The Saratoga Sun November 6, 2019, Page 13 Veterans, we thank you and honor you

for serving our country and protecting our freedom!

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the hightest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

-John F. Kennedy

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By Joshua Wood code (MOS) being combat the Marines, in 2013, that Rae Richter has lived in engineer. That, however, her unit was deployed to the Valley for nearly three wouldn’t work out like she Afghanistan. years and currently works had hoped. After she left the Marines, for Kip Kerbs, helping him “Right before I shipped Richter moved to Laramie on his ranch outside Sarato- they told me it was no longer and lived there for four years. ga. Richter is originally from available,” said Richter. She spent a short time in Masonville, Colorado and Fortunately for Richter, Bozeman, Montana before served in the United States she had done well on the spending two years in Col- Marine Corps (USMC) for Armed Services Vocational orado and then, eventually, four years. Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) moving to Saratoga. “I had a lot of friends that test and was able to secure a “I used to work for BMW were going to college and all spot in another engineering in Colorado and that was that kind of stuff and I just MOS. well paying, but I didn’t wasn’t ready for college,” said “I built airfields. The Navy enjoy it. Now, I’m working Richter. “I had another friend has seabees, we were like for Kip Kerbs on the ranch,” that was in the Marine Corps the Marine Corps version of said Richter. “Much more my and he told me I should give them. We maintained, built lifestyle.” it a go.” the airfields, did all the light- Richter advises anyone Taking her friends advice, ing and any tailhook aircraft who is looking to enlist to en- she enlisted in the USMC that came in, we would catch sure that the MOS they are with the intention of her them,” Richter said. “My wanting to have is actually military occupation service MOS was expeditionary air- available. She admits that field technician. They were she was lucky as she had to all expeditionary. They could go open contract following be permanent, but just a the news that combat engi- bunch of aluminium matting neer was no longer available. that goes together like the She continues to keep in pergo floors.” contact with the members of While Richter served for her unit, who she calls her HOTEL four years, she never de- brothers and sisters. ployed. In 2012, she suffered “Still very close, still talk a spinal cord injury that cut to all of them,” Richter said. her time in the USMC short. “Lost many friends, but that’s WOLF It wasn’t long after she exited what happens in war time.” Sincere thanks and gratitude to our veterans! 101 East Bridge Avenue, Saratoga, WY 82331 326-5525 Thank you for your business from www.wolfhotel.com The Campbell Family The Saratoga Sun November 6, 2019, Page 15

Proud to have served UNITED STATES air force our country. Proud to serve our Wouldn’t change a thing community. Steve Flauding reflects on tour in Vietnam and the details VFW Post #6125 that still remain with him Encampment

