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Warren B. Lewis By JESSICA GINET Seabeck resident Warren B. Lewis can’t pass up a piano. “I have to sit down and play it,” Lewis said, with a laugh. A lounge lizard he is not. Lewis, a Korean War veteran, has been playing paid piano gigs since 1979. His music education began much
earlier than that. “I learned it at my mother’s knee,” he said. “I took no lessons. I kept working on it, pounding out songs until they sounded good to me and sounded good to others.” Lewis’s first paying job, in 1979, was at a lounge called The Lake Shore on Kitsap Lake. “It’s no longer there,”
Lewis said. “It burned down several years ago.” Lewis is a third generation Kitsap County resident. He graduated from Central Kitsap High School in 1952 and went to work at the Navy yard. Lewis enlisted in the Navy in Bremerton in November 1952. He was 18. He enlisted with two other buddies, guys he had known since junior high. The three of them were working together in the Navy yard and, at the time, they wanted to try the Navy lifestyle. “There was an enlistment office near the ferry dock,” he said. From there Lewis was sent to boot camp in San Diego. “We thought we would stick together, but they (the Navy) sent us off in different directions right after boot camp,” he said. One friend, Jim, was sent to Hawaii. Warren was sent to Guam. “The third guy, Greg, well, we never heard from him again,” Lewis said. On the troop ship from San Francisco to Hawaii
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the annual dues. He charges to play, as he said, “Whatever the market will bear.” When he played at The Lake Shore in 1978, he made “over double the minimum wage” at the time. That was a lucrative hobby, he said. Lewis recalls that over the years his lounge piano playing has paid for at least one new pickup truck. Lewis alternated between describing his piano playing as work and as a hobby. When it required diplomacy it was work. Onlookers would frequently interrupt his playing in the middle of a song with a specific request. Sometimes people would request a song he had just finished playing. If he was given a song request that he didn’t know, he utilized a phrase to keep the peace. “I don’t know that song, but this one might be something along those lines,” he would say. “There was a guy at the Whiskey Creek Steakhouse who would always request the song ‘Yellow Rose of Texas,’ ” Lewis said. What was unique about this particular request was the fact that it was a song primarily for guitars and banjos and Lewis played the piano. Lewis has a few other hobbies that have proved valuable. For example, he built his home in Seabeck with his wife and their three sons. Growing up in Crosby, five miles from Seabeck on his grandfather’s homestead, Lewis said, “The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.” In the 1960s Lewis purchased property in Seabeck. More than 10 years later he began the process of building a
during the Korean War, Lewis recalled a piano that was fastened to the wall on the ship. “I played that (one) a lot,” he said. While stationed in Guam, Lewis recalled “pounding out some songs.” Lewis spent five years in the Navy. His experiences took him from Guam to Port Hueneme, near Oxnard, California, where he attended the Navy Builder’s Trade School. He was stationed in the Philippines and then sent to Adak, Alaska. “I went from 98 percent humidity in the Philippines, to Adak,” he said. “ In five months I saw the sunshine once.” He took the opportunity of an early discharge when he was accepted to Olympic College (at the time it was known as Olympic Junior College). Lewis studied commercial and fine arts, earning a spot on the Dean’s List several times. Lewis spent 30 years working in the printing business - specifically the pre-press division. While working his primary day job, Lewis remained a regular entertainer at such venues as the Whiskey Creek Steakhouse in Keyport. He played there at least two nights a week for more than 15 years. Lewis also regularly played at local nursing homes gratis with a guitarist. For the past 25 years, Lewis has played at the Kitsap Golf and Country Club in Chico for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter and Valentine’s Day. “I love to play anything Sinatra or Tony Bennett,” Lewis said. “I like any of those oldies, but goodies.” Lewis belonged to the Musician’s Union in Seattle for 35 years. He let his membership lapse after realizing the jobs his union membership garnered didn’t justify
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Statistics say veterans spend their excess income on various hobbies and recreational pursuits. Among them are golfing, hunting, fishing and traveling. This month in Veterans Life, we’re looking at what some local veterans do with their extra time and their spare cash. While veterans have all sorts of hobbies that range from collecting pocket knives to playing music, we’ve found a few local veterans who have stories to tell about their play time pursuits. Among them is Warren Lewis of Seabeck. Lewis is a Korean War veteran who enlisted in the Navy at 18. He recalls “pounding out some songs” on a piano while stationed in Guam. Today he plays music at area nursing homes to entertain residents and he taps the ivory at a local steak house from time to time. Then there’s Derek Broussard, an Army veteran of eight years who is currently taking classes at the Seattle Art Institute. At 29, he’s taught himself to perform on the Cyr Wheel and can be found entertaining passerby’s on the streets of downtown Seattle. He will perform with the Cirque du Soleil this summer. With a shared interest in music, Tom Roddey and Gary Dyer both served in the Navy in the 1970s and 1980s. Tom taught himself to play the guitar 400 feet below the surface on a Navy submarine. Gary, on the other hand, grew up around music and was trained in classical music by his mother who taught piano. It took years for the two to find each other in the Kitsap music scene and play together in a band called the Geezers. And today, they are an acoustic duo appropriately called Tom & Gary, and play at pubs and coffeehouses in Bremerton and on Bainbridge Island. While