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My dad received the Purple Heart with 2 oak leaf clusters in WW 2. Combat wounded 3x. The last one resulted from a 25% loss of use in his right arm, and rendered him medically unfit for combat. He pulled rear echelon sentry duty for the remaining few months of the war.
His unit, the 30th Infantry Division, discovered the Malmedy massacre in Belgium. I remember him telling me that he was given orders from above to not allow any Waffen SS to surrender, as a result. Luckily he didn't have to follow through--he was wounded for the last time just days later.
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