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Medal of Honor recipient Army SSG Ryan Pitts (11 Photos)

Medal of Honor recipient Army SSG Ryan Pitts (11 Photos)

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Medal of Honor recipient Army SSG Ryan Pitts (11 Photos)

Posted: 22 Jul 2014 12:29 PM PDT

Years from now, his son will want to know. Perhaps the question will arise after a grade school friend repeats something a parent said. Or maybe young Lucas Pitts will see the medal and wonder what it's for. If former Staff Sgt. Ryan Pitts decides the boy, who's now just a year old, is ready to hear the story, he'll sit him down and tell about one bloody morning in eastern Afghanistan. That day, July 13, 2008, hundreds of Taliban fighters launched a dawn attack on outnumbered U.S. soldiers and Afghan government troops on an isolated outpost in the Kunar province. Nine Americans died fighting off the attack, and 27 more were wounded. Pitts, meanwhile, fought his way into an exclusive fraternity of U.S. troops awarded the nation's top honor for combat valor. Pitts, 28, of Nashua, N.H., receives the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama on Monday in a White House ceremony. But in the story the former paratrooper plans to tell his son, he's not the action hero whose daring deeds elevated him above the men he fought alongside.

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