WWII veteran receives Legion of Honor Medal on HPU campus.

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Joe Kaper received France's highest honor, the Legion of Honor Medal, for his service in World War II on the High Point University campus during a ceremony where North Carolina Representative Howard Coble presented the medal to him.

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Kaper, now 89, served with the 295th Combat Engineer Battalion in Scotland and England during his service but was sent to Omaha Beach, the German-occupied territory of France during the war, a few days after D-Day.

Napoleon created the honor in 1802. The French...

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