page 2 Wednesday, November 10, 2010 the best.” copters were shot down in Vietnam details of the funeral itself, but the He paused for a moment before and I thought to myself, thank God night of Larry’s return is etched in Larry continuing, “He was pretty loyal, al- Larry is not ƀ ying,” she said. her mind forever. “I could not get over ways had your back. He had a sense Her family left for Fargo in two the outpouring of love for our family, of humor and a sense of adventure. cars for the ceremony, but her broth- by some people we knew and some Jacobson He was better than me.” ers Allen and Mark had to return we didn’t know well,” she said. “We “We had some pretty good times home because of vehicle trouble. got a phone call the body would be remembered together,” Jerry recalled. “I still miss When her mother called to check on in Minot, so we went to the Minot him.” them, they told her military person- airport. I thought it would just be He and Craig and other Kenmare nel had been there to visit. our family.” friends had a plaque made to com- Her parents discussed the situ- Instead, aunts, uncles, neighbors, memorate Larry’s death and mili- ation, wondering if something had friends and acquaintances showed tary service. “We had it at Tasker’s happened to Larry. “I heard it, but I up, as well as a color guard and an Coulee for the longest time,” Jerry wasn’t processing it,” Carol said. honor guard. The plane’s passen- said, adding that Des Lacs National She went back to an earlier mem- gers were allowed to leave, but they Memory on display . . . This plaque commemorating the life, military Wildlife Refuge personnel had them ory of a neighbor who said Larry’s did not exit through the gate into service and death of Sp5 Larry Jacobson is currently stored at Tolley, remove the plaque, attached to a ce- service in the Army would make a the terminal, waiting instead for after being displayed for 25 years at Tasker’s Coulee. Larry’s friend Craig ment square, a few years ago. man out of him. “I’ve thought about Larry’s cof n to be carried through Livingston is currently seeking another, more public, home for the plaque, The plaque is now stored in Cou- that a billion times,” she said. “The  rst. “What I remember about that which had to be removed from its former site a few years ago. lee, but Craig would like to see it three oldest of us, we hate war, but night is just that there were so many displayed for the public, perhaps at our two youngest brothers are both people there to honor him and to love they didn’t enter the service to- said. “We got together and he asked Mouse River Park. “There should be military people. It’s interesting how my parents,” she said. “Even now, I gether. Craig and Larry actually left me, ‘Is it as bad as they say it is?’” some kind of shrine,” said Craig, “so this all turned out.” cannot get over how many people Kenmare for Minneapolis soon after Jerry recalled telling him some he gets a little bit of recognition or a According to Carol, Larry enjoyed came and sent cards.” graduation and found part-time jobs areas were all right and others were place where people can remember his time in Korea. He dreaded going One soldier’s legacy in the city. “We lived downtown in bad. “He must have got sent to one of him.” to Vietnam, but he remained true to For his service in the U.S. Army, one teeny room,” Craig said. “I think the worst areas,” he said. Jerry commemorates Larry’s the principle of doing right instilled Larry received the Army Aircrew we had one pullout bed and a couch. John was working in Tucson, AZ, death each Veterans’ Day. “I go out by their mother. “Before he went to Wings; patches representing the Neither of our families could afford at the time, but he met up with his to his grave and take him a bouquet,” 164th Aviation Group, the 13th Sp5 Larry Jacobson Vietnam, he was in Ft. Lewis, Wash- college.” old friend there just before Larry he said, adding that occasionally he ington, and we have relatives out Aviation Battalion and the 162nd As high school graduates, their shipped out for Vietnam. “I’d heard CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE and his wife Barb have hosted Army there,” Carol said. “They talked to “Vultures” Assault Helicopter Com- “He’d tell me about it. ‘Larry,’ names were selected for the draft, from him once in a while,” said John. friends of Larry’s from other parts of Larry about going across to Canada pany; and the Purple Heart, Na- I’d say, ‘take my spot.’ We’d switch so the two volunteered to enlist, “In Tucson, he told me he’d signed up the country who come to Kenmare and he would not do it. He wouldn’t tional Defense, Vietnam Service and places on the line and I’d take care rather than wait for their numbers for an additional year, and he said to and visit the cemetery. do that.” Vietnam Campaign medals. of that.” to be called. “I think that was in me, ‘I’m young. What’s an additional Craig has his own anniversary She didn’t hear from Larry while His name can be found on Panel Both Craig and Jerry remem- August, and we were serving by Sep- year?’” date at Larry’s grave site on June he was in Vietnam, not until the 07W, Line 011, of the Vietnam bered taking advantage of Larry’s tember,” Craig said. He and Larry The pain of saying goodbye 11th. “Every year, I go out to see news came of his death. “I can’t Veterans Memorial at the National weak stomach on occasions when started basic training together at Larry’s service in Vietnam began him,” he said. “I pour him a beer believe how sad that time was,” she Mall in Washington, D.C., one of the beer or other drinks were involved. Ft. Lewis, WA, but after a month or in May 1970, but Craig actually or sometimes I give him a shot of said, “and what a sense of loss. I 58,256 names representing U.S. ser- “Jerry and myself would go out and so, they were separated as medical left Vietnam on June 11th before schnapps or the whole bottle. He don’t have the vocabulary for that. vice men and women killed or gone drink, and we’d just pretend to get problems slowed Craig’s progress in ever seeing Larry. In fact, he didn’t was a good friend. You could trust Everybody at home just went to bed missing during the Vietnam War. sick,” Craig said, “but that would the military. know for certain if Larry had been him forever.” as soon as it was dark, and I cried “We were proud of having him as set him off and he’d really get sick, The two stayed in touch through assigned there. “I had a pretty good Craig also wants to visit the scene myself to sleep that night.” a brother,” Allen said. “I wish he was every time.” letters, including one letter that idea he was coming,” said Craig. “I of Larry’s death in Vietnam some- She described her schoolteacher still around with us.” Larry stayed loyal to his buddies, Craig has regretted sending to knew he would be the best mechanic day. “I’m going back to that spot,” mother, standing all of  ve feet tall, Carol maintains that the veter- though. “If you ever needed some Larry for 40 years now, encouraging in the Army, but I also knew if he he said. “I was all over that place as a pillar of strength for the family ans who served in Vietnam have help, it would never be a no,” Craig Larry to get together with him in got to Vietnam, he would be a door as a ‘river rat.’ I have a nephew in at that time, while her father was not been appreciated enough by the said. “He’d help you no matter what. Vietnam. “I should have said, ‘Stay gunner.” Thailand now, and I think I could devastated. The  rst holiday follow- American public. “When I was work- He was pretty shy. He’d talk to you, in Korea and we’ll party when we Craig was home in Kenmare just about find the spot where it ing Larry’s death and funeral was ing in the clinic, a Vietnam veteran but you’d better talk to him  rst. But get back,” Craig said. when the news came of Larry’s happened.” Thanksgiving, and Doris Jacobson came in and I thanked him for his he’d do anything for you. He never Jerry also enlisted for the draft death, and Jerry was stationed in Whenever Carol thinks about the  lled the house with relatives for the service,” she said. “He said to me that had an enemy in his life and never and started his service in November Texas, training, and unable to get day the news came of her brother’s day. “That was her spirit,” said Carol, I was only the third person who had had a  ght, not that I remember.” 1968, but he didn’t hear much from home for the funeral. John was still death, she is taken back to her nurs- who had to request the time off from ever thanked him.” Craig, Larry and Jerry hunted his friends until he went home on working in Tucson. “That was a sad ing school graduation ceremony in her new job as a nurse in Fargo. “We She continued, “It’s nice to re- and went to dances and passed leave from Vietnam in the spring day,” he said. “It was pretty rough, Fargo on August 28, 1970. “I had might be sad, but we go on.” member Larry, but it’s nice to re- their classes and graduated, but of 1970 and saw Larry. “Larry had but I came up for the funeral. It heard [on the news] that four heli- Carol doesn’t remember many member all of them.” orders to go over there then,” Jerry seems like those wars always get

