Local Korean War veterans honored
Photos: JULIA BENNETT/ Press Lloyd Pritchett receives the Ambassador for Peace Medal from Marv Hagedorn, chief administrator of the Idaho Division of Veterans Services.
Marv Hagedorn, chief administrator of the Idaho Division of Veterans Services, gives the keynote address at Saturday’s ceremony.
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Idaho Division of Veterans Services presented the Ambassador Peace Award to Veterans across the nation on Saturday, July 27, the anniversary date of the end of the Korean War in 1953.
The following Veterans were honored at 10 a.m. Saturday at the American Legion Post 143:
Ambassador for Peace Medal Recipients
Walter Edwin Behmerwohld - Marine Corps
Curtis Benham - Navy
Donald Leroy Billmire - Air Force
Harold Lorne Blain - Army
Leroy Junior Bolle - Army
Clyde Roland Chehock - Air Force
James Lawrence Connell - Air Force
John Frederic Edgar - Army
Harold Andrew Erickson - Navy
Donald Edward Fabian - Marine Corps
James Ralph Firzlaff - Air Force
Chris Edward Fox - Air Force
Myron Sanford Hagen - Air Force
Herbert Allen Haggett - Navy
Terrance William Hannon - Navy
Robert Lee Imperatrice - Army
Ronald Einer Johnson - Navy
Donald Elmer Karstedt - Navy
Walter Leland Kroon - Navy
Bill C. Leinweber - Air Force
Clifford William Lenz - Army
William Ernest Moore - Army
Norman Leonard Oleson - Army
Lloyd Samuel Pritchett - Marine Corps
Darrell Franklin Renberger - Navy
Charles Lee Riffel - Army
Charles Morrison Roeth - Navy
William Salstrom Jr. - Army
Verne Stanley Scoman - Army
Duane Gene Severson - Army
Arvel Ray Shackelford - Army
William Lyle Slagle - Air Force
Basil James St. Dennis - Air Force
Ronald E. Tucker - Army
Robert Ernest Weaver - Army
Wayne Allan Wright - Air Force and Army
Posthumous Awards
Ithamer Grant Armfield - Air Force
Rex Edwin Bledsoe - Air Force
Edward Dalton Broadsword- Army
William Eugene Broadsword- Army
James Frances Clopton - Army
Donald Wayne Coonfield - Navy
Leonard Andrew Crosby, Jr. - Army
Lyle Wayne Dorsett - Army
Tom Frank Edmondson - Army
Eugene Harold Epperle Jr. - Marine Corps
Thomas James Fletcher - Air Force
Eugene Leo Franz - Navy
Gilman Francis Gibbs - Army
Donald James Goettel - Army
Donald Allen Johnson - Army
Robert Dean Johnson - Army
Joseph Edward Karpach - Army
Arthur Carl Langenolh - Army
Richard John Nelson - Army
Willis Emery Phillips - Marine Corps
Ronald Delbert Rankin - Marine Corps
Andrew Jackson Reese - Army
Laurence Wayne Reynolds - Army
Carlton Edd Rowland - Air Force
Frank Stanly Russell - Army
Thomas Kenneth Schorle - Army