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Chicopee remembers veterans killed in 1963 and 2013 during Memorial Day commemoration
CHICOPEE – They were heading out to deliver books to Afghanistan children when a homemade bomb exploded outside the gate of a military base in Kandahar. Nine years later, state Sen. John Velis, D-Westfield, a major in the Army National Guard, remembers being one of the people to carry the stretcher with Wilbel Robles-Santa’s body to an awaiting Blackhawk helicopter.
Vietnam veterans remembered in Chicopee Memorial Day event on Sunday
CHICOPEE — Over the years, family and friends of Edward J. Downey have died or moved away, but the Marine who was killed in Vietnam before his 20th birthday still is not forgotten. This is the 32nd year the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 111 honored the 15 men...
‘An emotional ride’: WMass families of Pearl Harbor fallen find closure
Back in 2019, the U.S. Navy contacted Cheryl Hillman Quinn of Holyoke for a cheek swab. They wanted it for DNA testing, because they believed they had remains of Quinn’s father’s brother, Merle Hillman. Hillman had died years before Quinn was even born. If you purchase a product...
Join Sturbridge's Memorial Day Parade Honoring Local Hero Ron Benoit on May 27
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Memorial Day 2024: Remembering Amherst soldier killed days before World War II ended in Europe
Adolf Hitler marked his 56th birthday inside a bunker in Berlin as Soviet artillery began bombarding the city, marking the beginning of the end for World War II in Europe. In northern Italy, 26-year-old Army Capt. John Philip Serex was killed in action by the Nazis as the Allies entered the foothills of the Apennine Mountains in pursuit of retreating Axis forces who fled into the Po River valley.
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