Posthumous VC for heroic soldier
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A paratrooper killed in Afghanistan is awarded the highest recognition for military gallantry, the Victoria Cross.
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For US military athletes the Games are a chance to pay tribute to those still in harm's way.
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SALAR HILL, Afghanistan  - The burial place of  Afghanistan's greatest resistance hero is a desolate, windswept  hill deep in the Panjsher Valley.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Spread across several tables in a vast warehouse here are the pieces of one soldier's life.
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A soldier whose stored possessions were sold while he served in Iraq has received their full value of $8,000 and an apology from the storage company.
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The funeral of a 'promising' officer who was the 100th serviceman to die in action in Iraq will be held in Hove.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.
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An Air Force officer who was shot down and killed in the Vietnam War has been buried, more than 38 years after his death.
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One of Australia's last surviving World War I veterans and a recipient of France's Legion of Honor medal has died at the age of 105.
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Servicemen and women who gave their lives fighting for Britain are being remembered across the country in Armistice Day ceremonies.
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The wife of a soldier killed in an ambush in Iraq says he was a hero to everyone who knew him.
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Tributes are paid to a soldier from mid Wales, who is killed in an attack in the Iraqi city of Basra.
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In this collection, friends pay tribute to the lesser-known investing sage from Omaha.
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CESENA, Italy (CP) - If he had a choice, Ernest (Smoky) Smith probably would opt not to have had to do it all.  But if he had to do it again, Canada's most famous soldier and last living winner of the Victoria Cross surely wouldn't change a thing.
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In the early days of the Iraq war, on the last day of his life, Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith showed valor that no U.S. soldier has matched in Iraq. Smith&#039;s men came under attack as they mopped up after the capture of Baghdad&#039;s airport. The sergeant braved hostile fire to evacuate three wounded soldiers and single-handedly killed dozens of enemy soldiers before being killed himself as he covered the evacuation of other wounded Americans.
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With scores of American soldiers returning home from Vietnam, California businessman and Army veteran Roger Chapin founded a charity in 1971 dedicated to those troops recuperating in hospitals.
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A British soldier is to be posthumously awarded the country's highest military honour for single-handedly storming a Taliban position in Afghanistan.