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Bluebag Media
Arcanum ‘Tribute’ a
moving service honoring veterans
ARCANUM – After placing the wreath at Veteran Memorial Park in Arcanum,
95-year-old retired Master Sgt. Lloyd Hunt stopped and, with the aid of
his daughter Sue and son Rick, saluted the wreath, the marker and what
it stood for. Later he talked briefly about why.
“I was thinking of all the buddies I lost in the war… I went into the
army before the war broke out. In three weeks my time would have been
up.” Hunt talked about more than a year spent in training, then being
shipped out of Norfolk, VA. “We went to North Africa… 13 days packed
like sardines. We hit the shores, captured the German headquarters.
Fought all the way across Africa.”
Hunt seemed to be reliving the time as he talked about it… the
training, the departure, meeting the resistance at the shoreline. After
the combat in Africa his unit was then ordered to Italy. “We had a lot
of resistance there,” he said.
MSgt. Hunt spent over three years in combat, then was discharged, one
of nine Hunt boys to serve in WWII. They all came home, but most of
those with whom Hunt served, didn’t. “He was in Patton’s army, Company
K,” said son Rick. “Almost everyone in his company was killed...
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