Sentence examples for valor at from inspiring English sources

He was deployed to Vietnam in 1965 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor at Ia Drang.

It would take a changed nation — and 37 years — for him to be awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor at Fort Wagner.

Tim Day '90 received the Eastern College Athletic Conference's Award of Valor at yesterday's ECAC Awards Luncheon, held at the Tara Hyannis Hotel.

Told that Lieutenant Cushing would be honored, 147 years after his act of valor at Gettysburg, Ms. Zerwekh, who uses two canes, said she got so excited about the news, "I jumped up and down".

Frank Furness, an outstanding 19th-century Philadelphia architect and the only architect to win the Congressional Medal of Honor (for valor at the Civil War Battle of Trevilian Station in 1864) is buried in a plot overlooking the Schuylkill.

WWII veteran, served with distinction in the Pacific as Chief in Underwater Demolitions Team 6, participating in seven invasions, winning the Bronze Star for valor at Saipan and Guam.

But I believe that we need, if not to hear these last testaments to courage and valor, then at least to identify the speakers of those cherished last words at a time of mankind's darkest hour.

The two officers were among several given the Exceptional Valor Award at a ceremony on Wednesday.

The company held a private screening of "Act of Valor" last week at the Naval Heritage Center in the District.

But valor comes at a price: Males who stand by their mates have a fourfold increase in the chance of getting eaten, compared with those who do not.

Mr. Long's motivation is the sum of many things: 40 operations; 5 months in the hospital; the fear that he would never walk again; a sense of valor tested at the World Trade Center on 9/11, where he helped rescue trapped comrades.