Recent News - 2018

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  D.C. military memorial cheers Iowa women vets

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Thursday, July 26, 2018

  Kathryn DiDomenico was in tears – not of grief, but of joy. Forty-five years ago, she was tending to soldiers severely wounded in Vietnam. They touched her heart. And, nearly five decades later, someone touched hers.

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  Waterloo Marine survived Korea's ‘Frozen Chosin,' at a price

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Tuesday, June 26, 2018

  Herb Miehe lived through hell frozen over in November and December of 1950. He saw the Cold War at its worst – in brutality as well as temperature.

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  Omaha Beach vet 95 dies morning after D Day anniversary

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Friday, June 08, 2018

  Verle Buck has survived his last D-Day. The World War II veteran of Omaha Beach at D-Day passed away Thursday morning – one day after the 74th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. He was 95, had cancer, and had been in hospice care for several weeks. He was a sergeant in the U.S. Army's 149th Engineer Combat Battalion at Omaha on June 6, 1944. Buck believes they were in the first or second wave of troops to hit the beach at about 6:30 a.m.

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  Honor Flight warms hearts of Cold War/Korea vets Part 2

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Thursday, May 24, 2018

  There‘s a lot of people who put the “honor” into Honor Flight. As some 100 veterans of the Korean, Cold War and Vietnam wars ventured from the Cedar Valley to Washington, D.C. for another Honor Flight to see Washington, D.C. military memorials, they received a hero's welcome from many sources.

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  Honor Flight warms hearts of Cold War/Korea vets Part I

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Thursday, May 24, 2018

  Several Cold Warriors became “road warriors” this past week, accompanying a larger group of mosty Vietnam veterans on the 21sth Honor Flight from the Waterloo Regional Airport to visit U.S military memorials in Washington D.C.

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