Local Honors For Vietnam Sacrifice

From OC Today

(Feb. 3, 2017) Barry Berger, the sole Ocean City native to be killed during the Vietnam conflict, will be honored with a memorial in front of City Hall after a request from a local veterans group was approved during the city council meeting on Jan. 17.

Nelson Kelly, Vietnam Veterans of America Ocean City Chapter 1091 president, who presented the proposal to the council, shared some background of the young man who put his own educational pursuits at American University on hold to serve his country, a decision for which he paid the ultimate price.

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TIME MACHINE: 1959 DISTRESS FOR LOWER SHORE BUT OPENING FOR A FUTURE GAIN.

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January, 1959

As a young Navy pilot former President George H.W. Bush was stationed at  the Chincoteague base for a few months in 1943.  As reported in various published accounts he flew low over an area of Crisfield where a circus had setup nearby and a frightened elephant broke away, in turn frightening nearby residents.  Reports were that Bush's low fly-over was an attempt to impress a young Crisfield woman he had met at a USO dance at Chincoteague.

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