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The Magazine for a Strong America

Vol. 140, No. 1 January 1996 ARTICLE s

UFELINETOVA

The NEC takes a close look at the Legion 's plan to improve VA health care. 99

MISSILE SHIELD A MUST

The Soviets may be gone, but the rogue states are a continuing nuclear threat. ByJeane J. Kirkpatrick

'THEY'RE AFTER OUR CHILDREN'

what parents need to know to keep their kids safe. By B. Gordon Wheeler CO

APOCALYPSE? NOT YET.

Doomsayers claim our behavior is destroying the world, but ignore mankind's ability to change. ByJay Stuller 31

FROM POTTER'S HELD TO A PLACE OF HONOR Chicago veteran who died in the heat wave gets an honorable burialfrom Illinois Legionnaires ByJoe Stuteville 34

DROKEN COMPASS

America is offcourse in a sea ofmoral decay, saysformer Secretary ofEducation William Bennett. 36

LOW-TECH MEDICINE

Getting the best medicine money can buy may not always be worth it. Here's an alternative. By Don Oldenburg 38

WITH PREFERENCES UKE THESE... Military service used to mean you got an edge in landing afederaljob. Not any more By Ken Schamberg 40

DUICK AND AMERICAN LEGION DASEDALL: A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM

Two ofthe nation 's most respectedpartners go to batfor America 's youth. By Miles Z. Epstein 43

1998 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMIHEEMEN 58

1996 DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS 60

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BIG ISSUES Does U.S securit)' require a third Seawolfsubmarine? 14

VETVOICE 8 ON DUTY 18 LEGION NEWS 54

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 12 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 20 VETS 62

WASHINGTON WATCH 16 VETERANS UPDATE 52 PARTING SHOTS 88

COVER More than 100, 000 child abductions are attempted each year Your guide to protecting children begins on Page 28. Illustration byJim Sharpe.

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breast milk may approximate serum levels. If use of is 2. Congestive Heart Failure. Although diltiazem has a negative inotropic effect in CARDIZEM deemed essen- motor machinists and machinists. isolated animal tissue preparations, hemodynamic studies in humans with tial, an alternative method of infant feeding should be instituted. normal ventricular function have not shown a reduction in cardiac Index nor Pediatric Use During 1942, 13 African- Ameri- consistent negative effects on contractility (dp/dt). An acute study of oral dilti- Safety and effectiveness in children have not been established. cans were sent to Officer's Training azem in patients with impaired ventricular function (ejection fraction 24% ± ADVERSE REACTIONS 6%) showed Improvement in indices of ventricular function without significant School. These men were dubbed by Serious adverse reactions have been rare in studies carried out to date, but it decrease in contractile function (dp/dt). Vl/orsening of congestive heart failure should be recognized that patients with Impaired ventricular function and cardiac has been reported in patients with preexisting Impairment of ventricular the Navy as the "Golden Thirteen." conduction abnormalities have usually been excluded from these studies. function. Experience with the use of CARDIZEI^fl (diltiazem hydrochloride) In The following table presents the most common adverse reactions reported In combination with beta-blockers In patients with Impaired ventricular function is They became the first black officers in placebo-controlled angina and hypertension trials in patients receiving CARDIZEM limited. Caution should be exercised when using this combination. CD up to 360 mg with rates In placebo patients shown for comparison. the Navy, one of whom went on to 3. Hypotension. Decreases in blood pressure associated with CARDIZEM therapy

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CARDIZEM (diltiazem hydrochloride) is extensively metabolized by the liver and In clinical trials of CARDIZEM CD capsules, CARDIZEM tablets, and CARDIZEM SR the October issue, and I was surprised excreted by the kidneys and in bile. As with any drug given over prolonged periods, capsules Involving over 3200 patients, the most common events (ie, greater than laboratory parameters of renal and hepatic function should be monitored at regular 1%) were edema (4.6%), headache (4.6%), dizziness (3.5%), asthenia (2.6%), and very disappointed. It seems little intervals. The drug should be used with caution in patients with impaired renal or first-degree AV block (2.4%), bradycardia (1.7%), flushing (1 .4%), nausea (1 .4%), hepatic function. In subacute and chronic dog and rat studies designed to produce and rash (1.2%). more than a collection of news stories toxicity, high doses of diltiazem were associated with hepatic damage. In special In addition, the following events were reported infrequently (less than 1%) In subacute hepatic studies, oral doses of 125 mg/kg and higher In rats were associ- angina or hypertension trials; about bizarre conspiracies. For exam- ated with histological changes in the liver which were reversible when the drug was Cardiovascular; Angina, arrhythmia, AV block (second- or third-degree), bundle ple, "The Big Lie" (By C.R. Roberts) disconhnued. In dogs, doses of 20 mg/kg were also associated with hepatic branch block, congestive heart failure, ECG abnormalities, hypotension, palpita- changes; however, these changes were reversible with continued dosing. tions, syncope, tachycardia, ventricular extrasystoles and "St. George is Expendable." Addi- Dermatological events (see ADVERSE REACTIONS section) may be transient and Nervous System; Abnormal dreams, amnesia, depression, gait abnormality, hallu- may disappear despite continued use of CARDIZEM. However, skin eruptions cinations, insomnia, nervousness, paresthesia, personality change, somnolence, tionally, the Washington Watch and progressing to erythema multiforme and/or exfoliative dermatitis have also been tinnitus, tremor infreguently reported. Should a dermatologic reaction persist, the drug should be Gastrointestinal; Anorexia, constipation, diarrhea, dry mouth, dysgeusia, Veterans Update columns were noth- discontinued. dyspepsia, mild elevations of SGOT SGPT LDH, and alkaline phosphatase (see ing more than collections of horror hepatic warnings), thirst, vomiting, weight increase Drug Interactions Dermatological; Petechiae, photosensitivity, pruritus, urticaria Due to the potential for additive effects, caution and careful titration are warranted stories about government malfeasance. Other; Amblyopia, CPK Increase, dyspnea, epistaxis, eye Irritation, hyperglycemia, in patients receiving CARDIZEM concomitantly with other agents known to affect hyperuricemia, impotence, muscle cramps, nasal congestion, nocturia, osteoartic- cardiac contractility and/or conduction. (See WARNINGS.) Pharmacologic studies Do you believe there is anything the ular pain, polyuria, sexual difficulties indicate that there may be additive effects in prolonging AV conduction when using government can do right? The following in beta-blockers or digitalis concomitantly with CARDIZEM. (See WARNINGS.) postmarketing events have been reported infrequently patients receiving CARDIZEM; alopecia, erythema multiforme, exfoliative dermatitis, As with all drugs, care should be exercised when treating patients with multiple During my years in the military, I medications. CARDIZEM undergoes biotransformation by cytochrome P-450 mixed extrapyramidal symptoms, gingival hyperplasia, hemolytic anemia. Increased function oxidase. Coadministration of CARDIZEM with other agents which follow bleeding time, leukopenia, purpura, retinopathy, and thrombocytopenia. In addition, learned that large organizations are events such myocardial infarction have readily the same route of biotransformation may result In the competitive inhibition of as been observed which are not distinguishable the natural history of the disease In these patients. often inept, metabolism. Especially in patients with renal and/or hepatic Impairment, dosages from A number but seldom criminal. All of well-documented of generalized rash, characterized leukocytoclastic of similarly metabolized drugs, particularly those of low therapeutic raho, may cases as organizations are made up of human require adjustment when starting or stopping concomitantly administered diltiazem vasculitis, have been reported. However, a definitive cause and effect relationship between these events and CARDIZEM therapy is yet to be established. to maintain optimum therapeutic blood levels. beings, and humans are a collection of Beta-blockers. Controlled and uncontrolled domestic studies suggest that Prescribing Information as of April 1993 concomitant use of CARDIZEM and beta-blockers Is usually well tolerated, but foibles, failings and insecurities. Stu- Marion Merrell Inc. available data are not sufficient to predict the effects of concomitant treatment In Dow City, pid things in military, patients with left ventricular dysfunction or cardiac conduction abnormalities. Kansas MO 64114 happen the gov- Administration of CARDIZEM (diltiazem hydrochloride) concomitantly with propra- ccdb0493p ernment, academia and business nolol in five normal volunteers resulted in increased propranolol levels in all subjects and bioavailability of propranolol was increased approximately 50%. In because people are often stupid, not vitro, propranolol appears to be displaced from its binding sites by diltiazem. If combination therapy is initiated or withdrawn In conjunction with propranolol, an because of nefarious conspiracies. adjustment In the propranolol dose may be warranted. (See WARNINGS.) I will certainly keep an open mind CImelidine. A study In six healthy volunteers has shown a significant increase in peak diltiazem plasma levels (58%) and area-under-the-curve (53%) after a 1-week concerning your magazine in the course of cimetldine at 1200 mg per day and a single dose of diltiazem 60 mg. Ranitidine produced smaller, nonsignificant Increases. The effect may be mediated future. Maybe October was Conspira- by cimetidlne's known inhibition of hepatic cytochrome P-450, the enzyme system responsible for the first-nass metabolism of diltiazem. Patients currently receiving cy Month and I didn't realize it. diltiazem therapy should be carefully monitored for a change In pharmacological Michael Coblenz effect when initialing and discontinuing therapy with cimetldine. An adjustment in tbe diltiazem dose may be warranted. Spokane, Wash. Digitalis Administration of CARDIZEM with digoxin In 24 healthy male subjects increased plasma digoxin concentrations approximately 20%. Another Investigator found no Increase in digoxin levels in 12 patients with coronary artery disease. Grocery Gripes Since there have been conflicting results regarding the effect of digoxin levels, it Is recommended that digoxin levels be monitored when initiating, adjusting, and When I read "Commissaries Under discontinuing CARDIZEM therapy to avoid possible over- or under-oigitalization. [See WARNINGS) Fire" (On Duty, October), I was Anestheticj. The depression of cardiac contractility, conductivity, and automaticlty as v/ell as the vascular dilation associated with anesthetics may be potentiated by reminded of what happened to benefits calcium channel blockers. When used concomitantly, anesthetics and calcium in the 1950s. Then, in a similar fit of blockers should be titrated carefully, Cyclosporlne. A pharmacokinetic interaction between diltiazem and cyclosporine austerity, the military cut flying pay has been observed during studies Involving renal and cardiac transplant patients. In renal and cardiac transplant recipients, a reduction of cyclosporine dose ranging and raised commissary prices. Are all from 15% to 48% v;as necessary to maintain cyclosporine trough concentrations politicians crazy or just similar to those seen prior to the addition of diltiazem. If these agents are to be cheap? administered concurrently, cyclosporine concentrations should be monitored, Harry J. 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Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Connecticut) Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona)

Congress will make Since 1991, America's many critical decisions military forces have affecting America's YES NO been adjusting to new national security objectives for the 21st threats to our security in the post-Cold century. Perhaps the most contentious War world. As the nature of these poten- issue will be whether or not to authorize tial threats has changed radically, so completion of the third Seawolf subma- must the weapons systems we purchase rine. to meet those threats. The fact is, the

The plan to authorize the third Sea- Seawolf submarine has little or no place wolf this year has been endorsed by President Clinton, in the military force of the future. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Senate Majority Funding requested for defense in the fiscal year 1996 Leader Bob Dole, Navy Secretary John Dalton, Secretary of budget will buy 16 combat aircraft, 60 helicopters and only Defense William Perry, CIA Director John Deutch and Gen. three ships—one of which is the Seawolf submarine. There John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. is not enough money in the budget to buy the tanks, The third Seawolf is critical in protecting our maritime advanced munitions, combat systems and other items that trade interests and maintaining our nation's dominance at will make it possible for our troops to fight, win and survive sea. As our intelligence reports confirm, many new post- in the likely conflicts of the future. Cold War threats are confronting our military forces at sea. Those who support the Seawolf program, including the Russia currently has six submarines at sea quieter than administration, present two main arguments for procuring a our most advanced submarines. Even as their economic and third submarine: the Russian submarine threat, and preserv- political struggles persist, they continue to invest in their ing the submarine industrial base. I find neither of these submarine force, sacrificing investments in strategic arguments to be persuasive. bombers, surface ships and land-based forces. Common sense tells me that the Russian military faces All told, more than 40 nations are operating more than much the same Hobson's choice we do. With ships rusting

600 submarines today. Iran soon will be operating five Russ- at piers and abysmally low troop morale, it defies all logic to ian KILO-class submarines. Iranian navy officials have pub- assume that the Russian Defense Ministry would insist on licly stated their desire to dominate the entire Persian Gulf devoting a huge portion of its scarce defense dollars to and the Strait of Hormuz with submarines. With 34 percent building quieter submarines. of our oil imported from the Middle East, these strategic With respect to maintaining the submarine industrial waterways are critical to our nation's trade interests. base, there are currently two nuclear-capable shipyards in Many Seawolf opponents argue there are cheaper alterna- the United States—Electric Boat and Newport News. How tive submarine construction plans. Clearly, the Navy's plan much of our scarce defense dollars are we willing to spend is the most cost effective. First, the Navy has already invest- to maintain two shipyards capable of producing nuclear- ed $920 million in the third Seawolf, and this year requested powered submarines? At $4 billion to $5 billion per copy, $1.5 billion to complete the project. The cost of not building the price of the Seawolf is too steep. the boat will be an additional $1 billion to the government in In my view and in the view of our highest-ranking mili- overhead and liability costs to existing contracts, as well as tary officers, the priorities for U.S. defense spending are program cancellation costs. Further, if we fail to proceed near-term readiness, quality of life for our military personnel with the Navy's plan to build the third Seawolf, our nation and their families and future force modernization. will lose the unique capabilities of the hundreds of subma- The debate over the Seawolf program is not about the rine vendors across the United States who build components. merits of a weapons system. Rather, it is about priorities. We

