HEROES: The Faces Are Familiar

A large, buckram-bound volume was published last month by the Department of the Army. The book has illustrations—photographs of 281 men. Most of the faces are young, most of them look as familiar as the boy up the street. Their names read like the telephone directory in any U.S. town—Adams, Anderson . . . Hall-,man, Hamilton . . . Kisters, Knappen-berger . . . Soderman, Specker . . . Zeam-er, Zussman. Photographs of eleven were "not available." Few of these men are famous; all of them are heroes. The 292 men memorialized in the book are the Army's Medal...