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Posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to air force sergeant – 42 years after his heroism

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Tom Faranda
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President Barack Obama today awarded the Medal of Honor to an Air Force chief master sergeant who died saving three fellow airmen in Laos, his heroism kept under wraps for more than 40 years because the Vietnam-era mission was secret.

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