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Col. Lewis L. Millett Post 38 celebrates American Legion’s 98th birthday
Seoul, South Korea
Col. Lewis L. Millett Post 38, South Korea, celebrated The American Legion’s birthday during its March monthly meeting. The American..
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My LAST day in the Corps
Federal Way, WA
I joined in 1968 on a 90-day delayed enlistment so I could avoid the draft AND ship my belongings to..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
Nurse struck by patient receives note of thanks
As a Navy nurse serving at the Naval Hospital in San Diego from September 1968 to May 1970, it was..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
A Soldier at the Wall
A Soldier At the Wall By Jean Meyer You can't imagine what I felt as I looked down at the names The..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Determination counts
I was a country farm boy from Penna, Tenn. I enlisted in the Air Force in October 1964. My first..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Tent poles – yes sir!
In April 1959, Fort Benning, Georgia, we were preparing to go on bivouac. Our platoon sergeant had us in formation..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
A GI bath
This memory dates back to 1944 at Camp Maxey, Texas. There were two platoons in each two-floor barracks, four platoons..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
No candy, please!
Ah, Marine Corps Boot Camp, Parris Island, summer 1960. Hot and lots of sand fleas which you were not allowed..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Marching like a farm boy
I was raised on a farm in Tennessee. We had mules and horses in the 40s and 50s – no..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Dad, did you ride with the sheep?
No, I didn’t ride with the sheep. My daughter enjoys asking that question whenever I tell this story. I enlisted in the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Mail duty
I was drafted in 1964 and sent to the San Diego Naval Training Center. When we arrived we didn’t have..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
A sad remembrance
I would like to share a bad story I carried with me all these years about my basic training. And..
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SALUTE TO NURSES
Anna Dybing Scruggs, 1LT N-731172
Anna was born in Wild Rose, N.D., on 15 Dec 1918, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants. She graduated from ..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Normandy: A Father's Ship and a Son's Curiosity
My father-in-law asked me to find out what happened to his U.S. Navy ship, which had been at the Battle..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Eerie Experience at the Arizona
In November, 1995, I went with my United Church of Christ, (a mainline denomination) pastor husband, David Venator, to Pearl..
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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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