PIO - Saluting Our Soldiers on Veterans Day - 11/08/2025
“On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.” - Dan Lipinski
Veterans Day hasn’t always been celebrated on Nov. 11
In 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Holiday Bill, which ensured three-day weekends for federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. This bill assigned the fourth Monday of October as Veterans Day, but many states disapproved of this decision. In 1975, President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to Nov. 11, anchoring it to this historically significance day.
Source: AARP.com
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” - G.K. Chesterton
THOMAS RUNDQUIST
2nd Lt. Infantry Commission
DAN MCDONALD
1967-69 US Army. One year was in Vietnam
EDWARD PHILLION
CHRISTOPHER KNOWLES (CHIEF)
served 30 yrs in the Air Force, as a flight medic
Thank You for Your Service
ARTHUR CARL REHKOPF
served our country for over 20 years. He served both the Navy then went to the Army, served in Afghanistan.
BAAR
First Lieutenant U.S Army Nurse WWII
Korean War Veteran. drill sergeant for US Army Airborne
BAAR Captain
1970 Vietnam U.S Army
BROGAN BODENMULLER
9 years of service
24 years of service in the Army
DOROTHY
JAMES
PAUL YARNELL
LT. COLONEL BRUCE FREDRICK
All in the Family
1LT
E5
Cameron A. DeWitt Serving Presently Army Nat’l Guard
Daniel Goltz
1979 - 1985
U.S. Army
E5 Cody T. DeWitt Army Nat’l Guard
Austin Eaton 2011 - 2013 U.S. Army
E8
Duane E. Goltz 1962 - 2000 Army Nat’l Guard
Paula Rae Goltz 1979 - 1985
U.S. Army Reserves
E5
Richard E. Goltz
1982 - 1990 Army Nat’l Guard
(Left to Right) Phillip Edison, Mike DeBlock, Ralph Kincaid Bronze Star, Burt Lancster U.S. Army
3rd/82nd Artillery
1970
1971
Vietnam
Nate Froese • Ryan Froese
Andrew Froese
All in the Family
Brothers Ken & Tom Richmond U.S. Air Force
Jay Richmond Vietnam • 1971-1972 US Army
Howard “Lefty” Richmond WWII • US Army Air Corp
Glen “Shorty” Richmond WWII • US Navy
Chauncey “Powder” Yarger with his cousin Omar Border Skirmish with Mexico and then WWI, 1913
