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Veterans Day History By Sam Erickson
The first Armistice Day celebration took place in 1919 and marked the first anniversary of the Armistice. Thirty states made it a legal holiday and President Woodrow Wilson led the festivities. Armistice Day was made a federal holiday in 1938, making it one of the most recent holidays in America. The name was officially changed to Veterans Day with legislation proposed in 1953. Most holidays in the United States have been moved to Mondays to create a long weekend. The same was done for Veterans Day, but veterans groups protested and it was moved back to the traditional date of November 11. Most groups thought it would raise the profile of the holiday, but it has, in fact, had the opposite effect. While more people are observing the holiday in recent years, most businesses do not close for the day. Only government offices and banks are closed. Official ceremonies center on the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. A color guard from all branches of the military patrols the site through the night, a presidential wreath is laid and Taps is played over the grave. Veterans Day is both a state and a federal holiday in all states. It coincides with international celebrations of Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in other parts of the world. The holiday is observed on November 11 because major hostilities in World War I were ended formally at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of November, the 11th month, in 1918 when Germany signed the Armistice at the Versailles Palace in Paris. Veterans Day has a different focus than Memorial Day, as Veterans Day is intended to honor and thank the living veterans in the United States for their service and to acknowledge their contributions to American society. PN-00464757
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PELLSTON — Brave Hearts Estate, a project of Operation injured Soldiers, is opening in Pellston as a retreat center for veterans and their families. Operation Injured Soldiers is based out of South Lyon. They aid in the physical and mental rehabilitation of wounded veterans. The foundation raises money to provide disabled soldiers with hunting, fishing, camping trips, and now a retreat center. The goal of the foundation is to help disabled veterans get back to doing sports and other hobbies they enjoyed before being deployed. On Veterans Day last year, a veteran donated his property to Operation Injured Soldiers. The estate is a 8,000-square-foot home on 283 acres of land on Ely Road. “We were chosen by the owner of the estate. He wanted to give it to a veteran organization. One of our dreams was to have a ranch in the Northern Michigan area,” said Larry Thueme, an Operation Injured Soldiers board member. “The gentlemen interviewed us and some other organization and he made the decision last year to give it to us,” he said. The only stipulation given to the organization is that it must be used for veterans.
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“That’s all we plan to do. We have an agreement with him and we have a plan and operating agreement. We plan on talking the talk and walking the walk,” said Thueme. On June 1, Thueme and other volunteers took possession of the estate. The first two f amilies welcomed came during August. The retreat center Brave Hearts Estate in Pellston - Sean Miller/News-Review will be free of charge for the veteran and The current yearly budget for the estate is any family members. They will be served a light roughly $87,000, which includes electric, gas, breakfast and dinner. There are eight bedrooms phone and internet, the caretaker’s salary, in the house with plans on expanding. insurance, food, lawn care, and worker’s “Eventually, a project of ours will be including a place for veterans to camp if they want to as compensation. “The Northern Michigan community well. We are starting out slow, though, and has welcomed us with open arms,” said expect to eventually hold four or five families Pamela Bijansky, the treasurer for Operation in the house alone,” said Thueme. Brave Hearts is actively seeking monetary Injured Soldiers. For more information you can visit Operation donations as well as volunteers to help by Injured Soldiers at injuredsoldiers.org or call giving their time. them at (231) 539-7111.
