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The Magazine for a Strong America Vol. 129, No. 6 December 1990

AGENT ORANGE COVER-UP

A House report says the White House manipulated study. 16

CRAFTING NEW LIVES

Adults get a second chance at this trade school. By Gurney Williams III 19

THETEMPTING OF AMERICAN COURTS Jurist Robert Bork on ourjudicial system. 22

OUT OF THE WELFARE TRAP The war on poverty continues. By Philip C. Clarke 24

THE MAN WHO WAS SANTA CLAUS

The spirit ofAmerica'sfirst Santa lives on. By Dick O'Donnell 26

OUR AILING HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM

Many ofus simply cannot afford to get sick. ByGaryTurbak 28

THE ART OF ENCOURAGEMENT A kind word orpat on the back can move mountains. By VictorParachin 30

CHEMICAL WARRIORS

U. S. troops mayface an arsenal ofpoison in the Mideast. By Diane Booth 32

CAPITOL OF FREEDOM The building on "the Hill" is liberty's beacon. By Sam Sherman 36 24 BUDGET BLUES PLAGUE MEDICAL CARE

Commander Turner testifies on Capitol Hill. 38

A NETWORK OF CARE

A new Legionprogram lends a hand to militaryfamilies. 40

D E P A Ft T M E ; NTS

BIG ISSUES Should Congress Give The President Line-Item Veto Power?

LETTERS 4 COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 12 VETERANS ALERT 42

OPINIONS 8 VETERANS UPDATE 34 PARTING SHOTS 60

COVER The Man Who Was Santa Claus. Illustration byJim Sharpe.

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For example, the person who health-care services they receive, same U.S. citizens don't seem to realize believes he is adequately protecting as for law enforcement, utilities and that we send our dollars and many good himself and others by carrying streets. jobs overseas. The auto industry is a minimum auto liability of $20,000 Roger R. Tobias, M.D. glaring example. Thirty-five percent of should be prohibited from seeking more Lyons, Kan. the new cars purchased in the United than $20,000 in damages if he were States are foreign made. I believe every injured in an accident. When he pur- What a sad situation our health-care concerned citizen, both political par- chased his coverage, he decided no one system has evolved into. As late as the ties, unions and management should else was worth more than $20,000. If middle '70s and early '80s, the quality inform the American public just what today's litigants looked at what they are of health care in our country was more their appetite for foreign products is willing to pay, it would be a much fairer than adequate. Health insurance was doing to the U.S. economy. When you world. still easily affordable to most working buy foreign products no corporate tax Daniel J. Van Antwerp people. I hope sometime soon, we as a or personal income tax is paid to the Mobile, Ala. nation, can rebuild the system like it U.S. Treasury or Social Security fund. was 20 years ago. Something doesn't One of life's biggest ironies is a bumper Money Puzzle seem to be working in the last decade sticker "America, love it or leave it" on I'd like to know why the $40 million like it should. Just what in the world has a foreign car. study of Agent Orange wasn't com- happened? Keith H. Ongman pleted by the so-called competent Cen- Loren G. Flaugh Fairmount, III. ters for Disease Control. I have a copy Archer, Iowa of the court transcript that states the The Greedles seven chemical companies named in a I want to put my two cents worth in class-action suit settled out of court in Prudent Jury on Rep. Henry Hyde's statement (Big May 1984 for $180 million. My ques- I read with interest "Reading the Issues, October 1990) that representa- tion is did the government take the Minds of the Jury" (September 1990) by tive government would be lost if our money and run or will the money even- Jordan E. Cohn, and I could not help elected members of the House and tually be distributed to deserving but wonder how less often juries would Senate were limited to 12 years in Con- Vietnam veterans? vote to convict if they were routinely gress. Once the greedies get elected, Robert D. Moore Sr. informed of their privilege, and some they forget who put them in office. 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shallow and inaccurate in its historical live high on the hog. Congressmen Social Ills accounts. It reminds me of the Japanese should have to retire on small retire- As a family physician practicing in a tour guide on the Bullet train from ment funds and set an example. For small, central Kansas community, I Tokyo who proclaimed that television members of both houses to believe they congratulate you on your article, was invented by the Japanese. I didn't deserve longer terms in office and com-

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readers to respond to the question: Access to, and use of, computer records spective tenant pays his bills on time. about you and other consumers has become increasingly easy. Should Thomas W. Prince stricter controls on the use of consumers' computer records be imposed? Piqua, Ohio Of those who responded, 84 percent stated that stricter controls should be imposed because loosely controlled consumers' records allow invasion ofprivacy. Some

in the majority also wrote that mistakes by computer-run credit bureaus could seriously I don't believe the whole world damage credit ratings. Too muchjunk mail and illegal access and use ofrecords were also should know my personal business. reasons those in the majority said stricter controls should be imposed. They say there are laws to protect a

Of the 16 percent who said there shouldn't be stricter controls, many claimed the person's privacy; where are they? I get benefits having easily accessible credit the of informationfar outweigh few mistakes made too much junk mail. I am against by credit bureaus and other agencies that use consumers' computer records. Also, some anyone knowing my personal affairs, wrote that iferrors are made, there are ways to correct mistakes. because if I wanted everyone to know,

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The Fair Credit Reporting Act has Credit bureaus are very cavalier in mation handled, to receive it, who was helped provide for a strong and work- providing data about has not and the its use. you which purpose of When an able credit system for the benefit of been verified, is totally incorrect, and is error occurred, it was promptly rectified. consumers and creditors. Credit report- derogatory in nature. Incorrect data can Millions of people receive insurance, ing agencies do not destroy credit rat- migrate to other data bases through at a fair price, because of information ings. Credit reporting agencies simply automated interfaces and can be used supplied by credit bureaus. Millions of report your credit history. If anyone without your knowledge throughout mortgages and other loans were proc- destroys credit ratings, it is the con- your life. insult to injury, if a promptly credit To add essed because of the sumer, because the consumer creates credit bureau provides incorrect information available. few inci- and The that history. derogatory data to a potential creditor, dents of mishandled information pales Edward H. Radigan and you inform the credit bureau that in comparison to the tremendous bene- Olean,N.Y. the data is incorrect, they have the gall fits of easily available information about to insist you prove they are wrong. credit, insurance and employment.

I suggest legislation be passed which William L. drone Without strict controls, I am con- requires every data base that provides Seneca Falls, N. Y. vinced that the rapid developments in personal information to provide written computer technology will subject notification to any person when derog- Americans to future intrusions upon atory information is present in the file. There should definitely be tighter privacy we cannot now imagine. In addition, the on-line query system controls and closed loopholes on credit G.D. Rooker allows subscribers access to anyone's information records. Credit informa- Barefoot Bay, Fla. file, whether it be for legitimate busi- tion should not be used for employment ness or mere curiosity. Big Brother is purposes at all. Lists from credit closer than you think. bureaus should not be sold, either. Arthur J. Staub Sanfod W. Cramer III Another problem is that no computer Newburg, Pa. Garden Grove, Calif data is safe from hackers. Any information illegally obtained for profit should be treated like any theft and punished After spending 37 years with a credit Because we have the legal right to accordingly, regardless of whether the

bureau company, I found this bureau to review our records, we can correct any thief is a magazine looking for a story or

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LEGIONNAIRES HAVE A ROLE IN HELPING GIsAND THEIR FAMILIES

in between visits count on you to do your part. to Legion Departments All of us who have served remember nWASwhen the letter arrived at one of the most important times of the National Headquarters. day. Mail call brought us news from The distinctive red and home and reminded us that our families blue hatches on the border and friends were thinking of us. Some of the envelope bore the of us even received a letter or note from tell-tale sign that the letter a stranger who wished us well and had traveled a long dis- expressed his pride. Here again, tance. I opened the letter and began to Legionnaires can show their support by read. writing encouraging words to our "Dear Sir: I'm currently in Saudi troops in Saudi Arabia. It only takes a

Arabia with the 82nd Airborne Divi- few moments of your time, but it will sion, C. Co., 4-325th Airborne leave an everlasting memory for some

Infantry—America's Guard of Honor. I service person far from home (see Vet- was deployed the first day of the inva- erans Update, page 36). sion of Kuwait and sent here to protect One bit of news that many GIs in the and defend key points of interest to the Mideast soon will be receiving is The United States and the world. Our first American Legion Magazine. thought was that we were going to Beginning this month, 15,000 copies of Nat' I Cmdr. Robert S. Turner parachute into Kuwait and go up each issue will be mailed to Saudi against Hussein's army. Our intelli- Arabia and to those serving in the Per- gence warned that he had eight times during tense times. During World War sian Gulf. It isn't the first time the the troop strength that we did. We knew II, Korea and the Vietnam War many of magazine has been shipped overseas to a lot of us would not make it back if our Posts had outreach programs to our military people. During World War hostilities began. assist families in need. As Sgt. Harger II, copies of a monthly "pony" issue

"I was in Grenada in 1983 and in says in his letter, it makes it easier for were mailed to GIs in the Pacific,

Panama last year. All of the men I those in uniform to do their jobs when Europe and elsewhere. trained and fought with were proud to they know that folks back home are We will ship the magazine to the be Americans and do their duty. And helping the families they left behind. Mideast until the crisis has been I'm proud of all of you who supported That's why I was pleased to unveil resolved and our troops return home. us every inch of the way. Your support the Family Support Network of The I couldn't help but notice in Sgt. makes it that much easier for those of us American Legion, a nationwide pro- Harger's letter the obvious motivation who must leave their loved ones and do gram to assist, when requested, the and love for his country. The father of a job that no one in his right mind would families of regular active duty person- two children and a loving wife who ever want to do. But we do it, just as you nel, National Guardsmen and Reser- reside near Fort Bragg, N.C., Harger, ." did, for all Americans. . . vists who were activated and are like thousands of other Americans, is Sgt. Michael Harger's letter further deployed in the Mideast. By dialing a standing tall during these tense and described his pride in being an Amer- special toll-free telephone number— 1- dangerous times. If he and other mem- ican and his private thoughts about the 800-786-0901 -families are often just bers read this message, I want them to family he left behind. moments away from receiving the help know that we're proud of them and that

As I write this, I am preparing to they need. Such assistance might range we stand behind them in the difficult travel and meet with American GIs in from home maintenance to finding duty they face. Saudi Arabia. Other Legion leaders part-time jobs for spouses left behind It is especially important during this will accompany me, and we will be (see story, page 40). holiday time of year— a time when we briefed on the ongoing "Operation The vital link in this important pro- hope and pray for good will to others— Desert Shield." gram is you. Many of you might be that our quest for peace continues. Legionnaires always have been espe- called through the network to help or From my family in Decatur, Ga., to cially willing to roll up their sleeves and lend your special talents to ensure that yours, I wish you the best and happiest help our servicemen and their families these families are helped. I know I can of holidays. God bless us everyone.

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SHOULD CONGRESS GIVE THE PRESIDENT LINE-ITEM VETO POWER?

Rep. John J. Duncan Jr., R-Tennessee Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Oklahoma

Already the governors He is commander in chief of 43 of our states have of the Armed Forces, and he this power, and President YES NO appoints Supreme Court Bush desperately needs it, too. I realize it Justices, all other federal judges, every is unlikely that a liberal Congress will ambassador and the heads of every execu- give this right to a conservative Presi- tive department and agency. But the Con- dent. Congress has been unable or unwill- stitution also clearly defines the limits of ing, however, to bring spending under presidential power. The very first sentence control on its own. of the Constitution plainly states that all We need a line-item veto and a constitutional amendment legislative powers are to be vested in the Congress. The Con- requiring a balanced budget at the federal level, or we may stitution may be vague in certain areas, but in this instance it soon drown in a sea of red ink. Congress voted recently over could not be any more clear. All legislative power— and that the objection of many conservatives to raise our national means spending power— is given to the Congress. debt to about $3.5 trillion. This is a jump from $935 billion Supporters argue that if the line-item veto is available to the in 1980, an increase of more than 350 percent in years of governors of 43 states, then it should be available to the Presi- relatively low inflation. dent, too. But state governments are not miniature federal President Bush has submitted a budget for the coming governments. Only the federal government has the responsibil- fiscal year which calls for spending of about $39,000 a ity of defending the nation, enforcing treaties and supporting second, every second of every day of the year. activities as large as Social Security and Veterans Affairs. The bureaucrats are constantly trying to get more money A President with a line-item veto authority would have far so that they can feel more important and powerful and so that more power to set the legislative agenda than was ever their departments or agencies can become bigger. Very few envisioned by the founding fathers. Important programs members of Congress are willing to say "no" to anyone, could be virtually wiped out by a hostile President and a mere because it is politically popular to say "yes" to everyone. 6 percent of Congress. If the President had the line-item veto, he could leave the How? Say, for example, that a liberal President sought to good parts in a spending measure while removing the fat— end the Stealth bomber program. With one stroke of the pen, the wasteful and ridiculous expenditures found in almost he could veto the line in the defense appropriations bill funding every appropriations bill. the plane. Even if there was overwhelming public support for

Continuing to withhold this tool from the nation's chief the program, and all 435 members of the House and nearly two- executive will only prolong the sort of business-as-usual, thirds of the Senate voted to override the veto, with the support pork barrel politics partially responsible for the ballooning of only 34 senators— the number needed to sustain a veto— the budget deficits with which we in the Congress continue to Stealth bomber would be history. contend. The line-item veto will not surrender congressional Many people are frustrated by the inability of the federal responsibility in the budget process. Rather, it will enable the government to balance the budget and to cut waste. I am

President to exert the type of leadership in fiscal restraint frustrated, too. But the way to change that is at the polls. It that both branches of government must display. may be more tedious, more expensive, and more time con- Under proposed legislation, a line-item veto would allow suming, but our founding fathers didn't set out to create the the President to make an itemized list of programs in a most efficient government in the world; they created a system spending law that he wants to eliminate or reduce. In order to designed to protect our liberties. block these cuts, Congress would have to express its disap- The line-item veto would fundamentally shift proval of the reduced funding within a limited time. the balance of power and change our form of govern-

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An Unforgettable Collection For Sweethearts Everywhere! The White Cliffe Of Dover 42 Great Love Songs From

