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The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.

This medal is for the men who went down that day. On Medal of Honor, stories of

courage, you'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery.

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On this episode of News World, the lives of these men are essential to understand the

American form of government and our ideals of liberty.

The founding fathers all played key roles in securing American independence from

Great Britain and in the creation of the government

of the United States of America.

And now, the life of Alexander Hamilton.

Hamilton, in a sense, has had a new burst of fame, but he's somebody who really never should have disappeared.

First of all, he was extraordinarily bright.

Hamilton may have been, in sheer IQ, the smartest of all the founding fathers.

He was just deeply admired by Washington.

He was invaluable to Washington as a staff officer.

He was endlessly competent.

And I think that's a key part of this, is that Hamilton was a person who was very ambitious,

but he was also a person who worked very

hard and who applied his considerable intelligence to whatever job he had.

Now, he actually had not gotten to the U.S. very much before the revolution began.

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