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Updated: 12/08/2012 09:41:00AM
Rotonda remembers ‘Day of Infamy’
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
VFW Post 10476 commander Roger Luedtke listens to Pearl Harbor survivor, Roger Luedtke, tell what it was like for him and others serving on the USS West Virginia on that fateful day.
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
Rotonda's VFW Post 10476 and American Legion Post 113 members marked Pearl Harbor Day with a symbolic wreath commemorating all those who died in the Japanese surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
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ROTONDA — John Radsford decided to join the U.S. Navy at the age of 20 in 1940.
It was a good idea, Radsford said, since jobs were few and far between during the Great Depression in Rochester, N.Y., and his family included six other siblings.
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