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🌱 How a young Irish clerk helped spare more sons of Bedford and Virginia

Bedford, Virginia Patch AM: a 4 min read

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  • How a young Irish clerk helped spare more sons of Bedford and Virginia

Also on today's calendar: The GovCon Summer Soiree - Federal Contractors NETWORKING EVENT and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: Tony requested we not pronounce his name backwards, why? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., with a high of 91 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Monday: Hot with periods of sun, temps: high: 90, low: 62.
  • Tuesday: Periods of sun, with a high of 83 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• A 21-year-old Irish postal clerk saved lives by helping to cancel the original D-Day invasion. She didn't know until years later. (cardinalnews.org) — A statewide D-Day reflection highlights why the National D-Day Memorial stands in Bedford County, whose “Bedford Boys” suffered the nation’s highest per-capita losses on June 6, 1944. The piece then traces how a 21-year-old Irish postal clerk’s weather readings delayed the invasion by a day, likely saving many Allied lives and inspiring the new film “Pressure.”
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Forest

  • Bedford County to host Hometown Heroes & Helpers event June 13 (newsadvance.com)
  • Should you take a buyout at work? (wfxrtv.com)
  • Once an idol, always an idealist: How interpreters tackle Jefferson, flaws and all (starexponent.com)

Blue Ridge

  • Virginia's Blue Ridge Restaurant Week set to return in September (wsls.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Y-not?! (Thank you Terry N. for sending it in!)
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