My uncle, Ed Kramer, was a talented musician and mathematician who fought in World War II with Patton (and perhaps others.). Injured repeatedly, he told us they’d post him high in a steeple or other building to calculate artillery trajectories, and Germans made it a priority to kill guys like him. (Full of shrapnel, he married my Aunt after the war, and lived until approx 1990, playing music...

Assistant (now Acting) Commandant of the Marine Corps General Eric M Smith, unleashing perfect knife hands on Marines from the 2nd Marine Logistics Group before they reenlist at US Marine Corps Memorial, Arlington in February. His nomination is one of those being held up by a coach from Alabama.