it’s both a business and a hobby, we feature two Port Orchard veterans who will open a restaurant in June. Dave Tagert and Stacey Bronson will open Devilfish Public House on Bay Street where they plan to serve craft brews and globally inspired food in a nautical themed building. In other news, Veterans Life has a story about a veteran resources center that is now open in Poulsbo and sponsored by the American Legion Post 245. The office has trained volunteers who can help veterans through the mounds of paperwork needed to get benefits. Reporter Wes Morrow has put together a wonderful feature about a Port Angeles mother whose son was killed in Afghanistan. Betsy Schultz went on to start the nonnprofit Captain Joseph House Foundation to honor her son and provide a place for other grieving families to gather and relax in a beautiful, peaceful setting. In next month’s Veterans Life, we hope to feature “Letters Home.” We’ll look at how World War II was described in letters home from Raymond Lafond, who served in the Army from 1943 to 1946 and spent time in Italy and Germany during the height of the war. His sister, Diane Marler, who lives in Silverdale, shares her brother’s memories with us. We are hoping readers will share letters that they wrote home, or letters that family members wrote to them while stationed away. In more recent years those letters may be emails, but we’re glad that you’ll allow us to see your service and sacrifices through your personal stories sent to and from loved ones. To submit a letter or for more information about this project, email lkelly@soundpublishing.com. One last note, this issue of Veterans Life will be published after Memorial Day. But we have a number of reporters who will be attending services to honor fallen veterans. We’d like to direct you to our weekly newspaper websites to read about those services and view photographs. You can find them at www.centralkitsapreporter.com or www.bremertonpatriot.
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Tom & Gary This duo of Navy veterans make great harmonies playing acoustic music in coffee houses and pubs around the Kitsap Peninsula.
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Two Navy veterans share music and memories as the duo “Tom & Gary” By LESLIE KELLY In the late 1970s, Gary Dyer was serving in the U.S. Navy as a surface sonar technician. Leslie Kelly/ Staff Photo
Musicians Gary Dyer and Tom Roddey, both Navy veterans, have formed an acoustic duo.
At just about the same time, Tom Roddey was deep under the Pacific Ocean serving the Navy as a “sonar guy playing I spy for the U.S. Government,” he said. Both were working hard during those Cold War years to keep America safe and to serve the citizens of this country with pride. But in the back of their minds, they were thinking about music. And it took more than 35 years for them to find each other and form their duo, Tom & Gary.
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“I learned to play (the – Tom Roddey Throughout the years, guitar) 400 feet underboth Roddey and Dyer water on a torpedo sub,” enjoyed their music, Roddey likes to say. singing to family and friends any play“I brought a guitar on the sub and I ing in everything from garage bands taught myself to play.” to bands that performed in casinos Roddey said his first guitar was a and clubs. very cheap one and “exploded.” After Roddey said he needed an outlet for that, while on shore leave in Guam, he his music so he went to an open mic purchased a better one. night. In all, since then he’s had 11 differ“Some of the best musicians in this ent guitars, seven “Georges,” and four area were there,” he said. “I learned “Gracies.” from them.” “I name the acoustic ones George At the same time he was married and the electric ones Gracie,” Roddey and starting a family and buying a said. “Right now I just have a couple. house. He met a neighbor who played I’ve either given the others away or banjo and that man invited him to worn them out.” play with his bluegrass band. Roddey served in the Navy from “We played at the grand open1976 to 1996. He served on the East ing of the original, original, original Coast and then in San Diego and Clearwater Casino,” he said. “It was finally in Washington state at Naval under a big tent.” Base Kitsap Bangor. He now works at Bangor Keyport as a security clerk. And his music is a hobby of sorts.
From there Roddey played on ships for the Carnival Cruise line and traveled to Mexico and the Caribbean.
Dyer decided to enlist in the Navy in 1976 and served until 1982. He had been attending college at the
“I was gone six months at a time,” he said. “And after awhile, that wasn’t so good for the family.”
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He had a background in classical music and had been a part of the Tucson Youth Symphony playing the bass. He then played with the University of Arizona Symphonic Orchestra. But a calling to the Navy was prompted after school got to be party time.
He tested to be on a submarine, but after five weeks, he decided it wasn’t for him. So he took shore “I learned to play (the duty as a sonar techniguitar) 400 feet under cian. After the Navy, he water on a torpedo worked as a electronics sub. I brought a guitar technician in a federal Civil Service job at on the sub and I taught myself to play.” Madigan Army Medical Center.
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He came home and put his guitar away. He didn’t touch it for two years. In that time, his mother and his sister died during the same week. It was then that Roddey got his guitar out of the closet and began playing.
decided to strike out as a duo because they were more interested in playing music and not partying, as were other members of the band, they said.
techniques including music instrument digital interfacing. He used that to create background music when he played on the cruise line. Roddey’s talents
Simon & Garfunkel songs, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison tunes and folk songs from the 1960s. “We love to play,” Roddey said. “We like to
grown sons, one who lives in the area and sometimes acts as a roadie for him. His wife died a year ago from bone cancer.
