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A Poulsbo veteran of four wars is fulfilling his last wish of seeing the nation’s war memorials in Washington, D.C., cour-tesy of the Honor Flight Network and his wife’s gumption.

About 20 months ago, Mary Waller was — as her husband Jim puts it — “poking around” in Jim’s mail and came across an application from Honor Flight Network, a non-profit organization that pays the travel costs of veterans — particularly veterans of World War II and terminally ill veter-ans — so they can visit the memorials in Washington, D.C.

Going to see the memorials in “the other Washington” had been on Jim’s bucket list for years. So unbeknownst to her husband, she filled in the application and mailed it.

About three months ago, Mrs. Waller received a call that her application was accepted and the Honor Flight Network would pay for her husband’s trip.

“It knocked the socks off of me. I was really sur-prised,” Jim said.

But he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibro-

sis and has become a Hospice

patient. His reaction to the Washington, D.C., trip: “I can’t go.”

Hospice of Kitsap County worked with Bellevue Home Medical Equipment to ensure oxy-gen canisters would be available for Waller on the trip. His neighbor, a fel-low Vietnam War veteran, signed up to accompany him. Mary’s family made plans to visit and keep her company while her hus-band makes the trip.

Waller made the trip in June.

“I can’t thank these peo-ple enough for all they’re doing. A nice hotel, meals, and we’re not paying a cent,” he said.

Waller, 86, is a native of Dixon, Ill.; he remembers, as a boy swimming on the Rock River, a lifeguard there by the name of Ronald Reagan.

Parentless at 16, he quit school and headed to Los Angeles to work. Unable to find a job, he enlisted in the Navy after paying someone $5 to sign papers certifying he was 17. After boot camp in San Diego, he was stationed aboard the USS Firedrake (AE-14), an ammunition ship that

replenished carriers off Okinawa.

He was a 40mm gun pointer on the USS Louisville (CA-28), a heavy cruiser, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf Oct. 23-26, 1944, and Iwo Jima, Feb. 19-March 26, 1945. He served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) when it was hit by kamikazes forward and aft and a bomb amid-ship during the invasion of Okinawa May 11, 1945. After the war, he served on occupation duty in Japan.

During the Korean War, he served on the USS Bairoko (CVE-115), pro-viding close air support for the Army and Marines. That’s when he studied for and received a rate change from boatswain’s mate to air controlman.

During the Vietnam War, he served aboard the USS Vega (AF-59), which carried stores, refrigerated items and

equipment to ships in the f leet. According to online histories, the ship earned numerous battle stars and commendations for service during the Vietnam War, though Waller points out he never saw combat.

Petty Officer Waller retired from the Navy in 1965. In the ensuing years, he worked as a warehouse-man in San Leandro, Calif., a train brakeman at the Bangor Navy base, a ship painter at the Bremerton Navy yard, and as a cook aboard fishing vessels.

During the Gulf War in 1990-91, he worked as a civilian cook on the USNS Kawishiwi (T-AO-146), an oiler assigned to the Military Sealift Command. “Jim is the epitome of the ‘salty sailor,’ which is an old nautical term referring to a sailor who is experienced and thus encrusted with salt,” said Jen Cleverdon, Hospice development officer.

“While Jim may not be literally ‘salty,’ although is language is, he is certainly experienced having served in four wars,” Cleverdon said.

The Wallers met in 1983, the result of a blind date, and it’s the third marriage for both. He describes marriage as “smooth sailing for some parts but it depends on how you handle the rough spots.”

“When I met them, they were both clearly devoted to one another, anticipating and finishing each other’s sentences,” Cleverdon said.

“I asked Jim if he had any advice from his life experience. His answer: ‘When I joined the Navy, you didn’t talk back, you just did, so I learned to keep my mouth shut. My advice to people, young and old alike, is to think before you say.’ Mary burst out laughing, ‘Jim, you never think before you say!’ ”

Waller has nothing but praise for the care and support he’s received from Hospice.

“I have been in hospitals before and been cut up and poked around and had various procedures done,” Waller told Cleverdon. “I can honestly say that since I’ve been with Hospice, I never thought I’d get

this type of care. I never thought I’d be treated so nice. You all give the best.”

