Max Floto (sitting at right) presents a gavel to Don Cope, the newly elected president of the Connellsville Veterans Commission in 1972. Other veterans observing the transition are, from left to right, Harry Jones, Ralph Burkett, Jack Kopf, and Clarence Smith. Floto was a World War I veteran who, along with Thomas Scott Sr., lobbied for the establishment of Armistice Day (now Veterans Day) as a national holiday. Photo Courtesy of Ed Cope.
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