Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

I miss those old guys whatever their branches of service were - the blokes who once populated this town and lined up at the bar in VFW Post 8663 in Roseau after 3 p.m. - some salty characters who didn't even make it overseas.

They had been drafted and therefore were my kind of guys.

For decades, Carrie Johnson at the Roseau Times-Region has highlighted them in the Looking Back column on the date they left for service in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam.

For instance, 75 years ago on June 12, 1943, nine Roseau men left by train for Fort Snelling, and their names were listed in a June 2018 editio...