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VETERANS DAYSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2012
A special publication of the Lynden Tribune and Ferndale Record
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
“HonoringAmerica’sHeroes”
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Injured in 2010 in Afghanistan, he will be inducted into a Michigan veterans' hall of fame By Calvin [email protected]
WHATCOM — A Lynden native who was injured in Afghanistan in 2010 will be induct-ed into a Michigan veterans’ hall of fame this Friday. Kirby Jones, a 1997 graduate of Lynden High School, attended Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., before signing up for the Army and doing four tours in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Jones, 33, is now back in Whatcom County and works selling real estate for Win-dermere. A captain at the time, Jones was in an in-fantry jeep that triggered an IED (improvised explosive device) in the Wardak Province of east-central Afghanistan on July 5, 2010. In the explosion, which killed two in the jeep, Jones sustained broken bones in his face and spine. He was airlifted to an Army hospital in Germany for surgery and recuperation, and
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Army Captain Kirby Jones walks on patrol in Afghanistan while serving there until his injury in July 2010. (File photo/Lynden Tribune)
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his family joined him there. For those injuries in enemy action, Jones received the Purple Heart. “I have recovered well from my wounds. I can walk and run and don’t experience too much pain,” he said last week. Kirby and his wife, Gina, have three sons ages 5, 3 and newborn. They moved back to Lynden last February.
Jones had just graduated from Hillsdale with a history major when he decided to join the Army because of family connections. Then the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 became an additional motivating factor as well.
He was awarded a Bronze Star with “V” for valor during a 2004 tour in Iraq. He was further recognized with Bronze Stars for combat service in Iraq in 2005 and Afghani-stan in 2010. He has also won two Meritori-ous Service Medals, three Army Commenda-tion Medals, the Army Achievement Medal and other decorations. Jones will be one of six soldiers inducted
this year into Michigan’s only Hall of Fame for veterans, both active-duty and reserve, said Roger Yoder, event organizer. In all since 2001, 72 veterans have been inducted. Yoder said Jones certainly met the medal requirements for the Hillsdale County Veter-ans Hall of Fame with his long list of com-mendation and distinctions earned in his nine years of military service.
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Herb Hatch, 90, comes from a family of military serviceWilliam Chambers, great-grandfather and Civil War veteran, buried in Lakeside CemeteryBy Calvin [email protected]
WHATCOM — Ninety-year-old Herb Hatch comes from a family tradition of military service. He himself was a supply clerk for the Army Air Corps during the final Allied push into Europe in World War II. He was in Lon-don at the launch of the D-Day invasion and in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-45. Hatch is quick to say that in his duties he did not directly see enemy action or get shot at, but he was very much engaged in the dynamic of the war as it played out. “When Germany surrendered, we were scheduled to go to the South Pacific. Mean-while, they dropped the bomb there (on Japan) and we didn’t have to go,” he said at his North Pass Road home last week. Hatch was born Feb. 9, 1922 at Nook-sack and attended the Clearbrook School for nine years before moving to Bellingham during high school. He signed up for the Army in October 1942. His two younger brothers also had stints in service, Kenneth with the Marines in the Philippines (but seeing no hostile ac-tion) and Leonard with the Army in field artillery during the Korean War. Their dad, Milton Hatch, was called upon to serve in World War I, and he was stationed in Cuba and on the U.S. East Coast, but did not get shipped to Europe, Herb said. Yet, among all that family military his-tory, it is piecing together the story of his
great-grandfather William Chambers that most captures Hatch’s interest as he sits at a table with a scrapbook full of family me-mentos. William Chambers is one of three Civil War veterans buried in rural Lakeside Cem-etery on Pangborn Road between Lynden and Sumas. William Chambers was 38 years old and already had a family when he signed up late in the Civil War, on Feb. 23, 1865, from Decatur Township in Ohio with Com-pany F of 189 Regiment of the Ohio Infantry Volunteers. He served for only seven months, dis-charged at Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 28, 1865. The documentation on Chambers picks up 22 years later, in 1887, when he filed for an invalid pension due to the ef-fects of malarial poisoning he suffered while in the Civil War. Chamber’s hand-written application says that he contracted fever and ague while stationed for four or five days on the Tennessee River in Alabama. He was treat-ed by a regiment physician at the time, but
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To the many men & women in our community who have served and are currently serving our country as
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To the many men & women in our community who have served and are currently serving our country as
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To the many men & women in our community who have served and are currently serving our country as
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his original ailment had continued to affect him, causing disease of the stomach and liver, deafness in his left ear and rheuma-tism, he wrote to the Bureau of Pensions. William’s wife, Nancy, died around 1889. In 1900 the 73-year-old Civil War vet-eran was still living in his native Ohio. But somewhere along the way, daughter Corde-lia, married to Edgar Hatch, had moved out with their family to the hamlet of Van Bu-ren in north Whatcom County, Washington. Her aging father followed. Herb Hatch believes that William Chambers lived there in his daughter’s Van Buren home the few years until his death on Feb. 14, 1907. Cordelia herself died just two years later.
