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LA HABRA – Staff Sgt. Aron Hijar will walk the red carpet on Sunday.

The La Habra resident’s U.S. Army platoon was the focus of “Restrepo,” one of five Academy Award nominees in the Documentary Feature category.

Journalists Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington shadowed the movements of the Italy-based platoon in a Taliban-infested section of the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan between May 2007 and July 2008.

The journalists invited Hijar and platoon mate Sgt Misha Pemble-Belkin to attend the Oscars ceremony.

Restrepo was the name of a fallen platoon medic and given to a critical observation point, once a Taliban stronghold, taken over by Hijar’s platoon.

“By the end of deployment, we became so proud of it because of what we had done,” he said of the point.

The 2nd Platoon Battle Company 2-503rd ABCT, about 30 strong, was deployed to the region to provide humanitarian aide to villagers, Hijar said, but it wound up in a fight against the

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Aron Hijar, 28, of La Habra, appears with Sgt. Maj. LaMonta Caldwell, on left, in the documentary "Restrepo", which was co-directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger.

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Aron Hijar is 42 years old, and was born in July of 1982.

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Aron Hijar, 28, of La Habra, appears with Sgt. Maj. LaMonta Caldwell, on left, in the documentary "Restrepo", which was co-directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger.

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Aron Hijar, 28, of La Habra, holds a journal he kept in combat and which he feels helped him cope with the experience.

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He was born October 1, 1950 in Cambridge, Ohio, the son of John Thomas and Marjorie (Bowers) Stevens.

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Aron Hijar, 28, of La Habra, holds a journal he kept in combat and which he feels helped him cope with the experience.

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