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The Magazine for a Strong America Vol. 136, No. 5 May 1 994

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STILL AT SEA Builders ofa memorial to the USS Indianapolis are seeking crew members and theirfamilies. 1

A DAY FOR REMEMBERING

Memorial Day is not an exercise in sadness but a tribute to those who served. ByGaryTurbak 19

THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: AN '80s CURE FOR '90s ILLS To reboundfrom the recession we must look to the past, says a Pulitzer-Prize winning Wall Street Journal editor. 22

HOME, SWEET, OFFICE With today's technology, entrepreneurs can pursue careers while staying at home. By Ellen Brandt 25

NO JOB FOR A WOMAN A brief but honest, account ofwhat women can lookforward to in combat. ByJames Brady 28

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED ONCE AGAIN

In today's competitive marketplace, businesses are trying hard to please consumers. ByJayStuller 30

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE REPORT

Legionnaires take thefightfor veterans' benefits to Capitol Hill. 34

D E P A T M E N T S

BIG ISSUES Should Congress stopfunding the National Endowmentfor Democracy.'' 1

VETVOICE VETERANS UPDATE 32 PARTING SHOTS 72

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 LEGION NEWS

WASHINGTON WATCH 12 VETS 42 34 COVER This Memorial Day ceremony at Normandy honors those who paid the ultimate priceforfreedom. Photo- graph by Jacques Brinon/AP Wideworld Photos.

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But I have difficulties right ("Legion/Union Job Training Program of Media Relations now, and I'm feeling frustrated Continues Growth," Legion News, and about National Association it. The government should eliminate March). of Towns and Townships bilingual schools because I know a lot I am a Persian Gulf veteran who Washington, D.C. of people in the same situation or was honorably — and involuntarily — worse, and they have been in this discharged after 11 years service in country for many years. the Navy. Persian Gulf veterans are Speak Un-Easy Florencia Lopez not only faced with the nightmare of "The Campaign Against English" Chicago getting compensation for their health (February, by Gary Turbak) is right on ailments, but also receiving recogni- target, and I am delighted to see the tion by employers for skills learned in As the son of immigrants, I found Legion has taken a firm stand to try to the service. the article about bilingual education correct the degradation of our coun- I challenge the rest of the trade superb. Even though my parents went try's melting pot. unions to follow suit by recognizing to great pains to make me bilingual, Edmond L. Bouton Jr. our skills. I believe we are the only they would have been horrified at the Laurel, Md. war veterans who have been forced suggestion that I attend a bilingual out of the service with bleak outlooks public school. They wanted me to go the uproar? Are Hispanic peo- for jobs and with few re-education and Why to school and learn the language of ple better than the Irish, Polish, training programs available. any their new country. I am doing the Italian or other nationalities that came No one owes me a living, but it same for my own children. to this country? Every nationality would sure be nice to have the oppor- We should all be proud of our her- became American and spoke English. tunity to make a living for myself. itage and preserve as much of it as we Al JeffZakula Shaw can. Being truly bilingual is not only a Buhl, Minn. Cleveland, Ohio great personal advantage, but also provides valuable resources for the Unit- Europe has been divided along lan- ed States in commerce and diplomacy. Watching The Watch guage and ethnic lines for centuries, However, "bilingual" schools do not In the Washington Watch column and it has been a hotbed of friction produce "bilingual" students. They are for January, Cliff Kincaid reports that and war. The bubble heads who produce students who lack adequate trying to start multiculturalism are English skills. Shame on the politi- Janet Reno is likely to resign under lives for per- pressure ("Reno To Go?"). His infor- beyond me. cians who cripple young QV.G. Markus sonal gain. mation is based on unnamed sources. Belleville, III. Patrick N. Theros It is easier to report without disclosing sources than do the necessary legwork Washington, D.C. and give an authoritative picture. Give Multilingual attitudes are layers of a us facts instead of gossip. mud and straw beneath tower of I am a proud Chicano-Hispanic Kenneth I. Taylor babel that will surely come tumbling American who served my country and Millersville, Pa. down to crush us all. am proud that the Marine Corps Cecil C. Johnson instilled in me a love of country and Nome, Alaska flag. I believe in another 100 years we Small Town Pride will be celebrating days like Pancho All too often, when the subject is I would dread having my grand- Gonzalez Day, and Yin Po Ling Day small towns, the media concentrates children having to fight alongside sol- and Helmut Schmidt's birthday. Ours on bad news and failure. Perhaps diers who could not speak English. is an evolving culture. We will change worse, smaller communities and their Harry R. Jackson over the years, and who knows what local governments often are ignored Mays Landing, N.J. language we will speak. altogether. This is a shame because The problem is the people who are small towns still embody quintessen- I'm 19 years old and I have been in in favor of English only. I say please tial American values. the United States for three years, and don't forget all of those Americans But Norm Crampton's article I'm a recent high school graduate with who fought and died for our freedom ("Keeping Smalltown, U.S.A., on the a grade point average of 3.0. I attend- — from all the Negro flying Ameri- Map," February) provided a wonderful ed bilingual school and just learned Please turn page

4 THE AMERICAN LEGION Every man over 50 should rake rhis PROSTATE TES

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If you answered "yes" to any question, you should see your doctor. muscles that have tightened in the prostate, increasing

You may be experiencing the symptoms of a condition called urine flow and decreasing urinary symptoms. With HYTRIN, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is an enlargement of you can see improvement in 2 to 4 weeks. the prostate gland. HYTRIN can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure at

Affecting one out of three men over the age of 50, symptomatic the beginning of treatment (or if you miss doses and then

BPH can be caused by a tightening of muscles inside the prostate. start taking the medication again). You may feel dizzy, faint,

These tightened muscles can slow the flow of urine, leading to or "light-headed," particularly after getting up from a the kinds of urinary symptoms described above. chair or bed.

three basic treatment options for There are symptomatic BPH: If you have any urinary symptoms, see your doctor. "watchful waiting," which entails having regular checkups Only your doctor can properly diagnose symptomatic BPH medication. over time; surgery; and (or other conditions such as prostate cancer).

HYTRIN: A New Treatment Option And, only your doctor can treat your bothersome BPH symp-

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Please see patient information on adjacent page. ASK YOUR DOCTOR © 1994, Abbott Laboratories l^VT'OJi^f TODAY ABOUT II m M fWfW (tmiosmcij 3O1-5O0-1361E1 does not necessarily cause more or worse symptoms. HYTRIN • If HYTRIN is helping you, you should notice an vetvoice effect on your particular symptoms in 2 to 4 weeks m (temositma) of starting to take the medication. • Even though you take HYTRIN and it may help you, HYTRIN may not prevent the need for PATIENT INFORMATION surgery in the future. ABOUT What you should know while taking HYTRIN for BPH cans in World War n, to the famed all- HYTRIN® (HI-TRIN) WARNINGS Japanese regiment, to the Navajo HYTRIN Can Cause A Sudden Drop in Blood Code talkers. We all gave to America. Pressure After the VERY FIRST DOSE. You may Generic Name: Don't become a language phobic. feel dizzy, faint, or "light-headed" particularly after

terazosin (ter-A-zo-sin) you get up from bed or from a chair. This is more Remember we are in a cultural salad hydrochloride likely to occur after you've taken the first few doses, bowl in America. We are proud of our but can occur at any time while you are taking the ethnic roots, and most of us would like drug. It can also occur if you stop taking the drug and to keep it that way. When used to treat then re-start treatment. Jose R. Silva Because of this effect, your doctor may have told you BENIGN PROSTATIC Fruita, Colo. to take HYTRIN at bedtime. If you take HYTRIN at HYPERPLASIA (BPH) bedtime but need to get up from bed to go to the bath- room, get up slowly and cautiously until you are sure As the author of the bill in Con- how the medicine affects you. It is also important to gress to make English the official lan- Please read this leaflet before you start taking get up slowly from a chair or bed at any time until you guage of the United States, I HYTRIN. Also, read it each time you get a new pre- commend learn how you react to HYTRIN. You should not drive scription. This information should NOT take the place The American Legion for addressing or do any hazardous tasks until you are used to the of a full discussion with your doctor. You and your this vital effects of the medication. If you begin to feel dizzy, sit issue. English is the common doctor should discuss HYTRIN and your condition or lie down until you feel better. bond that transcends all American cul- before you start taking it and at your regular check- • You will start with a 1 mg dose of HYTRIN. Then tures. If we are to remain one nation, ups. the dose will be increased as your body gets used one people, we must recognize the HYTRIN is used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia to the effect of the medication. importance of or BPH. HYTRIN is also used to treat high blood pres- our common language. • Other side effects you could have while taking sure (hypertension). This leaflet describes HYTRIN As a United States congressman, I HYTRIN include drowsiness, blurred or hazy only as a treatment for BPH. feel an obligation to fight for those vision, nausea, or "puffiness" of the feet or hands. What is BPH? Discuss any unexpected effects you notice with American people who do not want

The prostate is a gland located below the bladder. It your doctor. their country turned into another

surrounds the urethra (you-REETH-rah), which is a Other important facts Beruit, Yugoslavia or Canada. tube that drains urine from the bladder. BPH is an Rep. Toby Roth • You should see an effect on your symptoms in enlargement of the prostate gland. The symptoms of 2 to 4 weeks. So, you will need to continue seeing Eighth District BPH, however, can be caused by an increase in the your doctor to check your progress regarding your Wisconsin tightness of muscles in the prostate. If the muscles BPH and to monitor your blood pressure in addi- inside the prostate tighten, they can squeeze the ure- tion to your other regular check-ups. thra and slow the flow of urine. This can lead to symp- No To Vietnam • Your doctor has prescribed HYTRIN for your toms such as: I strongly disagree with re-estab- BPH and not for prostate cancer. However, a man • a weak or interrupted stream when urinating lishing diplomatic and business ties can have BPH and prostate cancer at the same • a feeling that you cannot empty your bladder time. Doctors usually recommend that men be with Vietnam ("Beyond Hope," completely checked for prostate cancer once a year when they March, by Mark Sauter and Jim • a feeling of delay when you start to urinate turn 50 (or 40 if a family member has had prostate Sanders). Businesses are placing profit • a need to urinate often, especially at night, or cancer). These checks should continue even if you over resolution of the POW/MIA are taking HYTRIN. HYTRIN is not a treatment • a feeling that you must urinate right away. issue. I, for one, will not buy anything for prostate cancer. Treatment options for BPH made in Vietnam until the POW/MIA • About Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). Your There are three main treatment options for BPH: doctor may have done a blood test called PSA. issue is settled.

