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For the 1998 convention, letting the good times roll is policy, not happenstance. 11

LEGIONNAIRES DEDICATE BLACKHAWKS' FLAG

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Med-Aware AM a general surgeon who has pro- Taking the Lead THE fraud hotline mentioned in I vided honest care for over a quarter |OMMANDER Jordan's article, Layne Cameron's article, "Medis- century. So I was a bit taken aback "Leading a Glorious Charge," in care," sounds like a good idea, but by your article on Medicare—espe- c:'the March issue was impressive. unfortunately it is largely eyewash. cially the artwork which depicted a However, we need to convince mem- Why? Because the system itself is masked surgeon. Although I wouldn't bers of the media that protecting the structured to erect a firewall between deny the existence of cases of fraud by flag is what we really want. We need the billing information and the person some health-care providers, the real them on our side. The only element who would be most likely to spot rip-off is being carried out by the gov- they hear from, it appears, is that fraud or even honest clerical mis- ernment, the likes of which are beyond which does not appreciate our tradi- takes—the patient. the scope of this letter and perhaps tion or history or realize that if World Most of the time the only informa- beyond any publication. War II had been lost, they would not tion furnished to the patient is the So, depicting a physician, the vast have a forum for their opinions at all. "explanation of benefits" from majority being infinitely more fair and Take time out and send letters to Medicare after the bill has been paid. honest than the system for which they CNN and all the other networks have been forced to work, as the poster (addresses can be found in TV Guide). child for fraud is inequitable. It's like State that you want the flag, the sym- depicting all veterans as emphysema- bol of our freedom, protected. Write tous, cigarette-smoking, beer-guzzling "real Americans want our flag protect- old codgers constantly complaining ed. Where do you stand? For intelli- about the lousy medical care they've gent freedom or wanton freedom?" received at the VA hospital. Philena S. Pierce THE AMERICAN LEGION Thomas E. Bailey Bessemer, Alabama MAGAZINE welcomes letters con- Lyons, Indiana cerning articles that appear in the THE flag-protection amendment publication. Be sure to include your needs support in our Senate. I urge hometown and a daytime phone Submarined all to alert your senators via e-mail. number for verification. All letters S a veteran of submarine service, I

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age of people who fit and thrive in both cat- programs he helped organize, the libraries egories. he helped build, the medical advances flow- Almost lost in all the discussion was a ing from the VA he helped to sustain and passing remark by Mike Baker, director of the scholarships he helped fund, the presen- the VA Records Center. He told the DSOs tation flag continues to salute his selfless- that usually the first notification of a veter- ness. an's death to get the government's attention It might hold a place of honor on the m was the family's request for a flag for the mantel or be contributed by the family to be casket. flown on Memorial Day, Veterans Day and We could make too much of this solemn the Fourth of July at cemeteries, VA facili- little fact, but it deserves a moment of ties, monuments or along Main Street, patriot reflection as we build momentum for the U.S.A. Senate's passage of the flag-protection In recent memory we have sounded Taps amendment and incorporate our Flag Day for National Vice Commander Gerald L. observances into the Show Your Colors, Moore, National Sergeant-at-Arms George America! campaign. R. Gagnon, John T. Gable, a founder of The the fla The death of a veteran is a melancholy American Legion, and Cornell P. Holmes. matter for family and friends, and the gov- Holmes, a rank-and-file Nevada blue-cap- ernment must close out books and mark the per, stood second to none in service to God files. and country. He fought his final battle There might be GI insurance to total up against leukemia with the same energy, is and pay out, VA benefits to discontinue and high good humor and proactive Christianity a Social Security stipend to halt. Perhaps he lavished on his family, work with youth there is a grave marker to order or a plot to and VA volunteer time. For Moore, find in the National Cemetery System. But Gagnon, Gable and Holmes, the first offi- the family first requests, and the nation cial notice taken of their deaths was the VA promptly provides, a flag to cover the cas- flag request. ket of one who swore the oath to uphold in That request might be routine, but what arms a country in need. Count the flag is routine is often important; important in request as the final, contractual transaction the sense that paratroopers "routinely" between our free society and any of its check their rig. The U.S. Flag is important, at mi defenders. enough so to be sheltered by our basic law, Such defenders, we can be confident, important enough to involve the people in grew up pledging allegiance with a flag on that decision. Patriots like Moore, Gagnon, the classroom wall and standing to face the Gable and Holmes have made it so and flag for the national anthem before athletic have been at that work from the earliest events. In the life of an American patriot, days of our nationality.

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Slllll MARIJUANA If Kill MEDICIHAIIY?

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-California) Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon (R-New York)

I am a mother, a legisla- America must renew its tor and a lawyer. What I full-court press against am not is a doctor nor, illegal drug use. One of the YES thank God, a sufferer of a most important steps is painful illness. That is why I believe challenging head-on those who sup- the decision to use—or not to use port using marijuana as medicine. I marijuana for medicinal purposes am pushing several measures to should be in the hands of the doctor strengthen the government's ability and the patient. to combat illegal drugs by increas- "It's absurd that medical decisions are being made by ing penalties against users and prescribing doctors.

politicians," Dr. Arnold Gaff, a Santa Cruz physician, said I'm making it my personal crusade to end all laws that in my local newspaper, The San Jose Mercury News. sanction the use of illegal drugs or send the message to The most well-substantiated medical uses of marijuana young people that toxic drugs like marijuana are OK.

are to counter nausea and vomiting caused by chemothera- That means ending the charade that it has beneficial py and to treat glaucoma. A 1991 survey of clinical oncol- effects not duplicated by any drugs already available.

ogists found that 44 percent said they had, on at least one For example, there is increasing evidence that it would occasion, recommended that a patient procure and inhale be the last medication to prescribe to persons with AIDS, marijuana. Considerable research also attests to the use of since this drug further compromises the immune system, marijuana in stimulating the appetites of AIDS sufferers increasing the risk of infections and respiratory problems.

afflicted with "wasting syndrome." Challenges to the marijuana myth that I back include: The research speaks for itself, as do people like the • The Education Committee has approved denying fed- retired couple in California who decided in 1995 that eral education benefits to individuals convicted of drug breaking the law, which then prohibited using marijuana offenses. The purpose is not to attack students or educa- for medicinal purposes, was preferable to watching their tion but rather to identify students with drug problems and 44-year-old daughter suffer from the horrific pain of can- put them on the road to recovery through rehabilitation. cer. Though always law-abiding citizens, these parents • An amendment offered to ISTEA (Intermodal Sur- chose to provide their daughter with marijuana after all face Transportation Efficiency Act), the reauthorization legal remedies failed to ease her pain. of the main federal highway program requires any state

Unfortunately, a resolution before Congress would pro- allowing the use of Schedule I controlled substances for hibit the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. medical purposes to revoke or suspend the driver's This resolution, HR 372, is needlessly cruel. licenses of individuals convicted of drug offenses. Those of us working to prevent this resolution from • Another bill would repeal the prescription authority going into effect do not advocate legalizing marijuana for of doctors who prescribe marijuana. This would encour- any purpose other than prescribed medicinal use in acute age doctors to use one of at least seven legal alternatives illnesses. We do not sanction its recreational use or con- before turning to marijuana. done breaking the law. Rather, we want to ensure that des- Marijuana proponents disregard more than 10,000 perately sick people have legal access to every legitimate studies that have found marijuana a harmful and addic- medical means available to ease their pain and suffering. tive drug. They also ignore the fact that not one reliable The elderly mother who broke the law to help her study has indicated that marijuana has any medical

daughter knows firsthand how important it is for the gov- value. The Food and Drug Administration, the Drug ernment to allow doctors, patients and their loved ones to Enforcement Agency, and the Public Health Service make these medical decisions. "Anyone who has ever have rejected marijuana as a medicine, noting its many had a child can tell you harmful consequences why [we broke the law to including cancer, mental provide our daughter with Your Opinions Count, Too. disorders, reproductive marijuana]," she says. "It Senators and representatives are interested in con- disabilities, immune sys- breaks our hearts to see stituent viewpoints. You may express your views by tem impairment and ad- our daughter suffer." writing The Honorable (name), U.S. Senate, Wash- diction. ington, DC 20510, or The Honorable (name), House If doctors and patients Promoting marijuana of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. You may are free to make their as medicine signals that call the U.S. Senate at (202) 224-3121; the House at own choices, fewer hearts (202)225-3121. marijuana is good for you. will be broken. This is unacceptable.

