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Aroostook family sent five of its own to serve in World War
by Outspoken on Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:08 am
Aroostook family sent five of its own to serve in World War II
By Dick Shaw
Special to the News
Bangor Daily News
A tattered clipping from the Bangor Daily News, dated March 12, 1945, tells the poignant story of five brothers from the St. John Valley who were scattered around the globe during World War II. What reads like Hollywood fiction, down to the part where one son doesn’t make it home, really happened to one Acadian French family from the tiny community of Keegan, now part of Van Buren.
Omer, Leo, Guy, Gilbert and Adrien Deschaine were all young and attached to their parents and five siblings when they joined the U.S. Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Like their father, Xavier, and their stepmother, Leona, the French-speaking sons had seldom left their family farm near the New Brunswick border.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=156379&zoneid=500
(Photo courtesy of Joseph Deschaine)
By Dick Shaw
Special to the News
Bangor Daily News
A tattered clipping from the Bangor Daily News, dated March 12, 1945, tells the poignant story of five brothers from the St. John Valley who were scattered around the globe during World War II. What reads like Hollywood fiction, down to the part where one son doesn’t make it home, really happened to one Acadian French family from the tiny community of Keegan, now part of Van Buren.
Omer, Leo, Guy, Gilbert and Adrien Deschaine were all young and attached to their parents and five siblings when they joined the U.S. Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Like their father, Xavier, and their stepmother, Leona, the French-speaking sons had seldom left their family farm near the New Brunswick border.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=156379&zoneid=500
(Photo courtesy of Joseph Deschaine)
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