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Lions Clubs putting up flags for holidays MARY PIEPER

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Tom Strong today with a scrapbook of his experiences in the Army in the early 1960s. He was a tank commander serving in Germany near the Czech border.

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om Strong of Mason City was just 17 when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1960.

“I was a cocky kid when I went in. I thought I knew it all. It didn’t take me very long to know I didn’t know anything,” he said with a laugh.

Strong, who became a tank commander, was stationed in Germany near the Czechoslovakian border to help guard against any insurgency by the USSR. He was there when the Cuba Missile Crisis took place. On Oct. 26, 1962, the Strategic Air Command was put on DEFCON 2 alert, meaning they should prepare for imminent nuclear war.

“We thought we were going to war that night,” said Strong, now 78. “Fortunately, it (the crisis) didn’t last very long and people were smart enough not to push red buttons and sending rockets all over the world and ruin the entire world and they came to their senses and decided, ‘No, let’s not call the bluff anymore.’”

Strong, who was living in Council Bluffs when he joined the military, had his Basic Training at Fort Hood, Texas.

The first time he went downtown, he

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Tom Strong in his Army uniform during the early 1960s.

was shocked to see “whites only” signs.

“I was surprised to see that the Southern states were still segregated,” Strong said. “Being from Iowa, that was something I wasn’t accustomed to. I’m like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding. This is the ‘60s.’”

However, all the Army units he was assigned to were fully integrated, and there weren’t any racial problems, according to Strong.

“We got along together and were, what I considered, a family with a common interest,” he said.

In addition to Fort Hood, Strong was stationed at bases in Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey before his squadron was sent to Germany.

“Being in a reconnaissance squadron, we were on the move a lot,” he said.

“Our wartime mission was to make and maintain contract with the enemy. Generally, we were not in any one place for more than 30 days at a time. Our three line troops in our squadron shared the responsibility of guarding our portion of Please see VETERAN, Page C4

Several North Iowa Lions Clubs are putting up flag poles with flags on them for residents and businesses on patriotic holidays.

“It looks really nice in our community to see all the flags up,” said Rona Johnson, president of the Osage Lions Club.

She said other Lions Clubs across the state are also doing this, including the one in Charles City.

The Osage Lions got the idea for the project from their counterparts in Charles City, who launched their service four years ago. The Osage Club has been putting up the flags for a year.

Households and businesses pay the Lions $30 per year. For this fee, the Lions put up flags on five holidays: Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day. Lions Clubs use the proceeds for community improvement projects.

Johnson said the Osage club has around 130 subscriptions for the flag display service so far.

The service is popular with senior citizens because they don’t have to worry about putting up the flags themselves, according to Johnson. She said sometimes their children buy them a subscription as a Christmas present.

All subscribers have to do is tell the Lions where they want the flagpole placed in their yard, and the club does the rest, according to Johnson. This includes making sure it is OK with utility companies to place the underground insert for the pole, placing the insert, putting flagpoles together, putting the flags on the poles, and erecting them in subscribers’ yards a few days before the holiday, and taking them down afterwards.

Russ Schwarz, flag project director for the Charles City Lions, said their club put up 120 flags in 2019.

“It exploded during COVID,” he said, noting subscribers increased by 300% in 2020.

The club will be putting up 600 flags for Memorial Day this year.

“People love it, and it’s kind of going by word of mouth now,” Schwarz said.

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Mason City event to help veterans in need of services MARY PIEPER

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A Sept. 24 event in Mason City will serve as a “onestop shop” for veterans to get help with the challenges in their lives, including homelessness and the danger of becoming homeless.

The North Iowa-Southern Minnesota Veterans Stand Down, to be held in the All-Seasons Building at the North Iowa Fairgrounds, is for all veterans facing food insecurity, housing insecurity, employment and financial insecurity, physical and mental health challenges, and alcohol and substance abuse.

The goal is to “bring as many resources as possible together at one place and one time so any veterans in the area that need us can come there and meet face to face with anybody they need,” said Peter Bieber, president of the North Iowa-Southern Minnesota Veterans Stand Down.

The first Stand Down event was held in 1989 in San Diego. Bieber said it was started by Vietnam veterans who “noticed that homelessness was becoming a big problem in the veteran community.”

Since then the idea has worked its way across the country. The Des Moines now has its own Stand Down event, and the organizers there are helping Bieber, North Iowa-Southern Minnesota Stand Down Vice President Josh Davison, Secretary Larry Paul, and other organizers of the Mason City event.

Bieber is retired from the Iowa Army National Guard’s 1133rd Transportation Company. Davison, a U.S. Army veteran, is a disabled veterans’ outreach specialist with Iowa Workforce Development. Paul is the director of the area chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America.

Bieber said North Iowa has its share of homeless veterans. Northern Lights Homeless Shelter has a facility called Heroes Hall in Mason City, which is specifically for veterans.

There’s also a housing unit in Forest City for homeless veterans.

The Stand Down event will include a job fair through Iowa Workforce Development featuring employers from the area who have a record of hiring veterans.

