Lex receives Commemorative Purple Heart
Published: Feb. 21, 2008 at 9:26 PM EST|Updated: Feb. 28, 2008 at 11:09 PM EST
February 21, 2008
Eglin Air Force Base - Lex, the former bomb-sniffing dog of an Albany based Marine, killed last March is now the recipient of a commemorative Purple Heart.
Corporal Dustin Lee's family was at the ceremony to honor Lex at a ceremony February 16th at Eglin Air Force Base in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. 8-year-old Lex was injured in the attack in Fallujah, Iraq that killed 20-year old Cpl. Dustin Lee.
Lex is now retired and lives with the late Cpl. Lee's family in Mississippi.