He smiled at his Hospice social worker, Kiam Parker. “In my estimation, you are angels.”

The Honor Flight Network (www.hon-orflight.org) is a non-profit organization that transports veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit memorials dedicated to honor military service and sacrifices. Among the honorary advisers are former senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole.

Bob Dole was injured in combat in Italy during World War II; Elizabeth Dole was, as secretary of transportation, the first woman to head a military branch, the Coast Guard.

The Honor Flight Network gives top priority to America’s most senior veterans and any veteran with a terminal illness who wishes to visit his or her branch’s memorial. The program will natu-rally transition to Korean War, Vietnam War and all other veterans who served, on a chronological basis.

“Since America felt it was important to build a memorial to the service and the ultimate sacrifice of her veterans, the Honor Flight Network believes it’s equally important that they actually get to visit and experience THEIR memorial,” the organiza-tion’s website states.

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By RICHARD WALKER

Jim WallerPoulsbo veteran makes trip to see war memorials

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Jim Waller in his youth.Contributed Photo

Jim Waller before his trip.

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Many times when military personnel leave active duty, they have plans for what’s coming next. They know that they will use the skills they learned in the military to go to work for someone else.

But sometimes, veterans want to go it on their own. They want to run their own businesses and be their own boss.

In this month’s issue of Veterans Life, we’re celebrating veterans who own their own businesses. Contributor Luciano Marano outlines the programs that exist to help veterans begin their own businesses. He

offers places to go to get business training and to get loans to start up a business.Intern Michelle Beahm writes about Silverdale Upholstery and Canvas in Old Town which has been in the

Weatherly family for more than 30 years. Brian Weatherly, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Army, started the business and now his daughter, Melissa Richardson, runs it.

And then there’s Todd Baylor who went from Marine sniper to hair snipper. Today, he is co-owner of one of Bainbridge Island’s most popular hairstyling hot spots, the Firefly Salon.

Reporter Seraine Page writes about Dr. T.L. Driver, a Port Orchard veteran, who has his own software business, Animal Intelligence Software, Inc. Veterinarians and others use his software to run their businesses. He is a Retired Senior Naval Officer, software programmer, practice manager, author and professional speaker/educator.

Although he never served, Ramesh Kumar is a business owner who honors those who have served by feeding them for free. He owns Gandhi Cuisine of India in Silverdale and on the last Monday of each month, offers com-plimentary meals to active duty and veterans. He does that because he believes in the words, “Support Our Troops.”

Also in the issue, Jessica Ginet has a profile on retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Graham Kent who served 31 years in the Army and spent time in Germany, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Vietnam and Panama. He served in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam.

And there’s a profile in the issue on a very special woman, Lynette George. She’s the powerhouse behind the Kitsap County Blue Star Banner program. Those Blue Star and Gold Star banners that hang throughout Kitsap County are the result of many hours she’s spent making sure military personnel are appropriately honored.

As always, we would love to hear from you with your ideas and your stories. We offer any veteran the opportu-nity to write about a personal experience — humorous or otherwise — for The Bond column which we print each month. And next month’s theme is Liberty Call. So give us your best story of your time off while you were in the service. Just email us at [email protected].

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Few dreams are more specifically American than the desire to start one’s own business. To build an enter-prise from the ground up, to work in a field you are pas-sionate about, to be the mas-ter of your own fate: these are the very foundations of the “manifest destiny” spirit that have brought so many people to the greatest coun-try in the world, and contin-ues to do so today.

Veterans, perhaps more so than any other demographic, are acutely aware of this. Many former service mem-bers enter the business world as entrepreneurs, bringing with them the skills and experiences of their military careers. According to the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs, there are currently 764 registered vet-eran-owned business in the state, 50 of them in Kitsap County alone.

Of course, starting a busi-ness is a big choice and a big risk, but there are resources available to those who think that it may be right for them.

There are even more options available to veterans who aspire to start a business, with many groups and orga-nizations offering services and assistance.

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website, the VA itself does not make loans or grants for the startup or expansion of a small busi-ness.

