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Viewfinder: Enumclaw Area VFW Honor Guard Pays Respects to Pierce County Vets
Under a heavy snow storm Sunday, about a dozen members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1949 paid tribute to 51 veterans from Pierce County who have died in the last year and never received the honors they earned.
The wind and snow didn't deter them.Β
After all, the dozen or so veterans who came to the Purple Heart Monument in Enumclaw on Sunday to honor 51 Pierce County veterans who died in the past year but never received the honors they deserved, have been through much worse.
The ceremony was performed by the Honor Guart of Post 1949 in conjunction with the Washington Army National Guard and included a name ceremony, a gun salute and the sounding of Taps by a live bugler.Β
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On Sunday, the following veterans were honored:
William Warn Badgley Sr.
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John A. Baker Sr.
John Floyd Barlow
Donald Gene Berntsen
Charles Herbert Bowers
Rodney L. Brockley
Laura Anne Carlson
Gordon Laverne Christopherson
George Thomas Cochran
James E. Collins
John Charles Conn
Douglas Lee Converse
Donald Marcus Costlow
Miriam L. Cowan
Ray W. Criswell
William Robert Davies
Theon Ranlett Deckrow Jr.
Michael Leonard Dugger
Roy Donald Earl
Edward Charles Gates
Robert Herman Haag
Raymond H. Hansen
Kenneth Wayne Harkness
Jeffrey Carlyle Heineman
Theodore Hergert
Ronald William Hill
George Allen Hollingsworth
Robert A. Hokenson
Reuben Clarence Kanzler
Frank Edward Kimmerly
Russell Dale Kingston
Benjamin Tafalla Laurente Sr.
Herbert Arthur Leland
Robert Lloyd Malone
Donald Ray Morris
Tristan Scott Nerheim
Thomas William Osborn
John A. Petrich
Roy William Rauschert
Arther Richert
Paul David Shields
Kenneth H. Slaker
Carl Edward Stracener
Hugh Bennet Sweeney
Hubert Brixey Taylor
Dale Leland Thomas
Darrell Dale Thon
Neil Arthur Thornhill
Henry Eugene Vannini Jr.
Larry Keith Whalen
Lester Paul Wohlers
As there remain South Sound veterans who died before being able to receive their honors for serving, such ceremonies will be held on the fourth Sunday of each month, moving forward, at 1 p.m. at the Purple Heart Monument in Enumclaw.
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