Tag: Bravery
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Monday Marine Open Comments
Untold Stories: One Marine Stood Against 1000s of Japanese at Guadalcanal “Alone, against the deadly hail of Japanese shells, [Paige] manned his gun, and when it was destroyed, took over another, moving from gun to gun, never ceasing his withering fire against the advancing hordes [of Japanese] until reinforcements finally arrived.” One man who made…
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Friday “She Gets It” Open Comments
I know that there are some Beckophobes in the group, but I found this story on his web site and thought to myself “How does a young student get it and all those older, more intelligent ‘leaders’ don’t?” Jada Williams read a book, took the time and effort to learn the vocabulary of what she…
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Memorial Day Weekend Open Comments
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In…