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12 features) 12 The Second Amendment: A Closer Look Charlton Heston and Sarah Brady debate the Constitution's intentions regarding the right to bear arms. <. t»iORE 20 islam Can't Escape Blame for Sept. 11 Terrorist attacks are proof that Muslims need to police their own. By Amir Taheri VIOLEHC 24 Defending the Homeland With America's anti-terrorism agencies now under one umbrella, expect a national strategy to soon take shape. By Donald Lambro 30 Sucker Punched Veteran homesteaders watch their livelihoods wither thanks to a ruling that puts fish ahead of farms. ByJeffStoffer 38 Where Have All the weapons Gone? National-security experts fear at least some missing materiel may end up in hostile hands. By Susan Katz Keating 42 Good Morning Vietnam! The Air Force's most famous disc jockey talks fact and fiction behind the popular film. By Adrian Cronauer

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All about money people to blame he forgot to look and none of them would have Thanks for publishing L. Brent in the mirror. condoned an interpretation of the Bozell Ill's article "A Poisoned Not satisfied with the voluntary First Amendment to include crude Culture" (December). It is an ex- program ratings effort of the broad- and insulting language or actions.

cellent presentation about televi- cast industry, the Parents Television - Geraldine M. Wagner, Lompoc, Calif. sion executives' decision to fur- Council successfully lobbied Con- ther pollute our homes with gress to pass the V-chip law, requir- Misplaced trust

rotten shows. Networks are ing most new TV sets to include a I want to thank Stephen Press- /HSfetu making decisions about coding system that allows parents er for his article "Back to the Ba- our values, and they to block out programs with content sics of the are totally wrong. they deem offensive. Constitution" They're concerned The object was "to empower (December) with only one thing parents." But what the law really Somewhere - money collected did was free programmers from along the line from advertisers and the need to exercise moral we mistakenly sponsors interested in restraint and shift total responsi- put our trust in selling products through bility for restricting sex and vio- the Supreme these degrading programs. lence to parents. Bozell would do Court to pro- Bozell and his supporters con- better spending more time educat- tect our constitutional rights, only tinue to fight for common decency ing parents on how to control to find it betrayed us by taking in entertainment, and this article what their children watch and some of them away. The branches shows his concern. less on chasing electronic censor- of our government are totally un- - Don Mulligan, High Point, N.C. ship rainbows. responsive and unwilling to abide

- Robert E. Gerson, Tarrytown, N. Y. by their oath to protect the Consti- Wake up, parents tution and challenge the Supreme L. Brent Bozell Ill's determina- TV not free speech Court gods ruling. tion to rule the airwaves with his In response to Marc D. Allan's The Constitution gives the Marxist way of thinking is a article "Is Television Really to Supreme Court no legislative pow- tossup between sad and entertain- Blame?" (December), the answer ers. In its landmark ruling separat-

ing. As a teen, I enjoyed watching is a resounding "yes." When the ing church and state, the Supreme the World Wrestling Federation - founding fathers wrote the First Court ruled neither on the letter the man's soap opera, if you will. Amendment of the Constitution, nor the intent of the First Amend- My father was always right there, they did not mean that a person or ment. So did it interpret or uncon- reminding me that while it was people could say anything they stitutionally amend the Constitu- fun to watch, the things the want. They intended free speech tion by legislating from the bench? wrestlers did really hurt and that to be a right to protect freedom If Congress cannot pass a constitu- they were actors. from tyranny, not as a way to tear tional law prohibiting prayer or As much as we'd love to blame down religious beliefs or culture the posting of the Ten Command- television for the country's moral itself. The founding fathers were ments in schools, then how can problems, we have no one to with few exceptions religious men, the Supreme Court's ruling pro- blame but each other. Instead of hibiting the same things be consti- enjoying TV with their children, tutional? parents sit them in front of the TV WE WANT Because of our complacency, the Supreme Court to and expect it to be their parent. YOUR OPINIONS we allowed As for me, I've grown up but put another nail in our freedom still enjoy watching wrestling The American Legion Magazine wel- coffin. I just hope we can do a from time to time. I'm a non- comes letters concerning articles better job protecting our Second

commissioned Army officer in my that appear in the publication. Be Amendment rights, or someday fifth year of service, and some- sure to include your hometown and we'll all be in trouble. - Tom Apple, West Lafayette, Ohio how I've managed to avoid hit- a daytime phone number for verifi- in the ting my commander head cation. All letters are subject to edit- with a steel chair or running him Praise for court ing. Send your opinions to: over with a motorcycle. Wonder I'm sure Stephen Presser is a The American Legion Magazine why? Oh yeah - thanks, Dad, for learned scholar and a decent man, P.O. Box 1055 being a real parent. but his criticism of the U.S. Indianapolis, IN 46206 - Cpl. Jeremy J. Bagley, Fort Bliss, Texas Supreme Court's "judicial You can also contact us via activism" against "states' rights" Blame v-chip law e-mail directly or through the ignores some historical realities.

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rights." Throughout the South, But Wave It Right"). Since Sept. way I live. I'm interested in chang- black school buildings, equipment 11, I've witnessed several well- ing the way they live." - and libraries were consistently intentioned and patriotic Ameri- - Charles E. Cooper, Blythe, Calif. and intentionally - kept inferior to cans trying to do their best to dis- those for whites, despite the states' play the national ensign. I even assertion of "separate but equal." saw a few U.S. Marines on the With regard to religion in the news folding the ensign on the

schools, it might not be a surprise deck and signing it to be flown to Presser that white ministers rou- elsewhere abroad. People should tinely had access to black schools be aware that it is unacceptable to and used that access to preach the write on or allow the ensign to godliness of white supremacy and touch the deck. racial segregation to us during as- -Michael K. O'Connell, Ridgecrest, Calif. sembly. Having lived through this,

I say thank God that segregated Sacred liberties schools and school-sponsored reli- Like most Americans, I'm more gion were overturned by that "ac- than prepared to live with the in- Profit and pain tivist" Supreme Court. conveniences that will accompany I found the December article Without the Supreme Court tak- the implementation of reasonable on NAFTA ("Profit or Pain?") re- ing activist positions with school and prudent measures designed to freshing. It tells both sides. Free segregation, prayer in schools and make terrorists' jobs more diffi- trade is key to a well-functioning

Miranda, blacks - at least in the cult. But I am not willing to grant nation, internally and internation- southern United States - would for even one minute that the at- ally. The shutdown of apparel fac- still be segregated, tyrannized and tacks of Sept. 11 justify scrapping tories in New England or the obso- disenfranchised citizens all in the traditional American liberties and lescence of farms in southern name of God. During the 1950s, constitutional safeguards. Mexico are definitely painful to the states of the old Confederacy In the aftermath of the attacks, those affected. However, the posi- enshrined the subjugation of all many were quick to suggest that tive effect on both economies at black citizens - veterans notwith- life as we've known it in this large is substantial. Bottling up standing - within their state con- country will be forever changed trade at the borders only encour- stitutions and statutes. When you and that we must be prepared as a ages inefficiencies of certain in- observe that 50 years later certain people to sacrifice our privacy and dustries, which benefits no one in state legislatures refuse to repeal a measure of our civil liberties in the long run. some of these heinous laws, it's the quest for greater security. For- - John Schlaack, Imlay City, Mich. safe to assume nothing would mer Labor Secretary Robert Reich have changed without the court's has already suggested that we can Missing facts intervention. expect to be asked to carry nation- Ben Barber's article left out a

-A\ Ball, Somerset, N.J. al ID cards complete with lot of facts. NAFTA allows Ameri- microchips that will allow law- can-based manufacturers to relo- Banners back enforcement officers to stop us cate to Mexico and in effect pro- Rekindling the Blue Star Ser- and scan our bios and credit histo- duce their products by paying vice Banner program is an excel- ries at the drop of a hat. slave-labor wages. And Barber

. - ... lent idea. For Others, including Attorney fails to mention that the parts and years I've General John Ashcroft, are saying supplies shipped from the United flj searched for one that the government needs greater States to Mexico are counted as of the World War surveillance and wiretap authority exports. When used in the assem-

II variety to show as well as the virtually unfettered bly of products and shipped back H Hj to my grandsons. right to look at our e-mail. to the United States, though, they Hj I've also thought We must be careful lest a few aren't counted as imports.

it would be nice Muslim extremists manage to do The politicians of both coun- to have a banner what neither Hitler nor Stalin tries seem to have no clue how to HHHHH of similar sort for could accomplish by convincing solve a problem that has a simple veterans to dis- us that we must sacrifice our liber- solution: require all the businesses play, one that would permit our ty, privacy and freedom of move- that have relocated to Mexico to neighbors to learn about those of ment for more security. Suspected pay at least what is set as a mini- us who have served. terrorists should be targeted for mum wage in America. Even at -J. Richard Corbett, Wilmington, N.C. surveillance and the rest, but we that meager wage, hundreds of ought not run roughshod over the thousands of jobs would be creat- Respect flag rights of Americans. ed in Mexico, and every company It was refreshing to see the ar- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said that has relocated would make bil-

ticle about flag etiquette in the it best when he told his colleagues, lions in profits. December issue ("Wave It Proud, "I'm not interested in changing the - Charles H. Fyffe, Yorktown, Ind.

6 I February 2002 The American Legion Magazine A SALUTE TO DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

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veterans, we understand what it World War II Memorial dedication in Asmeans to have a fighting spirit. May 2004, is helping raise funds and Common goals and shared values awareness for CMN-affiliated children's placed us side by side on battlefields, hospitals. lighting bravely to preserve peace, defend The elements of this initiative are root- freedom and protect families back home. ed in two major programs: media events But our obligation to protect and defend and fund-raising events. Media events, did not cease when we left the service. As which include two-hour national televi- veterans and Legionnaires, we still fight sion specials, are designed to increase battles as we continue to build America public awareness of the sacrifices made from within. One essential strategy of the by the nation's military and to draw at- battle plan is to aid, educate and protect tention to the legacy given us by World our nation's greatest asset: children. In War II veterans. Fund-raising initiatives caring for them, we are protecting the benefit Legion programs and CMN hospi- fabric and future of America. tals alike.

The American Legion family's affilia- I hope you are asking by this time tion with the Children's Miracle Network how your post can become involved. Al- National resulted from a Legion resolution more though opportunities abound, two Commander than four years ago. The partnership grew primary projects are in the forefront: The Richard J. Santos out of shared values - a passion to pro- American Legion family's National Chase Studios mote the physical, spiritual and emotion- Walkathon and the National Flag Icon al health and well-being of our nation's Program. "In caring children. By serving children in commu- The National Walkathon is a fund-rais- nities across America, CMN offers the Le- er that promotes the World War II Memo- children, for gion a unique opportunity to build patri- rial dedication at the grass-roots level. we are otism and family values while providing The walkathon, conducted during the funds to 170 children's hospitals nation- same time frame as the national TV protecting the wide, making miracles happen every day. broadcasts, will be coordinated to end Let me tell you about one such miracle one day prior to the dedication services fabric and that directly resulted from this partner- in Washington. Your post can get on the ship. A few years ago, a baby girl born bandwagon to promote this important future of with a congenital heart condition event. America." required immediate open-heart surgery. The Flag Icon Program directly benefits Her family, unable to afford adequate Legion programs and local CMN hospi- medical help, sought the services of a lo- tals. Dollar donations "purchase" unique- cal CMN children's hospital. The infant ly designed American-flag icons. The was immediately admitted for surgery, no icons, printed with donors' names are questions asked. displayed at local posts throughout the Despite the difficulties besetting this campaign. Custom-designed kits contain- young family, blessings had already been ing promotional materials, including 200 set in motion. Just two days before the flag icons, are provided to posts and de- child was born, the hospital received a partments to jump-start the program. critical and expensive piece of equipment Information can be obtained through necessary for infant open-heart surgery. The American Legion's Americanism, The purchase was made possible through Children and Youth Division and on the a donation by several CMN sponsors, Web at www.legion.org. and most notably, American Legion The CMN partnership offers an added, members in that community. Miraculous- but indirect, benefit as well - a height- ly, the baby's heart grew stronger with ened public perception of the Legion each passing week, thanks in part to Le- through our increased presence in com- gion volunteers who gave their time to munities. This opportunity helps boost raise money for the essential lifesaving recruitment efforts.

