Courage Boys: A Man of the People

A young poet sat by a Paris window, watching the people below, and asking himself the dangerous questions for the time in which he lived. And then he wrote them down.

Courage Boys: No Means No

Even before God’s finger had finished scratching the seventh commandment on the tablets at Sinai, it was a death sentence for Thomas. Not that Thomas had a problem with adultery. No, he was loyal to his wife. Loyal with his whole soul.

Courage Boys: The Cosmonaut

Soviet mystique grew when they announced Sputnik 2 would be launched. Nikita Khrushchev promised they would launch within a month. The kicker was that Sputnik 2 would be manned. In short order, ten candidates were identified.

Courage Boys: Columbus' Secret

Not everybody in Europe liked Christopher Columbus. The year before his voyage across the Atlantic, he was nothing more than a poor geographer with a hunch — and a strange confidence inspired by God. Upon his return, he was a hero.

Courage Boys: Fuselage

Charles only slept one hour the night before his flight. When he woke up, he put on his lightest underwear and cut the extra padding out of his shoes. He ignored the papers. They all predicted failure. And when you considered the facts, it was a pretty fair prediction.

Courage Boys: The Pacifist

Alvin York’s conscientious objection didn’t work. He was drafted and reluctantly went to war. In a few months, Alvin was in France, finding himself so far inside enemy lines that he was behind the Germans themselves.

Courage Boys: School Terror

1,100 people were inside a school in Beslan, Russia, mostly kids. Their fathers had the school surrounded, aiming their hunting rifles into the windows. The dads were held back only by bombs attached to Chechen terrorists that were standing in the middle of their kids.

Courage Boys: And the Band Played On

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Courage Boys: Water Boy

General Kershaw sat in Mrs. Stevens' upper room. He puffed a cigar and sipped black coffee. There was a knock at the door and a young soldier entered. “Sir,” came a young man’s voice, followed by a hairless face to match. “I can’t do it, General,” he said, entering the room.

Courage Boys: Tank Man

A single skinny man squared off against an army, a nation, a system of oppression. The tank kept rolling. 15 feet. 10 feet. 5 feet from the man...