2D — DAILY COURIER, Grants Pass, Oregon • SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2019 SALUTE TO VETERANS Serving their country, deserving of our gratitude

There are so many upsides to coor- of life in the service. century to today. If you or a loved one and Sarah Hannon; reporters Duewel, dinating our annual Salute To Veter- That’s why it stings to see an obitu- did not submit information this year, I Shaun Hall and Sean Bassinger; and ans special section. Reading the ary for Joe Lavallee, the Marine on sincerely hope you do so next year. city editor Chris Bristol. details of each service member’s time the cover of last year’s Salute To Vet- This section has grown from eight Our toilings, though, pale in com- in the military opens doors to the past, erans who was dressed in his World pages in 2017 to 16 this year. It is one parison to what the men and women both peacetime and wartime. Scott Stoddard War II uniform. of the most popular sections we print, in the military must face. We are Be sure of this: We will never run Editor of the Daily Courier Another profile subject in last and it was honored this year by the humbled to have an opportunity to short of compelling stories about vet- year’s section, Mike Coster, saw a Oregon Newspaper Publishers Associ- honor you in these pages. erans to tell in these pages. friend killed in a nearby foxhole in the ation as the state’s best special sec- Thank you from all of us at the There is one downside, however. South Pacific. He choked up while tion produced by a small daily news- Daily Courier and the businesses that When a local veteran passes away, it telling the story to Daily Courier paper. advertised in these pages to help make hurts. For the past three years, I’ve reporter Jeff Duewel. Coster passed As the section continues to grow, Salute To Veterans a reality once read the submissions of nearly 350 away in March. we lean on more people at the Daily again this year. vets. I’ve looked through the photos I’ve photographed about a dozen Today’s Salute to Veterans sections Courier to make it happen. Salute To ——— they’ve passed along. They begin to veterans since 2017 for our longer pro- feature more than 300 local men and Veterans would not be possible with- Reach editor Scott Stoddard feel like family. I’ve spoken to some file stories, and I’ve been warmly wel- women who served. Their time in uni- out the contributions of Daily Courier at 541-474-3727 or on the telephone and others in person. comed into their homes to hear stories form ranges from the turn of the 20th imaging technicians Corey Hartgrave [email protected].

WE HONOR THE LOCAL MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN THE MILITARY

David Karl Hoffman Anna Jean Nagelhout Richard Marty Gary Lozier Christopher A. Cooper Hazen ‘Chuck’ U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps Hathaway Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Air Force Sergeant Major Sergeant (K-9 Handler) Lieutenant Colonel Corporal Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: Technical Sergeant 1967-1971 1962-1970 1964-1968 1961-1981 Four Years of service: Germany; Where served: Lackland AFB, Where served: Vietnam; Where served: ; Vietnam Where served: Where served: Iraq; Camp 20 Texas; Duluth International Germany; Belgium; Texas; Vietnam; on the Joint Chiefs Pendleton, California Where served: England; Airport; Air Base and California of Staff France; Thailand; Vietnam Dong Ha Air Field, Vietnam; Malmstrom AFB, Montana

Richard E. Perry U.S. Navy Chuck Hanger Stephen F. Ware Highest rank achieved: David Nelms U.S. Army Leonard ‘Len’ U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force Master Chief Petty Officer Highest rank achieved: Holzinger Jr. Carroll Ray Bierbower Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Highest rank achieved: First Sergeant U.S. Army Lieutenant U.S. Navy Staff Sergeant 1967-1997 Years of service: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Where served: USS Hornet; Years of service: 1980-2003 Master Sergeant 1964-1968 Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class 1968-1972 USS Carl Vinson; Vietnam; Where served: Oregon; Years of service: Years of service: Where served: Dover AFB, ; Diego Garcia; Where served: Vietnam; Colorado; Egypt; Puerto Rico; 1954-1959 1943-1945 Delaware; Phu Cat AFB, ; ; Africa; Florida Indiana; Washington Where served: Where served: USS Comfort; Vietnam; Wright-Patterson AFB, Alaska; Persian Gulf; Australia; New Guinea; Leyte; Dayton, Ohio California; Washington Luzon; Okinawa; Guam; Yokohama, Japan

David R. Wood Jack Heard Jerry A. Miller U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Army Donald Martin Jensen Matthew T. Price Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Navy U.S. Army Specialist 5th Class Staff Sergeant Specialist 3rd Class Orlo Winder Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Years of service: Years of service: U.S. Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Staff Sergeant 1968-1971 1942-1945 1955-1957 Fort Lewis, Highest rank achieved: Years of service: Years of service: Where served: Where served: Solomon Where served: Fort Ord, Seaman 1st Class 1944-1946 2004-2016 Washington; Fort Benjamin Islands; Santa Barbara, California; Korea Years of service: Where served: USS Burias; Where served: Iraq; Kuwait; Harrison, Indiana; Long Binh, California 1945-1946 USS Hector; USS Cascade; Afghanistan Vietnam; Frankfurt, Germany Where served: USS Gilmer; Asiatic Pacific area ; Philippines

Douglas A. Schmidt John Marcoulier U.S. Army David Dunton/Palmer Ronald H. Martin U.S. Army Highest rank achieved: U.S. Air Force Carl M. Summers U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force Highest rank achieved: Captain Rene J. Casteran U.S. Navy Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Sergeant First Class Years of service: Staff Sergeant U.S. Air Force Highest rank achieved: Sergeant (Army), Captain (Air Years of service: Seven Highest rank achieved: Sonar Technician Petty Officer Force) Years of service: 1967-1970, 1983-1996 Where served: 1968-1972 Staff Sergeant 2nd Class Years of service: Where served: Germany and West Germany; Camp Years of service: Years of service: 1974-1995 Where served: Lowry AFB, Vietnam (1967-1970); various Pendleton, California 1967-1971 1965-1969 Where served: Fort Polk; Fort Colorado; Bien Hoa Air Base, training bases as active reserve Where served: Nellis AFB, Where served: USS Rupertus Lewis; Reese AFB; Little Rock Vietnam; McConnell AFB, drill sergeant (1983-1996) Nevada; DaNang AFB, and USS Gurke; Long Beach, AFB; Clark AB; United Arab Kansas; Grand Forks AFB, Vietnam; Vandenburg AFB, California; San Diego, California; Emirates; Pemco Aeroplex, North Dakota California Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam Birmingham, Alabama

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