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'He should not have died in that war'

Ray Bostick: a legend in life and in death

Chris Lamphere
Cadillac News
CADILLAC — It's no mystery why murals of
Ray E. Bostick adorn the walls of both the
Cadillac American Legion and Wexford
County Courthouse.
As someone who died in service to his
country during World War I, the end of
Ray's life automatically qualified him as
a patriot and American hero ... it was the
contents of rest of his life, however, that
cemented his role as a figure of historical
significance in this region.
Born in 1890, Ray was the son of longtime
Manton druggist Charles Bostick, whose
name remains on the drug store in Manton
that still does business to this day, albeit
now under different ownership.
According to Cadillac News articles from
the time, in January 1914, Ray opened a law
office in the Sawyer block of the city of Ca-
dillac after graduating from the law depart-
ment of the University of Michigan. Prior
to his relocation to Cadilac, Ray practiced
law in Chicago.
During his years practicing law in Cadil-
lac, Ray undertook a number of cases that
drew the attention of the local press.
In June 1914, Ray secured a postponement
in the trial of Mrs. Edna Murray, who was
accused of taking a “shirt waist, an old tie
or two and some other apparel and using
same for pillow padding.” Murray refuted Courtesy Photos
the charges and alleged “spite work" on the Clockwise from
part of her mother-in-law, who preferred top left: Following
the charge. his death, Ray’s
A year later, Ray received written com- mother traveled
plaints from Boon and Slagle townships to to France to visit
the effect that amateur veterinarians were her son’s grave.
practicing the profession in that section Pictured is the boat
without licenses. Ray began an investiga- that transported
tion of the alleged violations of state law. her to France.
It was Ray's decision in April 1917, how- Shown is Ray
ever, that drew the most public attention. Bostick after grad-
"Despite his rapidly increasing law busi- uation from col-
ness here, he would leave the work in the lege in 1910. Ray's
hands of an assistant and on May 9 would mother, Emma
enter the service of the United States cav- (nee Harger), sent
alry as a private," reads a Cadillac News her son roses in
article from the time. "He had just enlisted the mail during
through the army recruiting office in this his deployment;
city. He heard the call of his country and sadly, they were
was making as great a sacrifice as any oth- returned, having
er unmarried man in Cadillac could make." not been success-
See Legend on Page 2 fully delivered.

