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Thank You COMMITTEE MEMBERS Caroline Ashley Lorraine Berry Heidi Clark Ed Daudelin

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Observances include: Friday, May 27 7:30 p.m. Memorial Service First Congregational Church 39 Main St., Essex

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Grand marshal honor enters modern era Iraq, Vietnam war vets to lead parade

the Army in 1987 and was stationed in Germany at the end of the Cold War. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, Stein deployed to Saudi

By JASON STARR Arabia for Operation Desert Shield and ADAM STEIN prepared to invade Adam Stein represents Iraq. It was the winter a sea change in the of 1991.

Essex Memorial Day “The night we Parade’s recognition crossed the berm into of war veterans. He is Iraq it was [a] blackthe ďŹ rst parade grand out drive following marshal of the modern, green chem-lights that Middle East wars. marked mine-free “It is hard to ďŹ nd lanes,â€? his biography a [local] Korean War for the parade veteran or a World committee reads. “It War II veteran,â€? said was an amazing sight Ed Daudelin, an Essex Adam Stein PHOTO SUBMITTED knowing that this Parade Committee was just one of the many armored member who helps choose grand divisions rolling into Iraq.â€? marshals and who is being The war was over soon after it recognized for his service this year. began, and Stein returned to the “We thought it would be nice to show U.S. to start a career with the U.S. some recognition [to the younger Department of Justice. He was in veterans].â€?

Stein has felt support from Vietnam New York City during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was a ďŹ rst War-era vets, who weren’t always responder at the World Trade Center treated well upon returning to the after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist United States in the 1960s and 1970s, attacks. when opposition to the war was Since arriving in Essex, Stein has fervent. Many of Daudelin’s peers been active in the resolved to treat Vermont Federal newer war veterans Law Enforcement with more respect.

OďŹƒcers Association “They wanted to and the Veterans of make sure we were Foreign Wars Post welcomed back with 6689 in Essex Jct. open arms, given credit and honored,â€?

ED DAUDELIN Stein said.

When the Essex A New York native, Memorial Day Stein is the grandson Parade lost its lead of a World War II organizers in 2009, veteran. He moved it was unclear how to Essex with his the three-decade-old wife and children in tradition would be 2009.

Stein enlisted in See Marshals, page 5 Ed Daudelin PHOTO BY JASON STARR

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a 21-month tour of duty, splitting sustained. time between being a mechanic Ed Daudelin, a village native, and flying combat missions. He was Vietnam War veteran and retired decorated with two bronze stars, Vermont National Guardsman, an Army commendation medal, a was part of a group that stepped in valorous award and a presidential and effectively saved the parade. unit award.

Seven years later, Daudelin is being Daudelin worked as a helicopter honored as a grand marshal. mechanic and a military trainer “We started with nothing and with the Vermont National Guard in built it back into a force, so it is a 1980 until retiring in 2007 when he huge honor,” he said. took his leadership role at the VFW Daudelin was born in Italy while and parade. his father was part of the occupying force there just after the end of PAT SCHEIDEL WWII. Daudelin Pat Scheidel has had lived the life of a run of recognition a military son, in the past year. Last growing up at October, the Vermont Fort Ethan Allen, League of Cities and Fort Hood, Texas; Towns honored Essex’s and Nuremburg, longtime municipal Germany, before manager with its returning to Essex annual Municipal Junction in 1960.

Service Award for his Daudelin commitment to local enlisted in the government.

Army in 1968 and In February, the entire went to Vietnam Essex delegation in the the next year for See Marshals, page 6 Pat Scheidel Photo Submitted

The Town of Essex appreciates the sacrifices made by veterans and their families

Thank you Veterans for your service and Thank you to the Parade Committee for organizing the Memorial Day Parade.

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He has served as the president Vermont House of Representatives of the Vermont Property and sponsored a resolution Casualty Intermunicipal Insurance recognizing Scheidel for his public Fund since 1998 and was formerly service, which was met with a on the board of directors for standing ovation when it was read Fanny Allen Hospital and the at Town Meeting in March.

Governor’s Rail Council.

Now Scheidel, who enlisted Scheidel is also a past president in the Navy in 1966 and was of the Essex Rotary Club. discharged in 1969, was chosen as a grand marshal in this year’s parade, honored for his service in the Vietnam War. Scheidel served aboard the USS New Jersey and received a combat action ribbon, national defense service medal and Vietnam service medal with three bronze stars.

Scheidel’s role in Essex has shifted in recent years as he has split his time between managing the town and village, leading the two communities’ efforts to merge municipal functions.