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Stand Down is also working with the Forest Citybased Family Alliance for Veterans of America (FAVA), which covers 44 counties in Iowa.

Officially, the Stand Down event is for veterans from Cerro Gordo, Butler, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth, and Wright counties in Iowa and Fairibault, Freeborn, and Mower counties in Minnesota.

Veterans service officers from each county will be at the Stand Down event.

However, if any veterans from outside those counties attends, “we are not going to turn them away,” Bieber said. “They will get services.”

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few projects where nearly all the members get involved.

About 15 members recently gathered together and put together 100 flags in 90 minutes, according to Schwarz.

“They are really beautiful flags,” he said.

Each flag, which is Made in the USA of high-quality material, measures 3 feet high and 5 feet wide, according to Schwarz. They are placed on 10-foot-high poles.

Schwarz works at ACE Hardware. He said the owners “have given us special deals and probably saved us $15,000 on flags over the past four years.”

Charles City will be an overnight stop on this summer’s RAGBRAI route, so the Lions plan to put up flags on that day in addition to the usual five holidays.

Schwarz said this way the riders will see the flags as they come into town.

A few other Lions Clubs have been asking the Charles City club about the flag service project, according to Schwarz.

The project is part of the Charles City Lions tradition of giving back to the community, he said. As of the Lions’ 100th anniversary in town, which was celebrated last

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the border along the Iron Curtain between Czechoslovakia and Germany.”

One day during the winter, his squadron got an unannounced alert that sent them to their defensive positions. In order to get there, they had to pass through a small town.

Strong’s tank slid on an ice-covered road. He couldn’t get the vehicle to stop, and it crashed into the living room of a German man’s house.

“He came down the stairs and was none too happy,” Strong said.

However, Strong is sure the U.S. government paid for the damage to the home.

Strong spent three years in

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The Osage Lions Club installs flagpoles with flags for residents and businesses on a subscription basis for holidays such as Memorial Day. They got the idea from the Charles City Lions Club. Pictured from left are Osage Lions Club members Rona Johnson, Mark Penney, Denny Johnson, Diane Mooberry, Dale Mooberry, Tom Youngblut, Donalyn Peter, and Barb Youngblut. year, the club had donated a total The club recently donated for playground equipment. have given a lot back to the comof $1.5 million to organizations $8,000 to The Learning Center “This (the flag project) puts a munity over the years,” Schwarz (TLC) child care and preschool lot of money in our coffers and we said. and projects in Charles City.

active service before being put on stand-by reserve duty. He said at that time he still wasn’t old enough to vote or have a beer because the legal age to do both was 21.

He later found out a lot of the men from his armory unit were caught in an ambush in Vietnam “and had been wiped out.”

Strong spent two years in inactive reserve before receiving his discharge from the Army in 1966.

The military has changed a lot since he served, including discipline, according to Strong.

He said one of the platoon sergeants in his company “was just a huge man, and if you did something wrong instead of reporting you and writing you up and putting it on your record and stuff, he would take you out behind the billets and would re-educate you. He would physically

re-educate you and he was big enough that he pretty much got his point across no matter who he had out there.”

However, everyone respected him “because he got your line of thinking in line because to be a good member of your unit you have to be a team player,” Strong said. “They still do that today but their means are doing it are completely different. If a sergeant took somebody behind the billets today to do that, he wouldn’t be in the service anymore.”

One thing that has improved is the understanding of the issues veterans face, according to Strong. He said not much was known about PTSD during the 1960s, which made things difficult for many who were in the military – including his younger brother, who was in the Marines during the Vietnam War.

The transition to civilian life can be difficult for veterans, especially if they were under enemy fire, according to Strong.

He said he was never under direct fire himself, but “when you are in a foxhole and bullets are cracking over the top of your head, you have a whole different way of looking at life.”

When Vietnam veterans came home, “you had the general public spitting on you and stuff, and you were advised to change out of your uniform that you are proud of into civilian clothes so people will leave you alone,” Strong said.

Fortunately, society is now making up for that, he said, pointing to the Operation LZ event held in Forest City in 2015, the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The idea behind the event was to say “Welcome home, guys, we

really appreciate what you did,” Strong said.

But society still has some additional work to do in how it treats veterans, according to Strong.

“These guys and gals put their lives on the line 24/7, and then they come home and have to resort to committing suicide because they can’t cope anymore and there’s no help out there,” he said. “That’s not right.”

Strong said he’s pleased that a Stand Down event is being planned in Mason City this fall to reach out to area veterans having adjustment problems and put them in touch with experts.

Despite all the challenges of serving in the military, Strong wouldn’t trade his own experience for anything.

“I grew up in the Army as I began my service as a kid, and I left as a man,” he said.

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Rock Falls veteran’s letters home preserve his memories Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Globe Gazette on Sunday, May 28, 2017.

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Roland Gorkowski was a 20-yearold farm kid from Rock Falls when the Army sent him to Korea.

Gorkowski, who died in 1979, didn’t talk much about the war when he returned home. But he wrote home to his parents regularly when he was in Korea and his daughter, Rhonda True of Mason City, has preserved many of his letters.

Collectively, they tell a story of a kid who was thousands of miles away from home, sometimes in awe of what he was experiencing, other times cynical; sometimes describing primitive farm equipment he was seeing, other times wondering how the crops were doing back home.

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Gorkowski All of his letters were written in legible cursive, as if he was sitting at a desk in a comfortable office somewhere instead of in a dusty tent in the middle of nowhere.

“We are south of the 38th parallel about four miles,” he wrote in June of 1951. “We got our positions dug in pretty deep. We practice firing every day. Sure a waste of ammunition. I guess we fire some demonstration for some big shots the next three days. Tomorrow night we get to go to a Jack Benny program. Should be pretty good.”

(Jack Benny was a famous comedian of his day with both radio and television programs.)

The living conditions for the soldiers were plain and simple.

“We live in a big tent with mosquito netting all around it. Sure cool at night,” he wrote. “It finally rained the other day and settled all that dust. In the daytime, it must be 100 degrees.”

The soldiers got treats on Independence Day. Gorkowski wrote to his parents, “We had ice cream and turkey for the 4th of July. Also we got six cans of beer but they

were warmer than hell.”

The Iowa farm boy inquired often about how the crops were doing back home and wrote about the agriculture he was witnessing.

“We have been on the train the last few days. Japan sure is a beautiful country. All the farms are like garden spots,” he wrote.

“The wheat is ripe here. They thresh by beating sticks on it.

The corn is about waist high and the beans about knee high. They plant rice in mud knee deep. Their plows are old wooden things. They pull them with a Holstein cow and milk her at night. The cows in the states really get a break, ha!”

In one of his letters he mentioned how skinny the mules were and how they were always kicking someone. Also, he wrote, “Heard a pig squeal; long time since I heard that.”

Gorkowski was exposed to many different cultures, as he

explained in this letter. “Yesterday, I got mixed up with a bunch of French soldiers. They are really good looking men. Also, I see Canadians, Greeks, Turks, Filipinos and Belgiums. Do they ever like USA cigarettes.”

True said she didn’t think her father was in combat in Korea but he witnessed some things he would never forget.

In October of 1951, he wrote home, “On the train, along the tracks, people are just lined up for cigarettes and candy the soldiers throw out to them. Yesterday, we hit one of them. Killed him instantly. I seen it all happen.

There are so darn many of them.

You never seen so many kids as there are here.”

After the war, Gorkowski came home to Rock Falls and dairy farmed with his father. He suffered a brain aneurism and died in January 1979. He was 48.

Vietnam veteran dreamt about cheeseburgers and fries Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Globe Gazette on Sunday, May 29, 2016.

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When Jim Knutson drove a tank retriever during the Vietnam War, he faced two foes: the Viet Cong and the jungle.

“It was no place for a tank,” said the Clear Lake resident. “The terrain was terrible. The enemy could see us coming a mile away.”

Knutson and the others in his unit had to deal with mud during the monsoon season as well as mosquitoes and biting ants. They also were in danger of contracting disease.

His unit’s job was to seek out the enemy and keep them from establishing themselves deep in the jungle.

Knutson said the Viet Cong tried to pick them off one at a time through snipers and land mines.

“You never knew when your number was up,” he said.

Knutson was injured during

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Jim Knutson. an ambush and received a Purple Heart.

He said he was never a lucky guy but considers himself “very lucky to make it out alive.”

Knutson, 70, grew up in southern Minnesota and graduated from Kiester High School in 1963.

He was drafted in 1965 and enlisted in the Army after that so he could get a better choice of what he would do and where he would go.

Knutson said he had the chance

Jim Knutson, 1967 in Vietnam. to train as a helicopter pilot but turned it down because “all those guys were going to Vietnam.”

He went to tank mechanic school instead, but still ended up going to Vietnam.

A tank retriever is like a wrecker for tanks, according to Knutson.

The M-88 retriever he operated weighed 62 tons.

It was his job to pull out tanks that got stuck in the mud or tow tanks that got hit.

“We never left anything behind,” Knutson said.

He once towed away a tank while it was still burning after being hit.

Ammo was still going off at the time.

The four members of the tank crew were badly burned.

Another time five tanks got stuck in quicksand. Knutson said they couldn’t be moved so they had to spend the night where they were.

“Good thing the enemy didn’t

know,” he said.

The next day chainsaws were flown out to them so they could build a log road to get out.

Knutson’s unit lived in the jungle for two or three months at a time and ate C-rations. He said he would dream about McDonald’s cheeseburgers, fries and chocolate shakes.

Knutson served in Vietnam from January 1967 to January 1968.

When he flew back to the U.S. it was “one of the happiest days of my life,” Knutson said.

He said he kissed the ground when his plane landed in San Francisco.

Knutson worked at Jerry’s Body Shop in Clear Lake for a decade after coming home. He has worked for McKiness Excavating in Mason City for the past 38 years.

Every Vietnam veteran had a different experience, according to Knutson.

“I think about Vietnam every day, but don’t let it affect my daily life,” he said. “I forget a lot about it until I start talking about it.”

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‘Right place at the right time’ Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Globe Gazette on Sunday, May 29, 2016.

