Claude Brunelle, Security Guard Who Was Gunned Down by Armenian Terrorists Who Attacked the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa in March 1

Claude Brunelle, security guard who was gunned down by Armenian terrorists who attacked the Turkish embassy in Ottawa in March 1985, was also awarded the Star of Courage posthumously. - Winni- peg Free Press, June 18, 1988 (contributed by John Zabaryle,--~A #3~29).

PRESSURING PENTAGON TO HONOR BRAVERY

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Seaman Dorrie Miller, a mess stew- ard, braved withering fire from Japanese Zeros swarming over Pearl Harbor to pull his mortally wounded captain to cover, then manned a machine gun on the USS West Virginia, downing two enemy planes without the benefit of training. Despite his unusual valor, he was never awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration. Unlike the 556 Americans who received the Medal of Honor for bravery in combat in World Wars I and II, Dorrie Miller was black. Now Rep. Joseph J. DioGuardi is pressuring the military "to recog- nize this injustice and cooperate" by posthumously awarding the medal to Miller and to Sgt. Henry Johnson, a black soldier who fought in World War I. The New York Republican and Rep. Mickey Leland, a Texas Democrat, have introduced bills to waive the statute of limitations for awarding the medals to the men, who other- wise qualify. But the bills are stalled by opposition from the Defense Department, which says adhering to the time limits is "necessary to protect the integrity, honor and prestige of the award" and that it would be improper to single out Miller and Johnson from the many who deserve but are now ineligible to get the award. "The military had agreed to waiving the statute before," DioGuardi responds, adding that if others deserve the medal, the waiver should apply to them as well. He and Leland recently sent a letter signed by 104 representatives to Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci, im- ploring him to waive the time limit. DioGuardi blames the Pentagon bureaucracy for intransigence on the matter. "Bureaucrats would rather take the easy way out. They’re hoping this thing goes away," he says. "They don’t know Joe Dio- Guardi. This will not go away." - Insight, July 4, 1988 (contributed by Charles Annegan, OMSA #434~--~ilar piece contributed by W. A. Wooding).

TWO WINNIPEGGERS NAMED TO ORDER OF CANADA LIST Ottawa (CP) - Two Winnipeggers have been appointed to the Order of Canada, Gov.-Geno Jeanne Sauve announced yesterday. Award-winning architect Gustavo U. da Rosa was made an officer and Dr. Elizabeth Feniak, a former chairman of the Manitoba Action Com- mittee on the Status of Women, is a member of the order. Former Canada Council chairman Mayor Moore, businessman David Cul- ver, and la~er Gordon Henderson have been appointed companions of the Order of Canada, the highest honor for Canadian citizens. And a virtual Who’s Who of the Calgary Winter Olympics are among other appointments - including organizer Frank King, winter and

28 summer Olympic participant Pierre Harvey and Winter Games medalists Elizabeth Manley, Brian Orser, Robert McCall, Tracy Wilson, Laurie Graham and Karen Percy. Moore is a Vancouver-based playwright, actor, producer, columnist and former governor of the National Theatre School. Culver is Montreal-based chairman of Alcan Aluminium Ltd. and chairman of the business lobby group, the Business Council of National Issues. Henderson is the Ottawa-based former president of the Canadian Bar Association and recipient of the 1988 award of merit from the B’nai Brith Foundation. All three had been officers of the order. In all, Sauve appointed three companions, 22 officers and 44 members to the order. Insignias will be presented at a ceremony, the date of which will be announced later. - Winnipeg Free Press, July 15, 1988 (contributed by John Zabaryle, OMSA #3729).

FINAL SALUTE FOR MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER He won the Medal of Honor in World War II and was nominated for a second in Korea, but Jake W. Lindsey’s death on Monday was hardly noticed. The 67-year-old ex-sergeant succumbed to a heart attack in Waynesboro, Miss. He will be buried today in a quiet spot over- looking the highway that bears his name - as a $15 million film on his life, "Sgt. Jake," begins to take life. "It’s unbelievable," said producer Martin Poll. "I was going to meet him for the first time in Washington next Wednesday, the 35th anniversary of the Korean Armistice. He was going to be honored in the U.S. Senate." Lindsey’s story is the stuff of legends. At 18, he enlisted in the Army, saw action in Europe and garnered a chestful of medals, including the Medal of Honor, which was given to him by President Harry S. Truman.

