This file photo shows Sgt. Rafael Peralta. The Navy will posthumously award a Navy Cross to the Marine killed in Iraq, after years of appeals by his family asking the Pentagon to approve the Marine Corps’ nomination for the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for military heroism. The family of Sgt. Peralta will accept the nation’s second-highest award at a ceremony Monday, June 8, 2015, at Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego. (AP Photo/File)
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