A special kind of pennant: Flag pays tribute to Omahan, ballplayer who died in WWII

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I was a park caretaker and lived in the Brown Park pavilion. I maintained the field and park for 9 years.

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SCOTT PREWITT/THE WORLD-HERALD

Jim Wachtler and his wife Sarah are presented the Honor and Remember Flag.

POSTED: MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015 1:00 AM
By Scott Prewitt / World-Herald staff writer

Jim Wachtler had tears in his eyes.

“I cry every time I come here,” said Wachtler, who flew in from San Diego to see his late father honored Sunday at the site of a South Omaha veterans memorial that bears his name.

Wachtler’s dad, Elmer Wachtler, was killed in action Jan. 5, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. He was 26. Jim had just turned 2.

“I never really knew my father,” Wachtler said. “It’s nice to see him recognized.”

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