Pat Kinney

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• Fallen Iowa Pearl Harbor sailors coming home

  U.S. steps up effort to identify remains

• Sumner Iwo vet devoted life to service after hell of war

  A longtime Sumner dentist and veteran of the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II has died. Richard C. Haw, 92, died Monday at Regional Health Services of Howard County in Cresco, where he had lived the past several years.

• Kelly Sullivan Named to the Commissioning Committee for USS Iowa

  The granddaughter and grandniece of Waterloo's five Sullivan brothers killed during World War II has been named to the commissioning committee for a new U.S. Navy submarine to be named the USS Iowa.

• Honor Flight a “bucket list” wish for Korean, Cold War vets

  Robert Cowles had been as far west from Iowa as Korea, but never as far east as Washington, D.C. -- until Sept. 25. That's when the 86-year-old received from long-overdue thanks for being shot at some 65 years ago on that faraway peninsula. He was one of more than 90 military veterans making the latest Cedar Valley Honor Flight to see Washington, D.C. military memorials.

• No ‘Wall' too high for Honor Flight vet to honor pal

  Burdette “Bud” Anderson of Waterloo visited an old hunting and fishing buddy recently – in memory and in spirit. I was with him.

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