A Petaluma veteran who was awarded the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor, only to struggle with drug felonies in civilian life, has been pardoned by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The governor granted the posthumous pardon this past Friday to Richard Allen Penry, a U.S. Army sergeant who served in the Vietnam War.
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