by George Comiskey Georgetown, Mass. I was glad to see Roger Mercaldi being honored with a Hometown Heroes banner on Library Street in Georgetown for his time in the Merchant Marine and U.S. Naval Reserve during the Vietnam War era. It was a difficult time period when government needed mariners to man vessels, taken out of mothballs and in various levels of seaworthiness, to support the sealift efforts to Vietnam. I once talked to Roger, who was…
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