Medal winner’s admission
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) DETROIT, June 22. A Medal of Honour winner is said to have admitted that he was “stoned on marijuana” on the night he fought off two waves of Viet Cong soldiers and won America’s highest military award. “It was the only time I
ever went into combat stoned,” Mr Peter Lemon, aged 21, is quoted as telling a “Detroit Free Press” reporter. “You get really alert when you’re stoned.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32640, 23 June 1971, Page 19
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75Medal winner’s admission Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32640, 23 June 1971, Page 19
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