War hero?
By Dave Kusel Manning Monitor May 20, 2010
We are looking for volunteers to do interviews of Manning connected Veterans - of family members and also maybe a Veteran who isn't related to you. I have a lot of names of Veterans but very little information for most of them. In order to have a successful Manning Veterans' history book project we'll need lots of help finding and gathering information and pictures. For the Korean War to present time frame I don't have a complete list of names - especially Vietnam and after. Many of these Veterans either never returned to live in Manning or did not stay long after their service. Hence I do not have the names of many of those Veterans because they probably never joined the local Manning posts.
Qualifications for the history book: The Veteran didn't/doesn't have to be a war hero or fought in a battle. He/she maybe didn't serve overseas or during actual war time - maybe only served for a short time BUT we still want their military history. We also want the history of all of the lady auxiliary members for both the American Legion & V.F.W posts. We want as much military history as you can give us.
Please remember that while someone may feel they are bragging if they list all of their medals, honors, accomplishments, etc. for serving but these are FACTS and exactly what we want.