For four years the war in France barely moved. Then on a foggy morning near Amiens it moved eight miles before breakfast.

Day 1 in London, on the anniversary of a death nobody remembers: the Belgian engineer behind a spy network that worked.

Edith Cavell stayed at her post, helped soldiers escape, and faced a firing squad without bitterness. Duty becomes real when it carries consequences.

Harold Gillies turned WWI facial reconstruction into a repeatable system that restored function and dignity. Craft, done at scale, becomes mercy.

Marie Curie lost her husband and partner, then walked into a packed lecture hall and kept working. Devotion to truth, even when it costs.

On Christmas Eve 1914, enemies climbed out of the trenches and remembered they were human. Leadership protects humanity when the system rewards cruelty.

He wrote "Don't Want To Fight" on his draft card, then captured 132 Germans. John on what Alvin York did after he came home.

A stray found at Yale went to France with the 102nd Infantry, warned of gas, found the wounded, and came home a celebrity.

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.

Wounded 21 times, Pvt. Henry Johnson fought off a German raiding party with grenades, a rifle butt, and a bolo knife. His Medal of Honor came 97 years later.

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.

In March 2009, John met 107-year-old Robley Rex, one of the last American veterans of the World War I era. He remembered Pershing, and he saluted.