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"WASHINGTON — When 15-year-old Bridgewater, N.J., high school sophomore Mary Cole was thinking about a Girl Scout Gold Award project, she remembered something that struck her when she visited the National World War II Memorial in Washington. - There weren't a lot of World War II veterans there.
Sunday, the resulting project reached a successful conclusion when 67 of those veterans from Somerset County got on a couple of buses and drove to the nation's capital to see the monument that honors their efforts between 1941 and 1945. Many of them were making their first visit. The vets (and 18 volunteers along to help out) on the Tour of Honor also went to Arlington National Cemetery and had dinner at a local restaurant before heading north again."
Stars and Stripes: New Jersey girl's project brings 67 World War II veterans to the memorial
Sunday, the resulting project reached a successful conclusion when 67 of those veterans from Somerset County got on a couple of buses and drove to the nation's capital to see the monument that honors their efforts between 1941 and 1945. Many of them were making their first visit. The vets (and 18 volunteers along to help out) on the Tour of Honor also went to Arlington National Cemetery and had dinner at a local restaurant before heading north again."
Stars and Stripes: New Jersey girl's project brings 67 World War II veterans to the memorial