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Stickman: Never Forget Veterans

RE: LaSarte finally gets hero's welcome/Ralph Bartholdt, St. Maries Gazette-Record

Stickman: I tell the story sometimes of a young man who on his last day in country, was killed in an ambush. One of the tears of my life, even to this day. I cry everytime I think of him. His name was Billy, and he was 19. And another of a young man who was wounded calling in an air strike on his own position. He wished he died that day, but didn't. He is still here, and I take the time each week to go to his house and give him a bath, as he is embarrassed to let anyone else do it. Did we serve, damn right! Never forget the ones that came before you to keep you free.

Question: Do you know someone who was killed or injured in war? Who?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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