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A G N T ORANGE

United States is also a defendant. the study, the CDC tested them for examine the cancer rates, it did find Joining the Legion as plantiffs are dioxin in their blood. For many study some participants had similar health three Vietnam veterans exposed to participants, more than 20 years had complaints such as skin problems, Agent Orange and a widow of a Viet- passed since they were exposed. When higher rates of miscarriages among nam veteran whose husband also was in few veterans were found to have ele- their wives, and other physical and contact with the herbicide. vated levels of dioxin in their systems, psychological problems. "What we've always been concerned the CDC recommended that the White Mounting evidence, perhaps, caused with is finding out the truth about the House end the study. the Department of Veterans Affairs to health effects of exposure to Agent The CDC also said records of Agent change its compensation policy for Orange," said National Commander Orange spray missions and of troop and Agent Orange veterans. On May 18, Robert S. Turner. "The American unit deployments could not be com- 1990, Secretary Derwinski ruled that Legion believes many of the answers to pared for evaluation. But that conclu- VA would begin to recognize soft-tissue questions about the herbicide have been sion has been refuted by many experts, sarcomas for disability compensation known for years." including the scientists who conducted payments. The House committee's report, The The American Legion-Columbia Uni- At press time, the CDC had yet to Agent Orange Cover-up: A Case of versity Study of Vietnam Veterans. comment on the findings of the House Flawed Science and Political Manipula- committee's report. tion, says White House attorneys What would have happened if the devised a plan to resist paying compen- CDC completed the Agent Orange sation to thousands of veterans. study mandated by Congress in 1979? More than 12 million gallons of Memoranda from the White House's Agent Orange were sprayed throughout Office of Management and Budget Vietnam between 1962 and 1971. The shed light on that question and also \l . emorancIa defoliant contains dioxin, which scien- outline the development of the strategy tists have said causes cancer. to protect the government from any "While the Reagan administration suqqEST tIhat tIhe liability. defended the Vietnam conflict as an In a memo dated Jan. 17, 1984, com-

honorable war, it worked behind the menting on H.R. 1961 , Agent Orange- scenes to deny benefits to the very AdlVliNiSTRATiON Radiation Compensation legislation, people who sacrificed their health for administration officials wrote: "...If their country," said Rep. Ted Weiss of FearecI pAyiNq this bill passes the House on the suspen- New York, a member of the House com- sion calendar (a two-thirds vote is mittee. "Once the American people needed), it may be very difficult to stop learn the true story about Agent InuqE disAbilhy a compensation bill in the Senate Orange, I am convinced they will Enactment of the bill would be a major demand better treatment for Vietnam defeat for the Administration in the veterans." pAyiYIENTS. toxic torts area." The CDC study, which costs tax- The memo further warned that Agent payers more than $43 million, was mon- Orange compensation advocates in itored by a White House task force Congress would continue to press their called the Agent Orange Working The Legion study, lead by Drs. case. The memo also stated that:

Group. According to the House report, Jeanne and Steven Stellman, found "The bill will make it far more dif- "The White House compromised the exact locations and dates of spray mis- ficult to stop broader victims compen- independence of the CDC and under- sions and troop movements could be sation schemes involving hazardous mined the study by controlling crucial plotted accurately. And according to the wastes and substances. Dioxin — the decisions and guiding the course of House committee report, Department toxic ingredient in Agent Orange— is a research at the same time it had secretly of Defense records experts and officials major issue in this area (Love Canal and taken a legal position to resist demands with the National Academy of Sciences Times Beach are largely dioxin expo- to compensate veterans of Agent Orange also found records available to the CDC sure cases); we will be in the tenuous exposure and industrial accidents." contained adequate information to position of denying dioxin exposure com- Specifically, the House report complete the study. pensation to private citizens while pro- alleged the CDC diluted its original The report also alleged the CDC viding benefits to veterans for in many

study methodology so that it would be found evidence that many Vietnam vet- instances lower levels ofexposure. difficult to identify veterans with the erans are at greater risk for contacting Another memo dated July 18, 1986, greatest opportunity for exposure to non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL), and commented on the development of

Agent Orange. All veterans who served that there is a high rate of certain birth CDC's testing for dioxin in Vietnam more than one tour of duty in Vietnam defects among their offspring. CDC veterans' blood. "...The development and those who were in military discounted any link between Agent of a blood test for dioxin exposure will branches other than the Army were Orange exposure and those problems. have implications for VA in terms of excluded from the study. Although the Legion study of about requests by veterans who will want to Alter selecting the few veterans for 2,000 Vietnam veterans did not Please turn to page 50

18 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Crafting New Lives

the North Bennet Street School. His By GurneyWilliams III ALL new alma mater is a boxy, four-story, ACROSS red-brick building a short walk down- ^^P"^^ AVE Pepple is a mas- hill from Boston's Old North Church. ter at telling true-life THE NATION A century ago, this part of the city sea stories from his accommodated immigrants who came 29 years of service in AMERICANS ARE to these narrow, maze-like streets hop- I the U.S. Coast Guard. ing for a second chance in a new coun- H Now 53, Pepple is WRITING NEW try. The school was founded in 1 885 as W learning to be a mas- a charitable organization, and its first M ter craftsman at a pri- students learned to sew and clean house vate Boston school CHAPTERS IN to find work. that's affording him a chance at a sec- Today its arched doorway welcomes ond career. THEIR LIVES high school graduates of all ages— the Pepple is starting over, when many current student body ranges from 19 men his age are thinking of retiring, at BY PURSUING to 66 years old— who want to learn to be professional craftsmen. Or Gurney Williams III is a New York-based NEW CAREERS. craftspeople: Thirty-three percent are author who writes on a variety of topics. Please turn page

DECEMBER 1990 19 women. The curricula includes craft- seconds before the glue sets. Then he ing courses in furniture — Pepple's points out minor imperfections— invisi- interest— as well as jewelry, violins, ble to most eyes— in his first project, a pianos, bookbinding, locksmithing, cherry wood tool chest. carpentry and preservation carpentry. Simply getting to this shop is a chal- Of the 164 students from 20 states who lenge. Every school day, from Sep- fill these classes, about one quarter tember to June, Pepple commutes 120 have never worked with their hands miles round-trip from Boston to his before. But many of the North Bennet New Hampshire home. The GI Bill pays Street pupils bring stories of past searched for a school that could help most of the $14,900 for the 80-week careers to school. him convert a hobby to a career. The course. But Pepple still has to pay $200 Amid the scent of wood shavings, New Hampshire State employment a month for tuition, and money for all Pepple reminisces. When he left the department introduced him to the North his supplies, tools and transportation. service in 1988, Pepple had few firm Bennet Street School. More than half of the students here goals. He wanted to stop renting the Studying and working in a high- receive financial aid; nine North Bennet family's New Hampshire house and ceilinged shop without power tools is students are supported by the GI Bill. move in to stay. He didn't want people challenging; standards are exacting. But all of the challenges fade when working for him, but he wanted to work Pepple delays the start of an interview Pepple thinks of the dream he has for himself. He enjoyed making repro- to make an emergency adjustment on a carved out for his future. He'll be work- ductions of antique furniture, so he walnut and maple bedside table, in the ing at home, in his own shop, crafting a few regular pieces like the bedside table or making custom furniture for clients. "I'd like to make things that people a century from now will value," he said. Nationwide, a growing number of o older Americans are learning to make something new of their lives. About 6 million people from their mid-20s to their 90s are going to college, more than double the number in 1970, according to the College Board. Many have returned to the classroom to learn skills they need for the newly emerging service jobs of the 1990s. What's different about the North Bennet Street School is the emphasis on fine, old- fashioned handcrafts, the manufacturing jobs of the 1890s. Older students here do just as well as younger, according to Walter McDonald, associate director of the school. "Age doesn't make them learn faster or slower," he said, "just more efficiently. They use their time better." For all students, young or old, the curricula at North Bennet requires a major psychological shift, something like traveling through time. A few years ago, Jean Maconochie,

29, was .a senior airman in the Air Force. Based in Minot, N.D., and then in Upper Hayford, England, she was in the security police. Her most difficult moments came trying to restore harmony to Air Force families during domestic disputes. Now, at North Bennet, she's becoming an expert on a different kind of harmony. Former Airman Maconochie is building violins, basically the way Stradivari did 250 years ago. "I've always made things," she said WORD POWER— Barbara Hebard traded in her job with an Insurance company to learn the art of binding books. while wearing her new student uniform of faded jeans, sneakers, and a gray and ROMANCING THE STONE-Joe Calnan entered North Bennet to learn jewelry-making. Today he teaches it to others.

Many return to the classroom to pick up skills they needfor rapidly emerging service jobs in the 1990s.

year for her training, and plans to pay at least another $1,500 for tools. She receives no scholarship help for her military service because she didn't contribute to the education fund while she was in the Air Force. "It's hard coming up with the money," she said, near the end of her first year. "But I'll stay. It's that interesting." Already she's planning for her final exam: building and playing a violin. Eventually she plans to set up her own shop. The appeal of working for yourself, KEY PLAYER— Lou Branchaud has tuned into a different career by learning piano after years of following someone else's technology at North Bennet Street School in Boston. marching orders, is part of North Ben- net's school spirit. It's what led Lou blue shirt. "I sewed, knitted, made craft way in," she said. The work is slow and Branchaud, 29, to leave a safe, items, built kits." At the same time, she difficult. Starting with a metal $30,000-a-year job with a major soft- liked music and played the flute. When template, she cuts a plywood mold and drink manufacturer. Now he's taking a her mother saw a TV report about North trims spruce support blocks, sliver by course in piano technology and learn- Bennet's course in violin making, she sliver. First-year students make just ing to tune and fix the instruments. advised Jean to look into it. three instruments. The school sells all "My friends at the old job think I Gaining admission to the class violins made here, counting the pro- made a big mistake," Branchaud said. wasn't easy, Maconochie said. She ceeds—about $950 to $1,450 per "But I saw a manager there lose his job didn't play the violin, and her flute instrument— as part of the tuition. In after 23 years. I realized that you have playing was rusty. "So I had to talk my addition, Maconochie pays $6,000 a Please turn to page 51

DECEMBER 1990 21 INTERVIEW THE TEMPTING OF

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America's appointedjudges have been handing down more political decisions, a role that should be left to elected lawmakers. Jurist Robert Bork says that

trend is eroding the right of self-government

ECISIONS from the bench, whether at the local addition to interpreting the Constitution? level or all the way up to the Supreme Court, A I don't think it really happened until the Dred Scott affect us all. But according to some jurists, the decision right before the Civil War in which Chief extent of many court decisions goes too far and Justice Taney decided for the Supreme Court that the federal crosses into politics. "The accelerated trend government had no power to prohibit the taking of slaves into toward a judiciary that is political rather than a federal territory. In effect, he made slavery a constitutional legal branch of government erodes the most right. That was the first time the court made up the Constitu- basic American right— the right of the people to tion. govern themselves when the Constitution does otherwise," Bork, former circuit judge, not say says Robert QL Do you believe an elite minority uses the courts to U.S. of for the District of Court Appeals Columbia. displace democratic choice by imposing its social agenda? Bork, the author of the best seller, The Tempting of I think it's what we would call the "knowledge class" or America, stepped into the national spotlight in 1987 after A the "intellectual class" which is heavily represented in being nominated to the Supreme Court by the Reagan admin- the universities and the media, public interest organizations, istration. Bork, who is now a John M. Olin Scholar in Legal in church bureaucracies, and so forth. You get a social Studies at Enterprise Institute for Public Policy the American agenda, which the American people won't vote for, enacted in Research, discusses a range of issues the following by the Court, which responds to that minority elite. interview with The American Legion Magazine.

Q- How can a judge weigh constitutional questions American Legion Magazine: Why do some judges without paying attention to his personal preferences and and courts consider it their role to enact laws? values? No human being can ever completely get his or her Judge Robert Bork: When many judges feel very A strongly, they often tend to identify their own views with values out of the way. Those values will aways play some role in judicial decision However, there's an natural law or with the spirit of the Republic or something of making. difference between the realizes that and that sort. They didn't really get into high speed until after the enormous judge who tries or Civil War with the conservative free-enterprise court, which self-consciously to remove his her own values from the process and the judge who just decides the role of the was striking down statutes that it had no business striking is to as sees it. down. With the Warren court, things took a quantum leap, judge do good he and they were rewriting the Constitution steadily. Q> What traditional rights that U.S. citizens have always Q. When did the Supreme Court begin making laws in valued are being eroded by court decisions?

// AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "I THINK a lot of courts have taken on powers that do not belong to them."

Q a Why are courts increasingly disinclined to protect rights of people to protect themselves and their property? For example, some courts are upholding suits by bur- glars, purse-snatchers and other criminals who sue for injuries they incur while they were committing crimes. A That puzzles me. I don't understand it. When a burglar hurts himself while breaking into a house

and then sues, I find that preposter-

ous. I don't know how a court can entertain a suit like that for a minute.

Q- Are the courts becoming legislatures whose enact- A I think the primary right, the primary freedom, the most important freedom that the Constitution gives us, ments are final? is the freedom to govern ourselves democratically unless the A Yes, when they speak in the name of the Constitution, Constitution says otherwise. When a court wanders into their enactments are final. If they don't speak correctly areas that are reserved for the moral choice of the American in the name of the Constitution, then they are legislative. people, it takes away that freedom. They do the same thing in other fields of law. I think a lot of courts have taken on powers that don't belong to them, and Q- What can we do to stop the erosion? they don't seem to realize the distinction in roles between A I think we have to understand what the court's duty is legislators and judges. and understand when the court does not live up to that duty. By constructive criticism, we can try to keep the court Q- Would you comment on flag burning? doing what it should do. By supporting nominees who are A The flag burning decision is very peculiar. It rests on followers of the original understanding of the Constitution the statement that the government may not suppress an and opposing nominees who are not, we can try to get judges opinion it dislikes. That's not what was involved. What was who will understand and stick to their proper role in this involved was the method of expressing opinion. The court democracy. That role is crucial, but also limited, and we have seems to be saying that there's nothing you can't do to to have judges who understand that. Please turn to page 47

DECEMBER 1990 23 tions, including garnishing wages. OUT OFTHE Another provision requires welfare recipients under 20 who lack high school diplomas to enter an education equivalency program as a condition for WELFARE continued benefits. The goal is to have at least l-in-5 adult welfare recipients enrolled in education or job training courses within the next five years. At the same time, the plan aims at reducing welfare cases nationwide by 7 percent in 1990, and by 20 percent by 1995. Critics, however, contend that such targets are unrealistic. They point out that, for nearly a decade, the number of Americans classified as living below the poverty line has remained more or less stationary at around 32.5 million, or slightly above 13 percent of the population. This is Despite an abundance of welfare pro- despite a plethora of welfare programs grams, the number ofAmericans that, since the mid-1960s, have cost taxpayers over $1 trillion and which living in poverty has not diminished currently account for an annual outlay of $132 billion. in last the decade. In addition to the added financial strain imposed by the reform programs, state and local authorities are worried that many welfare parents even with job training will be unable to meet the the education requirement of the new rising costs of child care while they By Philip C. Clarke federal law provides the single greatest work. They also fear that when the 12 element of hope. "By breaking the cycle months of extra benefits expire, many THE law. Beginning of educational poverty," she said, "the of the recipients will simply "fall Oct. 1, 1990, unemployed next generation of children, seeing their through the cracks" into the poverty parents on welfare with parents hit the books, will perhaps see rolls again. nT'Schildren over the age of 3 a value in it for themselves." and not actively seeking The government's welfare-to-work PERHAPS the greatest paradox of work are required to enroll program is mandated by the Family all is that despite the recent in state-administered job Support Act of 1988, which calls for the increase in the minimum wage training or basic education most sweeping reforms in public aid from $3.35 an hour to $3.80 an hour, programs or lose their fed- since President Lyndon B. Johnson the pay from an average entry-level eral benefits. The requirement affects declared war on poverty 25 years ago. service job still is well below the mainly single mothers who, last year, The Job Opportunity and Basic Skills Census Bureau's 1989 poverty line of

composed more than half of the Program, as it is known, covers recipi- $12,675 for a family of four, the nation's 7 million poor families. ents of Aid to Families with Dependent bureau's most recent computation. And This is not, as some critics might Children (AFDC). They number 3.3 whenever the income of a working poor think, a draconian plot by Big Brother million women heads of household, family exceeds the poverty level, even

to control the poor. To the contrary, it is 425,000 men with similar roles and 7.3 by only a few hundred dollars a year, it

an effort to help several million jobless million children under 18. Phase 1 risks losing the public assistance aid recipients escape the "welfare trap." began last April when states were needed to help provide a minimally "It's not magic. It will not move required to provide a year of subsidized decent standard of living. everyone off welfare, or even the major- child care and medical benefits for wel- A study of current welfare benefits in ity," conceded Drew Altman, New fare parents who find employment out- five major U.S. cities, conducted by the Jersey's Commissioner of Human side the home. Transportation also is Washington-based Education and Services. "The goal is not just to paid for as needed. Research Institute (ERI), found that in move people off welfare, but to help Costs of the program, estimated at most cases the value of the public-aid people out of poverty." $4 billion or more a year, are shared by package for a single mother of three To Lorraine Aronson, Connecticut's the federal government and the states. school-age children was significantly Commissioner of Income Maintenance, Any state failing to comply could lose greater than the current poverty line. In all of its federal welfare subsidies. To Boston, for example, the benefits totaled Philip C. Clarke is aformer correspondent ease financial burdens, local authorities $15,495 a year, equal to a pre-tax for the Associated Press and has had sev- are urged to try harder to make absentee annual income in the private sector of eral articles published in this magazine. fathers meet their child support obliga- $19,183 (see chart). Small wonder

