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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By John Gottberg Anderson • For / The Bulletin
November 11, 2012
PORTLAND —
Kreg Viestenz was just 19 when he died in Vietnam.
A Private First Class in the U.S. Army’s First Air Cavalry Division, Viestenz took a bullet on Sept. 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province. He had arrived in Southeast Asia only a month earlier. According to reports, he was administering....