Captain Will Swenson was a leader on that September morning. But like all great leaders, he was also a servant -- to the men he commanded, to the more than a dozen Afghans and Americans whose lives he saved, to the families of those who gave their last full measure of devotion on that faraway field.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Captain Will Swenson was a leader on that September morning. But like all great leaders, he was also a servant -- to the men he commanded, to the more than a dozen Afghans and Americans whose lives he saved, to the families of those who gave their last full measure of devotion on that faraway field." in the context of "Barack Obama, remarks at Swenson's Medal of Honor presentation ceremony on 15 October 2013https://www.army.mil/article/113185/Former_Army_captain_receives_Medal_of_Honor_at_White_House/" to mean that wisdom is timeless.