At Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School, six veterans from the V.F.W. 9482 in Copiague and American Legion 1015 in Amityville visited students to speak about their experiences while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
Daniel Wilmer (United States Army), Richard Iacona (United States Air Force), Bob Waidler (United States Army), Alfred Davolio (United States Army), Robert Bruney (United States Marine Corp), and Jerry Schatz (United States Navy) spoke about their personal experiences of why they enlisted, leaving for the war, adjusting to a world of combat and cultural differences, and answered students’ questions. The gentlemen represented various war efforts from World War II to the Vietnam and Korean Wars, and included a career army man, prisoner of war, and a soldier wounded in action.
To conclude the program, the veterans, along with two student volunteers, taught the proper folding techniques of a United State of America Flag and discussed what each individual fold represents.
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