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Convention last April, it didn't take The "de-targeting" of missiles, The book points out that some 2 long for the inspectors to arrive. The Waller says, is "impossible to verify" million Canadians served in two world Stimson Center, a Washington think and, in any case, they could be "re- wars and the Korean conflict, and tank, reports that 35 inspections by the targeted" in a matter of minutes. about 100,000 of them were killed. CWC "Technical Secretariat" had Waller says the problem with such But the author, David Bercuson, con- taken place in 1 1 states by late 1997. statements is that they "recklessly con- cludes, "The Canadian army is in a The sites, most military-oriented, tribute to a profound sense of compla- state of crisis today, and the murder in involve chemical weapons production, cency that in the post-Cold War world Somalia is one sign of that crisis." storage and destruction. The center the American people are free from the reports ongoing monitoring at facili- threat of nuclear annihilation." ties in Tooele, Utah, and at the John- Abolish This, Too

ston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. it was the United Nations. Chic FIRST Inspections of business, industrial Campus Now it's the International Monetary and workplace sites are already under |HOULD Saddam Hussein become Fund. Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican way in some other countries. Visits to a dictator-on-the-run, perhaps his from Texas, doesn't like bureaucra- I private facilities are certain to raise S!'best chance for sanctuary resides at cies, especially international ones. Fourth Amendment and privacy con- a modern U.S. college campus. This is Although his bill to get the United cerns. what a campus watchdog group, States out of the United Nations Accuracy in Academia, was reporting received only 54 votes in the House, before President Clinton's foreign pol- Paul is more hopeful about abolishing Vehicle Revolution icy team was shouted down at Ohio the IMF. One ally is former Treasury |INCE many greenhouse-gas emis- State University. Secretary William Simon, who argues sions come from cars and trucks, A survey of college newspapers the agency actually creates problems S:'passage of the proposed global- found several articles and letters through bailouts of badly run warming treaty could mean an end to ignoring or excusing Iraq's invasion of economies. sport-utility vehicles and other gas Kuwait and its possession and use of For Rep. Paul, those bailouts repre- guzzlers. But don't worry: The Wash- chemical weapons. A Duke University sent an attack on our currency because ington-based Environmental and Ener- professor, for instance, claimed the the United States is the biggest finan- gy Study Institute says a "vehicle United States and the United Nations cial backer of the IMF and the lender technology revolution" is under way. were guilty of genocide. A University of last resort. "And there's nobody to Some of the new developments dis- of Massachusetts student insisted Iraq bail us out," he warns.

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tip and a pleasant exchange of conversation. Grand Ballroom at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5. Pete is only one of countless intriguing per- American Legion Auxiliary general sessions sonalities Legionnaires might encounter this and National commission and committee meet- September during The American Legion ings will be in the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, National Convention in New Orleans, a highly rated facility across Canal Street just Louisiana. Strolling along Bourbon Street, outside the French Quarter. Meanwhile, the every street performer has a story to tell or a Sons of The American Legion will hold court service to perform. at the New Orleans Marriott, right across the Take Maggie Louie, for example. With an street on the cusp of the Vieux Carre. impossibly haunting voice and dark, soulful

eyes that at first seem out of place on a 2 1 -year- Marriott will be a hot spot for special old, Maggie will sing about her fellow enter- THEconvention events. The Color Guard Con- tainers one minute, then easily answer ques- test will take place in the Grand Ballroom at tions from a newly converted fan. 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5. The next morning, the Some questions, however, might remain Patriotic Memorial Service begins there at 11 beyond Pete or Maggie. For instance, just what a.m. The National Commander's Banquet is going on with The American Legion Nation- convenes 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, and the al Convention? For that information, look no State's Dinner of the Auxiliary will be further than Past National Commander William Please turn to page 55

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T'S reasonably certain that a The problem in flag retirement ceremony securing a center- sparked the interest of young piece flag was mon- adults at Ohio's Mississi- ey. By tradition, stu- nawa Valley High School dents at Mississi- and gave them a better un- nawa Valley raise derstanding of Old Glory's funds during their significance and history. freshman and As the 1997-98 school sophomore years year began, the school's 244 to support the pro- students had the opportunity jects of their junior and senior to witness a flag retirement ceremony years. The class of '97 could undertake naires performed by Orville N. Stover Post any project that $700 would cover, and John Ford, Post chaplain; 158 of Union City. The Legionnaires, the price of supplanting, not replacing, Tom Reier of the honor guard and Jim who staged the ritual in the school's the flag on a wall with a true center- Lumpkin on the boombox for To The

parking lot, considered it well received piece flag would be nearly twice that. Colors. and regarded the event as part of their "I'm not sure people realize just The gym seats 1,200, and there was duty to the flag, flag education and chil- how much the kids have put into this," little room to spare on that December dren and youth concerns. And, as one Stocksdale would say later. "And the evening when the flag was dedicated

thing, it would lead to another. Legion has been very helpful." before the tipoff of a basketball game, The students found the concept of With the finances under control—the recalls Jessica Harrod, student body proper retirement for flags both school staff kicked in $300 for president. "The flag, which is 10 feet appropriate and fascinating— wireless remote control of the flag wide and six feet long, is unfurled for

and in sync with a project that mechanism—it occurred to the the national anthem and refurled for was proving beyond the students that they could ask protection." reach of the senior class. Legionnaires of Post 158 to Post 158 members are planning "When our teams [the hold a dedication ceremony. more flag education efforts in the Blackhawks, who cam- "We'd been working to schools, Wheeler says, adding that in- paign under a red, white get kids more interested in terest is growing among students and and black standard] visited the flag and the purpose of teachers. other schools, they found the flag," says Post Com- Adds Richard L. "Pappy" Harsh- some had a large U.S. Flag mander Leonard Wheeler. man, a former Post commander and an hung in the center of the 'Their request for a flag dedi- honor guard activist, "Flag education is gym," says Roxanne cation ceremony seems to show one of the best things we can do for the Stocksdale, counseling office secretary we're on track. community, and safeguarding the flag and class sponsor. "We took the ceremony pretty much against physical desecration will be one "Adam Whitesell, 1997 senior class straight from the book," Wheeler adds, of the best things The American Legion president, liked the idea." Stocksdale "with some minor adaptations to the has ever done." said Whitesell proposed furnishing the circumstances. And we gave a little talk For more information on the Show home gym with something similar and on the duties involved with taking care Your Colors, America! campaign, call found his classmates enthusiastic. of the flag." The "we" included Legion- (800) 424-FLAG.

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HE $10 billion illegal drug industry is big enough to on drugs, it's threaten national security. But for the 13-year-old in the business in Roanoke, one Americans Virginia, or Summerton, South Carolina, or thou- sands of other small and have yet to . large towns, selling drugs is like running a mom-and- pop store. Without the take very mom. Or the pop. Or the store: The teenager's $200-a-day business is so

small that it fits inside the pockets of seriously. his baggy jeans and on the loose sports jacket that —with his $150 tennis shoes —complete his work clothes. before the day's work, he mixes his There's a sickening homespun qual- supply of cocaine with baking soda,

ity to the stuff in the pockets. The boy and heats it in her microwave to pro- stores crack, a cocaine derivative, in duce the crack that looks like chips the ripped-off corners of plastic bags from a bar of soap. He gives some to other kids his age use to take sandwich- his mom. In other pockets, he carries es to school. The drug in the bags, pro- wads of money, and a .22-caliber pistol

ducing euphoria in users and some- to protect it. times killing them, is the product of "He has no training or experience home cooking. In his mom's apartment with weapons," says Dr. Timothy Wolfe, a sociologist at Mount St.

| Gurney Williams III, a frequent Mary's College in Maryland who has 2 freelance contributor to this magazine, interviewed hundreds of young drug 1 wrote Altered States for the October sellers like this one in the course of his

1 7997 issue. research. "Police officers tell me it's

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I fortunate that he's such a poor shot."

