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For two winners of the Medal of Honor, latter-day fortune brought a nose dive and a rebound. A one-man army of the Korean war, Marine Sergeant Alfred L. McLaughlin, credited with killing some 150 enemy soldiers at Bunker Hill, was whittled down to the rank of private, fined $120 and given a three-month stretch at hard labor. Better able to hold a hard position than hard liquor, Honorman McLaughlin had drunkenly gotten into an armed brawl with the wrong enemy, his commanding officer, Major...
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