"DUTY, HONOR and VALOR-A Salute to Veterans of All U.S. Wars and Military Service" is the exclusive work of The Society of Southwestern Authors (SSA). All accounts and poems contained herein are written by members of SSA. Some are the authors' own stories; others are about or dedicated to friends, family or acquaintances. All stories are true experiences or factual remembrances of the men and women who have served our country in uniform in times of war and peace. The Society of Southwestern Authors is a nonprofit association of writers and other publishing professionals. Its objective is to conduct a program of activities designed to: .Promote mutually supportive friendship among writers .Provide recognition of members' achievements .Encourage and assist persons seeking to become published writers If the Society sounds like the kind of organization that you would like to join, or know more about, contact SSA at website www.ssa-az.org or by postal mail, P.O. Box 30355, Tucson, AZ 85751-0355.

Presents short biographies of over one hundred thirty men who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor.

These pages contain my personal recollections of the valor of men willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause of freedom. Men risking all, day after day, during their tour of duty. Men daring to fly into the jaws of destruction to save their brothers in arms. Whose accomplishments on the field of battle were belittled in the press, castigated by the "anti-war movement", and ignored by the rest of Americans. Men who endured a hostile reception in the country that sent them to war. They learned to keep silent about their service speaking quietly only to each other about it. They saw the honor given their fathers in World War II turned to scorn for their own bravery in combat.It is about those who flew with an elite unit specifically developed for this war. The First Cavalry was the first Airmobile Division capable of moving all its infantry and artillery by helicopter and supporting them by air in the field. The high level of firepower, speed and flexibility of movement was unprecedented in the history of war.The book reveals the failure of America to grasp the nature of the vicious contest between enslaving communists and the guardians of liberty. It exposes the insanity of street mobs bent on forcing an end to the Viet Nam War using the violence they claimed to deplore.It is about a national press abandoning investigation and patriotic reservation in reporting for a bold new method of using events to fashion a story to fit preconceived ideas. No military secret was safe, every horror was exposed, no condemnation of America withheld. The press quashed only criticism of the enemy and the lawless people in America's streets.In the end, dissembling traitors were hailed for their support of America's enemies and for ruthless lies about our soldiers. The government lacking the fortitude to continue its commitment to freedom left Southeast Asia to writhe in chains and slaughter brought by the communists.

Join Captain Isaac Frye and Will Burton, his company's fourteen-year-old fifer, as they journey with the Continental Army to Fort Ticonderoga in the spring of 1777. Follow them through the harrowing days of the Burgoyne Campaign and sufferings at Valley Forge. The spirit of '76 is gone, replaced by the times that tried men's souls. Honor and Valor is the second book in the Duty in the Cause of Liberty series. Read the first book, The War has Begun, where Isaac, responds to the alarm carried by Revere, Dawes, and Prescott. The War has Begun recounts Isaac's story from farmer to minuteman to lieutenant in the Continental Army at Boston, then onto New York and Canada.

Written in corporation with the Heisman Memorial Trophy Trust and the College Football Hall of Fame, this book profiles the athletes who committed themselves to excellence on the field and by serving their country. Archival photos.

An updated edition of the New York Times bestseller, featuring 12 new recipients and a new foreword by Bradley Cooper Eight veterans from the war in Afghanistan have been awarded our nation’s highest honor for valor in combat since the publication of the third edition of Medal of Honor, including Edward C. Byers, Jr., the newest living recipient and a member of Navy SEAL Team Six, and Clint Romesha, author of the New York Times bestselling Red Platoon. And nearly 50 years after their service, four Vietnam veterans have also since received the recognition they so richly deserve. Now these men rightly take their place in the pages of this revised and updated edition. Included here are 156 Medal of Honor recipients, captured with a contemporary portrait by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo and profiled in moving text by National Book Award nominee Peter Collier. The men in the book fought in conflicts from World War II to Afghanistan, served in every branch of the armed services, and represent a cross section as diverse as America itself. This is their ultimate record.