Phyllis Curcuru, nearly 89, a veteran member of the American Legion, stands on her porch facing the Legion as the parade ends and folks gather at the Joan of Arc statue on Friday morning. Curcuru lost her husband, Nicholas, a WWII veteran, a month ago yesterday. "He was a good man, a good, good man," she said of her late husband on Friday. Nicholas Curcuru, Navy veteran, was deployed to New Guinea and Borneo from 1941 to 1945 and worked on PT rescue boats. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 11, 2011

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