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Strac Trooper
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Associated Press
July 9, 2004
| | FORT COLLINS, Colorado - A ninth-grader's history project helped her grandfather get two Silver Stars and four other medals nearly 60 years after he left the Navy. Donald Galbraith, 78, got the medals in a surprise ceremony at his daughter's home on July 4, America's Independence Day. He served on the USS Indiana in the South Pacific in World War II but left the service in 1946 without applying for his medals. His granddaughter, Mariah Foster, now 16, learned he didn't get the decorations a year and a half ago when she was in ninth grade and began documenting his life for a junior high school project. Galbraith's daughter, Carrie Mass, decided to track the medals down. It took 18 months, but she received them three weeks before Independence Day. Mass quickly arranged a ceremony and asked her father to come to her house for Independence Day, telling him it was for a family portrait. Nearly 70 friends, family members and Navy officials came. Cmdr. David Copp of Denver presented Galbraith with the Silver Stars, World War II Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and Navy Occupation Service Medal. |
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"The sergeant is the Army." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Keep the Peace and Be of Good Behavior
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He didn't recieve either of his TWO Silver Stars and goes "oh well". Aside from blowing my freaking mind it just goes to show that (to steal a phrase) "Uncommon Valor Was a Common Virtue" AIRBORNE!
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