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Honor to Whom Honor is Due
By
Nora Puls
THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A POST I WROTE LAST YEAR ON MY OTHER BLOG. THOUGHTS ON HEROISM… Sometime, I know I may sound like I have a “Pollyanna-ish” view of the people who stand in the gap for us. I have been know to call them “heroes”. I have often talked about the sacrifices…
Rest in Peace, Spc Dalton
By
Nora Puls
Randy Dalton was only 20 when his chopper crashed in Cambodia. In an article published by CBS St Louis, Metro-East resident John Minford observed: “It’s one of the promises the military makes, dead or alive you will come home. And this one came home.” Minford went on to say he was proud to join the hundreds who saluted the flag-draped…
Obama Presents Medal of Honor to US Army Ranger
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Nora Puls
July 12, 2011 “The soldier in uniform extended his prosthetic hand after losing his own in battle. And the commander in chief who sent him there reached out to clasp it. It was a sobering moment toward the end of a moving ceremony at the White House Tuesday, as President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s…
Vietnam Vets Honored
By
Nora Puls
This story is a couple of years old, but my heart is always stirred when veterans from the Vietnam War are honored. Regardless of your thoughts about the war at the time, I think most of us realize that the men and women who served there (most of them draftees) were treated shabbily. An honor…
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