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West Farmington veteran excommunicated from Amish order

November 4, 2019

WEST FARMINGTON - Ora Hochstetler, 82, was drafted into the Army when he was 25. He was Amish, a pacifist faith, but answered the call anyway. When he came home, he was shunned.

Hochstetler served in Baumholder, Germany as an Army medic from March 1962 to November 1963.

After two years in Germany, he spent two years in active reserves and another two in inactive reserves.

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