Some call the Korean War "the Forgotten War," but to U.S. Army veteran Harry Franco, the Gulf War also qualifies.
The Bakersfield resident and North High grad served in that short, intense war, which in 1991 drove Saddam Hussein's invading Iraqi forces out of neighboring Kuwait.
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