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Multi National Forces Iraq took a moment to recognize another hero of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel H. Coffman Jr. Soundbites from Colonel H. Coffman Jr., Special Assistant for Iraqi Army Security Forces. Produced by 08-30-2005, American Forces Network Iraq. View Video (3.3 MB)

The following are those heroes of this new generation that have been awarded our nation's highest awards for extraordinary heroism in the War on Terror. Air Force Cross: Jason Dean Cunningham (Killed in Action) Senior Airman, U.S. Air Force Citation: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Title 10, Section 8742, U.S.C., awards the Air Force Cross to Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham for extraordinary heroism in military operations against an opposing armed force while serving as a pararescueman near the village of Marzak in the Paktia Province of Afghanistan on 4 March 2002. On that proud...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Master Sgt. Donald Hollenbaugh was the last man standing on the rooftop in Fallujah. The three men with him were down. Enemy fighters were creeping up. It's what he did then that won Hollenbaugh the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army's second-highest award for valor in combat. Hollenbaugh, a Fort Bragg special operations soldier who has since retired from the military, received the medal from Vice President Dick Cheney in a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., earlier this month. Cheney said that Hollenbaugh's award ceremony offered a rare glimpse into the world of special...

The Army has agreed to give the Distinguished Service Cross to a black World War I soldier whose body was recently discovered buried at Arlington National Cemetery, an Army spokeswoman said. But lawmakers from New York had sought the military's highest honor - the Medal of Honor - for Henry Johnson of Albany. The lawmakers said they would sponsor federal legislation to do that. In 1918, Johnson fought off a German raiding party in France with a rifle and later with a knife after running out of ammunition. Wounded 21 times, he still rescued a wounded comrade. France awarded Johnson...