Article: Lehigh Valley vets make trip to see WWII monument.(The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.))

Byline: Jeff Miller

WASHINGTON _ Charles Kowalchuk was standing on the plaza of the National World War II Memorial on Friday when a woman tapped his arm and reached out to shake his hand.

"I'm one of the people you liberated," said Nada Diana Coates, who was born in Yugoslavia and forced to work in one of Hitler's labor camps until American soldiers set her free. Now living in Hampton, Va., Coates told of how she survived the camps to marry a GI and become a U.S. citizen.

It didn't matter to Coates that Kowalchuk, 80, of Walnutport, wasn't on hand when she regained her freedom. Kowalchuk turned a lot of German pillbox gunneries into battlefield ...

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