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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:45:00

american service members who fought with david in iraq. including 12 who were with david on that horrible and dangerous november night. please stand. [ applause ] >> did he do a good job? you know, if not, it's not too late. thank you very much for being

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:46:00

here. we appreciate it, thank you very much. also with us are five families of david's brothers in arms who made the supreme sacrifice. to the gold star families of sean sims, steven faulken burg, scott lawson, j.c. madison and michael carlson, our entire nation expresses our love, loyalty and ever lasting gratitude. please stand. thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. thank you.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:47:00

david often tells young people americans don't want to fight. but if someone picks a fight with us, we will always win, because we don't fight for awards or recognition, we fight for love of our country. our home, our family and our unit. and that's stronger than anything the enemy has. thank you, and thank you to his family very much. great family david, thank you. david exemplifies the same warrior ethos they gave his grandfather, and all the heroes of normandy, the strength to defeat evil exactly 75 years ago, i hear his grandfather joseph is now 99 years old, and today he's watching this ceremony at his home in jamestown, new york. a lot of people are watching, david. america is blessed with the heroes and great people like staff sergeant bell avia defends

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:37:00

demonstrated exceptional courage to protect his men and defend our nation. will you please join me in welcoming staff target david alavia. dav david. [ applause ] david is the first living recipient to earn the congressional medal of honor for his bravery in the iraq war. and we're honored to have with us distinguished leaders of our

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:39:00

tom reid, thank you. i see you over there, tom. thank you very much. >> joining david for this special ceremony, for his wife deanna and three children. evan aidan and vivian, along with his mother marilyn and his brothers daniel and rand, i want to thank you all for being here. special day for you and all of us for the nation, actually. david's father william passed away in 2017, and though he's no longer with us, we know that today he must be one of those proud dads. he's looking down upon us from heaven and he's very proud of his son and his son's family, wbr-id="wbr23870"/> i have to say that, thank you, david. finally, we're gratified to be joined by eight previous medal of honor recipients, i have to tell you, i got to know just

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:44:00

chance to launch that grenade. next, two more insurgents came out and fired at david. then a third asail an the burst out of a wardrobe, wearing a wardrobe and opened fire. david shot and wounded the man, but he escaped up the stairs, racing after him, david engaged in hand to hand combat and killed him too. bleeding and badly wounded, david defeated the forces who attacked his unit and would have killed them all had it not been for the bravery of david. just then yet another combatant jumped down from the third story roof and attacked. david shot him and the assailant fell off the balcony. he killed four insurgents and seriously wounded the fifth. saving his soldiers and facing down the enemies of civilization. here with us today are 32

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:48:00

our great american flag. david, today we honor your extraordinary courage, we salute yourselfless courage. we're doing better today than we've ever done. our country is stronger now. we're doing better economically than ever before. we're setting records and you fought for something that's really good, and we appreciate it, david, really appreciate it. thank you. >> i'm pleased to ask the military aid to come forward while i present the corni congressional medal of honor to staff sergeant david bell avia. please.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:40:00

about all of them, you are with us, you inspire us. you are truly brave, great people. thank you much for being here. [ applause ] brave people. david grew up in western new york, the youngest of four children, as a boy he would listen to stories from his grandfather. a world war ii veteran and hero in his own right who earned a bronze star in the normandy campaign. i just came back from normandy, that was something. his grandfather's stories were always vivid with a source of pride and they were delivered very beautifully. there was a nobility and purpose in the infantry. david saw that at a young age. i wanted to be part of this

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:38:00

military. i want to recognize acting deputy secretary of defense david norquist. david, thank you very much. and congratulations. acting secretary of the army ryan mcarthur. come here, ryan, let me just say hello to you. just happened yesterday, so i have to figure out -- congratulations. vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff paul sullivan. army chief of staff general mark milley. hi, mark. and sergeant major of the army daniel daily. thank you, daniel very wbr id="wbr23270"/> much. thanks as well to members of congress who join us, representative liz cheney, thanks, liz. chris collins. thanks, chris. dan crenshaw. /b>

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190625:19:41:00

noble adventure. is that right? is that a pretty good quote, would you say? better say yes otherwise i have a problem. in 1999 david followed the example of his grandfather in joining the united states army infantry. several months after the september 11th attack on our nation, david deployed saying good-bye to his wife and his son. he served in germany, kosovo and then iraq. in 2004 after a year of intense enemy bad, david led his squad into battle to liberate the city of fallujah, an anti-iraq forces. that was a tough place. this operation was the bloodiest battle of the iraq war. for three days straight, david and his men kicked down doors, searched houses and destroyed enemy weapons. never knowing where they would find a terrorist lurking next. and there were plenty of them.

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