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Slain Patchogue SEAL receives highest honor
Two years after his death in Afghanistan, Lt. Michael P. Murphy, who grew up in Patchogue and joined the elite Navy SEALs after college, has been awarded the nation's highest battlefield award, the Medal of Honor, for a valiant attempt to save the lives of comrades that cost him his own.
"This tells the country what we already know about Michael -- that he was a hero," his father, Daniel...
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