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He was shot in the hand, arm and chest but this Sgt. says that ‘doing the right thing is courage’

He was shot in the hand, arm and chest but this Sgt. says that ‘doing the right thing is courage’

Staff Sgt. Melvin Morris fought his way out of the jungles of Vietnam in 1969, yet to him, his idea of courage is from the example his father set.
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