We have been learning about Mike Lamfers, who grew up east of Amiret and, after graduating from Tracy High School in 1965, served with the Marines in Vietnam. Mike deployed to Vietnam in October 1966, joining the Commo Platoon of 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment near the demilitarized zone ...
Memoir writing is something most people don’t think about, but maybe they should. It’s always surprised me that writing isn’t popular. I remember back in junior high when writing was sometimes used as a punishment. It was often effective because classmates didn’t like it. I’ve ...
While browsing through books at the Avera Thrift Store, I came across a book titled, “Growing Up In Minnesota: Ten Writers Remember Their Child- hoods”, edited by Chester G. Anderson, copyright 1976. On a blustery Minnesota day, I opened the book, and to my surprise, opposite the ...
This much is true. I hit a home run. For years, Kevin Sweeney, the retired editor of The New Ulm Journal, wrote up New Ulm’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. It was his way of poking fun at the dour Germans who surrounded him. Kevin reported on true events, like New Ulm’s few Irish ...
Whether they served in the jungles of Vietnam, the mountains of Afghanistan, or the sands of Iraq, when our veterans signed up to serve our country, there wasn’t a waiting line. When they return home from duty and need a job, education, housing, or health care, there should never be a waiting ...
In the coldest waters of spring, every bit of realism, enticement, and apparent edibility a lure can project is an advantage to anglers. That’s why, as the last few handfuls of lures come together on my vise ahead of the open water season, whisps of marabou pile up in drifts of red, white, ...