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From Bystander to Grand Marshal Vietnam Vet Honored As Wounded Warrior I by Neita Cecil Head,” He Said B Sunday, November 8, 2015 The Dalles Chronicle SSAALLUUTTEE From bystander to Grand Marshal Vietnam vet honored as wounded warrior I By Neita Cecil head,” he said. The Dalles Chronicle He doesn’t remember much about it. He couldn’t For decades, Jim Day be medevacced until the watched the annual Veter - next day, when it was day - ans’ Day parade from the light. corner of Second and Fed - And while Day honestly eral, taking a break from doesn’t remember what work to wave to the pass - day or month it happened ing veterans. — he’s scrubbed many But now that he’s re - things from his memory tired, the decorated Viet - banks — he said, “I re - nam veteran, a recipient of member it was Friday the the Purple Heart, will be 13th.” in the parade for the first And while that seemed time ever — as its grand unlucky, he called his in - marshal. jury the “million dollar Born and raised in The wound because I didn’t Dalles, Day first worked at, have to go back in the then co-owned, then field.” owned Tony’s Town & He spent the rest of his Country. The store closed time at the forward fire after 49 years in late 2014. support base, a much more Day was drafted into the secure area. Army and served from He recounts the day he 1969 to 1971. He did basic headed for home. “When training and advanced in - the plane left the ground fantry training at Fort and was in the air, all the Lewis, Wash., getting an guys on the plane award for outstanding just erupted. Everybody trainee of the cycle in ad - was so happy to be JIM DAY is pictured with his award designating him the outstanding trainee of the cycle from when he was in vanced training. heading home” and to safe - advanced infantry training at Fort Lewis, Wash. He also received the Purple Heart for being wounded in combat, He was in the 196th In - ty. but he’s misplaced the medal after moving a number of times. Ray Swift photo fantry Brigade, in the But America wasn’t so since disbanded Americal happy to receive them. town like The Dalles com - defining part of his life. In - merous health issues. around every so often, just Division, the same one his “We were not treated very pared to returning to a big stead, he got home and He had two-thirds of his for fun.” father served in World War well when we got back. city. joined the business world left lung removed and fin - “You have to laugh a lit - II. You didn’t tell somebody Even so, he kept pretty and became a success. ished another round of tle, right? That’s a big part Day was armed with an you were a veteran from quiet about his service for But it wasn’t like he did - chemo and radiation just a of life.” M-79 grenade launcher the Vietnam War. Things about 20 years. “It was a n’t have lingering effects month ago. As he’s gotten older, Vet - and an M-16 machine gun. were just different than part of my life I wanted to of the war. He has PTSD, Day is upbeat about life erans’ Day has come to be In early 1970, he was on they are today.” forget,” he said. and has had two bouts and doesn’t dwell on the more meaningful to him. patrol on Hawk Hill — be - Day noted that he did For the last 20 years or of cancer, prostate and negative. On his service in “Because of the veter - tween Chu Lai and Da not get a poor reception so, he’s seen a warming of lung, that “are associated Vietnam, he said, “I was ans from Vietnam and Nang — in a light infantry personally, and he was re - attitudes toward Vietnam with — you can’t say ‘be - just glad to be home and other wars, we’re a free brigade. ferring more to veterans. “I don’t mind cause of’ — Agent Or - have all my arms and people,” he said. “You can “While on patrol we the national reception, the talking about it, but I don’t ange.” legs.” voice our opinion. You can were hit. I got wounded by one portrayed on bring it up.” Agent Orange was a de - He fully recovered from write what you want to, a mortal round. I took a TV. He said it was different He doesn’t consider his foliant used in Vietnam his head wound, but said, whereas in other countries piece of shrapnel to the returning to a small time in the military as a that has been linked to nu - “I kind of jerk my head you can’t.” Corporal Sergeant 1st Lieutenant Fred Akita Sgt. Corporal Merril M. Adkisson James N. Akita Robert Joseph Alaimo, Sr. Elmer B. Alford Jeremy Anderson U.S. Marines U.S. Airforce U.S. Army 1st Marine Division U.S. Army 1941-1945 WWII 