West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

George Patton's forces as they relieved the Battered Bastards of Bastogne, who famously dug ... who asked to have his picture with the World War II veteran. Born and raised in Boston, Simon ...

After the war, President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948, and as Black and Brown Americans claimed their ...