102-year-old World War II Veteran Dies En Route to D-Day Commemorations in Europe
A World War II Navy veteran was being mourned Thursday following his death while en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a trip friends said he’d talked excitedly about making.
Robert “Al” Persichitti of Fairport, New York fell ill during a stop in Germany last week and died in a hospital, his longtime priest and friend, the Rev. William Leone, said. Persichitti was 102.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]“He’s been to most of the World War II remembrances down in Washington and Louisiana...
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