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NAS Pensacola, CAPT Tim Kinsella Honor a Hero on Veteran’s Day

Posted: 11/25/2020

Caught several posts earlier this month and right around Veteran’s Day featuring stories about classmates, so to continue that thread of sharing out into the latter parts of November, here’s a great one for you. CAPT Tim Kinsella, currently serving as CO of NAS Pensacola, had the honor of participating in a unique ceremony on Veteran’s Day this year – the dedication of the 75th Gold Star Families Memorial Monument. The monument was built at Veteran’s Memorial Park on NAS Pensacola and unveiled on 11 November. Present for the ceremony was Hershel “Woody” Williams, who is one of the two living Medal of Honor recipients who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima. I’ll link the press release here, but I also caught a lot of traffic (and great pictures) about this event on the Internet of Things. Quoting Tim, who writes that he “spent a moment with a national treasure, today, Hershel “Woody” Williams. It’s not every day you get to salute a recipient of the Medal of Honor.” Indeed, Tim. What an honor!

Local press release here.

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