The State Bar Association of North Dakota Spring 2015 Gavel Magazine | Page 10

LYNN AAS HONORED
AT 70TH ANNIVERSARY
OF BATTLE OF THE BULGE
As one of the official representatives from
the United States to the 70th anniversary
observance of the epic World War II Battle
of the Bulge, Lynn Aas of Minot was greeted
with thanks and gratitude by the people of
Belgium.
Aas, who turns 94 on June 4, is a retired
lawyer and state legislator who spent most
of his career as the administrator of Minot’s
Medical Arts Clinic. A native of Benedict,
located 40 miles south of Minot, Aas was a
student at the University of North Dakota
before entering the U.S. Army in March
1943. After the war he enrolled in the
UND Law School and earned a bachelor of
commerce and a juris doctor degree in 1949.
He was a member of the North Dakota
Legislature for four sessions, from 1967
through 1969, and 1987 through 1989.
Accompanying him to Bastogne, Belgium,
for 10 days beginning March 19 were his
son and daughter-in-law Joe Aas and Nancy
Morris, both lawyers in Fargo, and two
other sons, Dave of Minot and Dan of Eden
Prairie, Minnesota.

“We felt very appreciated
by the Belgian people
for what American soldiers did.”
World War II Veteran Lynn Aas of Minot
He was invited to be an honored guest by
the Belgium Re