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE COSTLY CARE— Gina Puckett is one of 3.3 million women who receive Aid for WELFARE BENEFIT VALUES Dependent Children and struggle to pay child-care costs. Food School many poor families prefer to remain on AFDC Stamps Lunch Medicaid Housing Total welfare. BOSTON $7,536 $1,721 $756 $3,684 $1,798 $15,495 Consider the actual case history of

Nancy K. Murphy, 28, of Clearwater, DC 5,760 2,244 756 4,857 1,288 14,905 Minn. When state benefits for child care ran out, Murphy, the single mother NYC 6,420 2,439 756 3,799 1,435 14,849 of a 2-year-old son, was forced to give up her job and go on welfare. She CHICAGO 4,632 2,592 756 2,439 1,888 12,307 expects to receive about $663 a month ATLANTA 3,876 2,819 756 2,785 1,580 11,816 in benefits, and that's without a housing subsidy. Comparing this to her (Sources: values for two of the benefit programs school lunches and Medicaid — were derived from former salary of $640 a month before — federal documents. The other three— AFDC, food stamps, and housing— were obtained through the cities' taxes as a children's photographer, welfare offices.) Murphy made the only practical choice. "I saw an ad for my old job in the Pre-tax paper," she told a reporter. "It made me Welfare Annual Income Pre-tax sick at heart that I had to give it up." Package Equivalent Hourly Rate "The criticism in the past was that welfare-to-work programs limited BOSTON $15,495 $19,183 $9.22 people to the kinds of jobs that really didn't leave them any better off," said DC 14,905 18,275 8.79 Chuck Harris, assistant employment chief for the North Carolina Division of NYC 14,850 18,225 8.76 Social Services. "If we are really going to help people get off welfare— and stay CHICAGO 12,307 14,568 7.00 off— we're going to have to invest in education and training up front." ATLANTA 11,816 14,028 6.74 Evidence suggests that until now Please turn to page 45

DECEMBER 1990 25 FEW weeks before Christ- Edgar opened The Boston Store in Word of Edgar' s great success spread

mas in 1890, Santa Claus 1878. Later, it was known as Edgar's. across the nation. In 1891, Santa made made his debut at the He was married and had a daughter. his debut at a number of major stores in Boston Store located in Perhaps his love for her inspired the other cities. By the turn of the century, Brockton, Mass. great love he had for all children. A he had thrones in department stores in "I remember walking showman of sorts, he enjoyed dressing nearly every major city in America. down an aisle and, all of in costumes at the picnics. In 1920, 10 years after Edgar died, a sudden, right in front Edgar's appearance once as a clown hard times hit Brockton. Several fac- of me, I saw Santa," brought such a great response, he tories closed, and a large segment of the recalled Edmund Pearson, who was on decided to wear the costume in his store city's population was unemployed. hand when Kriss Kringle paid his first the following Christmas. He would December arrived, and the mood of the

visit to a department store. "I couldn't wander through the store and select the holiday season should have prevailed. It

believe my eyes. I thought a miracle had girl with the prettiest ribbon in her hair. didn't. Charles Brooks, the city's happened." She received a Christmas doll. This truant officer, discovered a lack of

Pearson was then in his nineties went on for three or four years. In 1 890, shoes kept hundreds of children home when interviewed in 1976 from school. Money was so shortly before his death. "I tight parents could not afford was only five or six at the to buy new shoes for their chil- time," he said. dren, or repair the old ones. "Santa is everywhere now Brooks asked William L. at Christmas. It was different Wright, who was then presi- back in 1890. In those days, dent of Edgar's store, to lend a we saw his sketches in news- helping hand. Specifically, papers and magazines. We Brooks asked Wright to "do never thought we'd have a what Jim Edgar would have chance to see him in person. SANTA done if he were alive." Wright I'll never forget that day. It did just that. The top floor of was a dream come true. the three-story store was

"Later on, I learned the closed during the busiest name of the man who wore month of the year. A $3,000 that Santa costume. It was shoe repairing machine was James Edgar, owner of the CLAUS bought, bundles of heels and Boston Store. He didn't wear and soles and leather findings the costume to attract customers. He were delivered to the store. A half-dozen spirit loved children. He wore that outfit The of cobblers, each paid a weekly salary of because he wanted to delight the chil- kindness and love $40, were hired. In short order, the dren who came by the store with their James Edgar Shoe Shop was open for parents. James Edgar gave me a for others burned business. In addition, "The Edgar Bar- memory I've treasured all my life. rel" was placed near the front entrance, bright in the What a wonderful person he was." so that those with steady employment James Edgar, a native of Scotland life of America's could donate spare shoes their own who came to America when he was a children had outgrown. Tirst" Santa. child, made boys and girls more aware By Christmas, more than 1 ,000 pairs of Santa Claus than they had ever been of shoes were repaired without charge before. He was a tall, well-stuffed soul at Edgar's. By spring, when the James with a ruddy complexion, and a hearty By Dick O'Donnell Edgar Shoe Shop finally closed, more laugh. He had a rich, warm voice and a than 5,000 pairs of shoes, all mended snowy white beard. He was a natural. free of charge, were walking the streets Every Saturday morning, children Edgar decided to try a new costume at of Brockton. would line up outside his store, and he Christmas. He had a Santa suit made in Ten years after his death, the man would give them pennies. In those days, Boston. The following week, the roly- who was Santa Claus was able to reach you could buy a lot of candy for a penny. poly gentleman made his first appear- out, if only in spirit, and help the chil- On the Fourth of July, he hired all the ance in a department store. The rest is dren he loved so much. trolley cars in town, so he could take the history. In 1890, when James Edgar first had children of Brockton on a picnic to The next day, the store was crowded his idea, only a few children had nearby Avon. Some years, he hired as with children. A week after Santa made a chance to meet Santa. This year, many as 30 trolley cars. If Edgar heard his debut, there were long lines outside millions and millions of eager young

of a youngster who was seriously ill, the the Boston Store after school. All the children will whisper their Christmas best medical care available was sent to kids in town wanted to meet the great secrets into Santa's ear. the child's home. The donor was always man. Originally, Edgar planned to anonymous. appear only a couple of hours each day in the Santa costume, but his idea HEART OF GOLD — Store owner James Dick O'Donnell is a resident ofHonolulu, proved so popular he had to send to Edgar's passion for helping his fellow Hawaii. Boston for another Santa outfit. man lasted year round.

26 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE DECEMBER 1990 27 OUR AILING HEALTH-CARE

About 37 million Americans, mostly QYSTEM full-time workers and dependents, have neither health insurance nor said David Himmelstein, a physician 1 ,500 insurance companies, each with money to pay and assistant professor at Harvard. "It its own profit requirement. Because denies access to many in need and is America's hospitals compete for cus- for medical bills. expensive, inefficient and increasingly tomers, each institution buys all the They can't afford bureaucratic." A growing chorus is high-tech equipment it can. In addition, calling for change. Americans are voracious consumers of to get sick. Virtually every other industrialized tests, drugs and surgeries — many of nation guarantees its citizens universal, questionable value. Add in physicians' inexpensive (often free) medical treat- earnings (which average $145,000 per ment. In Canada, Japan, Sweden, Britain year, net), malpractice insurance and and elsewhere, millionaires and paupers lawsuit settlements, and it's easy to see By Gary Turbak receive the same kind of health care. why medical costs are sky high. Outside the United States, many con- For employers—who pay 65 percent sumers never see — or have to worry of the health-care tab— the burden is R. L. owns and man- about— medical bills. becoming unbearable. Health insur- ages a tool rental shop. Here, however, health care is a patch- ance premiums have been rising nearly Last year, he paid more work of coverages, deductibles, exemp- 30 percent per year. than $17,000 in health tions and exclusions. Public programs insurance for each of are often inadequate or absent. Some ITH so much money devoted to nine employees. employers provide insurance for em- health care, you'd think everyone General Motors, the ployees, but many do not. For the most would receive complete medical nation's largest com- part, the quality and availability of attention, but that isn't so. About 37 pany, now spends $3 health care in America is based on the million Americans— mostly full-time billion annually for health insurance for ability to pay. workers and their dependents— have no

its employees— more than it spends on And the price is high. In 1986, for health insurance and often no money to steel. Chrysler Corp. estimates that example, Americans spent an average pay medical bills. For example, a 30- health-care costs add $700 to the price $1 ,926 per person for health care — year-old nurse's aide in Texas earns of each car it makes. "We've waged a more than any other nation. Sweden $460 each month which makes her

war on health-care costs and lost," said spent $1,195 per person; France, ineligible for Medicaid, yet it is not

Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. $ 1 ,039; West Germany, $1,031; and enough to pay for private insurance for There's no longer any question about Great Britain, $715. While other herself and her daughter. So far, they've it— America's health-care system is in nations devote about 7 percent of their been lucky— they haven't been sick

trouble. In fact, it is simultaneously gross national product to health care, much. Overall, Medicaid reaches only

gripped by three overlapping crises- America squanders nearly 1 2 percent of 40 percent of the low-income Amer-

cost, availability and quality. its productivity this way. This year, our icans it is supposed to help.

"Our health-care system is failing," health bill will approach $650 billion. Tens of millions more people have Why so much? For starters, we spend inadequate insurance. The elderly,

Gary Turbak, who resides in Montana, is a 23 cents of every health dollar main- whose health needs are supposed to be frequent contributor to this and other taining a gigantic billing and adminis- covered by Medicare, pay half the cost

general - interest magazines. trative bureaucracy— one that includes themselves.

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE HEALTH CONSCIOUS-^ recent Gallup Poll showed that 63 percent support a government-funded national health service.

"Health insurance in America is a lot looked at from another angle, embar- sion have proposed cures for our ailing like a hospital gown," said Kevin Grum- rassing segments of the population system. Most of the recommendations bach, a family physician in San Fran- remain exposed." seek to fine tune the existing program.

cisco. "At first glance it appears to give For people without insurance, health Specific suggestions include: patients adequate coverage, but when care often consists of a trip to the hos- • Requiring all but the smallest busi- pital emergency room when things get nesses to provide health insurance for bad enough. Sometimes, however, even employees. that door is closed. In 1985, Eugene • Expanding public coverage for the Barnes, 32, was stabbed. Because he poor and elderly. was unemployed and without health • Standardizing Medicare and Medi- insurance, four hospitals refused to caid nationwide. Currently, these pro- admit him. A fifth finally accepted his grams, though federally funded, vary

case, but it was too late, and Barnes among the states. died. • Creating "risk pools" to provide

But America still has the best overall insurance for the self-employed, em- health care in the world, right? Wrong! ployees of small businesses and others Although few nations can compete with not already covered. U.S. high-tech medicine (such as organ • Providing government assistance transplants and brain surgery), we only for health catastrophes, not routine finish far back in the pack when it problems. comes to basic indices of health. • Limiting malpractice lawsuits. Our infant mortality rate is one of the • Restricting the use of some expen- worst in the industrialized world. Nine- sive procedures, perhaps by denying teen nations take better care of their certain services to the elderly. babies than we do, perhaps because No single proposal contains all of millions of poor American women never these ideas, of course. Although Con- see a doctor during their pregnancies. gress is currently contemplating legis- Also, life expectancy in the United lation based largely on mandated States is two or three years less than in employer-sponsored insurance, many many CRITICAL CONDITION-For Germany, Sweden, Canada, Japan and experts believe that major changes are without insurance, medical care often other nations. still some distance in the future. consists of a trip to the emergency room when things get bad enough. Not surprisingly, Congress, doctors, The most controversial idea, how- economists, and even a special commis- Please turn to page 55

DECEMBER 1990 29 "

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ENCOURAGEMENT A kind word or a pot on the bock ot the right time often mokes the difference between foilure ond success.

It con turn dreoms into reolities.

rejected so many times that Whitman ByVictor M. Parachin published it himself. Working with a small print shop, he produced 800 HEN Walt Whitman copies. was a young, aspiring In order to sell the book he pur- writer, long before chased newspaper ads, sent review he established him- copies to book critics and prominent self as one of Amer- citizens, and dragged copies from

i i inn ica's premier poets, bookstore to bookstore in a large he had a very difficult canvas bag. There is no record that he time getting pub- sold even a single copy. received complimentary copies. "A lished. In fact, his Yet, worse than no sales was the fact heterogeneous mass of bombast, vul- most famous book, Leaves ofGrass, was the book was denounced by those who garity and nonsense," wrote one critic. "We can conceive of no better reward than the lash," declared another. Poet John GreenleafWhittier reportedly threw

"Dear Sir, lam not blind to the worth ofthe wonderful gift: his copy of the book out of a window. Then came a letter from the pre- Leaves of Grass. Ifind it the most extraordinary piece of wit eminent poet of that day, Ralph Waldo and wisdom thatAmerica has yet contributed. I greetyou Emerson. The letter contained three at the beginning ofa great career. Emerson. short sentences which gave Walt Whitman just the encouragement he needed to keep on writing.

"Dear Sir, I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift: Leaves of Grass. I

find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet

contributed. I greet you at the beginning of a great career."

Perhaps it is because the pace of modern life is so hectic and strained that the fine and gentle art of encour-

agement is often overlooked.

Encouragement is something anyone can do and which everyone needs at one time or another. A kind word or a com- pliment given helps another make dreams and hopes become realities. More than anything else, encourage- RALPH WALDO EMERSON WALT WHITMAN ment motivates and inspires people to reach for the stars in life. Here are six

V) AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "Rock, Team 's not doing

well. Hope things are going betterforyou than they

are here. Looking forward

to having you back

with us.

