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The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Old warriors, new friends: Ambrose Anderson, left, of Gloversville, among the first African-American Marines awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, on Wednesday joined the regulars who meet at the Home Front Café. He talks with Thomas Lemme of Albany who spent 13 days in the front lines during the Battle of Iwo Jima without knowing most of his company — Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines — was killed. “I was always down in the foxhole,” Lemme said earlier. “You didn’t dare raise your head.”