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Brittany Wallace, 17, stands beside her father, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline, as they hold the 2009 Military Child Award she received from Texas-based Operation Homefront in Washington, D.C., April 29, 2009. The award honors her for the support she gave her family and father, the lone survivor of a roadside bomb in Iraq that burned 38 percent of his body.

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Brittany Wallace, 17, stands beside her father, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline, as they hold the 2009 Military Child Award she received from Texas-based Operation Homefront in Washington, D.C., April 29, 2009. The award honors her for the support she gave her family and father, the lone survivor of a roadside bomb in Iraq that burned 38 percent of his body.

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