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AnnAiipiur rue cmuc AUVANLINu 1 HE a 1 UNt A new treatment eases thepain ofkidney-stone removal. By Paul Martin 14

FREEDOM HATES AWALL The desireforfreedom toppled the Berlin Wall. By Richard N. Perle 21

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The U.S. Coast Guard sails into its third century. ByAdm.PaulA. YostJr. 24

AFTER THE TERROR

A Panamanian publisher looks beyond the brutalyears ofthe Noriega regirne. 26

PLANES, TRAINS AND ADTOMOBILES

Transportation in the 21st century will mean life in thefast lane. By Carmen Carter 28

RERUNS IN OUR SLEEP

Dreams reflect and influence our wakingfeelings. By Alice Fleming 30

INSIDE THE FOURTH ESTATE

Somejournalists abandon objectivityforpersonal causes. ByJoseph Farah 32

BAD MEDICINE

Some over-the-counter cures can be a bitterpill to swallow. ByJayStuller 34

THE NEVER-ENDING BUDGETWATCH

A Legion veterans ' affairs expert explains what to watch for. By Robert E. Lyngh 38

DOWN TO THE BONE

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings' cuts in the budget threaten vital health pivgrams. 40 DEPART1990 MENTS BIG ISSUES Should Congress Alter Racketeering Laws And Penalties? 10

LETTERS 4 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 18 VETERANS ALERT 46

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 VETERANS UPDATE 36 PARTING SHOTS 72

OPINIONS 8 LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION 44

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Census Quirk husband is a member of, not accessible spent on providing health care for our to disabled veterans? Many veterans proven Americans— our veterans! The 1 990 census is becoming a polit- were disabled during service to their Jere A. Beery ical grab bag, and people should know country. Seventy percent of us will be Newnan, Ga. what's going on. A great deal of pres- disabled in some way before death. sure is being put on the Census Bureau With the buildings not being accessible, to count illegal aliens. This means it is for All these veterans are excluded from par- VA possible for two areas having an equal "The Patient Is Critical" (January ticipating and contributing to their number of American citizens to have a 1990) states that VA health care is Posts. different number of representatives in subject to eligibility and income The cost of making all Posts acces- Congress. If one has a high percentage guidelines. I can no longer receive treat- sible would be minimal compared to of illegal aliens, then it would have ment in our local VA outpatient clinic the gain of remembering the disabled more representation based on the because I earn too much. I was in the veteran. Let's make America accessible census count. Politicians who reap the same World War II, the same U.S. Navy, and show that The American Legion is harvest think it's a great idea, whether the same South Pacific as many in the concerned about the needs of disabled it's democratic or not. clinic, but I get no VA benefits. This veterans. B. Coker puts VA medical care on about the same Pamela Azzariti Stanton, Calif. level with Medicaid and welfare. VA Lake Hopatcong, N.J. hospitals should treat all veterans. Robert Sullivan My Flag Helped Out Lowman, NY. In the January issue, you published Bravo for an excellent, timely and letters answering, "What Does the Flag important article — "Our Disposable Mean to Me?" There's not much I can Society" (January 1990) by Mary Beth Col. Maggie add. They said it all. Tears came to my Pfeiffer. All Legionnaires should read During World War II, she toured with eyes as I read some of them, especially it, act on it and help fight for a cleaner the USO entertaining troops. In Korea, those from the young people — our environment to benefit everyone on she served as an Army Reserve nurse. tomorrows. I'm a Purple Heart veteran Earth. The issue came at a very approp- And in Vietnam, between 1965-74, she of World II . I loved all of War your riate time for our little town. We have an was a constant companion to GIs. Her letters and could relate to each one. incinerator that has become a problem close ties have earned her the honorary Alonzo Essick and not the solution it was claimed to rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army's Promise City, Iowa be. The magazine article gave added elite Green Berets. In his book, "A information to support our local effort Soldier Reports," Gen. William C. Oops! to generate interest about our environ- Westmoreland described her as the ment before it's too late. "grandest trooper of all." As a Legionnaire for almost 45 years, Allan E. Anderson Martha Raye is now 73 years young, I've made a lot of mistakes, but it's Hampton, S.C. and it's time for "her troops" to easier much to spot someone else's remember her many efforts. We're mistakes! When I was in France in asking all who saw, met or were cared 1944-45, Chateau Thierry (January Reallocate $$$ for by Col. Maggie to write us about 1990, Battle Report: Belleau Wood") Millions of American tax dollars your experiences. It will be a great help was in northeastern France, not north- were spent on the invasion of Panama. in getting her the recognition she western as reported. Twenty-three Americans lost their lives, deserves. Please send your responses to Raymond A. Erdwin and 323 were wounded, some disabled 1 Midway Drive, Albany, NY 12205. for life. Piyor, Okla. Now the American people are Noonie Eortin expected to spend additional millions to Albany, NY prosecute Noriega on drug charges. Post Project Meanwhile, the disabled soldiers My husband and I greatly enjoyed responsible for bringing Noriega to Happy Writer your article "Winter's Winners" (De- justice are subjected to an under- The article, "The Most Happy Fella: cember 1989) about disabled veterans funded, outdated, understaffed, over- The Harold Russell Story, (February)" skiing in the Colorado Rockies. We loaded, substandard, inadequate, insuf- captures the true essence of this fine hope this and future articles will reflect ficient, defective, deficient, incapable, American. I had the opportunity to the insight and sensitivity of Legion- incompetent, inept, ineffective VA meet Mr. Russell at a veterans' conven-

naires to the obstacles disabled veterans health-care system. I wish one politi- tion last summer in Las Vegas. I also face. cian in this country could explain to me recall the role he played in the movie, Although many Legionnaires show why this is. This does not reflect the "The Best Years Of Our Lives."

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1991 VA BUDGET: A SMALL STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

mm | ETERANS Affairs Secre- patients, non-service-connected veter- WM m tary Edward Derwinski ans who must stand in line to receive VI showed why he is fastly care — if they receive any care at all. Mil earning a solid reputation These "categorized" veterans are B I I as a strong advocate for forced to submit to a means test to prove H I B veterans' concerns when they are unable to pay for private

Ha f jl he recently presented his medicine. Many of these veterans are mm mm agencvs budget request caught between being unable to afford wmmmWm for fiscal year 1991 . The private medical care and not qualifying $30 billion proposal is the largest ever for VA care because they earn too much in VA history, and it shows a willingness money. For example, a single VA to begin to address the ravages of a health-care applicant cannot make decade of woefully inadequate funding. more than $17,240 a year and still qual- VA's vast medical system, which ify for VA care. serves more than 3 million veterans Most of you are already aware that each year, would receive $12.28 bill- VA medical centers around the country ion, almost $ 1 billion more than current have been forced to drastically cut their spending. The American Legion is services because of budget shortages. studying the health-care spending prop- Entire wards at some hospitals have osal, but it appears the request is less been closed because there wasn't than what is necessary. Among VA's enough staff to provide quality care. suggested improvements are increased The 1991 budget proposal calls for hir- Natl Cmdr. Miles S. Epling funding for aging veterans, AIDS treat- ing 2,300 additional health-care work- ment and research, drug and alcohol ers, which will bring the total to within abuse and services for the homeless. In suffered from the classic symptoms of 100 of the number mandated by Con- recent years, the Legion has testified Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. gress. several times before the House and Robert writes, "I'm on medication However, the budget proposal would

Senate Veterans' Affairs and Appropri- for depression and to help me sleep. I divert 800 workers from their trained ations' committees, seeking improve- live on the street and eat anything that's skills to collect money due from veter- ments in those services. free. Twenty years ago, I thought I was ans' health insurance companies, bet-

The budget plan is a step in the right the richest man in the world, at least in ter known as third-party reimburse- direction— but it's only the first step. If spirit, but everything's gone now. When ment. The VA's mission is to provide approved, Derwinski's budget plan I hit bottom, I thought things would timely care to sick and needy veterans. would help meet the ever-growing change for the better. All I found out is The American Legion does not believe needs of veterans. Now it's up to our that the bottom is bottomless." VA should be a federal bill collector. elected representatives to show veter- I don't know for sure that Robert is a Another aspect of the proposed 1991 ans they, too, are committed to meeting direct casualty of short-sighted VA VA budget that concerns the Legion is a those needs. Too many VA programs spending policies, but I do know his provision to require veterans to make a have been cut because of underbudget- story is common. This is especially true 4 percent down payment on homes ing. Some programs are gone forever. for those classified as Category B and C purchased through VA's Home Loan On the day the Secretary unveiled his Guaranty program. The down payment, plan, I received a letter from a veteran which would apply to any loan more named Robert of Manchester, N.H. An than $25,000, is unacceptable in any honorably discharged Vietnam veteran, circumstance. Although many veterans he staked his claim to the American can meet monthly mortgage payments, Dream with a family, successful career they often don't have the savings to and home. A few years ago, his experi- make a down payment. This proposal ence in Vietnam began to haunt his weakens the integrity of the loan pro- sleep; he became physically ill and his gram, which has helped more than 13 personality changed dramatically. He Please turn to page 66

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should stop the continual idolization of CAN WE HAVE terrorists. I am certain this will have a great impact on their behavior. Anton R. Uchytil SAFETYAND FREEDOM? Portland, Ore. Terrorism within our country will be BHHPi§§§ N THE January issue of The American Legion Magazine, we asked the easiest to prevent. It would require W—Wj mm you to respond to the question: Many nations have stringent security a slight increase in security and a tre- desire to eliminate social wBm mSM measures. Can we have both afree society and be safefrom terrorism? mendous problems. External terrorism will be VJjHj Many letters indicated "there is no easy yes or no to the question. " Some mmWUmm offered suggestions about new luggage-checking procedures. Others extremely difficult, if not impossible, suggested new government policies tliat would toughen airport security. Some supported to prevent in our open society. To temporary suspension ofpersonal privacy rights to thwart terrorism. But others wrote accomplish this, many of our freedoms that suspending any constitutional rights would reduce us to the terrorists' level. guaranteed under the Constitution Your opinions are excerpted below. would have to be restricted or elimi- nated. If this happens, then we would be on the terrorists' level. William R. Merson Junction City, Kan.

Obviously, the object of air terrorism free society. Since some people are I believe the United States should is to strike fear into the world and cost reluctant because of fear to disclose spend more money on airline security. airlines and governments as much as terrorists to law enforcement and gov- All luggage must be X-rayed at air-

possible. Through air terrorism, ter- ernment agencies, more incidents such ports. I believe the United States must rorists vent their hatred, and gain the as Lockerbie, Scotland, could happen. use military forces against terrorists. widest possible publicity. What could Money spent on exotic and technical The United States must never give in to gain more attention than blowing a equipment to detect explosives is well terrorists. plane full of passengers out of the sky? spent. These devices act as deterrents to Ralph Blodgett The cost in human lives is beyond terrorists. However, the equipment to New Milford, Pa. any scale of measure. discover when and where a terrorist act

In addition, there are further will occur is as simple as the telephone. I believe certain common-sense expenses, including the plane itself, the There is no easy answer to terrorism. approaches to our current problems of increasing cost of security personnel, In dealing with terrorists, we should security and terrorism could be enacted inspection equipment, compensation understand their psychology and with bold and farseeing legislative paid by airlines and insurance com- reasons for their existence. They exist in action. Our Constitution and Bill of panies, and litigation costs. In the end, a free society, but their goal is to destroy Rights were specifically constructed to passengers must pay for it all. the free society and replace it with protect the individual against the arbi-

One way to deal with air terrorism is totalitarianism. This paradox enables trary rule of the majority. However, to reduce the opportunity of having terrorists to leap back and forth nowdays, this principle protects the passengers and explosives on the same between being members of a free individual terrorist or drug dealer. plane. Because of its sheer volume, society to attacking that society — sort Even though I'm a strong believer in luggage is the easiest way to conceal of like Marxist, psychotic chameleons Jeffersonian democracy and individual explosives on a plane. How about a carrying time bombs. rights, I believe because of the severe luggage-carrying "chase plane"? One To deprive the valuable members of a nature of our current problems, a tem- plane carries the passengers and free society of their freedoms to root porary suspension of the Fourth another plane carries the luggage out terrorists would be unjust. Even Amendment, "the right against immediately behind it. I can't imagine though all may seem quite right with the unreasonable search and seizure," terrorists bothering to blow up a lug- world, there are always those who feel seems in order. gage plane. discontent, and terrorism is the out- However, the suspension should have

William P. Wlialen ward indication of this discontent. a fault date clause. The suspension Cridersville, Ohio Colin P. McCauley should exist for only a short period of Leominster, Mass. time and automatically expire unless

Terrorists use freedom as a vehicle to reinstated by Congress. Again, I re- conduct their actions. In strictly con- The news media should stop calling emphasize that any suspension of any trolled societies, there is a lower rate of them terrorists because that merely of our rights is extremely hazardous and terrorist acts, compared to Europe and adds fuel to an already out-of-control only should be applicable with heavy the United States. fire. Let's call them what they really brakes and overpowering safeguards. The disclosure and discovery of ter- are: lame-brained kooks, ill-minded Heim R. Quiglex rorists depends upon the people in the murderers and deranged killers. But we Davis, III.

