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  • Local veteran Jerry Hinrichs is presented a small American flag by Giltner’s preschool class before the annual Veterans Day Program Nov. 10.
    Local veteran Jerry Hinrichs is presented a small American flag by Giltner’s preschool class before the annual Veterans Day Program Nov. 10.

    Nov. 10 was a special day in Giltner for a variety of reasons. 
    The school held its fourth annual Veterans Day program with a myriad of vets and students alike gathered to honor those who served. 
    It also happened to fall on the 100th birthday of Lyle Wayne Reab, a 1939 Giltner graduate and US Army Veteran from 1942-44. 
    Reab was killed during World War II and went unaccounted for since, until February of 2021.
    He was returned home and laid to rest June 8 at the Lerton Cemetery. 
    Unidentified remains were recovered from a fox hole on the southeastern end of Vossenack in March of 1948. The remains, which had been buried as an unknown soldier in Ardennes American Cemetery in 1949, were disinterred in June of 2018 and sent to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base for identification.

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