Neil Armstrong And The Korean War

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There are many famous people who you may not know that was a veteran. When you think of veterans you normally think of ordinary people like you and I. Many famous veterans that served for the United States are people who you know as doing something else extraordinary. Extraordinary things veterans have done and you and I know is Neil Armstrong. You probably know him as the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a veteran in the Korean War. The veteran the I will be telling you about is Ted Williams. You may know him as a player on the Boston Red Sox.

Ted Williams fought in the Korean War. In the Korean War, he was a pilot. On February 16, 1953, he was flying his midnight-blue F9F “Panther”. When people saw his airplane they could

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