Instead, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is the specific agency that has been tasked with business financing and there are a variety of specialized services for veterans.

Their website states: “On June 14, 2007, SBA launched a loan program for veterans called Patriot Express. The Patriot Express Loan, part of the SBA 7(a) small busi-ness loan program, provides financial assistance for vet-erans and members of the military community who want to establish or expand small businesses.”

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The SBA also recom-mends getting in touch with the veteran organiza-tions in your area such as the American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), that might know other local resources.

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To Business organization (www.boots2business.org) including online training in management, writing a business plan and even basic legal training.

From their website: “Boots to Business is a program offered by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (SU) in cooperation with the SBA and is operated by SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF). It is a three phase training program developed to intro-duce and train transitioning service members to business ownership.”

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They offer manage-ment and business training specifically to post-9/11 veterans with disabilities resulting from their service. Their training is offered through a partnership with several educational institu-tions including Syracuse University, Florida State University, Texas A&M and others. More information is available at their website www.whitman.syr.edu/ebv/

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Sometimes it takes a whole lot of praying before a decision can feel right.

And praying is exactly what Dr. Thomas L. Driver did when it came to the decision of making the move into running his own business.

Dr. Driver is the owner of Animal Intelligence Software, Inc. (AIS,Inc.), a Port Orchard-based soft-ware company. AIS, Inc. provides software prod-ucts for veterinary medi-cal, research facilities and universities nationwide and worldwide. Although the company has several clients in Washington State, the overseas need has been booming in places like Australia. The software is also currently used in Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Kuwait and throughout several European coun-tries.

In 2008, Driver’s best friend, Michael Philbrick, owned the company, but was burnout and men-tioned to Driver he was thinking of selling it or closing the doors. Driver, a Naval Commander, was up for a promotion to cap-tain. After spending more than 26 years in the mili-tary, he prayed repeatedly about what which choice to make: stay in or get out and buy a business.

Driver got out. “God gives you gifts, so

you use them,” he simply said.”After much consider-ation and prayer, I decided that’s what I wanted to do. I had to pray a lot. The

Lord said, ‘you need to get out and run your busi-ness’.”

He recalls how dif-ficult the decision was at the time. The economic downfall was hitting hard, yet Driver was at the height of his career.

“I literally had to pray. The economy was crash-ing in 2008,” said Driver. “We were losing clients; I saw the company drown-ing.”

For someone who always planned to use his talents to the best of his ability--he once wanted to be a surgeon--Driver decided on a new pursuit where he could use his educational experience to bring a business out of a slump. The leadership skills he learned in both the Air Force and Navy helped him to move into working with a team on a new level. Although chal-lenging--some employees quit right away--Driver remained determined to stick it out.

He has a Ph.D in Administration and Management and “holds professional certifica-tions and qualifications in Healthcare Law, Human Resources, Conflict Management, Medication and Arbitration and Six Sigma,” according to AIS, Inc.’s website.

With military training on his side, Driver easily slipped into a role of the company’s leader. Most employers have a certain way of doing things, a pro-tocol they like to follow. With Driver, the protocol

is to do things correctly, professionally and accu-rately, according to his staff. Of his 10 employees, half have served in the military, something that Driver believes is part of the natural laws of attrac-tion. But even the employ-ees who haven’t served in the military notice how straight-to-business and organized Driver is while running the company.

“I do notice there’s a commanding presence when he comes into the room,” said Rich Jones, an AIS, Inc. programmer. “We’re not in the military here, but he’s used to say-ing something and getting it done.”

Jones has known about the company for a long time as he lives in Port Orchard and knew the previous owner. From what he’s seen, the com-pany has improved vastly since Driver took the reins.

“We’re moving forward with a direction,” he said of company development. “He communicates that to our clients.”

As a local resident, Jones is proud of the busi-ness and is grateful there’s a software company so close that he can work as a part-time employee.

“I always felt more comfortable working in

smaller companies,” he said. “This is standing on its own. It’s producing

software that’s being sold all over the world. It’s a great place to work for--

(there’s) great leadership here. I think we’ll start to grow and it’s going to be even better for the local economy.”

