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Curtis Weinrich, Liz Dwyer and their daughter, Andalucia, sit amongst their flock of Icelandic sheep and colored Angora goats Oct. 30 in Clearwater. Dwyer is a fiber and felt artist, and the family shears the animals twice a year for their fleece.
Fiber, felt artist constructs utility pieces from flock By NATASHA BARBER Staff Writer
CLEARWATER – From the gravel roads of rural Clearwater, one Minnesota native is sharing the magnificence and utility of less common livestock through her art and everyday items. In addition to being a farmer, Liz Dwyer is a fiber and felt artist. After moving away from her hometown for seven years, Dwyer returned in spring 2012 with her now husband Curtis Weinrich to take over her family’s farm. The two reside on Dancing the Land Farm, a non-certified organic farm 7 miles west of Clearwater, with their daughter, Andalucia, and an assortment of animals which include peacocks, guineas, chickens, hogs, dairy goats and the family dog. In addition to growing produce and flowers for retail and wholesale customers, the family cares for a flock of roughly 75 Icelandic sheep and colored Angora goats that are raised for their fleeces. “Goats and sheep are just a portion of what we do,” Dwyer said. “We mostly
utilize them because, one, we enjoy the milk and meat; two, I am a fiber artist; and three, because they have been crucial in rehabilitating our land.” When Dwyer and Weinrich moved to the farmstead, the land had been used for an unrotated corn crop for many years which left the soil depleted. The two purchased grazing animals to help establish a fertile soil for the family to begin its gardens. “(The sheep and goats) are one aspect of what we do, a crucial part, but they are definitely a piece of a whole,” Dwyer said. Amongst the fruits, vegetables, flowers and meat that Dancing the Land Farm sells at the St. Joseph Farmers Market and Good Earth Food Co-op in St. Cloud is yarn directly sourced from the flock that grazes on 20 acres of the family’s property. Icelandic sheep have a characteristic dual-coat fleece and Angora goats are known for mohair. The animals are shorn twice a year, each producing an average of 8-12 pounds of fiber or wool annually. “Mohair is incredibly durable,” Dwyer said. “… It has this wonderful luster
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A children’s felt and embroidered vest lies on an ala-kiis Oct. 30 at Dancing the Land Farm in Clearwater. An ala-kiis carpet is formed in one piece by laying colored fibers next to and over others; there is no stitching or cutting involved.
to it; it kind of glows because of the way the light hits the strand and bounces off. It is really soft and warm, too.” Dwyer said mohair is a slippery textile, so it is often blended with other material in order to be carded and spun into yarn. However, with the help of a mill in southwest Wisconsin, Dwyer’s fiber has been spun into 100% mohair yarn. Though both fibers can be used for
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felting, Icelandic sheep wool is particularly suited to making a strong, soft felt. Once finished, the pieces provide substantial insulation and are nearly indestructible. In ancient times, felt was used as armor as it could be made to withstand an arrow’s piercing. Today, felt remains
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DWYER continued from front an exceptional fabric for rugs, saddle blankets, hats, slippers and more. “If you ever run your hand up a strand of your hair versus down, it is rough one way and smooth the other,” Dwyer said. “Those scales are what makes felting possible. When you get the fiber wet, the center of the strand swells and all those scales open up and turn into a long string of fish hooks, essentially. And then, with a little bit of friction in the right place, all those fibers become entwined and they can’t back out, so it becomes a permanent matrix.” Felting is performed by arranging washed and teased wool (carded fleece) in perpendicular layers to one another in a desired shape. Fibers are moistened with an alkaline solution – Dwyer uses soap and water, ancient nomads used animal whey – in order to induce the fibers to swell. Then, vari-
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Colored Angora goats (above and lower left) stand in a pasture Oct. 30 at Dancing the Land Farm in Clearwater. Angora goats are known for their Mohair fleeces, which are lustrous and durable.