Art." •••••••• ART ROONEY

lift the spirits. Unlike conversation, a note can be put away and then read and reread many times over. A great note writer was the late Art Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. In 1968 one of the new players was Rocky Bleier. After his first season Bleier was drafted by the Army and soon found himself an infantryman sent to Vietnam. There, uncertain that he would ever again play football, Bleier was pleasantly surprised to receive a handwritten post ways to provide encouragement: MAN OF STEEL — Former Pittsburgh card from Art Rooney which read: • Focus on Positives. Those who need standout Rocky Bleier (No. 20) feared his "Rock, team's not doing well. Hope Vietnam service his in encouragement almost always feel over- would end days things are going better for you than they the NFL. whelmed by the negatives currently are here. Looking forward to having raging in their lives. When people are you back with us. Art." down, the bad seems worse than it usu- stars and the moon. During his Vietnam tour Art Rooney ally is. To have someone else point out Also, when the grandmother saw continued to send cards, newspaper the good which is also always present that Fanny had an interest in poetry, she clippings and game programs. When re-educates the mind, transforms encouraged the little girl to put her Bleier's platoon ran into an ambush thought patterns and frees people to thoughts on paper and commended her and a hand grenade exploded, shat- think in new categories. highly for every verse written. The tering his right foot, he was told he grandmother's focus upon the positives would never play football again. GOOD example is the story of in her life prompted the little girl to Rooney continued to send notes of A Fanny Crosby, who was born in write this poem when she was just eight encouragement. One was received 1820. When she was six weeks old, years old. It reveals her own joyful, while Bleier was in a Tokyo hospital: a physician treated her for an eye infec- independent, positive spirit: "Oh, what "Rock, we want you here in Pittsburgh tion. Unfortunately, the treatment left a happy soul am I! I Although I cannot with the Steelers." her totally blind. The next year her see, 1 I am resolved that in this world I Those cards fueled Bleier's determi- father died, forcing her mother to seek Contented I will be. How many blessings I nation to play professional football employment to provide for herself and enjoy I That other people don 't; I To weep again. Indeed, he did return to the her blind baby. and sigh because I'm blind, 1 1 cannot and Pittsburgh Steelers helping them win To make that possible Crosby's I won't." Super Bowl IX in 1975. Bleier retired grandmother offered to care for her. The result: Fanny Crosby became from the team in 1980. The grandmother became eyes for the America's most prolific hymn writer, • Pick Up The Phone. A friend of mine little girl. She taught Fanny about the producing some 2,000 hymns. is a busy and highly successful Chicago beauty around them, describing in vivid Although she died in 1915, more than executive. Because he is good at what detail the wonders of the world- 60 of her hymns still appear in church he does, executive recruiters often call clouds, rainbows, sunrises, sunsets, hymnals. him with job offers. Usually he declines • Send A Short Note. When people but always keeps a list of who called.

Victor M. Parachin is a free-lance writer face tough times and discouraging Then, when he hears about someone

who resides in Villa Park, III. moments there is nothing like a letter to Please turn to page 44

DECEMBER 1990 31 CHEMICAL

Some coll chemicol weopons the "poor

men 's otomic bomb. " But no motter whot it's colled, mony notions now hove greet orsenols of poison.

militarily his country was inferior to the By Diane Booth might of U.S. Armed Forces. "There- fore," he said, "I think that he is likely to try to employ anything which he eve of the Helsinki N THE thinks will give him an advantage." summit, at the U.S. State That could include chemical weapons. Department, an adminis- With the Kuwait invasion just five trator talked about the weeks old, the administration official Two months after the paper was pub- chemical threat in the Per- was discussing whether poisons would lished, CIA Director Judge William H. sian Gulf. "I personally be used to advance Iraqi occupation Webster, spoke bluntly in Baltimore on don't believe that Saddam against its neighbors. the chemical expansion. "The Amer- Hussein is crazy," he said. Considering that Hussein had used ican people were not following that Instead, he called the lethal chemical agents against both issue," he told the Baltimore Council Iraqi President "calculating" and pro- Iran and his own people during the on Foreign Affairs. "We exposed the jected Hussein would recognize that Iran-Iraq War, would he dare to use activities of Col. Moammar el-Gadhafi them against the well-armed multi- in Libya," he said, referring to a factory national force that had converged in 40 miles south of Tripoli near Rabta, Saudi Arabia? the alleged home of the largest chem- The State Department official ical arms plant in the Middle East. refused to speculate on the number of chemical facilities in Iraq nor whether LESS than a month after Webster's the Iraqis have a stash of chemical remarks, in March 1990, the U.S. warheads for their missile launch sys- Intelligence Agency reported that tem. He did say the Iraqi inventory is the Rabta factory was stockpiling a "significant" and includes blister and lethal gas and manufacturing, in nerve agents. "They are not dependent smaller amounts, a nerve agent called on getting chemical weapons from Sarin. White House press secretary some other country," he said. Marlin Fitzwater called the plant "The past two decades have wit- "dangerous and becoming more so." nessed a near total erosion of the tradi- Days later a fire destroyed part of the tional restraint system, as evidenced by plant. Cause of the fire, whether by widespread proliferation and use of accident or sabotage, and the extent of ;hemical weapons in Third World con- damage, were not specified. flicts," said Col. Terry M. Weekly, Even if the plant had been completely

Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Test and destroyed it would not have ended the Evaluation Command at Aberdeen WEAPON — Saddam Hussein used Proving Ground, Md., in a paper pub- Diane Booth resides in Monkton, Md. This chemicals against Iraq's Kurds. lished December 1989, in Parameters. is herfirst article for this magazine.

32 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE F.ACED with training against all types of attack, U.S. military leaders admit chemical warfare preparedness was often low priority.

and caused widespread starvation. Could such brutality be possible today — in an era that hails brawny super- powers for crumbling the Berlin Wall and melting the Iron Curtain? According to The Arms Control Association in Washington, "Many obser- vers believe that the widespread use of chemical DESERT ARMOR - Members of the 82nd half of Israel" with chemical weapons if weapons in the Iran-Iraq War seriously Airborne are well-versed in preparing for attacked by Israel. eroded the international prohibition a chemical attack. Frequently called the "poor man's against the use of chemical weapons." atom bomb," chemical weapons have In fact, chemicals used in recent con- chemical arms race. "There are many gained popularity in recent years as flicts have killed thousands in the other countries, some of whom are our Third World countries looked for Middle East, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan friends, who are quietly developing this shortcuts to end wars that ruined their and the Persian Gulf. At the State lethal capability," said Webster. economies, stripped their farmlands Please turn to page 52 "We have been successful in two world wars in avoiding the use of chemical warfare. I am not so optimistic about future low-intensity warfare situations in regional conflicts. Many view it as a cheap strategic counter to the nuclear capability that some believe is possessed by Israel," Webster said. "And of course, implications are that South Africa is also interested in developing such capabilities." What is especially alarming are efforts by Third World tyrants, known to support terrorism, to acquire or build ballistic missiles and other weapons systems which can easily accommodate chemical warheads. "You have the capabilities at the present time to put every city in the Middle East in a position of vulnerability to chemical weapons," said Webster. This omen CAR WASH — U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia use a specialized spray that could last April Hussein reverberated when eliminate dangerous chemical residue from gas and nerve agents. candidly warned that he would "destroy

DECEMBER 1990 33 Veterans update

I he morale of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia is Legion has noted an increased number in BVA claims high and they're well aware of their mission and goals in that remanded to regional offices for further consideration. region, National Commander Robert S. Turner said after At press time, VA's budget proposal for FY 1991 was in returning from a trip to the Mideast. limbo as was other federal agencies, when Congress and the "They're dug in now," Turner said at press time. "Legion- White House could not agree on a budget for the coming naires are well aware of what these troops face and that's why fiscal year. However, the VA is seeking additional funding for we support 'Operation Desert Shield.' Many of us have staffing for the BVA and regional offices. pitched a tent or stood watch — and we know that some of the worst enemies of troops are playing the waiting game and lack of everyday necessities and small comforts." When Turner and other Legion officials toured Saudi A new generation of veterans is taking its Arabia in late October, they were told that troops receive place in the ranks of The American Legion after President about 70 tons of mail each day. "They told me that 700 tons George Bush signed legislation expanding membership eligi- of mail would even be better," he said. bility. Troops in the region are in need of everyday items that Those veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Legionnaires can send. Among the needs: toiletries, multi- military Aug. 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984; and Dec. 20, 1989 vitamins, dry-cell batteries ("AA" size preferably), blank to Jan. 31 , 1990, are eligible to join. Those dates reflect U.S. cassette tapes, pre-sweetened powdered drinks and ball point military actions in Lebanon, Grenada and Panama. pens. "I also would encourage Legionnaires to send boxes of Delegates at the 1990 National Convention adopted Res. cards for this holiday season so that the troops can send their 1 , requesting Congress to change the Legion constitution to season's greetings to their friends and families at home," expand membership dates. Since the Legion is a federally Turner said. Also, troops need items such as paperback chartered veterans' organization, it's necessary that eligi- books, stationery, and miniature board games to help pass bility requirements be first approved by Congress. the time. With congressional approval, the bill was sent to Bush for Alcoholic beverages and literature that may be considered consideration, and he signed PL. 101-478 Oct. 30. offensive by the host government should not be shipped, "As of that date, veterans from the new era are eligible to Turner said. join The American Legion," said National Commander Robert

Maj. Gen. William G. Pagonis, the Army's Director of Lo- S. Turner. "They couldn't be signed up until it became law. gistics, guaranteed Turner that any items shipped by Legion- "I'm proud to welcome this new generation of America's naires will be distributed to troops, especially those who are defenders," Turner said. on the front lines. Unit chaplains will handle distribution. Mail and supplies can be sent to: Any Service Person, c/o Chaplain, ARGENT Support Command, APO NY 096 16. The Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Md., is one way to finance the educations of would-be physicians. It is the U.S.

Ai dditional Staffing at YA regional offices and military's medical school. on the Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) is needed to ensure Since 1972, the joint-service school has provided all that that veterans' claims are handled more fairly, American military branches with a cadre of career medical officers. Legion officials testified recently before the House Subcom- Medical students attending the F. Edward Hebert School of mittee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance. Medicine are commissioned as second lieutenants or ensigns "The American Legion has become increasingly concerned on active -duty status. They draw full pay and benefits while over the last several years about the amount of time required by in school. There is no tuition and other related costs, and the board to complete action on an appeal," said Philip R. Wil- students receive traditional civilian medical instruction and kerson, assistant director of the Veterans Affairs and Rehabili- courses related directly to military medicine. tation Division. "According to data provided by the BVA, in At graduation, students receive an M.D. degree and a fiscal year 1986 an average of 106 days was required. At the promotion to captain or lieutenant. In return, they must serve end of the third quarter in FY 1990, it was taking 192 days." seven years to repay education expenses. Wilkerson said that although the number of cases heard Civilians and military personnel with a college degree may annually by the BVA had risen by only 2,800 cases during the apply for the four-year medical program. Civilian applicants past three years, the number of pending appeals increased by cannot be older than 27 when they enter the medical school. more than 7,500 since FY 1987. At the end of the third quarter Military applicants can exceed the age limit by up to six of FY 1990, more than 22,000 appeals waited decisions. years, age 33, based on their prior service. While the Legion has applauded congressional action such For more information on USUHS, write the Office of as PL. 100-687, which required VA to notify claimants about Admissions, attn: PAC, University Services University, 4301 decisions in their cases more quickly, it also has added to the Jones Bridge Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, or call (202) workload of understaffed VA regional offices. Also, the 295-3101.

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When war has been necessary, its declara- By Sam Sherman tion was announced from Capitol Hill. And it is here on a black-draped bier in the vast rotunda that slain heroes— generals, presi- THE stormy years following dents and unknown soldiers— come home to the Revolution, infant America rest. cried out for a focus, a visible Hucksters once sold stew pans and embodiment of states truly mousetraps in these corridors. Sen. Sam nNunited. In 1793, George Houston whittled little wooden hearts and Washington laid the corner- passed them up to ladies in the gallery. Rep. stone for just such a monument John Randolph hunted foxes till noon, then — the Capitol. In the ensuing strode in with hounds still at his heels. decades, the edifice and insti- Martin Van Buren presided over the Senate tution perched atop Jenkins Hill has become a center of govern- with a pair of pistols tucked in his belt. ment and seat of global democracy. A Capitol to the world. The Capitol, with its 540 labyrinthine rooms, is both Here gets done the country 's business. Here, the will of the monument and museum. The massive dome, marble col- people becomes law, the chaos of pluralism blending into the umns, detailed frescoes and crystal chandeliers make this single resolve of a united America. From the collective hallowed shrine a living work of art. Outdoors, 181 land- national wisdom of the Capitol go forth orders to feed the scaped acres form an inner-city oasis of tulips, oaks and elms. hungry, help the downtrodden and establish justice. Here, From her position of prominence atop the dome, Lady petitions whispered in the private prayer room mix with Freedom oversees it all. booming speeches from cavernous chambers to form the Today, from the ordered tradition of two centuries, there singular voice of America. goes forth from the Capitol an international message of stability, of peace. Rising out of the Potomac River's morning

Sam Sherman is afree-lance writer and resident ofMontana. He mist, the great dome announces that democracy stands is a frequent contributor to this and other leading national intact. That liberty will never surrender to tyranny. That here magazines. has risen a Capitol to the world.

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in life were forbidden to me now. I couldn't been largely concealed and suppressed from as suddenly as it began. even keep up with Danny, my small boy, and the general population. I felt angered and DMSO might sound too good to be true.

I worried whenever he would run outside betrayed, because all the time I had I can't help that. But I only know my pain to play. And seem to disappear. suffered, DMSO had been readily available is gone and DMSO is the miraculous rea-

My doctor seemed as frustrated as I about for relief of my crippling disease. son why. I am so happy about my own re- the arthritis. His only solution seemed to I ordered a bottle of DMSO liquid. I first lief that I had to share my story with you. be to give me increasingly large doses of washed the afflicted areas with soap and There is no logical reason why this simple cortico-steroids. My dreams of having a water. Then I began applying DMSO to my extract substance compound can't change full, active life and a larger family were aching, swollen joints. I started acting in your life too. shattered, because the dreadful side effects my body so quickly that ... as soon as I ap- Don't give in to the pain, nor the futile, of the drugs would be catastrophic to a plied it to my skin I could taste a slight gar- useless, risky methods which don't seem to pregnancy. licky taste in my mouth. DMSO is a natural work. Use the enclosed order form to get Day after day, the pain never went away, substance which mixes with most any sub- a low-cost supply of DMSO for only even when I took frighteningly massive stance in nature — water, oils, fats. So it can $19.95. Isn't that cheap? Then say hello to doses of the medical preparations routinely permeate the cell walls of every kind of tissue a brighter and happier tomorrow!"

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Shortages in VA funding continue to hurt veterans throughout the nation. A comprehensive spending proposal by The American Legion would restore programs and stave off many fiscal woes.