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The 1970 Racketeer Influ- In view of the current cor- enced and Corrupt Organi- porate crime wave sweep- zations Act (RICO) is a YES NO ing America, from insider statute run amok, and no one is beyond trading on Wall Street to the savings and its reach. Each day, many unsuspecting oan fraud on Main Street, it is apparent citizens and businesses are shocked to fraud and other forms of private sector find that they are targets of RICO. The corruption are destroying the financial law's broad civil suit provisions cast a net ntegrity of this country. so wide that virtually any commercial The 1970 Racketeer Influenced and dispute becomes a candidate for civil RICO jurisdiction. Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) expanded the federal The statute has been used in divorce, inheritance, land- government's ability to prosecute organized crime and lord-tenant disputes and in controversies among church legitimate enterprises used by criminals. RICO also has a members, but the majority of its applications are neither civil remedy. Victims of business fraud, like customers who comical nor of limited economic consequence. Most involve lost money because of the savings and loan scandal, can sue commercial disputes that are part of the complex web of for three times the value of the damages plus attorney fees. It relationships that define the American economy. is this civil consumer remedy that is being attacked by Adorned with automatic treble damages and attorney's influential segments of the corporate business community. fees for successful plaintiffs, RICO is fast becoming the legal The treble damage civil remedy was created because weapon of choice in civil litigation. And why not? All that is federal and state prosecutors and law enforcement officials required to turn a simple contract dispute into a federal lack the resources to pursue these cases. Congress, there- racketeering case is the willingness to allege that the defen- fore, sought to create, as a deterrence, an incentive for dant used the telephones or mails at least twice in either private citizens to sue businesses who engage in business forming or breaching a disputed contract. fraud. Unfortunate consequences flow from abusing this law. Treble damages are swift, certain and severe. A business People are branded racketeers simply because they have faced with the possibility of having to pay treble damages for become involved in a legal controversy. The mere threats of business fraud is more than likely to conclude the illegal treble damage awards, reputation blemishing and rack- conduct is simply not worth it. eteering suits can leverage substantial settlements on often Some elements of the business community attempt to less-than-substantial allegations. justify weakening civil RICO by arguing that, because of the Civil RICO suits are supplanting other carefully crafted prospects of treble damages, there has been a flood of abu- state and federal remedies, such as the federal securities and sive and frivolous suits filed by citizens against businesses. commodities laws. In fact, there has not even been a trickle. A large group of business, labor and public interest organi- According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. federal zations have urged Congress to enact civil RICO reform. courts, out of 240,000 cases filed from July 1 , 1987, to June

Legislation which I have introduced in the House of Repre- 30, 1988, less than 1,000 were civil RICO cases— less than sentatives (HR. 1046) and which Sen. Dennis DeConcini of one-half of 1 percent of the federal docket. And fewer civil Arizona has introduced in the Senate (S. 438) is designed to RICO cases were filed that year than the previous year. achieve that goal. We are seeking to make RICO a single- In short, these proposed changes in RICO are not reforms. damage remedy, thereby removing the irresistible lure of They are not-so-subtle efforts by influential segments of the automatic treble damages in routine commercial cases. business community that were caught engaging in white- While criminal RICO has worked well and given the collar crime to roll back the gains we have made with the Justice Department broad new weapons to fight RICO statute. At the very moment Congress should be organized crime, the strengthening laws against statute's civil provisions COUNTS, white-collar crime, it is con- are in need of major YOUR OPINION TOO sidering legislation to reform. Fairness demands Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view weaken one of our most- points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name) the enactment of our legis- effective anti-fraud laws. U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name) lation during the current The public should not per- U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. Congress. mit it.

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The American Legion Life Insurance Plan has been helping Legionnaires like yourself meet their changing needs for more than 30 years. It has not changed in cost or dedication in the time honored tradition of providing security to Legionnaire families.

Tax-free benefits include a Time passes. So does 15% bonus. opportunity.

Verified claims are processed Your personal application is on the immediately and are paid to your next page. As a Legionnaire under 70, beneficiary in one tax-free lump sum complete the application, checking the Since 1958, The American Legion check (according to current Federal tax benefits chart and indicating the number Life Insurance Plan, approved laws). Best of all, a 15% additional benefit of units you feel will provide the nationwide, has provided tens of for deaths occurring in 1990 is included protection your family will need. Mail millions of dollars to Legionnaire in the benefit chart on the next page. your application today. SEND NO MONEY now! You don't risk a cent. You don't even beneficiaries. Shouldn't your loved Exclusions receive a bill until your application is ones enjoy such protection? No benefit is payable for death as a approved and you have a copy of the result of war, if death occurs while certificate to review. What could be serving or six after within months simpler? Enrollment is limited to those Complete the application on the next termination of service in the military, under age 70 and is subject to approval of page and mail it . . . today. naval or air force of any country or the Plan's underwriter. combination of countries. . . . . A

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From 35 thru 44 $ 82,800.00 $41,400.00 $10,350.00 Ifs easy to get this extra protection . . From 45 thru 54 $ 40,480.00 $20,240.00 $ 5,060.00 From 55 thru 59 S 22,080.00 $11,040.00 $ 2,760.00

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Dated 19. Signature of Applicantsx_ GMA-300-19 (Un The American Legion offers this insurance through Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company. Ed. 1/88 E1A40S2 Home Office: Chattanooga, Tennessee Printed in U.S. waves break the stones into bits. The granules then easily pass from the body. Generated by a large spark plug directly under the patient, the shock ADVANCING waves hit with a force of 14,000 pounds per square inch. Carefully aimed by X-ray, the waves pass through the water and do not damage bone or other tissue that has a high-water content. THE STONE The Atlanta Stone Center at Georgia Baptist Medical Center has treated Thousands ofAmericans suffer from painful more than 4,000 patients since begin- ning to operate the lithotripter in spring kidney stones. But many are finding relief 1985. "Cost of treatment is about $3,500. Total hospital bills are usually through lithotripsy which uses shock waves 20 percent less than traditional surgery, to pulverize the stones. and you're not in the hospital 10 days followed by a six-week recuperation," said spokesman Suzanne Bassett. "Em- ployers love this." Effective but not quite perfect, litho-

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cent of 1 ,500 patients studied at the University of Virginia. Radiologist Charles Tegtmeyer said the method was most successful in treating stones smaller than one-fourth of an inch in diameter. He said larger stones could be fragmented, but some patients would need other therapies to remove the shards. University of Florida radiologist James Grantham found that stone frag- ments blocked the urinary canal in 27 patients out of 100 studied. Grantham reported temporary kidney damage in 26 patients caused during an hour-long shock-wave battering by an average of 1,800 waves. Lasers also are being used to remove ROCK DOCTORS -Carefully aimed by X-rays, electrical shock waves pass through the kidney stones. Dr. Tom Schoborg, a water and hit stones at a force of 14,000 pounds per square inch. urologist and medical director of the Atlanta Stone Center, administers a local anesthetic before inserting a laser stone surgery, as Larson and others fiber the size of a hair into a patient's By Paul Martin have happily discovered. ureter, a long, narrow duct leading from In November 1985, Larson under- the kidney to the bladder. During the went lithotripter treatment. She reported hour-long procedure he blasts kidney mmmmmmmmm HEN it comes to ex- some soreness in her back but returned stones into particles small enough to

cruc i atin a ' n Mary to work shortly. More important, the pass through the urinary tract. H m m § P < ||,|| Larson, a 36-year-old pain and cost were significantly less Schoborg explained, "This laser I V I I I mother, doesn't place than a kidney-stone operation. technique allows us to successfully I I I childbirth at the top of Conventional kidney-stone surgery treat stones lodged in the ureter that E the list. "I've had four requires a 10-day hospital stay and six traditional lithotripsy, using sound H j mm J mm m mm ^bies," she said, "and weeks recuperation. Lithotripter waves, can't reach. mm mm I'd rather have another patients leave the hospital one or two "Some 700,000 lithotripsy proce- mmmmmmWmmm baby than feel a kid- days after treatment and usually return dures have been performed worldwide ney stone move." to work within a week. with clinically proven results and mini- For thousands of Americans who Lithotripter is Greek for "stone mal complications," Schoborg said. suffer from kidney stones, pain has crusher," and that's exactly what the "Now, laser lithotripsy also can destroy become their middle name. However, a machine does. An anesthetized patient Please turn page new medical procedure called litho- lays in water for 30 to 60 minutes in a tripsy is eliminating this pain, as well as machine that looks like a large bathtub, Paul Martin, a WWII Navy pilot, contributes the need for equally painful kidney- as 1,000 to 2,000 carefully aimed shock frequently to this magazine

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tripsy. It can possibly lead to the treat- ment of kidney stones as an outpatient Treatment costs procedure." This could result in major savings to are considerably patients because treatment with lasers less than traditional costs between one-third to one-half less than shock-wave lithotripters. surgery— and so Patients can't be treated with litho- is the length tripsy if: • They weigh more than 300 pounds. of recuperation. • Stand less than 4 feet or more than

6 feet, 6 inches tall. • The stone-containing kidney has the abdomen to connect the patient to little or no function. the equipment. • There is uncontrolled urinary An estimated 15 million to 20 mil- infection. lion people have gallstones, although • There is a life-threatening cardiac many do not suffer symptoms. Surgical problem. removal of the gallbladder has been the Lithotripsy was developed in Ger- most effective treatment available, and many about 1978 and has been used on about 500,000 such surgeries are per- human patients since 1980. The Federal formed each year in the United States. Drug Administration approved its use "Gallstone lithotripsy patients for kidney stones in December 1984. undergo treatment on the day of admis- Since then, lithotripsy has played a sion to Methodist Hospital," Jordan major role in eliminating the scalpel in said. "The treatment generally lasts 45 stone removal and is growing in popu- minutes to 60 minutes with the applica-

larity. Experts report that more than 90 tion of 800 to 1 ,400 shock waves. In percent of kidney stones, or upper uri- most cases patients will be given mild nary calculi, can be successfully treated sedation and no general anesthetic." with lithotripsy instead of surgery. "Currently, this is an experimental procedure," cautioned Dr. Edwin ETHODIST Hospital in Indianap- Schafer, gastroenterologist at the Gall- olis was first in the United States stone Treatment Center at Bishop

1 to begin clinical trials of the litho- Clarkson Memorial Hospital. "We fol- tripter in March 1984. Since then, the low strict protocols for all patients hospital has treated more than 6,000 treated with the gallstone lithotripter. patients for kidney stones — the most Most patients who undergo lithotripsy treated by any hospital in the world. go home from the hospital the next day, The hospital also began smashing with little or no side effects." gallstones with the device in 1988, and Before and after the procedure, ©1969 CARTWHEELS NEVER BEFORE - has pure gold been added to by the end of the year had successfully patients at Clarkson Hospital are given perhaps the most beautiful of all United States silver treated 50 patients. "The procedure URSO, ursodeoxycholic acid, a drug coins - The Walking Liberty half dollar

Our bi-tone process by which 24k gold is applied to appears to be safe and easy for the that dissolves cholesterol gallstones. coins with extreme precision, creates a magnificent patients," said Dr. Lee Jordan, gastro- Once the stones are pulverized, the two tone of precious metals. These high quality silver and gold coins are fashioned by and are available only enterologist and chief investigator of URSO can immediately begin dissolv- through Cartwheels. the clinical trials at Methodist Hospital. ing any stone fragments that remain in The necklace, complete with a 14k gold filled 24" chain is $139. If possible, we would like to send a date mean- "The patients we treated are well satis- the gall bladder, according to Schafer. ingful to you between the years 1936 and 1947.

