Join us for our annual Veterans’ Day Luncheon at The Carlson with guest speaker Jack Foy.

Jack Foy of Greece represents less than one percent of veterans who served in World War II who are still alive to share their experiences from the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.

Jack was born in 1925 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foy of Charlotte and was one of ten children in his family. He attended Holy Cross School and graduated from Charlotte High School in 1943. His dad was a plumber and owned his own residential plumbing business. His mom was a busy homemaker raising ten children.

At 17, Jack was finishing high school and was accepted into the military’s Army Specialized Training Program at Cornell University. He began his classes in September 1943 during the peak of World War II. The plan was to attend Cornell for two years and receive a degree in engineering as well as a commission into the Army Corps of Engineers. Later that semester, a need for more combat troops kept Foy from reaching his goal. “We were losing a lot of men to the causalities of the war, and there was a need for more infantrymen with high IQs, so they pulled us. I was chosen to go over with about 200 young men in my infantry company.

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