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Black WWII Vet From Leesburg Dies After Exoneration

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Los Angeles Times

Published: July 28, 2008

SEATTLE - Samuel Snow, an 83-year-old black World War II veteran from Leesburg who had traveled across the country to receive an apology from the Army for being unfairly convicted of rioting in 1944, died Sunday, hours after a ceremony honoring him and 27 of his fellow soldiers.

Snow had been hospitalized with heart palpitations on the eve of Saturday's ceremony. He died after his son had read to him the certificate exonerating him.

"My dad has been standing in formation all these years waiting to have his name cleared. With the Army's honorable discharge he was at ease. He now has his discharge papers and he went home," Snow's son Ray said.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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