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Grief leads dad to create bomb-defusing robot
After his 20-year-old son was killed in Iraq, Brian Hart didn't channel his grief quietly. Committed to "preventing the senseless from recurring," he railed against the military on his blog for shortcomings in supplying armor to soldiers. The one-time Republican teamed with liberal Sen. Edward Kennedy to tell Congress that the Pentagon was leaving soldiers ill-equipped. And then Hart went beyond words to fight his cause. He became a defense contractor. FULL STORY
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