The Jones County News salutes the local Veteran of the Week

Morgan Roy Turk is the local veteran of the week. He graduated from Mercer University in 1956 and received a regular U.S. Army commission as a second lieutenant in January of 1957. He had assignments in Fort Lee, Va., Fort Benning, Fort Hood, Texas, Fort Carson, Colo., Fort Rucker, Ala., Verdun, France, and Fort Leavenworth, Kan. In 1965, he was part of a planning group sent to Vietnam to form ...