Ray Jones —no relation to Rich Jones—has worked with Driver for several years and serves as his personal assistant. As a National Guard reservist, more specifically, a staff sergeant, Jones looks to Driver not as a boss, but more of a mentor because of his extensive military-

Veteran builds software business up and out By Seraine Page Seraine Page /Staff Photo

Dr. Thomas L. Driver spent 26 years in the military and now owns his own software business in Port Orchard.

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From Marine sniper to hair snipper, Todd Baylor has lived life on the cutting edge.

And it has all added up to where he is today — co-owner of one of Bainbridge Island’s most popular hairstyling hot spots, the Firefly Salon.

Baylor spent four years in the Marine Corps. He was an anti-tank assault-man before becoming a scout sniper.

“The name says it all,” Baylor said. “The sniper

goes in early, finds the objective, comes back and leads the company in.”

Even before he was a Marine, Baylor was cutting hair. The skill followed him into the Corps.

“When I was in high school I cut my own hair,” Baylor said. “I got into the Marines where the rule was, get a haircut each week. So I cut the hair of other Marines.”

When Baylor left the military he was faced with his future, full of options, but he had a couple ideas of what he wanted to do.

“I enrolled in the Secret Service and in beauty school at the same time,” Baylor said.

But after pondering the decision, and spend-ing some time in the hairstyling field, his path became very clear.

“When I was sur-rounded by women. I decided I didn’t want to be in the Secret Service,” Baylor said.

It was a very good plan. It was through his hairstyling career that Baylor met his wife.

“It’s like panning for gold,” Baylor said. “You go through all the silt until you find the nugget of gold.”

Baylor found his prized gold, Bronwyn, at

a salon the two worked at in San Francisco.

From there, the couple moved to Los Angeles — for further schooling — and eventually landed on Bainbridge Island. Bronwyn was from the Kitsap area and the cou-ple wanted to be close to family.

The hairstyling hus-band and wife have worked at various salons in the area over the past seven years.

Baylor has since became involved in the local theater scene, tak-ing on roles for produc-tions of “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Chicago,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and most recently “The Full Monty.”

While Baylor was enjoying a career as a local hair stylist, he was determined to break out on his own. He had a vision of a salon, all his own, run his way.

In November 2011, he and Bronwyn opened the Firefly Salon located at 271 Madison Ave.

The salon offers hair styling, colors, pedi-cures, waxing and much more. It’s been received well by islanders.

“It’s going well so far,” Baylor said.

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brother, in a sense,” said Jones. “I take his guidance and direction, so working for him is easy.”

Jones, who serves as Driver’s gate-keeper so Driver can focus on business matters, said he enjoys working for a former military man. Especially since the business he works for is unique to Kitsap County, where technology and software businesses are not as popular as they are in Seattle.

“In a sense, it’s kinda Microsoft,” he said of the business. If he were a local business owner, Jones said he knows he would feel more comfortable if he knew tech-support was right around the corner.

The personal assistant also has learned to keep his promises.

“To sum all of it up, I learned to be humble about the things that are put in front of me because there is a purpose for everything,” said Jones. “Therefore, you must be a man of word. If you say you’re going to do something, be sure you can deliver, because if you can’t then you lack

moral value in the eyes of others.”Even when military members step

back out into the public sector, there’s a huge amount of opportunity, Driver said. There are options for entrepreneurs willing to start a business, and there are more resources available now than when Driver left the Navy.

“Take advantage of them. Make sure you have a coach,” he urges. “You gotta take advice. Nothing is easy in business…to have a business is like anything else, it’s a gift.”

In addition to running Animal Intelligence Software, Inc., Driver is also owner of Panther Professional Services (a partnered company of AIS) and TLD Ministries, where he serves as a evange-listic preacher.

With his business expanding into other countries, Driver is thinking of long-term goals to keep the company thriving. Originally, the business headquarters were in Silverdale, and now he is think-ing of setting up offices in other states and possibly other countries. Growth is always the plan, he said.

“We have a strategy,” he said. “I could literally put my business anywhere…and that’s the good news.”

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Ramesh Kumar has never been in the mili-tary.

But Kumar supports the U.S. military every way he can.