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because it was a critical ingredi- In 2000, Amtrak lost more than ent of national security. A mod- $900 million; during the first six ern highway system from coast months of 2001, Amtrak lost to coast meant that Americans $405 million. Recently, Amtrak could move everything from mortgaged Penn Station in New food to munitions swiftly and York City for $300 million just to meet its operational costs as Today America would again benefit from a different its revenues faltered. After receiving billions of fed- transportation challenge: building a secure and na- eral dollars in capital and operational subsidies, tional rail system, ensuring that America, especially Amtrak now teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. after Sept. 11, has a diverse transportation infrastruc- In Amtrak's Northeast Corridor - Washington- ture that can never be New York City-Boston "The Amtrak "Amtrak backers of ground to a halt. Congress poured in more the next 30 years The Amtrak of the than $7 billion for a new want Congress to next 30 years must be a high-speed rail service, must be a faster, ignore the law faster, more competitive including train equip- more competitive transportation option for ment. Unfortunately the and pour more the American traveler - Acela project is behind into the transportation and in the wake of the schedule, new equip- funds option." terrorist attacks, it's even ment will not function at losing venture." more clear that rail trans- high speed and ridership portation needs to be a key element of our nation's on the New York-Boston route has actually transportation infrastructure. Amtrak's ridership dropped. climbed 10 percent after Sept. 11, with the most sig- Now Amtrak backers want Congress to ignore nificant growth in long-distance service. the law it passed and instead pour more funds into We need to continue to invest in the safety and the losing venture. The Amtrak Reform Council re- security of Amtrak, even as we push innovations to cently voted to liquidate Amtrak after seeing noth- spur increased train travel nationwide. ing but red ink in its future. The GAO recently testi- Historically, Amtrak has received sporadic and fied before Congress that it will actually require $20 insufficient financial support from the federal gov- billion for the necessary infrastructure improve- ernment. In spite of that challenge, high-speed rail ments to make just the Northeast Corridor a true has proven to be a financial success in the North- high-speed rail line. east, and it is projected to add $180 million annual- Amtrak also has been dangling other undesignat- ly to Amtrak's bottom line when all 20 Acela ed high-speed rail corridors as a carrot on a stick to Express train sets are in operation. bait a dozen communities starved for mass-transit Making our rail system safe will come with a high service. Why would Congress grant exclusive devel- pricetag, but it's trivial compared to the devastation opment and operational rights to a defunct opera- that could be wrought by a single terrorist attack on tor? With operational deficits continuing to grow, passenger rail. More than 300,000 people pass how could Congress ignore the self-sufficiency law through century-old rail tunnels under New York City it enacted four years ago? each day, tunnels lacking both ventilation and suffi- It is time to honor the law and the reform cient emergency exits. council's official determination that Amtrak will It is time to shore up be unable to meet the the security of our trans- required goal of opera- portation infrastructure YOUR OPINIONS COUNT tional self-sufficiency by before it is targeted. Senators and representatives are interested in the end of next year. Our overburdened constituent viewpoints. You may express your views Why not liquidate this highways and skyways - in writing at the following addresses: losing and outdated sys- and our long-term The Honorable (name) The Honorable (name) tem, turn potentially suc- national-security needs - U.S. Senate House of Representatives cessful corridors over to require it, and the travel- Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515 private industry and stop ing public should Phone: (202) 224-3121 Phone: (202) 225-3121 underwriting govern- demand nothing less. ment failure?

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Anti-gun laws citizens to carry firearms has Let's dispel those falsehoods more than doubled to 33 states - with the truth. Framers of the aren't responsible armed crime, violent crime and U.S. Constitution intended the firearm accidents have all right to keep and bear arms to be dropped dramatically. an individual right of all lawful in for drops crime. Anti-gun laws didn't do that. All citizens for very important rea- anti-gun laws do is diminish the sons. U.S. courts have upheld that right of lawful, peaceful citizens to view. And that's a good thing for defend themselves, and they draw you and me, because firearms are it ironic that the gun de- attention away from the real men- far more often to prevent Isn't used bate continues, even after ace to public safety: inadequate crimes than to commit them. "gun control" has been so enforcement of existing laws. thoroughly discredited and gun The anti-gun movement is built The Citizen Militia. The Second ownership vindicated as a benefit on several dangerous fallacies: Amendment to the U.S. Constitu- to life and liberty? that sacrificing freedom can lead tion reads, "A well regulated Mili-

History proves it. Over the past to greater security; that criminals tia, being necessary to the securi- decade - while the U.S. "popula- will obey anti-gun laws more than ty of a free State, the right of the tion" of firearms has increased by they obey laws against murder, people to keep and bear Arms, approximately 50 million guns, rape and robbery; and that shall not be infringed." But the and while the number of states firearms are used more for harm word "militia" doesn't refer to the allowing licensed, law-abiding than for good. National Guard »-> see Heston, page u

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Vast majority of dent Reagan and two law-enforce- does not prevent law-abiding citi- ment officers, should never have zens from buying guns. been able to buy a gun. He lied on Poll after poll shows the vast Americans support the federal firearms purchase majority of Americans support form. However, since there was no sensible gun laws. For instance, in sensible gun laws. mandatory background check sys- a national poll released recently tem for gun purchasers at the by the Brady Campaign to Prevent BY SARAH BRADY time, the lie was not detected. Gun Violence, 83 percent of re- That's one of the reasons I be- spondents supported requiring Like many Americans, I did- gan to work for sensible gun laws. criminal background checks on n't give much thought to the In the mid-1980s, Jim and I started all gun purchases at gun shows. Second Amendment of the campaigning for a piece of legisla- Support also remains for each of U.S. Constitution until my family tion that would eventually bear his the sensible proposals on our leg- was profoundly affected by an act name: the Brady Law. The law re- islative agenda, such as limiting of gun violence. I'm speaking, of quires background checks on gun individuals to one handgun pur- course, about the 1981 shooting of purchases from licensed dealers, chase a month - to prevent traf- my husband, Jim, when he was so prohibited purchasers like the ficking - and requiring all guns be serving as President Reagan's man who shot Jim could not buy a sold with childproof safety locks.

press secretary. The disturbed gun over the counter. But like oth- Yet over the years, I have heard man who shot and seriously er common-sense gun measures countless times from opponents

wounded Jim, along with Presi- Jim and I continue to work for, it that almost »-> see Brady, page 16

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"All anti-gun laws do is iHPQtnn] or any other diminish the right of lawful, Firearms Save Lives. Flori- [nc^LUiij government- da State University's I award- organized or regulated body, peaceful citizens to defend i winning criminologist Gary as the anti-gun lobby claims. Kleck - fan - themselves, and they draw i no of the NRA Under Congress' Militia calculated that Americans Act of 1792, arms ownership attention away from the real use privately owned wasn't just a right; it was the firearms to thwart criminal ; duty of nearly every free menace to public safety: attack between 2 million adult male. And the same and 2.5 million times each basic law stands today. Un- inadequate enforcement year, and in the vast majori- der U.S. Code (Title 10, Sec- of existing laws!' ty of cases, no shot is ever tion 311), the "militia" is fired. As noted in the March made up of two complemen- Hi 1994 Journal of the Medical tary bodies: the "organized Association of Georgia, that's militia," which is the National cert for the common defense." as many as 75 lives protected by a Guard; and the "unorganized In 1886, the court ruled, "the gun for every life lost to a gun. militia," which is every male citi- states cannot, even laying the con- Acknowledging that fact, over zen between ages 17 and 45. stitutional provision in question the past several years, many As Virginia's George Mason, out of view, prohibit the people states have passed laws allowing widely considered to be the father from keeping and bearing arms." licensed, law-abiding citizens to of the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Con- Even in one of the most carry firearms for self-defense. stitution, said, "I ask, sir, what is shameful cases in American histo- Right-to-carry permit holders have the militia? It is the whole people." ry, the 1857 Dred Scott decision, turned out to be among the most When our Constitution was the U.S. Supreme Court argued law-abiding members of their written, the right to arms was so that states adopting the Constitu- communities. firmly grounded as a natural right tion could not have meant to con- In Florida, out of the 736,355 in English Common Law that it sider freed black slaves as "citi- permits issued between 1987 and went without saying. It was sim- zens," because "it would give 2001, only 130 - two one-hun- ply assumed. In fact, in debates them the full liberty of speech ... dredths of 1 percent - have been over the new Constitution, James and to keep and carry arms wher- revoked because a permit-holder Madison argued that the Second ever they went. committed a crime in which a Amendment and the Bill of Rights firearm was present. In Oklahoma, were unnecessary, since it was Trust Science, Not Fiction. But five one-hundredths of 1 percent inconceivable that anyone would forget what the framers of the Con- of all permits issued have been ever question that all free men en- stitution believed. Forget what the revoked for any reason. In North joyed those freedoms as a natural courts have said. Instead, let's look Carolina and South Carolina, just birthright, a gift from the Creator. beyond the rhetoric to the reality of four-tenths of 1 percent of the per- Fortunately George Mason, firearms in America today. mits issued have been revoked for Patrick Henry and others had the According to the National Cen- any reason. vision and caution to insist the ter for Health Statistics, firearms To look at right-to-carry laws new Constitution incorporate a account for only 1 percent of all on a national scale, University of written bill of rights. Imagine fatalities, ranking far behind Chicago researchers John Lott and where we'd be today if they'd had many other causes of death, in- David Mustard examined FBI the naivete to assume those rights cluding tobacco use (19 percent); crime statistics for every Ameri- would never be attacked. lack of exercise or proper diet (14 can county from 1994 to 1997. percent); alcohol abuse (5 Their findings: Courts Confirm Right to Arms. percent); and infectious diseases States with the largest in- American courts have repeatedly (4 percent) creases in gun ownership also affirmed that the right to keep Since 1930, while the U.S. pop- had the largest declines in violent and bear arms is an individual ulation has more than doubled crime. right. Although the U.S. Supreme and the number of guns has quin- High-crime urban communi- Court has ruled directly on the tupled, the annual number of ac- ties have the greatest reductions Second Amendment in only a few cidental firearm fatalities has de- in violent crime when law-abid- cases, its views are clear. creased 73 percent to the lowest ing citizens are allowed to carry In 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court rates ever recorded. The acciden- concealed handguns. said, "the debates in the Conven- tal firearm fatality rate has If states without concealed tion, the history and legislation of declined 91 percent since the all- firearms laws had adopted them the colonies and states, and the time high in 1904, and in just one in 1992, approximately 1,500 writings of approved commenta- decade, from 1989 to 1998, it has murders, 4,000 rapes, 12,000 rob- tors ... show plainly enough that fallen by 50 percent. Among chil- beries and 60,000 aggravated as- the militia comprised all males dren, such deaths have decreased saults could have been prevented physically capable of acting in con- 78 percent since 1975. each year. ^ see Heston, page 16

