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16 • Siuslaw News • VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE • November 7, 2015 HOME INSULATION CO. J ERRY L. L ECHIEN Sgt., U.S. Air Force 1967-1970 Tours of Duty: Vietnam, 3rd Special Operations Gunner AC47 Gunships flying missions in VN. Spent 45 days in Thai- land flying top secret missions into Laos 541-997-7740 CCB#0000084 HUNT FAMILY DENTISTRY THOMAS J. HUNT, DMD DAREN T. HUNT, DMD Florence, Oregon 97439 Serving the Community Since 1976 KRAB KETTLE 85020 Hwy. 101 Florence, OR 97439 541-997-6991 OLD TOWN INN 170 Hwy. 101 Florence, Oregon 541-997-7131 1355 Hwy. 101 Florence, OR 97439 541-997-7121 ORGANIC PEST CONTROL 541-997-7225 or 541-991-PEST www.OrganicBugMan.com POTTER’S TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR 4515 Hwy. 101, Florence, OR 97439 541-997-5049 “We Salute Katy Potter” RIVER HOUSE INN 1202 Bay Street Florence, Oregon 541-997-3933 Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps 2002-2012 Tours of Duty: Japan and Iraq; stationed in Cherry Point, N.C. D AN L ORENZ SP-5, U.S. Army 1966-1969 Tours of Duty: Vietnam D ONALD W. M ARTIN Specialist 5th Class, U.S. Army 1965-1967 Tours of Duty: Korea MMM 2nd Class, U.S. Navy Tours of Duty: During World War II, in the Pacific Theater, Martin served on a destroyer escort, the USS Swearer DE 186 A RNOLD R AY L OWE J ACK H. L ENOX STS 2 (SS), U.S. Navy 1971-1977 Tours of Duty: U.S.S. Francis Hammond DE 1067, U.S.S. Flasher SSN 613, Tonkin Gulf Submarine Qualified, Ships Swimmer, Nuclear Weapons Handling Team, Submarine Sonar Tech, Surface Sonar Tech. V INCENT L E P IANE OREGON PACIFIC BANK R AYMOND L. M AMAC 1st Sgt., Marine Corps 1944-1946, 1951-1957, 1963-1969 Tours of Duty: World War II, Korea, Vietnam and China; Clema Long is his wife. D ELERY L EE 280 Hwy. 101 541-997-8996 MORGAN’S COUNTRY KITCHEN S IMPSON J ACK L ONG Aviation ordnance 2/C, U.S. Navy 1943-1946 Tours of Duty: South Pacific, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal R ICHARD L EWIS Sgt., U.S. Marine Corps 1964-1968 Tours of Duty: Vietnam Medals: Bronze Star with V, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry; participated in Operation Starlight and Operation Oregon D AVID A. L OCKWOOD A Company 1st Battalion, U.S. Army 1965-1967 Tours of Duty: Vietnam Engineman, U.S. Navy 1960-1963 Tours of Duty: San Diego; Harbor Defense Unit, San Francisco; Hawaii Received the honor of transporting the first civilians to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, May 1962; can never forget being discharged the same day that President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas M ARK L ULL Electronic Warfare Technician 2nd Class, U.S. Navy 1975-1981 Tours of Duty: Standing Naval Forces Atlantic; Persian Gulf (Iranian Hostage Crisis); served on the U.S.S. Miller Received Naval Expeditionary Medal A LAN R. M ACLEAD J R . Commander, U.S. Navy 1938-1961 Tours of Duty: Battleship Mississippi, light cruis- er Detroit, patrol squadron; flew surveillance for hydrogen bomb tests in South Pacific G UY A. M AMAC Staff Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps 2002-Present Tours of Duty: Iraq, Afghanistan, stationed in North Carolina, Okinawa and Missouri Awards: Combat action ribbon, Navy Commen- dation Medal with combat distinguishing device J OHN O. M ARTIN U.S. Navy, Marine Corps 1944-1946, 1947-1949 Tours of Duty: South Pacific, stateside P AUL F. M ASON SP-4, E-4, U.S. Army 1961-1963 Tours of Duty: Chize, France; Aschattenberg, Germany; stationed in Germany when JFK went to Berlin to deliver his “Ich bin eine Berliner speech” D AVE M ASKO Master Sgt., U.S. Air Force 1976-1999 Tours of Duty: Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., McChord AFB, Wash., Air Force Orientation Group/Air Force Museum, Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio, Lajes Field, Azores, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., European Stars and Stripes UK bureau; Persian Gulf, includ- ing Operation Desert Storm; Bosnia Awards: Earned the Defense Meritorious Service Medal J ERRY M ATHENY Spec 4, U.S. Army 1971-1973 Tours of Duty: Ford Ord, Calif.; Germany
