[HKMk23]

If only that future generations might know what constitutes a real hero, I wish men like Hicks would at least write a private memoir for their family, even if it were to remain sealed until after their passing.

We're losing great stories of honor and valor every week as they pass into eternity along with the men who lived and crafted them with their own flesh and blood.

The annals of history are the more impoverished being thus incomplete, and that without remedy.

If you have an old fighting man in your family, implore him with all that is in you to commit his tales to paper at least. Who knows but that a young man -- maybe his own great grandson -- may someday need his example to guide him?

A substantive portion of our National Treasure are our elderly and the stories of their lives, the bulk of which, to our shame, pass into eternity untold.

[Victoria Delsoul]

This is bizarre. Thanks for letting me know.

[strategofr]

"I wish men like Hicks would at least write a private memoir for their family, even if it were to remain sealed until after their passing."

I'd like to highly recommend 2 books for your consideration. The Making of a Soldier (Korea) and Soldier (Vietnam), by Lt. Colonel Anthony Herbert, retired. Most decorated US soldier in the Korean war.