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A portion of a shyrdak – a traditional cut and stitched felt floor covering – is pictured with Mohair yarn and a colored Angora goat fleece Oct. 30 at Dancing the Land Farm in Clearwater. Shyrdaks are a cultural heirloom to Kyrgyz people, an ethnic group in Central Asia.
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Recently shorn Icelandic sheep graze Oct. 30 at Dancing the Land Farm in Clearwater. The animals, which are known for their dual coat, are shorn twice each year.
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Friday, November 15, 2019 - Country Acres • Page 3 DWYER continued from page 2 able amounts of friction are applied and the fibers work themselves into a tangle that creates a unified piece. For pieces such as hats and mittens, material is felted around a barrier before a slit is cut to release the
pattern. Contouring is finished by additional friction which shrinks the space between fibers and increases strength. Although Dwyer was a fiber and felt artist years prior, meeting members of
Kyrgyzstan’s Seven Sisters label and traveling to the country in 2016 has broadened her adoration for felt making and the rich culture which surrounds the art. For the Kyrgyz people in Central Asia, Dwyer said sheep and goats have been a key part of their culture. The nomads tend to their flocks while living in homes (yurts) made of felt and sustain their families from the foods the animals provide. “You have this amazing animal – this sheep – which not only feeds you with milk, cheese and meat, but then you can shear its fiber and the leftover whey is actually what gives you
the ability to make felt as well,” Dwyer said. “The sheep in these cultures is like a parent of the people because it houses, clothes and feeds you.” Because Kyrgyzstan did not claim its independence from the Soviet Union until 1991, the longstanding tradition of felting has been fleeting as generations pass on. Alongside fellow Minnesotan Mary Reichert, of Grand Marais, Dwyer learned the art of making a shyrdak while overseas. Shyrdaks are a traditional wedding gift that mothers and grandmothers spend a year or more making in order to give to their daughters on
their wedding day. They are large cut-and-stitched felt floor or wall coverings, and Dwyer said she is one of four women, not of Kyrgyz descent, who have been passed down the knowledge in hopes to preserve the culture. She traveled to a school in New Mexico Nov. 4-10 to finish two 10- by 16-foot shyrdaks with the Kyrgyz artisans’ guidance. “To be given that gift and to be given permission by their people to keep their story alive is a huge responsibility that I take very seriously,” Dwyer said. “I’m so grateful for the opportunity for it. … They want to keep their
craft alive and have asked me to help do that. It’s an amazing opportunity to share cultures, to know where things come from and to pay homage and credence to the origins.” And, because the Central Asian craftspeople are making utilitarian art, learning the practices about felt-making history coincides with the central Minnesotan’s values: Dwyer enjoys making practical art. “I’m one of those people who if I use it every day, I want to know how to do it,” she said. “I think it is so important to have those skills and to carry on traditions.”
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A limited hunt
Mertens offers hope for the disabled
By DIANE LEUKAM Staff Writer
SPICER – The sun was rising on the south ridge overlooking a picturesque expanse of countryside. Wooded hills in the distance gave way to lower ground and areas of brush as two men quietly surveyed the landscape, alert to any movement or sound nearby. As they waited in a makeshift blind fashioned of hay bales, the deer they were hoping for stepped into view. One of the men steadied his shotgun, along with the adrenaline rush of the hunt, and slowly pulled the trigger. It was a clean shot and Mark Mertens knew he would have venison for another year. Smiling, the 40-year-old made his way out of the blind. He knew the plan that had been forming would work. “That idea of hunting has been with me for a long time,” he said. “I like to hunt and fish and I figured that a lot of other people with disabilities felt the same way.” That first hunt was in 1999 and Mertens is proud to be celebrating the 20th annual Limited Deer Hunt. The hunt is for those with
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Hunters and volunteers of the 2018 Limited Deer Hunt gather for a photo Nov. 10, 2018 at the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center in Spicer. Each year in November, the event is held to give disabled sportsmen an opportunity to hunt. physical disabilities and Mertens can relate to them. In fact, he has spent his life helping people with disabilities. “I am a paraplegic and I’ve been in a wheelchair since 1976,” he said. “I was injured in a car accident. I broke my back, so I have been using a wheelchair since that time. Initially, friends helped out and they would bring me out in the blinds, bring
me duck hunting and deer hunting, and it was rough going. They wanted to help and I wanted to go.” Just 17 at the time, Mertens had a mourning process to go through. “We were a typical family, involved in a lot of things,” he said “My deal was golfing. I was a golfer; that’s what I wanted to do. I practiced in the summer, pretty much all day every day at the golf course. The
accident and not being able to golf again was traumatic for me, wondering what I was going to do.” Fortunately, Mertens was a good student. He studied at the University of Minnesota and got his undergraduate degree in psychology, followed by St. Cloud State and a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling. Following graduation, he began working with the
State of Minnesota in St. Paul as a vocational rehabilitation counselor. Eventually through openings that became available he managed to get back to his hometown area of rural Spicer on Nest Lake while working in Willmar. In the human services building for Kandiyohi County, Mertens met co-workers Dave Metzel and Ryan Newville. They were to become a team.
