Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty

I liked it, but I couldnt help feeling it couldve been more. While it recounts their deployments and the actions that earned them the MoH its not too personal. The storytelling isnt very personal either, would have been much more poignant if the vets themselves recounted their own stories. The portraits however were excellent.

There is no plot to this work. The narrative is dry. There is no climax. All we have here are brief recitations of the records of the 2011 still-living winners of the Medal. In each of the stories, we find not bravery but incredible support for others. Is this book enjoyable? Hardly. What can we learn from this book? Nothing. While some of the winners led daring lives before service in the Military, most were just ordinary folk. There was nothing to suggest they'd ever be found in the pages of this book (or on the list of Medal of Honor winners). All there is for us to do is just be in awe.

One of the men in these pages came from the town where I now live. Of all the write-ups, his is the only one where we read his home town threw him a show more huge party after he received the Medal. Alas, he's gone now but his memory remains alive in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. show less

I liked it, but I couldnt help feeling it couldve been more. While it recounts their deployments and the actions that earned them the MoH its not too personal. The storytelling isnt very personal either, would have been much more poignant if the vets themselves recounted their own stories. The portraits however were excellent.