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David Bailey, a Capitol Police officer who was injured responding to an attack on a Republican baseball practice, threw out the first pitch at the annual Congressional Baseball Game.
Brian Murphy has been through the kind of thing you see in movies and say to yourself, 'that is so ridiculous. No one could ever survive that in real life.'
When President Barack Obama awarded Los Angeles Police Officer Donald Thompson the Medal of Valor in May, the 6-foot-1 commander in chief had to stand on his tiptoes to hang the medal around the neck of the 6-foot-7 hero.
It was such a quiet Monday afternoon on the streets of this Oklahoma City suburb that David Huff was thinking of sneaking in some sunset fishing before heading home.
Sgt. Robert Wilson III has been credited with saving the lives of several people, while sacrificing his own, when he got caught in the middle of a robbery. Now, he's been rewarded posthumously with the Medal of Valor.
Boston Police officer Luis Lopez has no fire training. But when he saw a raging house fire, his instincts took over, and he rushed into the three-story home.