It has given Sweden a foreign minister, a Davis Cup player and Raoul Wallenberg, a hero of the second world war who rescued Hungarian Jews.
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There are several stories about him that nobody knows or didn't know until I wrote the book, which is saying he was something of a war hero.
Mr McCain is a war hero who endured years of torture in Vietnam.
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While prosecutors say he killed dozens of Serb civilians during Croatia's 1991 war of independence, Norac's supporters regard him as a war hero.
Mostly known as a military hero who ran against George Allen and the Iraq War, Webb also espouses a kind of economic populism.
Small wonder that, like another admired Army chief of staff, World War II hero Omar Bradley, Shinseki has had a second career as the head of the Veterans Administration.
The bad memories of the hero (Denzel Washington), who suspects that the war hero is a fake, are accompanied by the conventional horror-film frights of painted faces, spooky doctors, and smoky, distorted cinematography.
Perez plays a womanizing yet gallant action hero of the 18th Century, who mocks war but ends up joining the army to avoid marrying yet another of his conquests.
In 2008, while Barack Obama was accumulating a 51 percent margin of victory in the state over war hero John McCain, those same counties once again awarded the Republican candidate over 70 percent of their votes.
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As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle.
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Many invoke the cautionary tale of Mr Kerry, the Democratic nominee in 2004, who found his supposed strength as a war hero turned into a liability by ads suggesting he had lied about his conduct in Vietnam.
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