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December 27, 2005

Reed to present medals to WW II vet's son

PROVIDENCE - U.S. Sen. Jack Reed this morning is scheduled to present the Bronze Star and other service medals posthumously to Loring A. Wennberg, who served as a combat infantryman with the 753rd Tank Battalion in the Rhineland and Ardennes campaigns during World War II.

Reed, a graduate of West Point and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, will present the medals to Wennberg's son, Kenneth Wennberg of Providence. Loring Wennberg died in 1999.

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