Members of American Legion Robert Dutro Post 486 raise the flag at the start of the Veterans Day ceremony held in Groveport’s Veterans Park on Nov. 11. 1st Sgt. Rick Compton, a Navy and Ohio Army National Guard veteran, delivered the address and told the crowd that military veterans often served in “places with different geography and different climates…places that were just not home.” He also told the story of Robert Dutro, a Groveport resident who at age 15 enlisted in the U.S. Marines and fought in World War I. Dutro was killed during intense fighting in the Aisne-Marne Offensive (also known as the Second Battle of the Marne) in Europe in July 1918.
