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ArmyTimes.com April 18, 2002 Fierce Battle Produces Heroism On A Legendary Scale By Sean D. Naylor, Times staff writer BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan - They call it the Battle of Roberts Ridge. The 15-hour firefight cost more American lives - seven - than any other engagement in the war against terrorism. It was named after the first American to die amidst the snowy, 10,000-foot mountains of eastern Afghanistan. But so many troops performed with such extraordinary courage during that long night and day that it could just as easily have been named after any one of at least a dozen...