"I've decided that we should make an honorable retreat as going ahead with our attack now would not guarantee victory, " he said, tears welling in his eyes.

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"We have neighbors, family, friends who are gay people, " Carol Oldham explains, tears welling up in her eyes.

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As Trask, 59, describes it, all his love of the American West came welling up in him, mixed with his wish to be independent, to be his own boss, like the cowboys of old.

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But, although he remembers nothing of the last decade he is back playing football and in 2009 was signed for Welling United.

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"It still hasn't sunk in, " said Carreiro's daughter Manuela, her eyes welling with tears.

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"I put them in harm's way, " she said, her eyes welling with tears.

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