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Here is video on the story that a Bank of America in Gaffney, South Carolina refused to allow a row of U.S. Flags to be placed in the yard of the bank to honor U.S. Marine Christopher Fowlkes, killed in Afghanistan. The video features Megyn Kelly talking with a neighbor of the fallen Marine who placed the flags in the ground in his honor. She said she noticed after placing the flags that they disappeared. They had been pulled up by the manager who told the neighbor that it was against policy to allow the flags. She also reportedly told...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2007 – President Bush today presented the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest decoration, to the family of Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, who died shielding his fellow Marines from a grenade blast in Iraq in April 2004. “With this medal, we pay tribute to the courage and leadership of a man who represents the best of young Americans,” Bush said before presenting the medal to Dunham’s family at the White House. Dunham, who grew up in Scio, N.Y., was the leader of a rifle squad with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, in Iraq. Dunham’s squad was conducting...

Small American flags line each side of the road on Racine Cove in Round Rock. The flags trail up a driveway to a two-story brick house. Inside, worn-out brown baby boots sit on a chair next to photos of the brown-haired young man who used to wear them. The young man's family gathered the mementos Tuesday night in front of the home where he had grown up and held a news conference to let people know about their son, a soldier who was killed Sept. 20 in Iraq. Chris Zimmerman, 28, was serving as a staff sergeant in the Marine...

A local boy was killed in Iraq last fall. This weekend his unit is returning to Wisconsin. Please go to the above link and leave a comment of support for his family. Great joy the others are coming home, sadness that their Marine is gone.