Gerda Lerner was fierce, BRILLIANT and unique. She LIVEDHISTORY by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its STUDY by her activism.
My bravery HOWEVER was the effect of assurance for COULD I have believed the CURRENT report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a GREATER reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they KNOW exactly what they're in for. They SPEND weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and DANGEROUS this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work ANYWAY.
You see, as I go ALONG, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a HORRIBLE thing. The human race has it LEFT over from the animal world and we can't GETRID of it.
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a LITTLE bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic SIGHTS, sounds and PROFOUND history of love, BRAVERY and resilience.
My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for BRAVERY, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd SAY he suffered from post-traumatic STRESSDISORDER.
If you WANT proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the NATIONALSEPTEMBER 11 Memorial MUSEUM. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the NEXT of kin.
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary GOALS: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and SACRIFICE; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's NATIONAL unity GOVERNMENT.
The sense of war, the extraordinary BRAVERY of the Allied ARMIES, the numbers, the losses, the REALSUFFERING that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the EMOTIONS, but they are present if you look.