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Normandy at 99 Soon-to-be centenarian recalls special visit to France

On the day Kathleen Varner Teagarden of Waynesburg turned 19 – June 6, 1944 – her husband parachuted into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne Division. Last June, at the age of 99, she visited the area where Robert Teagarden landed and fought during D-Day, the Allied invasion to end the Nazi ...

New Eagle veteran recalls D-Day at Omaha Beach

Tom Sollosi Jr. has told the story many times, and even though it's been 80 years since D-Day, the World War II veteran from New Eagle recalls the Normandy invasion with vivid detail. “My memory is fading, but I can still remember a lot of stuff,” Sollosi said in an interview last week in ...

Remembering D-Day

Thursday will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by the Allied Forces against Nazi Germany. My father, who would have been 102 years-old in May and was a great student of history, participated in the battle. I am sure if he were still alive that he would be reflecting upon the ...