County commissioners at the time knew Mertens and that he was disabled. They approached him about the possibility of doing a disabled hunt, and the core group of Mertens, Metzel and Newville was formed. Today, they continue with the hunt that began two decades ago. “I worked with them,
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Page 6 • Country Acres - Friday, November 15, 2019 MERTENS continued from page 5 Deer Hunt. On that day, a small army of volunteers will be on hand to make the day special for people with physical disabilities who couldn’t otherwise hunt. People like Aaron Cross. “Aaron is from St. Cloud and is one of the hunters who has been with us nearly the entire time,” Mertens said. “He is a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. He was a Paralympic archer, and he earned a medal in the Greece Paralympic Games. He is a motivational speaker and owns a training company in St. Cloud.” Cross, an avid hunter, has also given back to the program with ideas about building equipment to help people shoot. “We had a young guy with Muscular Dystrophy,” Mertens said. “He was 15 or 16 the first time he came with us and he had no leg or arm movement. He could move his head a little bit to turn and he had mouth and lip function, and he wanted to hunt. So, between his family and Aaron, they were able to develop a mount that attached to his electric wheelchair with the gun shaft right in front of him so he could see down the barrel and the sighting. They had a trigger he could pull back with his mouth and that would
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discharge the gun, and a joystick and turret system so that he could turn the chair to the right position and shoot. He was able to get a deer the second year.” The young man has since passed away, but Mertens will never forget the expression on his face and that of his family. Others have passed away as well, like Randy Fischer of the Olivia area, who hunted from the second hunt on for many years until he was in a car accident that took his life. No matter the disability, each participant must earn the right to hunt. “We do have a qualifying in that they must be able to hit an 8-inch circle 40-50 yards away three of five times,” Mertens said. “They have to be able to safely discharge the weapon and be accurate enough that we don’t wound the deer very much and they have good shots. We’ve been pretty successful with that; these hunters’ ability to do that is kind of neat.” Every disabled hunter has a partner in the blind with them who helps look for deer because they can come from any direction. If the hunter is able to shoot a deer, this person helps to dress the deer, ready it for the trailer and bring it back to the center. Even more importantly, this person
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Mark Mertens shows off his deer in 2012 in Spicer. Behind him is the specially-equipped blind with handicapped accessible features for the Limited Deer Hunt. is responsible for making sure everything is going well, as some of the hunters are medically fragile. There are multiple aspects to the whole process and Mertens is quick to say there would be no hunt at all if not for the support and many donations of people in the area communities, along with the volunteers. “I can’t say enough about the volunteers; we were so lucky in finding people that wanted to use their skills in building trailers or blinds, sitting with the hunter during the hunt,
fundraising, raffles, and many other things over the years,” he said. “We have also had great support from the County board and the Prairie Woods board.” With special needs come specialized equipment, all of which have evolved. “We started not knowing a lot of things but we kept at it, persisted and became better as we progressed,” Mertens said. For him and the volunteers, it is about the people they serve. “Seeing the looks on
some of the people’s faces when they are in the blinds before the hunt – many have not hunted for quite a while and now they are able – that is really special,” Mertens said. “The positive outcomes from that are always at the core of what we wanted to do, and it is really satisfying for not only the hunters but the volunteers.” For Mertens, helping the disabled is more than a hunt in November. Af-
