Pat Kinney

Pat is the Oral Historian for the Grout Museum District.

Blog posts by this Author:

• Waterloo crosstown rivals unite to honor vets

  'Military Appreciation Night' held at annual East-West high school football game

• Race car dedicated to Waterloo's Sullivan brothers featured at vets benefit races

  Stock car with Sullivan brothers theme ran at races raising donations to hundreds of vets

• Czech historian interviews Iowa WWII vets

  WWII vets honored by author in gratitude for liberation

• Cedar Falls soldier to receive general's rank

  Career Army officer Beth Behn promoted to brigadier general

• Requiem for a soldier. Cedar Falls veteran, Grout supporter laid to rest at picturesque Iowa Veterans Cemetery

  It was probably appropriate Larry Walters was laid to rest by his friends on a windy day. All the flags at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery seemed to stand at attention, shoulders to the wind and completely unfurled, in tribute to a guy who stood tall and proud in his service, in and out of uniform. And the gray clouds gave way as the cemetery's gardens of stone were drenched in sunlight.

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