Page 5 - Senior Link Magazine Fall 2021- Online Magazine

Veteran Stories

In this issue, look for these banners to
indicate a story about a local Veteran

Dr. Robert Salem
15 The Foundation 54 Bert McWilliams 96 Elwood Freeman
of the "Builder" Born to Lead Ol' Texas Boy

19 Antron Patton 59 Alvin Hollingsworth 104 Michael Mings
An Outstanding Soldier
New Face of the VA
My Dad, the Fixer
Wilford Naylor
23 WWII Pilot 62 James "Jim" Smith 106 Charles Benge
"Broomstick Charlie" ...and His Compatriots with Paws Sort of a Standoff

Nolan Donop Joe Webb Joe Hargrove
26 Fighting the 64 109
Fatherland in Italy Jack-of-All-Trades Goes to Korea Four Years, Three Ships

Brynn Naylor
29 Benny Guerrero 66 Victor Astwood 112 "I Know Where I'm Going":
Training for a Lifetime
The Passionate Warrior
The Story of My Son
Harold Douglas Delmar Baker
32 100-Year-Old 70 Steven Fair 114 From Trials and
Remembers Iwo Jima From a Mechanic to a Medic Tragedy to Triumph

Bill Whorton
Charles Baldwin
34 A Pilot, a Poet, and a Pleasure 74 From the South Plains
to the Korean Hills
David Edwards VETERANS NEWS
38 Amos Leland Hastings 78 Supporting the Red,
A Lifetime of Service
White and Blue 6 honoring those who have
sacrificed for us

40 Donald Seale 80 Homer Mahan 8 veteran appreciation
breakfast
What Everyone Should Know
Korean War "Jarhead"
10 congratulations, veterans
& families!
44 Gene Williams 84 Hugh McCreery the new Lubbock VA super
On the Road (or in the Air)
Semper Paratus (Always Ready)
clinic is now open
to serve you!
Jim Sexton 12 in memoriam
46 H.L. Futch 86 Lubbock Entrepreneur and
A Man of Quiet Strength
"Mr. Crime Line" major general edgar murphy,
U.S. Army, retired
Carl Hartman Dr. Patrick Pappas
48 A Man for 90
All Branches (Nearly) Searching for Meaning

52 Charles Curtis 92 Robert Ordó�ez, M.D.
Hometown Hero
On Becoming a Man