Jun 26 2008
Success Equals Silence
AUSTIN, Texas — Our Fox News’ “War Stories” team came here to the capital of the Lone Star State to work on a documentary about America’s 36th president to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his birth Aug. 27….
Archive for June, 2008
Jun 26 2008
Historic Pro-Troop Webcast TODAY
Tonight Melanie Morgan and Move America Forward will be hosting a Web-a-thon to raise money for the largest shipment of care packages to our troops overseas EVER.
Jun 23 2008
Last Surge Brigade Coming Home
In December, I spent two weeks with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division.
Jun 20 2008
Show and Tell
WASHINGTON — Last Sunday, Sen. John McCain met in Washington with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. After their closed-door session, the two men took questions from waiting reporters. The following day, Sen….
Jun 12 2008
Of Fathers and Flags
WASHINGTON — Just about everyone in America knows that Sunday, June 15, is Father’s Day. The day for dads has been celebrated on the third Sunday of June since 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson decreed it to be…
Jun 05 2008
D-Day in Context
WASHINGTON — Sixty-four years ago this week, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came on the radio and implored Americans to “devote themselves in a continuance of prayer invoking thy help to our efforts.” The…
Jun 03 2008
PFC McGinnis – American Hero
This post comes from Greg Koukl’s Stand To Reason blog. It details the newest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, a real American Hero.
Pfc. Ross McGinnis was awarded the Medal of Honor today for sacrificing his life to save the lives of his crew when a grenade was thrown into their truck while on patrol in Baghdad.
“Pfc. McGinnis yelled ‘Grenade! … It’s in the truck,’” [his platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class Cedric] Thomas said. “I looked out of the corner of my eye as I was crouching down and I saw him pin it down.” McGinnis did so even though he could have escaped. “He had time to jump out of the truck,” Thomas said. “He chose not to.”
It’s is amazing that Pfc. McGinnis had nurtured the courage and love for his comrades that in a split second he was able to exercise those virtues and sacrifice their lives for the sake of theirs. Virtues only exhibit themselves in a crisis when they’re needed if they are cultivated in ordinary circumstances. His father explained that Pfc. McGinnis had a somewhat direction-less and troubled adolescence, and then submitted himself to the discipline of the military to devote himself to a higher purpose. It’s truly impressive and inspiring that the military so regularly develops such individuals as Pfc. McGinnis.
We share his family’s pride and sorrow.
