Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Elmer Dorsten, a local WWII veteran, talks to local students about his experiences in Europe where he received four purple hearts in combat. An estimated 12,000 students are expected to have visited the Healing Field in Maria Stein by the time the field closes this evening.

Related online story:
MARIA STEIN - Jenna Watercutter, a seventh-grader from St. Henry, knows all about heroes.
There are three in her family, grandpa Albert Steinbrunner, uncle Vern Steinbrunner and cousin Matt Galdeen, she says while visiting the West Ohio Healing Field on Monday. [More]
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