• Mr. Szczublewski, right, with a fellow airman at Patrick Air Force Base in 1952.
    Mr. Szczublewski, right, with a fellow airman at Patrick Air Force Base in 1952.
  • “It’s been 70 years, and I still love the Air Force,” Mr. Szczublewski said.
    “It’s been 70 years, and I still love the Air Force,” Mr. Szczublewski said.

    One of the ways Wood County recognizes its veterans is through the Way Public Library’s participation in the Library of Congress Veterans Project. The purpose is the preservation of veterans’ service memories.

    Recently, the library recorded an interview with longtime Rossford resident, Lawrence Szczublewski, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1955. Mr. Szczublewski was stationed in Germa…