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President George W. Bush awards the Purple Heart to U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Samuel Snyder of Parkersburg, W.Va., at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper