The Upper Peninsula, it is said, never forgets its veterans, the people who donned our country’s military uniform and took up arms at a time when they were needed most. We have always honored their service though memorials, special days and events. This video presentation, and an ...
By Abby LaForest Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Brendan Ruth moved to the Upper Peninsula when he was 16, relocating from his hometown of Fowler in lower Michigan. Ruth, now 23, served in the U.S. Army for a little less than four years, enlisting in 2019. Following his father’s ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
