An Iowa native and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor has died.
John Baker, born in Davenport, died Friday at his home in South Carolina.
He was a larger-than-life soldier who, it turns out, was only 5’2.
Only 239 soldiers in Vietnam received the Medal of Honor.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins