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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nCorporal Tony Harris was a Canadian private on November 23, 2009 when his actions that day earned him the award he’s supposed to receive today in Ottawa from Governor General David Johnston, according to our Aunty Brat<\/a> and the National Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then he heard a \u201cboom.\u201d And then he heard screams. And then he started running. Not away. Toward the blast.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you think about it, in a situation like that, it is kind of stupid running toward an explosion. Or you would think it was, but something just clicked in my mind. I wasn\u2019t thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n He was not wearing a helmet or a flak jacket either. Taliban bombs were falling; an empty shipping container that doubled as accommodation had been blasted to bits.<\/p>\n There was blood everywhere. Smoke. Screams. Six men were wounded. A seventh was dead. In war movies, time slows down. For Private Harris, time became a blur. He was acting, reacting, yanking an American from the burning, twisted metal wreck, tying off his severed femoral artery and lugging him across a 200-metre stretch of open ground before going back to grab another one.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were moving pretty quickly,\u201d Cpl. Harris says, laughing. \u201cI definitely didn\u2019t want to be out there. Nobody did. It is strange. I didn\u2019t really remember a thing about what happened until I was sitting in an armoured vehicle afterwards and having a cigarette.<\/p>\n \u201cI was shaking all over. I had blood on my boots and blood on my pants. One of my buddies brought me a bag of Doritos \u2014 and then I was all good \u2014 but I couldn\u2019t talk about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thanks, Tony, for being there for our troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"