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Tupelo native reflects on service as Navy Corpsman

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TUPELO – Desmond Smith’s path to the military is not uncommon.

The Tupelo native dropped out of high school his senior year with no plan and no idea what he wanted to do with his life.

Three generations of men in his family had served in the Navy and the Army, but Smith said they weren’t hard on him to join. He took the ASVAB, the military aptitude test, and scored high enough to have his pick of what area of service he would join.

It was February 2001.

“I mean, I thought I was going to sail around the world and hang out in all these exotic ports,” he said. “Little did I know, you know? The day I took my last test in hospital corp’s school in Chicago was September 11, 2001.”

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Smith’s training qualified him as a Navy Corpsman, and in the weeks after 9/11, he was assigned to the 3rd Light Armored Recon Batallion as a combat medic. The Marine Corps, he said, don’t have their own medics, so the Navy provides them.

Senior Marines have long called junior Marines “devil dogs,” which is what the Germans dubbed them in World War I. Their medics, like Smith, were called “devil docs.”

“I fell right in with them. I loved the Marines because they are the real deal. There’s a level of professionalism about them that I admired,” he said. “They really take care of business. As a medic, you either learn to do what they do, or you don’t make it.”

Smith noted that Navy Corpsmen have received more Medals of Honor than any other position in the military. One of the men depicted in the American flag being raised at Iwo Jima, John Bradley, was a Navy Corpsman.

In addition to 16 weeks of emergency medicine training, Corpsmen undergo 10 weeks of combat medic training.

“There are no doctors or nurses on the front lines,” Smith said.

“Whether it’s trauma,

burns, whatever, it’s your job to do everything in your knowledge to literally hold them together long enough to get them out to a doctor.”

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In the summer of 2002, Smith hit the ground in Afghanistan, where he spent 10 months. In the summer of 2004, he began a 9-month tour in Iraq.

Smith described it as the most abnormal thing you could imagine, that not one part of his daily routine was anything close to normal. He found that Middle Easterners had conflicting views about America’s presence there.

“We were somewhere between a savior and a blatant invader,” he said.

“On one hand, they weren’t allowed TV, radio, or Internet before us. On the other hand, we were taking part in blowing up their country. You could describe it as a love-hate relationship.”

But he had sympathy for them, though communication was hard.

The Iraqis and American Marines were millions of miles apart in culture and custom.

“You know, I used my medical training on Iraqi civilians far more often than on Marines, people caught in the middle of the conflict,” he said. “Especially kids. That’s hard, because they have no idea why.”

The most action Smith saw was in October and November of 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq – the city notable for being so closely divided among Sunni and Shia Muslims. Politically, Smith said, whichever group controlled the city’s majority determined how strictly Sharia Law would be enforced.

“The U.S. became involved when an Iraqi insurgent group connected to al-Qaida took over the city and amassed a small army there,” he said. “You think of the term ‘battleground state’ a little differently.”

He was 21 years old.

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Smith was honorably discharged at age 23, and immediately resumed his education through the G.I. Bill. He attended Itawamba Community College and ultimately received degrees in political science and History from the University of Mississippi. Currently, he is living and working in Tupelo. You can catch him on stage at Origins Church each Sunday with his guitar.

because in Iraq, you just drive down the middle of the street. It took about six months to be comfortable with not having a weapon with me all the time,” he said. “I still eat really fast, because over there you have to take what you can get when you can get it.”

He threw himself into his music, and became emphatic about resuming his education. He enrolled at Itawamba Community College then went on to the University COMING HOME of Mississippi, where he Smith received his hon- double majored in hisorable discharge at age tory and political science.

23, and came home to During this time, he start from scratch. But linked up with numerous readjusting took some musicians and bands, time. and constantly played “I had to get used to gigs around Oxford, driving in the right lane, Nashville, and Memphis.

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Tupelo native Desmond Smith, age 21 in this picture, stands in an evacuated schoolhouse in Fallujah, Iraq, 2004. Smith served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Navy Corpsman, a combat medic assigned to assist a unit of Marines.