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Legend
Continued from Page 1
Ray was the first man from
Cadillac to answer the call for
officer candidates and received
his commission from the first
officers camp at Fort Sheridan
and was later assigned to Co. H,
126 Inf., 32nd Div.
Ray’s decision to enlist
brought with it substantial fan-
fare, as the community gathered
to bid him farewell.
In May 1917, the Cadillac Odd
Fellows hosted a reception in
honor of Ray, during which he
gave the closing talk of the eve-
ning and “expressed his great
appreciation of the honor that
had been given him through the
action of his fraternal brothers
and for the many expressions
of kindliness and good will.” A
month later, all volleyball play-
ers in Cadillac gathered at the
YMCA in honor of Ray. “Bostick
is an enthusiastic volleyball
player and has taken part in
many contests for the locals,”
the Cadillac News reported.
Following Ray’s departure for
Europe, few details from the bat-
tlefront reached the residents
of Northern Michigan for some
time ... after all, this was a time
when the primary form of com-
munication between people was
through written letters.
Ray’s mother, Emma (nee
Harger), sent her son roses in
the mail during his deployment;
sadly, they were returned, hav-
ing not been successfully deliv-
ered.
Finally, on Aug. 28, 1918, news
about Ray reached Cadillac ...
unfortunately, it was bad news.
“Another name has been
added to the list of Wexford
County’s heroic dead, through
the ‘death in action’ of Lt. Ray
Bostick,” the Cadillac News
reported. “A telegram was re-
ceived by C.H. Bostick yesterday
evening stating that his son has
been killed in action on the first
of August. No further details
of the sad incident are yet at
hand.”
Details eventually did emerge
regarding Ray’s death, in the
form of a letter written to his
father by a former classmate,
Lt. Albers, of Grand Haven, who
was with the 126th the first half
of August, participating in the
fighting eight days after Ray
was killed.
Albers said that Ray was
killed in battle at Chateau Thi-
erry by a machine gun bullet
hitting him in the side of the
head: death following instantly.
The officer spoke of him as a
“splendid fellow, well-liked by
officers and men.” He was bur-
ied with military honors near
Chateau Thierry.
Albers paid tribute to his
fallen classmate as follows: “He
unhesitatingly answered the
call of his country. He was fear- Courtesy Photo
less and true, loyal to his friends Following his death, Ray's mother trav-
and to his country, and typical eled to France to visit her son's grave.
of that unconquerable spirit of
America, which has dedicated
itself to the great task of mak- cluded. He was one of the few
ing the world a safe place for men who thought (the) United
mankind to live and work in States would send men over-
peace.” seas, he was a very popular of-
Before news of Ray’s death ficial and one of the best known
reached Wexford County, he had young men in the county.”
already been nominated as the In the Wexford County Court-
incumbent candidate for pros- house, a portrait of Ray can be
ecuting attorney in the upcom- seen on the first floor, near the
ing August primary election. entrance, where a number of Chris Lamphere | Cadillac News
William H. Yearnd was later memorials hang in honor of fel- In October 1919, the Ray E. Bostick Post. No. 94, American Legion,
selected for the Republican after low Wexford County veterans was presented with an enlarged framed picture of Lt. Ray Bostick
news arrived of Ray’s untimely who died serving their country. by his father, Charles H. Bostick, of Manton. Holding the picture is
death. Current Wexford County Pros- former American Legion commander Jay Richley.
This year marked the 100th ecutor Jason Elmore has more
anniversary of the Cadillac in common with Ray than just friends, but also serves around very much about Ray growing
American Legion naming their the prosecutor’s title: Elmore the world in support of others. up, other than he was very intel-
post after Ray. also is a veteran, currently serv- While I obviously never met ligent and very nice. Apparently,
“The question of a name for ing as a lieutenant colonel and Ray, now being the Wexford he also was engaged at the time
the local post was the first mat- a military judge with the 1st US County Prosecutor and a mem- of his death, although she didn’t
ter of business taken up and it Army Judicial Circuit at Fort ber of the Army, I feel some re- know his fiancee’s name.
was unanimously decided to Campbell, Kentucky. lationship.” Like Janice, Jean Lovin said
name the post after the late Ray “Attorneys become prosecu- Some of Ray’s family mem- she heard few mentions of Ray
E. Bostick, former prosecutor, tors because we are driven to bers still live in the area, includ- growing up, but what she did
who was killed in action on the public service,” Elmore said. ing Janice Wilcox, whose father, hear had the tenor of melan-
western front about a year ago,” “I am also very proud to be a Gerald, was Ray’s youngest choly pride.
the Cadillac News reported on veteran and service member. It brother; and Jean Lovin, whose “He was a great loss to the
Aug. 26, 1919. “No more appro- is truly a band of brothers and grandfather, Rex, was another community,” Lovin said. “He
priate name could have been sisters that not only fights our one of Ray’s brothers. should not have died in that war.
selected for the post, it was con- nation’s wars and protects our Janice said she didn’t hear He should have come home.”

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analyst sworn to secrecy for
By Mardi Suhs
Cadillac News
intelligence analyst. Working
with a Chinese and South Korean
50 years
interpreter, Harig's team would
CADILLAC — Maynard Harig, a re- intercept radio messages on the Mardi Suhs | Cadillac News
tired business owner, never men- front lines in Korea. For the first time,
tioned the Korean War to his five "We would be in a bunker," he Korean War vet-
children or his co-workers. When said. "The fellas go out on pa- eran Maynard
he left the service, he was told not trol. If they were spotted by the Harig discussed
to talk about it for 50 years. enemy we could let them know his service, which
But Harig is 87 now and he's because we got the messages that included meeting
free to talk about his work in went to the artillery. So they'd Marilyn Monroe
Courtesy Photo military intelligence. have a few minutes to get out of when she enter-
Maynard Harig met Marilyn Monroe and took many pictures of her when she visited the Harig was trained in code there." tained the troops
troops in Korea in 1954. breaking and later became an See Analyst on Page 4 in 1954.

