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Russell Downes reflects

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By Linda Thomas Hometown Weekly Correspondent He was a young soldier, scared to death and unsure he’d get out alive. “When you see somebody shot beside you and he goes down, you try to help him — but he winds up dying,” Russell Earle Downes said of his time as a hospital corpsman during the Korean...
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