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Civilian employee earns one of DOD's top honors

By Kenneth Fine
Published in News on December 27, 2009 1:50 AM

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News-Argus/MITCH LOEBER

Greg Hare, 2009 Department of Defense Employee with a Disability Award winner, poses with his wife, Jackie, in their Nahunta home. Hare was paralyzed in the early 1980s, when he fell out of a pecan tree.

In the crack of a tree limb, Greg Hare started toward the ground. "I was shaking pecan trees for a friend. We shook the smallest one first and decided to do the biggest one second," he said. "When the...

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