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With the sun high in the sky, local residents gathered with Polk County veterans on the northwest corner of Bolivar’s square at the 11th hour …
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The Polk County Historical Society is seeking help locating information for a project at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margarten, Netherlands.
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John Greenwood would have loved warm weather patriotic events like the Bolivar Rotary Club’s Celebration of Freedom.
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More than 75 years after his presumed death, a Bolivar World War II soldier has been identified and will be laid to rest in Missouri.
NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 17, 1944 — In the preceding column we told about the D-day wreckage among our machines of war that were expended in t…
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On a spring day in April 1919, memories flood the mind of Bolivar resident and decorated U.S. Army World War I veteran Cpl. Earl C. Wilson as …
Memorial Day is officially 150 years old this year.
He was a 20-year-old soldier in the Union Army's Signal Corps hospitalized in the Union-occupied city of New Orleans. She was a 15-year-old vo…
