Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates meets with the family of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller, father Phil Miller (right) and mother Maureen Miller (2nd from right), in his office in the Pentagon on Oct. 7, 2010. Miller was posthumously awarded the nation's highest honor for his heroic actions in Afghanistan on January 25, 2008, after displaying immeasurable courage and uncommon valor eventually sacrificing his own life to save the lives of his teammates and 15 Afghanistan National Army soldiers.