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SATURDAY 08.15.15

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70TH ANNIVERSARY OF V-J DAY

A STRUGGLE
THAT DIDNT END

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YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE

Howells Charles Sona wants to remind everyone

what war is really about. And hes not alone.

Guys who have

gone through it,
if we sense
(depression) in
another veteran,
we step in and try
to help. You cant
always get to
them. Its a
heartbreak.

Sample from food

trucks in Tuckerton
There will be a food truck festival at Tuckerton Seaport today
with live music, food and drinks, plus activities for the whole
family to enjoy.

CHARLES SONA

PHOTOS BY PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Charles Sona, a 90-year-old Howell resident who served in the Pacific during World War II.

JERRY CARINO @NJHOOPSHAVEN

This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of

the allied forces victory over Japan, but Howell resident Charles Sona wont be celebrating.
The World War II veteran and longtime
Howell resident will reflect on what was lost,
not what was won.
The waste of all the men that died over
there, he said. If I had my way, wars would be
fought by the politicians that declare it. Not by
sending our young guys to get slaughtered.
Now 90, Sona almost was one of those guys.
He fought in the Pacific theater in 1943 and 1944
before getting blown up during the Battle of
Hollandia in New Guinea. He was on patrol as a
Seabee, a member of the Navys construction
battalions.
I woke up in the mud; a guy was looking
down at me and I couldnt hear him, Sona recalled. Apparently I was blown up by something ... I couldnt walk. I couldnt hear for a Sona holds a hat with his Seabees insignia on it.
while. I still have terrible ringing in my ears. Visit APP.com for a video about Sonas experiences.
See WAR, Page 5A

Enjoy
music and
a campfire

Eat crab
cakes in
Oceanport

There will be a WOODStock

event at the Bass River State
Forest lakeside beach today.

There will be a crab cake

cook-off with food vendors
at Monmouth Park today.

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Happy hour
Connolly Station: Belmar, $2.50
Bud Lights all day; $4 vodka drinks
8-11 p.m.
Sand Bar: Brielle, $5 sangria; $5
house wines; $5 Stoli drinks; 3-6
p.m.

Heroin factory in Berkeley, cops say

JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE
BERKELEY Police arrested seven people and
seized large amounts of heroin, along with crack cocaine and Oxycodone pills, when they executed search
warrants Wednesday at two separate apartments in the
Berkeley Gardens Apartment Complex on Frederick
Drive, Police Chief Karin T. DiMichele said.
In one of the units, police discovered what they said

was a heroin manufacturing facility.

The investigation by the police departments Detective Bureau was the result of several complaints by
residents about narcotics distribution in the neighborhood and in nearby areas along Route 9, the chief said.
Arrested at the first apartment was Ivan Day, 56, of
Frederick Drive, who was found to have more than 100
See DRUGS, Page 10A

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