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Remembering Charles O Richardson
In 1942, Charles Oscar Richardson was 23-year-old Charlevoix man, who enlisted in the Army in November of 1941, a month or so before the Pearl Harbor attack. At the time Richardson enlisted patriotism in our country was high. It was a period of time when Americans pulled together to help with the war effort. A 1942 issue of the Charlevoix Courier reflected the patriotic level of people in the city, readers were encouraged to use venison cuts to replace or supplement the meat in their diet and to save scrap metal. A 45-minute per day vigorous exercise program was to be instated at the high school to prepare boys for the rigors of boot camp — the girls program would consist in “light calisthenics” since they would be mainly be sewing or nursing. There were full page “Uncle Sam Wants YOU” adds encouraging boys to enlist in the military, and letters written from the boys at war to their families and friends back home. Charles Richardson had probably been anxious to join other enlisted hometown boys on the front. He knew what it meant to pull together as a team having been part of Charlevoix’s 1938 runner up basketball team at State Finals. By 1942, he had completed his basic training in the Army and had advanced to the rank of sergeant. He never got the opportunity to serve abroad. Instead he was stationed at a U.S. Army Corps base in Presque Isle, Maine and in November of that year, his plane crashed into the stormy seas of the Gulf of St. Lawrence during take –off. Five of the nine-crew members aboard, along with their plane disappeared into the water; the wreckage was not discovered until 2009, and the remains of Richardson and four other men on board the aircraft — when it sank —were recovered from the crash site in 2012. Through DNA supplied by Richardson’s niece and nephew, scientists were able to identify his remains from material evidence recovered. Richardson was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 17. It was Charles Robinson’s nephew, Chuck Richardson, and a niece, Cathy Beeson of San Diego, Calif., represented the family in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, at Arlington National Cemetery. Beeson was presented with the traditional flag at the interment ceremony for their uncle and the other airmen and were able to meet relatives from the other families as well. “After a Catholic funeral Mass,” Richardson, “we proceeded to the cemetery. There were full military honors on the way to the cemetery. A U.S. Army band led the way followed by a color guard and a rifle brigade. Finally, the common casket was placed on a horse-driven caisson and brought to the cemetery for a graveside service…at the gravesite were the closing remarks, there was a gun salute, playing of taps, and presentation of the flag to my sister. The whole ceremony was very moving.” Cathy Beeson was honored to be at the interment ceremony and was able to deliver a short eulogy about her uncle. “I never knew my Uncle Charley,” she said, during the interment service. “I never got to see his face or hear his stories. I did not know if he was smart or funny, musically inclined or athletic, or talented in some way. I did not know how he viewed the world or what his hopes and dreams were. The list goes on.” Who was this young Charlevoix man? Richardson’s niece have been helpful in supplying some of the missing pieces. According to Beeson, there were three Richardson children: her father, the late George Richardson, who married her mother Mary (Gengle) Richardson, her aunt Cina (Richardson) Bergmann and the youngest, “Charley.” We know, from newspaper clippings, that Charley was No. 3 on the 1938 Charlevoix High School basketball team that was runner up in the State Basketball Championship that year. His teammates were Ray Kipke, Keith Carey, Louis Brown, Chuck Gallager, Bert Pearl, Warren Allison, Richard “Big” Bergmann, Tony Gengels, Perry Smith and Harry Withers. She spoke about her father, George Richardson, and his sister, Cina about how they must have kept those thoughts and memories safely guarded in a place deep inside them, where grief and perhaps some early childhood visions lived. “Those hidden pearls of information disappeared too when first my dad, then my aunt Cina passed away...Silence for so many years,” Beeson said. What she did know is that life was not easy for Richardson and siblings. Each of their parents died while the kids where in school. Charley, George, and Cina were separated and went to live with various people who took them in during the Depression. “Somehow he managed to rise above all this and make it to the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army,” Beeson said. “Resilience can describe him. It has been 73 years since that fateful day of Nov. 2, 1942 when the U.S. Army Air Forces OA-10 Catalina, carrying my 23-year-old uncle, along with eight fellow crewmen, crashed into the sea of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. “So many years and years have passed and yet, he is able to touch our lives in this very profound way,” she added. “The feelings I have are difficult to express, but your work has drawn me so close. My heart is very full of pride as I stand with you Sgt. Charles Richardson. He did for all of us what was required of him and now we are present to do the same for him.” There was one short, front-page article referencing Robinson’s death, in the Charlevoix Courier on Dec. 30, 1942. In it he was commended for his “devotion to duty” by his commanding officer. He had been reported as another soldier killed in duty. “Charles Richardson” would be 95 years old this year. 