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Before daybreak on Aug. 17, 1952, a grenade landed near 22-year-old Marine Corps Pfc. Robert Simanek. He kicked it away, but the blast injured his foot. A second grenade fell at his side. “I couldn’t move too well. So I just sort of rolled over on top of that grenade,” he later recounted.