• The downside is that sometimes when he shoots at an enemy—like another teenager, fighting over drug money "innocent people die."

F America is at war with drugs, the struggle is more Vietnam than World

War II. The enemy ducks and disap- pears. The boy's pockets are like Viet Cong tunnels, deep and hidden. When government agents are able to block one supply source to the boy, another opens. Law-abiding people die. And yet at least some of those running the

war say it can't be won unless many more Americans are willing to battle drugs, street by street, home by home. Whether we're winning or losing, the continuing campaign against drugs has enlisted thousands of trained pro- fessional fighters and required us to I reach deep into our pockets to maintain f the troops. The number of Drug En- forcement Administration agents has more than doubled—to 3,700—in the past decade and is likely to go higher. But DEA is only one ally in the war. * More than 30 other federal agencies it contribute to the anti-drug coalition.

I Early this year, Clinton asked Congress H for $17.1 billion to fight drugs, up 6.8 jf percent from the 1997 budget. At best, the billions spent in recent H years have brought mixed successes H and setbacks. The overall number of I Americans using drugs has fallen by about half since 1979, from 25 million to 13 million, according to Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of j National Drug Control Policy. But heroin has made a deadly comeback, killing some 4,000 Americans a year twice the toll reported in 1990. In 1988, Congress embraced the 1995." I goal of "a drug-free America by 1 It didn't happen. Note the dull-eyed 1 boy with the bulging pockets on the

' (corner and the buyers who flock to him. , This year, President Clinton an-

-I nounced the far more modest objective I

. of cutting drug use in half over the next are strategic | decade. But there three reasons why it could be hard for us to seize even this smaller hill. The enemy is shifty and rich. In the mid-1980s, anti-drug efforts focused on the Caribbean and south Florida. In response, Colombian drug dealers found Mexican partners to sneak drugs into Texas, collecting smuggling fees

of perhaps $ 1 ,000 a kilogram for co- caine. About five years ago, Mexicans began demanding a portion of the prod-

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licit drug in the United States, "is clear- ly among the least dangerous psy- choactive drugs in common use." j Adult Americans should be able to buy it under the same restrictions applying to alcohol, he says. •1> w HISTORIAN Dr. Jill Jonnes says she was sympathetic to the idea of de- criminalizing drugs when she be- gan research for her book, Hep-Cats,

' Narcs, and Pipe Dreams. "But history is helpful here," she says. "One thing

you learn from history is that drug laws 1

are not what cause the crime. It is the 1

drugs themselves." Drugs were widely ! available 100 years ago—heroin cough syrup was a household staple at the turn of the century. The Harrison Act out- STANDING TALL lawed hard drugs in 1914 because their Shermica widespread availability "generated a lot Stukes wrote President of unsocial behavior" and addiction, Clinton for Robert H. Dowd, author of The Enemy Jonnes says. A change in the law today help in ridding Is Us: How to Defeat Drug Abuse and to permit the sale of cocaine and heroin, her school in End the "War on Drugs." Dowd was she estimates, would spawn 20 million ; Summerton, South piloting a B-26 Maurauder on April 20, new addicts. "Would you like to live in Of P. Carolina, 1945, when the world's first jet fighter, a society with 20 million addicts? Most of drugs. a German Me 262, shot down his wing- people would say, 'no.'

man and two other bombers on the mis- Yet when it comes to saying no to I uct they could sell themselves instead sion. He could see the pilot's face and drugs and standing behind their con- of the cash payoff. Their profits soared the tail swastika as the jet passed him. victions, too few Americans are will- j at least seven-fold, according to the Today, Dowd argues that he can see ing. Residents of Summerton, South DEA, making Mexico a major player the real enemy churning the flow of il- Carolina, a two-traffic-light town 50 | in international drug traffic. licit drugs: prohibitive laws. "Look at miles southeast of Columbia once took 9 The shift toward Mexico means that the Al Capone gang in Chicago during a strong stand against racial bigotry. today, shipments of cocaine bombard [alcohol] prohibition," which ran from More than 40 years ago, some of them our Texas border like multiple incom- 1919 until 1933. "He was terrorizing filed a suit that became a cornerstone of ing waves of hostile aircraft. Mexican Chicago. His bootlegger counterparts the Supreme Court case outlawing seg- I dealers load it in trailer trucks, back- in every major city frequently con- regation. Today, the town is one of packs and cars, drug experts say. trolled the police forces." thousands of front lines in America's I From the border, the drugs follow a Then look what happened when we drug war. circuitous, often changing route, per- repealed alcohol prohibition. Al Summerton resident Shermica : haps to a Colombian stash house in Capone, gangs, tommy guns, Stukes enlisted in the war when she j New York. There, middlemen sell it to speakeasies, highjackers and rum run- was only 15. Several members of her a variety of gangs who transport it ners disappeared. Dowd favors allow- family had gotten drawn into using along major highways to smaller ing drug companies to sell any drugs, drugs. "Too many times—at least once ji towns. Local dealers, including the boy including heroin, in plain packages at a week—Shermica saw kids at Scott's I on the corner, cook it into crack. At your local pharmacy, no advertising Branch High School sell marijuana. every step in this drug odyssey, the permitted. Fed up, she wrote President Clinton, a price rises. Not everyone who favors legaliza- "I'm a young, depressed, 15-year-

The kilo costing about $15,000 in tion flies in the same formation as old girl," she began. "The drug dealers jl Texas trades for up to $25,000 in New Dowd. Dr. Ethan A. Nadelmann, a for- are on the corners and under the trees York where it is broken down into mer professor at Princeton University, selling drugs in the open. At one time L ounces going for $1,500 to $2,000 now heads the Lindesmith Center, a this town was a place of refuge. Now 1

each. drug policy research institution in New I'm afraid to walk in my own home- !

Americans don't agree on some of York City. Should heroin be more town after dark because of people being I the basics of waging the war. Facing readily available than Prozac? "Not in robbed and beaten up. this powerful, rich and evasive enemy, the foreseeable future," Nadelmann Shermica 's plea for help wound up

j a diverse group of Americans argue for says. "We don't know what the level of on the desk of Special Agent Freddie calling off the war and legalizing use or abuse would be if it were made Bradshaw, a father of two, who worked drugs—or at least removing criminal legal," he says, though he thinks the in the DEA office about 40 miles from penalties for using them. history of prohibition suggests that Summerton in Florence. His first Another surprising proponent of le- fears of what might happen are overrat- reaction: "I didn't know what I was galization is retired Air Force Lt. Col. ed. But marijuana, the most popular il- Please turn to page 48 |

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we are confronted still with the loss of precious lives through the allure of all the old, familiar drugs and a host of newer, more dangerous ones. All of us must share some part of this blame. We demand happiness 24 hours a day. (Just look around you at the bars, restaurants and ho- tels advertising "Happy Hour.") We want everything quickly and easily; By Art LinKletter we have been given too much, too soon, too fast.