“They said, ‘Get clown hair and a nose, you’re hired!,” Roddey recalled.
About 20 patrons listened as they drank coffee. After each song, they clapped enthusiastically.
Dyer was the base guitar player in that band. He’s been playing music ever since he got out of the Navy and ended up with the Geezers after being in a 1990s band called the Pumphouse Blues Band that played at places such as the Thurston County Fair, the Chehalis and the McCleary jazz festivals.
Looking back on their Navy careers, they are both glad that they served. “It gave me an excellent trade,” Dyer said. “It served me well.” Roddey agreed.
In the early 2000s, he played with Billy Farmer and the Ramblers, and Goldie McJohn and Friends before ending up with the Geezers.
“It fit because we we’re playing around Kitsap, in the shadow of Seattle which is the Emerald City,” Roddey said. After a bit, the two
“Our fans tell us that they come for the beautiful harmony we make,” Roddey said. “That gives us such a good feeling.” At a recent gig at Pegasus in downtown Winslow, they played some Arlo Guthrie, Paul McCartney, John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel.
Through friends he was asked to audition for a band called the “Geezers.”
Roddey, Dyer and other members of the band played clubs on the Kitsap Peninsula. Patrons convinced them that they needed to change names and they did. The band became Shadow of Oz.
The band have a loyal following.
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Tom Roddey, left, and Gary Dyer play to a crowd at Pegasus coffee house in downtown Winslow on a recent Sunday.
Now as a duo, they play as Tom & Gary and do both acoustic music and some sets with prerecorded background band music. Following his retirement from the Navy, Roddey attended the Seattle Art Institute learning video and audio
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They will take requests, he said, but “we don’t do crooners.” Both of them have been able to keep their interests in music up, work full time and spend time with their families. Dryer has two
“The music and my friends - they kept me sane through all of that,” he said. Roddey has been married to his wife, Dona, for 35 years, has two daughters and 10 grandchildren, all who love to hear him play “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
“The importance of that is that music has given me so much. It’s the serenity of music that’s important. To play for people and to have them tell you they enjoy it - it’s the greatest thing ever.” Find out more at reverbnation.com/tomgary, or on Facebook at TomandGary.
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By Luciano Marano, contributor Lots of children around the world have fantasized about running away and joining the circus. Derek Broussard actually did it. Granted, he grew up first. But, after getting that preliminary obligation out of the way, he didn’t waste much time before beginning his pursuit of the Big Top. What began as a hobby, and an interesting way to stay in shape, quickly became a passion and a new craft to which Broussard began to dedicate his life. Broussard, a Bremerton native, began to hone his performance skills in earnest during the time he spent in the U.S. Army. “I was in the Army for a total of eight years,” said Broussard. “For the first three years I was an Infantryman stationed with the 82nd Airborne. Afterwards I worked as a Veterinary Technician even though my actual MOS (Military Occupational Speciality) was a Food Inspector.” Encountering some difficulty in getting promoted further, Broussard opted for another path. “I got out (of the Army) because the promotion points for my MOS were so high that college was a requirement to get promoted,” he said. “I figured that if I needed to go to college I should get out and study something I really enjoy.” The decision brought him closer to home where he attended the Art Institute of Seattle and originally pursued a degree in photography. Broussard has since changed his major to fashion design, hoping to one day unite his passions and not only perform in a circus company but also design the costumes. Although always an athletic kind of person, Broussard always found himself attracted to the more unusual sports. “I have never been very good at traditional sports like baseball or football,” he said. “I’ve always enjoyed something a little bit more extreme.” It was a nearly lifelong interest in gymnastics that
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gave Broussard the confidence to begin serious training for circus routines. “I’ve been training in gymnastics since I was in the third grade,” he said. “Even while I was in the Army I would volunteer with the local gymnastics facilities and help train their teams. Transitioning from (traditional) gymnastics to circus happened because I wanted to pursue a childhood dream and try out for Cirque du Soleil. So, along with my gymnastics I wanted something more circusy to show them and I discovered the Cyr wheel.” The Cyr wheel (also known as the “Simple Wheel”) was essentially invented in 2003 and is, according to designer Daniel Cyr, “a device that allows circus performers to execute a virtually infinite number of acrobatic figures, each more complex and aweinspiring than the last.” It first appeared in the circus world at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris in 2003, and Cyr was awarded the silver medal for his performance. It has since been used in a variety of professional circus performances by dozens of companies around the world. The hours of dedication required to even begin to master such a talent are many and Broussard takes his training very seriously. So much so in fact, that he has became somewhat of a local expert on the wheel. “I drill specific skills on the Cyr wheel for a few hours
every day,” he explains. “Then I spend my last hour putting skills together to create an act, or ‘phrase.’ My act is always evolving and can change on the mood I am in and where I am performing.” Having worked in numerous different circus performance groups, Broussard remains in love with the culture and lifestyle that accompany the work. “There is something really special about performing circus arts,” he said. “The community is very tight nit, the only place I have seen a group of people this close was in the infantry. Everyone pitches in and pulls their weight and puts in so many hours to make a show work. Then, at the end of the performance, the crowd applauds and you can feel their amazement and awe in the air. I don’t know the words to describe the feeling I get from that.” In addition to the time he spends working with various shows both in Seattle and other cities, Broussard occasionally takes his act to the street and performs for whoever happens to be walking by. “Street performing has definitely helped me with my confidence and stage presence,” he said. “One thing the Army does not teach you very well is how to express yourself, so this has helped me with that.” Performing on the street has also allowed Broussard to fine-tune his act, getting a feel for the sequence of tricks that a given audience might respond better to.
