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Profiles of Valor: Audie Murphy

May 22, 2023 by

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“Just hold the phone and I’ll let you talk to one of the bastards.” MARK ALEXANDER MORE ESSAYS Born the seventh of 12 children in a sharecropper family in Hunt County, Texas, Audie Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade in order to pick cotton for a dollar a day. His was a hard […]

Profiles of Valor: MSgt Roy P. Benavidez

April 28, 2023 by

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Call sign “Tango Mike Mike” — “That Mean Mexican”! MARK ALEXANDER MORE ESSAYS On February 24, 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented the Medal of Honor to Army Master Sergeant Raul “Roy” P. Benavidez, a special operations legend. Benavidez was a Texas native. His father was a Mexican-born American farmer and his mother a Yaqui Native American. Both parents died […]

America’s Real Heroes — Models of Service and Sacrifice

March 24, 2022 by

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Mark Alexander  ~ “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity … at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.” ~   “There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” —Alexander Hamilton (1775) In a recent column, I noted that, despite all […]