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Medals for valor are often earned for outstanding individual service amid unfathomable circumstance. Oftentimes, however, those honored will insist that the action in which they distinguished ...

Sgt. Alvin C. York achieved international acclaim more than a century ago for his heroism at a German machine gun nest on a hill in northern France. But his legacy lives on in rural Tennessee for his ...