“I wanted to prove to myself I could go from a high school drop out to having a college degree,”

he said. “And the music became really therapeutic for me.”

In retrospect, he said

his time as a Devil Doc seems really far away, like it happened in a movie he’d seen or a book he’d read. But he said his experiences certainly rounded out his education in politics and history, and he has a renewed appreciation for America’s reverence towards its veterans.

“Overall, I came away with a sense that human beings have a great, great capacity to do good, and an equally great capacity to hurt each other,” he said. “I’d advise someone going into the military to grow from it. I’d advise them to do what they tell you, pay into the G.I. Bill, and keep your head down.” riley.manning@journalinc.com

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AKRON, Ohio – In 1944, Barberton High School graduating senior Frank Woog coined the class motto: “We stick together.”

And, boy, did they ever.

On a recent weekday afternoon, nearly 40 surviving members of that World War II-era class met for their 70th class reunion.

Although they’re 88 years old now, give or take a year, they were still young enough to shake their hips to the school fight song as members of the Barberton High School band entertained in the party room at a local inn.

The class used to meet every five years. Some of them still recall that first gathering in at a park after the war had ended, the warriors had returned and their young families had been started.

But when five years started looking like a challenging horizon, they began holding annual luncheons.

Every year, the list of invitees shrinks. But Donald Slack, charged with keeping track of classmates, said 94 of 255 classmates are still around.

The Class of ’44 grew up when chaos in Europe was the norm and there was one inevitable fact about graduation: “You knew you were going into the service as soon as you left school,” said Thomas Shoup, who ran track at BHS, graduated in June and was in his Navy uniform by January.

Some classmates didn’t wait, dropping out to enlist after their 18th birthday.

Class President Richard Sickler recalls how the number of boys in his homeroom kept dwindling during the year.

“There were maybe 10 big tables, and we sat around them. One week, a

couple of boys left. Then the next week, two more left. Then there was just me and another guy at the table. Everyone else was gone,” said Sickler, who joined the Navy a week after getting his diploma.

Still, it wasn’t a particularly anxious time, said Eugene Hill, a bassoonist in the school’s concert band who also chose the Navy.

“Never thought much about it,” Hill said of his senior year. After all, the war in Europe had been raging for all his teenage years. “It was just a fact of life. ... It’s a lot like now. We know there are bad things going on across the pond, but that’s just the way it is.”

Two members of the Class of ’44 died in the war: Joe Trenta, a sailor in the Pacific, and Bill Tulley, a soldier in Europe.

“Bill was drafted in April or May and he came back home in a box that December,” said Donald Slack, himself a World War II veteran of the Merchant Marines.

The class produced some well-known names in the community, including funeral director Kenneth Cox, real estate investor Alex Neumoff, deli and diner entrepreneur Al Canfora and meatpacking house owner Paul Galat.

Many of the boys played ball with future athletic stars who were a year behind or ahead of them at Barberton High School.

Sickler still has the black and white snapshot of his baseball team, which featured future Michigan Wolverines football coach Bo Schembechler, soonto-be major leaguers Hal Naragon and Bob Addis, and Ohio State football and Rose Bowl veteran George Toneff.

The girls played their role in the war effort, as well. Many of them took jobs in area factories after graduation before settling

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A 1944 class photo of Barberton High School on display at their 70th class reunion at Milich’s Village Inn on Sept.

17, in Norton, Ohio. down to raise their families.

Memories are fading, but there are some things about their high school years they have never forgotten.

“We knew we wouldn’t get a class ring” because metal was needed for the war, said Gladys Dronebarger, a member of the Class of ’45 and captain of the volleyball team.

She drove her good friend, 1944 grad Norma Thompson Vale, to the luncheon.

“But we did end up getting a ring after all. It was hollow,” she said.

And Vale, who played trumpet in the marching band, remembered that the girls far outnumbered the boys as the war took its toll, and it was increasingly hard to land a date.

Sickler, who became an eye doctor and treated generations of Barbertonians, has warned his classmates that the recent gathering would be their last.

A sign welcomes members of the Barberton High School Class of 1944 to their 70th class reunion at Milich’s Village Inn. “It’s been a long time,” Sickler said. “I think I’m done.”

But some say that class motto – although the man who penned it died in 1991 – will prevail.

After all, the class is so

tight, they used to hold mini-reunions in Florida when the snowbirds couldn’t get back to town for the main shindig, said Ed Anderson, an Army veteran.

“I don’t believe this is

the last,” offered Eugene Hill with a shake of his head. “Too many are still active.”

“If we have any energy,” interjected Donald Slack, “... where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Houses for Heroes: Vets grateful for donated homes Army veteran Joel Sigfrid, who while deployed to Afghanistan suffered a severe traumatic brain injury from an IED that injured him and his 12-man crew, received a home in Blaine, Minnesota. Here, Sigfrid enjoys a view from a window in his new home.

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MINNEAPOLIS – Retired Army Specialist Joel Sigfrid humbly took the keys to his split-level home recently surrounded by family and friends.

Wells Fargo donated the bank-owned home to the nonprofit Military Warriors Support Foundation, which will eventually deed it to Sigfrid. It’s the 160th home that Wells Fargo has donated to help veterans and the fifth one in Minnesota.

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retired Army specialist about the home Wells Fargo donated to him eled three-bedroom house.

But this is no stroke of luck. He’s earned it.

Sigfrid, 36, medically retired from the Army in September after being awarded two Purple Hearts. He served for six years, including deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military service is a tradition in his family, he said, starting with his great-greatgrandfather in World War I. On July 11, 2012, Sigfrid and his 12-man crew were on patrol in Afghanistan when they encountered an improvised explosive device. He suffered a severe traumatic brain injury but went back to work within months. On Oct. 3 of that year, while on patrol in Afghanistan, Sigfrid was shot by a sniper.

Sigfrid was later stationed at Fort Hood in Texas but has since moved to Florida. He and his fiancie, Christina, will be making the move to Minnesota in the coming weeks. Recently the couple did spend the first few nights in their new home.

Sigfrid was born in St. Paul but moved to Florida as a young child. He returned to Minnesota each summer to visit family in the Anoka and Coon Rapids area. His mother, Leslie Hale, lives in Stillwater and was on hand as he saw his home for the first time.

When her son learned

he would be getting the house mortgage-free, “He couldn’t believe it,” Hale said. “He was super excited.”

The G.I. Bill and other resources are paving the way for Sigfrid to go to college. He’s eyeing Anoka Technical College and Anoka-Ramsey Community College. He said he has a number of interests that he may study.

“I am thinking nutrition and personal training and also some art and agriculture,” said Sigfrid, who likes to paint, draw and dabble in the garden.

He also will be getting a bit of an education in personal finance through the Military Warriors Support Foundation. The program is designed to help veterans increase their financial literacy and develop lifelong money management skills. After veterans complete three years of financial mentoring, the home is deeded to them.

In the meantime, the veterans do pay taxes and insurance on the house, as well as for minor household repairs, said Angela Vander Werf, who oversees Wells Fargo’s military donations.

“It never gets old. I tear up every time,” Vander Werf said. “It is so rewarding to see.”

“It’s something I never expected. I really appreciate it,” Sigfrid said after accepting the key. “I will take good care of it.”

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TUPELO – Big plans are in motion for Veterans Park.

One group is raising money to construct a 60 percent replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Another is working to install an actual F-105 Thunderchief fighter plane.

The City of Tupelo has supported both projects, and work on a new parking lot was completed in late October.

“The parking lot would be for visitors to the Vietnam wall and the plane,” said Don Lewis, chief operations officer for Tupelo.

Supporters of both projects said it’s not a question of if, but when they’ll be completed.

Of the two groups, the “Jet Vols” working on the Thunderchief have a lower threshold to meet for fundraising.

Lewis estimated the total project will cost $65,000 to $75,000, depending on how much is raised for upkeep of the plane after it’s installed.