By Joshua Wood time. The projectionist, “I went to Phu Cat for two always referred to as “Lu- weeks of training and that ther,” would get heckled was kind of exciting because by the audience if the film Saratoga Auto Parts I did something really dumb. reel broke and needed re- I was out at my end of the paired. Beer was always Qui Nhon and it was during in steel cans and it would Thanks you the Tet Offensive and the be squeezed like a tomato bus was five hours out - tak to tell if it was good or not. for your ing us to Phu Cat, whoever “If they didn’t pop back was going that direction. out, they were skunky,” service. Being young and bulletproof, said Flauding. I stuck my thumb out and Another thing that hitchhiked … to Phu Cat.” Flauding remembers, but Steve Flauding has lived he doesn’t see make it into in the Valley for 41 years. films about the Vietnam In that time he has worked War, are the various ways a variety of jobs. He went those serving would mark from being a troubleshooter their short time remaining for Carbon County School in country. District No. 1 to logging to “We had short-timer rib- serving as a deputy for the bons and short-timer sticks Carbon County Sheriff’s De- Photo courtesy Steven Flauding and short-timer calendars. partment for nearly 20 years. A newspaper clipping A short-timer stick is bam- Before all of that, Flauding shows a young Steve boo with a dragon’s head was an 18-year-old who had Flauding. on it and there’s twelve enlisted in the Air Force to sections. I never had the serve in Vietnam. stick, I never had the use “I knew I was going to be seen what those serving in for it, but every time you drafted. In 1969 I was 18 the Army or Marines saw cut a month off you cut a years old. I was prime,” said while in Vietnam, but his section off that bamboo. Flauding. decision to hitchhike 20 miles You ended up putting the At that time, most of the from Qui Nhon to Phu Cat did dragon’s head around your THANK YOU young men who were draft- give him views of the country neck,” Flauding said. ed into service would be ei- as his trip took part in three The short-timer ribbons ther Army or Marines. They separate rides. The first two came from a half-gallon for serving our country and would be the ones that were parts of his travel was with of Seagrams VO whiskey. boots on the ground, moving two different Army jeeps. The person serving who protecting our freedoms! through the jungle in a war “I rode with two Army guys. was on their short-timer that had already been going I thought they were going status would have to drink ~Saratoga Sun for 14 years by the time all the way over there, they the bottle and would then Flauding enlisted. Serving in said, ‘Well, we’re turning off place the yellow and black the Air Force, Flauding did to Camp Granite.’ They let ribbon in their lapel. one tour in Vietnam and his me out in the middle of coun- “I learned a lot from it. military occupational service try. No gun, no nothing. The It’s one of them deals; nev- code (MOS) was refining liq- two other Army guys picked er want to do it again, uid oxygen (LOx). me up with a Jeep and they wouldn’t change a thing,” Thank you First stationed in Tuy Hoa, carried me a little further, said Flauding. Flauding refined LOx for the then they turned off and went With the march of time LOx converters in F-100 jets someway,” said Flauding. moving on from the Viet- Veterans! as well as supplying medical “Then I got picked up by a nam War, fewer of those grade gaseous oxygen for the local in a semi truck.” who served now remain. base hospitals. The plant that When he finally arrived in Two years ago, Flauding (307) 326-5257 Flauding worked on while in Phu Cat, he was asked by went to look up a person 200 N. 1st St., Saratoga Tuy Hoa produced five tons security where he had come he served with. The two of LOx a day. For a two week from. Flauding informed had spoken on the phone a period, Flauding trained in them he had hitchhiked from handful of times and had Phu Cat and eventually was Qui Nhon. planned to meet. relocated to Da Nang. “He said, ‘You’ve got to “Mikey Patruno was his Thanks to all our veterans “Occasionally, I think about be kidding me.’ It was after name, and he’d died. He and all who are serving now this stuff. I get a little teary that I found out that Ho Chi was originally from Buffa- eyed when I see it sometimes. Minh’s birthplace was be- lo. Mike’s one of them guys Not because I was a hero or tween there and Qui Nhon,” helps you get through it,” anything. I’ll tell you who Flauding said. “I got ripped Flauding said. “A couple did all the grunt work; it was for that one. Didn’t lose any years older than me and the Army and the Marines. points or anything, but I did just a really good fella.” Those guys were out there in get told ‘Don’t you ever do When it comes to anyone Full Service Family Salon — 326-8066 the jungle marching around, that again.’ Here’s the thing who is wanting to serve some of the riverboat guys with Americans; they get their country, Flauding from the Navy,” said Flaud- into a foreign country … we advises that they are doing ing. “I was an augmentee. got this thing in our head it for the right reasons and I was an augmentee from, that we’re still in the United it is something they want like, two days after I got in States. Well, you’re not and to do. country.” it’s a very dangerous place. “If there’s someone who As an augmentee, the only That could have ended up wants to defend our coun- time Flauding would find really badly for me. I was 19 try, I’m all for it, but be himself in battle would be if years old and ignorant.” sure that’s what you want the base was attacked and he This year marks 50 years to do,” said Flauding. had to man either an oscar since Flauding enlisted. It’s Following his tour in station, which sat on a hill, or been nearly 45 years since Vietnam, Flauding spent a gulf station. This happened the fall of Saigon (Ho Chi the remainder of his time VETERANS DAY twice while he was stationed Minh City) and the end of in the Air Force as a den- DINNER POST 54 in Tuy Hoa. the Vietnam War. There are tal assistant. His wife, “That night, we got nailed still things that Flauding Sherry, was pregnant with saturday NOV. 9, 2019 and they come by, pick me up, remembers, little things that their first child and, at the put me in a hole and I had an he doesn’t see in the movies. time, he was concerned Social Hour 5-6pm with Cash Bar M-16. The second time, I was The outdoor movie theater, about something happen- Dinner 6-8pm•$15 per person or $25 per couple in the oscar station with clay- for example, was made of ply- ing while deployed. Chang- Dinner will be donated to our Veterans and a mores and an M-60 machine wood and would often have ing his MOS, Flauding left guest by the Auxiliary gun, .30 cal. Other than that, lizards crawling over it while the Air Force with the rank Please RSVP to Post Home at 326-9600 I didn’t see what these other the troops watched “Hang of Buck Sergeant, though boys saw,” Flauding said. ‘Em High” or “Herbie the he was Airman First Class By Nov. 6 Flauding may not have Love Bug” for the umpteenth while in Vietnam. PUBLIC WELCOME Page 16, November 6, 2019 The Saratoga Sun

