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Walnut Creek man gets France's highest honor

12/30/2009 11:41:13 PM PST · by thecodont · 7 replies · 533+ views
San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | Carl Nolte, Chronicle Staff Writer

The government of France awarded the Legion of Honor on Tuesday to a Bay Area man who was shot down over occupied France during World War II and then joined up with a secret French underground to fight the Germans. William Kalan, 91, a retired advertising executive who lives in the Rossmoor retirement community in Walnut Creek, received France's highest decoration from Pierre-Francois Mourier, the French consul general in San Francisco, during a ceremony at Rossmoor. Mourier called Kalan "an exemplary human being." "You left your country, your family and friends to fight at the risk of your life," he...

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