Today is Purple Heart Day, a time to honor and remember our brave soldiers who were either wounded on the battlefield or paid the ultimate sacrifice with their lives. Shannon MacNeil sits down with U.S. Navy veteran, Jim Anderson, to learn about the significance of his Purple Heart. Anderson is originally from Sonoma County California. He […]
Late Freeport resident Bob Johnston served three tours of harrowing conflict in the Vietnam War, running supplies along the Cua Viet River at Dong Ha. He served four years in the Navy, 1965-68, basically living on the water while repelling ground attacks and artillery fire from the enemy. “He made
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Air Force Capt. Mark A. Peterson never came home from Vietnam.
Surely, he died there. But nobody was returned in a flag-draped coffin. Not even so much as a tooth or hair has been found. Nothing to prove the young pilot from North Canton was killed after he d parachuted from his aircraft, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam on Jan. 27, 1973.
On this Memorial Day, Peterson remains one of the Vietnam War s 1,584 U.S. service members still unaccounted for in Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. Officially, he is missing in action, though presumed dead.
Gone, but not forgotten.
At first, Peterson s parents kept his memory alive. That is, until his dad, Mauritz Pete Peterson died in 1991; his mom, Rosalie, followed in 2002. Then, the duty fell squarely in the lap of his sister, Tanalynne (Peterson) Sickafoose, who passed away at the age of 61 in 2006.