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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.
The Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning encores a program about the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War.
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The Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning (HCLL) presents its final online program for the spring with an encore presentation of Wendell Affield’s “Muddy Jungle Rivers.”
Nominated in 2012 for the Minnesota Book Award, “Muddy Jungle Rivers” is a close-up look at life on a gunboat during 1968, the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War.
Bemidji author Affield reads and discusses excerpts from his account of frustration, rage, terror, death, betrayal and search for redemption.
In 2017, Affield wrote a blog about the events of March 14, 1968. According to the Bemidji Pioneer, the blog reached the sister of one of the men killed that day, and she contacted Affield. Kathleen Wiglesworth Perdue was 13 when her brother Ernest “Skip” Wiglesworth Jr. was killed, his boat hit by a mine on the Cua Viet
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