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Medal Winner Gets HeadstoneA U. S. government headstone was placed Tuesday on the grave of a 1918 .Medal of Honor winner who was buried three years ago in 3ristol.On hand (or the ceremony at 2 p.m. in G ten wood Cemetery was Congressman James K. Quillen who launched a successful Congressional battle to obtain the headstone for Calvin John Ward who won the Medal of Honor in 1918.Ward was 3 native of Morristown but bad lived most of his life ir. Rrislol. tinder the federal law o! l*M only ‘ Medal clt; Honor winner* who had received honorabledischarges were eligible to receive a government burial marker.Quillen Introduced legislation that was passed into law last month making all Medal ol Honor winners eligible for a marker regardless of their slate of discharge. Ward had been dishonorably dischargedWard look his own life in I9CT at the age of 68. Ho woe his honor for valorous acllsn near Esltecs, Franco in 1918 and also received the French Croix do Guerre, Cioss, as well os citations trom Italy and Moniennegro.
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Kingsport News
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Wed, Oct 28, 1970
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