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Former POW to address Kent Veterans on Vietnam Veterans Day
Delaware News Desk
Former POW Ralph Galati will address his fellow Vietnam veterans in a ceremony at 2 p.m. March 27 at the Kent County Veterans Memorial Park, 760 S. Little Creek Road, Dover. We are truly honored and look forward to welcoming Ralph Galati as a fellow veteran and hero who suffered for our freedoms, said Joe Startt Jr., president of Kent County Chapter 850, Vietnam Veterans of America.
Born and raised in Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Galati was a 1966 graduate of St. James High School in Chester, Pennsylvania, and received his Bachelor of Science from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, in 1970 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He earned his wings as a weapon systems officer in the F-4 Phantom and was assigned to Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand where he served as a forward air controller.