is this the first time a collective was recognized as a "person of the year"?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Time selects military as Person of the Year
by K.L. Vantran
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Three 1st Armored Division soldiers -- Sgt.
Ronald Buxton, Spc. Billie Grimes and Sgt. Marquette Whiteside --
graced the cover of Time magazine Dec. 22. They represent "The
American Soldier" -- all men and women in uniform -- who have been
chosen as Time's 2003 Person of the Year.
"For uncommon skills and service, for the choices each one of them
has made and the ones still ahead, for the challenge of defending not
only our freedoms but those barely stirring half a world away, the
American soldier is Time's Person of the Year," editor-at-large Nancy
Gibbs wrote in the opening essay of the magazine.
"By naming the American soldier as Person of the Year, we're using
that term in its broadest sense, to stand for all of those in a U.S.
uniform who go in harm's way, including (sailors, airmen and
Marines)," managing editor Jim Kelly wrote in a letter to readers....
You can view the original story at
http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006263.
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