1942-1946 U.S. Army Vietnam 1999-present Bronze Star WWII - South Pacific Guadacanal Purple Heart Operation Iraqi Freedom 3rd Class Petty Officer Captain First Class Tech 3, Staff Sergeant Specialist ES Captain Vernon T. Anderson Jesse Atay Earl Ayers Mervyn G. Bachofner Dennis Michael Bacon Thomas E. Bailey U.S. Navy Seabees U.S. Army U.S. Air Force 1942-1945 U.S. Marine Corp. U.S. Navy 1945-1947 U.S. Army 1968-1972 WWII 2001 - 2013 1943-1951 Finance Clerk with 1965-1968, Vietnam War Freetown, Africa, Casablanca, 86 Combat Mission, Vietnam Okinawa Iraq, Afghanistan Pharmacist 7th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division Cadet Nurse Radioman 2nd Class AMM 1st Class Leonard “Dude” Bailey Herman Bagge Rodger Barber Dora McLean Bailey Bob Barrett Jack Arthur Bartell U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force U.S. Navy U.S. Marines U.S. Air Force U.S. Navy 1941-1946 WWII WWII, 1944-1945 WWII 1942-1945 371st Group P47 Pilots 1950-53 Pearl Harbor Survivor, flew 119 Italy Pearl Harbor, MP, Guard Duty 404th Squadron combat missions in South Pacific Korean War in PBYs & PB4Y-1 (B-24s) B2 Sunday, November 8, 2015 www.TheDallesChronicle.com The Dalles Chronicle Salute SP 5 Radioman 2nd Class SR Sergeant Warrant Officer 2 Captain Christian Logan Batty John F. Baumgarten, Jr. Jack Baumgartner John Becharas Jacob S. Beno Kelsey J. (Riise) Beno U.S. Navy U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Army Airborne Army Aviation/Blackhawk Pilot Army Aviation/Blackhawk Pilot 1953-1956 1987-2009 1995-1999 1941-1945 2005 to present 2007 to present National Defense Paratrooper, Fort Bragg 3-158th Aviation Regiment, 3-158th Aviation Regiment, Fort Lewis, DMZ South Korea, U.S.S. California, Persian Gulf Storm Riders, Katterbach, Germany Storm Riders, Katterbach, Germany Fort Campbell, retired China Service Award Camp Adar, Corvallis, OR E4 Corporal E5 Sergeant Captain BM2-E5 Fireman 1st Class Renolds W. Blazer Will Berthold Philip Berthold Claude Berthold John Michael Bishop Clyde Blaisdell U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy, 1943-1946 U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy 1967-1970 1996 to present WWII Victory Medal, 1998 - 2000 1968-1976 U.S. Air Force MOS 1833 Amphibious Vehicle 3rd Marine MOS 1121 Africa, Afghanistan HMH 464 America, Asiatic-Pacific, Vietnam 1953-1957 Crew Chief, West Pac Viet Nam HMH T302 China and Phillipines Korean War Sgt. SFC CE-2 Sergeant AWF2 Lynn Bolton James C. Block James Block Justin W. Bodolay Joseph S. Bodolay James C. Bodolay U.S. Army Army National Guard U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Navy 1942-1946 1961-67, 1987-2004 U.S. Navy 1968-1969, Vietnam NSW Support Activity I 1944 Battle of the Bulge Vietnam Era NMCB-18 DET 2 Operation Desert Storm 39th Cavalry, 9th Infantry Div. SP4 Sonar 3rd Class Staff Sergeant SP-4 AM2 (AW) Private 1st Class Alan Gene Borton Alfred L. Borton Steven L. Borton J. Harrison Bowlds Justin Bowlin Francis O. “Jake” Bradford U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Army U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Army 1971-1972, Vietnam 1941-1945, WWII 1968-1969, Vietnam War 1966-1968 2003 - present 1944-1946 Financial School, 3rd in Class Boatson 2nd Class Awarded 2 Bronze Stars South Korea, 2nd Inf. Div. WWII, Phillipines Staff Sgt. Major General Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Paul Philip Brooks Captain John M. Brady William J. “Bud” Breckner Daniel Brock Alfred L “Barney” Brown Daniel R. Brophy U.S. Army, 10th Mountain Div. U.S. Air Force, 1955-1986 U.S. Navy U.S. Army, 1942-45 Marine Corps. 1999-present 80th Infantry Division Naval Air Force Air Defense Europe, USS Intrepid, 1970-1974 Semper Fidelis Infantryman/Sniper Instructor 317th Infantry Regiment 1942-1946 Chief of Staff Ramstein, Commander 2 Tours Vietnam 1957—1969 Two tours Iraq; Purple heart 17th Air Force NATO France, Ardennes, Rhineland Vietnam Stationed in Brazil & Panama S/Sergeant Captain Gunnery Sergeant Staff Sergeant Corporal CoMM (AA) Clarence Andres Brown Dr. Albert N. Brown Lewis Brown Lyle Brown Robert G. Brown Jack M. Buce, Jr. U.S. Air Force, Aerial Engineer U.S. Army Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Navy 1943-1945, WWII 1937-1947 U.S. Army 1953-1961 1940-1944 WWII Oldest living survivor of Bataan Death WWII So. Pacific, 66th, 5th Air Force 1942-1947 7811 Army Unit U.S.S. Tennessee, Pearl Harbor March (104 yrs), POW 42 months Schweinfurt, Germany Y.M.S.
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