Article: VET SAYS BUDDY IS DUE MEDAL.(News)

Byline: BETTIE RENCORET Senior columnist

PALMDALE - Veteran Louis B. Cheaney is on a crusade.

He wants his deceased war buddy, Staff Sgt. Andrew Prevuznak, who survived a Japanese prison camp and helped improve conditions for the imprisoned Americans, to be awarded the Legion of Merit posthumously.

Cheaney, who saw service in both World War II and the Korean War, feels Armed Forces Day is an appropriate time to illuminate what he considers a gross injustice to the buddy he went overseas with.

``We eventually got separated but we kept in touch,'' he said, ``and the United States War Department was wrong when it awarded Andy only a ...

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