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“The Cyr wheel has given me an outlet of creativity and focus,” said Broussard. “It’s helped me deal with emotional stress that I acquired while in the military. Because of this, I have been in coordination with Circus Now to start a program specifically for veterans. If anyone is interested in learning the Cyr wheel, they can contact me.” With the continued success of shows like Cirque du Soleil both in America and around the world, there are some who say that society is experiencing a type of circus renaissance, and there is renewed interest in what was once considered an old-world institution. “Circus arts is definitely a growing trend across the country and especially here in the Seattle area,” said Broussard. “Here in Washington we have five or six different circus schools.” Dividing his time between a full class schedule, constant training and occasional performing jobs, Broussard is a busy man. Entering into his final semester at the Art Institute, he has begun to plan his final project and hopes to design and construct a line of stylish yet extremely durable athletic wear to showcase at his final student portfolio exhibition. “I hope to continue to perform and to create costumes for performing companies,” he said. “I am currently in between shows, but I am in the bidding process for some very prestigious shows that travel around the world so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.”
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Army veteran Derek Broussard performs on the streets of Seattle. This summer, Broussard will intern with the traveling Cirque du Soleil show “Amaluna,” making him that much closer to achieving his childhood dream.
“I figure, now is the time to chase dreams.” Broussard can be reached through derek@actionbyderek. com.
“I’m 28 years old,” he said.
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Brothers serve together in Coast Guard PSU Trevor acted as a duty engineer.
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“I’m standing 12-hour watches with the patrol leader as his right-hand man during the day in case anything comes up with one of the boats,” he stated.
It might seem unusual for the U.S. Coast Guard to participate in a largescale, international, military exercise half way around the world in South Korea; however, it is even more unusual for two brothers from Stevensville, Mont., to deploy to South Korea together as members of Coast Guard Port Security Unit (PSU) 313. Travis and Trevor Capp both served four years on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard before transferring into the Coast Guard Reserve. The transition from active duty to the reserves brought the brothers to PSU 313 in Everett, as members of a deployable operations unit that provides global shore-side and water-side security and force protection. PSU 313 is a 120-member unit, comprised almost entirely of reservists. Since Sept. 11, 2001, PSU 313 has served in support of operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and New Dawn in Kuwait and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Members of PSU 313 have also assisted in
Besides South Korea, the Coast Guard has taken Trevor to Hawaii, Virginia, North Carolina, and the Marshall and Samoan Islands. One of the highlights of Trevor’s time on active duty was when he served aboard the 378-foot Coast Guard Cutter Rush as it sailed across the position where the International Dateline and the Equator intersect.
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Brothers Trevor and Travis Capp serve together in the Coast Guard Reserve unit PSU 313 and were recently deployed to South Korea to conduct port security operations. relief efforts following the Haiti earthquake and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. PSU 313 deployed to Pohang, South Korea, in April 2013 to conduct port security operations in coordination with Republic of Korea Navy and Marine Corps dur-
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mission in Korea was to maintain safety zones to keep maritime traffic and local fishermen away from a submerged fuel line that extended from Dogu Beach in Pohang, South Korea, to the U.S. Naval Ship Wheeler, located eight miles offshore. “If not for the U.S. Coast Guard we could not conduct our mission,” said John Mansfield, captain of the Wheeler. “If the pipeline is damaged we’re finished.” Freshwater was pumped through the eight-mile pipeline from the Wheeler to a simulated fueling station on shore. In a real-world scenario, the fueling station would provide fuel to military vehicles arriving to the beach from military ships. As a member of a PSU boat crew, Travis’s primary role in Korea was to
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While on active duty, Travis was assigned to the 210-foot Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless in Galveston, Texas. “On the Dauntless we did lots of drug interdiction out in the Caribbean,” Travis said. “I decided to join the Coast Guard because my goal is to get into law enforcement,” he said. Travis graduated from Pinecrest High School in North Carolina in 2006 and Trevor graduated in 2008 from Hamilton High School in Montana. Travis joined the Coast Guard after high school and Trevor followed in his older brother’s footsteps once he graduated from high school. Trevor followed Travis’ lead again when he switched over to the Coast Guard Reserve and joined the PSU. “When my four years of active duty was up I decided to lateral over (to the reserves) because Travis said how good the PSU was,” Trevor said. “It’s been an awesome experience.” When not working at the PSU during drill weekends or during their two weeks of annual training, the brothers work on their family’s ranch in Stevensville, Mont. The Capp brothers are looking forward to going where the Coast Guard takes them next. Daniel King, who resides in Bremerton, is a reservist with the Coast Guard PSU 313.
