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March 1982 Volume 112, Number 3 For God and Country
4 Commander's Message ^2 Crossing The High Taking It For Granted Frontier By Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham, USA (Ret.)
3 Letters As we prepare to enter the 21st century mankinds future and possibly survival Our readers comment — —depends on how America meets the chal lenses of her newest frontier. 10 News to Use
Helpful hints for consumers Burma-Shave
Remembered By Dr. David L. Sudhalter 22 Books The life and times of those Burma-Shave sisns are gone, Interesting new titles but not forgotten. 26 Big Issues The Disease Detectives By Vernon Pizer Should Congress Provide for Tuition ^£ Tax Credits? Mysteries are being solved by a group of scientific sleuths based at the world's largest medical detective agency. 28 Dateline Washington Issues and opinions from the capital 13 "To The Cooler" By Douglas Starr
Thirty-five years later the men of Stalag Luft III 32 Tne Message Center reflect on their "great escape" of March 24, 1 944. Of importance to veterans Backgammon For 34 News for Legionnaires 20 "Agent Orange: Time Bomb Or Beginners By Ralph B. Roberts
Dud?"—third of a three-part series A board game that was popular in pre-Revolutionary
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About our authors . . .
As Director of High Frontier, an or- on management. lancer Douglas Starr covered the re- ganization of top space experts, Lt. union he describes in "To The Cool- Gen. Daniel O. Graham, USA (Ret.) A few days spent at the Centers for er. knows whereof he writes in "Cross- Disease Control in Atlanta, GA con- ing The High Frontier." vinced author Vernon Pizer he was Retired adman Ralph B. Roberts on the right track with his article, finds himself back in action as Presi- David L. Sudhalter, author of "Bur- "The Disease Detectives." dent of the Hoosier Backgammon ma-Shave Remembered," is a profes- Club, an avocation he shares with sor of Political Science at Boston While working as a newspaper re- readers in "Backgammon for Be- State College and author of a book porter in 1980, Boston-based free- ginners."
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Commander's Message THE AMERICAN LEGION
Taking It For Granted
nothing . . . except nearly three- National Commander quarters of a million dedicated, de- Jack W. Flynt termined Legionnaires who refused to take anything for granted. Sure, it seemed right for the gov- The American Legion Magazine ernment to take care of the sick and Editorial & Advertising Offices 700 North Pennsylvania St. wounded of the war. It seemed right EO. Box 1055 for the government to provide pen- Indianapolis, IN 46206 317-635-8411 sions for the disabled, and some type of readjustment help for the physi- Publisher cally fit. It seemed right for the gov- Dean B. Nelson ernment to provide some measure of Assistant Publisher/Editor support for the widows and orphans Daniel S. Wheeler of those who fell on foreign soil. Managing Editor Gerard T. Atchison It all seemed right, yet no one was Senior Editor willing to take anything for granted. Grail S. Hanford Individually and collectively these Associate Editor early Legionnaires petitioned state Kathleen Whitehead and federal representatives to enact Art Editor James A. Chaney appropriate legislation; they told Production Manager their neighbors and acquaintances Bill Kroeker about the great job that had to be done, and the debt that was owed by Advertising Sales all to the few who had borne the Robert Redden Assoc., Inc. Jack W. Flynt battle and they asked other veterans RO. Box 999, Teaneck, NJ 07666 201-837-5511 to join with them as members of that fledgling association called The The American Legion Magazine Commission Sixty-three years ago this month, American Legion. Milford A. Forrester, Chairman, Greenville, SC; Adolph Bremer, Vice Winona, MN; James R. a group of war-weary American Ex- That was many years ago and F. Chairman, Kelley, National Commander's Representative, Devon, peditionary Force soldiers met in much has been accomplished since PA; Norman Biebel, Belleville, IL; Victor Broom, AL; John J. Paris to organize an association then. Yet, there is still more to do, Fulton, MS; Andrew J. Cooper. Gulf Shores, Dunn, Sr., Scranton, PA; Martin T. Jansen, Little help- based on devotion to mutual and our membership across the na- Chute, WI; Eugene J. Kelley, Savannah. GA; James V fulness, born of war service, and ded- tion is the wellspring from which our Kissner, Palatine, IL; Frank J. Holcshuh, Youngstown, OH; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, IA; Arthur M. equitable and com- will icated to securing future successes come. But McDowell, Indianapolis, IN; Nathaniel J. McKee, passionate treatment for veterans. those successes will happen only if Princeton, NJ; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, LA; Bruce E. Penny. Seattle. WA: Floyd J. Rogers. Topeka, KS; A subcommittee of 17 veterans re- we make them happen—we can't sit George G. Sinopoli, Fresno, CA; Ralph L. Smith, turned to the states to promote in- back and take anything for granted. Bartlesville, OK; Dewey C Spencer. Mabelvale, AR; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, CT, George J. Zanos, terest among those who had already Since becoming your National Sr., Wellsburg. WV: Keith H. Gwilliam, Consultant. come home from the Great War. Less Commander, I've had it demon- Roy, UT: Jerome Neuberger, Consultant, Staten Island, than two months later, 1,100 veteran strated to me time and again the NY. delegates met in St. Louis and truth of that statement: "We can't drafted the blueprint of our organi- sit back and take anything for The American Legion Magazine (USPS 020-540) is zation. A few months after that, granted." A case in point: recently published monthly by The American Legion, 700 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Price: delegates attended the charter con- I was taken on a tour of a U.S. mili- yearly subscription, $3.00; single copy, 30 cents. in Minneapolis. the first tary base. Our tour guide, a vention By DoD POSTMASTER: send address changes to: Circulation anniversary of Armistice Day—No- employee, was obviously enthusiastic Department, P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. vember 11, 1919—and only eight about the Legion and the support we Send editorial and advertising material to: The American months following the first caucus, give veterans and their families, as Legion Magazine, 700 North Pennsylvania St., P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. The American Legion had grown to well as our official positions on a Copyright 1982 by The American Legion. a force 648,000 strong. number of major national concerns. Microfilm copies available: University Microfilms, From the beginning, our Founders He told me he had been an active 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 realized the importance of a large supporter of Legion programs for membership base. It would take more than 20 years, in addition to Change of Address many veterans banded together to being the liaison between the Legion Notify Post Adjutant and Circulation Dept., EO. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Attach old address set. It particular base. achieve the aims they had was and that label, provide old and new address and current not merely a case of sorting out gov- The man's dedication and enthusi- membership card number. Allow 8 weeks for change of ernmental red tape in order to prove asm were so gratifying to me person- address to take effect. entitlement. There was no red tape ally that I wanted to call it to the Non-Member Subscriptions to sort because there were virtually attention of his Post and Department Send $3.00 ($4.00 in foreign countries) to Circulation no veterans benefits. No VA medical Commanders. But when I asked him Dept., EO. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. facilities. No disability compensa- what Legion Post he belonged to, his tion. No provisions for widows and answer shocked me. orphans. No educational benefits. No (Continued on page 55)
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Agent Orange Price-Anderson Act of 1957, which • The presentation of "Agent Or- limits the liability of utility com- ange: The Problem" (January), was panies using nuclear power to $500 not only interesting but deeply ap- million in case of catastrophic acci- preciated. I am highly pleased that dent? Why is the industry unwilling a magazine with such respect among to assume full financial responsibil- veterans organizations is placing ma- ity for such a potential accident jor emphasis on this vital issue. Since without this form of government one of the many unsung heroes of subsidized insurance? The answer the Vietnam War was from our re- appears to be that the industry has gion we feel very close to this prob- assessed the financial hazards of MEDICAL lem. The late Edmund Juteau was a nuclear power to their own corporate champion of the cause of those veter- health very realistically, but has so FILE ans who, like himself, were afflicted far refused any equally realistic ap- with a variety of symptoms that were praisal of the ecological and biologi- concise up-to-date information directly related to exposure to Agent cal hazards that nuclear power poses Orange while serving in Southeast for the rest on effective treatment of of us. Asia. As a result of his efforts and Stacia Brownjohn common medical problems those of various other organizations, Whitestone, NY a great amount of pressure has been brought to bear upon the Congress, • Dr. Cohen appears to be biased in BACKACHE Before you take regular strength pain relievers for a muscular the Veterans Administration and his statement listing the risks of pol- backache, remember this: Momentum' Tablets the White House to recognize Agent lutants from fossil fuel plants, but are specially made for backaches. They're 50% Orange for what it is a service-con- does not pursue the probability stronger... with 50% more pain reliever per dose — of to relieve backache pain... to soothe inflamma- nected problem for which the U. S. removal of these pollutants, which tion, so you can move freely more again. Government is responsible. Factual- can be accomplished at far less cost Momentum® Tablets: ly correct and well documented arti- specially made for* than the astronomically expensive backaches... %mmmu cles such as yours will aid the effort safeguards needed for nuclear power IHMWHWiV ,f 50% stronger immensely. We have not forgotten. production. We are pleased that you have not C.Wells forgotten them either. New Hope, PA 8 DENTURES Apply Anbesol to Anthony J. Casale sore, painful gums. Anbesol kills pain on con- tact. Its two anesthetics deaden pain immedi- NY State Assembly • I wish to compliment Dr. Cohen ately, soothe irritated nerve endings. Nothing Albany, NY for his excellent presentation of this short of a doctor's prescription gives faster relief controversial subject. is of the discomfort of denture He correct • irritation, toothache^^^.,,,^^ Anbesoli Two parallel problems are effec- that the majority of \ the public relies cold sores or f\^^^**""T tively portrayed in the January issue: on media presentation for informa- fever blisters. bT Aflb&PL "Agent Orange: The Problem" and tion on this issue. The use of nuclear "Is Nuclear Power Too Risky?" The power must be expanded, and the U.S. military and the manufacturer sooner more factual information simi- promoted the use and safety of lar to that presented HEADACHES Not getting all in this article s the relief you need? Discover Anacin-3. Its pain Agent Orange. Although it did not is read and understood, the closer we reliever gives you the most effective headache slow arms delivery on the Ho Chi will be to nuclear power acceptance. relief you can buy without aspirin. It's 100% aspirin-free, 1000 mgs. strong per dose. Minh Trail, it was highly touted as William H. McNally Maximum strength... even stronger than regular cost effective. Although nuclear pow- Cuyahoga Falls, OH strength tablets. er has been a financial disaster to the Get maximum strength 100% utilities, it has been acclaimed as The Dentist Aspirin- Free "too cheap to meter." Because of lim- • I am most impressed by Douglas Anacin-3. ited knowledge about exposure to Greene's accomplishment in his very their effects, controversy increases informative and objective article
