By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor Sterling Schultz is a guy who walks the walk when it comes to helping and honoring Upper Peninsula veterans. The U.P. native is a veteran of the Vietnam War war himself who struggled with post traumatic stress disorder, he knows what it’s like. After ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor MARQUETTE — When Dan Jackovich went in to the military in November of 1965, the Navy was not his first choice. He had been working at Cliffs Dow for a few months, had attended classes at Northern Michigan University for a year and wasn’t planning to go ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor The Marine Corps were a good fit for Bob Swanson. When college didn’t work out and he got drafted into the army, Swanson decided to join the Marines instead. He went on active duty on Sept. 9, 1968, and found that stepping off the plane in Los Angeles ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor When Jill Weingarten sings the National Anthem, it’s about more than perfect pitch. She comes from a long line of people of service. Her father was an Army veteran. “I was absolutely freaked out,” Weingarten said. “Here I was this little 19-year-old ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor Al Henderson is a Vietnam Veteran who considers himself lucky for a variety of reasons. He entered the Air Force just out of high school in 1970 at the tail end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Rather than waiting for his number to come up in the ...
Allen Beauchamp’s Navy service began in what he calls a “unique situation” as a teenager. Many of his classmates had their futures mapped out, they had decided, not only if they were going to college, but where. But Beauchamp had not made any kind of firm decision “ I was kind of ...
’By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor Donald Moore was drafted and served at Fort Carson Colorado in the United States Army in the early 1960’s at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He completed 6 weeks of boot camp at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri before heading to the place he would ...
MARQUETTE — When you talk to Jim Provost about everything he’s been able to accomplish for Marquette County Veterans, you can’t help but wonder how he does it all. But it doesn’t take long to understand why. Provost himself is a Vietnam veteran. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps ...
MARQUETTE — You can’t miss Jim Feliciano when he’s headed to the Jacobetti Home for Veteran’s. He’ll be the one in a colorful Hawaiin shirt. ““If I can help, that is what I am here to do,” he said. “When (Jacobetti center veterans) see me come in with my Hawaiian shirt on, ...
MARQUETTE — When you sit down and talk to Charlie Hawes in his home in Marquette, his easy manner makes it hard, at first, to connect the fact that the decorated veteran served in the U.S. Navy during Vietnam “I joined because I figured it was my duty, obligation. But it was also always ...
NATIONAL MINE — Bill Hager is a force to be reckoned with. His military service is unique because he served in two different branches before finally retiring. Hager did a stint in the U.S. Navy as an electricians mate from 1963-67. Then in 1977, he joined the U.S. Army serving from ...
MARQUETTE - Tony Troutman grew up in Hawaii, the son of a U.S. Navy officer. He followed in his family tradition by spending about 30 years in the line of duty himself. Troutman served in the from 1975 to 1997 and then served in the reserves for 8 years. “I grew up watching the military ...
MARQUETTE - Kathy Andel has worn green for a lot of her life, although lately it’s green and gold. Andel walked into our interview wearing a Northern Michigan t-shirt that said “We can be the change.” She was one of the first women to serve in the Army as a licensed practical nurse ...
MARQUETTE — When Wilho Ritola, now 93, joined the U.S. Army in June 1946, the lifelong Republic resident found himself rapidly propelled into a new way of life. “I enlisted at 4’o clock one afternoon in Marquette,” he said. “I was on the 400 train on the way to Chicago the next ...
MARQUETTE — When Dan Atkins departed Ishpeming for special training in Indiana prior to his deployment to Iraq in 2004, it was impossible to truly fathom or prepare for what awaited him on the other side of the world. “It was just different all together because of ... the barriers that we ...
MARQUETTE — When Bob Bannan, 77, of Negaunee Township was asked to describe how he became enlisted during the Vietnam War, he called it “divine intervention.” Bannan said he went to the post office for the third time in search of the means to register for the draft. However, he ...
MARQUETTE — As Jim Hein, then a 20-year-old private in the U.S. Army Infantry, prepared in 1953 to enter the trenches of the Korean War, the reason for his service was painted in vivid detail as he rode a troop transport train from Busan, South Korea, to Chuncheon, South Korea. As Hein sat ...
MARQUETTE — When Dennis Grall was sent on a rescue mission to aid an injured man during the Vietnam War, he didn’t know anything about the wounded Marine, or if the man would even survive. But in the weeks following the rescue, Grall would find out he had a surprising geographic ...
