Word: medals
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Gilchrest's quixotic career includes heroic service in Vietnam--he received a Navy Commendation Medal--17 years teaching high school, and work as a forest ranger and barn builder. Noted for his fiscal conservatism, he has shown independence from the G.O.P. by backing the assault-weapons...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "On behalf of my parents, who were immigrants, on behalf of the over 1 million...legal immigrants who served this country in time of war and the two Medal of Honor winners [who were] legal immigrants...I say they do not come here to take, they come to give...
...When I received the gold medal, I was the captain and had to get up on the podium," he says. "It's hard to explain, but when I looked down I was shaking. My legs were going. I kind of sneaked a look down to see if my pants were shaking, but they weren't so I figured I was alright...
However, long before Kirrane was making ice at Bright, he was starring on it as an Olympic defensemen. Not only did he play in 1948, he won a gold medal as the team captain...
...Cutting Edge" is about a figure skater and an ex-hockey player who are both jerks yet team up to win the Olympic medal in team figure skating. The plot could have been improved by having her play hockey instead of him doing a lutz, but Philpott still watched it when it was on earlier this week...