Steve McQueen
On the screen he helped POWs escape from a German camp in “The Great Escape”, but in real life he did much more. During an exercise in the Arctic, he rescued five other marines from a sinking tank that had collided with an ice cap. Some heroes are given lines and cues, and others just know when it’s their turn.
Steve McQueen
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Ernest Hemingway
During the First World War Ernest Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in Italy. One specific incident influenced his life greater than any other. An explosion ripped a munitions factory apart and he raced to the scene. He needed to rescue the bodies of women among the rubble. He later told of this everlasting experience in his book, “Death in the Afternoon”.
Ernest Hemingway