Hundreds of Civil War veterans buried locally
It can be a stretch for the caretakers and commissioners of Whatcom County cemeteries to be sure of who in their burial midst is a Civil War veteran. “It’s really hard to confirm,” said Rod-eric Perry, a commissioner for Lakeside Cemetery on Pangborn Road. However, Washington GenWeb has done research to come up with what seems to be a fairly accurate listing of Civil War veterans who died or are buried in What-com County. The total comes to 520. The
information is available online at http://wagenweb.org/militaryrecords/civilwar-vets.htm. Tom Jones, a commissioner of the Nooksack Cemetery, said records of burials there from 1880 to 1970 were very sketchy, although information on veterans has been pieced together since. Still, by hearing the GenWeb list, Jones said he was gaining new names of Civil War veterans buried in Nooksack Cemetery — at least a dozen in all. Dick Decima, overseeing the Lynden and Greenwood (East Wiser Lake Road) sites of Cemetery District #10, has been ag-gressive in trying to update information in his eight years as commissioner. It turns out, according to records Dec-ima has assembled, that there are more Civil War veterans buried in the Lynden and Greenwood cemeteries (a total of 72) than of either World War I (56) or World War II (70) so far. The 1860-65 war between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South) is the earliest one to have had veterans interred in local cemeteries. The Civil War is espe-cially being observed at present as 150 years passes from the famous battles of Antietam, Shiloh, Bull Run and Gettysburg. The Grand Army of the Republic was the dominant Civil War veterans’ organiza-tion (Union side), and it was active in the Lynden area as well. Meetings of the G.A.R.
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Facing page: Herb Hatch likes to go through a scrapbook recording much of his family’s history, including military service. Above: Lynden cemetery district commissioner Richard Decima works to verify records of veterans buried locally.
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Lynch Post are noted in the first editions of the Lynden Pioneer Press newspaper in 1888. The fraternal organization was named after John Lynch, a veteran who died in 1884. L.D. Pangborn, first editor of the Press in Lynden, was also a Civil War veteran. Judging from some accounts, it seems that many veterans of the Civil War made their way west late in life, often following children, to end their days and be buried in a place far removed from where they had originally enlisted into service. Seriah Stevens, a Civil War veteran who died on Feb. 10, 1881, is the oldest con-firmed burial in Enterprise Cemetery on Vista Drive north of Ferndale. In all, about 25 Civil War veterans are buried there, said caretaker Dave Johnson. A few Confederate soldiers are in the mix, earning mention for their rarity. Dec-ima believes that some states, such as Ken-tucky, contributed units to both sides in the war. By far, most of the Civil War veteran burials in Whatcom County were in Bay
Continued from A1 View Cemetery of Bellingham. This is the tally of Civil War veterans buried in the cemeteries of north Whatcom County, according to GenWeb:Blaine — 39Woodlawn — 34Enterprise — 17Greenacres — 6Haynie — 3Lynden — 62Greenwood — 2Mountain View — 7Nooksack — 13Immanuel Lutheran — 1Ten Mile — 4Lakeside — 3Sumas — 8St. Peter’s — 1Masonic (Blaine) — 3Maple Falls — 1 (1920)Old Maple Falls — 1 (1908)Hillsdale (Blaine) — 3Saxon — 3Welcome — 1Lummi Tribal — 1Kendall — 3Mt. Hope (Deming) — 2
Civil War: Bay View Cemetary has many Civil War vets
Bellingham Veterans Day observance stays at 11 on the 11th BELLINGHAM — The annual Veterans Day celebration of Albert J. Hamilton Ameri-can Legion Post #7 takes place on Sunday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. in Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St. The keynote speaker will be Col. Herb Porter, assistant director of aerospace op-erations with the Washington Air National Guard. He and his family live in Whatcom County where he is a teacher at Ferndale High School. Vocalist Sonia Alexis, the Bellingham High School Alumni Band and the Belling-ham Pipe Band will bring music to the cere-mony, and the Albert J. Hamilton Post honor guard will also be involved. This year’s master of ceremonies will be new Post #7 Commander Rick Sucee. For more information, contact Sucee at 739-8880.
