WHITE CITY, Ore. (AP) — The state is going to put asphalt on a dirt path that veterans in Southern Oregon have long used to make their way from a Veterans Affairs facility to town.
Vietnam War veterans dubbed it the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the name stuck.
The rutted path runs alongside Oregon 62 nearly a mile to White City. Officials of the Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinic — formerly known as the domiciliary — say it gets a lot of use.
The Medford Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/nMuylE ) that the paving was an initiative of William Fitzgerald, a state traffic analyst who served in Iraq as a member of the Army National Guard.
Fitzgerald saw a veteran in a wheelchair using the edge of the highway instead of the trail, which wasn’t accessible.