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Friday, November 15, 2019 - Country Acres • Page 7 MERTENS continued from page 6 ter working for the state for 28-and-a-half years as a counselor, he is now retired but continues to serve the disabled. “I work with Aaron Cross in St. Cloud training high school students,” he said. “We train on independent living skills, we do a lot of permit testing training for them to drive, budgeting, time management and a number of other skills.” Whether he meets people with disabilities through the hunt or work,
Merten tries to offer hope. He encourages them to keep their outlook as positive as possible, and reassures them it is OK to reach out for help. “You can’t do it alone, you need help,” he said. “We as U.S. citizens are very lucky. People with disabilities can take advantage of the programs out there to help deal with what they are going through. Medical technology has gotten so much better, and there is information out there. Family and
friends are so important in that process and if they are not available, there are people out there that can help them find a place to get support.” He knows from experience. “You have your ups and downs and there are limitations, but you have to pick yourself up if you want to be successful,” he said. “And, it can open up doors for you that you never knew existed.”
Wills, in chair on left, speaks with Aaron Cross (right), while Wills’ helpers look on. Cross helped design the equipment necessary for Wills to take part in the Limited Deer Hunt. He is also a motivational speaker and a medal-winning archer in the Greece Paralympic Games.
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Epitome of community found in rural Minnesota Lowry farmers harvest fields for late neighbor used four combines to clear the fields in about five hours. The two Johnson families have known each other for some time. Their farms are only a half mile apart. Nearly 60 years ago, when Zach’s grandfather passed, Norman was in the fields for them. So, when Zach got the unexpected call from Norman’s son, Lyn, there was no question he was going to return the favor. “Norman was their combine operator, so Dad (Nathan) and I knew we wanted to help if we could,� Zach said. “We knew [the Johnsons] would never call and ask, but would appreciate it if we offered.� Then, Zach extended the opportunity to the Andersons, whose farmland also butts up against the Johnsons’. “We lost my mom last year during spring planting, so we knew how stressful this time was for them and all the other decisions they had to make,� Angie said. “With the already wet conditions and late harvest,
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LOWRY – The fall harvest has been nothing short of a headache for many farmers across the state. Yet, when one family needed help, there was no question other farmers would put their harvest on hold and clear another’s fields. “It’s just what you do when someone else gets in a bind,� Cullen Anderson said. “All of our neighbors would do the same.� Cullen and his wife, Angie, and neighbors Nathan and Zach Johnson, harvested 200 acres of soybeans Oct. 28 near Lowry for Norman Johnson’s family when Norman suddenly passed Oct. 24 after recently being diagnosed with colon cancer. Barry Anderson, Allen Dahlseng and Jim Drewes also joined the team of four. They helped deliver the grain to CHS Prairie Lakes’ Glenwood location. Together, the crew
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Zach Johnson crop farms with his dad, Nathan, in Pope County near Lowry. The two were a part of the team of farmers who helped combine 200 acres of soybeans Oct. 28 for Lyn Johnson after his father, Norman, passed four days prior. and then a sudden loss, we knew how hard it was going to be for them to just have time to grieve.� Cullen agreed. “I told Zach to tell me when and we’d be there,� he said. “Lowry is a pret-
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Cullen and Angie also each drove one. Cullen’s brother, Barry, and Dahlseng and Drewes ran grain cart as the cooperative brought two semi trucks to quickly haul the grain to town. “We knew if we could
get the grain to the co-op without having to dry it first, that would be less stressful for Lyn,� Zach said.
