Last week, LZ LAKEHAWK readers and listeners got to better know the official chopper pilot of our muddy boots, vet-saluting weekly endeavor: Marine Maj. Buzzard Miller.
We ran out of ink before we could cite his family s military heritage, which included his uncle Dan Karales, who fought with the Army in the European Theater during World War II while another uncle, Marine Herbert Light, jumped with the lst Parachute Battalion in the Pacific.
Buzzard s mom, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Patricia Anne Miller; and his father, Staff Sgt. Harry Alvin Miller, Jr., an anti-aircraft artilleryman who assured his son that his Dad s unit valiantly defended Detroit from the North Koreans.