• Program of monitoring or "Watchful Waiting". Your doctor is aware that HYTRIN does not Jerome E. Schroeder Some men have an enlarged prostate gland, but no affect PSA levels. You may want to ask your doc- Palmer Lake, Colo. symptoms, or symptoms that are not bothersome. tor more about this if you have had a PSA test If this applies, you and your doctor may decide on done. As a Marine Corps veteran of a program of monitoring including regular check- How to take HYTRIN ups, instead of medication or surgery. Korea, I know our policy was to leave Follow your doctor's instructions about how to take • Medication. There are different kinds of medica- no dead or wounded behind. But HYTRIN. You must take it every day at the dose pre- tion used to treat BPH. Your doctor has prescribed apparently our past and current admin- scribed. Talk with your doctor if you don't take it for HYTRIN for you. See "What HYTRIN does" istrations do not share this policy and a few days, you may have to restart it at a 1 mg dose below. and be cautious about possible dizziness. Do not share are now rewarding Hanoi with trade • Surgery. Some patients may need surgery. Your HYTRIN with anyone else; it was prescribed only for agreements. doctor can describe several different surgical pro- you. EL. Lewis cedures to treat BPH. Which procedure is best Keep HYTRIN and all medicines out of the reach of depends on your symptoms and medical condi- Selbyville, Del. children. tion. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HYTRIN The POW/MIA issue is not just What HYTRIN does AND BPH, TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR, going to go away, thanks to the efforts HYTRIN relaxes the tightness of a certain type of NURSE, PHARMACIST OR OTHER HEALTH muscle in the prostate and at the opening of the blad- CARE PROVIDER. of organizations such as The Ameri- der. This may increase the rate of urine flow and/or Ref. 03-4458-R1 -Revised Sept., 1993 can Legion. Anyone who has dealt decrease the symptoms you are having. with the Vietnamese knows how adept • HYTRIN helps relieve the symptoms of BPH. It Abbott Laboratories they are with their lies and deception North Chicago, IL 60064 does NOT change the size of the prostate, which may continue to grow. However, larger a prostate PRINTED IN U.S.A.

6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WE WANT YOUR OPINIONS

The American legion You can leave an electronic letter MAGAZINE welcomes letters to the to the editor at editor concerning articles that (314) 474-7474 appear in the publication. Be sure to to record your comments. Callers' and that they cannot be trusted. Our include a daytime phone number for opinions are considered for pub- government, instead of sending dele- verification. Short letters are more lication and receive a Q symbol gations to Hanoi on vacation, should likely to be published, and all letters when used. start to seriously negotiate the release are subject to editing for clarity and Or you can write to:

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Edward G. Garbe ft dividual acknowledgements of P.O. Box 1055 Oak Hill, W.Va. comments on editorial content. Indianapolis, IN 46206 Flag Waver Many thanks for a great magazine — newsy and to the point. The dedication displayed by the

Legion in nearing its goal of having 38 states pass memorializing resolutions

to protect the flag is outstanding. It is a valiant effort and a well-earned victory, representing true Americanism. God's speed to the National Legisla-

tive Commission. May it inspire the remaining states to act in unison, sup- porting a constitutional amendment to protect our flag. C.E. Dukehart Westminster, Md.

Editor' s note: Since Legionnaire Dukehart wrote, Nebraska and Mary- land became states 38 and 39 to pass a flag resolution, with more expected.

Express Less Electronic communication excludes most of the financially depressed people ("Riding The Info Express,"

March). It places tremendous potential power in the hands of a comparatively few, non-elected people.

Most crucial, there is apparently no

"second option." It is a known military fact that the first stage of future wars is the destruction of electric power. Without some knowledge of an alter- PREMIERES MONDAY MAY 30 • 9PM ET/PT nate communication, what do these "info express" people ride on then? Roger Woodcock Corunna, Ind. Revisiting Rome I'm writing on behalf of the 1,500 remaining infantry combat veterans of the 91st Infantry Division of World War II who fought in Italy as one of the four remaining infantry divisions in the U.S. II Corps, 5th Army. We salute the Legion and author Sid Moody's courage for the excellent and Please turn to page 66

ALSO AIRS SUNDAY, JUNE 5 • 9PM ET/PT

MAY 1994 7 Commander's message!

REDISCOVERING VALUES THAT MADE AMERICA STRONG

gps ffl m* N HIS 1899 book, The Arlington Cemetery last year. We can- mm mm ^cn0°^ and Society, John not forget the importance of preserving I Dewey introduced the idea the honor and the legacy of those who mm that schoolhouses should have served and died for our nation. I do more than provide our Next month our hearts and minds I children with new knowl- will remember the GIs who gave their I mm edge " lives during World War IPs Normandy Dewey suggested that invasion on June 6, 1944. Their sacri- Ui America's schools should fice turned the tide in a war that ulti- build character and train children to be mately reshaped the globe and made good citizens, a task which is today a America the leader of the free world. major part of The American Legion's We honor them for their sacrifice, and Children & Youth programs, from for their bravery. Legion Baseball to Boys Nation. We hoped World War II would be In this way, The American Legion the last war, just as we made the same honors one of the Preamble's mis- wish after World War I. But Korea, sions: "to foster and perpetuate a one Vietnam, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama hundred percent Americanism." and the Gulf War were to follow. And, It starts with a symbol. A school- unfortunately, there will be others. house. An American flag. A church. A Memorial Day is our opportunity to cemetery. Today, too many people make things right. We must not only don't care about such things. to fallen enough Nat' I. Cmdr. Bruce Thiesen pay homage our friends by Schools no longer teach our chil- listening to their names read aloud. We dren values, or at least most are not it. Too many of our brother veterans, must also commit ourselves to redis- doing it consistently. And broken under enemy fire, have fought and covering the values that made America homes and shattered families are rais- died beside our flag for it to be burned morally and militarily strong — values ing children who know less and less in the flames of political protest under that were once taught in our schools. about what is right and what is wrong. some self-righteous claim for free By doing this, we honor what veterans The tragedy here is that when one speech. fought and died for. symbol is crushed under the weight of And then there is the church and As former President Ronald Reagan shattered ideals, a domino effect other places of worship. Again, the once said, "Education is not the means begins and value by value, principle by Supreme Court ruled in the 1960s that of showing people how to get what principle, the symbols and the sub- prayer in school was unconstitutional. they want. Education is an experience stance behind them disappear. Our schools have never been the same, by means of which enough men, it is The American schoolhouse is just as Dewey's vision of the American hoped, will learn to want what is worth the first casualty of America's war schoolhouse has all but vanished from having." with itself. Our flag was the next to the landscape. We don't teach our chil- If our children don't learn the fall. dren values anymore, and belief in importance of symbols such as the Some short-sighted people view the God is the highest of all values. U.S. Flag, schools, places of worship Supreme Court's 1989 decision to pro- It starts with a symbol. We have and the substance behind them — tect flag burning, under the First allowed our schools, our flag and our along with our past — we will have Amendment right of free speech, as a churches to slip into silence as Ameri- buried our future. It's time to return victory for freedom. The question, fel- ca's moral foundation has withered. our devotion to our schools, our flag, low Legionnaires, is freedom from Dewey's 19th century vision of Amer- and to our God. what? ican education — once a dream come * * * Responsibility? Devotion to God true — now awaits rediscovery. Memorializing resolutions calling and Country? The willingness to As we mark Memorial Day this for a constitutional amendment to pro- defend our nation in time of war? By month, we honor our fallen brothers in tect the U.S. Flag from physical dese- allowing our flag to be desecrated, we an atmosphere of shattered symbols cration have passed in 39 states. For are, indeed, casting aside all of these and withering ideals. We remember more on the Legion's national cam- ideals. We cannot dismiss the symbol the folly of gay activists who wanted paign for Old Glory, see Legion News, ' without destroying the values behind to protest on the hallowed grounds of Page 40.

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SHOULD CONGRESS STOP FUNDING THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY?

Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pennsylvania) Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-New Jersey)

How many Americans Since the end of the are aware that national Cold War, nations arms of the Democratic YES NO emerging from decades Party, the Republican Party, the AFL- of totalitarian control have struggled to CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce establish democratic institutions, free receive millions of taxpayers' dollars market economies and promote human annually to carry out their own version of rights. The National Endowment for American foreign policy? Not many. Democracy (NED) has enabled the Unit- Yet, through the National Endowment ed States to support these nations and for Democracy, (NED), that is exactly what happens. NED is people in their struggle to attain a stable government. a private organization whose sole job is to take taxpayers' The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet funds and dole them out to these four major interest groups Union did not usher in an era of democracy and human so that they can promote democracy (and their own agendas) rights in these former totalitarian nations. Instead there is abroad. uncertainty and instability in many of them. Without contin- I object to the premise that these groups have a better ued guidance and support, democratic leaders in these new understanding of how American taxpayers want to spend governments may be more vulnerable than ever before. their hard-earned money than either Congress or the admin- In addition to assisting the emerging democracies, NED istration, both of which are accountable to the people. For monitors human rights abuses in authoritarian regimes, dis- this reason, I have worked with Rep. Christopher Shays of seminates news of democratic movements around the world Connecticut to eliminate NED's annual funding. and trains future democratic leaders. I support a progressive foreign policy — as well as Amer- As a commissioner of the Commission for Security and ican assistance abroad — to ensure that democracy and Cooperation in Europe and a ranking member of the West- human rights are upheld, protected and promoted. However, em Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs I reject the current practice of giving taxpayers' money to Committee, I am personally aware of the influence that four of the biggest, most powerful special interest groups. NED has had in securing our interests around the world. In addition, NED has funded a number of questionable For instance, the NED board this year approved funds to projects. Through NED, American taxpayers' dollars have sustain Oslobodjenje (Liberation), the only daily newspaper gone to labor unions in France and to the opposition party to in war-torn Sarajevo. This paper has been able to bring the President Oscar Arias in Costa Rica. Both France and Costa news to the people of Bosnia without interruption despite Rica have been democracies for more than 100 years. the constant shelling of the city. Because NED is not accountable, there have been A major obstacle to democratic reform is the pervasive instances in which NED-funded projects appear to be contra- corruption in many governments. dictory to America foreign policy. For example, NED NED, with its in-country programs and American train- monies assisted the Federation of Korean Trade Unions ers, helps democratic nationals develop and sustain pro- (FKTU) in increasing its ability to influence government grams to strengthen constitutional governments, political policies in 1989, one year after the State Department com- movements and economic reforms. Personnel funded by mended the Korean government for breaking the FKTU's NED grants offer first-hand, eyewitness accounts to Con- monopoly by allowing other unions to register. gress and the State Department about progress and problems Members of Congress should be hesitant to support an in areas around the world. organization that has a history of funding dubious projects as Cutting NED support now, in essence, would say that the well as fiscal mismanagement and abuse (a critical 1991 United States no longer cares about the struggle to establish General Accounting Office report found an instance in which secure and stable democratic governments in strategic places federal money was used to around the world. An in- help obtain a car for use in YOUR OPINIONS COUNT, TOO vestment in the NED is not a drug crime.) only a humanitarian in- Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- There is a need to bol- vestment, but it is also a stra- points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable ster fragile democracies tegic investment that serves (name), U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510, or The Honorable abroad, but NED is not the (name), U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. the interests and security of proper vehicle. the United States.

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In a little-noticed address before the charged it was so broad he could see a Author Neenyah Ostrom has dis- American Association for the Ad- disgruntled worker suing his employer closed that although CDC has advised vancement of Science, Alexander merely because of a "workplace prayer patients not to give blood, there CFIDS Tomasz of Rockefeller University in or simple sharing [of faith] over a cup is test to screen them out as blood no New York warned that common forms of coffee." donors. Her book about CFIDS, Ameri- of bacteria which cause pneumonia, Meanwhile, in another instance of ca's Biggest Cover-Up, cites new med- children's ear infections and other dis- perceived anti-religious bias, Dobson ical evidence that a HHV-6, human eases are likely to develop into strains also protested that the U.S. Army last herpes virus discovered in is a 1986, resistant to treatment by antibiotics. A fall changed its chaplain's crest, elimi- cause of both CFIDS and AIDS. 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\ to the fallen,

\ Memorial Day is

: not an exercise in

: sadness. Rather,

: it is a reaffirmation

that these men and

I women did not lose

: their lives in vain.

By Gary Turbak

vm « UT OF AMERICA'S | W m ^ tragic Civil War grew I the springtime cus- I torn, originally called

I Decoration Day, of I honoring the soldiers I whose valor knew no * ^ M bounds. To the list of baal those who died at Gettysburg and Bull Run, we have added names from San Juan Hill, Verdun, Corregidor, Inchon, Khe Sanh, and a thousand other places touched by war. For most of the year, these brave souls repose in anonymity, but on Memorial Day we bring them back to life to thank them again for their great sacrifice. They came from every community: The young football star who knew little about war, but a lot about friendship. He died saving a buddy's life. The farmer's son who learned to drive a tank instead of a tractor. The new father who left his wife and child A Day For Remembering because he felt the strong pull of duty. The career soldier who might otherwise have been the town yet the same: They all gave their lives ute to soldiers who fell, and to a coun- banker, barber or postman. Different, for their country — and for their country that did not. With the same heart, trymen. we grieve our comrades' passing, yet Gary Turbak, a Montana-based Memorial Day is not an exercise in rejoice in what their sacrifice hath freelancer, writes on a variety of top- sadness. It is a reaffirmation that these wrought. This is why we combine rev- ics for this magazine. His article, men and women did not lose their lives erence with revelry, why Memorial "The Campaign Against English," in vain. This special day is both a Day is a time for remembering, but also appeared in our February issue. remembrance and a celebration, a trib- for parades and "oompah-pah" bands.

MAY 1994 19 ORIAL DAY

Memorial Days are grand, bittersweet events. Each year former soldiers don their dated uniforms and join with rusty step the full-bodied parade that sweeps along main street. To the clicking cadence of horses' hooves, they stride down the same avenues they once marched off to war. Again, the people cheer as these yesterday's troops pass by. And when the parade ends,

they line up for photos, and it is easy to see that another year has thinned their ranks. As they speak about the buddies who never returned, names such as With the same heart, we Meuse-Argonne, Normandy, Pusan and Mekong Delta blend into a single theme — and the theme is bravery. On Memorial Day, families journey in quiet pilgrimage to the park or village square where the roll call of dead soldiers has been etched forever in bronze. Lifting toddlers up, mothers help them trace their fingers across the cool metal-lettered names until they come to the father or brother who did not come home. And in parlors and on front porches, the tears of lonesome survivors dot dusty photo albums. In somber silence, people make their way to graveyards, where they pledge with wordless vows never to forget. With their eyes they seem to ask, "What was so terribly important that all these people had to die?" But they don't need an answer. They know. Comforting arms embrace the grieving,

and when it ends, everyone feels somehow better, more able to go forward. On Memorial Day also, booming heartfelt oratory shakes the town hall rafters, and a teenage future politician might even rise to recite the Gettysburg Address. On courthouse lawns, the incongruity of children climbing on huge and silent canons does not escape their parents, who offer silent prayers that their children might never need go to war. Everywhere, people mix and min- MASSACHUSETTS gle, and draw from another Memorial Day the camaraderie that comes from a common spirit, a unified will, a shared memory.

Always there is a multitude of flowers, from paper poppies to the real yet rejoice in what their things planted with loving care at a vet- Please turn to page 62

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grieve our comrades' passing,

MISSOURI—Post 202 sponsors a Memorial Day parade, wreath

ceremony and air

show in Columbia.

NORMANDY—Cal Booth, Post 39, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept., lays a flag on a soldier's grave. MASSACHUSETTS —As Tony Federico plays taps, Russell Richardson and Alex Leontie honor sacrifice hath wrought. our war dead.

MAY 1994 21 ROBERT BARTLEY

AN '80s CURE FOR '90s ltLS

The recession of the '90s happened because fhe successful economic policies of the '80s were abandoned, says this Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal editor

THE recession of the 1990s retribution for our with is, periods of rapid progress often mean rapid change. excesses in the 1980s? After a decade of boom you often have a counter reaction. Not so, says Robert Bartley, editor of The The boom of the '20s and the Depression of the '30s is a Wall Street Journal's editorial pages and author notable example, but there are others. This is basically DSof The Seven Fat Years And How To Do It Again. what happened in the '80s. We just weren't ready for this During those "seven fat years," Bartley boom and then went around trying to find scapegoats when

points out the American economy grew by near- it ended. The recession of the '90s happened because the ly a third, created millions of new jobs and put successful economic policies of the 1980s were abandoned. more money in the pockets of average Ameri- cans. While many people bash former President Ronald Q. What made the economy boom, and how do you Reagan for his economic policies, Bartley defends them. really know it is booming? He says that from 1983 to 1990: A The economic boom of the 1980s started with tax cuts, • Unemployment dropped from 10.8 percent to 5.3 percent. not increases. The American economy grew by nearly • Per-person annual disposable income rose from $9,789 a third, 18 million new jobs were created, and disposable to $15,313. income grew by 20 percent. • Charitable giving went up from $49 billion a year to The best indicator of the true economic condition is per $97 billion a year. capita income in inflation-adjusted dollars. If that's going • The stock market Dow Jones average rose from 1070 up, there's going to be wealth to spread around. to 2761. The best single predictor of where the economy is going A 1980 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writ- is the stock market. That would argue that the outlook ing, Bartley says the recession of the '90s happened under Clinton isn't too bad because the stock market is because the successful economic policies of the '80s were holding up pretty well. abandoned. Bartley joined The Wall Street Journal in 1962 as a staff Q. What then will be the effect of the Clinton tax reporter in Chicago. In 1972 he became editor of the editor- hikes? ial page and seven years later was named editor of the A Tax increases slow the economy regardless of what newspaper. He is a member of the American Society of kind of increases or economic philosophies you apply. Newspaper Editors, the Council on Foreign Relations and The issue is whether more taxes would be more damaging the American Political Science Association. than additional borrowing, given the same level of expendi- In this interview with THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- tures. ZINE, Bartley explains why the 1980s worked, and how the Taking resources out of the economy will slow the pri-

1 990s can be boom years, too. vate sector regardless of whether you take it by taxing or borrowing. So you have a trade off. American Legion Magazine: Revisionists are The worst taxes are those that reduce the incentives in now claiming that the recession of the '90s was brought the economy — the ones with the highest marginal rate of on by the Reagan administration's excesses during the taxation. The key figure to look at is the marginal rate of '80s. Do you agree? taxation — the tax you pay on the next dollar you earn — and often the appropriate one to look at is the top marginal

ROBERT BARTLEY: The best answer I can come up rate of taxation.

