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HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — U.S. Navy veteran Thomas Lohmann will never forget the men he served with on the USS Dashiell during the Korean War.
“There was a bond. Everybody was your brother,” Lohmann told 24 Hour News 8.
One of his shipmates, Bill Steffey, was determined to preserve that bond. His wife Laura Steffey remembers a conversation they had years after the war, right after they met.
“It wasn’t a month till he said, ‘Will you help me host a reunion?’ Silly me, I said yes,” Laura Steffey joked Tuesday.
Initially, the reunion was small and just for Korean War veterans, but it was later expanded to include World War II vets who served on the destroyer.
The reunion kept happening year after year. At one point, more than 60 sailors showed up.
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