His solicitor Luke Blackburn, said his client, who has retired from the Army on a pension equivalent to a "modest salary", had a distinguished career as an educator serving in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Sierra Leone.

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Accepting for Jacques Barzun, Marguerite Barzun. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Jacques Barzun for his distinguished career as a scholar, educator, and public intellectual.

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