• Advanced infantry training at Fort Ord, California. “I can’t believe I ever looked this young,” Mr. Bushmeyer said, laughing.
    Advanced infantry training at Fort Ord, California. “I can’t believe I ever looked this young,” Mr. Bushmeyer said, laughing.
  • “It’s been interesting to go back and remember things that I thought I forgot,” Mr. Bushmeyer said.
    “It’s been interesting to go back and remember things that I thought I forgot,” Mr. Bushmeyer said.

    One of the ways Perrysburg recognizes its veterans is through the Way Library’s participation in the Library of Congress Veterans Project. The purpose is the preservation of veterans’ service memories.

    Recently, the library recorded an interview with Perrysburg resident Jack Bushmeyer who served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972.

    He was born in 1946 in Carthage Missouri, growing up in nearby Neosho…