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Those who have served and died in Iraq Support your troops message board September 11 Victims and Heroes Maimed guard thwarts al Qaida escape Overcoming obstacles, 4 determined students earn degrees. One is a single mother, another earned her PhD at 90, nearly blind, a third third graduating from college at 18 with a double major in music and mathematics and a Rhodes scholarship, and fourth became one of the first female cadets to graduate from The Citadel.nytimes They rarely receive notice in newspapers or find their way into history books, but many unheralded heroes of the century have sacrificed much, even risked their lives, to improve the world. cnn |
