From the Jungle to the Capitol: How Vietnam shaped Sen. Richard Marcellais’s lifelong fight for veterans

From the Jungle to the Capitol: How Vietnam shaped Sen. Richard Marcellais’s lifelong fight for veterans

MINOT, ND (KXNET) — Long before he walked the halls of the North Dakota State Capitol or led his people as Chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Richard Marcellais was marching through the heat of Vietnam. The now state Senator left behind the quiet prairies for a war-torn jungle halfway across the world, not knowing that those footsteps would echo across the decades in everything he would become. It was 1968 when Richard Marcellais,…