CT. 6, 1969, The New York Times: "Art Linklet- Marijuana is now being made legally available for "med- ter said today that his 20-year-old daughter, Di- icinal purposes" in several states (See "Big Issues" on Page ane, jumped to her death from the window of her 14). Methamphetamine is manufactured in basements and 6th floor apartment while under the influence of garages by amateur chemists. Cocaine and heroin are pour-

C ; LSD." ing into our country across our southern border. Most of the The news stunned the nation almost as much government Ymethods for attacking the drug problem focus

I as it did us, the Linkletters. Over the past 25 years on the supply. These tactics only scratch the surface. my talents had been shared with countless mil- Only when the demand is eliminated will we find our- lions of TV fans through my shows People Are selves in a position to lessen (not eliminate) this curse. Funny, on NBC for 20 The key to reversing today's years, and House Par- "feel good" mentality is an educa- ty, on CBS for 25 tional program starting at the ear- years. I had walked the sunny liest stages of intellectual devel- side of the street, bringing laugh- opment. Children need to be ex- ter into people's lives, and most posed to the idea that a life of particularly, proving that "Kids restraint and sobriety is indeed the

Say the Darndest Things." I had preferred lifestyle. interviewed almost 27,000 chil- Even more critical than educa- dren and had become a leading tion in the schools is education in lecturer on the values of tradi- the home. A father needs to know tional family life. My family con- the message he is sending his sisted of my wife, five children child when he comes home, plops and six grandchildren. How down on the couch and opens a could this tragedy happen to us? can of beer. A mother should not I was frozen by fear, anger be smoking or swallowing pills and hurt. I was ignorant of the DRUGS AT MY DOORSTEP Art Linkletter holds his when the tensions of the day at- extent of drug abuse and ap- daughter, Diane, who at 20 (top) jumped to her tack. As for moral values — death while under the influence of LSD. palled that I lacked any knowl- know it's not fashionable to talk edge of it—knowledge I now about these—we all know that have about how drug abuse tears apart lives and families. some things are good and other things are wrong. Talk about

Unlike any destructive force we have yet faced, illegal, it to your kids! highly available and highly potent drugs target our children. We have 45 million kids under the age of 12 (the largest But today there is much good information available in generation to date) who do not see alcohol or drugs as dan- books and films and from anti-drug organizations. gerous and who are trying them earlier than ever before. If Until the moment I learned of Diane's death, I had no the percentage of kids trying stays the same we will have idea that it was possible to hurt with such intensity. I had 200,000 more 8th-grade users next year. given eulogies at funerals, mourned with survivors and The rate of 8th, 10th and 12th graders using marijuana is thought that I had empathized with their sorrow. up 200 percent since 1991. A smoker is 65 times more like- At the suggestion of my dear friend, Dr. Norman Vincent ly to become a marijuana addict than a non-smoker. A mar- Peale, I began a crusade against drug abuse that was to com- ijuana smoker is 104 times more likely to become a cocaine pletely change the course of my life. My tortured search for addict than a non-user. One in four 9- to 12-year-old chil- answers to the drug culture led me on forays into America's dren will try alcohol or drugs. One in five 8th graders has inner cities, meetings with drug dealers, adventures in the been high on a household inhalant like paint, glue, air fresh- highlands of Thailand and sad consultations with parents ener or propane. who had lost children to drugs. For 15 years I was a The same pathology afflicting the family—self-indul- spokesman for the prevention of drug abuse. In the autumn gence, fragmentation and disengagement—will hit all soci- of 1971, I addressed the General Assembly of the United ety in the next millennium. Parenthood is perhaps the most Nations and subsequently served as president of the Nation- important job we have, but we're given the least training for al Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse Education and In- it. Still, the family plays a central role in our lives—and formation. In 1973 I was appointed to the President's Advi- parental pressure is as important as peer pressure. sory Council on Drug Abuse by Richard Nixon. You'll be proud of your children if you've given them Now, 25 years later, what do I see in the drug scene? reasons to be proud of you. You'll have given them a future Whether you live in a large, urban area or a small, rural one, that Diane never realized.

JUNE 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 23 More than 2.7 million hard-core drug

abusers, nearly triple

the number of 1992,

shell out $70 billion a

year for chemical

consolation.

OR starters, it's a simple matter of what Professor Flipflop drilled into students taking Economics 101: sup- ply meets demand. All things being equal, if the demand is high and con- tinues to escalate, well-stocked suppliers are operating in Colombia and a burgeoning network in Mexi- eager and able to move their inventories for a co, are spending billions to promote their deadly products. tidy profit. "It's taken 30 years to get in this mess and it's going to Each year, Americans smoke, snort and take a tremendous effort to get out of it," says DEA inject into their bodies more than $70 billion of Administrator Thomas A. Constantine, who has headed the illegal drugs. Federal law-enforcement agencies agency since 1994. "We're not going to achieve this report cocaine, heroin and marijuana are more readily overnight." available than they were five years ago. In fact, the White The DEA's mission statement reads like a corporate House Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates charter, with words like "liaison," "coordinate" and "coop- there are more than 2.7 million hard-core drug abusers, eration" laced throughout the one-page document. But nearly triple the number since 1992. Many of the newcom- make no mistake about it: The overriding mission of the ers to this disturbing trend are youngsters, some not even in DEA, which has more than 7,000 special agents and a sup- their teens, living in the house next to you. Perhaps even in port staff in all 50 states and in 50 foreign countries, is to your own home. enforce the nation's controlled-substances laws, protect It's not that the United States isn't spending money to Americans and put drug traffickers in the slammer. combat drug trafficking. Tens of billions annually are Constantine 's office in Arlington, Virginia, overlooks pumped into enforcing drug laws, research, prevention and the Pentagon, the world's best-known war-planning palace. treatment of addicts. As the chief of the Drug Enforcement In contrast, Constantine doesn't believe America is waging Administration notes, drug traffickers, particularly those an all-out war against illegal drug trafficking and abuse.

30 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1998 Nevertheless, he concedes that DEA agents, law officers long term, we'll never be successful dealing with the prob- and innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire and are lem this way. There's no unified voice that speaks on this battle casualties every day. In an interview with editor Joe issue about the tragic number of lives that are lost. When- Stuteville, Constantine, consistent with his street-savvy cop ever anyone says, "We're losing the war on drugs" my background, doesn't mince words on the problem. answer is that we have never waged a war at all.

American Legion Magazine: For years, one * Q. We've seen a major shift of the drug trade, largely the hot buttons for debate has always come down to this cocaine trafficking, from the Medellin and Cali cartels question: Is America winning the war on drugs? in Colombia, and it appears Mexico has become the major player in distribution within the United States, THOMAS A. CONSTANTINE: I get asked that a lot, reaping about $10 billion annually in profits. What and to be frank, in my 38 years in law enforcement I have caused this shift? never seen us wage a war against drugs. I was a kid who A First of all, I don't call them cartels. To call them car- grew up during World War II, so I was aware what people > tels gives these traffickers a sense of legitimacy and in this country did to aid the war effort. Hundreds of thou- the sense they are business people controlling a legal and sands of young people gave their lives to win the war, and valuable product. The group in Cali was really the most those who didn't serve in the military were willing to make sophisticated and much more violent than the Mafia operat- sacrifices on the home front. ing in the United States during the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Certainly, there have been a number of lives lost by law- The Colombians had major representatives in virtually enforcement officers in combating narcotics and innocent every major city of the United States and set up foreign- victims killed. I don't think there is a willingness among a based illegal corporations to handle the distribution of lot of people to make the sacrifices needed to be able to drugs and the return of money. successfully wage what many describe as a war against I believe we were somewhat successful, however, in drugs. limiting their entry through Florida and other areas of the Southeast. OL What kind of sacrifices? After that, they teamed up with less-sophisticated A Well, giving up some of our own personal pleasures so groups from Mexico, which had been bringing marijuana that more resources are available for prevention and and black-tar heroin into the United States for decades. interdiction. More resources for treatment. We've been They made some money, were very violent, but there was fighting the illegal drug problem on the margin, incremen- no comparison with the Colombians. tally taking steps, but it hasn't been an all-out effort. In the Please turn to page 44

