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The General, the Aged Marine, and the Yellow Lark a cane of the rest of his life because of those wounds.

On the way back to my chair, I noticed a Marine from World War II struggling to set up his chair. I offer my assistance but he replies, “I can still do this by myself!” He calls me “Sonny” even though he’s only a couple years older than me. If I had been born in ‘27 or ‘28, instead of ‘29, I would have been drafted into the U.S. Army. But my time came later, from 1950-1957.

A Cub Scout hands me a printed program, and to my surprise, the speaker is Lt. General Edward A Waldon, Commander of the 47th Infantry Division, from 1953-1957. He was Company Commander of “C” Company 682nd Engineer Battalion-47th Division Minnesota National Guard. He was Company Commander and I was the Company First Sergeant.

We had an outstanding unit. Present today are other former members of Company “C”: Lt. Col.

BY RALPH W. OLSON Ron Andreen, Lt. Kelly Forstrom, Arne Gynald, MI Sgt. Aldrich Assen, Fred Gunderson, and others. We enjoyed our reunion, recalling comrades and times FAIRVIEW CEMETERY, Memorial Day, 2003 — I past. But now it is time for the General to take his awake to a bright, sunny day, just a wisp of clouds seat with the other VIPs. and a light breeze. There is sure to be a large crowd The Willmar High School Band renders a much at Fairview Cemetery today. After a light breakfast, I toss a lawn chair into the back of the old green pickup appreciated march that sets the tone of the service.

Old Glory flaps in the breeze at the gate of Soldiers and I’m on my way!

Rest – two concentric circles, 58 military markers in I parked near the Calvary Cemetery. It’s a beautiful the outer ring, and 23 markers on the inner ring. It is sight; the confirmation class was here on Wednesday, impressive to behold. cleaning up the grounds. It is lovely. White military One can hear the sound of the heavy boots of the markers with individual flags attached adorn some Color Guard striking the ground. They carry the U.S. of the graves. The veterans’ council was up early this morning, making sure that every veteran in the county usury banner, the Minnesota state flag, and the POW and resting here is honored with a flag. The lawns have flag. Save for the heavy boot, it is quiet, very quiet.

The band plays our national anthem. We stand been mowed and the lovely trees frame the picture. with hands over our hearts, hats off. I catch a glimpse I hurry across to Fairview and set up my chair of the aged Marine delivering a perfect hand salute; just across from the dias of chairs and microphones wrist and forearm in perfect alignment, with the reserved for the speakers. Mike Schroeder is here to elbow tucked in just a bit, fingers barely touching see that the service is broadcast over KWLM. the brim of his American Legion cap. He learned that I’m a bit early, so I walk up the rise to the east to the grave site of Evie’s father. We were here yesterday salute as a young man in the 1940s.

The service begins, the audience is welcomed. Pastor to plan a geranium. The morning’s dew glistens on Tim Larson, everybody’s friend, delivers the invocathe leaves. We often note that Ed has a great view of Veteran’s Rest to the west. Ed was wounded in France tion. The Gold Star mother lays a wreath at the grave at dawn on November 11, 1918, a bit too early for the site, accompanied by the American Legion and VFW Armistice; that took effect at 11 a.m. that day. Ed used Auxiliary Presidents. An American Legion Boys Stater

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is introduced and “On Flanders Fields” is read. An Eagle Scout reads the names of the deceased veterans.

Another American Legion Boy Stater reads General Logan’s orders establishing Memorial Day services.

As the reading continues, a bright yellow lark swoops over the crowd, then almost straight up to the longest branch of the tallest oak.

From time to time, I glance up at the branch on which the lark has perched himself, buffeted by the breeze. A sentinel, perhaps?

The General delivers a fine address to do the right thing, a challenge to serve God and one’s fellow men.

Darrell Larson comes forward to also read “On Flanders Field” as only Darrell’s rich bass voice can.

Wayne Emberland commands the Honor Guard.

Military rifles at arms – Ready! Aim! Fire! Fire! Fire!

The names of Veterans who have died this past year are read, taps are played. There is not a dry eye in the crowd. The yellow lark is not disturbed, but stays sure and steady at his post.

I now look up at the longest branch of the tallest oak and the sentinel lark is gone. He’s missed it, he’s missed the sight of the single tear coursing down the cheek of the aged Marine, the tear the falls to hallowed ground.

The book is closed, the prayers are said, and we are part of the uncounted dead, thrice happy if we can hear some soul say, “I live because he passed my way!”

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Burton Sundberg I was drafted into the Service on 8/29/1945 as a recent graduate of Klamath Union High School, Klamath Falls, OR in June 1945. In the meantime my parents moved back to Isanti, Minnesota, so upon my discharge from the Army my home became Isanti. After receiving a degree in Library Science from the U of MN, I came to Willmar to BURTON SUNDBERG direct the formation of the Pioneerland Library System, which is still in operation, with the Willmar Library as the HQ. My Army career was different, in that my weapon was a typewriter, working in the 9th Division Finance Corps, in Augsburg, Germany, until being sent back to the States for discharge.

In addition, I was the youngest of 4 brothers in the service during WWII. The oldest was Alex Sundberg, who was part of a crew of a B26 bomber that was gunned down over Holland and instantly killed. My other two brothers served in the Pacific Theatre and came home safely.