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Globe Gazette on Sunday, May 28, 2017.

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After Mavis “May” Schmidt graduated from Lake Mills High School in 1962, she enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps because she wanted more education and an opportunity to see the world.

“I made a pretty good run at it,” said Schmidt, who now lives in Northwood.

She served in Vietnam for three years. She was a secretary/stenographer/receptionist for Gen. Creighton Abrams, who was first deputy commander and then commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV).

One of her tasks was typing top-secret messages.

She met movie stars touring with the USO, as well as ambassadors and TV news broadcasters. But it wasn’t all glamorous.

She said Americans in Vietnam were in danger of being bombed or shot at everywhere they went.

On Jan. 30, 1968, the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Schmidt was at a hotel in downtown Saigon with some friends. That night the Viet Cong tried to take over the city.

Schmidt and the others heard machine guns firing and explosions all night long.

She said she and two GIs decided to leave the hotel and go back to MACV headquarters, which was just a few miles away.

As they were driving through a dark alley, an MP on the roof of a nearby building yelled at the top of his lungs, “Get the (bleep) out of here!” Schmidt recalled.

As they took off, they heard automatic weapons firing right behind them.

“We were scared to death,” Schmidt said.

When they got to the Third Field Hospital there were 13 dead bodies hanging on the wire. Schmidt said they were members of the VC who

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Mavis Schmidt were trying to get into the hospital and were killed by American MPs. When Schmidt and the GIs got back to headquarters, they found out no one else had been able to make it in.

Schmidt watched two Cobra helicopters dive-bomb the VC. “I’ll never forget the sound,” she said.

Before being transferred to MACV headquarters, Schmidt was at Long Binh Post for eight months.

When Schmidt first joined the Army, she played the trombone in the Women’s Army Corps Band in Alabama. The band toured the country and played at places like Cape Canaveral.

Then she worked as a clerk/typist for Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson at the Pentagon, as well as Abrams, who was vice chief of staff at that time.

“I just happened to be at the right place at the right time,” she said.

She remained in the Army for a time after returning from Vietnam.

After she was honorably discharged from the Army in 1974, Schmidt went to Colorado. She attended college and worked as a geologist in the oil fields in Wyoming.

She returned to Iowa to raise her daughter.

Schmidt said she feels lucky compared to all those who were killed in Vietnam. She said she doesn’t think they lost their lives in vain because the cause was just.

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A St. Ansgar man was compassionate to the youngest victims of the Korean War while stationed near Seoul.

“There’s no one that suffers more in war than the children,” said Nels Goldberg, 83.

Goldberg, then a 23-year-old carpenter, was drafted and assigned to the military police. He joined the 728th MP BN, part of the 8th Army, which was responsible for guarding a highly-classified Air Force installation about 10 miles north of the capital that was surrounded by rice paddies.

He was sent to Korea in March 1956, after the war had ended.

“We never knew what they were doing, but our job was to make sure the airmen were secure,” he said. “We were all alone but no harm was going to come to any of us.”

Although there during peacetime, Goldberg said his unit was instructed to leave the area in case of attack, and the installation would be blown up.

He believes that unit is still guarding the same spot today, which is located near the 38th parallel, or the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.

The Pubwoon Orphanage, which housed about 60 children, was about three-fourths of a mile away from where Goldberg was stationed.

“We could see the kids any time we wanted to,” he said. “We were always welcome.” During a Christmas party, the children sang carols in English and Korean to the soldiers, who gave them a meal and fresh fruit.

His mother and church women in his hometown of Lyle, Minnesota, collected and mailed warm clothing for the orphans for the winter, weather Goldberg said

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Nels Goldberg often visited children in an orphanage near Seoul, where his unit was stationed. was similar to Iowa. He continued to send clothing to the orphanage two years after he returned home in August 1957.

The children, however, craved attention the most.

“What I couldn’t bring them didn’t compare to me sitting and holding them in my lap,” he said.

His unit even took in a 13-year-old boy, Lee In Soon, otherwise known as Tony, who had no known living relatives.

He had been found alone during the war.

Tony lived in the barracks with the officers, wearing a khaki uniform with master sergeant stripes a village woman had tai-

lored for him.

“He spent an awful lot of time with us guys,” Goldberg said.

“He just loved the GIs.” Two years after he returned home, Goldberg received a letter saying Tony had found a grandmother but didn’t hear from him again after that. He would be in his early 70s today.

“When I knew him, he spoke fluent English, so I think he could have gotten a tremendously good job in Seoul,” Goldberg said.

Whenever he visited Seoul — then a city of about 1 million — Goldberg always brought a camera. “You’d never know what you’d see along the way,” he said.

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agnes serVed in the Us a rMy for 28 years. she serVed as a coMBat nUrse in wwii, korea and VietnaM. ★ THOSE WE REMEMBER ★

1930 – 2014 in honor of dUane kUhlers who serVed his arMed serVice in

gerMany.

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agnes leWis

duane a. kuhleRs

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John F. diekeMa

JunioR (bud) baRkeMa, bRotheR to oRval & dale

Beyond MeasUre.