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ILENCE electrifies the af- ternoon air and the only sound heard is water gently lapping against rocks in a nearby stream. Like a heartbeat, the drum begins to thump rhythmically, and the head singer's haunting high notes calls to the spir- its who now walk among the clouds. Dressed in col- orful regalia, Bill Stinebuck and other members of the Cherokee Gourd Soci- ety of Bell, Oklahoma, squint as they gaze into the summer sun and then file into the arena. Slowly, mystically and reverently they begin to dance. They're on a path Mouse, Gourd where warriors walk. Society president, The Bell Inter-Tribal Powwow is follows Kortney I told the history of Stinebuck, dance under way, and so too is a time-hon- group princess, into the Gourd Dance, ored tradition of Native American vet- the arena for the that each song from erans. No less in this century than in opening ceremonies of a previous ones, Native American war- the drum had a riors have proven their courage on bat- different meaning, tlefields. And to honor their feats, Kiowa legend in and how important many tribes have resurrected dances which the dance MAKING RANK Marine Corps veteran Bill Stinebuck collects his and similar events to honor their veter- originated, was it is to carry only thoughts in preparation for his ans and give the warriors an opportuni- given to a warrior good feelings into "Roaching Ceremony," after ty to celebrate their culture. in a dream while which he will be presented for the the arena." first time as a dancer in his "Over the years, the spirits kept on his way to bat- warrior society. John Mouse, President speaking to me to dance, but I kept tle. He was in- Cherokee Gourd Socii backing away and did not listen," says structed to take Stinebuck, a decorated Marine veteran the dance and its Carnegie, Oklahoma, the of the Vietnam War. "Finally, I was songs back to his dormant Kiowa Black Leg- drawn into the Gourd Dance at the people on the northern plains of Mon- gings Warrior Society, also known as Green Corn Festival in Wichita, tana. This dance dates to the 1700s; Ton-Kon-Gah, was renewed after Kansas. When I enter the arena to however, from the late 1800s to 1938, World War II for Kiowa veterans. dance, it's just me and the drum. I the ceremony, like many other Native The martial spirit is present almost couldn't be still if I wanted to—the American rituals and customs, was at birth. "We're warriors by nature, you music just overtakes me." conducted secretly. A skittish U.S. know," says Perry Dyea, a Pueblo Indi- The Gourd Dance, according to the government viewed such practices as a an from Laguna, New Mexico. "As lit- prelude to war. tle boys, we played war, but seldom did In 1957, the Kiowa we emulate big military heroes of the Gourd Clan was orga- time. We pretended to be our ances- nized; today, many tors." tribes use the dance. In Although the warrior societies are contrast to many of traditionally male dominated, 10-year the flashy, up-tempo, U.S. Army and Desert Storm veteran individualistic war Eleanor Atauvich McDaniel wears the dances, Gourd Dance "Red-Sleeved Warrior's Shirt" while steps are subdued, dancing the Gourd Dance alongside dignified and demand fellow veterans. McDaniel, a Co- precision. The stately manche, serves as secretary of the Co- regalia varies with manche Indian Veteran's Association each tribe. in Lawton, Oklahoma.

After the World "In my heart I know that I've Wars, Native Ameri- Please turn to page 45 can customs increas- ingly caught the inter- Evelyn Valdez Jenkins is a freelance est of non-Indians and writer. She's the wife of a Native Amer- tribal peoples. On the ican and has attended numerous pow- southern plains, in wows.

JUNE 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 33 VA Health-Care Eligibility Clarified

of incomplete information received and pub- out being enrolled. Veterans with service-connected disabilities EECAUSElished in the April Veterans Update and in response to may be treated for those disabilities, and veterans who were incorrect information circulating widely on the Internet, discharged or released from active duty for a disability incurred the Department of Veterans Affairs is clarifying recent or aggravated while on active duty may be treated for that dis-

changes regarding veterans' eligibility for health care. ability within the first 1 2 months after their discharge. The VA is required by law to establish an enrollment Veterans who are classified as being service-disabled with system for health-care services to be in place by Oct. a rating of 50 percent or greater will continue to be eligible for 1, 1998. While most veterans must eventually be enrolled to VA health-care services without making application for enroll-

receive care, it does not mean veterans who have not applied ment. While veterans in these categories do not have to be for enrollment by that date will lose their eligibility for VA health enrolled to be treated, they are encouraged to do so to help VA

care. Veterans can apply, and be enrolled at the time they are plan its services and allocate its resources.

in need of VA health care, based on funding availability and Veterans accepted for enrollment will be eligible to receive their priority status. care at any of the VA's more than 1,100 service sites. While Veterans who have received VA health-care service since enrollment must be renewed every year, a veteran's enrollment

Oct. 1, 1996 will have an application processed automatically will automatically renew unless he or she chooses not to re- on their behalf. enroll, or unless VA resources limit the number of veterans the Applicants will be placed in one of seven enrollment priority department can cover. groups specified by Congress. Veterans will be treated based Certain veterans will be asked to provide income informa- on the priority they are assigned, the number of other veterans tion annually for the VA to properly classify them within the enrolled, and the funds available for VA health care. The VA will enrollment system, as required by law.

determine how many veterans can be served. Veterans will be To apply for enrollment, veterans should call, write or visit

notified by mail beginning in late spring this year whether their their nearest VA health-care facility. Most facilities have desig- application for enrollment has been accepted. nated special enrollment coordinators to assist veterans and

After Oct. 1, 1998, some veterans may still be treated with- their families and to answer questions.

ity compensation from sick veterans. 7,000 tobacco-related claims and Slick Senate Move Snuffs What counts is keeping faith with processed only 3,000. Benefits have Smoking Compensation those who have served this country in been paid to only 280 veterans and/or Fixing America's roadways appar- uniform." their families. Claimants also must pro- ently takes precedence over assisting For several months, the Legion has duce a statement declaring they veterans. That's what one might con- been fighting the controversial propos- smoked in the military and a medical clude after a Senate vote last April, al, saying the government promoted opinion linking their illness to tobacco endorsing the administration's plan to smoking by providing free cigarettes in usage during service. deny disability compensation and field rations and selling tobacco prod- The Legion encourages its members health-care benefits to veterans who ucts to troops at cut-rate prices. to contact their senators and represen- suffer from tobacco-related illnesses. To this day, the Air Force is tatives and urge them to restore the On April 2, the Senate voted 98-0 required to provide tobacco to enlisted $10.5 billion to veterans when Senate for a provision sponsored by Sens. Jay personnel (U.S. Code 9623) and prod- Concurrent Resolution 86 goes to the Rockefeller and Arlen Specter to pre- ucts continue to be discounted at base conference committee. Further, Leg- serve the benefits for veterans who exchanges. ionnaires should urge members of Con- apply to VA for compensation and According to a 1993 finding by the gress to oppose President Clinton's medical care for conditions linked to VA General Counsel, the government proposal to repeal the 1993 VA Gener- tobacco addictions they incurred while can compensate veterans or their sur- al Counsel decision that supports veter- in the military. Some in the Senate vivors for illnesses or deaths stem- ans' tobacco claims. Legionnaires want to take the estimated $10.5 billion ming from tobacco ailments that should remind lawmakers that the earmarked for those veterans and use it developed after their discharge. Late Defense Department is still the single for highway improvements. last year, when preparing its FY 1999 largest distributor of tobacco to veter- Minutes after that vote, the Senate budget, top VA officials distanced ans and their families. voted 52-26 to eliminate the benefits. themselves from that finding, saying "Congress brags about having an "This is a breathtaking display of the funds saved could be used for VA $18 billion surplus this year, yet it will contempt for the electorate," notes programs such as increased education- take billions away from veterans over National Commander Anthony G. Jor- al and training benefits, but would not the next five years," Jordan says. "In dan. "I don't believe for one moment be used to enhance existing health- doing so, Congress is abdicating its tra- the American people want to improve care services. ditional role of protector of veterans' their highways by taking away disabil- Since 1993, the VA has received rights and benefits."

