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Ron DiFrancesco, 9/11 Terrorist Attack Survivor, World Trade Center
Ron DiFrancesco moved to the New York City area in 2000 to take an investment job with a firm based in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He was already at work on September 11, 2001, when th…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
LtCol Rob Riggle, USMC, 9/11, Ground Zero
In 2022, we presented the oral history of U.S. Marine Corps veteran Rob Riggle, who later became famous as an actor and comedian. Riggle told us all about his service in Kosovo and Afghanistan and ho…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
SGT David Rodriguez, U.S. Army, Vietnam
David Rodriguez has a legacy of military service in his family, but his real motivation for joining the Army was to move on from working in the family business of farming. Soon he was off to Ft. Lewi…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
PFC Ernie Mogor, U.S. Army, World War II
Ernie Mogor wanted to join the U.S. Navy during World War II but he was rejected for being colorblind. He then chose the Army over the Marines and was soon off for "vigorous" infantry training. He be…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
MSgt. John Dailey, USMC Special Operations, Afghanistan, Iraq
John Dailey remembers the day he decided to become a U.S. Marine. He was a young boy at a U.S. bicentennial parade in 1976. When he saw the Marine in dress uniform, he was hooked. Eleven years later,…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Cpl. Darren Walton, USMC Reconnaissance, Vietnam, Part 2
In last week's edition of "Veterans Chronicles," U.S. Marine Corps veteran Darren Walton told us about his role on a seven-man reconnaissance team in Vietnam from 1969-1970. He explained his role of …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Cpl. Darren Walton, USMC Reconnaissance, Vietnam, Part 1
Darren Walton grew up north of San Francisco and stood out as a distance runner in high school. When he found out he would soon be drafted into the U.S. Army, Walton joined the Marine Corps, intendin…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Col. Frank Cohn, U.S. Army, WWII, Holocaust Survivor Part 2
Last week, we began sharing the story of Col. Frank Cohn, U.S. Army (Ret.). He told us about growing up in a Jewish family in Nazi Germany, how his family fled to the U.S. after Kristallnacht in 1938…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Col. Frank Cohn, U.S. Army, WWII, Holocaust Survivor Part 1
Frank Cohn was born in Breslau, germany in 1925. His Jewish family lived very comfortably there. But soon anti-Semitiam was on the rise, even before Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933. Within a few y…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Capt. Dick Nelms, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Dick Nelms was fascinated by flight at an early age. Born just five years after the end of World War I, he still vividly remembers what an event it was to see a plane in the sky when he was a child. …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago