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[quote]SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As Army soldier Charles Bledsoe was being loaded onto a Jeep with a gunshot wound to the abdomen nearly 70 years ago, he heard someone say, "Give him his last rites."
"I looked around to see who that was getting the last rites,"
Bledsoe recalled. "I went, 'The hell.' It was me."
Bledsoe recovered, but the April 19, 1945, wound was never recorded on his discharge papers so he hadn't received a Purple Heart. The oversight was corrected Wednesday, as U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., presented the 88-year-old World War II veteran with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star during a ceremony at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Sioux Falls.
"Thank you, senator, for getting it right," said Bledsoe, who moved to Sioux Falls after the war. "It's the first time it's ever been right."[/quote]
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better late than never
[quote] As Army soldier Charles Bledsoe was being loaded onto a Jeep with a gunshot wound to the abdomen nearly 70 years ago, he heard someone say, "Give him his last rites."
"I looked around to see who that was getting the last rites,"
Bledsoe recalled. "I went, 'The hell.' It was me."[/quote]
It could have been worse. the other guy might have said "Nutshot? Stick a couple of marbles in his sack and he'll never know...hey, is he awake?"
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;40496896]It could have been worse. the other guy might have said "Nutshot? Stick a couple of marbles in his sack and he'll never know...hey, is he awake?"[/QUOTE]
"I call his boots!"
[editline]2nd May 2013[/editline]
Well at least he finally got the medal
