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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
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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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