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PM Headlines — 7.14.10

This January 1998 picture shows Vernon Baker in his rural cabin near St. Maries. Baker, one of the few black soldiers to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat action during World War II, died in on Tuesday July 13, 2010. He was 90. President Bill Clinton presented the nation’s highest military medal to the former U.S. Army Lieutenant in 1997. ” Lasting Valor” author Ken Olsen provides Baker’s obituary information here . (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Barry Kough)

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