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Support also came from veterans outside the 3rd Armored.

  Photo below: Grabbing front-row seats were the following vets from the Middletown area - (left to right) Bill "Willie" Sciacca (Army, Cold War, Germany), Paul Morello (Army, Cold War, Germany), Jim Tobits (Army Airforce, WWII, Europe), Jim Salafia (Army, WWII, Pacific), Albert Gronholm (info still to come), and Bob Mantel (Army, WWII, Pacific).

  Photo above: Spectators arriving at the Fire Station passed a guard unit from the Antique Veterans of Meriden (CT), who also double-dutied as a 6-man firing squad at the closing of the Dedication. With authentic M-1 rifles, from left to right, are George Tamburri (Navy, WWII), Jack O'Niell (Navy, WWII) and Ed Dering (Army, WWII, Europe).

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