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100-Year-Old Navy Veteran Receives Medal from New Jersey for WWII Service 9 May 2021 A 100-year-old Navy veteran received special recognition from the state of New Jersey for his service during World War II. Navy veteran Sidney Finkle, who served as a Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class during World War II, recently received the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal (NJDSM) from acting Deputy Commissioner for Veterans Affairs Walter Nall. The outdoor ceremony took place at Brandywine Living at Pennington, where Finkle, a Trenton native, has been living for seven years with his wife, Jean,...

100-year-old veteran receives N.J. medal for his WWII service Today 12:00 PM In all of Sidney Finkle’s 100 years, there aren’t many people he’s met that he doesn’t like. “I met a couple of people with guns I didn’t like,” he said recently, recounting wartime stories from the early 1940s, when Finkle enlisted and served as a Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class during World War II. “Outside that, there wasn’t anybody I didn’t like,” he said. “Everybody’s nice.” The comments came at a ceremony last month when Finkle was presented with the New Jersey Distinguished Ser...