LUCAS — U.S. Army PFC Richard “Rick” McFarland’s platoon was moving toward its night defensive position near the village of Vinh Loc. Evening was coming quickly at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 10, 1970, as the Recon Platoon moved quietly, about eight miles northwest of Quang Ngai City in the Republic of Vietnam. The 1967 Lucas […]
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Former Mansfield U.S. Army medic reignites welding experience in Texas
MARSHALL, Texas – Jason Clark chose to remain in East Texas after leaving the U.S. Army, where he served as both a medic and a health care recruiter for 12 years. He decided to get back into welding, which he had done for several years prior to enlisting. “I actually started looking at welding jobs, […]
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Bucyrus Green Beret: ‘This was not a terrorist act, it was a wake-up call’
BUCYRUS — Matthew Livelsberger — who defended his country as a U.S. Army Green Beret for two decades — suffered from pain and exhaustion at the end, and was also critical of his nation’s government. The 37-year-old Bucyrus High School graduate left behind notes describing those feelings when he shot himself in the head and […]
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What led Bucyrus Green Beret to kill himself, blow up Tesla outside Las Vegas hotel?
BUCYRUS — U.S. Army MSgt. Matthew Livelsberger was a highly-decorated Green Beret, heroically serving in combat in the defense of his country for nearly two decades. Federal authorities are still trying to piece together what led the 2005 Bucyrus High School graduate, who was an active-duty soldier, to take his own life with a handgun […]
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Richland County Veterans Commission to launch ‘Cremation Wall’ at Mansfield Cemetery
MANSFIELD — Military veterans will soon have a new interment option in the Mansfield Cemetery with the creation of a “Cremation Wall Project.” Officials with the Richland County Veterans Service Commission and Pam Bautz, administrator of the Mansfield Cemetery Association, discussed the $270,000 project on Tuesday with the Board of County Commissioners. The commission has […]
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80th anniversary of D-Day: A bloody success that was never guaranteed
It was the most famous war-time statement that thankfully, by the grace of God, was never issued. But Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, was prepared if the invasion of Europe failed on June 6, 1944. Then just 55 years old, Eisenhower was ready to take the […]
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Sherrod Brown in Mansfield: ‘I do my own job. The White House does what it does’
MANSFIELD — Democrat Sherrod Brown, seeking re-election in November to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate, isn’t counting on President Joe Biden to help him much in Ohio. The Mansfield native is battling Bernie Moreno, a candidate strongly endorsed by former President Donald Trump in a state the GOP presidential candidate won in 2016 […]
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Veteran in Kentucky launched effort that will lead to Bellville soldier being honored Saturday
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — Robert Schultz served his country in the armed forces for nearly two decades. The Kentucky native understands the honor of military service. That’s why he could never allow a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from Bellville to lay buried in an unmarked Kentucky grave. It was the 59-year-old U.S. Air Force […]