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90-Year-Old WWII Veteran Receives Training to Help Fellow Veterans

By Mercedes Angerman | MVA on Nov 18, 2016   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

90-Year-Old WWII Veteran Receives Training to Help Fellow Veterans

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A World War II veteran and former Alaska Army National Guard member recently became a Tribal Veteran Representative (TVR), trained to assist fellow veterans secure state and federal benefits.  Wesley Aiken, of Barrow, Alaska, voluntarily joined the Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG) in April 1943.  During WWII, over 6,400 Alaskans joined […]

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