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In the wake of 11 September police, and firefighters, have become national heroes in America.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested last week relocating Camus' remains to the Pantheon, the resting place for French national heroes.
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Today, fighter pilots Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng became instant national heroes.
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Back home, the Prada crew members had become national heroes.
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Gonzalez and Massu's gold rush provoked a surge of pride and patriotism back in Chile, which the pair could only get a true taste of when they returned home as national heroes.
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Another section of the survey focused on national sporting heroes with Liverpool's Steven Gerrard topping that poll.
BBC: Le Tissier voted as sporting hero
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All were welcomed by Hun Sen as heroes of national reconciliation.
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Suribachi, and who became the anonymous subjects of the most famous photograph of the war, three survived the battle to be called home and paraded around the country as salesmen-heroes in a national War Bond tour.
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During National Family Caregivers Month, we recognize and thank the humble heroes who do so much to keep our families and communities strong.
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One of the journalistic heroes of the pre-war period was Washington Post national security reporter Walter Pincus, who reported the lack of evidence for the administration's hype.
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President Obama began the third day of his historic visit to the Middle East with a visit to Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery, where he honored the significant contributions of two Jewish heroes, Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism and former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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