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"A lot of people have done a lot more and gotten a lot less, and a lot of people have done a lot less and gotten a lot more."

I got my medals, in part, because I did brave acts, but also, in part, because the kids liked me and they spent time writing better eyewitness accounts than they would have written if they hadn't liked me

The only people who will ever know the value of the ribbons on their chests are the people wearing them—and even they can fool themselves, in both directions.

he whole assault ground to a halt, except for one kid named Niemi, who had sprinted forward when we came under the intense fire and disappeared up in front of us somewhere.

alking to a group of us about when it was a platoon leader earned his pay. I knew, floating above that mess, that now that time had come. If I didn't get up and lead, we'd get wiped.

I'm most proud of is that I simply stood up, in the middle of all that flying metal, and started up the hill all by myself.

I did it for the right reasons.

At this point I saw the missing kid, Niemi, pop his head up. He sprinted across the open top of the hill, all alone.

Crashing out of the clouds into this confusion came a flaming, smoking twin-rotor CH-46 helicopter.

I saw Niemi pop into sight again. He sprinted to the downed chopper.

the only thing he could think to do was sprint across the open hilltop to see if he could find a place from which he could lay down fire to protect them.

Niemi got a Navy Cross.

I got a Navy Cross.

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The kid who borrowed my rifle didn't get anyt

hing.

It was just about that time I got knocked out and blinded by a hand grenade. I came to, groggy.

Mr. Lanier’s book, which makes an impassioned case for “a digital humanism,” is only one of many recent volumes to take a hard but judicious look at some of the consequences of new technology and Web 2.0. Among them are several prescient books by Cass Sunstein, 55, which explore the effects of the Internet on public discourse; Farhad Manjoo’s “True Enough,” which examines how new technologies are promoting the cultural ascendancy of belief over fact; “The Cult of the Amateur,” by Andrew Keen, which argues that Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise; and Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows” (coming in June), which suggests that increased Internet use is rewiring our brains, impairing our ability to think deeply and creatively even as it improves our ability to multitask.

Steven Johnson, a founder of the online magazine Feed, for instance, wrote in an article in The Wall Street Journal last year that with the development of software for Amazon.com’s Kindle and other e-book readers that enable users to jump back and forth from other applications, he fears “one of the great joys of book reading — the total immersion in another world, or in the world of the author’s ideas — will be compromised.” He continued, “We all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a little bit here, a little bit there.”

Teachers are observed by colleagues and get feedback weekly, and they have four weeks of full-day professional development each year.

Many teachers don’t last. Of 43 hired during the four years studied, 47% didn’t return for a second year, in most cases because they weren’t asked back.

Critics of charter schools say, among other complaints, that they drain money from regular public schools, skim talented students and nudge out disruptive ones.