The money clip at $79 is generously covered with pure fied with their lithotripsy experience." Experts agree that the lithotripter, in 24k gold. The cost of gallstone lithotripsy at making minute granules out of agoniz- Our exclusive com cover, Lenscote II, permanently seals and protects these authentic coins. A numbered Methodist Hospital ranges from $2,800 ing gall and kidney stones, is bringing Certificate of Authenticity comes with each piece and to $4,800. "That is about 60 percent to fast relief to sufferers who otherwise all are gift wrapped. We guarantee a full refund, if on receipt, you are not completely delighted. Price is sub- 80 percent less than the cost of surgery face painful surgery. As for patients, if lect to change. OVERNIGHT DELIVERY AVAILABLE for gallbladder removal," said Jordan. Gerard Emmerich is any example, ex- CARTWHEELS Order TOLL FREE The gallstone machine uses ultra- cruciating pain is no longer an issue. 6160 N. Cicero Ave. 24 HOURS-7 DAYS Chicago, IL 60646 1 -800-441 -7666 sound instead of X-ray imagery to pin- Emmerich received 1 ,400 shocks that

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For example, of the $8.6 million spent on Legion sports programs during the 1988-89 year, Ensley Post 35 of Birmingham, Ala. spent $5,637.67 for STORIES , its American Legion Baseball program. With the 1,546 other Posts that spon- sored Legion Baseball teams, Post 35 BEHINDTHE helped players learn the importance of sportsmanship and mastering the art of hitting curve balls. 'Each and every activity a Post spon- sors is important," said Herman G. STATISTICS Harrington, chairman of the Internal Affairs Commission. "The Posts' activities mean a lot to their com- munities, and the CPR shows that, col- lectively, Legionnaires and Posts make Consolidated Post Reports detail the a difference, whether it's a blood drive millions of dollars and volunteer or a fund-raiser." While the methods of raising money hours Legionnaires donate each year aren't listed in the CPR's statistics, some Posts have creatively increased their funds for such programs as Boys State. For example, Post 403 of ORE than 270 boxes Hornbrook, Calif., rented out video filled with soap, cloth- tapes about NASA moon shots and mil-

I I ing, candy, toiletries itary space programs. Their approach jj and linens were sent to was only one of thousands used to send veterans at the Miami 18,129 boys to Boys State this past VA Hospital and the CPR reporting period, at a cost of more South Florida state hos- than $2.2 million to the Posts. pitals by Legionnaires Behind the CPR statistics are stories U of Post 222 of Ft. such as Post 222's Shoe Box Operation, Lauderdale, Fla. During the Post's Post 35 's baseball program, and Post annual Shoe Box Operation, Legion- 403's videotape fund-raiser. Your naires worked 159 hours picking up Post's story may also be among the donations and packing boxes with numbers in the 1988-89 report, which supplies worth more than $4,500. shows that Posts: Post 222 's effort is only one of the • Awarded 5,376 scholarships worth thousands of stories behind the Con- more than $2. 1 million. solidated Post Report (CPR) statistics. • Worked 197,790 hours on education Each year. Posts submit descriptions of programs. their activities, including volunteer • Donated $1,884,603 to needy chil- hours and donations, to be entered in dren and $2,226,596 in goods. the CPR. The CPR only reports on • Gave 1 15,668 pints of blood. Posts; activities of Districts, Counties, ANOTHER FRONTIER — Post 403, • Worked 2,378,304 hours of commu- Divisions, Departments and National Hornbrook, Calif., rented space nity service. videos to raise money for Boys State Headquarters are not included. As impressive as these numbers may participants. The time Post 222 Legionnaires be, they do not include all Posts. Only donated to the Shoe Box Operation and 54 percent of Posts submitted reports the hours spent by other Legionnaires uted, I know there's an individual this past reporting period. nationwide on other projects to help Legionnaire putting his back and spirit "The CPR is a forum for the Legion veterans totaled more than 1.7 million to work for a better community and to show the massive dedication and hours, according to the Legion's 1988- country." support our organization has for this

89 Consolidated Post Report. Also Because the CPR represents the sum nation. I urge all the Posts to report any during the CPR's most-recent reporting of Post activities, Legion officials cite activity you have done in the past year period, Legionnaires donated more the CPR during their testimony before to the CPR," Epling said. than $2 million in cash aid to veterans Congress to support the Legion's non- Post commanders should submit and handled more than 3 1 1 ,000 rehab- profit status. But whether the CPR is their annual reports to Department ilitation cases. used in congressional testimony or to Headquarters by June 1 5 . Address ques- "These are all grassroots efforts," said show Post members how their dues are tions concerning CPR reports to the

Nat'l Cmdr. Miles S. Epling. "Behind spent, it testifies to the everyday work Internal Affairs Commission, P.O. Box each hour worked and dollar contrib- done by Legion Posts. 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

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By RichardN. Perle

WALL WATCH -East German police killed Peter Fechter as he tried to escape to the West.

where Peter Fechter died, HE words from Robert there were thousands of floral Frost's great poem "Mending tributes brought by the people Wall" ran through my mind as of West Berlin, some elabo- I stood, more than 27 years rate ones on high stands, some ago, in the shadow of the simple bouquets on the bare

Berlin Wall, the most-dreaded earth. As they came to pay tri- barrier to freedom for the bute, the visitors, young and people of East Germany. For old, wept openly. nearly three decades, it was a The next day I bought three looming symbol of the impris- copies of the International onment of the Soviet empire Herald Tribune and two copies imposed on a divided Europe. of the West German news- I was just short of my 21st paper Die Welt and crossed into birthday in August 1962, East Berlin through Check- when I visited West Berlin. I point Charlie. An East German checked into a small bed and border guard confiscated the breakfast hostel that catered to copies of Die Welt but allowed students, deposited my lug- me to keep the English lan- gage and set out for the wall. guage papers.

The day was no ordinary Once in East Berlin, I sat on day in the history of the Berlin a bench under some trees Wall. It was the anniversary of within sight of the wall near the most infamous death be- the Brandenburg Gate-and side the wall, the death .of ostentatiously read my news- an East German who would paper, hoping it would draw never reach his 21st birthday, the attention of an East Ger- young Peter Fechter, who was man wishing to strike up a shot while attempting to scale the wall conversation. A few minutes later, I and, wounded but alive, was left for found myself talking to a man named 'Something there is hours to bleed to death as West German Walter, an East German from Mecklen- medics looked on helplessly. burg who was visiting East Berlin with As I made made my way to the spot that doesn 7 love a wall. his wife and 10-year-old daughter. Walter was an engineer who had just Richard N. Perle, an arms-control adviser That wants it down. spent six months in an East German during the Reagan administration, is a resi- prison for thinking about an escape to dent fellow at the American Enterprise ROBERT FROST the West. Walter had been betrayed to Institute in Washington, DC. Please turn page

APRIL 1990 WATCH TOWER— /Wore than 350,000 East and in East Germany. We talked about Germans, many of whom reunited with freedom, about choosing one's profes- family friends, resettled in Ger- and West sion, one's residence. He couldn't get many by the end of 1989. over the fact that I was free to travel throughout the United States and didn't the "Stasi" (secret police) by a co- have to carry an internal passport or worker who had overheard him dis- seek permission in advance. He nodded

cussing the details of his escape plan emphatically as I described politics in a with a friend. How bitterly he lamented parliamentary democracy and the role the missed opportunity when he failed of the opposition and the press. to leave for the West before the wall We had lunch together and talked went up a year earlier. some more. Later, joined by his wife

I spent the rest of the day with Walter. and daughter, we had dinner. Walter We talked about life in the United States wouldn't let me pay. "Don't give them a single mark," he said. After dinner the four of us went to the S-Bahn station so

I could get a train back to West Berlin. The platform was as far as Walter and his family were allowed to go. He asked BREAK DOWN-Wesf Germans trium- attacked began to tear down me to send him magazines, books and phantly and sections of the wall when they learned newspapers and gave me his address in that their fellow Germans were allowed Mecklenburg. His wife spoke little to enter the West. English, but she understood his request. On the train platform, she took me aside and begged me not to etched in my memory. That was the day

correspond with Walter. "They'll put I passed through the prison wall that him back in jail," she said. As the train kept Walter and his family from the pulled in, we said goodbye. We had freedom they had never known but man- spent just one day together. There were aged somehow to understand and

tears in their eyes as I left. And in mine. cherish.

I never saw Walter again. For his sake Now the wall is coming down— and

I never wrote. I've been back to Berlin for precisely the reason it was first put eight or 10 times since that day in 1962. up: to stem the flow of people seeking CELEBRATION — /t didn't take long for Much of what I saw on those sub- freedom in the West. I hope Walter, now Germans on both sides of the wall to sequent trips is long forgotten. But that in his late 50s, and his family have been react to the East German government's decision. August day, 27 years ago, remains among those thousands of East Ger-

22 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE .

IN THE SHADOW OF THE WALL

By Philip C.Clarke

THE Berlin Wall, like communism in Eastern Europe, is fast

becoming history. Chunks of it even have been sold as souvenirs. But the

wounds it inflicted on a generation of Germans and others will not soon dis- appear. In a period of 28 years, two months and 27 days, 5,000 refugees escaped over or under the 103-mile wall; 191 were killed trying. Between Aug. 13, 1961, when the 13-foot-high wall began rising, and Nov. 9, 1989, when

it began falling, 17 million East Ger- mans had been imprisoned by tyranny, fear and by what many con- tend was a paralysis of will by the Free WALL SPEECH -JFK's memorable World. "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech sym- Historians long will debate bolized hope. whether the West could have or should have prevented the Berlin Wall from mans who have managed to find their being built. That the wall violated the the city. Before the wall was built, way through the crumbling wall. Walter spirit and intent of the 1945 Potsdam Berlin's 3 million civilians only missed his chance before 1961 . It's not agreement, can scarcely be disputed. needed passes to enter or leave the a mistake he would make a second time. The agreement called for the United Soviet sector. East Berliners who

All over the German Democratic States, Britain, France and the Soviet wanted out still could reach the West

Republic (how easy it is to appropriate Union to exercise joint administration by foot, car, subway, S-bahn train or the word and how hard to achieve the of the former German capital with boat. reality) there are men and women who each of the respective military forces With despair on the increase look at the opening in the wall and ask allowed free movement throughout throughout East Germany, Berlin themselves: Should I stay and hope soon became the floodgate for a there will be genuine reform? Or should Philip C. Clarice, a Greensboro, N.C., deluge of refugees, especially after the I go now, while there's a chance? Sup- journalist, is a frequent contributor to communist regime began sealing its pose the West Germans decide that this magazine. Please turn to page 62 there are too many of us? Suppose the wall comes back? So many were caught when the wall went up. A great deal depends on how many East Germans decide to stay and how many decide to go. For the East German authorities, taking down the wall in 1989 was as desperate a move as putting it up in 1961 Even with a process under way to end the East German communist party's monopoly of political power and with a new constitution and free elections scheduled for May, East Germans con- tinue to stream through the opening in the wall. In the closing weeks of 1989, they came at the rate of 2,000 a week. By year's end some 350,000 had resettled in West Germany.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that the stream will continue. The East German calculation that opening the wall would GRIT-East German guards try in vain to stop the will of the people. Please turn to page 58

APRIL 1990 23 -

SEMPER PAMTIS

DRUG BUSTER A key mission of the Guard today is stem- ming the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.

Drug Interdiction. Our original By Adm. Paul A. Yost Jr. mission, maritime law enforcement, has returned to the forefront of *r America's list of concerns, just as it was PMf , T IS hard to imagine any r in 1790. Coast Guard units have been time in our past, especially on the front lines of the war on drugs in peacetime, when the since the early 1970s, when interdic- Coast Guard's missions tion of marijuana smuggled on ships

I-, •, have been more important H was predominant. Since then, to the nation than they are America's drug preference has shifted now, as we commemorate to cocaine. our 200th anniversary. In the past year, Americans have As our missions have repeatedly listed illegal drugs as the moved to prominent positions in the country's most serious problem. The national agenda, our methods of doing street value of drugs and the costs of business have been strongly influenced treatment, lost productivity and law by the realities of changing tech- enforcement have been estimated at nologies and budgetary pressures. At about $250 trillion annually. the same time, the values and charac- The President has pledged to stop teristics that have served us so well over 0 this scourge, and his strategy is the years have held fast and kept us on 1 directed by the congressionally estab- course. s lished Office of National Drug Control Policy. The office coordinates all fed- Adm. Paul A. Yost Jr., Commandant of the eral agencies' efforts to reduce the sup- SEA SAVIORS— Rescue operations at U.S. Coast Guard, was a distinguished ply and demand of illegal drugs. sea are still an important function of guest at the Legion's 7 1st National Although demand reduction is the key the Coast Guard. Convention in Baltimore. to stopping this plague, interdiction and

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE law enforcement are essential comple- ments. Our anti-ship operations have become more successful, and improv- ing our effectiveness in air interdiction has become a major goal. Recent suc- cesses, including some very large sei- zures, have been encouraging. We are now completing our joint air interdic- tion defense with the U.S. Customs Service, which includes the "C3I" center, a radar network and additional detection and intercept equipment on our aircraft. Also assisting us in drug interdiction is the Defense Depart- ment's Joint Task Forces Four in the Atlantic and Five in the Pacific.

