5 representing 5 U.S. wars honored at YSU dedication

YOUNGSTOWN — James Bobovnyk joined the Army and began serving in the Korean War in 1949, when he was 19.

A year later, Cpl. Bobovnyk was missing. He would never return home to his parents and his eight brothers and sisters on Custer Avenue in Youngstown.

“We never got his body,” said his sister, Martha Pizzulo of McDonald. “Only a rosary and a bathing suit.”

Youngstown State University honored Bobovnyk’s sacrifice and the sacrifices of countless other soldiers with the renaming of Spring Street on campus to Armed Forces Boulevard.

The dedication and ribbon cutting for the road was Friday evening.

Five honored guests representing each military conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries attended, along with representatives of veterans organizations throughout the Valley.

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