Opinion | Stars on the wall at CIA headquarters tell Memorial Day tale WashTimesOpEd
Director David Petraeus eloquently said of those we lost: “Never for acclaim, always for country.”
Thirty-one stars were chiseled into the marble when the Memorial Wall was created in 1974. Just prior to Sept. 11, 2001, there were 78 stars. Johnny Micheal “Mike” Spann, the paramilitary officer in ’s Special Activities Division who was the first American killed in combat during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is the 79th star. Today, there are 139 stars on the wall.Memorial Wall symbolizes the agency’s mission to grapple with the most wickedly challenging threats to our nation’s security.
Above all, it means to never, ever give up. Temporary setbacks are learning opportunities and steps toward eventual success. And most of all, honor those whom we have lost along the way — in faraway places such as Khowst, Baghdad and Benghazi — by relentlessly focusing on the mission at hand.colleagues to the Memorial Wall to help me commemorate my last day as a staff officer, in 2017.
And then I thanked Kim for all of her love and support, without which none of whatever success I had achieved at the
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