Valor | Honorable Holy Man

By 1914 Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a promising young anthropologist, paleontologist, theologian and philosopher. Yet he served dutifully on the Western Front as a noncombatant French army stretcher-bearer. For his service under fire he received the Légion d’honneur, the Croix de guerre and the Médaille militaire (pictured), his nation’s highest award for …

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