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abiding American citizen oppose reasonable gun laws distort it. permanent federal army of profes- the right to keep and bear The Second Amendment reads, sional soldiers. However, the "Anti- "A well regulated Militia, being nec- Federalists" - with memories of it arms; and, be finally essary to the security of a free State, King George Ill's troops still fresh the right of the people to keep and in their minds - distrusted the RESOLVED, that the bear Arms, shall not be infringed." standing army of professional sol- membership of The The meaning of these 27 words has diers. They saw effective state mili- been settled for decades in the tias as a way to prevent federal mo- American Legion urges courts: the Second Amendment pro- nopoly of military power. our nation's lawmakers tects only the right to keep and bear The Second Amendment was arms in the context of a well-regu- written in response to this Anti-Fed- to recognize, as part of lated militia. Unfortunately, the gun eralist concern. The intent was to their oaths of office, that lobby - and now the Bush adminis- prevent the federal government - the Second Amendment tration claims that the amend- from passing laws that would dis- ment refers to an individual right to arm the state militia. Today the guarantees law-abiding arms and, as a result, gun-safety modern "well-regulated Militia" is citizens the right to keep regulations are unconstitutional. the National Guard, a state-organ- This reading of the Second Amend- ized force of ordinary citizens serv- and bear the arms of ment is at odds with its language, ing as part-time soldiers under the their choice, as do the its history and its interpretation by command of each state's governor. the courts. When the founders wanted to millions ofAmerican vet- enumerate broad rights, as they did erans who have fought, The Original Intent. In our nation's with the First Amendment, they early days, each state had its own knew how to do it and they did it and continue to fight, to militia, an organized military force very well. If the founders wanted to preserve those rights, of ordinary citizens serving as part- enshrine a broad individual right to hereby advise the time soldiers. The militia was not, keep and bear arms in the Second as the gun lobby claims, simply an- Amendment, why include language Congress the United of other word for armed individuals. about the "militia" and the "securi- States and the Executive Militia membership was limited to ty of a free state"? able-bodied white males between Department to cease and the ages of 18 and 45, and members The Gun Lobby's Campaign of Mis- desist any and all efforts were subject to legal requirements, information. The gun lobby, led by reporting for training sever- the National Rifle Association, per- to restrict these rights by such as al days a year and engaging in mili- sists in promoting the idea that the any legislation or order. tary exercises away from home. Second Amendment protects gun When the founding fathers met ownership by in- •-> see Brady, page 18

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Attorney General the individual right to own a gun the context of a well-regulated John Ashcroft has taken the dan- for the purpose of overthrowing militia. This issue has been set- gerous step of changing the Jus- the government if, in that indi- tled since the 1939 Supreme tice Department's position on the vidual's opinion, that govern- Court ruling in United States v. Second Amendment to reflect the ment becomes too tyrannical. Miller, in which the high court NRA's discredited "individual- Proponents of this interpretation ruled that the obvious purpose of rights" position. This would re- often cite carefully selected sen- the Second Amendment was to verse the position held by Repub- tences and phrases from the Con- ensure an effective state militia. lican and Democratic administra- stitution's framers as proof that Since that ruling, at least 62 other tions alike for 30 years, and it they are right. However, those lower federal and state court deci- would only make defending rea- passages are taken out of context sions have rejected the individual- sonable gun laws - laws that and are often misleadingly edit- rights interpretation of the Americans overwhelmingly sup- ed. It is absurd to think that the amendment. port - more difficult. founding fathers would prohibit Despite this well-established Our Constitution established treason in the Constitution (Arti- legal doctrine, the recent lower the greatest republic the world cle III, Section 3) and then pro- court decision of United States v. has known. But the founding fa- tect the right to engage in it. Emerson, has received significant thers never intended the Second The logical extension of the media and public attention. In Amendment to be a wholesale view that individuals have a con- that decision, the district court license for people to buy hand- stitutional right to take up arms went against all federal court guns without background checks, against the government is that the precedent and found that a feder- or to permit 15 -year-olds to own Constitution protects the private al law prohibiting an individual AK-47s, or to allow parents to ownership of bazookas, hand under a domestic restraining or- leave a loaded gun within a grenades, surface-to-air missiles, der from possessing a firearm vio- child's reach. tanks and nuclear weapons. Ex- lates the individual's Second Something is wrong when a tremist groups already use the Amendment right. That decision child born in the United States is Second Amendment in court to has been appealed to the Fifth 12 times more likely to die from defend themselves against charges Circuit Court of Appeals. guns than one born in 26 other of illegal possession of machine major industrialized nations. And guns and military hardware. Who Gun Laws Work. The legal and it isn't the fault of the Constitu- decides when the government has historical record is clear: gun laws tion, but rather its warped inter- crossed the line into tyranny? are constitutional. More impor- pretation and abuse by the power- The beauty of the Constitution tantly, they work. Since the Brady ful gun lobby. lies in its affirmation that the peo- Law went into effect in 1994, ple have the power to control background checks have stopped Sarah Brady is chairwoman of the their destinies and their govern- more than 690,000 prohibited pur- Brady Campaign and Brady Cen- ment in peaceful ways - through chasers from buying guns. 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A Muslim student takes part in a peace BY AMIR TAHERI Terrorist protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, following the Sept. 11 ihis has nothing to do CC attacks on America, demanding that the with Islam," British attacks prove United States refrain from attacking r,Prime Minister Tony Afghanistan. Corbis Blair recently told a delegation of J/lusllms must Muslims at a meeting at 10 Down- the way their faith is taught, lived ing St., referring to the Sept. 11 and practiced. rethink the way attacks against the World Trade Even worse, the refusal to sub- Center and the Pentagon. ject Islam to rational analysis is a Blair was echoing a view, pop- recipe for further fanaticism. Un- they apply their ular both in Europe and the Unit- less we believe those who claim ed States, that it is impolite - not the Sept. 11 attacks were organ- to say impolitic - to subject Islam ized by Israel, we have to assume religion. to any criticism. Yet to claim the that Osama bin Laden and al-Qai- attacks had nothing to do with da were responsible. And since Islam amounts to a whitewash. It there is no mechanism for excom- is not only disingenuous but also munication in Islam, bin Laden a disservice to Muslims, who and his gang have every right to need to cast a critical glance at describe themselves as Muslims.

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Al-Qaida did not materialize continue to support him. "Anyone listening to a out of thin air. Nor has it been From Pakistan, bin Laden shift- operating in a vacuum. Bin Laden ed to Afghanistan, where the Tal- sermon in virtually any belongs to a prominent Yemeni- iban had established what they mosque, including many Saudi family that makes much of claimed to be "the only truly Is- its Islamic credentials. He began lamic government." To say that in the West, would be his militant career in 1984 as a bin Laden has nothing to do with fund-raiser for Afghans fighting Islam and Muslims, therefore, re- shocked by the the communist regime in Kabul in quires a big leap of imagination. the name of Islam. He had offices When pressed hard, some vehemence of the anti- in a dozen Muslim countries, Muslim leaders admit that bin Western, especially none of which regarded his activi- Laden is "part of Islam," but try ties as un-Islamic. to minimize his place. Dalil anti-American, In 1993, bin Laden was divest- Boubakeur, a French Muslim ed of his Saudi passport but was leader, says that bin Laden does sentiments expressed." warmly welcomed in Sudan, not represent more than 1 percent where a fundamentalist regime is of Muslims. Some comfort. That diplomats hostage in Tehran, in power. Later, bin Laden was the 1 percent means almost 13 mil- again the whitewash party insist- star of an international conference lion people. ed that had nothing to do with of Muslim fundamentalists organ- There is more. All but one of Islam. And when the suicide ized in Khartoum by the then- the world's remaining military bombings bloodied Beirut, we strongman Hassan al-Turabi. He regimes are in Muslim countries. were told that Islam had nothing was elected a member of the With the exception of Turkey and to do with them. Supreme Council, whose task is to Bangladesh, there are no real The Muslim world today is full promote a radical brand of Islam elections in any Muslim country. of bigotry, fanaticism, hypocrisy throughout the world. That gave Of the current 30 active conflicts and plain ignorance - all of which him the right to call himself a in the world, no fewer than 28 create a breeding ground for crim- "sheik" and issue religious fatwas, concern Muslim governments inals like bin Laden. The principal or edicts. Again, since there is no and/or communities. Two-thirds victims of these criminals are clerical hierarchy in Islam, there of the world's political prisoners Muslims, who are prevented from was no reason why bin Laden are held in Muslim countries, developing a modern political cul- could not claim such authority. which also carry out 80 percent of ture without which they cannot Once bin Laden was forced to all executions each year. reform their societies and rebuild leave Sudan (under U.S. Anyone familiar with textbooks their economies. pressure), he was welcomed in in most Muslim countries would What I am saying is not meant his ancestral homeland of Yemen, know the twisted view of the as critique of Islam as a belief sys- another Muslim country. From world they propagate and the ha- tem; that's an issue for theolo- there he went to Pakistan, the i tred they promote. Anyone who gians, and people should be free world's second most populous follows the media in the Muslim to believe whatever they like. Muslim nation, where he was world would know that the verbal What is needed is a critique of welcomed not only by the army version of the Sept. 11 attacks is Islam as an existential reality. The but also by virtually all of an almost daily fare. Go to the Sept. 11 tragedies should trigger a Pakistan's Islamic parties, which Internet and check the editorials rethink of the way Muslims live of virtually any Muslim paper on Islam. We should start with con- Sept. 10 and see what they were demning those attacks without "To claim the attacks saying about the West in general "ifs" and "buts." Sadly, the way and the United States in particu- we Muslims live Islam today is a had nothing to do with lar. Anyone listening to a sermon far cry from the way our ances- Islam amounts to a in virtually any mosque, includ- tors lived it in the golden age ing many in the West, would be when Islam was a builder of civi- whitewash. [It is] also a shocked by the vehemence of the lization, not a force for repres- anti-Western, especially anti- sion, terror and destruction. disservice to Muslims, American, sentiments expressed. who need to cast a It is both dishonest and dan- Amir Taheri, an Iranian author gerous for Muslims to remain in a and journalist, is editor of the critical glance at the state of denial. And yet a state of Paris-based Politique Interna- denial is what we have. When tionale. Reprinted with permission way theirfaith is Iran's Khomeinists burned 600 of The Wall Street Journal 2001, people alive in a cinema, the Dow Jones & Company Inc. All taught, lived and whitewashers said that it had rights reserved. practiced." nothing to do with Islam. When the same gang took the American Article design: Doug Rollison

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BY DONALD LAMBRO combating terrorism. That report and what it has never been good at showed that the government was doing - was coordinate its spend- catastrophic terrorist at- spending $12 billion a year, spread ing. "One agency usually did not Thetacks on the United States out over dozens of federal depart- know what the other agency was Sept. 11 have forced Ameri- ments and agencies, to protect the doing. There was no overall strate- ca to conduct a nationwide re- country from terrorist attacks. gic plan that guided us," a senior examination of how we defend Funding ranged from $4.8 bil- adminishation official said. our homeland. lion for aviation security to $1.7 All too often money was The suicidal airline hijackers billion for defense against weapons thrown at the problem, with no followed by random anthrax of mass destruction. Moreover, single entity looking at the larger attacks not only exposed Ameri- Congress has not been tight about picture. OMB says funding was ca's susceptibility to long-known anti-terrorism spending in recent scattered across the departments terrorist threats, but they under- years, boosting its budget by 67 of State, Treasury, Veterans scored how vulnerable the United percent since 1998. Affairs, Transportation, Health States remains in so many other What Congress did not think and Human Services, Education, areas: nuclear power plants, reser- about doing until after the attacks - Commerce, Justice, Interior, La- voirs, hydroelectric dams, ports, bor, Energy and Agriculture, along rails, bridges, tunnels, chemical with the Environmental Protec- plants and shipments, and fertiliz- tion Agency, Federal Emergency er-storage facilities that possess Management Agency, the Nuclear the ingredients to make weapons Regulatory Commission and of devastating explosive power. dozens more. And that is just the beginning. But the lack of central coordi- One study by the Center for nation was painfully evident in Strategic and International Studies the aftermath of the attacks. Each said, "250 pounds of anthrax federal agency was speaking for spores, spread efficiently over the itself, sometimes giving out con- Washington metropolitan area, tradictory or incomplete informa- could cause up to 3 million deaths, tion, especially when the mailed more than from a 1 -megaton hy- anthrax story broke. The public drogen bomb." heard many voices in the govern- As valid as these warnings may ment that further added to the be, it would be wildly inaccurate confusion. to say the government all but ig- nored the terrorist threat before Office at the Top. In the days that the attacks. followed the attacks, Congress One month before terrorists de- rushed to appropriate additional stroyed the World Trade Center funds for relief, recovery and the towers and tore a huge chunk out war on terrorism - the total could President Bush handpicked former Pennsyl- billion of the Pentagon, the Office of vania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the Office of easily approach $200 when Management and Budget released Homeland Security, coordinating more than all the bills are tallied. But no cen- its annual report to Congress on 1 40 federal agencies, ap tral authority was established to