About $50,000 has been raised so far.

“It’s doable,” Lewis said, “and the plan right now is to shoot for a date in the spring, hopefully no later than Memorial Day.” The group working on the memorial wall has significantly more fundraising to do, though approximately $225,000 has been collected or pledged so far.

“We think people have been generous,” said Janie Alexander-Macasco, a project volunteer. “We appreciate all of the donations. I don’t want to knock $200,000 by any means. We’re thrilled to have it.”

But there’s still quite a bit of work to do to reach the $500,000 total the volunteers are aiming for.

“We’re not giving up until it’s done,” she said.

They’re two different plans, but they’re not necessarily competing plans. Sure, one’s fundraising might hurt the other’s, but both efforts are based on the same desire: to honor veterans.

“I want the Vietnam jet out there,” AlexanderMacasco said. “It’s going to be wonderful when everything’s finished.”

Retired Col. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris is a member of the Jet Vols. He flew F-105s, and he’s also in-

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CREATE FOUNDATION is taking donations for groups working to install an F-105 Thunderchief and to build a 60 percent replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Veterans Park would host both projects.

Donations to either or both plans may be made at www.createfoundation.com.

To mail donations, make checks payable to “CREATE-Vietnam Replica Wall” or “CREATE-Veterans Park Memorial Special Project.” The mailing address is CREATE Foundation, 213 West Main St., Tupelo, Miss.

38802.

Call (662) 844-8989 for information about the F-105. For the memorial wall, call (662) 231-1771, or email veteransparkwall@aol.com. vested in the memorial wall.

“I have friends on the wall,” he said. “They are all from the Vietnam War. I was in the military at that time and I am a Vietnam veteran. I have lots of friends whose names are on there. I think it’s a tribute to all of them.”

Harris said he expects both plans to eventually contribute to the city’s bottom line due to increases in tourism.

“I think we have a

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beautiful Veterans Park with the lake and the things that have been done there already,” he said. “These would be two big additions. The F105 and the memorial wall will make this a place for people to come for weekends or vacations to visit and see what we have here.”

A group from Georgia is expected to visit in November to start working on making the F-105 Thunderchief pedestalready. The fuel tank needs

to be removed so structures can be put in place to provide longterm support.

Lewis said the Jet Vols will increase their fundraising efforts when that work is done and the pedestal is installed at the park.

“People will be able to see that progress is being made,” he said.

In addition to the new parking lot, sidewalk and concrete work has been done in preparation for the memorial wall.

Alexander-Macasco said volunteers are planning events to remind people about the memorial wall, and members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 842 have added their collective will to making the wall a reality.

“The veterans are working hard on it,” she said.

“They’re part of the team.”

The Thunderchief and the memorial wall have the potential to bring tourists to town.

In addition, both projects will honor veterans and educate others about the sacrifices made on their behalf.

The only obstacle is money, and AlexanderMacasco said it doesn’t have to be that big of an obstacle.

“It wouldn’t take very much,” she said, “if a lot of people would just give a few dollars. It’s just a matter of getting enough people involved.” scott.morris@journalinc.com

