Sentence examples for extraordinary heroism from inspiring English sources

For his extraordinary heroism at Verdun, Tinkham was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

The human cost and the extraordinary heroism of this war, it surrounds us.

Each person you sit next to on the bus is capable of extraordinary horrors and extraordinary heroism.

Miraculously, a people given every excuse to be disloyal displayed extraordinary heroism in all American wars, dating back to 1776.

For his extraordinary heroism at Verdun, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government.

Under such circumstances, Desmond's extraordinary heroism isn't the sole grand mystery; so is every soldier's ordinary functioning.

He's here with us this evening, and I want to recognize Richard and applaud both his public service and his extraordinary personal heroism.

He was frightened to enter the disease-afflicted villages, he said, but the reason he gave for doing so anyway seemed more extraordinary than simple heroism.

It was a moment's camaraderie binding Mr. Bradley not only to the ordinary Americans who performed extraordinary acts of heroism in the fiercest battle of World War II but also to one man in particular.

The emergency response by federal, state and local authorities on Sept. 11 was often "improvised and ineffective," the report said, "even as extraordinary acts of heroism saved countless lives".

Then a parade of daughters, sons, nieces, nephews, cousins and granddaughters of recipients came up individually as a military aide recounted extraordinary stories of heroism: destroying an enemy tunnel with TNT under fire, clambering aboard a tank to take it out and retrieving comrades even when it meant certain death.