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Woody Williams

By Shelley Irwin
Published July 6, 2022 at 12:09 PM EDT
Woody Williams assists with the coin toss before Super Bowl 52 in February 2018 in Minneapolis. Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died Wednesday at 98, at the Veterans Affairs medical center bearing his name in Huntington, W.Va.
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Woody Williams assists with the coin toss before Super Bowl 52 in February 2018 in Minneapolis. Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died Wednesday at 98, at the Veterans Affairs medical center bearing his name in Huntington, W.Va.

The last Medal of Honor recipient from WWII to die, Woody Williams, will be given the honor to lie in the Rotunda in the US Capital in the next few weeks. Military Historian Dr. Bryan Riggs, author of Flamethrower, talks about this Marine Corps legend.
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Shelley Irwin
Shelley Irwin is the host and producer for The Shelley Irwin Show, a news magazine talk-show format on the local NPR affiliate Monday through Friday. The show, broadcast at 9 a.m., features a wide variety of local and national news makers, plus special features.
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