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haVe coMe and gone and yet yoUr MeMory is still strong. we Miss yoU.

toUched Many liVes in a positiVe way. loVe, “steVie”

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dad, so Many years

1945 – 2021

My Uncle BoB was the VietnaM Vet that i learned to haVe respect for. he ★ THOSE WE REMEMBER ★

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RobeRt W. bRoWn

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1945 – 2021

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certified trUck Mechanic. dearly loVed & greatly Missed, yoUr loVing faMily

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serVing oUr coUntry in the

arMy in gerMany froM 1963 to 1965. linda and sUsan

25th diVision, VietnaM 1966 – 1967, r adio operator, Mortar gUnner, r e sUpply

1931 – 2021

Us arMy, korean war 3 ½ years, serVed as a

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we loVe oUr handsoMe soldier. thank yoU for

1946 –

with those who haVe and are serVing oUr coUntry so we May enJoy oUr freedoMs.

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serVing oUr coUntry in the

arMy in VietnaM froM 1965 to 1967. linda and sUsan

1940 –

laRRy c. hagen

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we loVe oUr handsoMe soldier. thank yoU for

viRgil davis

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1946 –

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Ron davis

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oUr deepest gratitUde to yoU dad and grandpa along

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1920– 1995

U.s. arMy 1942 – 1945 wwii serVed with the 535th anti-aircraft artillery. part of 1944 eUropean d day inVasion at Utah Beach.

1929 –

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he serVed in wwll as staff sergeant arMorer gUnner in the U.s air force. his B-17 BoMBer was shot down oVer poland. he was captUred By the gerMans and was a prisoner of war for 18 Months. when he arriVed Back in the U.s. he was Married to MaUdie e. lattiMore (kendall) in 1947 and, in 1953 had thoMas M. lattiMore. the Bronze star, silVer star Medal, good condUct Medal, air Medal, pUrple heart and eUropean Battle star were aMong his Many Medals. great grandpa toM and his serVice will always Be reMeMBered. loVe, nataly lattiMore

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1925 - 2016

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loVingly reMeMBered for

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1923 – 2012

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froM the hell of the first infantry diVision the 96th landing on okinawa (2016 MoVie hacksaw ridge) to fight for all oUr freedoM. loVe, yoUr faMily

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1920– 1988

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thank yoU for yoUr dedicated serVice with the arMy Both actiVe and reserVe froM 1966 to 1991. serVing in korea, gerMany, kUwait, saUdi araBia. yoU serVed with honor. god Bless.

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U.s.a.f. – 4 years – crew chief – B-29 BoMBer – soUth pacific. farMed – 64 years. coUnty sUperVisor – 8 years. think of yoU eVery day. rich, daVe, garry

PhilliP FlinchuM

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1922 – 2003

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chUck went into the Marines in 1978. Married shelly, they had two

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1960 – 2015

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thanks to all who foUght and died for oUr freedoM. god Bless yoU all!

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1921 – 1944 kia FRance

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‘Going to stay alive for a year’ Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Globe Gazette on Sunday, May 29, 2016.

MOLLY MONTAG

For the Globe Gazette‌

Ed Buchanan spent 11 months in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia.

It was difficult to comprehend at the time. Forty-six years later, it’s almost hard to believe it was real.

“I can remember sitting in the jungle just as clear as it was yesterday, with leeches crawling on me, thinking this has got to be a bad dream,” said Buchanan, now of Clear Lake “This is all gonna be over and it’s going to be like it never happened.”

A Marshalltown native, Buchanan was a specialist fourth class in the 1/12th Bravo Company, First Cavalry Division air mobile.

Drafted in March 1969, he enlisted after he got his notice. The theory was those who enlisted were treated better than those who were drafted, although Buchanan said he never noticed a difference.

Basic training was in Fort Polk near Leesville, Louisiana. Buchanan stayed at the sweltering base in southern Louisiana for much of the hot, humid summer in order to complete advanced infantry training.

“Honestly, the climate was worse than Vietnam, I thought,” he said, laughing.

The flight into Vietnam was a terrifying experience.

“The only time I was really, really scared was flying in that first night into Vietnam, because I didn’t know if they’d been shooting at us when we were getting out of the plane,” Buchanan said.

“I didn’t know what was going to go on.”

Those moments of trepidation before landing were worse than his duties of patrolling the jungle.

Buchanan was sent on missions with 12-14 other soldiers. They’d be dropped off and told to be at a predetermined location by a certain day.

Although based in the city of

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Ed Buchanon, Clear Lake.

Helicopters in the air over Vietnam are shown in a photo provided by Ed Buchanan, of Clear Lake. He served from December, 1969, to November, 1970.

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Ed Buchanan (left) is shown with a fellow soldier in an undated photo from his deployment in Vietnam. He served from December 1969 to November 1970.

Bien Hoa, Buchanan spent most of his time west of there in the jungle along the Vietnam-Cambodian border.

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“I have to be here for a year and I’m going to stay alive for a year and I’m going to go home,” Buchanan remembered telling himself. “I’m not in a hurry to get anyplace other than home.”