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Analyst
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Later he was sent back
a mile from the front to
"break messages" with a
mobile unit housed in 32
trucks. Harig was then
promoted to head up the
analysis department
"We had 380 guys in our
company," he added. "No
one from the outside could
come in. It was that secret
... If you broke the code of
a country, and we did, you
are sworn to secrecy. Leak-
ing classified information
meant a trip to Leaven-
worth."
Harig's job included trav-
eling to Seoul and Tokyo
with armed guards to brief
officers.
When he had served his
time in Korea he was sent
to Arlington, Virginia.
"Nobody knew I hadn't
been to college," he said.
"Everyone I worked with
was drafted from college,
pre-med and pre-dentistry."
Harig was recruited into
army intelligence after
passing three days of ex-
ams, bypassing the college
requirements.
"I thought it was really
something when I was pro-
moted to head of analysis,"
he said. "At Arlington, I
was assigned to classify all
material that would go to
the Pentagon and then to
the president.
A secret revealed
Now that his 50 years of
silence has expired, Harig
is still cautious.
But since the U.S. Air
Force recently declassi-
fied documents relating to
Unidentified Flying Ob-
jects, he gave up one of his
secrets.
"When I was in D.C., the
UFO stuff was coming over
my desk," he said. "They
didn't want any of that
out. But when the military
would get a new aircraft,
they would go up and take Mardi Suhs | Cadillac News and Courtesy
pictures of it in the air," Joanne and Maynard Harig look through Maynard's photo album
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three times before we got Harig when he was stationed in Korea during the Korean War. He
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Harig revealed some
of the grizzly sights and
losses of war but focused
more on some of the she-
nanigans, like "having" to
steal a jeep from a MASH
unit and Marilyn Monroe's
visit to entertain the troops
in February 1954, where
he spoke with her and got
pictures.
"Most guys will tell you
that they want to forget the
war," he said. "You don't
want to bring these memo-
ries home. I feel fortunate
that I got to serve in intel-
ligence."
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Harig have been married
64 years and have five chil-
dren and 37 grandchildren.
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Mardi Suhs
Cadillac News
CADILLAC — The first floor of the
American Legion is huge. On a recent
night the bar side was packed with
veterans, their wives and friends.
The din of conversation was warm
and welcoming.
On the south side of the room,
where the walls are lined with histor-
ic military photos and memorabilia,
a quiet group was gathered around
an easel.
Veterans were bent closely toward a
rare print of a renown military paint-
ing on display titled "God Loves the
Grunt," donated to Post 94 by Marine
Corps veteran Jack Duncan and his
wife Ronnie.
The Duncans used to own a restau-
rant in Marion dedicated to honoring
veterans and they received the print
from an anonymous customer, also a
veteran.
donated to the American Legion
"Everybody needs to see this," said
Duncan. "I can't think of a better
place for it to be."
The painting will be hung near the
front door. It is said that the print
hangs on the walls of famous gener-
als and was displayed in the home of
Bob Hope and Tom Selleck.
History of the art
There were only 1,300 prints made
of the painting by George L. Sky-
peck, III, a combat-wounded, highly
decorated disabled Vietnam veteran,
one of America's "most prominent
military-historical commemorative
artists."
The artist's goal was to create a
piece that would reunite Vietnam vet-
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9-feet wide. As Skypeck displayed it
around the country, veterans signed
their names on it.
And that's the draw, the fascina-
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"I'm kind of awed by this," locations and years. Mardi Suhs | Cadillac News
said Vietnam veteran "This is dedicated to the Vietnam Jack Duncan, left,
Larry Bergen as he bent veterans who accepted this painting discussed the print he
close to read the names. "I for the post," said Vietnam veteran donated to the Cadillac
see names here from the Jay Richley, who had the valuable American Legion with
same era. I can see their print framed with the help of Gregg Vietnam veterans Jay
units." Carner at Brinks Custom Framing. Richley, right, and
Another Vietnam vet- "Now it's here for anybody in Cadillac Rocky Jones.
eran, Harold “Pete” Barton to come in and see during our busi-
was also leaning in close as he ness hours."

