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		<title>Jordan Blake Emrick</title>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<title>David M. Beshears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, October 12, 2007 at 10:00 AM, I received a phone call from a Captain Anderson from the US Army. Our son, Sergeant First Class David Michael Beshears, had been severely injured in Afghanistan. David was medivacked to Bagram, Afghanistan, then to Germany, and finally to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. He lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Coty Sockalosky</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cpl. Coty Sockalosky was born on Febuary 12,1989. Coty joined the Marine Corps right out of high school in June 2007. He was assigned to 2/9 Golf Company as a machine gunner. He was deployed to Iraq from September 2008 until April 2009. My brother left for his second deployment to Afghanistan in July 2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spc. Dale Justin Kridlo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 19:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spec. Dale J. Kridlo, Hughestown, PA is a graduate of Pittston Area High School. Dale was an avid fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, Phillies and the Flyers. He loved to hunt and fish in his leisure. Dale was a true Patriot in every sense. He loved his family; he loved his country and he loved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Beret draws enemy fire to save his fellow soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 05:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 25, 2008, three months into his second deployment to Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Rob Miller and others in his Green Beret unit partnered with soldiers from the Afghan National Army on a night patrol of a key strategic sector in mountainous Kunar Province, along the border with Pakistan. Taliban and insurgent forces had been [...]]]></description>
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