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When someone who has earned the Medal of Honor enters a room, a hush follows, like waters opening. The stillness in his wake is palpable. Men are filled with more than admiration. The emotion is a mix of awe, envy and wonder. "Would I be capable of that?" each asks himself.
Genteel ladies understand and hang back.
Generals stand aside. "I'd sell my immortal soul for that medal," George S. Patton confessed.
Even politicians stop thinking of themselves. And the best of them are humbled. Harry Truman, a captain of artillery himself in the Great War, was...
Of Arms and the Man