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION " " " " .

When that was down to 28 percent, the economy was HIGHLIGHT working pretty well. Now it's creeping back up, and by the time everything is counted, it's going to be over 45 percent. That's a big change and particularly damaging to the economy. Rob&it Baritfky Otv. .

Q. You consider incentives playing key roles in moving the economy. Would reducing or eliminating the How to get rich: "You form your own capital gains tax be good or bad for investment? compony, operote it ond you might A lower capital gains tax would mean more invest- A moke o solory. The big poyoff comes ment. I don't know if you can prove this, but it is cer- when you sell the compony. This is the tainly true that the capital gains tax historically has been big pot at the end of the rainbow for associated with big rewards for entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs. Basically that's how you get rich. You form your own company, operate it and you might make a salary. The big payoff comes when you sell the company. You can sell your Tax increases: "They slow the economy stock to the public or sell out to a bigger concern. What you regardless of what kind of economic get is a capital gain, and this is the big pot at the end of the philosophies you apply. rainbow for entrepreneurs. It's elementary economics — by reducing that reward, it will reduce that kind of activity. How to create jobs: "Get off the back of small businesses. The Fortune 500 lost Q. The federal deficit continues to haunt the Ameri- jobs during the 1980s, even though we can people. You have said that "The deficit is not a added 18 million overall. The new jobs meaningless figure, only a grossly overrated one." Just came from a lot of new, small, risky how does the deficit affect our economy? businesses. A The deficit is the difference between the government's expenditures and receipts. The key figure is how much the government takes out of the private sector and chooses Protectionism: "It was a primary cause of to spend. Whether it's done by taxes or borrowing, is a sec- the Great Depression. ondary matter.

MAY 1994 23 ROBERT BARTLEY

I don't think the economy revolves that we're now in a global economy and around the deficit. I also don't think the it doesn't make too much sense to think deficit influences interest rates the way about competition between American many people on Wall Street have often and Japanese firms. What you have to argued. think of is how you get the high value During the 1980s, the deficit went up added jobs in your country, regardless of and interest rates went down. If we get whether people work for a corporation some kind of control over expenditures, headquartered in Tokyo or Detroit. You we won't require the great bargain with do that through education and work atti- tax increases and slashes in expenditures tudes. that some people propose. The other half of it, he's profoundly wrong. He thinks you get the education, Q. What about the U.S. trade deficit? the training, etc., by raising taxes and

How bad is it for the country? having the government do it. That just A In the international accounts, trade deficits are by defi- doesn't work. Tax increases aren't going to raise a lot of nition offset by investment inflows. We don't count revenues. And the government isn't going to be any more the investments, we count the merchandise trade or some efficient in training workers than it is in delivering mail. broader measures. I think all of that is profoundly misconceived. If your economy looks promising to foreigners and they want to invest, you have inflows of investment that by defin- 0. What is the one piece of advice you would give the ition will have to be reflected in a trade deficit. If the inflows administration to create jobs? are what started the cycle, the overall picture is a healthy Alt would be to get off the back of small businesses. one, rather than a bad one. Small businesses are where jobs are created. The For- tune 500 lost jobs during the 1980s, even though we added

Q- Unions claim American workers will lose thou- 1 8 million overall. The new jobs came from a lot of new, sands of jobs over the North American Free Trade small, risky businesses. Under Clinton, we will have a big Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on upsurge in environmental regulation. All of these are things Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Is that true? big business often can afford, but start-up businesses can't. A The economy is going through a big change. It's greatly de-emphasizing the manufacturing jobs where the Q. The Clinton health-care plan will force almost unions have been strong and emphasizing service jobs that every American business, small and large, to pay for at the unions always have found difficult to organize. Private least part of universal health coverage. What is your sector unionism is down to around 10 percent of the work- reaction? force, an incredibly small number. They're fighting a basic A In the best of times, a lot of them go out of business. It trend. is going to be an additional burden, and it not only Many insist union and non-union jobs need to be protect- affects the businesses operating now. The bigger cost is ed, but rising protectionism is recognized as a primary cause that it changes the odds that three breakaway engineers of the Great Depression that followed World War I on a glob- from a Fortune 500 firm will go out, found their own firm, al scale. and make it grow into another Fortune 500 company as the founders of businesses did back in the 1980s. Q- Is there a trend toward protectionism in this country? Q. What will be the effect of such a health plan on the A There's been a trend toward protectionism worldwide economy? since about 1973. But it has been held at bay. There A A typical American gets the best health care in the has been some progress with the Europeans who have dras- world. It's expensive, but the rate of increase in tically reduced their trade barriers among each other, but health-care costs has rapidly declined in the last two years. they still have a somewhat mixed attitude toward the rest of The Clinton proposals are fundamentally a system of price the world. We're in a delicate balance today. We have to controls that Congress and the people are too smart to keep fighting protectionism over and over again, and we're accept anymore. never quite clear which way we're going. If it went through as proposed, it would be a calamity

and enormously expensive for the government. It would Q. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has a similar only detract from health care for the typical American. international point of view. What do you think of his There would have to be rationing, and it would shrink the economic theories? available resources for health care. Worst of all, it would A I kind of like Robert Reich. I may be alone in that change the dynamic of the American economy. among people of my disposition, but in his last book, It could turn the American economy into the German The Work of Nations, he was awfully right about half of economy in which you have some successful big compa- what he wrote. He discussed the international side, saying nies, a lot of welfare and no creativity, no dynamism.

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION 1W1 ione, o>wee4,0 ice

EGIONNAIRE Ray Olson likes to get up with the dawn. On a typical crisp

Wyoming morning, Olson, 58, a member of Post 6 in Cheyenne, greets the sun,

shrugs into his bathrobe, ambles down the hall to his country kitchen — and starts to

i work. A successful entrepreneur for three decades, Olson has run businesses

I Jk from his home for most of those years. He's probably the largest installer, sander,

repairer and finisher of hardwood floors in the state of Wyoming. The nerve center of his

company is a small desk in his kitchen. "While I sip my morning coffee, I'll set up everybody's

schedule for the day, check on shipments, and negotiate new jobs," he says. "I've never really

felt I had a need for an outside office. What could I do there that I can't do here?" Olson is

far from alone. By some estimates, over 10 percent of American adults work out of their homes

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MAY 1994 25 today. Most wouldn't have it any other "Technological improvements, like Pratt Associates, a Dallas, Texas, conway. The number of home-based busi- computers and advanced telecommuni- sulting firm that recently completed a ness owners range from the Bureau of cations, are enabling more and more study of home-based companies for the Labor Statistics' conservative figure people to carry out jobs they used to U.S. Small Business Administration. of 5.6 million to Link Resources Cor- perform in centralized corporate set- It's possible to equip a perfectly poration's estimate of 12.1 million. tings nearly anywhere they want," says adequate home office today for under Link, a New York-based consulting Joanne Pratt, president of Joanne H. $5,000. Top-name microcomputers firm, estimates that an additional 11.7 million Americans run part-time businesses from their homes while holding down traditional full-time jobs. About 6.6 million Americans, lieLieqieg iome And ice according to Link, can be described as TELECOMMUTERS may have programs for corporations and gov- "telecommuters," — full-time corpo- the best of both worlds. They ernment agencies. "It can reduce the rate employees who work at least part work out of their home, but need for office space and slice other of the time from home offices that are draw salaries, receive fringe benefits overhead costs. It's a selling point generally linked to their employers by and share in the privileges and pro- for attracting and retaining first rate computer. (See "Linking Home And motion opportunities of employees employees. And it has been shown Office," right.) who go to work downtown. to boost worker productivity." In the past five years alone, Link According to New York consult- Among major companies with says the number of Americans working ing firm Link Resources, there are at telecommuting programs is AT&T. out of their home has increased at a 9 least 6.6 million telecommuters in At its Business Network Sales Divi- percent compound annual growth rate the United States. Their numbers sion in Dallas, 600 employees, that equals nearly a 60 percent increase. have been increasing by an average including salespeople, technical The Bureau of Labor Statistics esti- 20 percent per year the past several support staff, and management per- mates reflect a similar growth rate. years. sonnel, have been issued what sales "Telecommuting is as attractive vice president David L. Grimes calls A New York-based journalist and to organizations as it is to individu- a "virtual office:" a Safari notebook management consultant, Ellen Brandt als," says Gil E. Gordon, a consul- computer with a built-in fax and has written over 2,000 magazine and tant who helps set up telecommuting Please turn to page 54 newspaper articles. She has run her business from home for 15 years.

