Salute Magazine - Veterans Day 2020 - Brainerd Dispatch | News, weather, sports from Brainerd and Baxter

Detail from the 2020 Veterans Salute Magazine cover.

By Denton L. Newman Jr

November 11, 2020 at 12:00 AM

THIS ISSUE FEATURES:

• John Warren, a bastion of history of African American service members - Vietnam vet John Warren, of Pine River, seems to have been born to wear a uniform, born to be a wealth of knowledge for African American military history and born to help others.

• Eagle’s Healing Nest helps suffering veterans - Melony Butler has been on a mission for many years, advocating and helping veterans. She and her husband Master Sgt. Blaine Butler started Eagle’s Healing Nest in 2012.

• Reaching out: All are welcome at CLC Veterans Resource Center - Theresa Harsha is the veterans resource center coordinator at Central Lakes College. Harsha uses her military experience and her masters degree in education to support student veterans and their families.

• Flight of restored B-17 bomber harks back to days when skies were not so blue

• Local photo submissions of Brainerd lakes area veterans - past and present.

• Cover: The All Veterans Memorial in Brainerd was revised and then dedicated on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2017.

Photo by Steve Kohls

By Denton L. Newman Jr

I've worked at the Brainerd Dispatch with numerous job titles since Dec. 7, 1983. Starting off as an Ad Designer and currently as Digital Editor. The Dispatch has been an interesting and challenging place to work these 30+ years. I was present and worked on the our web page when our original BrainerdDispatch.com website first went live on April 26, 1994.