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FORGOTTEN WAR,
FORGOTTEN
SOLDIERS

Linda Sailer / The Dickinson Press

Veteran George Nodland speaks about Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1918, and how it evolved into Veterans day, during the 2016 Veterans Day ceremony at
Dickinson State University.

George Nodlands service

extends from serving his
country to serving his
community in retirement
By Ellie Potter
The Dickinson Press
eorge Nodland served in a forgotten war, a war so
underappreciated he has a decade-long disability claim
for post-traumatic stress disorder that has not been
settled.
At the age of 20 George received the same call so many
other men across the country at the time were receiving: he
had been drafted.
A recent graduate from Killdeer High School, George had
planned on working in construction to start earning money
in lieu of college, making him an easy target when the
bullets started flying over seas.
But George had what appeared to be one stroke of luck at the
time. He would not be serving in Vietnam. He was deployed to
South Korea, as a member of the United States Army.
After the Korean War the U.S. remained to help defend
and assist South Korea against the northern communist
regime. But his time there was far from peaceful.
We had conflicts similar to Vietnam, but the
administration was able to keep the media out of it
because Vietnam was so unpopular, and they didnt want
to stir up more Americans against the Korean issue versus
Vietnam, he said.
He referred to the conflict as the Second Korean War
starting in November of 1966 through 1969, roughly.
There were 50,000 American troops on the ground over his
13-month tour.

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Police block the highway from protesters next to the pipeline route Friday during a protest against the
Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in St. Anthony.

Decision on Dakota Access

pipeline due in next few days
Thirty nine arrested at
protest sight.
By Stephanie Keith
and Julia Harte
Reuters
MANDAN About 40 protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline were
arrested on Friday, Nov. 11, in
rural North Dakota as the U.S.

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the line can be built under Lake

Oahe, where construction had
stopped in September.
Police again confronted
about 100 protesters at a construction site on the pipeline,
which has drawn steady opposition from Native American
and environmental activists
since the summer.

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Trump assails protesters,

then praises their passion

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Army Corps of Engineers said it

would soon clarify its plans for
the controversial project near
sacred tribal lands.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
spokeswoman Amy Gaskill said
it would issue a decision on its
next steps within a few days
though it would perhaps not be
a final decision.
It was unclear whether it would
resolve the question of whether

Demonstrators
break a shop
window during
a protest
against the
election of
Republican
Donald Trump
as president in
Portland, Ore.
Reuters

By Ian Simpson
and David Ingram
Reuters
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK
President-elect Donald Trump
denounced Americans who
protested against his election
and hours later praised them
on Friday, Nov. 11, underscoring
contradictions that have raised
questions about his leadership
style.
Love the fact that the small
groups of protesters last night
have passion for our great country. We will all come together
and be proud! Trump tweeted
early on Friday.

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TRUMP PROTEST
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It was a sharp shift in

tone from his tweet hours
earlier dismissing the
demonstrators in eight
cities as professional
protesters, incited by the
media.
The
contradictory tweets were further
evidence of Trumps
mixed messages since he
announced his candidacy 17 months ago. After
Clinton conceded defeat
early on Wednesday, he
took a far more conciliatory tone than he had
often displayed during his
campaign and promised
to be a president for all
Americans.
Anti-Trump demonstrators voiced concerns
his presidency, due to start
on Jan. 20, would infringe
on Americans civil and
human rights. They cited
his campaign promises to
restrict immigration and
register Muslims, as well
as allegations the Republican Trump, a former

VETERAN
From Page A1

He worked on a missile
site as a maintenance
specialist near Seoul
where they were
supposed to defend
the city from northern
infiltrators. While most
of the fighting took
place near the dividing
lines between the two
countries, there was
action further south. The
North Koreans bombed
three trains while he was
there. About a month
after he arrived the
troops were put on red
alert in 1966. In total, 22
Americans died during
his deployment and 54
more were injured.
In my case, like I
always say, I slept with
one eye open for 13
months, he said. I had
no sleep. I had no sleep.
It was tense.
George learned about
the world very quickly
during the war. Having
grown up in rural North
Dakota surrounded
mostly by people of
eastern European
descent, he was tossed
into barracks with
Americans from all
different backgrounds
from the Louisiana boys
with French Canadian
ancestry to the African
American men. His best
friend was a 26-year old
black man who slept on
the bunk above him and
acted as his mentor.
The military proved to
be a great fit for George,
something that he would
have seriously considered
as a career but he had
his fianc back home to
get back to.
It fit me, or I fit the
military. I still do. I get
accused of that, he said.
The troops had heard
about the Vietnam War
protests back home, but
they were unprepared
for the magnitude of
protesters awaiting
them. The troops flew
back into Seattle where
they got their first
taste of the protesters.
He then flew alone to
Minneapolis where the
crowd of protesters was
so large airport security
ushered him into a bar
in a private section of
the airport to wait for
his flight before ushering
him onto his next
destination.
I called my wife-to-be
and said, Bring civilian
clothes, and I took them
off then and havent
put them on since. Fifty
years, he said.
Growing up he had