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Wreaths Acrosss Americca For the third consecutive year, Greenwoood Cemetery will hoost Wreaths Across Americca, a national effort to place hroughout the holliday wreaths on the gravess of veterans th counttry. The Petooskey Cemetery placed 740 wreaths on veteran’s graves in 2013, nearly half the veteerans’ graves at the cemetery. In 2014, every veteran’s grrave received a wreath, 1,382 in all. “We have 1,414 veteerans this yearr and we never want to go dent Karl Crawforrd. bacckward, only forwarrd,” saiid superintend “We hope to repeat last year’s success this yeaar. Greenwoood Cemettery encouraages the communiity to support the Wreathss Acrross American proggram and hopess to promote ns whether they have fam mily to decoratte their care for veteeran graves orr not. Thee Cemetery also encouragges the comm munity heir facilities as the honored place to in nter th heir loved to usee th nes, especially veterans. on Greenwood Cemetery currenttly cares for the graves of men and women who served in waars from the time of the Mexican/American war (which began in 1846) to the Iraq War (which began in 2003). Donations for wreaths may be specified for a partiicular ficc veteran’s grave or to be placed on a veteran from a speciifi war. Wreaths cost $15 each, or $30 for two. For every two wreaths d, the Cemetery receives a third wreath freee from the ordered
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The photo seen round the world By Judy Wagley “McCullin did 50 years of war photography,” Bridget said. “And he spent two weeks with Joel’s GAYLORD regiment in Vietnam.” e’s been called “The Thoughtful Marine,” and his image has shown up all over the world. Since then, McCullin has featured the photo of Joel, which McCullin titled “The Thoughtful Marine,” in The story begins in February 1968 when Joel Adkins was a 22-year-old soldier in the 1st Marine several books of his photographs and in numerous exhibits and galleries throughout Europe. Division, 5th Regiment, 5th Battalion Delta Company serving in Phu Bai Vietnam. The image has even been used on street advertising banners for a 2010 exhibit called “Shaped by “I was in Hue City, one of the biggest battles of the Tet offensive,” Adkins said. “I was ordered to go War” at the Imperial War Museum and other museums around England. with the Vietnamese Black Panthers (special forces) to blow up the steel gate of the citadel. A lot of us “Joel is everywhere in Europe,” Bridget said. “For 46 years he had never been trained to fight within a city area — building to has been all over and we never knew.” building — we just had to learn as we went.” Most recently, the compelling photograph graced the January Adkins described how he and his Australian bodyguard shot the 2013 cover of the British magazine, Expert Photographer. hinges off the large gate to the city, enabling the Black Panthers There is yet another turn in the story. to charge through. In her research, Bridget heard an interview between McCullin “After that it was just mopping up,” he said. and Myron Harrington, who in 1968 was the captain of a Adkins found an abandoned house where he could have a rare company in which Joel was a reinforcement in Hue City. moment of solitude to collect his thoughts. He was leaning Harrington, 79, is now a highly decorated retired colonel who against a porch window when a photographer approached, lives in South Carolina. She learned that Harrington has stayed snapped one picture, then bolted from the dangerous situation. in touch with McCullin. “I remember it, and I remember thinking, ‘Here’s somebody else After some deliberation, on April 17 Bridget sent an email to we have to watch out for,’” Adkins said. Harrington and related the story of Joel’s photograph. He knew the photographer was embedded with the regiment The couple was thrilled when they received a phone call from but had never spoken to him. Harrington that evening. Later that year, after a 13-month tour of duty, Adkins returned “It was an honor to talk to him,” Joel said. “We talked about home to his parents in Connecticut. our time in Hue City, and he remembered the Australian He said while he was in Vietnam, he had no idea that the bodyguard.” war was unpopular in his homeland. He recalled many of his Bridget thinks it is “amazing” that after 46 years, Joel, McCullin comrades had trouble finding work and adjusting to life after and Harrington are all alive, well and able to remember the war. events of that historic battle. “I was lucky,” he said. “I had no problem finding a job. I had lots “I know a story like this doesn’t happen every day,” she said. of opportunities.” Bridget learned McCullin called the subjects of his Adkins went to work for the Xerox Corporation, and life was photographs, “my heroes.” She hopes to contact him and let good. him know her husband is “The Thoughtful