Leadership Stories
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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.
The Decisive Shot of the War of 1812?
A dented British cannon at the Naval Academy tells the story of the shot that killed Captain George Downie at Plattsburgh in 1814.
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.
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.
Alexander Scott: A Hero of Monocacy
Exhausted and under fire at Monocacy, Corporal Alexander Scott picked up his regiment's fallen national flag and carried both colors off the field.
Henry Johnson: "Harlem Hellfighter" Medal of Honor Recipient
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.
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.
Meeting Robley Rex
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.