SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Atlantic storm Wellborn readies SUNDAY EDITION means a wet for 19th annual holiday here. 3A Blueberry Festival. 1D MEMORIAL DAY 2012 Heroes’ holiday County resident pioneered use of 3-D photography in Vietnam Fort White man subject of cable TV show. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter By TONY BRITT Rachael Maguire, an Operation Enduring [email protected] Freedom veteran, speaks at the 18th annual ‘Catch the Spirit’ Memorial Day Ceremony at the Lake City VA Medical Center. FORT WHITE — Joel Glenn grew up on a south- ern Columbia County farm 100 attend with an interest in photog- raphy. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter His love of photography Carlton Watson Jr. waves to family mem- services at never wavered, even after COURTESY bers and friends Friday during commence- he joined the military and U.S. Army Major Joel Glenn takes a break at an unknown ment ceremonies at CHS. VA hospital became a helicopter pilot location in South Vietnam during one of his two tours of duty in Vietnam. there in the mid-1960s. By LAURA HAMPSON During his two tours of [email protected] action in the Vietnam War, 370 get Glenn began taking 3-D American flags rustled in the breeze photos. Glenn was not a as community members gathered in the combat photographer, but shade of an old oak tree to honor fallen took a lot of photographs diplomas servicemen and women. in his down time while on The Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical active duty. Glenn often Center held the 18th annual Memorial Day took 3-D photographs and at CHS Ceremony Friday morning. it is believed that he had For some Americans Memorial Day is a one of the largest, if not fun day off, but for others is means more, only collections, of 3-D pho- By Laura Hampson said keynote speaker Rachael Maguire, to tos from the Vietnam War. [email protected] a crowd of about 100. Glenn’s 3-D slides of the Maguire, an Operation Enduring Vietnam War is one of the As the sun sank behind the stands Freedom Veteran, served three years of reasons he’s featured on an at Tiger Stadium, the Columbia High active duty with the Army and one year upcoming documentary. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter School Class of 2012 walked two-by-two with the Kentucky National Guard. The show, Sky Soldier: Fort White resident Judy Glenn displays a Stereo Realist toward the sunset of their high school War has shaped every generation of The Vietnam War in 3- camera that her husband, Joel, used while flying as a heli- career. Americans, she said. D, will air on 3net, a 3-D copter pilot in Vietnam. He often took three-dimensional The school held its 123rd commence- Maguire recalled the stillness on her channel, at 9 p.m. Monday photographs to show her how it looked while he was flying. ment ceremony Friday night for about base on Sept. 11, 2001 and watching news night. Glenn is thought to have shot the only known 3-D photo- 370 seniors and thousands of their fam- reports of the terrorist attacks and the It is described as a one- graphs ever taken during the Vietnam War. ily and friends. beginning of her generation’s war. of-a-kind documentary that The crowd cheered, whistled and “Within one hour I would be in full takes viewers on a first per- be topic of the Memorial ally expanded his hobby as clanked cowbells as students’ names armor gear” patrolling the base, unsure son journey of the Vietnam Day documentary. he got older. were called. Their walk across the stage, where terrorists would strike next, she War through a rare col- “These photos represent “He documented our fam- situated in front of the north-end goal said. In the next months she landed in lection of 3-D photos and an introduction to stereo ily all the way from 1965 up post, was the product of 13 years of note Afghanistan, where she was was deployed audio recordings. photography during a time through the time he passed taking, pop quizzes and homework. for six months. The original one-hour of personal discovery,” Joel away in 2007,” she said. The class had eight students achieve Maguire now spends her free time advo- special, narrated by Bill Glenn wrote in the forward “I had plenty pictures of cating for veterans’ rights and educating Paxton, recounts the per- of his book, which was pub- my children growing up, GRADUATION continued on 7A the public on the effects of war on service- sonal wartime journey of lished in 1985. “The thrill my grandchildren growing men and women. Maj. Joel Glenn, a Silver of flying, a strange country up and the entire extended We need to reflect on our own promise Star-decorated soldier who and the turmoil induced family.” to honor lives lost this Memorial Day and leaves his young wife and first the purchase of a Judy Glenn said Joel support those struggling with the memo- family and plunges head- 35mm SLR camera. The Glenn did not shoot the 3- ries of war, she said. To veterans in the long into service as an results were quite satisfy- D photos for the U.S. Army, audience, she said “I know you each live Army helicopter at the start ing except for aerial views. but as a personal hobby. with the memories of those lost in battle.” of U.S. combat involvement An extraordinary sense of “These are not the pic- “This Memorial Day I ask of you to take in 1965. depth and space in a mix tures of a combat photog- time to remember those who are no longer “He took three-dimen- of sky, clouds, mountains, rapher, as nearly all of the with us,” she said. sional pictures of the machines and jungle was views presented were taken Lake City councilman Eugene Jefferson Vietnam War and we are missing. The next step was during relatively secure read a proclamation on behalf of Mayor pretty certain they are the the purchase of a stereo times and represent part JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Stephen M. Witt that urged citizens to only 3-D pictures of the camera and the resulting of the environment, people Columbia High School valedictorian Bryce reflect on the value of freedoms we enjoy Vietnam War in existence,” experimentation.” and equipment involved in McCarthy (from left), salutatorian Ryan as Americans. said Judy Glenn, who was Judy Glenn said Joel was the conflict,” Joel Glenn Thomas, and valedictorians Ashlin Thomas Representatives for Sen. Marco Rubio, married to Joel Glenn for a photographer from about wrote. “It is the job of a and Jonathan Darby share a laugh during Sen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Ander Crenshaw 45 years, until his death in the time he was 10 years professional photographer commencement exercises Friday. 2007. old when he had a small CEREMONY continued on 6A Glenn’s 3-D photos will box camera and he gradu- 3D continued on 6A Still no Catalyst rail spur By HANNAH O. BROWN At a local Chamber of Commerce function [email protected] Wednesday, a Plum Creek representative said progress is at a standstill. Plum Creek, the largest private landowner in the “The Plum Creek plan is that anybody and nation and owner of the Columbia County Catalyst everybody that wants to try and fight for the rail, Site, has been working for years to construct a rail- have at it,” Plum Creek real estate manager Allison road spur at the site, in hopes of enticing industry Megrath told guests at a Better Business series dependent on rail to build there. luncheon. TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter However, the U.S. Forest Service has rejected The Columbia County RACEC, or Rural Area Saturday housefire every request for the 6.1 acre easement needed of Critical Economic Concern, Catalyst Site is a Firefighters battle a housefire on Colburn Avenue Saturday night shortly to lay the track. The Catalyst Site is in the Osceola CATALYST continued on 7A after 10 p.m. Authorities on the scene said the house was abandoned. No National Forest, which USFS manages. other details were available at press time. 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