Sentences with phrase «american war hero»

Campaign finance reform was once talked about seriously, championed by John McCain, a potential standard - bearer, as a true, indeed remarkable, American war hero.

His savior comes in the form of Carter «The Bullet» Rutherford (John Krasinski), an American war hero and college football star with a fanbase well into the tens of thousands.

As Ambrose Hilliard, the star of a pre-war detective series, Nighy is never less than splendid, whether cozying up to Catrin so she plumps up his self - sacrificing role as drunken Uncle Frank, patiently coaching the real - life Audie Murphy - style American war hero in the cast (Jake Lacy, leadenness personified) used as bait for Yankee ticket buyers or conducting a sentimental group sing - a-long in a pub.

You are Captain B.J. Blazkowicz, the American War Hero.

Trump returned to his own kind of code talking by deriding Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as «Pocahontas» at a White House event honoring Native American war heroes.

One of our great American war heroes and a notable breeder of Doberman Pinschers was George Howard Earle III, Governor of Pennsylvania during WWI.

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«It is the American flag that is draped across the coffins of our fallen heroes when they come back from war.

What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.

Iraq War Veteran Justin Anderson is an American hero.

The parade celebrates Polish - American pride, conceived to honor General Casimir Pulaski, a Polish aristocrat and American Revolutionary War hero.

The name is in honor of Israel Putnam, who was a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

Hundreds marched dressed in red colors and the native costumes of Poland, to the monument in Poughkeepsie's Pulaski Park, to celebrate Pulaski Day, in honor of Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski, known as «father of the American cavalry.»

On Friday, their story will be told by some of the soldiers themselves, in a free showing of the film «Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I» at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr..

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

Though little about the technical skill of Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero brings to mind Spielberg, it's hard not to think of «War Horse.»

Satire about a bumbling Iranian immigrant who wins the green card lottery and moves to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an American hero and unwittingly becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.

The true story of a stray dog, who becomes a World War I hero and remains the most decorated dog in American history, is realized as an animated film with the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman and Gérard Depardieu.

Here are American - intelligence war rooms of infinite precision (for a change), but in pursuit of a boyish hero who's smart enough to outwit them.

The MPAA rated Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero PG for war action and some thematic elements.

While Hollywood has a history of portraying the American hero as the victim of suffering and torture due to his mysterious superiority (Clint Eastwood's Western heroes come immediately to mind), the past three decades of war and growing social crisis, and accompanying ideological confusion and disorientation, have played at least an indirect role in the increasing number of movies based on the same theme.

The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.

Scholars in Europe began to embrace the term in 1955, when Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, in their book Panorama du film noir américain, used it more broadly to describe the wave of American crime films after World War II that, among many other attributes, featured insulted, beaten heroes driven by desperation to acts of violence.

When the ministry and the producer get a hold of it, they add a love story, an American journalist (to help sway opinion about the war across the pond), and, of course, a dog that the hero rescues from a German sniper.

Tom Holland actually made his big screen debut as Spider - Man, once again a hapless high school kid just like in the original comics, in Captain American: Civil War, recruited by Tony Stark to be his secret weapon against Captain America's rebel heroes.

A $ 150 million American - Chinese co-production, The Great Wall is directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) but written by a sextet of Americans including Bourne scribe Tony Gilroy, World War Z author Max Brooks,

African - American members of the American military are so often the unsung heroes of the wars that are fought.

The «seven» are rounded out with Ethan Hawke as war hero Goodnight Robicheaux, Vincent D'Onofrio as bear - sized man Jack Horne, Byung - hun Lee as knife specialist Billy Rocks, Manuel Garcia - Rulfo as Vasquez, and Martin Sensmeier as native - American outcast Red Harvest.

Director Richard Lanni, who has worked on documentary films and series about World War II, co-wrote the animated film «Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero» with veteran and Hollywood military adviser Mike Stokey.

Guy Pearce is Captain John Boyd, whose battle cowardice during the Mexican - American war inadvertently results in making him an accidental hero.

Everybody's goin» surfin» — including Jan - Michael Vincent, Gary Busey and William «The Greatest American Hero» Katt — in this borderline - ridiculous comedy from director John Milius, who's better known for his right - wing war epics (Red Dawn, etc.).

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero The true story of the most decorated dog in U.S. military history, who fought in 17 World War I battles, gets a slight, feel - good treatment that is cute and has its moments but diminishes the seriousness of war — and the real Stubby's awesome accomplishmenWar I battles, gets a slight, feel - good treatment that is cute and has its moments but diminishes the seriousness of war — and the real Stubby's awesome accomplishmenwar — and the real Stubby's awesome accomplishments.