As the nation redoubles its efforts to reduce the demand for drugs, I am con- fident that the Coast Guard will be victorious in its major role in this coun- try's interdiction network and in its role as linchpin between civilian and DoD agencies. NEW WAVE-Cafcfi/'ng drug traffickers off America's coastlines has forced the Environment. The March 1989 Guard to acquire high-speed craft to wage its war in places such as Florida. grounding of the Exxon Valdez and spill of 1 1 million gallons of crude oil into

Prince William Sound propelled both order and evacuation of almost 1 ,000 the nation's concern for the environ- residents and visitors. The Coast Guard it ment and the Coast Guard's responsi- As approaches was the only effective federal presence in Virgin bility for it into the national news. its bicentennial the Islands until U.S. Army Like drug interdiction, environmental units and other agencies arrived. emergencies such as the spill are Coast the Coast Guard Guard missions which increased in the The Budget. The events of this finds itself early 1970s. Although oil spills were year show how heavily Americans the major environmental concern then, afloat in a depend on the Coast Guard and demon- the threat of pollution by medical strate the value of our military-civil wastes, garbage, plastics and hazardous stormy sea of duality and the ability of each of our chemicals grew substantially during the new challenges. units to perform several different 80s. While these other threats have not missions. yet waned, three more groundings Despite increased responsibilities in resulting in oil spills occurred while the drug interdiction and environmental

Alaskan cleanup was still in progress. protection, neither the size nor budget The concerns of Americans for their of the Coast Guard have grown in this environment have come through loud have learned a great deal from it. It has decade. and clear. caused a thorough review by the Coast In the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez Guard of port pollution contingency Other Missions. These budget spill, Congress and the President are plans and demonstrated that Americans challenges notwithstanding, I am closely reviewing steps that can be may have to pay more for more environ- optimistic about the Coast Guard's taken by the Coast Guard and industry mental protection. Again, as with our future. The Coast Guard will continue to ensure we do everything reasonable drug-interdiction mission, the Coast to be needed in the drug war and to to prevent spills and respond to spills Guard's capacity as a military service preserve our environment, but other where prevention fails. Among measures was critical to the task. Coast Guard missions will remain under consideration are: crew qualifica- critical. tion and manning standards; traffic Another Disaster. As the President's For example, the Coast Guard is management including pilotage require- on-scene representative at the cleanup, responsible for polar icebreaking. In the ments; ship construction and mainte- I went to Alaska seven times last year. past 23 years, the U.S. polar icebreaker nance; oil spill response equipment; The day after returning from the last fleet has dwindled from eight ships to contingency planning and general pre- visit, Hurricane Hugo slammed into the two ships. At this time, a new ice- paredness; and new legislation for oil Virgin Islands and headed toward breaker may be provided by the 1990 spill liability and compensation. Charleston, S.C. Coast Guard cutters budget, indicating a recognition of The Exxon Valdez spill was the largest immediately began to provide needed polar regions as vital to our national American oil spill in history, and we assistance in communications, law and Please turn to page 66

APRIL 1990 "

TERROR The ouster of Manuel Noriega signals the end of a corrupt and brutal regime, and heralds a return to democratic government in Panama. But much remains to be done.

HHPBHHj T HAS been years since Panama has known G- How do most Panamanians view the U.S. intervention WBm freedom of the press, but days after U.S. military HR and the behavior of our armed forces? mm BB forces deposed Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, five When I returned to Panama, I found total consent to the HB H independent newspapers were publishing again, A presence of U.S. forces. I made it a point as a journalist mm H Largest of the reborn Spanish-language dailies is to talk to people from all walks of life and from every HH HH La Prensa, forced to close in February 1988, when possible ideological angle, and even people left of center H "., /7s offices were wrecked by Noriega 's thugs. Back on believe the U.S. forces had been a liberating army. The HH fe^v //?*> job q/ter dear// threats forced him into exile in Panamanian people are looking toward the future. HbhSH Florida. La Prensa 's crusading publisher and editor in chief I. Roberto Eisenmann Jr. , found he was starting Did the U.S. military accomplish its objectives effi- almost from scratch. "We used to be organized against dictator- Q. " ciently and humanely? ship, he said. "Now our role is to be the conscience ofdemocratic seems to be that way. The only aspect that has raised reform. Alt concern is that there was no immediate military police In this exclusive interview, the 52-year-old Eisenmann, aformer action by troops. people believe the extensive Nieman Fellow at Harx'ard and graduate of the University of U.S. Some looting could have been avoided. Yet, other experts say such Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, talks frankly about looting is normal with an operation of that sort, and the only today's Panama and its relationship with the United States. way to stop it would have been to kill a lot of civilians, which American Legion Magazine: Now that the dust has obviously would have been worse than the material losses. settled after U.S. military intervention, what are the prospects for stable democracy in Panama? Q. Did the U.S. intervention help the democratic cause in Panama? Roberto Eisenmann: I think they are very good. We Most definitely. The people of Panama sense the U.S. must remember Panama is one of the few countries in Latin A action as one of liberation more than one of invasion. America that has a long history of democratic government. We now know what Noriega had in store for us. With all those The Noriega regime was a historical parentheses in our arms deposits and the so-called "dignity battalions" political system. It was the first military regime we ever had, throughout the country, it seems Noriega planned a sort of and we hope it was the last. So, I find no difficulty in our "Haitianization" of Panama, taking it to extreme proverty. going back to a democratic system, which is our tradition of Had the United States not intervened, a lot of horrible things government. were in store for Panama and for the interests of the countries that rely on the canal. Q. What's the outlook for freedom of the press and other human rights? A Again, very good. All newspapers and radio stations Q. Critics of U.S. intervention charge that entire civilian that had been closed by Noriega are now open and neighborhoods were destroyed, especially in the Chorillo operating freely. As far as I know, there are no controls what- district of Panama City where Noriega's headquarters soever. were located. Is this charge accurate, did U.S. troops cause

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FREEDOM -Most Panamanians view last December's U.S. mili- EDONOTwontond tary intervention as an act of liberation. cannot afford an armed force. When armies have no enemies, U- Does Noriega have any information that could incrimi- nate or blackmail American officials? they turn on their own people. A He said he does. I doubt he has anything significant. He might have some files on U.S. officials partying it up in

Panama, but I don't believe he has anything major. I think if he

had, he would have used it during negotiations of his surrender.

this damage? Q- Can Noriega get a fair trial in the United States? In Chorillo, where most of the damage occurred, there A I have no doubt that the fairest trial he can ever get is in was extensive testimony from eyewitnesses indicating A the United States. that most of the destruction was because of fires set by Noriega troops. Many "dignity battalion" members were Q. Will the present government of President Guillermo seen throwing gasoline on buildings and then firing grenades Endara call new elections to reaffirm the will of the voters, into the area. as some observers have recommended?

I don't think it will. I think the people of Panama believe Q. Do remnants of Noriega's "dignity battalions" pose A the Endara government has a very clear mandate. It was any problems? elected by a 3-to-l majority for a five-year term. I don't There is still some sporadic resistance, but I don't A believe there'll be any need for a presidential election now. foresee anything major. In order to sustain any sort of There might be a need for some specific election such as guerrilla-type action, you must believe in something and specific districts for the legislature where the vote tally sheets obviously these people have no ideology. They have no were not found. project, no program and no leader. I expect the "dignity battalions" to dissipate slowly but surely. Qa Can Panama's new leadership end the corruption of the Torrijos-Noriega years and halt Panama's involvement Q. Did the United States make a mistake by not helping in the illegal drug- and arms-smuggling trade? the attempted military coup against Noriega last October? A I see no reason why it cannot. Most of the people that A I've analyzed that quite carefully. I don't think the have been named in government positions are extremely United States really had an option but to do what it did. honest people who have been fighting dictatorship for 20

On the other hand, I think if that coup had been successful, years. On the drug side, I also believe it can be cleaned up, Panama would have another military government— the same because Panama is not a drug-producing nation. It has no system with a fresh face. Please turn to page 54

APRIL 1990 27 lanes, Trains ^Automobiles I I Smart highways, 300-mph trains I and downtown vertiports—they may all be part of the solution to gridlock, now being planned for implementation in the year 2000.

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that is already squeezing Europe and cars and highways as part of the three- By Carmen Carter Japan, U.S. transportation analysts are year, $1 .6 million Pathfinder Project. studying the problem to make sugges- Definitely not your father's Olds- ETTING to and from tions to Congress. The problem has mobile, GM has designed a prototype

work in the early 2 1 st cen- spawned a number of industry study Oldsmobile Delta 88 with an on-board tury won't be anything groups, including Transit 2000 Task navigational system which, coordi- like the intergalactic travel Force, composed of public transit com- nated with sensors in the highway, will of Star Trek or the flying panies organized by the American Pub- tell the driver about traffic tie-ups and cars of The Jetsons cartoon lic Transit Association, and Transporta- chart alternative routes from maps series, but high-speed tion 2020 Task Force, a coalition of stored on a floppy disc. Smart high- trains and airplanes could business leaders and government offi- ways, also known as intelligent vehicle force the family car to take cials organized by the American highway systems, will monitor traffic, a back seat. Association of State Highway and direct equipped cars to alternate routes, The greenhouse effect, pollution, Transportation Officials. reroute traffic by changing electronic gridlock on expressways, a heavy sub- The United States, which has for the signs, and alert authorities to accidents urb-to-suburb commuter traffic and the past 30 years concentrated on building or poor road conditions. high cost of maintaining highways are and maintaining state highway systems forcing transportation planners to con- is now likely to consider a system EUROPE and Japan are already plan- centrate on moving people instead of emphasizing several different modes of ning similar systems. Still in the vehicles. transportation, as suggested by study research-and-developmental stage, Urban freeway congestion is expected groups. Congress appropriated $4.5 million to increase more than 400 percent by The specter of traffic grinding to a this past October to finance continued 2005, with a projected 10-fold increase halt puts new light on old means of research, said Roger Strickland, a staff

in areas with less than 1 million people, transportation. member of the U.S. House of Represen- according to the American Public The American love affair with the tatives Subcommittee on Science, Transit Association. The Federal High- automobile won't end in the next cen- Research, and Technology. At press way Administration estimates 200 tury, but study groups predict commut- time, GM was in the process of man- million vehicles — an increase of 21 ers will have to make more use of car- ufacturing 25 Pathfinder cars, and the million since 1987— will be using U.S. pooling, buses and new types of public project should be operational soon, roads by 2005. transportation. said Lyle Saxton, Chief of the Federal Federal statistics show drivers waste But the cars we'll drive in the future Highway Administration's traffic sys-

2. 1 billion hours in stalled traffic annu- may, literally, drive us. The era of tems division.

ally, with a loss of 1 .3 billion gallons of "smart" cars and "smart" highways is Researchers envision fully auto- gas. already upon us. mated systems with computers control- To stall the car-and-people crunch On a 15-mile stretch of the Santa ling traffic. Automakers have already Monica Freeway, the Federal Highway developed "headway control" devices Carmen Carter is a Cincinnati-based Administration, General Motors and that measure the distance to the car newspaper journalist who writes on a California's Department of Transporta- ahead and then automatically brake or variety of topics. tion are poised to test computerized accelerate.

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE FAST TRACK — /Wag/ev trains will travel at speeds of 300 mph while floating on fields of mag- netic energy. Tomorrow's cars will be equipped with computers to navigate through traffic.