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Dan Adair US Army 1961-1963

Clarence Agnew US Army 1967-1993

Robert A. Akin US Marines 1980-2001

Charlie F. Aycock US Navy 1941-1945

Herman T. Baggett US Army 1942-1945

Thomas Scott Ballard US Army 1986-2008

Tom Baughman US Army 7 years

John A. Betts US Army National Guard 1976-1997

Bryan O’Neal Billups US Army 1988-present

Winfred Bland US Army 1954-1956

Winston “Wimp” Bland US Air Force 1955-1958

Quay Bland US Navy 1957-1960

Ray Blythe US Army 1952-1954

Edwin A. Boland US Air Force; US Army National Guard 1952-1979

Charlie Brett US Army 1969-1971

Ronald Brooks US Army Reserve 1975-2006

Daniel Tyler Brooks US Army 2002-present

James E. Brooks US Army 1953-1955; 1963-1981

Boyd Butler US Army; National Guard 1969-1972; 1978-1979

D.L. Cates US Army 1942-1945

Robert W. Chandler Naval Amphibious Force 21 months

M.F. “Bud” Christian US Marines 20 years

Truett J. Clayton Sr. US Army 1952-1954

Truett J. Clayton Sr. US Army 1952-1954

Richard Clemmer US Air Force 1951-1971

Jimmy Ray Cobb US Air Force 1951-1976

Robert E. Coltharp US Air Force 1950-1952

Loyd H. Conwill US Air Force 1947-1974

Excell Cowley US Army; National Guard 1965-1968; 1973-1996

Nolen Cowley US Army 1942-1945

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Nolen Cowley Jr. US Marines 1968-1975