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION TECHNOLOGY with word processing to home-based infor- viduals find greater challenges in large that includes and spreadsheet pro- mation specialists such corporations or the government, there grams and printers sell computers as writers, researchers, are some creative specialists who go for as little as $2,000. accountants, attorneys into businesses on their own. Good quality, small- and modems and others dependent One of the most interesting firms is volume copiers go for allows on facts and figures. run by Legionnaire Dave Kauderer, under $1,000. Add Detective Jim Ivey, former commander of Post 77, Wood- a fax, a modem, a entrepreneurs a member of Post 5 in land, Calif. Kauderer, who is also past telephone answering Colorado Springs, district commander of California Dis- to machine and some file pursue Colo., and his partner, trict Six, spent 21 years with the Cali- cabinets, and you're their careers Joseph Burns, III, fornia Highway Patrol. ready to roll. depend heavily on In 1981, Kauderer left the force to Cosmo Gigliotti, while staying computer technology in start Collision Consultants. Kauderer is also a Legionnaire, has their private investiga- primarily an expert witness, testifying at home. operated a thriving cus- tion business, The in court or reconstructing traffic acci- tom home-building Investigators. They dents for attorneys representing defen- business out of his conduct the business dants or plaintiffs. home for more than 18 out of both homes. Operating a residentially based firm years. A member of Burns works in a con- can be cost-effective, as well. "Depend- Post 5 in Colorado verted upstairs bed- ing on the kind of business you run, Springs, Colo., Gigliotti builds and room, while Ivey maintains a spacious you may save a lot on overhead," says sells an average of four to six houses office in his basement. Terry Brown, a Legionnaire from annually at prices ranging from The partners make extensive use of Parkville, Mo., who is a heating and $65,000 to $500,000. His company, computer data bases in record searches, air-conditioning contractor. Gemini Homes, also constructs some personnel screening, insurance fraud Brown estimates he saves at least commercial and industrial buildings. investigations and missing persons $10,000 per year on rent and utilities,

With a full-time staff of three — cases. Other equipment includes sever- the amount it would cost him to lease a everyone else he hires is a subcontrac- al specially designed surveillance vehi- space similar to his office-workshop in tor — Gigliotti says he manages cles, a van, a 26-foot motorhome, and his detached garage. superbly out of the office he built next even a surveillance boat like the detec- Home-based companies also can to his rec room. tives had on Miami Vice. enjoy big tax advantages. Collision Technology also is a particular boon While many highly specialized indi- Please turn to page 56

MAY 1994 27 COMMENTARY NOJOB

Here is a brief and honest account of the "range of new opportunities" for women in the U.S. military.

an artilleryman you can't see is about By James Brady to kill you or just the other side of the ridge another infantryman you don't HIS IS how a com- know is going to try to kill you before bat infantryman you kill him. lives: Or even before the firefight starts You are always you are going to step on a mine too cold or too hot, and blow off your legs.

it is raining or snow- I know nothing about air or ing but you are naval warfare but I know about

parched with thirst, being an infantryman and it is no

you are always tired job for women. Nor is it a job for and have the runs and your feet are men or for the higher order of ani- sore, you are dirty and itchy and stink mal even though, in combat, an and you hurt in small ways and are bent infantryman becomes an animal and chafed under a 60- himself. Three years ago in

pound pack. And you are a book about a winter war I ACROSS THE almost always afraid be- wrote this: GULF—In the cause a few miles away "Men were always get- Gulf War, women ting hurt. I don't mean served in many wounds. Take hands: Out- jobs, including MP doors the cold worked at your in Kuwait. duty hands, and in the bunkers it was the dry heat from the happened to Coleman stoves... when your hands us every day; twisting an were always sore and bleeding you ankle on the ice or smashing a thumb in weren't as efficient at doing anything. the bolt of a weapon or cutting your

It didn't matter what, firing a weapon hand on a ration can or chipping a tooth or opening a can or wiping yourself or tearing off a fingernail trying to

with toilet paper, you didn't do it as shore up the ceiling logs or dropping a well with sore hands... In this cold, dry jerrican of water on your foot... There air with wind, your lips were always chapped and sore, sometimes so Korean War veteran, author and cracked they bled... There was no pri- editor, James Brady writes regularly vacy anywhere; hygiene was a derisory for Parade, the Sunday newspaper concern. You couldn't get clean, so magazine, and other publications. why worry about dirt? Maybe that's This article is reprinted with permis- why when the flu hit the Division so sion from the May 30, 1993, issue of

many of us came down with it. . .. Advertising Age. Copyright, Crain "Getting hurt was something that Communications Inc., 1993.

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION Pacific where the landing craft shelved on the beaches and the six guys in front of you were dead before you ever got out of the damned boat. And then, if you survived the beach, there

behind it was the jungle. And the Japanese, waiting.

I had all I wanted in one, small, near-forgot- ten war. Can you con- ceive of the fear when it's your turn that night to take out the ambush, to lie there freezing and

TOUGHING IT motionless in the snow, hoping that the enemy From the comes and when they European do, you kill them except battlefields of for one or two you try

World War II, only to wound so you can drag them in to be far left, to the questioned? I used to frigid fighting pray they'd skip my of the Korean turn.

War, left and They never did. I can still re- above, the And member, four decades grueling work later, how much a dying of the infantry man weighs when you soldier has have to carry him up to the ridgeline and he «-4 always been keeps sliding off the left to men. stretcher into the snow and he groans from his wound and you get him were men with rheumatism from the were bloodshot from candle smoke and on the stretcher again and the corpsman wet months and sleeping on the ground twitched from nerves and fatigue. We looks at you and you know he is not and men who coughed and spit up were 18 and 20 and 25 years old and going to make it and when he is finally blood. And men who'd been frostbitten after a while we moved like old men dead, in a way you are relieved, early and would always be susceptible from the cold and the damp and the because he will be easier to carry and afterwards... None of these things qual- tiredness. you don't worry so much if you drop ified you for medical evacuation. You And when you had a bowel move- him occasionally. tried to heal them yourself or asked the ment you slid down through the snow And you try very hard to do your corpsman and you stayed on the line." to the reverse slope and sat on a wood- job because these are good men around

And the corpsman, the medic, he en ammo box with a hole in it with you and it is a fine country we are was getting hurt and wounded too and trousers down around your ankles shiv- fighting for and because you have some in the hard cold before he could give ering while the wind blew and the snow small pride left. And you try to keep it you morphine when you were hit, he fell and you did your thing and then hanging together when a friend of held the syrettes in his mouth to thaw. your anus hurt too much to wipe so you yours is killed or loses an eye or his We stayed on the line once through just pulled up your pants again and hands and try to forget what dead men January and February 46 days. Never went back into the trench or the bunker look like hanging on the barbed wire in washed, never changed clothes, living and no one remarked how you smelled. the morning after you have fought underground and you slept four hours Because we all stank. again through the night. on, four hours off, and we ate from tin That time when we came down off This is how a combat infantryman cans. No fresh fruit, no milk, no bread. the line to shower after 46 days they lives. And dies. No liquor, no women, no sex, rock or burned our uniforms. As former Defense Secretary Aspin roll. Our faces were pitted with pus- I don't know what it is to fight in the put the proposed changes in rules of tules and blackheads and in the cold, jungle or the desert. Maybe it is a lot combat: snot froze greenish and solid on our worse. I don't think I would have done "A range of new opportunities for nostrils and upper lips and our eyes very well in Vietnam. Or in the South women."

MAY 1994 29 —

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

O N C A G A I

Businesses are rediscovering that service counts. Today's companies use smiles and toll-free help lines to win new customers and keep the old ones.

By Jay Stuller

OHN Barrier of Spokane, TAILORED SERVICE Today's Nordstrom stores are like stores of the 1950s. Their Wash., thought he was salespeople have a reputation for going out of their way to help customers. making a simple request. Would a branch of the The manager gave him a look that refrigerator that's busted. bank he had done business comedian George Carlin once It can take the form of toll-free num- with for 30 years validate described as "DILLIGAD," — "Do I bers that link consumers with experts his parking sticker for the Look Like I Give a Damn?" Barrier who can help them master a complex

bank's parking lot? The paid for parking. It wasn't the money; it product such as a computer. It can be J receptionist said that since was the principle. delivering packages overnight without Barrier wasn't on banking business and The next day, a disgruntled Barrier fail, or it can be employees who are had been shopping across the street, he withdrew $1 million from an account trained and motivated to step outside couldn't have free parking. he had with the bank — an event that their normal duties to solve a cus- So Barrier cashed a check, but was drew the attention of the national media tomer's problem. again denied because he "didn't make a and thoroughly embarrassed the bank. Just as consumers were becoming deposit." Approaching the manager, Unlike Barrier, few of us have the convinced that DILLIGAD behavior Barrier quietly explained that his regu- means to get such revenge for rude ser- was the American way, a growing lar bank — a branch of the same bank vice, but we've all shared similar expe- number of businesses are now realizing — held millions of dollars in various riences. Fortunately, unlike Barrier's that the customers count, and that family accounts. bank, many American businesses today they'd better give a damn about provid- are rediscovering how important cus- ing good service.

