Grout receives French citation

  • Dick Grout, center, was awarded France’s highest distinction Tuesday — the French Legion of Honor. The 103-year-old Grout fought on the shores of Normandy on D-Day. The medal is shown left. Enterprise photos by Amy Hubbell
    Dick Grout, center, was awarded France’s highest distinction Tuesday — the French Legion of Honor. The 103-year-old Grout fought on the shores of Normandy on D-Day. The medal is shown left. Enterprise photos by Amy Hubbell
  • Dick Grout is one of fewer than 120,000 World War II veterans now living. Courtesy photo
    Dick Grout is one of fewer than 120,000 World War II veterans now living. Courtesy photo
Dick Grout is hero among us. Grout, a longtime county resident now living in Traverse City, was awarded France’s highest distinction Tuesday — the French Legion of Honor. The honor comes nearly 80 years after he and thousands of other Allied servicemen stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and soon after pried France from the clutches of Hitler’s Third Reich. Grout’s son-in-law, François…

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