Don Pittman
LODA — Unlimited beer and hand grenades are a bad mix. When former Ill …
Earl McClintock
CHAMPAIGN — Earl McClintock arrived in Korea six months before the arm …
Richard Underwood
URBANA — On Memorial Day, Lt. Richard Underwood remembers family, as w …
Mark Friedman
URBANA — During the Cold War, Sgt. Mark Friedman spent much of his tim …
Marty Zvonar
MONTICELLO — Marty Zvonar served in the Navy from 1957 to 1961, the he …
Peter Thomas
RANTOUL — When he heard the shout “incoming!”, Peter Thomas had the tr …
Donald Hyche
CHAMPAIGN — When Sgt. Donald Hyche’s helicopter touched down on Vietna …
Richard Schlecht
DANVILLE — Today is Richard Schlecht’s 100th birthday. You wouldn’t gu …
David Anderson
CHAMPAIGN — David Anderson said Navy officers told him that his ship c …
Milford Ray Allen
URBANA — The Timberwolves were night soldiers, some of the toughest in …
Stanley Gilles
CHAMPAIGN — Even though Stanley Gilles worked three years for Illinois …
Floyd Bailey
URBANA — Floyd Bailey wondered for a couple days if he was crazy — or …