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This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.


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This page presents the quote "This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.". Author of this quote is David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. This quote is about bureaucracy, courage, leadership, adversity,.