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They also have opened a "high frontier," histori- equipped with antennas the size of a football field and cally even more important, perhaps, than Columbus's each designed to handle a quarter of a million "tele- discovery of the New World. phone" calls simultaneously from earthlings over tiny Once the world's first reusable space shuttle completes radios worn on their wrists; to relay hundreds of tele- its scheduled four test flights by late 1982, and the vision channels across the world; to deliver mail elec- Columbia and three follow-on shuttles start ferrying tronically, and to perform countless other miracles in scientific, commercial and Defense ^^^^^^^^^^ space. Department ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m payloads into orbit, ^M The prospects are both exciting plans call for the successive deploy- and attainable. ment of a vast array of satellites and Dozens of communications satel- other advance systems that promise . . the Soviets possess lites already transmit two-thirds of to revolutionize life on earth . . . and the world's the only space weapon overseas traffic in words beyond. and digits. Within a few years, larger The technology is at hand to begin on either side." and more sophisticated systems will developing this space frontier for the provide instant communications to betterment of all mankind. So, too, every corner of the earth. is much of the necessary space hard- ^^^^^^^^^^ All of these types of peaceful uses ware. ^^^^^^^^m ^^^^^^^^^^^ The initial costs would be no will come later; of immediate im- greater than that of the Apollo moon program, and con- portance is the defense of space and the skies above our ceivably less. The benefits to accrue would be immea- land. Already, the Soviets possess the only space weap- surably vast and enduring. on on either side: an antisatellite system. It is described Imagine if you will a network of solar-powered satel- in technical journals as a space "battle station" armed lites, each larger than the island of Manhattan, in geo- with clusters of non-nuclear projectiles and equipped synchronous orbit 22,300 miles deep in space. These with infrared devices designed to zero in on targets up massive satellites would collect the energy of the sun and to 600 miles away. This renders vulnerable our naviga- microwave it to earth for conversion into cheap, safe tion and reconnaissance satellites in low-earth orbit. 12 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 a strategic system of defense. ameter, or about the size of an indus- Based on exhaustive studies and trial cement mixer. Each would carry analyses by competent experts, the from 40 to 50 detachable, self-pro- most effective space defense requires pelled interceptors called "carrier ve- a "layered" system: hicles," or CV's, mounted in a three- 1. A "point" defense for our ICBM ringed series of pods, much like the silos could, within two to three years, bullets in the chamber of a revolver. destroy any confidence the Soviets Each CV, in turn, would be armed might have in a first strike against with a small "kill vehicle," or KV, our land-based missile deterrent. In which could be fired at an enemy a partially tested system, nicknamed missile after it had been sighted and "Swarmjet," a large number of small, tracked by computer and electro- conventional projectiles are fired at optics. For example, a Soviet ICBM any approaching warhead from about launched from the Soviet missile base a mile away, forming an explosive at Tyuratam, north of Afghanistan, barrier. The cost would range from could be intercepted within six min- $2 to $5 million for each silo de- utes of being spotted by one of our fended, depending on how many space trucks orbiting over Saudi Ara- "Swarmjet" salvos were to be fired. bia. Traveling at speeds of up to 2. A first generation Global Ballis- 3,000 feet per second, the KV's tic Missile Defense (GBMD) sys- would home in on and destroy the tem could be fully deployed within enemy missile, much as today's Air five to six years at a cost of $10 to Force heat-seeking "Sidewinder" can $15 billion by using "off-the-shelf" zap a hostile jet aircraft. Actually, space hardware. Deployment actually at the speeds involved, even an ice could start in as few as three years. cube could probably destroy a tar- The GBMD concept calls for the geted ICBM on impact. launching of a series of unmanned Should a Soviet missile escape de- non-nuclear satellites that would orbit struction and succeed in deploying its the earth and automatically track multiple warheads, other space trucks down any Soviet ICBM within min- would be assigned the difficult, but utes of being launched. Each satel- not impossible, task of intercepting lite, or space "truck," would measure the enemy warheads before they between seven and eight feet in di- ( Continued on page 48) There is cause to believe the Soviets are also developing an advanced "killer" satellite equipped with laser beam devices that could obliterate our communications and missile- warning satellites now "parked" in stationary orbit deep in space. Almost all of the USSR's space ac- tivity has a distinct military conno- tation. Only a few years ago, the Soviets orbited the first nuclear re- actor. They now have a manned space station in orbit and are ex- 4 panding its operations. An early Soviet breakthrough in laser weap- onry could disrupt, especially in space, whatever remains of the stra- tegic balance of power. Clearly, we cannot halt adverse trends in the military balance if we simply try to compete with the Sovi- ets in numbers of weapons or current An artist's conception is shown of a technology. Our best hope is a bold nuclear power station in synchronous and rapid end-run around the Soviets This rocket booster will be orbit around the earth. —in space. It is there that we still carried into space aboard the hold the technological advantage, Space Shuttle where it will however precarious. And it is in space be used to put various that we can—and must—swiftly erect pay loads into orbit. 13 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 REMEMBERED Let your mind wander By Douglas Starr messages as this: you don't back to the // know days of There's a whole new generation of Whose signs young men who never heard of roadside signs . . . and These are "brushless shaving cream" as such, You can't have Burma-Shave jingles traveled but you can bet your mildewed whis- Very jar ker-tickler they've heard of Burma- Shave and those witty jingles that Others weren't quite so subtle: have since singsonged their way into He played Americana. During their heyday, A sax 35,000 Burma-Shave signs stretched Had no B.O. from coast to coast proclaiming such But his whiskers 14 — 1 . THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 Scratched put up on the road to Red Wing, MI, The bearded lady So she let him go in the fall of 1925. Although they Tried a jar Burma-Shave weren't clever, they got the pitch to She's now the public: A famous And they all started in the home Movie star of the Odell family in 1925. Grandpa Shave the modern way Burma-Shave Odell was a Minneapolis lawyer who, Fine for the skin Druggists it as an avocation, manufactured a lini- have Although the public was getting the ment for rheumatism. His son, Clint- Burma-Shave message, and business was booming on, also a lawyer, was in the advertis- even into the Depression years, the ing business and had toyed with the Odells were running out of clever idea of a brushless shaving cream for jingles. Early in the 1930s, they be- some time when circumstances pre- "Free-free . . . gan a series of contests for the best sented an opportunity to pursue the verse and paid $100 for each jingle idea. trip ... Mars . . Clinton had given an unem- A To they accepted. Thousands poured in, ployed chemist friend Christmas a and it became a full-time summer job For 900 .. . Empty jars." check for $25, and the chemist, eager for Leonard Odell just to select the to repay the kindness, agreed to help winners. And some of them were Clinton and his sons, Allan and dandies: Leonard, develop a shaving cream formula that could be packaged in Suddenly, there was demand for Missin' jars. There had already been such a brushless shaving cream. Burma- Kissin"? cream developed in England, but it Shave was on its way. Perhaps your thrush was sticky and unpleasant to use. Encouraged by their success, the Can't get thru After about 300 tries, the chemist Odells began to develop a national The underbrush—try found an acceptable formula which advertising campaign. Instead of Burma-Shave was smooth and pleasantly scented bland, prosaic advertising, they began and moreover, it worked. If public ac- to write clever little lines of verse Beneath this stone ceptance could be cultivated, the that would catch the public's eye. Lies Elmer Gush Odell's brushless shaving cream These verses would be stretched out Tickled to death would spell the doom of the mil- on six or seven signs, with about 100 By his dewed, foul-smelling brush that well- feet of space between them. Thus, Shaving brush groomed men had to carry with them travelers read as they rode, ever Burma-Shave on their travels. eager to share a laugh with Burma- Unfortunately for the Odells, but Shave. fortunately for America, no such ac- As the Odells' firm, Burma-Vita ceptance was forthcoming. They tried (the name was used originally to selling it in drugstores on consign- make the product appear to come ment and it just collected dust on the from the exotic and mysterious Far shelves. They tried distributing it as East) grew, so did the problems of free samples, but men weren't ready planting new signs all over the coun- to part with their bristle brushes. try. Souvenir hunters and college Clearly, an advertising campaign was pranksters were stealing the signs called for, but with little money to faster than they could be put up, and spend on such an expensive project, new methods of planting the signs the Odells were stymied. had to be developed. At any rate, the Very much discouraged, Allan con- advertising paid off, because the tinued to try to peddle the formula' Burma-Vita company had grown so business-to-business wherever the well that at its height it was grossing road took him. And that failure gave more than $3 million annually in birth to tremendous success. Every- sales. Burma-Shave jingles had be- where he went, he saw signs beckon- come a national pastime, and taking ing travelers to eat at "so and so's" turns reading the signs became a or gas up at "Joe's." If you could game that was regularly played by sell "eats" and gas that way, well, the children in the back seat. The best why not brushless shaving cream? game of all, of course, was reading The Odells took their last $200 and the signs backwards as they receded invested it in wooden signs. Then on the other side of the road. That they bribed local farmers with a free was something that kept the drivers jar of shaving cream in exchange for entertained as well. permission to put the signs on the The Odells occasionally got them- farmers' property. The first signs, selves in hot water when they tried complete with stenciled jingles, were ( Continued on page 24) 15 a - THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 Connecticut where he had been inves- tigating an outbreak of salmonellosis, The an intestinal disease that had at- . tacked a number of children. Search- ing for the source of the outbreak, he had discovered the common link Disease among the Connecticut children: the little pet turtles each had kept. Now, Lamm wanted to leam how the tur- tles had become disease carriers. Detectives He soon found the answer. The growers fed their turtles on chicken entrails; salmonella bacteria thrive in poultry guts. The growers pro- tested that the cost of raising the pets on prepared feed under con- The Centers trolled conditions would put them out For Disease of business. Returning to Connecti- Control in Atlanta, GA, cut, Lamm laid his findings before the legislature, which issued a ban on is the home of some of importation of the disease-bearing the world's most animals. Other jurisdictions followed intuitive—and suit. The pet turtle industry withered away, ending the cycle that led successful—detectives from chicken entrails to seriously ill children—280,000 of them nationwide in 1970 alone. There is a direct connection be- By Vernon Pizer tween the doctor who stopped illness in its tracks in Mississippi and the Paul C. Schnitker had a bright in- one who was cut down by a bomb in tellect, idealism and—in 1970— Nigeria. It is this: both were on mis- Harvard medical degree that was sions for the Centers for Disease only three years old. As his airliner Control, the remarkable, Atlanta- crossed the coast of West Africa and based federal agency operating under entered Nigerian airspace he con- the umbrella of the Department of templated with mounting excitement Health and Human Services. In their arrival in that country to aid in solv- divergent missions—the contrast be- ing its crushing public health prob- tween their targeted health problems, lems. Dr. Schnitker knew it would be between the extent of their personal no picnic, not in a country harassed risk, between the geography of their by Biafran guerrillas in addition to a assignments—one glimpses a hint of host of endemic diseases, but he was the extraordinary sweep of CDC's eager to get to work. role in the public health community. torrential A downpour, air turbu- Nothing at CDC is quite what it lence and thick fog closed in on Lagos seems to be. What it looks like— just as Schnitker's flight was prepar- given its unpretentious complex of ing to enter its approach pattern. low-rise buildings on 15 acres of sub- The airport tower turned the plane urban greenery, and its atmosphere away on a heading skirting the storm. of shirt-sleeved informality—is sim- Some 15 minutes later, the weather ply a campus extension of adjacent having moderated, the tower in- Emory University. What it is, in fact, structed the pilot to return to the is the focal point of the nation's pri- approach pattern. While the plane mary defenses against disease, espe- was still airborne a bomb that had cially communicable disease. It is the been spirited aboard by guerrillas command post of an epidemiological . detonated, instantly bursting the air- intelligence service whose operatives craft into hurtling, flaming debris. are exceedingly skilled disease detec- There were no survivors. tives, the strategy center for mapping At almost the same moment that battle plans against illness on a hun- Schnitker's plane had crashed, Dr. dred fronts, and the sentry guarding Stephen Lamm was en route—half a the United States from intrusion of world away—to Mississippi from disease from abroad. It is the nimble 16 — — March 1982 THE AMERICAN LEGION gets the toughies that can't be ringmaster of a deadly menagerie of tion and elimination, to the maximum CDC cracked without supplementing on- thousands of specimens of organisms extent possible, of all avoidable ill- medical hide-and-seek with an and viruses that prey on man, the ness and death. When disease strikes site, array of scientific lines of attack in nation's only drugstore capable of we want to know exactly what it is, ultramodern Atlanta laboratories. providing physicians with life-saving and why and how it struck, so we can the The case load—1,500 in an medications for many exotic maladies throw up the proper defenses to pre- CDC average year reflects the infinite rarely encountered in the United vent recurrences. It means we have — variety of ways in which disease ha- States, and the sophisticated training to be prepared to go anywhere and rasses mankind. Its investigators jet school for epidemiologists from health do anything to unravel the enigmas to Bangladesh to help contain and agencies everywhere. Above all, it is of disease." place reverse a wave of cholera, to Mt. St. the life line grasped by states, for- To unravel those enigmas and Helens to assess health hazards in the eign countries and international restraints on them, CDC leans on the volcanic fallout, to Madrid where agencies stymied by public health talents of a staff of 3,500—microbiol- trace a respiratory attack to problems which are incapable of solu- ogists, physicians, physicists, chem- they contaminated olive oil, and to a tion within their own resources. ists, entomologists, environmental Montana Indian reservation to com- The first time you meet Dr. Wil- bat a surge of tularemia. They hurry liam H. Foege, director of CDC, two to Venezuela to do battle against things pop into your mind: high-rise happen if hepatitis, to California to solve a