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Veterans get their long-awaited handshake, cigar

Tuesday, October 12 2010

Veterans get cigarsBy John Warden | Special to the Nevada Appeal

On Friday, Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki welcomed the surviving sailors of the USS Nevada, BB36 fulfilling a promise made 66 years ago by then-Gov. Edward Carville near the end of World War II.

Carville promised each officer and crewman who had served on the Nevada a silver dollar, a handshake and a cigar. They got their silver dollars in 1944. And at the USS Nevada Memorial located on the Veterans Memorial Plaza at the state Capital, Krolicki met each sailor, shook his hand and presented him with a cigar.

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