. . Like many other young men who left Pittsburgh during the steel industry’s final throes of the 1980s, Jesse Mercure enlisted in the US Army and found a career and home there. He spent twenty years on active duty and another four as an active reservist before hanging up his uniform.
. . Eugene M. McShane is a native of Stonington, Connecticut. During WWII he enlisted in the Army in 1943 and trained as a forward artillery observer. During the allied invasion of Normandy, he landed on Omaha Beach (Dog Red zone) as part of the second wave, June 7, 1944 (D+1).
. . Bill McLaughlin served two years active duty in the Army, and then four years reserve duty during the Cold War era 1950s. Like many Army soldiers of the time, he served in Germany as part of the frontline defense against a Soviet takeover of Europe. In summer of 2013,
. . Sager McDill was drafted into the US Army at age 23, even though he was married and was an only child. “It seemed like they took our whole class from Westinghouse High School,” he recalls. After basic training he was assigned to the 9th Division at Fort Riley, Kansas, an
. . Michael Martier fought in the Battle of the Bulge with the US Army 17th Airborne Division in World War II.
. . Bill Marshall served with the US Army during Vietnam.
