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The USNS Hershel “Woody” Williams. Honored for Service In 1979, after 20 years in the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve and 33 years as a veterans’ service representative for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Williams retired. He then turned his attention to honoring vets by asking govern- ment officials to name bridges and highways after them so they would not be forgotten. Throughout his life, he garnered a variety of hono