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I first wrote about Rick Rescorla in 2003 after finishing James Stewart s Heart of a Soldier, the book based on Stewart s New Yorker article The real heroes are dead. ( The real heroes are dead is what Rescorla would say in response to recognition of his heroism on the battlefield in Vietnam.) It s a good book that touches on profound themes in a thought-provoking way: life and death, love and friendship,