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Nov 1, 2021 · Appalled by the loss of American life on “Hamburger Hill,” a remote mountain near the Laotian border in northern South Vietnam, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts took the floor of the U.S. Senate in May 1969 to condemn the 101st Airborne Division’s bloody 10-day battle.
- Warren Wilkins
The shock and horror of this attack exploded on TV screens worldwide as US Capitol Police officers under Chief Sund’s command found themselves facing a violent siege, hit with pipes, fire extinguishers, boards, and flag poles.
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Jan 3, 2023 · Steven A. Sund, who was the Capitol Police chief during the 2021 riot, writes in his book, “Courage Under Fire,” that intelligence in the possession of the F.B.I., the Homeland Security...
- Luke Broadwater
Feb 7, 1996 · An Army wunderkind whose upwardly mobile career has been stalled by a friendly-fire incident during the Gulf War redeems himself in the course of an investigation. Lieutenant Colonel Nat Serling has been in an alcoholic funk since his tank squadron killed fellow Americans in the fog of battle.
- Patrick Sheane Duncan
Dec 1, 1993 · Short Summary: As a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, James Stockdale shot down, captured, and imprisoned for eight brutal years. He used the wisdom of stoicism to survive and grow stronger in prison.
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- James B. Stockdale
COURAGE UNDER FIRE. ry of Human BehaviorJames Bond Stockdalecame to the philosophic life as a thirt y - e i g h t - y e a r-old naval pi. ot in grad school at Stanford University. I had been in the navy for twenty. years and scarcely ever out of a cockpit. In 1962, I began my second year of studying.
Rhinelander explained that its author, Epictetus, was a very unusual man of intelligence and sensitivity, who gleaned wisdom rather than bitterness from his early firsthand exposure to extreme cruelty and firsthand observations of the abuse of power and self-indulgent debauchery.