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Interview excerpts:

So both of you were given the Medal of Honor for a similar act of saving someone, someone you wouldn't give up on.

MR. NORRIS: Yes, sir.

When did you get your Medal of Honor?

MR. NORRIS: My medal was not given to me until 1976. That's a long time between action and medals.

MR. THORNTON: It goes through these different boards. We've had guys that have gone seven years without getting medals. Tommy received his with Admiral Jim Stockdale and Colonel Bud Day at the White House in March of 1976.

So you were there?

MR. THORNTON: Of course I was there.

MR. NORRIS: Part of the delay was when the teams wanted to have it reviewed because they thought that it was worthy of a higher award. I didn't believe it was. I did what I had been trained to do and I was very fortunate in being successful. To me it didn't rate that type of an award. The Awards Bureau disagreed with me and because of that I was a recipient of the medal.

I feel much like Mike does. That medal does not belong to me. It belongs to all the soldiers over there that fought and lost their lives and were part of a conflict that they gave their lives for, or they worked for, as well as the teams. That medal was not mine. It belongs to everybody.

"It's hard to explain to somebody that's never been there what it's like to work in an area where you're outnumbered."

Michael Thornton and Thomas Norris were interviewed together. Click here to learn more about these two heroes.

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I didn't believe it was. I did what I had been trained to do and I was very fortunate in being successful.

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I saw this. The use of golf courses was as ingenious as the use of Navajo code talkers.

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Norris and Thornton and those to whom they defer have exhibited inspiring valor--which leads our Republic forward like the North Star.

As an obscene contrast, submitted for your jeers and hisses, that fraud whose memory of Christmas Eve 1968 in Cambodia was "seared, seared" in his memory.

And the likes of Hagel who as "no confidence in Rumsfeld"--

This from the senator for whom the matter of supreme import continues to be the horrors of panties-on-the-head Abu Ghraib prison.

The bravest again prove to be the most modest and self-deprecating.