Cooperstown Joins Nation Honoring Those Who Died Past Cooperstown Vets Club Commander Doug Walker, left, and current Commander John Famulare place a wreath on the monument to Cooperstown’s veterans at the top of Pine Boulevard. The village’s Memorial Day commemoration took place the Soldiers & Sailors monument in front of county Courthouse with Dr. Paul Russo, Bassett Hospital optometrist who served in the Army’s 101st Airborne and, more recently, the state Air National guard, gave the address. At right, Jack…
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13 Purple Hearts Meet, Remember By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 When Doug Walker returned home from Vietnam in 1967, he was told to wear his civilian clothes. “We were not very welcome,” he said. But on Sunday, Sept. 28, Walker sat down in the Doubleday Café with 15 veterans of the 2nd Platoon, Mike Company, 3/9 Marines, 13 of them Purple Heart recipients, in a gathering organized by Warren Ryther of Garrattsville. “They…