Veterans gather for breakfast, stay for music, stories

North Butler Elementary hosted a breakfast and ceremony to honor veterans on Thursday, Nov. 10. The small room was packed with folks willing to chat. Here is a glimpse of the service of some attendees. Dale Stock, 90, of Dumont, a veteran of World War II, visited with Claudia Squires of Greene over breakfast.
Stock joined the Navy in January 1944, at age 18 and was selected to serve as a medic, caring for the wounded in the Pacific theater. “I wanted to be a radio operator, but they put you where they wanted you,” Stock said.
He attained the rank of third class petty officer before discharge, which occurred after the war ended with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Dale’s late wife, Claire, was a nurse and served as a Navy cadet, also in the Pacific.
Squires’ husband Mike served in the Army Reserves from 1965-1971, during Vietnam.
Read the full article in the November 17 edition of the T-J.