Kumar is the owner of the Gandhi Cuisine of India restaurant at 9621 Mickelberry Road SW. He opened the restau-rant and lounge in 2001 and recently decided that on the last Monday of each month, any active military member, veter-an and their families can come and eat for free.

“Just about every-where you go you see signs that say ‘Support Our Troops,’” he said. “But just saying it is not enough. We have to do something more.”

As a businessman with a wife and three children at home, he’s not rolling in dough. But he decided that one thing he could do is share the talent he does have, and that’s his restaurant.

Kumar came to the United States from his homeland of India at age 16. He came from an upper class family and his father worried that Ramesh might be a target because his father was politically active. So he sent him to live with his uncle in Norway. Within a very short time, Kumar decided that living with his uncle would not work out, so he moved to Los Angeles.

There, he was on his own. He started washing dishes in a restaurant and remembers sleeping in a park, until he had enough money to rent an apartment. Within a few years, he was able to open his own restaurant.

He liked Los Angeles, but there was a lot of competition. A friend from Seattle told him he should open a restaurant in the Silverdale area because there were no Indian restaurants.

So Kumar decided to check it out.

“I was driving up the highway and all I could see was trees,” he said. “I thought my friend was

playing a joke on me.”But soon he found the

heart of Silverdale, near Kitsap Mall and found just the place for his res-taurant. He moved his wife, who is originally from Virginia, and his one-year-old daughter to Kitsap and began mak-ing plans to open his restaurant.

After months of plan-ning, and relocating one of his best chefs to Silverdale, everything was ready for the open-ing, which was slated for the second week in September 2001.

Then September 11 happened.

“It changed every-thing,” he said. “People seemed to fear me. Sometimes they would say things, and we had knocks on our door in the middle of the night.”

Kumar didn’t know what to do. He wor-ried that opening the restaurant in an area where there was so much military wasn’t going to work, because of what happened on Sept. 11. He knew he wasn’t Middle Eastern. But he said, he was dark skinned and at that time, many Americans feared any-one who was foreign.

“I talked to my wife and thought about it very seriously,” he said. “I knew I liked Silverdale and I knew there were very good people here. So I decided to go ahead with my plans.”

He opened his restau-rant a month later in October and has never

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made me feel happy,” he said. “After many years of being here, I love it more and more every-day.”

In fact, the restaurant in Silverdale has done so well that he opened a second restaurant on Bainbridge Island in 2006, named Spice Route, and a third res-taurant in Puyallup in 2008 named Karma.

“These are not like franchise places,” he said. “Each place has its

own chef and that chef makes each dish his own way.”

That’s why each res-taurant has its own name, he said.

But his policy is the same at each. He wants the restaurants to sup-port the local com-munity. So, he offers the free military meals in Puyallup which is close to Joint Base Lewis McChord. And on Bainbridge, where there isn’t a lot of military, he offers special days when he gives half of the day’s

proceeds to the local high school band.

Kumar’s children now are ages 13, 11 and 6 and attend pub-lic schools in Kitsap County. He tries to spend as much time as he can with them, but the restaurant busi-ness is demanding. And he often travels to Puyallup to work at Karma.

“Sometimes my children say they would like to have me at home more,” he said. “But I try to help them understand that I am working hard so that they can have a good life. And I don’t mean things. I mean an opportunity to get a good education.”

Kumar himself never finished high school, although he has hopes of some-day getting his high school diploma. As a fifth grader, his father sent him to join the military of India, but soon after his grand-mother came and got him, telling him he was too young.


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While many people can drive past Blue Star Banners throughout Kitsap County and not think any-thing about them, George knows all of them and the stories behind them.

George, a mother of two sons who served in the military, is the powerhouse behind the program.

It began with a trip to California in 2005.

“My sons were both in Iraq for the second time

each,” she said. “My daugh-ter-in-law and I went to California to visit a battle buddy (friend) of my son’s who had just returned. We planned a trip to take him to Universal Studios to cel-ebrate that he was back.

“When we drove down his street to pick him up, I saw that the street was lined with these beautiful banners. I got very emo-tional and it hit me hard.”

After that trip to Temple City, Calif., she was deter-mined to bring banners to Kitsap County, where she lived and where she had raised her family.

