Though he "hated every minute" of his first year there, he says, he was determined to win his father's respect; and that same desire for paternal recognition and a sense of "the family creed" would propel him to Vietnam in hopes of winning "a creditable combat record".
He won a second Distinguished Service Order for combat exploits against German paratroopers and Panzer units in the Rhineland during the winter of 1945.
In 1944, he left for Europe and World War II as a combat infantryman (he won a Silver Star but lost most of a foot and the sight in one eye).
The former commanders in chief (one of whom actually won a war and flew 58 combat missions in WWII) remain on the sidelines.
One reason his unit, the all-Japanese-American 442d Regimental Combat Team, won a record number of battle citations besides its members' bravery and skill, of course was that it was treated as cannon fodder, sent on suicidal missions by leaders who considered these troops more dispensable than others.
If I say Django Unchained is an easy film to watch, I don't mean it's exactly restful, what with slaves being torn apart by dogs or finished off with a hammer if they fail to win a "mandingo" fight (single combat between slaves staged for the entertainment of their masters), but it's morally comfortable.
He went into combat duty and won a medal.
Cubic, a maker of combat-simulation systems and surveillance equipment, recently won a $43 million contract for anti-terrorist training programs.
"I'm hoping that through my experiences here at the Olympic games – winning a medal – that I combat those stereotypes about Muslims and African Americans, and even women," she said after her Olympics were over.
NATO claimed to have suffered no combat deaths, making Clark the first U.S. general to win a war without losing any soldiers to combat.
