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The Frontline You Don't See

The war's front runs through quiet rooms, rail platforms, and classrooms far from the guns, where the work decides how long peace holds.

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A Russian missile tore open Odesa's Transfiguration Cathedral in 2023. John on the people who cleared the rubble and kept praying.

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John looks to the Greatest Generation's resilience and initiative as a roadmap for young men and women facing today's setbacks.

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Time magazine introduced Americans to sisu in 1940, as Finland fought off the Red Army. John on the Finnish word for refusing to quit.

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Under siege at Bastogne, a 19-year-old paratrooper carried beer to wounded friends in his helmet. Decades later, it became a Belgian legend.

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At 78 he took on the British column alone behind a stone wall. Shot in the face and bayoneted 13 times, Sam Whittemore lived another 18 years.