She researched the pro-gram and found that in

most places it was spon-sored by cities. As a civil-ian budget official for the U.S. Navy, she knew there weren’t extra funds in the military or in the budgets of local cities to buy the banners. So she formed a nonprofit.

“It took a year and a half to get it going,” she said. “But I was able to get a graphic designer to design the banners and I built a website.”

She applied and received four grants from the Kitsap County Foundation. Other donations just started com-ing in. The first banner went up in 2006.

To date, there are 250 Blue Star Banners hanging throughout Kitsap County honoring those who served. There are 16 Gold Star Banners honoring those who were killed in action. The blue and gold stars denote the program that began in World War I and continued in World War II where blue stars were hung in the windows of homes where someone was serv-ing in war. Gold stars were hung if their loved one was killed during the war.

Each banner is 6-feet long and costs about $350. The banners were origi-nally hung in Silverdale and Bremerton, but the program has grown and now there are ban-ners in Poulsbo, Port Orchard, Port Angeles, and are spreading to Port Townsend, Chimicum and in Mason County. Banners are traditionally hung in the cities where the mili-tary member grew up.

Blue Star Banners usu-ally hang from three to five years, and sometimes the person who the banner honors will request to have the banner taken down once he or she returns from serving overseas, or their service in the military ends.

Gold Star banners hang indefinitely unless the fam-ily requests otherwise.

Since the program gained attention, dona-tions have continued to come in and now there are annual fund-raising events to support the program. Every St. Patrick’s Day, the “Beer Run” in Poulsbo sup-ports the banner program. And veterans’ motorcycle

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The banner at Randall Way and Kitsap Mall Boulevard honors Sean Brazas with a Gold Star and his wife, Allie, with a Blue Star. They were stationed in Bremerton.


groups have several poker runs throughout the year, giving the proceeds to the banner program.

George also discovered that many times, families of those serving want to sponsor and pay for a banner to honor their loved one who is serving. Because of that, the non-profit is financially stable, she said.

“We do come across times when a family wants to have a banner, but can’t afford it,” she said. “That’s where we come in.”

She also uses some of the funds to market the program through advertis-ing, on the website and on Facebook so that everyone knows about the banners. Photos of all the banners are on the website and family members are wel-come to share stories on the Facebook page. Stories of those who are honored with Gold Star Banners are posted on the website.

For each banner, there is a story of a military mem-ber who served.

Among them is Sean and Allie Brazas. Their banner is attached to the power pole at the corner of Randall Way and Kitsap Mall Boulevard.

Allie has a Blue Star and Sean has a Gold Star.

“They didn’t grow up here,” George said. “But they served here and they met and were married here. Their banner hangs at that corner because they were engaged at Applebee’s across the street.”

Sean was a dog handler in the Navy and died from a gunshot wound May 30, 2012. The following January, his wife came to see their banner hung.

At the base of the pole where the banner hangs, sit flowers and ribbons and an American flag offered often by friends of the couple who still live in the area.

Another banner with a story is the banner that hung at the corner of Randall Way and Bucklin Hill Road. It was pur-chased by George’s family to honor Jeremy Seelig, a service member they didn’t know but who deserved a banner.

“It wasn’t until years later that I got a call from someone who said ‘I’m Jeremy Seelig and I want to know if I can have my banner.’”

Seelig had seen George’s truck which has advertise-

ments on it for the banner program and jotted down her phone number. He thought his banner should come down because he had gotten out of the military.

She told him that he could have his banner and that it was her family that had sponsored it. He now is an EMT and works in the Bremerton shipyard and helps George promote the banner program.

“He’s such a wonder-ful person,” she said. “He helps watch out for all the banners and lets me know if there are any banners that have faded or have torn, so that we can replace them.”

Seelig said it meant a lot to have his banner hanging while he was in the service.

“Right before we deployed, they came to where we were and had us sign all the papers so that our banners could go up,” he said. “I was just a 20-year-old kid and I was scared. Somehow, it made me feel better that that banner would be there for my friends and family to see while I was away.”

When he came home and left the service, he decided that his banner should come down to make room for another banner of someone who was serving.

