SPOKANE, Wash. – For the second straight year, the Washington State Fallen Heroes Project held a Memorial Day ‘Boots on the Ground’ tribute outside the Illuminating Courage Memorial behind the
Korean War memorial dedicated in Spokane
Ceremony held on 71st anniversary of U.S. joining conflict By Kip Hill, The Spokesman-Review
Published: June 28, 2021, 6:32pm
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Spokane Temperatures near the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena climbed to near 100 on Sunday afternoon, but you couldn’t get 93-year-old Dick Kirkendall to take off his sweatshirt.
“This sweatshirt was a Father’s Day present from my two daughters,” a beaming Kirkendall told a group of visitors to Sunday’s dedication of a Korean War memorial in Spokane.
Screen-printed on the front was an image of the USS Southerland, where Kirkendall was stationed during the war that America entered 71 years ago Sunday. The six-year effort to get a monument to what is often referred to as America’s Forgotten War culminated in the dedication, attended by Kirkendall and fellow Korean War veteran Tom Carter, an Army sergeant who fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
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As the U.S. tries to wind down two decades of war in Afghanistan, the conflict has already left lasting marks on Spokane By Orion Donovan-Smith, The Spokesman-Review
Published: January 10, 2021, 10:00am
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SPOKANE It was getting close to Christmas 2001 when 33-year-old Air Force Capt. Brian Newberry got a call at Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina.
At first it seemed like a normal call. The United States and its allies had invaded Afghanistan two months earlier in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and C-17 Globemaster pilots like Newberry, who would go on to become commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, were flying regular airlift missions to support combat operations in the Central Asian country.