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Article: Newt Gingrich's Portrait Photographer To Travel to North Baltimore, Ohio To Begin National Documentary of the 10 Remaining United States World War I Veterans with Photo Session of Local World War I Veteran Russell Coffey.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 17, 2007
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday January 18, 2007 David J. DeJonge a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based international award winning photographer will travel to Blakely Care Center in North Baltimore, Ohio to photograph Russell Coffey a World War I veteran born on September 1, 1898 and served in the United States Army.
There are approximately ten World War I veterans alive in the United States of America today. With just a handful of these veterans remaining, time is of the essence to document the last ten. DeJonge is taking on the project knowing he may not get the chance to photograph all of them. "America has a unique opportunity to get a ...