The American Spectator
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We need to do better than equating victimhood with heroism, and we need to provide our children with an understanding of the meaning of heroism, says Julian Zelizer .
Zelizer: My dad read to me from The Fifth Infantry Division in the ETO tome.
He was never pedantic, always fascinating, and drew us together into the world of his war.
Dale B. Rex , a 19 year-old ex-BYU basketball player, took over a machine gun when the gunner was slain.
George Dickey and Frank Lalopa , two ordinary soldiers manning an outpost on the periphery of the Dornot bridgehead, refused to fall back within the perimeter.
They refused to do so, instead manning their foxhole, armed with nothing but rifles, and blunting a German counterattack.
Sadly, their bodies couldn’t be recovered then, and, when the Americans regained the area, the bodies could not be found.
The Fifth Division’s only Medal of Honor winner, medic Harold A. Garman , earned the accolade by diving into a river under heavy machine gun fire and swimming out to a small boat filled with wounded that German gunners were trying to sink.
When asked why he’d risked his life in this manner, Garman simply looked at him and said, “well, somebody had to do it”.
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