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Honoring the brave: Cpl. Stephen C. Sanford, USA (Ret.).

The cool morning of Nov. 19, 2005, started too early for then-Private First Class Stephen Sanford. But nothing about an early rise to duty was unusual. The soldiers of Sanford's platoon, in their fourth month in Iraq, "sniped" at each other on the way to their tracks, teasing and jibing as they did constantly. But not an hour after starting their day's mission, things took a turn for the worse.

The call came to provide backup for Iraqi police who were engaging an enemy safe house in Mosul. Sanford's squad was the second to enter the sprawling residence, and immediately encountered fierce enemy gunfire. The initial push to assault the enemy had left the soldiers ...

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