mas- and low-key. High-rise because when "What would sive upthrust of digestive tract infec- Bill gets up from behind his Foege Ebola . . . burst the tion, to the Pacific to establish an desk, he keeps rising, Jabbar-like, epidemiological surveillance system until he reaches the 6' 7" mark. Low- confines of the continent for refugee camps and to identify key because Bill Foege—soft spoken, to attack the world?" health problems among those granted smiling easily, more youthful looking immigrate to the United than a 45-year-old has a right to be visas to States, and to the East Coast where seems unharried by his weighty re- typhoid cuts a swath through seven sponsibilities and unimpressed by his engineers, laboratory technicians, where in a classic ex- notable accomplishments. (Among statisticians, toxicologists and others states and — shoe-leather epidemiology other achievements, he devised the —half of whom are usually out in ample of the disease detectives trace the source international strategy to eradicate the field at any given moment. But potatoes in a New York smallpox, enabling the World Health the point men leading the attack are to mashed City restaurant. has even done Organization in 1979 to declare the what Foege and his colleagues term CDC its thing in a hippie commune. planet free of that scourge for the the "shoe-leather epidemiologists," At the Atlanta complex, where first time ever. Appropriately, CDC medical sleuths who painstakingly in- pomposity and professional rigidity is one of only four agencies world- vestigate the scene, the circumstances are notably absent, Foege and com- wide designated to maintain, under and the people involved in an out- pany have a soft spot in their hearts rigid safeguards, specimens of small- break of disease to ferret out clues. for that commune case. Local offi- pox virus for study.) Sometimes their expertise, persis- confronting the unexplainable Compressing CDC's multiple ac- tence and intuitive gumshoeing en- cials, lead poisoning of a commune member tivities into one admittedly simpli- ables them to solve the mystery at and fearing its spread, had sent an fied summation, Foege explains the the scene. Most often, however, it Continued on page 42) agency's mission as "the identifica- doesn't work out that way because ( The deadliest strains of viruses known to man are studied in the Centers for Disease Control's maximum security laboratory shown here. A scientist, photographed through glass, examines organisms under a microscope while, outside the lab, a strict guard is main- tained around the clock. 17 " THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 aTO THE By Douglas Starr down and took him prisoner. His new job provided considerably less The story of the most d) They are older now—grayer, balder, air. The men had to dig 30 feet annals of war, as t heavier in the jowls—but they still deep to avoid microphones the Ger- seen have the iron handshake and the mans had planted to pick up sounds of steely gaze . . . and the memory of the digging, Jones recalls. At that an adventure that forged a kinship level the ground became a crumbly lasting more than 35 years. yellow sand prone to disastrous cave- Pnstlrarte On ins. "We used boards out of our beds March 24, 1944, these men Mit Luttpost staged one of the most daring esca- to shore it all the way." pades in the history of modern war. The prisoners had dug three tun- Pa r A-'ir n Their "great escape" was memorial- nels—code named Tom, Dick and ized by both book and film, and their Harry—so if the Germans found Taxs pare*'" antics by the one, work could continue on the TV show "Hogan's Gebuhreaira! Herpes." others. The entrances were ingenious- Hundreds of British and American ly hidden beneath the drain, stove air officers worked for more than a and floor of three separate bunkers. Emplanjsort: year on the escape route: a wood- Once about 200 pounds of sand col • lined, rail-equipped tunnel hundreds lapsed on Jones while he was digging, of feet long and barely wide enough packing around his upper body and to shoulder through. Digging the tun- head before a coworker yanked him nel, they successfully hid tons of tell- out by his heels. "It was fairly grim," tale yellow sand. So effective was the he admits. "Sometimes you'd just lay prisoners' counterintelligence that there and say, 'What the hell am I they manufactured documents, uni- doing here?' forms and compasses, all beneath the From the tunnelers below to their noses of their baffled German guards. prisonmates up top, the yellow sand It was a cool, moonless spring Above, a downed American night when 76 men crawled out from B-17—like that flown by Stalag Luft III, a barren German many of Stalag Luft Ill's prison camp in what is now part of POWs—is superimposed over Poland. Only three made it to safety. a German postcard that was Yet so general was the panic the es- used to notify a POWs next cape created that thousands of Ger- of kin of his whereabouts mans wasted precious weeks of the and state of health. Axis war effort chasing the men. Survivors of that drama lead far quieter lives now. Some are business- men; others, retired soldiers. Vividly they remember .... In the foul-smelling, claustrophobic tunnel, young David "Tokyo" Jones dug four hours a day, every day for a year. Sometimes he'd use his fingers for the digging, sometimes a small metal trough. "We worked pretty hard," says the soft-spoken Jones, now a bank- ing executive in Florida. "You didn't get any light. You couldn't turn around. You'd push the sand past your crotch and a man behind you Above, Col. Jerry Sage is shown in a put it in a bucket." portrait painted by a fellow POW during Jones was flying over the Mid- their imprisonment and, right, as he east when the Germans shot him appears today. 18 THEAMERICAN LEGION March 1982 OOLER!" ring escape in the that collapsed so dangerously meant downed flyer to avoid being shot. In other hazards as well. Seen against Africa he jumped off a speeding train the gray topsoil, it was a sure tipoff in one escape attempt and drove off / the men who lived it to the Germans that someone some- in a stolen truck in another. Once at where was tunneling. Stalag Luft III he had an English Hiding that sand—tons of it—was soccer player kick him hard enough the job of prisoners led by Col. Jerry to break a few ribs. As he was being Sage. Sometimes they'd stage fist- driven away in the prison ambulance fights and bury sand during the com- he muttered a quick, "Lord give me motion or dig in their cabbage gar- the strength," grunted, and yanked dens, burying sand all along the way. out the bars from the ambulance Sage had one of the most compli- door. The Germans who caught him cated histories at camp. Nicknamed ripped the flesh off his heels so he the "Cooler Kid," it was he that actor wouldn't run away again. Still Jerry Steve McQueen played in the movie ran. It became common to see him version of the escape. (Sage says the led smirking to the cooler by his movie was accurate except that he sheepish German guards. never used a motorcycle to get out.) With men working above ground "I had this psychosomatic thing," and 30 feet below, the escape be- laughs Sage, now a high school teach- came a hidden routine in everyday er in Alabama. "I could not walk prison life. Roll call in the morning, back into a camp." scrambling down the tunnel, chang- The Germans had enough trouble ing clothes and up again for roll call even getting him to camp. Captured in the afternoon. Prisoners meander- as a commando blowing up German ing innocently, emptying sacks of installations behind Rommel's lines, sand while gardening or during he convinced the Germans he was a strangely frequent brawls. Scores of other prisoners making compasses, documents and clothes that were needed for an escape. The Germans in turn mounted an anti-escape force—the prisoners called them "ferrets"—who wandered inside the compound looking for signs of escape. Outwitting the ferrets was the three-year obsession of a gan- gling, red-haired lieutenant colonel named Albert P. Clark. "I was responsible for the protec- tion of all the clandestine activities," says Clark, still red-haired and youthful at age 68. "There were something like 600 of us working on security alone in a camp of 2,000." Left, shortly before the Clark says he divided the camp start of WWII, a young into zones, as in an air defense com- Army flyer named A.P. mand. There was Clark was photographed an outer safe zone and an inner danger zone. beside his P-39. Above, The minute a ferret entered the danger zone, Lt. Gen. A.P. Clark, one of Clark's hundreds of "stooges" Superintendent of the Air started tailing him. If the guard wan- Force Academy, is shown dered near an escape operation the prior to his 1974 stooge gave a signal the retirement. and workers stashed their handiwork behind (Continued on page 52) 19 — THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 Backgammon For Beginners An ancient game is enjoying renewed popularity, and anyone can learn to play in 15 minutes By Ralph B. Roberts and chess. Oswald Jacoby and John world champion. Crawford—noted figures in the And any school-aged child can As the fortunes of war can be deter- world of bridge—wrote a basic text- learn the game . . . the basic moves mined by a single battle, so the for- book on the game. Easley Black- are that simple! As a matter of tunes of backgammon—where a sin- wood, originator of the famous fact, youngsters seem to catch on to gle inning can change certain defeat "Blackwood no-trump" convention the game faster than adults. into glorious victory—can be de- plays the game also, yet damns it Enough of the generalities. Let's cided by one toss of the fickle cubes. with faint praise: "Backgammon is get to specifics. Backgammon is a A game with roots deeply em- the best thing to do while waiting for fiercely competitive game in which bedded in ancient history, backgam- the bridge tournament to get under a player attacks his opponent's men mon has become for modern Ameri- way." while defending his own. He can cans what checkers was for old-timers Paul Magriel, who has won back- block his opponent by building ob- decades ago: an all-consuming pas- gammon's world championship title stacles that are impossible to sur- sion in which every player, in the twice, was a New York state junior mount, or he can race him to the quiet recesses of his mind, becomes chess titlist. Chuck Papasian, Elliot cast of the dice. Or, he can use a both a general and a gambler. Winslow and Swami Nivano Anando- combination of strategies depending The analogy is apt. The back- no are all recognized chess players on the situation and his appraisal of gammon board is a battlefield which who often place well into the money an opponent's position. pits one side's strategy against the in major backgammon tournaments. Fortune favors the bold player, but other; a battlefield on which two Each of these chess and bridge greats swiftly punishes the wild player. Yet, armies clash at the whim of and in are renowned for their mental prow- there is a fine line between "wild" the manner directed by two armchair ess—that's true, and such mathe- and "inspired." You must develop a generals. The board is also a gaming matical wizardy would seem requisite style of play that suits your person- 7 table on which calculated risks prom- to becoming a backgammon cham- ality and temperament. If 3 ou be- ise great returns or severe punish- pion. But it isn't. lieve "a bird in the hand is worth ment; a table on which Fate favors Anyone, anyone, can learn to play two in the bush," play conservative- the bold but punishes the foolhardy. the game in 15 minutes or less, and ly, weigh each move and jealously It's a game which is at once fasci- guard each battlefield advance. If nating, exciting, cruel and fun. you like to take chances, buck the Because it contains an element of odds and woo Lady Luck, you can luck—a very large element of luck march your troops in rapid cadence a champion player can succumb to "Fate favors the bold but akin to Patton's push to Berlin. If the good fortunes of a beginner. Be- punishes the foolhardy." you win using either style, you'll be cause it contains an element of skill, termed "brilliant"; if you lose . . . that same champion player will well, why think about that? eventually overpower the beginner The challenge (and the depth) of and his downfall is inevitable, brutal the game lies in deciding how much and exacting. can become a competent player after risk is acceptable given the potential Most experts agree that the out- a few challenging sessions. The nov- advantage. The frustration of the come of a single game of backgam- ice, just as the professionals already game—you'll experience plenty of mon depends on about 20 percent mentioned, can then choose to spend that regardless of your style—mani- skill and 80 percent luck. But think the rest of his life mastering the in- fests itself when, though you have how well you would do in Las Vegas finite variety of complex situations played brilliantly and your oppo- with a 20 percent edge! that can occur in any given game. nent has blundered continuously, There is no stereotypical back- Backgammon is a bit more compli- you plummet into the arms of De- gammon player—they come from all cated than gin rummy, but infinitely spair as your enemy rolls one in- walks of life and from all pursuits, less demanding than bridge or chess credible number after another to yet many championship-caliber play- —in short, it's the ideal game for snatch victory from the jaws of De- ers come from the world of bridge the gamester who aspires to be a feat. 20 — . THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 The fickleness of the dice is some- up backgammon within the past 10 The only tedious thing about thing over which no man has control. years. It is enjoying a surge in popu- learning the game is getting used to And, in the final analysis, they de- larity similar to the Monopoly boom the clockwise and counter-clockwise termine if you are the victor or the in the 1930s, or contract bridge in movement of the stones. Beginners vanquished. Dice have no "memory." the 1940s and '50s. But backgammon find it helpful to chalk in the num- Even though you may have rolled is not new to Americans. It was bers of the points and arrows to double "6s" twice in a row, the odds popular during pre-Revolutionary show direction of movement for each are still the same for another double War days and many colonial homes side. This makes it easier to follow "6," or even 20 more double "6s." and taverns featured backgammon the instructions which come with The "cruelest game ever conceived" tables. Thomas Jefferson himself is each set. However, you'll need that is cruel indeed when it convinces an said to have been an avid player. crutch for only a few games. After otherwise rational player that he is If there is a checkerboard in your that, you will be thoroughly famil- the best "5"-shooter in the club, or grandmother's attic, chances are 100 iar with the movement and the play leads him to boast: "I can roll a '1' to 1 that the back (or front) side has ... in fact, soon thereafter, you'll be whenever I need it." Of course this is the 24 triangles or "points" neces- convinced that with "a little bit of no more true than the lament of the sary to play. Backgammon is played luck" you can beat anyone (and you player who says: "I never roll a by two players (usually) with 15 can, once) double when I need it." Don't sneer. checkers (also called "stones" or The rules say you must use a dice When you're hooked on the game "men") which are moved clockwise cup, shake the dice vigorously and when you become a certified back- and counter-clockwise. It was simp- throw them on the right-hand side gammon addict—it's easy to lose all ler with ancient boards—like those of the board. Even if they roll off a touch with reality. "Reality" exists found in King Tut's tomb—which stone or the bar or bounce off the only in the game, and nothing else had 24 points in a row so the players ceiling, if they come to rest flat on matters. could start at opposite ends and just the right-hand surface, "the die is Millions of Americans have taken play straight across. ( Continued on page 56) . — March 1982 Energycrunch creates new jobs B00ifc for trained technicians. book* The Sky Is Still Falling, by Donald E. Carr. W.W. Norton & Co., Pub., Learn at Home in Your Spare Time $14.95. 