We try to devote the front page of “The Mountaineer” to veterans on Veterans Day and on Memorial Day. Of course we, like you, know that we really honor veterans every day, when we see them and when we do not.
If infirm we carry them like they carried us in battles all over the world.
My father had a veteran friend who came back from World War II with what was then called Shell Shock. The friend was very quiet and did not use good sense about how to live life in Montana or anywhere else. The veteran could not hold a job although before the war he had been a good plumber.
We saw a lot of him at...
