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DATE: SATURDAY, April 6, 1991                   TAG: 9104060141
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

BUSH TO AWARD MEDAL TO BLACK WWI SOLDIER

President Bush will award a posthumous Medal of Honor to Army Cpl. Freddie Stowers, the first black to be so honored for actions during either of the world wars, administration officials said Friday.

White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Stowers' family would be given the award, the nation's highest citation for valor, on April 24.

Stowers, of Sandy Springs, S.C., was killed in France on Sept. 28, 1918, as he led his company in a charge to take a German-held hill. At least 40 percent of Stowers' roughly 200-man company died in the effort, Army records say. - Associated Press

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