Sunday, June 24, 2012
Roses pay tribute to the Valley’s 122 dead in Korean War
By SEAN BARRON
news@vindy.com
AUSTINTOWN
John T. Pariza still gets emotional when he talks about James E. Bobovnyk and Richard D. Whalen.
“It broke my heart when I came home [from serving in the Korean War] and found that they were dead. I still think of them every day.”
Pariza, however, also got to honor his two friends during Sunday’s 10th annual “Laying of the Roses” ceremony at Austintown Veterans Park on Wickliffe Circle just off Mahoning Avenue.
The Korean War Veterans Association of Mahoning Valley Chapter 137 hosted the solemn two-hour ceremony, which was to remember and honor Bobovnyk and Whalen, along with the other 120 soldiers from Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties killed in the war.
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