Via Escanaba Daily Press ESCANABA — Howard Seid of Rockland in Ontonagon County has been selected as 2024 Upper Peninsula Veteran of the Year. Seid has been the western U.P. representative for the Veteran’s Community Action Team since 2016. He has worked on numerous individual issues ...
By Abby LaForest Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Ray Carlson, Marquette County’s 2024 Veteran of the Year as dubbed by the Marquette County Veterans Alliance, spent his service overseas in the midst of the Vietnam War. Carlson, 73, is a U.S. Navy veteran who grew up in the Hancock and ...
By Abby LaForest Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The most recently-discharged veteran interviewed for our veteran profile series was Layne Kime. Kime, 22, joined the U.S. Coast Guard in 2020 and served for four years as part of the Ice Rescue and Search and Rescue units. His military ...
By Abby LaForest Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Carol Hebert, a retiree from the U.S. Army and the Michigan Army National Guard, has spent the majority of her life surrounded by the military. “My brother-in-law was a Korean veteran, and a real good friend of the family, he was like ...
By Abby LaForest Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Brendan Ruth moved to the Upper Peninsula when he was 16, relocating from his hometown of Fowler in lower Michigan. Ruth, now 23, served in the U.S. Army for a little less than four years, enlisting in 2019. Following his father’s ...
By Abby LaForest Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Marquette native Andrew Herriman has been serving in the Michigan Army National Guard since the early 2000s. Herriman, 36, entered the National Guard back in March 2005, and is still currently serving, marking his time in the military ...
The Upper Peninsula, it is said, never forgets its veterans, the people who donned our country’s military uniform and took up arms at a time when they were needed most. We have always honored their service though memorials, special days and events. This video presentation, and an ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor Sterling Schultz is a guy who walks the walk when it comes to helping and honoring Upper Peninsula veterans. The U.P. native is a veteran of the Vietnam War war himself who struggled with post traumatic stress disorder, he knows what it’s like. After ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor MARQUETTE — When Dan Jackovich went in to the military in November of 1965, the Navy was not his first choice. He had been working at Cliffs Dow for a few months, had attended classes at Northern Michigan University for a year and wasn’t planning to go ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor The Marine Corps were a good fit for Bob Swanson. When college didn’t work out and he got drafted into the army, Swanson decided to join the Marines instead. He went on active duty on Sept. 9, 1968, and found that stepping off the plane in Los Angeles ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor When Jill Weingarten sings the National Anthem, it’s about more than perfect pitch. She comes from a long line of people of service. Her father was an Army veteran. “I was absolutely freaked out,” Weingarten said. “Here I was this little 19-year-old ...
By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor Al Henderson is a Vietnam Veteran who considers himself lucky for a variety of reasons. He entered the Air Force just out of high school in 1970 at the tail end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Rather than waiting for his number to come up in the ...
Allen Beauchamp’s Navy service began in what he calls a “unique situation” as a teenager. Many of his classmates had their futures mapped out, they had decided, not only if they were going to college, but where. But Beauchamp had not made any kind of firm decision “ I was kind of ...
’By LISA BOWERS Journal City Editor Donald Moore was drafted and served at Fort Carson Colorado in the United States Army in the early 1960’s at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He completed 6 weeks of boot camp at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri before heading to the place he would ...
MARQUETTE — When you talk to Jim Provost about everything he’s been able to accomplish for Marquette County Veterans, you can’t help but wonder how he does it all. But it doesn’t take long to understand why. Provost himself is a Vietnam veteran. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps ...
MARQUETTE — You can’t miss Jim Feliciano when he’s headed to the Jacobetti Home for Veteran’s. He’ll be the one in a colorful Hawaiin shirt. ““If I can help, that is what I am here to do,” he said. “When (Jacobetti center veterans) see me come in with my Hawaiian shirt on, ...
MARQUETTE — When you sit down and talk to Charlie Hawes in his home in Marquette, his easy manner makes it hard, at first, to connect the fact that the decorated veteran served in the U.S. Navy during Vietnam “I joined because I figured it was my duty, obligation. But it was also always ...
NATIONAL MINE — Bill Hager is a force to be reckoned with. His military service is unique because he served in two different branches before finally retiring. Hager did a stint in the U.S. Navy as an electricians mate from 1963-67. Then in 1977, he joined the U.S. Army serving from ...
