COL Gary R Harter

Gary is the Executive Director of Utah’s Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, charged with providing service to veterans, military and their families and implementing the vision of having Utah recognized as a great place for veterans, military and their...

1LT David Bauders

1st Lt. David A. Bauders, of Seattle, Wash., died May 6, on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, in a non-combat related incident. Bauders was assigned to 176th Engineer Company, Snohomish, Wash. He was serving with the Washington National Guard’s 176th Engineer Co., which...

PFC John P. Hogan

Mr. Hogan took part in the North African as well as the Italian campaigns and he fought in the Battle of Anzio. Not long after Anzio, while on the drive toward Rome, Mr. Hogan was wounded when a German shell exploded near his foxhole. Soon afterwards, he was evacuated...

1SG James W. Allen

For James Allen, joining the Army was a means of escape from life in racially segregated Florida in the 1950s. He served in various administrative capacities in Korea and Vietnam during the wars fought there, always ready to take on a new challenge, even if he...

SGT Michael Ball

How a country treats it war veterans says a lot about its values. Not the values it purports to cherish, but those it actually holds. Whether one comes from a family where fathers, son, mothers and daughters have always served, or from one that hasn’t seen a...

LTC Matt Pollard

Lieutenant Colonel Matt Pollard served his country with distinction, both as Soldier in the National Guard, but also as a public servant providing oversight within our national security community. More importantly, Matt lived as true leaders do –Although...