Editor’s Note: The Star received 265 nominations for local veterans through an online nomination form. Stories featured in the series include those veterans. Here are the names of the veterans featured in “They Served With Honor” as well as those nominated:
Stan Elbie
Sam Cohen
Thomas Coleman
John “Jack” Dyke
Mary Congdon (Mary Stirling)
Craig Sawyer
Edward Chan
Teddy DeSouza
Wayne L. Petter
Helen Anderson Glass
John Rodriguez
Juan Herraras Jaurigue
Mary Hill
Chris Guerrero
Fred Taylor
James Britt
Gerald Thomas Garrison
Roy Ludlow
Dale Hughes
Brett Rustand
Valentino Cruz
William “Bill” Peel
David Alegria
Bill Deyoe
Mel Giller
Justin Merriman
Art Schaefer
David Arellano
James Glaze
Bill LaBar
Harry Connors
Luke Burgan
Robert S. Putnam
Thomas Rankin
Daisy Gates
Lupecelia Leon
Harper Coleman
John Moore
Sam Brokenshire
John Lochert
Leo Lochert
John Lloyd Rhodes
Benjamin Arellano
Charles Wohlleb
Charles Deibel
Tom Parker
Loren Baber
Michael Matthews
Randolfo “Randy” V. Lopez
Rick Villegas
Frank Mendez
James Files
Ross Donaghay II
Jesus Zapata
Patricia Smith
Jeanne Rogers
Al “Harpo” Celaya
Cliff Wade
Rafael Samay
Melvin Giller
Mary Jane Hill
Nelda Barnes
Gopal Khalsa
Alan Lurie
Robert Barnett
Robert Spencer
Edward Kulik
Curtis Layton
Lyman Threet
Marion “Smitty” Smith
Melvin Morgan
Carl M. Shumway
Charles McClain
George McGee
Earl Liston
Samuel Duncan
Richard Love
Bruce Seymour
John W. Auvenshine
Elmer Nicholson
Max Warner
Myers B. Rosenbloom
Ebb Daughtery
Richard H Brown
John B. Janicek
Byron Burns
William Mesa
Robert B. Johnson
Gregory Gomez
Jeffrey Eighmy
Brendan Phibbs
Harold Koobs
John Fedor
David Morrison Hardy Jr.
Edward V. Lovio
Milton Dietz
Henry Burke
Eugene Metcalfe
Eugene Scott
Harry Laughman
Roy Meyer
Gerry Meyer
Aaron P. Raita
Mac Edward McQuillen
Glen Meunier
Michael Johnston
Steve Pockuba
Glen Hughes
Arthur R. Voss
Mary Smith
Leonard Kraft
George J. Popovich
John Chastain
Charlie Ruggles
Steve Martinez
Ken Laue
Raymond Stroehlein
Gwendolyn Clymer Niemi
Joe Ford
Herbert Mendoza
Onofre Tafoya
David Stone
George Romontio
Gilbert Romero
Donald Beery
Tom Ketchum
John D. Kaperka
Richard Bushong
David Bertagnoli
John W. “Johnny” Gibson
Joe Ladensack
Edward H. Nelson
Colonel Robert B. Beaumont
Samuel C. Pacheco
Paul Cartter
Debbie Seager
Robert Miller
Lawrence Casper
Thomas Duddleston Sr.
William Reede
John Wickham
Jesse DeVaney
Thomas Drew
Andy Anzanos
Jose E. Vega
Kenneth Eckle
Norman G. Benson
Gordon Thorstad
David G. Lucas
Larry Brimm
James Redmond
Joseph Nichols
Antonio “Tony” Valdez
Frank Soto
Robert Sexton, M.D.
Gene Forsyther
Robert De More
Glenn Perry
Al Stockellburg
Joseph Dogoli
Chris Christenson
Wynn Freedman
Thomas Storey
Ray Alfred Fischella
William J. Orscher
Edgar Harrell
Homer “Ed” Adams
Dan Gipple
Anthony K. Van Reusen
Charles Lagneaux
Michael Lazares
Dick Palmer
Donald Gibbons
Richard Pfaff
Clarence Burgan
Don Dingee
Carl Beck
Walter Ram
James R. Huerta
Sam Duncan
Charles Wohlleb
Henry A. Stewart
Don Childs
Clarke Duncan
Ralph A. Grant
Richard Edwards
David Crocker
Harry R. Erickson
Tracy Sparby
Sheldon Coudray
Diana Thacker
Fred W. Astroth
Ken Collins
Hjordis Sherry
Gary Blomstrom
Paul R. Gale
Lance Gillingham
Alexander R. Martinez
Doris E. Manning
Charles Gutekunst
Edward Chan
Harold Dees
Benjamin Ricardo
Solorzano Vivar
Nathan Shapiro
James McDowell
Jack P. Marshall
Ron Sable
Mike Rosenbloom
William Greenberg
Donald Fitzgerald
W.B. Punt
Earnest Parks
Augusto Cesar Gomez Sandino
Don Goldner
Jim Wagner
William Ersthaler
Patrick Franco
Louis Iannacone
Jayme Berg
William “Bill” Alviar
Frank Zunno
Virginia Baber
Roger Johnson
Bernard Reinhart
Donald W. Manke
Robert Ashby
Cloud Funaro
Estella Curry
Calvin D. Pigman
Henry G. Johnson
Jack U. Goodhart
Maurice Storch
Joe Bailey
Thomas Hunt
Leo Silverstein
Donald N. Olson
James Purdue
Ken Weihl
David Morales
Earnest Cotton
Donald Collins
Dennis G. Dierking
Donald Shepperd
Chuck Heathman
James W. Waln
Raymond Romero
Tim Clark
Rodolfo Bejarano
Javier Ledesma
Earl Scott