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Angie agreed. “It was a nice day and worked out for everybody,” she said. The day ended with Norman’s wife, Irma, having pizza delivered and John McMahon, of McMahon Oil in Glenwood, bringing hamburgers. “We were very well fed,” Cullen said. The entire harvest was captured by Zach – the man behind the MN Millennial Farmer YouTube Channel. As soon as the video was published, it went viral. “We certainly weren’t looking for attention,” Angie said. Zach agreed. “This was a thing I never expected to take off,” he said. “It’s what happens all over. It’s who we are as people, as a community of farmers who provide for the world.”
Perhaps what brings the Johnsons and Andersons the most joy is knowing how pleased their late neighbor would have been had he watched the Lowry community rally together for him. “Norman and his family are humble people,” Angie said. “What we did for them showed a great sense of community as we helped each other out.” Zach agreed. “Norman was always the first one there in any situation, and it’s really cool that we can repay him in this way,” he said. As the group of farmers reflects on the late October harvest, it was just another day for them. “We are American farmers, and the cool thing about farming is we would PHOTO BY JENNIFER COYNE do anything for each oth- Cullen and Angie Anderson are crop and livestock farmers near Lowry. The Andersons helped harvest soybeans Oct. 28 for the neigher,” he said. bors after a family member suddenly passed. Cullen’s brother, Barry, and neighbors, Allen Dahlseng and Jim Drewes, also helped.
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By EVAN MICHEALSON dent is at the forefront of Goat Haven Acres, a herd Staff Writer of Nigerian Dwarf goats. She has discovered the vast AVON – Ever since fortuity caring for these she could remember, Bre- goats has provided. “I never realized how anna Klaphake had always wanted to own goats. The much they would have to animal lover begged her offer,” she said. “I never parents for some and she realized how deep it (my eventually found her path love for goats) would go.” Klaphake’s most reto receiving them. “In seventh grade, my cent endeavor is fashiondad said if you got all A’s, ing soap out of frozen you could get two goats,” goat milk and oils, with she said. “I got all A’s and fragrances ranging from my dad didn’t recall telling distinctive pink peony to classic lavender. me that.” The idea spawned afDespite the setback, Klaphake would receive ter Klaphake made a restwo goats in the spring of olute effort to store goat 2016: Calvin and Finley. milk in her freezer for Finally, the 18-year-old emergency bottle-feeding had received her lifetime situations. However, as she noticed the milk piling up, wish. Unfortunately, she did she wanted to invest that not understand the intri- stockpile into new ideas cate details necessary to and found the perfect cresuccessfully care for the ation while browsing sogoats. Finley died from cial media. “I was going through bloat while Calvin died as a result of coccidia, a heart- Facebook groups thinking, breaking introduction to ‘What would be something the difficult world of goat simple?’” Klaphake said. “I found this one simple farming. “That’s how I learned a recipe and followed it to lot about goats,” Klaphake see if it could even set corsaid. “I did my research rectly.” The first batch consiston bloat and learned about toxic plants. Goats are ed of basic, squared soap pickier than people real- bars. The overall result was promising enough for ize.” Now, the Avon resi- Klaphake to experiment
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said. More importantly, through effort and dedication, Klaphake is continuing to progress in her understanding of keeping her goats healthy and happy. She vaccinates them annually and trims their hooves every six weeks. “It’s been so wet, their hooves can develop hoof rot or other complications if not trimmed on a regular schedule,” she said. Goat Haven Acres is a permanent home to 10 Nigerian dwarf goats: Rusty, Penny, Agnus, Doe, Darcy, Stanley, Dixie, Myrtle, Coco and Gracie. Much like dogs, the goats have distinctive personalities that have stood out. “Rusty would much rather hang out with humans than the other goats,” Klaphake said. “If someone else is in the yard, he’ll hang out with them. He doesn’t care about eating grass. Myrtle is more on the shy side. The other goats can boss her around and she goes with the flow.” Breanna Klaphake watches Agnus eat on a milking stand. Agnus It has not been easy is part of Klaphake’s ADGA-registered herd along with nine other to jumpstart Goat Haven goats. Farms. Along with register-
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orate the top so it can have a little curve,” Klaphake said. “I like that look. I want to do something different, something that will catch someone’s eye.” Klaphake’s trend-setting idealism comes from a youthful mindset. She eagerly hopes to eventually delve into more goat milk products and constantly searches for future product plans, including face wash and lip balm. “I’m open to all different new, unique ideas,” she
