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Silver Star to Springfield hero son to father ceremony
The father of Spec. 5 Wayne C. Simmons received posthumous Silver Star and additional decorations at a ceremony in Springfield Mass. Army officials described Simmons battle actions in Vietnam including firing from a helicopter door to protect evacuees and aiding wounded soldiers before losing his life. Also, a court orders panty raid participants to write essays, while Harvard Radcliffe students staged campus protests and a traffic-disrupting raid on Memorial Drive.
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