Others claimed he was their grandfather, or George Washington or some other Revolutionary War hero.
He'd been an acclaimed explorer, a nuclear physicist and a war hero, or so he said.
He is a decorated war hero who earned two purple hearts for his heroism in Vietnam.
The revolutionary war hero and outstanding silversmith made the Sons of Liberty silver bowl in the case.
In 1947 she married a handsome naval war hero in a "fairy tale" royal wedding shown world-wide on television.
Audie Murphy was more than just a war hero, this young man argued.
Mr McCain is a war hero who endured years of torture in Vietnam.
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McCain as a war hero has always been central to his political identity and was often touted by his campaign.
But being a war hero does not prevent you being depicted as an elitist lefty, as George McGovern discovered in 1972.
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But being a war hero wasn't enough for the local health board.
Rollins also said that despite McCain's war hero status, history has shown veterans who run for president don't always capture the veteran vote.
While prosecutors say he killed dozens of Serb civilians during Croatia's 1991 war of independence, Norac's supporters regard him as a war hero.
Mr Kerry wanted to run as a war hero who understood how best to defuse the various conflicts Mr Bush had rushed into.
My favorite and most inspiring carrier is war hero Ben Parkinson, who carried the Olympic torch after learning to walk again on artificial limbs.
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The camp, named after an Ottoman war hero, was first established in 1989 to receive some of the 300, 000 Bulgarian Turks who fled the Zhivkov regime.
The right, knowing that Bush would have trouble winning on his own record, did a magnificent job at turning a war hero into a flip-flopping fraud.
There are several stories about him that nobody knows or didn't know until I wrote the book, which is saying he was something of a war hero.
It's McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee known as much for his status as a Vietnam War hero as he is for his independent streak and willingness to buck party lines.
First, reintroduce the public to war hero John McCain.
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On the one hand, Kerry's war hero biography -- Yale graduate who goes on to win three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star -- is a political consultant's dream.
The Obama camp is busy branding him as a Dole a great man and a war hero, to be sure, but not the right person to lead the country into a bright new tomorrow.
The bad memories of the hero (Denzel Washington), who suspects that the war hero is a fake, are accompanied by the conventional horror-film frights of painted faces, spooky doctors, and smoky, distorted cinematography.
That's exactly how the U.S. did it in 1991 and 1992 when it faced a credit crunch so severe that Gulf War hero George Bush lost the 1992 election to an unknown Bill Clinton.
Instead, their priority was getting veteran writers who could bring specific expertise to their story, about a CIA agent struggling to convince incredulous colleagues that a U.S. war hero is in fact a terrorist in waiting.
In 2008, while Barack Obama was accumulating a 51 percent margin of victory in the state over war hero John McCain, those same counties once again awarded the Republican candidate over 70 percent of their votes.
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As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle.
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Many invoke the cautionary tale of Mr Kerry, the Democratic nominee in 2004, who found his supposed strength as a war hero turned into a liability by ads suggesting he had lied about his conduct in Vietnam.
Mr Obama would be the first to admit that it took a certain audacity for a former community organiser to run against an authentic Republican war hero in 2008, when America was at war on two fronts.
Walsh went so far as to suggest Duckworth relied to heavily on her story as a war hero and attempted to tie her to now imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who appointed her to a top Illinois Veteran Affairs post.
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