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Navy honors SEAL killed in secret mission in VietnamPublished 02/26/08
ANNAPOLIS - They easily could have been forgotten, a handful of stealthy warriors on a secret mission gone bad.
And for more than three decades, the men of Operation Thunderhead, a daring plan to rescue American prisoners of war in North Vietnam, essentially were lost to history. Their bravery and devotion to duty were recorded as a mere "training operation," the truth hidden from all but a handful of shipmates and relatives. In a solemn ceremony Monday, the Navy and nation tried to make amends, posthumously presenting the Bronze Star with valor to the operation's leader, Lt. Spence Dry, a SEAL...
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