He and his fellow soldiers saw some strange things.

Leeches as big as a man’s finger.

Communist propaganda stapled to trees.

Once they found a North Vietnamese flag hung in the middle of a patch of jungle they’d recently patrolled.

Then there was the tiger.

Although he’d heard tigers roamed the jungle, Buchanan had never seen one.

That changed when one of the elusive animals hit a mine tripwire strung around the American campsite and was killed by the blast.

“Our company commander wanted the hide so we butchered

it and we said, well, let’s eat it,” Buchanan said. “It was wild-tasting. A little stringy.”

He still has a faded picture of the tiger, it’s hindquarters damaged by the mine blast, lying at the soldiers’ feet while they skinned it the next morning.

He was in Vietnam from Dec. 5, 1969, to Nov. 11, 1970.

Overall, Buchanan considers it a good experience. He doesn’t want everyone to have to go to war, but believes everybody should serve at least two years in the military.

And, he doesn’t hold anything against the North Vietnamese soldiers or Viet Cong communist fighters.

They didn’t want to go to war any more than he did. And Buchanan just wanted to do what he was told, get home and get on with his life.

“I just wanted to go home,” he said.

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When flags of states, cities or organizations are flown on the same staff, the U.S. flag must be at the top (except during church services conducted at sea by Navy chaplains).

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he United States flag was first imagined after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The Continental Congress authorized creation of the first national flag on June 14, 1777. It was decided that the flag should have 13 stripes, alternating red and white, to represent the original 13 colonies, and that the new union be represented by 13 white stars in a blue field to signify a “new constellation.” Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, is most often credited with the original design.

Today there are 50 stars on the flag to represent the 50 states, while the 13 stripes still represent the 13 British colonies that became the first states.

While this may be common knowledge, Public Law 94344, known as the Federal Flag Code, may not be as widely known. The code dictates that the flag is to be treated with respect and proper etiquette. The code is extensive, but the following guidelines can help private individuals interested in displaying their flags do so in accordance with the law.

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If the flag is not on a staff, it should hang free, with the union facing north or east, depending on the direction of the street.

In a group of flags displayed from staffs, the U.S. flag should be at the center and the highest point. State and local flags are traditionally flown lower than the American flag.

A flag in poor condition should be destroyed with dignity, preferably by burning. Most American Legion posts and local Boy Scouts troops will have the resources to retire flags accordingly. Many will host annual flag retirement ceremonies on Flag Day.

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When the flag is being raised or lowered, or when the flag passes by during a parade, Americans should place their right hand over their heart.

Never let the flag touch the ground or anything underneath it.

Never display a flag with the union down, except to signal distress in extreme instances of danger.

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ach year on the last Monday of May, Americans celebrate Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors and mourns American military personnel who died while performing their duties in service to the United

States Armed Forces. Memorial Day has a rich history and one that’s worth revisiting as the nation prepares to honor the sacrifices made by its military personnel over the centuries.

Freed slaves played a role in the establishment of Memorial Day. The American Civil War is the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the Union and the Confederacy each suffered more than 800,000 casualties by the time the war ended in 1865. According to History.com, as the war drew to a close, hundreds of Union soldiers who were being held as prisoners of war died and were buried in a mass grave in a Con-

federate prison camp in South Carolina.

After the Confederate surrender, more than 1,000 now-freed slaves honored those recently deceased Union soldiers during a ceremony in which they sang hymns and distributed flowers. The ceremony was dedicated to the fallen soldiers and served as a precursor to what is now celebrated as Memorial Day.

Confederate soldiers were honored, too.

Confederate losses during the Civil War outnumbered Union losses, and those losses were not forgotten by southerners who survived the war. History.com notes that, in 1866, the Georgia-based Ladies Memorial Association, one of many similar organizations to arise in the aftermath of the war, pushed for a day to honor fallen Confederate soldiers. In fact, these efforts are believed to have influenced General John A. Logan. In 1868, General Logan, a Civil War veteran who was then serving as commander-in-chief of a group of Union veterans, ordered the decoration of Union graves with flowers on May 30. The day would ultimately be known as “Memorial Day.”

It took a long time for Memorial Day to become a federal holiday.

Despite tracing its origins to the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Memorial

Day did not become an official federal holiday until 1971, more than a century after the war ended. This is the same year the holiday was officially designated as taking place on the last Monday in May. The designation has periodically drawn the ire of veterans and military supporters who suggest it is now more widely seen as the unofficial beginning to summer and not a day in which the sacrifices of fallen U.S. soldiers are honored to the extent that they should be.

Debate exists about which town has the longest history of celebrating Memorial Day. A handful of towns claim to be the first celebrants of Memorial Day. That debate figures to continue in perpetuity, but History.com notes that Waterloo, New York, was officially recognized by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1966. Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, Wisconsin are some other towns that claim to have celebrated Memorial Day since the mid-1860s.

Memorial Day has a rich history that highlights the importance of honoring the men and women who have given their lives while in service of the United States military.

Honoring Their Sacrifice.

Remembering Their Lives.

Celebrating Their Memories.

THANKING

OUR MILITARY HEROES.