The cars we'll drive in the future may drive us. The era of 'smart'cars and highways

is dawning.

around airports, and they help reduce air pollution from vehicles. The primary obstacle to U.S. development has been start-up costs: Depending on location and scope, a new high-speed

line could cost between $ 1 bil- lion and $5 billion. Trains are among the time-tested Gregory Kostelac, executive director, With no apparent federal involve- travel modes being touted anew by Ohio High-Speed Rail Authority. ment, about a dozen states and private study groups. While the average High-speed rail, pioneered by the investors have plans for high-speed Amtrak trains putter along at a maxi- Japanese in the 1960s, has come of age. rail corridors, including Florida mum 80 mph, industry analysts predict The Japanese Bullet first screeched over (Miami-Orlando-Tampa); Pennsylvania trains of the 21st century will streak tracks at a then-astounding 130 mph, but (Philadelphia-Harrisburg-Pittsburgh); from place to place at speeds of more Europeans have improved on the technol- Ohio (Cleveland-Columbus-Cincin- than 300 mph. ogy. Trains now split the French country- nati); Texas (Dallas-Houston-San The advent of high-speed trains will side at 170 mph, and Germany and Antonio-Austin); New York (New York make it possible to live in one part of the Japan are developing super-speed trains City-Montreal); Georgia (Atlanta- state but work in another, commuting capable of traveling 300 mph and more. Savannah); Michigan, Illinois and daily. High-speed trains passing High-speed trains are also finan- Indiana (Detroit-Chicago, with service through metropolitan areas can shuttle cially and environmentally efficient. to Indiana); New Mexico (Albuquerque- suburban commuters to downtown bus- They've proved competitive with the Santa Fe); Nevada and California (Las iness districts within minutes, avoiding burgeoning cost of air travel, which Vegas-Los Angeles). expressway traffic completely, said curbs traffic congestion of vehicles Please turn to page 60

APRIL 1990 29 SLEEP

about being left behind." Alice There's reason to their fears By Fleming The psychologist also explained that believe that dreams dream scripts are usually played out in familiar surroundings. For many of us, reflect |Pl| Y FRIEND Mike has a not only few surroundings are more familiar W recurring nightmare: a person's waking than school. That may explain why the

1 has to make an No. 1 repetitive dream is "the examina- I W I He feelings, the script has I I important business but influence tion dream." Although trip, but he can't find variations, the basic plot is the same: III them as well. III his briefcase. By the The dreamer has to take a crucial test. III time he remembers "Sometimes he hasn't studied for it," where he put it, it's said Dr. Irving Markowitz, a New Jer- WHrnKSsssM too late to catch his really. Dream researchers long have sey psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. plane. Mike, who rarely misplaces any- known that a great many people have "Sometimes he's studied the wrong thing, always has been puzzled by the repetitive dreams and that the dreams subject. And sometimes he's fully pre- dream. But what puzzles him even tend to duplicate each other to a remark- pared but can't find the room where the more is that several of his friends have able degree. My friend's dream, for test is being given." similar dreams. example, is a common one. Why do many people continue to An incredible coincidence? Not "It's a favorite among achievement- have examination dreams long after oriented people," said one psycholo- they've finished school? "Because no Alice Fleming is a New York City-based gist. "Their dreams about missing matter how successful they've been in writer whose articles are widely published. planes or trains may be indicative of their chosen fields, said Markowitz,

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE brood- "they may still have doubts about their developed, the woman was able to inter- day had dawned. She could stop ability to overcome obstacles." rupt her dream, wake herself and ing about the divorce and get on with Common repetitive dreams include rewrite the ending. In the new version, her life." drowning, falling, finding oneself she caught her husband's eye and sig- The concept of giving positive end- naked in a public place, or being naled him to step outside so she could ings to disturbing dreams is a good one, attacked by monsters or murderers. On talk to him in private. but few people are aware of their the pleasant side, people are apt to "There the woman told him she was behavior while they're dreaming, much dream of being loved or admired, win- sorry and explained why she felt their less capable of changing it in mid- ning prizes or performing amazing marriage didn't work," said Cartwright. dream. A more practical alternative is feats. to change your waking be- Lovely as they are, pleas- havior and outlook. ant repetitive dreams are A sales representative for rare. "More often than not, a major corporation tried repetitive dreams leave the this approach with surprising dreamers feeling worried, success. The man regularly fearful or embarrassed," said dreamed he was starring in a Rosalind Cartwright, chair- Broadway play, but when the man of the department of curtain went up, he couldn't psychology and social sci- remember his lines. When he ences at Rush-Presbyterian- took the time to study the St. Luke's Medical Center in dream, the man realized the

Chicago, and one of the panicky feelings it triggered nation's foremost dream were similar to the ones he researchers. experienced every time he The most disturbing repeti- had to make a presentation to tive dreams are those that a new client. duplicate real-life night- Determined to overcome mares. Victims of violent his nervousness, the man crimes and survivors of com- bought a book on effective bat, airplane crashes or other speaking and started prepar- disasters may relive the hor- ing and rehearsing his pre- rors in their dreams. This is sentations instead of ad lib- by no means a universal bing them. He soon began to phenomenon, however. feel more confident of his "Many people succeed in sales abilities. His panicky putting their bad experiences feelings waned and his repeti- behind them," said Cart- tive dream disappeared. wright. "Those who don't, Another man who had a invariably have been scarred by some recurring dream of being pursued by a earlier trauma that the subsequent grizzly bear recognized the threatening catastrophe recalls." DREAMLAND sensations the dream produced as the Dreams not only reflect a person's same ones that assailed him whenever waking feelings; they can influence he spent time with his father. The man feelings as well. People suffering from Recurring got rid of the feelings— and the dream- depression, for instance, tend to have dreams are by reminding himself that he was no dreams with unhappy endings. As a longer a child and that he could con- result, they awake feeling more de- the educational tinue to love his father without having pressed than ever. to cater to his every wish. For the past 10 years, Cartwright has channel to our Cartwright urges people to pay atten- been experimenting with techniques to emotional state. tion to their recurring dreams. "They're help depression sufferers revise their the educational channel to your emo- dream scripts and give them new and tions," she said. "If you watch them more satisfying endings. Her subjects closely, you'll see all sorts of things you are a group of men and women who are "Her husband responded by telling her might otherwise miss." getting divorced. that he understood and perhaps the In 1986, Donald Donderi of McGill Cartwright tells of one woman who divorce would be better for him too." University in Montreal and another repeatedly dreamed of seeing her hus- After recounting the dream, the psychologist, Ronald Brown, con- band in a crowded restaurant, and when woman said the dream made her feel ducted a study which revealed that she waved to him, he didn't wave back. relieved. Her feelings were reflected by people who had once had repetitive "The dream made her feel terrible," said the fact that as her conversation with dreams but no longer did were happier Cartwright. "She initiated the divorce, her husband ended, she suddenly saw than people who were still having and she wanted him to forgive her and the sun rise. "Common sense told her dream sequels. That may be the best try to understand why she wanted a that she wouldn't have been in a restau- reason of all for trying to understand divorce." rant at that hour," said Cartwright, "But and tune out the reruns we see in our Using techniques Cartwright the rising sun was the symbol that a new sleep.

APRIL 1990 In MY OPINION

I i INSIDE THE^D

FIUITH ESTATE

While the media have historically had a reputation for liberalism, the ideological gap between them and mainstream America seems to have widened considerably.

Los Angeles Times, he focused his ener- ledging Greenhouse's clear ethics vio- ByJoseph Farah gies on publishing sympathetic articles lation, no disciplinary action was taken about left-wing personalities and against her. earning his master's causes in the mainstream press. • CBS newsman Mike Wallace told AFTERdegree from Columbia If there is a smoking gun in the an interviewer for a Public Broad- University's graduate debate over press bias in America, it is casting Service program on ethics in school of journalism in A. Kent MacDougall, who boasted last America that he would film an enemy 1956, A. Kent Mac- year in the socialist publication Monthly ambush of American troops without Dougall began working as Review how he used the media to help attempting to warn his countrymen, if a reporter for a New York spread radical ideas. His disclosures faced with that decision. ABC anchor suburban daily newspaper. prove that committed radicals and Peter Jennings, a native of Canada, He also began secretly revolutionaries, as well as those with initially said he would choose not to moonlighting under a pen name for less-strident liberal biases, are film the ambush, but later changed his radical left publications including the employed in the media with the inten- mind after listening to Wallace. National Guardian, American Socialist tion of using their positions to push a Are the major news media politically and the Communist Party's Daily political agenda. biased? Are key decision-makers and Worker. MacDougall is by no means an iso- journalists predisposed to a liberal or The self-described socialist, who lated example of the political abuses by left-wing world view? Is the dominant says his all-time favorite journalist is those charged with the responsibility of mindset among newspaper and televi- Karl Marx, saw no conflict of interest delivering the news in an unbiased fash- sion reporters having an impact on between his career as a supposedly ion. The line between objective coverage? objective news reporter and his secret reporter and social advocate is increas- While these examples by no means life as a radical advocate. Within a few ingly becoming blurred. Consider the provide the full answers to these ques- years, MacDougall made the leap to the following: tions, they are part of a growing body of pinnacle of what he calls the "burgeois • New York Times reporter Linda evidence that suggest America is not press," landing a job at the Wall Street Greenhouse has covered the abortion getting the full story from its national Journal. issue for the paper for 19 years. Like press corps. For a while, MacDougall continued most major papers, the Times has Scholars S. Robert Lichter and moonlighting under the name of Frank written policies prohibiting writers Stanley Rothman have conducted the Bellamy. But, during the next 20 years from involvement in causes that would Please turn to page 56 as a staff writer for the Journal and the pose a conflict of interest. But that didn't stop Greenhouse from par- CLOSET CRUSADERS — Some jour- Joseph Farah, a syndicated columnist, is ticipating in the April 9, 1989, pro- nalists with pronounced political views former executive editor ofthe Los Angeles choice march in Washington. Although may be crossing the line of objectivity in Herald-Examiner. the Times published an article acknow- their reporting of news events.

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Over-the-counter painkillers, cold remedies and prescription drugs may appear to be safe. But when mixed, used in excess or combined with alcohol these medicines may cause more harm than relief.

or intentional," Bullman ByJayStuller explained. "Most of it stems from a lack of com- 7 munication and information." mmmmmmem HEIR presence in the According to one survey Bullman IL_ home medicine chest is as -Jj cited, 40 percent of the patients said Mm mm familiar as the face in the they weren't told how to take their pre- cabinet's mirror. Americans mm scription medications. "Nearly 70 per- s enc* more than $2 billion mm mm P cent said physicians and pharmacists annually on over-the- mm mm didn't tell them about precautions or HE counter (OTC) painkillers. mm side effects, and 96 percent of the These non-prescription mm mm patients didn't ask questions about the mwBmWBsL drugs ease the discomfort drugs," Bullman said. or neadaches, fever, inflamed joints and They should, because drugs can many other minor ailments. At 1 to 5 interact with each other, certain foods, cents per tablet, a remedy like aspirin is 'if alcohol and caffeine beverages. Such a bargain indeed. PILL BIZ— Americans pay more than interactions can cause discomforting or "If you're always hurting and can't $25 billion each year for medicine and serious side effects. The American sleep because of pain, these medicines other health potions. Journal ofPublic Health reports that up have obvious benefits," said Dr. Harold to half of all prescriptions don't pro- Brownstein, a geriatrics specialist at General of the Department of Health duce their intended result because Mount Zion Medical Center in San and Human Services, about 250,000 patients use them improperly. Francisco. older adults are hospitalized annually Among America's aging population, Prescription medications — from because of adverse drug reactions. the problem could grow. People older antibiotics to drugs that lower blood Some 32,000 hip fractures per year are than 65 take more prescription medica- pressure and control asthma— not only directly related to falls induced by drug tions than average 30 year olds. As the enhance life but can extend and save it. disorientation. What's been called Journal ofSocial Medicine has noted, by We spend a whopping $25 billion on the "America's other drug problem," the end of this decade there will be 35 more powerful prescription drugs. For doesn't involve cocaine or heroin. million older Americans, less than 15 older citizens in particular, such drugs "It's clear that millions of people are percent of the population, who will are familiar friends and companions. misusing prescription medications," consume more than half of the prescrip- However, when misused, even the said Ray Bullman, of the National tions dispensed. most benign medications can become Council on Patient Information and enemies. According to the Inspector Education (NCPIE). A non-profit THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GENERAL MEDICAL Washington, DC. -based group, NCPIE INFORMATION AND ADVICE. ALTHOUGH THE INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, is Francisco writer whose Jay Shiller a San promotes communication between YOU SHOULD CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FOR work appears regularly in many major health-care professionals and consum- MEDICAL ADVICE CONCERNING YOUR PAR- TICULAR CONDITION. publications. ers. "Very little of this abuse is willful

34 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Many older adults are taking four or natural production of what are known WARNING— Consumers should carefully more different drugs, what the Health as prostaglandins. An excess of prostag- read instruction labels on all over-the- counter drugs prescriptions. and Human Services Inspector Gen- landins can cause fever, inflammation, and eral's office has called "the poly- headaches, blood clots and other afflic- medicine problem." tions. Aspirin also hind- painkillers, new risks from inapprop- When these are pre- ers blood platelets from riate use are still being identified. For scribed by different congregating into clots. example, a study published in the May physicians, who may not But because prostaglan- 1 989 issue of the New England Journal of be told of other medica- MILLIONS OF dins help coat the stom- Medicine tentatively linked the pro- tions being taken, the people are ach lining, repeated longed use of acetaminophen with an potential for adverse doses of aspirin can lead increased risk of kidney disease. reactions increases. misusing to stomach irritation and Moreover, it's long been known that Even the seemingly even bleeding ulcers. prolonged overuse of non-steroidal prescription benign OTC painkillers Acetaminophen does anti-inflammatories can also harm kid- aren't entirely safe for medications. not inhibit prostaglandin neys. A panel from the National Kidney everyone, all of the time. production and is easier Foundation has recommended that the "We hand them out at our Most of it on the stomach. It can FDA require label warnings about this clinic," said Brownstein, stems from reduce fever and pain, potential problem; the FDA has not yet "but in truth I do so but acetaminophen does done so. Nor do acetaminophen labels somewhat reluctantly, a lack of nothing for inflamma- warn that long-term overuse and over- mainly because with tions, such as those doses can damage the liver, particularly information. plain, old aspirin there's associated with arthritis. in alcoholics. a potential for gastroin- Ibuprofen, which like "We are the first to admit that there is testinal and other harm. aspirin is called a "non- no such thing as a totally safe drug in Nearly all non-pre- steroidal anti-inflamma- the absolute sense," said Jack Walden, scription analgesics con- tory" drug, also inhibits president of the Non-prescription Drug tain one of three ingre- prostaglandin output. It Manufacturer's Association. "Any- dients: aspirin, acetaminophen, which can reduce fever and inflammation but thing capable of inducing changes in is found in Tylenol, and ibuprofen, may also irritate the stomach. the human body is serious medicine. found in brands such as Advil and Nuprin. Although familiarity may convey a Aspirin is serious medicine." Basically, aspirin inhibits the body's sense of safety about these common Please turn to page 64

