Danville soldier earns Bronze Star for heroism in Iraq
By Tracy Moss
Sunday January 7, 2007
Rick Danzl
Illinois National Guard soldier Dann Hufford and his mom, Lisa Cox, sits with some of his medals at her Danville home.
DANVILLE – It wasn't until weeks later, recovering in a U.S. hospital, that Dann Hufford realized his actions in Iraq could be considered heroic.
"I had no idea what I had really done," said the 22-year-old Danville native, whose actions in an ambush in Baghdad, Iraq, saved his own life and those of four other U.S. servicemen.
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