Bill Gafford, the president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 67, found the article while preparing for the ceremony. Gafford, of Birmingham Township, is an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam and Thailand during the war. That story, with no byline, has a photo of the late state Sen. Clarence Bell with Leroy F. F. Wright, the president of the old Delaware County National Bank; Ridley Township resident Lily Mari, the mother of Army Capt. Louis A. Mari; and Mrs. Clifford Dunn, the mother of a Capt. William Carpenter.

Bill Gafford, the president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 67, found the article while preparing for the ceremony. Gafford, of Birmingham Township, is an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam and Thailand during the war. That story, with no byline, has a photo of the late state Sen. Clarence Bell with Leroy F. F. Wright, the president of the old Delaware County National Bank; Ridley Township resident Lily Mari, the mother of Army Capt. Louis A. Mari; and Mrs. Clifford Dunn, the mother of a Capt. William Carpenter.