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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 30 > WWII veteran dies just hours after the Army apologizes

WWII veteran dies just hours after the Army apologizes

By William Yardley / The Bulletin
July 30, 2008

SEATTLE — Samuel Snow died refusing to cash the Army’s check, but not before receiving a long-awaited apology.

Snow, a retired janitor who was a soldier in World War II, died early Sunday, 64 years after he was wrongly convicted in connection with the death of a prisoner of....

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