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Salveson "but an inspiration to American Legion, delivered the eulogy younger veterans." Salveson who died March 24 at the funeral of served as North Dakota De- at the Franciscan past Department of partment Chaplain from Medical Center in North Dakota com- 1978-89, and again from Dayton, Ohio. mander Bill Sween- 1992-94. He also served his Moore, 64, was MOORE SALVESON ey. But Salveson Department as commander born May 22, 1933, himself was eulo- and Foreign Relations chair- in Cowden, Illinois. Serving promoting patriotism. "I'd gized after his death on man, both in 1996-97. 43 continuous years as a like to encourage people to March 25. Salveson joined the member of The American fly the American flag, not "Jerry showed us that you Gilbert C. Grafton Post 2 in Legion, he most recently was only on special holidays but can have fun in the Legion 1960. He served in the Unit- elected to the position of Na- every day," he said during and still get the job done," ed States Air Force from tional Vice Commander at his term as commander. On North Dakota Adjutant 1952 until 1954. the Legion's 79th National the Department level, Moore David Schmidt says. Salve- Salveson served as mayor Convention in Orlando, also served Ohio Legion- son got the job done by serv- of Kindred, North Dakota, Florida. In this capacity he naires as vice commander. ng as The American Le- from 1974-77. He was a served the organization Internal Affairs chairman gion's National Chaplain in member of the Lions Club under the leadership of and M&PA chairman. 1987-88, under then-Nation- and president of the Crook- National Commander He was a life member of al Commander John P. ston United Way. Anthony G. Jordan. During Fairborn's Dignam- Whit- "Jake" Comer. On a National Services were March 30. his term as National Vice more Post 526, where he level, Salveson was serving Condolences can be sent to: Commander, Moore repre- held all offices at the Post as a member of the Ameri- 566 42nd St. S.W., Apt. 279, sented the organization at and District levels. canism Commission when Fargo, ND 58102. membership and mid-winter Moore's Legion eligibili- conferences conducted in the ty stems from his Air Force Departments of Illinois, service. He entered the Air BANQUET ENTERTAINMENT BOOKED Michigan, Wisconsin and Force in 1952 and retired in headline entertainers for the price of one. 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Or, Legionnaires also served as chairman of cluding the Vietnam Service might have been in her audience during a cruise vacation. the Internal Affairs Liaison medal, Vietnam Campaign The results never change—the audience is stunned by her vo- committee and as a member medal with two bronze stars cal talent and consistently rewards her with a standing ova- of the Americanism Com- and an Air Force Longevity tion. mission, Legislative Coun- Service Award with four oak Davis has appeared on several late-night television shows. cil, Security Council, Mem- leaf clusters. He also has entertained presidential audiences through four bership & Post Activities Moore is survived by his administrations. His unique show is a mixture of comedy and Committee and the Resolu- wife, Anne, and two sons, juggling. What he does with bowling balls, apples, eggs, tions Subcommittee. Martin Moore and James axes, knives and pingpong balls must be witnesses to be be- Moore was passionate Angles. Expressions of con- lieved. about the American flag, and dolence can be sent to the The National Commander's Banquet will take place in the he devoted his year as De- family at 3766 St. Andrews New Orleans Marriott Hotel, Tuesday, Sept. 8. Tickets are partment commander to in- Drive, Fairborn. OH 45324- $40 each and available through each Department headquar- creasing membership and 9717. ters office on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Until mid-1997, no one really. A Q- What's your opinion of the bal- But I have to give credit to Presi- lot initiatives that came up in Cali- dent Ernesto Zedillo, an honest man, WAR NOT FIGHTING fornia and Arizona which would whom I believe has taken a serious Continued from page 31 allow illegal drugs such as pot and stand against the drug trade. Ninety heroin to be used for medical pur- percent of the time, DEA investiga- poses, primarily as pain control? tions begin in the United States. Our Q. So what happened? Goofy, absolutely idiotic. And I primary goal is to protect the citizens A The Colombians knew that Mexi- say that not as the head of the A of this country from illegal drugs. The can organized crime was success- DEA, but as a citizen. I've read all of only instances where we deploy agents ful in smuggling drugs into our coun- the material supporters of these initia- to other countries is to support our try, so the Colombians, in the late tives cite. Not one medical group in own law-enforcement initiatives. It's 1980s, said, "You smuggle the cocaine this country came in to testify, for been difficult to identify an institution into the United States then turn the example, for the medicinal uses of in Mexico that we can share informa- cocaine back over to us, and we'll marijuana. I have seen studies that say tion with because of the corruption give you a $1,000 for each kilo sold." marijuana is a drug that affects the problems they have within their mili- In a few years, the groups in Mexico brain in such a way that it makes users tary and law-enforcement agencies. became more sophisticated and saw more receptive to use stronger drugs. The institutions in Mexico are so frag- the profit, then decided that $1,000 The truth is that people use drugs to ile right now that it's hard to predict wouldn't do it. So they demanded half get high. what progress, if any, will be made in of the profits, and that's when the the next couple of years. Mexicans began to set up their own Q. In the lobby of your building is distribution network in the United a wall of honor, displaying pho- Q. Some contend the DEA and States. However, they're not quite so tographs of DEA agents killed in the other U.S. drug-enforcement agen- organized in Mexico, and about the line of duty. What keeps your agents cies would be more effective if they only thing you could get the drug deal- motivated knowing they could be increased spending on treatment ers to agree on was the type of bullets taken out at any time? and research. Do you agree? they would use to kill one another. Well, it's tough for me to say. In I don't believe enough resources A Arrests of Cali drug chiefs weak- A my police career, I've seen a lot are put into dealing with the ened that network. All of their interna- of my friends killed, many of them whole illegal drug problem. Rehabili- tional contacts, all of their influences victims in the drug-enforcement arena. tation of drug abusers is the last part really dissipated. That's when the I think what's true—not just among of the solution. The first and most groups in Mexico began to take an DEA agents but among police officers important part is prevention. I've been increasingly active role. as a whole—is that we believe in what in police work since 1960, but in the we're doing, and that our goal is to Q- What differentiates Colombia mid- to late- 1960s the use of narcotics protect people. Also, there's a sense came on strong. Up until that time, and Mexico as to how they combat that it won't happen to you. there were heroin addicts, but there drug trafficking? What I tell new DEA agents and wasn't as much violence associated A In Colombia, you have a large supervisors is that there are tons of national police force of 100,000 with the drug trade as there is now. drugs running through this country, have a drug culture, and men and it's more than 100 years old. We become but not one of those tons is worth your it's ball today Many of the corrupt police have been a whole new game com- life. If anything looks or feels unsafe, rooted out and people in key political pared to 30 years ago. the agent or supervisor should back positions and other Colombians of You have to reach kids and one of off because they can always get that great courage decided to do something the best ways to do it is through the peddler later. These dealers are going about the problem. We're able to work media, primarily television, but it's to be out there tomorrow, the next with these people. I believe there has expensive. My guess is that we'd need week and months down the road. been some measurable progress made $2 billion to reach kids with effective in that country. anti-drug advertisements. We do it Q. Billionaire George Soros In Mexico today, the civilian law with jeans and sneakers ads during describes America's drug policy as agencies involved in narcotics prime time. Are these products more "insane," and he says he's prepared enforcement are almost nonexistent. valuable than saving our children? to spend millions of dollars to weak- They've been disbanded over the last However, government cannot and en drug laws in this country. Seems 5-to-10 years because of corruption. should not do it all. It all goes back to to be counterproductive, if you'll Essentially, what you have is that the family. Children today need disci- forgive me for using the phrase, in enforcement largely has been turned pline and strong role models on the America's war on drugs.

home front. Get them involved in it billion- over to the military. But there have A I don't find unusual that been a number of generals who have activities and sports; make sure aires who live in gated communi- been arrested for their participation in they're not on the corner at night and ties and are chauffeured around in trafficking. Mexico faces a very criti- that they make their curfews. Give armor-plated Mercedes Benzes and cal period over the next three years them some spiritual direction. The protected by bodyguards believe that if their institutions don't become responsibility always goes back to par- the masses, particularly poor people, strong enough to pose a threat to crim- ents and adults. If we can keep young- are better served by giving them more inal groups, they could lose the battle. sters from experimenting with drugs, drugs. A better gauge is to talk to the we'll save them. But if we let them parents who live in areas where drugs Q. Sounds kind of frustrating. loose—and it doesn't matter if they're are a problem and ask them if their Who or what agencies can you work rich kids or poor kids—most will get children would benefit more by provid- with and trust in Mexico? involved in drugs. ing them with free and legal drugs.