United states marines With the China Marines SMHS graduate currently serving with battalion activated over 100 years ago with storied history

By Joshua Wood Morgan Rempel is a 2017 graduate of Saratoga Middle/ High School. Following his graduation, Rempel enlisted with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and has been serving si nce June 2017. Ac- cording to his mother, Carrie Garcia, Rempel advanced as a Scout Swimmer for the Al- pha Raiders. He is currently stationed in Camp Pendleton, California and is a 1st Battal- ion, 4th Marines Alpha Raid- er, also known as the China Marines. The 1/4 Marines were origi- nally activiated in April 1911 and first saw combat in- No vember 1916 in the Domini- can Republic. From February 1927 to November 1941, the 1/4 Marines served in Shang- hai, which earned them the nickname the China Marines. Since then, it has become prac- tice to use the China dragon Photo courtesy Carrie Garcia in both official and unofficial Morgan Rempel takes part in a beach storming logos and mastheads. practice. Following their time in Chi- na, the 1/4 Marines were deployed to the Philippines to defend the American colony during World War II. The China Marines were also used during the Vietnam War, be- ginning in the spring of 1965 and were used in a total of eight operations ranging from Operation Prairie to Operation Napoleon/Saline. After the events of Septem- ber 11, the China Marines were deployed to the Middle East in support of the Global War on Terror. They aided in initial combat operations in Afghanistan before becoming part of the initial invasion force in Operation Iraqi Free- Morgan Rempel stands at dom. attention in his dress blues The most recent involve- for a photo. ment in the Middle East for the 1/4 Marines was in 2017 November 2018, his platoon have returned to Camp Pend- when they were deployed to was deployed for seven months leton where they are currently Syria to provide artillery sup- to Okinawa, Japan where they training and awaiting orders port to forces working to eject boarded the USS Ashland.” for their next mission. ISIL from the city of Raqqa. Earlier this year, in August, “Morgan was a leader and “In March 2018, he went to Rempel and the China Ma- role model in Saratoga for the United Kingdom where rines were sent to the southern those around him and contin- they trained with the Royal border of the United States to ues to thrive in his leadership Marines,” wrote Garcia in an assist with border patrol. As role as a squad leader in his email to the Saratoga Sun. “In of October, the China Marines platoon,” Garcia wrote. The Saratoga Sun November 6, 2019, Page 17

United states Air force A desire to serve Katherine Munson, already dedicated to serve, finds dedication bolstered following events of Sept. 11