Mardi Suhs | Cadillac News

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ies a print of a famous painting titled "God
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'I can't even

watch D-Day
on TV'

WWII vet John Hoblit reflects on his life

By Karen Hopper Usher
Cadillac News
MCBAIN — Sometimes he
wakes up thinking about the
invasion.
Sometimes, he wakes up
thinking about Bobbie.
John Hoblit is 93. But it's
three days when he was just
18 that provide the headline,
the reason local reporters
keep wanting to talk to him:
he was at Normandy during
World War II.
Hoblit, as a navy man,
wasn't supposed to storm a
beach. He was giving a ride
to the soldiers that would.
All the same, Hoblit got hurt
and wound up on the beach
anyway with a "(heck) of a
concussion."
Hoblit, a gunner's mate, was
peering into the sea, looking
for hazards.
He found one.
He spotted a landing craft
mechanism, an LCM, and
shouted a warning, but it was
too late. His boat and the LCM
collided, and Hoblit flew up
in the air, landing on his back
and head. Then a ramp hit
him on his knee.
"I don't know how I got up
on the beach. I didn't wake up
until the next day, in the after-
noon," Hoblit recalled. "My
head was bandaged. My knee
was bandaged."
A crew came and put him in
the hospital and then eventu-
ally put him back on the ship.
Two friends died during the
invasion.
"Some things, I won't — I
don't want to break down. I
do that enough with Bobbie,"
Hoblit said, referring to his
second wife of 29 years, who
died in 2016 and is constantly
on his mind. "I can't even
watch D-Day on TV."
For months after the head
injury, he doesn't have any
memories of what he did on
the ship.
"It was in October (Naval
records indicate it was prob-
ably November 1944), it came
over the PA system," Hoblit
said. "It said, 'Batten down all
hatches. Gripe down all boats.
We're going home.'"
The Lizzie was headed back
to the United States and was
switching to the Pacific front.
The war still had several
months before it would be
over in Europe and another
10 months before it would be
over in Asia, but for Hoblit
the war was drawing to a
close.
Unbeknownst to him,
Hoblit's mother had been
writing letters to the Red
Cross.
In a parallel to the Niland
brothers situation, on which
the 1998 film "Saving Private Karen Hopper Usher | Cadillac News
Ryan" was based, one of John Hoblit, 93, of McBain, looks at his WWII medals. Above, John Hoblit,
Hoblit's brothers had already right, and his son George, in their service portraits. George was a Marine
been killed in the war. Anoth- in Vietnam who later died due to Agent Orange. John served in WWII.
er was missing and was later
discovered to have been a database says Donald Hoblit, Hoblit's mother was des-
prisoner of war (POW records John's brother, was held in a perate to save John. She pre-
are some of the few digitized German POW camp known as vailed.
by the National Archives; the Stalag 4B). See WWII on Page 7

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From Cadillac to Normandy:

By Rick Charmoli
Cadillac News
CADILLAC — Jack Baird died on
May 25, 2018, but his story will
live on forever in history.
Like many men of his genera-
tion, Baird left his hometown of
Cadillac as a new high school
graduate to join the fight in
World War II. The year was 1943.
Baird was born and raised in
Cadillac. He grew up here. He
graduated high school here. He
worked here. He stayed here and
eventually started a family here.
On Oct. 12, 2017 the then
92-year-old reflected on his ser-
vice in the war that included
storming the beaches of Nor-
mandy on June 6, 1944. That
story was recorded as part of
the Veterans History Project
through the Library of Con-
gress. The United States Con-
gress created the Veterans His-
tory Project in 2000.
The Veterans History Project
of the American Folklife Center
collects, preserves, and makes
accessible the personal accounts
of American war veterans so
that future generations may hear
directly from veterans and bet-
ter understand the realities of
war. Veterans' stories can be told
through personal narratives,
such as audio and videotaped in-
terviews or written memoirs.
A veteran's story also can be
relayed via correspondence in-
cluding letters, postcards, email
and personal diaries.
Finally, a veteran's story can be
told with visual materials that
include photographs, drawings
and scrapbooks. The project in-
cludes first-hand accounts of vet-
erans from the following wars: was proud to give the interview Despite the terrors and trag-
World War I, World War II, the and felt honored to be a part of edies of war, Taylor said he
Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam the project. was always impressed with
War, the American invasion of That openness to talk about his his uncle's sense of humor. He
Grenada, the American invasion time in the army wasn't some- remembered one June on the
of Panama, Operation Restore thing that Baird always was will- anniversary of D-Day when he
Hope, Persian Gulf War, the ing to discuss, according to Taylor. asked his uncle if he was having
United Nations Operations in He said his uncle talked about his a better day than he was in 1944.
Somalia, the American interven- training in England but he never His reply made him laugh then
tion of Haiti, Operation Allied talked about his war experiences. and when he recently recalled
Force, Peacekeeping forces in That changed one Thanksgiv- the memory.
Bosnia and Hercegovina, Opera- ing when Taylor's son and his "I asked, 'Uncle Jack, you hav-
tion Joint Guardian, the War on son-in-law returned to the states ing a better day than you were
Terrorism, the Afghan War and after a tour of duty in Iraq. (in 1944)?' He said he was gar-
the Iraq War. During the holiday, he said he dening in France that day ref-
opened up about his experiences erencing having to dig fox holes
and the three veterans compared on the beach after they landed,"
A PROUD FAMILY what they went through. Taylor said. "He was very proud
Baird's nephew John Taylor "It was about 12 or 13 years of his service. He was honored
said the Veterans History Project ago. (His son and son-in-law) with the recognition of having
was a neat thing but he can't say were both deployed to Iraq and the (Veterans History Project)
how his uncle's interview turned in Baghdad," Taylor said. "After interview."
out because he has not seen it. that, he was much more willing See History on page 8
He did know, however, that Baird to talk about his experiences."

