Green Bay author Annette Grunseth took home a gold medal Saturday at the Military Writers Society of America’s national conference in New Orleans for her memoir, Combat and Campus: Writing Through War.Grunseth, a former marketing director at Bellin Hospital, was recognized in the category Memoir/Biography. Her book combines letters home from her older brother Peter, …
By Heather Graves Correspondent NORTHEAST WISCONSIN – For many veterans, it’s the trip of a lifetime. “I tell everyone I know that I am going,” Navy veteran and Green Bay resident Cheryl Winkel said. Since 2009, Northeast Wisconsin’s Old Glory Honor Flight hub has sent nearly 6,000 veterans on 53 missions to the nation’s capital …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – “The one thing I took away from it, and I told this to my kids, nothing opens your eyes more than facing death. You go through that and you become an altogether different person.” It’s passages like this from Korean War Marine veteran Bill Koch that fill the …
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By Lee Reinsch Correspondent GREEN BAY – The recent funeral for a young veteran who took his own life put a spotlight on veteran suicide. More than 50 members of the veteran and civilian communities turned out to pay their respects to 31-year-old Army veteran Jonathan Whitt at Nicolet Memorial Park Cemetery Friday, Sept. 27. …
By Lauren Waters Correspondent DE PERE – Robert “Woody” Wolslegel has had many roles in his lifetime: husband, father, grandfather, teacher and Vietnam veteran. On Friday, July 26, he is being honored for his service with a trip to Washington, D.C., on the Old Glory Honor Flight. Wolslegel grew up in Wausau and was just …
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By Melinda Anne Roberts Correspondent GREEN BAY – Captain Neil Graham Hansen has lived an extraordinary life from when he began to fly at age 15 to his years as a pilot for Jimmy Hoffa to his infamous exploits as a CIA operative with Air America in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Hansen was …
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