Nolen Cowley Jr. US Army Reserve 1975-1995

Paul Dallas US Army 1948-1954

Charlie Lawhon Davis US Army 1942-1945

Leonard Ewing Dillard US Army 1944

Ewing Dillard US Army 1944

Charles Dillard US Navy 1945-1946

Elbert “Preacher” Dixon US Army 1917-1918

Cliff Dixon Sr. US Army 1955-1958

Henry Dodge Jr. US Army 1965-1967

Reese Dulaney US Army 1942-1943

Gladys Fisher US Army 7 years

Larry D. Fisher US Army 3 years

Shirley J. Fox US Women Army Corps & MS ARNG 1950-1953; 1973-1991

Donald R. Fox US Army & MS ARNG 1951-1963; 1963-1987

Harvey Franks US Marines 1942-1944

Curtis K. Freeman US Army 1942-1945

Jeffrey Gammel US Army; National Guard 2003-2012; 2012-present

Robert E. Goodrich US Air Force 1942-1945

Michael B. Gratz Sr. US Army 1969-1971

Carlton Green US Army 1965-1967

Maldon R. Griffin US Army 1950-1953

John W. Grisham US Army 1951-1953

Oneal Guin US Air Force 21 years

James M. Guntharp US Navy 1945-1947

Joseph Halfhill US Air Force 1951-1955

Charles D. Hall US Army 1953-1954

Donald C. Handley US Army 1967-1970

Robbie Harris US Army 1966-1968

Jerry Hartley US Army 1958-1961; 1962

Marvin Harwood US Army 1942-1945

Herbert Head US Army 1945-1949

Neil Heavener US Army; National Guard 1968-1970; 1972-1995

James Virgil Heavner US Army 1942-1944

Vergil Henry US Army 1943-1945

Anastazia M. High US Marines currently serving

Leonard L. Hinds US Army 1943-1946

Thomas C. “Cliff” Hodges US Army Signal Corps 1952-1954

Robert W. Holman Jr US Army 2008-present

Johnie B. Dellinger US Air Force 1950-1954

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Leon Hulsey US Army 3 years

William Love Irwin US Marines 1952-1954

David H. Jensen US Army 1954-1956

Miles Johnson US Army 1975-1997

Willie J. Johnson US Navy; National Guard 1967-1997

Robert A. Johnson US Air Force 1964-1965

Justin D. Johnson US Army

Dan K. Johnson US Army

Judson A. Johnson US Army Air Corps

Ricky Johnson US Army 20 years

Starling Jones US Air Force 1966-1988

Gilbert S. Keith US Army 1941-1945

Kenneth Kellerman US Navy 3 years

Darrell Kelly US Air Force 1962-1966

Mike Kelly US Marines 1987-1991

William R. Keys US Army 1992-2013

Thomas R. Langley US Army 1950-1953

Jerry R. Ledbetter US Army 20 years

Bill Ledbetter US Army 1967-1968

Tommy Locastro US Army 27.5 years

Jamie Locastro US Army 3 years

Gabriel Locastro US Army 7 years

Brian Locastro US Navy 4 years

Tony Locastro US Navy 3 years

Michael Love US Navy 1974-1978

Daniel McCullough US Marines; Army National Guard 1968-1974; 1974-2010

Kevin McCullough US Army National Guard 2004-2010

William Norris McEwan US Air Force 1943-1946; 1951-1952

H.H. “Archie” Miller US Navy 1950-1954

Cameron Minor National Guard 2010-present

Joe Q. Monaghan US Marines 1941-1945

Roy Morris US Army 1943-1946

Billy F. Murphy Sr. US Army 1963-1970

James C. Nanney US Army 1991-2006

Joe B. Nanney US Army 1948-1954; 1950-1951

Cedric Newton US Air Force 1997-present

Rodney C. Parker US Marines 2014-present

Dallas W. Pate US Army 1942-1945

Jerry Wanye Patterson US Army 2 years

Duane Pinson US Marines

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Glenn Poe US Navy 1942-1945

Ernest E. Potter US Army Air Force 1942-1945

Theron Pounds US Marines 1942-1946

Hollis W. Powell US Navy; US Air Force 1943-1954; 1954-1968

Elvis A. Presley US Army 1958-1960

David O. “Son” Puckett US Navy 1941-1945

Enoch J. Purvis US Army Air Corps 1942-1945

David B. Putt US Navy 1967-1971

Lawrence A. Ragland US Marines 3 years

Albert L. Raines US Air Force 1942-1945

Kerry Lee Rathbun US Navy 1971-1995

Marvin Reed US Army 1988-2014

James C. Richardson US Army Reserve 1975-2005

Lynwood Roberts US Navy 1966-1968

Thomas Earl Robinson US Navy 1968-1970

Joel B. Rollins US Army 1941-1945

Sam Roye US Navy 1953-1957

Josh Roye US Marines 2004-present

Dan Rupert US Air Force 1975-1994

Joshua Rupert US Army 1998-2014

Lake Russell US Army 1940-1945

Blake Satterfield US Marines 2004-2013

Frankie “Keith” Self US Army 1966-1968

Aron Reuben Self US Army 1943-1946

James R. Seymore US Air Force 1958-1979

James Shannon US Navy 1944-1946

Steve Sims US Marines 1988-2013

Don Smith US Army 1962-1967

Eugene Spearman US Army Air Force 3 years

Creston Hyde Spearman US Army 1944-1945

Cecil Dwight Spearman US Army 1943-1945

Earl Spradlin US Army; National Guard 3 years; 20 years

Brandon Stanford US Navy 2007-2011

Bobby Stanford US Air Force 1972-1993

Thomas M. Stone Sr. US Navy 1943-1945

Charles H. Strawn US Navy 1944-1946

Norris Strickland US Air Force 1951-1961

Alfred “Wimp” Sullivan US Army 1961-1991

Tommy A. Tackett US Army 1969-1972

James L. Tackett US Army 1942-1946

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A. “Wayne” Temple US Army 1943-1946

James Dewey Thompson US Army Infantry 1943-1946

Winfred E. Thurman US Army 3 years

Alvin E. Timmons US Army 1942-1946

Floyd R. Todd US Navy 1943-1946

David “Neil” Troy US Army 1945

Jerry N. Troy Jr. US Army Air Force 1944

Roger Tubbs US Air Force 1971-1978

Allen Charles Turner US Army 1918-1921

Harold A. Turner US Army 1943-1946

Forrest T. Tutor, M.D. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1944-1947

Bervin E. Underwood US Army 1961-1963

Jason Walden US Air Force 1995-present

Terry Waldrop US Army 1979-1983

Carthal Wardlaw US Navy 1951-1955

Edward Lanier Watson Sr. US Army 1952-1954

Karrie Wathers US Air Force 24 years

Henry F. Weisner US Marines 1968-1974; 1974-2010

Roy L. Westbrook US Army 1953-1955

Clifton Marion Wheeler US Army 1956-1958

J. Clifton Wigginton US Army 1966-1969

Otho Lee Wiseman Jr. US Army 1962-1996

Josh Witcher US Navy currently serving

Quinton R. Wiygul US Navy 1943-1946

Ronnie K. Young US Navy 1942-1948

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Serving North Mississippi 130 N. INDUSTRIAL ROAD • TUPELO • (662) 842-6312 bbconcrete.com

Daily Journal Pontotoc Progress Itawamba County Times New Albany Gazette Chickasaw Journal Monroe Journal Southern Sentinel Southern Advocate

Lee County Neighbors Oxford Citizen Alcorn County Local Values Mud & Magnolias Journal Logistics www.djournal.com Thrive Business Journal

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014

To our men and women in uniform... past, present and future

God Bless you... and thank you.

