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100-year-old veteran receives N.J. medal for his WWII service
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In all of Sidney Finkle’s 100 years, there aren’t many people he’s met that he doesn’t like.
“I met a couple of people with guns I didn’t like,” he said recently, recounting wartime stories from the early 1940s, when Finkle enlisted and served as a Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class during World War II. “Outside that, there wasn’t anybody I didn’t like,” he said. “Everybody’s nice.”
The comments came at a ceremony last month when Finkle was presented with the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal (NJDSM) by Walter Nall, the state’s Acting Deputy Commissioner for Veterans Affairs. The outdoor event happened at Brandywine Living at Pennington where for the last seven years, the Trenton-born and raised veteran has been living with his wife of 72 years, Jean. ....

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