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Martha Raddatz, beloved broadcaster, Emmy Award-winning anchor, ABC News personality, and New York Times bestselling author, shares ten inspiring stories about America's veterans and their families, whose extraordinary sacrifice and resilience - on and off the battlefield - demonstrate that true courage takes many forms. Martha Raddatz has witnessed the rare courage of military service members and their families, and watched them - in war zones and on the home front - as they face overwhelming odds. And they come out stronger. She asked veterans whose personalities and actions deeply affected her to recall their most difficult moments, so that others would know who they were and what they did. We meet an Air Force paratrooper who risked his life to save a man whose fate was linked to his own; A Marine was ambushed in Helmand, and his serious injury forced him into a different kind of combat; a leading F-18 fighter pilot flying sorties over Syria; A field surgeon who pioneered a new way to save people with traumatic brain injuries turned his life around to train doctors in Ukraine. An intelligence officer linked by Omar's friendship with the man who saved him during the events of September 11; Aman embodies their love and sacrifices, an example of sacrifice and altruism. Some were inspired to join the army by their fathers who served, and some left their abusive families, determined to have a better life. Some of them joined when everyone else was against it. They were there because they wanted to be part of something bigger than themselves. Raddatz shows how the qualities that made them shine on the battlefield gave them the strength to take on new, life-changing chapters. Focus, mental resilience, and emotional toughness are what kept them resilient despite physical and psychological setbacks. They founded companies to meet a need, created resilient nonprofit organizations, and looked for humor wherever they could find it.