Pat Kinney

Pat is the Oral Historian for the Grout Museum District.

Blog posts by this Author:

• Vets featured in Waterloo Halloween spirit walk

  Verle Buck survived June 6, 1944. He died June 7 2018 - D-Day plus 74 years and one day. He never forgot that June 6 when he and thousands of others became men or memories on a beach called Omaha in the pivotal World War II invasion of Normandy, France.

• Disabled C.F. vet's gold star tribute nearly done

  Taylor Morris aims for Veterans Day completion of Cedar Falls honor to families of fallen

• Cresco, Howard County 'rock it' for vets

  Howard County Freedom Rock honors multiple generations of veterans

• Late Iowa sailors saved Vietnam refugees in '54

  Sailors from Waterloo, Solon served in Operation Passage to Freedom

• Citizenship dream came true for Waterloo soldier

  Hector Salamanca Arroyo became an American citizen in Africa while serving America as a soldier. He just marked his fifth Fourth of July as a U.S. citizen - even though he's lived in this country since he was a toddler, most of that time in Iowa.

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