Title: In the Company of
Heroes
Author: James Kitfield
Ch: 21
Pg: 281
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 5 stars
Publisher: Hachette Books
The Generation of young man who answered the call after Pearl
Harbor was called The Greatest Generation. Many young men who went to war
before they were even men. But what do we call the generation of young
men and women who came of age in a post 911 world. A Generation who were barely
teenagers when those towers fell. If you’re the author James Kitfiled you
refer to them as the newest greatest Generation. And many ways they are as they
are part of an all-volunteer military. Each of the 25 stories in this book are
about men who earned the nation’s highest military honor. An honor you only get
by going above and beyond the call of duty often putting they own life on the
line. To the date of the writing of this book there have been 3,526
Medals awarded. There's a reason many Medal of Honor medals are awarded posthumously.
The story that stands out the most to me is William Kyle Carpenter who though a
Marine is basically a real-life Captain America who without regard to his own
safely thru himself on a grenade to protect his buddy from the blast.
Which shows that our men in uniform are a special breed. These men understand
the meaning of Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. because they have
lived it.
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