shimon Samuels, says Desbois' findings might even cast doubt on the long-accepted estimate that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, since "he's found killing sites we never knew existed...
Through a miraculous combination of political valor, public deference and children who know how to behave themselves, Spanish King Juan Carlos and his wife, Queen Sofia, have long enjoyed a level of prestige and respect of which most modern European monarchs can only dream. Until recently...
...high failure rate? One reason, Williams suggests, is the Pashtun social code of Pashtunwali, which values "acts of martial valor" and revenge. Driven by this code Afghan suicide bombers are more likely to go after hard military targets rather than softer targets such as markets or restaurants as happens in Iraq. The deadliest bombings in Afghanistan over the past two years have been the work of Arabs, not Afghans...
...Fearing it was so small it would be taken as a souvenir, a commander ordered the original flag removed. When a bigger one went up four hours later--and photographer Joe Rosen-thal captured the image--Lindberg was back in combat. He was given the Silver Star for his valor. But it was the second set of flag-raising Marines that was widely acclaimed. "I was called a liar," he said of his push for recognition...