Five-time Purple Heart recipient Randy Howard

Randy Howard, 70, heads the local chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, which counts 200 Purple Heart recipients from Eastern Washington, North Idaho and Montana as its members.

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Mon., July 24, 2017

Randy Howard, a five-time Purple Heart recipient, poses for a photo in his home on Monday, July 24, 2017, in Spokane.

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Randy Howard keeps a Spokane Chronicle clipping in his scrapbook reporting on the first Purple Heart he was awarded out of five, as seen at his home on Monday, July 24, 2017, in Spokane.

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Randy Howard’s five Purple Hearts glisten in a display case at his home on Monday, July 24, 2017, in Spokane.

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Randy Howard, pictured second from right, poses for a photo with three fellow soldiers after a firefight in Vietnam in this 1966 photo photographed on Monday, July 24, 2017, in Spokane.

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