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Remembering Marine Private First Class Homer Finley Of Longmont

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Homer Finley with a Doberman pinscher named Jan during a training session in North Carolina for a sniper in a tree scenario in March 1943.

Marine Private First Class Homer Finley of Longmont died August 20 at the age of 95. Finley was part of the Marine's War Dog Platoon during World War II. He spoke with Ryan Warner last fall about his memories.