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'''Aubrey Walsworth Young''' (May 1, 1922 &ndash; April 7, 2010) was a public official in the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]], who between 1965 and 1999 established multiple drug and [[alcohol]] treatment programs through the Department of Health and Hospitals in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=mns>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100410/NEWS01/4100307/Young-legacy-to-go-beyond-politics|author=Johnny Gunter|title="Young legacy to go beyond politics"|date=April 10, 2010|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=April 13, 2010}}</ref> A political activist, Young organized his contacts from [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] to support the election of the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[John J. McKeithen]] as [[governor]] of Louisiana in the 1963-64 election cycle.<ref name=obit/>​

'''Aubrey Walsworth Young''' (May 1, 1922 &ndash; April 7, 2010) was a public official in the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]], who between 1965 and 1999 established multiple drug and [[alcohol]] treatment programs through the Department of Health and Hospitals in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=mns>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20100410/NEWS01/4100307/Young-legacy-to-go-beyond-politics|author=Johnny Gunter|title="Young legacy to go beyond politics"|date=April 10, 2010|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star''|accessdate=April 13, 2010}}</ref> A political activist, Young organized his contacts from [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] to support the election of the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[John J. McKeithen]] as [[governor]] of Louisiana in the 1963-64 election cycle.<ref name=obit/>​

==Background==

==Background==

Young was born in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, to the former Cammie Mae Gulledge and William Earl Young, Sr., originally from the [[rural]] community of Start in neighboring Richland Parish. He attended the former Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, [[Mississippi]], east of [[New Orleans]]. He was the [[football]] quarterback at Gulf Coast under then Coach Carl Maddox, later the athletics director at [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge and [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville. Young left the military school and graduated instead from Neville High School in Monroe, at which he played football and [[baseball]] and was the captain of the last [[boxing]] team offered there.<ref name=mns/> He was also a cheerleader and a tenor in the Neville glee club. Young first attended on a boxing scholarship the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]], then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana, but he transferred thereafter to the University of Louisiana at Monroe.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dclassifieds?Dato=20100411&Kategori=OBITUARY&Class=30&Type=CAT30200&Lopenr=100400145&Selected=1|title=Aubrey W. Young|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=April 11, 2010|accessdate=April 13, 2010}}</ref>​

Young was born in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, to the former Cammie Mae Gulledge and William Earl Young, Sr., originally from the [[rural]] community of Start in neighboring Richland Parish. He attended the former Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, [[Mississippi]], east of [[New Orleans]]. He was the [[football]] quarterback at Gulf Coast under then Coach Carl Maddox, later the athletics director at [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge and [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville. Young left the military school and graduated instead from Neville High School in Monroe, at which he played football and [[baseball]] and was the captain of the last [[boxing]] team offered there.<ref name=mns/> He was also a cheerleader and a tenor in the Neville glee club. Young first attended on a boxing scholarship the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]], then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana, but he transferred thereafter to the University of Louisiana at Monroe.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dclassifieds?Dato=20100411&Kategori=OBITUARY&Class=30&Type=CAT30200&Lopenr=100400145&Selected=1|title=Aubrey W. Young|publisher=''Monroe News Star''|date=April 11, 2010|accessdate=April 13, 2010}}</ref>​

In 1942, he enlisted in the [[United States Army]] and joined the 17th Airborne Division, 513th Parachute Regiment. He earned his paratrooper wings after completing training at Fort Benning, [[Georgia]]. He fought with his battalion in the European Theater of [[World War II]] and was active in the [[Battle of the Bulge]], the Rhine River Jump in [[Germany]], and the battle of [[Luxembourg]] at the Our River.<ref name=mns/> He received the [[Bronze Star]], the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Air Medal. His military service provided lifelong commitments to the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans.<ref name=obit/>​

In 1942, he enlisted in the [[United States Army]] and joined the 17th Airborne Division, 513th Parachute Regiment. He earned his paratrooper wings after completing training at Fort Benning, [[Georgia]]. He fought with his battalion in the European Theater of [[World War II]] and was active in the [[Battle of the Bulge]], the Rhine River Jump in [[Germany]], and the battle of [[Luxembourg]] at the Our River.<ref name=mns/> He received the [[Bronze Star]], the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Air Medal. His military service provided lifelong commitments to the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans.<ref name=obit/>​