APRIL 1990 35 Veterans update

U Health problems associated with Agent blue with an "L" prefix preceding plate numbers. "United Orange should be a priority with the Centers for Disease States Armed Forces Retired" borders the Illinois State seal. Control (CDC), Nat'l Cmdr. Miles S. Epling said in a letter Surviving spouses or parents of children who lost their to the new director of the agency. lives while in the service, in peacetime and war, are eligible "Tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans are now suffering for Gold Star plates. The red, white and blue plates display a from those medical problems," Epling wrote Dr. William L. "G" prefix before the plate numbers. Roper, who recently was appointed to CDC's top office. For additional information about the plates, Illinois "Thousands more wonder if their exposure to the deadly residents may contact the Non-Standard Plates Section at dioxin planted a ticking time bomb in their bodies, later to (800) 252-8980. develop into a disabling, even fatal disease. "Some of those veterans, or their children, have already died," Epling noted. "All of them are waiting for our govern- ment to give them the benefit of the doubt with favorable A Scholarship for the dependents of findings leading to adequate compensation." I program Epling 's comments also touted the findings of The Amer- active-duty service members has been established by the ican Legion-Columbia University Study of Vietnam Veter- United Services Organization (USO) and Anheuser-Busch ans, which were published in Environmental Research. The Inc. study found that troop deployments can be compared accu- The program, beginning in May, will offer 25 $1,000 rately with Agent Orange spray records. CDC researchers scholarships each year. Although intended primarily for have said that such a comparison cannot be made and a valid current high-school seniors, the scholarships also may be study cannot be conducted. awarded to deserving applicants who have completed high "Our study found some alarming physiological trends in school within the last four years. Spouses of active-duty Vietnam veterans that simply cannot be explained away," members are also eligible. Epling said. "Many of these problems track closely with "The Budweiser-USO Scholarship Program is yet another earlier findings about the health effects of dioxin exposure." facet of the many ways USO can serve military families," Epling offered to meet with Roper to further discuss the said USO World President Chuck Hagel. "This program will Legion study. continue for a long time because of the special commitment by Anheuser-Bush." Interested candidates should contact their local command Military Personnel Office, DODDS Counseling Center, or write: Director, Program and Council Relations, USO World l^OD Opportunities for veterans received a boost

Headquarters, 601 Indiana Ave., N.W. , Washington, DC. with the Labor Department's recent unveiling of an $8.7 20004. million contract for the National Veterans' Training Institute (NVTI), American Legion officials said. Created in 1986 at the University of Colorado at Denver, D the institute trains workers from state employment services who specialize in helping veterans find jobs, training and Because One-third of the nation's homeless are career counseling. About 6,400 people have completed thought to be veterans, VA has produced a video that tells courses at the institute. how the agency is helping those veterans and how local "The curriculum at NVTI responds to veterans' needs in groups such as The American Legion can get involved. the work place," said Joe Frank, chairman of the Economic While researchers cannot agree on the number of Commission. "Employment counselors who successfully America's homeless, they agree that at least one-third of the complete the course are better prepared to help steer veterans homeless are veterans, most of whom served during the into meaningful jobs and new careers." Vietnam War era. In recent years, VA has opened many of its In addition to training received by employment representa- domicilaries to homeless veterans, providing shelter, food tives and Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program specialists, and basic medical treatment. the institute also has developed a veterans' benefits course so The 16-minute VA video, "Reaching Out To Homeless they can better understand what other programs are available Veterans," describes its programs and invites groups involved to veterans. in the homeless issue to work with the department. The American Legion was a forerunner in calling attention to the plight of homeless veterans. At the 1988 National R Convention in Louisville, delegates adopted Res. 171, Retired military and veterans' survivors are eligible mandating the Legion to participate in homeless veterans' for special license plates in Illinois, because of a state law programs operated by VA, and the Labor, Health and Human that went into effect at the beginning of this year. Services, and Defense departments. Illinois residents who retired from active duty, the Illinois The video may be borrowed from any VA Medical Center National Guard or Reserves are eligible when they submit Library, or bought for $95 from the National Audiovisual Cen- proof of their retirement status. The plates are red, white and ter, 8750 Edgeworth Drive, Capital Heights, MD 20743-3701.

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VA system is a bargain that few can criticize.

ment health care to veterans with non- tion not to turn its back on those citi- By Robert E. Lyngh service-connected conditions. zens who were required to go to war. The Legion argues that there are The health-care industry, including compelling reasons to support VA many physicians, would like to direct

UCH like the Sword of health-care eligibility for non-service- the $1 1 billion spent annually on veter- Damocles, the annual connected veterans. One such reason is ans' health care into the private sector. VA budget hangs pre- that there are many forms of disability These opponents of the present VA cariously over the that are attributable to the experiences health-care system advocate "main- heads of veterans in of wartime service which are not easily streaming," which would provide eligi- need of medical care. identified. Psychological disabilities ble veterans with vouchers for medical Will the President and such as shell shock, combat fatigue or treatment at private-sector hospitals. Congress allocate Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder They say they can provide veterans with enough funds to ensure (PTSD) are not accepted as war wounds more economical and proficient health quality care for veterans in VA hospi- by some. care. Additional support for "main- tals? Or will the VA health budget once streaming" comes from groups that more be sorely underfunded and AMERICAN Legion Service Offi- favor "privatization," which is transfer- thousands of veterans turned away? cers today continue the struggle to ring government functions, including Opponents of a separate health-care persuade some VA Disability Rat- veterans' health care, to the private agency for veterans argue that the ing Boards of the validity of PTSD sector.

United States no longer can afford it. compensation claims. There are those The American Legion considers the Fortunately, veterans organizations led who refuse to understand and accept health-care industry's claim totally by The American Legion vigilantly the existence of psychological dis- unfounded. How can the private sector serve as the nation's conscience on abilities. provide more economical health care to

behalf of veterans. Another Legion battle is to persuade veterans when it has been unable to The Legion's position on veteran's Americans to face the fact that some contain its own already skyrocketing

health care is simply that the U.S. gov- returning veterans are unable to toler- costs? As for privatization, the Legion ernment has a fundamental obligation ate the experience of wartime service. will never agree to place the responsibil- to provide quality medical care to veter- Although visibly unafflicted, there are ity for veterans' health care in the hands ans who are eligible, in need, and who many veterans who have never been of people who have no direct interest or apply for such care. able to manage their postwar concern for veterans, other than to Continuing to inspire controversy is economic, social and personal adjust- profit from their treatment. Veterans the World War Veterans Act of 1924, ments. Medical experts agree there is themselves, through their own organi- which granted eligibility for govern- much science does not know about the zations, are more able to monitor the effects of war on those who serve. quality of care when the care is pro- Robert E. Lyngh was director of the Vet- Because of the aforementioned rea- vided by VA facilities. erans Affairs and Rehabilitation Division sons, The American Legion believes Opponents of the current VA health- from 1977 until his retirement in 1987. the federal government has an obliga- care system generally do not choose to

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Many Americans believe that veterans deserve quality care. But national sensitivity to veterans' health problems wane in direct ratio to the period of time elapsed since the last war.

benefit to a cost-sharing program. The Legion also believed the means test would create unnecessary paperwork and harrassment for those veterans who

seek medical care and need it the most: disabled veterans, and most of all, old, sick and poor veterans. In fact, for at least three years before the means-test legislation passed, the Legion had petitioned VA and congres- sional committees to develop a profile of users of the VA system, which the Legion believed would support its con- tention that most users of VA were serv- ice disabled and veterans who were sick and poor, and mostly old. Neither the VA nor the congressional committees heeded the Legion's recommendations. engage veterans in di- veterans' when they supported Instead, the means test was enacted rect establishment of the VA and subsequently VA had to concede confrontation. Even health-care though national sensitiv- health-care system. that the Legion was right. VAs own ity to veterans' problems services The American Legion statistics revealed that 94 percent of tends to diminish in knew when it opposed veterans seeking care from VA during a direct ratio to the time would suf- third-party reimburse- stipulated period fell into the two that has elapsed since the ment that this would not categories; service-disabled veterans, fer if not nation's last war, there be the end of attempts to and veterans who were old, sick and remains a fundamental in the hands erode veterans' health- poor. for care benefits. When For years, the Legion has staunchly warmth and concern ofVA. veterans by the Amer- third-party reimburse- opposed attempts to divide veterans ican people. Congres- ment was adopted, it into categories for dispensing veterans' sional support through applied only to veterans health care. For example, proponents of the years for the mainte- treated for non-service- the means test frequently imply that nance and improvement connected conditions. veterans who never served outside the of veterans programs Now a proposal in Con- United States are less deserving of seems to testify that most Americans gress calls for extending third-party reim- health care. Even disabled veterans want their veterans taken care of. bursement to service-connected, dis- have their antagonists. Some lawmak- VA opponents, however, have still abled veterans as well. ers in Washington would like to reduce whittled away at health-care programs. Once the wall was breached, the health-care benefits for veterans whose One such victory was the enactment of integrity of the entire program was open disabilities did not occur because of third-party reimbursement in 1986. to challenge. The next step in the effort combat. Veterans who have private or employer- to weaken the program was legislation From its beginning. The American sponsored health insurance must turn that established a direct charge against Legion has opposed categorizing veter- over the benefits to the VA when they non-service-connected veterans who ans as to the service performed. A vet- are treated in VA facilities. In opposing applied for VA medical care. A means eran is a veteran. To the Legion, eligibil- third-party reimbursement, the Legion test was developed to determine, based ity for veterans' benefits has always argued that VA health care was being on income, which veterans would pay been based on service performed hon- changed from a benefit program for and which ones would not. estly and faithfully in obedience to eligible veterans to a cost-sharing pro- From the outset, the Legion opposed orders, as called for by the oath of serv- gram in which veterans pay for their the means test for two reasons. Like ice. The soldier's task is to do as he or treatment through insurance pre- third-party reimbursement, the means she is told, and this is the only fair miums. The Legion believes this is not test was yet another step in changing criterion by which the service of an what the American people intended veterans' health care from an earned individual can be evaluated.

APRIL 1990 39 Down To The Bone

An already ailing 1990 VA medical budget faces more than $252 million in cuts that will directly affect needy veterans.

HILE the Legion waited for the release of the White House's fiscal year 1991 VA budget request, veter- ans faced the grim prospect of reduced health-care services because of funding cuts imposed by the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings (GRH) law. More than $158 million of the Department of Veterans Affairs' medi- cal budget was scheduled for sequestra- tion under provisions of the GRH deficit-reduction plan. Across-the- board cuts are triggered if federal agen- cies' budgets do not meet annual spend- ing targets. VA medical care is consid- ered a discretionary budget item and is not sheltered from GRH. "Once again VA health-care spend- ing has taken an unhealthy turn and needy veterans will suffer because of it," said Nat'l Cmdr. Miles S. Epling. CRITICAL CONDITION -With VA's medical system again facing staggering short- "Medical care is the most vulnerable falls in its budget for FY 1990, the Legion has called on the White House to ask for item in the VA budget." an additional appropriation to cover the shortage. VAs Veterans Benefits Administra- tion, which oversees burial and educa- tion benefits, was expected to suffer a Compounding VA's latest round of force VA to operate on a medical budget $8 million cut because of GRH. How- budgetary woes was an additional $94 far less than what the House approved ever, VA Secretary Edward Derwinski million shortfall for FY 1990 because of last year," said Chester Stellar, chair- indicated he might be able to cover the an error in calculating the salaries of the man of the Legion's Veterans Affairs shortfall by transferring funds from the agency's health-care employees. and Rehabilitation Commission. "VA agency's minor construction account, "If not remedied, reductions from had no fiscal fat to trim in the first Legion officials were told. GRH and the calculation error will Please turn page