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Their bill provides tax children to non-public schools de- credits for students attending pri- spite the cost, and it is justifiable to vate elementary and secondary support these families in their effort schools and post-secondary institu- to seek alternative learning environ- tions. Careful study convinces Rep. Bill Sen. Ernest me ments for their that this proposal turn our Green children. In doing F. Hollings would (R-NY) so, we would insure diversity of our (D-SC) nation's education policy on its nation's school system with respect head, benefit the few at the expense to elementary and secondary education and give parents of the many, add a sea of red ink to the federal deficit, freedom to choose public or non-public settings. violate the meaning of the First Amendment of the Con- Many argue that a credit would subsidize the rich and stitution, and destroy the diversity and genius of our segregate our children by family income. I would point system of public education. When this matter was last out that 51.4 percent of students attending non-public before the Senate my colleagues agreed with me and schools are from families earning less than $15,000 per defeated this idea. Duplication of our earlier success is year; 71 percent are from families earning less than more doubtful this time around, however, but it should $25,000. In many cases—such as that of the schools of not be—given the facts. the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York—the ma- There is no equal duty on the part of government to jority of the students are from minority backgrounds and provide for private elementary and secondary schools. more than 40 percent are not Catholic. The credit is The government's duty to the public is to provide public merely a limited form of aid for those parents who are schools. The duty of the government toward the private paying both for public schools and their private schools. schools is to leave them alone. That's fundamental. A credit is particularly important to urban areas and The federal government's role in the operation of our would be useful in combating the decline of middle-class elementary and secondary schools is limited and is meant populations and thus raising the revenue potential of only to supplement, not supplant, the state and local our cities. The non-public schools in New York and in effort. It is targeted, special-purpose aid that goes to other cities perform a function which is much broader needy students in both public and private schools. Tu- in scope than providing an education. These schools are ition tax credit legislation makes a radical change and part of a community and are involved in activities of provides general assistance for private school students. the surrounding neighborhoods, whether it be in raising Since need is not a criteria, it will also go to some of funds for projects or participating in anti-crime programs. this nation's wealthiest families. The school's role as a neighborhood center cannot be The cost is staggering. The Packwood-Moynihan pro- ignored since it contributes immensely to the quality posal costs nearly $6 billion to initiate. Future costs are of life in the city. higher. In the face of austerity and self-sacrifice de- That the credit would also encourage families to stay manded in Washington, proponents of this measure in the cities is particularly compelling to me, as I have would create a vast new federal responsibility and ini- witnessed the departure of people from urban areas dur- tiate an uncontrollable entitlement program at great ing my service in the New York State Legislature, as cost. It would go, in part, to only the 5.6 million stu- Regional Administrator of the Department of Housing dents in private schools and provide nothing for public and Urban Development and as a U.S. Representative. school students. Families move in many cases so their children can attend To top it all off, the tuition tax credit scheme is uncon- what they perceive to be better schools. Granting these stitutional. In the Nyquist opinion, the U.S. Supreme families a tax credit would give them an incentive to Court struck down a New York statute providing income remain in the cities and contribute to the tax base there, tax benefits to parents of children attending private benefiting all public institutions including the school schools because it violated the First Amendment in that system. it would have the "impermissible effect of advancing Since 1976, the proportional number of students at- sectarian activities of religious schools." tending private schools has risen. While many would There are plenty of reasons to reject this proposal. argue that providing a tuition tax credit would encourage This scheme will destroy public schools. 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Why Use Brakes Uphill?—"I don't worry about nothing. Several years ago, NHTSA established requirements Worrying is like putting the brakes on when you're going on all autos which would, according to studies conducted, uphill." Walter Casey Jones—109 years old. aid in the prevention of accidents. The numeral "55" was Politics: A High Calling—"What concerns me most to- highlighted to make the driver more aware of the speed day is the way we have disconnected ideas from power in limit. Cars would no longer indicate speed exceeding 85 America and created for ourselves thoughtful citizens and laws were instituted to prevent tampering with the who disdain politics and politicians when more than ever odometer, the instrument used to measure distance. we need to value politics and what politicians do; when A recent report from NHTSA indicates there is no sub- more than ever we need to recognize that the calling to stantial evidence showing the requirements have helped public life is one of the highest callings a society can ." in the prevention of accidents. NHTSA's proposal will make . . A. Bartlett Giamatti,— president, Yale. lift some of the burdens of the automobile industry, for Unhyphenated Americans "There is ... a sense of being the agency feels its job is to regulate safety standards, a real American. Teddy Roosevelt called it an 'unhy- not inflict cumbersome regulations on consumers or man- phenated American'. That's what most people want to ufacturers. be. They may want to retain some cultural indentifica- tion with the old country, but they also want to be unhy- ." Federal Fight Against Firebugs phenated Americans . . Bruce Chapman, acting direc- tor, Census Bureau. The Anti-Arson Act of 1981, introduced by Sen. John Defense Surmounts Economic Swings—"The decision Glenn (D-OH) is designed to control what the legislator to improve defense cannot really be contingent on pass- feels is America's "costliest" and "fastest growing" crime ing fluctuations in the economy. There's far too much at today. Presently, no national law exists to help combat stake, and, frankly, the economy is always going to be in arson. Senator Glenn's legislation creates a federal agen- a state of flux, advancing or retreating." Defense Sec'y cy to work with local and state officials to curb this out- Caspar W. Weinberger. break of crime. U.S. Not Immune To Terrorism—"The perception that According to the Ohioan, arson has increased 400 per- we have been relatively immune to terrorism in this coun- cent in the past 10 years, with 25 percent of all fires re- try is not entirely accurate. If we look at the countries sulting from deliberate setting. Some 1,000 persons die that have suffered most from terrorism over the past 10 and 10,000 more are injured each year from non-acciden- years, we find the United States in the top 10 in terms of tal fires. Insurance experts say direct property damage the number of terrorist incidents." Brian Jenkins, direc- amounts to $6 billion and indirect losses account for $12 tor, Rand Corp. billion annually. Just Over The Horizon—"For other nations, Utopia is Some progress has been made in the fight against ar- a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is son, according to the Senator, because public awareness is ." just beyond the horizon . . Henry Kissinger, former increasing and state legislators, law enforcement groups, Sec'y of State. and firefighters are beginning to understand the severity The Robots Are Coming!—"Our society is confronting a of the problem. However, the lack of funds has increased wave ... of robotics that will drastically alter the way, the need for federal assistance to aid in stopping destruc- within a generation, that much of our nation produces tive firebugs. goods and even services. For American industry, the question is no longer whether robots are coming. The Taking Measure of Metric System ." question is how soon will they arrive . . Sen Lloyd The U.S. Metric Board, established to aid in the volun- Bentsen (D-TX). — tary conversion of standard weights and measures to the Transatlantic Unity Threat ". . . I can readily sympa- metric system, is unnecessarily weighing down taxpayers, thize with the anxieties that the issue of theater nuclear according to several Congressmen in Washington. Sen. force modernization has aroused on this side of the At- John P. East (R-NC) and Rep. Eldon Rudd (R-AZ) lantic. What I am unable to sympathize with, however, have introduced legislation to abolish the board which, in are the defensive, almost apologetic tactics many allied their opinion, has turned from a voluntary transforma- governments have adopted in treating those anxieties. tion to a series of attempted regulations. These tactics have in my view mainly served to ensure A five-year study conducted by the General Account- that the issue, which was bound to be difficult enough ing Office (GAO) indicates conversion will cost taxpayers anyway, would become a major threat to transatlantic billions of dollars. Despite its annual budget of over $2 unity, which it has." Gen. Joseph Luns, Sec'y, NATO. billion, the board has failed in its attempt to educate U.S. Legal Overkill Looming?—"We may well be on our way citizens about the system, critics say. The majority of to being overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, citizens prefer to use the traditional weights and mea- and brigades of judges in numbers never before con- sures, which is evident in their noncompliance thus far. templated." U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger, Supreme According to the Congressmen, the fight has only be- Court. gun, inasmuch as most federal agencies have already Auto Makers Rx—"The trick is to make sure you don't adopted metric requirements in contracts which find die before prosperity comes." Lee A. Iacocca, chairman, their way into the private sector. Chrysler Corp. 28 cost of Due to the soaring GENUINE LEATHER, we cannot hold this price much longer Order now! *' "The Dipl©111*1 Wing-Tip Brogue • Richly Grained Leather • Classic Wing-Tip Styling Protective Storm Welt TRY THEM AT OUR RISK! Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back (except post. & hdlg.) NOT$*9^5 NGT-$29£5 GENUINE LEATHER This husky, handsome favorite never looked better! 