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Military Law

Oct. 2, 2009

Former Prisoner of War Serves the Troops

Thomas Penfield of Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield tells the story of Lester Tenney, a Japanese prisoner of war.

VETERANS

By Thomas Penfield

Carlsbad resident Lester Tenney is determined.

At 89-years-old, the old soldier slogs on, collecting small goods and items for our soldiers and sailors serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in a program he calls Care Packages from Home. Tenney is determined that they will not be forgotten by the country that asked them to sacrifice.

Tenney knows what it's like to be abandoned.

In 1941, Tenny was a ...

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