Gregory D. Keenum, P.A. Attorney at Law 219 West College Street, • Booneville, MS 38829 (662) 728-1140 • Email: greg@keenumlaw.com

“Proudly Serving Veterans for more than 20 Years” We Salute Our Veterans!

We Proudly Salute Our Veterans

BANK OF OKOLONA

P.O. Box 306, Okolona • (662) 447-5403 www.bankofokolona.com

Houston Banking Center

321 W. Madison St., Houston, MS • (662)456-3347

Learn more or apply for a NEW career at www.newcorp.com/careers

We Salute All Our Veterans!

Bank of Mantee

Member FDIC / Equal Housing Lender

54 1st St., Mantee, MS • (662)456-5341

Mississippi

We Salute Our Veterans!

The Great American Burger

FUNERAL SERVICE

PASTA SPECIAL EVERY THURSDAY 709 Highway 145 South Baldwyn, MS

UNITED TO SERVE YOU!

662-534-5071

365-7059

700 HWY 15 SOUTH • NEW ALBANY, MS

We Proudly Salute All Veterans! www.dossettbig4.com

We Proudly Salute You! www.circadence.com

447 HWY 346 WEST • ECRU, MS 38841

South Gloster TUPELO • 662-842-4162 • 888-892-4162

662-489-5655

401 Elizabeth St. • PO Box 106 • Tupelo, MS 38802

(662) 842-7305

We Salute All Veterans

We Salute All Veterans from

Bill Benson • Chancery Clerk

Prompt • Efficient • Courteous Phone 662-841-9100 Office Hours: Monday Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm

For Information Concerning

Passports • Prior Year Property Tax • Recording Deeds • Recording UCC’s • Country Financial Info Recording Deeds of Trust

Embrace.

Enrich.

City of Saltillo Police Department 869-5454

Mayor’s Office 869-5431

395 Mobile St.

Fire Department 869-8656

Thank You, Veterans

Park & Rec 869-5668

Zoning/Building 869-5431

“The Sign of Service” BALDWYN • BOONEVILLE • MARIETTA MANTACHIE • MOOREVILLE • TUPELO

www.fmbms.com

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DAILY JOURNAL

Smithville Dental Clinic

Administrative Staff

Houlka Medical Clinic

Tupelo Medical Clinic

Tremont Medical Clinic

Smithville Medical Clinic

Access Family Health Services has provided community-based outpatient services for the Department of Veterans Affairs since 1998. We are honored to serve those who have served our country with honor. Access clinics are conveniently located in a community near you. For more information call (662) 651-4686 or visit www.accessfamilyhealth.com.

Tupelo Medical Clinic 662-690-8007

Brian Friloux, MD Kevin Koehler, MD Ben Sumerford, FNP-BC Jennifer Carwile, WHNP-BC, NP-C Chika Iwueke, MD Kathy Evans, PMHNP-BC Michael Pettis, LCSW Melissa Kuykendall, MSW

Smithville Medical Clinic 662-651-4637

Houlka Medical Clinic 662-568-3316

Access Family Dental 662-651-7111

Tremont Medical Clinic 662-652-3361

James Monroe, DO Neil Wanee, MD Whitney Carroll, FNP-BC

Vivian Draper, DDS, MPH Howard Robertson, DMD Zara Duke, RDH

Rachel Rish-Eubank, FNP-BC

Carissa Searcy, FNP-BC Amelia Higginbottom, ANP, PNP-BC

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