as well as a clear devotee to our ideal of lifelong learning, we salute Petersen for all he’s done. We’re proud to honor him with this award!” Congratulations and BRAVO ZULU, Jim!
Our heroes were Medal of Honor winners—not just obvious ones like Audie Murphy but those we’d read about who had rolled over onto grenades that had been thrown into their foxholes. One guy, I remember, rolled over onto two. We were surrounded by the artifacts of war. Tanks, planes, ...
As the sun set on the evening of July 3rd 1863 the battered Army of Northern Virginia and the battered but victorious Army of the Potomac tended their wounds, buried their dead and prepared for what might happen next. On that afternoon it was as if“the doors of Hell had shut”and the ...