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On the Great Plains in July, tribes of the flag they so valiantly defended. historically held the Sun Dance, seek- On the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe STEPS ing rejuvenation of their world. Using Reservation in the Dakotas, Elliott WARRIORS' the Fourth of July to commemorate this Rhoades, a Vietnam veteran, says, Continued from 33 page ritual, modern Native American fami- "The families of deceased veterans lies often travel hundreds of miles to here bring their burial flags to be flown earned the right to Gourd Dance as a gather at powwows and visit, dance during powwows and on special days warrior," explains McDaniel. "I went and break bread—to renew the spirit of when the flag is honored. Instead of to the fields of battle, and I put my life their "Indian-ness." putting these flags away forever, the on the line—I dance beside my fellow On this weekend, L. David survivors bring them for American Le- veterans with pride." Female members Eveningthunder, a Shoshone-Bannock gion Post members to raise. in CIVA, one of the tribe's oldest war- Indian of the northern plains, dances "It's a moving sight, with some- rior societies, are few, but an exem- with his fellow veterans in the tradi- times 60 U.S. flags flying, and [it] is a plary military record brought Mc- tional Sneak-up Dance. The Sneak-up fitting tribute to the fallen warriors." In Daniel an invitation to the elite group, is a battle re-enactment dance, symbol- fact, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe giving her "the right to the Gourd Rat- izing scouts looking for signs of the en- has joined the Citizens Flag Alliance to tle and Eagle Feather Fan" while danc- emy and the subsequent encounters. support constitutional protection of the ing. She also serves in military honor Music is the hub of all powwows. U.S. Flag from physical desecration. guards at various functions. And to one Kiowa flutist, the music The disproportionate numbers of The Cherokee Gourd Society, was salvation. Evan Barr survived American Indian volunteers, both men formed in 1980, encamps for the annu- Vietnam but tumbled to the depths of and women, during times of war affirm al Bell Powwow in August. Camp life alcoholism after his discharge. a proud people's instinctive reflex to during powwow days harks back to "I was down with the lowest of the defend their homeland. Archie Ma- tribal gatherings before the tragic Trail low," recalls Barr. "But when I listened son—master of ceremonies at the an- of Tears in the 1830s when Cherokees to the spirits of my ancestors and began nual Bell, Oklahoma, Powwow and others were forcibly removed from to create the flutes and their songs, my briefly and eloquently voiced the Indi- parts of Georgia, Alabama and the Car- life turned around. It's a gift from an population's gratitude to its olinas. Lodges are erected, campfires above, and I owe so much to my Indian warriors when he told the dancers and are lighted and society members and heritage and the Great Spirit." The spectators: "Our songs are directed at families talk about old days and ways. haunting Native American melodies you, veterans; God bless you for your Although Stinebuck's reddish- that Barr plays on his hand-crafted service to your country. 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(1983-87, 1990-91, Box 38027, Hollywood, CA 90038-0027. 1994-96). IN SEARCH OF... Anyone from Co. 415 Naval Training Station, San Lemuel W. Houston, VA, NEC (1949-51, 1953-57), Nat'i Diego, California, Sept. to Dec. 1963. Contact: PR Commission Liaison Chmn. (1953-54, 1955-57), This column is for readers searching for groups of William J. Pont, 7084 S. Elm St., Littleton, CO 80122. Nat'l Leg. Commission Liaison Comm. (1954-55), veterans for purposes other than forming a reunion (use Photographs taken on Sept. 24, 1941, of all units Nat'l PR Commission (1957-76), Dept. Rehab. VETS" column) or to find witnesses to verify VA health including Med. Det., 9th Coast Art., Fort Banks, Chmn. (1947-48), Dept. PR Chmn. (1956-57, 1965- claims (use COMRADES IN DISTRESS column). No Winthrop, Massachusetts, for yearbook. Contact: 66), Dept. PR Chmn. (1956-57, 1965-66), Dept. Int. notices seeking information about relatives or friends will James Casper, 273 Belle Hurst Dr., Rochester, NY Aff. Chmn. (1961-65), Dept. Publications Chmn. be published. Notices are published free, on a space- 14617. (1965-66), Dept. Radio Chmn. (1965-66), Dept. available basis. If a notice does not appear within six Anyone who served aboard the USS Competent (AM Trophies & Awards Chmn. (1982-93). months of submission, please resubmit. 316) during the Korean War, Feb. 29, 1952, to April Vance E. Ketcham, NY, Nat'l Dist. Guests Comm. 15, 1955. Contact: Howard L. Grafelman, PO Box 42, (1973-74), Nat'l Sec. Council V. Chmn. (1976-89, Men assigned to HQ Btry., 519th anti-aircraft (Gun) Bn. Benson, IL 61516. 1991-92), Alt. NEC (1987-89), NEC (1989-91), Nat'l at Camp Hanford, Washington, 1949-53. Contact: The four sergeants who, in 1942, were declared the Sec. Commission Liaison Comm. (1989-90), Nat'l Joyce Burdick, 7756 Willow Brook Rd., Little four youngest sergeants in the Army. Contact: Ray Finance Commission Liaison Comm. (1990-91), Genesee, NY 14754. D. Knight, 519 E. Grumman Dr., Midwest City, OK Nat'l Defense Civil Preparedness Chmn. (1991-93), Anyone stationed at CASU I aviation ordnance Ford 73110. Nat'l Foreign Relations Commission (1993-98), Island, June 1944 to December 1945. Contact: Anyone who served on the LCT 25, Oct. 1942 to June Dept. Special Activities Chmn. (1975-76), Dept. Kenny Ness, 24351 416th Ave., Artesian, SD 57314. 1944. Contact: John Henry Coupe, 3621 Rawhide Historian (1980-82), Dept. Americanism Chmn. Author seeking anyone who served guarding German Ct., Las Vegas, NV 89120. (1982-85), Dept. M&PA Chmn. (1985-86), Dept. POWs in the U.S. during WWII. Contact: Ken Cmdr. (1986-87). Anderson, 6505 Eastbourne Ln., Oklahoma City, OK Murray B. York, VA, Nat'l Aero & Space Comm. V. 73132, or e-mail at [email protected]. Chmn. (1961-62), Nat'l Aero & Space Comm. (1962- Information from individuals serving in the U.S. Air 65), Nat'l Naval Affairs Comm. (1965-79), Alt. NEC Force, Sqdrn. (Strategic Air COMRADES IN DISTRESS 509 Bomb Wing (1965-67, 1983-90), Nat'l Leg. Council (1979-80, 1952-55, went to for Command), who TDY Guam, 1987-90, 1993-94), Nat'l Law & Order Comm. book. Contact: L. V. Shapiro, 828 Coolidge St., Readers who can help these veterans are urged to Consultant (1981-83), Nat'l Dist. Guests Comm. V. Westfield, NJ 07090. write a witness letter, including the CID number. Send the Chmn. (1989-98), Dept. M&PA Co-Chmn. (1958-59), Anyone served with the 292nd Refrigerator letters to CID, The American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box who QM Dept. V. Cmdr. (1959-60), Dept. Membership Chmn. Co., Van Doren, Michigan, Dec. 1943 to Jan. 