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Bonneville news/talk WTOP/Washington reporter Mark Plotkin was escorted out of a White House function on Thursday (Oct. 11). According to a posting on the WTOP Web site, Plotkin attended a function where first lady Laura Bush honored the Ballou Senior High School Marching Band. The post goes on to say that as the first lady finished a short speech, Plotkin called across the room to get her attention. Then, according to an audio clip posted on the site, he asked, "Mrs. Bush, do you agree with those who say and believe that members of the Ballou High School band that...

HARRISBURG - With his draft number coming up and his anger rising over reports of Nazi Germany's human-rights abuses, Abe Plotkin says it was an easy decision to close his Scranton shoe store and enlist in the Army in 1942. "We knew they were mistreating the people," Plotkin recalled in a recent interview. "We didn't know how bad, but we knew they were mistreating them." Plotkin soon found out: After participating in some of the Army's biggest battles in France and Germany, he witnessed the aftermath of Nazi Germany's mass murders at the Ohrdruf labor camp. The experience motivated him:...