June 13, 2001, Appleton Post-Crescent
All sorts of 1950's styles are represented at the CN&W station as we say goodbye for now to Neenah and Menasha's finest. Is that Fonzie or James Dean at the extreme left of the group? But seriously, it wasn't so long ago that these same men bid adieu to their loved ones- primarily fathers and brothers- for a different conflict, some less than ten years earlier. Now, their turn has arrived and faithfully they have responded. May God have blessed these brave young men, who followed the call to service and brought them safely back home.
My uncle, Hugh Mikkelsen, enlisted to fight in the Korean War. He departed from that very station and returned there in a coffin with two Purple Hearts.
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