Man’s Best Friend To Receive Purple Heart
QUITMAN, Miss. (AP) - Lex, the former bomb-sniffing dog of the
late Marine Corporal Dustin Lee of Stonewall, will be given a
Purple Heart next month at the Working Dog and Fallen K-9 Handler
Tribute in northwest Florida.
The tribute will be February 16th at the Air Armament Museum,
Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Lee’s family is
scheduled to be on hand for the event.
Eight-year-old Lex was working with Lee when the Marine was
killed during a bombing in Iraq last year. The German Shepherd was
also injured. He has since been retired and lives with Lee’s family
in Clarke County.
In December, the Marine Corps announced Lex could go home to
Lee’s family. It is the first time the military has granted a dog
early retirement to be adopted by someone other than a former
handler.
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