Medal of Honor Is Awarded Posthumously To Navy Seal
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Navy Seal Lt. Michael P. Murphy, nicknamed "Murph" and known as an intense and empathetic young man, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor yesterday "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" while outnumbered by Taliban fighters in a June 2005 battle high in the...
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The SEAL team was under attack and out of ammo. All were wounded including their leader, Lt. Michael Murphy, shot in the stomach. To protect his men, Murphy went into the open, making himself a target even as he radioed for help. President Bush will today give Murphy's Medal of Honor -- the first won in Afghanistan -- to the fallen warrior's family.
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Dec. 7 -- One by one, survivors from ships sunk 65 years ago Thursday in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor laid wreaths under life-preserver rings honoring their ships.
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SAN DIEGO -- A Navy SEAL has been acquitted of charges that he beat a handcuffed and hooded terror suspect who later died, while a second commando received probation for assaulting another prisoner, attorneys for the men said yesterday.
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The Defense Department has released the names of the following US service members killed recently in Iraq.
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The U.S. military has charged four  members of an elite Navy SEAL unit with abusing prisoners in  Iraq, including a man who died last year after being beaten,  the Navy said on Friday.
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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.
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Retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall wears a hearing aid and speaks haltingly at times. But when asked about a harrowing 1965 battle in South Vietnam's central highlands, his voice resounds with a resolve that leaves little doubt why, today at the White House, he will receive the Medal of Honor,...
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Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima may have been killed 62 years ago in one of World War II's most symbolic battles.
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In the 105th meeting between Army and Navy, captains Aaron Polanco and Josh Smith will be wearing patches honoring two former Midshipmen football players killed in action in Iraq.
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Four members of an elite U.S. Navy  SEAL unit have been charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq,  including one who died at Abu Ghraib prison after being beaten,  the Naval Special Warfare Command said on Friday.
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Trumpeting  America as liberator,  the White House conferred the highest civilian honor yesterday on three men intimately involved with the decision to invade Iraq or the troubled aftermath of the invasion.
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TONY EASTLEY: While Iraq struggles with security concerns just over a month out from elections, three principal players in American policy on Iraq have received their country&#39;s highest civilian honour, the medal of freedom.
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President Bush on Tuesday bestowed the nation&#39;s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on three of the central architects and executors of the war
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Lt. Michael P. Murphy is the first member of the military to receive the medal for service in the war in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday awarded America&#39;s highest civilian honor to three key players from his Iraq team: ex-CIA chief George Tenet, former Iraq chief L. Paul Bremer and Gen.
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He was a stern-faced sniper &amp;#151; and a soft-hearted Marine who handed out candy to kids in Iraq. He was a warrior who wrote poetry about life and death.