Sentences with phrase «former war hero»

A disgraced former war hero, Marcus seeks personal redemption as he leads his fire team against an onslaught of merciless warriors.

This tells the fictional tale of Benjamin Martin (Gibson, Chicken Run), a former war hero with a sordid past who is reluctant to take up the cause of his brethren in fighting the British during the Revolutionary War.

We also get a quick scene from Harry Dean Stanton and Rodrigo Santoro has a small role as a former war hero — turned town drunk who gets his shot at redemption.

When he accidentally kills a suspect — a former war hero who has already been framed for murder by smarmy crime boss Tommy Scalise (Gary Merrill)-- and covers up the crime, Mark's unstable moral high ground gives way.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just ask the former world champion USA Volleyball team member, the double - amputee war hero or the reindeer farmer who won House races last cycle.

Her father is Major General Sir John Swinton, a World War Two hero and former head of the Queen's household division.

But when the US president (Donald Pleasence) crash - lands inside, only one man can bring him back: notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero Snake Plissken (Russell).

One is former Union war hero turned bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), the other a one - time Southern renegade, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), claiming to be the new Sheriff of Red Rock.

He spends nearly a half - hour on a stagecoach ride that introduces a mustachioed fugitive tracker, John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell, talking like John Wayne); his driver O.B. (James Parks); his prisoner, the treacherous outlaw Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who's being escorted to Red Rock for hanging; incoming Red Rock sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former outlaw that Ruth can't accept as a lawman, and Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), an ex-slave turned anti-Confederate war hero turned bounty hunter whose record of wartime atrocities makes Ruth distrust him and Mannix hate his guts.

If you're looking for a gung ho story of military heroism, or a polemic on the Iraqi War, Blood Brothers is not for you - this is not a political book (at least not overtly) and while there are heroes aplenty in its pages, Blood Brothers focuses on what happens to the soldiers who return from the front a fraction of their former selves, and how they, and their families, learn to live with horrific and life altering injuries long after the media, and most likely the military, has lost interest in them.

Paulette Jiles brings the landscape of late 19th century Texas to life in this novel long - listed for the National Book Award about an unlikely friendship that is formed between a former Civil War hero and a young abducted girl.

Hudson River Valley: Artistic Legacy & Splendid Estates May 13 - 18, 2018 Admire the celebrated landscapes, spectacular gardens, splendid mansions, and historic homes of Revolutionary War heroes, former presidents, famous artists, and Gilded - Age financiers in the Hudson River Valley.

Another avatar, as our former City of Heroes columnist Eliot noted, might have been a wiser choice; BABs, War Witch, or Penny Yin would have given the whole introduction an entirely different flavor.

It is also the location of Salona, the former home of Light - Horse Harry Lee, the Revolutionary War hero.