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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 16 > ‘Tragic yet remarkable story of courage’

‘Tragic yet remarkable story of courage’

Green Beret’s Astoria family handed award for his heroism

By Kevin Maurer / The Bulletin
July 16, 2009

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — In the final minutes of Sgt. James Treber’s life, with frigid water filling his armored truck, the 24-year-old freed a pinned comrade and shoved the man into the small air pocket he’d been using to breathe.

Treber didn’t make it out of....

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