City to mark the 'second death' of seven-time Purple Heart recipient Walter B. Dixon

[The Patriot]

City to mark the 'second death' of seven-time Purple Heart recipient Walter B. Dixon

02-08-2020 09:51 AM

In 1951, Walter B. Dixon's family received the news that the 22-year-old had been killed in action in Korea. President Harry Truman sent a letter of condolence, and his wife eventually remarried. But there was just one catch: Dixon wasn't actually dead, he was a prisoner of war.


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