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	<description>Selfless courage at the moment of truth</description>
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		<title>Jarad Eldridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jarad is a true hero of this generation.  He has earned 3 Bronze Stars and a Silver Star.  He has multiple Purple Hearts, and many other awards.  All this while he completed his primary duties as an SF Medic.  He has been on 5 overseas tours of duty.  In addition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1862</link>
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		<title>Despite being afraid, Bellavia battles a house full of insurgents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	It would be, for Staff Sgt. David Bellavia, “the worst moment of my life.”  
	On November 10, 2004, during Operation Phantom Fury, the second Battle of Fallujah, Bellavia&#8217;s platoon was assigned to clear a block of 12 buildings from which jihadists were firing on American troops. The platoon began searching house-to-house.	
	Bellavia, a theater major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1848</link>
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		<title>GORDON ROGERS DIAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Dad Gordon R. Dias, Born on July 11, 1948 in Paauilo Hawaii, Married to Sandra Branco, 2 daughters Gordlynn and Ashlynn 4 grandchildren.  Now resides in Honokaa Hawaii.  My Dad Gordon enlisted in the Hawaii National Guard on April 16, 1968 with Co-c 2nd BW 299th 29th BDE.  He was activated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1841</link>
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		<title>Christopher James Coffland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spc.Coffland enlisted short of his cutoff date at 41 years old.When deployed he volunteered to take the place of a married man with children. Sent to Cop Tangi as a Military Intelligence Specialist  he was working with a private contractor introducing new methods to expose IED&#8217;s.Coffland volunteered to go on patrol to help find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1830</link>
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		<title>Soldier puts others&#8217; safety above his own despite being shot multiple times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Bryan Jackson came to, his hand and thigh were bleeding profusely. The soldier next to him, however, was in even worse shape, and bullets were still flying in every direction.
	Jackson — then a 23-year-old second lieutenant and only a year out of West Point — and his unit had been dispatched Sept. 27, 2006, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1814</link>
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		<title>David Hector Gutierrez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Army Staff Sgt. David H. Gutierrez, a 35-year-old husband and father of three young sons, was killed in Afghanistan by a hidden roadside bomb on Christmas Day while on patrol.
Sgt. Gutierrez was deployed from Alpha Company 2-1 5th Brigade Stryker Unit of Fort Lewis. He was on dismounted patrol in Howz-e Madad when he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1805</link>
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		<title>SSG Jonathan Kilian Dozier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Died January 9, 2008, in Sinsil, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated during combat operations. They were assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Vilseck, Germany. 
Killed were: 
Specialist Todd E. Davis, 22, of Raymore, Missouri
Staff Sergeant Jonathan K. Dozier, 30, of Chesapeake, Virginia
 taff Sergeant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1811</link>
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		<title>Sargent 1st Class Grady Parris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grady Parris was the Security Driver for
LTG William Wallace (OEF and OIF) and Later on LTG Ricardo Sanchez
(OIF), Both Generals were the Commanding General of 5th Corp, He was
awarded the Bronze Star, because of a 72 hr firefight that happened. They
were ambushed by the Fedayein (Saddam&#8217;s Special Forces), just south of
the Karbala Gap, 3rd Infantry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1803</link>
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		<title>LCpl Richard A. Perez Jr.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perez saved a convoy that was being shot upon in a situation where the tires were about to fall off a truck. The Convoy stopped and no one made a move as gunfire erupted all over the Marines between Fallujah and Ramadi. Then Perez made his move exiting the truck and going out against the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/1796</link>
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		<title>Covered with shrapnel, &#039;perfect soldier&#039; pulled his comrade to safety after hand grenade hit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	From the gun turret of his armored Humvee, Spc. Ben West scanned the windows and roofs in central Baghdad, searching for any sign of a gunman or sniper. Suddenly, he saw a flash and a smoke trail and heard someone yell, “RPG.” 
	Seconds later, a rocket-propelled grenade skipped off the hood of the Humvee and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/619</link>
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