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<div align=center><STRONG><FONT size=3>Medal of Honor winner killed in bike crash</FONT></STRONG></div>
<div align=center><FONT size=3>We now have only 97 living recipients</FONT></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>A Milton man who received the Medal of </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>Honor for his service in Vietnam died after a motorcycle</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>crash as he was leaving a veterans’ club Sunday.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>Leonard “Len” Keller, 62, died at Sacred Heart Hospital </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>in Pensacola following a crash outside the Fleet Reserve</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>Association in Milton Sunday afternoon.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>Keller received the Medal of Honor in 1</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>968 in a White House ceremony with President Lyndon Johnson</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty,”</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>according to his medal citation.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>The medal recognized an event in 1967 in Vietnam in which </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>Keller, an Army sergeant, and a fellow soldier came under</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>fire from multiple sources.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>“Sgt. Keller quickly moved to a position where he could </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>fire at a bunker from which automatic fire was received,</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>killing one Viet Cong who attempted to escape,” according </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>to the citation. He went on to kill several attacking</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>enemies.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>“Leaping to the top of a dike, he and a comrade charged </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>the enemy bunkers, dangerously exposing themselves to the</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>enemy fire,” according to the citation. “His acts were </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>in keeping with the highest traditions of the military</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>service and reflect great credit upon himself and the U.S. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>Army.”</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest military </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>honor. It is awarded by Congress for risk of life in combat</FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: windowtext"><FONT size=3>beyond the call of duty.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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