Pat Scheidel PHOTO SUBMITTED

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Memorial Day Reflections From Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School

Respect, Honor & Remember Today we respect…

Respect the ones who �ight…

The ones who �ight for us…

For us and our freedoms…

Our freedoms allow us to honor…

Honor the ones who fought…

The ones who died and the ones that are living…

Living our country stands…

Stands not to forget but to remember…

Remember the lost…

Lost in a war…

A war of wit and strength…

Strength we must retain…

Retain our freedoms…

Freedoms will stay…

Stay with us as our lives change…

Change that we have to deal with…

With us shed a tear…

A tear for our soldiers…

Soldiers that fought for us…

Us, the friends and the family of our veterans…

Veterans who fought and held like a steel wall…

Wall, a wall of names on a black chunk of granite that lies in D.C… D.C the memorial to all living or dead…

Dead we are not…

Not because the opposing side spared us…

Us, we, the veterans, the soldiers, the marines, and the doctors. We won…

Won… a word used so carelessly…

Carelessly we pretend to win though we still let our problems go standing…

Standing here today not because we won but because we want to remember…

Remember our history, our friends, family…

Always on this day…

Respect Honor & Remember…

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Memorial book honors four fallen Essex men

By COLIN FLANDERS The memories of four Essex men who died in the Vietnam War will survive, thanks to the work of a local historian at the Essex Community Historical Society.

Ann Gray, who’s served on the society’s board for 12 years, has curated a memorial book detailing their lives.

That process included hours of research scouring Vietnam War websites and tracing ancestry ties. She also conducted interviews with people who personally knew the men.

Gray admits it was an emotional journey.

“I’ll tell you I cried a lot,” she said.

The memorial book will be on display at the Harriet Farnsworth Powell Museum, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

The Essex Historical Society has curated five exhibits to commemorate the milestone, focused on different aspects of life, including a business and industry section, home and farm and an overview of the town and the museum’s last 25 years.

A military section is also included, where the memorial book will accompany a list of Essex men and women who See Historical, page 8

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We Will Never Forget.

have served since 1991.

Gray welcomed all to the museum’s opening day June 5 from 1-4 p.m. She hopes the community will stop by and learn more about the men.

“They gave their lives for us. Very soon there will be no one around that remembers them,” Gray said.

The memorial book includes an in-depth exploration of their lives, including numerous first-hand accounts. It was cumbersome work, Gray said, yet she believes it’s important for future generations to remember the men’s ultimate sacrifice.

Here’s a brief glimpse at their stories:

As we celebrate with our loved ones on Memorial Day, we take pause to remember the true meaning of this holiday: To honor the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this great nation. We are eternally grateful for your bravery.

Bruce Baker

Born on May 21, 1947 in Concord, N.H., Baker attended Essex Junction High School from 1962-64 before attending from Maine’s Hinckley High School in 1965.

He earned the Boy Scout Order of the Arrow award as a teenager and served as a mentor to younger scouts.

He enlisted in the Marine Corps on Aug. 25, 1965, and after training for a month, was sent to Okinawa, Japan. Nearly a year later, Baker died from sustained wounds to the abdomen and chest while fighting hostile forces.

David Baker, Bruce’s brother, died in an automobile accident in 1972. They’re buried next to one another in Fairview Cemetery, along with their father, Donald, a World War II veteran.

The historical society received Baker’s Purple Heart in a ceremony last July.

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Born to Leo and Katherine Day Lavigne on Dec. 4, 1950, Lavigne lived in Essex Junction’s Indian Acres. He attended Hiawatha Elementary School and Essex Junction High School.

One of five boys, Lavigne and his brothers loved the outdoors.

When they were as young as 13, their father would drop them off at a point on Long Trail where they camped out on their own for a week at a time.

Set to graduate from high school in 1969, Lavigne left early to enlist in the army, becoming an H-I door gunner/crew chief.

During one mission, Lavigne’s helicopter was shot down. Only after he managed to escape did he realize the pilot was still at the crash site, and Lavigne returned to rescue him.

The close call wasn’t enough to keep Lavigne off the ground, however. On August 19, his helicopter was shot down a second time, this time killing him and seven others.

He was 18 years old.

Many of his classmates emailed memories to Gray, which are included, verbatim, in a notebook that will remain permanently at the museum.

Gray highlighted one email in particular from Lavigne’s classmate, Dave Adams.

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“They gave their lives for us. Very soon there will be no one around that remembers them.”

Ann Gray

“Stew was a real hero,” Adams wrote.

“He joined the military at a time when that wasn’t such a good idea but was something he felt he needed to do. He was thinking of others and not of himself … We are all better off for having known him.”

with enemy forces during “Operation Oklahoma Hills.”

He was 21 years old.

He’s buried in Fairview Cemetery and received a posthumous Purple Heart.

