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Speaking after the inquest in Devon, his mother said her son had "died a hero".
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For decades, they never knew their Les had died a hero.
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In my eyes he died a hero.
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Defence Secretary Liam Fox said Marine Wright was "a hero who died for his country".
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He was described by Craig Mackey, the Chief Constable of Cumbria Police, as "a hero who died saving lives".
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Michael's friends mourned him as a smart, hardworking, bighearted man who, had he died a little sooner or a little later, might have been remembered as a hero.
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He also paid tribute to the Turkish guard who was killed, calling him a "Turkish hero" who died while defending U.S. and Turkish staff.
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Nixon and was a hero to many baby boomers, died on Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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Condon presents him as a genuine hero who drove himself into semi-madness and exhaustion, a sacrificial figure who died for our pleasure.
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Meanwhile, Algerian authorities hailed as a hero the only one of their compatriots among the hostages who died in the attack.
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They include Alphonso Morgan, who died of battlefield wounds in February 1916 - described in the Glamorgan Gazette as a hero, and referred to as a "Cefn Cribwr hero" and "Dear Old Phons".
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Thomas Paine - the American and French revolutionary hero and allegedly the first person to write the words "the United States of America", died a penniless drunk in Manhattan.
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