By Joshua Wood “They started crying, bang- have a decision made on their Before Katherine Munson ing on the doors and, as an military occupation specialty graduated from Saratoga American, your first instinct code (MOS). Additionally, High School in 2001, she had is to help these children, but those who like to serve and a scholarship opportunity obviously, in Afghanistan, like the tradition or prestige in Nebraska. After talking they could have bombs, they of the military should look with a friend from Rawlins could be the decoy that gets into serving in the base Honor who had joined the Air Force, us killed,” said Munson. “I Guard. however, her plans changed. looked back and I just go, ‘Oh “Base Honor Guard gets you “She came back and was my gosh, that’s just the sad- right in the middle of it and telling me how awesome it dest thing I’ve ever seen’ and it’s a really cool experience,” was and then she’s like ‘Hon- one of the guys turns around Munson said. “You could be estly, the pride of serving my and says, ‘That’s why we’re doing retirement ceremonies country is something you can’t here.’” for the tech sergeant down the replace’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, Also during her time in street. I was actually pretty I want that. I want to serve Afghanistan, Munson was lucky because I was stationed my country,’” said Munson. lead on an operation that near D.C., I got to go to a Munson’s family, on both saw three people get hurt. Wizards game and carry the sides, have a number of mem- When she went down to the colors.” bers who have served their base they operated out of, the While carrying the colors, country. Her paternal grand- commanding officer called her Munson was feet away from father served in the Korean into his office. Michael Jordan and Scottie War and her uncle served “He said ‘I want to thank Pippin. in Vietnam. On her mom’s you because, without you, we “I was like ‘Oh, I’m a small- side, all her uncles served in would have lost people and town Wyoming girl, this is Vietnam. we would have had a lot more amazing,’” said Munson. “My mom’s side is full. Like, injuries. You saved every guy Since deciding not to re- all my uncles served in Viet- on that operation and I ap- enlist, Munson has returned nam and, actually, one of preciate you,’” Munson said. to the Valley that she called my great-uncles was a POW “That is something you can’t home, is married and has a (Prisoner of War) in World replace. That was just the young daughter. She serves coolest thing that anyone has War II,” Munson said. “So, Photo courtesy Katherine Munson her country in a different way I was like, ‘Why wouldn’t I Katherine Munson shortly after enlisting in the ever said to me.” now as she works at the En- want to be a part of that?’” Air Force. Shortly after she returned campment Post Office. Work- Despite graduating in 2001, to the United States, Munson ing for the post office allows Munson didn’t enlist until was awarded Airman of the her to buy back her military December of that year. Be- cumstances and, with the war ing the deployment in Florida, Quarter. She didn’t return to time and use it towards re- tween graduation and her coming on, they needed intel Munson was offered one in Afghanistan and, after only tirement. enlistment date, the events people,” Munson said. Afghanistan and jumped at four years in the Air Force, It’s been nearly 18 years of September 11 took place Munson was sent to Tex- the chance. she chose not to reenlist. since Munson enlisted and and the United States was as for technical school and “I was still working for NSA “The reason why I didn’t the United States still has beginning to enter the Middle was given orders to report to and we (were a) 24 hour shop. reenlist … is my mom had troops in Afghanistan and East. That didn’t sway her Fort Mead, Maryland. There, So, half the time I was there gotten sick. At the time, I Iraq. According to Munson, decision to join the Air Force, she worked for the National I was on nights, half the time didn’t know that the military if someone had told her back but rather solidified it. Security Agency (NSA) in a I was on days. Which, nights does hardship. They’ll get you then that the country would “Everyone was like ‘Oh, nightwatch office. Her job, there are basically days here, closer to home and everyone still be there, she wouldn’t you’re chickening out now, and that of those she served so it was not as hard of an I knew was getting orders have believed it. aren’t you?’ and I was like, with, was to be the eyes for adjustment,” Munson said. to Korea and I was so afraid “I didn’t forsee it, at the ‘No, I’m going.’ I thought the Director of the NSA. Munson spent six months that I would get sent to Korea time, going for as long. If you there could be a war. When “It was a really important in Afghanistan working intel. and something would happen would have told my 18-year- you serve, it’s a possibility,” watch office and then, when One of the things that she re- with my mom. So, that’s why I old self that we’d still be said Munson. I was done with that time, I members from her time there didn’t reenlist,” said Munson. there, now, I would have been Against the advice of her decided I wanted to become was when she first arrived in “Hindsight’s 20/20; I’d almost like, ‘No, there’s no way,’” recruiter, Munson entered a permanent deployer,” said the country. As her unit was be retired now.” Munson said. “It’s a tough sit- the Air Force as open general. Munson. traveling from one base to an- When she left the Air Force, uation. What do you do? You “Pick a job. I got really Still being new to her post, other, they became stuck in a she had achieved the rank of just can’t completely pull out lucky; I went open general the first deployment Munson traffic jam. While the unit was E-4 or Senior Airman. and leave the people and all and my recruiter even told had was to Tampa, Florida looking for a way out, Munson Munson is very proud of her the work that we’ve put into me not to do that and I just which she refers to as her remember two young girls time in the Air Force and she it, but it’s kind of like, when landed intel because of cir- hardship deployment. Follow- outside the vehicle. advises anyone who enlists to do you say when? It’s hard.” Page 18, November 6, 2019 The Saratoga Sun

UNITED STATES ARMY Gonzales goes global HEM graduate recently returns home from the Army after time in Afghanistan

