 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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MEDAL CLOSES BOOK ON TALE OF A HEROIC LAST ACT.(News)(Column)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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November 12, 2001| Author:
Hatcher, Candy
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Byline: CANDY HATCHER P-I Columnist
A MEDAL FOR HEROISM, and the paperwork behind it, are on their way to Vancouver, B.C., a gift from strangers in Carbonado and Enumclaw and Washington, D.C., and Arizona.
This octagonal piece of bronze, the Navy's highest non-combat award, means a great deal to a few people around here, people who slogged through bureaucracy and birth records and obituaries, searching for relatives of a brave seaman who died 57 years ago. ...
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