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John 15:13
13Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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In Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond Doss refuses to carry a weapon but volunteers as a combat medic. On Okinawa, he single-handedly rescues 75 wounded soldiers, lowering them down a cliff under enemy fire. Greater love has no one than this: to...
In Dunkirk, small civilian boats cross the English Channel to rescue stranded soldiers. Dawson, a weekend sailor, pilots his yacht into a war zone. When a rescued soldier asks why a civilian would sail toward the danger, Dawson's son answers:...
In Titanic, as the ship sinks, many reveal their true character. The band plays on. The captain goes down with the ship. Rose finds a floating door but Jack stays in the freezing water, ensuring she survives.
In August 1936, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin was packed as Adolf Hitler watched from his private box. On the field below, two long jumpers...
On a sweltering July day in 1941, ten men stood trembling in the yard of Auschwitz. A prisoner had escaped, and deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch...
On August 4, 1936, in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, eighty thousand spectators watched as Jesse Owens struggled. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two...
In the flickering glow of a dusty Moroccan café, where the scent of rich coffee mingles with the tension of wartime, we find Rick Blaine—a man cloaked in bittersweet memories and haunted by lost love. As the smoky air wraps...
In late July 1941, after a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten to...
On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
On September 11, 2001, when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority broadcast a message to everyone...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge moments after takeoff from Washington National Airport and plunged into the ice-choked...
On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Jozef De Veuster — known as Father Damien — stepped off a boat onto the Kalaupapa...
On the morning of September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the Germans to take him....
In the spring of 2002, the Arizona Cardinals offered their starting safety Pat Tillman a three-year, $3.6 million contract. By every measure of the world,...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, a Dutch pastor visited the ten Boom watchmaker's shop in Haarlem. Seeing a Jewish infant the family had...
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss crouched alone atop the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a sheer rock face his fellow soldiers...
In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
On February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester plowed through the icy black waters of the North Atlantic, carrying 902 soldiers and merchant mariners toward Greenland....
In the gritty streets of Detroit, amidst the echoes of gunfire and the weight of unspoken histories, lives Walt Kowalski—a Korean War veteran with a heart hardened by years of rage, racism, and regret. His days are filled with the...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers surrounded the Dom Sierot orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and ordered its nearly two hundred children deported. Their director,...
On December 23, 1954, twenty-three-year-old Ronald Herrick lay on an operating table at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, perfectly healthy, waiting to be cut...