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On anniversary, veterans honor dwindling survivors of the Battle of the Bulge
Matthew Santoni | Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, 2:48 p.m.
Updated 22 hours ago
Each year there were fewer World War II veterans and a few more memorial bricks at the Battle of the Bulge memorial outside the National Guard armory in Hempfield until there was only Staff Sgt. Joseph Folino.
Folino, 95, of Jeannette is one of only a handful of local veterans who served in the Battle of the Bulge, the last-ditch Nazi offensive that began Dec. 16, 1944. On Saturday, he was the only survivor able to make it to the ceremony, where he laid a wreath at the memorial before the Greensburg VFW Honor Guard gave a 21-gun salute.
http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/13031445-74/on-anniversary-veterans-honor-dwindling-survivors-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge (http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/13031445-74/on-anniversary-veterans-honor-dwindling-survivors-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge)