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The Magazine for a Strong America Vol. 126, No. 5 May 1989

A R T I C L SENIORS IRATE OVER INSURANCE SURTAX Millions ofsenior citizens are demanding repeal or overhaul ofthe Catastrophic Insurance CoverageAct. By Oliver StarrJr. 14 OUR OVERBLOWN CONGRESS Congress is increasing its operating budget to $2.5 billion. Shouldn't someone tell it about the budget deficit? By Charles Philips 16 WHYTHE SOVIETS LEFTAFGHANISTAN With theAfghanistan debacle out ofthe way, Gorbachev can acquire Western technology to resolve his economic woes. By Philip C. Clarke 18 ASK ME ABOUT MIKE WARREN '7s our dilemma that ofallAmericans after Vietnam: Eitherforget about it or be damned to wallow in it?" By DavidS. Harrington 20 THE MYSTIQUE OF ADVERTISING AdvertisingprovidesAmericans the highest standard ofliving in the world. So why is it maligned? 22 ISTHE COLD WAR OVER? Although Soviet reforms deservepraise and encouragement, America is keeping its "powder dry. By Dr. Timothy W. Stanley 24 WHITE-KNUCKLE FLYING We're more likely to be struck by lightning on agolfcourse than die in an air crash,

but tell that to the nation 's 25 million aerophobiacs. By Phyllis Zauner 26 BATTLE REPORT: MIDWAY TheJapanese imperialfleet met its Waterloo at Midway. By Vernon Pizer 28 DESPERATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST Frantic measures to save afriendfrom death by torture may have led to the Iran-Contra affair. By Niles Lathem 30 A LIFETIME OF NIGHTMARES Part2 ofafive-part series on TheAmerican Legion and Columbia University Study of Vietnam Veterans. 36 WASHINGTON CONFERENCE REPORT A scientist accuses the CentersforDisease Control oftrying to "perpetrate the largest scientificfraud ofthe century. " 38 HOW POSTS KEEP THEIR MEMBERS "Posts that are consistently successful keep their members active. 42

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BIG ISSUES Should The Minimum Wage Be Increased? 12

LETTERS 4 VETERANS UPDATE 35 VETERANS ALERT 50

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 40 LEGIONNAIRE OF THE MONTH 67

DATELINE 10 LEGION NEW BRIEFS 44 PARTING SHOTS 68

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The American Legion Magazine, a leader among national general-interest publications, is published monthly by The American Legion for its 2.9 million members. These military-service veterans, working through 16,000 community-level posts, dedicate themselves to God and country and traditional Amer- ican values; strong national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows and orphans; community service; and the wholesome development of our nation's youths.

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MEMORIAL DAY: A TIME FOR REDEDICATION

F ALL the days our nation be erected in Washington, D.C. (See sets aside to commemo- page 35for more information.) rate the people, traditions While memorials are fitting tributes and events that have for all the world to see, we also need to enriched our lives as look inward. Surely, there is no better Americans, there are none time than Memorial Day to rechristen more meaningful than our faith in America and the precepts Memorial Day. Yet, despite we hold dear. Surely, there is no more the depth of our reverence appropriate time than Memorial Day to for those who have fallen in battle, this pledge anew our allegiance to the flag sacred day of remembrance is also the we love. Surely, this is the time to rededi- most difficult to commemorate with cate ourselves to upholding and strength- words or deeds that seem fitting for the ening the institutions and values that so occasion. many Americans have fought, suffered More than a century ago, speaking in and died to preserve. Arlington National Cemetery at the But that is not enough. first official Memorial Day ceremony, This day should also serve to remind Gen. James A. Garfield said: "I am us that we have solemn obligations to oppressed with the sense of the impro- perform as citizens of this great repub- priety of uttering words on this occa- Nat' I. Cmdr. H. F. "Sparky" Gierke lic. I am a Vietnam veteran and I'm sion. If silence is golden, it must be proud of my service in Vietnam. I, like here beside the graves of 15,000 men and to those so altered by war as to have many of you, have seen the twisted, whose lives were more significant than returned unable to care for themselves. scarred face of war and all that it has speech, and whose death was a poem I believe that this, in part, is what is wrought. And I, like all of you, don't the music of which can never be sung." meant by keeping faith with those who want any of my three sons or my

Since that day, more than 630,000 have fallen in battle. This also, in daughter to experience what I have

American men and women have given part, is why The American Legion was experienced, nor do I desire that they their lives so that our nation might founded amid the ruins of the Great War. should feel the deep sense of loss that I endure. Like you, I well recall the faces One of our founding principles stated feel when I think of those buddies I lost of a few young men who were so full of that we would "preserve the memories in Vietnam. life and hope, and who were personally and incidents of our associations in the But more than that, I don't ever want dear to me. Now I have only memories Great Wars." We have done so by the to say goodbye to my sons as they ship of those young soldiers who loved character of our service to our fellow out to fight in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, America more than they feared death. veterans and their families, and through the Middle East, or some other battle-

Gen. Garfield, too, probably held our support for memorials honoring field because I did not do all that I could personal memories of lost friends when those who defended our nation. What do as a citizen to combat tyranny, fight he reverently observed: "They summed better time than this Memorial Day to indifference or keep America strong. up and perfected, by one supreme act, continue that noble tradition by indi- "We, the people" must rededicate the highest virtues of men and citizens. vidually supporting two national proj- ourselves to reviving the true meaning For love of country, they accepted death ects that deserve our help: the Korean of "politics"— a duty to be performed and thus resolved all doubts, and made War Memorial, and the Vietnam by every citizen, and not merely a trade immortal their patriotism and virtue." Women's Memorial, both of which will to be plied by those who have chosen a

Yes, their task is done; ours remains vocation of public service. We must before us. It summons us to remember throw off personal apathy, and combat that the honor and glory of no nation public indifference and civic ignorance. has ever faded so long as it acknowl- We must— each of us in our own states edged its lasting debt to its heroic dead; and communities— become involved in so long as it cared for their widows and public life, and stand ready and willing orphans; so long as it paid freely and to do those things that are necessary to generously its debt to its broken soldiers Please turn to page 57

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SHOULD THE MINIMUM WAGE BE INCREASED?

Rep. Gerald D. Kleczka, D-Wisconsin Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas

I have introduced legisla- Advocates of a substantial tion in Congress to raise increase in the federally the minimum wage in YES NO mandated minimum wage America to $4.35. We must act quickly are wrong in thinking such an increase to boost the wages of the poorest paid will improve the standard of living for workers, the full-time, year-round those on the lowest rung of the economic minimum-wage workers who earn only ladder. The effect of their legislation will $6,968 per year. Since the wage was last be to place that bottom rung out of reach increased in 1981, inflation has eroded for many, effectively blocking unskilled its purchasing power by over 30 percent. Increasing the wage and inexperienced workers from entering the job market. would save millions of Americans from poverty while rein- There is solid consensus among economists that minimum- forcing the values of hard work and self-reliance. wage increases price workers out of the labor market and Inflation has had a particularly devastating effect on increase unemployment. In 1979, economists Charles minimum-wage workers who support families. Currently the Brown, Curtis Gilroy and Andrew Cohen completed a com- yearly earnings of a minimum wage worker with two chil- prehensive analysis of unimpeachable data demonstrating dren provide a standard of living more than 24 percent below that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage reduces the poverty line. Increasing the wage would help these teen-age employment by 1 percent to 2Vi percent. The families to pull themselves out of poverty. minimum-wage increase now contemplated by Congress The growth of low-wage jobs across the country and in my would be an act of jobicide, estimated to kill nearly half-a- home state makes it particularly important that we raise the million jobs across the country. minimum wage. It is certainly true that our economy has If raising the minimum wage to $4.35 per hour would expanded in the past few years and many new jobs have been raise the standard of living for the working poor, why stop created. But the fact remains that in Wisconsin since 1979 there? Why not raise the minimum wage to $20 per hour and there has been a net loss of high-wage jobs and a positive bring the working poor clear into the middle class? While the explosion in the numbers of low- wage jobs. logic is the same for raising the minimum wage to $20 per

An astonishing 73 percent of the increase in employment hour as it is for $4.35, the politics is not the same. At $20 per in Wisconsin from 1979 to 1988 was in the low-wage sector hour, the employment effects become politically intolerable. of the economy. For instance, more than one-quarter of the If we artificially raise the price of labor by mandating an increase in jobs was in the retail trade industry, which paid increase in the minimum wage, common sense tells us that a an average of just $9,350 per year. How can anyone raise a surplus will result— a surplus called unemployment. family on this? It's impossible. When a Dallas-based restaurant chain came fully under

Unless we raise the minimum wage, the proliferation of the minimum wage laws in the 1970s, it was forced to elimi- low-wage jobs will continue and the wages of middle-class nate 8,000 jobs nationwide. Each of its 400 restaurants Americans could be undercut. Raising the minimum eliminated two hostesses, two busboys and 12 waiters, wage can help guarantee a bright economic future for all resulting in a 20 percent reduction in manpower. This is the Americans. market response we will see if we increase the minimum More than 50 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt asked Con- wage. gress to enact our first minimum-wage laws. In his message This negative hiring pattern will fall disproportionately on to Congress, Roosevelt said "Our nation, so richly endowed teen-agers, since over 60 percent of minimum-wage earners with natural resources and with a capable and industrious are under 25. With teen-age unemployment at 18 population, should be able to devise ways of ensuring to all percent, and black teen-age unemployment a staggering 40 our able-bodied working percent, Congress should be men and women a fair looking for ways to expand YOUR OPINION COUNTS, TOO day's pay for a fair day's our economy and make it in view- work." This is no less true Senators and congressmen are interested constituent easier for businesses to hire points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), today than it was 50 years unskilled young workers, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), ago. We must raise the not pricing them out of the U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. minimum wage. market.

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SENIORS IRATE ABOUT INSURANCE SURTAX

coverage. Brown said about 95 percent of By Oliver StarrJr. NARFE members eligible for Medicare have catastrophic insurance through the federal employees' health benefit law. HHin| ANY congressional The monthly premium of all I sponsors of the Medi- beneficiaries was increased by $4 at the

care Catastrophic In- start of 1989, bringing it to $31.90, or 1 I I 111 I surance Coverage Act $382.80 for the year. This will rise to ill I are flabbergasted by $10.20 per month in 1993 and $457.20 a the response to their year. I I I

[| I new law. They thought But, the shocker is the "supplementary 111 seniors would be ecstatic premium," a 15 percent surtax of $22.50 mmmmmmM over their expanded on each $150 of income taxes owed, with coverage, especially in hospital care. a cap of $800 annually for those with a However, millions of senior citizens yearly tax bill of $2,858 or more. Thus, are boiling mad after belatedly discov- when the monthly premium is added to

ering that the added benefits not only this, the maximum cost will be $ 1 , 1 82. 80 duplicate some of the coverage they in 1989. Married couples' maximum already have, but also will be accom- payment will be twice this amount. panied by what many are calling a whop- The surcharge will rise to 28 percent in

ping'surtax and a hefty monthly premium 1 993 , or $42 per each $ 1 50 of tax liability, increase. They are demanding outright UPROAR — While the law's additional with a cap of $1 ,050 for a person with a repeal of the law or a complete overhaul. hospital coverage has received a tax liability of $3,750. In Las Vegas, a group called Seniors mixed reception, the surtax has many Better-off seniors complain that this seniors up in arms. Coalition Against the Catastrophic Act, progressive surcharge will force them to has gathered at least 80,000 signatures foot the bulk of the surtax, while some 60 demanding the repeal of the law. form of private health insurance. Most of percent of those on Medicare will pay California Rep. Robert Matsui said the the time, this insurance provides some little or no surtax. On average, a person protests from seniors are the most intense degree of catastrophic health insurance. earning $10,000 or less will pay no sup- he has seen in his 10 years in Congress. Both of these studies were considered plemental premium. Someone earning Federal retirees, who already had com- by backers of the Catastrophic Act before $15,000 per year will pay an average of

parable catastrophic coverage as part of it was enacted, according to a member of $68. The surcharge cap won't be reached their health benefits, are livid at the pros- the staff of the Senate Finance Committee until the taxpayer's income reaches about pect of having to pay for coverage they headed by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Texas. $45,000. already have earned. The staffer said even though two-thirds of Brown said this is the first time "that Working seniors are angry, too, those on Medicare had supplemental Congress has enacted a social program because they already have better or coverage, the protection for catastrophic and forced the beneficiaries of that pro- similar coverage provided free by their illness had enormous variations and large gram to bear the entire cost." This sets a employers. The same is true of millions of gaps, such as no payments for hospital dangerous precedent, Brown said, which other retirees whose former employers in deductions. could lead various groups of Americans the private sector are paying for cata- Even some retirees who had no cata- to wonder why they should support taxes strophic coverage. Two national surveys strophic insurance are unhappy. They that don't directly benefit them. made for the Department of Health and resent having to make large tax payments Philip Jos, professional affairs spe- Human Services found that about 66 for a program they didn't choose or want. cialist in the Health Care Financing percent of those on Medicare had some Gordon Brown, national secretary of Administration of HHS, said Congress the National Association of Retired Fed- decided to have the Medicare benefi- the majority of ciaries pay the full cost of the new pro- Oliver Starr Jr. , a former editorial page eral Employees, said editor of a large metropolitan daily news- NARFE's half-million members are gram because it didn't want to put another paper, is a free-lance journalist from "very upset" by having to pay for cata- tax burden on workers already heavily Webster Groves, Mo. strophic insurance that duplicates present Please turn to page 60

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In my opinion OUR OVERBLOWN CONGRESS

House and Senate staffs. To critics By Charles Philips in and out of government, Con- gress has become too big and pow- HAT post-election erful for its own good and the coun- caper by Congress to try's good as well.

give itself a 51 per- j i Former Rep. Howard Pollock of cent pay raise J Alaska, writing in Lincoln Review, a resulted in a public Washington quarterly, charged that relations nightmare Congressmen are "bleeding Amer- with a morning-after ican citizens with higher and headache. Stunned higher taxes as the solution to T by an unprecedented every evil and arrogantly appro- outpouring of protests from angry priating to themselves billions of taxpayers, the House of Represen- dollars in ever-higher salaries and tatives in February voted to allowances, increased staff, addi- rescind the pay hike only hours tional travel on junkets and the before it would have taken effect. campaign trail, all to perpetuate Renewed scrutiny has been devoted critics are asking "Is Congress worth themselves in office." Among needed to these controversial honoraria for it?" reforms, said Pollock, is a constitutional members' speeches to special-interest In addition to their salaries, con- amendment requiring a balanced budget, groups. Members of Congress were gressmen receive a multitude of fringe and a line-item veto for the President so paid about $10 million for the hon- benefits, including generous pensions he can curb "pork-barrel" spending. oraria. that account for about one-third of the In a forthcoming book, The Imperial To critics, this amounts to thinly congressional payroll. Among other Congress: Crisis in the Separation of disguised "influence buying." Yet to perquisites: free or subsidized medical Powers (Pharos Books, New York), receive full public notice is a planned care, cut-rate meals and haircuts, a Gordon S. Jones calls today's congres- 17 percent increase in congressional private gymnasium, and a "PX" that sional system "a monument to failure." operating expenses — $2.5 billion for provides many business and personal Writes Jones: "Congress insists on the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 items at wholesale prices. Uncle Sam 'micromanaging' the federal govern-

Even in this age of gargantuan fed- also furnishes free business-related ment; it passes laws for others from eral spending, $2.5 billion is hardly travel, frequent overseas junkets and which it exempts itself, including the peanuts; it works out to about $4.5 mail privileges. Each member also is Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Ethics

million for each of Congress' 535 mem- allowed a staff of up to 22 persons. in Government Act of 1978; and it has bers. Most of the funds will be used to But that's not all. There are 38 rigged the election process, including pay an army of about 20,000 staffers. standing committees and more than the gerrymandering of congressional Also, "official mail" will cost $114 250 subcommittees in Congress, each districts, to assure incumbents virtual million, almost double the current with its own retinue of aides and assist- tenure of life." year's postal budget of $61 million. ants. To house this expanding conglom- Concluded former Rep. Thomas Next year's operating budget also erate of people, Congress occupies 12 Hartnett, a South Carolinian elected in includes an almost 100 percent increase buildings, in addition to the Capitol 1980 who served three terms in Con- for the Senate President ProTempore's building itself. There's now a master gress before retiring to private life, "We office. The House Speaker's office will plan for still more congressional offices have to place a lid on federal spending, receive $3.5 million — compared to that would spill beyond Capitol Hill to and we can help our representatives $680,000 last year— for something surrounding areas. from being scared to do it. It is time that called a "civic achievement" program The legislative explosion has far out- we told them that after a limited for school children. Not surprisingly, paced the country's population growth. number of terms, we will give you a Since 1970, the population has gold watch, a brass band, put you on a Charles Philips, a free-lance journalist increased by 7 percent; congressional bus, send you home and let you live based in Greensboro, N.C., specializes in staffs have mushroomed by 43 percent. under the laws you passed while you government affairs. Today, there are about 20,000 people on were in Congress."

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conscript army with large shipments of By Philip C. Clarke arms and ammunition, including advanced rocket launchers and armored 0HORTLY before the cars. But the tough Afghan freedom Moscow summit confer- fighters endured for years against ence last year, Georgi everything the high-powered Red Army Arbatov, the Kremlin's could throw at them. In fact, the expert on U.S. relations, mujahedin claim to have about 40,000 told American reporters: of their best holy warriors ready for the "We are going to do some- final assault. thing terrible to you. We President George Bush has said the are going to deprive you of United States would play a "catalytic an enemy." role in helping to bring about stability The Soviet Union's withdrawal from hopefully in a government where the

Afghanistan appears to have gone a people have a lot of say, but it won't be long way toward that objective. easy." The White House said U.S. aid Although Moscow has conceded would include efforts to rebuild the failure in its nine-year effort to subjugate war-ravaged country and help in the Afghanistan by military force — after eventual repatriation of more than 5 laying waste to the country and killing million refugees and resettlement of

1 million of its people — Mikhail another 2 million people left homeless.

Gorbachev obviously believed it was The Afghan war also has cost strategically more important to polish GOING HOME-4 happy Soviet sol- Pakistan heavily from cross-border his peaceful image with the West, espe- dier waves goodbye during the troop raids by Soviet aircraft and countless cially if it meant reacquiring badly withdrawal from Kabul. bomb attacks by Kabul's infamous, needed Western technology. The KGB-trained secret police known as Afghan adventure, in which at least WAD. According to Richard L. Armit- 40,000 Soviet soldiers were killed or regime of President Najibullah to age, at press time still assistant secre- wounded and billions of rubles were remain in power. After Moscow agreed tary of defense for international secu- squandered, was written off as a costly to the Soviet withdrawal in the U.N.- rity affairs, since 1985 there have been blunder by the late and now discredited sponsored Geneva Accords of April more than 1,500 "incursions" by air Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. 1988, Kremlin diplomats began a into Pakistani territory, which together Gorbachev had bigger and more imme- furious round of negotiations with with Afghan-based artillery and rocket diate goals to pursue, namely detente resistance leaders at refugee centers in attacks have caused more than 1,250 with the West and perestroika (restruc- Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, trying casualties. WAD agents also are turing) of the Soviet Union's failing to sell the idea of a coalition govern- strongly suspected of planting a bomb economy and over-extended global ment with Najibullah's ruling Marxist aboard the plane that exploded in flight empire. But Moscow might try to create party in Kabul. The mujahedin's seven- over Pakistan this past August, killing a Soviet protectorate along Afghanis- party alliance based in Pakistan, Pakistan's President Mohammad Zia, tan's northern border with the USSR though vying for control over the American ambassador Arnold Raphel where the Red Army already has built council that would govern post-war and 28 others, many high-ranking numerous fortified installations. Afghanistan, held firm against Mos- Pakistani military officers. Only hours Also, there was a chance that some of cow's pressure. The resistance leaders before the fatal plane crash, Soviet the 1 £ or more factions of the mujahedin sensed that once Soviet forces had left, spokesmen warned Zia to cease sup- would turn on one another in a bloody Najibullah's regime would soon col- plying arms to the mujahedin or face dire civil war, allowing the Soviet-backed lapse or be overthrown by mujahedin consequences. Despite the Soviet's forces ringing the capital. withdrawal from Afghanistan, to all Philip C. Clarke, a former AP correspon- The immediate prospect was for victims of communist terror and dent, is a free-lance journalist and editor more fierce fighting. Before leaving, aggression, Moscow clearly is still the who contributes regularly to this magazine. the Soviets reinforced Kabul's shaky enemy.

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©1987, Dahlberg, Inc., Miracle-Ear is a registered trademark of Dahlberg, Inc. The Miracle-Ear symbol is a trademark of Dahlberg, Inc. 7731 Country Club Drive, Golden Valley, MN 55427 PR-1384 MpP—MM N Memorial Day, I T — remember Michael Jay ASK ME ABOUT I Warren. We met on a chilly, rainy morning in III November 1967 in Phu I Bai, Vietnam. The day I before, my first in-country. HL JH had been difficult. No BgHflfli matter how hard I had tried to "look cool, act cool, be cool,"

I failed miserably. A second lieutenant in stateside fatigues, unarmed, confused and carry- MIKE ing a too-full duffle bag just did not blend in well. Like a tow truck approaching a stranded motorist, Mike greeted me with a firm handshake, a friendly "welcome aboard" and a warm smile. He understood my discomfort immediately. Later, he was to kid me often: WARREN had I been in a firefight or on a binge on my way from the airport? As he walked with me to requisition combat equipment, I found myself relaxing. At each ...even if it hurts both of us stop, he'd introduce me, state my need (boots, fatigues, canteens, etc.) and

make sure I was given the best available. His command presence, his expe- Since Memorial Day 1 968, little has changed rience and his ease with others all for two Vietnam War buddies. For one, it is impressed me. Could I measure up? Would we be friends? a day filled with painful memories. For the At lunch that same day, Mike and I shared more about ourselves: his other, it's another day of eternal peace. upbringing of Presbyterian stock in

Moline, 111. , and mine, Irish Catholic in Dorchester, Mass. The Marine Corps was definitely not a career for either of By David S. Harrington us; more to the point, the status of Marine Corps officer gave us each a chance to go places far beyond the con- fines of our youths. Vietnam was a constantly endangered us with unrea- young and inexperienced for marriage. hurdle we needed to overcome. How sonable assignments. He was happy to be leaving our infantry high a hurdle? Mike worried. He'd had Mike walked into my platoon com- company, but wondered whether we

a close call. The idea of his death struck mand post just as I was finishing my last would keep in touch.

me as ridiculous. I was the one to worry. string of epithets. He held up the latest Mike was committed to our friend- Mike had done well in combat and issue of Stars and Stripes for me to read ship. Several times he managed to send would be transferred in a while to a the headline: "Paris Peace Talks Stalled; us socks, beer, extra whatevers. He had safer staff job. Debate Shape of Table." Mike analo- a sixth sense for the shortage of the Our time together was all too brief. gized diplomats, tables and Paris to week and knew several helicopter pilots

I remember a day in mid-January 1968, staff officers, ravines and Khe Sanh. He who were willing to make an extra trip when our company had been sent out to laughed at the irony. From there, we for him. I got a couple of notes— he was secure an area in front of Khe Sanh. My were off talking about France and fine but missed the excitement and the platoon was to establish a defensive Europe, even planning to drive around friendships. Seven weeks after Mike's position in eight-foot-tall elephant Europe together. transfer, the morning helicopter let off a

grass along a deep ravine. I was furious, Our last conversation took place Marine returning from the rear with a cursing out stupid staff officers who while sitting in elephant grass outside note for me from the company first Khe Sanh. The night was dark, chilly sergeant. "Lt. Harrington," he wrote, The writer is a co-director of Back in the and damp — typical of the monsoon "I regret to inform you that Lt. Warren World, a treatment program for those season in that part of Vietnam. Mike was killed last night in a helicopter suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Dis- recalled the fun times at Coe College crash. Top." Just like that Mike was order, and a professor at Catholic Uni- yet fretted about a career direction. He gone. versity's School of Social Science. was fond of a young woman back in His parents, Clarence and Ruth © Washington Post. Moline, but worried that he was too Warren, wrote, "Lt. Harrington, Mike

20 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE THE WALL-4 visitor to the Vietnam worked hard to keep our emotions in could be here with us," Ruth said over Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., check. As I set down my bag, a small and over. sees the name of someone he once knew. one this trip, in Mike's room, his Suddenly, as if one, the crowd hushed, mementos blurred through my tear- stood and faced one end of the gym did not write often. We have him home filled eyes. where, as the building darkened, a with us. But we know so little of what Ruth came up to the room to suggest single spotlight shone on the American his life was like those last few months. plans for the evening: "David, there's a "flag. Everyone sang. Immediately after- Could you tell us something more?" high school basketball game tonight. ward, as we all sat down, the spotlight I involved the whole company in this It's Mike's old high school team. We've glared in my eyes: the announcer's project: we collected pictures of Mike, been ticketholders for years. We'll have voice boomed in my ears: "Lieutenant and many of us wrote notes. We mailed dinner afterwards. Would you mind David Harrington, would you please our large manila love letter to the wearing your uniform? Are you hungry stand? Ladies and gentlemen, Lieu- Warrens. A few weeks later, they wrote enough for a hot dog now?" tenant Harrington, a friend of Mike back, "Thank you all so much for your Was I impressed! In Boston, the Warren, is visiting with Clarence and kind words and pictures. It wrll always public high schools had old uniforms, Ruth. Would you give him a warm be so important to us that Mike had so small gyms and poor attendance. Here round of applause?" many friends." in Moline, the gymnasium was bright I don't know who won the game,

In mid-January 1969, while I was on and large, the crowd filled every seat; even though I pay attention to such my way back to Vietnam for a second the band played as cheerleaders things. I do know dinner the next night tour, my plane landed at Quad Cities pranced. Spectators, mostly family was rough. Clarence took out maps, Airport. Clarence and Ruth met the friends, came over to say hello; pictures and letters and wanted me to plane. Mike had his dad's physique and Clarence and Ruth swallowed their pain retrace Mike's footsteps. Clarence and his mom's warmth and ease. Each of us and smiled. "We are delighted David Please turn to page 60

MAY 1989 21 "

Interview A The Mystique Of DVERTISING

Although often moligned, the odvertising industry is a major reason whyAmerica enjoys the world's highest standard

of living. Without it we would not learn about the new or improved products and services that make our lives better.

ublic opinion polls consistently rate those who tising has grown as the economy has grown, very much in work in the advertising profession near the parallel. bottom of the barrel in terms of ethics and Advertising can create new efficiencies in the economy, public respect. "That's a cross we should not thereby reducing prices, particularly in markets that are have to bear, " says DeWitt Helm, president of highly competitive and where manufacturers are vying for a the Association of National Advertisers. The share of the market. Advertising extolls the benefits of one

advertising industry put more than $200 billion manufacturer's goods over his competitor's, and it can create into the economy last year, says Helm, and is a economic efficiency. "catalyst, a stimulus ... afactor intimately tied in with production, employment and our high living stan- Q« How do you account for the extremes in the way people dards. view advertising? That is a hard question to answer. Some people see Legion Magazine: In 1988, Americans spent A American advertising as an intrusion—TV advertising particu- $200 billion on advertising. What do people get for all that larly. We often hear the comment, "Oh, I wish there weren't money? so much advertising. There are more ads than there is DeWitt Helm: The principal thing they get is the highest program content." The thing that is overlooked is that standard of living in the world. Also, advertising is a primary advertising pays for programming. The programming we source of information for consumers. It is through adver- have on television and on radio is really supported by tising that people learn of new products and services, and advertisers. Without that revenue we would not have the improvements in products and services, thereby becoming programming and certainly would not have the quality of acquainted with what is available to pursue a better life. programming. Advertising also creates economies of scale — efficiencies that help make the marketplace more competitive and result Q> The average person is exposed to about 2,000 ad in savings to the consumer. messages each day. What is the effect of such hammering on the human consciousness? Q a But don't such heavy ad costs inflate the prices of the A I'm not sure all that exposure necessarily hammers on goods we buy? the consciousness. There are times when we tune things A Not really. The $200 billion you mentioned represents 2 out and times when we are more receptive to what is being percent of the gross national product. It's interesting that communicated to us, whether it is in the written word, the this percentage has held constant during the past 35 to 40 spoken word or visually. This says to me, among other things, years. Our percentage of the GNP has not gone up; adver- that advertising has to compete for attention and has to be

22 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE DEWITT HELM restrictions able to break through a certain Just think about the number of new products introduced on advertis- resistance or barrier that the every year, whether it is groceries or over-the-counter ing limits consumer may have because medicine. of being subjected to so the rights much information. The mes- Q So, advertising reflects the dynamism of the American sage really has to be some- economy? of the people thing provocative, interrup- A That's right. Advertising is an investment that the to receive tive and informative for it to manufacturer makes. Unless there is a return on that penetrate. investment, the manufacturer doesn't continue. He can't information. continue. Q. But you don't think the average person is harmed Q> People got sick of the rnudslinging political ads we saw by this? in the 1988 elections. Are such ads really effective? And how A What percentage of our can negative advertising be reduced? brain is presumably A I am not sure the advertising was as negative as the media never used? It is high. So I don't know that anyone has represented it to be. One of the news programs the suffered from being subjected to too much advertising. Sunday before the election pointed out that Harry Truman had likened Tom Dewey to either Hitler or Mussolini. Despite Q- How do you get advertisers to cut down on the overkill all the alleged rnudslinging in the past election, we had of messages, for instance, television? nothing that bordered on that. It seems to me that any time A Well, I'm not sure you can. The proliferation of products somebody disagrees with the point of view of somebody else, and services and rising cost of advertising have created a then the commercial is negative. If you agree, it's OK; but, if cause-and-effect relationship that requires more ads. The 60- you disagree, it is negative. second commercial used to be very much in vogue, then came the 30-second commercial, now the 15-second com- Q- Do you think these ads were really effective? mercial is becoming the standard or the medium most used A Some better than others. Some of the advertising was by advertisers. There are, of course, limits on the number of very effective. Perhaps the campaign ads were more commercial messages in any given time period; those are effective than the debates or the speech writing, because they imposed by government regulations. I don't know if we'll get registered single messages in a very condensed time-frame. any reduction in information, though. We live in an era of They were well-produced by both parties. information explosion that is not just related to advertising. Please turn to page 58

MAY 1989 23 Commentary

I S T H E

OVER

Only time will tell if Gorbachev's radical reforms

are sincere orjust ploys. Till then, the best

policy for the West is to encourage glosnost but continue to maintain a strong defense posture.

BY DR. TIMOTHY W.STANLEY

0EPENDING on who you and hostile as ever, only more modern uncertainty. Why? Because the radical ask, you can get almost and efficient, and thus better able to reforms are so unprecedented and far- any answer to the ques- spread the Marxist-Leninist dogma reaching concerning the nature, goals tion: What does the around the world. and governance of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev era really Optimists, on the other hand, believe that forecasting their outcome is at mean to the United the Cold War is over and that the Soviet best, risky, and at worst, extremely States? Apart from wider Union is maturing into a peace-con- dangerous for the West.

considerations, it literally scious nation that will continue to Remember, these changes are really may be the $64 billion function as a competitive superpower: a troika (three-horse team) of economic question concerning future U.S. one which we need fear no longer and restructuring, or perestroika; glasnost, or defense spending. with which we can achieve cooperative openness; and a new thinking in world Skeptics note that recent Soviet and mutually beneficial relations. affairs. All are necessary if Gorbachev rhetoric has not been matched by actual If the latter scenario happens, then and his new leadership are to turn changes in military deployments or the General Secretary's remarkable resources devoted to defense. Also, speech at the United Nations Dec. 7, SEND US YOUR IDEAS they fear that even ifperestroika (restruc- 1988, certainly will give Americans turing) works, the West could eventu- another— and a more pleasant— reason The American Legion Magazine ally face a Soviet Union as aggressive for remembering that date. Indeed, the is interested in your views on the world community would have a basis to question: Based on Gorbachev's Dr. Timothy W. Stanley, professor, author, hope for a better and saner planet. apparent spirit of cooperation, do and expert in East-West relations, is presi- The correct answer, however, may be you trust the Soviets more now than dent ofthe International Economic Studies neither of the above, simply because no you did five years ago? Send your Institute in Washington, D.C. Stanley one knows, not even Mikhail Gorba- letters to IDEAS, American

recently addressed the Legion 's Policy chev, how the Soviet reforms will Legion Magazine, P.O. Box Coordination and Action Group on the change the nation. Many Soviet offi- 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206 topic ofU.S.-Soviet relations. cials and private citizens share that

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE public apathy into energetic participa- twin powder kegs of the Soviet because the genie of glasnost will be tion, gradually introduce price reform nationalities— the decreasing Russian hard to place back in the lamp. Such a and economic incentives, and foster an nationalism and the restless European junta would be inclined toward aggres-

environment in which it is safe to beat nationalism— threaten to explode. Con- sion abroad, if only to generate distrac- some of the swords into plowshares. sequently, perestroika and its companion tion and public support at home. After For a society that had stagnated for concepts could fail just as easily as they all, the repressions and forced sacrifices more than a decade and seemed could succeed. imposed on the Soviet people were destined to have a Third World Failure could take the form of harm- justified by the Marxist-Leninist mission economy and a second-class military less paralysis. But the changes could in the world. power, there seems to be little argument also destabilize or even disintegrate the Success could lead to either a rein- in the USSR about these goals. Even Soviet empire, and enabling an unor- vigorated adversary or to a totally dif- the Soviet military seems prepared to ganized or anarchist faction to control ferent Soviet Union willing to work for accept fewer guns now for modern guns the Soviet's nuclear arsenal is danger- genuine strategic stability and mutual

later. But the questions of what, where, ous, if not deadly. More likely, if failure security. The odds seem to favor the when and how the goals are to be carried loomed because of any of the obstacles Please turn to page 61 out are vigorously debated throughout mentioned, a new hard-line leadership

would take over. To do so, it would prob- the land. In particular, introducing NEW HOPE?-/»s it has for several market-pricing mechanisms— supply ably have to reimpose some type of decades, the prospect of world peace and demand— into a former bureaucrat- neo-Stalinist domestic controls, depends on closer U.S.-Soviet relations. ically operated command economy is almost without precedent. The Chinese communists' experience

with it to date is not entirely encouraging. Also there are issues of what Americans would call "states' rights," especially as a new Soviet constitution takes shape; the Soviet elite fear that their privileges are in jeopardy; communist managers dread competition and the possibility of bankruptcy, a previously unknown concept; and the

MAY 1989 25 OWTO 1,000 miles, through 10 million By Phyllis Zauner takeoffs and landings in all kinds of weather without a single passenger fatality. • OVERCOME E ARE more likely to On the highways, 1 30 lives are lost die in a bathtub than daily; in the air the yearly average is on an airline flight, 120. and more liable to be To most people, those numbers are YOUR struck by lightning on heartening. But for the 25 million a golf course or over- fearful or phobic flyers in the United anesthetized on the States, air travel seems shiveringly operating table than unsafe. Caught up in a sort of negative go down in a crash. self-hypnosis, they fixate on the details FEAR OF • During the past 25 years, America's of every crash, exaggerating them in commercial airlines have flown more imagination. than 135 million hours with just 138 Hands turn icy, hearts pound, and fatal accidents; in every one million they sweat. When the plane banks right, FLYING safe hours, only one crash. • During 1986 and until August Free-lance writer Phyllis Zauner is a 1987, U.S. scheduled airlines trans- syndicated columnist who writes on social ported 700 million people an average of customs and conditions in America.

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE they lean left to keep the jumbo jet from flipping over. Turbulence suggests the pilot has lost control. One woman, on her third anxious flight in two months, IR-TRAVEL ANXIETY IS suddenly grabbed a stranger next to her and asked if they were going to crash. What the fearful flyer dreads most H CAUSED BY THE THREAT may not be the crash at all, but the fear of having a panic attack in the air and doing something really silly, like OF NOT BEING IN CONTROL. screaming "Let me out of here!" A Boeing International survey found that one in six flyers gets the willies when it's time to take to the skies. For some, the affliction affects careers, by the threat of powerlessness, of not pilot who has developed a series of causing them to pass up job oppor- being in control. Whether we feel cassette tapes to combat flight fear, said tunities that involve travel. trapped by the cabin enclosure, depen- he believes this delayed reaction comes Although most go through their dent on a metal mechanical contraption from increased responsibilities. whole lives in recurring fright about that's supposed to defy the law of grav- "You're no longer that carefree youth; flight, a few finally decide to get help. ity, at the mercy of the competence of you get a family, have a responsible "You are not born with the fear of the pilot, panicked by turbulence, or position— suddenly you start worrying flying, and you can master it," said ashamed to show our fear in public, it's about flying and don't even know why" Carol Stauffer, who has been helping to the feeling of powerlessness that's Please turn to page 61 cure aerophobia for 13 years through behind fear of flying." USAir's Fearful Flying Program. The Capt. T. W Cummings, a Pan Am airline sponsors 10 seven-week pro- pilot who has cured thousands of cases HOW SAFE ARE WE? grams annually in various cities. of flight fear, found that "these are people pride themselves on being Psychologist Stauffer and pilot Capt. who A majority of Americans say Frank Petee teach the classes. The basic in control at all times. On one level, flying on commercial airlines is premise is is they don't like handing over their safety that information a solid more dangerous today than five weapon against a rabid imagination. to a pilot. On another, they are deeply years ago, but safer than it was in The goal is to crowd out panic of the concerned they will get hysterical and 1987, according to a recent Gallup with facts. a fool of themselves." unknown make poll. Students are taught relaxation techniques. They're gradually desen- USAir program helps partici- SAFETYTREND OF U.S. AIRLINES sitized to airplanes by spending ses- THEpants get a grip on their fears by 1989 1987 sions first in a plane on the ground, then taking them to the maintenance Safer 9% 5% taxiing and aborting two takeoffs, and center, where they learn that jet airlines Less Safe 52 64 finally in the air in a one-hour gradua- undergo five hours of maintenance for Stayed the same 36 28 tion, for which they may invite a sup- each hour of flight. They learn about No opinion 3 13 portive friend. the rigid training a pilot has to undergo. "If you can train your body to relax at They see how the automatic pilot works; GOVERNMENT'S SAFETY EFFORTS will," Stauffer said, "even in an anx- they visit the air traffic control tower iety-producing situation you can con- where controllers hover over screens 1989 1987 trol your fear instead of it controlling watching the blips of the airplanes as Doing all it can 29% 31% you. A fearful flyer has learned to be they direct air traffic. Most important, Not doing enough 62 55 tense and anxious." She recalled a par- they learn how flaps and ailerons work, No opinion 9 14 ticipant who kept a scrapbook of news- and that if one engine fails the plane paper accounts of air accidents. "He'd will fly on another. A reassuring fact is page through it periodically, reinforcing that if all engines fail, barring major WHERE TO SEEK HELP his panic." fire, the plane can actually glide to White-knucklers are often plagued safety. by other phobias, especially claus- Some people fly for years with no USAIR Fearful Flyers Program, trophobia. One woman said she'd fly qualms whatsoever, then for no Box 100, Glenshaw, PA 15116 anywhere in the world if they would apparent reason, start to panic. "I flew (412) 486-5917 Cost is $250, in- just leave the plane door open. To a as a child and as a teen-ager with no cluding a one-hour flight with a lesser degree, fear of heights underlies problem," said Mary Hogan of Oak- friend. the problem, though taking an aisle seat land, Calif. "Then something hap- Institute for Psychology of Air usually relieves the feeling of being pened. I don't know what. There was Travel, 25 Huntington Ave., Suite drawn downward. no incident, no in-air mishap, no dead 300, Boston, MA 021 16 (617) 437- The ultimate fear, though, is far sub- friend, no thunderstorm over the 1811. Offers various services, tler. Said Dr. Albert Forgione, a pro- Rockies. Just relentless anxiety when I including classes in various U.S. fessor of psychology at Tufts University, flew." locations, $250. "Basically air-travel anxiety is caused Capt. Tom Bunn, a United Airlines

MAY 1989 27 BATTLE REPORT

"Air attack on Japanese carriers Kaga and Akagi. " Painting by Griffith Bailey Coale. MIDWAY

the north. The carrier force was By Vernon Pizer ordered to proceed immediately on an intercept course. It turned south

on a heading that would place it IDWAY is no more between the two enemy columns. than a speck on the Early on June 4, the first Japanese map. A small, carriers penetrated to within striking

remote atoll, it is range of the atoll and launched 72 the westernmost torpedo planes and bombers, and 36 island of the long fighter escorts. A Marine fighter Hawaiian chain. squadron on Midway scrambled to But in the early defend against the attack, but its spring of 1942, slow aircraft were no match for the that speck of land loomed large in enemy Zeros, which decimated the strategic planning of the massive them. The enemy planes penetrated Japanese Imperial Combined Fleet. the island's defenses and heavily Tokyo's concept was to seize the damaged the atoll's installations. island from its small U.S. Army and However, the runways themselves Marine Corps garrison and to con- remained intact, and the field was

vert it into a base for the assault and still in operable condition. occupation of all Hawaii. Striking back, the Army Air Because Midway was intended as Corps and Marine torpedo planes only the opening move in a much and bombers that survived the more ambitious plan, the Japanese "The Japanese heavy cruiser Mogami cap- attack flew out to meet the enemy armada that was dispatched toward sizing at sunset. " Painting by Griffith Bailey fleet. It was an uneven match. Of six the island was awesome in size and Coale. Marine torpedo planes, only one got composition. It comprised all through; and only one of four Army Navy fought to its classes of vessels: aircraft carriers,, On June 3, long-range U.S. bombers through drop cruisers, destroyers, submarines, patrol planes sighted a column of bombs and make it back to base. Of 16 supply vessels and transports carrying Japanese vessels bearing down on Marine dive bombers striking the troops earmarked for occupation duty. Midway from the west. Later, a second enemy's carriers, eight were shot down. column was sighted moving in from the Marine Maj. Lofton R. Henderson rode Vernon Pizer, a free-lance journalist northwest. The nearest available Amer- his flaming bomber down to crash it on based in Valdosta, Ga., writes exten- ican blocking force was a Navy carrier the deck of a Japanese carrier. Army

sively on the military and war. formation, but it was a full day away to Capt. Richard E. Fleming, his plane hit

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE IN HARM'S WAY— Damage control teams survey the flight deck after the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (above) took a direct hit from a Japanese bomb. Only four of Unit VT-6's squadron aircraft on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (right) would survive the Battle of Midway.

by anti-aircraft fire, flew on to drop his a short time later launched 1 7 dive bom- bombs ripped into Akagi, setting off bombs on an enemy vessel and then bers and 12 torpedo planes. The Navy secondary explosions and leaving the crashed to his death in the sea. pilots fought bravely and skillfully, but vessel ablaze. Four bombs found their By now the U.S. carrier force they flew into a curtain of anti-aircraft mark on Kaga, damaging the carrier so steaming southward had advanced fire and a buzz saw of Japanese fight- devastatingly that it sank. Next, 17 dive barely within aircraft range of the ers. The American torpedo planes, the bombers from the Yorktown struck a Japanese fleet. RearAdm. Raymond A. first attacking wave, were almost all third enemy carrier a crippling blow

Spruance, commander of Task Force shot down without registering a hit on from which it did not recover. 16, launched 67 dive bombers, 29 tor- any of the Japanese carriers. The following day the Yorktown's pedo planes and an escort of 20 fight- The dive bombers fared better. Lt. radar tracked more than 30 enemy ers. The other component of the Amer- Cmdr. Clarence McCluskey of the planes bearing down on her and ican formation, Task Force 17 under Enterprise led 37 planes in on two car- immediately scrambled fighters to command of Rear Adm. Jack Fletcher, riers, the Kaga and the Akagi. Two Please turn to page 62

MAY 1989 29 network in Lebanon had been virtually wiped out. Charles Ames, the CIA's chief of station in Beirut, was dead. So were 10 other agents. They were among 61 people — 17 of them Americans— killed weeks earlier when a suicidal Lebanese Shiite smashed an explosive-laden auto into the U.S. Embassy gate in Beirut. DESPERATION At the time, President Reagan had been pushing a Middle East peace initiative. His first goal was to halt the bloody In The civil war in Lebanon. But the Lebanese government had lost control. Power was divided among warlords, religious zealots and hashish smugglers who had carved villages and neighborhoods into separate fiefdoms. Then, in April 1983, the death-car terrorist struck. Casey had to move quickly. He had to rebuild his spy network in Lebanon. Casey reportedly told Buckley he MIDDLE EAST was the only man Casey could turn to. Furthermore, as Candace Hammond, Buckley's former sweetheart, told the New York Post: "He (Buckley) said he Led To Iran-Contra Extremes was chosen because he was expenda- ble." In a sense, Buckley was ideal for the job.

Unmarried and with little social life outside the intelligence community, Buckley was the CIA's foremost expert on terrorism and counter-insurgency. By Niles Lathem A native of Medford, Mass., a graduate of Boston University and an ILLIAM Buckley, the Army veteran, Buckley had cut his courtly superspy, was teeth in the intelligence business in the William Casey's own Vietnam War. personal nightmare. Assigned to the CIA station in Buckley's plight — Saigon for more than six years, Buckley and eventual murder- served with some of the "golden boys" haunted the usually of the CIA— agents whose names hard-boiled director would later surface in Iranscam. W of the CIA until his Among them were Donald Gregg, death on May 6, 1987. Vice President Bush's national security Casey's nightmare began in the adviser; Felix Rodriguez, Lt. Col. spring of 1983 when he asked Oliver North's intelligence contact in Buckley — a friend as well as an Nicaragua, and Theodore Shackley, the employee— to put his life on the line. first U.S. official to hear Iranian mid- The assignment: take over as the dleman Manucher Ghorbanifar's CIA's chief of station in Beirut, the scheme to free American hostages in most dangerous city in the world. Buck- Lebanon. ley, then 55, was extremely reluctant. In Vietnam, Buckley ran the The reason: William Buckley, a 20- agency's counter-insurgency opera- year veteran of secret missions in Viet- WILLIAM BUCKLEY tions and portions of the Phoenix Pro- nam, knew he had been unmasked as a gram—the most ruthless U.S. operation CIA agent. in East Germany in the 1970s. The list, of the war. Respectfully, Buckley reminded compiled with the help of CIA turncoat Buckley organized South Viet-

Casey of a list that had been published Phillip Agee, named deep-cover CIA namese "hit teams." These units agents. prowled the jungles, crossed enemy lines, uncovered Viet Cong strong- Reprinted by permission of New York Post And Buckley's name was on it. holds. copyright 1987. The New York Post Co. , Inc. But Casey was desperate. His spy

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE WILLIAM CASEY

themselves becoming friends. Just before Buckley was dispatched to Beirut, Casey pulled him off a hush- hush CIA-Pentagon project, an undercover anti-terror unit with a nebulous name: the Intelligence Support Activity. His CIA link already exposed by the East German publication, William Buckley, spy, arrived in Beirut in June 1983 as William Buckley, "political officer," for the State Department, sup- posedly on his first diplomatic assignment.

ROUND out the cover story, he TOwas given a phony background as a former librarian in a Massachusetts prep school. Less than six months later, he was a hostage — kidnapped by Syrian- and Iranian-backed terrorists. His captors BOMBING— The attack on the U.S. embassy in Lebanon, and terrorist acts such as were Lebanese Shiite Moslems, mem- the kidnapping of CIA agent Buckley, precipitated the Iran-Contra affair. bers of the dreaded Hezbollah. Buckley was a marked man the moment he set foot in Beirut, U.S. intel- They killed with efficiency. Their were dotted and t's were crossed." ligence officials now admit. They sus- targets for assassination: Viet Cong Most of Buckley's CIA exploits in pect that Soviet or East German opera- sympathizers. the post-Vietnam era remain secret. But tives revealed his identity to Hezbollah Buckley was good at what he did. colleagues say that in 1979 he was through the Syrians. "He was a student of insurgency move- involved in efforts to rescue U.S. hos- After Buckley's March 16 kidnap- ments. He was an innovator constantly tages from Iran. They add that he ping, panic gripped CIA headquarters looking for and developing new helped train bodyguards for Egyptian in Langley, Va. techniques to cope with problems faced President Anwar Sadat, who was assas- "It simply traumatized the agency," by the Viet Cong insurgency," said a sinated in 1981. said a CIA veteran. "It was a complete former CIA colleague who served in Casey became CIA chief in 1981. disaster." Vietnam. Buckley, a political conservative, was Casey became desperate to save his "He wasn't a hale-and-hearty back- an ardent supporter of his new boss' friend. The CIA chief was driven by slapping fellow. He was a serious sort of efforts to revitalize the CIA. Suddenly, fear and guilt: dispassionate professional who did his Buckley found himself one of Casey's • Fear because Buckley might reveal homework and made sure all the i's rising stars. Day by day, the two found secrets under torture.

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• Guilt because it was Casey who by an audio cassette of a Buckley tor- Lebanese commando unit, trained by had ordered Buckley to Beirut. ture session. Buckley, tried to kill Hezbollah's • Further guilt because the CIA Clair George, a deputy CIA director spiritual leader, Sheik Hussein Fadlal- received steady, horrifying reports that and Buckley's closest supervisor, broke lah. Sixty people were killed by a car Buckley was being tortured. down and wept with others on his staff bomb, but Fadlallah escaped injury.

Casey, when he was assigned to the when they heard Buckley's screams of Hezbollah retaliated by executing 1 OSS in London during World War II, agony. Casey and his CIA colleagues people they say plotted the explosion. used to run agents behind enemy lines. heard Buckley disclosing top-secret The CIA denied knowledge of the

He had made it a point of pride to details of CIA counter-terrorism attackers. But U.S. intelligence sources

always get his agents back alive. He activities. say the 1 1 victims were officials of kept the same policy at the CIA. "One of the most difficult things I Buckley's spy network, people who

Intelligence sources said that just experienced . . . was to see pictures that apparently had decided to act on their weeks before Buckley's kidnapping, we were able to obtain of Bill Buckley own. another top CIA official, attached to as he died over time," testified North The CIA believes Hezbollah got their the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia, was kid- before the Iranscam committee. names from Buckley. napped by mysterious terrorists. Casey "It was awful to say the least." Some secrets tortured out of Buckley turned to Israel, and within 48 hours, helped Hezbollah hijackers outwit the the CIA man was freed in a daring Delta Team, the elite U.S. counter-ter- Israeli commando operation. rorist force. The CIA repaid the favor months When TWA Flight 847 was hijacked

later when it assisted in a secret airlift of in the summer of 1985, the U.S. anti- starving Ethiopian Jews to Israel, hijack team saw a new terrorist strategy sources report. unfolding. "Bill Casey turned the CIA, the U.S. The hijackers kept moving the jet government and the Middle East upside Uasey from airport to airport. Eventually, they down looking for Buckley," said a CIA landed in Beirut and split up the passen- veteran. even more des- gers. The hijackers moved so quickly In Lebanon and in the Iranian exile perate now, that U.S. attempts at a commando raid communities of Europe, Casey's agents to free the passengers never got off the paid millions of dollars to informants in was ready for ground. efforts to find Buckley. The Reagan administration was Nearly two months after his kidnap- more risky stymied, intelligence sources believe, ping, the CIA pinpointed a location in because terrorists had learned enough South Beirut where Buckley was efforts to about U.S. counter-terrorist strategy to believed to be held. create a more effective hijacking Again, Casey turned to Israel. A free buckley. scheme. U.S. -Israeli commando operation was Oliver North, who was then working planned to free Buckley and two other with Casey, told colleagues that the

Americans. I I terrorists developed their tactics as a But, according to intelligence result of information provided by sources, Buckley was moved to the President Reagan never saw the Buckley about U.S. counter-terrorism Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley before grisly evidence of Buckley's torture, strategies. North's theory is shared by the commandos could be mobilized. said former National Security adviser other experts. A month later, the State Department Robert McFarlane. Early in 1985, Casey turned to North received a videotape of Buckley and But Casey kept the President at the National Security Council. Casey, two other hostages. Buckley was informed of Buckley's ordeal through even more desperate now, was ready for clearly suffering, the videotape daily intelligence briefings, McFarlane more risky efforts to free Buckley. revealed. said. Casey recruited North because the The shocking TV pictures galvanized Buckley died in June 1985, 15 energetic Marine could operate without Casey's efforts to free Buckley. months after his kidnap. Cause of death reporting to Congress. In January 1985, another videotape was pulmonary edema. Buckley had There is no question that Casey's was sent to U.S. television networks by been kicked in the kidneys so many search for Buckley set in motion the Hezbollah. On that tape, a ghostly- times that his lungs filled with fluid and events that led to the Reagan adminis- looking Buckley urged that "our gov- he suffocated. tration's decision to sell arms to Iran. ernment take action for our release A 400-page "confession," the result Even though the United States knew quickly." of Buckley's interrogation, was sent to Buckley had died, Casey insisted on

To his friend Casey, it was clear that Libya, Syria, Iran and Soviet-bloc capi- retrieving Buckley's body— which has Buckley had undergone painful, pro- tals, administration officials said. yet to be found. longed torture. The damage to U.S. intelligence Because he had to determine pre- A few months later, through a mys- operations was felt immediately. cisely what secrets Buckley had given terious European source, the CIA Entire networks of CIA informers away, Casey could not rest until he had obtained even more gruesome pictures and operatives in Lebanon and Iran had the transcript of Buckley's 400-page of Buckley. to be shut down. "confession." Still later, CIA fears were confirmed In March 1985, a U.S.-backed Please turn to page 55

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Veterans update

The Vietnam Women's Memorial Project He said that in 1987, 80 million adults volunteered 19.5 Inc. has agreed to consider an open contest to select the billion hours of their time, which would have cost $150 memorial's design. billion in public salaries. In a March meeting with the National Capital Planning The Volunteer Protection Act would help to stabilize Commission, project officials withdrew their hard-line insurance costs for non-profit organizations. The potential support for Rodger Brodin's statue of the nurse in an liability of volunteers has increased sharply the cost of attempt to release the bureaucratic logjam that has stalled insurance for those organizations. the project from the beginning. A 1988 Gallup survey of non-profit organizations

"Brodin ' s statue still could be erected on the Mall if it is showed an average increase in insurance premiums of 155 the contest winner," said Teddy Brown, the project's percent since 1984. executive director. "We haven't given up. We still like the The act provides a 1 percent increase in social service statue," she said. "People associate Vietnam women grants to states that enact volunteer protection legislation veterans with the statue, and we hope that Brodin will by fiscal year 1991. enter the contest." Brown said the project's leaders had agreed to abide by the Commemorative Works Act, which requires that a memorial site be approved before the design is considered. K During the meeting, commission members voiced their Korean War Memorial officials expect the support for a women veterans' monument within the 2.2 winner of the memorial design competition to be acres of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Brown said the announced June 1 monument's site also must be approved by the Interior At press time, Gen. Richard G. Stilwell (Ret.), Secretary, the Office of Management and Budget, Con- chairman of the Korean War Veterans Memorial Advisory gress and the Fine Arts Commission. Board, said half of the $6 million needed to fund the Since the project began in 1983, about $800,000 has memorial had been raised. been raised toward the estimated $1.3 million needed to "This memorial is long overdue," said Nat'l Cmdr. H. erect and maintain the monument. F. "Sparky" Gierke. "I urge all Legionnaires to generously "The American Legion supports a women veterans' support the Korean War Veterans Memorial." addition to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, just as we The National Capital Planning Commission has support all monuments to our nation's veterans," said approved a site for the memorial in a grove of trees on the Nat'l Cmdr. H. F. "Sparky" Gierke. "The addition will be south side of the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln a well-deserved, specific tribute to our often-forgotten Memorial. women veterans." Tax-deductible contributions should be sent to The Tax-deductible contributions should be sent to: Execu- Korean War Veterans Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 2372, tive Director, Vietnam Women's Memorial Project Inc., Washington, DC 20013-2372.

P.O. Box 5335 1 , Washington, DC 20009.

Nlational Commander h. f "Sparky" Gierke Legislation that would provide legal has urged President George Bush to support supplemental immunity for volunteers of non-profit organizations has funding for the current year's VA budget. been introduced in Congress by Sen. Dennis DeConcini of In a letter to the President, Gierke said several years of Arizona. S.520, the Volunteer Protection Act of 1989, decremental VA budgeting has resulted in a funding encourages states to enact legislation granting immunity shortfall that could reach $1 billion in this year's budget from personal civil liability for volunteers who act in good for the Department of Medicine and Surgery. faith while performing duties with non-profit organiza- "More than 80 percent of the VA medical centers have tions. severely curtailed inpatient and outpatient treatment to DeConcini's bill urges Congress to provide "full and thousands of non-service-connected veterans who depend complete immunity from suit . . . provided that the damage on the VA for their health-care needs." Gierke said. "The or injury allegedly caused by the volunteer is not caused decremental funding has had an adverse effect on patient by the willful or wanton misconduct of such volunteer." care and will continue to erode the quality, quantity and An identical bill has been introduced in the House by timeliness of health care provided to veteran Rep. John Porter of Illinois. beneficiaries, unless an adequate supplemental appropria- The bills would help stem the decline in volunteers that tion is provided." has occurred in recent years because of the perception that Gierke asked the President to support Veterans Affairs volunteers may be held liable for their actions. Secretary Edward J. Derwinski's supplemental request of "All branches of government are growing increasingly $314 million for medical care. He stated that although the aware of the importance of volunteers as we attempt to amount requested will not come close to covering the total reduce the federal budget deficit," said DeConcini. shortfall, at least it is a step in the right direction.

MAY 1989 35 THE AMERICAN LEGION AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDY

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

0ANNY Roth came back from the war, stared into the went to school, found moonlit kill careers and started families," zone at the said Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. edge of the "Sparky" Gierke, also a Viet- jungle and nam veteran. "Yet there are watched death many veterans from that war crawl toward who cannot sleep at night or his platoon. who suffer from other prob- The Viet Cong were moving lems that can be traced to into position for an assault. their combat experiences. Roth eased the safety off his Their lives and those of their M-16 as his heart hammered families are held hostage by against his chest. He gently PTSD." squeezed the trigger and The Legion study con-

angry red tracers lit up the cluded about PTSD veterans night as hundreds of guns on what many observers have both sides exploded into said all along: Psychological action, muffling the screams problems of combat veterans of dying men. often are intense, and many That's when Roth (not his veterans today still suffer real name) snaps awake, from wartime traumas. forced back to reality by the The PTSD part of the sound of his own scream. study was conducted by Drs. The nightmare is an endless Jeanne and Steven Stellman replay of combat he experi- in collaboration with clinical enced in 1971 as an Army psychologist Dr. Barry infantryman in Vietnam. Snow, and John Sommer, a ANOTHER WORLD— The memories of wading through rice "The hell of it is that the Vietnam veteran and director paddies often trigger flashbacks of deadly ambushes. nightmare comes even dur- of the Legion's Veterans' ing the day," said the south- Affairs and Rehabilitation ern Indiana veteran. "Something just many combat veterans. How combat Division. Researchers, using questions

triggers it, and there I am— a 20-year- experience affects veterans was part of that gauged the level of combat among old kid in a firefight." The American Legion and Columbia the 2,858 survey participants who Roth was diagnosed by VA coun- University Study of Vietnam Veterans, served in Vietnam, determined: selors several years ago as suffering an intensive undertaking whose find- • 20 percent were classified as "high- from symptoms related to Post- ings were published in December in the combat" veterans, experiencing a wide Traumatic Stress Disorder, a Environmental Research science journal. range and number of intense combat psychological condition afflicting "The majority of Vietnam veterans engagements.

36 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 38 percent were classified as "medium-combat" veterans. • 42 percent were judged to be "low- combat" veterans. Combat-intensity levels were determined by the answers to eight questions that the study participants were asked. The veterans were asked, "How often did you experience the following?" • Fire your weapon at the enemy? • Kill the enemy? • See someone killed? • See the enemy wounded? • See our guys wounded? • See dead enemy? • See our dead? • Find yourself in a situation you THE ROAD BACK— Indianapolis vet center counselor Guy Holmes reassures a thought you would never survive? group of Vietnam veterans that their PTSD suffering can be alleviated. The veterans received 1 point for a "never" response; 2 for a "rarely"; 3, "sometimes"; 4, "often"; and 5 for ings, some veterans who were class- returning veterans manifested a variety "very often." ified as "medium combat" and "low of behavioral disturbances, most of Veterans who scored 8 to 15 points combat" also suffered in varying them directed inward in the form of were rated as experiencing low combat, degrees from PTSD. Researchers said depression or anxiety and self-destruc- 16 to 25 points equated to medium the existence of their symptoms prob- tive lifestyles, rather than outward in combat and 26 or more points rated as ably would not be recognized in most the form of violence. ..." high combat. other clinical and research efforts. "I withdrew from my family and "Vietnam veterans who were class- The study's conclusion that an esti- friends," Roth said. "I slammed the ified 'high combat' are far more likely mated 15 percent of Vietnam combat door on the people who cared the most. to be socially and psychologically dis- veterans have PTSD symptoms is con- But I couldn't explain to them why I tressed than their low-combat peers," sistent with the findings of other was irritable and depressed, much less said Steven Stellman. "Based on our research. understand it myself." Roth considers study, we believe there is a great likeli- himself fortunate because he sought hood that at least 15 percent of the men ACONGRESSIONALLY mandated counseling from both a veterans' with heavy combat experience suffer VA study conducted by Research rehabilitation center and a private from PTSD." Triangle Institute last year also psychologist. He may be one of the

Danny Roth's 13-month tour in Viet- reported that 1 5 percent of those who more fortunate veterans. nam was a roller-coaster of alternating served in the war— 470,000 of 3. 14 The Legion has charged repeatedly boring days at base camp and life- million— suffer from PTSD. that PTSD patients received inconsis- risking battles in the field. A few years Another important finding of the tent care in Department of Veterans after his return, he began to have night- Legion study was that PTSD veterans Affairs' facilities nationwide and that mares of one particular encounter with generally were free of any mental- the use of Diagnostic-Related Groups the enemy. The recurring dream caused health problems before military serv- has affected inpatient treatment pro- him to shut out friends and family, and ice, which was consistent with the grams. DRGs are estimates of how long he began to have trouble concentrating responses among non-combat Vietnam it will take to treat certain medical and on his college studies. The problems veterans. However, use of both inpa- mental conditions; those estimates are ultimately cost him a marriage. tient and outpatient mental-health serv- used to fund individual DVA facilities. While conceding the existence of ices rose significantly among PTSD The result? PTSD programs are revised PTSD among Vietnam combat veterans, groups after being discharged. to reduce lengths of stays at inpatient some experts have insisted that the The ugly myths of the returning Viet- facilities and veterans do not receive disorder can be tied only to a single nam veterans persist even today: He has full treatment for their conditions. traumatic event. The Legion's study a "flashback," goes berserk and either Danny Roth eventually opened the rejected that claim. Wrote the Stellmans takes hostages or opens fire on a crowd. door. He finished college, found a and Snow in Environmental Research: "A Others have been accused of being career as a teacher and remarried. "It variety of clinical and experimental unstable because they are Vietnam continues to be a day-by-day, step-by- evidence suggests that both cumulative veterans. step journey home," he said. "But, I'm exposure (emphasis added) to pro- A leading researcher refuted the getting there." However, sometimes longed danger as well as single episodes myths and sterotyping. Said Dr. late at night in his sleep he stares into a of extraordinary danger may produce Michael Gochfeld in a supporting edito- moonlit kill zone at the edge of the PTSD. ..." rial that preceded the Legion study in jungle and watches death crawl toward According to the Legion study's find- Environmental Research: "... some his platoon.

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Washington Conference Report

C CDC TRYING TO PERPETRATE SCIENTIFIC FRAUD OF CENTURY

HE Centers for Disease The the Scientists pro- Legion, Stellmans and the Control is trying to "per- CDC have been at the center of the petrate the largest scien- duce data at controversy involving charges of faulty tific fraud of the century" research and inaccurate reporting of the

by saying it is impossible Washington Con- facts. to carry out a study of ference that The brouhaha came after the Legion Agent Orange exposure in study was published in the Environ- Vietnam, Dr. Jeanne Stell- rebuts CDC mental Research journal in December T man told Legionnaires at 1988. The study's findings con- charges against the 29th annual American Legion tradicted an earlier CDC study, which, Washington Conference, Feb. 26 to Legion study after five years and millions of tax March 1 dollars, concluded that a valid study of "It is nothing but a sheer and utter lie on Vietnam the effects of Agent Orange could not that the government did not know veterans. be done. where Agent Orange spraying missions The Legion study proved the correla- were made and where our troops were tion could be made, based on the deployed," said Stellman, who substan- HERBS tapes, and Services HERBS tiated her charges with film overlays tapes, which are government records of projected on a screen for all to see. One spray missions. Further, the Stellmans overlay pinpointed Agent Orange found that a number of health com- spraying missions over southern Viet- plaints were consistent among Vietnam nam during a one-month period in veterans who were in areas where 1967. Another overlay showed troop Agent Orange was used. movements and concentrations in that Another expert on the panel, Dr. same area and month. Peter Kahn, a member of the New Stellman said her information came Jersey State Commission on Agent from the Centers for Disease Control, Orange, called on the government to

part of it as a result of a Freedom of compensate veterans suffering from Information Act request. problems that might have been caused Stellman and her husband. Dr. Steve by dioxin exposure. Stellman, researchers and co-directors "Clearly, we as a nation should do of the landmark American Legion and something," Kahn said. "We have a Columbia University Study of Vietnam choice now of compensating people Veterans, were among a panel of who might have been injured by expo- experts at the Open Forum of Vietnam sure to the herbicide and accept that Issues, which kicked off the conference. some people were not exposed. Or we "This confirms what we learned in can wait on researchers to come up with the surveys of Vietnam veterans," she an absolute link between Agent Orange PROOF— Stellman uses a projector said. "It appears even more clearly exposure and specific diseases. and screen to show spray missions now that going to Vietnam had serious "But, we also have to remember and troop locations in Vietnam. consequences." this," Kahn said. "If we treat shabbily

38 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the men who fought in the last war, who will we get to fight the next one?" Those attending the forum learned that the Legion study findings on Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder among Viet- nam veterans were corroborated by a separate study commissioned by Con- gress and conducted by the Research Triangle Institute. "While most veterans made a successful readjustment to civilian life, our study found that 15.2 percent of these men suffer from PTSD-related symptoms," said Dr. Richard Kulka, a scientist with RTI. The Legion study also found that 15 percent of its survey participants experienced various levels of PTSD-related symptoms (see related article, page 36). The percentages mean that of the 3.14 million GIs who served in Vietnam, as many as 470,000 GUEST SPEAKER — Gierke applauds as Derwinski tells Legionnaires that he might be afflicted with PTSD. The RTI supports a $314 million supplemental DVA budget for 1989. study also said 8.5 percent of the 10,500 women in Vietnam veterans suffer from PTSD. estimated at between $600 million and "The problems we found in the vet- $1.2 billion. Reports across the nation erans we surveyed were related to com- indicate that nursing-home care is bat," said Dr. Barry Snow, a clinical 'ITH the budget being curtailed, surgery is being and health care is being denied psychologist who coordinated the facing delayed PTSD section of the Legion study with problems some veterans. the Stellmans. Snow said PTSD vet- this administra- The Legion is seeking quick action erans are more likely than their non- on a supplemental appropriation to re- combat peers to be homeless, divorced tion, veterans' issues open closed hospital wards and restore or frequent patients at VA medical cannot be adequate levels of inpatient and out- facilities. patient care, specialized services, and Both the Legion and RTI studies a priority item.) alleviate other serious problems. The found that Vietnam veterans with administration and the appropriations higher levels of combat experience ••••••••••••••9 committees in both chambers must were likely to have more psychological approve the money quickly, said and readjustment problems than other Derwinski warned Legionnaires and Dominic D. DiFrancesco, chairman of veterans of that era. Auxiliary members not to expect a the Legislative Commission. "Failure Bluecaps at the forum also wel- "magic pot of gold" with the recent to do so will allow a rapidly deteriorat- comed news that Agent Orange legisla- elevation of his agency to the Cabinet. ing situation to develop into a virtual tion is being developed on Capitol Hill. He also said he appealed to OMB for a catastrophe," he said. Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts $314 million supplemental appropria- Armed with information from the and Thomas Daschle of South Dakota tion to cover a shortfall in the VA's veterans' forum and from the reports of are drafting a bill that, if enacted, medical budget for the current fiscal the Legion's various service commis- would compensate some veterans who year. However, after his speech at the sions, Legionnaires and Auxiliary were exposed to Agent Orange, and conference, Derwinski told reporters members gathered for the legislative who are suffering certain disabilities. he doubted the request would clear rally. Each year, the rally sets the stage No matter what Capitol Hill has in Congress. for conferees to march to Capitol Hill, store for veterans during this and future "I hope Mr. Derwinski 's pessimistic where they meet with their legislators fiscal years, they will not be considered expectations of this supplemental to discuss veterans' issues and other a "priority group" by the administra- budget package is no indication of how key Legion concerns. tion. That ominous message came from he will present the request before Con- "Each of you is the very soul of this Secretary of Veterans Affairs Edward gress," responded Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. organization," Gierke said. "The suc- Derwinski, who said, "We live in a time "Sparky" Gierke. At press time, the cess of The American Legion never has of budgetary constraint and hard budget request had not been acted upon. been limited to just helping veterans. choices will have to be made. With the Washington Conference discussions We are Americans— proud Americans— budget problems facing this administra- focused mainly on VA budget and who care about the country and the tion, veterans' issues cannot be a health-care deficiencies. Budget welfare of its citizens. As long as we priority item." shortfalls for the current fiscal year are Please turn to page 54

MAY 1989 39 Your American legion

We Remember Our

Comrades Buried Overseas

HE crack of 21-gun Veterans Day and V-E Day. salutes and the stirring "American flags are not the only notes of bugles echo national colors we place," said throughout cemeteries as Spanogle. "Funds from the trust also Legionnaires place flags pay for the flags of allies who are buried at the graves of America's in the same cemeteries as Americans. war dead. Such scenes are When the Department of France places common in the United 3,900 flags on American graves for

States on Memorial Day, Memorial Day 1989, it also will leave T HEI.-E RESTS IN HONORED GU*5Y AN but few people are aware that the graves AMERICAN ^OLDrFR 4,036 national flags of French, British, KNOWN BUT TO COD **• of GIs buried on foreign soil are not Norwegian, Swedish and Danish serv- forgotten either. icemen who were killed in World Wars Because of the Legion's Overseas land II." Graves Decoration Trust, established While trust funds are designated ex- by Legionnaires in 1921, flags and clusively for decorating the graves, a other decorations are placed at overseas one-time exception was made in 1937 U.S. military cemeteries. This year, for when some funds were used to pay for example, Memorial Day observances moving 34 deceased WWI servicemen will be conducted in Belgium, France, from temporary to permanent graves.

England and the Philippines. Overseas Spanogle said 1 Post , London, Eng- Legion posts and other groups regularly land, also receives assistance to place conduct services to honor America's flowers and wreaths at military ceme- fallen warriors from the four wars of GARDENS OF STONE— Leg/on funds teries in Cambridge, Brookwood and this century. also pay for the flags of allies buried in Ypres. Over the years, the trust fund has the same cemeteries. "We couldn't do what we do on decorated the graves of Americans Memorial Day without the support of buried in West Germany, Tunisia, Italy, the trust," Post Cmdr. Billy Bauch Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New This Legion trust recently wrote in a letter to National Zealand and New Guinea, among other Headquarters. "The turnouts for sites. guarantees future Memorial Day ceremonies in England "The trust is a permanent endow- generations will are always outstanding." ment and guarantees future generations In the Pacific, the Department of the will remember the sacrifices of these remember the Philippines conducts and coordinates brave Americans," said Nat'l Adjutant flag placements on the graves of Ameri- sacrifices of these Robert W. Spanogle, secretary of the cans and Filipinos at Manila Cemetery trust. "Legionnaires preserve the mem- brave Americans. and other sites on the island archipelago. ories of our fallen defenders through Memorial Day services for Ameri- this special fund." cans buried in foreign lands are espe- During the wars, Memorial Day serv- cially significant, said Spanogle. ices in the United States also paid tribute "When you witness the endless rows to those buried on foreign soil. Regular Belgium, of the Department of France, of white crosses and Stars of David, and services were held in Arlington National has continued to honor our dead in fathom what so many Americans have

Cemetery in Washington, D.C. , to com- Memorial Day ceremonies aided by the given in the cause of freedom, you can't memorate the dead of World War I. trust. The post coordinates activities help but be moved," he said. "In every

After France fell to Nazi Germany with the American Overseas Memorial sense, it is a day of remembrance, a during World War II, Legion posts Day Association, and conducts services tribute to those who never made it home throughout the United States conducted at military cemeteries at Flanders from foreign battlefields. The Overseas Memorial Day services for those buried Field, Ardennes and Henri-Chapelle. Graves Decoration Trust helps the in French graves. Post 2 and the association also hold world remember the sacrifices made by Since the war, Flanders Field Post 2, services on other occasions such as those who no one should forget."

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OW do American Legion joined was because of their interest in posts retain their members baseball and their concern for kids." and meet membership The good works of the Legion goals each year? The perhaps is the drawing card and best answer can be summed up retention tool for Post memberships.

in one word: work. When it comes to retaining members, "There is no blueprint Williams-Jobe-Gibson Post 128 of Sid- or guidelines other than ney, Iowa, literally takes the bull by the hard work and a positive horns each year. In the third week of attitude," said Douglas W. Henley, August for the past 60 years, the post chairman of the Legion's Membership has been the sponsor and financial and Post Activities Committee. "We do backer of the Sidney National Cham- find, however, that Posts that are con- pionship Rodeo. sistently successful keep their members "The rodeo has been a consistent active." determining factor in maintaining our "Active" is the appropriate word to membership," said Post Cmdr. Harold describe Virginia's Colonial Heights D. Snyder, whose Post has 287 mem- Post 284. From assisting veterans with bers. Snyder said another way the Post claims, to their donations of time and has sparked the interest of its members money to orphanages and emergency is through the recent formation of a medical agencies. Legionnaires of that Sons of The American Legion squad- Post constantly are involved in SALES PITCH — Legion baseball is ron. "There's little doubt that this is activities that benefit the Colonial among myriad programs that appeal popular, especially with the fathers at Heights community. to members and keep them active. our Post." "Meeting membership goals never In many ways, the family oriented has been much of a problem for us," Post is one that meets with the most first thing we try to do is get him said Post Adjutant Thomas B. Kifer. success. Kifer said that Post 284's involved in a program or project that "We work very hard and I believe that's families often work with Colonial he's interested in," said Post Cmdr. why our members stay with us." The Heights mentally handicapped chil- John B. Dunlap. "Get a person involved Post consistently tops the 900-member dren, an all-hands effort involving in something he really cares about and mark, and at press time, was nearing bluecaps and their families. you'll have no problems keeping that 1 ,000 members. "We have high visibility in the Colo- person on your membership roll." Kifer said another way the post main- nial Heights community," Kifer said. tained its membership is by following "Post 284 is perceived as one of the best

on before their annual its charitable organizations in our area." up members KEEPING 1 ,700 members on roll memberships expire. To accomplish poses little problem for Nicholson Our work benefits many, but it also has this, Post 284 invested in a computer to Post 38, Baton Rouge, La. American returned rewards to the Post in how keep track of the current addresses and Legion Baseball is as hot an item in people view The American Legion. telephone numbers of its members. Baton Rouge as the ubiquitous Cajun There is no overall secret to success

Many Posts credit the programs they cuisine. Each summer more than 1 ,000 for the Posts that continually attract and sponsor as their best recruiters. Steven young men and boys participate in keep their memberships. Posts 284, Nipp of Post 143 in Post Falls, Idaho, Legion Baseball and a well-orchestrated 128, 143 and 38 owe their success to has a panopoly of programs that help junior league. meeting the needs of their communities keep its membership strong. Although "We send Legion Baseball tickets to and performing vital services to others. the 96-member Post might seem small our members at the beginning of the "The only formula that works is to many people, it is a giant in sup- season and that seems to pick up their desire and dedication," Henley said. "It porting staple Legion programs such as interest," said Post Cmdr. W.W. takes leadership to keep Post member- Boys State and American Legion Base- "Woody" Dumas. "We know for a fact ships strong. Those are the qualities ball. The needy in Post Falls also are that our membership has been helped that will help the Legion succeed in helped by Post 143's Food Bank. by our baseball program. Many of our reaching its goal of 3 million members "When we get a new member, the members have said the reason they this year."

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Art Exhibit Uses U.S. Flag As Doormat;

It's A Crime/ Says Natl Mr. Gierke

URINGaMarch the cemeteries of France to 19-year-old Navy corpsman exhibit spon- the faraway atolls of the serving with the U.S. sored by the Pacific, all standing as mute Marines in Vietnam when he School of the testimony to the devotion of was killed by a booby D Art Institute of the men and women who trap. Chicago, the U.S. Flag was served without question. "Mrs. Shill said that displayed on the floor and That glorious Flag was whenever she looks at the visitors were allowed to walk draped over the coffins of Flag presented to her at

on it. those who gave their last full graveside, she sees her son. In response to this desec- measure of devotion to Referring to the way the Flag Lew Wood ration, Nat'l Cmdr. H. F. defend it. was used at the Chicago art "Sparky" Gierke issued the "Many a Gold Star exhibit, she told me, 'When

following public statement: Mother cherishes that care- I heard of the way the Flag "With every freedom fully folded, triangular was displayed and walked on Former Host Of

guaranteed by the U.S. Con- bundle of red, white and blue at that art exhibit, it was like stitution comes an equal as the closest link to a fallen stepping on my son. It hurt 'Today Show' measure of responsibility. hero son. During my recent deeply' Freedom of expression does visit to the Department of "The Flag is as much a New PR Chief not guarantee protection to Pennsylvania, one such Gold part of us as our souls. We in lawbreakers, and those who Star Mother, Mrs. Geraldine The American Legion know EW Wood, a desecrate the Flag of the Shill of Middletown, told me the proper way to display the former host of United States are guilty of a how she felt. Mrs. Shill's Flag of the United States, NBC's "Today crime. son, Damien Messino, was a and it is not on the floor." L Show," has "The Flag is not only a been named the living symbol of this free director of The American

nation, it is a beacon of hope Legion's Public Relations to oppressed people around Minnesota Hits $1 Million Division. the world. The U.S. Flag car- Wood, a retired Reserve ries its own message of peace AUL, a WWII nesota Legionnaires and Marine Corps major who and freedom. Doormats do veteran, lives in Auxiliary members reached served during the Korean not carry that message, and the past most of their goal of $1 million, War, last worked for a New no escape into the false the time. Some- which will be matched by York-based consulting and assumption that an artist can p times he relives the University of Minnesota public relations firm. He say anything about anything his wedding day; other times Medical School to create anchored the "Today Show" can change that. he believes he's graduating the Brain Sciences Center at from 1975-78 and has spent "Patriotism, respect, and from high school. Some days the new Minneapolis VA 35 years in broadcast jour- allegiance to the Flag have he's back in France fighting Medical Center. nalism and public relations. long been guiding principles in World War II. Paul's battle "I am tremendously Wood, a member of the to The American Legion and with reality is the result pleased with the hard work Robert E. Kennington Post the American Legion Auxiliary of Alzheimer's disease, and generosity of the Min- 34 in Indianapolis, has a Many of our members fought which afflicts 2.5 million nesota Legionnaires and bachelor's degree from

to defend it and keep this Americans. Auxiliary members," said Purdue University and a country free, and to keep However, Paul and other Department of Minnesota master's from Notre Dame. other countries from veterans who suffer from Cmdr. Bob Flaherty. He also attended a CBS perishing under the boot of neurological-related illnes- A worldwide search is News Fellowship at Colum- totalitarian oppression. ses or depression can receive being conducted by the Uni- bia University, where he "More eloquent than our the specialized treatment they versity of Minnesota Medical studied political science and beliefs, though, are the need because of the efforts of School for the professor- Sino-Soviet relations. thousands upon thousands of the Department of Minnesota physician who will occupy An avid tennis player, he grave markers from Boston and its Auxiliary. After 19 the hospital's new Brain and his wife, Monick, have to San Francisco and from months of fund raising, Min- Science Chair. one child.

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*HEY, SPARKY, WE HIT 100 PERCENT'

CONGRATULATIONS to the following Post Commanders and all their members who helped achieve the 100 percent goal for 1989. Your dedication, continued recruitment of new members and renewals will ensure our reaching the national goal of 3 million members. —H.F. "Sparky" Gierke, National Commander.

Post City Department Commander Post City Department Commander 769 Chazy New York OrphisThibault 589 Patterson Louisiana Warren G. Francis 15 East Greenwich Rhode Island Francis T. Healy 274 Madison Heights Virginia Duane L. Burks 17 Burrillville Rhode Island Theodore Herbert 110 Kingston Tennessee Jack Murphy 39 South Kingstown Rhode Island Gilbert Carpenter Jr. 730 Waterloo Iowa Craig White 101 Foster Rhode Island George Brayton 91 Oconomawoc Wisconsin Donald A. Kasten 1 01 Onancock Virginia Thomas Mills Sr. 67 Lake Mills Wisconsin Timothy Finn 25 Newport News Virginia Rexford Steeves 345 Hingham Wisconsin Herbert L. Hoftiezer 281 Hampton Virginia Albert Moore 468 Milladore Wisconsin Anthony Kulhanek 146 Hopewell Virginia John Head 423 Woodmene New York John Magnone 1 08 Richmond Virginia Roscoe Banks 431 Paterson New Jersey Norma Brigliadoro 210 Richmond Virginia Jimmie Bailey 252 Greenwood Indiana James L. Buntin 247 Remington Virginia James Whitesell 831 Campbeltown Pennsylvan ia Earl Edwards 346 Sugar Grove Virginia Carl Parsons Jr. 201 Barco North Caro na Kermit Snead 248 Roanoke Virginia Waynard Caldwell 40 Edenton North Caro ma Joe Lee 347 Lynchburg Virginia Junius T Randolph 362 Hertford North Caro ma Phillip Harrell 364 Woodbridge Virginia Butch Miller 26 Manteo North Caro na Carlton P. Smith 320 Spotsylvania Virginia Clinton D. Horner 426 Sunbury North Caro ma James T. Bond 400 Exmore Virginia George E Ayers 425 Littleton North Caro na Arthur Rainey

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NJ) George Rankin, 17631 N. 42nd Ln., Glendale, AZ 105th General Hospital (Sept-Seattle) Dr. Warren 85308 (602) 938-8573 Bergholz, 112 Morey St., Bellingham, WA 98225 (206) OUTFIT REUNIONS 24th Sig. Constr. Bn. (Aug-Monroeville, PA) George Jae, 733-3168 310 Oakwood Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146 (412) 373-1625 106th Cav. (June-Champaign, IL) Fred Gourley, 1412 S. Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices must be 25th Inf. Div. (Aug-Williamsburg, VA) Robert Muzzy, 809 Mattis Ave. .Champaign, IL 61821 (217)356-0491 official only. obtain forms, send a submitted on forms To Forston Dr., Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301 ) 434-0192 106th Inf. Div. (Aug-Chicago) Russell Villwock, 6908 self-addressed, stamped envelope to: O R. Form, The 26th Inf., 1st Div., G Co. (Aug-Colorado Springs, CO) W. Higgins, Chicago, IL 60656 (312) 631-2027 American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Arthur Chaitt, 5 Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, PA 106th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-European Tour) Doug Coffey, IN 46206. Notices must be received at least five months 19118(215)233-5444 2236 Arnet St., Port Chalotte, FL 33948 (813) 629-5711 before reunions are scheduled and will be published only 28th Inf. Div. (May-Europe) Bob Pocklington, 3000 Valle 106th Inf., 27th Div., HQ Co. (Aug-Monroe, LA) H.W. on a first-come, first-served basis. Notices are published vista Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90065 (213) 256-0036 Davis Jr., 102 Walnut Ln., Delhi, LA 71232 (318) only one time per unit per year. 31st Inf. (Polar Bears) (June-Lawton, OK) Billy Spears, 878-5782 HQ 4-31 Infantry, Ft. Sill, OK 73503 (405) 351 -2605 107th AAA, B Btry. (Aug-Clinton, SC) Boyd Holtzclaw, 411 32nd Div. Vets (Red Arrow) (Oct-Australia) Maurice N. Broad St., Clinton, SC 29325 (803) 833-1069

Hovland, 2349 Sunny Ln., Kewaskum, Wl 53040 (414) 112th Cav. Assn. (Sept-Irving, TX) Claude Rigsby, Rt. 1, 334-9341 Box 1341, Chandler, TX 75758 Army 36th Div. Assn. (Aug-Houston, TX) Leonard Wilkerson, 112th Combat Engrs. (June-Cleveland) Jack Houghtlin, Box 2049, Malakoff, TX 75148 (214) 489-1644 14530 Mission Rd., Cleveland, OH 44135 (216) 251 -9545 37th Div. Vets Assn. (Sept-Middleburg Hts. OH) 37th Div. 112th Sta. Hosp., 263rd Gen. Hosp. (Calcutta) (Sept- 1st & 18th FA Bns. (WWII & Prior) (Sept-Ft. Sill, OK) Vets Assn., 65 S. Front St. Rm. 707, Columbus, OH Virginia Beach, VA) Keith Straight, 1521 S. 29th St., Sherlie Wyrick, 1805 Arlington, Lawton, OK 73507 (405) 43215 (614) 228-3788 LaCrosse, Wl 54601 (608) 788-0461 355-0108 38th Signal Bn. (Sept-Cherry Hill, NJ) William Foiles, Box 120th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (June-No. Canton, OH) 1st Arm'd Div. Assn. (Sept-Sparks, NV) W.S. Beasley, 5567, Columbia, SC 29250 (803) 771 -6208 Robert Jones, 3340Timmy St., N.W., Uniontown, OH Box 5675, Anderson, SC 29623 (803) 225-2643 39th Combat Engrs. (Sept-Peoria, IL) Samuel Bright, 44685 (216) 699-4244 1st Bn., 152nd Inf., 38th Div. (July-New Albany, IN) Alan 6329 Greenbrae, Paducah, KY 42003 (502) 898-2552 120th Inf., 30th Div., B Co. (June-Tampa, FL) Tony Stephens, 2842 Wahoo Dr., New Albany, IN 47150 (812) 39th Rgt., 9th Inf. Div., F Co. (Sept-Searcy, AR) Ray Cardinale, 2706 1/2 W. Lake Ave., Tampa, FL 33607

944-0400 Hanks, Box 9, McRae, AR 72102 (501 ) 726-3388 (813) 876-1249 2nd Arm'd Div. (May-Columbus, GA) Loren Guge, 8053 40th Inf. Div. (1950-53) (Sept-Bushkill, PA) Ed Lown, 210 120th Ord. Co. (MM) (Aug-Midland, Ml) Mrs. Homer High Point Blvd., Brooksville, FL 34613 Highland Ave., Maybrook, NY 12543 (914) 427-2320 O'Dell, Box 224, Coleman, Ml 48618 (517) 465-9343 2nd Arm'd Med. Bn., 9th Arm'd Div., B Co. (June- 45th Signal Co., 45th Inf. Div. (Aug-Alva, OK) H.M. 121st Station Hospital (Sept-Duluth, MN) Robert 511 St. Wahlsten, 605 Boulevard PI., Duluth, 55811 Waseca, MN) Elmer Amsrud, 2nd S.W., Waseca, Quinn Jr. , Box 222, Alva, OK 73717 (405) 327-3246 MN (218) MN 56093 (507) 835-3746 46th Engr. Const. Bn. (Sept-Omaha, NE) Marvin Hoot, 727-1322 2nd Bn., 133rd Inf., 34th Div. (July-Mason City, IA) Paul 14929 E. 98th St. No., Owasso, OK 74055 (918) 272- 125th AAA Gun Bn. (July-Columbus, OH) Clarence Behrens, 326 12th St. S.E., Mason City. IA 50401 (515) 8803 Vollmer, 940 Plum Ridge. Columbus, OH 43213 (614) 424-4904 50th Engrs. A Co. (July-Austin, MN) GaylordTapp, Rt. 2, 866-2574 2nd Bn., 152nd Inf., 38th Div. HQ (Sept-Anderson, IN) Box 58, Brownsdale, MN 55918 (507) 567-2186 127th Ord. (July-Des Moines, IA) Edward Sienkiewicz, Harold Fowler, 3709 Maple Ln., Muncie, IN 47302 (317) 50th Gen. Hospital (WWII) (Aug-Burlington, NC) James 1815 Vine St., West Des Moines, IA 50265 (515) 282-9659 Mundy, Box 642, Graham, NC 27253 (919) 226-5220 225-6873 2nd Bn., 161st FA Rgt., 209th FA Bn. (WWII) (June- 52nd Arm'd Inf. Bn., 9th Arm'd Div. (WWII) (May- 129th Inf., 37th Div., HQ/A/C/D/L Cos. (Aug-Monroe Arkansas City, KS) Jack Embrey, 1420 E. 2nd St.. Seattle) Vern Reaugh, Box 3467. Hampton, VA 23663 City, MO) Russell Smith, Rt. 3, Box 48A, Monroe City, Winfield, KS 67156 (316) 221 -1238 52nd Combat Engrs. (July-Anderson, IN) George Bayley, MO 63456 (314) 735-2367 2nd Bn., 178th F.A. Rgt., E Btry./248th F.A., B Btry 875 N 600 W.Anderson, IN 46011 (317)642-7688 134th Inf., 35th Div., (Aug-Columbus, OH) James Graff, (Aug-Marion, SC) H.M. Perritt Jr., Rt. 2. Box 1134, 54th Gen. Hospital (Sept-Milwaukee) Meg Riehle, 1919 Rt. 1, Box 54, Middletown. IL 62666 (217) 445-2570 Marion, SC 29571 (803) 423-2380 N. Summit #7C, Milwaukee, Wl 53202 (414) 347-2305 137th Rgt., 35th Div., H Co. (July-Ottawa, KS) H. 3rd Bn., 345th Inf., HQ (June-Madison, GA) Ed Ruark, 55th Arm'd Inf. Bn., 11th Arm'd Div., B Co. (Sept- Brohammer, Rt. 1. Baldwin, KS 66006 (913) 594-6568 Box 337, Bostwick, GA 35623 (404) 342-1943 DeQuincy, LA) Mrs. J. Inman, 313 S. Divison St., 142nd General Hospital (WWII) (Sept-Kansas City. MO) 3rd Field Hospital (WWII) (May-Lexington, KY) Jim DeQuincy, LA 70633 (318) 786-6531 Richard Ritchie, 1222 Jefferson St., Alexandria, MN Levenson, Box 200, Lexington, KY 40584 (606) 58th Arm'd F.A. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Greenville, SC) 56308 (612)762-5329 233-0906 Charlie Hutchinson, 301 Farmington Rd., Greenville, SC 157th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Roanoke. VA) Roland 4th Inf. Ivy Div. (WWI/WWII/Vietnam) (July-Cherry Hill, 29605 (803) 295-0109 Clayton, 912 Log College Dr., Warminster. PA 18974 (215) NJ) Larry Flanagan, 1133 Foster St., Philadelphia, PA 58th Engr. Treadway Bridge Co. (Korea) (July-Radford, 675-0752 19116(215)969-4452 VA) Morris Kisselbaugh, 6590 Highland Lick Rd., 159th Inf., 7th Inf. Div., F Co. (WWII) (Sept-Denver) 5th Arm'd Div. (Midwest) (Sept-Norfolk, NE) James Lewisburg, KY 42256 (502) 726-9387 Willard Neumann, 9020 Primrose Ln., Hickory Hills, IL Burrell Sr, 9245 N.W. Rochester Rd., Topeka, KS 66617 63rd Engr. (C) Co., 44th Div., A Co. (Aug-Gettysburg, 60457 (312) 839-5978

(913)288-1534 PA) Glen Young, 4462 Leppert Rd.. Hilliard, OH 43026 159th Inf. Rgt., I Co., ATTU (1943) (July-Polk City. IA) 6th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Aug-Boston) Edward Reed. Box (614) 876-7781 Norm Hall, 10261 N.W. Polk City Dr., Polk City, IA 50226 5011, Louisville, KY 40205 71st AAA, Btry. B (Sept-Downington, PA) H.C. Hall, (515)984-6026 Preulow Brown, 296-4956 160th Inf., 40th Div., K Co. (Sept-Church Point, LA) 6th US Cavalry (June-Chattanooga, TN) 255-C Gifford Ln , Tuckerton, NJ 08087 (609) 3908 Malaer Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241 (513) 769-3750 71st Div. Assn. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Kenneth Hall, 8905 Dewey Gaudet, Rt. 4. Box 302, Church Point, LA 70525 7th Arm'd Div. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Glenn Fackler Sr., Yoder, Farwell, Ml 48622 (517) 588-9429 (318) 684-6197

23218 Springbrook Dr., Farmington Hills, Ml 48024 76th Inf. Div. (May-European Tour) Elliott Cutler Jr., Rt. 2, 160th Inf., 40th Div., E Co. (WWII) (Sept-Colorado 7th F.A. Assn. (Sept-Charlottesville, VA) D. Voet, 1903 Box 68. New Windsor, NY 12550 (914) 496-6808 Springs, CO) Woodrow Geery, 902 E. Marion St., Charlottesville, Zielinski, Knoxviile, IA 50138 (515) 842-4760 Dellwood Rd. , VA 22901 (804) 973-2653 77th Div. Assn. (Aug-Lancaster. PA) Stanley 7th Signal Detach./USS Mt. McKinley AGC 7 (WWII) 346 Broadway, Rm. 816, New York City, NY 10013 (212) 160th Inf., A Co. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Franklin Kempf, (Fall) Don Shreeves, 315 W. Mam St., Princeton, MO 571-6078 6083 Hwy. 60 E., Hartford, Wl 53027 (414) 673-5516 64673(816)748-3871 78th Cav. Recon. Trp. (Aug-Seattle) Gordon Gogert, 168th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Sept) Fred Pompeo, 18 8th Arm'd Div. Assn. (July-Louisville, KY) Henry 16605 52nd Ave. N.W., Stanwood, WA 98292 (206) Newton Rd., Medford, MA 02155 Rothenberg, 180 N. LaSalle St., Rm. 1215, Chicago, IL 652-0128 176th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Charlie Salyers, 60601 (312)236-2305 81st Inf. Div. (Aug-Atlanta) Robert Schweihs, 2842 6528 W. Franklin St., Richmond, VA 23226 (804) 261- 9th Med. Bn., 9th Inf. Div. (May-Pigeon Forge, TN) John S. Emerald Ave., Chicago. IL 60616 (312) 225-4062 4076 Lewis, 211 Midland St., Shelbyville, TN 37160 (615) 684- 83rd General Hospital (WWII) (Sept-Savannah, GA) 183rd Signal Repair Co. (Sept-San Diego) Ted Weiss, 2496 Clarence Durrence, 208 Stephenson Ave., Savannah, 916 Calle Nuevo, San Clemente, CA 92672 (714) 498- 10th Station Hospital (WWII) (Sept-Columbus, OH) GA 31405 (912) 355-4974 5546 Esther Johnson, 618 Brookside Dr., Columbus, OH 87th Arm'd F.A. Bn. (Sept-Tucson, AZ) Robert Kubista, 187th Signal Repair Co. (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Morgan 43209 6159 E. Seneca St., Tucson, AZ 85712 (602) 298-2523 Wilson, 990 Green St., Norfolk, VA 23513 (804) 857-0015 11th Arm'd Cav. Vets. (Vietnam/Cambodia) (Aug- 87th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-Chicago) Gladwin Pascuzzo, 190th F.A. Grp. Assn./ 200th FA Bn. (WWII) (July- Minneapolis, MN) Ben Hotchkiss, 17701 Kenyon Ave. 2374 N. Dundee Ct., Highland. Ml 48031 (313) 887-9005 Clearfield, PA) Wes Duttinger, Box 111, Sunbury, PA West., #38, Lakeville, MN 55044 (612) 892-7487 94th Med. Gas Treatment Bn. (WWII) (Sept- 17801 (717)286-2708 11th Arm'd Cavalry Rgt. (Attach. Units) (July- Stroudsburg, PA) Dr. William Burry, Box 240, Mountain- 191st Tank Bn. (Sept-Columbus, GA) Denis Berger, 53 Ft. Knox, KY) Bill Squires, Box 11, Ft. Knox, KY 40121 home, PA 18342 (717) 595-7293 Knecht Dr., Dayton, OH 45405 (513) 278-3541 (502) 624-2247 95th Med. Gas Treat. Bn. (Aug-Lynchburg, VA) Walter 192nd Ord. Dpt. Co. (Sept-Coshocton. OH) Carl Schlarb. 11th Engrs. (WWII) (Sept) A. B. Harward, 523 College Dr., Gantz, 829 Palm St., Scranton, PA 18505 (717) 1224 S. 13th St., Coshocton, OH 43812 (614) 622-4900 Raeford, NC 28376 (919) 875-4809 347-9354 193rd Ord. Dpt. Co. (Sept-Las Cruces, NM) Carl Faubion, 12th Armored Div. (Sept-San Antonio, Texas) Paul L. 98th Signal Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Charlotte, NC) Harry 7925 N. Dona Ana Rd., Las Cruces, NM 88005 (505) Hempfling Sr.. 11418 Hillcroft, Houston, Texas 77035 Coates, Rt. 1. Box 28, Callaway, VA 24067 (703) 526-6500 (713) 729-7586 483-1427 202nd MP Co., II Corps (Aug-Columbus, OH) Rev. 15th Evac. Hospital (Sept-Jamestown. NY) Vernon 102nd Inf. Div. (July-Omaha, NE) Robert Enkelmann, William Patterson, Holy Redeemer Church, Portsmouth, Saveree, Box 96, So. Dayton, NY 14138 (716) 988-7728 10133 Concord School Rd., St. Louis. MO 63128 (314) OH 45662 (614) 354-2716 17th Engrs., 2nd Arm'd Div., A Co. (May-Lexington, KY) 843-9754 214th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Ellenville. NY) Ralph Willard Curtis, 110 S. Revena, Ann Arbor, Ml 48103 (313) 104th Combat Engr. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-St. Louis) S.G. Snyder, 30 No. Centre Ave., Box 81, Leesport, PA 19533 662-0084 Sagen, 2205 Weston St., LaCrosse, Wl 54601 (608) (215) 373-5572 17th Inf. Rgt. (June-Merced, CA) J.F. Wittier, 514 788-5073 214th CA (AA) GA NG (Aug-Gainesville, GA) Gene Tamarack Dr., Union City, CA 94587 (415) 471-0131 104th Inf. Div. (Aug-Kansas City, MO) Raleigh Taylor, 107 Hodges, 2549 Emerald Dr., Jonesboro, GA 30236 (404) 20th Tank Bn., A Co. (May-Pigeon Forge, TN) William W. 115th PI., Overland Park. KS 66210 (913) 469-9667 471-2084 McCoy, 1709 Green Valley Dr., Kingsport, TN 37664 104th Ordnance MM Co. (July-Warrendale, PA) Elmer 217th CA AA, E Btry. (July-Crookston, MN) Curt Hen- (615) 245-7637 Grubbs, 550 Pittsburgh St., Box 701, Mars, PA 16046 drickson, 602 S. Washington, Ave., Crookston, MN 20th/1171st/1340th Engr. Bns. (WWII) (Aug-Mt. Laurel, (412)625-1971 56716(218)281-2293

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224th Airborne Med. Co., 17th A/B Div. (Aug-Morgan- 472nd FA/FA Para-Glider Bn. (July-Columbus, OH) (804) 846-7200 town, WV) Edmund Wientczak, 9313 David Rd., Garfield Julian Panek, 3334 Demmler St., McKeesport, PA 15131 771st T.D. Bn. (Oct-Kiamesha Lake, NY) Joe Klein, Box HtS., OH 44125 (216) 341-0695 480th AAA Bn. (July-Palmerton, PA) Samuel George, Rt. 338, Rock Hill, NY 12775 (914) 796-3508 226th AAA SL Brt., Btry. B (July-Riverside, CA) Aaron 1, Box 1788, Palmerton, PA 18071 (215) 681-4500 778th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) George Funk Jr., Box 664, New Philadelphia, OH 44663 (216) 487th AAA Bn., B Btry. (Oct-lrving, TX) Cleetus Goss, Nicholson, 1321 E. Douglas St., Goshen, IN 46526 (219) 364-3000 5043 Brillo St., San Diego, CA 92117 (619) 272-5480 533-8576 226th Sig. Vets (June-Annapolis, MN) James Rankin, 109 489th Port Bn. (Aug-St. Louis) William Lackey, 752 N. 9th 780th F.A. Bn. (Korea) (July-Nacogodoches, TX) Jesse

Boyd Dr., Annapolis, MD 21403 (301 ) 269-0544 St., Wood River, IL 62095 (618) 258-1911 Hartless, 7518 North St., Nacogodoches, TX 75961 228th Station Hospital (July-Frankenmuth, Ml) Edward 505th MP Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Virginia Beach, VA) Vincent (409) 564-4579 Snyder, 1360 E. Allen St., Lancaster, OH 43130 (614) Petrings, 55 Bradshaw St., Medford, MA 02155 (617) 795th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Nashville, TN) C. David Burns, 654-1260 391-4385 103 Center, Maquoketa, IA 52060 (319) 652-2165 232nd Inf. Rgt., 42nd Div., Cannon Co. (WWII) (July-St. 506th P.I.R. (Five-O-Sink) (Aug-Milwaukee, Wl) George 802nd Engr. Bn. (Aug-Las Vegas, NV) Raymond Griffith, Louis) Marvin Van Gorp, 908 Hazel St., Pella, IA 50219 Vanderslice,3417TudorSt., Philadelphia, PA 19136 Cooper Ln., Box F433, Rt. 3, Chester, NJ 07930 (201) 628-2250 (515) 522nd Ord. Co. (July-Oakbrook, IL) Jerome Johnson, 879-5687 (Aug-Charlotte, 246th Signal Oper. Co. (WWII) NC) 1013 Arbor Ln., Glenview, IL 60025 806th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Killeen, TX) Richard Johnnie Huggins Jr., 30031 S.W. 169th Ave., Home- 532nd EB&SR (Sept-Champaign, IL) Dennis Gunning, Allen, 13021 Cross Creek Blvd. S.E., #1234, Ft. Myers, 247-0150 stead, FL 33030 (305) 1210 Centennial Dr., Champaign, IL 61821 FL 33912 276th Combat Engr. Bn. (Aug-Portland, OR) James 532nd EBSR, E Co. (Aug-Melrose, MN) Raymond Jeske, 809th AVN Engr. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Catskill, NY) John Elkins, Box 72, Bell Buckle, 389-9161 TN 37020 (615) 5790 Echo Rd., Excelsior, MN 55331 (612) 474-9204 Hazuka, 144 Stevenstown Rd., Westbrook, CT 06498 282nd F.A. Bn. (Aug-Grove City, OH) Lloyd Howard, 1670 534th AAA AW Bn. (Aug-Phoenix, AZ) H.A. Schlotzhauer, (203) 399-9269 Laurel Ave., Columbus, OH 43223 (614) 279-1584 1934 E. Palo Verde Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85016 (602) 809th T.D. Bn. (Sept-Altoona, PA) Galen Baker, 13 284th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Elmer Forcade, 2333 265-3829 Grandview Trailer Ct., Duncansville. PA 16635 (814) Waterman, Granite City, IL 62040 (618) 931 -3910 534th AAA Bn., B Btry. (Oct-Sedalia, MO) Joe Messina, 695-5043 290th Combat Engr. Bn. (July-Knoxville,TN) Clyde Kiker, 6236 S. Natoma Ave., Chicago, IL 60628 (312) 586-3295 813th Base Dpt. (Aug-Columbus, OH) C. Mileusnich, Box 5688, Greensboro, NC 27435 (919) 292-6318 544th E.B. & S.R., Co. B (Oct-New Orleans, LA) Melvin 1290 Moler Rd., Columbus, OH 43207 (614) 444-9716 Engr. 294th (c) Bn., C Co. (June-Sherborne, Eng.) Elliott, 1429 Crescent Ave., Lockport, LA 70374 (504) 843rd Engr. AVN Bn. (Aug-Boise, ID) Eugene Lowe, 8946 Joseph Donnelly, 207 Holly Ave., Hempstead, L.I., NY 532-2547 Wichita Dr., Boise, ID 83709 (208) 375-8457 11550 547th Engr. (C) Bn. (Aug-St. Louis) Ken Derringer, Rt. 3, 845th Ord. Dpt. Co. (July-Indianapolis) Ed Ratliff, 2016 N. Inf., 302nd 94th Div., L Co. (Sept-Canadensis, PA) Box 50A, Tomah, Wl 54660 (608) 372-5500 Maplewood Ave., Muncie, IN 47304 Misner, Westerville, Charles 216 Bombay Ave., OH 552nd Engr. H.P. Bn. (May-Gettysburg, PA) Warren 880th FA Bn., 69th Inf. Div., Btry. A (Sept-Florence, KY) 43081(614)891-4357 Snyder, 625 N. 19th St., Allentown, PA 18104 (215) John Barnett, 6374 BrandywineTrl., Norcross, GA 30092 308th Signal Co. Wing (Sept-Branson, MO) Fray 433-2650 (404) 448-6513 Hillhouse, 2230 S. King, Springfield, MO 65807 (417) 555th Heavy Pontoon Bn. (May-Green Bay, Wl) Norbert 892nd Ord. HAM Co. (Aug-ldaho Falls, ID) Kenneth 881-1774 Palubicki, 720 S. Irwin Ave., Green Bay, Wl 54301 (414) Cunnington, 945 John Adams Pky., Idaho Falls, ID 320th Engr. Bn. (Sept-Knife River, MN) Bertil Carlson, 432-4272 83401 (208) 523-0562 Knife 834-5771 Box 57, River, MN 55609 (218) 555th Ord. HM (tk) Co. (Sept-Perrysburg, OH) Dale 945th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Davenport, IA) George Buck, 726 321st Signal Bn. Corps (Aug-Little Amana, IA) Kenneth Johnson, 2285 E. Township Rd. 122, Tiffin, OH 44883 50th St., Des Moines, IA 50312 (515) 255-4269 Rosenbalm, Rt. 1, Box Blairstown, IA 107, 52209 (319) (419) 447-8838 957th F.A. Bn. (June-Fargo, ND) George Fowler, Box 454-6407 558th Ord. HM Co. (Tank) (Sept-Lansing, IL) Charles 2342, Fargo, ND 58108 322nd Med. Bn., 97th Div. (Aug-Columbus, OH) Harold Raksanyi Jr., 8142 Van Buren Ave., Munster, IN 46321 965th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Northampton, MA) Mike O'Connor, Burg, 4166 S. Medina Line Rd., Barberton, 44203 OH (219)836-5436 17 Warren St., Florence, MA 01060 (413) 584-4646 (216) 334-0701 565th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Hot Springs, AR) George 993rd Engr. Treadway Bridge Co. (Sept-Manhattan, KS) 323rd Inf., 81 st Div., B (Sept-Jonesboro, AR) William Co. Harber, 2781 Pierce Dr. No., Macon, GA 31204 (912) J.J. Vacek, 910 Wildcat Ridge, Manhattan, KS 66502 Floyd, Rt. 1, Box 22D, Melbourne, AR 72556 (501) 743-7531 1056th Engrs. (WWII) (Sept-Cleveland) Thomas Finne- 68-7827 586th AAA AW Bn., D Btry. (Oct-Des Moines, IA) Orlo gan, 420 S. Webster Ave., Scranton, PA 18505 (717) 323rd Inf., 81st Div. K (July-Chillicothe, OH) Samuel Co. Joy, 51459 Elm Rd., Granger, IN 46530 (219) 272-1557 344-6966 Wood, N. Rd., Chillicothe, 45601 685 Malone OH (614) 593rd Engr. Boat & Shore Rgt., C Co. (Sept-Cleveland) 1647th Ord. MM Co. (WWII) (Sept-Lake of the Ozarks, 663-2870- Robert Boddy, 8448 Brecksville Rd., Brecksville, OH MO) Frederick Hansen, 1609 S. Irene St., Sioux City, IA 341st Inf., Div., 86th D Co. (Aug-lndianapolis) Jerry 44141 (216)526-7320 51106 (712) 276-9090 Hodson, 112 S. Main St., Castle, IN 47362 New (317) 594TH EB&SR, C Co. (Nov-Kissimmee, FL) A. A, Ander- 1981st QM Trk. Co. (WWII) (Sept-Kansas City, MO) 529-2366 berg, Rt. 1, Box 69C, Edgerton, KS 66021 (913) Charles Meade, 503 Bowen Dr., Raymore, MO 64083 343rd Signal Co. Wing/935th Signal Bn. (Sept- 882-6806 (816) 331-5179 Branson, MO)T.M. Genes, 1212 Heather Ln., Charlotte, 609th T.D. Bn. (Sept-Newport, Rl) George Funke, 3260 3187th Signal Serv. Bn. (Aug-Kansas City, MO) E D. 28209 523-2982 NC (704) Oakford Rd.,Trevose, PA 19047 Landau, 1735 1st Ave. E., Horton, KS 66439 (913) Ord. Maint. (Sept-Las Vegas. 352nd Co. AA NV) Dale 617th QM Dpt. Co. (Sept-New Philadelphia, OH) John 486-3974 Lambert, 22839B Nadine Cir., Torrance, CA 90505 (213) Terakedis, 211 High St., Dover, OH 44622 (216) 3482nd Ord. HAM Co. (WWII) (Aug-Greenville, SC) 325-3946 343-6938 Othel Adams, 819 Vannah Ave., Louisville, KY 40223 379th AAA Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Grand Junction, CO) H.D. 671st Engrs. (Topo)(WWII) (July-Botkins, OH) Bill Korn, (502) 245-4325 McCallum, 522 Skyway Dr., Grand Junction, CO 81503 17577 Montra Rd., Rt. 1, Anna, OH 45302 (513) 3515th Ord. MAM Co. (Sept-Indianapolis) Morris 243-1396 (303) 596-6786 Chambers, 5106 Manwing Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46208 381st Bn., (All Btrys.) (Oct-Dayton, Virgil AA AW OH) 696/697th Engr. P.D. Cos. (Oct-Ft. Worth, TX) William (317) 293-1208 McClellan, 642 N. 9th St., Miamisburg, 45342 OH (513) Trethewey, 5405 Cumberland Rd., Minneapolis, MN 3769th QM Trk. Co. (July-Williamsburg, VA) Martin Lowe, 866-6017 55410 (612) 926-0531 805 W. Hillwood, Nashville, TN 37205 (615) 352-5115 391st Bn., Btry. (WWII) AAA A (July-LaCrosse, Wl) 701 st Tank Destroyer Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Owensboro, KY) Air Weather Assn. (Fall-San Antonio, TX) John Collens, Lambert Konze, Rt. 1, Box 98, Mindoro, 54644 Wl (608) George Seward, 3878 East 50 North, Kokomo, IN 46901 5301 Reservation Rd., Placerville, CA 95667 (916) 857-3089 (317) 457-6979 677-2100 398th Army Serv. Force Band (WWII) (June-Salt Lake 702nd T.D. Bn., C Co. (Aug-Wyomissing, PA) Fred APO 724/Alaska Hwy. (Sept-San Antonio, TX) Archie City, UT) Carlin Childs, 1201 N. Raymond Ave., Fuller- Schaich, 3406 McKently St., Laureldale, PA 19605 (215) Lawler, 2645 S. Garfield Way, Denver, CO 80210 (303) ton, CA 92631 (714) 871-1419 929-0063 756-3485 410th Bn., A Btry., 364th MP Co. (June-Rockwood, AAA 709th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Louisville, KY) Paul Claster, Army Otter-Caribou Assn. (Aug-Seattle) Bill Hooks, PA) Jay Houpt, Rt. 1, Box 41, Rockwood, PA 15557 (814) 19 Towne Terr. Apts., Middletown, NY 10940 (914) 6813 Brewster Dr., Columbus, GA31904 (404) 324-1596 926-2284 343-4879 Ft. Sherman/Ft. Randolph/Panama, CZ (All Person- 429th Med. Coll. Co. Sep. (May-St. Louis) John Caput, 721st Engr. Dpt. Co. (Sept-Canandaigua, NY) Al nel/Widows/Children/1934-44) (Sept-Nashville, TN) 8409 E. 105th St., Kansas City, MO 64134 (816) Bartoszek, 35 Ashford PI., Depew. NY 14043 (716) D. M. Cooper, Box 142, Glen Dale, WV 26038 (304) 761-0765 683-4808 845-0880 439th AAA AW Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Bloomington, MN) 724th T.R.O.B. (Korea) (Oct-Brandywine, DE) Lynn Hobbs AAF (Sept-Hobbs, NM) Hobbs Chamber of Charles Anderson, 1518 Monongalia Ave. S.W., Willmar, Moore, 491 Conarroe St., Philadelphia, PA 19128 (215) Commerce, 400 N. Marland, Hobbs, NM 88240 (505) MN 56201 (612) 235-4865 482-1795 397-3202 442nd Medical Coll. Co. (Sept-Evansville, IN) Adron 736th Med. Tank Bn. Sp. (Sept-Louisville, KY) O.V. IV Corps HQs Assn. (May-Jacksonville, FL) Sam Dunn, Dillon, 415 W. Emerson St., Princeton, IN 47670 (812) Coffman, 3404 Burrell Dr., Louisville, KY 40216 (502) Box 749, Baxley, GA 31513 (912) 367-4789 385-4755 448-2845 Merrill's Marauders Assn. (Sept-Louisville, KY) 444th Engr. Base Dpt. Co. (Aug-Enfield, CT) Charles 736th Tank Bn., A Co. (Aug-Seymour, IN) Richard Steeb, Raymond Lyons, 11244 N. 33rd St., Phoenix, AZ 85028 Hoye, 1225 S. Morris St., Hobbs, NM 88240 (505) Rt. 1, Box 107A, Paris Crossing, IN 47270 (812) QM, Mtr. Pools, Bus Co., Ord., Automotive Maint., 397-4284 873-6667 Trans. Corp. (Panama Canal Zone/WWII) (Aug- 449th F.A. Observ. Bn., A Btry. (Korea) (Oct-St. 746th Heavy Shop Co. (Aug-Becker, MN) Jim Hunter, 421 Pittsburgh) Bernard Midler, 3303 Harding Ave., Michaels, MD) Bruce Miller, 3816 Crestvale Terr., Park Ave. W., Big Lake, MN 55309 (612) 263-7164 E. Liverpool, OH 43920 (216) 385-0491 Baltimore, MD 21236 (301 ) 665-6585 753rd Railway Shop Bn. (June-Bucyrus, OH) Ray Tittle, US Army Leadership Sch. Graduates (July-Turlock, 452nd Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Box 515, Huron, OH 44839 (419) 433-4336 CA) George Rogers, 2192 N. McCullagh Rd., Stevinson, E.A. Holcombe Jr., 1130 Florida Ave., Bogalusa, LA 755th Tank Bn. (July-Houston) Alvin Schindler, 4201 N. CA 95374 (209) 634-6501 70427 (504) 732-9921 Halsey St., Victoria, TX 77901 (512) 573-3608 US Horse Cav. Assn. (Oct-Junction City, KS) USHCA 453rd AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Lewistown, MT) James Dalton, 764th Ry. Shop Bn. (July-Bucyrus, OH) Louis Golia, 629 HQS., Box 6253, Fort Bliss, TX 79906 (915) 562-8818 Rt. 9, Box 165, Morgantown, WV 26505 (304) 291 -0521 Sara Ln., Vernoa, PA 15147 (412) 793-2938 XIII Corps Assn. (All Ranks) (Aug-Cincinnati) John 457th Amph. Truck Co. (Sept-Los Angeles) Kenneth 765th TRSB (Korea) (Sept-New Orleans, LA) Frank Bitting, 10104 Quinby St., Silver Spring, MD 20901 (301 Oliver, 26430 Gimlet Dr., New Hall, CA 91321 (805) Rocha, 1315 Clearview Ave., Parma, OH 44134 (216) 593-8919 252-5601 749-6094 XXI Corps, R&D Assn. (WWII) (Oct-Yorktown, VA) Don 463rd AAA AW Bn., 79th Div. (Aug-Nashville, TN) J.B. 769th MP Bn., A Co. (Sept-Pigeon Forge, TN) William Seedborg, 1915 Cedar Ave., Long Beach, CA 90806 Smith, 420 Jewell Ct., El Paso, TX 79927 (915) 852-9111 Parrish, 110 Beechwood Dr., Madison Hts., VA 24572 (213) 591-4075

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Geary, 3703 E. Towers Dr. #308, Cincinnati, OH 45238 Ramsey, 49 Glen Crossing Rd., Edwardsville, IL 62025 (513)451-2609 (618) 288-9966 Navy USS Boxer & Air Grps. (Sept-Milwaukee, Wl) Hank USS Laws DD 558 (Sept-Chicago) Harold Reich, 271 Wilson, 1301 N. Kokomo, Derby, KS 67037 (316) 788- Braddock Dr., Melrose Park, IL 60160 (312) 345-8237 4560 USS LCS (L) 15 (Oct-San Diego) Harold Kaup, 289 41st 3rd Spec. NCB (Sept-Gettsburg, PA) Roy Davis, 6438 USS Briareus AR 12 (WWII/Korea) (Oct-Virginia Beach. St. N.E., Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 (319) 363-1708 Chambersburg Rd., Fayetteville, PA 17222 (717) VA) Robert Amos, 27Winthrop Rd., Somerset, NJ 08873 USS Lindsey DM 32 (Oct-Reno, NV) R.J. Zielinski, 829 352-2801 (201)249-4166 Greenwood Dr. E., Salem, OR 97303 (503) 390-2359 5th Amph. Corps Med. Bn. (Aug-Ft. Mitchell, KY) Laddie USS Brooks DD 232/APD 10/42nd Div. USNR (Sept- USS Longshaw DD 559 (May-Oberlin, OH) Frank

