LOCAL HERO | ART WILLIAMS
Original publish date: November-December 2014
ART WILLIAMS
Has Learned to Love The Good Life
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Where is he now? Army Veteran Art Williams was the Local Hero in the November-December 2014 issue of The Good Life. In the span of six years, Williams spent two years doing mission work with his wife in the Pacific Islands through the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, has recovered from knee replacement and shoulder reconstruction surgeries due to injuries attributed to his time in the service, and has continued to maintain involvement with United Patriot Bodies (collection of all local veterans organizations). He recently started working with the Honor Guard to honor individuals at the Fargo National Cemetery. Currently, Williams is in the process of joining back up with StarForce MEPS Transportation Service where one of his duties will be to drive new recruits to various locations for fitness and other required testing. 14 / THE GOOD LIFE
WRITTEN BY: SOO ASHEIM
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No one is ever promised life will be easy. Or, that when we make decisions, we may want to consider the over-all cinemascope of our life. And not hastily decide a life-long changing decision when it is based on a few of our past performances. Or, during a time that might not have been our brightest or best moments in life. For better or worse, often many of us do make decisions that eventually will affect us for all eternity. When we look back, usually many years later, we eventually recognize what led to that one all-time and life-altering choice shaking our head as we wonder what in the world was I thinking?
PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA
The Best Intentions Art Williams was a Math major at Central State College in Ohio when he graduated in 1964. Art joined the ROTC while he attended college, so when he graduated and decided to join the Army, he knew that decision was one of the “right” choices he made as a young African-American man about to join the thousands of other young and eager college grads in the mid-1960s who believed in righting the wrongs of the world; where good always would win over evil and when necessary, fight for the idealistic causes of the day. Believing with every fiber in their bodies to what President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said: “ask not what your country can do for
