From my earliest days in the Navy, I learned that you don’t render a salute unless you are in uniform and covered (other services, please excuse my Navy focus). Covered means you are wearing your uniform hat. Since in the Navy we don’t wear our covers indoors (with a few limited exceptions), that means you […]
Ever since I was a little kid, the Fourth of July has been my favorite holiday. Every year, our family would go on a picnic with five couples my Mom and Dad graduated with from West Tech High School in Cleveland, Ohio. We’d go to a local park and cook out, my parents would always […]
Sergeant Dick Berg is the perfect veteran to lead off the Voices to Veterans Spotlight. Dick deployed to Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War in 1967. Here is Dick’s story. Dick is from Urbana, Illinois. He was drafted and entered the Army on April 20, 1966, and then spent the next eight weeks […]