Japan honors U.S. veteran for training postwar parachute squad

U.S. veteran William LaRou (R), 82, who was honored for his contribution to a fledgling parachute squad at a U.S. military base in Fukuoka after World War II, receives a Japanese paratrooper's badge from Col. Masashi Yamamoto of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington on Oct. 7, 2015. The badge was to replace an earlier one he had lost. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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