Woody Williams, Aman Jordan, David Berger discussed on The Christian Science Monitor Daily

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That is <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> significant and <Silence> <Advertisement> should not be underestimated. <Silence> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Male> This <SpeakerChange> story was <Speech_Female> reported by Taylor <Speech_Female> Locke in Jeddah, <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Saudi Arabia <Speech_Music_Female> and aman Jordan <Speech_Music_Male> for the monitor. <Music> <Music> <Speech_Music_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Music_Male> <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> Courage <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> gets praised, <Speech_Male> but all <Silence> too often overlooked. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> Medal of Honor <Speech_Male> recipient Herschel <Speech_Male> woody Williams <Speech_Male> will be <Speech_Male> remembered as <Speech_Male> a person who <Speech_Male> used every <Silence> <Advertisement> ounce of his <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> being <SpeakerChange> <Silence> <Advertisement> to serve others. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Colonel <Speech_Female> Herschel woody Williams, <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> the youngest <Speech_Female> of 11 in <Speech_Female> a family of West Virginia <Speech_Female> dairy farmers <Speech_Female> and the last <Speech_Female> World War <Speech_Female> II Medal of Honor <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> recipient. <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Land state Thursday <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> at the U.S. <Silence> capitol in Washington. <Silence> <Advertisement> <Speech_Female> Mister <Speech_Female> Williams, who fought <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> at the Battle of Iwo <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Jima, was <Silence> <Advertisement> renowned for his <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> graciousness. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> But the grandiosity <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> of his Medal <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> of Honor citation <Silence> <Advertisement> annoyed <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> him. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> It was <Speech_Female> the word alone. <Speech_Female> He resented <Speech_Female> that word, <Speech_Female> general David Berger, <Speech_Female> commandant <Speech_Female> of the Marine <Speech_Female> Corps recalled at a <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> memorial service. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> He didn't <Silence> <Advertisement> like singlehandedly, <Silence> <Advertisement> either. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> <Speech_Female> Mister Williams <Speech_Female> incredible humility <Speech_Female> as general <Speech_Female> Berger said, <Speech_Female> came through in his <Speech_Female> often expressed <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> sense that <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> courage <Speech_Female> is abundant and <Speech_Female> frequently overlooked. <Speech_Female> A sentiment <Speech_Female> shared by <Speech_Female> legions of his fellow <Silence> honorees. <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Medals of honor <Speech_Female> illustrate some <Speech_Female> amazing individuals <Speech_Female> who have given up <Speech_Female> their lives to protect <Speech_Female> other folks <Speech_Music_Female> and some <Speech_Female> who have been willing to <Speech_Female> do that and survive <Speech_Female> since <Speech_Female> retired army colonel <Speech_Female> John ogogo, <Speech_Female> who served <Speech_Female> as director of the <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> counterinsurgency <Speech_Female> training center in <Speech_Female> Kabul during the U.S. <Silence> war in Afghanistan. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> In his career, <Speech_Female> mister goglia <Speech_Female> has looked to <Speech_Female> meddle of honor stories <Speech_Female> to inspire, <Speech_Female> but also to <Speech_Female> explore what it <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> means to have the courage <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> to do the hard <Speech_Music_Female> right thing <Silence> <Advertisement> and not the easy <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> wrong. <Speech_Female> This story was <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> reported by animal <Speech_Music_Female> <Advertisement> Rhine groba for <Speech_Music_Female> the monitor. <Speech_Music_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Music_Male> <Speech_Male> Bringing <Speech_Male> joy to viewers <Speech_Male> with their dazzling <Speech_Male> colors and contours, <Speech_Male> the <Speech_Male> first images <Speech_Male> from the Rhine groba for <Speech_Music_Female> the monitor. <Speech_Music_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Music_Male> <Speech_Male> Bringing <Speech_Male> joy to viewers <Speech_Male> with their dazzling <Speech_Male> colors and contours, <Speech_Male> the <Speech_Male> first images <Speech_Male> from the James Webb <Speech_Male> Space Telescope <Speech_Male> are <Speech_Male> also a <Silence> reflection of ingenuity. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> Revealing <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> a whole <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> new layer <Silence> <Advertisement> of the <SpeakerChange> cosmos. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Never <Speech_Female> before has humanity <Speech_Female> seen the cosmos <Speech_Female> like this. <Speech_Female> Diamond <Speech_Female> like stars <Speech_Female> dazzle in the foreground. <Speech_Female> Gas <Speech_Female> and dust billow <Speech_Female> out from <Speech_Female> cosmic collisions <Speech_Female> appearing to set the <Speech_Female> sky ablaze and <Silence> rusty red tones. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> Some galaxies <Speech_Music_Female> are so deep in <Speech_Female> the background <Speech_Female> that astronomers <Speech_Female> say the image captures <Speech_Music_Female> how they look perhaps <Speech_Female> 13.1 billion <Silence> years <Speech_Male> ago. <Speech_Female> The first <Speech_Female> images from the James <Speech_Female> Webb Space <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Telescope were <Silence> <Advertisement> released by NASA <Speech_Female> this week, <Speech_Female> heralding a new <Speech_Female> era of astronomy <Speech_Female> that promises clues <Speech_Female> to cosmic <Speech_Female> mysteries that have <Silence> long puzzled scientists. <Silence> <Speech_Female> In the <Speech_Female> excitement over this <Speech_Female> initial burst of <Speech_Female> images from the telescope, <Speech_Female> scientific <Speech_Female> ingenuity <Speech_Female> coincides with <Speech_Female> pure joy, <Speech_Female> not just scientists, <Speech_Music_Male> but the general <Speech_Music_Female> public are <Speech_Music_Female> star struck <Speech_Female> as the photos render <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> the unimaginably <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> far <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> away up close <Silence> and beautiful. <Speech_Male> <Speech_Female> People wonder what makes <Speech_Music_Female> it good astronomer, <Speech_Music_Female> says Brent Robertson, <Speech_Female> of the University <Silence> of California, <Speech_Female> Santa Cruz. <Speech_Music_Female> Isn't that <Speech_Female> you have a mind <Speech_Music_Female> for math or <Silence> perhaps they're drawn <Speech_Female> to physics? <Speech_Female> <Advertisement> Honestly, <Speech_Female> he says, I <Silence> think it's a good imagination. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> You have <Speech_Female> to try to envision <Speech_Music_Female>

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