And prose and welcome to p p at the wharf. Thank you very much for coming and for braving this evening of storm warnings and wind and rain. These evening are getting to be too frequent here in washington, dc. Last august, john chapman, an air force combat controller, was posthumously awarded the medal of honor for his heroic actions atop a snowcapped mountain in afghanistan in early 2002. A few months of u. S. Forces began fighting na the done. Champman was the first airman to receive the medal of honor since the vietnam war. He had been attached to a navy seal team, assigned to establish a mountaintop observation post in connection with the major u. S. Sweep against al qaeda and Taliban Forces forces and the vn eastern afghanistan. Approaching the site, the helicopter carrying the special operations unit, came under heavy fire, and one of the team members were thrown from the aircraft. Returning to try to rescue their team meat, chapman and the seals batted al qaeda fighters, dug into
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