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see that the multiple agencies di- This war will be another. I'm not running FEMA. viding up $40 billion in initial I'm not running the FBI." funds were working in tandem dramatically different Facing an incomprehensible ter- with one another, or that the agen- rorist network threat that spans "in the sense that it cies even talked to one another - more than 60 countries, Ridge especially the intelligence agen- may never end. At least, compares the daunting challenge cies. Nor was anyone ensuring to fighting World War II, building these agencies would be ready to not in our lifetime." the continental railroad and putting respond to unforeseen threats of -Vice President Dick Cheney a man on the moon. Indeed, one even greater magnitude. White House official compared The problem called for an of- But Ridge, a 56-year-old deco- Ridge's job to that of Gen. Dwight fice of homeland defense, an idea rated Vietnam War combat veter- D. Eisenhower as supreme allied proposed by a congressionally au- an, has made it clear from the commander in World War II, in thorized terrorism task force outset that he is a coordinator, charge of coordinating and carry- chaired by Virginia Gov. James not an operations man, who will ing out an unprecedented wartime Gilmore in December 2000. The be running the agencies and campaign to defeat a hidden and idea did not take flight until Vice telling them what to do. elusive enemy. "The size and President Dick Cheney began scope of this challenge are working on a terrorist defense A Daunting Task. Working in the immense but not impossible," plan soon after President Bush White House's West Wing with a Ridge said. took office. Gilmore had briefed staff of about 100 - most on detail But Gilmore's task force wanted the administration on the task from other agencies - Ridge Ridge's office to be given far more force's findings, and the president brings to the job a vast amount of institutional authority than he now called for the creation of an Office executive experience as a two- has. It proposed that in addition to of Homeland Security the day af- term governor and a former con- being in charge of a preparedness ter the attack. gressman. plan, he be given "specified con- "It was clear to us that there Presiding over a government- trol of federal programs and budg- were a lot of resources throughout wide council of department and et," a sweeping level of authority the government and among the agency chiefs, Ridge's job is to that would be unprecedented in states to deal with the terrorist develop a national strategy to re- the executive branch. threat, but there needed to be an spond to terrorist attacks, as well Among the task force's other office at the top to coordinate all as develop defensive strategies proposals that officials said were of it," Gilmore said. "The govern- and plans to prevent future being considered by Ridge's office ment had personnel, planning, attacks. "We've got a lot of good and by committees of Congress: systems and funding already in people, a lot of good assets," place. The real problem is that it Ridge said. "We just have to fine- Create a "Special Committee was not coordinated into a nation- tune how they operate with one for Combating Terrorism" whose al strategy. Each piece was working almost independently. There was a lack of focus and direction. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, picked by Bush to lead the new Cabinet-level office, is entrust- ed with overseeing the activities of more than 40 departments and agencies - from the CIA to FEMA. It's a monumental task. Many in Congress fear that a White House "czar" to oversee government antiterrorism activities cannot succeed without broad budgetary and some operational control as well. Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat, told the newly created House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, "I am suspicious of interagency cooperation. When you have a challenge of this urgency, you have to have author- Florida National Guard soldiers are shown arriving for patrol duty at Tampa interna- ity in the (new) agency to act. tional Airport. AP

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membership will be drawn from "lam suspicious of interagency cooperation. relevant committees of Congress. When you have a challenge of this urgency, you Beef up human-intelligence ca- have to have authority in the (new) agency to act." pability on the ground by rescind- ing CIA guidelines that forbid fed- - Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, D-lnd. eral funds from being used to pay foreign informants for information. or agencies. Among the proposals phasis on special combat forces Develop new technologies to help being looked at: and covert assassination teams, identify and guard against terrorist and stepped-up use of paid for- infiltration in this country. Expansion of a bio-chemical eign national mercenaries. terrorism response force within On the drawing board is a spe- Develop better and faster na- the military that was begun in cial combined-services homeland tional coordination between fed- 1996 in the wake of the sarin gas defense military force assigned to eral, state and local authorities, attack in Japan. guard the nation's key infrastruc- including a model plan to be used ture facilities, including airports, by the states to defend against, Larger, better-funded, anti-ter- power plants, dams, harbors and prepare for and respond to terror- rorism programs in the Pentagon, other installations critical to the ist attacks. the FBI, the CIA and other intelli- nation's safety. gence agencies, as well as the Na- In the meantime, tourist, work Conduct inventories of state tional Guard. and education visas are going to and local homeland defense pro- be given much tighter scrutiny grams for nationwide application. Guarding All Fronts. In addition and perhaps be sharply cut back to expanding the air marshal serv- under certain circumstances. The Develop and fund education ice and improving passenger government's entire immigration and training programs at the state screening at all airports, the gov- apparatus needs to be re-exam- and local levels that attract "vol- ernment is moving on a number ined with an emphasis on unteers in critical response disci- of other fronts to guard against strengthening its investigative and plines" in the fields of public- potential terrorist threats. law enforcement arms, with de- health emergencies and other re- EPA Administrator Christie portation authority that cannot be sponse and prevention areas. Todd Whitman has started a pro- challenged in court. gram to protect the nation's Congress has moved to give Other ideas being considered drinking water supplies from ter- the Justice Department, the FBI or developed in the administra- rorist attacks. She is working with and other law-enforcement agen- tion and in Congress would insti- the nation's 168,000 public water cies broader wiretap and deten- tutionalize or expand special an- systems to identify any exposure tion powers to catch terrorists. titerrorism teams and terrorism- to terrorist attacks and to tighten The president has given the CIA response units in key departments security and install better moni- authority to use "whatever means toring alarm systems that quickly necessary" to eliminate Saudi ter- identify any contaminants before rorist mastermind Osama bin Laden they have done any harm. and his network, along with an ad-

Former White House counterter- ditional $1 billion to do it. rorism czar Richard A. Clarke has All of this, along with other been put in charge of a new Of- recommendations Ridge is likely fice of Cyber Security to protect to make, will require a lot more the nation's computer networks money than Congress has appro- from sabotage. He will report di- priated thus far, Gilmore says. rectly to Ridge. "There will be a need for Wayne Downing, a retired four- additional training, equipment, star Army general and a former planning and coordination, even commander of U.S. Special more resources for the FBI and Forces, has been put in charge of the CIA, for example, not to men- a new counter-terrorism office. tion the military. Secretary of Defense Donald White House Budget Director Rumsfeld is examining whether Mitch Daniels, however, does not U.S. military forces need to be think this will mean busting the reorganized to meet the special- budget. He wants to shift funding ized demands of fighting terrorist from low priority and outdated Trace detection devices are common- wars now and in the future. Being programs to higher priority place at airport checkpoints after Sept. looked at are smaller attack antiterrorism needs. 11. The Sabre 2000 device is used to detect drug, explosive or chemical squads with easily maneuverable While the focus of attention residue, ap high-tech weaponry, a greater em- has been our military offensive

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against the al-Qaida network in homeland defense system. dozens of countries, America's One of the biggest is the lack most effective weapon against po- of training, equipment and tential terrorist attacks will be other resources at the local technological superiority. level, particularly in response We now have the capability to to biological, chemical and install high-tech sensor devices to crude nuclear devices. make airline travel safer, to better "The executive branch guard drinking water and to and the Congress have not quickly identify bio-terrorist sub- paid sufficient attention to stances like anthrax with instru- state and local capabilities ments no larger than a suitcase or for combating terrorism," a laptop computer. Gilmore's task force report- One computerized biotechno- ed. Only a "disproportionate- logical device being developed by ly small" amount of the $12 government-funded scientists at- billion spent preparing for taches a network of cells to a life- terrorist attacks goes to state support unit, and a laptop com- and local agencies. puter identifies harmful chemical Gilmore's warning to and biological agents in much the Ridge: "A federal strategy is same way that living animals do not a national strategy. A na- in the laboratory. It not only tional strategy is federal, quickly identifies the chemical or state and local. microbe but the antidote as well. "There need to be new Greenwich, Conn., patrolman Robert Berry Airlines will be able to fly more procedures put into place, received special training in homeland security. Police officers in local communities across the safely under a revolutionary iris- protocols set, an understand- country are now charged with frontline defense scanning technology being devel- ing of what the best response against terrorism, ap oped for use in Europe that will strategies are going to need identify passengers and track their to be, a lot of exercises and a lot America is engaged in a 21st- movements. The pre-obtained of funding for equipment and century war unlike any we have data will be put in a computer preparation," he said. ever fought. The two world wars chip in an ID card that travelers Concerned by this lack of pre- as well as the Korean, Vietnam can get in advance for a small fee. paredness at the state and local and Persian Gulf wars all had a Passengers can have their eyes level, Congress passed the Defense beginning and an end. But this quickly verified and thus bypass Against Weapons of Mass Destruc- war will be dramatically different

long screening lines. tion Act in 1996 to finance emer- "in the sense that it may never Current baggage scanners can gency equipment and counterter- end. At least, not in our lifetime," be slow and unreliable. But Invi- rorism training for emergency dis- Cheney told Washington Post re- sion Technology is developing aster crews at the local level. About porter Bob Woodward in October. three types of advanced screeners 200 training exercises have been This means an effective home- that can search 800 bags an hour conducted since then, and officials land defense must be based on a for explosives and other dangerous say they have adequately shown war against terrorism that can materials. They are expected to be how under-prepared the nation is never end as long as this kind of in full use in Europe by 2003. for a major terrorist disaster. evil exists in the world. By relent- As for the problem of anthrax- For example, many of the lessly hunting down and destroy- filled envelopes being sent through country's 3,000 public-health ing terrorists wherever they hide, the mail, irradiation technology agencies have no e-mail to receive by keeping them on the run, by used to sterilize food could cleanse emergency notices. A mere 20 remaining vigilant and prepared all of our mail of pathogens, includ- percent have plans ready to at home, and by enlisting every- ing anthrax bacteria and spores. respond to bioterrorist attacks. one in the struggle against the Here at home, the airlines are Six days before the Sept. 11 ter- tyranny of terror, we can ensure reinforcing cockpit doors to pre- rorist attacks, former Sen. Sam that America remains a sanctuary vent terrorists from taking over a Nunn, D-Ga., told a congressional of safety and freedom for genera- plane. The government also is investigating committee about the tions to come. putting armed air marshals on- deeply disappointing results of a board. But we now have workable bioterrorism exercise dubbed Donald Lambro is a Washington- computer technology that would "Dark Winter." based syndicated columnist and be able to take full control of an "It's a lucky thing for the Unit- investigative reporter. He is a

aircraft and land it at the nearest ed States that this was just a test frequent contributor to The airport, if seized by terrorists. and not a real emergency," Nunn American Legion Magazine. Still, gaping holes remain to be said. "Our lack of preparation is a filled in the federal government's real emergency. Article design: Doug Rollison