HORT-SIGHTED grams is a blind budget-cutting proce- mental appropriation last summer,

budget policies during dure that makes no sense, either from a amounted to $1 1 .3 billion. Turner said the last decade have public policy or fiscal policy standpoint," even at that level of spending, VA hospi- wrought long-term fiscal Turner said. "It punishes efficient pro- tals and clinics still were forced to problems for veterans' grams like VA health care while other restrict services and the delivery of medical programs, and entitlement spending is allowed to grow care. "Low income veterans suffer the the situation will only out of control." most from these restrictions because get worse if Congress The Legion supports legislation that they are not poor enough to receive VA fails to act. would exempt VA medical funds from hospital care and medicine. Yet, they're "In the past 10 years, annual federal sequestration. One version of that bill, not financially able to pay their own spending has increased 100 percent H.R. 4557, has cleared the House. At health-care expenses." while VA funding has increased only 30 press time, a similar measure was being Turner unveiled the Legion's pro- percent," said National Commander considered in the Senate. posal that would help solve VA's fund- Robert S. Turner, testifying before a ing crunch. Under the Legion plan, VA joint session of the Senate and House ECHOING a concern that has been medical spending in FY 1992, which Veterans' Affairs committees Sept. 18. raised many times by other will begin Oct. 1, 1991, would be "Your committees here today have National Commanders, Turner told $14.3 billion, almost $2 billion more devoted a great deal of time to veterans' the congressmen that the cause of VA's than the current level. Half of the programs to meet every budget require- fiscal problems is underbudgeting. "In increase would go to specialty pro- ment. Unfortunately, other congres- the last two years, there has been a grams mandated by Congress and to sional committees did not." shortfall in medical-care funding, eliminate an equipment backlog. The Turner, who was making his first which the Legion estimates has remainder would be for medical staff appearance on Capitol Hill three weeks amounted to at least $700 million to $1 pay increases and to hire additional after his election as National Comman- billion each year. As a result, large workers. der, told lawmakers that the Legion is numbers of Category B and Category C "The proposed funding level of particularly concerned about the ever- veterans have been turned away from $12.2 billion for the current fiscal year present threat of automatic cuts from the VA medical-care system. In some will not allow VA to recover from the VA's medical account because of Con- cases, Category A veterans are being cumulative effect of years of budgetary gress' failure to meet spending targets refused treatment." shortfalls," Turner said. "The American mandated by the Gramm-Rudman- Category B and C veterans are con- Legion will not be satisfied until VA Hollings balanced-budget law. sidered non-service-connected patients medical-care funding is restored to Under the law, an automatic seques- and are treated on a space-available its proper place among national tration of most federal discretionary basis. Many of these veterans must priorities." funds begins if Congress doesn't meet make copayments to receive care. Before Turner's testimony, several of spending guidelines each fiscal year. In Under law, Congress must provide care the congressmen pledged that they FY 1989, more than $200 million was to Category A veterans. would not allow veterans' programs to shished because of the automatic cuts. Funding for VA health care in FY be sacrificed. "We're not going to sit "Sequestration of VA medical pro- 1990, including a $94 million supple- back and allow veterans' benefits to be

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "YOU CAN'T achieve cut," said Rep. Douglas quality care comes in the future." SPEAKING OUT — Commander Turner outlined the Legion's to Con- Applegate of Ohio, a Turner, the Legion's concerns by practicing gress' veterans affairs committees. member of the House third Vietnam veteran Veterans' Affairs Com- curative med- National Commander, mittee. "Veterans have also told the con- given so much of them- icine in- gressmen about the AIDs patients. Despite ongoing budget selves, and they have a stead of organization's concern problems, he said VA still was able to right to the benefits they for veterans' health operate four AIDS Treatment centers have earned. There are preventive problems linked to their and plans to establish programs at six no welfare programs here exposure to Agent other VA medical centers. medicine." for veterans," he said. Orange. "We're con- • Said the savings and loan crisis has Turner cited two vinced that Agent created problems for VA's Home Loan graphic examples of Orange exposure is Guaranty program. It has been pro- how budget problems responsible for a num- posed that the Government National have affected veterans. ber of disabilities among Mortgage Association's capital reserve In one case, a veteran Vietnam veterans and requirements be raised. The Legion complaining of chest pains was denied their offspring. Although we have been believes the increase will shorten the care at an Iowa VA hospital after doc- reassured by Secretary (Edward) supply of mortgage loans to veterans. tors said his condition was not an Derwinski's actions earlier this year, • Asked that Congress ensure that emergency, and he was classified as a we are frustrated by the wasting of tax- those who are forced out of the military Category C patient. The man died of payer's dollars and by the continued because of planned troop reductions cardiac failure two days later. Another delay in developing a conclusive receive adequate transitional assist- veteran, also of Iowa, killed himself response to the entire matter." (see ance. A substantial number of military when he learned that VA had cut his related story, page 16) personnel are expected to file claims outpatient-care services, including Among the other Legion concerns with VA seeking education assistance, medication costing $200 each month. about veterans' programs and issues, and job-training aid from the Depart- "Across the country, many veterans Turner: ment of Labor. have been discharged from VA out- • Asked that funding for the VA's "VA is a fundamental part of Amer- patient rolls because funding is tighter Geriatric Research, Education and ican life," Turner said. "It has a legiti- than ever," Turner said. "The Legion Clinical centers be increased and pro- mate need for budgetary support and believes that changes must occur at the grams expanded to meet the needs of an deserves greater attention at both ends procedural level to ensure that veterans aging veteran population. of Pennsylvania Avenue," he added, who truly need VA health care, in fact, • Pointed out that VA medical cen- referring to the White House and receive such care to prevent tragic out- ters now treat 9 percent of the nation's Congress.

DECEMBER 1990 39 LEGION'S FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK HELP ON THE HOME FRONT

0ECAUSE many men and women of America's Armed Forces have been called to serve in the dis- tant deserts of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, The American Legion has launched a nationwide telephone action line to help their families. National Commander Robert S. Turner recently announced the estab- lishment of the Family Support Network of The American Legion, providing a variety of assistance to military families of active duty personnel serving in Saudi Arabia, as well as National Guard and Reserve units activated by the President. "Because of the current situation in the Middle East and consequent buildup of military forces, we are once LETTERS FROM HOME — Marine Pvt. Preston Le Blanc of Beaumont, Texas, gets again called upon to help as we have hometown and family news in a letter from his mother. done in the past," Turner said. "Who is better able than we veterans and our families to respond to the needs of those The American Legion's Commander Turner wrote a letter to who are left behind, as their spouses are President George Bush outlining called to serve our nation? Who more Family Support Net- Legion plans to ease the sacrifices than we understand the hardships of being made by our U.S. troops in Saudi family separation when active-duty work helps families Arabia. Turner told the President that personnel are sent overseas, or when of military personnel Legionnaires in all 58 Departments Reserve and National Guard units are have been encouraged to send personal activated?" now stationed messages to the military overseas Disruption in family routines caused assuring them that the American public in Saudi Arabia and by the call to active duty is a familiar supports their service and appreciates scenario to many Legionnaires. Though the Persian Gulf their efforts to perform difficult tasks in the times have changed, the problems a dangerous region. The Department of families face stay the same. While some Pennsylvania was among the first to spouses are left to care for small chil- encourage its members to write the dren and juggle family finances, others to active duty to ensure they can- troops in Saudi Arabia, communicating are Left alone to face household tasks literally— return to their home. their sentiments of support through usually handled by spouses. Many vet- Telephone calls to a toll-free number Army and fleet post offices. erans and their spouses are not aware of give access to a nationwide network of The American Legion has pledged its the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 16,000 Legion Posts and 10,000 full cooperation in assisting coor- 1940, which obligates financial institu- Auxiliary Units that comprise the dinators of Family Support Services for tions to accommodate the special cir- Family Support Network of The Amer- the Reserves and National Guard in all cumstances of military personnel called ican Legion. In September, National 50 states.

40 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Beginning in November, 15,000 copies of The American Legion Magazine were mailed to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf for distribution to troops, and shipments of the magazine will continue for the duration of the deployment. Sharing the magazine with active duty personnel is reminiscent of the days of World War II when copies of The American Legion Magazine were mailed worldwide to men and women in uniform. The support network's primary fea- ture is a national telephone help-line that channels requests for any type of assistance to Legion Posts throughout the United States, wherever the families of active duty personnel, Reserve and National Guard units require help. Turner also told the President he was prepared to personnally make a show of DESERT KNIGHTS — U.S. troops such as these tank commanders can take satis- support on behalf of the 3 million faction in knowing the Legion will help those who are waiting for them at home. Legionnaires and the 1 million Auxiliary members. At press time, Turner and other Legion officials were touch-tone telephone because the make personal contact to gather spe- preparing for a trip to the Middle system employs a series of verbal cific information. Then, a call to the East, tentatively scheduled for Octo- prompts directing them to one of sev- nearest Post or District directs Legion- ber 22-28. eral touch-tone operated help lines. naires on the local level to the military In a recent visit to the White House, Company officials advise callers to family in need. Turner also told the President the have their home ZIP code and a call- "This most important service and energy and determination of Legion back telephone number where they can follow-up can be provided by the Post, and Auxiliary members to help military be reached. The call-back number can Unit or District, or through your personnel and their families through the be to a rotary dial or touch-tone- Department Service Officer network, Family Support Network of The Amer- equipped telephone. or by any other means available to you ican Legion carries on a 70-year tradi- through your organizational structure tion mandated in The American Legion using every available Legion and Preamble — "devotion to mutual help- Auxiliary program," Turner said. fulness." The Legion's nationwide Softguard Systems provides National structure, networking capability, and HE new Headquarters with a master list of all the opportunity to use the most modern national toll-free requests referred to Departments, communications technology have com- allowing headquarters staff to track the bined to assist families of military per- number links program's effectiveness. It also will sonnel endure tough financial times serve as a model to continue the Family prompted by their spouses' absence. families with Legion Support Network of The American They will get through with help from Posts throughout Legion as a permanent Legion program people who have been through similar helping veterans with job referral and situations. the nation. other employment, social and educa- The network begins to function the tion services. Turner said the families of moment those eligible dial 1-800-786- those serving America's interests over- 0901. With technology donated by Softguard Systems Inc. processes seas warrant support from all Amer-

Softguard Systems Inc. , the emergency each request on a confidential basis, icans, especially from those who in action line can process confidential taking into account both the urgency their time were called upon to defer requests for help in dealing with any and nature of the problem. For exam- personal comforts and family life for problem, from requests for financial ple, if the wife of a serviceman has to service to country. assistance or repairing the family car to deal with a broken water pipe flooding "No one understands the needs of lighting that pesky furnace pilot light. her basement she needs help now, not veterans and their families more than

Each Department adjutant and Depart- tomorrow. "We collect data, sort it and those who themselves answered the call ment secretary plays a pivotal role as match it to the Department," said Jeff to duty," said Turner. "And no organiza- assistance coordinators. Loker, CEO of Softguard Systems. The tion is better prepared to fill this essen- Here's how the network operates: A requests are immediately channeled to tial niche than The American Legion. family member of a military person Departments by telephone or FAX. We are, truly, the active-duty veteran's calls the nationwide, toll-free number, Once Department officials learn the family's good neighbor in their local 1-800-786-0901. Callers must use a identity and needs of the caller, they community."

DECEMBER 1990 41 5

Veterans alert

608th/652nd Tank Destroyer Bns. (WWII) (Sept- Dixon, 1 075-275 Space Park Way, Mt. View, CA 94043 Lancaster, PA) Harry Rapp, 31 7 W. King St., Lancaster, (415) 968-5172 OUTFIT REUNIONS PA 17603 (71 7) 394-7942 USS Breton CVE-23 (1943-46) (Spring-St. Louis) Jim 718th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Mar-Miami) Norm Snider, 1049 Muffo, (618) 397-3309 Outfit Reunion notices should be submitted on official Graham Rd., Venice, FL 34293 (813)497-1271 USS Brisca APA-65 (Feb-Orlando, FL) H.L. Chavis, Rt. forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped 749th Railroad Bn. (July-Amarillo, TX) Donald Gothard, 1 , Box 41 5, Slocomb, AL 36375 (205) 886-2540 envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion 41 73 Dixie Ct., Columbus, OH 43228 (614) 279-3026 USS Charles S. Sperry DD-697 (Apr-New Orleans) Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. 787th Tank Bn., B Co. (May-Louisville, KY) Robert Robert Irwin, 1321 Maplewood Ave., Norfolk, VA 23503 Because of printing schedules, notices should be Gunning, 1249 Driftwood Dr., Lowell, IN 46356 (219) USS Colhoun DD-801 (Apr-Long Beach, CA) Helen received at least five months before reunions are held. 696-0409 Linn, 5370 S. Columbia, Reedley, CA 93654 Notices are published only one time per unit per year. 904th FA Bn., 79th Inf. Div. (July-Canton, OH) Elza USS Core CVE 13/VC 13/6/36/58 (May-Seattle) Richard Murphy, 207 Pearl St., Wooster, OH 44691 (216) 264- Trefts, 3351 E. Wheel Dr., Langley, WA 98260 (206) 4080 221-8270 998th Treadway Bridge Co. (May-Ft. Smith, AR) Val USS Dickens APA-161 (WWII) (Feb-Jackson, MS) Hansen, 400 N. 56th St., Lincoln, NE 68504 (402) 467- William Carothers, 606 E. Myrtle St., Mason City, IL 2138 62664(217) 482-5651 Army 1462nd Engr. Boat Maint. Co., 3rd E.S.B. (May- USS Doyen APA-1 (WWII) (Mar-Hammond, LA) Bradford, PA) Clayton Brown, Box 280, Lodi, NY14860 Ambrose Brunett, Star Rt, Box 1 9-B, Husser, LA 70442 (607) 582-6466 (504) 748-7364 1st Cav. Div. (FL Chapter) (Feb-Kissimmee, FL) William 3204th QM Serv. Co. (June-Topeka, KS) Clarence Hart, USS Grand Canyon AD-28 (June-Jackson, Ml) Vern Craig, Box 81 3, St. Cloud, FL 34769 (407) 892-4889 3821 SE. Tomahawk Trail, Topeka, KS 66609 (913) Russell, 1530 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS 66044 3rd/5th Cav., 9th Inf. Div. (Vietnam) (June-New 266-8876 (913) 842-5795 Orleans) Ron Quezada, Box 629, Ponce DeLeon, FL Constabulary (U.S. Zone) ETO, any Sqs. (1946-52) USS Hadley DD-774 (May-Nashville, TN) Doug Aitken, 32455 (904) 836-5280 (Mar) Bud Groner, 257 Georgetowne Blvd., Daytona 37 Bower PI., Danville, CA 94526 (41 5) 837-8630

