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Relentless Towards Progress Noah Galloway Analysis
In my opinion, I would describe Noah Galloway as a brave man. Galloway, N. (2005). Our war: Relentless forward Progress. In Henry Howard (Eds.), Surviving Veterans: Different effects (pp.19-28). I would describe Galloway to have a lot of courage in what he did and has done. In this article, “Relentless towards Progress”, by Henry Howard, was a very good article to read in my opinion. This article gave many reasons why he was a brave man. First of all, Galloway cared more about other people than he did himself. For example, Galloway and a few others were in an explosion and when Galloway awoke from the coma, the first thing he asked was, “What happened to Edison, Davis, and the other soldiers in the convoy?” There was a young thirteen

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