MARTHA MACCALLUM: These American heroes show us what true valor really means

What is valor?Defined by Webster’s Dictionary:I wrote the "Book of Valor," which will be released on Nov.10, as we come to the end of our 250th year of independence, to tell our heroic story.THE UNWINNABLE WAR AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS FOUGHT AND WON CHANGED HUMAN HISTORY FOREVERIt spans from the Mayflower to Afghanistan.
Told chronologically, "Valor" weaves a thread through our brave history, in the unique voices of those who were actually there.In between passages, a bridge links one era to the next.
We pass through times of tyranny abroad, always answered with American values.The threat of communism, toppled.
The shock of an Islamist terrorist attack on our homeland, met with unity and firm resolve.Come with me on a short tour through some of the chapters in the "Book of Valor." Each chapter focuses on one aspect of valor.Gives life to the words our presidents use when they bestow our nation’s highest award, the Medal of Honor, which was given to five of those in our pages.Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum's "The Book of Valor" will be published on Nov.10, 2026.
(Fox News)Joshua Chamberlain.Told by his brother Thomas (and beautifully narrated on the "Valor" audiobook by Brit Hume).
Thomas watches as his brother, a bookish professor from Maine, is transformed into a warrior on the battlefield at Little Round Top, Gettysburg.9/11 SENT THEM TO WAR.25 YEARS LATER, VETERANS GRAPPLE WITH WHAT FOLLOWEDA young Black New Yorker, Harry Stewart, dreamed of becoming a pilot in World War II.
When his chance came, he headed to Tuskegee, Alabama.As his train passed into the Jim Crow South, Stewart was relegated to a dining car seat where a curtain was pulled around him to segregate him from the other diners. Tuskegee Airmen pilots (from L) Lt.
Colonel Washington Ross, Lt.Col.
Harry Stewart, Colonel Charles McGee and Lt.Col.
Alexander Jefferson stand next to a Tuskegee Army Airfield AY-6 Texan fighter plane during a ceremony to honor the airmen at Selfridge Nationa...