Editor’s note: This tribute is one in a series of reader-submitted tributes to Vietnam War-era veterans that will be posted during April. 

SGT. MIKE VOURI, USAF

HOMETOWN:  Friday Harbor

BRANCH:  U.S. Air Force

YEARS OF SERVICE: 1967-71

HIGHEST RANK OR GRADE ATTAINED:  Sergeant

SIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR: Special Forces Camp B-43, Cao Lahn, 1969-70.

POST-WAR CAREER: Journalist, author, San Juan Island National Historical Park historian