** Ohio WW II Veteran celebrates turning 100: Dublin, Ohio. Navy Lt. (JG) Ret. Alfred Marion Chard celebrated turning 100 March 5 by watching a parade in his honor. He was born in 1921 in Iowa and grew up there. He joined the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1941 and enlisted in the Navy a few months later.
During the war, he served on the battleship USS Washington in the South Pacific. After three years in the Navy, he was in the reserves for a few years more.
** Manlius, New York WW II Veteran turns 100. Anthony Pircio had a parade and military honors March 5. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during the war as a weatherman.
** Walter Rindy, WW II veteran, has been a member of the Mayville, North Dakota, American Legion for 75 years and recently had a surprise ceremony at the Legion.
--GreGen
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