Veteran

Veterans’ service continues at home, thanks to American Legion, VFW posts with research by Cory Alderfer The work of winding down World War II was well under way when the Souderton Independent reported on Dec. 6, 1945, that Cpl. Nicholas Rohs had arrived at his father’s home in Hilltown Township to begin rest furlough. He had been captured at Corregidor in the Philippines in 1942 and spent three years, 11 months, and four days as a prisoner of the Japanese. Rohs, the newspaper reported, was “well on his way” to full recovery. For World War II veterans — and generations before and since — a return to civilian life was just the beginning. Many would look for comradeship and advocacy in organizations that had been founded for those purposes. Fortunately, veterans here could turn to two such groups: In Souderton, American Legion Post 234 had been present since 1919, chartered in the shadow of what was then called the Great War. In neighboring Telford, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5308...