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Paynesville Native Earns Basic Historian Qualification Aboard Oldest Commissioned Warship Afloat: USS Constitution

BY SEAMAN KATRINA MASTROLIA, USS CONSTITUTION PUBLIC AFFAIRS BOSTON - Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Tanner Schaefer, a native of Paynesville, Minnesota, earned the basic interpretive historian qualification aboard USS Constitution, March 11.

Duty aboard USS Constitution is one of the Navy’s special programs, and all prospective crewmembers must meet a high standard of sustained excellence and interview to be selected for the assignment.

“Learning the vast history of the ship was such an honor, and I am glad my hard work paid off,” said Shaefer.

Schaefer, a 2015 graduate of Paynesville Area High School, has served the Navy for five years and his previous command was

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PFC Clarence Halverson Private First Class Clarence Halverson was born in 1924 and was raised on a farm in rural Kerkhoven.

He was inducted into the United States Army on October 12, 1944.

Following his basic training at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas he was assigned to the 25th infantry and sent to the Philippines. Clarence saw considerable action in Luzon and was awarded a bronze battle star. Following the liberation of the Philippines and the surrender of the Japanese, he was part of the occupation forces in Japan. For his service in the Philippines and Japan, Clarence received a Combat Infantry Badge, a Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 1 Bronze Star, the Asiatic – Pacific Ribbon, a Victory Medal, and an Army of Occupation Medal-Japan. Clarence was honorably discharged from the United States Army on December 8, 1946. Following his discharge from the army, Clarence returned to Kerkhoven where he currently resides with his wife Gerry.

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A Birth and a Death before, but the medics said, “Just follow us!”, and off we went on a wild chase up the unfamiliar curved mountain road. I desperately tried to keep my litDick Vick grew up on a farm by Lake Lillian, but tle VW close behind the speeding Jeep ambulance, in his teens his family moved to Litchfield. So, Dick praying I wouldn’t get into an accident or get lost. I went to high school in Litchfield, as did I. Dick went could barely do fifty mph up that mountain with the into the Air Force rising to the rank of Master Sgt. gas pedal of my tiny car floored. I had some narrow He was sent to Germany for duty at the Ramstein misses, as I blindly screamed around curves that dark Air Force Base. I got drafted into night, trying to keep up with the ambulance, afraid to the Army in the late sixties lose sight of them. Finally arriving at the hospital, I during the Vietnam War. was separated from my wife, and escorted into a waitMy mother’s prayers were answered, and I was sent to ing room to pace and smoke cigarettes with another GI in the same predicament. an Army base in Pirmasens, A little after two in the morning, a nurse came in Germany instead of Vietnam. and told me that I was a father for the first time. I I was given two weeks leave wasn’t allowed to see Christine, the name we had to go home before shipping picked out if it was a girl, except through a nursery out, so my fiancée, who lived on a farm by Lake Lillian, and I room glass that the nurse had led me to. Officially got married. My new wife came born on April 30, 1969, Christine was tiny at five pounds, fourteen and a half ounces and, we learned over to Pirmasens to be with the next day, she had Down Syndrome. me a few months later after I A strange thing happened that same night at the had found an apartment off the hospital just a few rooms away from my wife’s. Somebase and had saved up enough thing that would’ve made the hair stand up on the money to pay for it, buy an old back of my head, had I known about it at the time. used VW, and send for her. She was pregnant and had never been Thousands of miles from America, in a tiny Army Hospital, on the side of a mountain in Germany, a away from her parents or out of the United States before, so it was woman who grew up on a farm by Lake Lillian, who a scary situation for her. Pirmasens had married a man who went to school in Litchfield, gave birth on April 30th. In another room down the was about a 30-minute drive south of Ramstein AFB and we’d drive up there often to go to their PX, which hall, in the same hospital, an Air Force soldier from Lake Lillian, who went to the same high school I did was bigger and nicer than our Army one.

Late one dark and moonless spring night, when the in Litchfield, died…on April 30th. His name was Dick Vick, and he had been in a car accident on a curved time for our first baby had arrived, I loaded my wife mountain road. He left behind his wife, Barbara, into our little beat-up $200 Volkswagen “beetle” and and four children. What are the chances of two Lake rushed her to the local Army clinic, five kilometers Lillian people with Litchfield connections both being away, to confirm what we already knew. The medics in that same hospital, on the same floor, on the same said it was time, put my wife into an ambulance, and night, thousands of miles from home in Germany, told me to follow them to the Army Hospital on the one giving birth, and the other one dying? We call side of a mountain in a town called Landstuhl, near Christine our “little angel”. God took Dick away from to Ramstein. I had never been there to the hospital this earth that night, but He gave us an angel.

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Happy Veterans Day! THE KANDIYOHI COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Dedicated to keeping our communities a safe place to live.

PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS AND THEIR SPOUSES: COVID-19 DISASTER RELIEF GRANT A one time grant of $1,000 A veteran, or the surviving spouse (who has not remarried) of a deceased veteran that have been negatively financially impacted by COVID-19.

COVID-19 K-12 DISTANCE LEARNING SUPPORT GRANT A one time grant of $3,000 A veteran, or the surviving spouse (who has not remarried) of a deceased veteran Distance Learning Support Grant must demonstrate a negative financial impact on or after August 1, 2020. A closing date for the K-12 Distance Learning Support Grant will depend on the availability of funding, but not later than June 30, 2021.

For more information on these programs contact: The Kandiyohi County Veterans Office at 320-231-6226 To find your County Veterans Service Office call 1-888-Linkvet You can also apply at: http://minnesotaveteran.org/CovidRelief