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		</div><p>The three young Americans who thwarted a gunman on a Paris-bound passenger train last month got their moment in the White House – and they dressed for it.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama praised Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler for teamwork, courage and quick-thinking actions that averted “a real calamity”.</p>
<p>He said they were three friends heading for a reunion in Paris when they “ended up engaging a potential catastrophic situation and pinning down someone who clearly was intent on doing a lot of harm to a lot of people, inflicting terror on the French people”.</p>
<p>The three sat attentively on an Oval Office couch and chair as the president praised them as “the very best of America”.</p>
<p>When they were awarded France’s highest honour by President Francois Hollande they showed up for the hastily scheduled ceremony at the ornate Elysee Palace in polo shirts and khakis.</p>
<p>This time, Oregon National Guardsman Mr Skarlatos and Airman 1st Class Stone were in military uniform, and Mr Sadler, a student at Sacramento State University, wore a sports coat and open-collared dress shirt.</p>
<p>“It’s these kinds of young people who make me extraordinarily optimistic about the future,” Mr Obama said.</p>
<p>The three last month subdued a man with ties to radical Islam who boarded the train with a Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol and a box cutter.</p>
<p>British businessman Chris Norman and a French-American have also been praised for their efforts to stop the gunman.</p>
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