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Courage in Troubled Times

by Linda Wade Williams

Dec 13, 2025
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Tank Man: Unidentified protester whose solitary courage on June 5, 1989, briefly halted a column of Type 59 tanks near Tiananmen Square.

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Let’s face it, in our times, Charlie Kirk

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