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Attendance up at annual Veterans Day service

GREENVILLE – “We lost more of our veterans by their own hand than we lost in Afghanistan,” said Dennis Dickey, 1st Vice President for the American Legion 3rd District. “Only those who have been through what many of these veterans have can understand that.” Dickey was the guest speaker for the 2014 Veterans Day Memorial Service at the Darke County Fair.

Dickey is the brother of Douglas E. Dickey, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1967 for heroism during Operation Beacon Hill 1 in Vietnam. A comment heard from a veteran attending the service: “He gave his life saving others. This Memorial Service is for him and those others who served honorably.”

During his presentation Dickey offered a quote by 2010 Chief of Central Command General James Mattis, who had a reputation for blunt speaking… “Be polite, be professional but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” This was a survival tool for those in combat.

As they have in years past, units from American Legion posts, American Legion Auxiliary units, VFW posts and more marched into the Grandstand track to open the Darke County Veterans Day Memorial Service. Outgoing County Commander (all posts in the county) Ken Preston, Sr., welcomed the audience, then introduced Past Darke County Commander John Grillot for introduction of the units...

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