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What difference does a day make, a week, a month, or even a year for that matter when something is 100 years in the making. The Hattal-Taylor VFW Post #333 actually turned 100 back in February 2020 and would have been given a certificate honoring its 100 years in existence. But because of pandemic restrictions last year and a couple of winter events postponing the ceremony even further these past couple of weeks, the official recognition didnât occur till recently.
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The Hattal-Taylor Post was named for two local US soldiers, Clarence Hattal and William Taylor, who both died in WW I fighting in the Marne on the Western Front, in France during 1918. The Post was granted a charter by the U.S. Veterans of Foreign wars to honor soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American War and WW I.
The uplifting story behind a Kansas umpire s journey from Garden City to World Series Vahe Gregorian, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 31 Inauspiciously enough, Todd Tichenor was 13 when he began umpiring in men s softball in Garden City, Kansas. Initially, it was just because he realized he could make more movie money that way than by keeping score or shagging down softballs.
But by the time he was 15, dragging Main Street (as a passenger) with friends and for the first time meeting his future wife, Kelly Maestas, he already had embraced it as what he was born to do.
When they spoke that night in the parking lot of Anthony s Dress Store and she asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he recalled Wednesday, he told her: a Major League Baseball umpire.
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