Time Machine Trip to November 1969

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen 

November 5, 1969

Army Spec.4/c Roy Liebergen has been awarded the Army Commendation Medal with “V” device. The Department of the Army announced Liebergen’s award for heroism in action in March 1969. According to the reports Specialist Liebergen rushed to front fire on of his Company “D” and began placing effective grenade fire on the enemy positions. He is a 1966 graduate of Wrightstown High School.

November 12, 1969

Sgt. Donald M. Buchinger, a 1966 KHS graduate, serving with the 25^th Infantry division in Vietnam. “Vietnam, to most everyday people is the United States is still greatly unknown. To us over here it is a way of life and we can’t ignore it. We must adjust to a totally new way of living and adopt new customs, methods and procedures into our everyday lives. Home is where you build it with sandbags ammo crate and any other material found lying around. We build our own showers with a 55 gal. drum held up by timbers. We have no snacks to eat, no TV, no car. We walk wherever we go and usually it’s where we don’t want to be. We get to our home base camp about every three to four months.” We don’t get any other breaks during out tour. We spend our time watching and hunting for Charlie. We must keep ourselves healthy as possible under poor conditions, continuously combating disease. Malaria is the most common and quite serious.”

Sp/4 Richard A. Koester, Kaukauna, is now serving in Vietnam. 

 

Police officer John Carnot is shown receiving a graduation certification from Kaukauna Chief of Police William Nagel. Carnot is the first Kaukauna policeman to attend and graduate the two-months long Wisconsin State Academy at Camp McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin.





November 19, 1969

Kenneth Nimmer was recently elected president of the Kaukauna Kiwanis Club for 1970.

November 27, 1969

Clifford Gelling, formerly of Kaukauna, is working at Calumet Corporation and comes to Kaukauna evenings to study tool grinding at the Fox Valley Vocational School. Stricken by polio in 1955 he had lost the use of both legs but despite this stands a full eight hours at his job with the aid of arm crutches. Working a full-time job, each day and attending evening classes to upgrade oneself for a better job is routine to a number of residents but when a handicapped young man overcomes obstacles to carry out this schedule it’s noteworthy. 

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