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...wish. After long deliberation, the Navy Board approved Medals of Honor for four marines. Three had died while winning theirs; the fourth went to 1st Lieut. Henry Alfred Commuiskey of Hattiesburg, Miss. In the White House rose garden one sunshiny day last week, 24-year-old Lieut. Commiskey, greying veteran of more than seven years in the corps, stood at attention while the President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans in hand-to-hand fighting. Unscathed then...
While his beaming wife and two small children looked on, Lieut. Commiskey inclined his head, and the President stretched up on his toes, snapped a blue, white-starred ribbon around his neck. "Good luck to you," he said, and warmly shook the lieutenant's hand...
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