New Jersey Devils Honoring Oakland Veteran, 90
OAKLAND, N.J. — An Oakland resident who turns 91 on Wednesday will be honored Tuesday night, Nov. 10, as the Hero of the Game at the New Jersey Devils' Annual Military Appreciation Night.
Word War II Army veteran August “Gus” Alfred Steidl fought for for years, beginning in 1944, in France, Germany, Austria and what was then Czechoslovakia.
"He is my hero," said Steidl's daughter, Deborah Hauck of Cape Cod, Mass.
"He is the most influential man of my life," she said. "He grew up with a father who did not like him, who told him he was stupid and wouldn't amount to a…