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Show Dodge € itu Nefns SERVING LEE Sa JUNE 3, MILFORD a a AND WESTERN a BEAVER ail cents. 1994 COUNTY SINCE 1991. eT ain VOL. Sherwood Bridge Specialist with the Army Engineers. He landed at Utah Beach eight days the veterans War. while former surgeon, a organization which orphans, and Maintaining homes for old soldiers. Formed in 1866, membership in the Ss au. nec nh ky Repubi ican organization peaked at approximately in 1890. By 1956 the GAR had dissolved, and Memorial Day had evolved into a day of remembrance for departed loved ones as well as fallen soldiers. This Memorial Day President Clinton proclaimed June 6 National as Day Remembrance as approach the anniversary of No n:-a Yr Ma Invasion. a of we 50 the y "The dug in engineers At least two Milford residents landed on Utah Beach as part of the invasion force. Ted Rimpau joined the Army right after finishing high school. was barely 19 He when he Utah landed Beach the ‘on as part of 558th Self- Propelled Field Artillery Unit. "We were bogged down in the . hedgerow country for quite a while. I was too young to have to be that serious. Those| were hard days," he; reminisced. Mr. Rimpau| served in four | campaigns before Germany in ending on Europe up in the| Danube River. "Let me tell you, the Danube is not blue = it is just muddy," he said.« Fron France he Northern went to Ardennes and the "Battle of the Bulge", Central finally then Europe, to Rhineland. After Mr. Rimpau to and the feet.) bridges the war went to college on the G.I. Bill and remained in the R.O.T.C. program for years. Commander several He is -now of Bridge is an expandable steel bridge capable of spanning almost 100 of Milford's Heros army the pension rights, providing relief for war widows and 400,000 rosses in Remembrance of. was dedicated to promo t ing comradeship among — veterans, securing the Bailey F lead initial were out working in the flack. We lost probably a thousand men putting a Bailey Bridge across the Rhine River," he said. (A Dr. Benjamin Stephenson, the invasion. infantry was Republic Civil a after inaugurated the event in honor of fallen soldiers. The GAR was the largest organization of Union 22 Jim The observance of Memorial Day . began in 1868, when John A. Logan, Commander-in- Chief of the Grand Army the NO. _ was Memorial Day of IV the local V.F.W. Post. Post 1546 was formed in 1928. were Pontoon often used to. provide emergency access for light vehicles. Mr. Sherwood spent: the majority of his time in France in the area where the Meuse and Moselle Rivers intersect. Although a half-century passed since event, Mr. vividly being shot jeep while on a has the Sherwood recalls at ina he was reconnaissance mission. VF. W. POST 1546 AND MILFORD AMERICAN LEGION |