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By DANNIE OLIVEAUX With 15 years of military service combined, Dave Tagert and Stacey Bronson will bring what they experienced from other parts of the world to a new “gastro pub” in downtown Port Orchard.
“A lot of those young craft brewers have come to the states where they can experiment,” he said. He said in England the tax was based on how high the alcohol content was.
The couple is planning to open Devilfish Public House, 639 Bay St., for business the third week of June.
“Six months ago, they reversed the tax from four years ago,” Dave said. He said he’s looking into getting some of the new beer from London in the future.
Dave spent six years in the Marines, and Stacey, ia a nine-year Navy veteran.
Dave said the eatery caters to an over-35 crowd.
Dave was a “grunt” with recon and Stacey was a hull technician in the Navy.
“We’re not a sports bar. We’re a public house,” Dave said.
“We never met during that aspect,” Dave said. “That was my first hesitation in dating her.”
He said a public house is not a bar, but a gathering place for the community.
The couple has been together for 12 years.
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“I’m doing my share to support the Navy,” Dave laughed.
Stacey Bronson and Dave Tagert plan to open their restaurant, Devilfish Public House, in Port Orchard in mid to late June. They are both Navy veterans and have remodeled the building themselves.
For the past several months, Dave and Stacey have been coming up to Port Orchard from Lewis County and working on the new venture several days a week. The couple is doing all the remodeling work on the 2,000-squarefoot building.
Orchard and Gig Harbor until 2006.
“We do a lot of wood, a lot of varnish and we put that love into it,” Dave said. Dave and Stacey are not new to Kitsap County and Port Orchard. The couple once lived in an old beach home near the Marina Park waterfront. The building has been torn down for the park’s expansion. They operated scuba diving shops in Port
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“Since I was stationed in the South Pacific, I put together some Hawaiian and Asian recipes,” she said. “Because Dave was in Europe, we pull Greek, Italian and English recipes to use.” Stacey said their menu will be “globally inspired.” Dave said his eateries specialize in “craft beers.” They have 26 beers on tap in Chehalis.
Dave and Stacey want people to feel comfortable when they come to their business and enjoy the food and beverages. The new eatery should hold up to 70 people, Stacey said. They are looking to hire about seven people and have a cook lined up for the new location. “It’s important in a restaurant how the beer flows and how the food is coming out,” said Stacey. “That is important for us.”
“We go out and find those beers and there are no corporate beers on tap,” Dave said. He said the craft beer industry is exploding with new items. Dave said one of the main reasons the increased interest in craft
“We have a better rating with ladies over 50,” said Dave.
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taken in order for them to get their needs met.” And, he said, the Service Office is just as available to family members of veterans. “We work with spouses and children who are trying to get the death benefits that are due them,” he said. He said they’ve even been able to help families replace military medals that deceased veterans were due but never received or medals that have been lost. Whether its medical benefits, or questions about the GI Bill education benefits, or even things related to VA home loans, the Service Center is the place to start. There are four service officers, all who have completed special training and certification with the Veterans Administration and the American Legion, Spinar said. “One of them is new and just getting his feet wet,” he said. “And we have a woman on staff because we know that women veterans like to be able to talk to another
female.” Besides VA benefits and programs, the center also has information about other programs available for veterans in Kitsap County including employment and housing. Spinar works with the Kitsap Veterans Resources Center in Bremerton and will often refer to their programs when needed. Another thing the Service Center can handle is helping aging veterans when they can no longer stay in their homes. “It’s the Aid and Assistance program,” Spinar said. “We work with older veterans to make sure that they get the care they deserve.” The center also has some gift cards that can be given to veterans in need of groceries. The work that is done at the Service Center is all volunteer, Spinar said, as is the work that Post 245 does in the Poulsbo-area community. “We have 227 members on the books,” he said. “But
in reality, we have more like 15 who are active month-tomonth,” he said. “They are the ones that really work to see that we serve this community.”
“Last year when we walked past Martha and Mary (retirement center) the residents there came out and sang ‘God Bless America.’ It was very moving.”
“I was at Shepard Air Force Base in Texas,” he said. “I left on a medical discharge and never went to Vietnam. I wasn’t in the war like so many around me were.”
Among the projects the post has are food drives for the local food bank during the holidays. Last year they collected 707 pounds of food, five turkeys, and $171 for Food Line in Poulsbo.
As with many American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) posts, the local Post 245 is hoping to attract new members.
He said sometimes he feels like he cheated, never being in a war zone. And he said helping veterans now is a way to pay his dues He’s been a part of the local post since he moved to the area in 1992 and he’s been commander for the past two years.
The post also sponsors students in the American Legion Boys and Girls State programs where they attend a week-long program to learn about civics, run for offices and propose legislation. The post sponsors three baseball teams and honors police officers, firefighters and EMTs on Sept. 11 each year with its Freedom Walk. “We have a walk from the parking lot at the community center to the American Legion Park in downtown and we carry American flags, just to honor all those who provided emergency services on 9-11 and every day since then,” he said.
