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Love For The Sea Led This Hero Among Us To Join Navy

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Every week in partnership with the Florida Panthers we highlight a hero among us. This week we introduce you to Arthur “Artie” Meiselman, a WWII veteran.

Arthur “Artie” Meiselman being honored at a Florida Panthers game as a Hero Among Us. (CBS4)

At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served from 1944-1946. He sailed across the vast Pacific on a radar repair ship as a radio operator.

That ship took to Okinawa Japan and he talked about the rough seas he faced there but he always knew someone was looking out for him saying, “One of the bad things about Okinawa was that they had a storm there, a real bad storm.