WWII Veteran Awarded Victory Medal 74 Years Later

HOWARD COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — Friends gathered at Harmony Hill’s lobby, a residential care facility, along with 92-year-old Joe Cacioppo- only he had no idea that he was the reason they were all there.
It had been kept a secret until Lisa Terry, the manager of Howard County’s Office of Veterans and Military Families announced it was “to honor World War II marine veteran Joseph Cacioppo with the World War II victory medal,”
Like a lot of other World War II veterans, bur