Veterans

Brotherhood and Healing

This is a follow up from last Friday’s Veterans Page by Jim Holt who reported that The Greatest Generations Foundation and its founder Timothy Davis hosted a Vietnam Program enabling

Return to the battlefield in Vietnam

Close to two dozen Vietnam War vets whisked back to the battlefield as part of a vet-help program were expected Thursday to crawl through the same famous Cu Chi tunnels

Brian Delate, U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran

Brian Delate and I met for over two hours at Valencia’s Corner Bakery exchanging recollections of our Vietnam War service and we could have easily gone on that whole day.

Robert O. Merriman

Often, word of mouth leads to another Veteran and another excellent article and that’s the case here with Bob Merriman. Recently, I had interviewed WWII Veteran Paul Yadlosky with his

Colt C. Romberger

Editor’s note: Iraq War Veteran Colt C. Romberger departs May 1 for a 183 day, 3,000 mile horse ride across America to bring awareness to Vietnam Veterans who suffer Agent

Gerald G. Schlund

Recently I spotted a letter to the editor in our Signal Newspaper by Jerry Schlund and lo and behold he signed off reporting that he too had been with the

Garo Papazian

It was in our social media world that I actually met Garo Papazian after exchanging Face Book comments and text messages with his ex-wife Phyllis and it turns out that

Dan W. Petkunas

I met Dan Petkunas at Valencia Corner Bakery and was instantly intrigued as he expressed his life experiences. When I told him, he’s the first Vietnam War fighter pilot I’ve

Anthony P. Alba

Mutual Army Service Discussing Anthony P. Alba’s military story was amazingly familiar since he and I served in the same infantry division at the same time. Interestingly, Tony lives just

George R. Keene

George R. Keene was born April 21, 1923 at his family’s home in Highland Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. George is the youngest of six siblings and he