A Celebration of Life service has been announced for Hall of Fame Distinguished Broadcaster Ron Arnold. He died of complications from COVID-19 on Christmas Eve at age 87.
A remembrance was delayed because of the pandemic. It is now planned for Saturday, April 24, at 10:00 a.m. at Parkside Lutheran Church in North Buffalo.
Ron Arnold (l) receives the Veteran of the Month award from his Batavia nursing home in 2019.
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Interment to be held privately at Arlington National Cemetery. Arnold enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1952 and was shot while serving in Korea, earning him a Purple Heart.
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A preview of D-Day: A Look Back, featuring producer Ron Arnold, with perspective provided by University at Buffalo Associate Professor of History Sasha Pack D-Day: A Look Back was produced by Ron Arnold, a now-retired veteran of four decades of broadcast news in Buffalo. Though he was only 11 years old on D-Day, he recalls the day with the specific memory that must have served him well as a journalist. I begged my mother to let me skip school, Arnold recalled. I was glued to the radio all day.
With tens of thousands of troops, thousands of sea vessels and aircraft combining their efforts, the Allied forces conducted the largest amphibious assault in military history as they landed on a series of beaches in northern France.