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A World War II veteran's wife has donated a bullet that was lodged in her husband's heart during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941

"It became a little part of Dean, and I cherished what the bullet represented: Love," Alice Beck Darrow tells PEOPLE of her late husband Dean Darrow

Dean met Alice while he was receiving care at Mare Island Naval Hospital

The widow of a World War II veteran has parted ways with a memento she kept for more than eight decades to remember her late husband.

During the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dean Darrow was struck by gunfire, and a bullet was lodged in his heart . While receiving care at Mare Island Naval Hospital, Dean met Navy Nurse Alice Beck Darrow, whom he asked to go on a date with him before he underwent s

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