monica brown silver star medic

Monica Lin Brown was born May 24, 1988 Lake Jackson, Texas. She is a medic in the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division became the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the United States' third-highest medal for valor.
Soldier Receives Silver Star

She was presented with the Silver Star by Vice President Dick Cheney in a ceremony on March 21, 2008.
After a roadside bomb detonated near a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province, Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers in April 2007 by running through insurgent gunfire using her body to shield wounded soldiers while mortar rounds fell nearby. Since females are not allowed in direct action (DA) operations, Brown was pulled back to the base at Khost shortly after the incident.
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Marilyn Monroe descendants of philip sherman immigrant New England

Philip Sherman died in Portsmouth in 1687.
He was a direct ancestor of James S. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Janis Joplin, Sir Winston Churchill, Lyndon LaRouche, Conrad Aiken, Alexander Stine, Nicholas Stine and possibly Marilyn Monroe.
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Philip Sherman was born 1610 and died 1687. He was a prominent leader in early Rhode Island and one of its founders. His last name is sometimes spelled Shearman, which reveals the family’s ancient involvement with shearing sheep and the wool industry.
Sherman was born in 1610 in Dedham, Essex, England. He was the son of Samuel and Phillippa (Ward) Sherman.
In 1633 Sherman came to America during the great Puritan migration. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. There he married Sarah Odding, the daughter of George Odding and Margaret (Lang) Odding, in 1634.
Sherman sided with Anne Hutchinson against Governor John Winthrop. In 1637 he was among the followers of Hutchinson who were ordered to give up their arms. He then left with her and her other followers to see Roger Williams in Providence Plantations (now part of the state of Rhode Island). Williams advised them to buy land on Aquidneck Island. There they founded Pocasset, which is now called Portsmouth. Philip Sherman—along with William Coddington, Ann Hutchinson’s husband, and sixteen other men--signed the Portsmouth Compact, a model of constitutional government.
At first the colony we know as Rhode Island was in two separate parts—Providence Plantations and Rhode Island. Philip Sherman was the first Secretary (General Recorder) of the latter part. He held several other political offices during his life. At some point Sherman became a Quaker (member of the Religious Society of Friends).

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barack obama 60 minutes interview

President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.
1/4 Barack and Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes 11/16/08

In his first major post-election interview, with CBS program 60 Minutes, the Democrat signaled no retreat from expansive campaign promises that have pleased US allies, even while adding little detail to how he will fulfill them.
2/4 Barack and Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes 11/16/08

Repairing the stricken US economy will be priority number one, and at least one Republican will fill his cabinet, Obama said in the broad-ranging interview taped Friday and broadcast Sunday.
3/4 Barack and Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes 11/16/08

Following his election triumph of November 4, Obama confirmed that he had met former Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton last week but refused to comment on speculation linking her to the job of secretary of state.
4/4 Barack and Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes 11/16/08

CBS full transcript of Barack Obama interview here.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/16/60minutes/main4607893.shtml