Freelance writer Jay Stuller is a tomer service is. "In too many aspects of American frequent contributor to this magazine. Good customer service includes life, the idea of service, or of doing a His most recent article, "Tribal everything from a sincere smile during service job, is considered demeaning Wars," appeared in the January 1993 a retail transaction to swiftly dispatch- and is equated with low status," writes issue. ing a technician to fix or replace a new J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr., head of the $5

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PEOPLE POWER Employees who help people are even encour- the customers "are the most important in aged to spend hours with a the organization," says hotelier J.W. Mar- customer, if necessary. riott Jr., head of Marriott Corporation. The staff is salaried and gets no commissions; the billion a year Marriott Corporation, in emphasis is on customer a book called At America' s Service. service rather than sales. "In reality, the service people are the Salespeople ensure the most important ones in the organiza- shopper gets everything tion. Without them there is no product, needed to complete the job, no sale and no profit. Indeed, they are down to the last gasket or the product." hose. Such service is one As American products have im- reason the company's 1991 proved — and business observers agree profits jumped 52 percent, that manufacturers have greatly with growth continuing in enhanced the performance and durabili- 1992. ty of their goods — the differences • The Marriott Hotel chain gives NO PRESSURE SALES To discourage among them shrink. Thus, what often employees the wherewithal to immedi- pressuring consumers, General Motors' Saturn salespersons are paid salaries, makes one company or product better ately solve a guest's requests or prob- not commissions. from another "is the quality of service," lems. At the Marriott City Center in says Leonard Berry, a marketing pro- Minneapolis, workers are authorized to fessor at Texas A&M University. spend $10 in any way deemed fit, to Wis., to Jacksonville, Fla., prospective Fortunately, for a nation grown satisfy a customer. buyers of General Motors Corp.'s Sat- accustomed to poor service, a change is For example, when a cashier at the urn cars emerge with stories of delight- definitely in the wind. For example: gift shop overheard a guest say that he ful experiences. Instead of being • At any of the nearly 200 Home couldn't find a particular book, the attacked by fast-talkers wearing ugly Depot stores, customer questions never woman headed to a bookstore at the sport coats, customers are greeted by produce a blank look or brush-off. end of her shift, bought a copy and "sales consultants" who hand out a

Indeed, many of its employees are for- delivered it to the guest. Just guess printed sheet of fixed prices. mer carpenters and electricians, trained where this customer will stay on his There's no haggling, arm-twisting to know something about all 30,000 next Twin Cities trip? or, as Saturn's sales vice president items in each store. Home Depot sales- • At auto dealerships from Madison, Please turn to page 48

MAY 1994 31 Veterans update

SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR IVY CASE

ETERANS who had did not have to admit fault. For the Legion, the decision meant pinned their hopes on Ivy, who was not part of the class there may never be a fair trial for y finding justice from the action suit, refused a $3,000 offer Agent Orange victims seeking com- Supreme Court over then- from the fund, terming the money "an pensation. "This was our last, best Agent Orange disabilities insult to the memory of her husband." hope," said National Commander had a steel door slammed in their faces She sued Diamond Shamrock, one of Bruce Thiesen. "We are now at the when it refused to hear Shirley Ivy's the manufacturers of Agent Orange, in mercy of VA and the National Acade- appeal. The court virtually ended any a Texas state court. Ivy's case was my of Sciences. We can only hope hope that veterans with Agent Orange pulled from the Texas court and trans- they will expand the lists of diseases problems will ever have their day in ferred to a New York federal court — linked to Agent Orange exposure so court or will ever receive adequate the same court from which federal that these veterans can get proper compensation for their service-con- Judge Jack Weinstein had arbitrated medical care." nected illnesses. the class action suit. The suit was Currently, VA considers nine dis- In rejecting the Ivy appeal, the never heard in court. eases related to exposure to Agent Supreme Court upheld lower court After lengthy appeals, Ivy took the Orange. However, at press time, VA decisions ruling Ivy's deceased hus- case all the way to the Supreme Court. had not yet published guidelines or band and other Vietnam veterans suf- The court's decision not to hear Ivy's paid compensation for the four dis- fering Agent Orange ailments were case was a severe blow to the Legion eases added to the list last year. covered by the 1984 Agent Orange and 46 state attorneys general, who The diseases are multiple myeloma, Class Action Suit. The suit was settled filed amicus curiae (friends of the prophyria cutanea tarda, Hodgkin's out of court. Under the settlement, court) briefs on behalf of Ivy. The disease, chloracne, non-Hodgkin's manufacturers of Agent Orange paid state attorneys challenged the right of lymphoma, soft-tissue sarcoma, and $180 million to establish a fund for a federal court to interfere with a legit- respiratory cancers of the lung, larnyx veterans exposed to Agent Orange, but imate state court case. or trachea.

Legion Blood Warning the boards and placed a moratorium on increase, and by October 1995, veter- hearing new appeals in an effort to help ans could be waiting up to six and one Veterans who served in the Persian reduce its backlog of 41,000 cases. half years for BVA decisions. Gulf are being asked by The American The action taken by the BVA was Meanwhile, new claims being filed Legion to refrain from donating blood not expected to have a major impact on at VA Regional Offices are taking an until the cause of the so-called Gulf Ill- current veterans' claims, according to average of 186 days for decisions. ness can be determined. Legion experts. In his report to VA "This warning may sound odd com- Secretary Jesse Brown, BVA Chairman P0W Suit ing from an organization that leads the Charles Cragin stressed that the mora- Two Alaska state representatives are nation in blood donations," said torium on new claims would not reduce asking all governors to sue the federal National Commander Bruce Thiesen, the time it takes for veterans' appeals to government for civil rights violations "but the possibilities for contamination reach the BVA. Cragin said to clear the against Americans listed as POWs or from bacteriological or radiological current case load already at the BVA MIAs in Southeast Asia. causes are just too strong." will take an estimated two to three Alaska State Reps. Jeanette A. Thiesen stressed that all Legion- years. James and Gene Therriault submitted a naires except those who served in the "All cases will continue to be memorializing resolution that calls for Gulf should continue to donate blood. assigned docket numbers and will be the release of all POW/MIA documents He said in many areas of the country, heard in the order they are filed," Cra- held by the Central Intelligence the blood banks are critically low. Cur- gin said. He said VA Regional Offices Agency, the Department of Defense rently, as many as 10,000 Gulf War will register new appeals with the and the governments of Vietnam, Laos, veterans have health complaints and the BVA, but all veterans' personnel and Russia, China and Kampuchea. numbers are growing daily. So far, nei- service medical records will remain at "This is an election year," said Dean ther the Department of Defense nor VA Regional Offices. Hill, Alaska's Department Adjutant. "If has determined the cause of the illness. Cragin said he hopes Congress will the resolution doesn't pass, perhaps it is allow him to hire more personnel and time for a few good veterans to consid- BVA Moratorium change the system of three-member er running for office." Until further notice, veterans are no hearing boards to a one-member board. Hill described the lifting of the longer able to plead their VA claims He estimates the change would increase U.S. embargo against Vietnam as before traveling boards of the Board of BVA's productivity by 27 percent. "making our POW/MIAs sacrificial Veterans Appeals (BVA). Effective If the change is not made, Cragin lambs offered on the altar of big busi-

May I, BVA temporarily discontinued said, the backlog will continue to ness."

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Washington Conference LEGION PRIORITIES POW/MIAs, Health Care & National Security

Legionnaires but from World War II, Korea and the Cold War. have taken the And then there is the struggle for future. What will happen to POW/MIAs in future veterans wars?" benefits right to Legionnaires have learned that U.S. troops D.C., where serving on peacekeeping Congress and missions are not protected the President by the Geneva Conven- tions. As it stands, Ameri- will have the can GIs can be executed as final say. spies or held as detainees without POW status, if captured during peace- HE FIGHT for keeping or humanitarian the future of operations America's "This situation cost POW/MIAs Marine Col. William R. and their fami- Higgins his life, as his lies took on new captors and the U.S. gov- urgency at the ernment considered him a 34th Annual hostage instead of a Washington POW," Thiesen said. "We Conference, Feb. 13-16, on have to see that all cap- the heels of President Clin- tured GIs are considered ton's decision to lift the POWs and afforded the U.S. economic embargo on protections of the Geneva Vietnam. Conventions." "By lifting the embargo PNC Turner reminded we have fallen for the typi- Legionnaires about the

cal Vietnamese gambit — I Legion's nine-point plan get something concrete for to protect POW/MIAs and PETITION—Legion vague assurances," said Dr. ' their in Department of families future

George A. Carver Jr., a Virginia officials wars. "Our plan is now senior fellow at the Center for Strategic on this issue because we were among those before the President," he said, and International Studies. He spoke knew that the embargo who battled for "and we hope this will pre- before the Joint Session of the National was just the leverage veterans on the vent future POW/MIA deba-

Security and Foreign Relations com- America needed to shake Hill. From left, Adj. cles that erode our national missions. the truth loose from Han- Cornelius T. honor and betray the trust of "As far as accounting for our oi. Now the leverage is "Connie" O'Neil, our fighting men and women POW/MIAs, now Vietnam has an gone." NECman Roger and their families." incentive to tell us nothing. We have But the Legion is not Messier, Legisla- Closing the discussion, already given them something they writing off the POW/ tive Chairman guest speaker Bill Bell, for- want for something they haven't done," MIAs, according to Na- Edwin J. Dentz and mer head of the U.S. POW/ Dept. Cmdr. Carver said. tional Commander Bruce MIA Office in Hanoi, posed a George T. Blume. "Precisely," said PNC Robert S. Thiesen. "We need to con- question and a challenge to Turner, chairman of the Legion's Spe- tinue to press for the Legionnaires: cial POW/MIA Committee. "The fullest possible accountin \ for our "Have you ever looked into the face American Legion opposed the President POW/MIAs, not only from Vietnam of a dying man in combat, the haunted

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SERVICE—Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Mary- HEALTH CARE First Lady Hillary Rodham LEADERSHIP Ret. Army Gen. land was honored with the Legion's Public Clinton told Legionnaires that VA will be Colin L. Powell received the Distin- Service Award for her advocacy of VA. part of national health care. guished Service Award.

