LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Greatest Generation Veterans Would Have Cringed To the Editor: My father was a U.S. Army captain in World War II; Nancy’s stepfather was a lieutenant in the Navy and Nancy’s father, Alfred Valjean Prather, was an officer in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was composed largely of Japanese Americans. The 442nd was particularly adept at killing Nazis. Although they are all gone, none of them would be particularly amused by the recent Trump Insurrection or the…
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NEAHWA CEREMONY MOVED Unbowed By Storm, Veterans Honor Fallen…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Veterans Day Commemoration VETERANS DAY COMMEMORATION – 11 a.m. Join Oneonta Vets Club to celebrate Veterans Day, commemorate soldiers past and present who fought for the US. Please wear masks, practice social distancing. Neahwa Park, Oneonta.…
Delgado Bill Enables Veterans’ Cemeteries In Counties Like NY’s Congressman Testifies Today In D.C. https://www.facebook.com/RepAntonioDelgado/videos/284801822962783/ Otsego County’s congressman, Antonio Delgado, D-19, today testified before the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on legislation to authorize the Veterans’ Administration to issue grants to counties to establish, expand or improve veterans cemeteries. “As the law is written, only state-run veteran cemeteries are eligible for the National Cemetery Administration’s Veteran Cemetery Grants Program,” Delgado said. “This prohibition cripples counties…
Lest We Forget WWII Veterans Tell Their Tales By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Fred Hicken, a few post-graduation classes at Oneonta High School made all the difference. “I was 17 when I went to Albany to register for the Navy,” he said. “It was April 1945. I had graduated in 1944, but went back to take some business classes, including typing.” As a result, he was assigned to personnel work stateside, avoiding the conflict. Hicken…
ONEONTA VETERANS DAY Legion Leader Beth Akulin: ‘Vets Come In All Genders’ Veterans’ organizations still have a way to go in accepting women in their ranks, Beth Akulin, commander of VFW Post 1206 in Oneonta, inset at right, said during her address at Veterans Day ceremonies at the top of Neahwa Park’s Memorial Parkway at 11-11-11 this morning. While there are 1.3 million female veterans today, she said, “I have been yelled at for parking in a veterans parking place,…
OCCB Salute To Veterans Prompts Poem Recital The Oneonta Community Concert Band, above, held its 18th annual Salute To Veterans Concert in the halls of the Foxcare Center this evening. One audience member, 90-year-old Leslie Collins, right, was so moved by their performance of “The Armed Forces Salute” by Bob Lowden, he approached director Andrew Pease to ask if he could recite the poem, “For The Fallen,” by Lawrence Binyon. Pease obliged. The poem, written in 1914, is often recited…
IN MEMORIAM: Gail (Davi) Tallman, 69; ‘Navy Wife’ Active In Local Veterans Club COOPERSTOWN – Gail Nicolina (Davi) Tallman, 69, entered through the gates of heaven on Aug. 25, 2019, after a long and valiant battle with Chronic Lymphomatic Leukemia. Gail was born on Oct. 10, 1949, in Brooklyn, the daughter of Frank Sr. and Gloria (Russo) Davi. A graduate of Worcester Central High School, Class of 1968, Gail thereafter met and married the “love of her life,” William (Bill)…
MacGuire Benton Joins Village Board Veterans Sean Miller, top photo, right, looks admiringly at MacGuire Benton after nominating him for a one-year term on the Cooperstown Village Board at the Democratic Caucus this evening in the top-floor ballroom at Village Hall. Two incumbents, inset, Jeanne Dewey and Richard Sternberg, were nominated for the two three-year terms that are open in the March elections. The village Republicans failed to caucus this year, so the three are assured reelection, absent a write-in…
Corning Honors Its Veterans, Listing All Who Served On Plaque…