professor of political science at the school. I suspect that protests, especially on college campuses, will be a more or less
permanent feature of his
presidency.
With the country evenly
divided, many voters were
shocked by the result
given that opinion polls
failed to predict Trumps
triumph. The Republican
Party also managed to
maintain its majorities in
both houses of Congress
in Tuesdays vote.

Tensions were high

on Thursday night in
Baltimore where Mark
Patro, 60, and his partner, Yanni Stavropoulos,
39, marched in an antiTrump
demonstration
carrying the rainbow flag
of the gay rights movement.
Were here to bring to
Donald Trumps attention

that we dont support his

rhetoric, said Patro, a
draftsman. We intend to
resist, and I believe that
resistance will continue for many Americans
throughout his presidency.
The crowds on the
streets of eight cities including New York,
Washington, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., on
Thursday were diverse in
their ethnic makeup and
largely made up of young
adults and college students.
One measure of young
Americans feeling for
Trump: A poll by the
UMass Lowell Center for
Public Opinion prior to
the election showed that
some 66 percent of young
U.S. adults aged 18 to 35
thought Trump should
have dropped out of the
race following the October
release of a 2005 video in
which he was seen talking
about groping women.
This antipathy towards
Trump is very real and
very deep-seated, said
Joshua Dyck, an associate

always been taught to be

patriotic and respect the
flag, something ingrained
in him by his elders who
had served in World
War I and World War II.
Now he was being called
names such as baby
killer for a war that he
never served in. He had
never set foot in Vietnam.
He was tremendously
proud of his service
knowing that he had
helped the South Koreans
establish a democracy
even earning four
medals, something that
was not common at that
time, he said. But he
came home to a nation
in such turmoil he no
longer wished to wear
the uniform he had once
displayed proudly.
After returning to
the area, he enrolled
at Dickinson State
University to pursue a
business degree. There
he had professors
who had anti-war
views and harassed
the veterans, he said.
Eventually universities
all around the nation
began forming veterans
clubs, something DSU
also took part in. He
joined donning his green
veterans club letter
jacket around campus.
He later started a
local business, started
a family, had an oil
business during one
of the booms, served
as a Stark County
commissioner for eight
years, worked as a banker
and even served as a
state senator for a term.
But keeping himself busy
did not entirely eclipse
the emotional damage his
time in the service had
caused.
Most of us we came
home and just sucked
it up because the WWII
guys, thats what they
did, he said. You just
forget about it, you went
to college, got married,
started having children,
went to work, you just
kept yourself busy so you
wouldnt think about it.
Now Im 71 years old, and
its bothering me. And
thats normal. When you
talk to the people at the
Veterans Administration,
thats very normal.
He now does all he can
to help support veterans
he meets attending coffee
groups and referring
people to Jessica Clifton,
the countys veterans
service officer.
Hes been a wonderful
advocate for veterans and
helping other veterans in
the community, Jessica
said. Hes just been
a wonderful, positive

role model for me, as a

veteran myself, so hes
been a joy to know and a
great person.
She said she thinks
part of his drive comes
from being a veteran of
such an unappreciated
period.
Now veterans are
well-recognized,
well-appreciated and
everybody is very grateful
and generous so to speak,
she said. Its definitely
a different timezone than
from when George had to
serve and what he had to
experience. I have more
positive experiences after
when I came home. All
my experience has been
positive unlike George
and the Korean War and
Vietnam veterans. They
did not receive that.
Jessica helps veterans
get in touch with the
resources they need
and helps them file
disability claims. George
is still trying to fight
for his disability claim
through the Veterans
Administration to little
avail. She said some of
his obstacles are from
being a part of a war so
few knew about.
When he served
there wasnt much
documentation back then
about what happened,
where it happened
and what took place,
so unlike the Vietnam
veterans if you had
boots on ground in
Vietnam thats all the
stressors you need for
that event to happen,
she said.
Though retired, George
still keeps himself busy
continuing to serve on
the North Dakota State
Water Commission, as
the secretary-treasurer
of the DSU Heritage
Foundation and as a
volunteer of Amen Food
Pantry, where he used
to serve as president.
In total he estimated he
has served on 25 to 30
different boards in his
lifetime.
George is passionate
in everything that he
does, said his friend and
former coworker Marty
Opdahl said. I believe
that a lot of the passion
came from his service
and his dedication to the
service and his dedication
to the United States.
Marty said Georges
motto has always
been to give back. The
two often discuss the
importance of taking a
moment to realize how
fortunate Americans
and particularly North
Dakotans are to live
in such a free society,