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The of the 30 million veteran population, and VA has begun a computer match of its that the overwhelming majority of these records to determine whether benefit pay- are single, elderly and poor—in other ments are being made to individuals who words, they are, for the most part, in- may, in fact, be deceased. The computer dividuals who would be public charges in matching operation is being conducted by any case . . . The. President signed legis- the VA Inspector General, using approxi- lation last year requiring the VA to mately 7.7 million veterans' benefits maintain not less than 90,000 beds in its files and a commercially owned roster of system. Part of the reason for this legis- deceased individuals. Any matching records lation, in addition to caring for aging will be thoroughly investigated, and if veterans, is to ensure these beds will there is evidence of erroneous payments, be available in case of an outbreak of recovery action will be initiated. In the hostilities overseas, a contingency for meantime, VA Chief Robert Nimmo has or- which the military medical program is dered officials in the agency's 58 Re- presently totally unprepared . . . The gional Offices to focus attention on "the American Legion continues to support the prompt and accurate termination of bene- present system, which is designed to pro- fit payments by VA on receipt of notice vide comprehensive medical care, first of the death of a veteran or beneficiary." to the service disabled and then to hon- orably discharged war veterans who need CERTAIN VIETNAM VETS ELIGIBLE FOR GI BILL it. The American people have made clear EXTENSION ... As many as 39,000 Vietnam- they do not want their veterans languish- era veterans may take advantage of a *one- ing in charity hospitals," Flynt said. time, two-year extension of their GI Bill delimiting dates, according to VA esti- VIET VET GI BILL USAGE DETAILED . . . mates . . . The extension period, which Highlights of a recently completed opened January 1 and runs through Decem- independent study of GI Bill usage ber 31, applies to educationally disad- indicates more Vietnam-era vets used vantaged or unskilled Vietnam-era veterans their educational entitlements than has who allowed their 10-year delimiting date previously been reported ; that those to expire before using all their entitle- who trained using the GI Bill increased ment for educational training . . . Eli- from 60 percent among post-Korean War gible veterans may use their remaining peace time vets to 72 percent of Vietnam- entitlement to obtain a high school era vets and that more peace-time vets diploma, or its equivalent, or pursue a discontinued their training before program of apprenticeship, other on-the- graduation than did Vietnam-era vets. job training or a program with a voca- tional objective. Enrollment in college POW ADVISORY COMMITTEE NAMED ... A degree, flight or correspondence courses 14-member advisory committee, made up are not included in the extension. Vet- of physicians and former prisoners of erans who have already earned college de- war, has been appointed to advise VA grees are ineligible for the extension. Administrator Robert P. Nimmo on the Full details are available from your local administration of new VA benefits for VA office or from an American Legion 100,000 living American former POWs. Service Officer. Lt. Gen. John P. Flynn, USAF (Ret.) will head the group known as the FLYNT RAPS VA PLAN TO CUT OVER-65 VA BENE- Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners FITS . . . Responding to news reports of War. The committee is required by that the VA might abandon free medical Public Law 97-37, "Prisoners of War care for veterans over 65, Natl. Cdr. Health Care Benefits Act of 1981," Jack Flynt said any savings involved in which broadened VA's authority to such an idea are illusory, especially provide health care for former POWs. since VA is required by law to provide It also liberalized rules for deter- back-up medical facilities for a military mining whether certain medical con- emergency . . . "The law now provides that ditions can be considered service- veterans over 65 will be provided medi- connected. Nine committee members were cal care when they apply for it, when it selected to provide representation is needed and to the extent that facili- from each major component of the POW ties are available. VA now operates 172 population. They represent both the hospitals with about 82,000 beds, in which European and Pacific theatres of WWII, it treats about a million patients per Korea, Vietnam and each branch of year. In 1977, the National Academy of military service. 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Actually, have certain rights that can help the Agent Orange question has rami- ard you and your family against fications that affect veterans of all being left out of the mainstream of wars, and Americans of past, present efforts to resolve the Agent Orange and possibly future generations. dilemma. They are your rights by The federal government's per- virtue of your service in the military, ceived mishandling of the matter and they are your rights as man- has generated waves of frustration dated by recently enacted federal and anger among people who believe law. the government has a responsibility Your first step is to receive a free to care for the veteran who fought Agent Orange physical examination America's wars. Further, this seem- from the nearest VA health care fa- Time Bomb . . ing indifference to the veteran by the cility. It's a difficult first step for government threatens to undercut the many Vietnam veterans to take, par- spirit of willing service to our na- Or Dud? ticularly for those who've sought as- tion by a new generation of Ameri- sistance from the VA in the past and cans. been subjected to bureaucratic run- Agent Orange, specifically its diox- arounds and indifferent or cynical in contaminants, and the govern- staff members. But it is an impera- ment's resolution of the problem, (Third of a three-part series) tive first step and, as we'll see, the go directly to the heart of every VA has taken steps to reduce the American's trust—or lack thereof bureaucracy and educate its staff. in this land's values and institutions. The Agent Orange physical exami- It is a focal point of anger for the nation is the procedure by which the Vietnam veteran, and of continuing VA is accumulating data for its dismay for Americans who see an un- wants to help find out if Agent Or- Agent Orange Registry. This data popular war that, for the partici- ange is a time bomb or a dud, there will not only serve as a method of pants, refuses to end. are a number of contributions you spotting trends in the health status It follows, then, that resolving the can make. And in this, our third and of Vietnam veterans, but will also be Agent Orange controversy is each final article in the series, we'll take used in subsequent Agent Orange Legionnaire's concern and not just a look at what the future holds for scientific inquiries. The more Viet- the concern of the Legionnaire who the Agent Orange exposed veteran. nam veterans who participate in the served in Vietnam. Many Legion- examination, the larger the body of naires—veterans of every American knowledge. The more knowledge one war since WWI—already know this Want to Know More? accumulates, the quicker (theoreti- and are doing what they can to help. cally) are answers found. If you would like to learn more Others of us would also help, if we There's no doubt that the Agent about Agent Orange, or if you'd but knew how to help. Orange Registry had a shaky begin- like to help, contact your Depart- If you are a Vietnam veteran who ning. When these physical exami- ment Headquarters or write: John was exposed to Agent Orange, there nations were begun, The American Sommer, Deputy Director, Veter- are a number of specific initiatives Legion received reports from veterans ans Affairs and Rehabilitation you must take to protect yourself throughout the country who said the Division, The American Legion, and your family from the possible exams were indifferently or hap- 1608 K St., NW, Washington, DC adverse health effects of such hazardly administered. Others said expo- 20006. sure. If you are a Legionnaire who the attending physician didn't seem 34 . THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 to know what he was supposed to be law authorizes the VA to provide ited movement of an arm or leg, looking for. health care services to veterans who conditions having a specific and well In order to monitor the quality and may have been exposed to dioxins established cause such as tubercu- consistency of the Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam. Note that losis or gout and common conditions physical exams, the National Veter- the Vietnam veteran need not prove having a well recognized course of ans Affairs and Rehabilitation Di- such exposure as was previously re- diagnosis and treatment such as an vision (VA&R) of the Legion dis- quired. There are still some strings inguinal hernia or appendicitis. tributed a questionnaire to be com- attached, but many have been re- Another course of self-help rpay lie pleted by the Vietnam veteran who moved. with your state legislature. Some was examined at a VA facility. These "Health care services may not be Vietnam veterans live in states that questionnaires—which are available provided for the care of conditions have passed, or are considering, leg- from your Department Headquarters which are found to have resulted islation to augment the research ef- and, in many cases, from your Post from a cause other than the specified forts of the federal government. Service Officer—permit the National exposures (to Agent Orange)," said Many of these laws would permit staff to identify problematic VA VA&R Director R.E. Lyngh in a state health centers to conduct inde- medical facilities. They then immedi- November 5 memorandum to Legion pendent tests of Agent Orange ex- ately bring these problems to the at- Department Service Officers and Re- posed veterans, evaluate the data tention of the VA's Chief Medical habilitation Directors. and provide recommendations to Director in Washington. "Health care services are limited other state and federal government The VA admits there were inter- to hospital and nursing home care in agencies. Full details on whether pretation problems in the field, but VA facilities and outpatient care in your state has such a law, or if it they've taken steps to correct them. VA facilities on a pre- or post-hos- is considering such legislation, is Since the Agent Orange examina- pitalization basis or to obviate a need available from your Legion Depart- tions began, the VA has called all of for hospitalization. ment Headquarters or State Veterans their environmental physicians into "Such health care services will be Agency. Washington, DC, on two occasions provided without regard to the vet- Finally, the Vietnam veteran owes to clarify procedures and answer eran's age, service-connected status it to himself and his family to stay questions, Further, they've made it or the inability of the veteran to de- abreast of developments in the on- known to staff members—in the fray the expenses of such care. Vet- going study of Agent Orange and its frankest terms possible—that indif- erans furnished outpatient care will dioxin contaminants. The "horror ference and cynicism toward any as- be accorded priority ahead of non- story" or "hysterical" slant of many pect of the Agent Orange studies or service-connected veterans and equal previous Agent Orange articles is the veterans affected will not be tol- to former POWs who are receiving gradually disappearing as members erated. Steps have also been taken care for nonservice-connected condi- of the national media discover the to improve the scheduling of the tions. (The law provides for health subject is much more complex than exams. care only, and a determination that many of them initially realized. At- As we noted in Part I of this the veteran is eligible for such care tempts at rationally evaluating the series, an important distinction must does not constitute a basis for ser- data are beginning to appear in be made between the Agent Orange vice connection or in any way af- America's newspapers, even as new physical examination and filing a fects determinations regarding ser- discoveries are being made in the on- claim for benefits due as a result of vice connection.)" going study. exposure to Agent Orange. The According to Lyngh, if you present As developments warrant, the physical exam does not establish a yourself to a VA hospital for such VA&R staff of the Legion will be claim for benefits. A separate appli- care, you will have a complete medi- providing updates on Agent Orange cation must be filed to establish a cal history taken, a physical exami- to Departments, as well as guidance claim for service connected disability nation will be conducted and a doc- on the filing and processing of claims. compensation. Assistance in filing tor will order such additional diag- The American Legion Magazine, in such claims is available from either nostic tests as he deems appropri- the meantime, will continue to re- a VA benefit counselor or an Ameri- ate. When the findings reveal a con- port significant breakthroughs in the can Legion Service Officer. dition requiring treatment, the at- investigation of Agent Orange and But what does the Vietnam veter- tending physician will also decide if, dioxins. an do in the meantime? As we saw in in his professional judgment, the Part II, it may take years to find condition resulted from something Agent Orange, The Legion & the answers to the effects of dioxin other than exposure to dioxin. Capitol Hill on humans. If dioxin is as lethal to There are certain physical condi- humans as some maintain, time will tions that would not ordinarily be The focal point of national con- have run out for the exposed veteran considered to be caused by dioxin cern over Agent Orange has, of before answers are found. exposure. These include congenital course, been Washington, DC. There, Medical assistance before that (existing since birth) conditions such members of the Legion's national time, however, is available to the as spina bifida or scoliosis, conditions staff have been working with Con- Agent Orange exposed veteran known to have existed before military gress, the Administration and the thanks to a portion of Public Law service, conditions resulting from VA in a search for answers. 97-72, signed November 3, 1981. The trauma such as a deformity or lim- Continued . . 