Park Ridge woman gets burial for MIA brother after 40 years

The Vietnam War was waging and George Macdonald knew he wouldn’t be returning home. “He gave away his track trophies and told the family he wouldn’t be coming back,” his only sister, Jeanette Frye, recounted. It was 1972 and Macdonald, an Evanston native, was heading …Read More

• World War II airman to pilot Memorial Day parade in Park Ridge

  

  As World War II raged on the other side of the world, Richard Smaus was training pilots to fly twin-engine planes in Indiana. But when the opportunity came to fly combat missions over the Pacific, the U.S. Army Air Corps pilot eagerly volunteered. “That’s where …Read More

• For some veterans, Cold War is other ‘Forgotten War’

  Blindfolded, Richard Rogala didn’t know what was going on when the USS Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans in 1968. The former Niles resident along with Werner Juretzko, of the Northwest suburbs, shared their experiences with an attentive audience May 20 at Niles Public …Read More

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