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The following month, as he prepared for his transfer to Green Team, the SEALs from Team TWO presented him with a wooden paddle that had a brass plaque on the blade engraved with "The Ballad of Adam Brown."†
p. 197.9
Leaning against the podium behind the casket was the wooden paddle SEAL Team TWO had presented Adam four years earlier, "The Ballad of Adam Brown" inscribed on its blade.†
p. 295.6
Then, for nearly two hours, Adam's friends, teammates, and spiritual mentors took their places at the podium to share verses from the ballad that was Adam Brown's life.†
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Definitions:

(1) (ballad)
a song (or poem) that tells a story or expresses strong feelings -- typically slow in tempo
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)