After the war, Jake worked for the Veterans Administration. But he soon rejoined the Army and became the first Medal of Honor winner to graduate from airborne school. For a while, he was an officer. But anxious to return to his troops, he petitioned for a return to the enlisted ranks - and won. Then came Korea. A regulation stated that no Medal of Honor winner should again serve in combat. So he went all the way up to General of the Army Omar Bradley to get approval. Jake won this battle, too. He ended up saving his company. During the civil rights movement, Lindsey was ordered to serve with the troops that escorted James Meredith into the University of Miss- issippi. After tensions eased, President John F. Kennedy invited him to the White House for dinner and asked Lindsey what he could do for him. "Get me out. I never again want to hold a rifle a- gainst my countrymen, black or white," Lindsey told JFK. - New York Daily News, July 21, 1988 (contributed by David Van Hoven, ~-~ #’4011. Similar pieces submitted by R. L. Planck and Peter Hlinka).

J. DEVEREUX: LED HEROIC WWII FORCE Ruxton, Md. - James Devereux, who led a small Marine detachment and 1,000 civilian construction workers that held off an overwhelming

29 Japanese force trying to take Wake Island in December, 1941, has died of pneumonia. The retired brigadier general, who later served four terms as a congressman from the Baltimore area, was 85 when he died Friday. After two weeks of fierce fighting at the small airstrip north of the Marshall Islands, then-Maj. Devereux surrendered to spare the rest of his 500 troops and workers. During the battle, Devereux’s poorly armed force managed to sink two enemy destroyers. He spent 3 1/2 years in a Japanese prison camp. Japanese historians have categorized the Wake Island battle as "one of the most humiliating defeats our Navy ever suffered." Devereux earned the Navy Cross and retired as a brigadier general in 1948. Two years later he won a seat in Congress as a Republican in a district near Baltimore that had sent only two Republicans to Wash- ington since the Civil War. In 1958 he left Congress to run for governor. After losing to J. Millard Tawes by a nearly 2-1 margin, he said his opponent was "much better qualified for governor than I was." - Los Angeles Times, August 9, 1988 (contributed by Frank F. Lockman, OMSA #3619).

LAST WORLD WAR II ADMIRAL TO RETIRE Washington - Rear Adm. John Duncan Bulkeley, 76, the last Navy admiral on active duty to see combat in World War II, will retire Aug. 31 after more than 55 years of military service, the Defense Department said yesterday. President Reagan will honor Bulkeley by nominating him for promo- tion to the three-star rank of vice admiral as he begins his re- tirement, the Pentagon said. Senate confirmation was virtually assured. Bulkeley, a Medal of Honor winner, is known within the Navy as the officer who safely evacuated Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Australia in March 1942 after the Japanese invaded the Philippines. Through most of World War II, Bulkeley commanded various torpedo boat squadrons in the Pacific theater. He received the nation’s highest military award for his squadron’s success in damaging or destroying Japanese planes, warships and merchant ships during duty in Philippine waters. - Courier-Post, August ii, 1988 ~contributed by W. A. Wooding, OMSA #3754).

CONTROLLER GETS SPANISH MEDAL Zaragoza AB, Spain - A special award presentation took place during a retreat ceremony at Zaragoza AB. A member of the 1986th Communi- cations Squadron was presented a medal from the Spanish air force. TSgt. Juan M. Aguilar, an air traffic controller with the 1986th Communications Squadron, was awarded the Order of the Cross of Aero- nautical Merit, 3rd Class. Sergeant Aguilar works in the ground control approach facility at Zaragoza AB. U.S. and Spanish military air traffic controllers