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Brittany Wallace, 17, stands beside her father, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline, who was the lone survivor of a 2007 roadside bomb in Iraq that burned 38 percent of his body and all but destroyed his left arm. Wallace earned the first Operation Homefront Military Child Award in recognition of her support and the help she gave her family under difficult circumstances. Courtesy photo

Brittany Wallace, 17, stands beside her father, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline, who was the lone survivor of a 2007 roadside bomb in Iraq that burned 38 percent of his body and all but destroyed his left arm. Wallace earned the first Operation Homefront Military Child Award in recognition of her support and the help she gave her family under difficult circumstances. Courtesy photo

Brittany Wallace, 17, stands beside her father, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline, who was the lone survivor of a 2007 roadside bomb in Iraq that burned 38 percent of his body and all but destroyed his left arm. Wallace earned the first Operation Homefront Military Child Award in recognition of her support and the help she gave her family under difficult circumstances. Courtesy photo

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