Leadership Stories

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Father of the Nuclear Navy: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

Rickover served 63 years and built the nuclear Navy by changing its culture. John draws three leadership lessons from his grave at Arlington.

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Wounded Three Times in War, and the Oldest Serving Supreme Court Justice in History

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was wounded at Ball's Bluff, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, then served on the Supreme Court until he was 90.

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Edouard Izac: Courage and Perseverance Personified

Captured when his ship was sunk in 1918, Lt. Edouard Izac escaped a German prison camp, swam the Rhine, and brought back intelligence on U-boats.

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Need Some Motivation? Visit the Rough Riders Memorial!

The Rough Riders memorial at Arlington lists the men of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry who died in 1898. John on the charge that made them famous.

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Leonard B. Keller: Unassuming Medal of Honor Recipient

In 1967, Sgt. Leonard Keller and Spc. Raymond Wright cleared a line of enemy bunkers in Vietnam. Both received the Medal of Honor. Keller never made a fuss about it.

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Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Alan Eggers

Cut off by smoke inside German lines in 1918, three New York Guardsmen ran to rescue a disabled tank crew. One of them was Cornell student Alan Eggers.