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The four- that well among women. page paper also avoided the question Clinton enjoys 54-percent approval of whether school children should say from women, fully 10 points higher the Pledge of Allegiance, reporting than GOP front-runner Sen. Bob Dole. merely that "many" still say it. Only at Women say they think President the end did the entry show a drawing Clinton has better ideas than any of the of children taking care of the Ameri- Republican candidates on pocketbook can flag. issues such as improving employment Weekly Reader editor Wanda Haan opportunities and cutting middle-class said that in writing the article, she did "ATCH taxes. not allow her coverage of the issue to However, the poll also found that be influenced by her personal views, By CliffKincaid few voters of either sex have much which she claims favor respecting the confidence in either party on other key flag. issues—such as rooting out the influ- Meanwhile, a subsequent Reader cymakers" should decide the issue, ence of special-interest groups in saw fit to praise the United Nations as while Gramm expects the courts to do Washington, or tackling the nation's a force "for peace" without debating so. abysmal trade deficit, projected by the whether or not the organization is Another Texas congressman, Tom AFL-CIO to be a record $195 billion worthwhile. When queried by THE DeLay, is gathering signatures on a this year. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE about bill to prohibit the President from forc- his publication's endorsement of the ing Americans troops to wear U.N. organization, Forrest Stone, the Read- Inhale This colors. er's executive editor, explained that he Whether or not House Speaker Unfortunately for New, the bill saw "no need" to discuss the more Newt Gingrich throws his hat into the would not be retroactive. Also, it controversial aspects of the United presidential ring, look for him to mount skirts the thomier constitutional issue Nations. a major campaign against President of forcing soldiers to report to a for- Clinton's record on the illegal drug eign commander. Lone Star problem. Gingrich, recently heard advocating the death penalty for drug He may be a hero on the talk-radio Coffee Cops pushers, spends a chapter in his best- circuit, but by refusing to wear a U.N. Are there "grounds" for regulating selling book. To Renew America, urg- uniform. Army Specialist Michael coffee? Does the Food and Drug ing a federal crackdown on users, deal- New has not endeared himself to his Administration need a "wake-up ers and dmg lords. Now his advisers at own senators and congressman. call"? Bad puns aside, at least one the Progress and Freedom Foundation Rep. Jack Fields, who represents group of Washington observers has a are crafting a full-blown strategy to put Conroe, Texas, where New's parents more pointed question: Inasmuch as the Clinton administration on the live, says the 22-year-old medic—fac- the FDA wants to regulate nicotine in defensive. ing a court martial at press time tobacco, shouldn't it also regulate the Meantime, Republican candidate Pat should have "followed orders" and amount of caffeine in that morning Buchanan generated controversy on his reported to a U.N. operation in Mace- cup? own right flank when he told a ques- donia. Both Texas senators, Kay Bailey The Competitive Enterprise Institute tioner he favors "medical marijuana," Hutchison and Phil Gramm, say they (CEI), a Beltway think tank, argues in a the smoking of the drug to alleviate oppose U.S. troops serving under the petition to the FDA that its rules for health problems. Anti-drug activists U.N. banner but draw the line at sup- treating nicotine as a dmg apply equally consider this a coy first step toward porting New. Hutchison says "poli- to caffeine. decriminalization of pot. Buchanan's Both substances, it notes, have staff later backtracked, blaming the Washin}>ton-hased Cliff Kincaid addictive qualities and affect the central incident on an ambush interview, but writes for Human Events and other nervous system. resisted demands for a public correc- publications. CEI, of course, doesn't really want tion.

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for other needs. Travel restrictions may still apply to certain For a Gl's family, money from TFA can make overseas areas. And family members under 18 the difference between meeting a rent payment years old must be accompanied by an eligible par- and homelessness. ent or legal guardian. Contact your local Legion Post or Depart- As you and your family take advantage of this ment for more information on TFA. new benefit, here are a few helpful hints for traveling Space 'A': • Travel off-peak. Peak periods are summer months and winter holidays. Febru- ary, March, October and early Novem- F YOU'RE of- ber are low-travel times. fered an early buy • Be flexible when choosing a out by the mili- destination. Choose a nearby base tary, watch out for some of the if the specific base you want to

financial kickers that haven't arrive at is busy. been widely publicized. • Count on paying a head tax Let's say you were in for of $12.50 on continental United 13 years and Uncle Sam States outbound flights and a sim- offers you $30,000 to sepa- ilar federal inspection fee on rate out. About $6,000 of inbound international commercial that goes right back to Uncle charters. in the form of taxes. • When traveling with young

Later, if you apply for and children, bring plenty of baby sup- are granted VA disability, you plies because of potentially long will pay back your separation delays. bonus with your disability com- • Remember, military aircraft pensation checks—not just the are subject to their missions at all $24,000 you actually got, but the times. entire $30,000.

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Your American Legion VOICE H SUCCESS Each year, high school students learn about the U.S. All totaled, his speech, "Choosing Democracy," Constitution their responsibiiities and as American earned him more than citizens through the Legion's Nationai Oratorical Contest. $24,000 in scholarship money, $18,000 as the national champion and more than $6,000 at the Post and Department levels. For Aron and thousands of other high school student winners of the Legion's oratorical contests, the scholarship money means a chance to attend college. "There's no way I'd have been able to go to Princeton without the oratorical money," says Aron, who plans to study law or politics. "The Oratorical Contest In most communities, taught me how to speak January is the month and present my ideas when students begin pre- under pressure. I learned much about the Constitution, paring their speeches for about myself and the country. Post oratorical competi- Aron Egner, 1995 Oratorical Champion tions. Competition then progresses to district, state, regional and nation- RON EGNER was doubt- about. Peo- al levels. ful. Two years ago, he ple don't have the right to complain if However, beginning in 1997 for a scanned the rules of the they haven't taken part in government. three-year trial, instead of the national, Legion's National Oratori- If you don't vote, don't complain." regional and sectional tournaments, all

cal Contest and thought it After a contest at his high school, Department winners will compete in would be too much work Aron competed at Post 1450 of Clifton Indianapolis. The Legion's National and too much time. The Park, N.Y., and went on to finish sec- Executive Committee (NEC) approved rules described how high ond in the New York American Legion of the test at its 1995 Spring Meeting. school students nationwide Department contest. The restructuring, based on NEC compete each year in the speech con- The following year he fine-tuned his Resolution 38, replaces the existing test, which has been sponsored by the speech, adding more statistics and week-long process of regional, section- Legion since 1938. details, and getting advice from his al and national finals contests with a "It was daunting," confesses Aron, father. In succession, he won the Post weekend-long, three-round competition but his history teacher, Peter Ruscitti of 1450 and New York Department con- in Indianapolis, including the national Shenendehowa High School, Ballston tests, and moved up to the national championship round. Lake, N.Y., urged him on, showing competition. Under the new plan, all 12 first him a video of the competition. The night before the finals, he was round contests will have the same num- "I saw the kids on the video giving sick with a fever and a cough and had ber of contestants, and the total number speeches, and I thought, '1 can do only four hours sleep, he recalls. But he of contests will drop from 17 to 13. this,'" says Aron. Because topics for delivered his speech in winning fash- "We thought the changes would the contest must be related to the U.S. ion, becoming The American Legion's enhance the program," says Joseph E. Constitution, Aron decided to speak on 1995 Oratorical Champion. Caouette Jr., chairman of the National the responsibility of voting. Aron says that during the last part of Americanism Commission. "The way it "I tried to find something that his speech, he had to fight back the is structured now, the contestants in the appealed to many people," he says. urge to cough. And, "As soon as I got national contests have to be out of

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HE VA NEEDS The I American Legion Veter- GET MEMBERS— Nat'l. Cmdr. Ludwigig ans Health Care Security urged a membershiplip Plan to restore vitality to revitalization: "Recruiting 16 out a sinking health-care sys- of every 100 tem, National Comman- eligibles would give der Daniel A. Ludwig us a membership of almost 4 million. We told members of National can do it!" Executive Committee (NEC) at their Fall Meeting. I Ludwig issued a call to action in obtaining congressional sponsors for the Band-Aid approach to reform that providers—federal agencies such as the plan, which was the basis of Ameri- has hampered previous efforts to make Medicare, and private health-care can Legion Resolution 141, adopted by VA accessible to more veterans. Dwin- insurance. delegates at the 77th National Conven- dling appropriations and restrictive eli- Ludwig asked NEC members to tion in Indianapolis. The plan, in part, gibility rules that shut veterans out of promote the Veterans Health Care calls for expanding VA medical care to the system will be replaced, under the Security Plan at the Department, Dis- all veterans and their eligible depen- American Legion proposal, by a strong, trict and Post level with the same ener- dents based on principles of managed self-reliant VA capable of providing gy and enthusiasm they displayed dur- care—a system of pre-paid, fixed-pre- cost-effective, high quality care to all ing the Citizens Flag Alliance (CFA) mium coverage that emphasizes pre- veterans, their dependents and to bene- campaign to protect the flag from phys- ventive medicine and centralized guid- ficiaries in the Department of Defense's ical desecration. ance concerning health choices. health-care system. As he spoke, a key senate vote was "If the current system continues to Ludwig said The American Legion expected in December on the flag-pro- operate in the same old way, being wants to have legislation based on the tection amendment, which has already underfunded year after year, it will plan introduced in Congress this year. passed the House. During the meeting. inevitably fail in this era of decreasing If Congress approves it in full, the Legionnaires in the Department of New federal appropriations," Ludwig said legislation would restore the promise of York demonstrated their firm support during the Legion's October meeting in medical care access for all veterans as for a flag amendment by donating Indianapolis. "The American Legion an earned benefit, not the discretionary $50,000 to the CFA. Not to be outdone. has always believed that the VA health- spending item that some congressional National Commander John Dietz of the care system is a national asset. To do opponents claim VA medical care to be. Sons of The American Legion present- nothing to improve it is not an option." Provisions in the Legion plan elimi- ed the CFA with a check for $20,000. The American Legion Veterans nate congressional micro-management Ludwig also expressed his concerns Health Care Security Plan repudiates by creating a system of managed-care for making 1996 a comeback year for

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Fall Meeting '95 under way will reverse the trend. He during natural disasters. The Depart- Res. 8 establishes a program with the Drug Education For Youth program said that the Legion will redouble its ment of New York gave the NEF and encourages Departments and Posts to par- efforts to reach out to younger veterans. $15,000, and the Sons of The American ticipate when possible. Ludwig pointed out that Legion Legion, $5,000. Res. 9 establishes a program with the membership stands at a little over 12 Ludwig reminded the gathering that National Crime Prevention Council through percent of the nation's eligible wartime The American Legion's future depends promotion/sponsorship of the McGruff Safe veterans. Imagine, he said, what Legion- on its continued service to veterans. He Kids program. naires could accomplish for veterans if urged NEC members to exhibit the Res. 21 authorizes The American Legion the organization were to increase its leadership needed to make younger to enter into an agreement with the Foun- membership by just 4 percent. men and women who wore the uniform dation Fighting Blindness to adopt 1996 Seeds for Sight campaign. "Recruiting 16 of 100 eligibles feel welcome in the nation's largest would give us a membership of almost veterans' organization. Convention 4 million. We can do it!" said Ludwig. "If we can demonstrate to these Res. 22 authorizes participation of junior He cited recent efforts to recruit newest veterans that we really believe uniformed musical groups at American more, younger military men and in what we say in our Preamble about Legion national conventions. women and welcome them into The 'Devotion to Mutual Helpfulness,' and Economic American Legion Family. Among them that we are here to help them 'veteran Res. 26 calls on the Secretary of Labor to to veteran,' I to was THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- think they will want be do a study of all professions for which the ZINE'S new On Duty column for active part of our American Legion," he con- military provides training but are not recog- duty personnel and Reservists, and The cluded. nized by certification and licensing authori- American Legion Persian Gulf War Era Resolutions ties. Veterans Task Force launched in Octo- The National Executive Committee Foreign Relations ber to champion the needs and con- approved 36 resolutions at its Fall Res. 7 opposes the forceful and unwarrant- cerns of Gulf veterans and their fami- Meeting, Oct. 18-19. Among the poli- ed repatriation of Vietnamese and Lao lies. cy and program resolutions adopted: Hmong refugees who were U.S. allies; The task force will depend on the opposes the proposed second interview of the refugees in Vietnam rather than in expertise of Department and Post ser- Americanism refugee camps. vice officers to assist Persian Gulf vet- Res. 34 changes The American Legion erans in obtaining health care and other Baseball Region IV tournament site to Internal Affairs Woodward, Okla. benefits they earned by serving their Res. 29 urges the Navy to turn the USS Res. 35 changes The American Legion country. Missouri into a memorial and museum, and National High School Oratorical Contest permanently locate it near the USS Arizona "Still Serving America" has become Region 6 site to the Department of Texas. Memorial at Pearl Harbor. The American Legion's call to action, Res. 36 authorizes a negotiation of agree- Res. 30 opposes efforts to eliminate the said, as he accepted dona- Ludwig two with National College Services Ltd. for ment U.S. dollar bill. tions to the Legion's National Emer- American Legion Education Assistance Res. 31 supports the Richard I. Bong Her- gency Fund (NEF), which provides Program. itage Center at Bong-Hofstedt-Douglas Children and Youth assistance to veterans and their families County Post 409. Res. 32 supports construction of a WWII veterans memorial located in the nation's capital.

