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Remembering Korean War vet’s sacrifice on Purple Heart Day

Al Grandis, then a 19-year-old lovesick Marine, earned one of his Purple Heart medals when he stepped on a mine on a mountaintop in east-central Korea known as “Heartbreak Ridge.”