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<\/a><\/p>\nMy father accepted this however refused to do so in person, he told the Board of Selectman they should have recognized him while he was alive.<\/p>\n
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Here is a letter my Father received dated September 6, 1986 from the Town of Windham (Willimantic). As you can see below the Town recognized the contributions of my Grandfather.\u00a0 Truly he was part of the fabric of the Willimantic, part of its history.\u00a0 He helped keep the town alive as a community, something that … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,9,138,12,59,15,23],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alfred-saba","tag-al","tag-alfred","tag-history","tag-mr-willimantic","tag-politics","tag-saba-family","tag-willimantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>As you can see below the Town recognized the contributions of my Grandfather.\u00a0 Truly he was part of the fabric of the Willimantic, part of its history.\u00a0 He helped keep the town alive as a community, something that has largely died since his passing.\u00a0 Here is the resolution the Board of Selectman passed:<\/p>\n