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May 28, 2012
Military funeral at Fort Worden
Betsy Schultz having breakfast with Obama BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Nothing can assuage the grief that Betsy Reed Schultz bears this Memorial Day — not even a breakfast with Barack and Michelle Obama. Although the Port Angeles woman is “profoundly honored” to be invited to the White House for breakfast with the president, the trip is the result of the death of her only son. Capt. Joseph William Schultz, a decorated Green Beret, was B. Schultz killed along with two members of his Army special forces team May 29, 2011 — the Sunday before Memorial Day — when the Humvee they were riding in was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan’s Wardak province. He was 36. “Memorial Day last year, I went on an airplane to Dover Air Force base to accept his body,” Schultz said. “If there’s any doubt that it’s real, there’s no doubt that this really happened as you get to this first anniversary date.
Grateful for his service Lewis-McChord team gives late veteran honors burial BY JENNIFER JACKSON
‘Feels sadder now’ “To me, personally, it feels sadder now than I’ve ever been.” Betsy Reed Schultz is one of about 100 Gold Star Family members who will be at the White House ceremony today. After breakfast, the families will board a bus for the short trip to Arlington National Cemetery, where Capt. Schultz was buried with full military honors. “As we get closer [to the anniversary], it just gets harder,” Betsy said. Betsy Reed Schultz, 61, took out a newspaper ad thanking the communities of Port Angeles and Sequim for their continued support through her ordeal. “I don’t know that anyone would know what that support is going to be like until something like this happens,” she said. TURN
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Piper Nancy Frederick, left, plays “Mist-Covered Mountains” as Cpl. Nicholas Wells, carrying ashes, and Pvt. Christopher Ricketson, with flag, proceed to the site of Duane Quenten Harris’ service at Fort Worden Military Cemetery. Harris, of Oakville, had wanted to be buried at the site.
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tioned at Fort Gordon in Georgia. He played “Amazing Grace” at mili■ Ceremony to retire worn flags in tary funerals at Tahoma Veterans CemePort Ludlow today/A9 tery and was in the Clan Stewart and Tacoma Scots bagpipe bands, she said. On the Monday before Memorial Day, “Duane was very active in his Scottish Master Sgt. (Ret.) Duane Quenten Harris heritage,” Gibson said. was laid to rest at Fort Worden Military Boatbuilding school Cemetery with full military honors. The 593rd Sustainment Brigade HonAfter retiring from the military in ors Team of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, 1990, Harris, as an Oakville resident, led by Cpl. Nicholas Wells, performed the attended the Northwest School of flag ceremony, gun salute and taps. Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock. Port Townsend piper Nancy Stewart He was a volunteer deckhand on the played “Mist-Covered Mountains” for the Coast Guard cutter Comanche and a processional as well as “Amazing Grace” member of the Lake Union Wooden Boat during the graveside service. Foundation. Harris’ wife, Lori K. Gibson, said he TURN TO SERVICE/A4 learned to play the bagpipes while sta-
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PORT TOWNSEND — His parents met at the USO club — now the American Legion hall — in Port Townsend after World War II. He was born at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Seattle and raised on military bases from Washington, D.C., to Port Angeles. In 1969, he enlisted in the Army, took basic training at Fort Lewis and volunteered for duty in Vietnam. He also served in Okinawa, Japan, and as a special forces medic in Korea. In a 22-year military career, he earned a nursing administration degree and a master’s in business administration, and served at military hospitals across the U.S.
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Whittaker phones home from Mount Everest spent a short time with his climbing expedition team of four at the oxyPORT gen-depleted eleTOWNSEND — vation, shortly After not having after 9:30 p.m. spoken to their Pacific time FriEverest-ascending day before son, Leif Whittaker, descending to L. Whittaker for more than a base camp. week, Jim Whit“He said it was the hardtaker and Diane Roberts of Port Townsend finally spoke est thing he had ever done with him Sunday morning. — harder than the first The elder Whittaker was time,” Jim said. the first American to reach “People tend to forget the Everest summit in 1963. what is painful or difficult,” His 27-year-old son, who he noted. first scaled the 29,046-foot TURN TO EVEREST/A4 Himalayan peak in 2010,
Peninsula salmon hatchery forced by virus to kill stock
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PORT ANGELES — A deadly fish virus known to affect wild salmon has hit a Peninsula fish farm, forcing American Gold Seafoods to kill the entire stock of Atlantic salmon it had at its Bainbridge Island site, and triggering concerns of a possible spread of the disease among fish in the Salish Sea. Tests earlier this month confirmed the presence of an influenza-like virus called infectious hematopoietic necrosis, or IHN, in the fish contained in 2 acres of nets near the shores of Bainbridge Island. The virus does not affect
It first appeared in two British humans but occurs in wild sockeye salmon and can be carried by Columbia fish farms, forcing the other fish, such as herring, that destruction of almost 600,000 sometimes pass through fish net fish, the Kitsap Sun reported. pens, affecting the farmed fish. TURN TO SALMON/A4
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