The nature of the battlefield has changed and with it the wounds; more and more...
Latest News
A crew pays tribute to one of its own
The former seaman had served on active duty for two and half years. He had last stepped aboard a Coast Guard vessel 43 years earlier, possibly before the captain of this vessel was born. Yet the honors he was rendered this day showed the value placed on his service by the officers and crew present [...]
Veteran recalls great golf at Village Greens
served as a refuge for veterans for many years. After all, Doug Hathaway, the club’s former PGA professional, once noted that Port Orchard’s Village Greens Golf Course originally was a small housing development for the military and they just “pushed dirt around” when it was constructed. Despite it inadequacies — the small fairways cluttered by [...]
Graduates celebrate new college degrees in Keyport ceremony
Brandman University, part of the Chapman University System, launched 35 men and women into the world with their college degrees in a ceremony at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport in May. Many of the new graduates are military veterans or currently serving on active duty, with graduation coming on the heels of a new [...]
Money from plates helps vets
Would you like to “Pay it Forward” and really make a difference in the Veteran Community? It is so easy! Just go to your local Licensing office and get Washington State Armed Forces License Plates for your vehicles. As a veteran, that purchase demonstrates Pride in Service and Patriotism. If you’re a family member of [...]
Port Orchard man helps veterans with prosthetic tattoos
The memories remain vivid. It was a nondescript evening in 1985 when Dan Horkey was traveling on his motorcycle through Tucson, Ariz. — an ordinary routine for him. That was until the sky darkened and Horkey failed to notice the car in front of him had its turn signal illuminated. Almost in an instant, Horkey [...]
American Legion Post 245 offers help to veterans
It’s a small office, tucked away in downtown Poulsbo. From the exterior, it looks like it could be a real estate office or a small business. But it’s so much more. It’s the Service Office of the American Legion Post 245 and its only goal is to help veterans. “This is one of the most [...]
Veteran couple opening pub in Port Orchard
With 15 years of military service combined, Dave Tagert and Stacey Bronson will bring what they experienced from other parts of the world to a new “gastro pub” in downtown Port Orchard. The couple is planning to open Devilfish Public House, 639 Bay St., for business the third week of June. Dave spent six years [...]
Brothers serve together in Coast Guard PSU
It might seem unusual for the U.S. Coast Guard to participate in a large-scale, international, military exercise half way around the world in South Korea; however, it is even more unusual for two brothers from Stevensville, Mont., to deploy to South Korea together as members of Coast Guard Port Security Unit (PSU) 313. Travis and [...]
From War Time to Show Time…
Lots of children around the world have fantasized about running away and joining the circus. Derek Broussard actually did it. Granted, he grew up first. But, after getting that preliminary obligation out of the way, he didn’t waste much time before beginning his pursuit of the Big Top. What began as a hobby, and an [...]
Two Navy veterans share music and memories as the duo “Tom & Gary”
In the late 1970s, Gary Dyer was serving in the U.S. Navy as a surface sonar technician. At just about the same time, Tom Roddey was deep under the Pacific Ocean serving the Navy as a “sonar guy playing I spy for the U.S. Government,” he said. Both were working hard during those Cold War [...]
