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amny.com on 2021-06-20 15:00

Seven decades later, a 99-year-old Brooklyn WWII vet gets his Purple Heart

Osceala “Ossie” Fletcher's blood ran red like the rest of the American casualties on the beaches of Normandy nearly 80 years ago — but the color of ...

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