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NO traffic Will COme. So Jacqui Kri- discover that they - zo kills the engine right in the middle of a fish - paved county road, gets out and doesn't not the may be the bother to shut the car door. She walks to endangered species as one the shoulder and gazes across weed-blem- ished fields, parched in the hot August basin's water war sends sunshine. She listens carefully, like a nurse ripples across America. for a lost heartbeat. "It's dead," she says. "Normally, you couldn't park right in the middle of the road, not this time of year, not here. The grain trucks would be going up and down. Now you don't even hear the frogs or the crickets. Free Land for Veterans. The Kla- landowners and who would not. It's just dead." math Basin's first wave of veteran The land lottery was viewed as a Such was the condition of last homesteaders rolled in after dual-edged act of postwar progres-

harvest season when irrigation World War I, when honorably dis- sivism - both a thank-you to Amer- water was denied to farmers of charged soldiers and sailors icans who helped save the world the Klamath Basin, located in received preference over other ap- and an opportunity to populate the the fertile high country where plicants wanting in on the govern- basin with capable young men and Oregon and California meet. ment's offer of free, newly women eager to "prove up" on the Fields normally verdant with po- reclaimed, irrigable land. An small farms and pump vitality into tato, barley, oat and alfalfa crops American Legion post in Tulelake the economy. Homestead veterans had to be replaced by spindly, was formed primarily to help with of the Klamath Basin warranted a unmarketable cover-grains negotiations between veterans cover story in Life magazine on whose main purpose was to and the government. Legionnaires Jan. 20, 1947, and the layout inside keep the soil from blowing off worked to reduce by half the per- portrayed a quirky country-western the face of the earth. acre fees farmers had to pay back rendition of the Great American The year was ruined here be- to the government to cover the Dream - with Mom, Dad and the cause a federal court ruled last cost of dam construction. Groups kids in cowboy boots, jeans and spring that the Endangered of homesteads were Species Act of 1973 plays like a awarded five different 'I never dreamed trump card over longstanding times between 1922 and government guarantees to pro- 1937, and another round I would own vide water for farms. Around the was scheduled for 1942. land. It ... was a 1,000-population town of Tule- World War II delayed lake, Calif., those guarantees additional homestead wonderful were specifically written into movement until 1946 homestead patents issued to re- when the first of three opportunity for turning war veterans who have pickle-jar drawings at the US, if We Were Eleanor Bolesta's World spent the past half-century build- armory in Klamath Falls, War II service as a ing a community and keeping an Ore., determined who willing to work. WAVE qualified her for economy afloat in the imprint of among that group of veter the land lottery. -Eleanor Bolesta a former lake bottom. ans would become

30 1 February 2002 The American Legion Magazine World War II veteran Marion Palmer sifts through the dust where irrigated grain once grew. A federal court decision last April shut off the water and ruined most

Crops. Jeff Staffer

a post office in central California when her name was drawn - one of only three women to receive a homestead in the program. "I nev-

er dreamed I would own land. It was considered very valuable land and was a wonderful opportunity for us, if we were willing to work."

The Decisive Act. Fifty-two years after the last veteran's name was drawn from the pickle jar - which holds a place of honor in the county museum - farmers of the Kla- math Basin returned to the national media spotlight. But the spring 2001 story was not one of postwar

recovery. It was about betrayal. The same government that drained Tule and Lower Klamath lakes nearly a century ago to expose new farm land and build dams and

canals to water it, simply closed off the head gates. The reason: to protect two endangered species of bottom-feeding sucker fish in upper hats; traipsing through the dirt; the that ever happened to me," said Klamath Lake and to help threat- house with a white-picket fence Eleanor Bolesta, who was a 23- ened coho salmon downstream. It was instead a single-pane wooden year-old veteran of the Navy's was a story that hit with tectonic barracks left over from Tulelake's Women Accepted for Volunteer might among those who live and

World War II Japanese Relocation Emergency Service program when work in natural-resource-depend- Camp. For those veterans whose her name was drawn. Trained as ent communities across America. names were drawn - exclusively an aviation machinist's mate, she "They couldn't have done us children of the Depression - this and her husband, Charles, a dis- any more harm with an atomic lottery was the chance of a lifetime. abled Marine veteran, were barely bomb," says George A. "Pug" "Amid scenes of anxiety and joy, making ends meet after the war. Smith, who served as a Navy am- out came the names of lucky veter- They were going through their sav- bulance driver in the Philippines

ans who ... are now established for ings and racking up medical bills. during World War II. He was only life," the article observed. Both had taken temporary jobs at 24 years old and full of hope Criteria for homestead eligibility included proof of military service By the early 1950s, young families like during World War II, at least two that of Phil and years of experience in agriculture, Barbara Krizo, at least $2,000 of personal capital, shown here with and "habits of honesty, temper- their children, ance, thrift and industry." Winners Dorothy and David, up all needed to farm for five years in had sprouted across the Klamath order to gain clear title. The old Basin. War veter- relocation-camp buildings were i4 ans formed the available to homesteaders willing foundation of the to haul them off. Thousands ap- new economy. plied for the three drawings Courtesy Philip Krizo between 1946 and 1949, and more than 200 homesteads were awarded in that span, planting a fresh crop of young families in the basin. "It was the most exciting thing

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"Haw would you feel if you lost your job, your retirement benefits and four-fifths of the value of your home? Who knows what's going to happen next?"

Eleanor Bolesta when his name was drawn in the stated: "The object is not to lock which ultimately became home to land lottery of 1947. "I felt very up natural resources but to use nine dams, some 400 miles of fortunate to get one." them in a way that would canals, dozens of pumps, drains, Now, years after Smith and fel- increase their yield for the next sumps, and ditches. But along with low irrigators fully paid off the generation. No wise use of a farm the irrigation and flood-control irrigation project's construction exhausts its fertility." structures came three national cost, he wonders if this is when - The Progressive Era - Ameri- wildlife refuges, the Modoc Nation- and how - the promise breaks. "If ca's quantum leap from the 19th al Forest and Lava Beds National we can get the Endangered to the 20th century - produced Monument. The region evolved Species Act into perspective, it'll such innovations as laws to pro- into a showcase for the harmony save the country," he says. "If tect wildlife from illegal hunting that can be struck between not, we're down the tubes." and shipment. That was an issue progress and preservation. Tulelake, in the early 1900s for Tule Lake, Calif., a community that sprang to A Progressive-Era Showcase. To where unrestricted commercial life by virtue of irrigated farms and drain 96,000 surface acres (about hunters harvested wild birds for wildlife refuges, amply fulfilled the 13 miles by 15 miles) of lake and their plumes alone or to supply new vision for the 20th century. re-channel streams feeding those high-end restaurants with exotic But we're not in that century water bodies, the lower Klamath meat. Not coincidentally born anymore. Basin represented bold engineering around the same time were the challenges - even for the in- nation's first federal bird reserves, Decision Without Debate. Veter- domitable spirit of the Progressive the U.S. Forest Service and the an homesteader Marion Palmer Era. After the federal government Bureau of Reclamation. remembers a man who came by bought up property and acquired The movement was all about his family's farm every so often water rights from both states in the places like the Klamath Basin, during the Depression. The man first decade of the century, exca- was selling suckers he had vating the dams and channels caught in upper Klamath Lake. by hand and by horse through "You were dang glad to get volcanic rock was no easy task. them," said Palmer, whose fa- Rattlesnakes, mosquitoes, tem- ther, a World War I veteran, perature extremes and the sheer was granted a homestead cost of the project were daunt- southwest of Tulelake in 1932. ing. Labor was hard to keep "Times were lean. People did when picking apples elsewhere everything and anything they often paid better. In an essay for could to make money. And the Modoc County Historical you either worked or you Society, local historian Betty starved to death." Lou Byrne-Shirley described the Times had certainly changed Klamath as "one of the most by 1988 when the U.S. Fish and ambitious reclamation projects Wildlife Service added short- in the West during the first part nose and Lost River suckers to of the century. the federal endangered species President Theodore Roose- list. Eight years later, the south- velt, who believed balanced ern Oregon and northern Cali- management of a fast-growing fornia coastal coho salmon were American West was achievable listed as threatened species un- Irrigators like Fred and Velma Robison paid off der the ESA. Those designations through smart farming and the construction of federally built dams and canals in preservation of specially desig- the basin before the water was shut off to protect meant farmers, who say they nated natural reserves, once fish, courtesy Jacqul Krizo only use about 2 percent of the

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By the time water was released for rural America left if this keeps up." farms in the basin, it was too late. Eleanor Bolesta, who relies on income from land she leases to a neighbor, The Klamath Tea Party. Follow- watched the canal next to her house ing the decision, thousands of turn into weed soup, jeffstotfer farmers, ranchers, miners, loggers and national media poured into senior water rights from farmers the basin to protest or bear wit- to fish, that the water-delivery ness to the furious response. On system is owned and maintained May 7, some 18,000 people filled by the irrigators and not the fed- the streets of Klamath Falls, Ore., eral government, and that the for a "bucket-brigade" rally where Klamath Basin crisis exposed a container of water was filled enough deficiencies in the ESA from the upper lake and handed, that the law "should be reformed one person to the next, in a hu- downstream flow for irrigation, or discarded and re-drafted." man chain through the city before had to share their water more gen- The biggest frustration in all of it was dumped into the main erously with the fish during dry this, says Marty Macy - a former canal. Billboards with slogans like times. Growers agreed to curtail Marine fighter pilot and president "CALL 911 SOME SUCKER STOLE water use during drought years to of the Tulelake Growers Associa- OUR WATER" started popping up maintain minimum levels in the tion - is that irrigators didn't even along the highways. One store- lake and streams. have an opportunity to debate the front in Tulelake proclaimed But a lawsuit filed later by decision to close the headgates "Feed the feds ... to the fish." A environmental, tribal and fishing last April 6. "Here we are in the tent city of protesters set up camp groups produced a new biological 21st century, and the only plan at the head gate. A relief fund opinion adopted by the U.S. Fish we could come up with is zero was established to help families and Wildlife Service in 2001. That delivery? We, to this day, do not in the most serious need. opinion called for even tighter re- know the process of how this The local sheriff's department strictions on water delivery in the opinion was arrived at. We were refused to intervene, and the FBI basin. So tight, in fact, that no wa- not at the table. had to be called in after protesters ter at all would be available for Approximately 1,400 family snipped through a fence and used most of the basin's farms and two farms went dry while upper Kla- a cutting torch to open a head of the wildlife refuges - even in a math Lake filled to capacity last gate that sent water pouring into normal precipitation year. That summer. Economic losses in the the canal. At 78 years of age, opinion, and the water-level regula- basin were estimated between Eleanor Bolesta was among those tions that accompanied it, did not $250 million and $300 million. who broke in. just tip the scales; it tipped them "The worst thing it did was it "It's desperate times for des- over. "We didn't realize what was ripped the heart out of our finan- perate measures ... it appears to happening until it happened to us," cial institutions," explained Macy, me that (people) are trying to said Bolesta, who relies on income the son of a homestead veteran, save their lives," Klamath County from property she leases to a neigh- who farms and sprays crops in bor who got virtually no water last the basin. "Confidence in what "The worst thing it year. "Everyone was affected." we're doing was lost. How are did was it ripped Irrigators appealed. But U.S. you going to do anything if you District Court Judge Ann Aiken don't have any water?" the heart out of our denied their request for an injunc- Without the usual influx of sea- tion on the grounds that "... the sonal workers, main-street busi- financial institutions." law requires the protection of nesses were equally jolted by the - Marty Macy suckers and salmon as endangered decision. "This is an agricultural and threatened species and as trib- community," said Tony Giacomel- al trust resources, even if (the irri- li, owner of Jock's Supermarket in gators) disagree with the manner Tulelake. "That's the business in which the fish are protected." here. The sense of community After the ruling, the Klamath runs deep, and if this goes on one Water Users Association issued a more year, the community will be report questioning the kind of sci- bankrupt ... It's shortening peo- ence in which "fish require well ple's lives, just the stress of it." over 100 percent of all the water "We're angry," Bolesta said. in the basin . . . Such requirements "How would you feel if you lost Former fighter pilot Marty Macy came back cannot be met by natural process- your job, your retirement benefits to Tulelake, after a career in the Marine es." The irrigators argued that the and four-fifths of the value of your Corps, to farm and work in his family's aerial U.S. Bureau of Reclamation does home? Who knows what's going to spraying service. His second career may be in not have authority to re-allocate happen next? There won't be any jeopardy, jeff swffer

