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Ann Butler
Position: Staff reporter
Phone Number: (970), 375-4584

‘My peers were calling me baby-killer’

Army 1st Lt. George Usinowicz: 1970-71 tour, platoon leader, 65th Engineer Combat Battalion, 25th Infantry Brigade, 4th Transportation Command

‘It leaves you, but it never leaves you’

Army Capt. Joseph Perino: Late 1969 to Jan. 1971 tour, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, 198th Brigade

‘Many, many people were happy it was over’

Army 1st Lt. John Malarsie: 1968 to early 1969 tour, military intelligence

‘Shock and awfulness’

40 years after the fall of Saigon, La Plata County Vietnam War vets recall their service, experiences

‘You hated to abandon these people’

Warrant Officer Fred Riedinger: 1967-68 tour with the Coast Guard on the cutter Half Moon

‘Why?’ ‘Was this all in vain?’

1st Lt. Judy Dennis: 1965-66 tour, Army Nurse Corps 85th Evacuation Hospital

‘Save our Ballet Folklórico’

Financial crisis threatens 20-year-old organization

The science of looking at the past

Crow Canyon and Fort Lewis to visit the Powerhouse Center

Car chase started with a harassment call

High-speed pursuit ends with a man in custody facing multiple charges

Veteran Animas Museum curator leaves

Fund started to care for artifacts

Autopsy confirms hantavirus infection

Stahl had been cleaning sheds

People increasingly disconnected with War on Terror

FLC students present case for re-engaging in the conversation