“As the years pass, our members get older and can’t be as active,” he said. ‘We’d love to have some younger guys involved.” Membership dues, and member’s participation in events like the Poppy Day sales, is what allows the post to continue to afford to do its work. “We’ve had members in the past set up funds that support what we do,” he said. “But we’re always looking to raise money to support our programs.” For Spinar, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1967, volunteering through the American Legion is just something he wants to do.
He’s never surprised at how veterans will help each other. “After one of our meetings, a member came up and handed me a $100 bill,” Spinar said. “The member said, ‘Use this to buy more food gift cards.’ That’s just the way our members are. They want to help.” Veterans can contact the Service Center by email at admin245@comcast.net. The post’s website is www. alpost245.org. Veterans can call the Service Office at 360-779-5456, or just drop by on Thursdays.
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Port Orchard man helps veterans with prosthetic tattoos depict anything from combat to a design as simple as a solid color. His business caters to a growing number of people. According to the National Limb Loss Information Center, 1.7 million people were living with limb loss in 2007 in the United States. That is one out of every 200 people.
By CHRIS CHANCELLOR The memories remain vivid. It was a nondescript evening in 1985 when Dan Horkey was traveling on his motorcycle through Tucson, Ariz. — an ordinary routine for him. That was until the sky darkened and Horkey failed to notice the car in front of him had its turn signal illuminated. Almost in an instant, Horkey slammed into the car of the vehicle and was ejected off the motorcycle several feet.
Horkey cites ongoing wars along with medical issues, such as obesity rates and diabetes and vascular disease, as reasons behind why that number could increase. Horkey offers an array of pricing options to apply “tattoos” to the socket. The least expensive technique, from around $150 to $375, would entail a process where fabric with a design is applied to the prosthetic. The high-end technique would be airbrushing — similar to those seen on cars — which ranges from about $450 to $600. After networking that Horkey said began at the “grassroots” level, he met a Navy commander who had contacts in Washington, D.C.
Horkey, who now lives in Port Orchard, considers himself grateful that the accident did not kill him as he was not wearing a helmet. But Horkey, 48, still has a constant reminder of the accident — a prosthetic lower left limb. “It was just severely smashed below the ankle,” Horkey said. “Gangrene set in about two days later and that was the leading reason for the amputation.”
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Captain Joseph House a labor of love and life By WES MORROW Capt. Joseph William Schultz often had conversations with his mother, Betsy, during his time in the service. The topic of those conversations often focused on what each of them should do if the other were to die. Betsy — like far too many mothers with children in the military — had to live with the reality that her son could precede her in death. Joseph was a Green Beret. He was from Port Angeles, where his mother ran a bed and breakfast. In 2011, he deployed to Afghanistan. It was there, in Wardak Province, that Joseph died. His vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on May 29, 2011 — one day before Memorial Day. He was 36. That was two years ago. The news of her son’s death quickly reached Betsy. In that moment her Memorial Day changed forever. The loss of her only son was a life-changing blow — but Betsy, like her son, wasn’t one to surrender. Betsy recalls the conversations she and Joseph
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Port Angeles, at the tip of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, is home to around 18,000 people. When Joseph died in 2011, Betsy was comforted by the people of her hometown.
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“Caring and being part of a community … people are stronger,” Betsy said. “They heal from shared experiences.” When Betsy’s life regained a semblance of routine and she decided to create the foundation the residents of Port Angeles were there for her again. A number of locals are on the foundation’s board and many of them
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To make the shift from bed and breakfast to place of healing and respite, the Captain Joseph House has to undergo a few changes. Betsy said they’re adding elevator access to the second floor, expanding the kitchen and adding a sun room, among other things. On May 26, 2013 — the Sunday before Memorial Day — the foundation held a ground-breaking ceremony.
Betsy and a few others were on hand with shovels to dig the first bits of earth. The earth being moved symbolized a birth rather than a burial, a moment of new life for Joseph William Schultz and the Captain Joseph House. “Joseph always thought it would be great place to bring children some day if he ever had children,” Betsy said, “which he didn’t, but there can still be families coming here.” During Joseph’s life, Betsy and her son shared a special bond. “We were a great team,” she said. When Joseph died that team was split in two. He can’t be there to comfort his mother, but through the home that bears his name he can comfort others for years to come.
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We had to take care of kids, be parents, hold down a job and live life on the go.” “Life on the go” is an apt description for new graduate Deborah McRae, who earned not one, but two master’s degrees. She now has a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and a Master of Science in Human Resources. McRae retired from the Navy eight years ago, and works at the Virginia Mason clinic on Bainbridge Island where she teaches leadership classes to nurses and medical students. Getting two master’s degrees wasn’t easy. “It was hard while working full-time,” admitted McRae. “I spent a lot of time researching and writing long papers for classes.” Brandman’s campus director Jennifer Perryman says graduation is as exciting for her as it is for the graduates because she knows the effort that it takes. “What we don’t see today are the hours spent behind the computer trying to do research, trying to feed kids, shuffling around engagements so they can make school a priority,” said Perryman. Perryman ought to know. Her husband, Rodney Perryman, is retired from the Navy. He’s now a quality assurance trainer and develops curriculum at Naval Base Kitsap, and received his Master of Science in Human Resources.
