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Castille, others fight to upgrade a hero's medal

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Ron Castille will never forget his 23d birthday. "It changed my life," he said. On that hot March 16 in 1967, Marine Lt. Castille was dodging automatic gunfire in a dried-up rice paddy at Duc Pho, South Vietnam, when he was shot in the thigh and unable to move.

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