Medal, Riƀ e, Artillery, Machine Gun, Bayonet and Hand Grenade Medals. He was killed in action in Holland on November 3, 1944 and buried in Belgium. Norman was later interred in the U.S. National Cemetery, Fort Snelling, MN on December 11, 1948. Norman was baptized and con rmed at Zion Some Gave All Lutheran Church of Norma, ND. tion at Saurlauten, Germany on December 6, 1944. Reburial was at Elmdale Cemetery, Niobe, ND. A World War I and II Service Record from the Kenmare area listed the names of 17 men killed in His parents were Mr. and Mrs. action. Carl C. Heglund. They are Arthur S. Knutson, Delmar G. McBeth, Roy Torkelson, Earl K. Nore, Perdin O. Nore, Twan D. Wade, Norman K. Mahlum, Gilmer G. Lindquist, Blaine M. Heglund, Victor C. Petersen, Willard entered C. Christianson, Donald J. Bergeron, Lloyd P. Hansen, Bernhard C. Boepple, Arthur D. Brown, Victor C. Petersen the service on May 28, 1942 in Kenneth G. Johnston, Lester A. Mattern. Minneapolis, MN in the Marine Photographs and short biographies were included for 12 of these men. Corps. He trained at San Diego, CA; Bremerton, WA and served aboard the USS Idaho and USS Tennessee. He served in the Aleu- tians and Pacific Theatre with engagements in Tarawa, Kwaja- lein, Eniwetok, Kavieng, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur, Leyte, Su- rigao Straits where the USS Ten- nessee contributed materially to Perdin Orville Nore was the destruction of a powerful por- born May 8, 1918 in Coulee, ND. tion of the Japanese Fleet includ- He entered the service February ing at least two battleships. Victor 17, 1941 in the Army, Company also participated in operations at B, 163rd Infantry. He was sent Iwo Jima, Okinawa. During bom- Arthur David Brown, of overseas March 1942 and served bardment and assault of Ryukyu Donald Jerome Bergeron, Kenmare, was born August 7, Gilmer G. Lindquist, in the South Paci c Theatre with Islands, he was killed when the Kenmare, ND, entered the service 1908. He entered the service Kenmare, entered the service engagements at Guadalcanal and USS Tennessee was struck by a in July 1943 in the Air Corps. June 19, 1942 at Seattle, WA in January 1943 in the 2193rd Quar- New Guinea. As a private  rst Japanese suicide plane on April He trained in Missouri, Texas, the 134th Infantry, 35th Divi- Lloyd P. Hansen, of Kenmare, termaster Truck Company. He class, he died in New Guinea on 12, 1945. Victor was awarded the and California before being sent sion of the Army. He trained at entered the service on October trained at Miami Beach, FL; Kelly January 9, 1943 from wounds re- 12 Battle Stars, Purple Heart, overseas on September 25, 1944. Ft. Lewis, WA; Camp Carson, 15, 1940 in the Army Air Force. Field, TX and was sent overseas ceived in action. His parents were Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific He served in the South Pacific Hunter-Liggett Military Reser- He served with the 645th Bom- October 1943 for England. As a Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nore of Stan- Theatre Ribbons, and Navy Unit Theatre in six air missions. Donald vation, CA; Camp Roberts, CA; bardment Squadron, 410th Bom- private  rst class, he served in ley, ND. Perdin was reburied at the Commendation Ribbon. was killed in action on October 26, Camp Shreveport, LA. Arthur was bardment Group, Ligh. He was the European Theatre. Gilmer Rose Hill Cemetery, Soldiers Plot, 1944 on the island of Mindanao. sent overseas on June 7, 1944 and sent overseas July 28, 1942 and drowned in the Seine River at of Minot, ND on October 4, 1948. His burial was at sea. ranked as a private he earned the served in Alaska. He returned Port Marly, France on June 25, He was baptized and con rmed Purple Heart and the Good Con- to the United States on July 28, 1945. His body was returned to at Bethlehem Lutheran Church duct Medal. Serving 27 months, he 1944. Serving as staff sergeant the United States and was buried of Coulee, ND. was killed in action on September for 41 months, Lloyd was killed at the Fort Sam Houston National 21, 1944 near Nancy, France. He in a plane crash on January 26, Cemetery, TX on November 16, was interred at St. Avold Military 1944 at Double Springs, AL. His 1948. His parents were Mr. and Cemetery, 23 miles east of Metz, parents were Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Mrs. Axel Lindquist. France. His parents were Mr. and Hansen. Mrs. M.A. Brown.

