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Medal of Honor recipients share stories, sign books at Yokosuka

Ken Stumpf and Don Jenkins appear to have little in common. But bravery, it would seem, comes packaged in many different forms.

06:21 May 19, 2012
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Soldier killed in Vietnam War is awarded the Medal of Honor

Forty-two years after his death in Cambodia, Army Spc. Leslie Sabo Jr., a 22-year-old immigrant who gave his life saving his fellow soldiers, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony Wednesday. President Barack Obama said the recognition was long overdue, a byproduct of lost paperwork and government bureaucracy.

 

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Before the 2012 Citizen Service Before Self Honors ceremony, World War II Medal of Honor recipient Hershel Williams talks about heroic deeds, the thought process of those who perform them, and how they're by no means limited to the military.

 

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Recipients of the nation's highest military honor fly from New York to Washington, D.C., for Medal of Honor Day 2011.

 

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A harmonica and the bond between soldiers

 

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Citations for Medals of Honor awarded since 2000, from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Web site:'

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