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Camp (1959-60), Dept. Cmdr. (1960-61), Dept. Oratorical 1945. Contact: Michael Plink, Box Elmhurst, Notices are published only at the request of American PO 146, Chmn. (1961-63), Dept. Economics (1963- Legion Service Officers representing claimants using Chmn. PA 18416. Dept. Search for Witness Forms available from Legion 64), Employment Chmn. (1963-65), Dept. Anyone who served in the 1st Provisional Eng. Depot Department Service Officers. Housing Comm. Chmn. (1963-64), Dept. Vets. Pref. Pit., in Hungnam/Hamhung, N. 89th Army Depot Chmn. (1963-65), Dept. Rehab. Chmn. (1963-65), Korea, Oct.-Dec. 1950. Contact: S. Neel, James 3305 Dept. Int. Affairs Army, Co. A, 19th Inf. Reg. APO 24 Julian D. Amick Chmn. (1968-71), Dept. Naval Deer Trail Dr., Owensboro, KY 42301-8718. needs witness to verify he received powder burns Affairs Chmn. (1973-75). Anyone who was aboard the USS Golden City AP 169 and flash burns from a ruptured shell due to 2nd John W. Buether, OR, Nat'l Civil Defense Comm. and remembers participating in a film taken by the Gunner releasing breach lock too soon, April 1954. (1968-73), Alt. NEC (1971-73), NEC (1973-77), Nat'l USMC combat photo team. Film participants need to CID #1387 Sec. Commission Liaison Comm. (1973-74, 1975- be identified. Contact: Leonard S. Holinski, 6649 Navy, USS Johnston DD 821 James W. McQuade 77), Nat'l Foreign Rel. Commission Liaison Comm. Winona, Allen Park, Ml 48101. needs witness to verify he experienced hearing loss (1974-75), Dept. V. Cmdr. (1966-67), Dept. Cmdr. Former members of B Btry., 16th AFA Bn., 2nd Arm'd after using a deck crawler sander in an enclosed (1967-68). Div. in Baumholder, Germany, 1954-55. Contact: space, 1959-60. CID #1388 Leonard E. Mclntire, 11068 N. Landing Rd., Monticello, IN 47960. Anyone who operated the Rail-Highway Traffic Regulating Group out of AFWESPAC, Manila HQ. LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Contact: Roger Woodcock, 0435 Cr. 12, Corunna, IN TAPS 46730. Life Membership notices are published for Anyone who served in the 7th MP Co, 1949-51. Taps notices are limited to only those Legionnaires Legionnaires who have been awarded Life Memberships Contact: Vance M. Miller, 3344 W. 4th St., who have held high National or Department offices. We by their Posts. 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Texas, 1962-64. Contact: Kenneth Ruben, 1030 Michael J. Reagan, MD, Nat l M&PA Comm. (1978-80), dressed, stamped envelope to: Life Memberships, The Morningside Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206. Nat'l Sec. Council V. Chmn. (1982-85), Nat'l American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Information about the destroyer escort ship USS Americanism Council (1987-92, 1994-98), Alt. NEC IN 46206. Vammen. Contact: N. McCracken, 771 San (1990-92), Nat'l Americanism Commission (1990-91), Bernardino Ave., Pomona, CA 91767-3245. NEC (1992-94), Nat'l Legislative Commission (1992- Walter W. Herd, Harold L. Jones (1997) Post 502, Pen Anyone who served in the 25th Inf. Div. in Vietnam, 94), Nat'l Legislative Council (1993-94), Dept. V. Argyl, PA. who flew helicopters, 1966-67. Contact: Jim Cmdr. (1983-86), Dept. Cmdr. (1986-87), Dept. Hollis G. Eaton, Jacob S. Fowler, Ernest D. Janvrin Jr. Hartford, 1400 Wheeler Ln., Canton, IL 61520. Americanism Chmn. (1991-92), Dept. Counter (1998) Post 70, Seabrook, NH. Members of B-29 3rd Photo. Recon. Sqd., 20th Air Subversive Comm. (1991-94). Stanley H. Trumbauer (1998) Post 242, Quakertown, Force who served on Guam 1945. Contact: Bill Hugh C. Nolen, OK, Nat'l Vets. Pref. Comm. (1949-51), PA. Walker, 208 Windy Ln., Rockwell, TX 75087. Nat'l Dist. Guests Comm. (1952-53), Alt. NEC (1957- William McKinley, Edmund Powers, John McEntee, Anyone who served in the 784th AA Bn., Btry. D, who 58), NEC (1958-61), Nat'l Resolutions Subcommittee William Murphy, Louis Bednarcik, Richard was activated at Fort Bliss, Texas, 1943. Contact: Al (1958-59), Nat'l Int. Aff. Commission Liaison Comm. Heffelfinger, Anthony Catalano (1995) Post 242, Boggia, 713 West Wood St., Lowellville, OH 44436. Chmn. (1958-59), Nat'l Int. Aff. Commission Liaison Pompton Plains, NY. Former members of Pit #1, USMC, Parris Island, 1941. Comm. (1959-60), Nat'l Economic Commission William H. White (1996) Post 127, Glendale, CA. Contact: Ellis O'Neal, 6040 Highway 42 East, Liaison Comm. (1960-61), Nat'l Economic Allan F. Scott (1997) Post 127, Glendale, CA. Carrollton, KY 41008-9679. Commission Nat'l Cmdr. Rep. (1962), Nat'l V. Cmdr. Alvin C. Burkett (1999) Post 330, New Haven, IN. Anyone who served at NATTC, Jacksonville, Florida, (1967-68), Dept. Cmdr. (1956-57), Dept. Judge Joseph L. Kupiec, Robert R. Durgin, Clarence A. 1944-46. Contact: J. Musto, 332 Boston St., Advocate (1971-83, 1985-87, 1988-90), Dept. Bachand (1998) Post 391, Charlton, MA. Syracuse, NY 13206-2501. Constitution & Bylaws Chmn. (1979-86). Douglas Allen, Frank Garrett, James Sinkavich, Walter Anyone who served aboard the USS Gunston Hall Donald P. Skelly, Wl, Nat'l M&PA Comm. (1960-61), Van Gilson (1998) Post 159, Flemington, NJ. LSD-5, Dec. 1965 to Aug. 1969. Contact: Jose E. Nat'l Dist. Guests Comm. (1960-61, 1962-65), Nat'l James Lindsey (1998) Post 1367, Staten Island, NY. Chavez, PO Box 3593, El Paso, TX 79916, or 10033 Graves Reg. & Memorial Comm. (1960-65), Alt. NEC Harley Butler, Larry McDaniel (1998) Post 169, Keystone, El Paso, TX 79924. (1964-66), Nat'l Housing Comm. (1966-67), Nat'l Cambridge City, IN. Anyone attached to Sig. Radio Intel. Co., New Guinea, Dist. Guests Comm. V. Chmn. (1966-67), Dept. V. Herbert Anderson, Paul Johnson (1995) Post 178, 1944-45. Contact: Robert Drury, PO Box 182, Archie, Cmdr. (1960-61), Dept. Cmdr. (1962-63). Milaca, MN. MO 64725-0182. John Pires, CA, Nat'l Leg. Council Cong. Dist. 11 Curtis Johnson, Gilbert Kosel, Larry Pelton (1996) Anyone serving aboard the USS Lapwing AVP 1, 1939- (1983-86), Nat'l Sec. Council (1982-84), Nat'l Foreign Post 178, Milaca, MN. 45. Contact: Bill Sutton, 1334 N. Main St., Fairmont, Rel. Council V. Chmn. (1987-88), Dept. Membership Donald Christensen, Melvin Mattson (1998) Post 178, IN 46928-1009. Chmn. (1986-87, 1988-91, 1993-94), Dept. V. Cmdr. Milaca, MN. Anyone who served with Co. 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