11th Airborne Div. Assn. (July-Tulsa, OK) James Beach, FL 321 1 9 (904) 788-7260 USS Hailey DD-556 (May-Las Vegas) Bill Haid, 2525 Hembree, 20 Binks Dr., Clarksville, TN 37042 (615) Infantry OCS Alumni Assn. (Feb-Columbus, GA) Bolton Boone Dr., #1804, Desoto, TX 75115 (214) 552-7761 Chester Alderfer, Box 2192, Fort Benning, GA31905 298-5177 14th Arm'd Div. (S.E. Chapter) (Jan-Jacksonville, FL) Santa Ana Army Air Base Wing (Apr-Costa Mesa, CA) USS Hamul AK 30/ AD 20 (1941-42) (Fall-Charleston, A.E. Schlegel, 2137 Glen Gardner Dr., Jacksonville, Alvin Anderson, Box 1 764, Costa Mesa, CA 92628 SC) Frank Krasovich, 1012 Bordentown Ave., Parlin, FL 32216 (904) 724-2231 (714) 631-5918 NJ 08859 (201)721-4897 19th Combat Engrs., A Co. (Feb-New Port Richey, FL) Vietnam Helicopter Crew Members Assn. (June- USS Higbee DD-806 (Mar-Buena Park, CA) Jim W.R. Crawford, 926 Thomas Lane, Columbus, OH Louisville, KY) Spencer Gardner, Box 237, Crowley, TX Huffman, 831 1 San Marino Dr., Buena Park, CA 90620 43220(614)459-3575 76036(817)297-4993 (714)527-8026 39th CA AA Brigade/63rd/200th/202nd/206th/260th WAC Det., Ft. Knox, KY (July-Denver) Essie O'Neill, USS Hobby DD-61 0 (1 942-45) (Oct-Norfolk, VA) George (Apr-El Paso, Follett, Convention - Rgts. TX) Carol & 1 0495 W. 35th St. , Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 (303) 421 Watts, 22261 Platino, Mission Viejo, CA91691 (714) Visitors, 1 Civic Center Plaza, El Paso, TX 79901 (800) 5278 768-4890 351-6024 XIX Army Corps HQ & Units (May-Stockton, MO) Alden USS Horace A. Bass APD-124 (May-Sanford, FL) IL) Steinhouse, 62nd Gen. Hospital (May-Peoria, Henry Brown, Rt. 4, Box 1 64, Stockton, MO 65785 (41 7) 276- Horace Paul, 2099 S. Oregon Ave., Sanford, FL 32771 Box 103, Timbercrest, McDaniels, KY 40152 (502) 4451 (407) 322-7879 257-8908 USS Irwin DD-794 (May-San Jose, CA) Jack Schroeder, 65th Medical Rgt. (June-Toledo, OH) Chester Rouse, 561 2 Harvard Dr., San Jose, CA951 18 (408) 266-3827

1 9393 S.R. 739, Richwood, OH 43344 (51 3) 982-3587 USS Jupiter AVS-8 (Apr-New Iberia, LA) Howard 91st Inf. Div. (June-Kansas City, MO) Willis Diercks,376 Woodruff, 5704 Old Jeanerette Rd., New Iberia, LA Cannon View Dr., Red Wing, MN 55066 (612) 388- Navy 70560(318) 365-4076 5762 USS Kula Gulf CVE-108 (Apr-Hickory, NC) Larry 99th Inf. Div. Assn. (June-San Francisco) Henry Eckard, Box 51 45, Hickory, NC 28603 (704) 256-6274 Richards, 19 Pinewood Ct., San Mateo, CA 94403 2nd CB Bn., Camp Peary, VA(June/Aug. 1943) (March- USS Lander APA-178 (Apr-Atlanta) Serge Logan, 3745 (415) 349-5384 Clark, NJ) V.H. Raimo, 29 Broadway, Clark, NJ 07066 Cheyenne Ct., Racine, Wl 53404 106th Med. Rgt./BN, 31st Inf. Div. (Apr-Hattiesburg, (201)396-0080 USS LCI (R) 337 (June-Chicago) Wayne Smith, 21491 MS) Warren Barnett, 207Tanglewood Dr., Carriere, MS 17th/120th Seabees (Mar-Mobile, AL) Michael Meade, Michigan Ave., Port Charlotte, FL 33952 (813) 624-

Box 1 39426 (601) 798-6276 , Raub, IN 47976 (21 9) 474-5433 0591 135th Med. Rgt. (WWII) (Jan-Green Valley, AZ) Duane 90th Seabees (Aug-Cleveland) Barney Freeman, 5782 USS LCS (L) 3-54 (Sept-Jacksonville, FL) Jim Hyman.

Parkwalk Cir. , Alexander, 37 Calle Martina, Green Valley, AZ 85614 W. , Boynton Beach FL 33437 (407) 736- 1 8 Eakman Dr., Garnerville, NY 1 0923 (91 4) 947-1 420 (602) 625-1389 2859 USS Long Island CVE-1 (May-New Orleans) John 143rd F. A. Bn./Rgt. (March-Stockton, CA) Louis CBMU-599WWII (June-Divernon, IL) Bob Murphy, Rt. 1, Koehl, 9770 Rockton Circle W., New Orleans, LA DeLuca, 9 Del Rio Ct., Lafayette, CA 94549 (41 5) 934- Box 83, 927 S. 1st St., Divernon, IL 62530 (217) 628- 70127(504)242-2539 5788 9030 USS LST-653 (WWII) (May-Niagara Falls, NY) Charlie 168th AAA Bn. (Apr-Chattanooga, TN) Marvin Hundley, DesDiv-59/USS Dupont/Bernadou/Ellis/Cole/Dallas Price, 375 Main St., Goshen, NY 10924 (914) 294- 9102 Hundley Rd., Chattanooga, TN 37416 (615) 344- (May-Kenner, LA) Dick Prouty, 335 Main St., Spencer, 7091 8266 MA 01 562 (508) 885-2894 USS LST 833 (Apr-Savannah, GA) Grover Shealy, 29 4th

168th Inf. (Jan-Hickory, NC) Larry Eckard, Box 5145, Great Lakes NTS, Co. 46 (1 943) (Dec-Chicago) Vernon Ave., Atlantic Highlands, NJ 0771 6 (201 ) 291 -91 22 Hickory, NC 28603 (704) 256-6274 Barker, 2903 Lola Ct., Waterford, Ml 48329 (313) 674- USS Luce DLG-7 (1971 Recomm. Crew) (May) R E. 187th Para-Glider Inf., 11th A/B Div., E Co. (1943-46) 2773 Ackerman, 451 1 Elite Dr., Orlando, FL 32822 (407) (May-Dallas) George Fields, (214) 227-7202 Mine Sq. 10 Assn. (Apr-Charleston, SC) Paul Handley, 275-0990 207th CA (AA) (Feb-Savannah, GA) John Cardlin, 6F Box 3241 6, Charleston, SC 2941 7 (803) 571 -3214 USS Mahan DD-364/DLG-1 1/DDG-42 Officers (June-

Putnam Green, Greenwich, CT 06830 (203) 531-5330 NAS Corpus Christi (1963-68) (May) Cidney Engberg, Ocean City, MD) Ted Painter, 1 1 Ames St., Onancock, 208th MP Co. (Apr-Houston, TX) Jim Waters, Box 936, 1817 N. Summit St., Wheaton, IL 60187 (708) 690- VA 2341 7 (804) 787-7570 Lufkin, TX 75901 (409) 632- 3361 8517 USS Montrose LPA-212 (Oct-Gettysburg, PA) Robert 217th CA AA, D Btry. (May-Long Prairie, MN) Adrian Navy 3115 Cub Ten (Hollandia, New Guinea) (June- Faunt Jr., 510 Rake Factory Rd., Biglerville, PA 17307 Hunceford, Rt. 2, Box 255, Long Prairie, MN 56347 Canton, OH) Carl Hegal, 2427 Cottington St. NW, (717) 677-6016 (612)732-6336 North Canton, OH 44720 (21 6) 494-2427 USS Murray DD/DDE-576 (Apr-Baton Rouge, LA) G. 278th Rgt. Combat Team (Mar-Pigeon Forge, TN) H. New York Naval Militia (1940-41 Call Up) (May) Walter Worley, 10688 Browning, Baton Rouge, LA 70815 Wilkerson, Box 491, Lenoir City, TN 37771 (615) 986- Floss, 6465 Transit Rd., East Amherst, NY 14051 (716) (504)924-3075 2616 688-5115 USS Pakana ATF-1 08 (WWII) (Jan-Newport Beach. CA)

322nd Signal Bn., T&T Co. (Mar-Washington, DC) R. Seabee Veterans of America (FL Dept.) (Apr-Fort Jim Kopp, 324 Nancy Way, La Ganada, CA9101 1 (818) Riker, 261-05 Hillside Ave., Glen Oaks, NY 11004 Lauderdale, FL) Jack Jacobs, 3400 Gait Ocean Dr., 790-2047 376th Parachute F.A. Assn. (May-Ft. Bragg, NC) John # 1 504S, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 (305) 564-0487 USS Pitt APA-223 (Fall) George Langr, 17 W. Main St., Young, 125 Gersam Ave., Hamilton, OH 45013 (513) USN Armed Guard (Apr-Brownwood, TX) H. Murray, Rt. Johnstown, NY 12095

894-4164 I, Box 82, Richland Springs, TX 76871 (91 5) 623-5533 USS Purdy DD-734 (May-Hickory, NC) Larry Eckard, 419th Arm'd F.A. (July-Augusta, GA) Charles Winters, USNAB Bremerhaven, Germany (1951-54) (Oct) J. Box 5145, Hickory, NC 28603 (704) 256-6274 4479 Village Green Dr., Birmingham. AL 60131 (205) Manna, 5838 Roble Loma Dr., Pensacola, FL 32526 USS Ranger CV-4 (Aug-Norfolk, VA) George Kingston, 991-7829 (904)944-9684 2148 Clubhouse Dr., Lillian, AL36549 (205) 962-21 71

430th AAA AW Bn. (WWII) (May-Dearborn, Ml) Roland USS Albemarle Assn. (May-Louisville, KY) Thomas USS SC-51 1 (July-Chattanooga, TN) M.H. Knauss, 225 Klufh, 14812 Fairway Dr.. Livonia, Ml 48154 (313) 591 - Dodd, #3, 52nd Ave., Isle of Palms, SC 29451 (803) Brookside Dr., Lindale, TX 75771 (214) 882-5063 0001 884-1553 USS Silverstein DE-534 (Aug-Las Vegas) James 448th AAA AW Bn. (June-Columbus, OH) Ike Kendall, USS Alhena AK-26/AKA-9 (May-New Orleans) Clyde Denver, 63 Eleanor Rd., Springfield, MA 01 108 (413) Box 448, Silver Lake. IN 46982 (219) 352-2864 Meyers, 805 Marion Dr., Denham Springs. LA 70726 734-0171 Lytle. 507th QM Car Co. Feb-San Anfonio) Edwin May, 1 361 (504)664-4786 USS Stack DD-406 (Mar-Kissimmee, FL) J.B. Chapel Oaks, San Antonio, TX 78231 (512) 492-4930 USS Alkes AK-1 10 (WWII) (July-Auburn, ME) Maurice 1 7435 W. Longlake, Alpena, Ml 49707 (517) 595-2978 508th Airborne Inf 7RCT units (May) Bob Murray, 6 Mill Morin, 45 Lucille St., Auburn, ME 04210 (207) 782- USS Tarawa CVA/CVS-40 (Apr-Hickory, NC) Larry St., Woburn, MA 01801 7149 Eckard, Box 51 45, Hickory, NC 28603 (704) 256-6274 512th MP Field Army Bn., 3rd Army (June-Florence, USS Arikara ATF-98 (March-Los Angeles) John Gal- USS Terry DD-513 (Apr-Norfolk, VA) Helen Linn, 5370 S.

breath, 1 1 St., Suite Covina, CA91 722 Reedley, 93654 AL) Travis Carter, Rt. 1 , Box 246A, Winfield, AL 35594 59 Conwell 221 , Columbia, CA (205) 487-4545 (818)339-4331 USS Trenton CL-1 1 (Aug-Olympia, WA) John Copeland, 580th AA Bn., D Btry. (May-Daytona Beach, FL) William USS Aucilla AO-56 (May-Nashville, TN) D.L. Kelley, 206 Box 893, Yelm, WA 98597 (206) 458-7220 Tinsley, 22 Goodall Ave., Daylona Beach, FL 32018 Honeysuckle Dr., Franklin, KY42134 (502) 586-6704 USS Trlnga ASR-16 (May-Groton, CT) Homer Ford, r,(,A 'If.H'l Augusta CA-31 (May-Colorado Springs, CO) Earl 546-6327 i USS (203)

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USS Wasatch AGC-9 (WWII) (Aug-Norfolk, VA) Joseph Waters, Box 7240, Freeport, NY 11520 (718) 990- Vietnam Air Traffic Controller Assn. William Palmer- 579- Pampani, 533 Boesel Ave., Manville, NJ 08835 (201) 0741 gunner, Box 692, Penngrove, CA 94951 (707) 725-4198 1st Marine Raider Bn. (Feb-Quantico, VA) Irvin 8592 USS Wasp CV/CVA/CVS-18 (May-San Diego) Richard Reynolds, 9115 Marlboro Pike, #52, Upper Marlboro, VanOver, 6584 Bunting Rd., Orchard Park, NY 14127 MD 20772 USS Will Rogers SSBN-659 (Apr-New London, CT) T.J. 6th Def. Bn. Midway (June-Corpus Christie, TX) Ned Diego, CA 92167 (619) 222- Oman, S. 104 West, 20463 Tina Dr., Muskego, Wl Titlow, Box 7276, San Navy 53150 (414)679-1934 8407 VF-14/53/141 (July-Myrtle Beach, SC) Harold Dolin, 9th Rec, C Co. (WWII) (Sept-Canton, OH) Vince Dr., Galion, 44833 9646 Hamilton Hills Dr., Fishers, IN 46038 (317) 849- Petrella, 174 Hessenauer OH 22nd NCB (WWII) Joseph Carlson, 1412 W. 55th St., Charles 0218 11th Engr. Bn., 3rd Mar. Div. (July-Chicago) Minneapolis, MN 55419 (612) 927-8321 VP-90 (Dec-NAS Glenview, IL) Ramon Firnstahl, 9478 Luhan Jr., 5645 S. Sacramento Ave., Chicago, IL 56th NCB (Guam/1944-45) John Rightlen, 2557 W

Inver Grove Tr., Inver Grove Hts., MN 55076 (612)455- 60629 Chester Pike, Broomall, PA 1 9008 (21 5) 356-8278 (May-Irving, 5257 Marine Night-Fighter Assn. TX) Tony Boot Camp Co. 572, San Diego (1944) Eves Bouillion, 19713 738- VPB-201 (Panama/1945) (Apr-Las Vegas) E.L. Cangello, 26 Merry Rd., Newark, DE (302) Rt.1, Box 19, Erath, LA 70533 (318)937-5121 Luedeke, Box 207, Needville, TX 77461 (409) 793- 0878 CASU-31 William Barnard, 541 McMorrow Dr., #1, 4318 VMSB-343 (May-Greenville, NC) Glenn Kelley, 332 Newport News, VA 23602 786-1040 VRC-50 (Summer-Orlando, FL) Clint Staples, 6910 Lancelot Cr. N.E., Concord, NC 28025 (704) CASU-49 (1944-45) Howard Moss, Box 13206, S. Lake Windstream Terr., Orlando, FL 3281 8 (407) 299-8428 Tahoe, CA 95702 Dwight, VS-21 (Aug-San Diego) Alfred Novacek, Box 44, CBMU-563 Carl Zeppone, 1 9 Dinallo St., South Hacken-

