KEYNOTES: Family remembers Capt. Seth Michaud
Rosemary Rimkus
After many months of reconstruction of the ancient Houghton Street Bridge, it was dedicated to the memory of U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Seth Michaud, with ceremonies on the site on May 25, 2015. Michaud, a helicopter pilot, was killed in Africa during Operation Enduring Freedom on June 22, 2003. (In 2018, the Washington Street bridge was dedicated to the memory of Pfc. Kenneth M. Thibault, killed in Vietnam in 1969, which will be the subject of another story.) Michaud’s widow, Karen Michaud-Goldsmith, and young son, Ian, were among those at the dedication. Michaud, son of former Chestnut Street residents Fran and Karen Michaud, was an honor student in the Hudson High School class of 1994, where he played soccer for four years, an Eagle Scout and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1998. He was 27 years old when he was killed in a helicopter crash in 2003. His parents moved from Hudson eight years ago, and