February 2002 1 33 The American Legion Magazine Sheriff Tim Evinger told The New major national newspapers, radio he and Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., York Times, which was among the and television news. sent a letter asking Congress for

national media that covered the On Aug. 1, Secretary of the In- $126 million in aid for the basin's crisis. The story dominated head- terior Gale Norton concluded that farmers. Smith's chief of staff said lines in Oregon and northern Cali- lake levels were high enough to the request for relief was a matter fornia and appeared in almost all release 75,000 acre feet of water - of trying "to make sure the farm- about one-sixth of the normal de- ers and ranchers are still there next "They couldn't have livery - from the upper lake. The year. This doesn't do much for the phrase "too little, too late" does long term." done us any more harm not scratch the surface. Most of "You don't compensate a veter- with an atomic bomb." the crops were lost by that time, an who survived the Bataan Death and it was too late to plant any- March by telling him we're going

thing new. Some alfalfa came of it. to pay you off so you can leave," In the early fall, congressional said Macy, who, like many farmers leaders from both states weighed in the basin, thinks there's much in with federal budget requests to more to this than saving the suck- compensate farmers devastated by ers. Macy said he believes basin the sucker ruling. But most of that farmers have been targeted for push came after the Sept. 11 terror- "rural cleansing" by environmen- ist attacks, and - with troops on tal organizations, federal bureau- their way to Afghanistan and New cracies, Klamath and Yurok tribes York City to repair - the nation's who claim cultural and treaty budgetary focus could not have rights to protect the fish, along been aimed in a more different di- with politicians who resist digging rection than the Klamath Basin. "I into the ESA out of fear they will Pug and Teresa Smith lamented the summer of 2001 when they paid thou- don't think anybody is going to be perceived as weakening it. sands of dollars in irrigation fees only to call this one a walk in the park," "Once we took this issue and start- water their lawn, jett staffer Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said after ed to look at all the layers and lay-

commentary; The high price of environmentally friendly business

actions in two ways: requiring companies to pay . BY ARLYNN LEIBER PRESSER clean-up costs and assessing punitive damages to Clean air, clean land, clean water. These are the gifts make businesses think twice about flouting the law. God gave to man. We are charged with the task of pre- Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute es- serving and, when possible, improving them for future timates that American companies have spent up to generations. But since the first apple core was tossed $300 billion since 1970 cleaning up the environment. curbside at the Garden of Eden, mankind has always It's a cost, he says, that has been passed along to con- had a little cleaning up to do. And the question is the sumers - an extra tax on doing business. "It's actual- same that was posed by Eve to Adam: who cleans up? ly a larger tax than the corporate tax that we ask busi- For much of history, the waste products of nesses to pay," Smith says. commerce have been dumped, deposited, buried, And it's growing. Environmental agencies have tossed and incinerated without much thought given been assessing charges using the controversial statisti- to environmental impact. Thirty years ago, the air cal technique known as contingent valuation which was hazy, the forest preserves were littered and fish tries to hold businesses accountable for damage to were dying. America rose to the challenge, declaring the environment that can't be repaired. Under this

it was time to clean up. The federal government method, a cross-section of individuals is asked how stepped in with the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts. much it values particular natural resources. For The Environmental Protection Agency was created to instance, you might ask yourself how much you manage and affix responsibility for keeping our coun- would be willing to pay to ensure the survival of fish try clean. Littering is recognized as a morally repre- that swim in a lake near your home. A few dollars a hensible act, above and beyond its illegality. Burning month? Take that dollar amount and multiply it by leaves on the curb? Absolutely not. Recycling? You the population of your town, your state, your country. bet. And that factory just outside of town? Well, its Don't take out your checkbook - that amount is what smokestacks haven't been active for years. the company that pollutes the lake will have to pay. And that might be part of the problem. It's a system that has netted governmental clean-up Environmental Protection Agencies, state and fed- operations a greatly appreciated bonus. But some stat- eral alike, have held businesses accountable for their isticians say it's kooky - one study ^see Presser, page 36

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ers and layers, it started to planting. They went into the stink more and more," Macy winter looking for their elect- said. "The hidden agenda is ed officials to come up with to turn Tule Lake into an answers, hoping their future Everglades of the West." isn't permanently entangled in "It's going to happen two different visions for the everywhere in the West," future of farming and resource added Palmer, who served in management, not just in the Approximately 18,000 demonstrators poured onto Europe as an Army infantry Klamath Basin, but every- streets of Klamath Falls, Ore., last spring to protest Jg man during World War II. deCiSiOn. LarryTurner where in America. "It's going to happen until "We knew how to co-exist someone gets hurt ... when they government." with these species for many, see shelves go empty. That's the Still, Krizo explained, the veter- many years," Macy said. "We urban society we live in today. ans who populate the lower Kla- may not be biologists or Jacqui Krizo - a horseradish math Basin didn't hesitate to hoist botanists, but we know our histo- grower who is both a daughter their flags in solidarity when Amer- ry .. . and we know that if we and daughter-in-law of home- ica went to war last fall. And after don't stop it here, you're next." stead veterans - could not help the events of Sept. 11, tent-city pro- but acknowledge the irony of it testers at the head gates broke Jeff Staffer is the managing editor all. "These are the most patriotic camp, vowing to return after the of The American Legion Magazine. people in the world," she said. first of the year if balance could "And here they are fighting their not be restored in time for spring Article design: Holly K. Soria

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_ " in Texas concluded that its residents dumps effluents into the lake, which is just within the i'l^SSGrl were willing to pay an average of $7.13 borders of Metro City. Metro's mayor would commission per month to save the whooping crane. Actually, they a study to determine the level of pollution which Pris- were willing to have someone else pay that amount. tine can safely endure, and the 10 factories are then giv- And it came out to a state total of $109 million, which en the opportunity to purchase the right to pollute the most folks would agree is a bit hefty. lake. That's right - the 10 factories can purchase the Still, you might argue that anyone who pollutes right to pollute, but only up to the maximum amount takes chances about the price they'll have to pay. But (the "cap"] of effluents. Each factory will have to pur- some companies that have done absolutely nothing chase a fractional right to pollute. But each factory wrong have found themselves stuck with the bill for a would like to decrease its need to pollute because under cleanup. At a landfill in New Jersey, the EPA sued nine the cap-and-trade program, a factory that pollutes less major polluters, but those polluters turned around and than its purchased right may sell or trade part of its pol- sued more than 200 smaller entities for their share of lution rights to another factory. The factory that figures the damage. When the case settled in 1996, 150 busi- out how to reduce its effluents will make money. The nesses and 100 municipal boards shared the costs of a race to create greater levels of efficiency will be on, es- $30 million cleanup. But some, if not most, of those pecially if the mayor of Metro City puts into place a 1- smaller entities had disposed of nothing more lethal percent reduction of the total pollutants each year. than ordinary trash. Hopefully, some sanity will return And what about the money Metro City gets at the to the environmental field with the Gillmor-Pallone pollution-rights auction? Options could include using bill, which would exempt small contributors to Super- the money for government cleanups to other troubled fund sites from cleanup costs. Sponsors Paul Gillmor, environmental issues or research to promote cross- R-Ohio, and Frank Pallone, D-N.J., celebrated its pas- industry efficiencies. sage in the House (419-0) last July and are watching Cap-and-trade is a program that would make cap- for a Senate companion bill. tains of industry and environmentalists work as We don't know much about the argument between partners instead of adversaries. It would take away Adam and Eve concerning clean-up chores, but the name-calling, lawsuits and rancor which has maybe they didn't argue at all. Maybe they cooperat- characterized much of the thinking about environ- ed - and maybe business and regulatory agencies mental protection. can, too. Look for cap-and-trade programs that Maybe the best thing to remember is that when the encourage businesses to use the most American of apple core falls and we ask who cleans up - or, at traits - ingenuity, ambition and efficiency. They're least, who pays - the best answer is, "We all do, and getting a new look by our government, and business let's do it together." leaders would say it's about time. The programs work like this: ArLynn Leiber Presser is a Chicago-area lawyer and Suppose 10 factories surround Lake Pristine and each writer.

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BY SUSAN KATZ KEATING being offered for sale on the black market, it would certainly be at- 1999, Rep. Floyd Spence, R- tractive to any terrorist with a fat InS.C., then chairman of the House bankroll." Armed Services Committee, Not all of the missing items are asked government investigators to weapons. Unaccounted goods in- examine various aspects of how the clude such mundane materials as U.S. military manages its inventory. clothing and office supplies. But Spence, who died in August, was the roster also includes rifles, mainly concerned about what was grenades, TNT, a machine gun being done with excess equipment. and, amazingly, some handheld But investigators working on his be- missiles and rockets. half made a disturbing discovery: The vast majority of materials certain sensitive defense items had that vanish do so while in transit literally vanished. Those items in- from one site to another. In fiscal cluded a digital computer used for year 1998, for example, the Army countermeasures on the E-2 aircraft could not account for some $900 and 18 computers used for guiding million worth of goods while they MK-46 torpedoes. In a report to Con- were being shipped. From 1996 to gress, investigators wrote that they 1998, the Navy lost track of more were concerned about the lost items than $3 billion of in-transit items.

"because they could be misused if Most items that turn up missing are they get in the wrong hands." not weapons. But from April 1997 Computers aren't all. In recent to March 1998, the Pentagon calcu- years, billions of dollars worth of lated that more than 283,000 sensi- material disappeared from the U.S. tive military items disappeared military. In 1997, the General Ac- while in transit. counting Office named inventory Some of the missing items management to its list of govern- were excess inventory en route to ment areas most prone to fraud, disposal. But others were destined waste and abuse. Now, in light of for active duty and never arrived. the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, "You can write off a large portion security experts fear that at least of that to sloppy bookkeeping," some of that missing material may says one congressional source fa- be within grasp of hostile hands. miliar with the problem. "Some- "The stuff is out there sometimes the stuff simply isn't record- where," says Virginia-based ter- ed in the right ledger. Or it flat- rorism expert Kyle Olsen. "If it's out gets forgotten."