National Security Res. 10 supports a VA/DoD joint health- services venture for Fitzsimons Army Med- ical Center in Colorado. Res. 24 establishes annual presentation of a National Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award to be given at national conventions or other appropriate Legion settings.

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Res. 1 discharges The American Legion WWII Commemoration Committee and thanks committee members for their work.

Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Res. 6 authorizes The American Legion to sponsor legislation to allow dependent children of veterans eligible for pension benefits to keep up to $81 of pension benefits when in a nursing home and covered by Medicaid.

For a full text of any or all resolutions adopted by the NEC, write: FINANCIAL PLANNING Sons of The American Legion National Commander John Office of the Archives, The American T. Dietz presents a $5,000 check for the National Emergency Fund to National Com- Legion, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, mander Daniel A. Ludwig and Internal Affairs Chairman Herman G. Harrington. IN 46206.

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No hostile power of comparable after the USSR acknowledged it size or strength to the United States had done very substantial work on exists today or is on the horizon, but missile defense. Instead, they have several dictatorships of violent ten- preferred to reinforce the balance dency and hostile intent—Iraq, Iran, of terror with arms-control agree- North Korea, Syria and Libya—are ments to limit offensive weapons known to be working to acquire bal- and prohibitions of nuclear tests listic missiles and weapons of mass and ballistic missile defenses. The destruction. North Korea and Iraq problem is that the same govern- are believed to be near completion in ments against whom we most need their efforts. protection are those most likely to In this strategic context, enough violate treaties—as the Soviet House Republicans (24) joined the Union violated the ABM Treaty, as majority of Democrats in the House Iraq and North Korea have violated to defeat the provision of "The Con- the Non-Proliferation Treaty, etc. tract" that calls for prompt develop- Last February, as Republicans ment and deployment of an effective pushed legislation supporting national ballistic missile defense to deployment of national and theater protect the United States against defenses. National Security Advis- future attack (we are now defense- er Anthony Lake delivered a major less) and to approve a theater missile address on arms control and non- defense to protect U.S. forces sta- proliferation. Lake's enthusiasm tioned overseas as well as U.S. allies for the arms-control approach was threatened by missiles. barely affected by the dramatic In the Gulf War, Israeli and Saudi usual. The dramatic changes in the changes of recent years, or by confir- civilians and some American soldiers world have not been matched by mation of Soviet cheating on the ABM were targeted with Iraq's Scud mis- changes in the dominant Democratic Treaty, or by spreading missile technol- siles. American Patriot missiles, despite view on this basic issue of national ogy and the growing number of "out- their imperfections, demonstrated the strategy. law" nations nearing a nuclear capaci- importance of a theater missile defense. The Democrats' opposition to a bal- ty- Ohio Republican [Rep.] John listic missile defense was a basic com- Three aspects of Lake's speech are Kasich would later explain his "no" ponent of their approach to "managing" disturbing.

vote on a national missile defense as strategic relations with the Soviet First, he implies that it is arms con- due to a misunderstanding of the Union. From the time the Soviet Union trol that has reduced the danger of amendment. It may be that other developed the capacity to reach the nuclear war—when, manifestly, it is Republicans were also confused. But United States with its nuclear weapons, the elimination of the Soviet regime the Democrats were simply voting as leading Democrats have taken the view that accomplished this. that there should be no defense against Second, he speaks as if the nonpro-

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abduct a some cases, the kids are held for By B. Gordon Wheeler ransom. In others, they are sexual- child. Here's ly assaulted or forced into child what parents INE-YEAR-OLD Angie pornography or prostitution, sold Housman is kidnapped as into white slavery—or even sacri- and kids she gets off her school bus ficed in Satanic rituals. Infants are in suburban St. Louis. In abducted from hospital nurseries must know Gainesville, Fla., 11 -year- by women who want to raise them to prevent it old Danny Jackson is as their own, and by others who abducted from a park. The have made an abominable busi- from lovely young face of Polly ness out of selling other people's Klaas becomes a nation- children to couples interested in wide fixture when the 12-year-old is black market adoptions. plucked from her bed- Whatever the kid- room in Petaluma, Calif., napper' s purpose, the during a slumber party. growing awareness and The doleful litany goes constant threat of child on. The National Inci- abduction has instilled in dence Studies of Missing, many families a certain Abducted, Runaway, and level of permanent anxi- Thrownaway Children ety. released by the U.S. "My son realized at Department of Justice the age of four that chil- reports that 114,600 non- dren got kidnapped," says family abductions are one despairing mother in

attempted each year, MIRANDA A. ADKINS San Francisco. "He and I Endangered Missing resulting in as many as both have a lot of fear." Last seen 8/7/95 walldng 4,600 missing children. In Although it is abso- around her trailer park and tallcing witli a man worldng lutely essential that fami- on an empty trailer. California freelancer lies be alert and cautious, B. Gordon Wheeler's arti- "there is no need to be cles have appeared in several national afraid," says Julia Cartwright, director magazines. He is author of Black Cal- of media relations for the National ifornia: the Hi.story of African-Ameri- Center for Missing and Exploited Chil-

cans in the Golden State. dren (NCMEC). "There is, however, a

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION very real need for parents and concerned adults to know how to protect children."

Nor is it just a simple matter of heeding the old admonition about not "taking candy from strangers." The NCMEC staff, other professionals and several incarcerated kidnappers offer the following advice on how to develop the skills, knowledge and abilities needed to safeguard children from abduction.

The Key Ingredient According to Dr. Daniel D. Broughton, the NCMEC chairman, the essential element is effective communi- cation with the children. "The child

who is not listened to or who does not have his or her needs met in the home

is more vulnerable to abduction," says Broughton. Thus, adults must establish an atmosphere wherein children feel comfortable about discussing sensitive matters and relating experiences in which someone may have approached them in an inappropriate manner.

"The simple truth is that children are often too afraid or too confused to share their experiences and their fears," says Broughton. "They need to be trust- ing enough to speak honestly." One problem is the wall that often develops in a parent-child relationship when parents treat kids too much like kids, and not enough like friends. In some ways, grownups should treat children as they would their closest adult confidants: Encourage them to talk frankly about their likes and dislikes, their friends, their true feelings. "Listen intently," says NCMEC's Cartwright, "and talk to them in a calm, caring and reasonable manner—especially when discussing their safety." This, of course, presupposes that adults know what to say. That is too seldom the case. "Stay away from strangers" is a time-honored warning to

children to prevent abduction, "but it's 4W -J outdated and misleading," says Santa Rosa, Calif., criminologist Hayley McDermott. "Many children are abducted by people who have some type of familiar- CHILD LURES— ity with them—but who may or may According to experts, not be known to the family," she says. lures range from candy, money and "The term 'stranger' is a concept games to requesting that most kids do not understand," assistance or agrees mental-health therapist Marilu offering help in an Curtis of Vacaville, Calif., "and one emergency. that ignores what we do know about the people who commit crimes against

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m mmu mates. "Know who your children are playing with, and what they're doing every day," says mental-health BUDDY SYSTEM— therapist Curtis. NCMEC urges Be suspicious of any teenager parents to teach or their children to use adult who devotes an unusual a "buddy system," amount of time or attention to and not to allow your children, "and be especially them to go anywhere alone. wary of any teenager or adult who gives them inappropriate or expensive gifts," criminologist McDermott wams. Child abductor Phillip Wilson paid teenagers $25 to $50 to lure adolescent boys and girls into public parks, "from where I would abduct them for sexual purposes," he says. Wilson hired teenagers because "Kids trust kids," he says. Look for changes in the children's behavior. "Behavioral changes are a definite signal that you must sit down and talk to your children," says Curtis. "You need to know what caused the children." to Butler. Instead, parents should lead changes." It may be something as com- In fact, the warning actually mis- kids through clear discussions about mon as anxiety over school work—"or leads children into believing they situations and actions children need to it may be that the child was approached should be wary only of people who be aware of, and report. by a stranger, or may have noticed that have an unusual or slovenly appear- Above all, says Cartwright, "Chil- he or she is being followed or stalked ance. Says Curtis, "The typical kidnap- dren should know and understand that by someone," according to McDermott. per is not some drooling slob in a dark it is okay for them to say no—even to "Kids are not stupid," kidnapper alley." an adult." Butler says. "If your kid tells you he Most experts believe it's more For example, convicted child abduc- thinks he's being followed, take the appropriate to teach children to be on tor Charles Arthur recalls the time his time to check it out. Walk him to and guard against certain kinds of actions or attempt was thwarted by his 9-year-old from school for a couple of days." Fail- situations rather than certain kinds of victim. Arthur had taken the girl by the ure to believe a child is not just insensi- individuals. "A calm, reasonable and hand in a mall and was leading her to tive; it's dangerous. "If you simply pre- clear message about the need to avoid the exit. But as he pushed open the sume your child is crying wolf," wams individuals in vehicles, for instance, is door, "she snatched her hand free and Wooden, "there may be a day when he much easier for a child to comprehend ran shouting 'Rape! Rape!' back into or she never comes home again." than a vague profile or image of a the mall." Arthur fled. It's also a good idea to teach chil- 'stranger,' " explains McDermott. dren what to do if they're lost. If you're Similarly, although children can be Basic Rules of Safety in a public place, and your kids get sep- raised to be polite and friendly, "they People don't want to spend their arated from you, they should know should be taught to be suspicious of lives worrying constantly about the they're not to wander around looking adults asking for their assistance," cau- horror of child abduction. Taking these for you. tions Steven Butler, a convicted child basic precautions will help parents Says Sgt. Jim Durbin of the Yuba abductor. and kids—avoid such anxieties: County, Calif., Police Department, Butler is serving a 115-year prison Know where the children are at all "Kids should know enough to go to a sentence for the kidnap of an 8-year- times. "Don't presume [that you] know checkout counter, the security office, or old girl he says he lured into his van their whereabouts," warns convicted the lost and found and tell the person in "by offering her five dollars to help me kidnapper Daryl Stacey, who says the charge that they're lost and need help find a lost puppy." The lesson here? parents of the 10-year-old boy Stacey in finding their parents." Children should be raised to understand lured from his front yard didn't realize Charles Arthur stalked shopping that it's okay for them to help other the child was gone for hours. "Make malls looking specifically for wander- children, "but there's no need for them periodic checks on them." ing children. "They're easy prey," he to be assisting adults," says Broughton. Kids must be taught not to go any- notes, "because they're in need of help Other traditional messages are where without first informing their par- and easily befriended." Arthur would equally ill-advised, say experts. "Don't ents or guardians. "Distance is not as follow a lost child and eventually walk be a tattletale" is dangerous because it important as location," says TV child- up and ask if he or she needed assis- "encourages kids to keep secrets," safety adviser Ken Wooden. "If your tance. "If they said no, I left," he explains Curtis. "Respect your elders," child moves from the back yard to the recalls. "If they said yes, I took them by meanwhile, "gives kidnappers a dan- front yard, you need to know about it." the hand and promised to lead them to gerous leverage over kids," according Know the kids' friends and play- Please turn to page 70

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Is The (tpocalpse Coming? NOT YET-

When the doomsayers and optimists debate the future, guess whose side

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NOT TRUE— While some environmental perils have affected local regions, none have become HE PROPHETS are vocal promismg certam mass starva- worldwide nomic muscle eclipsed by and insistent, and make a compelling tion. The Natural Resources disasters. Japan and Western Europe. The prophets case for all manner of doom. According Defense Council—a major Global warming. Denuded of doom to experts as demographer Paul player environmental rain forests. such among are wrong AIDS. Ozone Ehrlich, author of The Population activist groups, with roughly a on other depletion. We are led to Bomb, our overcrowded planet is rapid- $12 million annual budget issues, too. believe that few life forms ly running out of natural resources and contends that we're also bathed save for the sturdy cockroach food-growing capacity, the latter by cancer-causing chemicals. Mean- will survive the coming cataclysm while, we're being "Buried Alive" brought about by human beings, the San Francisco-based freelancer under garbage, according to one scourge of the natural order. Jay Stuller wrote "911—A System Newsweek cover. As if that's not Or maybe not. Calling for Help" in the October 1995 enough, America is on the verge of col- "America has some severe prob- issue of this magazine. lapse, its educational system and eco- lems," writes syndicated columnist Ben

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Wattenberg in his uplifting and forth- right book. The First Universal Nation. "What we also have is a remarkable record of dealing with our problems, sometimes even through the zany crisis-mongering we inflict upon our-

selves. I don't see serious evidence that we've lost the ability to self-correct."