You receive it on Graduation Day. But it’s never handed to you. Because when it’s a degree from Columbia College, it’s a degree that demands effort and rewards hard work. That’s a notion our students at 18 campuses on military bases truly understand.
“My college experience has put me in a whole new place,” said Perryman, who used his GI benefits to help pay for his college tuition. “I ask people what you are doing to make your situation better.” And he’s not finished, planning to begin earning his doctorate degree this fall, so he can eventually become a teacher. Jennifer Perryman is also noticing a renewed interest in Psychology programs with so many veterans returning from overseas with injuries.
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Veteran recalls great golf at Village Greens By CHRIS CHANCELLOR Perhaps it is fitting that it served as a refuge for veterans for many years. After all, Doug Hathaway, the club’s former PGA professional, once noted that Port Orchard’s Village Greens Golf Course originally was a small housing development for the military and they just “pushed dirt around” when it was constructed. Despite it inadequacies — the small fairways cluttered by trees and postage-stamp sized greens — the course for years was popular with veterans. Gordon Sipe, 88, who once lived within walk-
ing distance of the course on Fircrest Drive, said the Village Greens men’s club featured more than 100 members a generation ago. He said most were veterans. Sipe, who now lives in Belfair, enjoyed the camaraderie to the point that he would drive from Rochester, NY, Thurston County, to play at Village Greens. Similar to others, such as John Bauer, who hand-raked the course for more than a decade, Sipe was a de facto employee who never accepted a paycheck. “You would come up here in the morning and the golf course wouldn’t be open,”
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him to experience some of the work he envisioned during World War II. He ended up stationed in the South Pacific, where he worked to keep “the Japanese from going into Australia.” Sipe said he spent more time in jungles than on a ship. “What … are we doing here?” Sipe recalls saying while on base. “I want to go to sea and shoot them cannons.” Sipe did not pick up a club until the 1970s when he worked as an aftermarket motor parts district manager in Oregon. One of his friends was opening a golf course near his house and he was able to play there free. “I was probably the worst golfer in the world,” Sipe said. “But it was maybe about a month that I got a hole-in-one. That was glorious. I was hooked.” Hathaway noted in a 2008 interview that Sipe and others often goaded him about never having a hole-in-one. “That’s one of the most
irritating things around because I’ve had a lot of double eagles, which is much more rare,” he said. “But nobody cares.” Sipe has 13 in his career and Hathaway said, “he can’t hit it 60 yards in the air.” People often ask Sipe about all of the hole-in-one’s he has scored and he tells them the key “is to play a short course all of the time. You have four par-4s here and the rest of them are all potential hole-in-one’s.” Sipe, who moved back to Washington in the late 1980s after first retiring from his career before leaving again for a job in Florida in 1994 and then Texas for about seven years, said he also benefited from playing 300 rounds of golf some years. Most came at Village Greens, a 3,255-yard, par58 course that was built in 1958. He now is among the last of the once-bustling men’s club at Village Greens. Sipe estimates there now are about 20 members.
go along with the passing of guys,” he said. “I used to admire guys who were 90 years old out here playing golf. Now I’m the next one that’s going to be 90.” Turmoil surrounding the course has not helped the situation, either. Hathaway leased the course from Kitsap County in 1991 and left in 2009 after a tiff with its parks and recreation department. At the time of his departure, Hathaway said the executive-length, 18-hole facility had lost money every year since 2005. Much-needed upgrades to the course were not the only aspect that was neglected. Now, Sipe worries a tradition among veterans might end. “There was no effort by anyone to replace the group and bring them on in,” Sipe said. “You’ve got to do a little [advertising]. They’ve got a big sign here that says Village Greens, but nothing about golf.”