Now he enjoys being a part of the banner pro-gram in Mason County.

“Lynette is some woman,” he said. “All the time she puts in and all that she does to sponsor

the program and get the word out for those who are serving, it’s just amazing.”

As for ladders and put-ting up the banners, that’s where George draws the line. She said Wave Cable hangs all the banners with-out charging the nonprofit for their work.

George’s sons, Christopher Weimar, 28, of Seabeck, who served in the Army, and Wayne George, 30, of Longview, who was a Marine, both suffered psychological and physical injuries at war. They both have service-related dis-abilities. But George, who served in the Navy from 1981 to 1985, considers herself lucky.

“My sons came home,” she said. “I’m just so lucky.”

She had an experience while they were away. A man dressed in a suit driv-ing a black SUV came up her driveway while she was out raking her yard. She thought he was military and was coming with bad news, but he was just ask-ing directions.

“I fell to my knees,” she said. “I thought ‘I’ve lost one of my boys.’ After that, I was just so appreciative of everything.”

It’s with that spirit that she says she will continue to make time for the ban-ner program as long as military families want to have banners hung.

To find out more go to www.Bluestarbanner.org. or Facebook and look for the Blue Star Banner page.

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Since then, in the 36 years that it has been in the family, the business expanded into another building and services offered have grown and evolved.

And four years ago, Weatherly officially retired and passed the business on to his daughter Melissa Richardson.

“We started out fairly small,” said Weatherly. He still helps out on special projects.

But Weatherly said Navy contracts helped the busi-ness grow.

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Weatherly. “A good part of it still is.”

For the Navy, they make security covers, curtains, desiccate kits and more.

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stery before Brian was discharged from the Army. His brother, John, learned upholstery as a trade and taught it to his brothers, including Brian.

When Brian returned from Vietnam, he started helping out in his brother’s shop in California before moving to Washington in 1977, where he purchased Silverdale Upholstery and Canvas within a year.

“It was a strange time to return to civilian life,” Weatherly said.

He was drafted in the Army in 1962, and was deployed to Vietnam in 1964. He shipped out a month before his daughter, Melissa, was born, and didn’t return home until she was about a year and a half old.

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ed malaria and spent time in a hospital in Japan.

Looking back, his daughter recalled the era as a difficult one for her father.

“It was a difficult time, the late ‘60s,” said Richardson. “The military was still with him (her father), even if he wasn’t in it.”

Despite all of that, “he was always around for me, as a dad,” she said.

It was an easy decision for Richardson to join the family business when her daughter was born in 1996. She liked that it was a fam-ily business, and that she didn’t have to worry about repercussions if she needed to miss work if her daugh-ter was ill.

“It’s always been a family first kind of thing here,”

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“There is a certain amount of satisfaction of having a physical prod-uct that you have labored over,” said Richardson.“I enjoy the freedom and creativity portion of it. It’s creative production.”

But there is stress inherent in any job, espe-cially for the owners of a business, according to Weatherly.

“If you think owning and running your own business gives you lots of freedom, it doesn’t,” he said. “You put in far more hours than if you worked with someone else. But you can do it your way.”

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“I was the only son of her son,” he said. “She wanted the family to go on and she feared I would die.”

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“When I decided to take my citizenship test, it wasn’t just some-thing I did,” he said. “I thought a lot about it. It wasn’t just an exchange of papers. I knew after going back to India to visit that I didn’t belong there any longer. It is my home, but it’s not home.

And I knew if I was going to live in America, I needed to be a citizen. I started studying.”

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“No one ever treated me badly because I was just a dishwasher,” he said. “In India, it wouldn’t be that way. There is so much corrup-tion there. Here, people are able to see who you

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That’s why he will keep his restaurant going and honor military with free meals as long as he can.

“I’ll do it every month until I run out of money,” he said. “It’s what I can do to thank every person who is in the military keeping this country free.”

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While others fled to Canada to dodge the draft, Freed sought a transfer to fight in Vietnam.

“I’m from a family of German-Irish men that fought in every war,” said Freed, a Washington State University natural resources extension professor in Shelton, who will share his story dur-ing the 16th Annual Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day.

