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Somonauk man meets POW poet

Somonauk resident Tom Martin, right, met retired U.S. Air Force Major General John L. Borling. left, in Montgomery Tuesday. Borling, a Rockford resident, mentally wrote and memorized his "Taps on the Walls: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton" (Master Wings Publishing, 2013) during imprisonment as an Air Force captain at North Vietnam's Hoa Lo prison from 1966 to 1973. Borling keynoted the Navy League Aurora Council 's April meeting at Grandma's Table Restaurant in Montgomery. (Al Benson photo)

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