Sentences with phrase «war hero for»

In 1917 a Pit Bull by the name of Sgt. Stubby became a war hero for saving several soldiers lives and even capturing a German Spy while in the trenches of France with the 26th Yankee Division.

That Benjamin grew up, eventually settled in the United States, and had a family is comforting, as is the revelation that the farmer he had thought of as «Papa» came to be decorated as a war hero for his bravery in hiding Jews from the Nazis.

Players will be able to enjoy more maps, missions, and recruit a talented crew of war heroes for battling real opponents in online arenas.

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The best thing about Ultron is that his origins paved the way for Stark and the heroes in the MCU to face serious consequences for their actions, starting with «Captain America: Civil War.»

Before we hail Jefferies» Richard Handler as a hero in the CEO pay wars, consider this: He probably shouldn't have qualified for the bonus that he turned down in the first place.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

BREAKING: DC area man with five draft deferments who mocked tortured war hero John McCain for being captured says he believes he would confront an active shooter — with an AR - 15 assault weapon — unarmed.

While the Boer War proved disastrous for the British in many regards, most Britons lionized the hero of the Transvaal and in 1914 looked to him to lead them back to their former heights of imperial magnificence.

Though it is easy to tell whence Loeb's confusion comes from, reading his description of Broadwell, who - far from the tabloid-esque accounts of a spoiled «prom queen» - comes off, indeed, as a very unlikely «other woman» for the closest thing America has to a modern day war hero.

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One could be forgiven for thinking that Gregory Hanlon's The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his Soldiers, and his Subjects in the Thirty Years» War is titled backwards.

And just when I feel sorry for myself I hear a story by a holocaust survivor, a war hero, or a survivor of human slavery and I realize I have nothing to complain about.

«Calling millions of Christian victims of bloody civil wars «martyrs» is a bit like calling all the victims of 9/11 «heroes,» he wrote for The Washington Post in 2013.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

The course for enlisted personnel was renamed Stryker Golf Course, and the Officers» Course became Ryder Golf Course, both named for war heroes.

As a war for domination escalates between the two queens, the hero standing between good and evil is Freya's most elite Huntsman, Eric (Chris Hemsworth: Thor, Star Trek Into Darkness).

It has gone from near - barren to bustling under the leadership of supervisor Jim Hobson, the former gang leader - turned - Vietnam War hero who organized this year's banquet just as he did for 11 years at his former park district post, Kiwanis Playground on the Far North Side.

When we think of heroes we think of brave war heroes, people acting in moments of adrenalin to save others etc. these might be national or community wide heroes We also use the word hero to mean someone we hold in extremely high esteem and look up to for any reason we see fit.

Do not be put off by Eris's association with war for not all wars are evil, some have given rise to many heroes who otherwise would not have realized their full potential had they not been pushed to their limits.

Naming your baby boy after a Star Wars hero and an Irish hero from myth and legend will be so much fun and it may set the stage for your own infant son to grow up and do some heroic deeds of his own!

Trump expressed no remorse for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was «not a war hero,» despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.

During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket.

And Roosevelt, now a secular saint for his guiding the country through a depression and war, is clearly cast as hero for standing up to the corrupt Tammany machine that dominated New York politics.

Before you knew it, an excited, beaming, dancing company was pumping fists and flashing «V» (for victory) signs, with their two fore - fingers, a sign original to Winston Churchill, Britain's World War 2 hero; but popularized in these climes by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, first premier of the old Western Region.

Lord Ashcroft's articles for Britain at War over the past six years have often been based on excerpts from his six books on gallantry: Victoria Cross Heroes, Special Forces Heroes, George Cross Heroes, Heroes of the Skies, Special Ops Heroes and Victoria Cross Heroes Volume II.

Tomorrow, Congressman Serrano will be joined by local elected officials for the renaming ceremony of the Morris Heights Post Office in honor of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., in order to commemorate the life and legacy of a war hero, civil rights, and community leader.

In 2012, we routinely see our former war heroes battered and beaten for the pensions they worked hard for.

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[citation needed] The Big Issue magazine's readers voted Marsden «Hero of the Year» in 2001 for his opposition to the war in Afghanistan.

Juan Reyes says Ulrich's «sleazy» comments about Bob Dole, a World War II hero and a former GOP Presidential Nominee, prove he is unfit for public service.

On Tuesday, it ran a story - English Defence League will fight for hero's (that's their grammar, not mine)- about the EDL «planning a huge march after two Muslim councillors snubbed a British war hero given the George Cross.»

His little particles coalesce into swirling, malevolent clouds, but their intelligence maxes out at roughly the IQ of a Nazi without a speaking part in a war movie, just another evil presence for his heroes to outrun and outfox.

My wife, Deborah, and I were sitting at a table with Dr. Jonathan Wright and his wife, Holly, and we listened patiently to the talk of the Revolutionary War heroes — a few speakers bedecked in 18th - century military garb — knowing that at some point we would be presented with an award for «Excellence in Integrative Medicine.»

First Northern California Recipient of the Congressional Youth Award (There are only two types of awards from the United States of America Congress in Washington D.C.; the Congressional Award for war heroes and the Congressional Youth Award for community leaders that excel from a challenged life and return to offer guidance to challenged youth in inner city environments).

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Monumental City Tour: Mount Vernon began as a country estate for Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard and grew to be the place to live for Baltimore's rich and famous in the mid-nineteenth century.

Enter World War Z, a travelogue of sorts that takes our hero, UN investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), hopping from ruined place to ruined place in search of a cure for the virus taking over the planet.

These films are Campbell's «Hero's Journey»... Star Wars to a generation of kids afraid of being thrust so quickly into adulthood — a reality all too close to home for the post-9 / 11 generation.

In Sahara, Matthew McConaughey is the literary hero Dirk Pitt, searching for a U.S. Civil War ship loaded with gold and entombed in Africa.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Interactive Entertainment has released the Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War Character and Level Pack for Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.

I likened the situation to that of the «Star Wars» saga — we know exactly what the respective hero and villain stand for, and yet they are more alike than perhaps either of them even want to acknowledge.

Not simply concerned with billionaire arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired, heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic drones programmed to kill.

Also of note: Might And Magic Clash of Heroes DLC, the Ace Combat Assault Horizon demo and deals on many Star Wars games for PSP.

Infinity War brings all of Marvel's heroes in on the action, but the god of thunder shines, proving Thor is the strongest Avenger - for now.

Possibly around the time the film was drafted as «The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller,» Lucas was on the lookout for his story's main hero.

That might be a hard task, drumming up sympathy for the genocidal space Nazis of the Star Wars universe and establishing a new hero who wants nothing more than to crush the Rebellion and avenge the Emperor.

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.

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