"This is not only a strategic interest of the United States, it is an issue of personal importance to me, and one I have worked on for almost four decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

But to be chosen by your peers, especially someone like me who has been to four Olympics, who grew up in Lake Placid , it's pretty special to be recognized in that capacity."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

"But the real heroes that day were those 32 men that after they saw their comrades, the first four me on the boat cut in halfor shot to pieces, two very severely and two dead, they still climbed over the bodies and did their job."

VOA: standard.2009.06.02