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	<title>Stephens Media - American Valor</title>
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	<description>Selfless courage at the moment of truth</description>
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		<title>Medic braves enemy fire to aide nearly 20 wounded comrades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mission seemed simple: A joint U.S.-Afghan National Army patrol was to meet with village elders at the small village of Saret Kholet to discuss security issues. Hospitalman Third Class Joshua Simson would advise the Afghan medics in battlefield medicine. 
But as the patrol set up an observation post near a river crossing in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/2092</link>
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		<title>Soldier&#8217;s courage reigns despite being outnumbered and enemy within meters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Army Spc. Jason A. Baldwin heard anti-aircraft guns erupt at the crack of dawn on Aug. 22, 2007, he thought someone at Ranch House Outpost was just being rude.
He’d only been asleep for an hour after his guard shift at the tiny base tucked in a steep, dense forest overlooking the Afghan village of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/2075</link>
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		<title>Marine heads back into firefight for ambushed company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	On the third day of the U.S. advance into Iraq—March 23, 2003—the battle inside the city of Nasiriyah had escalated. Marines had been told the locals would be greeting them with flowers but instead had fought a rolling battle since early morning against a determined enemy.
	Gunnery Sgt. Jason Doran, operations chief for Weapons Company, 1st [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1917</link>
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		<title>Sarun Sar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[he was Native Cambodian the to good U.S army and have good vision for peace, and love his own country (Cambodia), i appreciated him and supported him to protected all country in the world for peace. 
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		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1988</link>
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		<title>Justin Richard Mayfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justin Mayfield Joined the Marines right out of high school. He was upset about what happened during 9/11 and wanted to do something about it. He was stationed in Camp Pendleton California. He was with 2/1 Fox Company. He deployed twice, once to Iraq and the next to Japan for a year. He received the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1985</link>
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		<title>Jason Andrew Baldwin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The following is an article from Military Times:
Specialist
Jason A. Baldwin
Army
For service as set forth in the following:
CITATION:
       The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1981</link>
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		<title>Three-man sniper team fends off Taliban onslaught during Operation Bacha Strga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: The following tells the story of three guardsmen – Staff Sgt. Jason Fincher, Sgt. Anthony Sandoval and Pfc. Justo Baltasar – who were decorated for heroism in the same ambush.
	The three veteran combat snipers had endured their share of firefights, but nothing had been quite as frightening as the midnight shootout on Sept. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1939</link>
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		<title>Three-man sniper team fends off Taliban onslaught during Operation Bacha Strga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: The following tells the story of three guardsmen – Staff Sgt. Jason Fincher, Sgt. Anthony Sandoval and Pfc. Justo Baltasar – who were decorated for heroism in the same ambush.
	The three veteran combat snipers had endured their share of firefights, but nothing had been quite as frightening as the midnight shootout on Sept. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1938</link>
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		<title>Three-man sniper team fends off Taliban onslaught during Operation Bacha Strga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: The following tells the story of three guardsmen – Staff Sgt. Jason Fincher, Sgt. Anthony Sandoval and Pfc. Justo Baltasar – who were decorated for heroism in the same ambush.
	The three veteran combat snipers had endured their share of firefights, but nothing had been quite as frightening as the midnight shootout on Sept. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1934</link>
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		<title>DANIEL AVILA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MY SPINE TINGLED WHEN I READ YOUR ARTICLE ON DR. RICHARD JADICK WHO WAS AWARDED THE BRONZE STAR WITH VALOR FOR BEING INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING MANY MARINES LIVES IN FALLUJAH, IRAQ.
THERE IS A PICTURE OF DR. JADICK IN THE &#8220;NEWSWEEK&#8221; MAGAZINE, MARCH 20, 2006, WHERE HE IS STANDING NEXT TO THE MEDICS THAT WORKED WITH [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1931</link>
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