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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20151129:05:03:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100921:17:37:00

dick etchberger was a radar technician, hand-picked for a secret assignment. he served at the summit of one of the tallest mountains in laos, more than a mile high. they manned a tiny radar station guiding american pilots in the air campaign against north vietnam. dick and his crew believed that they could help turn the tide of the war, perhaps even end it. that s why north vietnamese forces were determined to shut it down. they sent their planes to straight the americans as they worked. they moved in their troops and eventually dick and his team could look through their binoculars and see that their mountain was surrounded by thousands of north vietnamese troops. dick and his crew at that point had a decision to make. ask to be evacuated or continue

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100921:17:25:00

president obama will present the medal of honor to his son in the east room of the white house today. you re seeing behind me, people getting ready to go into that room. live pictures of the east room. before that ceremony starts, though, we ll find out a little bit more about sergeant etchberger s back groun and his fascinating story. we go to our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve. interesting to hear how he saved three of his comrades and then was on his way to safety add then gets killed. the secret mission they couldn t honor him because the u.s. was afraid to do it. reporter: that s right, don. even his own children didn t know the story until the 1980s. he was in the air force with a radar technician. he was asked to go to laos, and man a radar installation on a mountaintop there. during the vietnam war, laos was neutral. u.s. servicemen were not supposed to be there, so he resigned, as it were, from the air force, donned civilian clothes and he and others went

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100921:17:37:00

being declassified. and that s when they learned the truth, that their father had given his life not in vietnam but in neighboring laos. that s when they began to learn the true measure of their father s heroism. dick etchberger was a radar technician, and he had been hand picked for a secret assignment. with a small team of men he served at the summit of one of the tallest mountains in laos, more than a mile high. literally above the clouds. they manned a tiny radar station guiding american pilots in the air campaign against north vietnam. dick and his crew believed they could help turn the tide of the war. perhaps even end it, and that s why north vietnamese forces were determined to shut it down. they sent their planes to assist american as they work pd then moved in their troops and eventually dick and his teep could look through the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100921:17:37:00

heroism. dick was a radar technician and he had been hand-picked for a secret assignment. with a small team of men he served at the summit of one of the tallest mountains in laos, more than a mile high, literally above the clouds. they manned a tiny radar station guiding american pilots in the air campaign against north vietnam. dick and his crew believed that they could help turn the tide of the war, perhaps even end it and that s why north vietnamese forces were determined to shut it down. they sent their planes to strafe the americans as they worked. they moved in their troops, and eventually dick and his team could look through their binoculars and see that their mountain was surrounded by thousands of north vietnamese troops. dig and his crew at that point had a decision to make. ask to be evacuated or continue the mission for another day.

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