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http:\/\/www.militaryhero.com\/<\/a>
\nopen only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry and are either: 1) active in the United States military or retired from the United States military; or 2) are immediate family members (spouse, parents and step-parents, siblings and step-siblings, and children and step-children) or friend (has a close and personal relationship) of someone that is active in the United States military or retired from the United States military.
\nYou can either nominate yourself and enter the Contest or you can nominate another person and enter them into the Contest. If you nominate another person and enter them into the Contest you must have their written permission to do so. If you are nominating a person they must meet the eligibility requirements set forth above in section 1. A person that is nominating another person does not have to be active in the United States military or retired from the United States military.<\/p>\n

On the Contest Websites you must complete and submit the entry form as instructed (by proving your name, address, email address and phone numbers as well as that of the person you are nominating), upload either: (A) a video that is no longer than 5 minutes (\u201cVideo\u201d); (B) up to one (1) photo and an essay up to five hundred (500) words (\u201cPhoto Essay\u201d) and\/or (C) an essay up to five hundred (500) words (\u201cEssay\u201d) answering the following questions: 1) What \u201cbeing an American Hero\u201d means to the nominee; and 2) My nominee is a true American hero because (Video, Photo Essay and Essay each an \u201cEntry\u201d). Limit one Entry per person during the Contest Entry Period.<\/p>\n

Finalist Selection
\nAll Entries will be judged by a panel of qualified judges (\u201cJudges\u201d) between June 19, 2012 and July 1, 2012 to select five (5) Finalists. The Entries will be judged on the following three criteria:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Entry Composition (40%)
\n\u2022 Entry Sincerity (40%)
\n\u2022 How well the Nominee represents the American Hero (20%)<\/p>\n

Prizes
\n\u2022 One (1) grand prize will be award. The grand prize winner will receive Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000).
\n\u2022 Four (4) finalist prizes will be award. Each finalist prize winner will receive One Thousand Dollars ($1,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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