Hundreds celebrate 'Rock' Merritt at Airborne & Special Operations Museum
Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Kenneth “Rock” Merritt had been duped.Merritt, a World War II veteran who spent 35 years in the Army and remains active in speaking to modern day paratroopers, believed he was at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum in downtown Fayetteville to speak with a small group of soldiers about the founding father of the U.S. Army Airborne, Maj. Gen. William C. Lee.But instead of Lee, Merritt, 94, was the focus of the day as he was led […]
