Joseph J. Gerda’s Silver Star
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Enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1945 and separated in 1946… Graduated the U.S. Military Academy in 1954… Retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1975 and passed away in 2000… Interred: U.S. Military Academy Post Cemetery in West Point, N.Y.