30 Powerful Photos Of Service People
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11/11/2014
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This Veteran's Day, let us give thanks to the brave men and women of the armed forces, and everyone who risks their lives to protect ours.
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1. A Thai soldier carries a frail Buddhist monk to safety during flooding.
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2. A German soldier applies a dressing to a wounded Russian civilian.
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3. A fire fighter pulls a young boy from a fire.
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4. U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett holds a child after she was separated from her family during a fire fight.
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5. A police officer helps people as they evacuate the area around the World Trade Center.
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6. A Fire fighter battles the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, California.
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7. A riot officer accepts a heart-shaped balloon from a young boy in Bucharest, Romania.
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8. Captain Donald Spindler pulls 6 year-old Aaliyah Frazier from a fire in Indiana.
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9. A medic bandages the injured foot of a child while his younger brother looks on.
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10. A grateful woman is incredibly relieved to have her cat back.
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11. Figo, a Kentucky police dog, pays his last respects to his human partner, Officer Jason Ellis, who was killed in the line of duty.
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12. A 4-month-old baby girl is rescued from the rubble by military personnel four days after the Japanese tsunami.
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13. The tattoo of wounded soldier Kyle Hockenberry becomes reality.
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14. Firefighters line the streets during the funeral of seven year-old Daniel Barden, who dreamed of joining their ranks but whose life was cut short at Sandy Hook.
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15. A fire fighter pulls a survivor from a house fire and into the arms of his owners.
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16. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
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17. Joseph Dwyer carries an injured boy away from fire and to safety.
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18. New York fire fighters, many of whom lost friends in the 911 attacks, learn of Osama bin Laden's death.
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19. Petty Officer Ryan Lee and Valdo snuggle on a hospital floor after a lucky escape.
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20. A Portuguese soldier lays two canine comrades to rest.
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21. A US Medic attempts to save the life of a wounded comrade.
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22. A fireman rescues a koala during Australian bush fires.
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23. A Canadian soldier during the last ceremony after troops ended their combat mission.
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24. A nurse comforts an injured dog as it lays devastated in the aftermath of a tornado.
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25. Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor
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26. A seven year old boy is pulled from the ruins left by the Haiti earthquake by American fire fighters and into the arms of his mother.
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27. Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. who lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq.
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28. Rescue workers carry a child who was rescued from the rubble at the site of a collapsed residential building in Mumbai.
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29. Fire fighters pull a mother and daughter from a car wreck dangling over a bridge.
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30. A police officer stops traffic, in the rain, to save a wounded dog.
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