Vacek, 707 Bellevue Blvd., No., Bellevue, NE 68005 Burlington, IA) Paul Pemberton, 3 Shady Acres, Rt. 1, Quintana, Box 112, Oberlin, OH 44074 (216) 647-4900 (402) 733-3724 Burlington, IA 52601 (319)752-3971 USS LSM 132 (Oct-Lancaster, PA) John Pavidis, 233 5th Seabees (WWII) (Oct-Ft. Worth, TX) Laurence Terry, USS Cape Esperance TCVE 88 (June-Bartow, FL) Savin Hill Ave., Boston, MA 02125 (617) 436-1160 5307 Rd.. Louisville, Stephen Baran, 2686 Hearthstone Cir. Marietta, Maryman KY 40258 (502) , GA USS LST 1091 (Aug-Nashville, TN) Charles Cooley, Box 937-8921 30062 (404) 998-3006 358, Boaz, AL 35937 (205) 593-3802 18th Seabees (May-Pueblo, CO) James Hosford, 717 USS Capps DD550 (WWII) (Sept-Orlando, FL) P.G. USS LST 121 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Dale Campbell, 236 Park

Rt. 1, Hoffman, 2800 Norris Ave., Westmoreland Rd., Red Oak, TX 75154 (214) Orlando, FL 32803 (407) Ave , Washington, PA 15301 (412) 222-8840 576-5300 644-4023 USS LST 157 (Oct-Jeffersonville, IN) Fredric Wheeler. 28th NCB (WWII) (Sept-Oakland, CA) Bruno Petruccione, USS Carina AK 74 (Oct-St. Louis) Don Vertrees, 2180 7195 Noffke Dr. S.E., Caledonia, Ml 49316 (616) 43 3rd St., Yorkville, NY 13495 (315) 736-0263 Leonard Rd., Corydon, IN 47112 (812) 738-7969 891-9320 37th Spec. Seabees (WWII) (Sept-Chattanooga, TN) USS Chehalis AOG 48 (Sept-Amarillo, TX) Henry USS LST 289 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Tom Glynn, 242 W. Atlantic Ralph Burnett, Box 130, Gruetli-Laager, TN 37339 (615) LeMaster, 3517 Lamar St., Amarillo, TX 79109 (806) Ave., Villas, NJ 08251 (609) 886-0577 779-3173 355-0382 USS LST 30 (May-Cocoa Beach, FL) Robert White, 467 38th NCB (Aug-Everett, WA) Tuver Schwarzmiller, 4229 USS Chickasaw ATF 83 (WWII) (Oct-Las Vegas, NV) Port Royal Blvd., Satellite Beach, FL 32937 (407) Schwarzmiller Rd., Lake Stevens, WA 98258 (206) Floyd Clark, Box 360. Silsbee, TX 77656 (409) 385-2534 773-1873 334-2329 USS Dashiell DD 659 (June-McPherson, KS) Don USS LST 335 (Sept-Martinsburg, WV) Dudley Brown, 59th NCB (Sept-Columbia, SC) Mary Francis, 506 Merryfield, Box 447, McPherson, KS 67460 (316) H-C-3, Box 105, Cross Junction, VA 22625 (703) Mattison Ave., Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-0881 241-5532 888-4032 67th Seabees (WWII) (Sept-Dearborn. Ml) Laurence USS Davison DD-618/DMS 37 (June-Lancaster, PA) USS LST 372 (Sept-Indianapolis) Edward McDade. 42-02 Terry, 5307 Maryman Rd., Louisville, KY 40258 (502) Leroy DeWald, 313 Mt. Allen Dr., Mechanicsburg. PA Kissena Blvd. #2-G. Flushing, NY 11355 (718) 445-3686

937-8921 17055(717)766-8739 USS LST 385 (Aug-Amana, IA) Forrest Ives, Rt. 1, 73rd Seabee Bn. (July-St. Louis) Henry Runyon, 205Tyler USS Dixie AD 14 (Sept-Scottsdale, AZ) J.E. Robbins, Maxwell, IA 50161 (515)387- 1280 St., Jonesboro, LA 71251 (318) 259-3252 8555 E. Turney Ave., Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (602) USS LST 462 (Sept-Chicago) Lyle Johnson, 943 Fern 75th NCB (June-Toledo, OH) Don Boomer, 909 Ogdcn 947-9076 Ave.. Elmhurst, IL 60126 Ave., Toledo, OH 43609 (419) 385-4143 USS Dyson DD 572 (Sept-Charleston, SC) E.B. Fulker- USS LST 47 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Gus Sellitto, 510 Bayview 77th Seabee Bn. (Sept-Rapid City, SD) B.I. Camp, 4821 son, Rt. 14, Box 182, Johnson City, TN 37615 (615) Ave., Inwood, L.I., NY 11696 Langley Rd., Ft. Worth, TX 76114 (817) 626-1103 282-1236 USS LST 606 (Oct-Asheville, NC) Sam Vernaccini, 49 78th Seabees (WWII) (Oct-Davisville, Rl) Ken Kelly. Box USS Edwards DD 619 (Nov-Lake Buena Vista, FL) Munson St., LeRoy, NY 14482 (716) 768-7274 194, Grand Haven, Ml 49417 (616) 798-4311 Barney Weinhardt, 223 W.Washington Ave, Jackson, Ml USS LST 609 (Aug-Pittsburgh) George Heron, 93 Forest 91st NCB (Sept-Minneapolis, MN) Joe Burns, 5501 York 49201 (517) 782-1359 Ave., Salemanca, NY 14779 (716) 945-2239 Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410 (612) 922-2450 USS Eichenberger DE 202 (Sept-Patriots Pointe, NC) USS LST 623 (Aug-St. Louis) Ray Kenney, 3127 McBride 96th NCB (Sept-San Francisco) Hazel Solarski, 130 Edward Wilson, 2209 E. 10th St., Indianapolis, IN 46201 St., Billings, MT 59102 (406) 656-3371 Ravenhead, Houston, TX 77034 (713) 944-2305 (317) 637-9307 USS LST 73 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Leslie Shanteau, 8617 107th Seabees (Sept-Savannah, GA) Marion Brinkley, USS Everett F. Larson DD 830 (Oct-Syracuse. NY) "W" St., Rt. 163, Oak Harbor, OH 43449 (419) 898-0730 Box 68, Jackson, SC 29831 (803) 471 -3416 Angelo Temperato, 125 River St., Avon, NY 14414 (716) USS LST 781 (Sept-Canton. OH) Al Michael, 4161 Bel Air 110th NCB (Aug-Toledo, OH) James Groome, 3301 226-2251 Dr. N.W., Canton, OH 44718 (216) 492-2051 Altamont Dr., Wilmington, DE 19810 (302) 478-1078 USS Everglades AD 24/Currituck AV 7/Torpedomen's USS LST 907 (Oct-Savannah. GA) W.T. Womble, 1312 Boat Pool 14(Emirau)/Boat Pool 15(Manus/SLCU 18 Mates (Sept-Phoenix, AZ) John Smith, Box 985. Whiddon Mill Rd., Tifton. GA 31794 (912) 382-8770 (Oct-San Antonio, TX) Earl Neagles, 7197 Spring Hill Dr., Overgaard, AZ 85933 (602) 535-5009 USS LST 912 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Donald Songer, Rt. 4, Spring Hill, FL 34606 (904) 683-4380 USS Farenholt DD 491 (Sept-Burlingame. CA) S R. Brookville, PA 15825 (814) 752-2727 Bora Bora Bobcat Bn. (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) Mrs. J. Garcia, 3362 Warburton Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051 USS LST 993 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Emil Doroba, 6039 (408) 243-1390 Syposs, 551 Woodward St., No. Tonawanda, NY 14120 Granger Rd , Ashtabula, OH 44004 (216) 998-5131 (716) 693-6555 USS Fletcher DD/DDE 445 (Sept-Sacramento, CA) USS Mansfield DD 728 (Sept-San Diego) Robert CASU (F) 20 (Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands) (Sept- Edward Horsman, 313 Deers Head Blvd., Salisbury, MD Schools. 3955 Monza Dr., Richmond, VA 23234 (804)

Portland, OR) Lloyd Norene, 8035 N. Dwight, Portland, 21801 (301 ) 742-0276 271-1551 OR 97203 (503) 283-2713 USS Frybarger DE/DEC 705 (Oct-Orlando, FL) Alex USS Marblehead CL 12 (June-New Haven, CT) Fred CBMU 508 (WWII) (Sept-Port Hueneme, CA) Nicholas Boyd, 5107 Bryce Ln., Richmond. VA 23224 (804) Brown, 12 White Ave., St. Louis, MO 63135 (314) 524- Miller, 2256 Los Encinos Rd., Ojai, CA 93023 (805) 233-0581 1258 649-1067 USS George Breeman DE 104 (Sept-Charleston, SC) USS Marsh DE 699 (Sept-Charleston, SC) John Cullinan, CBMU 539 (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN) James Smith, Box 4209, J.M. Miller, 3122W. Rochelle Ave., Milwaukee, Wl 53209 2920 Karen Dr., Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732 (301) St. Louis, MO 63163 (314) 534-8931 (414)352-1689 257-6322 Lion Four/Navy 3205 (Sept-Coeur d'Alene, ID) Hal USS Guam CB 2 (Aug-Buffalo, NY) Joseph Lodestro, 19 USS Medusa AR1 (Aug-San Diego) Charles Mantz. 486 Wenick, 4301 N. Ramsey Rd. A1- 6, Coeur d'Alene, ID Homestead St., Falconer, NY 14733 (716) 665-5589 Welton St., Chula Vista. CA 92011 (619)420-9299 83814(208)765-2608 USS Haggard DD 555 (Oct-Portsmouth, VA) J.F Turner, USS Melvin DD 680 (July-Millville, NJ) Henry Rosypal, Mbl. Fleet P.O., LST 50, MNPO 3 (Sasebo, Japan) Rt. 4, Box 274, Smithfield, VA 23430 (804) 357-4225 316 E. Vine St., Millville, NJ 08332 (609) 825-0280 (Sept-San Diego) Dennis Driscoll, 9844 Maple Leaf Dr., USS Hancock CV/CVA 19 (June-Las Vegas, NV) Charles USS Mertz DD 691 (July-St. Louis) Rev. Mervin Hood, 421

Gaithersburg, MD 20879 (301 ) 926-2575 Boyst, 1801 W. Bend Ct., Clemmons, NC 27012 (919) E. Bluff St., Carroll, IA 51401 (712) 792-4386 Navy Fire-Fighters (Sept-Ottawa, IL) Lawrence McGurk, 945-9264 USS Metcalf DD 595 (Aug-Chicago) John Chittum, 350 S. 414Woodlawn Ave., Streator, IL 61364 (815)672-7829 USS Harding DD 625/DMS 28 (Sept-Sheboygan, Wl) Walnut St., Huntington, WV 25705 (304) 523-6963 Navy Seabee Vets (OH Dept.) (June-Toledo, OH) Donald G.T. Watson, Box 13A. McDaniel, MD 21647 (301) USS Mobile CL 63 (Sept-New Orleans, LA) George Boomer, 909 Ogden Ave., Toledo, OH 43609 (419) 385- 745-9725 Trenchard, So. Parliman Rd., Box 34, Lagrangeville, NY 4143 USS Hinsdale APA 120 (Sept-St. Louis) Maynard 12540 (914) 223-3253 Ulithi/SLCU 34/Acorn 29 (Sept-Tulsa, OK) John Peters, Meserve, 9 Dana St., Gorham, ME 04038 (207) USS Monadnock CM9/ACM10 (Sept-Louisville, KY) 6752 E. 66th PL, Tulsa, OK 74133 (918) 492-9259 839-3754 Harold Senior, 6701 New Cut Rd., Louisville, KY 40118 USS Abnaki ATF 96 (June-St. Louis) Joseph Colombara, USS Howard W. Gilmore AS 16 (June-Norfolk, VA) Dr. USS Mt. McKlnley AGC 7 (Fall) Don Shreeves, 315 W. 720 E. Country Ln, Collinsville, IL 62234 (618) 344-8869 Robert Swan, 5000 Portsmouth Blvd., Box 3156, Main St., Princeton, MO 64673 (816) 748-3871 USS Allen M. Sumner DD 692 (June-Buffalo, NY) R E. Portsmouth, VA 23701 (804)465-0136 USS Nassau CVE 16 (Sept-New Orleans, LA) Sam Gall, 61 Fuller Ave., Tonawanda, NY 14150 (716) USS Howorth Assn. (Oct-San Diego) Larry Nelson, Box Moore, 10320 Calimesa Blvd., Sp. 221, Calimesa, CA 692-2697 93, Nelson, IL 61058 (815) 251 -4416 92320 (714) 795-6070 USS Altamaha CVE 18 (Sept-Cleveland) R. Berry, 9850 USS Inch DE 146 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Rocky Schoen- USS Oberon AKA 14 (WWII) (Sept-Louisville, KY) Robert Russline Dr., Loveland, OH 45140 rock, 3424 S. Lincoln St., Springfield, IL 62704 (217) Hansen, 32 15th Ave., Council Bluffs. IA 51503 (712) USS Ancon AGC 4 (June-Annapolis. MD) Bernard Freed, 787-2779 323-9731

12224 Foxhill Ln., Bowie, MD 20715 (301 ) 262-5239 USS Ira Jettery DE 63/APD 44 (Aug-Buffalo, NY) Paul USS Omaha CL 4 (Sept-Cherry Hill, NJ) George Bravy, USS Argus 16 (July-Knoxville, TN) Pat Didlake, Box 56, Grosse, 14 Applewood Rd., Cheektowaga, NY 14225 Box 323, Speonk, NY 11972 (516) 325-0788 Glendora, MS 38928 (601 ) 375-8500 (716)634-0328 USS Osterhaus DE 164 (Sept-White Lake, SD) Gene USS Arided AK 73 (Aug-Sarasota, FL) Richard Baker, USS Jack W. Wilke EDE 800 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Glen Fredericksen, Rt. 1, Box 126, Plankinton, SD 57368 1002 Catherine Ave., Kinston, NC 28501 Hunter, Box 141, Cottekill, NY 12419 (914) 687-0992 (605) 942-7175 USS Ashtabula AO 51 (Aug-Davenport, IA) Alex Hertzog, USS John R. Craig (Aug-Omaha, NE) Willis Rix, 13417 USS Patterson DD 392 (Sept-Horse Shoe, NC) Carl 47 Evergreen St., Nazareth, PA 18064 (215) 759-9492 Polk St., Omaha, NE 68137 (402) 895-4465 Allison. Turnpike Rd., Rt. 2, Box 326A, Horse Shoe, NC USS Baltimore CA 68 (Aug-Houston) David Blomstrom, USS John Rodgers DD 574 (Sept-St. Louis) Oswald 28742(704) 891-9504 9301 Southwest Freeway, #100, Houston, TX 77074 DeGhetto. 5 Weston Rd., Somerville, NJ 08876 (201) USS PCER 855 (Sept-Rockford, Ml) Merrill Block, 7290 (713) 771-4385 874-5989 Fox Meadow Dr. N.E., Rockford, Ml 49341 (616) USS Birmingham CL 62 (Aug-Charleston, SC) Andrew USS Kadashan Bay CVE 76 (Elec. Gang) (Sept-Lake 874-5910 Macks, Box 138, Inlet Oaks Vlg.. Murrells Inlet, SC Tahoe, CA) Bob Chamberjian, 3610 Ethan Ct., San Jose, USS Peto SS 265 (Aug-Reno, NV) Robert McCoy, Bex 29576 (803)651-4407 CA 95136 (408) 978-6452 304, Pearblossom, CA 93553 (805) 944-4467 USS Blue DD 387/744 (Sept-St. Louis) Joseph Huff, 1711 USS Kalinin Bay CVE 68 (May-Atlanta) Cotton Atkinson, USS Rainier AE 5 (Aug-Salt Lake City, UT) Buck Hessel-

W. 12th St., Sioux Falls, SD 57104 (605) 334-3729 11302 Margie, Corpus Christi, TX 78410 (512) 241 -7096 gesser, 1795 S. 3500 W Street, Rt. 1, Ogden, UT 84401 USS Blue Ridge AGC 2 (Sept-Indianapolis) Michael USS Kleinsmith APD 134 (Oct-St. Louis) Rev. Victor (801) 731-1989

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USS Ranger CV 4 (Sept-Nashville, TN) John Carey, 6832 37th Security Police Sq. (Phu Cat A.B. RVN) (July- 36th A.D.G. Supply Sq. (Aug-New Orleans) Glenn Moss, Hamilton Cir., Olive Branch, MS 38654 (601) 895-2408 Valley Forge, PA) Fred Rosenberg, 1214 Spring Ave., Ft. 8414 McKenzie Cir, Manassas, VA22110 (703) 369-1381 USS Redfln SS 272 (Aug-Sparks, NV) Leo Sweeney, Washington, PA 19034 (215) 628-4341 39th T.C. Sq., 317th T.C. Grp. (WWII) (May-Louisville, 8500 N.W. Wildcat Lake Rd., Bremerton, WA 98312 46th Air Dpt. Grp., 8th AF (Watton, Eng.) (July-Denver) KY) John Reiley, Rt. 2, Box 123, Westport, IN 47283 USS Ringgold DD 500 (Sept-Milwaukee, W!) William Will Harman, 6862 Louisville St., New Orleans, LA 70124 (812) 591-2007 Lang, 11920 N. Springdale Ct., West Mequon, Wl 53092 (504) 282-3826 42nd Serv. Sq., 329th Grp. (Sept-Lexington, KY) Paul USS Robert Brazier (Sept-Charleston, SC) Louis Fowler, 48th Air Police Sq. (1955-58) (Oct-Columbus, OH) Votaw, 168 Castle Hts., Harrodsburg, KY 40330 (606) 9703 Pine Way, Tampa, FL 33635 (813) 886-0799 Howard Stone, 579 N. Main St., Utica, OH 43080 (614) 734-2149 USS Rudyerd Bay/VC 77/96 (July-Boston) Bob Hazlett, 892-3463 45th Air Dpt. Grp. (Sept-Sandusky, OH) Charles 20 Russell St., Cambridge, MA 02140 (617) 864-8097 51 st Trp. Carrier Wing, HQ & HQ Sq. (Nov-Raleigh, NC) Guemelata, 119 Aigler Blvd., Bellevue, OH 44811 (419) USS S 45 (S156) (Sept-Silverdale, WA) R.H. Lemagie, James Klibbe, 3113 Merrianne Dr., Raleigh, NC 27607 483-4371 12921 97th Ave. N.W., Gig Harbor, WA 98335 (206) (919) 787-5280 46th Troop Carrier Sq., 317th T.C. Grp. (Aug-Columbus, 857-6717 63rd Ftr. Interceptor Sq. (May-Las Vegas, NV) Charles OH) Richard Brown, 509 Clay, Carey, OH 43316 (419)

