Military events of April 7th – the date of the recent Veterans Breakfast – were examined by a full-house of local veterans at the monthly Senior Center breakfast.

The photo features several of those who were in attendance. From left to right:

• A guest, military veteran, with an image of “Near Beer”, which was enacted by law in 1933 by FDR. Older veterans recall this fare at military facilities.
• Jim Rose, retired USAF with a photo of the Shiloh, TN cemetery where more than 9,000 Americans perished in 1862 during a two-day battle.
• Peter C. Redding, US Army, with a 1942 image of the Manzanar Relocation Camp in California, which was among ten similar camps housing Japanese-Americans who were sequestered from the general population during the early phase of WWII.
• Bob Letendre, US Army, displaying captives – mostly young girls and their caretakers – awaiting transportation to Auschwitz to meet their fate in 1944.
• Jeff Macmillan, USN, with the explosion leading to the sinking of Japanese battleship Yamato in 1945 by torpedoes from the USS Yorktown (CV-5).
• William Muench, USN, with a characterization of the “Domino Theory” coined by President Eisenhower in 1954.

The sailor on “guard duty” in the center of the photo is USN Commander Thomas William Entwistle, Jr., a pilot from Hopkinton who served during the Viet Nam conflict.