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Dick Walker at the time he joined the Coast Guard in 1951. By Richard Walker The former seaman had served on active duty for two and half years. He had last stepped aboard a Coast Guard vessel 43 years earlier, possibly before the captain of this vessel was born. Yet the honors he was rendered this day showed the value placed on his service by the officers and crew present for the ceremony off the coast of Humboldt County, Calif. The former seaman was my dad, Dick Walker. And on this day, the officers and crew of the USCGC Long Island commended his ashes to the ocean he had sailed so many years earlier. “The ceremony was conducted in the manner that has become traditional for burial at sea,” wrote Lt. A.M. Lever, the Long Island’s commanding officer. The U.S. flag was lowered to half mast and the ship’s company was mustered. Then Lever, as command-
ing officer, read from the Scriptures and offered a prayer. Following the prayer, the ship’s company was called to attention and saluted while Lever read the committal, “after which time the ashes were scattered to the sea,” Lever wrote in a letter to me. “The burial at sea ceremony is probably the most honored custom of seafarers, and it was an honor to be able to conduct it in the memory of your late father. On behalf of the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Long Island, I extend my deepest sympathies.” My father never told me exactly why he enlisted at 16 on Dec. 28, 1951. His father, my grandfather, had been an adventurer who joined the Navy at the same age during the Great War. Growing up in a Navy town like Long Beach, Calif., my dad would have seen sailors returning home from World War II, would have heard the stories, would have seen the Gold
My dad took advantage of a clerical error in his birth record that made him a year older than he was. But he still needed the permission of his mother to enlist, and the only branch she would consent to was the U.S. Coast Guard. After boot camp in Alameda, my dad listed Hawaii at the top of his dream sheet; the Korean War was on, and Coast Guard cutters were assisting merchant ships and aircraft transiting the North Pacific. The closest he got to his wish was a vessel that had formerly been home-ported in Hawaii: the USCGC Chambers, in New Bedford, Mass. (He reminded me it’s called a “dream sheet” when I enlisted in the Navy in 1980 and told him of my post-boot camp plans.) Aboard the Chambers, he worked as a deckhand, ran the paint locker and stood his share of watches. Once, he was almost washed
over the side while standing watch in a heavy storm in the Atlantic. During his enlistment, the Chambers conducted weather patrols between Massachusetts and Newfoundland, participated in medical evacuations and assisted vessels at sea. In 1954, the Korean War over, enlisted ranks were reduced and on June 28 that year, Seaman Walker was transferred to the Inactive Reserves. The Coast Guard sent him home with $428.74, a National Defense Medal and a “ruptured duck” on his uniform. In the ensuing years, my dad married, embarked on a career, used a VA loan to buy a home in a tidy suburb, and became a father. He had once dreamed of being a forest ranger but he never escaped the ’burbs. His life was a swirl of ups and downs, successes and shortcomings. Sketching at his easel and painting houses — both appealed to his creative side. He liked cars and motorcycles. He fished in Mexico, had a respect-
He also lived too fast. A divorce in 1974, a second marriage in 1976. A career change in 1982, forced retirement 10 years later. His 40s and 50s more resembled Pete Hamill’s “A Drinking Life” than family life. By 1997, his body started shutting down. One of his regrets was that he wouldn’t be here to watch his granddaughter grow up. There were a lot of years and life experiences between the time of my dad’s Coast Guard service and the waning days of his life. But during those last days, our conversation turned to his time in the Coast Guard. And I learned that even though he didn’t talk about it, he had always been proud of his service. Only 16 when he enlisted, he was a member of a special group — the brotherhood of veterans — at age 19. It was not lost on him that he had returned home an honorably discharged veteran when many of his friends were graduating from high school. He spent his Korean War service in the Atlantic, far from the action. But he served. My dad was not one to talk about himself. His attitude about doing a job might have been, “You do what you’ve got to do, and don’t make a big deal about it.” Everybody’s got a job to do, whether painting a house or patrolling the Atlantic or fighting a war. I didn’t know he had received the National
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“Meh, they gave those to everybody,” he said. But I’d bet few 19-year-old veterans had one. My dad died Aug. 16, 1997. He didn’t want a funeral. He wanted his body cremated and his ashes spread over the … well, he wasn’t specific on that part. Perhaps he trusted me to make the right decision. To me, there was only one choice. After a small gathering, I left my father’s ashes to the care of a neighbor — a U.S. Coast Guard master chief who was stationed at Alameda, where my dad had joined the Coast Guard almost 46 years earlier. And then, on 28 Oct. 1997, the ashes of former seaman Richard Arlin Walker — “our brother,” Lever wrote — were commended to the deep. It’s true that our veterans haven’t always received the benefits and respect they deserve. But as evidenced by the ceremony and dignity afforded my dad — a onetime teenage sailor who was anxious to serve and took advantage of the opportunity to do so — our nation tries, more often than not, to do the right thing. And it doesn’t forget. I’m forever thankful. — Richard Walker is editor of the North Kitsap Herald in Poulsbo. He was a quartermaster aboard the USS Manitowoc (LST 1180) from 1980-84.
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Welcome Harrison HealthPartners Cardiovascular Consultants
For years, Kitsap Cardiology Consultants has provided life-saving cardiovascular care to residents of the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas. Now as Harrison HealthPartners Cardiovascular Consultants, we will continue to serve you at all six of our clinic locations, and provide the full scope of inpatient and outpatient cardiology procedures. At Harrison, we’re providing exceptional healthcare, one hear t at a time. Harrison HealthPartners Cardiovascular Consultants includes (from left to right): • Yudthsak Damrongpipatkij, MD • Mark Paciotti, MD • Beth Garrity, ARNP • Ar thur Lee, MD
• Saurabh Rastogi, MD • Christopher Johnson, MD • Nathan Segerson, MD • Satyavardhan Pulukur thy, MD
Clinic Locations: Bremerton: 2709 Hemlock St. Forks: 390 Founders Way Port Ludlow: 9481 Oak Bay Road, Suite A Port Orchard: 463 Tremont St. W., Suite 200 Port Townsend: 1274 Seventh St. Poulsbo: 22180 Olympic College Way, Suite 201 Business Hours: Open Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm
For more information call 360-373-2547 or toll free 888-573-2547 harrisonhealthpartners.org
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• David Tinker, MD • Raedelle Wallace, ARNP (Not pictured) • William Seal, MD