Hydesville Veteran Awarded Medal by DAR

With Fortuna Mayor Tami Trent before this morning's DAR awards ceremony ; Al Dunnegan, Senior Chief Petty Officer, USN (Ret.)

“On 29 July 1967, while serving aboard the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) and deployed to Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin; during flight ops, a missile on an A-4 aircraft fired and exploded a fuel pod on another aircraft resulting in a fire engulfing the aft end of the flight deck in burning fuel.  Pilots abandoned their planes, many jumping over the side, leaving them to burn…Eventually the bombs started cooking off and exploding and blowing holes in the flight deck resulting in 139 casualties.”

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Odd, Old News: Sheepdog, Sam, Saved a Lamb, Lassie Style, South of Kneeland in 1921

Two young girls, one holding a dog and the other bottle-feeding a lamb

“Several weeks ago, Sam did come to his master’s home, one afternoon, & could not be driven away. He was told to return & even led part way back but to no avail. He would not go. He didn’t appear ill, as there seemed something about the look in his eyes & the wag in his tail that he was trying to tell something.”

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