Cadillac WWII vet's story to live on in history

WWII
Continued from Page 6

\He was in Pearl Harbor

when he got the instruction
to take his gear to the pier,
where he met a guy with a
clipboard.
“He said, ‘Do you know
where you’re going?’” Hoblit
said. “I said, ‘Out to sea?’”
But it was shore duty in Co-
lumbus, Ohio, 90-miles from
his Greenville, Ohio home.
“’I wrote a lot of letters,’”
his mother told him.
It was a bit of a habit of
hers, writing letters—she
wrote one that resulted in a
break-up with his first love,
who he dated before the war.
During the invasion, Hoblit
talked briefly with a soldier
from Decatur, Michigan, who
was about to storm the beach.
That was where the girl was
from, so he made an impres-
sion.
He found out later that the
soldier had died, and the girl,
though they’d broken up, had
a request for him after the
war.
“’When you come up, I want
to take you over to his moth-
er,’” she told him.
“I mean, what are you go-
ing to tell them?” Hoblit said.
“They was asking all kinds
of questions. I said, ‘Yeah, he
was in good spirits.’”
After the war, Hoblit mar-
ried, had four sons, and trav-
eled the country in a tractor-
trailer.
Once, he found himself in
Buffalo, and remembered
something that had happened
during the war.
“I used to sing a song
called ‘Brown Eyes,’” Hoblit
recalled. “We was on maneu-
vers, there, in Africa. I was
sitting back there and I kept
singing that ‘Brown Eyes.’”
Another sailor told him,
“You sing that song one more
time and your (butt) is going
over the side.”
Hoblit, who decades later
would refer to his wife, Bob-
bie, as, “Brown Eyes,”
couldn’t resist.
“So I started singing, and
he come back here and he
jerked me out of my gun and
he threw me in the Mediter-
ranean,” Hoblit said with a
chuckle. “It was all fun, you
know. I still sang it.”
He looked up the fellow
sailor from a phone booth
in Buffalo years later. When
the friend came to the phone,
Hoblit started singing.
“He said, “Where in the
(heck) are you at?’” Hoblit
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Sailors on the USS Elizabeth Stanton
put together a book of where they'd
been during WWII. John Hoblit
shows off a cane he received for a
2015 Honor Flight. John Hoblit dis-
plays his WWII medals.
laughed.
Hoblit says he is proud of
his service.
“You know what I think? Ev-
eryone who was in the service
should wear a hat, wherever
they was,” Hoblit said, gestur-
ing to his own WWII hat.

