Bob said, he didn’t have them, he misplaced them, he can’t find them. Rawlings and said he’d like to see his medals. “This all came about with Dave Lallier, who happens to be Mr. This tribute, which came as a complete surprise to Rawlings, was the final step in a plan hatched by Lallier to replace Rawlings’ medals after learning they had been lost. 27, 2018 at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Conn., family, friends, and fellow veterans joined together to bear witness as Rawlings was presented with the medals he earned during the Korean War. BRADLEY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Conn.- Lost medals and rarely spoken memories of a war seldom mentioned-this is what inspired Bob Petrucci, Adjutant and Senior Vice Commander of American Legion Post 68, and his friend Dave Lallier, to honor 91-year-old Korean War veteran, Robert Rawlings.
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