Please take a moment today to remember our veterans.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Veterans Day
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War. Commemorated as Armistice Day, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
As Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces, Eisenhower took leadership to a whole new level. On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion.
Click on the link below to watch video of that fateful day. Please remember our veterans as you watch and imagine how different things could be if not for leaders like General Eisenhower.
http://bcove.me/msfc2e1d
Eisenhower Leadership Quotes:
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
Click on the link below to watch video of that fateful day. Please remember our veterans as you watch and imagine how different things could be if not for leaders like General Eisenhower.
http://bcove.me/msfc2e1d
Eisenhower Leadership Quotes:
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
Colin Powell
As you all know (I hope!), tomorrow is Veteran's Day. I will devote the next two days to the men and women who have served, fought and died for this great country. We can all learn something from our military leaders.
Colin Powell was born in Harlem in 1937 to Jamaican immigrants. He found his calling when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) while studying geology at City College of New York. Powell was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army, and was one of the 16,000 military advisors dispatched to South Vietnam by President Kennedy in 1962. In 1963, Powell was wounded by a punji-stick booby trap while patrolling the Vietnamese border with Laos. He was awarded the Purple Heart, and later that year, the Bronze Star. During his second tour in Vietnam, Powell was injured in a helicopter crash and despite his own injuries, he managed to rescue his comrades from the burning helicopter and was awarded the Soldier's Medal.
Here is a great quote of his:
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
Colin Powell was born in Harlem in 1937 to Jamaican immigrants. He found his calling when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) while studying geology at City College of New York. Powell was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army, and was one of the 16,000 military advisors dispatched to South Vietnam by President Kennedy in 1962. In 1963, Powell was wounded by a punji-stick booby trap while patrolling the Vietnamese border with Laos. He was awarded the Purple Heart, and later that year, the Bronze Star. During his second tour in Vietnam, Powell was injured in a helicopter crash and despite his own injuries, he managed to rescue his comrades from the burning helicopter and was awarded the Soldier's Medal.
Here is a great quote of his:
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
George C. Marshall
President Harry S. Truman considered George C. Marshall, U.S. Army chief of staff during WWII, to be the greatest man he knew. Winston Churchill once said that "few men whose qualities of mind and character have impressed me so deeply as those of General Marshall..."
What made General Marshall such a great leader? Read this and tell me what you think!
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1874.html
What made General Marshall such a great leader? Read this and tell me what you think!
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1874.html
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