look of a person who knows he's going ment Clinton's health-care reform soon, we've got a disaster in the mak- to die? The last thing on his lips is 'Oh efforts," he said. ing," Thiesen warned. God, oh God' because he knows that's Claims Backlog. Few issues are dis- National Health Care. No one is the only one who can help him. tressing Legionnaires more than the singing the tune of pending disaster "If our POWs from Vietnam are gigantic backlog of VA claims that more often than First Lady Hillary Rod- dead, only God can help them. But if could reach 3 million over the next few ham Clinton, when it comes to the they are not dead, your organization years. nation's health-care system. She deliv- may be the only one who can bring "VA's Board of Veterans Appeals ered that same message to Legionnaires them home." (BVA) decision-making timeliness has during the Washington Conference. Other issues covered at the confer- steadily deteriorated over the past three "It is a crisis if the only way to see a ence: years," said Charles Cragin, BVA doctor is to go to the emergency room. VA Budget. If the VA — as the chairman. It is a crisis when 30 million Americans administration claims — is to play an Nearly a month before the confer- can't get health insurance," said Mrs. important role in a national health-care ence, VA issued a memorandum sus- Clinton. system, the Fiscal Year (FY) 1995 VA pending all BVA hearings until "such The First Lady told Legionnaires budget certainly doesn't reflect it, time as the backlog of cases... is sub- that the President's health-care plan Thiesen noted. stantially reduced." (See "BVA Mora- will "offer them more choice, not less." "The minimal increase in health-care torium," Veterans Update, Page 32.) She promised that VA access would be dollars ($500 million), the decrease in VA&R Commission Chairman Chet possible for any veterans who wanted it research dollars (nearly $60 million) , Stellar warned Legionnaires that under the plan. and the loss of personnel (estimated to BVA's backlog "could delay claims as VA Secretary Jesse Brown echoed be in the thousands) is not an accept- long as three years." Mrs. Clinton's message of health-care able formula for preparing to imple- "Unless something is done, and Please turn to page 46

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Forum Decries Defense Cuts

S AMERICA'S Navy means each ship stays DEFENSE—Army military strong at sea longer. Gen. John W. Foss enough to de- • Air Force Lt. Gen. (Ret.) evaluates the fend the nation's James T. Callaghan (Ret.): vital interests? U.S. military's "The morale and confidence That's the issue that strength during a of the troops are a growing dominated National Defense defense forum concern," said Callaghan, in an Uncertain World, a attended by some former commander of forum sponsored by The 500 military Allied Air Forces Southern American Legion, the Asso- personnel and Europe and deputy com- ciation of the United States civilians in mander-in-chief U.S. Air Army (AUSA) and the Indianapolis. Forces in Europe for the National Guard Association Southern Area. of the United States. Callaghan ex- The forum, held March 4 pressed concern over in Indianapolis, featured a BUR's proposal to panel of military experts cut the bomber force and was attended by some to 150 and to cut the 500 military personnel and fighter force to 800. interested citizens. It was He argued for the de- the first of a series of velopment of more regional defense forums to F-22 stealth fighters be sponsored by the Legion and for production and other veterans groups. The BUR calls of the C-17 transport Local sponsors were the for reducing the plane. Indianapolis Chamber of U.S. Armed Forces' • David A. Och-

Commerce; AUSA Indiana strength from the current 1 .6 troops to handle two Desert- manek: Clinton's deputy Chapter; National Guard million to 1.4 million by Storm-type conflicts at the assistant secretary of de- Association of Indiana; and 1999; active-duty Army same time. fense for strategy, Och- the Legion's Department of divisions from 14 to 10, • Army Gen. Carl E. manek said the BUR will Indiana. with 495,000 troops; Air Vuono (Ret.): "It is impera- give America a strong mili- "The Legion and other Force wings from 28 to 20; tive to maintain sufficient tary capable of handling two veterans' organizations felt and the Navy's carrier battle ground forces, and they are simultaneous regional con- it was important to get mili- groups from 13 to 11 active not adequate at the present flicts. tary experts together to and 1 reserve. time," said Vuono, former "The administration is debate the fate of our na- Here is a summary of U.S. Army chief of staff. appropriately preparing the tional security in the post- each panelists' evaluation of "The Army is not only nation for the post-Cold Cold War world," National BUR and the state of Amer- undermanned at 495,000, War era."

Adjutant Robert W. Spa- ica's military readiness. but it is underfunded at the • U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer nogle said. "We came away • Army Gen. John W. current level." of Indiana: "The Bottom with many ideas on how to Foss (Ret.): "The good • Navy Vice Adm. Dud- Up Review should be called keep our nation's military news is that we still have ley L. Carlson (Ret.): The the 'Bottoms Up Review' strong." the best Army in the world. Navy's mission of guarding because the military got

The forum discussed the The bad news is that it is vital sealanes is in jeopardy mooned by the administra- impact of the Pentagon's only the eighth largest in the because of the BUR, said tion." Bottom Up Review (BUR), world," said Foss, an AUSA Carlson, former chief of A member of the House President Clinton's post- senior fellow and former naval personnel. He said Armed Services and Veter- Cold War military plan that head of the Army's Training that there are simply too few ans' Affairs committees, will significantly reduce the and Doctrine Command. ships to handle two conflicts Buyer said America "must size of the U.S. Armed Noting that 10 Army simultaneously. scrap the BUR and conduct Forces while expanding its divisions are not enough, he Navy morale has also a thoughtful and realistic role in peacekeeping and said the Army needs at least suffered, according to Carl- assessment of our military humanitarian operations. 12 divisions and 560,000 son, because the smaller force structure."

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MARYLAND PASSES VA's 'Frightening' Claims Backlog FLAG RESOLUTION jONGRESS numbers are, cal study of Gulf the Legion j should immedi- indeed, shock- veterans and IN MARCH, atcly act to ing, but what is IN CONGRESS provided evi- Maryland be- the de- I reduce the c particularly dence about I came 39th i lays in the frightening is VA shocking and these veterans' ailments. | state to pass a

claims process that have the fact that each of these (National Academy of Sci- I memorializing reached a crisis level, a cases is a disabled veteran ences Committee to Review resolution calling for a con- Legion spokesman told the or a widow or dependent Health Consequences of stitutional amendment to House Veterans Affairs Sub- who has filed a claim and is Service During the Persian protect the U.S. Flag from committee on Compensation, waiting for a decision," Gulf War). physical desecration. Pension and Insurance. Williams told the commit- VA's 1995 Budget. "The American Legion Carroll Williams, assis- tee. Called for increased VA almost fought this battle tant director of the Legion's To reduce the backlog, funding and stated that the alone in Maryland," said Veterans Affairs and Reha- Williams urged Congress to administration's proposed PNC Clarence M. Bacon, bilitation Division, said the provide funds for hiring more budget would reduce the who headed the Depart- Legion regards the backlog VA employees and to allow timeliness and quality of ment's three-year campaign in claims as the most impor- decisions of the Board of VA services. (House Veter- to get the resolution passed. tant issue facing VA. Veterans Appeals to be made ans Affairs Committee). "We made the telephone Williams told the subcom- by a single person rather than POW/MIAs. Urged calls, wrote the letters. We mittee the backlog will the current three-man boards. additional action on the carried the whole thing." reach 700,000 cases by the In other testimony, Legion POW/MIA issue based on To keep the pressure on end of this year and the fig- spokesmen outlined the orga- information obtained by the the state legislature, Bacon ure is projected to be nization's position on: Legion. (House Foreign established a 200-member 900,000 by the end of 1995. Gulf War veterans. Affairs Subcommittee on legislative council com- "The sheer size of these Pushed for an epidemiologi- Asia and the Pacific). posed of Legionnaires, Aux- iliary and Sons of The NORTHWEST OFFERS American Legion. Applying additional AIRFARE DISCOUNTS leverage, Department Adju- lEGION mem- tant Robert N. Ford told bers planning state legislators their voting to fly to Min- record on the resolution neapolis for the would be published in the

