Veteran Highlight: Ken Gellatly
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Last updated 11/10/2020 at 4:39pm
Roger Dey
Ken Gellatly particpates in the American legion Post 9 Honor Guard during the 2019 Veteran's Day Observance.
Ken Gellatly joined the Army in 1961.
"I got drafted, but they beat me to it. I was just getting ready to go enlist, but I wasn't sure I was going to go to the Army. I was maybe going to go into the Air Force. I wanted to be a pilot," Gellatly said.
Gellatly served his basic training in Fort Ord, Calif., then got shipped to Fort Campbell, Ky. as a mechanic in the 101st Airborne. "I was in the...
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