Wattenberg is among an elite cadre of critical thinkers willing to challenge the conventional gloom-and-doom wis- dom. Their views—rational, low-key and unsensational—seldom receive play in popular media (no doubt precisely because they're rational, low-key and unsensational). Wattenberg and like-minded observers don't buy the fatalistic contention that the world is going to hell in a hand basket—and we humans are carrying the basket. One Wattenberg ally is University THE END IS NEAR— of Maryland economist Julian Simon, who for decades has tangled with IN THE POLITICALLY Ehrlich over population and natural CORRECT REALM OF resources. The prologue to Ehrlich's 1968 best-selling book declared that POPULATION AND "the battle to feed all of humanity is ENVIRONMENT, over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines—hundreds of mil- ANYONE WHO TAKES lions of people are going to starve to A LESS-THAN-GLOOMY death." As Simon drolly observes, "Every prediction that Ehrlich made VIEW IS A HERETIC. has proved wrong. All the trends relevant to human population are moving in a positive direction."

llTH regard to global warming They believe humans have the intellect [the so-called greenhouse effect in to recognize destructive behaviors and which climatic temperatures are make changes. increased by trapped emissions of car- But in the politically correct realm bon dioxide and other auto and indus- of population and environment, anyone trial gasses—Simon firmly believes who takes a less-than-gloomy view is a that, even if the doomsayers are right, heretic. More than that, the system humanity will find ways to either avert actually rewards the fear-mongers. In

the climate change or adapt to it. And fact, scientists who are skeptical of the therein lies the major difference evidence on global warming say between doomsayers and the optimists. they're having difficulty getting funds Doomsayers base their beliefs on the to conduct research. notion that humans and their technolo- "How do you get [federal research] gies are a perversion—a blight on the money to research a problem if you tell balance of "pure" nature. This guilt-rid- them there's not a problem?" laments fine. In fact, says environmental writer den view is summed up by David Fore- meteorologist Hugh Ellsaesser of the Gregg Easterbrook, "Some environ- man, cofounder of the environmental Lawrence Livermore National Labora- mentalists actually long for the envi- group. Earth First! "I see no solution to tory. Merely doubting brings criticism ronment to get worse!" our ruination of Earth except for a dras- in a climate that MIT meteorologist Direct-mail fund-raisers know that tic reduction of the human population," Richard Lindzen calls "the McCarthy- scare tactics bring in the big bucks. says Foreman. ism of the '90s." Environmental groups such as the Nat-

The Wattenberg-Simon camp sees It also puts money in some pockets, ural Resources Defense Council, the humans not only as part of the natural because stories of apocalypse outsell Environmental Defense Fund and the

order, but also as a positive force in it. those that claim everything will be just Sierra Club have staffs and projects to

32 .. THE AMERICAN LEGION some 10,000 species will disappear this year. Still, whatever killed off the dinosaurs and most life forms on Earth 65 million years ago—be it a collision with a comet or asteroid, or a series of massive volcanic eruptions—was far worse than the environmental problems that now devastate rain forests and the creatures living there. That we have - V:'- • between 10 million and 30 million species of animals and plants in the world today says much for nature's recuperative powers. It's true that mankind has a tendency to accelerate ecological changes that might otherwise take millennia. But Wattenberg calls the environmental crisis a "nice crisis" caused "by people living better." Plus, he adds, over the past few decades, "Pollution has dimin- ished in fairly direct proportion to the

amount of money spent to diminish it. That's not something that can be said for every crisis." The Environmental Protection Agency says the United States devotes 2 percent (projected to become 3 percent) of its gross domestic product to controlling pollution and cleaning up the environment. That's more than any other nation except the Netherlands. Results since Earth Day in 1970 have been dramatic. Direct industrial water pollution is down. The Great Lakes, once thought near dead, are recovering. support. Lindzen says that "paid PR environmental zealots act from feelings Atmospheric sulfur, particulates and people" are therefore "arrayed to pro- that are genuine and important for soci- airborne lead are no longer major caus- mote the idea we're headed to an eco- ety to hear," writes Easterbrook. es of air pollution. disaster. There are literally thousands Some species considered doomed a of people working full time to promote WHAT'S the batting average of decade ago might well come off the this particular view." SOthe doomsayers? Consider with a endangered species list, as the bald In fairness to these eco-crusaders, it balanced perspective some of the eagle recently did. There are still prob- would be cynical to suggest that money more high-profile issues: lems, but we've shown a capacity to is their primary motivation. "Silly solve them. though they sometimes appear, most The ecosystem. Scientists say that Please turn to page 74

JANUARY 1996 ' ' 33 FROM POTTER'S FIELD TO A PLACE OF HONOR He lived alone and died alone. And when Legionnaires learned he was burled In a nnass grave, they paid tribute to this forgotten veteran.

Memorial Gardens three months after By Joe Stuteville he died alone in his home. A Navy veteran of World War II and the Air Force N LIFE, he was just anoth- during the Korean War, Oziemkiewicz er face in the crowd on was one of the 733 victims of the killer Chicago's south side. In heat wave that slumped over the Chica- death, he was laid to rest in go area last summer. an unmarked grave next to When no one claimed Oziem- 67 other people. But in his kiewicz's remains, officials with the youth, he wore the uniform Cook County Public Administrator's of his country during two Office were forced lay him to rest in a wars—and that's why local cheap, wooden box last August. News Legionnaires here vowed to give him a reports surfaced about Oziemkiewicz 's honorable burial. military service, and there was a public Paul Oziemkiewicz, a lifelong bach- outcry, particularly among Legion- FAREWELL—S/dney Bick, a Jewish War Veterans service officer and elor, was given a burial fit for a hero in naires, who were leading the national Legionnaire of Post 38, sounds taps. the veterans' section of Homewood celebration of the 50th anniversary of

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION O FIRING LINE—A firing squad from Illinois' Lansing Post 697 lets loose with a volley in a 21 -gun salute In lionor of Oziemkiewicz.

O HONORED GLORY—Flag bearing Legionnaires from several Posts form the nucleus of an honor guard during burial services.

the end of World War II. relations executive, worked with Illinois Legionnaires mobilized to local authorities to conduct a mili- ensure Oziemkiewicz would receive an tary service. Illinois Division I honorable send-off. "Any veteran who Legionnaires paid for the reburial. But but we felt a need to be a friend to him dies deserves a military funeral with other offers of assistance were made. in death." honors, not a potter's f^eld, not this," And honor Paul Oziemkiewicz they said Legionnaire Thomas Vazquez, HOMEWOOD Cemetery superinten- did on Oct. 12. Beneath warm, autumn pointing to a dirt mound covering the dent Kevin Vaughan immediately sunshine, this forgotten veteran was mass grave where Oziemkiewicz was set aside a special place for the remembered at a special service attend- once buried. Vazquez said that as many reinterment—next to a towering flag ed by more than 200 Legionnaires, rep- as seven others in the mass grave were pole. The cemetery offers free burial resentatives of other veterans' groups, a veterans, but their identities were not plots to any honorably discharged vet- Navy chaplain, Illinois U.S. Rep. Jerry available. eran. The Wilbert Vaults company Weller and a battery of media. Vazquez, director of veterans' donated a vault, and two of its workers, A Legion-led honor guard stood at affairs and rehabilitation with the both veterans, volunteered their free parade rest in the distance, their flags Department of Illinois, along with time to help with the reburial. and Post colors fluttering the mid- Legionnaires George Sadowski and Sadowski, a former paratrooper with morning breeze. Bill Rudin, members of South Shore the 82nd Airborne Div., said the "We are here today to give Paul Post 388, helped bring about Oziemkiewicz case points to the seri- Oziemkiewicz back his identity," Oziemkiewicz's reinterment in the ous need for a new veterans' cemetery. Vazquez told onlookers who formed a cemetery's Garden of Valor for veter- "If one had been available, maybe this semicircle around the flag-draped vault. ans. situation would not have occurred," he "Veterans always look out for their fel- After confirming the man's veteran said. "The proposal for a new national low veterans, no matter which branch status, Vazquez and Sadowski worked cemetery at Joliet Arsenal should be they served in or what war era." with the VA to obtain a headstone for expedited." The elderly Legionnaires stood for- Oziemkiewicz in time for the October But Sadowski and his fellow ward to sing, a cappella. My Buddy, a memorial service. It normally takes up Legionnaires were more interested in WWI-era tune many veterans recognize to eight weeks to obtain a headstone resolving the issue at hand. "Paul was a Please turn to page 72 after a veteran is buried. domestic MIA. He was man who had a Sadowski, a Chicago funeral home name and a purpose in life," said Joe Stuteville is executive editor of director, and Rudin, a retired public Rudin. "None of us knew him in life, THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE.

JANUARY 1996 35 1 N T E R V 1 E W WILLIAM BENNETT

HEN Bill Bennett talks, political leaders listen. Author of the best-selling The Book of Virtues and a self- described "philoso- pher provocateur" (with a Ph. D. in phi- losophy to back up the title), Bennett has been sought out for advice by virtually all the major challengers for the U.S. presidency. What they hear from him is not cheering: America is a society in decay, says the onetime U.S. secretary of Education and later the "drug czar" in charge of coordinating federal anti- drug efforts. The signs are stark—soaring rates of illegitimate births, epidem- ic divorce, rampant violent crime. "We are in grave trouble," warns Bennett. His prescription for this malady is simple and straightforward: "We need less government and we need to give more of ourselves." Long-time Bennett-watchers con- tend that he can be blunt, politically incorrect, sarcastic to the point of abrasiveness. But as this interview demonstrates, he is always thought- provoking. years, there are ominous trends. The Aptitude Test scores are down, teenage most important are the increase in ille- suicide and delinquency are up. These AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE: gitimacy, where births out of wedlock are all signs of a society in decay, and Is America collapsing culturally and have gone from 5 percent of all births if these trends continue we will be in morally? in 1960 to 31 percent in 1992; the dis- very, very serious trouble. integration of family as illustrated by William J. Bennett: The indi- the dramatic increase in divorce, which Q. Where do you lay the blame for cators are not good. When we look at quadrupled from 1960 to 1990; and the all this? institutional and behavioral changes substantial jump in violent crime—it's A The main place to look is in peo- that have occurred over the last 30 up 560 percent. Meantime, Scholastic pie's shifting values. As a nation

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on. That's what we believed. Today, too many government programs have it's not clear to many Americans that been doing. those things should have the highest priorities. "Getting yours" has a large Q. Does that mean you want to A long-time place in people's minds today. What eliminate AFDC? we have lost is the moral base the I think we have to draw a line and political — A anchor—and we are adrift. Many say, from this point forward, no savant and Americans no longer know what to more federal funds for new children. best-selling believe. They don't know what's right I'm not saying we should stop pay- author any more. We're morally ambivalent ments to those now receiving them. I explains about many things that don't warrant But no new money for new children. indecisiveness. liow skewed Q. What happens to the poor chil- government Q. For instance? dren born after that date? priorities, A I just saw a poll where 70 percent A States and local governments 'the whining of Americans between ages 18 could decide they want to provide and 35 do not think there is anything assistance. Better though, is that of America' wrong with having a baby out of wed- churches and individuals could decide

and other lock. That's crazy! We have to change to help. Best of all, I believe we would factors have people's minds about this by showing see a decrease in the number of babies thrown us them the evidence of what happens to born out of wedlock. Would there be the kids and what is happening to our dislocations felt by some families after off our society as a result of illegitimate births. enactment of this law? Yes, but within moral Please turn to page 76 course. Q. I take it one of the key problems with illegitimacy is its link to poverty. HIGHLIGHTS A That's correct. One recent study compared two groups of Ameri- 1 cans: those who finished high school, got married, and waited until age 20 before having their first child, and America's moral base: those who didn't. In the first group, 8 "l/VeVe /osf our anchor and percent lived in poverty. In the second are adrift. Do your job, do group, the poverty rate was 79 percent. your duty—ttiat's wliat we Worse is that some people—notably used to believe. Now [New York] Sen. Daniel Moynihan 'getting yours' lias a large predict that illegitimate births will con- place in people's nninds. stitute half of all births by the early

part of the 21st century. That is seri- Divorce: "It's what's really ous business. Our society would be very different from what we have kicking the hell out of known. America. No society survives when it loses its families. Q. You've claimed that government subsidizes illegitimacy. How Illegitimate births: "Govern- so? ment policies encourage Alt's as though the federal govem- illegitimacy. That's what ment took out ads that said: welfare does. We have "Wanted: Women, must be single, to stop rewarding bad must be willing to have a baby and not get married, and must not work." At behavior we have experienced tougher times least that has been the effect of the economically than we face today. But welfare policies we've put into place The whining of America: we didn't have this type of social disin- specifically, AFDC [Aid to Families "We all seem to want tegration, not even in the Great with Dependent Children]. The irony is somebody to take care of

Depression. Why now? Because our that it was said we were creating us. But it is now as it was at values have shifted. In the past, to obliga- AFDC discourage out-of-wedlock the tDeginnings of this nation: tion and responsibility were accepted births, but we now have three times we will save ourselves if we by most Americans as the things that more than we had when the program are to be saved." were most important. Do your job, do was started. We have to stop rewarding your duty, raise your children and so bad behavior, but that's exactly what

