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Excerpt from Hero Tales: From American Life This Book of a Hundred Hero Tales is drawn from the thousands of incidents of courage and bravery with which American History is inspired - tales that are close to the human heart and which bring with them the glow of manhood and womanhood. Not alone the heroism in great crises, but the tragic tests of courage in the average man and woman - the heroism of everyday life. Everyone has the opportunity to become a hero. It may not be in war nor in the presence of great physical danger. It may be in the sense of duty, in moral character, in honesty, in trade, and at work. It may be in the burdens and the responsibilities in the home, or in the little self-sacrifices that one meets every hour. It may be in overcoming habit, or in conquering anger by self-control. It may be in self-reliance, in obedience, in kindness, justice, truthfulness, usefulness, courtesy, purity, ambition, perseverance. There are a thousand tests of courage that come to every man, woman, and child every day of life. It is of these that great heroism springs when life itself is in danger. It is the men and women, who through childhood and youth have learned the heroism in little things, that respond to their country's call or rise to Heroism in Great Things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
