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Kiski Township’s Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker receives military’s second-highest honor

Chuck Biedka
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Freddie Jackson, mother of Army Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker, receives the Distinguished Service Cross on behalf of her son on Friday, April 5, 2019, presented by Lt. Gen. Laura J. Richardson at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood.
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The dog tags of Army Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker are on display at the at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland on Friday, April 5, 2019.
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During a press conference at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland, Army Colonel Andrew Hilmes talks about the incredible task and service that Sgt. Stevon Booker carried out on the day he was mortally wounded April 5, 2003 near Baghdad, Iraq.
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A photograph of Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker with the Distinguished Service Cross is placed on display at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland before the presentation of the award that was giving to his mother, Freddie Jackson, on Friday, April 5, 2019.
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Freddie Jackson, mother of Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker, speaks about her son’s character during a press conference before a formal presentation of the Distinguished Service Cross at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland on Friday, April 5, 2019.

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