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Marine Corps Sgt. John Mapes Adams is one of the few recipients who earned a grateful nation's highest honor outside of a significant war period in U.S. history. Adams was born on Oct. 11, 1871, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, under a different name: George Lawrence Day. He attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy, a selective boarding school. ................
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