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By Ben Botkin / The Bulletin
October 26, 2012
Jonathan West, a World War II veteran who was one of the first black Americans to serve in the Marines, died Wednesday in Bend, according to his daughter, Robin Gail Sims.
West died less than two months after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal on Aug. 30 at Stone Lodge retirement home in....