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Box 44051, Jacksonville, FL 32231^j today! ©1989HC active the place, and these reductions will cut it to the most if funds cut by GRH are while on duty, regardless of the bone." not restored," Stellar said. "How- circumstances, is considered to have Meanwhile, California's Sen. Alan ever, reductions almost certainly will service-connected status and has prior- Cranston, chairman of the Senate Veter- lead to an inadequate amount of ity of care at VA facilities. ans' Affairs Committee, and 40 of his supplies, equipment and prescription The plan also would exclude veterans colleagues called on President George drugs." with non-combat-connected dis- Bush to restore the funds. "VA cannot In their letter to Bush, the senators abilities from receiving disability com- continue to function on this start-and- said the sequestration of funds will pensation. stop basis, with inconsistent funding "thus deny tens of thousands of veter- "This proposal would breach the levels and inadequate commitment ans the benefit of the restored programs nation's promise to care for veterans from the administration from year to and services Congress had intended for who, for whatever reasons, have year," the senators wrote in a letter to them," and also would create delays in become disabled while they wore the the President. They urged Bush to sub- the delivery of care in hospitals, clinics uniform of their country," Stellar said. mit a supplemental budget request of and veterans' nursing homes. Another OMB plan would accelerate $252.4 million to cover the projected While waiting for the administration a review of VA's disability-rating shortage. to release its proposed FY 1991 budget schedule. OMB recommended that the responsibility for determining disability It wouldn't be the first time VA has to Congress, Legion leaders and other been forced to seek additional funding observers also were concerned about an levels be assigned to the American veter- just to maintain current services during Office of Management and Budget Medical Association. Disabled rated on a percent- a fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1 ans' conditions are and ends Sept. 30. In late 1988, Legion age basis, ranging from a minimum 10 leaders and others warned that VA faced percent disability to a total disability of a serious shortfall in funding in the FY 100 percent. 1989 medical budget. Many of the Other controversial proposals also agency's 172 hospitals were forced to have been making the rounds in legisla- eliminate beds and restrict care at out- tive circles, too, Stellar said. patient clinics. As a result, tens of MB HAS One plan calls for the elimination of thousands of veterans were turned away disability compensation for veterans rated under 30 percent. for VA medical care. SUGGESTED THAT who are in the Last June, a $345 million supplemen- "That's simply unacceptable view," he said. "Many veter- tal request was approved after being VA'S DISABILITY Legion's exist on a delayed in Congress. The funds were ans receiving compensation earmarked to rebuild VAs staff levels RATING SCHEDULE meager budget as it is." and restore programs and services In that same budget category, which were eliminated because of the PROCEDURE BE another proposal also would eliminate for veterans cash shortfall. dependency allowances The Legion has often told lawmakers TURNED OVER with disabilities less than 50 percent. year's Con- that the trend of underbudgeting VA Legion delegates at last medicine undermines the integrity of T0THEAMA vention affirmed their support for the massive health-care system. A 1989 current disability-rating system, and in the IN 1991. Legion survey of the 172 VA medical Res. 315, urged Congress to increase compensa- centers showed that 135 of the facilities monthly rates of disability greatly reduced inpatient and outpa- tion. con- tient programs; 72 centers reported But the Legion's paramount budget for FY drastic delays in providing clinical serv- cerns center on the VA's federal budget ices to veterans; and 133 facilities (OMB) budget proposal that would 1991 . VA's portion of the since 1975, reported a $335 million shortage in restrict VA benefit eligibility. has shrunk dramatically vast equipment and supplies. OMB wants VA to deny disability when funding for the agency's "Since mid- 1988, almost 3,000 beds compensation for certain service-con- services represented 5 percent of the have been closed because of funding nected veterans whose disabilities were nation's total budget. Last year, VA more than shortages," Stellar said. "Supplemental not directly related to the performance funding represented slightly budgets are only short-term solutions to of their duties. The recommendation 2.5 percent of the budget. is hopeful a long-term problem." was based on an earlier General "The American Legion con- Legionnaires backed their position Accounting Office (GAO) report and that years of underbudgeting will the administration for a strengthened VA health-care pol- would affect future veterans. vince Congress and and realistic VA icy at the 1989 National Convention For example, a young recruit who is to adopt a meaningful 1991," Epling said. in Baltimore. Res. 4 urged Congress permanently injured in an off-duty acci- budget for FY veterans should and the White House to provide suffi- dent could be medically discharged. "There's no reason funding cient funding for VA medicine, and But, VA would not be obligated to pro- have to seek supplemental current Res. 314 opposed the curtailment of vide care and support to the veteran each year just to maintain a cannot VA health-care benefits because of because his injuries were not related to level of services. Veterans underbudgeting. duty. afford to lose any more ground in have rightfully "It's uncertain what specific areas Currently, any service member who obtaining what they of veterans' health care would be hurt becomes permanently injured or ill earned. " —Joe Stuteville

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Courting Old Glory. . . children's winter LEGIONNAIRE mode wormer. . . drug-detecting dog ...the Post on IV... chronicling o drove chiefs OF THE MONTH

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'hile his wife, Mabel, served jury tion in drug arrests, law enforcement duty in Grays Harbor District Court officials estimate local illegal drugs 2, Jerry Miller, Vice Commander of have shrunk by 40 percent. Post 5 of Aberdeen, Wash., noticed the

Information Network, a cable TV show sponsored by Post 37 of San Rafael, Calif., will devote a half-hour to the activities of the Post and other Robert W. Farfsing Sr. non-profit organizations in Marin County. Appearing on Community his more than 39 years Access Channel TV 36, the show will DURINGof continuous Legion member- feature local and District Legion offi- ship, 70-year-old Robert W. cials, in addition to information Farfsing Sr. has left few roads about county government and job of service untraveled. opportunities. Farfsing, a member of Post

court flags were faded. After the trial, 530 in Cincinnati, helps the Miller asked Judge Thomas Parker for elderly as the Legion representative of Eagle, Okla., spon- permission to replace the faded flag set, Tost 30 White to the Coalition on Aging Organiza- free Trial of and later, Miller and Post 5 member sored a showing of "The tion and serves as the chairman of John Randich presented Parker with Standing Bear," a movie that chroni- the "Handy Man" program, visiting s strug- new U.S. and Washington State flags. cles the story of an Indian chief senior citizens' homes and fixing gle against the U.S. government, which everything from leaky pipes to broken led to the establishment of Native Amer- steps. In addition, Farfsing also drives icans' rights in 1879. About 600 people senior citizens to stores and doctors' A\fter noticing some children in the attended the presentation, which appointments. Kootenai County area of Northern included Native American music. Four As the father of 10, children have Idaho in torn coats, John E. Smith, members of Post 38 made it to the always been, and will continue to be, Commander of Post 14 of Coeur "silver screen" as extras in the movie. an important part of Farfsing's life; he d'Alene, Idaho, decided to begin a has worked with severely disabled chil- local "Coats for Kids" program. Smith dren and is now a tutor at an elementary and other Post members began collect- Veterans at the Fort Howard VA Med- school. For five years, he participated ing coats, and this winter, gave coats to ical Center in Fort Howard, Md., will in Boy Scouts and directed a little the National Guard Armory, where be able to purchase needed electric league baseball team for six years. food, toys and clothes are annually razors because of a $200 donation by After serving in the Army Air Forces distributed to needy children. The Post Post 38 of Dundalk, Md. Post 38 VA from 1942-45, Farfsing worked as a collected more than 600 coats. hospital chairman John McDonough tool and die maker for more than 33 Sr. presented the $200 check to Fort years before retiring. He has served in Howard VAMC's Chief of Voluntary several Post positions, including Com- Ad,lding to the drug enforcement ar- Services Jim Whitaker. mander, First Vice Commander for four senal of the Twin Falls, Idaho, area terms, Service Officer for 10 terms, police, Post 7 of Twin Falls donated member of the Board of Trustees for 12 Bridger, a drug-detecting, purebred, years, including two stints as board black Labrador retriever, to the Magic president. Valley Drug Task Force. In conjunction "It seems Bob would have to have with the local schools, Bridger has been a Legionnaire for 90 years to have already sniffed out more than a dozen accomplished all his outstanding con-

students alleged to have possessed tributions. But he managed to do it in 39 drugs. Instead of facing arrest, the stu- years and is still going strong," said dents volunteered for a treatment pro- Post 530 Cmdr. Edwin Vollmer. gram. Because of Bridger's participa-

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11815 Quarter Horse Ct., Oakton, VA 22124 (703) Walter Martin, Rt. 1 , Box 37, Wykoff, MN 55990 (507) 165th Inf. Rgt., 27th Div. (Sept-West Lafayette, IN) T.J. 620-5990 352-5551 McCullough, Box 5244, Kirtland AFB, NM 871 85 (505) 1 st/51 6th QM Car Cos., 41st QM Trk. Co., Boat/Trans. 40th Cav. Recon. Trp. (WWII) (Aug-Oklahoma City) 265-0961 Corp/Bus/UMF Freight/Ord./Auto Maint & Supply/ Edward Hunt, Box 68, Covington, GA 30209 (404) 786- 170th Combat Engr. Bn. (Sept-Lake Okoboji, IA) QM Dpt. & QM Units. (Panama Canal Zone/WWII) 7508 Stewart Rhoe, 5333 52nd Ave. No., Crystal, MN 55429 (July-Pittsburgh) Bernard Midler, 3303 Harding Ave., 44th Cav. Recon Trp. (Sept-South Sioux City, NE) (612)537-7126 E. Liverpool. OH 43920 (21 6) 385-8677 Wayne Rohde, Box 6, Magnet, NE 68749 (402) 586- 179th General Hospital (June-Bettendorf, IA) Otto 2nd Arm'd Div. Arty., HQ Btry. (1950-51) (June-Wichita, 2993 Tendall, Box 61 2, Seneca, IL61360 (815)357-8843 KS) Jerry Kunkle, 310 W. Central, Ste. 121, Wichita, 45th General Hospital (WWII) (May-Lancaster, PA) 179th Inf., 45th Div., B (Aug-Pawnee, OK) Harold KS 67202 (31 6) 262-5261 Frank Zahemski, 244 Maryland Ave., Paterson, NJ Parker, 502 E. Cecil St., Waynoka, OK 73860 (405) 2nd Bn., 110th Inf., 28th Div. HQ & HQ Co. (1950-52) 07503(201)278-4543 824-6701 (Sept-Ligonier, PA) George Hoover, 234 E. Loyal- 45th Inf. Div. Assn. (Aug-Oklahoma City) Raul Trevino, 189th F.A. Bn. (Korea) (Aug-Oklahoma City) Robert hanna St., Ligonier, PA 15658 (412) 238-9425 7791 Woodchase Dr. #1215, San Antonio, TX 78240 Faken, 1613 Richway Dr., PoncaCity, OK 74601 (405) 2nd Bn., 129th Inf., 37th Div. (Oct-Rockford, IL) Lee (512)681-9134 762-2826 Augustine, 6950 W. Fletcher, Chicago, IL 60634 51st General Hospital (Oct-San Antonio, TX) Alvin 194th F.A. Grp., 740th FA (WWII) (Aug-Little Amana, IA) Rapids, 2nd Bn., 410th Inf., 103rd Div. (June-Arlington, TX) Wood, 10701 Camaro, El Paso, TX 79935 (915) 595- Joseph Rajcevich, 61 1 Owens St. N.W., Cedar Elmer Brawe, 3815 Hillcrest Dr., Des Moines, IA 50310 1736 IA 52405 (515)278-2246 53rd Ord. AM Co. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Frank Salata, 202nd MP Co., II Corps (Aug-Chattanooga, TN) Fr. 2nd/501st, 101st A/B Div., A Co. (1970-71) (July- 616 W. Bluff St., Streator, IL 61364 (815) 672-2706 William Patterson, Holy Redeemer Church, 1325 79549 56th Signal Bn. (May-Wheeling, WV) Bernard Cook, Rt. Gallia St, Portsmouth, OH 45662 (614) 354-2716 Washington) John Fair, Box 61 . Snyder, TX

