PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang’s main square on Saturday in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea’s adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th […]
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War memorial to be blessed
JAY — A blessing for the Jay War Memorial is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 27, in Chisholm Square on Route 4. Father Thomas Lequin will perform a blessing. It is the first time the memorial will be blessed. Korean War veterans will be remembered on the day that marks the 60th anniversary […]
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River Valley area Korean War veterans to be recognized July 27 at Rumford Legion hall
RUMFORD — Maine Korean War Veterans from the River Valley area will be recognized from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 27 at American Legion Post No. 24. Legion Commander Patricia Thurston will join veterans researcher Len Greaney of Rumford and Maine Sen. Jim Hamper, R-Oxford, in hosting the event on the first Maine Korean […]
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Maine to honor Korean War vets during 60th anniversary events Saturday
LEWISTON — Bert Dutil figures he spent too many years as a veteran of a forgotten war. But on Saturday, he’ll line up with more than 1,000 veterans in five Maine towns — Lewiston, Bangor, Sanford, Brunswick and Rumford — to be honored on the 60th anniversary of the Korean War’s end. “They called Korea […]