By Ed Moreth 

Plains man celebrates 100

 

August 2, 2018

Ed Moreth

A BIG FEAT – David J. Henry blows out the candles at his 100th birthday celebration.

On July 30, 1918, renown American writer and poet Joyce Kilmer, an American soldier in the famous Fighting 69th, was killed in action in the Great War's Second Battle of the Marne, the last major German offensive on the Western Front.

On that day in history, the 1st Marine Aviation Force arrived at...



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