Gedeon A. LaCroix, proud Marine veteran who fought at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, dies at 99

ARLINGTON — There aren’t many men still around who can offer a first-hand account of what it was like to see the American flag raised at Mount Suribachi during the

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