Musical Salute to Veterans Sunday afternoon at Mt. Baker Theatre BELLINGHAM — The eighth annual Musical Salute to Veterans takes place at
2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in the Mt. Baker Theatre. Tickets can be ordered at [email protected] or by calling 734-6080. Each year at Veterans Day, a group of lo-cal veterans is honored by songs and stories about their service. This year’s five honorees, selected based on their military and community service, are: Dick Stone (Army), Samantha Myers (Navy), John Burley (Merchant Marines), Alfred Shaulis (Air Force), Ray Manning Jr. (Marines) and George Drake (U.S. Army). This is the seventh year that Mark Kuntz, professor of theater arts at Western Wash-ington University, has directed this family event, which will also honor all veterans in the audience who have served during both war and peace time.
Merrill Gardens fetes veterans Saturday BELLINGHAM — Merrill Gardens is hosting its annual USO dinner around Veter-ans Day. The date is Saturday, Nov. 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Clearbrook Dixieland Band will play. Merrill Gardens is at 4415 Columbine Dr. in the Cordata neighborhood. To attend, call Ana at 715-8822 immedi-ately to make a reservation. The cost is $10. All proceeds benefit the USO. This event is held each year to support the active-duty troops and their families.
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Veterans Day rally continues for second yearRally starts in Lynden, ends in BellinghamBy Brent Lindquist [email protected]
LYNDEN — Jerns Funeral Chapel be-gan hosting its annual Veterans Day remem-brance rally just last year, kicking off the event in Ferndale. The event will again happen this year, with the rally route taking cars and motor-cycles from Lynden to Bellingham this time. “On Memorial Day, we don’t really have any services planned,” said Jerns Funeral Parlor's Brad Bytnar. “This is just the next best time, if you will.” The 2012 rally encourages car and mo-torcycle enthusiasts to gather for breakfast for one hour beginning at 10 a.m. on Mon-day, Nov. 12, at Fairway Café, 1726 Front St. in Lynden. The ride will kick off at 11 a.m. and will finish at Jerns Military Museum at 800 E. Sunset Dr. in Bellingham. A short memorial service will follow featuring a military honor guard at 1 p.m. The museum, which features metals, photo-graphs, uniforms and newspaper clippings from a variety of wars, will be open to the public before and after the service. Pastor
Reuben Sapien, a naval veteran of the Viet-nam War, will speak at the service. Sapien served from 1969 to 1971 in Vietnam. Bytnar asked him to speak last year, and he obliged again to do so this year. “It’ll be similar to last year,” Sapien said. “Obviously the whole idea of serving and serving our country, serving our values, and the fact that we as American benefit from that. Whether you believe in it or not, every-one benefits by people who served. I’m 62 years of age now, and when I went into the Army, I was 18, and so my whole perspective of life and what is really meaningful isn’t just pertaining to war. It’s pertaining to a per-son’s perspective and outlook on what life is about, and what life is for.” Sapien said he will touch on the notion of honoring everyone as “veterans of life,” in addition to honoring America’s men and women in uniform. “We want to honor those who wear the uniform and who are in harm’s way, and sup-port in every aspect those who have volun-teered and those who are called to serve. But it’s also the community and the society," he said. "We have the people back here who are building the planes and making the bullets and coming up with the technology.” For more information, call Jerns Funeral Chapel at 734-0070.
The rally will conclude at Jerns Military Museum, which features items from a variety of America's wars. (File photo/Lynden Tribune)
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