Wwii Vet From Des Plaines Receives France's Legion Of Honor

Xenophon "Fonda" Doudalis accepted the Legion of Honor medal Friday during a ceremony at Des Plaines city hall. With the quiet dignity of a soldier, he simply repeated "thank you" after Guillaume Lacroix, the consul general of France in Chicago, pinned it on the lapel of his gray suit.

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