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Good Morning \\\ Vietnam! Fifteen years BY ADRIAN CRONAUER The film was a collaborative effort by Williams' manager Lar- after the popular 've gotta ask you some- ry Bresner, myself, my partner thing," the perky young Ben Moses and writer Mitch movie, the real I.lady says. Markowitz. More than once in a "Here it comes," I think. "The story conference I heard, "Hey, Adrian Cronauer No. 1 question." that's a great incident; we'll have "How much of that film 'Good to use it in the movie. Of course,

Morning Vietnam!' was real?" we'll change it completely." I talks fact and I smile. "Know anyone who's didn't object because the film been in the military?" wasn't intended to be an accu- fiction behind "My dad was Navy. rate biography; it was supposed

"He'll tell you. If I did even half to be entertaining. the film. what Robin Williams did in the I often say that our characters film, I'd still be in Leavenworth weren't based on real people. instead of here in Washington." They're all stereotypes, if only for She laughs. "I didn't really legal reasons like avoiding libel or think you could have gotten away invasion of privacy. On the other with all that." hand, mention any specific char-

Like most people, she realizes acter and I could probably think

Hollywood is interested only in a of at least a half dozen people I good story, not perfect accuracy. knew during my Air Force years. As the real U.S. Air Force disc Many things in the film were

jockey, I am often asked if Robin true, while others were exaggerat- Williams portrayed me accurately ed or made up for the sake of en- in the film "Good Morning Viet- tertainment.

nam!" Yes and no, I respond. I did teach English during my

42| February 2002 The American Legion Magazine off-duty time, but I didn't "In America, listeners are used to red pencils in hand. In- teach my class to swear stead, clearance was and use New York street choosing any number of radio stations done by telephone

slang, and I was not through the public infor- depending on preference. In Saigon, teaching English because mation office at Military

I cer- Assistance Command, wanted to meet a though, if you spoke English, our tain, particularly beauti- Vietnam, headquarters ful Vietnamese girl. station was the only game in town." of Gen. William West- Most Saigon residents moreland. were reluctant to socialize with opposition from many of my radio An example of the censorship

Americans. I reasoned that, like colleagues. In reality, I dealt more we endured showed up in the

most cultures, the Vietnamese re- with apathy. "Well, yeah, I guess movie as the bombing scene at

spect teachers. By becoming one, that sounds fine. But it sounded Jimmy Waugh's restaurant. Yes, I

I got to know a wide variety of all right to me the way it was. really was in a restaurant shortly

Vietnamese people. But I still Why fix something that isn't bro- before the Viet Cong hit it,

don't know if any of them were ken?" When I went into the field although it wasn't much like the

Viet Cong. to do interviews, though, I found movie scene. The actual incident

Armed Forces Radio was there the troops liked what I was doing. involved an eatery called My to boost morale. Our surveys There was news censorship but Chan Floating Restaurant. As the showed, not surprisingly, that a not on all stories. Only two cate- name implies, it was a boat an- vast majority of listeners were gories were subject to advance chored in the Saigon River. There young men in their late teens and clearance: anything about the mil- were tables and chairs on deck; a early 20s. Few had been outside itary whether or not it had to do nice breeze came over the water, the United States; many had nev- with Vietnam and anything to do and the food was good, so radio er even been outside their home- with Vietnam whether or not it staffers would go there frequently towns. The military had, literally, had to do with the military. In ei- for dinner. picked them up, transported them ther case, rarely did such content One evening in 1965, four of us halfway around the world and get on the air. were there. About five minutes dumped them into an alien envi- We didn't have the Bobbsey after we had finished eating and ronment. To counter the resulting Twins sitting at the radio station, left the restaurant, the Viet Cong homesickness, we tried to set off a claymore mine. The sound like radio stations back exploding mine sent out a home. spray of shrapnel, raking the In America, listeners are entire side of the boat and used to choosing from any causing both physical injury number of radio stations. In and panic. Several minutes Saigon, though, if you only later - while people were spoke English, our station was frantically struggling to get the only game in town. So we ashore - a second charge, a programmed "blocks." There narrow one, was aimed direct- was the top-40 show, the coun- ly at the gangplank. try show, the soul-music show Nearby, we heard the sirens and others. Of course, we also and commotion. We ran back carried news, discussion and to the boat and gathered what other talk programs. information we could, then I tried to expand the amount went to the radio station to of popular music. I also tried to write our news report. make the total sound of the We called the duty officer station more like stateside ra- at MACV and read him our dio. We didn't have commer- story. He said we couldn't cials, but we did air public- broadcast it because there service announcements, like, was no official word about a don't forget to take your malar- bombing. We countered that ia pills, and mail early to en- we had been there and seen sure your Christmas gifts reach it. He responded he had no home in time. My approach report of casualties. was to treat PSAs as one would "With due respect, sir," we a commercial: use attention replied, "we've seen heads getters at the beginning, put in severed from torsos. Barring At the console, Cronauer used sound effects, dramatic a dramatic or humorous scene, the Second Coming, they or humorous scenes and music to make mundane use music and sound effects. aren't going to get up and public service announcements more entertaining. The movie shows me facing Courtesy Adrian Cronauer walk away!"

February 2002 1 43 The American Legion Magazine We continued to argue "In the military, you quickly learn Lawrence Welk. but the final answer was The film shows bags and "No." The final reason was, there's a thin line between what you bags of fan mail arriving "Suppose we're wrong." can get away with and what you every day and a bank of tele- I could tell you there phones ringing off the hook was a vast conspiracy to can't. I often pushed up to that line with requests. That never keep American military happened. There weren't personnel in ignorance, but but never crossed it!' any phone booths in the rice

I don't believe that's true. paddies. Where were they

Instead, there were two a few days; I would have been going to call from? understandable factors at play of- court-martialed. Occasionally someone would ten working in tandem. In the military, you quickly recognize my name. More often,

The first was simply that you learn there's a thin line between they wouldn't until I said something couldn't put certain things on the what you can get away with and about "Good Morning Vietnam!" air in a war zone for fear of help- what you can't. I often pushed up "Oh, yeah," they'd say. "How ing your enemy - troop move- to that line but never crossed it. about playing a record for me?" ments, for instance. There were Unlike the film's ending, I was That opening shout, though, more subtle cases of this principle, not thrown out of Vietnam. I did catch on. I found out that, on too - take, for example, weather stayed my full one-year tour and particularly bad days, certain forecasts. Armed Forces Radio after my four-year hitch, I was troops would turn to their radios made a conscious effort to sound honorably discharged. and yell the GI equivalent of "Get like a station back home. All state- There was no music censorship stuffed, Cronauer!" In at least one side stations gave the weather. We on Armed Forces Radio in the case, a man greeted my sign-on didn't need to, because in Vietnam mid-1960s. If it was a major artist by picking up his M-16 and blow- there are only two choices: hot on a major label, we probably ing away his radio. and, during the monsoon season, had it and could play it; the only When I left Vietnam, Army hot and wet. But sounding like limitation was the program's for- Specialist Cramer Haas took over home was important, so we mat. If, say, you were doing a the Dawnbuster show, keeping installed a direct line to the weath- country music show, you would- the same format and the same er station at Tan Son Nhut Airbase n't play progressive jazz. Beyond sign-on. They became a tradition and started giving regular that, though, there was no control with each succeeding morning forecasts. In less than a week, we over our music; nobody was forc- DJ. Now I frequently meet veter- had to stop because the Viet Cong ing us to broadcast polkas and ans who tell me, "I used to listen were using our forecasts to plan to you every morning." their operations. If we said it "When were you there?" I was going to be overcast and ask. cloudy, for instance, they knew "In '69 and 70." we could not bring in air cover. My tour was in '65 and '66. There was another reason But everyone remembers the we were censored, what I manic shout, thought of as the "bureaucrat- "Goooooooooood Morning ic" factor. The bombing at My Vietnam!" So they assume Chan restaurant is a perfect they heard me, and I usually example. It was about 8 p.m. don't correct them.

The person I talked with was a I still get a chill when, at a relatively low-ranking officer veterans' reunion, someone there all alone. If anything shakes my hand and quietly

went wrong it was his neck on says, "Thanks for helping me the line, not mine. In such sit- get through 'Nam." It makes uations one readily decides the me realize how, in my own safest course of action is to, in unconventional way, I made the words of Nancy Reagan, a little difference. I feel that's "just say no." That's what a worthwhile legacy. they did, time after time. In the film version, Robin Adrian Cronauer, former U.S. Williams put the bombing sto- Air Force sergeant, co-authored

ry on the air anyway. Had I the original story for the motion really done so, just as in the picture "Good Morning film, they would have turned Vietnam!" He is now a partner Adrian Cronauer, right, talks with U.S. Rep. Randy off the transmitter - only a lot "Duke" Cunningham following the successful vote for a in a Washington law firm. faster. Then I wouldn't merely flag-protection amendment in the House of Represen- have been taken off the air for tatives last Summer, sandy Schaeffer Article design: Doug Rollison

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I Stroke: America's third most common killer

Americans pay $30 billion annually for long-term disability care.

Blacks are at greater risk than BY DR. JOHN R. FEUSSNER hospital, stroke victims undergo extensive tests to determine the extent whites for hypertension and Every minute, someone in Ameri- of brain damage and the best treat- stroke. Diabetes, past mini-strokes ca has a stroke, according to the ment, which may include medication and a family history of stroke also American Stroke Association. Strokes or surgery to clear blocked arteries. raise the risk. are America's third most common killer, ranked under heart disease VA Research. VA is attacking and cancer. They are the leading strokes on several fronts. In a ma- cause of long-term disability, costing jor VA clinical trial, the drug gem- $30 billion annually. fibrizol, which raises "good" cho- The most common type of lesterol, reduced the frequency of stroke occurs when a blood clot stroke by 29 percent. Another forms in an artery bringing blood study now in progress is testing a to the brain. Part of the brain does theory pioneered by Dr. Kilmer not receive oxygen, and brain cells McCully of the VA in Providence, die within minutes. The areas of R.I., that dietary changes which the body these cells control may decrease levels of homocysteine - suffer irreversible damage. Com- an amino acid - may cut the risk mon after-effects of stroke include of heart disease and stroke. paralysis on one side of the body, To try to improve rehabilitation vision problems, difficulty speak- after stroke, VA investigators in Corbis Stock Market ing and memory loss. Birmingham, Ala., developed "con- Risk Factors. The greatest risk factor straint-induced therapy," which Warning Signs. Five warning for stroke is hypertension, or high promotes movement in the affect- signs of stroke, all of which come blood pressure - anything above 140 ed side of a stroke patient. And in on suddenly, include: over 90 is considered high. High Palo Alto, Calif., VA scientists were blood pressure leads to hardening of the first to show that robot-assisted Numbness or weakness of the face, the arteries, which impairs blood cir- rehabilitation therapy has advan- arm or leg, especially on one side. culation and can result in the clots tages over conventional therapy for and ruptured vessels that cause restoring upper-limb movement Difficulty speaking or under- stroke. Similarly, people with existing after stroke. standing heart problems or high cholesterol Stroke experts in Durham, N.C., are more likely to suffer strokes. working under VA's Quality Difficulty with vision. Fortunately, blood pressure can Enhancement Research Initiative, often be lowered with medication have developed a blueprint for Dizziness or loss of balance. and changes in lifestyle. Among the stroke care throughout the VA measures that have been shown to health system. Also in Durham, Severe headache with no known ease hypertension are exercising; researchers have been studying cause. shedding excess weight; reducing how depression affects patients alcohol consumption; cutting back after a stroke has occurred. In a transient ischemic attack, or on smoking - or even better, quit- These are just some of the things mini-stroke, these signs may last only ting altogether; and reducing salt the Veterans Health Administration a few minutes or hours and cause no (sodium chloride) , saturated fat is doing to improve prevention, lasting damage. But any of these and cholesterol. Ask your doctor treatment and rehabilitation for this warning signs, no matter how tem- what's right for you. life-threatening condition that re- porary, should be treated as a life- Other risk factors cannot be sults in the hospitalization of threatening emergency. Call 911 im- changed. The older you are, the 15,000 veterans and thousands of mediately. A new clot-dissolving greater your risk of stroke. More other Americans each year. drug called tissue plasminogen acti- than 70 percent of stroke victims vator may help many stroke victims, are 65 or older. Men and women John R. Feussner, M.D., M.P.H., is but it must be administered within are at about equal risk for stroke, chief research and development three hours of a stroke's onset. Fol- although strokes are more often officer of the Veterans Health lowing emergency treatment at the fatal among women. Administration.