35 — " THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 . . . Continued body that will ultimately rule on the cilities, toxicologists and Legion na- Testimony quoted throughout this VA's scientific approach to studying tional staff members to participate series is indicative of the message Agent Orange. in forums on the subject. the Legion has carried to Capitol Hill Besides meeting with concerned Departments, Posts and individual and to Congressional hearings. Le- Vietnam veterans around the United Legionnaires have been called upon gion representatives have become fa- States and with other organizations to testify in support of state Agent miliar faces at House and Senate and government agencies, Sommer Orange legislation and assist in vari- committee meetings organized to dis- and his staff have participated in a ous state and community efforts de- cuss various legislative proposals, as round of radio and TV appearances signed to get the word out. well as the oversight role to be across the country. They are also Many Posts have adopted the one- played by the government. Outside responsible for drafting legislative on-one approach to contacting Viet- the hearing rooms, representatives proposals, analyzing proposed legisla- nam veterans and making sure they of the VA&R and Legislative Divi- tion and preparing and presenting understand their rights as they apply sions continue to meet with Con- testimony before Congressional com- to Agent Orange. They have helped gressional staffers on the subject, mittees. schedule Agent Orange physical ex- while maintaining liaison with the The Legion's role in Agent Orange aminations for the veteran, assisted various federal government and pri- matters on Capitol Hill, however, is them in preparing the Legion's vate sector groups involved. not restricted to a single effort. Vir- questionnaire on the exam or helped The Legion has taken a straight- tually every National staff member the veteran find the right answers to forward approach to the subject, an in Washington, in one way or an- his questions. approach that's not open to misin- other, is responsible for some aspect In many communities, local Le- terpretation: "The situation as it of the Legion's efforts. gionnaires are appearing on radio relates to Agent Orange has become But even if every staffer were to and TV talk shows, stumping for the a national scandal. . . . And while work 24 hours a day on Agent Or- rights of veterans and explaining the all this is going on, government scien- ange, the job wouldn't get done. The complexity of the Agent Orange tists keep shrugging their shoulders credibility and influence of The problem. and saying 'We don't have the an- American Legion comes specifically In short, it's a commitment that swers.' " (1980 Legion statement to from the efforts of its members. This President Reagan acknowledged at the Republican and Democratic Plat- is no different with Agent Orange. the 1981 National Convention in form Committees.) Honolulu: "Fellow Legionnaires . . . Both National Commanders Ko- Legion Activities on if we are to meet our responsibilities gutek and Flynt reaffirmed the Le- Agent Orange as a nation, we must meet our respon- gion's commitment to Agent Orange sibilities as individuals. Your par- exposed veterans during separate Legionnaires—their Posts and De- ticipation in the Legion shows you appearances before the House and partments—have been actively in- understand that. Senate Veterans Affairs Committees. volved in the Agent Orange contro- "It is just one way of saying to "We of The American Legion say versy since it first surfaced. From America, 'you can count on me.' let's get this matter settled—get the the start, and without prompting, facts, determine what the conse- many have provided Agent Orange Looking to the Future quences are and face up to them, information and assistance to Viet- whatever they may be," Kogutek nam veterans and their families. In preparing an overview on the said in 1980. Some have gone beyond that, launch- subject of Agent Orange, it can be "This government simply cannot ing various initiatives that have both heartening and frustrating to subject its citizens to these (toxic) gained national attention and re- learn that some material has been substances and then try to ignore or spect. overtaken by events. It's heartening escape the consequences," Flynt said Here are a few examples—on both because scientific breakthroughs upon becoming National Command- the Post and Department levels demonstrate strides are being made, er. "That is just not the way our that may serve as a road map to effort is being well expended. It's government is supposed to function." others wishing to help get results. also frustrating when you realize the Today, various Legion representa- Some Departments have taken it final chapter is yet to be written; tives play key roles in the search for upon themselves to see that their that the actions of Congress, the VA, solutions. The Legion's Senior Medi- states are blanketed with the Legion's the mass of scientists and the Viet- cal Consultant, Dr. Irving Brick, has pamphlet, "The American Legion nam veteran are yet to be identified. served as a member of the VA Ad- and The Issue of Agent Orange." In Still, recent developments have in- visory Committee on the Health-Re- some instances, where the demand dicated that progress is being made. lated Effects of Herbicides since May has far outstripped supplies, they've Here are two examples: 1979. Dr. Tom FitzGerald, also on made Agent Orange the major em- A council of the nation's largest the Legion staff, is our alternate rep- phasis topic of Department conven- medical association, the AMA, has resentative. tions, workshops and seminars. examined scientific efforts being un- John Sommer, VA&R Deputy Di- Other Departments have taken the dertaken on the health effects of rector, is the Legion's point man on matter of Agent Orange directly to Agent Orange and dioxin contami- all aspects of Agent Orange. He's a the Vietnam veteran—on college nants and concluded that such ef- member of the Office of Technology campuses, through press conferences forts should be supported and, "en- Assessment Agent Orange Advisory and community canvassing. They've larged to include the cooperative en- Committee—the federal government arranged for speakers from VA fa- gagement of all internationally 36 — THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 ." known exposure data . . the American veteran. have been learned through the mis- Further, they've resolved that, "all Finally, history teaches us that if takes of others. Fortunately, learning physicians be alerted through AMA you threaten an American's well- by one's mistakes is a pretty effec- publications to the classical signs of being you're going to have a fight tive method of education. Those les- chloracne and the possible signs and on your hands. But if you threaten sons aren't quickly forgotten. adverse effects of TCDD (dioxin) that American's family as well, The question is: "Is Agent Orange exposure. They should be encour- you're going to have a very big fight a time bomb or a dud?" aged to enlist in the present efforts on your hands. The answer is: nobody knows . . . to identify and treat those persons Vietnam veterans and their fam- yet. But answers will be found be- who have had serious exposures to ilies have been threatened by inac- cause the American people will ac- TCDD, and to cooperate in the col- tion, misinformation and apathy on cept no less. Congress knows this and lection of vital information that is the issue of Agent Orange. Veterans has responded with interim legisla- needed for the ongoing human epi- of all wars have felt that threat. In tion. The VA knows this and has be- demiologic studies." the process, federal agencies, scien- gun addressing the matter with the Besides indications of commit- tists and others have had a brush-up commitment it requires. And The ment, there have also been break- lesson on American history. Regret- American Legion knows this . . . be- throughs as a result of those studies. tably, many of those history lessons cause we are the American people. Q Scientists funded by the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation at SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION the University of Illinois, report they have bred bacteria which can totally OFTHE AMERICAN LEGION, HONOLULU, HAWAII decompose 2,4,5-T, a principal herbi- SEPTEMBER 1,2, 3,1981 cide of Agent Orange. The team, headed by Dr. Ananda RESOLUTION: No, 387 (Washington) M. Chakrabarty, used a new breed- COMMITTEE: Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation ing method which may enable scien- tists to produce strains of bacteria SUBJECT: The American Legion Policy on Agent Orange capable of removing many other toxic WHEREAS, the chemical herbicide commonly assisting and counseling veterans in the filing pollutants from soil and water. known as Agent Orange was sprayed throughout and development of claims for benefits provided, Vietnam during the years 1962-1971, to defoliate under title 38, United States Code, and referring The group is now turning its at- jungle and rice paddies; and those individuals claiming exposure to the persons WHEREAS, the total long-range toxic effects responsible for the Agent Orange examination tention to dioxin and searching for a of the defoliant, of which in excess of 10.6 million program at the nearest VA medical center or out- similar bacteria which can decom- gallons were reportedly expended by American patient clinic for an appropriate examination ; and military forces, remain virtually unknown; and WHEREAS, because of the fact that very few pose that contaminant. The group's WHEREAS, the chemical mixture of 2, 4-D claims for service connection have been granted, and 2, 4, 5-T, which contains a certain amount The American Legion has continually called upon ongoing support from the March of of the chemical dioxin, has been subjected to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and the partial bans by the Environmental Protection Department of Veterans Benefits to take a more Dimes is part of a year old research Agency following reports of spontaneous abortions objective approach in the adjudication of claims program focusing on environmental and still births in areas where heavily used in for benefits for diseases and disabilities resulting the United States; and from exposure to Agent Orange, until such time and occupational hazards to human WHEREAS, a significant number of service that conclusive scientific evidence is available, reproduction. personnel serving in Vietnam were exposed to and to resolve all reasonable doubt in favor of these toxic chemicals and have subsequently de- veterans, their dependents and survivors, in claims veloped cancer, neurological disorders, liver dys- for benefits based on exposure to Agent Orange, function, severe depression, and other life-threat- but such urging has been to little or no avail; and The Lessons of History ening diseases ; and WHEREAS, a significant number of Vietnam WHEREAS, these veterans are now seeking veterans have expressed displeasure with the man- benefits from the VA, to which they believe they ner in which they were attended to during their Until just recently, the rocky road are justly entitled, by reason of disease and Agent Orange examination at a VA medical facil- to Agent to resolving the Agent Orange con- disability incurred through exposure ity; now, therefore, be it Orange; and ( RESOLVED, by The American Legion in Na- troversy has been travelled by peo- WHEREAS, The American Legion is seriously tional Convention assembled in Honolulu, Hawaii, concerned about the effect of Agent Orange on September 1, 2, 3, 1981, that The American Legion ple who've failed to learn—or forgot- those veterans who served in Vietnam during the continue to support legislation in the Congress of time it was used as a defoliant ; and the United States to amend section of Public ten the lessons of history. 307 — WHEREAS, The American Legion is strongly Law 96-151 by assigning the responsibility of con- For one, history teaches us that supportive of the studies and research being con- ducting the epidemiological study of Vietnam vet- ducted by the Air Force, the Centers for Disease erans who were exposed to any of the class of bombs and bullets are not the only Control, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, chemicals known as "the dioxins" produced dur- the Veterans Administration, etc., on Agent lethal ing the manufacture of the various phenoxy herbi- weapons to be found on the Orange, and has urged the Administrator of Vet- cides, including Agent Orange, to an independent erans Affairs, Advisory Committee on battlefields. Silent killers like nu- the VA scientific agency; and, be it further — Health-Related Effects of Herbicides, and the VA RESOLVED, that The American Legion support clear radiation and asbestos—have Central Office Ad Hoc Committee on the Toxic legislation to amend title 38, United States Code, Effects of Herbicides to proceed without delay to establish a mechanism for presumption of ser- stalked the unsuspecting serviceman using all resources available, to ascertain with vice connection for certain disabilities traced to scientific Orange on with deadly results. validity the effects of Agent Agent Orange exposure once such presumption is veterans who were exposed to it during their ac- justified by conclusive scientific evidence; and, American history also teaches us tive military service ; and be it further WHEREAS, section 307 of the Veterans Health RESOLVED, that The American Legion closely that the federal government does not Programs Extension and Improvement Act of 1979 monitor the development of all ongoing research (Public Law 96-151) mandated the Veterans Ad- of the long-term turn its back on its servicemen. The health effects of Agent Orange ministration to undertake a scientific study of the exposure and point out to the proper officials any government accepts the consequences effect of dioxin exposure on veterans ; and perceived deficiencies or discrepancies in these WHEREAS, the Veterans Administration nego- projects; and, be it finally of its own actions in sending its citi- tiated a contract with the UCLA School of Public RESOLVED, that The American Legion con- Health on May 1, 1981, for the design of the tinue zens into battle. to make careful observation of the Veterans protocol of the Agent Orange study mandated by Administration's Agent Orange examination pro- The history books are peopled with Public Law 96-151; and gram to determine whether or not Vietnam vet- WHEREAS, The American Legion feels strongly erans reporting to VA medical care facilities powerful spokesmen for this nation's that the study itself should be conducted by an claiming exposure are being appropriately exam- independent scientific entity rather than by the ined, values. Invariably, and that the examining physicians demon- those who've Veterans Administration as the results thereof strate both compassion and thoroughness in the spoken with greatest insight and con- would be more readily acceptable to the Vietnam way they receive, examine and treat all Vietnam veterans who were exposed, their families, and the veterans who present themselves alleging dioxin viction are those who've fought a life scientific community; and exposure. WHEREAS, The American Legion is currently APPROVED WITH AMENDMENT and death battle for those values 37 . THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 NEWS FOR LEGIONNAIRES 946-8811 104th Inf. Regt. Vets Assn. (Apr-Kerhonkson, OUTFIT REUNIONS NY). Roger Hemond, P.O. Box 3523, Spring- VA'sQ&A CORNER field. MA 01101 (413) 736-1498 Reunion will held in month indicated. For . These are questions representative of be 112th Cavalry (Aug- Dallas) Claude Rigsby, 4472 particulars write person whose address is given. Preston Cir., Dallas. TX 75211 those the Veterans Administration is Notices accepted on official forms only. For 117th Cav. Assn. (Sept-Eatontown, NJ). Capt.. form send stamped, addressed return envelope to Anton Plonner, Westfield. frequently