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Continued from Page 7
Baird’s son Rick had a similar
humorous anecdote about his
father. Rick said his father and
mother went to Europe later in
life. He said his father told him
jokingly he was going to see Eu-
rope this time standing up and
not on his belly.
As for his father being able
to share his story, Rick said he
didn’t find out about that until
after his death. While he talked
with his father weekly, living in
Arizona, he wasn’t totally up to
speed with the daily activities of
his father.
“My sister called me a number
of weeks ago and told me. That
was first I had ever heard (about
his father’s participation in the
Veterans History Project),” he
said.
Growing up in Cadillac, Rick
said his father never talked much
about his experience in the war.
He either would change the sub-
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tary life. As soon as his training
in Florida was complete, he was
sent overseas to England. After
a quick trip to New York, Baird
said he was placed on a transport
and started the boat ride over to
Europe.
“At that point, I was young and
it sounded like an experience,” he
said. “I found out very soon that
it wasn’t funny. The first night
in England, we had an air raid
all night. I found out right quick
what war was all about.”
Baird said on the trip across
the pond, none of the men on the
ship with him knew what was go-
ing to happen to them. He added
that the people he was with on
the ship were “a nice bunch of
guys.” He also said he was going
to Europe as a replacement be-
cause the division he was going
to had just returned from the
it. Once he did start talking, Rick African campaign.
said he could tell his time in the At the time, Baird said he
army was something that he didn’t know he was going to be
didn’t look back on fondly but he part of the historic Normandy
was proud to have served. invasion.
Once he made it to England,
Baird said he was engaged in
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Baird said he left Cadillac in sion and then was sent to France
September 1943 for training in across the English Channel.
Florida after he was drafted. He “We did all of our training,
said he originally tried to enlist where they thought we were
in the Air Force but they were going to land, all the things we
not taking anyone. Instead, he needed to know about the land-
was drafted into the Army, and he ing and what our responsibilities
would serve in the infantry. Once were,” he said. “We had a lot of
in Florida, Baird said there was training and we had a number of
lots of combat training and were landing practices.”
lots of drills. During that time, Baird said
“Most of my training was to go morale of the men was good, but
out and scout the area and decide he added: “We didn’t know what
whether to move troops,” he said. we were getting into.”
“Other than that, I was in the When writing to his family
regular infantry.” back in Cadillac, Baird said he
During his time in Florida, indicated to them that things
Baird said the military life suited were great. Baird also said he
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Courtesy photos
Jack Baird was born
and raised in Cadillac,
but in 1943, as a new
high school graduate
and 18-year-old, he left
Cadillac to join the fight
in World War II. On Oct.
12, 2017 the 92-year-old
reflected on his service
in the war that included
storming the beaches
of Normandy on June 6,
1944. He passed away
roughly six months later
but his story is now pre-
served in history.
infantry soldiers were headed or from the enemy, but he said he
into. was a mess after he got hit. The
Baird was part of the second shrapnel hit the entire right side
wave on Omaha Beach. While of his body and his head.
he had seen war depicted in the He first went to a division hos-
movies, he said you kind of forget pital then to another hospital in
people get killed in battle. That re- Paris. From Paris, Baird said he
ality of war, however, didn’t take went to England and he stayed
long to be realized on June 6, 1944. there for three or four months
Once the gate dropped on his before he was put on a transport
transport to the beach, he exited back to the United States. It took
and with his pack swam to shore. awhile but he was able to regain
What he saw once on shore was use of his arm and leg on his
something he hasn’t forgotten. right side.
“When I did get to shore we had When he returned to the
a British outfit ahead of us and United States, Baird said he was
they were laying all over the with a number of other injured
place — we had a lot of casual- soldiers and it was a difficult
ties,” he said. “You had to find a adjustment returning to civilian
hole to get in. It was different. It life.
was more than I had expected.” “People wanted to know what
He also said there was lots of
noise. He said there were battle-
ships behind them firing on the
war was about I guess,” he said.
“It is hard to tell. It is a mess.
Back then I didn’t want to talk
beach as well as German fire. about it. They had a party at the
He added there were many ex- American Legion when I came
plosions. Baird said he doesn’t back. There were too many ques-
remember a lot about what he tions, I guess, and I couldn’t stay
did on that day other than he fol- at the party. I got lots of help
lowed orders. when I got back, so that was
What he could remember was good.”
the terrible feeling of seeing all While Baird said he never had
the bodies on the beach of either any contact with men he fought
wounded or dead men who had and served with after the war,
landed before him. he did return to France and the
“We lost a bunch — an awful site of the invasion. He said he
lot,” he said. “When we got a and his wife returned together
break, we filled up the units again and it was much different than
