Four US Veterans Receive Legion Of Honor For Service During World War II

Posted by admin on Nov 9, 2009

Four proud old men gathered yesterday at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum to receive France’s highest award, the Legion of Honor, for helping to liberate that country from the Nazis 65 years ago.

Felix Cistolo, 88, of Ellwood City; Martin Tougher, 87, of Forest Hills; Francis Culotta, 91, of Whitehall; and Ross DiMarco, 87, of Uniontown; were ordinary young men caught up in the greatest maelstrom of the 20th century.

Each rose to the occasion, advancing field by field and house by house across the French countryside, forcing the Germans back to the Fatherland and destroying Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich.

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