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	<description>Selfless courage at the moment of truth</description>
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		<title>Marine puts himself in harms way multiple times to save 36 comrades</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cpl. Dakota Meyer listened anxiously on the radio as fellow Marines and U.S. Army and Afghan soldiers, trapped in a pre-dawn ambush several hundred yards away, were calling for help. Meyer had been ordered to remain at a nearby observation post and was refused permission four times to join the fight. Finally he decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gregory andrade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[earned bronz star]]></description>
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		<title>1st Sgt. Randy Ford</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father, my soldier, my friend. He is shown with my daughter, his granddaughter, at the USO inside McCarren Internation Airport on January 29, 2012. The families of the 32 deploying soldiers of Civil Affairs Delta Company 405th (affectionately known as the Vegas Desert Rats) were allowed to say goodbye to their soldiers in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Working Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to recognize all the Military Working Dog teams past and present. Being an old handler out of Vietnam (&#8217;67-&#8217;68) the contribution these four legged soldiers have, until recently, gone unnoticed. The effectiveness of the teams in Vietnam saved an estimated 10,000 lives. The number of lives saved since then is unknown but their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan Blake Emrick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan was always a free spirit. Happy, liked to make everyone laugh. Very intelligent. He only looked at 1 college. He wanted to go to St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Then he started his senior year, 9/11 happened and he wanted to join the Marines. He asked us if we would be upset if he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1SG DONNIE HODGE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1ST DONNIE HODGE A SOLDIER KNOWN TO BE &#8220;SOLDIER OF SOLDIERS&#8221;. WHETHER IN ARIZONA MOUNTAINS FOR MEXICO BORDER MISSION OR OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM &#8211; HE HAS TRULY FLOWN MIGHTER THAN THE FLAG AT THE CAPITAL ROTUNDA IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TRULY RESPECTED AND LOVE BY ALL HIS TROOPS. HIS FAMOUS WORDS: &#8220;YOU HAVE TO ALWAYS KNOW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ranger saves soldiers&#8217; lives by grabbing grenade, honored for self-sacrificing actions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staff Sergeant Leroy Petry and a platoon of about 60 Rangers landed in a remote area of Afghanistan&#8217;s Paktia province in a daytime raid to kill or capture a high-value Taliban target. The mission on May 26, 2008, was a rarity, as most operations of the sort take place at night. After landing, Petry and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth Iwasinski</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was a peace maker, a friend to all he met. I as his father, had never heard him pick on someone, or laugh at another&#8217;s pain. On the contrary he would side with the one being made fun of, or intervene if he had seen someone fighting to try and bring peace. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orlando &#8220;Bill&#8221; Hadin Allin, Jr.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father was First Lieutenant Bill Allin, the pilot of a C-47 of the 87th Squadron of the 438th Troop Carrier Group in the European Theater of Operations, World War II. Shortly after D-Day he was evacuating wounded from an advance base in France back to England. The weather turned very bad and all but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>His actions turned the tide of the battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2007, Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta was serving his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. The 22-year old Iowa native was a company rifle team leader assigned to the rugged Korengal Valley, an area known to U.S. forces as the “Valley of Death” because of its status as a Taliban stronghold. Giunta, who then [...]]]></description>
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