Article Title: Lauderdale Co. Navy veteran honored with atomic service medal
Article Excerpt: "...A U.S. Navy veteran from Lauderdale County knows what it’s like to feel the shock of an atomic bomb.
“Like ants all over you. It felt like I was on fire,” Jimmy Wallace said..."
Part of his duty was to explore radioactive islands, just days after atomic blasts, as part of military nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.
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