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The Last Full Measure (ISBN 0-345-43481-1 (10 ISBN), ISBN 978-0-345-43481-4 (13 ISBN)) is a novel by American author Jeffrey Shaara, published on May 2, 2000, by Ballantine Books. It is the sequel to The Killer Angels and Gods and Generals. Together, the three novels complete an American Civil War trilogy relating events from 1858 to 1865.
Honoré Willsie Morrow (née, McCue; February 19, 1880 – April 12, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, as well as a magazine editor.Traveling to every state of the Union with her first husband, [1] she used these experiences as background for her writing.
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
“ The Last Full Measure ” — which details the fight to bestow the Medal of Honor to medic William H. Pitsenbarger — is catnip for dads, a true-life Vietnam war film that offers valor, a ...
115 Abraham Lincoln Quotes. 1. "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
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The American Library Association's Reference and Users Services Association recognized The Steel Wave as a 2009 Notable Book. [ 12 ] He has also been awarded the Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement, [ 13 ] New York Civil War Round Table's "Bell I. Wiley Awar, [ 14 ] and Florida State University's Artes Award as a ...
The Last Full Measure is a 2019 American war drama film written and directed by Todd Robinson.It follows the efforts of fictional Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman and many veterans to see the Medal of Honor awarded to William H. Pitsenbarger, a United States Air Force Pararescueman who flew in helicopter rescue missions during the Vietnam War to aid downed soldiers and pilots.