The Aug. 3 event, free to the pub-lic, begins at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis. The event recognizes all who served during the Vietnam War era.

Freed, who grew up on an Ohio dairy farm, described his military enlistment as “a good chance to see the world.” After graduating from high school, he worked on a farm for a year before enlisting in the Navy.

“It was that or milk cows,” said Freed, who has five sisters. “One of the reasons I went in is so I could get the G.I. bill.”

He attended boot camp at Great Lakes, Ill. “On the dairy farm in Ohio, I had to work at 5 in the morning,” he recalled. “Boot camp was easy; I didn’t

get up until 6 a.m.”After submarine school, Freed

cruised near Florida aboard the USS Sea Poacher for two years, then enlisted in the Navy Construction Battalion and took nine weeks of training in California.

“Seabee basic training is the same as Marines,” he said. “When we were building a base or air strip, we provided all our own protection. We needed basic skills with weapons.”

In August of 1968, he shipped to Da Nang as part of the 3rd Naval Construction Brigade’s administra-tive command for all Vietnam. Freed worked in logistics, matching supplies with requests.

“So if the Marines wanted something — say, an air base built — they talked to the admiral and if he said ‘yes,’ then they came to our office,” he said. “The Seabees would go out and build it for them.”

Sometimes he protected Seabees building bunkers, sea huts or bases.

“Part of your life was being a clerk or personnel person or cook, and then you’re told to go out and do these other duties,” he said. “I fired my weapon. We were rocketed, and we took sapper fire. It was a hands-on job.”

Because of his submarine experience, Freed held top-level military clearance

so he was flown throughout the country as a courier.

He described helping refugees, relocated from small villages, build toilets, grow vegetable gardens and learn English as “the best thing I did in Vietnam.”

He came home in November 1969, one of nine first cousins who served.

“In Hawaii they made us change to civilian clothes because we weren’t allowed to go through airports in uni-form,” Freed said. “People would spit on you and throw things at you in Los Angeles.

“It’s really interesting to see the way people in the military are being treated now versus the way we were treated.”

Freed married and studied forestry at Ohio State University, where he earned master’s degrees in education and busi-ness marketing. He accepted the WSU job in 1977.

As special forest products agent, he teaches landowners growing mush-rooms, Christmas trees, timber, floral greenery and other crops. He and his wife have a daughter and two grand-children.

Freed served several years in the reserves and 12 years in the Washington State National Guard, and, he said, “I would do it all over again in a heart-beat.”

Vietnam Vet to speak at museumAmerican Legion Post 245 Service Office Assisting Veterans every Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A Downtown Poulsbo 360-779-5456

American Legion Post 245 General meeting every third Thursday at 7 p.m. 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A Downtown Poulsbo www.alpost245.org 360-779-5456

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Written in honor of those who risk their lives for our safety, health and freedom

In our lives dreams can be broken

And no one’s there to help you hold on

You may find you’re strong enough to get there

But someone’s holding you down

So we rise up tall with our friends and our broth-ers

And we fight for what we love in our lives

To get a little taste of that dream we call freedom

We see it in each other’s eyes

There’s a dream that we share inside

Welcome home to the country that loves you

Welcome home to the land you set free

Take pride in the coun-try that gave you

The courage to stand up and be

To be freeHave you ever wondered

when you sleep at nightWill our children surviveTo see the light of the

future we’re buildingWill everything turn it

right?Will they work all day

and play in the eveningTeach their children to

read and writeDance and sing, enjoy

everythingAnd be who they feel

insideBecause we had the

strength to fight?Welcome home to the

country that loves youWelcome home to the

land you set freeTake pride in the coun-

try that gave youThe courage to stand up

and be freeRejoice! You’re a heroYou made me believeYou gave up your life just

for meTo be freeOh, just to be free

Come on back to the country that loves you

Please come home to the land you set free

Take pride in the coun-try that sent you

With the courage to stand up and fight for me!

Welcome home to the country that loves you

Welcome home to the land you set free

And take pride in the country that gave you

The courage to stand up and be

To be freeWe have the strength we

needTo be free

The Bond

To Be FreeBy Joseph R. WalBaum, composeR


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