JANUARY 1996 37 FUNNY thing happened one day in 1957 as Balti- more electrical engineer G. Guy Knickerbocker was testing the prototype of a high-technology device designed by doctors at Johns Hopkins University LOW-TECH School of Medicine. Pressing the electric paddles of this new device, the defibrillator, against the chest of a laboratory dog in cardiac Despite all arrest, Knickerbocker discovered that the weight of the contact alone measur- the high-tech ably raised the animal's blood pressure, even before the electrical shock itself hoopla, the was delivered. Experimenting further, he and three other researchers deter- medical mined that they could keep a stricken dog alive simply by using their hands, establishment rhythmically pressing on its sternum with 80 pounds of force, once a second is learning for 10 minutes. Today, the defibrillator has become that grandma a routine part of emergency-care equipment in ambulances, hospitals and TV was right: medical dramas. Ironically, though, Knickerbocker's accidental discov- Sometimes a ery—^manual cardiopulmonary resusci- tation, better known as CPR—may be good bowl of an even more valuable tool for dealing

with stopped hearts because it can be chiclcen soup used by virtually anyone, at any time. The footnote to this story? Of the does the billions of dollars that have gone to funding medical research since the end triclc. of World War II, only a drop in the bucket has bcinkrolled the sort of low- tech innovation represented by CPR. B)D0ll Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, selling for $700,000 to $2 million apiece, are high-priced advertisements for America's addiction to technological glitz. Meanwhile, medical schools churn out doctors who on that day in 1957. Slowly practice all sorts of exotic specialties, but surely, Americans are with coronary bypass surgeries (at coming to recognize the lim- $30,000 per patient, according to the itations of high-tech surgical Department of Health and Human Ser- and pharmaceutical treat- vices) symbolizing the nation's pen- ment—and are showing new chant for the best medicine money can respect for simpler, com- buy. mon-sense remedies of the And yet there is ample evidence that sort that 122 years ago both money and lives could be saved if inspired a child to invent we resorted to less "special-effects earmuffs after a cold day of medicine" and devoted more energy to ice skating. finding common-sense procedures like "There is nothing wrong the one Guy Knickerbocker stumbled with high-tech medicine, but the real glamour is in low- Based in Washington, D.C., Don tech," says Dr. Henry Heim- Oldenburg wrote "Magic Fingers: lich, whose Heimlich Maneu- Easing The Pain of PTSD" in the July ver costs nothing to learn, 1995 issue of this magazine. requires only nature's equip-

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ozzi particularly points to research which shows generally that about half of all health-care money spent in a person's lifetime "is spent in the last six months of life for procedures that make absolutely no difference." He believes an A^merican consumer movement will ultimately rebalance the nation's medical system to include more alternative and low-tech medical practices. Micozzi's prediction already appears to be coming to pass. A survey published in the New England Journal of Medi- cine indicates that a third of all Americans now go outside mainstream medicine for relief from illnesses, aches and pains. Many of these alternative treatments, like chiroprac- tic manipulation, are solidly in the realm of low-tech. And some, like herbal therapy, could even be called pre-tech. Reflecting this shift in public interest, the print media have moved low-tech innovation to the front page. News of Dupont Merck Pharmaceuti- cal's new drug for treating alcoholism was shoved to the ©COLD HAT—C/ier/ Mason models inside pages of The Wall Street her father's invention, a cold-pack Journal by an article about a designed to fit the of the head top California physician's remark- and bring relief for migraine suffer- able success treating gangrene ers. and flesh wounds with maggot O CHOKE HOLD—Dr. Henry Heim- therapy. lich demonstrates the maneuver that Despite their disgust, a has saved more than 100,000 lives from accidental choking since he "small but growing number of

developed it in 1974. doctors have begun to embrace maggots anew," the Journal wrote of the use of tiny steril- ment and has saved more ized blowfly grubs to devour infected than 100,000 lives from flesh. The reason? "It is low-cost and accidental choking since he requires no anesthesia; wounds heal developed it in 1974. with minimal scarring; and there are no The Department of side effects." Therein, almost a text- Health and Humjin Services book definition of low-tech medicine in November 1994 estimated cost-effective, hands-on, rational and annual national health-care practical. costs at $884 billion. "I think "The real genius," says Heimlich, probably 80 to 90 percent of "is the one who sees something wrong, [those] costs could be and says, 'doing this simple thing can saved," asserts Dr. Marc undo all of the previous errors and save Micozzi, director of the thousands of lives.'" For example, he National Museum of Health reviewed 135 years of medical research and Medicine in Washing- on choking incidents to attack the prob- ton, D.C., and editor of the lem that had befuddled medical science Journal of Alternative and into thinking that the often-deadly Complementary Medicine: backslap was the answer. Perhaps the Research on Paradigm, most prolific medical inventor of our Practice and Policy. Mic- Please turn to page 78

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SLIGHTED—The government employs the largest number of disabled For /oli-seelrers, nick—a disabled veteran veterans, but the will go so far as to reject thought that veterans pref- number is steadily entire lists of candidates dropping because being a veteran erence statutes would give simply because a veteran's non-veterans him just the edge he need- name appears on that list). used to mean are being hired ed. instead. Worse, there is little a vet- "My application was one eran can do to redress the you got a leg of four selected by the Office of Per- wrong. For example, when Minnick up. Now it often sonnel Management (OPM) and for- complained about the incident, he was warded to the Holocaust Museum per- told that the personnel manager at the means you get sonnel director," says Minnick, who museum was new, and that an inexpe- learned through a friend at OPM that rienced OPM staff member had erred. a titumbs down. he had scored the most points under And that was that. Excuses, but no the federal application-rating system. job. Then things took a strange turn. Years ago, John Minnick's story The museum personnel manager might have had a different ending. By Ken Scharnberg called OPM and said the establishment That's because years ago, veterans preferred somebody else—a non-vet- preference in federal employment was HEN John Minnick eran. It wasn't that Minnick was taken far more seriously. The laws applied for a public- unqualified. The personnel manager first took life as part of the GI Bill and relations position at simply wanted the other applicant. were based on a solid rationale: Mili- the federally spon- Just like that, Minnick was out, and tary service interrupts an individual's

„ sored Holocaust Mu- another candidate was in. normal career progress. To level the seum in Washington, What John Minnick experienced is playing field, the government devel- ! K H D.C., he felt opti- a direct violation of veterans prefer- oped a point system for federal job t P mistic. After all, he ence statutes that affect thousands of testing. To give veterans an edge, five I had a solid track veterans each year. The blunt truth is record of related experience, coupled that veterans preference laws are regu Ken Scharnberg is veterans affairs with managerial expertise. And larly ignored or circumvented by fed editor of THE AMERICAN LEGION because it was a federal job, Min- eral hiring managers (some of whom MAGAZINE.

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points were awarded for wartime ser- deny that much is amiss. During a The blunt truth is vice (or more recently, for having recent meeting on the issue, 0PM served in a war zone), 10 points if the director James King said his depart- that veterans veteran had a service-connected dis- ment fully supported veterans prefer- ability. The points would be added to ence. Richard Weidman of the Veter- preferente ItMws any federal employment exam with a ans Economic Action Coalition score of 70 or more. And that is how remains skeptical. "That's just so €arry very little things generally worked—until 1978. much smoke," said Weidman, who That year, President Carter's Reor- contends that blatant violations of vet- weight and are ganization Plans abolished the Civil erans preference laws take place regu- Service Commission (CSC), the gov- larly. "What 0PM does not seem to regularly ignored erning body that heard and ruled on understand is that veterans preference veterans preference appeals. The CSC is the law," said Weidman. "It's not or tirtumvented. was replaced by the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB), and the United States Code was rewritten so that "hearings and appeals with respect to veterans preference" became "hearings and appeals with respect to examination ratings." A subtle change, perhaps, but it is now clear that 0PM and MSPB no longer interpret the law in a manner consistent with its meaning and spirit prior to 1978. According to 0PM figures, some 615,080 non-postal-employee veterans were working for the federal government at the end of FY91. This was down by 138,000 from FY87, an 18.3 percent drop 0PM attributed to the aging veteran population. By FY94, the figure had dropped to 560,028, a number that includes the :iAL EXHIBITION CONCOURSE LEVEL 12,610 veterans newly hired the same -JANUARY 15, 1996 year, according to 0PM. All told, AAY 9, 1995 both the number of veterans currently in federal employment and the number being brought in are shrinking. And yet, since 1991, expeditionary medals—the current basis for grant- ing preference to non-disabled veterans—have been awarded to about 1 million GIs of the Gulf War, Somalia and Haiti. With that many "new" veterans qualified for preference in federal hiring, plus those from the Viet- nam era seeking a mid-life career change, the number of veterans in federal jobs should be going VETS LAST up, not down. Holocaust In fairness, the federal gov- Museum in ernment remains the nation's Washington, D.C., denied Jolin largest employer of disabled IVIinnicic a job veterans; overall, about 20.7 because of "a percent of all federal employ- clerical error." ees outside of the postal sys- Many other vets encounter similar tem are veterans. This sounds "errors." like an impressive percentage until the numbers are compared to data from when CSC was still intact. In 1975, half of all federal employees— 1.35 million workers were veterans. Officially, the goverrmient tends to

JANUARY 1996 41 "candidates lacking desired qualifica- tions." Tellingly, when no veteran's With Preferences Like Tliese... name appears on the list, 51 percent are returned. Compounding the bias against veterans, according to Preston Taylor, director of the Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Services, is the fact that the federal government is undergoing a massive reduction-in-force (RIF). By law, during a RIF, a veteran has "bumping rights," which simply means he or she can transfer into another position of the same level and "bump" a non-veteran or an employee with less tenure. Because veterans preference gives veterans such statutory protections during RIFs, other federal employees see them as a threat. All of which leaves non-veteran federal personnel feeling "angry and scared," says Taylor. But there is a subtler reason LIAISON—The veterans Labor why are often shunted Department's aside in favor of others, at least Preston Taylor, by civilian government contrac- right, and then- tors subject to federally mandat- Legion's Economic ed hiring policies: fear of dis- Commission something they can ignore because it warded to the hiring Chairman, Alan crimination cases brought by is inconvenient. Moreover, it is an manager for considera- Titus, discuss minorities. A person protected earned right. It was not granted to tion; the so-called veterans by Equal Employment Opportu- preference laws. them by accident." "impediment to good nity (EEO) laws who is discrim- The growing anti-veteran bias is hiring" is that if one of inated against can sue and col- clearly visible once you learn to the three is a veteran, the manager is lect damages. Faced with the choice of decode the government's often-con- supposed to give preference to that a possible reprimand from 0PM fusing memos and reports. For exam- individual. Indeed, later in its report, (which rarely happens anyway) or the ple, in a report on federal hiring sub- the MSPB proposes legislation to very real threat of legal action and undercut or abolish the Rule of Three. monetary settlement with those pro- Today, abouf 20.7 Such a step would formalize the con- tected under EEO, contract employers tempt for veterans preference now routinely reject veteran applicants in per€ent of all practiced informally by many federal favor of women and minorities, says hiring managers. the Veterans Economic Action Coali- iederal employees Government managers justify their tion (VEAC). outside of the postal actions on the grounds of "improving Interestingly, VEAC, a veterans the federal work force." They say they preference advocacy organization, system are veterans* want the flexibility to hire a non-veter- cites a handful of suits that tried to an applicant—for example, a recent apply EEO guidelines in veterans pref- In 1975, half of all college graduate—who scored higher erence cases, without success. It seems federal employees— on the exam when one deducts the veterans are not included in the classes bonus points awarded to the veteran protected from discrimination under 13*5 million workers simply for being a veteran. federal civil rights laws. However, under existing law, a -^were veterans. manager already has the option of NFORTUNATELY, even when rejecting the entire list and requesting the veteran lands the job, that mitted to Vice President Al Gore, the a new one. Taking advantage of this U!'doesn't always end the problem. MSPB stated, "The interaction of two loophole is a common practice, The grim truth is that the job protec- staffing requirements embedded in according to James Hubbard, director tion that once existed for veterans is federal personnel law—veterans pref- of the Legion's National Economic rapidly being eroded. erence and the 'Rule of Three' — is Division. Hubbard says lists may be Consider what has happened in the widely viewed as an impediment to rejected several times until the manag- U.S. Postal Service. Some 278,000 good hiring practices." What this er finds the "right" person. The GAO veterans were employed in 1991 by means in English is that the top three confirms that about 71 percent of the postal system, the nation's largest or more candidates for a government applicant lists containing a veteran at veteran employer. In 1994, newly job (based on points scored) are for- the top are returned as a result of Please turn to page 82

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Legion Baseball, including $1,500 to his Z. By Miles Epstein Post's two teams. Since 1994, the Buick/American OME THINGS just belong Legion Baseball program has offered together. Parents and chil- in peace and war, a $400 discount on a new car to dren. Patriotism and Legionnaires, Auxiliary members prayer. Buick and Ameri- and members of their immediate Buick and the Legion have can Legion Baseball. families living at the same address. No one understands Buick also contributes an extra this better than Legion- once lore to $100 to the baseball program at the naire James ChuUy of buyer's Post. Post 24, Bradenton, Fla., a help America's "Buick is putting its money to member of The American Legion Base- good use by sponsoring American ball Executive Committee. Chully is excited about a partnership that has seen youth. Miles Z. Epstein is Executive Editor of Buick donate some $1.6 million to American The AMERICAN Legion Magazine.

JANUARY 1996 Legion Baseball," says ChuUy.