asked. For more information 500 Rahway Ave., O. R. Form, American Legion Magazine, P.O. NJ 07090 (201) 499-5662 contact your Post Service Officer, local Box 1055, 700 Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, IN 135th Ord. M.M. Co. (Mar-Lodi, NJ). Frank Lan- 46206. Notices should be received at least five zante, 76 Clinton Park Dr., Bergenfield, NJ office or write directly to: Veterans VA months before scheduled reunion. No written letter 07621 (201) 385-0534 Administration (20), Washington, DC necessary to get form. 142d F.A., 936th & 937th F.A. Bns. (June-Ft. Earliest submission favored when volume of Smith, AR). Gene Locklar, P.O. Box 742, Little 20420. requests is too great to print all. Rock, AR 72203 (501) 664-3164 Q. Do I report my VA benefits on 157th Engr. (C) Bn. (WTO) (Aug-Lynchburg. VA). Wayland Horton, 110 Alta Ln., Lynch- federal income tax for Army my 1981? burg. VA 24502 (804) 239-1369 (July- A. No. By law, veterans benefits are 1st Bn., 152d Inf. Regt., 38th Div. (WTO) 158th Regt. Combat Team (Bushmasters) (Sept- Vincennes, IN). Alan Stephens, P.O. Box 323, Phoenix. AZ). M. Clayton, 1970 S. 150 West, 944-0400 not taxable and should not be reported New Albany, IN 47150 (812) Bountiful, UT 84010 4th Inf. (Ivy) (R.O. Barton Chapter) (June-Chat- to any taxing authority (federal, state, 194th Gen. Hospital (ETO) (Nurses) (Oct-Wil- tanooga, TN). B. Zimmerman, 3338 Wedgewood liamsburg, VA). Mary Bionaz, Rt. 2, Portage, Dr., Augusta, 736-7646 city, etc. ) GA 30909 (404) PA 15946 (814) 736-9318 fith Q.M. Co. (June-Little Rock, AR). Ollie Chas- 199th AAA (July-Nashville, TN). J. Nave, 15477 72211 tain, Mimi Lane 604, Little Rock, AR Old Hickory Blvd., Nashville, TN 37211 (615) Q. Will my wife's income help me (501) 225-6634 832-4405 10th Arm'd Div. Vets Assn. (Tiger) (Sept-Bir- 199th Ord Dpt. Co. (June-Springdale, OH). Ed qualify for a CI home loan through 99th mingham, AL). James Revell, 10433 SW Young, 3806 Park Ave., Covington, KY 41015 271-6087 the VA? Terr., Miami, FL 33176 (305) (606) 431-7644 10th Mt. Inf. Div. (Sontheast Chapter) (Mar-Ft. A. Yes. The VA has been giving full 214th CA (AA) (GA. Nat'l Guard) (WWII) Myers, FL). Virgil Raulerson, 3726 Welcome (Aug-Gainesville, GA). Dupree Hendrix. 511 E. Ln., Jacksonville, 32216 (309) 725-5271 recognition to income of both veterans FL Spring St.. Monroe, GA 30655 (404) 267-5535 13th Airborne Div. (Aug-Detroit). Harry Phariss, 216th AAA Gun Bn. (WTO) (June-Tucson, AZ). and spouses in determining ability to Indianapolis, 46260 1315 Hoover Ln., IN (317) L/Col. James Hart, Ret.. 2866 E. Alta Vista repay GI bill loans. 253-6756 795-0654 Don- St., Tucson. AZ 85716 (602) 16th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Sept-Elmira, NY). 279th Engr. Comb. Bn. (Aug-Knoxville, TN). Bob Elmore, ald Damschroder, 18952 W. SR 51, OH Housley. 4117 Fulton Dr., Knoxville, TN 37918 43416 Q. How can I have the VA reevalu- x (615) 687-2373 19th C. A. (WWII) (Ft. Rosecrans, CA) (June- 295th Jasco (July-Mauston, WT). Everett Stark, ate my service connected disability Marine, 215, Dodge City, KS). Donald Box 422 Juneau Ave., Mauston, WI 53948 668-5217 since I am currently being treated as Copeland, KS 67837 (316) 334th Sta. Hospital (New Guinea) (Sept-King, 22d Inf. Assn. (July-Pine Mountain, GA). William NC). Haskel Ray, 10803 Swan Creek Rd., an outpatient at a VA clinic? 7th Ave., Phoenix, 85013 Boice, 6750 N. AZ Carleton, MI 48117 (313) 586-8734 A. Submit a request in writing to the (602) 246-9206 346th Engr. (WWII) (July-Canton, OH). Clyde Hosp. (July). Ervin Gandrud, 1122 23d General Maloney. 910 W. Mill, Alliance, OH 44601 adjudication officer at your VA regional Forks, 58201 775- 15th Ave. S, Grand ND (701) (216) 821-7470 office. In your request, show where 8394 415th Ftr. Sq. (WWII) (Sept-Orlando, FL). John Assn. (5th 6th Tank Bn., 24th Inf. Div. RCT, Skahan, P.O. Box 415, Leavenworth, KS 66048 and when you received treatment. Bn., 24th Co) (Aug-Balti- 26th (AAA) AVN (913) 682-4674 Lee List, Ronald Rd., E. Peoria, IL more). 115 462d Prcht. F.A. Bn. (WWII) (July-Davis, WV). 61611 694-1681 (309) Harry Bailey, Box 453, Central, SC 29630 (803) Q. How long after a veteran is dis- Houston, TX-1951) 25th Trans. Car Co. (Ft. Sam 639-2922 Jones, 1217 Gordon charged from active duty may he file (July- Toledo, OH). Lloyd 523d Co. (Aug-Marietta, OH). Kenneth 947-1843 MP St., New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) Harris. 36100 Rock Springs Rd., Pomeroy, OH a claim for compensation and pension? Div. (July-St. Louis). 27th A.I.B., 9th Arm'd 45769 (614) 992-7569 William McMaster, P.O. Box 28, Glendora, NJ A. There is no time limit for a vet- 526th Arm'd Inf. Bn. (Aug-Salt Lake City). Cloice 08029 ( ) 227-7465 609 Williams. Rt. 1. Box 241, St. Marys, OH eran to file for a compensation and 27th Ftr. Assn. (July-Nash- Bomb. Grp. (WTO) 45885 (419) 394-5403 Charlotte Ann pension after discharge from military ville, TN). Lowell Smith, 4449 528th F.A. Bn. (August). John Esposito, 120 Bel- 40216 Dr., Louisville, KY mont Ave., Belleville, NJ 01709 (201) 751-8700 service. Engr. Bns. (WWII) (July-Little 31st, 241st (C) 542d Par. Inf. Assn. (Apr-Atlanta). John Grady, Falls, NY). Gerald Stone, 507 Lake St., Herki- P.O. Box 224, Malabar, FL 32950 (305) 723- 866-5447 mer, NY 13350 (315) 7660 Inf. Div. Bull) (Sept-Omaha, NE). 34th (Red 556th Bomb. Sq.. 387th Bomb. Grp. (M) (July- Grimes, IA James Huyck, Rt. 1, Camp Dodge, Dublin. OH). Paul Friday, 7755 Harriott Rd., COMRADES IN DISTRESS 278-9275 50111 (515) Plain City. 43064 (614) 873-4378 Allen OH 43d Inf. Div. (WWII) (Sept-Augusta, ME). 557th Bn. Assn. (May-Somerset, PA). Louis Harpswell, AAA Readers who can help these veterans are urged Caldwell, P.O. Box 599, South ME Edell, 2904 Oakcrest Ave., Baltimore, MD 725-7156 to do so. Usually a statement is needed in sup- 04079 (207) 21234 (301) 668-3501 (May-Turlock, CA). Guada- port of a VA claim. 53d Inf. Regt. Assn. 559th Bomb. Sq. (M), 387th Bomb Grp. (WWII) Notices are run only at the request of American lupe Mejia, 704 Stearns Ave., LaHabra, CA (Aug-Orlando, FL). Pasquale Razzano, 10 Legion Service Officers representing claimants, 90631 (213) 691-7419 Robin Hood Rd., Suffern, NY 10901 (914) 357- Louis). Kenneth using Search for Witness Forms available only 54th Field Hospital (June- St. 5983 Trenton St., St. Charles, MO from State Legion Service Officers. Please con- Swoboda, 2565 610th AAF Med. Det. (Eglin AFB FL) (WWII) tact CID # , The American Legion Magazine, 63301 (314) 441-3941 Walton Beach, FL). Evelyn Wilson. (Apr-Durham, (July-Ft. P.O. Box 1055, 700 Pennsylvania St., Indianapo- 65th General Hospital (WWII) 2195 Winter Park Rd., Winter Park, FL 32789 lis, Ind. 46206. Sarkis Mihranian, 19 Gregory Ln., NC). (305) 647-7874 Loudonville, NY 12211 (518) 472-9889 TJSNC (WR) FMF Quartermaster Depot, Engr. 687th F.A. Bn. (June-Denver). A. Wright, 1045 70th Tank Bn. Assn. (Korea) (Sept-Gettysburg, Dept. Margaret Baltzell needs witnesses to S Topeka Ave., Wichita, KS 67211 (316) 263- PA). John Cline, 3595 Powder Horn Rd., Titus- verify a claim that while stationed at Lam- 4045 bert's Point Staging Area, Norfolk, in July ville. FL 32780 VA 726th Bn. (WTO) (Apr-Nashville, TN). 1943 she was choked and raped while on duty 86th Chemical Mortar Bn. (Apr-New Orleans). MP Walter Ross, Jr., P.O. Box 726, Flomot, TX in the warehouse. Contact CID 779 L/Col. John Deasy, 1830 30th Ave., San Fran- 79234 (806) 469-5280 Med. Det. Sect. 14, Comd. Henry L. Brown cisco, CA 94122 (415) 566-2177 SV 726th Railway Oper. Bn. (Sept-St. Clairsville, needs witnesses to verify a claim that while 89th Cav. Ren. Sq., 9th Arm'd Div. (Sept-Boston). OH). Mario Viola, Box 571, Adena, OH 43901 stationed at Ft. Benning, in August Joe LeVangie. 33 Hollett St., North Scituate, GA 1943 (WWII) (Sept-Colum- he was hospitalized with back problems. Con- MA 02060 (617) 545-1056 729th Railway Oper. Bn. Albert Colello, 4251 4th Ave., tact CID 780 90th Bomb Grp. (H) (Jolly Rogers) (Sept-Chey- bus, OH). enne, WY). Tom Keyworth, 38 Crestlyn Dr. E., Altoona, PA 16602 (814) 943-0551 G06th A.C. & W. Sq. Harold P. French is seeking 741-3998 (July-Cedar Rapids, IA). witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed York, PA 17402 (717) 776th Tank Destroyer Holmes Rd., Hudson, IA at Puson, Korea in 1950 he suffered burns on 94th Inf. Div. Assn. (July-San Diego). Ross Jor- Lloyd Fikejs, 14803 both legs while on guard duty. Contact CID 781 dan, 1415 Orion Rd., Batavia, IL 60510 (312) 50643 (319) 988-3324 Bn. (Aug-St. Louis). Fuller Reed, USS Trolious (AKA 46). Mike Garcia needs wit- 879-7157 792d AAA AW Morristown, 37814 (615) 586- nesses to verify a claim that while aboard ship 96th Inf. Div. (Deadeyes) (WWIT) (July-Dear- P.O. Box 13, TN in 1945 he suffered injuries when he was put bom, MI). William Broschk, 17819 S. Station 4859 in the brig. Contact CID 782 Rd., Columbia Station, OH 44028 988th Engr. Co. (Treadway Bridge) (Aug-Orlean, Sweet, 9345 Burlingham Rd., Hol- 2006th Ord. Mt. Co. AF. Russell G. Hemsley needs 99th Signal Co. (May-Lincoln, NE). L. Kurtzer, NY). Arthur 537-9464 witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed 4410 Washington St., Lincoln, NE 68506 (402) land, NY 14080 (716) at Northhampton, England in June 1943 he suf- 488-9619 1610th SCU (McCoy Army Band) (Aug-Atlanta). fered a skin condition and callouses on both 103d C.A.T.D. (Queen Mary Gunners) (June-St. O. Bismarck, 108 Florence Dr., Acworth, GA feet. Contact CID 783 Louis). Ray Broussard, 410 Christy Ln.. Bridge 30101 (404) 974-7304 183d Arty. California. Billy L. Jacks is seeking City, TX 77611 (713) 735-5759 3609th Q.M. Truck Co. (July-Hershey, PA). Tom 674- witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed 103d Med. Bn. & Regt. Assn., 28th Inf. Div. Morton, Rt. 1, Windsor, VT 05089 (802) in Vietnam in June 1968 he sufferd an epilepsy (Sept-Digonier, PA). Robert Goldsmith, 37 6108 seizure. Contact CID 784 Farmbrook Dr., Levittown, PA 19055 (215) "B" Btry. 373d F.A. Assn. (May-Virginia Beach, 38 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 Legion Outreach Center Hosts Vietnam Combat Art Exhibit wm$ Tad Foster, author of "The Vietnam Funny Book," signs George Skypeck's, "God Loves the Grunt," as the artist looks on. For many residents of rural Pennsylvania, this was their first exposure to cheek cartoons were his way of coping Vietnam combat art. with his predicament. Both Skypeck and Foster were wounded during Residents of a rural southwestern The exhibit featured the work of their tours of duty in Vietnam. Pennsylvania community recently nationally known Vietnam combat The exhibit was held in a local viewed an exhibition of art unlike artist George L. Skypeck. The 44 shopping mall. Outreach Center Di- any, many admitted, they'd ever seen pieces of Skypeck's work included in rector Bob Bishop said the show not before. A five-day exhibit of Vietnam the show featured combat paintings only drew many interested visitors combat art gave Greensburg, PA resi- accompanied by written epilogues. who took time out from their shop- dents a chance to not only get a close In addition, another piece entitled ping to look at the art, but local Viet- look at the art of America's most re- "God Loves the Grunt" was labeled nam veterans as well. "Many of the cent war, but to also chat with the as participatory art by Skypeck as Vietnam vets didn't know of our Out- artists, cartoonists and film producers he invited Vietnam veterans visiting reach Center or the services we offer who brought the images back from the exhibit to sign the art and write until they stopped to look at the ex- Vietnam. on the canvas any thoughts they hibit and chat with the artists and The exhibit was hosted by The might have. Outreach Center staff," he said. "And Governor's Veterans Outreach and Another artist, Tad Foster, exhib- for many local residents it was an Assistance Center, a project admin- ited cartoons of the war that looked eye-opening experience. They hadn't istered by the PA Dept. of the Legion at the humorous side of duty in Viet- seen Vietnam combat art before or through the state War Veterans nam. Author of "The Vietnam Funny talked with the Vietnam veterans in Council. Book," Foster said his tongue-in- their miclst." © VA). Frank Andros, P.O. Box 55, Hyde Park, Elmer Beissell, 6833 Buchanan Ave., West "B" Co., 121st Inf. 8th Div. (July-Forsyth, GA). NY 12538 (914) 229-2330 Mifflin, PA 15122 (412) 466-9047 Roy Green, 110 Quailwood Dr., Athens, GA "B" Btry., 347th F.A. Bn., 91st Div. (June- "AntiTank" Co., 152d Inf. 38th Div. (June-Port- 30606 Springfield, MN). Frank Marz, Rt. 2, Box 3, land, IN). Lloyd McGough, Rt. 1, Box 188A, "B" Co., 702d Tank Bn. (June-Columbia, SO. Springfield, MN 56087 (507) 723-5889 Geneva, IN 46740 (219) 368-7354 James Ridenhour, Box 422, Cooleemee, NC "B" Btry-, 534th AW AA (Sept-Sedalia, MO). "AntiTank" Co., 383d, 96th Inf. Divs. (Sept- 27014 (704) 284-2244 Verle Craven, 405 N. Main, Erie, KS 66733 Bowling Green, KY). John Nasser, 6139 Fair- "B" Co., 3942d QM Truck Co. (July-Tulsa, OK). (316) 244-3237 dale Dr., Cambridge, OH 43725 (614) 439-3291 Jesse Baker, Rt. 1, Box 66, Fulton, MO 65251 "C" Btry., 120th F.A. Bn., 32d Div. (Last Man's "A" Co., 112th Inf., 28th Div. (July-Corry, PA). (314) 642-4307 Club) (Sept-Chippewa Falls, WI). Robert Frank Delvry, Rt. 2, Corry, PA 16407 "C" Co., 96th Signal Bn. (July-Security, CO). Halblieb, Sr., 501 Irvine St., Chippewa Falls, "A" Co., 136th Regt., 33d Inf. Div. (May-Ft. Eldon Mengel, 519 Venice Byway, Venice, FL WI 54729 ( 715 ) 723-4051 Wayne, IN). Lyle Powers, 202 S. 7th St., 33595 (813) 484-8310 «'D" Btry., 243d C.A. (Sept-Cranston, RI). Char- Brighton, MI 48116 (313) 229-2149 "D" Co., 312th Med. Bn., 87th Div. (Sept-Ra- les Brothers, 48 Jastram St., Providence, RI "A" Co., 503d MP Bn. (July-New Port Richey, leigh, NC). Herman Jones, 115 W. Franklin 02908 (401) 521-5017 FL). Richard Golden, 61 St. John Ave., Bing- St., Zebulon, NC 27597 (919) 269-8371 "HQ" Btry., K Corps Arty. (WWII) (June-Bu- hamton, NY 13905 (607) 724-5361 "D" Co., 410th Inf., 103d Div. (Aug-Logansport, ford, GA). Thurman Abernethy, Rt. 8, Box 575, "A" Co., 702d Tank Bn. (June-Nashville, TN). IN). William Levitt, 23071 Oak Crest, Oak Hickory, NC 28601 (704) 324-7815 James Martin, Sr., P.O. Box 127, Collinwood, Park, MI 48237 (313) 542-6093 "HQ & Serv." Btry., 601st F.A. Bn. (August). TN 38450 (615) 724-4586 "D" Co., 2d Platoon, 424th QM Bn. (July-Fond 39 THE AMERICAN LEGION March 1982 NEWS FOR LEGIONNAIRES du Lac, WI). Robert Mcintosh, 417 Linden USSGleaves (DD 423) (July-Haledon, NJ). Rolond 11th Serv. Sq., 482d Serv. Sq., HQ Sq., 8th Serv. St., Fond du Lac, WI 54935 (414 ) 922-2503 Bedwell, 4334 Union St., Flushing, L.I., NY Grp. (June-Lancaster, PA). John Heckler, 76 "E" Co., 3640th QM Truck Co. (WWII) (June- 11354 E. Harbor Dr., Teaticket, MA 02536 (617) 540- Watertown, SD). William Saathoff, 501 5th St. USS Greenfish (SS 351) (July-Montreal, Canada). 