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For a second year, the Moorcroft Senior Center, in cooperation with Donna's Diner, has celebrated Veterans Day with free breakfasts for the warriors, past and present. Seventeen vets and their guests enjoyed a warm morning meal and time among others who share many memories.

Army veteran Arnie Altaffer and wife Penny enjoyed the breakfast. Altaffer served in the jungles of Viet Nam from 1967 to 1969.

"I was a combat veteran so I was out in the boonies," he said. Zien was his base camp, but he seldom saw it, "I probably only saw it about two weeks in the whole year."

Dennis Allen served dur...