{"id":72266,"date":"2015-05-11T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72266"},"modified":"2015-05-12T07:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T12:11:58","slug":"heitkamp-honors-fallen-viet-nam-vets-jmst-vc-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72266","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp honors fallen North Dakota Viet Nam soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3039\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3039\" alt=\"Sen. Hedi Heitkamp (D) North Dakota\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11-300x201.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11-300x201.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11-260x175.png 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heitkamp11.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Hedi Heitkamp (D) North Dakota<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00a0(CSi)\u00a0\u2013 <\/b>Strengthening her commitment to honor the nearly 200 North Dakotans who gave their lives defending their state and country during the Vietnam War, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp again took to the Senate floor Monday to honor the memory and share the stories of these selfless, fallen service members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of what makes North Dakota so special is that nearly everyone in our state has a family member, friend, or loved one who has served in our nation\u2019s military. And when these brave service members don\u2019t return home, we have to make sure we\u2019re giving them the respect and recognition they deserve,\u201d said Heitkamp. \u201cAlmost 200 North Dakotans didn\u2019t make it back home from the Vietnam War, which left a lasting impact on hundreds more in communities across our state. By coming to the Senate floor and speaking about the lives of these fallen heroes, I hope we\u2019re able to have an ever greater appreciation for their incredible sacrifices as we pay tribute to these lost service members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">During her speech Monday, Heitkamp honored the following North Dakotans who were lost in the Vietnam War:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>James Freidt \u2013<\/b> Grand Forks<\/li>\n<li><b>Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Schmitz \u2013<\/b> Martin<\/li>\n<li><b>Loren \u201cDoug\u201d Hagen \u2013<\/b> Fargo<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Himmerick \u2013 Valley City<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><b>Larry Sikorski \u2013<\/b> Fairmount<\/li>\n<li><b>Richard \u201cJimmy\u201d Gaffaney, Jr. \u2013<\/b> Fargo<\/li>\n<li><b>Richard Volk \u2013<\/b> Minot<\/li>\n<li><b>Roger Svir \u2013<\/b> Park River<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>Willis Weber \u2013 Valley City<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><b>Edward Alec Werman<\/b> \u2013 Hensel<\/li>\n<li><b>Steve Escallier \u2013<\/b> Enlisted in Portal<\/li>\n<li><b>Steven Hanson \u2013<\/b> Aneta<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leon Cox \u2013 Jamestown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><b>Gunder Gunderson \u2013<\/b> Walhalla<\/li>\n<li><b>Roy Wagner \u2013<\/b> Bismarck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Heitkamp\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heitkamp.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=5fd58063-30be-4ebc-9174-b82cb7798913\">began a series of speeches<\/a>\u00a0in March to honor servicemembers from North Dakota who lost their lives in the Vietnam conflict as our country remembers the 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the war. Heitkamp is collaborating with more than 150 eleventh-graders from Bismarck High School to gather information on these fallen North Dakotans and will incorporate their research into her speeches. Later in March, Heitkamp\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heitkamp.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=25ab5576-ec68-47c0-9d71-eae1afcc4859\">met with these students in Bismarck<\/a>\u00a0and discussed with them the importance of their joint effort to honor the sacrifice and service of the North Dakotans lost in the war.<\/p>\n<p>To view Heitkamp\u2019s new webpage dedicated to honoring North Dakota\u2019s KIA and MIA Vietnam servicemembers \u2013 including her speeches on the Senate floor \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heitkamp.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=honoring-north-dakota-s-vietnam-veterans\">click here<\/a>. The website will be updated with all of Heitkamp\u2019s speeches on the Senate floor about these servicemembers. A copy of a poster recognizing these fallen men can also be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heitkamp.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/e850b36c-ea64-45a9-a1ce-582c00d9d74c\/final-heitkamp-veterans-poster.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u00a0(CSi)\u00a0\u2013 Strengthening her commitment to honor the nearly 200 North Dakotans who gave their lives defending their state and country during the Vietnam War, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp again took to the Senate floor Monday to honor the memory and share the stories of these selfless, fallen service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72266"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72269,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72266\/revisions\/72269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}