Bernhard C. Boepple, Kenmare ND, was born in Tripp, Twan Dorwin Wade was born SD on November 25, 1913. He en- November 17, 1921 in Menomonie, tered the service in August of 1939 Wisconsin. He entered the Army in the Army Air Corps. He trained on November 27, 1942 and was at Hamilton Field, CA before be- sent overseas June 16, 1944. Serv- ing sent overseas on October 28, ing in the European Theatre, he 1941. He served in the Pacific saw engagements in France, Lux- Theatre with engagements in the Earl Kenneth Nore was born embourg, Germany and Belgium, Philippines as a staff sergeant. April 8, 1920 at Coulee, ND. He including the Battle of the Bulge. Bernhard served 35 months and Willard Carlton Christian- entered the service April 1941 in As a private  rst class, Twan was entered the service April 8, was a prisoner of war from May 7, son the Army. He was sent overseas awarded the Marksman’s Medal, 1941 and served in the Army. 1942 until time of death. He was a Blaine M. Heglund, Route #2 Norman K. Mahlum was in March of 1942 and served in Combat Infantryman’s Badge, He trained at Camp Claiborne, prisoner during the Death March of Kenmare, entered the service on born April 8, 1922 at Norma, the European Theatre. Earl was and Purple Heart. He was killed LA; Fort Dix, NJ and was sent in the Philippines and died July June 7, 1943 and served as Field ND. He entered the service on killed in a plane crash on October in action in the Battle of the Bulge overseas May 1942. He served 4, 1942 in Manila from malaria Artillery. He trained at Camp November 10, 1942 in the Army. 21, 1944 in Sweden. His parents at Farlet, Belgium on January 4, in the North Africa Theatre with pneumonia and dysentery. Place Roberts, CA from June 7, 1943 to He trained at Camp Adair, OR; were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nore of 1945. His parents were Mr. and the 135th Infantry, 34th Division. of burial is unknown. His father July 1944. He was sent overseas Southern California and Arizona Stanley, ND and he was buried in Mrs. Percy R. Wade of Kenmare. As a corporal he was awarded the was George Boepple of Beulah, July 16, 1944 and served in the Maneuvers; Camp Carson, CO. the Soldier’s Plot at the Rose Hill Twan attended Elementary Lakev- Purple Heart and was killed in ND and his daughter was Beverly European-African-Middle East- Sent overseas August 15, 1944, Cemetery of Minot on October iew School No. 1 and was a gradu- action in North Africa on April 28, Jean Gravensen. Bernhard gradu- ern, Northern France and Central Norman was part of engagements 4, 1948. Earl was baptized and ate of Kenmare High School in 1943. His parents were Mr. and ated from Stanton High School of Europe campaigns. Ranked as a in France, Belgium and Holland. con rmed at Bethlehem Lutheran 1939. Twan farmed with his father Mrs. Olof Christianson. Stanton, ND. private, Blaine was killed in ac- He was awarded Marksmanship Church of Coulee, ND. until he entered the service.