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Published on Friday, May 16, 2008
By Dennis McCarthy
Odds and ends from around the Valley:
Bert Dorosy and his buddies will start setting up the folding chairs early Saturday morning in front of the World War II memorial at the Chatsworth train station.
As they have for the past 14 years, they'll brew a few pots of coffee and begin checking their wristwatches as the time gets closer to 10 a.m. - hoping more people will stop by this year for a few minutes to pay their respects.
They won't because hardly anyone still remembers what the third Saturday in May is - Armed Forces Day.
President Harry S. Truman established it in 1949 to mark the unification of the armed forces under one department - the Department of Defense.
Truman envisioned it would be a day when citizens would get together to publicly thank members of the military for serving their country, but Armed Forces Day came too close to Memorial Day - the last Monday in May - and it became a forgotten occasion.
But not for old vets like Bert Dorosy and his VFW buddies
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