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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks at the Bronze Star Ceremony for Navy SEAL Lt. Melvin S. Dry in Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Feb. 25, 2008. Dry received the posthumous award for heroic achievement during Operation Thunderhead, a top secret mission to rescue prisoners of war in Vietnam in 1972.

BRONZE STAR CEREMONY

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks at the Bronze Star Ceremony for Navy SEAL Lt. Melvin S. Dry in Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Feb. 25, 2008. Dry received the posthumous award for heroic achievement during Operation Thunderhead, a top secret mission to rescue prisoners of war in Vietnam in 1972.

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