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SALUTE TO NURSES
Gone too young...
I worked for a little over two years on the spinal cord unit at the VA in Minneapolis, where..
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HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Robert Bethel American Legion receives $25,000 donation
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Tuesday, March 21, 2017, At the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla. The Florida Panthers Foundation, a philanthropic foundation owned and operated by..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
How (and who?) do you salute?
The TV sitcom MASH hadn't even been produced yet. But in 1966 when I entered the United States Air Force,..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
The Men at the Wall
The Men at the Wall By: Jean Meyer The men at the Wall aren't really there at all. The names, the faces, the..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
A military nurse in Vietnam
The tears keep rolling down my face I step outside to get away from this place. I don't want to hear all..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Blackstone's mail
In the summer of 1954 I arrived at Lackland Air Base in San Antonio. For basic training, after we..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
Lt. Ora Mae Sorensen Hyatt in service to her country
My mother, Ora Mae Sorensen Hyatt, joined the Army Nurse Corps with her best friend in the fall of 1944,..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
World War II nurses
Sen., Daniel Inouye was seriously wounded in action in Italy in April 1944. In his autobiography, JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON, he..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Patriotic drawing
My grandson Daniel Williams, in 1st grade, drew a picture and wrote "I was fighting in a war. It got..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
Army nurses
In 1966 I was stationed at Ton Son Knuht with the 120th Aviation Company. We were a company of Hueys..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
My favorite nurse
My favorite nurse is my dear wife, Victoria Pablo Lowe. She was the daughter of a Philippine Scout who survived..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Boot camp mail call
Two months after graduating from high school, I joined the U.S. Marine Corps. In August 1963, I reported to Parris..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Fort Lewis memories
A group of us from the upper Midwest entered the Army in the spring of 1969. We looked forward to..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
Pearl Harbor
In the early '90s on Dec. 7, I was serving as the Nurse of the Day at the Great Lakes..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
I took the blame
August 1971. Fort Jackson, S.C. We were doing night firing. Just as we were ready to fire, "READY ON THE..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
A nurse poem to Lillian Olson, Red Cross nurse
April 14, 2017 My wife, Beth Tjon Wosick, had two great-aunts who served as American Red Cross nurses with the American..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
The Honor Guard
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OTHER
Vietnam War Foundation museum adds new wing
Ruckersville, VA
At the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia, there is a museum where anyone can take part..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
Red Cross nurse saves my grandfather's life - 1918
My maternal grandfather, George Eriksen, was a "rough and tough guy" of Danish descent. He served as an Infantry Squad..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
North Dakota Nurses Over There 1917-1919
“North Dakota Nurses Over There 1917-1919” by Grace E.F. Holmes, MD, is being sold by the American Legion Auxiliary Department..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Cockroach
My drill instructor was intense, and today he is a survivalist expert. One day I was cleaning the dorm and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training memories: hometown heroes
Basic Training MEMORIES April 11, 2017 After graduation from high school in 1966, I worked on my father’s farm until I was..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Boot camp
Marine Corps boot camp was like nothing I'd ever seen before. As a new recruit at the ripe old age..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Don't volunteer unless you know the outcome
In the summer of 1973 I was at Fort Knox, Ky., for basic training. One Sunday, near the end of..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Canteen Kool-Aid
My best memory of basic training at the U.S. Air Force Academy, 1965, came from my mother sending me packets..
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VETERANS HELPING VETERANS
Veterans helping veterans
Ocean Springs, MS
For over a decade American Legion Post 42 of Ocean Springs, Miss., has been delivering clothes, magazines and hygiene goods..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
The boys who won the war
Jubilation and celebration demanded that on Nov. 11, 1918, the City of Pittsburgh host a Victory Parade. I entered the..
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OTHER
Basic training
Spring Creek , NV
Basic Training, Fort Sill, Okla., September 1977. "Letter From a Senator" But before I share my story I need to give..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Never run away from the fight
There are so many memories of my basic training at Lackland AFB. The hundreds of situps, the thousands of pushups,..
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OTHER
Iraq War vet pays tribute to his World War I brothers in arms
Pen Argyl , PA
A small monument in a little town in northeastern Pennsylvania bears a plaque with seven names, all men who made..
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