"I have been involved in Legion i; - 1 baseball for 12 years and none of these kids gets involved in drugs or gets into trouble." Post 24's two teams are among the 4,680 teams and 84,240 youths participating in American Legion Baseball throughout the country. Sixty- seven percent of today's major leaguers played American Le- baseball bearing the Buick logo gion baseball and 33 former and The American Legion American Legion Baseball Emblem. Courtesy Buick vehicles players are in the National were also provided to the Legion Baseball Hall of Fame at Coop- baseball staff. erstown, N.Y. Buick's contributions to Like many others nation- America's youths who play wide, Chully's Post uses American Legion Baseball Buick's contribution to buy uni- also includes money for forms and baseballs, and to pay college. Beginning in

for umpires. David L. Peoples, |'i 1996, the Legion's coach and athletic director at Post National Committee

1, Raleigh, N.C., says the Buick on Education has rec- program has brought $3,200 to his ommended awarding ball team since 1994. regional "Player of Year' "In 1994, it paid for two new scholarships and a national sets of uniforms. In 1995, it offset George W. Rulon American 30 to 40 percent of our baseball Legion Player of the Year Schol- expenses," says Peoples. "We used arship worth thousands of dollars.

it to buy bats, helmets and catching The partnership between Buick gear." and American Legion Baseball is At Post 2, Fargo, N.D., in the host city of the 1995 American Legion World Series, the $3,000 received from Buick went to maintaining the ballpark, says Joe Parmer, chairman of the Post's American Legion Baseball committee. Parmer says Buick's commitment to American Legion Baseball was never more evident than at last year's American Legion World Series in Fargo. Banners, decals, a courtesy tent and a hot-air balloon proudly announced the Buick-Legion partnership to the thousands who attended the series and to the half-million fans who watched the championship game on ESPN. Buick also sponsored the American Legion World Series Banquet where 1,000 miniature bats with Roger Maris' signature were presented to the players, coaches and Legion officials.

Thanks to Buick, the first 1 ,000 fans to arrive at the games received a free

44 THE AMERICAN LEGION JANUARY 1996 45 one of the great g mitteeman (NECman) T. success stories s Les Galloway. In fact, among affinity pro- I more than 15,000 Buicks grams, says Dave I have been purchased by Lyons, Buick's 1 Legionnaires through the dealer merchandis- I Buick/American Legion ing manager. "It rebate program. sells cars, no doubt "I bought a 1994 Buick er. He about it," he says. Park Avenue because of previously Legionnaire what Buick drove a Buick Larry Hice of Post does Park Avenue and a 413, Grand Blanc, for Buick Skylark. Mich., believes he According to 1995 figures from knows why the Doublebase Mediamark Research Inc., program works so well. "It works 636,000 readers of THE AMERICAN because people want it to work," Legionnaires who LEGION MAGAZINE own Buicks. says Hice, who should know. He "Legionnaires buy Buicks is Buick's assistant general because they are good cars, sales manager for the West. bought Buicks saved because Buick helps support "People trust Buick to give Legion programs and because them a good car and they know Legionnaires never forget those what a great program Ameri- and enabled Buiek to donate with whom they serve," says can Legion Baseball is," he National Commander Daniel A. says. "Legionnaires who are Ludwig. "Buick went to war for going to buy a car anyway can 11.6 Million to American our country with the members of feel good about buying a Buick The American Legion." because it helps American Legion Legionnaires who flew the B-24 Baseball." Legion Baseball. bomber during World War II had And they do, says Post 24 's Chul- Buick as their corporate copilot. It was ly. "People have told me that they are Buick that produced some 75,000 impressed with Buick's commitment Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines for to help our team, and because of that, the "Liberator." And members of the they are buying Buicks," he explains. our baseball program," says PNC Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Legionnaires across the nation are Thiesen. Allies who flew the bomber destroyed proving Chully right—Buick owners NECman Galloway, who owns a 1 1 Luftwaffe planes per thousand sor- such as Past National Commander 1995 Buick Roadmaster not only ties in the skies above Europe. (PNC) Bruce Thiesen of California agrees, but has been a long-time fan GIs also took on the enemy and Oregon National Executive Com- of the Flint, Mich.-based automak- with some 2,507 Buick-built Hellcat Tank destroyers, which unleashed shells on enemy armored units and safely carried many soldiers through gunfire so they could return home to their families someday. "Buick, The American Legion and the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces are still serving America," says National Com- mander Ludwig. "Legionnaires and Buick were partners in war and now they are partners in peace." From their time as comrades in arms during World War II to today's partnership to support American Le- gion Baseball, Buick and The Ameri- can Legion remain a championship team. Climb Aboard Fo Of YQur Life On 7te Wost Beautifu American Steam Engine Ever Built!

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DOLE TO INTRODOCE LEGION'S Gl BILL

HEN Indiana University their pockets. Now, however, Kansas The legislation also allows Re- trustees announced that Sen. Robert Dole plans to introduce servists to participate in the program, they were considering legislation based on Legion recom- though at lower figures. Reservists may raising the cost of mendations: the Serviceperson's apply after three years, must serve at W tuition at state- support- Readjustment Act of 1995. least six years and contribute half as ed schools by 15 percent over four In its simplest form, here's what much as active duty personnel to get years, they became part of a growing Dole's proposed GI Bill means for half the benefits. nationwide trend that has steadily active-duty personnel who join the ser- According to Senate staffers. Dole's widened the gap between tuition and vice after April 1, 1996, and want to go GI Bill would cover about 80 percent benefits for veterans attending school to college: Kick in $1,200, get $800 a of the college costs, while the current under the Montgomery GI Bill. month for 12 months' schooling. Spend Montgomery GI BiU covers only about Although The American Legion has $2,400, get $800 a month for 24 37 percent. often decried this chronic erosion of months. Contribute a maximum of Senator Dole's staffers are confident benefits, for the most part, veterans $4,800, get $800 a month for 48 of gaining enough support for the bill, have had little choice but to take a months, a total educational benefit of in spite of its estimated $3.6 billion deep breath and reach a bit deeper into $38,400. price tag.

New Nuke Cancers in VA regulations now allows veterans couldn't find sufficient numbers of vol- to present scientific documentation or unteers afflicted with the illness in VA has added rectal cancer and medical evidence for any illness that question. Now. comes word of at least non-Hodgkin's lymphomas to its list may have been caused by in-service one study, at the Harvard School of of diseases linked to exposure to ion- radiation exposure. Medicine's Manchester Research izing radiation. However, like the VA Service, where suitable volunteers other radiogenic diseases on the list, shouldn't be too hard to find: Re- rectal cancer and non-Hodgkin's lym- Replacement Markers searchers are looking for veterans who phomas are not presumptive. Having a Survivors of veterans whose grave don't have Post Traumatic Stress Dis- disease on the list does not guarantee markers or headstones have become order (PTSD). "Our laboratory is seek- the claim will be approved. Instead, damaged or illegible through vandal- ing volunteers who have experienced the claimant must prove to VA's satis- ism or the ravages of time may be able traumatic events in their lives, but man- faction that his illness resulted from to get the markers replaced. If, in the aged to adjust to them," says research radiation exposure while he was in the opinion of VA, the marker or head- counselor Mike Macklin. service. stone is beyond salvage, a new marker Individuals not suffering from Other diseases listed as radiogenic or headstone will be shipped free of PTSD will be used as a control group include all forms of leukemia except charge to the gravesite. For more chronic lymphatic (lymphocytic) information, call 1-800-827-1000 or to enable the researchers to reach valid scientific conclusions in their studies of leukemia; multiple myeloma; posterior contact your American Legion Service the condition. Macklin says that most subcapsular cataracts; nonmalignant Officer. the volunteers be selected from thyroid nodular disease; parathyroid of wiU adenoma; tumors of the brain and cen- Bonus Hoax the Northeast. The study will include military tral nervous system; and cancer of the Perhaps the longest-lived hoax of all experiences in combat and other trau- thyroid, breast, lung, bone, liver, skin, time continues to pop up in newsletters esophagus, stomach, colon, pancreas, and on bulletin boards. Don't be matic events such as floods, earth- crashes, rape even kidney, urinary bladder, salivary gland fooled: for the record, there is no spe- quakes, airplane and and ovaries. cial GI insurance premium dividend. breast cancer in adult survivors and their families. Researchers also have a Before it will grant service-connec- Please pass the word. tion, VA determines the radiation The rumor has existed since the special interest in twins. Selected par- dosage a veteran received and whether Korean War and VA officials are ticipants will receive a small stipend for the onset of the disease came within stumped to explain where the persistent their cooperation. The study is spon- certain time limits. Unfortunately, the and utterly untrue "news flash" comes sored by grants from VA, the National track record for veterans who submit from. Institute of Health and the Army. priore information, contact radiation claims is not good. Accord- For Mike ing to Service Officers and veterans, Non-Sick Wanted Macklin, Manchester VA Research VA rarely finds that the dosage was For years, government studies into Service, Harvard Medical School, 228 sufficient to cause the disease. veterans' health issues have faltered Maple St., 2nd Floor, Manchester, NH 03 103, or phone 1-603-626-6565. Perhaps that is why a recent change because—researchers claimed—they

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COLORADO POST COMDUCIS A RACE ID REMEMRER

O remember ended 2'/2 hours later when U.S. POW/ the flags were delivered to MIAs, Post 23 National Executive Com- T of Aurora, mitteeman and Past Depart- Colo., spon- ment of Colorado Comman- sored a 14 '/2-mile Memorial der Thomas L. Bock at the Day flag relay from Fort state capitol. Logan National Cemetery "Our little Post of 535 to the Veteran's Memorial members had 110 people in downtown Denver. help out with this project," The relay was kicked off says Ron Piecuch, who with a brief ceremony at the coordinated the event along cemetery conducted by Post with John Zack. "This is a Commander Dan DuMiller great showing." and Chaplain Tom McLa- Dubbed "Operation Black marrah. DuMiller and Widow," the relay followed Senior Vice Commander on the heels of Denver's Doug Farley carried the annual Memorial Day U.S. Flag and the POW/ parade. MIA flag on the first leg. "It was a very moving The flags were relayed way to salute our prisoners every half mile by members of war and missing in action of Post 23, the Auxiliary, and to let them know they the Sons of The American will never be forgotten," Of Post 23's 535 members, 110 participated Legion and the Colorado says Post 23 member Tim TRACK TEAM— in ttie POW/MIA relay to the state capitol. Civil Air Patrol. The relay Potter.

NEWS BRIEFS HEN the U.S. Post Office POW/MIAs in Southeast Asia," says Glontz, D'ARCO ELECTED TO issued its first POW/MIA a Vietnam Army veteran. NASDVA TOP POST stamp in Wash- PAST Department of ington, D.C., last New Mexico Comman- year. Legion- der Michael C. D'Arco was naire Al Glontz was first in elected to head the National line.

Association of State Direc- For Glontz, it meant stan- tors of Veterans Affairs ding in the rain for two hours (NASDVA), an organiza- to get the stamp. Glontz, a tion of state agencies that member of Post 309, Maple manages veterans issues. Heights, Ohio, arrived at 10 A member of the Leg- p.m., and by midnight when ion's National Veterans the stamp went on sale, the Affairs and Rehabilitation line had grown to about 500 Commission, D'Arco was people Department of New Mexico "The - Commander in 1986-87. i m p o r A member of Post 49, tance of Albuquerque, D'Arco re- the stamp ceived NASDVA's out- is our con- ISSUE AT HAt^D—Legionnaires of Post 118, Secaucus, standing state director t i n u i n g N.J., receive a first-day issue of the POW/MIA stamp from award in 1991 for his role in desire to Al Foster, Secaucus postmaster. From left, are: Past Com- Daly; opposing the reduction of get a full mander Edmund Bienkowski; Commander James Foster; Past Commander Carmello Scaizo; and Joseph F. veterans benefits for men- account- Ward, New Jersey National Executive Committeeman. tally ill veterans. [1 AL GLONTZ ing of our

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NEWS BRIEFS Healing the Horrors of the Otdahoma City Bomhing LEGION HONORED AT McHENRY STARS NAMED FOR CHILD VICTIMS THE Patriots of Fort McHenry and the Nat- NINETEEN stars have of the Post bought the rights ional Park Service a been officially named in to name the stars from the placed honor of each of the children International Star Registry. bronze plaque in the fort's tion have opened their killed in the Oklahoma City John Beckham, Comman- visitor center to honor The hearts and purse strings, bombing, thanks to Post 502 der of Post 502, said the American Legion for its contributing more than of South Haven, Ind. families of the children were long-lasting support of Fort $130,000 to help veterans Post members and mem- provided with plaques and McHenry. and their families devastated bers of the Auxiliary and maps of the constellation by the bombing of the Al- Sons of The American Legion with the 19 stars. THRIFTY CAR RENTAL fred P. Murrah Federal DISCONTINUES PROGRAM Building in Oklahoma City. THRIFTY Car Rental dis- "It has been a fantastic Disaster Fund. lives in the bombing, two of continued its special dis- showing by Legionnaires," For example, the Depart- them Legionnaires: Robert count to Legionnaires, ef- says bookkeeper Connie ment of Tennessee donated Chipman of Post 111, Ed- fective Jan.l, 1996. But Carver of the Oklahoma $7,500, which was raised by mond, Okla.; and Robert Legionnaires are not left out Department's Memorial Posts throughout the state. Nolan Walker Jr, Post 12, in the cold. Avis offers 10 And Post 145 of Dou- Oklahoma City, Okla. Oth- percent off SuperValue glasville, Ga., sent $2,160 ers lost members of their daily and weekly rates and 5 IQNAWANDASBAIVD the proceeds of a fish fry. family. percent off Avis SuperValue The Department of Okla- One was Army Sgt. Wil- weekend and intercity rates. OFFERS RECORDING homa has also received liam Titsworth, who was Discounts apply to time and too, can strike up YOU, donations designated specif- visiting the federal building mileage charges only. Call the band with "The Spir- ically for children of the with his wife and two chil- 1-800-331-1212 and use the it of Liberty" recording of bombing. dren the day of the bomb- Avis/Legion ID number the American Legion Band "There are more than ing. His 3-year-old daugh- G343600. of the Tonawandas Post 3,000 victims of this bomb- ter, Kayla, was killed. National Car Rental also 264. Available on cassette ing," says Jerry Askins, The Department of Okla- provides a 5 percent dis- or compact disk, the musical Department of Oklahoma homa, working with the count off its weekend, collection includes the ser- Adjutant. "There were few Lions Club, has weekly and monthly rates, vice songs, a Glenn Miller Oklahoma discount off medley and many other pop- veterans affected, but of presented the Titsworth or a 25 percent 1-800- ular and period tunes. those who were, loss is family with a 1995 Buick business rates. Call The Tonawandas 90- severe." Century to replace the vehi- CAR-RENT and use the piece symphonic concert Seven veterans lost their cle destroyed in the blast. Legion ID number 5176669.

