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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Milton Hart — WWII veteran vying for local monument
Description: Milton Hart is the only child of two only children. His service in World War II — as a combat infantryman with the 70th Armored Infantry Battalion, 20th Armored Division — gave him a sense of camaraderie. The soldiers he served with, he said, were “as close to me as a brother would be.” Hart has stayed in touch with his comrades in arms throughout his life and, at 94, is one of the few surviving. He tears up when he remembers liberating Dachau, giving away his rations to the “walking skeletons.” He laughs when he remembers the celebration after the Armistice as German and A...