WWII Bronze Star Veteran celebrates 102nd birthday, recalls extraordinary life
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Mitchell Hoy (via Morgan Messanger - WV)
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — 102 years of life and enough stories to fill a library. That's what friends and family gathered to celebrate at the home of Jack Van Dyke. But more than eight decades ago, Van Dyke wasn't celebrating. He was surviving. Fighting as a young infantryman in the New Guinea Campaign during [...]
