'Local Hero' Tackles Martinsville Mission

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NASCAR driver Kevin Conway said it takes some guts to zoom around racetracks at tremendous speeds, but he noted that the bravest man hanging around the cars Sunday at the Martinsville Speedway was Rocky Mount's Brian Harrison.

Harrison, 26, was in the pit area of Conway's ExtenZe racing team as its honorary crew chief, a distinction he won for heroic combat action while his Army National Guard unit was in Iraq in February 2007, when neither blood (his own) nor bullets (insurgents') stopped him from protecting his buddies.

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'Local Hero' Tackles Martinsville Mission

Conway, who has been inviting people such as Harrison to hang out with him and his pit crew all season as part of the "ExtenZe Loc...

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