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<p>Highest Award Given for Heroism in Afghanistan</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR2007102201114.html?hpid=sec-nation[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR2007102201114.html?hpid=sec-nation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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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 mountains of Afghanistan. </p>

<p>The 29-year-old Seal team leader and former lifeguard from Patchogue, N.Y., is the first service member to receive the Medal of Honor for heroism in the war in Afghanistan and the first sailor since Vietnam to be awarded the medal, the nation’s highest military decoration…

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