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The Washington Conference a masterpiece that can never, never, never be taken away." was the stage for announcing a partner- ship that will help American Legion "Cherry Girls, Potato Soup, the Army and While Mrs. Clinton received Baseball while saving Legionnaires Me" recounts a young captain's service in applause with her promise of wider money when they purchase a Buick. the Army, 1962-1964. From Tennessee to access to VA, she did not win Legion Texas to Okinawa and back the places, endorsement of President Clinton's By either presenting the Buick the people, the good, the bad, are on full coupon in the March 1994 issue of THE display. A good angel on one shoulder, a Health Security Act (H.R. 3600/ S. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE or by mischevious little devil on the other, the 1757). presenting your local Buick dealer with author writes in a way which transports the "The administration's plan to reform reader to far away places, long ago times your Legion or Auxiliary membership health care includes many recommen- and makes them real again. card, $400 will be taken off the price of dations from the Legion's own health the new car with being donated to care plan, An American Legion Propos- $100 $12.95 Legion Baseball. The offer is valid al to Improve Veterans Health Care, through 5/15/94. Full details are avail- shipping and handling free for veterans and we are pleased that Mrs. Clinton able by calling 1-800-4A-BUICK. $2.95 additional for others please. and the President are including VA in Make checks or money orders payable to: Awards. The following awards national health-care discussions," said Dorsey Dean Publishing were presented at the conference: National Commander Thiesen. "But we P.O. Box 1613 • The American Legion Distinguished Ser- Bristol, TN 37621-1613 want to see what the final draft of the vice Award to retired Army Gen. Colin L. Pow- Clinton plan looks like before we com- ell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ment on it." and a member of California Post 310. National Security. Ellen Frost, a • The American Legion Public Service Award to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, counselor at the Office of the U.S. who heads the VA HUD and Independent Agen- ^burReunion Trade Representative, defended Clin- cies Senate Subcommittee. ton's decision to lift the Vietnam • The National Commander's Public Rela- CanBeThe embargo. tions Award to Bill Mauldin, the cartoonist who brought WWII to life through his comic strip, "Vietnam is the powerhouse of "Willie and Joe." Indochina," Frost told the National Best Organized • The VA&R Commission's Volunteer of the Security and Foreign Relations com- Year Award to Frank Batzek of California Post GroupToHit missions. "Wherever there is a new 539. • the Department's market, we want to be in it. I'm sorry if And Labor Sam Murphy Award was presented to Richard A. Mock of Post this offends you but from a trade per- TheBeach 1205 in Bensenville, 111. for long-time commit- spective it makes sense." ment to veterans employment and training. Mock Frost added that trade is vital to Since is one of Illinois' Regional Administrators for the America's economy. "You can't Veterans Employment and Training Service. Q Normandy escape trade because it's here to stay By Miles Z. Epstein and it's good," she said. "It represents In Virginia Beach, some of the one quarter of our economy, and there most impressive military planning is a demonstrable link between trade we've done has been for reunions. and employment." Our expert staff will work with you "It seems the Legion was right when COMRADES IN DISTRESS well in advance to make sure your it feared President Clinton had opted gathering is a complete success. Readers who can help these veterans are urged to for profits over POWs when he lifted write a witness letter, including the CID number. Send the Call Dick Kinslev today at the Vietnam embargo," Thiesen said in letters to CID, The American Legion Magazine, Box 1055, 804-437-4700, or write: Dept. of Indianapolis IN 46206. response to Frost's comments. Convention & Visitor Development, Notices are published only at the requests of American The National Security Commission Legion Service Officers representing claimants using 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 500, Virginia Search for Witness Forms available from Department also rededicated itself to pursuing Beach, VA 23451. Legion Service Officers. peace through preparedness. "The Unit- 176th Field Artillery Alfred Buchanan needs witnesses ed States needs to maintain a balanced VIRGINIA BEACH to verify that while stationed Korea on Sept. 8, 1952, mix of quality land, sea, air and space he experienced ringing In his ears after an artillery volley. Contact CID 1239. forces to deter and defeat aggression," This year, Virginia Beach commemorates the Co. D, 2nd Bn., 3rd Bde. (BCT) William Warsh Weath- ersby Jr. needs witnesses to verify that while sta- ~>0lh anniversaries of I)-Day(June 1 -4)and National Security Chairman Anthony tioned at Fort Bliss, Texas, Jan. 13 to March 7, 1969, the Liberation ofthe Philippines (October 1 9-26). Jordan said. "America must stabilize he developed swollen knees during field training. Defense Department budgets, force Contact CID 1238.

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Continuedfrom page 26 nology analyst and administrator. Koehler, who participated in the modem, and a complete package of pilot program, works from home an proprietary software that lets them average of three days per week. She do their jobs nearly anywhere. is linked to her state office by com- Most of these employees do not puter and PBX. have regular headquarters offices. For Koehler, telecommuting is a When they need to come into Dallas "godsend." Home is a 10-acre ranch for meetings, to see clients or suppli- in Newcastle, Calif., 35 miles east of ers, they're doled out appropriate the capital in the foothills of the Sier- rooms from a common supply. ra Nevada. Grimes says the main reason for She maintains a sideline business, instituting the program was to breeding and trading in Arabian show increase time employees spend horses. "There's so much flexibility," At just 20 lbs., you'll working with customers. "Our over- she says. "I can get up early to feed head costs have been cut dramatical- my livestock; work four or five hours be amazed at what ly, but that's just an added bonus, as at my computer terminal; schedule an far as I'm concerned," he says. "The afternoon appointment with a farrier it can do! major benefits have been vastly or vet; and continue my office work improved productivity and a true in the evening." The exciting Mantis Tiller is Changing transformation to a more logical and Koehler says she's also more pro- the Way Americans Garden. It progressive way of doing business." ductive working at home than at her weighs just 20 pounds, so anyone can Many nonprofit organizations and state office, where there are likely to use it. It starts easily... turns on a government agencies are also enthu- be interruptions. "I do a lot of soft- dime...weeds in and around plants, siastic about telecommuting. From ware development work, for which I between narrow rows, and along 1988-90, the State of California test- need to concentrate closely and fence lines... all and runs day on a ed the concept in a mammoth pilot block out all distractions. That's far gallon of gas! Whafs more, with its program involving 24 separate gov- easier to do in the peace and quiet of inexpensive attachments, it quickly ernment agencies. "Among those in the country." becomes a furrower, lawn aerator or the pilot were architects, financial While most of today's telecom- dethatcher, a power edger, or a hedge analysts, secretaries, engineers, attor- muters, like Koehler, work from an trimmer! Over 500,000 Mantis owners neys — and even some administra- at-home base, some visionaries love it tive law judges," said David believe that's becoming a bit passe. I Fleming, former telecommuting pro- think we're moving towards a world © \SISSSISSSSS5SISSSSSSSSSISSSSSSSMSSSSSSSSSS Is THE MANTIS PROMISE gram manager for the state. of 'placeless' companies and Participants were monitored 'nomadic' employees," says Paul Try any product that you buy closely. Individual jobs were ana- Saffo, a reseacher at the Institute for directly from Mantis with lyzed and broken down into compo- the Future, a think tank in Menlo NO RISK! If you're not nent tasks. "Few state employees can Park, Calif. completely satisfied, send it back to us within one year for a effectively work from home five Telecommuting in California complete, no hassle refund. days per week, explains Fleming. received literally a big jolt forward "But nearly every job has some ele- this year when the Los Angeles B (BJBIBIBJBIBJBlBJBlBJBlBJBIBJBJBIBtBlBlBIBlBI Is ments - like writing reports, working earthquake tore up some of the area's For free details, call toll-free with computer programs, or making key freeways. Instead of four and phone calls that can be performed six-hour commutes through local 1-800-366-6268 away from an agency office." As traffic, many workers turned to or mail coupon today! program manager, Fleming himself home-based PCs, faxes and modems was able to telecommute two or to get their jobs done. We're Changing the Way Americans garden® - three days a week. West coast technical types have I "I u Mantis 8 The pilot program was so suc- coined a new term, carcooning, to

l /frv»gfe.| 1028 Street Road Dept. 8910 cessful, telecommuting is a standard describe one aspect of a nomadic ^ Southampton, PA 18966 employment option of most Califor- business lifestyle. Carcooners — nia agencies. For example, over 100 pioneers of the movable office — 0 Please send information on the attorneys at the state attorney gener- maintain workplaces in their cars. Mantis Tiller/Cultivator and the al's office work from home at least Many have not only mobile phones, FULL YEAR TRIALI part of the time. but also plug-in laptop computers, Name One very satisfied telecommuter printers, fax machines, video equip- Address is Donna Koehler, a 24-year state ment — and goodness knows what

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number of clients, not just one or two); Legionnaire Gary Dietz of Post 1 if the activities you perform at home Bismarck, N.D., has operated a residen- are integral to the success of your busi- tial and commercial painting business consultant Dave Kauderer generally ness (like the sheet-metal work Terry from his home for about three years. can write off $4 out of $5 dollars he Brown does in his workshop); and if Before that, he worked for a much spends on business, including market- the only alternative to your working at larger, family-owned contracting firm. ing costs. home would be leasing an office. "We specialized in mammoth projects, Be aware, however, that the Internal Many men and women launch painting bridges, office buildings, and Revenue Service has cracked down home-based businesses because they're the like," he offers. "I regretted having recently on home-office deductions. disgusted with the hazards of the to be away from home so much, and Your primary place of business must bureaucratic rat race — tedious com- there wasn't a lot of flexibility." clearly be your home, rather than — mutes, meals on the run, too much out- say the office of a principal client. A of-town travel and big-city problems DIETZ also relishes his bucolic set- recent Supreme Court decision con- like crime and traffic jams. ting. His residence is south of the firmed the IRS's disallowance of an New Jersey Legionnaire Ralph city, just a hop and a skip from the independent physician's home-office Ekberg of Post 293, Warren, was for- Missouri River. "We're literally in the write-offs. The doctor saw all his merly a marketing man for a couple of woods," says Dietz. "It's great to watch patients at three client hospitals he major corporations. He had to commute the passing deer and pheasants from served, and all three sites granted him into New York City on crowded turn- my workshop." office space whenever needed. The pikes and "absolutely hated it," he says. But home-businesses are not for physician liked to do his own billing Now he is an independent sales repre- shirkers. "Studies have shown that and correspondence on an at-home sentative and marketing consultant, business owners — whether or not they computer and printer, though. He specializing in health and beauty aids. work at home — tend to put in far more sought to deduct the space in which he Ekberg usually wears a jogging suit to than the standard 40-hour week," notes housed this office equipment. "No go," work in his finished basement. "I don't consultant and researcher Joanne Pratt. declared tax officials. work less than I did when I was a cor- Nevertheless, the ability to control their But none of the Legionnaire entre- porate employee," he says. "But I make own schedules means that many home- preneurs mentioned has had difficulty my own schedule and set my own pri- based workers can spend more time on with the IRS (nor has this author, who orities." outside activities that interest them. Ralph Ekberg, for example, is a true community leader who has even been 2-in-1 asked to run for mayor. In addition to Revolutionary his Legion activities, such as supervis- ing his town's annual Memorial Day TRIMMER/MOWER! Parade, he has been president of the local Lions Club, is a member of the SO MUCH EASIER to use than hand-held trimmers OR Elks and chairman of a philanthropic

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onto the wings. The weight of the men memorial association's primary inter- In the afternoon it is time for festivi- punched holes in the delicate fabric est now is to locate the missing sur- ties. Church choirs and barbershop covering the wings, making the air- vivors and the crew's families. quartets give patriotism a melodic craft nothing more than an unflyable All five living Presidents have been voice: "Mine eyes have seen the hulk. To prevent the plane from falling invited to attend the dedication. A glory,"... "O beautiful for spacious

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