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Mark Sooy, left, salutes while standing next to his father, former World War II POW Bruce Sooy, during a
National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the Vietnam Memorial in Vacaville, Friday.
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VACAVILLE — Bruce Sooy sat in a place of honor Friday. The 105-year-old Vacaville man was in the front row, center, at the POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the Solano County Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Merchant Street in Vacaville. A bomber pilot in World War II, the New Jersey native was shot down over the Black Forest and captured by German forces within five hours. He spent the next 13 months in a variety of prison camps. The officers were separated from the enlisted. Sooy does not easily remember a lot of details these days, but his family – daughter Yvonne
Mitchell of Fairfield and son Mark Sooy of Greenville, Nevada – said they were told had it not been for Red Cross packages, he may not have survived. Meals, sometimes, amounted to nothing more than boiled water. As it was, Sooy returned to the United States weighing 115 pounds. A retired lieutenant colonel, Sooy came to Travis Air Force Base in 1955 and is one of six former prisoners of war who live in Solano County. Sooy did remember how 10 bullets had hit the windshield of his plane, but none penetrated. That windshield was stored in a German barn for 70 years and is now at Travis Air Force Base. The other POWs, who did not
attend, are Simeon Jumawan of Vallejo and Richard Lambertson of Vacaville; both in World War II; and from the Vietnam War, Richard “Dog” Brenneman of Vacaville, Robert Stirm of Fairfield and Bill Tschudy of Fairfield. There were family members of other prisoners who have since died who came to the ceremony, which included the Service Veterans of Northern California Volunteer Honor Guard and 28 members of the Vacaville High School Bulldog Band, which played at the POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony for the 44th year. Trumpeters Charlotte Seres and Emily Timmons played Echo See POW, Page A11
Volunteers show up en masse for cleanup day Susan Hiland
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SUISUN CITY — The Suisun Marsh got a good cleaning Saturday with visitors out in the grasses and along the waterways picking up trash that has accumulated over the past year – all part of Coastal Cleanup Day. This was the first year Elizabeth Rocha participated in the cleanup, which has been around for 38 years. She came out with her Girl Scout Troop 32446. “I found out about it INDEX Business A7 Classfieds B9 Comics B12 Crossword A8
a few months ago and wanted to do this as a project for the group but couldn’t figure out how to join it,” she said. With a little research, she figure it out and came out Saturday with about 15 girls to clean the water and banks of the marsh. Volunteers gather every year on the third Saturday of September for Coastal Cleanup Day and spend the morning outdoors picking up trash and recyclable beverage containers to help protect the state’s coastlines,
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oceans and waterways. Organizers expect more than 2,500 volunteers to remove at least 20,000 pounds of trash, litter and recyclables from Solano County parks, trails, waterways
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and roadsides this year. The collected items typically include cigarette filters, plastic bottles, food takeout containers, grocery bags and even e-waste and tires. See Clean, Page A11
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Carrie Pepper, left, holds hands with Mike Little during a National POW/ MIA Recognition Day ceremony in Vacaville, Friday. do not. Those who know freedom remember today those who gave up life for freedom.” Carrie Pepper, whose brother Anthony Pepper, a Marine, is among the 1,600 missing from the Vietnam War, summoned up those words spoken by President Ronald Reagan on Nov. 11, 1988. There are more than 72,000 military personnel from World War II who have never been recovered, the vast majority of those in deep-sea losses. See MIA, Page A11
Council to address homeless issues, not Moy’s censure Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — The requested vote on a censure of Councilwoman Catherine Moy does not appear on the Tuesday agenda of the City Council. Moy admits she called some of her council colleagues “corrupt,” but not all members as claimed by Councilman Scott Tonnesen, who did not hear the comments personally, but said he
had been told about them from a number of individuals. Tonnesen said he could not stand by and let Moy call him and others corrupt, so at the last council meeting he called for the censure to be placed on a future agenda. He received support from Councilman Chuck Timm. Mayor Harry Price, who is running for reelection against Moy and See Council, Page A11
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VACAVILLE — A round table with seven empty chairs and place settings was set up Friday near the Solano County Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Vacaville. The seven glasses sat turned over because there was no one to make a toast at that table. Each setting represented one of the armed services, with a red rose, a yellow ribbon, a slice of lemon and salt – and a burning candle and the Bible – all included to symbolize the bitterness and hope felt by friends and family for the missing members of the American forces. Rory Nichols, commandant of the newly dedicated Marine Corps League Hallam Detachment 1482, explained how the white table cloth served as a reminded that those men and women went off to fight with a purity if intentions in their hearts. “Those who live today remember those who
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