His family kept the award a surprise for weeks until the big day.

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"I didn't really need anybody to come out and recognize me and thank me. I just wanted to do it."

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Dr. Albert Johnston became a doctor in a time when other Black Americans were banned from ever attending medical school.

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Watch and raise up a prayer for those sailors who gave their lives that day in service to the nation.

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Some of the finest officers in the Navy and the Marine Corps come out of this school.

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Back in Vietnam, we called this bad boy “Spooky.” And it was spooky to suddenly see long, straight...

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The pain of loss, of the physical, mental, and worse, the soul wounds experienced by some veterans are never truly healed.

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Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters made several attempts to rush his position to take him out, but the Sgt. 1st Class fought back harder.

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Anything within that 40 feet of the A-10's strike zone is going to have a very bad day.

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Their motto was, "Go For Broke!" And they did that with intensity.

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