SLEEPY EYE — Rick Mages comes from a family of military members, a tradition he and the family have continued for a long time. A number of people in his wife Jane’s family were also in the military. Rick and Jane’s three sons were all U.S. Marines. Two of them, Jory and Rob were ...
NEW ULM — Marv Nissel, a New Ulm-area musician and Minnesota Music Hall of Fame inductee, served in the United States Army from 1961 to 1963. He completed basic training at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “We’d be up at five every morning. You’d make your bed tight ...
NEW ULM -- Emil Rosenau’s tour of duty in the Vietnam War began in Swineford, Germany. After graduating from Hutchinson High School in 1965 and doing farm work in the area for a year, he and a friend decided to enlist in the armed forces. “I thought, ‘Well, what else is there to ...
NEW ULM -- Harold Lange joined the 101st Airborne Division, known as the “Screaming Eagles,” in 1958 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He said the decision wasn’t difficult. “When the 101st Airborne came by and they got done speaking--I heard another $69 a month jump pay-- and I said ...
NEW ULM — When Lawrence “Larry” Stueber received his draft notice in 1966, the 20-year-old New Ulm native was working as a paint salesman at Cook’s Paints. He didn’t know much about electricity, but the Army did. It needed generator repair specialists, and it trained him to become ...
NEW ULM — New Brown County Human Resources Housing Resource Specialist Mark Bullen served as a U.S. Army Sergeant in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007. On top of that, he previously worked for the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans, a state-wide, veterans homelessness agency. Born ...
