Saluting our Veterans: Wendell Lampe
By:
Bethany Carson
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Wendell Lampe joined the U.S. Navy in Nov. 1942 after harvesting the year’s crop by hand, and served for forty months.
“I picked two pretty good-sized cribs of corn before I went in November,” Lampe said.
He joined because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
“Some of the boys that we knew wouldn’t come back,” Lampe said.
Read more in the November 15 edition of the STAR.
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