February 2002 1 47 The American Legion Magazine Washington watch

Patriotism vs. art A battle over offensive "art" has Here's something new 'gang' patriotism moved from Colorado to the na- Congress is doing its best to again. After contacting the tion's capital. But elected repre- promote patriotism among school district and following up sentatives in Washington may young people. By a with a legal opinion, an attor- have the last laugh in this battle 297-125 vote, the ney from the Pacific Jus- with the wine-and-cheese crowd. House passed a reso- tice Institute was Marcellee Gralapp, art director lution introduced by told that the of a public library in Boulder, Rep. Walter Jones, R- teacher acted Colo., recently vetoed an attempt N.C., stating that outside the poli- to drape the American flag over America's schools cies of the school the front entrance. "We have peo- should set aside time district. The dis- ple of every faith and culture to allow children to trict promised walking into this building, and we pray for - or quietly that teachers in want everybody to feel welcome," reflect on - the nation the future would she said. But Gralapp managed to during this time of respect the rights of students to approve a display in the library struggle against inter- wear patriotic symbols. titled "Hung Out to Dry," which national terrorism. But the new In the president's home featured severed ceramic male sex patriotism is receiving an "F" state, a principal at Johnston organs hanging from a clothesline. in some academic quarters. High School in Austin declared It was part of an art exhibit on do- In Anaheim, Calif., two stu- it was "inappropriate" for his mestic violence. Someone stole the dents were prevented from students to participate in patri- ceramic objects, however, and left wearing patriotic pins because otic events and refused to allow in their place an American flag. of the school district's "gang the high school band to The guilty party was later iden- paraphernalia" policy. The pins perform at a "Rally for Ameri- tified as Bob Rowan, husband, fa- consisted of no more than an ca" at the Capitol. Several Uni- ther and Boulder taxpayer, who American flag and the words versity of Texas student organi- packed the "art" into a box that he "God Bless America." The boys zations withdrew their initial planned to return to its creator. "It were threatened with suspen- support for the event. should never belong in something sion if they wore the pins -C.K. I pay taxes for," he said. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., responded by introducing a bill prohibiting federally funded House document showing a need women of the U.S. Postal Service groups, including public libraries, to obtain the computer tapes of the "have done an outstanding job of from banning the American flag. USS Normandy, an Aegis-guided delivering the mail during this missile cruiser in the area at the time of national emergency." The Pentagon beware time. This is the same system that USPS wants a federal bailout for Investigative journalist Charles mistakenly shot down an Iranian expenses related to the anthrax Thompson is producing a docu- passenger plane in 1988. These scare and other rising costs. mentary about the 1996 crash of tapes would describe what the ship But the National Taxpayers

TWA 800. And the Pentagon won't saw on its radar and perhaps what Union says it still costs too much like it. Thompson, whose 30-year happened. Thompson said docu- money to deliver mail. career includes serving as a pro- ments he obtained indicate the NTU Deputy Press Secretary ducer for CBS's "60 Minutes" and radar system on the ship has been and Policy Analyst Jerry Terry said ABC's "20/20," believes the U.S. used in the past to conduct surveil- an agreement to have FedEx trans- military accidentally shot down lance of airliners going in and out port some mail will save USPS the plane while trying to hit a of the New York area. about $1 billion in air-transporta- drone and that the incident was It will be difficult for the Penta- tion costs over the next several covered up. "That plane was hit gon, which denies any role in the years. "This is in spite of the fact by one or two missiles," Thomp- crash, to discredit Thompson. He that, unlike the postal service, son says. served two tours in Vietnam as a FedEx must pay taxes and other Officially, the plane went down naval officer and was decorated on fees imposed on a private compa- because of a fuel-tank explosion - 18 occasions. His journalism cred- ny, while still making a profit. an explanation that contradicts its include an Emmy for investiga- "Unfortunately, the Postal Ser- alleged eyewitness accounts. tive reporting and a National vice, with its government-imposed Thompson, who has been re- Headliner Award. monopoly on first-class mail deliv- searching the matter for years, said ery, has no competition and is he has uncovered evidence that the Rain, snow, or terror only accountable to big-spending Navy was testing the Aegis anti- In honor of America's mail car- politicians and powerful labor missile system at the time of the riers, the House passed a resolu- unions," Terry said. tragedy. He claims to have a White tion stating that the men and - Cliff Kincaid

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The American Legion recently patriotic pride announced a new partnership with Transition Assistance Online, BY ELISSA KAUPISCH the nation's premier e-recruiting Web site, in an effort to bring As a show of patriotism follow- TAOnline.com's employment re- ing the Sept. 11 attacks, American sources to Legion members. TAOn- Legion National Commander line.com targets the military com- Richard J. Santos asked The munity and offers free support and American Legion family to imple- resources for the entire job-search ment Resolution 107. Passed last and relocation process. The Amer- August at the national convention ican Legion has long provided a in San Antonio, the resolution re- variety of I instates the Blue Star Banner pro- membership FOR MORE INFO f

gram. Santos encourages posts to www.TAOnline.com I benefits and provide a Blue Star Banner to each support family with a relative serving in services to former military mem- the war on terrorism. bers and their families, as well as The red-bordered banners, with those serving on active duty. This blue or gold star in a field of white, partnership provides yet another are displayed in windows of the important service. homes of servicemembers' fami- TAOnline.com co-founder G.

lies. During World War II, banners Roderick Gillette says the compa- During World War ll, posters like this promot- at five-&-ten- ny' could be purchased ed Blue Star Banners. The American Legion Library was created to meet the needs cent stores and local hardware of transitioning servicemembers, shops. In more recent years, Legion banner, completely covering the veterans, retirees, reservists and posts have distributed them. blue star. Rather than emphasizing military spouses. In addition to The service-banner tradition tragedy and personal loss of the posting job openings and resumes,

dates back to World War I. On family, the Gold Star Banner repre- it offers career advice and tools for May 28, 1918, President Wilson sents honor and glory due a fallen finding civilian jobs. approved a servicemember, as well as the last "We want to encourage people s Jk resolution, full measure of pride and devotion to not only use us at the time of suggested by of the family in this sacrifice. separation but any time they have the Women's In June 1928, Grace Darling Sei- job needs throughout their entire I Committee bold of Washington, D.C., who lost post-military career," Gillette says. of the Coun- a son during World War I, founded Legion members will now have cil of Nation- American Gold Star Mothers to access to a fully functional job U A ANN al Le- ?, oT ? Defenses, support mothers who had lost sons board through The American P • $6.95 each from Em- ., . malt Ameri ~ and daughters in the war. The orig- gion Web site, www.legion.org. blem Sales. Call toll-free (888) 4-legion. Specify can women inal group, with a membership of Employers who post their ads on item 72982 for Blue Star wear black 65 mothers from across the nation, the TAOnline site and who search Banners and 72982. G bands on was founded to perpetuate the the TAOnline resume database are for Gold Star Banners ^eir left ideals of Americanism. A national specifically looking for job-seekers arms displaying gold stars for fami- organization later united smaller from the military community. ly members who gave their lives for local and state charters. Member- Some of the leading companies in their country. From the arm bands ship grew to include mothers who the country, including AT&T, came the service banners, repre- lost sons and daughters in all U.S. Raytheon, Honeywell and eBay, senting relatives and friends serving wars and peacekeeping missions. use TAOnline for that purpose. in the Armed Forces or who died Today, 200 chapters of American Under the new partnership, Le- during service. Since the early days Gold Star Mothers serve veterans in gionnaires can encourage more

of World War I, service flags have local communities and in veterans' employers to hire veterans and displayed a blue star for each fami- hospitals. They also work closely those associated with the military. ly member in the military. with veterans organizations, such "Now more than ever, employ-

When World War I began yield- as The American Legion. ers should consider hiring those ing fatalities, the nation wanted to In 1942, Blue Star Mothers of individuals who put their lives on separately honor those who died America was formed, and the the line for this great country," for their country. The gold star was group continues to support troops National Commander Richard J. substituted and stitched onto the abroad and veterans at home. Santos said.

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During an interview for a docu- mentary, 84-year-old World War II veteran Arthur "Archie" Watkins of Blossburg, Pa., mentioned he would like to receive the Combat Infantry Badge before he died. Weeks later, he was diagnosed with cancer, the prognosis poor. Upon hearing about Watkins' wish, Blossburg American Legion Post 572 worked to cut through red tape to grant his wish. The community honored Watkins during a special ceremony in August when U.S. Sen. Rick Legionnaire James Abejuro of San Francisco American Legion Post 737 is surrounded Santorum, R-Pa., presented him by children he helped last year during his annual weeklong mission trip to the Philip- with the Combat Infantry Badge pines. There he helped provide health-care services to needy Filipinos, courtesy James Abejuro that he was entitled to, along with other forgotten decorations. More Man on a mission than 300 people, including Legionnaires and Auxiliary mem- Legionnaire James Abejuro of San and serves as an interpreter. When bers, attended. Francisco Post 737 serves humanity Abejuro makes his annual trip, he "I know why this medal is so in a unique way. Every January, he takes along several boxes of toys important," Santorum said. "The embarks on a weeklong mission trip and clothing to distribute among Combat Infantry Badge meant you sponsored by the Philippine Medical the people he serves. Abejuro pays stood beside others in a foxhole Society of Northern California. The his own airfares and hotel expens- somewhere and fought together. mission offers medical, dental and es, helping defray expenses Watkins stood tall, wearing the surgical services to needy Filipinos. incurred by the medical society. uniform he wore when he made a As part of the support staff, Last year, 113 volunteers served surprise return home. Abejuro sorts and mixes medi- 9,790 patients from the province of Drafted at age 27, Watkins left cines, takes patients' temperatures Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. his wife and two young sons to serve in Europe. His return was a surprise because he had been re- Post assures pledge part of school day ported dead. Instead, he was taken prisoner and sent to Nazi Germany. Members of American Legion policy until November. Of the 355 men in his camp, only Post 1776 in Apple Valley, Minn., But Post 1776 Commander Du- 187 survived. recently took a stand against what ane Glum told district officials, Watkins once backed out of an it deemed unacceptable behavior "No, we're going to talk about it escape plan at the last minute, a by a local school district now." He then told the decision that saved his life. He - especially in light of school board and dis- awoke the next morning to find the nation's renewed trict officials his post the bullet-ridden bodies of his patriotism following would withhold all do- buddies piled on top of one anoth- Sept. 11. nations to the school er as a warning to others. Every day at the start system - between Watkins received accolades in of school, elementary $80,000 and $100,000 front of his community's veterans' students from Indepen- annually - until a poli- monument, dedicated on May 30, dent School District 196 cy change was made. 1945. Watkins learned that his fa- recite the Pledge of Al- One week later, ther had donated three of the legiance. But when school board school officials agreed to an op- stones in the memorial, one for member Judy Lindsay proposed a tional pledge throughout the each of his sons who served in policy change requiring all students school system each day. World War II. in the system to start the school School District 196 Superinten- Eleven days after the ceremony, day with the pledge, the proposal dent John Haro said money wasn't Watkins passed away, knowing was tabled and sent to the district's the issue in the decision; patriotism he'd been granted his final wish, policy review board for study. The was. Either way, Post 1776 took a thanks to Blossburg Post 572 and board decided not to discuss the stand and made a difference. his local community.

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