Navy Veteran Of World War II Honored

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Tuesday, U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller presented 86 year old Farris Burton of Point Pleasant, a Navy veteran of World War II, with several medals. Burton was aboard two separate vessels that were sunk by German submarines and he spent several days at sea on lifeboats. He eventually returned to a base in Florida and spent the rest of the war on other Navy ships before being discharged in April 1946.