Clint Romesha’s day
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One day you're working in the oil fields of North Dakota. The next day the president of the United States is putting a medal around your neck, telling you you're one of the very few recipients of the nation's highest honor.
For Clint Romesha, the opportunity to become a hero came because someone else made a terrible decision to put an outpost in Afghanistan where it didn't belong.
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