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Quil Lawrence

The GI Bill left behind Black World War II vets. Now there's a move to fix that

William Dabney, a veteran of the D-Day invasion, with his son, Vinnie Dabney, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2009, ahead of their trip to France, where the elder Dabney received the Legion of Honor, the French government's highest award for his actions in WWII. (John J. Kruzel/ Department of Defense)

William Dabney never liked to talk much about his time fighting in World War II.

"He didn't keep his uniform or any of those things. In other words, he was through with the service," says Beulah Dabney, who married him in 1951.

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