Article: A Proud Day.(Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th)

Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th, by James B. Stewart (Simon & Schuster, 321 pp., $24)

Consider the last 18 months. It looks like The Great American Crack-up: A decade-long orgy of moneyed excess and Clintonian evasion comes to a climax in roiling capital markets and collapsing portfolios, domestic terrorism and foreign war, disgraced clerics and discovered corporate thievery. Even baseball threatened to let America down.

But -- as if to restore our faith -- along comes this excellent book. Heart of a Soldier is the story of a life of heroic virtue and self- sacrifice, but it is also a simple love story, the love of a big- ...

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