All City’s POWs Now Home
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
September 8, 1953
September 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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2 Veterans Return On Same Plane - About 30 Greet Roosa, Riddell - Middletown was prepared only to welcome the first of its last two returning prisoners of war yesterday, but both of them slipped in on the same plane. Pfc. William F. Roosa stepped down from an Army transport at Wright-Patterson Field at 12:30 p.m. He was greeted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roosa, 3008 Lefferson Rd., and a group of more than 30 relatives, friends, Veterans of Foreign Wars, reporters and photographers. Seconds later, Sgt. Charles Riddell, Jr., whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Riddell of Myers Road, had received no information about his arrival time, walked out of the plane. His parents were not on hand to greet him, but the Roosa party quickly turned to Riddell, too, and welcomed him back to Middletown...
2 Veterans Return On Same Plane - About 30 Greet Roosa, Riddell - Middletown was prepared only to welcome the first of its last two returning prisoners of war yesterday, but both of them slipped in on the same plane. Pfc. William F. Roosa stepped down from an Army transport at Wright-Patterson Field at 12:30 p.m. He was greeted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roosa, 3008 Lefferson Rd., and a group of more than 30 relatives, friends, Veterans of Foreign Wars, reporters and photographers. Seconds later, Sgt. Charles Riddell, Jr., whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Riddell of Myers Road, had received no information about his arrival time, walked out of the plane. His parents were not on hand to greet him, but the Roosa party quickly turned to Riddell, too, and welcomed him back to Middletown...
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