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Advancements in comput- Since children are far more likely to tion would allow greater uniformity of er technology add their own specialized go off with someone who calls them by the contest and increased consistency in problems to the mix. In the news of late name, parents should be careful not to judging, as well as reducing transporta- have been several cases of adolescents do things that identify the child to tion costs and other expenses. Caouette being enticed into pedophilic relation- strangers. says the money saved will be used for ships with men they met through com- "You should refrain from putting more scholarship money. puter bulletin boards. Parents with your child's name on lunchboxes, "Under the new system, everyone home computers are often horrified to bookbags, or personalized license will be playing by the same rules, and it discover the sorts of messages that are plates on tricycles or bicycles," says will be fairer for everyone," says Caou- being sent back and forth on so-called Curtis. Charles Arthur notes that he ette. "I think this will be a definite plus "kids' chat lines." Because there is no "was able to call one of my victims by for the contest." way of confining the use of these chat name because it was stitched on his Caouette also says that beginning lines to children, adults with sinister baseball warm-up jacket." That, says this year, eligibility rules for the contest motives regard such services as fertile Arthur, "led him to believe he knew have been changed to include any law- hunting grounds for naive, impression- me." ful permanent U.S. resident, or carriers able or troubled youngsters. Finally, parents should encourage of green cards. Parents need to "talk to kids about children to trust their intuition. "If you know of a student, like Aron the illusion of safety they have because Although they couldn't define it, Egner, who is looking over the rules, they're sitting at home, typing into a "many victims of child abductors said thinking about participating, urge them keyboard," says Sherry Turkic, profes- they had a 'funny' feeling just before on," says Caouette. sor of sociology at MIT and author of they were accosted." If a child feels As for Aron, "The Oratorical Con- Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age like running away from someone, then test taught me how to speak and present of the Internet. "Kids should be cau- by all means he or she should run. my ideas under pressure. I learned tioned to never, ever give out their much about the Constitution, about name, phone number or address And if a child is missing.... myself and the country. You get a lot through on-line services." Parents who A parent who suspects that his child more confidence in yourself." suspect a problem may find it worth- is missing must take action immediate- —By T. Douglas Donaldson and while to look into special screening or ly. A search of the house is in order. Chandra M. Czape All closets, attics, blocking software that prevents unau- basements and * * * thorized or inappropriate users, like garages, as well as the area under kids and teens, from browsing on-line beds—in short, anywhere a child could For dates, deadlines and sites of pornography or other areas meant for hide—should be thoroughly checked. local, district and state competitions, adults. Parents should then contact friends and contact local Legion Posts or the Discuss basic self-defense tactics neighbors, and if they still can't locate Departments. For information about the with the children. "As soon as your the child, says Durbin, "call the National Oratorical Contest, write: The kids can articulate a sentence," Curtis police." Americanism and Children & Youth says, "they can begin to learn how to If the child disappears when you're Division, The American Legion, P.O. protect themselves against abduction." out of the house— at the mall, for Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. There are two fundamental safety instance—^parents should contact secu- rules for children, according to Irene rity officers and ask for help. But again, van der Zande, founder of Kidpower, a if this does not yield results in short self-defense class that teaches 7- to 13- order, the police must be brought into year-old boys and girls how to fight off the picture. IN SEARCH OF... adult assailants. "Keep a safe distance Experts agree that safeguarding chil- from people—out of arm's reach at the dren from abduction is a shared civic This column is for readers searching for groups of veterans for purposes other than fornning a reunion (use very least—and never go with anyone responsibility. It is sad but true that the VETS* column) or to find witnesses to verify VA health without checking with your mother, openness of today's society, combined claims (use COMRADES IN DISTRESS column). No notices seeking information about relatives or friends viWI father or an adult in charge." with the many unsavory cultural influ- be published. Notices are published free, on a space-

If someone does grab them, says ences and the technological advance- available basis. If a notice does not appear within six months of submission, please resubmit. Butler, "they should kick, scratch, ments noted earlier, makes it harder gouge, hit, poke—anything in an effort than ever to shield kids from people 1951-52 members of Unit Band 117, USS Leyte, for researcli. Contact: Harold Kelly, 323 Merriam Ave. to get away." They should be taught to who would do them harm. But a parent N., Tliief River Falls, MN 56701. yell and scream, too. Prior to his execu- has little choice but to face today's A Marine green wool uniform of the 1940s. Contact: Gerald T. Dennis, 2542 Locust Ave. W., Tacoma, WA tion, child killer Wesley Allan Dodd harsh realities and take precautions. To 98466. was quoted as saying, "The kids who bury our heads in the sand, after all, is AAF and 11th Inf. units at Kindley Field, Bermuda, 1952-55, for history. Contact: Bill Moore, 5721 Carb got away from me were the ones who to leave ourselves vulnerable to the Dr., Fort Worth, TX 76114. made the most noise." very thing we fear most. Please turn to page 72

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Two buglers sounded taps vey, Rt. 1, Box 259, Stone Hill Road, Ciarksviiie, AR Outlaw states have acquired a and the seven-member firing squad 72830-9720. Photo of Co. A, 395th MP Bn., Camp SIbert, Ala. 1944. capacity to build nuclear weapons in from Lansing Post 697 fired three vol- Contact: Jerome G. Kuhn, RD1, Box 306A-1, Greens- spite of the treaty, the IAEA, monitor- leys, the crack of the gunfire echoing boro, PA 15338; 1-412-943-4129. ing and inspections. As Lake well Photos and Information of crew of USS SC-1505, May- off the cemetery's gentle, rolling hills. September 1944, for research. Contact: Coy Bayne, Iraq 711 Rocky Bottom Rd., 1-803- knows, and North Korea were sig- A Division I flag guard folded the U.S. Sunset, SC 29685; 878-4323. natories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Flag into a neat triangle and presented Photos of those who attended Baker's School during and had profited assistance the fail of 1946 at Balnbrldge NTC. Contact: Leiand from IAEA it to Vazquez. The flag is now on dis- R. Gappmayer, 6239 S. 4400 W., Spanish Fork, UT in acquiring reactors and plutonium, play at the Illinois Department Head- 84660-4228. had broken their promises not to devel- quarters as a reminder that veterans in Those aboard the Uraquay, especially members of the op weapons, and had evaded IAEA 1974th QM Trk. Co., when It was hit by a tanker on life and death should never be forgot- Feb. 12, 1943, while on Its way to Africa. Have infor- inspections. Iran is now entered on this ten. mation to give. Contact: John Mayone, 32 Ebei Ct., Sauqertles, NY 12477. path and Cuba is at the gate. Vazquez smiled and watched the Unit history, rosters, surivors of 749th Tank Bn. (ETC). Contact: Don Shrake, P.O. Box 147, Johnston City, The third disturbing aspect of vault as it slowly was lowered into the IL 62951; 1-618-983-8084. Lake's speech is his news that he has earth. "Paul, my friend, this service is Veterans of the air war (pilots, air crews, ground "begun the process of placing nuclear crews, antiaircraft crews) In the South Pacific and for you," he said. "You earned it. Your New Guinea 1942-44, for a book. Contact: Prof. Eric material from the U.S. military stock- spirit will not be forgotten by any of Bergerud, 531 Kalns Ave., Albany, CA 94706; 1-800- pile under IAEA safeguards." Why? us." 510-5250. Veterans with Tinnitus and/or hearing loss, for book. Because, he says, he wants to "help a It was a day that sailors say is ideal Contact: C.L. Baker, P.O. Box 6127, Guifport, MS make the weapons dismantlement for being on the open sea—clear skies 39506-6127. WWII history of the 24th Cav. Reconn. Troop (Mecz). process irreversible" and "support the and a cool breeze at your back. Former Contact: Waliy F. Kuhner, 1637 Falmouth St., IAEA." sailor Paul Oziemkiewicz had just set Charleston, SC 29407-3926. WWII members of 1st, 2nd & 3rd MarDlvs., 96th & 33rd This rush to irreversibility seems sail with honor. And this time he was Army DIvs., and 1081st NCMU Seabees who sailed appropriate only if it is matched by a not alone. on USS George F. Elliott, for historical research. Contact: J.C. Miller, 205 Old White Trail, White Sul- comparable rush to verification of oth- phur Springs, WV 24986; 1-304-536-4372. ers' compliance. I fear that an exces- WWII veterans who may have been exposed to asbestos, for an article or possible class action suit. sive zeal to constrain U.S. strength is GIs of the 909th Air Force Engineers Camouflage Unit Contact: Durward D. Williams, 2319 Avenlda at Mitchell Field, Long Island, during 1943. Contact: characteristic of this administration's Barcelona Este, West Palm Beach, FL 33415. Carl M. DiMedio, 510 Reynolds Ave., Bronx, NY approach to security issues. 10465; 1-718-824-6849. Information and photo of C Co., 110th Field Signal Bn., 35th DIv. during WWI. Contact: Gregg Kitson, 628 Wallach Dr., Eureka, MO 63025. Information and photos of crew members of B-17 "Pol- son Express" or "Bombay Baby" in European The- LIFE MEMBERSHIPS ater, and WWI and WWII veterans who rode motor- IN SEARCH OF... cycles, for museum displays. Contact: Miracle of Life Membership notices are published for America Museum, 58176 Highway 93, Poison, MT Legionnaires who have been awarded Life Memberships Continued from page 70 59860; 1-406-883-6804. by their posts. Information and photos of staff and patients of G-7 Life membership notices must be submitted on official Airman's Handbook put out in the '50s. Contact Wilbur Dispensary, Navy 3205, at Los Negros, Admiralty forms which may be obtained by sending a self- V. Hosman, 2528 S. Sable Way, Aurora, CO 80014- Islands, 1944-45, for history. Contact: Red SImianer, addressed, stamped envelope to: Life Memberships, The 2438; 1-303-750-5413. P.O. Box 381, Custer, SD 57730. American Legion Magazine, P.O. 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Charles F. Matze (1995) Post 3, Glen Ellyn, IL Experiences of CounterMeasures veterans, for histori- information on WWII U.S. Army hospital trains in Eng- Dr. Howard B. Riley (1964) Post 20, Newton, IL cal purposes. Contact: Arnold N. Martlnsen, 1 land and the European continent. Contact: Martin J. Kenneth R. Laughlln (1995) Post 62, Bridgeport, IL Coachllght Dr., Little Rock, AR 72227-6435: 1-501- Sheeron, 5906 N. Water St., Philadelphia, PA 19120- Edward E. Collins, Samuel L. Glacalone (1995) Post 225-7254. 2013; 1-215-548-6372. 288, South Beioit, IL Former members of 29th AAA Bn., Japan Camp Youn- instructors In the 3360th Gp./Minuteman Missile sys- Emil J. DIvIs, Albin R. Karkoslk, Daniel F. Keyes, Julius

