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“When duty called, Larry did everything," Joe Biden said of Larry Taylor during Tuesday's Medal of Honor ceremony

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Are you sure how this all happened?
00:13 If you ask anyone here, I'm pretty sure they'd
00:16 say something extraordinary.
00:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:22 I kept trying to radio for the rest of it,
00:26 knowing that he was meant for a world without time
00:30 and ammunition.
00:32 On his last try, he learned that he
00:35 attempted to save the men that were called off
00:39 to rescue the helicopter that was coming.
00:42 Instead, Lieutenant Taylor received a direct order--
00:46 return to base.
00:48 His response was just as direct--
00:51 I'm getting my men out.
00:54 I'm getting my men out.
00:56 Lieutenant Taylor would perform the extraction himself,
00:59 a maneuver never before accomplished in the Cope.
01:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:05 But how, by how, he refused to give up,
01:13 refused to leave a fellow American behind,
01:17 refused to put his own life above the lives of others
01:20 in need.
01:22 When duty called, Larry did everything--
01:26 did everything to answer.
01:28 Because of that, he rewrote the fate of four families
01:33 for generations to come.
01:35 That's valor.
01:37 That's valor.
01:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:41, [APPLAUSE]
02:10 (audience applauding)
02:13 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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