reality-TV star, sexually

abused women.
In
various
cities,
marchers chanted slogans
including, No hate! No
fear! Immigrants are welcome here! and carried
signs reading, Impeach
Trump.
White
supremacist
groups including the Ku
Klux Klan have praised
Trumps election and
some civil rights advocacy groups have reported a spike of attacks on
minorities
following
Trumps Tuesday victory over Democrat Hillary
Clinton.
Trump has rejected the
KKKs support.

Pledge of resistance

The Dickinson Press

More
anti-Trump
demonstrations
were
planned for the weekend in cities including
New York and Los Angeles, and a group calling
itself #NotMyPresident
scheduled an anti-Trump
rally for Washington on
Jan. 20, Inauguration
Day, when the New York
real-estate developer formally succeeds President
Barack Obama.
Thursdays gatherings
were generally smaller

in scale and less intense

than Wednesdays, and
teenagers and young
adults again dominated
the racially mixed crowds.
Republican
National Committee Chairman
Reince Priebus on Friday
acknowledged the tight
race with Clinton, but
said anti-Trump protesters had to accept the election results. He pointed to
Trumps call for unity and
meetings on Thursday
with Obama and Republican leaders as reasons for
reassurance.
Everyone needs to just
take a deep breath, take
the weekend ... count our
blessings, and lets come
back on Monday, Priebus said.
Security
barricades
were in place around some
of Trumps highly visible properties, including
the newly opened Trump
International Hotel near
the White House and in
Trump Tower on New
Yorks Fifth Avenue,
where he lives.
Trumps base of support in the election was

the broad middle of the

country, from the Heartland through the Rust
Belt, with voters in states
that had long supported
Democrats shifting their
support to Trump after
he promised to renegotiate trade deals with other
countries.
In Washington two
Trump supporters carried
signs reading: All We are
Saying is Give Trump a
Chance.
A protest in Portland
late Thursday grew violent with demonstrators
throwing objects at police
and damaging cars at a
dealership. Police arrested at least 26 people.
In Los Angeles, police
arrested about 185 people,
mostly for blocking roadways or being juveniles
out past curfew, during
a Thursday night march,
police
spokeswoman
Norma Eisenman said in
a telephone interview.
One officer was hospitalized for injuries suffered during the protest,
she said.

a nice community.
George always notes the
significance of giving
back rather than just
accepting ones good
fortune in being an
American, Marty said.
In South Korea George
learned the further
importance of the flag.
They raised it every
morning, said the pledge
every morning and
the American flag flew
higher than the South
Korean.
We understand what
that flag means, he said.
You have to be in the
military to understand
the military. And we all
say that and everybody
calls that a cop-out, but
it really isnt. Its the
truth.
He is a life member
of the Legion and the
Veterans of Foreign

Wars, though he does not

attend any meetings. He
also has presided as the
master of ceremonies at
the Dickinson Veterans
Day ceremony the city
hosts for years.
Every day 22 veterans
commit suicide, and
about two-thirds of
those are people 50
years and older, he said.
His generation simply
did not talk about their
experiences in war. It
took him years to tell his
wife the truth about what
he went through, and he
kept the secret from his
mother her entire life.
The anti-war protests
and dialogue around
the nation now have
started to remind him of
the years right after his
service. But he pointed
out that the nation had
healed after the Civil War

a war that killed more

Americans than any of
the other wars combined.
America will unite again,
he said.
Ultimately he hopes
veterans will take
advantage of the services
available to help them
better handle the
emotional toll their time
in the service took.
If theres a veteran
out there that is
struggling, he should
seek help, or she,
George said. Dont
suck it up. Theres help.
Contact your veterans
service officer, thats
what they call them, at
your county courthouse.

More protests
planned

Potter is a reporter for The

Dickinson Press. Email her at
epotter@thedickinsonpress.com, call
her at 701-456-1211 and tweet her
at potter_ellie.

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