Duane Dewey, Medal of Honor recipient with ‘a body of steel,’ dies at 89

Duane Dewey, Medal of Honor recipient with ‘a body of steel,’ dies at 89

Duane Dewey, who received the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade with his body to save fellow Marines during the Korean War, and whose recovery from grievous injuries led President Dwight D. Eisenhower to quip, “You must have a body of steel,” died Oct. 11 at a nursing home in St. Augustine, Fla. He was 89.