NE 68635 (402) 566-2425 sack, NJ 07606 (201 ) 489- 2309 WAVES NASD, Pearl Harbor/Washington, DC (WWII) Miscellaneous Manicani Island, Philippines (1945-46) Ray Karl, 603 (June-Divernon, IL) Betsey Murphy, Rt. 1, Box 83, S. Olds Blvd., Fairless Hills, PA 19030 (215) 945-361 Divernon, IL 62530 (217) 628-9030 NAS Melbourne, FL, Firehouse/Crash Crew (WWII) All Airborne Personnel (Feb-Tucson, AZ) Donald Jack McKinley, 722 N. Main, Chariton, IA 50049 Murphy, 9801 E. 33rd St., Tucson, AZ 85748 (602) 298- NTC Bainbridge, Co. 3546 (1944) Valton Ammons, 7890 5004 Hiddenbrook Ct., McLeansville, NC 27301 (91 9) Army Air Forces Iwo Jima Veterans (Feb-Jackson, MS) Jim Westbrook, 621-0645 636-1 861 Rt. 1 0, Box 382, Vicksburg, MS 391 80 (601 ) NTC San Diego, Co. 231 (1951) David Gray, Box 808, Mableton, GA 30059 2nd Ferry Grp. /2nd Foreign Trans. Grp. (WWII) (Apr- USS Ajax AR-6 K.L. Hokenson, Box 301 , Oxford, MA 18th St., Newark, CA) Temple Robinson, 5961 E. 01540 (508) 248-5051 Tucson, AZ 85711 (602)747-4466 USS Blue DD-744 (1946-47) Bert Swartz, 21765 34 (WWII) 45th HQ & HQ Sq./8th Air Serv. Sq., 5th AF LET'S GET TOGETHER Viking Blvd. NE, Wyoming, MN 55092 (June-Brainerd, MN) Russ Morrison, 917 S. 7th St., USS Davidson DE-1 045 Don Tahran, 1 022 1 0th Ave. SE, Brainerd, MN 56401 (218)829-7894 Notice of proposed reunions will be published on a Jamestown, ND 58401 (701)252-4986 66th Serv. Sq., 5th AF (WWII) (Apr-Panama City, FL) first-come, first-served basis. Requests for inclusion must USS Kearsarge CVA-33, IC/EM ratings (1955-58) Sainola, St., Babylon, NY 11704 (516) of contact name, ad- John 9 Auburn list the unit name, branch service, Kenneth McDaniel, 301 East Dr., Oak Ridge, TN 37830 587-2517 dress, including zip code and American Legion member- (615)482-4302 Grp./23rd, 311th, 312th, 313th, request to: "Let's Get 349th Trp. Carrier ship card number. Submit your USS Lapwing AVP-1 Sherley Eads, 3230 S. Meridian 314th Sqs. (June- Indianapolis) Max Johnson, 409 N. Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1.055, Together," The American St., Indianapolis, IN 46217 (317) 784-9490 Colfax, Martinsville, IN 46151 (317)342-3495 Indianapolis, IN 46206 USS LCSL (3) 71 (1945-46) William Wood, Box 1 124, Orleans) Orlando Cerra, 599th S.A.W. Bn. (Feb-New Saluda, VA23149 (804) 758- 5019 412 Finnin Rd., New Kensington, PA 15068 (412)337- USS LSM-185 John Pesko, 25039 US 12 W., #73, 4031 Sturgis, Ml 49091 (616) 651-2505 Convoy to Glasgow, Scotland via Dorthea L. Dix AP- USS LSM-385 (WWII) Walter Grayson, Box 791, H.E. Harvey, Army 67 (Oct. 19, 1943) (Jan- Ephrata, WA) Clayton, LA 71 326 Ephrata, 98823-0541 (501 ) 754-3948 Box 541 , WA USS-LST 31 1 (WWII) Ted Papadakis, 164 Prospect St., Bay, Labrador) John Bow- Goose Bay AB, Labrador (July-Goose 60th Engr., C Co. (TRUST, Italy/1947-54) Springfield, MA 01 107 (413) 734-1506 644, Sta. A, Goose Bay, Lab- Dr., Lynchburg, Carolyn Maybee, Box man, 4537 Golf Park VA 24502 USS LST-334 (WWII) Andrew Kresnocky, 1201 S. Lake 896-5431 E rador, AOP 1 SO (709) 63rd QM Base Depot, HQ & HQ Co. (WWII) D Park Ave., Hobart, IN 46342 (219) 942-1511 Obrecht, Railton, Houston, TX 77080 9639 USS LST-532 (1950-54) Fred Lawrence, 7025 Willow- 67th AAA Gun Bn., C Btry. Edward Letchman, 8148 3rd brook Dr., Watertown, NY 13601 (315) 782-5919 Birmingham, AL 35206 Ave. S., USS LST-1141 Jerry Madden, 1404 Holden Ave., 127th General Hospital (WWII) Noel Bailey, 1516 Alta Air Force Newport, AR 721 1 2 (501 ) 523-3368 Dr., Fort Worth, TX 761 07 (817) 737-571 USS Macon CA-132 (1950 Comm. Crew) Ed Shelar, 1 33rd General Hospital Howard Andersen, 61 7 W. 1 0th 1913 Natchez Ave., Bedford, TX 76022 (817) 571- 262-4428 10th Serv. Sq. (Feb-Pittsburgh) Alan McClure, 100 St., Spencer, IA51301 (712) 3153 Maplewood Dr., Beaver, PA 15009 (41 2) 775-1561 245th Tank Bn., 45th Inf. Div. (1950-54) Charles USS Minotaur ARL-15 (1 945-46/Okinawa) William AFB, OK) Pete Gretsch, 1 73502 (405) 355-371 26th Fighter Sq. (Jan-Vance Coursey, Box 791 , Lawton, OK Grabowsky, 1414Sunrise, Lot 20, Amarillo, TX 79104 26th FTS, Vance AFB, Enid, OK 73705 (405) 249-7285 279th Ord. Maint. AA Co. (WWII) Virgil Bodenhamer, USS Mizar AF-12 Everette Johnson, 441 N. 12th Ave., 71st Bomb Sq. (Laon, France) (June-Eureka Springs, 1 9830 Weybridge, #101, Mt. Clemens, Ml 48043 (313) Please turn to page 54 AR) Mack Bryant, Box 51 76, Jackson, MS 39296 (601 463-2397 362-9155 287th FA Observ. Bn. (Pacific/1943-45) Mel Reese, 315th Ftr. Sq., 324th Ftr. Grp. (May-Nashville, TN) 4531 N. 16th St., Ste 112, Phoenix, AZ 85016 (602)

Eugene Orlandi, 31 1 3rd St., E. Northport, NY 1 1 731 279-9325 (516)368-9193 328th FA Bn. Earl Carlile, 302 Tejas Rd., Palestine, TX 328th Supply Sq. (June-Grandview, MO) Ronald 75801 Williams, Box 21 84, Gary, IN 46409 (219)977-9629 406th Engr. Const. Bn., A Co. (1952-53) Duane 1550th ATTW/CCTW (June-Albuquerque, NM) John Erickson, Rt. 2, Box 83, Alpha, MN 561 1 1 (507) 764-

Lucas, 1 550 TTS, Kirtland AFB, NM 871 1 7 (505) 844- 3529 / 1626 507th AAA AW Bn. (Misawa AFB) Roger Abrahamson, Pilot Class 51-A (Feb-Austin, TX) Wesley Mattonen, HCR 67, Box 28, Onamia, MN 56359 3803 South Union, Independence, MO 64055 (816) 534th Amphib. Tractor Bn. Daniel Cams, 501 Jefferson

254-8862 Ave., Jeannette, PA 1 5644 (41 2) 527-1 663 Postal Courier Assn. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Jim 559th Ord. HM Tank Co. (WWII) John Savage, 1 Foshee, 3509 Deer Trail, Temple, TX 76504 (81 7) 774- Parkwood Trail, Hampstead, NC 28443 (919) 270- 7303 4316 RAF Chicksands Alumni (Jan-Washington) W. 562nd Ord. HM TK Co. (1943-46) Jack White, 7102 NW Grayson, Box 4053, Crofton, MD 21 1 1 4 (703) 968- 74 Place, Tamarac, FL 33321 (305) 722-6753 3452 718th Amphib. Tractor Bn. (WWII) Norm Snider, 1049 Selman Field (WWII) (Apr-Monroe, LA) Swansea Kotz, Graham Rd., Venice, FL 34293 Box 14962, Monroe, LA 71 207 (318) 325-2998 793rd MP Bn., B Co. (1 945-48/Germany) William

USAFSS/ESC COMSEC (Feb-Washington) W. Grayson, Burkhardt, Box 1 54, Springfield, OH 45501 Box 4053, Crofton, MD 21 1 1 4 (703) 968-3452 804th FA Bn., HQ Btry. Will Doyon, 24 Stafford St., Plymouth, MA 02360 (508) 746-1352 1255th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) Alfred Babecki, 1405 Colony Rd., Oxon Hill, MD 20745 Marines 1303rd Engr. Med. Detach. (WWII) Jim Caldwell, 1732 Vallecito Dr., Hacienda Heights, CA91745 (818) 333- 6680 1-3-7 Marines (May-Orlando, FL) Melvin Robinson, 1565th Ord. S&M Co. (Avn) (WWII) Henry May, 3301 1 j& 281 8 Sixth Ave., Altoona, PA 1 6602 (814) 944-0706 NW32nd St., Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33309 1st Bn., 26th Marines, B Co. (Khe Sanh/1968) (Apr- 3348th GM TRK Co. (WWII) Harold Zurbuchen, 21 Champion, Rt. 2, Box 163A, Smith- Dayton, OH) Jim Todd St., Verona, Wl 53593 (608) 845-9676 "You're retaining ice cream. land, KY 42081 (502)928-4598 Engr. Tech. Intel. Teams 533, 557, 558 (Korea/1 951 -52) 1st Marine Air Wing (Vietnam) (Fall-Las Vegas) Rob George Walueff, Box 373, Marathon. FL 33050

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44 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE it does not take into account various that the welfare state keeps generating WELFARE TRAP welfare benefits that together assure new constituencies for itself, thus most poor people adequate food, shelter creating the demand for what it wants to Continued from page 25 and medical care. And the average supply— increased services and depen- American on welfare lives considerably dency. better than the working poor of most Nonetheless, the problems of poverty other industrialized countries. are all too real. Columbia University's Often overlooked as well are the con- National Center for Children in Poverty "workfare" programs involving job tributions of private U.S. charities. states that as recently as 1987 some 5 training and education have achieved Nine of every 10 shelters for the home- million American children under the only modest results. For example, a less are operated by private volunteers. age of 6— or nearly 1 in every 4— were study by the Manpower Demonstration And "Habitat for Humanity," which living below the Census Bureau's pov- Research Corporation, a private think concentrates on rebuilding slum areas, erty line. And last July, a study by the tank, found that most state welfare has enlisted more than 80,000 volun- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, employment initiatives reduced case- teers, including former President Jimmy a private research center, said that loads by only 1 percent to 3 percent. Carter and his wife, Rosalyn. nearly half the nation's black and His- Whatever the case, no one expects quick Referring to what has been called the panic families cannot find affordable or easy solutions. As the largest bureau- "poverty industry," Benjamin Ginsberg, housing. cracy in the country, the social welfare author of The Captive Public, contends Please turn page system inevitably is prone to foul-ups and abuse. Stories of fashionably attired people driving limousines to Advertisement supermarkets with fistfuls of food stamps are legendary. But for others, See Why it's a different story. Social Security Commissioner Gwendolyn S. King, testifying in Congress in April, said Where There's A Will many people are not receiving Supple- Canton, (Special) been praised by es- mental Security Income (SSI) benefits OH You can spend money tate planners and re- because they don't know about them or Heirs Pay for a Will only to have ported in financial are too confused by the 15 -page application form which King called "mind- a substantial part of your assets need- publications like The Wall Street Jour- boggling." 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right to be run by the tenants. And their Brand success was astounding. For example, WELFARE TRAP after about eight years under tenant Continued from page 45 New management, "the Cochran management association had created 350 jobs, Just primarily for residents, by establishing For its own maintenance teams, day care Still, there also are encouraging centers, a catering service, a neighbor- You" signs. More than one dozen states hood shopping mall, and a company to began job training and education pro- install cable television connections in grams for welfare recipients months public housing through the city," said

before Congress passed its reform bill. Butler and Kondratas. Last summer in Bridgeport, Conn., 13 Similar results have been seen at adults on welfare graduated from an Kenilworth Courts. In 1982, after two eight-week pre-training course called years of going without hot water, a "La Opportunidad. " One of the group of tenants took over management graduates was Carmen Colon, a 50- of the D.C. complex. "By 1984," related

All America has fallen in love with year-old mother of nine who has spent Butler and Kondratas, "the project was the rich and tender voice of this fa- the last 23 years on welfare. She cried running a surplus (in rent collections). mous recording star. Roger Whittaker with joy on receiving her diploma and When board members presented the has amassed more than 28 inter- joined the others in singing the class housing authority that year with a check national gold record awards and now, song, "Sintiendome Bien, " "Feeling instead of requesting another subsidy, just for his American fans, Roger sings Good." city housing officials had no idea how the all time favorite songs of today. Said Joyce A. Thomas, manager of to process the check!" Here are those special songs you Bridgeport Jobs, the private industry Secretary Jack has pro- frequently hear on radio and wish you HUD Kemp could play at home again and again. group that operates the program with posed expanding such successful ven- Wait until you hear Roger's heart- state funds, "You have to teach people tures nationwide. Known as HOPE— touching rendition of THE WIND that they have a right to control their Homeownership and Opportunity for BENEATH MY WINGS, SHE BE- destinies, that the dependency lies People Everywhere — the program is LIEVES IN ME, LOVE ME TENDER, within themselves." According to Stuart designed to give low-income residents a and MEMORY (The stirring theme Butler and Anna Kondratas, authors of personal stake in the well-being of their from CATS). "Out of the Poverty Trap: A Conservative communities and an opportunity to His tender and beautiful voice can Strategy Welfare Reform," published escape welfare dependence through touch your heart like no other singer for in the world. Be sure to get your by Heritage Foundation, the only real economic development. Kemp also is treasury today. progress against poverty comes when pushing the creation of inner-city people are allowed to take control of "enterprise zones" by private entre- Brand New Treasury a their own lives. At the same time, the preneurs and the government to of Roger's Hits 1* authors argue, "Poverty in the United revitalize the nation's blighted slum Love Me Tender • Try To Remember States today is inextricably intertwined neighborhoods. • You Needed Me • Memory (From The Musical CATS) • Are You Lonesome with family structure and the economic On the education front, there is a Tonight • The Last Farewell • Annie's viability of families. Broken families clear connection between inadequate Song • The Wind Beneath My Wings lead to poverty. Two-parent families schooling and poverty. Statistics reveal • True Love • She Believes In Me • For The Good Times • Always On My Mind have a 7 percent poverty rate, as against that the poverty rate for high school • The Twelfth Of Never • Make The World 35 percent for those headed by graduates is 9.6 percent, but for those Go Away • You Don't Know Me • New women." with less education, the poverty rate • • World In The Morning Evergreen I half Can See Clearly Now • AND MORE! One way to strengthen the family, soars to 21 percent. And about of MONEY BACK GUARANTEE writes Butler and Kondratas, is to reform the nation's adult poor have less than a the tax code. "It is absurd for us to have secondary school education. If you don't agree this is one of the most beautiful treasuries you've ever owned a system that tries to squeeze taxes out In the final analysis, the success of

return it for a full refund. But please order of the working poor, and then spends welfare reforms will depend on mutual yours now. It's not sold in any store at any those same taxes on others who will not responsibility and cooperation. Defend- price. Mail the no-risk coupon today. work." ing the new program as a good step, The Beautiful Music Company, Dept. WH-2 Another pro-family move, according Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New Box 3535, Grand Central Station RO to the authors, would be to "base wel- York said: "Whether other people get in New York, NY 10163 fare the assumption that the spirit of this legislation and try to Please rush me the brand new Roger Whittaker programs on

treasury on your unconditional guarantee that it must parents are responsible for their own make it work or sit around and complain be one of the most beautiful treasuries I've ever owned or you will refund my purchase price, actions and those of their children." about it remains to be seen. But there

