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Maryland veteran awarded POW medal, ending 18-year battle with Army

Ron Dolecki, a 76-year-old Army veteran from Huntingtown, Md., was once taken prisoner and held captive by Eritrean rebels in the Sahara desert, but for years the Army refused to award him the POW medal. The Secretary of the Army just reversed that decision, granting him the recognition and ending a nearly 20-year bureaucratic battle. ....

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Maryland Veteran Awarded POW Medal, Ending 18-Year Battle with Army

Ron Dolecki, 76, was part of a U.S. Army team carrying out a classified mapping mission in Ethiopia in 1965. ....

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Maryland veteran awarded POW Medal, ending 18-year battle with Army

Ron Dolecki, a 76-year-old Army veteran from Maryland, was imprisoned by Eritrean rebels in the 1960s, but for years the Army refused to award him the POW Medal. The Secretary of the Army just reversed that decision. ....

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