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I remember my mother being we know we're not measuring up. We There is a simple fact in history: tired—there were times she worked know we're not spending time with When the family falls apart, so do two jobs—but she also took the time our kids the way we should. We know societies. to fix me a snack and read me a story. we're not checking the homework. We Sometimes she had to hurry to another know we're watching too much TV. Q. You've been quoted as saying, job, but she made a point to show up But we do it anyway. "Divorce is what's really kicking the and demonstrate her love. I never felt hell out of America." deprived, by the way. That's an inter- Q. It's your contention that we esting fact about kids. Give them love have also become a less self-reliant Alt is. While it is easy to blame illegitimacy, there are a lot of and take care of their basic needs and people. children in single-parent homes who they won't feel deprived. Alt's what I call "the whining of have been abandoned by their fathers. America." Today we see our- Not because the father cannot be Q. Are you saying we no longer see selves as outcomes of forces over found, but because the father decided the importance of doing the mother- which we have no control, rather than to leave—he wanted a younger girl or ly things your own mother did? as free people made in the image of I don't think my mother would and who hold our fate in our to wander around the beaches or to do A God something new. Middle-class people understand the language we so hands. We have increasing dependen- who complain about the welfare prob- often hear on talk shows: "Yes, my cy upon the federal government and lem need to look in the mirror. What's child has needs but I have needs, too, we also have a new psychological the main reason families go on wel- and my needs are as important as my dependency—that's what you hear on fare? It's not because of an out-of- child's." My mother would have said, the TV talk shows. There's too much wedlock baby. It's because the father "What do you mean? Children's needs whining in America and we all seem deserts them. take priority. That's what it means to to want somebody to take care of us. be a parent." To my mother, and most What we need to do is roll up our Q. Do you oppose all divorces? in her generation, these things were sleeves and go to work. The solution A Some marriages just will not believed without question. to our problems is easy; at least it is work. I know cases where a cou- I saw some statistics recently. In easy to know and to say. The execu- ple gets married in their early 20s, but the 1950s, over 80 percent of us tion, the doing, is harder. Government after a few months they realize it agreed that parents should stay togeth- cannot save us—not federal, state or won't work. There are no children er for the sake of the children. In the local. It is today as it was in the begin- and, boom, the marriage is over. These 1980s, the number fell to 50 percent. nings of the nation. We will save our- divorces may not be helpful to society That is a seismic shift in terms of peo- selves if we are to be saved. We know but they aren't part of the problem. ple's behaviors and beliefs. In 30 this. We know that things would be The problem is where children are years we have entirely changed our better if we were better citizens—for involved and where the impacts on the thinking about our obligations. instance, serving on juries, volunteer- life and the income of the mother and ing for Neighborhood Watch, helping children are dramatically impacted by Q. What do you say to working out wherever we can. the divorce. parents who say they'd like to spend more time with their kids, but just Q. Are we erring by putting too Q. So how do we lower the divorce don't have the time? much faith in the ability of govern- rate? A We all feel squeezed. We are all ment to heal our woes? A We've gone from seeing marriage working more. Nevertheless, A Politics has become a kind of idol as a sacred covenant to seeing it when working parents aren't working, for most people. Too much of our as a convenience that can be disposed what are they doing? It's a question talk about improving the country pre- of at will. The key is what happens of priorities. Whatever the demands supposes a government role. But there upfront. There should be a lot more upon us, I think we all could do better are only certain things government can attention by the priests and ministers by our children in the time we do do well; many things it can't do. As a and rabbis paid to premarital counsel- have. And here is a question people nation, our biggest problems have to ing. In my new book. The Moral Com- don't like: Why are we all working so do with habits of the heart and mind. lost certain habits lawfulness, pass, I have the vows of marriage hard? 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• It was 31 years ago, at age 14, that Dayton, Ohio, veterinarian George Anstadt first envisioned the Anstadt Cup as "an iron lung for the heart," following his father's fatal heart attack. A Surprisingly enough, money Heimlich attributes at least some of that simple mechanical heart massager, the specifically, the likelihood of turning a difficulty to professional bias. "You cup looks like the bowl of a large wine profit—is one of the major stumbling have people who have specialized in glass with a latex liner attached to air- block to low-tech iimovation. "The big the field that you are venturing into," pump hoses. Via minor surgery, the money is in high-tech genetic engi- says Heimlich. "They have been telling device is placed over the ventricles of a neering or $2 million MRIs," says people for years the wrong way to do it. damaged heart to pump for it. The cup Heimlich. "Low-tech medicine, cer- They defend themselves by attacking has proved to be 400- to 500-percent tainly in my case, comes from nothing your work." more effective than external heart mas- and didn't bring me a dime. There is a Further, there have been problems sage. tendency that you can't get certain integrating low-tech therapies into a The Anstadt Cup was largely items manufactured if they don't make high-tech-oriented system. Karen Carp, ignored by medical science until last money." a public-affairs specialist at the Agency January, when it sustained the heartbeat for Health Care Policy and Research, of a Duke University Medical School ANOTHER hurdle for low-tech pio- says some low-tech measures, such as patient for a month while he awaited a neers is that official acceptance custom-made cushions to prevent bed heart transplant. "Everything now in often comes grudgingly—if ever. sores in hospitalized patients, do not medicine has to be expensive and that's John Ott is the preeminent amateur travel smoothly through the insurance kind of disgusting," says Anstadt. researcher into the medical benefits of reimbursement network. "A lot of • On a sweltering-hot summer day natural and full-spectrum lighting, as [newer treatments] that are very simple in 1986, a Marine Vietnam veteran was well as the health hazards of artificial to do are not reimbursed, but the insur- headed for a cold shower with nothing lighting. He became hooked on light 30 ance companies will reimburse for more inventive in mind than cooling years ago, after he cured his crippling surgery or for putting people in the hos- down. "That's when I got the bright arthritis by "sunbathing fully nude at pital," says Carp. idea," says Steve Mason. least an hour a day" in the Florida sun. The low-tech movement is also A migraine sufferer with no medical Ott's bargain-basement research is bucking the "you get what you pay for" background, the Longview, Wash., res- now and then credited for presaging syndrome. Says Micozzi of the Nation- ident did some digging for information such scientific findings as the effects of al Museum of Health and Medicine, and found that 90 percent of the med- light on the body's use of medications "People will pay 10 times as much for ical books on headaches mention ice or and the use of light in the treatment of high-tech medicine that provides only 1 cold as treatment. Familiar with gels seasonal psychological disorders. But percent improvement in some kinds of and ice-chest products that stay cold for for the most part, he has faced opposi- medical care." some time after being stored in a freez- tion, even derision. "There is still a Which is why, increasingly, a back- er, he designed a cold pack to fit the top society trying to preserve the idea that to-basics low-tech mentality is gaining of the head. "We never did a study with the Earth is flat," says Ott, who found- ground in mainstream medicine. Says our own product, but cold is cold," says ed Tampa's Environmental Health & Carp, "Slowly I think people are com- Mason. "The idea was to get it down to Light Research Institute to carry on ing to see the value of spending $200 the most basic and cheapest form." research into the degenerative affects of now to avoid paying $20,000 later." The results: The Cold Hat, which unnatural light on the immune system In December, Carp's agency, a looks like a navy blue shower cap lined and the healing properties of ultraviolet branch of the U.S. Department of with cold-pack gel. The devices are light on cancer patients. Health and Human Services which available for $50-$60 in pharmacies or Even the Heimlich Maneuver publishes treatment guidelines, recom- through his company. Mason and required 12 years of saving lives to mended low-tech therapies for patients Mason Medical Inc., which has sold gain the approval of the American Red suffering low-back pain. The most more than 7,000 so far. Cross and the medical bureaucracy. Please turn to page 80

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Stop being so self- cans under age 45, acute low-back pain ish. We need less government and we accounts for $20 billion a year in direct need to give more of ourselves. That's medical costs, the agency says. Much LIFE MEMBERSHIPS the message I have been telling the of it is spent for naught because the presidential candidates who in recent Continuied from page 72 expensive drugs, surgical procedures John McDonough, Irene Petrie (1984), Clair Coates months have asked for my advice. and elaborate imaging techniques on (1987), John Penn (1992), Harold Adams, Louis What I've said is, you guys blame the Nathan (1993) Post 257, Laguna Hills, OA which the burgeoning back-pain indus- federal the liberals Robert IVI. Anderson (1995) Post 426, Yucaipa, CA government and for try relies are mostly ineffective, accord- George C. Maldona (1995) Post 117, Palm Bay, FL our problems. But, I add, I believe the Frank J. Csaszar (1996) Post 363, Patricic AFB, FL ing to the guidelines. Donald P. Case, Billy Craig, John Edwards, Robert candidate who will win the respect of Instead, the panel recommended Hunt (1995) Post 2, Peoria, IL the American people is the one who David J. Harvey, William Roper (1996) Post 47, Chica- spinal manipulations (as performed by go, IL says: "And you, American people, osteopaths and chiropractors), and lim- Jim Wyzard (1995) Post 905, Kincaid, IL you've got to do better, too. All of this Robert L. Thomas (1995) Post 299, White City, KS ited exercises such as swimming, walk- Thomas K. Horgan, Donald P. Mailing, William H. hasn't been done to you. You've done ing and biking. "The results speak for Mann (1995) Post 110, Medfield, MA a lot yourself." Would that be a popu- Robert L. Bradley, Harry L. Hopkins (1994) Post 39, themselves," says Dr. Stanley J. Bigos, Bel Air, MD lar message? As one candidate said to professor of orthopedic surgery at the George Taylor (1995) Post 180, Rosedale, MD me, "Well, Bill, if that's what you Lyie C. 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Knowing that he could not According to Davis, there were as the middle-ranked 50 percent; and the undertake an actual RIF without run- many as six positions at the GS-15 lowest-ranked 25 percent. Each cone ning afoul of veterans preference level within his department that he is treated as a separate entity. This statutes, Runyon instead shuffled his should have been able to bump to. His means the veterans in the highest cone people around, moving former man- application to these positions was enjoy full preference and REF protec- agers into low-ranking positions denied because, according to the civil- tion—but it also means the non-veter- where they were supervised by indi- ian personnel officer, he was unquali- ans in the top level have preference viduals of lesser grade and tenure. fied. He was offered a lower-paying and protection from veterans in the Coupled with this was a freeze on all job in another government office, two lower cones. raises and cost of living adjustments which he ultimately was forced to Thus, as so often happens, the gov- for the former managers until the pay accept. ernment has applied veterans prefer- of the lower-paid supervisors eventu- ence rules in an uneven, be-thankful- ally rose to meet the former managers' APPEALED the decision to the for-small-favors manner. And still, as incomes through annual COLAs— HEMSPB. Though he acknowledged Ray Smith, chairman of the Legion's process that could take many years. In that "day-to-day administrative National Economic Commission, puts this way, the USPS would save mil- management of an office" was the it, "You can count on some manager lions by not having to pay salary only qualification he lacked for the or director figuring out some way to increases or COLAs. position, he reminded the board he had sidestep the rules." The affected employees, veteran similar experience at a lower pay grade. (In any case, federal managers SEARCH for silver linings in and non-veteran alike, appealed to the THE MSPB, which agreed that the demo- have conceded in court that few peo- all this leads mostly to a handful of tions did in fact constitute a RIF. Run- ple step into these managerial slots individuals waging their own per- yon wanted to appeal the decision, but with every criterion fully met.) sonal war on behalf of veterans. For fortunately for postal employees, Pres- Davis argued that he was denied his instance, PUFL Legionnaire Robert ident Clinton stepped in and told him right to bump due to office politics and Donahue, a Local Veterans Employ- to return them to their former posi- personal animosity. He supplied wit- ment Representative in Charles City, tions. nesses who testified that after he told Iowa, received The American Legion another manager he intended to bump National Outstanding Employment STILL, Runyon had a trump card to for the job in the event of a RIF, the Service Officer Award for work place- play. He abolished some positions manager complained to the director. ment, training and schooling of veter- on paper, then renamed them and Court records also showed that review ans. Donahue, a member of Post 278 gave them revised duties. Thus, when board personnel intended to "teach in Osage, Iowa, found ways to get jobs veterans demanded their old jobs Davis a lesson." Those same records for veterans in an area plagued by low back, Runyon was able to tell —some of contained statements that "he ascend- employment. them truthfully—if unfairly "That ed fast, so he could descend fast," and Another "point of light" shines position no longer exists." that there were "political conse- within the Department of New York, In an interesting footnote to the quences" to Davis' actions. where the VEAC's Rick Weidman also postal caper, Joseph J. Mahon Jr., Administrative Judge William L. is the department's veterans employ- OPM's vice president of labor rela- Boulden wrote, "I find that [Davis] has ment chairman. According to Depart- tions, wrote that among other things, established that [two review board ment Adjutant Richard Pedro, Weid- Runyon's RIF was "too likely to have members] were motivated by personal man and others have begun an an adverse effect on minorities and animus with regard to the appellant's aggressive effort to train, counsel and women in the work force." By law and rights under the RIF, and thus, the find employment for New York veter- regulation, the only people whose jobs agency's determination of those rights ans. Other Legion Departments are protected during a RIF are veter- could, under the circumstances, have notably South Carolina, Wisconsin and ans. been based on prohibited personnel Utah—are also actively involved in Yet somehow, affirmative action practices." finding veterans work in the private became the larger consideration over A great victory for Davis? Not sector. veterans preference, once more reveal- quite. Boulden wound up ruling But admirable as these efforts may ing the government's true priorities. against him, basing his decision on the be, they do little to tip the scales of In document after document, dubious argument that Davis lacked injustice that played havoc with the whether from the USPS or other gov- managerial experience in the higher likes of John Minnick, John Davis and ernment agencies, the overriding con- pay grade. many thousands of other veterans cern seems to be minority body count: And there was nothing Davis could men and women who made the mis-

Do we have enough blacks, Hispanics do about it. (Nor does the injustice end take of believing that veterans prefer- and women in our workplace! Sadly, there, apparently: Susan Odom, a ence laws actually meant what they where veterans are concerned, the coworker and one of the people who said.

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