MARIETTA River Cities Financial Services Ltd. held its annual Client Appreciation Dinner at Marietta College’s Dyson Baudo Recreation Center Thursday ni
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Later this year will be the 76th anniversary of the ending of World War II. What that means is that the men and women who contributed to that noble cause as teenagers or in their 20’s are now into their 80′ or 90’s and we will not have them with us much longer.
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About 300,000 U.S. World War II veterans are alive in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which has published projections of the number of living veterans from 2015 to 2045. WWII service members’ numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 in 2015