During the month of November, the 62nd Lights for Peace flag to fly at the Fort Taber – Fort Rodman Military Museum honors the memory of United States Army veteran Stephen Joseph Rogers from New Bedford, MA.
Steve was born on July 16, 1932, in New Bedford, to Joseph Rogers and Mary (Oliveira) Rogers.He spent his childhood in Dartmouth, MA and graduated from Dartmouth High School. He went on to graduate from Fitchburg State College with a bachelor’s degree in education.
While living at 16 Pauline St., New Bedford, Rogers was inducted in the United States Army on December 5, 1952, in Boston, MA and began his active-duty status on July 16, 1932. He was stationed at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, which according to the National Archives, “was briefly reactivated for the Korean War, but lost its status to Fort Dix as the major processing point by the mid-1950s.”…