so I had to make all new friends. I he remembered it. The trip to
remember how afraid I was.” Europe also included some time
From Normandy, Baird said in England.
the invasion kept going, and just “It helped,” Baird said of put-
as the Allies were getting ready ting that time of his life to rest.
to invade Germany, his fighting While the Normandy invasion
in the war ended. As part of his occurred more than 70 years ago,
duties, he did intelligence and Baird said there are still lessons
reconnaissance missions. He to be learned by this generation
was on a patrol looking for a good when looking back this Veterans
route to get through to Germany Day.
when he was injured. “I think they should be ap-
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a shell of some kind, and he on the beach over there when we
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A Korean War vet remembers his
early days, coming home from Korea
By Victoria Martin camp graduates received assign-
Cadillac NEws ments in New York or got to be
stationed on a ship.
EVART — Though labeled as the “I never was on a ship during
Forgotten War, Leeland Wilson, my time in the Navy,” he said.
87, said the Korean war was He would be positioned at
something he and those who his dental assignment for a few
were still around will never months until one barbershop
forget. trip that would send him to an-
“It seems like we are getting other round of boot camp and,
to be fewer and fewer,” he said. eventually, Korea.
“The guys I served with, a lot On one of his days off from
of them are long gone. That just filing paperwork on dental
seems to be the case more and work, Wilson overheard a
more as time goes by. One thing young sailor who had just
I know for sure, the ones that signed the dotted line to be-
are still with us will never for- come a Marine and how the
get the Korean war.” branch was looking for recruits
Wilson joined the military in to be shipped out overseas.
February 1948. He said he would A few days after hearing
never forget the day. about the Marines needing
“Me and three or four other men, Wilson went over the post
guys hopped in my 1928 Model-A exchange at the base to talk
Ford up to Cadillac from Evart with a staff sergeant about
to sign up for the Navy,” he said. where he could sign up. strength and numbers and
“It was a whole ordeal. We had “I heard that I would be going direct fire on their location.
to miss school so we had to get to ‘Sunny California’, that’s “I was in Korea from 1951
notes signed by our teachers what he said to me, and I was to 1953, almost right up
and parents just to be able to sold right there,” Wilson said. to the end of the war,” he
sign up.” “I didn’t know I would have to said. “It was a tough two
And it wasn’t the training go through boot camp again. I years. It was a terrible ex-
Wilson looked the least forward went through boot camp twice perience.”
to, it was knowing he would be before even going to Korea.” But, in dealing with the
stationed at the Great Lakes When asked if he would have “bone-chilling cold” of Photos: Victoria Martin | Cadillac News
Naval Training Base and that still gone into the Marines Korea, airs trikes and be- From left: A picture of Leeland Wilson outside
meant being close to the big city knowing he would have to go ing shot at by snipers while his Evart home in his Navy uniform,with a
of Chicago. through boot camp again, Wil- trying to check on a fellow picture of Wilson in the new Evart VFW uniform sit side-by-side. Leeland Wilson
“I like being out here in Ev- son laughed. soldier, Wilson said it was the marching in his uniform after joining the Marines between 1950 and 1951.
art,” he said. “People were not “No, no I don’t think I would people he would always remem- Wilson poses for a photo with a military police helmet taken during his time in
meant to be that close to each have,” he said. “Or, I would ber the most. Korea between 1951 and 1953.
other. No, I did not like the big have at least thought about it a “They were all good men and
city.” lot harder.” soldiers,” he said. “Over the he said. “Finally being home, it fuzzy.”
In the Summer of 1950, just as After going through boot years I have tried to keep in felt like a dream.” Though not his first book on
the Korean War was starting, camp for the second time in contact with some or even track More than 60 years after set- the topic of war, “Korea The
Wilson was shipped off to boot his military career, Wilson was down the many I have forgotten ting foot back on American soil, Forgotten War” is different as
camp for the Navy Reserves. shipped out to Korea where he over the years.” Wilson decided it was time to it focuses solely on the Korean
Where he would be assigned to served with the Fourth Squad, After serving, Wilson said get his story on paper. War and Wilson’s experience.
be a Dental Corpsman. Third Platoon, Reconnais- there was nothing like coming “I started this project years “Not many people want to
“I heard all of these interest- sance Company, First Marine home. before I even thought about pub- share their stories,” Wilson’s
ing assignments being given Division. Wilson’s occupation “When we finally saw the lishing a book on it,” he said. wife, Jean Wilson, said. “So him
out, and I got assigned to go A world’s
specialty was first: Clinically
reconnaissance Golden Gate Bridge, and you “Now my mind forgets details wanting to share his in a book is
across the street and be a Dental ground to ground and ground saw a blimp in the sky with a and dates but I started writing something special.”
Corpsman,” he said.
proven better than normal
to air and his job was to lo- huge ‘Welcome Home’ on it, well this stuff down when the details “I just thought it was a story
Some of Wilson’s fellow boot hearing
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