Local businessman and Vietnam War veteran Michael Militello is among the latest inductees into the New York State Veterans Hall of Fame. He was honored in a special ceremony July 1 at Veterans Memorial Park in the City of Tonawanda.
It’s been decades since he served in Vietnam, but he has one last outstanding mission to fulfill. It’s to find a nurse who helped treat his combat wounds. A nurse who happened to be from Tonawanda, New York.
“I haven’t seen her in 58 years. Linda Pickert,” said Militello on the day he was being recognized. “I looked for her, and I just found somebody in this chapter that says he went to high school with her. She saved my life. I wouldn’t be standing. I’d be in a wheelchair, but I’d still be a little spunky, I guess.”…