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Widow of Eddie Slovik Seeks Dignity and Pension
Antoinette Slovik, widow of Pvt. Eddie Slovik the only American sentenced to death for desertion since the Civil War, seeks $68,000 life insurance and back pay. She says she was shunned, spit on, and denied a death certificate and pension, while petitioning the Army Board for Correction of Military Records.
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