On Memorial Day, we pause to honor and remember the brave men and women of our military who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States of America. Their patriotism, courage, sacrifice and immeasurable contribution to our nation will never be forgotten.

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acrifice is a big part of serving in the United States military. Active duty personnel spend significant time away from their families, and many who have served overseas return home with injuries that affect both their physical and mental well-being.

As the nation commemorates Memorial Day, individuals and organizations can take steps to honor the sacrifices millions of veterans have made on behalf of their families, friends and neighbors who call the United States home.

Encourage a veteran to share his or her story.

Individuals who know a veteran can encourage that individual to share his or her story about serving. This can reassure veterans that others care about the sacrifices they made and let veterans know that their sacrifices and service to their country were not in vain. Individuals who ask veterans to share their story also benefit, gaining valuable insight into what is required to protect their freedoms.

Support veterans events in your community.

Attending community-based events for Memorial Day lets veterans know their sacrifices won’t be forgotten even when they’re no longer with us. In addition, support community efforts to honor local veterans, such as commemorative plaques and endeavors such as the Hometown Heroes Banner program, which honors past and present military members with high quality banners featuring the names of individuals who have served. These banners are often hung on telephone poles and serve as a constant reminder of the sacrifices local residents made to make their communities and country safe places to live.

Begin an oral history project.

Oral histories are invaluable resources because they are told through first person perspectives. This is similar to encouraging veterans to share their stories, but documentation takes things one step further and lends a sense of permanence to veterans’ experiences and accounts of their service. When speaking with local veterans, ask them if they would like to be recorded. Advancements in technology have made oral histories easier than ever to compile, and individuals can work with local veterans groups and universities to identify veterans who served and want to share their stories on the record.

Work with We Honor Veterans We Honor Veterans is a program sponsored by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization that is designed to help organizations serve veterans in their communities.

The program was initially designed for hospice providers, but has since expanded to welcome other community-based health organizations. The program aims is to provide the highest quality of care to military veterans.

Organizations can learn more at www. wehonorveterans.org.

Memorial Day is a great time to honor the brave men and women who have served in the military.

Supporting community-based programs and urging veterans to share their stories is a great way to recognize the sacrifices they’ve made in service of their country.

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KOREA

BY THE NUMBERS - IOWA An estimated

Of the 70,000 Iowans who served in Korea, 567 were killed in action, 40 of whom were from North Iowa.

AND MORE THAN 5.8 MILLION AMERICANS

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70,000 IOWANS

54,246 DIED

served in all branches of the military during the Korea War era, 1950 to 1953.

in support of their country, with another 103,284 wounded.

Approximately 8,200 are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea.

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997,000 ALSO SERVED DURING WORLD WAR II,

347,000 DURING THE VIETNAM WAR AND

291,000 DURING ALL THREE WARS. THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR WAS AWARDED TO

131 VETERANS OF THE KOREAN WAR.

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Nels Goldberg of St. Ansgar served in the 728th MP BN, part of the 8th Army. He provided security for a classified Air Force installation near Seoul.

Those who served, were killed in action or went missing are honored by the Iowa Korean War Monument in Des Moines, as well as the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.

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NORTH IOWANS KILLED IN KOREA

Charlie R. Alitz, 21, Plymouth — Army

Monte M. Auen, 19, Kanawha — Army

John D. Beagles, 31, Charles City — Navy

Daniel E. Cahalan, 35, Mason City — Army

Lyle H. Carman, 20, Mason City — Army

Virgil D. Clark, 19, Mason City — Army

Carl J. Claus, 24, Plymouth — Army

Charles J. Dostart, 21, Charles City — Army

Daryl K. Eisenman, 23, Britt — Army

Delbert J. Fosnaugh, 19, Algona — Army

William F. Garrett, 18, Hampton — Army

Forrest D. Harriott, 18, Mason City — Army

John Hovel, 23, Plymouth — Army

Leslie B. Hills, 30, Osage — Army

Dean M. Holland, 22, Thompson — Army

Alfred O. Hove, 32, Northwood — Army

Anthony J. Jones, 19, Belmond — Army

Robert E. Koller, 24, Mason City — Army

Joie Korte, 21, Titonka — Marines

Leighton G. Kreider, 19, Rockford — Army

William Laughlin, 18, Osage — Marines

Arnold J. Lavin, 32, Mason City — Army

Billie E. Lewis, 19, Mason City — Army

Richard C. Loomer, 23, Mason City — Navy

Edward H. Mehmen, 25, Charles City — Army

Robert L. McGee, 18, Greene — Marines

Allen K. Oleson, 20, Forest City — Army

Jerry W. Parker, 23, Britt — Army

Everett H. Pendarvis, 35, Meservey — Army

Robert D. Peterson, 25, Lake Mills — Air Force

Arnold D. Rivedal, 27, Mason City — Air Force

James J. Roach, 22, Mason City — Marines

Gerald G. Smith, 21, Charles City — Navy

James H. Smith, 19, Forest City — Army

Manuel J. Spoon, 32, Lu Verne — Army

Clyde D. Steele, 23, Charles City — Army

Jerry D. Thomas, 17, Mason City — Army

Eugene J. Thome, 21, Stacyville — Navy

Marvin W. Tibbits, 21, Mason City — Army

Robert D. Van Note, 20, Mason City — Marines

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VIETNAM

BY THE NUMBERS - IOWA

150,000 IOWANS

5 IOWANS WERE AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR THEIR BRAVERY.

served in all branches of military during the Vietnam War years, 1964 to 1973. Most were in Vietnam for at least one year.

