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GWOT - Novel Dedications
GWOT I
Dedicated to security guards Stephen Tyrone Johns and "Harry" (psuedonym). Both guards confronted the same suspect in different armed encounters. One died saving lives at the cost of his own. The other, by being very ready to die, saved lives including his own. One never knows until the moment which it will be.
GWOT II
Dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, vice-consul of the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania. He is credited with saving the lives of at least 5,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by defying his superiors and issuing them travel visas that allowed them to escape occupied Europe. He is the only Japanese national whose name is recorded by the Jewish people as Righteous Among The Nations.
GWOT III
Dedicated to Bantu Stephen Biko, murdered on 12 September 1977 through blunt force trauma to the head by South African police in Police Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Port Elizabeth.
GWOT IV
Dedicated to Ben Ferencz, war crimes investigator and prosecutor for the US Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial. This trial, one of the infamous Nuremberg trials, was the first criminal trial in which the term 'genocide' was used as a legal term. Fourteen defendants were sentenced to death; only four were actually executed.
GWOT V
Dedicated to United States Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry, murdered by gunfire on 15 December 2010 in Arizona while attempting to arrest drug smugglers and robbers.
GWOT VI
Dedicated to Canadian journalist Sian Cansfield. Ms. Cansfield was killed by vicarious PTSD on 1 June 2002 in connection with researching genocide operations in Rwanda. She jumped to her death from the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto. An anti-suicide barrier was installed at this location in 2003.
Honorable mention to Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and the 15 United Nations soldiers under his command who died in 1994 saving thousands of innocent lives. Allons-y.
GWOT VII
Dedicated to Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Defense Forces, widely credited with saving the world from a general nuclear war on 26 September 1983.
Dedicated to security guards Stephen Tyrone Johns and "Harry" (psuedonym). Both guards confronted the same suspect in different armed encounters. One died saving lives at the cost of his own. The other, by being very ready to die, saved lives including his own. One never knows until the moment which it will be.
GWOT II
Dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, vice-consul of the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania. He is credited with saving the lives of at least 5,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by defying his superiors and issuing them travel visas that allowed them to escape occupied Europe. He is the only Japanese national whose name is recorded by the Jewish people as Righteous Among The Nations.
GWOT III
Dedicated to Bantu Stephen Biko, murdered on 12 September 1977 through blunt force trauma to the head by South African police in Police Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Port Elizabeth.
GWOT IV
Dedicated to Ben Ferencz, war crimes investigator and prosecutor for the US Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial. This trial, one of the infamous Nuremberg trials, was the first criminal trial in which the term 'genocide' was used as a legal term. Fourteen defendants were sentenced to death; only four were actually executed.
GWOT V
Dedicated to United States Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry, murdered by gunfire on 15 December 2010 in Arizona while attempting to arrest drug smugglers and robbers.
GWOT VI
Dedicated to Canadian journalist Sian Cansfield. Ms. Cansfield was killed by vicarious PTSD on 1 June 2002 in connection with researching genocide operations in Rwanda. She jumped to her death from the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto. An anti-suicide barrier was installed at this location in 2003.
Honorable mention to Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and the 15 United Nations soldiers under his command who died in 1994 saving thousands of innocent lives. Allons-y.
GWOT VII
Dedicated to Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Defense Forces, widely credited with saving the world from a general nuclear war on 26 September 1983.