Event Program

Click below to download printable PDF versions of the Celebrate Veterans programs. Paper copies will also be available at the event.

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2011 Speakers

Joseph Lockard was manning a radar station at Opana Ridge when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first person to detect the approaching enemy planes on radar. He is portrayed in numerous films and books, though his full story was never told.

Harold Billow survived the tragic Malmedy Massacre on December 17, 1944. Near the start of the Battle of the Bulge, he and his unit were captured and shot in cold blood by a SS unit. Pretending to be dead, he laid in the snow for hours before making his escape toward the Allied lines.

Severin Fayerman is a Holocaust survivor who, as a young man, was arrested along with his family and interred in a series of death camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Enduring harsh treatment, starvation, and forced labor, he relied on his wits to survive. After the war, he emigrated to the United States and founded Baldwin Hardware.

Carl Constein served as a pilot and co-pilot of cargo aircraft during World War II. In the China-Burma-India theater, he flew 96 missions over the treacherous Himalayan “Hump”, a route that claimed the lives of many air crews. On numerous missions he flew in zero-visibility weather, relying on instruments alone to navigate among mountain peaks and hostile territory.

Mike Feeney is a veteran of the Vietnam War and Supervisor of Feeney Funeral Home in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Nick Camacho has served in the Army Reserve for more than twenty years. He deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom and served two tours in Afghanistan. Still active in the Reserve, he is a chaplain and an Ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church.