By Mike Armstrong es of equipment and they Christian Gonzales, a 2015 weighed from 100 to 150 Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medi- pounds each,” Gonzales said, cine Bow (HEM) High School “It was a mission to get it up graduated, has recently come and running, but the more I back to Hanna after serving went to the different bases, I his country from 2016 until got faster.” the beginning of this month. He said the bases were well Gonzales said when he fortified for the personnel graduated HEM, he went inside. The most dangerous into the work force, but after aspect of being at a FOB was several months, he felt a call taking the trash out to a des- to join the armed forces. ignated area outside. After looking into his op- “We would have to go into tions, Gonzales settled on the full ‘battle rattle’ gear and Army. with our weapons,” Gonzales “The Army was a good fit for said. me,” Gonzales said. “I wanted His main exposure to the to go into communications and locals was the translators at found myself being stationed the FOBs. at Fort Gordon in Georgia.” “I became friends with a lot Fort Gordon houses the of them and they would ask headquarters for the Army me if I wanted real food as I Cyber School and the Signal got to know them,” Gonzales School. The Signal School said. “I learned to eat lamb focuses primarily on commu- there. It was really good food, nications technology that is too.” currently being utilized by He said each base meant the Army. getting to know new transla- Gonzales said as he was tors and they were friendly. getting processed out of his “We just carried on nor- training, he was deployed to mal conversations, nothing an army base in Kuwait for political at all,” Gonzales four months. explained. “At first it was a little hectic He said the countryside he because, as soon as I got out was in reminded him of New of school and got assigned to Mexico or northern Wyoming my first unit, I didn’t know Photo by Mike Armstrong with all its mountains. anybody and I had to learn Christian Gonzales left the Army recently but not before being stationed in Georgia After five months in Af- everyone’s name,” Gonzales (U.S.), Kuwait and Afghanistan. He recently joined the Wyoming National Guard. ghanistan he eventually re- said. “I was thrown right turned to Fort Gordon. into the mix right from the When his years were up, he beginning.” worked with about 70 mem- mission to FOBs (Forward two football fields,” Gonzales decided he wanted to come He said the first month in bers.” Operating Base). There was said. “They had to be large back to Wyoming. Kuwait was validating the After being in Kuwait for usually about 50 people in a enough for us to land the “I realized that I might miss equipment to make sure it four months, he was one of FOB. The FOBs were there different aircraft. To these the army, so I enlisted in the was in working order before eight from his unit deployed to show a presence to the bases, I went by Chinooks, Wyoming National Guard,” being deployed into a combat to Afghanistan. country.” Blackhawks and sometimes Gonzales said. “This way I can area. “The main base I was sta- He said the FOBs were in a C-130, that is an airplane.” still serve the country.” “I provided the communi- tioned there was Kandahar,” an area that was considered Once he got to the bases, He said going into the army cations and internet for the Gonzales said. “I would go on a combat zone. he would set up the commu- was beneficial for him. entire unit,” Gonzales said. missions from there. I guess “The FOBs ranged in size nications. “I am glad to be called a “I was in Bravo company and I went on about 10 different from about a football field to “We had about eight box- veteran,” Gonzales concluded.

Poppies in prose The poems and the stories that gave a flower new symbolic life

Staff Report We are the dead: Short days In 1920 the poppy was generations Americans have In the ranks of the living On May 2 in 1915, Canadi- ago, made the official memorial perished to make this land dead. an poet John McCrae’s close We lived, felt dawn, saw sun- flower of the American- Le free. The stem represents the friend and former student set glow, gion and the Auxiliary in courage and determination The green of the leaves re- Alexis Helmer was killed by a Loved and were loved: and 1921. In 1924, the Legion of our fallen warriors. The minds me German shell in World War I. now we lie started the national poppy assembled product, a flower, Of the sunny hillsides over Composed at the battle- In Flanders fields! program, where paper pop- is a symbol of resurrection the sea, front on May 3, 1915 during pies are made by disabled which is sure to follow. Whenere rest the war torn the second battle of Ypres, Take up our quarrel with vets to be sold to honor vet- The following poem, writ- bodies Belgium, this poem became the foe erans of wars. The disabled ten by an unknown author, Of those who died that war the basis for poppies being To you, from failing hands, vets are paid for each poppy is also used by the American might cease to be. the flower symbolically used we throw they make and materials are Legion Auxiliary to make to honor the war dead. The torch: be yours to hold supplied free of charge. The Americans aware of the pa- The cup that is formed by the it high proceeds from buying these per poppy’s importance to petals In Flanders Fields If ye break faith with us who paper poppies go to Veterans vets. Covers a heart of gold. die, Affairs for rehabilitation of It stands for a labor of love In Flanders fields the poppies We shall not sleep, though vets and to help their fam- Only a Paper Poppy Whose value can never be blow poppies grow ilies. told. Between the crosses, row on In Flanders field Symbolism of the Poppy is Only some paper petals row, as such for the American Le- With two leaves of paper, too. Only a paper poppy That mark our place: and in American professor Moina gion: The red petals stand for Only a paper poppy But it holds the hopes and the sky Micheal conceived of the the vast outpouring of blood Does it mean anything more fears The larks still bravely sing- Flanders Field Memorial given by veterans; the green to you? Of numberless men and their ing fly poppy in 1915 to decorate the and black center, the mud loved ones Scarce heard amid the guns graves of American soldiers. and desolation of all battle- The red is for the courage As they carry on through the below. In 1919 her fame spread fields. The green of the stem Of men who fought and bled, years. to such an extent she was is symbolic of the forests, And then came back to spend known as the “Poppy Lady”. meadows and fields where their days The Saratoga Sun November 6, 2019, Page 19

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