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	<title>No Surrender!</title>
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	<description>To promote the American tradition of "No Surrender"</description>
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		<title>Team USA at the Olympics!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past few weeks, the world has gathered to watch top athletes from around the globe compete in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Athletes from Team USA, who have been training their entire lives to take the stage to represent our country, have been doing an awesome job representing us.
Currently, Team USA has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1781: The Battle of Yorktown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1781: The Battle of Yorktown was the climax of the American Revolutionary War
Throughout American history the idea of &#8220;never surrender,&#8221; even under seemingly insurmountable odds, became ingrained in our national consciousness. It was borne on the battlefield most certainly, and carried forward in our wars. This idea was based partly on the idea that truth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender/1781-the-battle-of-yorktown.html</link>
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		<title>Randall Shughart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born: August 13, 1958
Lincoln, Nebraska
War: Somalia
Rank: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army
(Sniper Team Member)
Location of action: Mogadishu, Somalia
Date of action: October 3, 1993
Medal received from: President Bill Clinton, May 1994 (posthumously)

Official Citation:
Sergeant First Class Shughart, United States Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on 3 October 1993, while serving as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/randall-shughart.html</link>
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		<title>How the Shepherd Saved the SEAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine reports on the Afghan shepherd that rescued the lone surviving US Navy SEAL from Operation Redwing:
A crackle in the brush. That&#8217;s the sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month. When he looked up, he saw an American commando, his legs and shoulder bloodied. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/how-the-shepherd-saved-the-seal.html</link>
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		<title>Nick Rowe FIVE YEARS TO FREEDOM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 29, 1963, Capt. &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Versace, 1Lt. &#8220;Nick&#8221; Rowe, and Sgt. Daniel Pitzer were accompanying a Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) company on an operation along a canal. The team left the camp at Tan Phu for the village of Le Coeur to roust a small enemy unit that was establishing a command post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/nick-rowe-five-years-to-freedom.html</link>
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		<title>Freed by WWII soldiers from Mauthausen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medal of Honor Winner: Corporal Tibor &#8220;Ted&#8221; Rubin
Meet Tibor &#8220;Ted&#8221; Rubin, survivor of the Nazi death camps, and an American hero:
Nazi guards made sure Rubin understood despair at the age of 13. A Hungarian Jew, he was forced into the Mauthausen Concentration Camp toward the end of World War II. But  Rubin defied odds: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/freed-by-wwii-soldiers-from-mauthausen.html</link>
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		<title>JACK TAYLOR OSS â€“ Concentration Camp Survivor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s First Sea, Air, Land Commando-
Lieutenant Jack Taylor, USNR
Citation for the Navy Cross:
&#8220;For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States; as chief of the Maritime Unit, Office of Strategic Services Detachment, United States Armed Forces, in the Middle East, from September 1943 to March 1944, Lieutenant Jack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/jack-taylor-oss-%e2%80%93-concentration-camp-survivor.html</link>
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		<title>VERNON BAKER MOH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.armytimes.com/
Medal of Honor winner struggles for medical benefits
By Nicholas K. Geranios
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. â€” Vernon Baker had to wait more than 50 years to receive his Medal of Honor because of racism. Now the World War II veteran is battling the U.S. government for medical care for a brain tumor.
With the help of Idaho politicians, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/vernon-baker-moh.html</link>
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		<title>Sgt. James E. Wright, Green Belt Instructor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In My Own Words
Sgt. James E. Wright, Green Belt Instructor, Marine Martial Arts Center of Excellence
http://www.navyleague.org/
I was an assistant team leader with Team 1, 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. It was April 7, 2004, and we were on a movement in Al Anbar province, going through a neighborhood that we knew was unfriendly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialforces.com/blog/no-surrender-stories/sgt-james-e-wright-green-belt-instructor.html</link>
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		<title>Peter Ortiz USMC /OSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes NS comes in the form of an Adventurerâ€™s spirit &#8212; a spirit nonetheless of a character that is all American even though its course of action follows a &#8220;special course of &#8220;Force.&#8221;
Marines have always considered themselves elite and a special force. During World War II that no-surrender character was embodied well in a young [...]]]></description>
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