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Marine’s flag is flying again By John Kennett Midland Daily News (MCT)
Since 1946, Everett “Bud” Richardson has daily raised the U.S. and Marine Corps flags. Those flags have been near and dear to the heart of the Marine Corps veteran, who served in World War II. Unfortunately, because of health reasons, lately the 95-year-old has not been able to raise those flags. “You get old, like I am now, I don’t have the strength in my hands to hook the flags up on the pole out there anymore,” said Richardson. “I haven’t had for a couple of years. People who would go by all the time that knew me would remark when they didn’t see the flag up wondering what the problem was.” In jumped family and a group of concerned citizens to help once again see the Stars and Stripes fly proudly over the Richardson home. “A couple of weeks ago, my daughter, Jan Guzall, and her husband, Bob, came up from Haslett,” said Bud. “They told me they had made arrangements for somebody to come over and put flags up on special days. And then I got a call from the American Legion post that they were going to come over and install a light on
my flagpole so I can put the flags up and just leave them there.” And that happened on Monday when Valley Electric, Standard Electric and Earthworm Drilling joined together to run the electricity and install the spotlight. Now, Richardson can show honor to those flags that he so highly respects. Asked what the U.S. flag meant to him, Richardson paused as he choked up before stating, “I think of all the people who have died so that the rest of us can have what we have today.” Last Friday, Richardson couldn’t wait for those flags to fly again. “That will be something when that flag is up,” he said sitting in his easy chair with a walker next to him. “You know I’ll be out there. I don’t care how cold it is. I think I would do it even in the snow. It is just something that stays very important to me. I told my daughter, when I die, ‘(fly the flags) half staff for a couple of days and then pull them right back up again and just leave them there.’ If the flags fade badly or get tattered just replace them.” Even though the spotlight was installed on a cool, windy, fall day in Michigan, Richardson remembers when the weather was quite a bit different in the Pacific theater during World War II. “I was so glad I chose the Ma-
Olivier Douliery | Abaca Press | MCT People pay their respects on the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, the eve of Veterans Day. More than 58,000 names of U.S. military members who died in the Vietnam War are engraved on the wall.
rine Corps because the poor guys over in Europe, not only were they fighting the Germans, but they were fighting the weather all the time: cold and snow and mud,” he said. “The South Pacific was just as nice and as warm as it could be. I was sure glad that I made the decision to join the Marines.”
Richardson’s story began with his enlistment in the Marines in July 1940. “The country was just trying to come out of the Big Depression and I was single, living at home with my folks and a prime draft target,” laughed Richardson. “I knew we were going to have to go
over to Europe and bail them out again. I felt that if I enlisted in the Marine Corps that I would get more training and that would give me a better chance of surviving.” Following boot camp on Parris Island in South Carolina, it was up to Iceland to relieve British troops.
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