Nothing is known of what happened to Ritchie’s wife, Carol, after his death.

Bernard Ritchie

Eugene Treadwell

Born to Clarence and Barbara Martin Ritchie on Jan. 17, 1948, Ritchie enlisted in the Marine Corps as a 20-year-old in Albany, N.Y. He married Carol Ann Baxendale, daughter of John and Mary Greenough Baxendale of Essex Junction, on Nov. 16, 1968.

Less than two months later, he arrived in Vietnam, where he was killed in Quang Nam after a confrontation

Born on June 17, 1943, Treadwell lived in Essex Center when he enlisted, attaining the status of sergeant before he was killed in action on Feb. 3, 1968 in Thua Thien-Hue at age 24.

He’s buried in the Milford Cemetery in Maine. The memorial book includes details provided by Treadwell’s nephew, Hank, of the battle where he lost his life.

Treadwell was posthumously awarded PHOTO BY COLIN FLANDERS Photos of the Essex men who died in Vietnam are pictured on this a Purple Heart for his service. plaque.

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Missions accomplished Purple Hearts find rightful owners

By ABBY LEDOUX | With additional reporting by JASON STARR Vermont Guard Cpt. and Georgia resident Zachariah Fike’s devoted search began at Christmas 2009, when his mother gave him a lifechanging gift: his first Purple Heart medal, one posthumously awarded to Pvt. Corrado A.G. Piccoli, killed in action in WWII. “I knew what it symbolized,” Fike said of the gift, “and I knew it didn’t belong to me.”

A military brat who can trace his lineage to the Revolutionary War, Fike has served for 17 years and earned his own Purple Heart after he was wounded in Afghanistan on Sept. 11, 2010.

Piccoli’s Purple Heart set him on a new mission. In 2012, he formed Purple Hearts Reunited, his one-man operation that locates lost or stolen military medals and returns them to veterans or their families.

To date, the organization has returned more than 150 medals to families across the country.

Last July, Purple Hearts Reunited held one of its first Vermont ceremonies, bestowing a Purple Heart upon Pfc. Bruce Allen Baker, a U.S. Marine who was killed at age 19 in Vietnam in 1966. Baker is buried in Fairview Cemetery on Old

Colchester Road in Essex.

Baker’s Purple Heart was found at an antique store in Essex Jct. — with Baker’s name inscribed — and was handed over to the Vermont National Guard. The Guard contacted Purple Hearts Reunited to research Baker’s personal history and coordinate a reunion of the medal and Baker’s family members.

According to Essex Historical Society member Paula DeMichele, research shows Baker went to Essex High School for a year before joining the Marines. Some locals remember him as their newspaper delivery boy, she said. But the historical society was unable to locate any family members of Baker’s to accept the medal.

Instead, they framed it for public display at the Harriet Farnsworth Powell Museum along with a photo of Baker.

A collectable artifact, Purple Hearts can sell for upward of $300 depending on their history.

Fike pays out-of-pocket online and at pawnshops and estate sales to rescue them, and people mail up to five weekly asking for help.

Working out of his home office three hours a day, seven days

photo CoURtESY oF ZAChARIAh FIKE Cpt. Zachariah Fike returned Air Force 1st Lt. thomas E hadley II’s purple heart to his sister, Connie Bachman, in Lexington, Mass. in February 2012 after the medal was missing for over 50 years. here, Fike (center) is pictured at the return ceremony with the Bachman family, the SAR Color Guard and 1st Sgt. Mulcahey.

“It can be very emotional.”

Cpt. Zachariah Fike a week, he searches through public records and indexes his finds in eight databases he created. More than 1 million Americans earned a Purple Heart since the medal was first awarded during World War I, but there is no official recipient list.

It can take between two minutes and a year to find a recipient. Sometimes, Fike finds 10 pages of service history; other times, he hits dead-ends.

But he’s never lost a trace.

Fike offers to perform ceremonies for military families and travels to veterans’ hometowns on his own dime to formally present the medals.

Each trip costs about $1,200, he said.

Ceremonies are held in living rooms or at public events, with congressmen and media present. Fike treats each one the same, asking families to share stories and painting

the veterans’ history with his extensive research.

“Lots of times, I’m telling families for the very first time things they never knew before,” he said, “even to the extremes of they thought he died this way, and he really died this way. So it can be very emotional.”

Even so, Fike makes the ceremonies celebratory, not somber. He presents a framed display of the medal, any certificates, a photo and flag.

Fike also awards a $1,000 check in the veteran’s name for a college scholarship.

Fike has taken to sleeping in his car to save money, but he has no plans to stop.

“There are people all over the country who have these medals and never knew what to do with them,” he said. “Now they have a resource to turn to.”

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