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Servicemembers honored at annual USO-Metro gala

March 27th, 2009
The United Services Organization honored military heroes with a black-tie gala at the Ritz-Carlton March 25 here. 

The Metropolitan Washington Annual Awards Dinner recognized 36 of the nation's 98 living Medal of Honor recipients and other battlefield heroes from each branch of service, including combat controller Staff Sgt. Zachary Rhyner from Pope Air Force Base, N.C, the most recent Air Force Cross recipient. 

Of the honorees in attendance, USO-Metro Chairman Michael Singer said, "We bask in the glow of them ... we bring home where home is far away, every single day because that's where they are." 
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