Bearing Witness to D-Day Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN ‘An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon said, and he must have known. In Bonaparte’s view, then, Alex Bauer, a 22-year-old Army cook – “I looked like I was 12”; he is now 92 – played as critical a role as anyone in the successful D-Day assault on June 6, 1944, and subsequent battles that drove the Germans back into their Fatherland and, on May 8, 1945, to…
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Memorial Day Parades In Oneonta, Cooperstown Oneonta’s Memorial Day parade begins at 10 a.m. and proceeds down Main Street to the Veterans’ Memorial at the end of the walkway in Neahwa Park, where a ceremony is planned. Cooperstown’s begins at 11 a.m., from the Vets’ Club up Main Street to the Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument in front of the county office building, where a ceremony is planned.…