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Friday, November 15, 2019 - Country Acres • Page 13 KLAPHAKE continued from page 12 feet, while my fence is 4 feet at a point,” Klaphake said. “If a coyote came, the goats would have no defense at night or even during the day. A couple of weeks ago, there was a coyote in the backyard at 8 a.m. I’ve never seen one so close. It really brought to reality that they’re right there.” And as aspirations continue to grow, so too will the herd. Klaphake and Simon bought a 38-acre property in Fairhaven and will move the ADGA-registered herd to that location
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to her parents, Bob and Mary Jo Walsh, who live just two miles away. They were having trouble with him chasing their cows. While Bear spent a couple of weeks with Mead, she made a discovery. “I discovered he was good a candidate for search and rescue so I kept him,” she said. “He is happy here with a job he can do. We are just joining a search and rescue team and are in the process of teaching him. He is really excited about tracking people. I think he has a promising future.” Central Lakes Search and Rescue is a volunteer group based in Garfield and something Mead finds to be a great volunteer opportunity to use her dogs for good and to give back. “They’re an amazing group,” Mead said. “I have been working with them for years and help with the obedience and any issues where the dogs need help from a trainer.” Another of Mead’s Shepherds, Titan, has different skills. Titan loves to track deer and bears. “A deer and bear recovery dog will be more athletic and driven than a typical dog that is happy sleeping on the couch,” Mead said. “They choose their careers.” A new law was passed in Minnesota this year that
allows hunters to use a dog to track their deer or bear after it has been shot. The law is very specific in that dogs are not allowed to track or chase the animal beforehand. “We are not teaching the dog to hunt for deer,” she said. “We’re teaching the dog to hunt for a reward and they have to follow the smell of blood and hide to get to it. The dog is not passionate about deer but about the reward it will get when it finds the deer.” The dog must be on a leash no longer than 30 feet; the handler or the hunter has to be licensed and have a tag for the deer, and the hunter must have permission to be on the land. Mead has been called out a number of times already this season with her dog to track deer but would love to teach people how to teach their dogs to do it. That way, if they get a deer and it was not as good a shot as they hoped, they can respond immediately and follow the blood trail to recover it right away. Mead says training methods are the same regardless of what a dog is searching for and a successful search will end in whatever the dog finds most rewarding. “It can be different from dog to dog,” she said. “If the dog isn’t motivated by anything else, I can
Titan closes in on his find while his owner, Cassie Mead follows. For tracking deer or bears, dogs must be on a leash not longer than 30 feet.
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Twenty years as a Marine
Borgerding served as presidential guard, was deployed multiple times overseas
SAUK CENTRE – At 38 years old, Chris Borgerding of Sauk Centre may seem a little young to be retiring. But, having been an active Marine for 20 years, he has had more experiences than most people have had in their whole lives. Borgerding has been a recruiter, trainer, builder, guardian over authority – including the president of the United States – and much more, all during a time when history was being made. “Everybody always asks why I did 20 (years), especially during that time frame,” Borgerding said. “It’s what I always saw myself doing, and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Regardless of all the hard times and all the deployments, as difficult as they were sometimes, I always felt that was my calling, that was what I was supposed to be doing.” Growing up on a dairy farm near Sauk Centre,
Borgerding knew he wanted to go into the military; it was a matter of picking which branch. During his junior and senior years at Sauk Centre High School, Borgerding decided he wanted to join the Marine Corps. “The legacy is that it’s the most professional, the hardest and the tightest group,” Borgerding said. “If I was going to put myself in harm’s way, I wanted to make sure I trusted the people I worked with, and I had the highest-caliber people working with me.” Borgerding graduated high school in May 1999, and in August, went to boot camp at San Diego. The most memorable part of boot camp for Borgerding was the graduation challenge, called the crucible. Over a three-day training evaluation, candidates had four hours of sleep and two or three military meals during their challenges. On the last day, the crucible culminated with a climb up the Sierra Nevada mountains, starting around