USS Sabine AO 25 (Oct-Memphis, TN) Dick Fahler, Rt. 1, Young Jr., 553 Kingsley Ct., Toms River, NJ 08753 (201 396-3059 Box 31, Star City, IN 46985 (219) 595-7761 929-0527 49th Ftr. Grp. Assn. (WWII/Korea/Vietnam) (Sept- USS San Juan (Oct-Tampa, FL) Bill Carpenter, 1119 Aquia 65th Trp. Carrier Sq. (WWII) (Aug-Dayton, OH) Bud Mesa, AZ) Bill Schultz, Box 1270, Phoenix, AZ 85001 Dr., Stafford, VA 22554 (703) 659-4774 Hawkey, 106 Union Dr., New Madison, OH 45346 (513) (602)833-8187 USS Selfrldge DD 357 (Sept-Springfield, MO) C.E. 996-3851 55th Weather Recon. Sq. Heavy B-24 (May-Ft. Worth, Chambers, 551 E. Jefferson Ave., Lake Charles, LA 75th Ftr. Sq., 23rd Ftr. Grp., 14th AF (China/WWII) TX) David Jenkins, 392 Tulip St., Fairfield, CA 94533 70605 (318) 477-1567 (Sept-Washington) Myron Levy, 11933 Claychester Dr., (707) 422-6541 USS Sevier APA 233 (WWII) (Sept-New Orleans) Buford Des Peres, MO 63131 62nd T.C. Wing/Mil. Airlift Wing (McChord/Larson Richardson, 4540 Winnebago St., Baton Rouge, LA 92nd Airdrome Sq. (Sept-Savannah, GA) Larry Kabat, AFB) (Aug-Tacoma, WA) 62nd TCW/MAW Assn., Box 70805 (504) 355-0408 1001 Woodlawn Terr., Madison, FL 32340 (904) 4220, McChord AFB, WA 98438 (206) 582-1904 USS Slater DE 766 (May-Nashville, TN) Charles Lewis, 973-2306 79th Airdrome Sq., 5th AF (WWII) (June-San Diego) Box 246, Wrens, GA 30833 310/311/312th Ferrying Sqdns., 27th ATG (Sept- Fred Hitchcock, 29 Blueberry Hill Ln., Sudbury, MA USS St. Lo CVE 63/VC 65 (Oct-Minneapolis, MN) E.H. Dayton, OH) Lyle Gildermaster, 135 Colver Dr., Poncha- 01776 (508) 443-6679 Crawforth, 1910 Windsor Way, Reno, NV 89503 (702) toula, LA 70454 (504) 386-6351 86th-72nd Air Serv. Sqdns., 52nd Air Serv. Grp. (CBI) 747-0884 314th Comp. Wing, 5th A.F., HQ & HQ Sq. (June- (Sept-Lionville, PA) William Jacoby, Lincoln Hwy., Box USS Sterlet SS 392 (Aug-Reno, NV) Robert Barker, Box Gettysburg, PA) Bob Kendall, Box 35372, Louisville, KY 523, Parksburg, PA 19365 (215) 857-1308 148, Mountain City, NV 89831 (702) 763-6662 40232 87th Dpt. Repair Sq. (Aug-Pigeon Forge, TN) Ray USS Sussex AK 213 (Sept-Seattle, WA) Don English, Box 317th T.C. Sq., 342 Air drome Sq. (Oct-lndianapolis) Hoormann, 1209 Redman Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63138 20968, Portland, OR 97220 (503) 252-4601 Joseph Billings, 5125 N.W. 62nd Ave., Johnston, IA (314)741-1099 USS Swanson DD 443 (June-St. Thomas, VI) Edward 50131 (515) 276-0092 89th Troop Carrier Grp., 24/25/26/30/31 st Sqs. (June- Robertson, 81 Water Is, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 338th Signal Co. Wing (Sept-Indianapolis) Robert Norfolk, VA) Lindo Harvell, 711 Biggs St., Laurinburg, NC 00802 Davidson, 2143 Woodcrest Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46227 28352 (919) 276-2344 USSTopeka CL 67 (Aug-Groton, CT) James Wilson, 1022 (317) 786-1955 94th Ftr. Sq., 1st Ftr. Grp. (Hat in the Ring) (Oct-San W. Abbott, Muncie, IN 47303 (317) 288-3949 388th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Aug-Salt Lake City, UT) Edward Antonio, TX) Jack llfrey, 50 Ridge Dr., New Braunfels.TX USS U.S. Grant AP 29, 5th Dlv. (June-Ocean Shore, WA) Huntzinger, 1925 S.E. 37th St., Cape Coral, FL 33904 78130 (512) 629-0391 Harold Howard, Box 39, Elmira, OR 97437 (813) 542-4807 305th Bomb Grp., 8th A.F. (Chelveston/WWII) (Oct- USS Valley Forge CV 45/O-R Dlv. (July-Columbus, NE) 454th Bomb Sq. (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) Joseph Havrilla, Portland, OR) Abe Millar, Box 757, Sanger, TX 76266 Paul Conkel, 4325 Sunset Ln., Columbus, NE 68601 1208 Margaret St., Munhall, PA 15120 (412)461-6373 (817) 458-3516 (402) 564-7677 679/703/1022/1536/1539th Ord. Cos., 5th AF (New 315th Air Serv., HQ & HQ Sq (Oct-Winter Haven, FL) USS Valley Forge CV/CVA/CVS 45/LPH 8 (July-Norfolk, Guinea/WWII) (Sept-Oshkosh, Wl) Nate Frankel, 1609 Wilson Pask, Box 1191, Dundee, FL 33838 (813) VA) John Trahan, 2301 Melrose St., National City, CA AlmaraCir., Louisville, KY 40205 (502) 459-1051 439-4927 92050 (619) 262-0169 3912th Air Base Sq. (Wyton RAF Sta./1950-53) (July- 341st Ftr. Sq. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) John USS Walker DD 517 (1943-69) (Aug-Philadelphia) Las Vegas, NV) Bill Parkhurst, Box 2881, Tulsa, OK 74101 McAllister, 1437 Coble Ave., Hacienda Hts., CA 91745 Charles Schnell, 816 Ricewood Dr., St. Louis, MO 63129 (918) 446-6400 (818) 968-2535 USS Waukesha AK A 84 (May-Seattle) Peter Brandel, 133 Cannon AFB (Military/Civilian Personnel) (June- 394th Serv. Sq., 823rd Air Engr. Sq. (May-St. Louis)

E. 58th St., 1st Women's Bank, 11th Fl., New York, NY Clovis, NM) Bertha Wells, 312 W. Yucca Ave., Clovis, NM Howard Davis, Rt. 1, Box 560, Valliant, OK 74764 (405) 10022 (212) 750-6220 88101 (505) 763-3198 933-7565 USS West Point AP 23 (WWII) (Sept-Norfolk, VA) John Foster Field Assoc. (Aloe/Matagorda Peninsula/ 398th Bomb Grp. (Sept-Dayton, OH) George Hilliard, Daniel, 3728 S. Fuller, Independence, MO 64052 Matagorda Gun. Range) (June-Victoria, Texas) Paul 7841 Quartermaine Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45236 (513) USS Whitehurst DE 634 (June-Knoxville, TN) Roy Kneblick, 601 Cambridge, Rt. 6, Victoria, TX 77901 (512) 891-8533 Graham, Rt. 12, Box 258, Morgantown, WV 26505 (304) 575- 5840 404th Ftr. Grp., HQ/506/507/508th Sqs. (Sept-Savan- 594-1986 nah, GA) John Hartshorn, 18 Rookery Rd., Savannah, USS Wichita CA45/Tuscaloosa CA 37 (Sept-Cincinnati) GA 31411 (912) 598-1333 John D'Ercole, 122 Eaton Ave., Hamilton, OH 45013 456th Bomb Sq., 323rd Bomb Grp. (Sept-Dayton, OH) (513)863-7196 Thomas Curtin, 116-13 103rd Ave., Richmond Hill, NY USS Wilson DD 408 (Sept-Washington) Ray Holder, 2602 Army Air Forces 11419 (718) 849-7596 Stephenson Dr., Wilmington, DE 19850 (302) 994-1848 474th Ftr. Grp. (WWII) (Aug-Colorado Springs, CO) Lloyd USS YP 239 (Sept-Greenville, SC) J.C. Bundrick, Box Wenzel, 204 Turtle Creek Dr., Tequesta, FL 33469 (407) 343, Cleveland, SC 29635 (803) 836-7282 4th Air Depot Grp. (Sept-LeSourdsville, OH) James Purt, 747-2380 USS Zellln APA 3 (June-Long Beach, CA) Thomas 1620 E. Central Ave., Miamisburg, OH 45342 (513) 486/454/465/493/9/331 /98/448th Bomb Grps. & Serv. Hoffman, 35444 Ave. "H" Yucaipa. CA 92399 (714) 866-5314 Sqs. (Sept-McCook, NE) Al White, 605 W. 1st St., 795-5318 7th Airdrome Sq. (Oct-Mesa, AZ) Murrell Smith, 438 N. McCook, NE 69001 (308) 345-4234 USS Zellars DD 777 (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Tom Ward, 420 Temple, Mesa, AZ 85203 (602) 969-3860 487th Bomb Grp (H) (May-England) Roy Levy, 10162 Betsy Ross Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23462 (804) 7th Bomb Grp. (H) (May-Ft. Worth, TX) Richard Young, Robin Ave., Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 968-5535 497-6445 12301 218th PI. S.E., Snohomish, WA 98290 (206) 525th Sq., 86th Ftr./Bomb Grp. (ETO) (Sept-San V 12/5 (Western Ml Univ/Marlnes Included) (Sept- 668-6642 Antonio, TX) Gil Hurt, 4920 Montcrest Dr., Chattanooga, Kalamazoo, Ml) Bill Kowalski, 11555 Sunset Dr., 8th A.F. Historical Society (NJ Chapter) (Sept-Ft. TN 37416 (615) 344-6077 Kalamazoo, Ml 49009 (616) 668-2843 Monmouth, NJ) Marvin Speidel, 708 Dianne Ct., 599th S.A.W. Bn. (May-San Francisco) Harry Garo, 7738 VB 5 (1944) (Oct-Orlando, FL) Lyle Woodward, 205 Murry Rahway, NJ 07065 (201) 388-2843 Allengrove St., Downey, CA 90240 (213) 928-2768 Dr., Orlando, FL 32811 (407)295-3768 8th Air Rescue Sq. (July-Reno, NV) R.K. Birkland, 557 780th Bomb Sq., 465th Bomb Grp. (Sept-Washington) VP 201/VP/VPML 8 (Sept-Warwick, Rl) Jim Curtin, 34 San Juan St., Santa Rosa, CA 95409 (707) 539-0947 Nile Home, 5219 Chukar Dr. S.W., Roanoke. VA 24014 Mitola Dr., No. Kingstown, Rl 02852 (401 ) 884-5043 20th Air Dpt. Supply Sq. (Telergma, Algeria/Naples, 913th Slg. Co., 8th AF (Watton, Eng.) (July-Denver) VP 53 (May-Atlanta) Dale Good, 4008 Justine Dr., Italy) (July-Big Fork, MT) Fred Hollingsworth, 3249 Paul Howard, 1501 Katy, Henderson, TX 75652 (214) -3088 Annandale, VA 22003 (703) 941 Winterhawk Dr., Big Fork, MT 59911 (406) 755-7176 657-3239 Diego, WAVES (July-San CA) Navy Women's Conv. 20th Ftr. Grp. Assn. (WWII) (Oct-Denver) Jack llfrey, 50 926th Signal Bn. (Aug-Knoxville, TN) H.A. Turner, Box T, Committee, Box 191117, San Diego, 92119 CA Ridge Dr., New Braunfels.TX 78130 (512) 629-0391 Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214 (301 ) 241 -3162 21 st Air Dpt. Grp. (Sept-Van Wert, OH) James Campbell, 1352nd AAFBU, Search & Rescue (Mohanbari, India/ 20 Chelsea St., Staton Island, NY 10307 (718) 984-2362 1944-45) (Oct-Marshall, TX) C.W. Robinson, 625 E. 22nd Bomb Grp., 5th A.F. (WWII) (Sept-Lexington, KY) Daisy Ln., New Albany, IN 47150 (812) 945-6205 Air Force Jack Clark, Box 560967, Rockledge, FL 32956 Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society (May-Pittsburgh) 29th Bomb Sq. (GalaPa 805) (June-Dayton, OH) Charles Ralph Patton, 720 Valley View Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15243 1st Radio Sq. (Patterson Fid.) (Sept-Dayton, OH) Schlegel, 8780 Meadowcreek Dr., Dayton, OH 45459 (412) 343-8570 Horace Moore, Box 736, Rosebud, TX 76570 (817) 30th Air Dpt. Grp. (WWII) (Aug-Troy, OH) John Richey, Ardmore Army Air Field (Sept-Dayton, OH) Hamilton 583-4300 6207 Carriage Rd., Dayton, OH 45415 Post, 998 Locust Ave., Washington, PA 15301 (412) 3rd Emer. Rescue Sq. (WWII) (Sept-Prairie de Chien, 30th Mbl. Reclam. Repair Sq., 9th AF (Sept-Alger, OH) 222-0851 Wl) Glenn Meyer, 314 S. State St., Prairie de Chien, Wl Glenn Corder, 415 E. Smith, McAlester, OK 74501 (918) Bradley Field Vets (WWII) (Aug-Windsor Locks, CT) 53821 (608) 326-8011 423-4648 Helen Snyder, 1463 Boulevard, W. Hartford, CT 06119 20th Troop Carrier Sq. (Oct-Sweetwater, TN) Ed Milam 33rd Ftr. Cont. Sq. (Sept-Sun City West. AZ) Robert (203) 561 -3096 Jr., 273 Belvedere Dr., Macon, GA 31204 (912) 477-9300 Herren, 17214 130th Ave., Sun City West, AZ 85375 C.C.A.A.F. (Glider Unit) (Aug-Wilmington, OH) James 28th Photo Recon. Sq. (WWII) (June) Skip Ott, 24 High (602) 584-2685 Wixson, 316 Walnut St., Wilmington, OH 45177 (513) Acres Rd., Ansonia, CT 06401 (203) 734-3433 34th Bomb Grp. (Sept-Shreveport, LA) Ray Summa, 2910 382-4275 30th D.S.S. (Brlze Norton RAF/Eng.) (June-Atlanta) Bittersweet Ln., Anderson, IN 46011 (317)644-6027 Cadet Class 1939B (May-San Antonio. TX) Joe Kelly,

Robert Denbo, 697 Hoffmann Ave., Lebanon, OH 45036 36th A.D.G. Repair Sq. (Sept-Peoria, II) Ray Weltz, 725 1306 Mayhill Dr., Memphis, TN 38116 (901 ) 332-1300 (513) 932-5436 Kickapoo Ln., Peoria, IL 61604 (309) 637-9349 Please turn to page 67

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said one official who has seen the intel- Toward the end, he was gripped by a ligence reports. high fever. He pleaded for liquids, but Finally, after weeks of agony, his captors refused. Buckley gave his captors what they "They were just kids," said Jenco of Continuedfrom page 8 wanted. On audio tapes, he revealed to Buckley's guards. Iranian security agents details of U.S. Later, when Buckley was unable to intelligence capabilities and operations eat, the "kids" tried to force-feed him. in the Middle East. One day, Buckley could not swallow the make our American system work. Our By this time, Buckley had suffered bread they pushed at him. Delirious, he duty as citizens in time of peace is no serious internal injuries. His ribs were said, "I'd like some poached eggs on less important than was our duty in time smashed. His legs and feet were bro- toast, please," Jenco recalls. of war. ken. He was put in a hospital— but only Buckley never asked for spiritual Our nation has paid too high a price briefly. guidance or last rites, even though he in blood, suffering and death to let our By the end of 1984, Buckley was knew he was dying, said Jenco. way of life and institutions deteriorate back in Lebanon— an empty shell of a Instead, William Buckley, a profes- and crumble because of public apathy, man in desperate need of proper med- sional survivor painfully aware he had greed or indifference. ical care. In Lebanon, he joined three broken under torture, expressed only On this Memorial Day, our words of other hostages as pawns in what bitterness. tribute will not be empty, no matter how became a deadly chess match with the "My God," he told Jenco, "I've been inadequate they may seem for the occa- White House. through so much. Why this?" sion; Memorial Day will take on an In January 1985, in a videotape that One day in June, Jenco was lying even greater significance, if we gain

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manufacturers are not going to increase of a whipping-boy for the regulator. It is their budgets to compensate for the my theory that because of the limitations additional cost of a tax on advertising. the budget deficit and Gramm-Rudman-

So if there were such a tax, it would Hollings law place on spending, some have to come out of an ad budget. Thus, legislators have had to find other ways the net effect would be to reduce levels of appealing for votes than by spending. of advertising, which can result in a The advertiser who advertises certain 5 historic smaller GNP, less production, less man- categories of goods can always be a U.S. coins only ufacturing, more unemployment and popular whipping-boy. less tax revenue through normal methods of taxation. The whole thing Qa Some of the most entertaining ads wn five great American o coin would be counterproductive. on television are beer and wine com- classics, up to 125 years old, for only mercials. Yet a lot of people urge an $29 in this special introductory offer. Qa How serious a problem is decep- end to this advertising. How do you Each historic collectors set includes tive advertising, and what can people react to that? an average circulated 1859-1909 "In- do to protect themselves against such I maintain that as long as a product dian Head" penny (the favorite of A practices? a is legally available for sale or con- the Wild West era); a long-obsolete 2 By and large the deceptive adver- sumption and is truthfully and non- cent piece (the first U.S. coin inscrib- A tising that occurs in the marketplace deceptively advertised, then it is entitled ed "In God We Trust"); the is to the constitutional 1883-1912 "V" nickel (crooks gold- not advertising conducted by national protection of the plated some and passed them off as or even regional advertisers. Deceptive First Amendment. In the case of beer, $5 gold pieces); and the 1892-1916 advertising in general gives everybody there is an age restriction on its pur- "Liberty Head" silver dime and half a black eye. As to what the public can chase, and whether that is too low or dollar (regarded as the most perfect do, there are the local councils of the too high I am not going to debate. But coin design in U.S. history). Better Business Bureau that act very in my own opinion, the people who Real money from bygone America, much in the public interest and consum- oppose the consumption of alcohol have a these historic sets are being offered ers' interest. problem when people can serve to new customers only at this amaz- Also, one of the most effective things in the military at age 18 but are not able

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I left the room several times. Only Ruth taxed by Social Security programs. SMALL persevered. Dr. Marvin S. Wool, medical director A year and a half later, I stood in the of Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. receiving line at my wedding in another said a review of the Senior Plan (HMO) at ENGINE Midwestern city. As my attention his clinic indicated that the costly new drifted, my gaze moved down the line catastrophic coverage will benefit only a REPAIR! and fell on Clarence and Ruth. I was minority of those on Medicare. Work time, full overcome with unimaginable pain. Wool said that in 1987 only 1 percent of part time— | right at home— we help Only Ruth's gritty smile helped me pull the 1 ,300 members in the Senior Plan had you every step of the way. myself together. total acute-hospital stays more than 60

No doubt about it. . . as a small engine pro, you can cash The legacy of what Mike and I had in days; only 1 percent had medical expense in on the huge demand for qualified men in one of Amer- is unfulfilled if left to than only 10 percent ica's fastest growing industries. You'll be able to command Vietnam only more $5,000 and had top hourly rates of from $25.00 to $30.00 per hour — and Mike's name etched on a black granite multiple admissions that would have qual- that's just for labor. A simple tune-up earns as much as $49.95 for less than an hours work, and parts, engines slab of the Vietnam Memorial and to my ified them for significant benefits under and accessories will add even more to profits. the moving on with my life. However, the program. Wool said the crudest Plenty of business waiting for qualified men. Memorial Days since Mike died have deception of the law is that it "does not 65,000,000 Small Engines Are In Use Today! That's the official count from the Engine Service Assn.. only served to sharpen the pain. address costs of Medicare recipients most and one-million new engines are being built each month. Mike and I cannot let go of each susceptible to true economic catastrophe" With fully accredited Foley-Belsaw training, you can soon have the skills and knowledge to make top money ser- other. Nor do we want to. However, the — the 1 .5 million receiving custodial care vicing these engines People will seek you out and pay effort to maintain our friendship strains in nursing homes at any given time. you well to service their lawnmowers, tillers, edgers, power rakes, garden tractors, chain saws, minibikes, me. I'm alive. Mike's realities cannot Some key backers of the law have snowmobiles, generators, go-carts, paint sprayers, develop and change alongside mine. shown no willingness to lead a move- snowblowers . . the list is almost endless. Is our dilemma that of all Americans ment to revamp or repeal it. Bentsen, after Vietnam— either forget about it or who played a leading role in the passage be damned to wallow in it? I would of the law, strongly opposed a roll back prefer to understand and accept what of the Medicare premium surcharges happened as well as to learn and to Congress approved last year. grow from the experience. To do that, I "A very vocal minority is sounding

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MAY 1989 67 Parting shots

Come See, Come Saw A carpenter finished his work on a back porch for a customer on an agreed price. After the job was over, he handed the customer his bill. The customer inspected the work and asked the carpenter, "Aren't you going to saw wood for the hand rails? It's part of the porch." "Hey, bud," the carpenter said. "I didn't bother to look at the railing when

I gave you the price for the porch."

"But I saw you see it!" the customer protested.

"Maybe you saw me see it, but you aren't going to see me saw it." Henry Boye

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