Sound Ray Beckett — «Zero Dark Thirty,» «The Hurt Locker» Odin Benitez — «Frozen,» «Silver Linings Playbook» Ron Bochar — «Mortdecai,» «Moneyball» Jason Canovas — «The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,» «World War Z» Thomas Curley — «Whiplash,» «The Spectacular Now» Michael Dressel — «American Sniper,» «Interstellar» Mary H. Ellis — «Vacation,» «Prisoners» Stephanie Flack — «Jupiter Ascending,» «Ender's Game» Martín Hernández — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «Biutiful» Dean Humphreys — «Taken 3,» «The Pianist» William Johnston — Vice President of Engineering, Formosa Group Shawn Jones — «Iron Man 3,» «Drive» Daniel Laurie — «Inside Out,» «Big Hero 6» David Lee — «Unbroken,» «The Matrix» Craig Mann — «Dope,» «Whiplash» Kyrsten Mate — «Tomorrowland,» «Guardians of the Galaxy» Shannon J. Mills — «Inside Out,» «Big Hero 6» Bryan K. Pennington — «Transformers: Age of Extinction,» «Promised Land» Juan P. Peralta — «Tomorrowland,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» John Ross — «Danny Collins,» «American Hustle» Peter Staubli — «San Andreas,» «Skyfall» Mark Taylor — «Edge of Tomorrow,» «Captain Phillips» Addison Teague — «Big Hero 6,» «The Amazing Spider - Man» Jon Title — «San Andreas,» «The Divergent Series: Insurgent» Thomas Varga — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «The Immigrant» Ben Wilkins — «Whiplash,» «Star Trek»

Segal wanted her students to learn about a local, unsung hero who stood up for Japanese - Americans interned during World War II.

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Americans liked Dwight D. Eisenhower, their kindly war - hero president.

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at Capt. Nathan Hale School in Coventry, Connecticut — a school named after the town's most famous veteran, American Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale — compiled, through research and interviews, short biographies of all 612 servicemen and plan to publish them in a book by this Veterans Day.

It's an original, a war hero born in the Greatest Generation, as American as The Beach Boys, Levis, and French fries.

Yvonne has ghost - written and co-written several top selling non-fiction titles, including: Rising up from the Blood: A Legacy Reclaimed — A Bridge Forward The Autobiography of Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush, The Great - Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington (Solid Rock Books) by Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush; Fighting for Your Life: The African American Criminal Justice Survival Guide (Amber Books) by John Elmore, Esq.; Led by the Spirit: A Sharecropper's Son Tells His Story of Love, Happiness, Success and Survival (Strickland Books) by Robuster Strickland; Let Them Play... The Story of the MGAA (MGAA Books) by John David; A Journey that Matters: Your Personal Living Legacy (Lyceum Group Books) by Erline Belton; The Messman: A World War II Hero Tells His Story of Survival and Segregation on the Battleship North Carolina (Quality Books) by Yvonne Rose and John Seagraves; and FREEZE: Just Think about It (More Than A Pro Books) by Levar Fisher.

Other worlds include television properties (Vampire Diaries, Wayward Pines, Veronica Mars) and comic book properties (G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero, Quantum and Woody, XO Man - o - War).

He and Carlos» dad, Virgil Webster, were buddies, both having fought in the Spanish - American War and for a number of years were the local heroes.

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Acquired by New American Library - Penguin and re-released as The Bomber Boys - Heroes Who Flew the B - 17 in World War II

In 1921 General Pershing, commander of American Forces during the War, awarded Stubby a gold hero dog's medal that was commissioned by the Humane Education Society.

Appealing to patriotism by declaring the breed «war heroes» was yet another attempt to win over the American public... despite the fact that there is no evidence that these dogs were ever extensively used as such, unlike GSDs.

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Sargent Stubby, an American Pit Bull Terrier, was a World War I hero, sniffing out poison gas & a German spy, and saved a little girl from a car accident.

In 1921 General Blackjack Pershing who was the supreme commander of American Forces during the War pinned STUBBY with a gold hero dog's medal that was commissioned by the Humane Education Society the forerunner of our current Humane Society.

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He was laid to rest in Brooklyn's Green - Wood Cemetery, amid Civil War heroes, Abolitionists, and a number of other major American artists.

19: «American Heroes: Japanese American World War II Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal»: Holocaust Museum Houston.