Marine.” Sometime later, his parents received a page torn from a “It would be so cool to have a conversation with the magazine by a family friend, a Marine stationed in Guantanamo photographer, because Joel remembers him taking the picture,” Bay, Cuba, who said he believed the soldier portrayed in the she said. photo was Adkins. On May 13, Bridget sent an email explaining the story to Expert It was not until 1987, Joel’s father, a retired Navy chief and selfPhotographer. She immediately received this reply from Adam taught artist, painted a full-color portrait of his son from that Scorey, the magazine’s publisher and editor: black-and-white photograph. In 2009, Adkins’ mother gave him “I very nearly fell off my chair upon reading your email — I am the painting before her death in 2010. truly stunned and surprised, as are my team,” he said. “What a The portrait now hangs above the mantel in the Gaylord home super story; of course I will get hold of Don and see what I can Adkins shares with his wife, Bridget. arrange to get in contact.” Many folks in Gaylord may know Adkins from his years of Bridget was beginning to get discouraged when she did not service with DTE (formerly known as MichCon), or from his receive further response form Scorey, Harrington or McCullin. work as a trainer at Saks Chiropractic Fitness Center and Snap Then on Thursday, Scorey sent an email to Bridget explaining Fitness. that he tried to reach McCullin but had not yet been successful. ‘Stop — that’s me’ However, Scorey plans to include Bridget’s original letter in In March, Joel and Bridget were surfing the web. the July issue of Expert Photographer, “as it is such a superb “We just happened to be researching the battle of Hue City and story.” saw a collage of photos,” Bridget said. “Joel pointed to one and “I am hoping this will grab Don’s attention, or someone close to said, ‘stop – that’s me.’” him,” Scorey said. Joel had never seen the black-and-white photograph that was Meanwhile, throughout all of the excitement and events, Joel the inspiration for his father’s painting. It was the photo, the one has demonstrated characteristic modesty. taken 46 years earlier in Hue City. “I like it, but I’m kind of embarrassed by it,” he said. “I don’t “I didn’t think a picture like this existed,” he said. want anything out of this. My main purpose in finding the Bridget sprang into action. picture is to put my name with it, just so people know who it is.” Thanks to the internet, she learned the name of the The story may not be over, and Joel quietly goes about his life photographer, Don McCullin, who, at 79, is still an active photographer living in London, England. “The Thoughtful Marine”: This is an image of the photo of Joel Adkins taken in February in Gaylord. But he now knows that people all over the world 1968 at the battle of Hue City in Vietnam by renowned war photographer Don McCullin. It have looked into the searching eyes of “The Thoughtful Marine. Bridget spent many hours learning about McCullin, who is has been featured in books, exhibits and advertising banners throughout Europe. renowned as the “War Photographer” for documenting conflicts all over the world with his camera.
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resources and benefits to veterans,” he said. “Gov. Snyder brought in the VCAT model to connect veterans and their families to resources. GAYLORD — In a victory VCAT was developed by the for veterans, Otsego County Altarum Institute, which and the Northern Michigan tried it in San Diego and San Veterans Coalition, Gaylord Antonio — big military towns is now the hub for veterans’ — and it was successful.” services in an 11-county area The VCAT program is now and the only organization of active at five sites downstate. its kind in Northern Michigan “In the first year after or the Upper Peninsula as of they used the VCAT model yet. in Detroit and Flint, and In April, Douglas Robinson, Michigan went from (No.) coalition president, announced 50 to (No.) 46 in one he had formed a community year,” Robinson said. “So action team in response to they decided to put it in Gov. Rick Snyder’s decision to every Prosperity Region in place a Veteran’s Community Michigan.” Action Team in every one of By the time the Gaylord what Snyder had designated community action team had 10 “Prosperity Regions” in completed the steps for the Michigan. proposal to become the hub, Otsego, Montmorency, and the staff from the Altarum Cheboygan, Crawford, Oscoda, Institute contacted Robinson Alcona, Iosco, Ogemaw, to meet with them, the action Roscommon, Alpena and team had already evolved Presque Isle counties are in into the Northern Michigan Region 3. Veterans Coalition and the “It’s a lot like the Olympics program was almost totally where you compete to have organized. your city hold the next “They called a couple weeks Olympics,” Robinson said in ago and said ‘we want to meet April. with you — we’ve heard great Robinson was informed things about you,’” Robinson Tuesday that Gaylord had won said. the “veteran Olympics.” “I had it all laid out on this “In 2012, Michigan was last board,” he said, pointing at a large dry erase board. “Our in 50 states for providing (989) 732-1111 lparshall@gaylordheraldtimes
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