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Master Sgt. Peterson Exhorts Gathering

Marine Master Sgt. (ret.) Jim Peterson, Fly Creek, whose distiguished career included service in Operation Desert Storm and culminated in the humanitarian effort that followed Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008, delivers the address at this morning's Memorial Day commemoration at the Soldiers & Sailors' Monument at Main and Pine Boulevard in Coopertown. Behind him are, left, Mayor Jeff Katz and the VFW's Alan Christman. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
Marine Master Sgt. (ret.) Jim Peterson, Fly Creek, whose distiguished career included service in Operation Desert Storm and culminated in the humanitarian effort that followed Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008, delivers the address at this morning’s Memorial Day commemoration at the Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument at Main and Pine Boulevard in Coopertown. Behind him are, left, Mayor Jeff Katz and the VFW’s Alan Christman. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)

 

Bruno Talevi, a World War II midshipman and retired Oneonta accountant, and wife Vera never miss Cooperstown's Memorial Day commemoration, and were there this morning. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
Bruno Talevi, a World War II midshipman and retired Oneonta accountant, and wife Vera never miss Cooperstown’s Memorial Day commemoration, and were there this morning. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)

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