Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller (pictured), a graduate of Wheaton North High School, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in October 2010 for his heroism that led to his death in Afghanistan in 2008. In 2008 Miller was part of a strike team sent to knock out a Taliban-controlled base in the mountains of Afghanistan. In the middle of a firefight, Miller engaged the enemy and made himself a target while ordering his men to find cover. Military records indicate Miller killed 16 of the enemy and wounded another 30 before he succumbed to enemy fire, but not before saving his 22 comrades. Miller was 24. Wheaton residents also honored Miller the week the President presented his family with the Medal of Honor. Family and friends in Wheaton gathered in the SSG Robert J. "Robby" Miller Memorial Plaza at St. Michael's Church.