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Strahan nearly strayed from history

He could have missed all this.

He could have missed being honored in a way that only the greatest of our heroes -- astronauts and war veterans and icons like Nelson Mandela -- are honored in New York City. If things had gone the way Michael Strahan briefly thought he wanted them to go last summer, he would have never joined their ranks.

He would have been watching yesterday's ticker-tape...

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