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By James Alder, About.com Guide to Football

Iron Mike Offers His Thanks

Sunday August 17, 2003
According to the Las Vegas Sun, Mike Ditka was having dinner with friends at the MGM Grand when he struck up a conversation with four soldiers dining in the same restaurant. When Ditka learned they had recently returned from the war in Iraq, he gave each of them a $1,000 chip and bought their dinner.

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