1303 SE, Watertown, SD 57201 (605 ) 886-7949 Jim Page, 2030 Place Henri-Bourassa, Mont- 20th Comb. Mapping Sq., 5th A.F. SWPA (WWII) "G" Co., 119th Inf., 30th Div. (Sept-Yorkville, real, Quebec, H4N 1A1 Canada (514) 336-9164 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO). Lawrence Thi- IL). Richard Earll, Box 288, Union City, PA USS Helm (DD 388) (July-Milwaukee). R.A. bault, Sr., 162 Durham Cir., Kissimmee, FL 16438 (814) 438-3940 Burgermeister, S69 W17349 Kirkwood Dr., 32741 (305) 847-5579 Musekgo, WI 53150 (414) 679-0862 43-H Pilot's Class (Eagle Pass, TX) (Aug-Den- Navy USS Holland (AS 3) (Aug-Whitehall, PA). Ray- ver). Warren Huffstutter, 2215 Miller St., mond Prinz, 801 3rd St., Whitehall, PA 18052 Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 234-0123 46th (Apr-Baton Rouge, LA). NCB (WWII) W.L. (215) 264-3033 44th BG/SMW, 66th, 67th, 68th, 506th Bomb. Arnold, 933 S. 68th Ln., Ft. Smith, 72903 AR USS Izard (DD 589) (July-Clio, MI). Dale Men- Sq. (May-Rapid City, SD). Reunion Project 126th NCB (July-Baton Rouge, LA). Cecil Gould, nis, 11297 N. Jennings Rd., Clio, MI 48420 Officer, 44th SMW/D09, Ellsworth AFB, SD P.O. Drawer 190, Forest Hills, LA 71430 (318) (313) 687-2655 57706 ( 605 ) 399-2588 748-4431 USS James O'Hara (APA 90) (July-Norfolk, 58th Bomb Wing Assn. (40th, 444th, 462d, 468th Blimp 1943-46) (Apr-Ocean City, Sq. ZP 31 (CA VA). Thomas Royals, 130 Lenox Ave., Norfolk, Bomb Grps., 25th, 28th, 86th, 87th Serv. Grps.) MD). E.J. Shamonsky, 176 Cadbury St., Potts- VA 23503 (804) 480-3465 (Aug-Tucson, AZ). Florence Erb, 5808 1st E. ville, 17901 622-9974 PA (717) USS Kidd Assn. (Destroyer Sq. 48, USS Chaunoey Tucson, AZ 85711 (602) 747-5101 Carrier Air Group 17 (May-Anaheim, CA). Cdr. J. (DD 667), Plank Owners) (Aug-Merillville, IN). 82d Tac. Recon. Sq. ( Sept-Atlantic City, NJ). Ir- Chinn, Ret., Blaze Trail, Diamond Alton 2558 Quentin Davidson, 501 Sharon Ave., Mechanics- ving Sheinfeld, 411 N. Clermont Ave., Margate, Bar, 91765 (714) 598-1762 CA burg, PA 17055 (717) 766-6567 NJ 08402 (609) 822-3398 (June). O.K. Larson, 711 Stanwich C.B.M.U. 569 USS Knapp (DD 653) (July-Saddle Brook, NJ). 301st Bomb Grp., 301st Refueling Sq. (1948-52) Ln., St. Paul, MN 55118 Francis Wickenheiser, 1109 Pleasure Rd., Lan- (Sept-Bossier City, LA). James Tucker, Sr., Box LST 395 (July). Frank Gaeta, 3769% Marlbor- caster, PA 19601 (717) 393-4713 97, Osage, OK 74054 (918) 354-2316 ough, San Diego, CA 92105 USS Lexington (CV 2) (May-San Diego). Bill 320th Bomb Grp. (B-26s) (Sept-Washington). Stu Detroit). Seaton Farrar, Jr., 37750 LST 521 (Sept- Bilbrey, 4401 Moraga Ave., San Diego, CA Rowan, 108 Aspen, Hereford, TX 79045 (806) Lee Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48018 Wendy 92117 (714) 274-5141 364-4015 478-9368 (313) USS Manchester (CL 83) (Aug-Bowling Green, 325th Ftr. Grp. (Checkertail Clan) (WWII) (Sept-Evansville, IN). George Dawson, LST 555 OH). Frank Helfenberger, 12012 Meridian Ave. (June). Dan Penrod, 69 Keswick Ave., Pitts- 7205 Waldman Ave., Baltimore, 21219 MD N., Seattle, 98133 (206) 365-7455 burgh, PA 15202 (412) 766-6190 477-2536 WA (301) USS Manila Bay (CVE 61) Assn. (August). 381st Air Serv. Sq., 7th Photo Grp. (WWII) 607 (1944-46) (June-Loomis, CA). Floyd LST Clarence Keller, 2228 Rockne Dr., South Bend, (June-Platte City, MO). Charles Crouch, 6711 Tate, 6323 Brace Rd., Loomis, CA 95650 (916) IN 46615 (219) 233-9840 Blair Rd., Parkville, MO 64152 (816 ) 741-5495 652-6823 USS MattaponI (AO 41) (Aug-Buffalo, NY). Fred 414th Bomb Sq. Assn., 97th Bomb Grp. (H) (Aug- LST 883 (Aug-Colorado Springs, CO). Billy Wood, Dietrich, Box 75, Tonawanda, NY 14150 (716) Chattanooga, TN). Charles Merlo, 7335 Neck el, 5155 Depew Ct., Denver, 80212 (303) 424- CO 693-4214 Dearborn, MI 48126 (313) 581-3263 8662 USS McKee (DD 575) (WWII) (July-Charles- 454th Bomb Sq., 323d Bomb Grp. (B-26 Maraud- LST 981 (June-Ft. Washington, PA). Charles ton, SO. .Scott Lynch, 210 Shadow Ln., Cayce, ers) (WWII) (July). Joe Havrilla, 1208 Mar- Fisher, 1412 Evans Rd., Ambler, PA 19002 SC 29033 garet St., Munhall, PA 15120 (412) 461-6373 (215) 643-3290 Melville (AD 2) (July-Allentown, PA). 527th Ftr. Sq., 86th Bomb Grp. (June-St. Louis). 1024 (May-St. Louis). C.L. White, 305 Vir- USS LST James West, 4 Melbourne Ln., Greenville, SC Lloyd Andrews, 952 Altavia Dr., Hazelwood, ginia St., City, 63019 937- Crystal MO (314) 29615 63042 895-1532 2479 MO (314) Myrmidon (ARL 16) (WWII) (Aug-Moline, 573d Air Material Sq., 65th Serv. Grp. (Saipan) Navy Fleet Post Office 107 (New York) (June- USS IL). Robert Craycroft, Rt. 1, Box 61, Macon, (May-Denver). Leland Lowell, Rt. 3, Box 331, Wildwood Crest, NJ). Russell Stevens, P.O. IL 62544 (217) 865-2493 Ellsworth, ME 04605 (207) 667-5184 Box 3218, Nalcrest, FL 33856 (813 ) 696-1705 Oklahoma Assn. (May-Louisville, KY). 600th Air Engr. Sq., 384th Serv. Grp. (May- Navy Seabee Vets of America (July-Baton USS Clarence Knight, 7831 Aberdeen Rd., Bethesda, Chicago). Keneth Gardiner, 205 Adams Ave., Rouge, LA). Cecil Gould, Box 190, Forest MD 20814 Quincy, MA 02169 (617) 773-2414 Hills, LA 71430 (318) 748-4431 567 (Aug-Cherry Hill, NJ). James Mor- Radar Sq. (Aug-Antigo, WI). Roy Swine- Pearl Harbor Navy Yard Fire Dept. (WWII) USS PC 676th gan, 3700 38th St. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33713 hart, 827 6th Ave., Antigo, WI 54409 (715) (July-Emblem, WY). Otto Gernants, P.O. Box (813 ) 525-7780 623-5065 27, Emblem, WY 82422 (307 ) 762-3435 PC 793 Assn. (June-Cincinnati). Joseph Wil- 820th Med. Air Evac. Sq., 54th Troop Carrier P.T. Boats Inc. (Sept-Denver). Boats Newberry, USS kinson, P.O. Box 343, New Florence, PA 15944 Wing (Aug-Niagara Falls, NY). Richard Brown, P.O. Box Memphis, TN 38101 (901) 272- 109, 235-9235 Dr., Freehold, NJ 07728 (201) 780- 9980 (412) 636 De De Pennsylvania (6 6A Div.) (June-Denver). Barbara Frietchie (Armed Guard) (May- USS & 2404 S.S. J.W. McMahan, 5121 Mendocino Blvd., Sacra- 833d Aviation Engr. Bn. (Sept-St. Joseph, IL). Philadelphia). Dick Felton, 1507 Keystone Dr., mento, CA 95820 (916) 452-2237 Loren Paris, Box 21, Newtown, IN 47969 (317) Hatfield, PA 19440 (215) 723-9187 Portland (CA 33) (Aug-Hammond, IN). 295-2043 Tin Can Sailors (Tri-State) (Apr-Indianapolis). USS Claybourne Ridgely, P.O. Box 184, Schererville, 1095th Spec. Reporting Sq. (Apr-Bossier City, Jim Robertson, 5547 Rosslyn Ave., Indianap- IN 46375 (219) 322-5710 LA). Donald Goodner, 3204 Gay Blvd., Bossier olis, IN 46220 (317) 257-1184 Quincy (Sept-Chattanooga, TN). Albert City, LA 71110 USS Alcor (Aug-Cincinnati). Lawrence Boothe, USS Levesque, 46 Foster St., Pawtucket. RI 02861 Bombardier Class 45-17B (Childress, TX) (1945) 8670 Appleblossom, Cincinnati, 45244 (513) OH Talbot Destroyer Sq. 4 (June). Art Goss, 302 Pleasure Dr., Yorkville, 474-3263 USS Ralph (DD 390), (July-Seattle). George Saunders, 3544 May Rd., IL 60560 USS Argonne (June- Louisville, KY). Charles Richmond, 94803 (415) 223-5587 Stalag 17B Ex-POWs (July-Colorado Springs, Christensen, 8106 Acme Way, Louisville, KY CA Rockwall (APA 230) (Aug-Portsmouth, VA). CO). Orlo Natvig, Rt. 4, Box 80, Charles City, 40219 (502) 969-2905 USS Donald Kusnir. 2140 S. Military Tr., W. Palm IA 50616 USS Augusta (CA 31) (May-Reno, NV). Robert Beach, FL 33406 (305) 965-2266 Hardy, Rt. 2, Box 13B, Goodman, MO 64843 Sederstrom (DE 31) (Aug-Norfolk, VA). Marines USS Beale (DD 471, DDE 471) (Aug-Ames, IA). USS Milton Lentz, 800 4th Ave. NE, Waseca, MN 3d Marine Div. Assn. (July-San Diego). Lenny Grover Walker, Jewell, IA 50130 (515 ) 827-5392 56093 (507) 835-2535 L.A. Airport, Los USS Birmingham (CL 62) (Aug-Harrisburg, PA). Mormino, P.O. Box 90434, Sproston (DD 577) (WWII) (Sept-Indian- 266-0915 Herman Montis, 419 E. Wildey St., Philadel- USS Angeles, CA 90009 (213) apolis). 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Marburg broke out in Nigeria; CDC gist poses this shattering question: rav- YES! Complete your chores in a epidemiologists responded to the call "What would happen if Ebola burst the fraction of the time it now takes. for help. Their finding: this was still aged all Africa and then Carry huge loads - up to 400 lbs. -- another new member of the lethal confines of the continent to attack with incredible ease using our big, z family of hemorrhagic fevers. They the world?") strong, easy rolling Carts. Our secret? 5 christened it Lassa and succeeded in CDC continues in the forefront of The axle carries the weight - not | pinpointing the rat as the carrier of the coordinated international effort time to relax c you! You'll have more that viral infection. Subsequently, to fully understand the hemorrhagic enjoy your home, family ...time to g CDC aided in identifying and con- fevers and to master them, to pin- and friends. Send today for FREE £ trolling further fever outbreaks in point with precision the sources of 24-page CART LITERATURE. j Kenya and South Africa. Pieces of the various viruses and the means by the puzzle were starting to fall into which they are transmitted to man, CARTS c/o Garden Way Research 01 place, but many gaps still remained. to neutralize sources and means to Charlotte, Vermont 05445 Dept. A1757C Back in Atlanta, experts in a dozen the greatest extent possible, and to Name different scientific disciplines probed fashion fully effective cures for the Address and prodded their data in their search stricken. exotic diseases that City . for the missing pieces. It isn't just the the frightening fevers present formidable challenges to State Zip In 1976 struck again in Africa, this time in CDC's medical sleuths. Sometimes Zaire and Sudan. By now CDC was it is a common malady that puts them acknowledged as the reservoir of to the test. 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Murdo McDon- ald, the Scottish chaplain at camp, Most Desirable told them the news in Gaelic: 76 es- Mobile Home caped before the guards discovered FLORIDA'S the tunnel and came storming down. Community Two weeks later the men heard more disheartening news: Hitler, it seems, had changed the rules of the game. Fifty of those who were captured were summarily shot. Sage says a "wall of hatred" came down after that, and gone was the high spiritedness between the prison- ers and the guards. As the war moved toward its conclusion, the Germans took the prisoners on a brutal forced march to another camp deeper in From $29,900 at Vero Beach you'll find a paradise on the beautiful Atlantic Coast, the Florida that's getting hard to find, and at Village Green you can retire on a sensible budget Nazi territory. Rumor had it they'd in an adult lakefront community of luxurious mobile homes. be slaughtered in the Reich's last murderous gasp. 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City State Zip There's a road map of feelings here, LC 013 a memory of a good time that at the Littleton Coin Company : same time was so cruel. And sudden- ly it all surfaced last year, in an out- FIN D TREASURE pouring of emotion few will ever for- BURIED get. Find buried gold, silver, coins, treasures with powerful new electronic detector. Ultra sensitive. Penetrates deep into The scene was a hotel suite in Cin- earth. Works through mud, beach sand, rock, wood, cinnati. The occasion was hundreds etc. Signals jf*rC^>^ when object is detected. of prisoners' first full-scale reunion with Glemnitz since the war. Glem- nitz, having flown in from Germany, Write for Free Catalog was several hours late, and spirits were already soaring when he entered RELCO Dept. dd -5 , Box 10839, Houston, Tex. 77018 the room. Then someone cried "Glemnitz!" IT'S A MUSICAL MIRACLE and the diminutive figure was im- mersed in the crowd. Ex-prisoners' IT'S AMAZING. Can you imagine wives rushed to hug him, kissing his playing melody, harmony and chords wrinkled face. Men threw their arms \in just a few weeks. Yes Folks, it's here at last, the Book Everybody around him. %^ has been waiting for. "You should have gone to the EMRICH'S ATOMIC cooler!" he shouted and former POW METHOD David Pollack, who organized the re- v., , for Spanish j union, couldn't stop laughing. Guitar. No "Did you hear what he said? Did conventional you hear that?" Pollack shouted notes or monotonous again and again. exercise. Just Rev. Murdo McDonald pressed follow the simple instructions. his face against the German's, and the Scot's eyes brimmed with tears. "He The best investment you will ever make for arrested me once," McDonald said, 95 $6 POST PAID breaking away. IRVIN EMRICH David "Tokyo" Jones kept crying. P. O. 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I can ( Continued from page 4) work is fascinating.lt anybody can. - do it Kan Glen i^ncnn. Larned, He wasn't a member. Never had Make Up to $10 an Hour—even while learning! been. No one had ever asked. The countless Legionnaires who Train had come in contact with him FAST through the years assumed—as had at Home! Be a LOCKSMITH! I—that a veteran so supportive of If you enjoy fixing things, you're a "natural" enable you to get your share of this always- to make hundreds of EXTRA DOLLARS a profitable business. Hundreds we've trained our work simply must be a Legion- year in the fascinating business of Lock- are doing it. So can YOU. smithing. Rising crime has increased de- naire. MAIL COUPON to discover how Locksmith- mand for service a thousandfold. 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The extra world has changed a great deal in six decades, but that is one thing which has remained the same. For party... This year, as Legion Posts around your next the world observe The American Le- gion's 63d birthday, we have much HORS D'OEUVRES to celebrate, many accomplishments to acclaim and many fellow Legion- ' Only \ naires to thank for our successes TREE through the years. But birthdays are $299) also a time for reflection, a time to think about what the coming year it holds. As we enter our 64th year of ser- vice I call WO to God and Country, upon all of you to pause for a moment and ask yourselves if you are taking for granted the importance of a grow- ing, dedicated membership. In my travels this year, I've en- tered many Legion Posts where I know nothing is being taken for granted because I can see positive Folds flat for storage ilpfe in results. Dept. 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