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Lembke, who grew up in Rockwell but now lives in Mason City, felt his true homecoming didn’t occur until nearly 50 years after his service. //<![CDATA[ var l=new Array(); l[0]=’>’;l[1]=’a';l[2]=’/';l[3]=’<’;l[4]=’|110′;l[5]=’|111̸...Read more »
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As an agronomy major on a trip to Communist Poland in 1968, a professor from the University of Warsaw was excited to talk to his group about his sister, who was living in Philadelphia. Knoll, there with his wife, Barb, tried to answer as many questions from Petersen’s mother as he could. "In...Read more »
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“I remember working in the heat and watching this guy in a dozer go back and forth grading,” Santoro said. “I thought to myself, ‘those hydraulic muscles don’t get tired no matter how hot it is. He doesn’t look like he is in there sweating very bad. He’s got his AC on.R...Read more »
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"So i guess maybe that whole "Visiting Sick Kids In the Hospital" thing once a year was getting old?" MASON CITY — Retired Major Gen. Gary Wattnem of Mason City says it still bothers him when he hears people say the U.S. lost the war in Vietnam. “To me it was just a waste of l...Read more »
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Would that she had died many years ago; the world would be a better place. (eddie, tell your mystic buddies that her death enlarges me and the world!) He was 20 years old in 1965. He didn’t have a job and his draft number was up. He decided to volunteer for the Army so he wouldn’t have to wait an...Read more »
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The thought of those left behind still weighs on him. While speaking with Mason City High School students this fall about the war, he began to choke up when speaking about casualties, which includes the loss of a younger friend he once attended church with in Rockwell. After a ten-day fishing tri...Read more »
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In 1969, with more than half a million soldiers already in the country, he figured the draft board wouldn’t notice he was one credit short of the 12 required to keep his full-time college exemption. “One of the volunteer jobs I went on, our commanding officer at formation in the morning was looki...Read more »
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I guess they’re holding out hope that they can blame it on Trump, or the militia movement, or Dick Cheney, or somebody? While he had little difficulty adjusting to life back home, Steinberg says he sometimes wonders why he survived and an acquaintance — Bobby Davis, who had a wife and son i...Read more »