2 a.m., and the graduation ceremony took place at the top. “When we climbed to the top of the mountain, the sun was just coming up over the Sierra Nevada mountains,” Borgerding said. “We could see the ocean and the sun coming up, and the whole thing’s over with. From that point on, you’re treated differently by the drill instructors, like everybody acts a little differently. That part really stuck with me through my career.” After graduation, Borgerding’s first duty station was in Washington, D.C. While in infantry training school, he was selected to be part of the presidential security team of four Marines to work with the Secret Service and other security agencies to keep the president safe. It took a while for the approval to come through; there was some government reshuffling, Borgerding’s security clearance package was lost at one point and then 9/11 happened. “I got selected for a
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as long as we can while the Secret Service remove the president and the other VIPs out of the area, so that’s our secondary duty. We should never get to that point, but if it does, that’s why we have all that training and security checks on the frontside.” Borgerding had many interactions with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and many other people in power at the time. During his first year, Borgerding and his fellow Marine on duty were personally invited by Bush to join his family for Christmas dinner. Another event Borgerding remembers took place one year later between Christmas and New Year’s when he had to stand guard outside the West Wing door. “It was a particularly cold couple of days,” Borgerding said. “There’s a little buzzer that tells us when someone’s leaving
the West Wing so we can open the door. We heard the buzzer, went through the motions and opened the door, and out steps President Bush. He said, ‘Come inside; it’s too cold to be outside. I’m going to be working in here all day long, and I want you guys to stand inside. You can do your job from here, and if anybody says anything to say otherwise, let me know,’ and he handed me a cup of coffee he made.” Another thing Borgerding was allowed to do was give tours of the West Wing and the old executive office building next door, so he was able to show his mother and sister when they came to visit. Borgerding served as a guard until 2005; by then, he was 21 and had reached the rank of sergeant. He established a unit in North Carolina where they were
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Chris Borgerding stands on Saddam Hussein’s parade ground in 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Over his 20 years of service as a Marine, Borgerding was deployed to Iraq six times and was also sent to Afghanistan, Jordan, Guantanamo Bay and the Caribbean.
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setting up an antiterrorism battalion, and, in 2006, he had his first overseas deployment as security at the Baghdad embassy. Over the next 13 years, Borgerding was deployed to Iraq six times, as well as to Afghanistan, Jordan, Guantanamo Bay and the Caribbean. Some of his assignments included helping the fight against IS, providing convoy security, working with anti-narcotics forces, training military allies, repairing infrastructure and establishing schools and free markets. “What is put out on the news and what is covered isn’t really what the guy on the ground sees,” Borgerding said. “Our presence there changed life for those people who lived in the area. It had a big impact on
things while we were there and made stuff a lot safer.” In between deployments, Borgerding usually waived his dwell time, the regulation saying military must spend as much time at home as they do abroad. He married his wife, Maranda, in 2008 after his second deployment overseas; 26 days after the wedding, he was called back to Iraq. So far, he and Maranda have celebrated three Christmases and four anniversaries together. Borgerding also had several assignments stateside, including recruiting duty in Phoenix. “The first few months is always a struggle for everybody,” Borgerding said. “The Marine Corps isn’t about sales, so I had to learn a new skill, but I
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quickly established myself. It’s a little rocky getting everybody to trust you because some days you do feel like a used car salesman, but I actually did really well on recruiting duty.” When Borgerding returned from his 2017-19 deployment in Jordan, he retired in September at the rank of gunnery sergeant. He has considered obtaining an engineering degree, but his future is looking pretty open-ended. “I’m enjoying being in our house with my wife,” Borgerding said. “I’ve been gone for most of our marriage, and now we’re together. [Marine life] was hard, but it was fun. And, right now, the benefits of retiring have given us the flexibility to enjoy life.”
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