Risner's leadership was on display when he organized a forbidden worship service in 1971, said Ellis, a corporate consultant who wrote "Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons From the Hanoi Hilton".
On the wall, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is being taught a similar lesson — honor and duty are fine ideals but often tough to define in turbulent times, and everyone has a personal agenda.
Every Marine learns the same lessons: Honor.
She has to learn "the stern lesson of honor" by leaping to her death.
I had the honor to process this lesson of life with a client on the same day that my fellow warrior at My Perfect Breakdown wrote a beautiful, kind of rebuttal, piece to my piece "Our Infertility Rap Sheets".
"I hope this honor serves as a lesson to any young or veteran journalist that Black media platforms are just as essential and important to us today as they have always been," he said.
They gave their lives to their country, and taught me lessons about honor, courage, duty, perseverance and leadership that I didn't fully grasp until later in life, but remembered when I needed them most.
Even the tough stuff is honored for the lessons it brought us.
SAN DIEGO — Matt Harvey, a young pitcher with the mien and aura of an honor student, received the next lesson on his major league syllabus: how to fail.
But it seems safe to say that before the end of the party in his honor, he has grasped the lesson that Frank's doctor, between name-dropping and menu gazing at a restaurant table, sets forth earlier: "Forever alone, that's our lot, and try as we might, we can't change it".
