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  • Vet in dress blues after 63-year wait

    05/31/2005 12:49:51 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 5 replies · 392+ views
    Valley Press ^ | on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 | DENNIS ANDERSON
    LANCASTER - At Lancaster Cemetery, William Dawson Stephens was showing off his new Marine Corps dress blue uniform and his new "high and tight" haircut. Last year, a huge turnout showed up at Stephens' church to observe his 80th birthday. On this Memorial Day, he was celebrating the arrival of his "dress blues," a uniform he somehow had never managed to acquire during his service on Guadalcanal and in the Korean War. "It only took 63 years to get here," he joked. Then he removed his ceremonial white "cover," the Marine Corps dress cap, and showed how he'd been to...