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Memorial Day
Hatteberg's People
Reporter: Larry Hatteberg
| May 30, 2004--On Hatteberg’s People, remembering this Memorial Day weekend, folks who gave a lot to the rest of us. Three ordinary men whose military service was simply the right thing to do. They remember. We listen. |
(Sam Peterson) “Probably the toughest was watching the plane crash.”
(Dale Eugene Forman) “I woke up on a hospital ship.”
(Harlan Holien) “And we got snookered in and we got hit by….Charlie.” |
At a rehabilitation center in Wichita’s Veteran’s Hospital three men, World War II Navy Veteran Sam Peterson, U.S. Marine Dale Eugene Foreman who fought in Korea, and Army veteran Harlan
Holien, a Viet Nam veteran. |
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It was in Vietnam where Harlan lost his eyesight.
“To me it was a job to do and believe me, I thought I did it pretty well.” |
In Korea Marine Dale Foreman had his leg blown off when he stepped on a land mine.
“I was scared, I don’t know how I thought or anything. I just didn’t know what happened.”
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In the U.S. Navy, Sam Petersen remembers invasion after invasion.
“Well, I survived. I came back.” |
When you take a look at the men in the newsreels of old….you see faces of a young America…today those faces, through the ravages of war and time, speak the same language…you never hear these men complain about what happened to them, no matter what they saw or no matter the injury…they endured…quietly…with no regrets.
(Harlan Holien) “Absolutely no regrets, absolutely none at all. Because if I had to do it all over again by golly I would be the first one in line again.”
(Dale Eugene Forman) “You know freedom is not free. You have to sacrifice
for it.”
(Sam Peterson) “Somebody had to go.”
And somebody did.
I’m Larry Hatteberg. |
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