REMEMBERING A BOND FROM VIETNAM

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‘He was that kind of soldier, that kind of man’

On Feb. 29, 2012, combat veteran, patriot, husband, father, grandfather, businessman and friend Ron Piatek, 66, was laid to rest. Except for family, friends and a small band of brothers with whom he served in Vietnam, nobody noticed, and the world kept on turning.

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