Veterans
Boot Camp
By Jim Aust Boot camp felt like we had been dropped onto a different planet and would not get off. Only 10 weeks, but each day was eternity. I’ve heard that going through Marine Corps boot camp is an experience worth a million dollars, but no one would take a million dollars to […]
John Colone: From darkness to life
By Judy Williams We all have defining moments in our lives: the birth of a child, an illness, a marriage or divorce. John Colone’s moment came while he was serving in Vietnam. On February 19, 1968, he was pronounced dead and zipped into a body bag. Colone grew up in the Pinckney area […]
Jim Meadows, Jr., Marine and Army vet, too
by Patrice Johnson James M. Meadows, Jr., age 79, grew up and attended school in Taylor, Mich. His father, James Morgan Meadows, hailed from Macon, Georgia, and his mother, Bernadette (Trudeau) Meadows, came from Detroit. Meadows married Patricia G. (Cobb) Meadows Sep. 3, 1960, and the couple gave birth to and raised six children: […]
Stan Daily: US Army veteran
by Patrice Johnson Stan Daily, now 77 years old, grew up in Wayne, Mich., to parents George Daily of Indiana and Mae (Blaker) Daily of New York. In 1966, he married Gregory resident Susan Howlett, and together they raised three children, Jeffrey, Carrie (Wengorovius), and Michael. After graduating Wayne St. Mary’s High School, Daily joined […]
To WWII veteran Harold (the Prophet) Henry, life is about God and country
by Patrice Johnson The ranks of surviving World War II veterans grows thinner with each passing year. Thankfully, Harold (the Prophet) Henry is alive and well, enjoying independent living in his home near Gregory. Henry’s military experience began in 1944. World War II had raged for nearly five years when the 17-year-old who valued God […]
Honoring our veterans
by Patrice Johnson The stakes of the bloody Civil War couldn’t have been higher. If the Confederates won, the nation would be rift in two, and the Confederacy, founded on slavery, would emerge as a separate nation. If the Union Army prevailed, the economic foundation of the plantation-based South would be destroyed. Brothers were fighting […]