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Vietnam veteran Tony VanKampen, at right, shakes the hand of fellow Vietnam veteran Jay Gourley of Corwith.

Of those 115,000, 869 were killed in action, 56 of whom were from North Iowa.

Their names are inscribed on the Iowa Vietnam War Monument, which was dedicated in 1984 on state capitol grounds.

NORTH IOWANS KILLED IN VIETNAM

Kenneth M. Baldwin, 19, Grafton — Marines

Howard M. Bissen, 20, Stacyville — Army

Dean A. Borneman, 21, Dumont — Army

Paul D. Carson, 23, Leland — Army

Dennis A. Carlson, 19, Charles City — Marines

Richard L. Cullen, 28, Mason City — Army

Robert R. Davis, 21, Forest City — Army

Patrick M. Dillon, 40, Belmond — Army

Gerald L. Foell, 20, Plymouth — Marines

Roger L. Gertsen, 19, Coulter — Marines

Ricky M. Glaspey, 20, Mason City — Marines

David R. Goll, 21, Garner — Army

David C. Gunderson, 22, Mason City — Army

Bruce C. Halbach, 21, Stacyville — Army

Lloyd Harms, 20, Mason City — Marines

Dwight E. Hinman, 23, Belmond — Army Continued on next page

This Memorial Day, we salute our fallen soldiers.

We salute the men and women who served and sacrificed to protect the lives and freedom of all Americans. We celebrate their courage, honor their memories, and thank them for all they gave. Their legacy lives on, and we will never forget them.

MEMORIAL DAY Remember & Honor

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NORTH IOWANS KILLED IN VIETNAM

Jack L. James, 21, Mason City — Army

George Johnson, 22, Mason City — Army

Keith A. Kahlstorf, 20, Britt — Marines

Nickolas R. Koehler, 21, Mason City — Marines

Donald G. Lammers, 24, Forest City — Marines

Duane E. Limberg, 23, Woden — Army

Steven A. Mathers, 21, Rockwell — Army

Donald W. McNamara, 20, Northwood — Marines

David L. Meyer, 21, Charles City — Army

Glenn R. Morrison, Jr., 30, Mason City — Air Force

Vernon L. Okland, 21, Lake Mills — Army

Robert F. Olson, 33, Britt — Army

Dean W. Oltman, 21, Hampton — Army

Ernesto Perez, 19, Rake — Marines

Anthony E. Peterson, 19, Mason City — Army

John R. Pitzen, 38, Stacyville — Navy

Thomas R. Poundstone, 25, Clarion — Army

John E. Quam, 20, Mason City — Army

Rickey D. Revland, 19, Garner — Marines

Richard L. Rish, 24, Mason City — Army

Dennis Lee Ritter, 20, Greene — Army

Michael A. Schroeder, 20, Mason City — Army

Larry C. Schwebke, 22, Ackley — Army

Stanton J. Setka, 20, Riceville — Marines

James L. VerHelst, 19, Mason City — Marines

Grey Wagner, 27, Hampton — Army

Timmie J. Ward, 29, Rockford — Air Force

James W. West, 20, Mason City — Army

Cyril J. Westly, 19, Manly — Navy

Stanley D. White, 23, Charles City — Army

Donald W. Wilson, 33, Mason City — Navy

John H. Wrisberg, 20, Clear Lake — Army

Dennis M. Skogerboe, 25, Forest City — Army

Jack R. Smith, 20, Clarion — Army

Jerome J. Smith, 30, Riceville — Air Force

Steven R. Stoltz, 20, Hampton — Army

Loren F. Studer, 21, Clarion — Navy

John L. Tracy, 19, Swaledale — Marines

Daniel C. Upton, 22, Mason City — Army

Edward Van Every, Jr., 22, Hampton — Army

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CERRO GORDO VETERANS AFFAIRS Proudly Serving the Veterans of Cerro Gordo County We assist veterans and their dependents in securing county, state and federal VA benefits allowable by law.

Meet our crew!

Cerro Gordo County Veterans Affairs Commissioners: Michael Flatness, John McLaughlin Jr, Angelina Moe, Richard Ochoa and Jessica Reith.

VA Volunteer Van Drivers: Dennis Bengtson, Jay Pedelty and Michael Flatness Administrative Assistant: Alyssa Paulsen Administrative Clerk: Paul Beatty Executive Director: Maria Deike We are located in the

Cerro Gordo County Courthouse Basement 220 N Washington Ave, Mason City, IA 50401

641-421-3085 Seeking volunteer van drivers to join our crew.

Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a VA certified van driver. Helping to take our local veterans to and from VA authorized medical appointments.

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