Saluting our veterans: Heaven Frerichs

By: 
Bethany Carson

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Heaven Frerichs enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2006 and served until 2012.
     She joined the youth program of the National Guard in her junior year of high school, going one weekend a month to prepare for basic training.
     “I had that year-long training before basic and had the advice of older people who knew what basic training was like, so I … knew what to expect,” Frerichs said.
     She joined the Army because helping people was something she always wanted to do, and she needed to find a way to pay for college.
 
Read more in the November 15 edition of the STAR.

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