It led to a fundamental and irreversible shift in how ordinary men and women thought of themselves.
However, seizing the correct historical moment to decide on peace or war marks the difference between leaders and ordinary men.
Recalling the men who scaled the cliffs and crossed the beaches in a merciless hail of bullets, he asked, who were these men, these ordinary men doing extraordinary things?
"Every day thousands of ordinary men and women with a sense of duty, pride and professionalism put on their police uniform - a uniform that reflects what they do and what they believe in, " he said.
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Though Rosa Parks was not the first to confront the injustice of segregation laws, her courageous act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- 381 days of peaceful protest when ordinary men, women, and children sent the extraordinary message that second-class citizenship was unacceptable.
The honours system should not just be about the great and the good, he said, but about the "ordinary" men and women who underpin the voluntary sector.
But it is not clear that this is the kind of victory that ordinary delivery men applaud, or that will spur workers in other companies to rush to join a union.
So victims are nearly always totally ordinary women and men.
The US marines I have spent weeks with now are an extra-ordinary bunch of young men and I emphasis young.
They join an incredibly elite list of women and men, and a long history filled with ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things -- men and women of undaunted courage, uncommon resolve, and a stubborn perseverance in the face of unfathomable challenge.
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We know that these 40 men and women were more than ordinary Americans to all of you sitting in front of me.
We, humbled, ordinary citizens, gaze at photographs of the men who went to the fires and never returned and our eyes fill with tears.
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That's where Robert Redford, star of movies such as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and All The President's Men and director of films including Ordinary People, comes in.
As men look for stylish ways to rise above the ordinary, accessories become more important to their wardrobes.
For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones.
But the Naval Academy is no ordinary place, in fact it is extraordinary, and so are the men and women who earn the high honor and privilege of being accepted each year.
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