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Wednesday, June 7, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 31 VETERAN: Miller earned major award from WWP Continued from page 1 work on behalf of his fellow veterans in anonymity, his service both during and after the Vietnam War merited pub- lic acclaim and recognition. He never stopped supporting his fellow veterans, and took the time to visit wounded sol- diers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, hoping these young men and women would draw strength from his expe- riences in adjusting to and living with a combat-related disability. Lang epitomized what it meant to be a wounded ser- vice member, broken in body but not in spirit. Miller, who was severely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq and spent over three years in hospital recovering, founded the highly success- ful Sisters-based nonprofit Warfighter Outfitters, whose mission is to take disabled veterans out hunting, fish- ing, and on engagement trips where they help make infra- structure improvements in places such as Yellowstone National Park, or Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Warfighter Outfitters served more than 2,000 dis- abled veterans last year, and has been instrumental in help- ing veterans adjust and adapt to both physical and psycho- logical injuries sustained in combat. At the black-tie event, which was attended by numerous celebrities, profes- sional athletes, and hundreds of veterans and their fami- lies, Miller was presented the award by Brian Kilmeade of Fox News, and retired Lieutenant General Michael Linnington, CEO of the Wounded Warrior Project. In his remarks, Kilmeade 170 W. 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