POW comes marching home again and Lynnfield gets right in step By Marvin Olasky Globe Correspondent LYNNFIELD “Lauren Lengyel is OK in our books,” a sign at the public librayr proclaimed yesterday afternoon as Lengyel, an Air Force captain and six-year captive in North Vietnam, was honored by his neighbors on the Lynnfield Common, a short distance away. Lengyel, who grew up in Lynnfield and lives at 6 Pontiac Rd., West Peabody, stood with his wife, four children, parents and grandmother and told the 2000 persons assembled there: “You’ve made me the happiest and proudest man in the world.” “My only regret,” he said, “is that there were others who were not as fortunate as I am.” The brief ceremony followed a two-mile parade of military and veterans units, Boy and Girl Scouts, bands and one sheep marching with the Lynnfield 4-H group. Clowns from the Spotlighters, a Lynnfield theatrical group, pranced in the streets because, as Spotlighter Jean Laier said, “we want a home town atmosphere. It’s not supposed to be a war parade.” Although rifles and bayonets were evident in the parade, many Scituate youth hit by car; condition fair SCITUATE An 18-year-old youth was admilied to South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, early yesterday after being struck by a car in North Scituate Village. Police said Peter Lynch of 17 Curtis av.,.
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Weeks after arriving in Vietnam in 1968, Korean War veteran Sergeant First Class Floyd Wilmoth- who enlisted in the US Army in 1953- stepped aboard the river vessel LCU1577 ‘Sunset Strip’. Days later, Wilmouth and his crew were unwittingly embroiled in an international incident between Cambodia and the United States.