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tion issue is the primary one that every- sors in our colleges and universities? body knows about. The reapportion- A Law professors these days are like COURTS ment of state legislatures, the abortion university faculties, generally. Continued page 23 from issue, the flag-burning issue — some of They are well to the left of the American

the judges taking over mental hospitals, center. I doubt, for example, you would police departments, school systems, find 10 to 15 percent of professors in jail systems and so forth. It was unheard prestigious universities who voted for express an opinion. I can't believe they of even 20 years ago and now it's com- Reagan. In some schools, none. mean that. I think it's a very unfortu- mon. Whether that kind of expansion of nate decision. I think the court changed power will continue, I don't know. But QL Is the same trend apparent in the of First meaning the Amendment. if it does, more and more of our lives members of the media? We had three of the most liberal justices will be governed by unelected judges All the surveys show that's true. in our history A — Earl Warren, Hugo rather than by elected representatives. The survey I recall a couple of Black, who called himself a First years back was that in every one of the Amendment Absolutist, and Abe For- Q- Would you comment on social last six presidential elections, the media tas. They said the government can, of and political attitudes of law profes- Please turn page course, prevent the physical desecra- tion of the flag. If it did so, it would not violate the First Amendment. So what we see here is a considerable shift from the old law. Individually I

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DECEMBER 1990 47 WHAT'S YOUR OPINION? HAVE YOU COURTS According to Robert Bork, the power of Continued from page 47 courts has increased in the pastfew decades. Do you believe federal courts should be en- SEEN gaged in judicial activism? Call your opinion to 1-900-872-4843. You can vote on the ques- THIS CHILD? voted over 80 percent for the Demo- tion, receive a vote tally, record your opinion possible publication in the cratic candidate every time. for Opinions section ofThe American Legion Magazine, and Q. Are you a conservative? listen to the opinions of others. Calls cost $1 per minute and will be billed to your tele- Yes, I am. But a New York Times A phone bill. Money raised the opinion m reporter asked me that and I said, from "What do you mean by that? There are line is usedfor Legion programs. all kinds of conservatives running around and some of them I'm not like." lently opposed to your confirmation? She then printed that I denied I was a A There were two reasons. One was conservative, which is not true. it was a chance to defeat Ronald Reagan, which they hadn't had much Q- What is the difference between a success doing up to that point. But he conservative and a liberal? was coming to the end of his term and Alt's a difference in vision of had been weakened on Capitol Hill by human nature and the possibilities the Iran-Contra controversy. The

of changing society and people. I think Republicans had lost the Senate, so it NON-FAMILY ABDUCTION -Angelica conservatives, by and large, are for was an ideal time to deal Reagan a Manriquez, 4. Last seen Feb. 17, 1990 traditional values. They are somewhat defeat. In addition to that, they knew in the bus terminal at 111 San Fran- skeptical of attempts by government to from my writings that I would never cisco St. in El Paso, Texas. Hair: light change basic patterns. Govern- it brown; eyes: light brown; Height: 3'; human give them their agenda if wasn't in the weight: 40 lbs. Has scar on the corner ment can do that and sometimes Constitution. They would rather take of one eye. Contact the National becomes tyrannical in the attempt. I their chances with an unknown than Center for Missing and Exploited Chil- think liberals are much more optimistic with somebody they were sure was not dren. 1-800-843-5678. about the power of government to going to give them their agenda. A public service provided by The American Legion. improve things endlessly. They are much less wary of tyrannical tenden- Q> What is the philosophy of law cies that lie in that. and constitutional interpretation of northAmerican those who would deny your confirma- Q- How would you describe your tion? Is it as simple as liberal-versus- Offers Moving confirmation hearings? conservative views? Discount A A fiasco. The hearings weren't Alt is now, in a sense. But the truth bad; it was the political campaign is that the tendency to use the that was being waged around the coun- Constitution to read in political agenda try outside the hearing room. It con- is not uniquely a liberal sin. Conserva-

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the report concluded. "This kind of who delivered a searing report to the VA political interference is inappropriate Secretary last May that urged him to AGENT ORANGE and casts doubts on the integrity and reconsider awarding compensation to Continued from page 18 credibility of federal research." Vietnam veterans suffering from Members of the House committee various illnesses and conditions. Zum- were not unanimous in supporting the walt, who ordered Agent Orange spray 39-page report. Dissenters accused missions when he commanded naval have their blood tested for levels of members of the investigating group, the forces in Vietnam, has said that benefit dioxin. VA must be prepared to (1) Human Resources subcommittee, of of the doubt about the number of can- respond to those requests; and (2), if launching an "ideological assault upon cers linked to dioxin weighed in favor of they do provide veterans with blood a Republican White House with which Vietnam veterans.

tests, to interpret results. // is important it has never agreed." Also, the dissent- Zumwalt' s review of various Agent that testimony and other public comments ers noted in their own report that Orange studies led him to believe that 28 not associate the measurement ofdioxin in enough evidence existed to show that different health effects are as likely as " blood with causation the Agent Orange study was cancelled not related to Agent Orange exposure. The House committee concluded on scientific grounds. "I did something the VAs Committee that the federal government had "sup- The dissenting view in the report also on Environmental Hazards did not do,"

pressed or minimized findings" of ill responded to allegations of a White Zumwalt told Legionnaires at the 1990 health effects among Vietnam veterans House cover-up: "Next, we find it National Convention in Indianapolis. "I that could be linked to Agent Orange totally implausible for the White House looked at the existing animal studies. If exposure. to mastermind a cover-up on its own I was Secretary of Veterans Affairs, I'd The committee recommended that when Congress was intimately involved conclude that these diseases are con- Congress mandate the creation of an in the Agent Orange proceedings since nected to Agent Orange exposure." accurate Agent Orange exposure index their inception Veterans deserve In his report last spring, Zumwalt and an independent study be conducted much better than what this report seeks described the VA committee's work as by a private organization. It further to offer." demonstrating a "disturbing bias" (a recommended that the White House be Other highly credible experts related story appeared in the August barred from interfering with all other recently have voiced concerns about the issue of The American Legion federal scientific research. handling of the Agent Orange study, Magazine), and called for the dis- "The White House made crucial deci- including retired Chief of Naval Opera- missal of the members of the group. sions affecting the course of CDC's tions Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, a special MEANWHILE, The American Agent Orange research and outcome," assistant to VA Secretary Derwinski Legion lawsuit is still in the preliminary stages and, at press time, no initial hearings have been scheduled for the case, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, DC. "Our position always has been that the government owe up to its responsibility and conduct a valid study that examines the health effects of Agent Orange exposure," Turner said. "Any diseases linked to the herbicide are the same as getting wounded or injured while serving the nation. And there

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learn the broader field of jewelry mak- old gunsmith with the Harrington and ing and repair. Richardson Firearms company in Mas- NEW CAREERS Today, towering over a workbench sachusetts. The firm went bankrupt in Continuedfrom page 21 that glimmers with small flashes from 1985. Two years later, a graduate of the precious metals, Joe Calnan has found North Bennet locksmith program, he another way to use his light touch. He went into business for himself, with an teaches students how to make tiny office in his home and his own van. to have something to fall back on." His pieces of jewelry. Today he works up to 70 hours a week. friends aren't aware that Branchaud "I have good balance, so I can tell by His most satisfying moment came studied piano for 10 years. He has such feel how to tighten the setting for a recently after he answered a call that a good sense of musical pitch that he stone." About 13 years ago, he returned two youngsters, aged 3 and 1 Vi, had can hear and identify notes when some- to North Bennet to become a teacher, to locked themselves in a van. It wasn't an one taps one of the pieces of wood used help others craft new lives the way he easy door lock, Burns said. He had to to rebuild an old grand. He believes did. recall some of his advanced training he's finally in the right business. His students and others at this school under teacher Vic Swanson, who had

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AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ical officers gained confidence in their air filters, entry-exit and information casualties of a different kind if a chem- protective equipment, practicing detec- systems, and alarms. ical confrontation erupts, but today's tion and decontamination drills in According to a State Department protection equipment has been tested chambers with real nerve agents. source, if Iraq did employ chemical with actual agents to prove that, when

Commanding officers admitted, weapons, the United States would be used properly, it can save lives. "We've however, that faced with mounting bur- permitted legally to retaliate with its spent a lot of money on protective gear dens to train against all types of attack, own chemical arsenal. in the last decade," a State Department chemical warfare preparedness was Despite the current U.S. chemical official said. "(It) is very expensive." often a low priority. demilitarization plan, America's uni- In the spectrum of biological agents, "In terms of training with something tary (warheads filled with a single a review conference of the Biological that is odorless, tasteless and color- lethal agent) chemical stockpile is. Warfare Convention is scheduled for less," said Col. Harvey D. Watson, com- reportedly ample and includes both June 1991 . This is expected to be a mander of the 197th Infantry Brigade at artillery and aerial-delivered weapons. more difficult treaty to negotiate

Fort Benning, Ga. , "we haven't figured The majority of these weapons are because challenge inspections are not out how to do that." targeted for destruction under the on- built in. A State Deparment official last "It's hard to tell where we are in site demilitarization program. winter said, "It's a very loose treaty." NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) The State Department source said Treaty negotiators will continue their training because there are so few oppor- selected stocks from the US. unitary decades-long push for a worldwide ban tunities for a true test," said Watson, chemical stockpile of nerve agents of all chemical and biological weapons. commander of the Army's largest, could be air shipped from locations in Said the CIAs Webster: "We have to separate mechanized brigade. the United States to the Persian Gulf by find a means of blocking access to the Eighteen months after Watson's com- specially trained Army personnel only chemicals and to the technology and to ments, U.S. troops found themselves in after the aircraft was certified that it slow it down, until the full weight of the Persian Gulf, staring down the was up-to-date on all its maintenance, the Soviet and American pressure, by poisoned barrels of the Iraqi army. the same procedures as those required example, can lead the world to elimina- Concern at the State Department to move a nuclear weapon. tion of this kind of deadly warfare." goes beyond the chemical threat. In addition to unitary weapons, the At Helsinki, Bush and Gorbachev "The problem is," said a State new, more limited generation of binary said when the Iraqi crisis ends they will Department administrator, "look at weapons, warheads that contain two work together on a plan for regional what we've got. With the exception non-lethal chemical agents that are stability in the Middle East. With of a few folks who actually heard live not deadly until mixed, is another this commitment, the super powers fire in either Grenada or Panama, you alternative. may finally bury chemical weapons have a largely unbloodied American No one can deny that there will be forever. army. ...There's an enormous range of unknowns. One multiplier of those unknowns is the fact that there is a very real threat that chemical weapons will be engaged. But the point is, you've Farewell Old .45! simply got to depend on the fact that they've been well-informed of the LIMITED EDITION BUCKLE HONORS M1911A1 RETIREMENT threat and they've been well-trained. Issued to assist NRA-established Firearms Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund. "I don't have any evidence on this, Master hand engraved by world-famous firearms engraver, Lynton McKenzie. but I would be willing to bet that the average time required for the average American Historical Foundation, private in the infantry to don his chem- The in conjunction with NRA-established ical gear in those units deployed in the Firearms Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund, Saudi Arabian peninsula has decreased is proud to announce the .45 Automatic Commemorative Buckle, honoring the re- considerably since they got there." He tirement of the M1911A1 from American said the circumstances of reminded him military service. Benjamin Franklin's quote: "The pros- • The master was hand engraved by pect of hanging focuses man's mind Lynton McKenzie, one of the most re- remarkably." spected firearms engravers in the woridj whose work set a new world's gun auc^ In the its 1987, United States ended tion record. 1 8-year chemical weapons production * Each magnificent buckle looks hand 4" moratorium and began producing new engraved. Each is coin minted. Alt Actual size; fits standard I" to VI belts. artillery shells with details on "old slabsides" are clearly 155mm armed Satisfaction Guaranteed or Return in 30 Days for Full Refund visible. binary nerve gas and continued apace To: The American Historical Foundation Available in solid Sterling Silver (with 1142 West Grace Street, Dept. H414 with plans to manufacture a binary pistol and border of 24- Ka rat Gold plate), Richmond, Virginia 23220 Telephone: (804) 353-1812, or Toll Free: (800)368-8080 24-Karat Gold plated Bronze, or polished bomb called the "Big-Eye" and chem- Yes, please send the following .45 Commemorative Buckle(s): Jeweler's Bronze. Limited Edition serial of ical warheads for a Multiple Launch Jewelers' Bronze, Limited Edition 5,000, at $19. number engraved on reverse; Certificate 24-Karat Gold plated Bronze, Limited Edition of 2,000 at $45. Rocket System (MLRS). Later that Sterling Silver, with 24-Karat Gold plated details, Limited Edition of Authenticity included. of 950, at $195. year, the Soviet Union announced it When you reserve a buckle, a donation My check, money order, or credit card authorization is enclosed. would no longer manufacture chemical will be made to the Firearms Civil Rights Name Address ... weapons. Legal Defense Fund to help guarantee the rights of Americans against the legal

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Parting shots

Stripped Gears "I tried life in the fast lane," said

grandpa from his rocking chair. "But I got run over."

Double Talk Politicians are often misunderstood because it's not easy to talk and say nothing at the same time.

Tanks A Lot

Today, to raise enough money to fill a gas tank, some people have to sell their cars.

Bookworms "The auditor found some inconsisten- cies with our books," a vice president reported to the company president. "What did he find inconsistent?" the hail storm. Yes, I think it's strange. "He 's out practicing his 7 iron in a president asked.

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"Of course. I stopped putting together they're putting me in a deep from Mrs. Brown, the flour from Mrs. kcichup on my hamburgers." depression." Jones and the milkfrom Mrs. Smith.

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