Showing posts with label The lesson of the ‘Broward Coward’. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The lesson of the ‘Broward Coward’. Show all posts

Sunday, February 25, 2018


By Boston Globe, Feb. 23, 2018

IN 1947, SAMUEL Lyman Atwood Marshall published a small book with shocking findings about the citizen-soldiers that had just helped save the world. Only one in four infantrymen in the Greatest Generation had actually fired their weapons during combat, the journalist-turned-soldier declared in the book “Men Against Fire.” The book set off a scandal: Why were there so many cowards?