COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL November 11, 2015
Our Veterans, Our Heroes
It's time to honor the brave soldiers who safeguard our
peace and freedoms.
Thanks, veterans. We salute you for your extraordinary
courage and dedication to your country.
LES SCHWAB
TIRE CENTER
109 Hwy. 99 N
Cottage Grove
541-942-4466
Defending freedom on many fronts
Albert A. Jovanelly
E-4, U.S.
Navy, 1973-
76
Aboard
U.S.S. Paul
Revere,
classi-
fi ed and
diplomatic
missions through 1975
Max Koenig
U.S.S.
Princeton
1965-66
Lee Maier
U.S. Army,
two years
Vietnam,
Okinawa
Joseph D. Martin
Air Force
Airman First Class
1950-54
Two years in England
Thomas C. Munroe
U.S. Navy
- SeaBees
Rank:
UTA-2
Jan. 5,
1956
- Nov. 24,
1959
Kwajalein
Marshal
Island, Okinawa, Adak, Alaska
Lloyd Norman
U.S. Air
Force
Miriam Kolasinski
Never Forgotten.
US Ma-
rines, 1st
Marine
Division
PFC
March
1944-March
1946
Landed with
fi rst wave of
Marines on Okinawa
Wounded May 21, 1945, spent
10 months in Navy hospitals
Phillip Miller
Matt Bjornn, Agent
1481 Gateway Blvd
Cottage Grove, OR 97424-1224
Bus: 541-942-2623
Ray Northup
Private,
Engineer,
U.S.
Marine
Corps,
1941-46
San Di-
ego, Pearl
Harbor
Merchant Marine
William Parks
SOUTH LANE COUNTY
FIRE & RESCUE
The Only Emergency Medical
Transport Service
in South Lane County
Marvin S. Krush
Call 541-942-4493 for info.
FOR EMERGENCY DIAL 911
Serving South Lane County.
Byron Putman
Army
Rank: Spe-
cialist E-4
Feb. 2,
2006-May
25, 2010
Colorado
Springs,
CO, Ft.
Carson, Iraq
— Baghdad area and Kandahar
Province, Afghanistan.
Army
Specialist 4
1974-1978
Fort Ord California (Basic)
Huntsville Alabama Redstone
Arsenal
Johnston Island 1 1/2 years
Fort Bragg NC 8th Ordinance 1
1/2 years
Federal Republic of Germany
(FRG) one year
U.S. Army Specialist
Novem-
ber 1986
to June
1991
Fort Jack-
son, S.C.
for Basic
Training;
Fort Eu-
stis, VA
for Advanced Initial Training
for Tactical Transport Heli-
copter Repairer Training (67T
MOS (Military Occupational
Specialty)); Fort Lewis, WA
with tours of duty in Honduras/
Guatemala for Humanitarian
Missions and a two-month tour
of duty in Saudi Arabia/Iraq/
Kuwait from Jan. 25, 1991 to
March 25, 1991 (during fi rst
Gulf War or Desert Storm).
Served in the fi rst Gulf war
(Desert Storm) and met Gen-
eral Norman Schwarzkopf
U.S. Army, Specialist E4,
2008-2011
Iraq veteran, disabled veteran,
expert marksman, Combat ac-
tion badge
Sandra Morris
Lance
Corporal,
USMC
June 1962 to
November
1963
Camp Pend-
leton, Cal.
Sworn into
USMC
alongside
brother
Army
M/Sgt.
1942-1945
Europe
Infantry
rifl eman
during
Hurtgen
Forest,
Battle of
the Bulge, Remagen Bridge
head fi rst crossing of Rhine
River in Germany. Met Rus-
sians at Fulda River SW of
Berlin
Richard W. Raley
Navy
USS Juneau, Korea
1st
Lieu-
tenant,
Army
Nurse,
U.S.
Army,
1945-
47
New
Or-
leans,
Ft.
Hood, Tex.
Stephen G. Pettit
Kim Penfold
John Leuenberger
Zada Magoun
We would like to thank all the
past and current veterans for
standing vigilant and bravely
protecting freedom.
E.N./F.N.,
U.S. Navy
Navy Seabees, 1962-68
Guam, Midway Island, Vietnam
UT1 (DV), US Navy
1961-63
Okinawa, Philippines, Vietnam
Austin M. Pitcher
Bob Olson
PFC, USMC WR
Jan. 12, 1944 to Sept. 4, 1945
M.C. AD Miramar, San Diego,
Cal.
Boot camp at Camp LeJeuene,
NC
Howard Peterson
E-4, Army Engineers, 1964-67
Vietnam
Warren Dale
McGuire
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