{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D7024025-80A7-4EE6-8EBA-5F25F0E44F2B", "Boozman Recognizes Military Service of Late Bella Vista Veteran", "2024-07-16", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "John Boozman", "B001236", "www.boozman.senate.gov", "boozman", "https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) recognized the service and sacrifice of the late Marvin Trigg in \u2018Salute to Veterans,\u2019 a series recognizing the military service of Arkansans.\n\nTrigg grew up on his family\u2019s farm in rural Missouri. He was put to work at an early age milking cows and using a two man crosscut saw to harvest wood.\n\n\u201cI helped my dad because we heated with wood, I many times went out with him,\u201d Trigg recalled. \u201cI\u2019d be on one end and he\u2019d be on the other.\u201d\n\nTrigg said he walked to school until high school when he was bussed to school. He had to make sure he was finished milking the cow before the bus came.\n\nTrigg enlisted in the Army in 1955 when he was 21 years old.\n\n\u201cThey sent me to Fort Eustice, Virginia,\u201d Trigg said. \u201cFlew me out there and then decided they didn\u2019t have anything for me so they put me on a pullman car to send me back.\u201d\n\nHis family was supportive of his decision to enlist. \u201cThey thought it was a good idea.\u201d\n\nHe was first stationed at Fort Chaffee.\n\nTrigg served as an aircraft maintenance crewman. In addition, he said one of his responsibilities included mowing the grass at Fort Knox.\n\nOnce he finished his military commitment he used his GI Bill benefits to attend aviation school and earned his pilot\u2019s license.\n\nHe worked for a local company in his hometown flying across Missouri transporting canned goods.\n\nTrigg said his favorite part of military service was seeing different parts of the country.\n\n\u201cI am grateful for Marvin Trigg\u2019s dedication and service to our nation. His memories of his military service are an important part of our history, and I am pleased to be able to collect and preserve his stories for future generations,\u201d Boozman said.\n\nSadly, Trigg passed away December 20, 2023, but his interview will be submitted to the Veterans History Project, an initiative of the Library of Congress\u2019s American Folklife Center to collect and retain the oral histories of our nation\u2019s veterans.\n\nDo you know a veteran interested in sharing their memories for the \u2018Salute to Veterans\u2019 series? Nominate an Arkansas veteran to share their story by calling Boozman\u2019s Fort Smith office at 479-573-0189.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D7024025-80A7-4EE6-8EBA-5F25F0E44F2B"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6037120949476957, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}