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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

75TH PEARL HARBOR COMMEMORATION AT THE MINNESOTA HISTORY CENTER

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FROM LEFT VIC PARADIS OF MANKATO CENTER BRIGADIER GENERAL RETIRED JOSEPH KELLY AND  RICHARD THILL OF SAINT PAUL

STORY BY LOU MICHAELS

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SAINT PAUL IT WILL BE A DAY TO REMEMBER ON THIS DATE 75 YEARS A GO JAPAN'S ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR AND SIX MILITARY BASE ON THE HAWAIIAN ISLAND AND PRECIPITATED AMERICA'S ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR 11, A GLOBAL CONFLICT.  ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR THE SACRIFICE AND DEDICATION OF OUR " GREATEST GENERATION" BOTH CIVILIAN AND MILITARY,THEY ENDDURED INCREDIBLE SACRIFICS  ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, THE " DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY".  TWO  OF THE LAST PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS TOLD THEIR STORY OF WHAT HAPPEN THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 7, 1941 RICHARD THILL AND VIC PARADIS  BOTH MEN ARE FROM MINNESOTA. THE OTHER TWO FROM MINNESOTA VERN LUETTINGER OF RICHFIELD AND VICTOR AND CHARLES SEHE BOTH FROM OF MANKATOTHEIR WAS FIFTH GENE DAVIS OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY, DIED JUST TWO WEEKS AGO.  THESE  MEN WERE HONOR TODAY AS PART OF THE STATE'S COMMEMORATION OF THE ATTACK'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY, WHERE RICHARD THILL GAVE A SHORT SPEECH AND WITH VIC PARADIS.  THILL SERVICE ON THE US WARD WHERE THE FIRST SHOOT WERE FRIED ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER THE 7TH , 1941 HE JOINED THE  NAVY RESERVEE AT THE AGE OF 16. THE WARD GUN NOW SITS AS A MEMORIAL AT MINNESOTA STATE CAPITOL.

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