1 Chittenango, 13037 (31 687-781 203rd AAA Bn. SP D Brty. (July-Akron, OH) John (915)573-2194 , NY 5) 1 1 21 (71 4th Arm'd Assn. (Aug-Charleston, SC) Samuel 62nd Arm'd F.A. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Lynchburg, VA) Jerry Mazzucco, 1 153 E. 31 St St., Brooklyn, NY 0 8) Schenker Sr, 1823 Shady Dr., Farrell, PA 16121 (412) Eades, 2312 Skylark St., Arlington, TX 76010 (817) 253-3173 342-6058 275-1556 224th Rgt., 40th Div., Hv Mort. Co. (1952) (Aug- Cliff Ave., 4th Engr. (C) Bn., 4th Inf. Div., A Co. (1951-52) (June- 65th Signal Bn. (June-Hot Springs, AR) Troy Spear, 345 Redondo Beach, CA) Dale Reilley, 1329 Columbus, GA) S.E. Kirkpatrick, 2321 10th St., Port Cherry Tree Rd., Peytonsburg, KY 42768 (502) 433- Fillmore, CA 9301 5 (805) 524-4939 Neches.TX 77651 (409)722-6378 7604 238th Engr. (C) Bn. Assn. (July-Roanoke, VA) Jesse 17403 854- 4th Inf. Ivy Div. (National) (July-Colorado Springs, CO) 70th Tank Bn./Armor Assn. (May-Ft. Knox, KY) Ashley Miller, 756 Greendale Rd., York, PA (717) Bobby Franks, 7860 Belford Dr., Colorado Springs, CO Anderson, Box 316, New Palestine, IN 46163 (317) 5169 80920(719)260-8557 861-4124 242nd F.A. Bn. (Aug-Kearney, NE) Katherine L'Heureux, 756-8727 5th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Sept-Warren, PA) Will Cook, 71st Inf. Div. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Kenneth Box 1 58, Campbell, NE 68932 (402) (May-Buffalo, NY) Charlie Spinner, 13344 Luthman Rd., Minster, OH 45865 (419) 628- Hall, 8905 Yoder, Rt. 1, Farwell, Ml 48622 (517) 588- 245th Engr. (C) Bn. 4032 9429 300 Sheffield Ct., Joppa, MD 21 085 5th Ord. MM Co. (1947) (May-Albuquerque, NM) Robert 76th FA, 11th Cav. (Monterey) (Sept-San Diego) 252nd Ord. MM Co. (Sept-Buffalo, NY) Edmund Bitka, Chavez, 329 Estancia Dr. N.W., Albuquerque, NM Howard Palm, 7340 13th Ave. So., Minneapolis. MN 51 Stearns Ave., Lackawanna, NY 14218 (716) 824- 87105(505)836-5331 55423(612)866-5974 5437 7th Arm'd Div. (Aug-Anaheim, CA) Glenn Fackler Sr., 76th General Hospital (May-Des Moines, IA) Knut 264th Sep. CA. Bn. (Aug-Sistersville, WV) James 23218 Springbrook Dr., Farmington Hills, Ml 48024 Oppedahl, Box 248, Humboldt, IA 50548 (515) 332- Dietrich, 123 Thistle Ave., Sistersville, WV261 75 (304) 9th & 10th Horse Cav. Assn. (July-Topeka, KS) Hattie 2250 652-6641 Norman, 308 E. Tefft St., Topeka, KS 66607 (913) 232- 83rd Inf. Div. (Boston Chapter/WWII) (May-So. 272nd FA Bn. (WWII) (May-Sumter, SC) Randolph Hope Fallsburg, NY) Pat DiGiammerino, 36 E. Border Rd., Sr., Drawer 5917, Columbia, SC 29250 (803) 788- 9th Inf. Rgt., Co. E (July-Egg Harbor, Wl) Donald Maiden, MA 02148 (617) 322-2754 0625 Kiehnau, 6264 Kiehnau Rd., Egg Harbor, Wl 54209 93rd AA Bn., B Btry. (May-Harrisburg, PA) Raymond 278th Combat Engrs., B Co. (WWII) (Sept-Pigeon (414) 743-4894 Gibert, 4768 N. 39th St., Milwaukee, Wl 53209 (414) Forge, TN) A. Taylor, 19 Cedar Knoll, Tuscaloosa, AL 9th Signal Co., 9th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Hazelton, PA) 463-9005 35405(205)553-7941 Charles Hodges, Box 637, Gouldsboro, PA 18424 93rd AFA Bn. (June-Ashland, KY) Willie Wilson, Rt. 1 289th Combat Engrs. (Oct-Ft. Myers, FL) 289th

12th FA Obsn. Bn. (July-West Liberty, IA) Joseph 41 1 80 329-0055 Box 61 , Webbville, KY (606) Combat Engrs., Box 06173, Ft. Myers, FL 33906 Banasiak, 6547 Nebraska Ave., Hammond, IN 46323 97th Signal Sq./Bn. (Apr-Killeen, TX) Dave Harris, 3608 290th Combat Engr. Bn. (July-Columbus, OH) Clyde (219)844-9129 Dupont Cir., Virginia Beach, VA 23455 (804) 464-051 Kiker, Box 5688, Greensboro, NC 27435 (919) 292- 13th Airborne Div. (July-Washington) Bob Sommers, 101st Airborne Div. Assn. (July-Washington) 101st 6318 8803 Patricia Ct., College Park, MD 20740 (301 ) 935- Airborne Division, 101 E. Morris St., Sweetwater, TN 291st Engr. Combat Bn. (Sept-Newport, Rl) Joseph 4747 37874 (615)337-4103 Geary, 55 Cottrell Rd., Saunderstown, Rl 02874 (401) 13th CA. Assn. (WWII) (Oct-Pensacola Beach, FL) 101st CA AA Bn. (July-Bainbridge, GA) Lee Johnson, 295-7088 Dick Olney, 100 Matamoros, Pensacola Beach, FL (July-Manistee, Ml) David 1444 Baracoa Ave., Coral Gables, FL 33146 (305) 294th AAA S/L Bn., B Btry. 32561 (904) 932-2561 666-3025 Dulinski, 1008 Davis St., Manistee, Ml 49660 (616) 14th Arm'd Div. (NY Chapter) (May-Auburn, NY) 723-4843 Rev. Prentice, Chesterton Rd., Rochester, NY 103rd Div. (WWII) (Aug-Cherry Hill, NJ) Harvey Howard 250 295th QM Salvage Repair Co. (July-Hamburg, NY) 14626(716)225-2718 Ellsworth. 8260 Moreland Rd., Jerome, Ml 49249 William Schlichter, 206 Main St., Dunkirk, NY 14048 16th Arm'd Div. (Sept-Norfolk, VA) RayTokarz, 160 E. (517)688-9249 (Aug-Seattle) Arthur (716)366-5404 Magnolia Ave.. West Point, VA 231 81 (804) 843-3306 104th Inf. Div. (Timberwolf) 300th General Hospital (WWII) (June-Clarksville, IN) 16th Cav. Grp., 16/19 Recon. Sqs. (Oct-Williamsburg, Williams, 9535 Ashworth Ave. No., Seattle, WA 98133 Austin Lutz, 1566 Meadow Ln., New Albany, IN 47150 Dr., King of (206)527-1419 VA) Frank Kozlowsky, 252 Bernard (812)944-9909 IN) Prussia, PA 1 9406 (21 5) 265-1 161 104th Ordnance MM Co. (July-Ft. Wayne, Joseph 303rd FA Bn., 97th Div. (Unit Members of WWI 17th Arm'd Engrs., A Co. (May-Williamsburg, VA) Tisanich, 6728 Marsden St., Philadelphia, PA 19135 Included) (Aug-Charlston, SC) J.W. Redding, 4310 Willard Curtis, 1 10 S. Revena Blvd., Ann Arbor, Ml (215) 333-5970 Forest Bend, Dallas, TX 75244 48103(313)662-0084 106th Station Hospital (Sept-St. Louis) Kenneth Inf. 79th Trp. (WWII) (July- 17th Signal Oper. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Asheville, NC) Arnsmeyer, 650 St. Christina Ln., Florissant, MO 314th Assn. & Recon. Clearwater, FL) George Grisafi, 3161 Lake Pine Way,' Keith Green, 139 Beechwood Lakes Dr., Henderson- 63031 (314)837-2253 So., Tarpon Springs, FL 34689 (813) 934-1862 #G-1 , Ville, NC 28792 (704) 693-1 102 112th Inf., 28th Div., A Co. (July-Corry, PA) Frank

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331st Inf., 83rd Div., I Co. (WWII) (June-Springfield, IL) Rodney Torbich. 166 Linmar, Aliquippa, PA 15001 717 Westmoreland Rd., Rt. 1, Red Oak, TX 75154 Helen Corn, 1824 N. Monroe St., Litchfield, IL 62056 (412)375-5234 (214) 576-5300 (217)324-3143 708/71 5/727/773rd Amph. Bns. (Sept-Akron, OH) Jean 37th Seabee Bn. (June-Lubbock, TX) Raymond

346th Ord. Dpt. Co. (Oct-Baltimore) Walter Martin, 3969 Grigalunas, 106 28th St. N.W., Barberton, OH 44203 Chance, Rt. 1 , Box 54, Ralls, TX 79357 (806) 649-751 Quince Rd., Plymouth, IN 46563 (219) 936-4900 (216)825-5357 70th Bn., 1005/1006th Detach., 578/579th CBMU 359th AAA S/L Bn. (Sept-Buffalo, NY) Amiel Peterson, 723rd R.O.B. Bn., MRSV (Sept-Chattanooga, TN) (Sept-Winston-Salem, NC) John Gregory, Rt. 1, Box 78 Princeton Ct., Cheektowaga, NY 14225 (716) 633- Guilford Howe, 24 N. Campbell St., Indianapolis, IN 21 2N, Nags Head, NC 27959 (91 9) 441 -3862 6504 46219(317)357-8930 75th NCB (June-Cincinnati) Dallas Evans, 4128 Hoover 360th General Serv. Rgt. (June-lrwin, PA) Edward 726th Railway Oper. Bn. (Sept-Chillicothe, OH) George Rd., Grove City, OH 431 23 (61 4) 875-5507 Myers, 1018 Orr Chillicothe, 45601 Ziats, Box 257, Marianna, PA 1 5345 (41 2) 267-3793 Rd , OH (614)642- 90th Seabees (Aug-Sarasota, FL) Barney Freeman, 369th E.A.S.R. (June-Omaha, NE) Bob Reed, Box 503. 2786 5782 Parkwalk Cir. W., Boynton Beach, FL33437 (407) Sullivan, Wl 531 78 (414) 593-2422 728th Railway Oper. Bn. (WWII) (June-Oklahoma City) 736-2859 387th Inf., 97th Div., K Co. (June-Tulsa, OK) Clarence Fred Stucy, 307 S. Webster Ave., Indianapolis, IN 93rd NCB Bn. (Sept-Baltimore) Henry Roberti, 2 Ledbetter, Rt. 3, Box 265, Cleveland, OK 74020 (918) 46219(317)359-0215 Stevens Ln., Tabernacle, NJ 08088 (609) 859-8346 358-2024 738th MP Bn„ Co. C (June-Madison, Wl) Merle Drager, 105th NCB (WWII) (Sept-Green Bay, Wl) Wayne Linton, 391st/392nd Med. Coll. Cos. (July-Elkins, WV) Virgil 102 Bridge St., Mazomanie, Wl 53560 (608) 795-2547 W818 Chrissie Cir., Shawano, Wl 54166 (715) 745- 636-1 741st Tank Bn. (July-Hagerstown, MD) Isaac Everts, 2389 Hart, Rt 1 , Box 229. Elkins, WV 26241 (304) 958

400th AA AW Bn., C Btry. (WWII) (Sept-Grand Island, 5253 Race Track Rd . , St. Thomas, PA 1 7252 (717) 369- Battle of Ormoc Bay (Dec. 1944) (Sept-San Diego) NE) Walter Anson, 642 N. Broadwell, Grand Island, NE 2070 Virgil Hodges, 102 S. Lee St., Whitehall, PA 18052 68803 (308) 382-7400 746th Railway Oper. Bn. (June-Albany, NY) Fred (215) 262-0947 401st AAA Gun Bn., A/B/C/D Btrys. (Sept-Milwaukee) Proietti, 434 Horan Rd., Solvay, NY 13209 (315) 487- CASU 12 (WWII) (Oct-San Diego) Gordon Hurst, 6409 Elmer Brockmann, 9627 W. National Ave., #3, West 6598 Oakbrook, Corpus Christi, TX 7841 Allis, Wl 53227 (414) 327-7907 749th AAA Gun Bn. (Oct-Daytona Beach, FL) Harry CVW 1 6 Sq., Airwing Staff, CVA 34 Officers (1 965-68) 410th AAA Bn., A Btry., 364th MP Co. (Aug-Rockwood, Taylor, 71 1 Calle Grande, Ormond Beach, FL 321 74 (July-Bremerton, WA) Don Purdy, 512Viewmont St.,

1 (904)672-0711 Benicia, CA 9451 0 (707) 745-1 627 , 5557 PA) Jay Houpt, Rt. 1 Box 41 , Rockwood, PA (814)926-2284 757th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Wichita, KS) Max Malcom, Farragut Nav. Trainees (June-Bevier, MO) Chester 1111 Euclid, Augusta, KS 67010(316) 775-6588 Shoemaker, Hwy. 36, Box Bevier, 63532 (816) 410th AAA Gun Bn., D Btry. (Aug-Rockton, PA) John 6, MO 779th AA, A Btry. (June-Reading, PA) Donald Ruthardt, 773-5313 Conway, Box 56, Rockton, PA 15856 (814) 583-5477 St., 1 376-061 (Oct-Norfolk, 436th Ord. M.V.A. Co. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Charles 1631 Mulberry Reading, PA 9604 (21 5) Gitmo/Bay of Pigs/All Units (1959-64) 783rd Bn. (Sept-Las Vegas. NV) Clair Whitehead, VA) Ted Dey, Box 1 1 327, Norfolk, VA 2351 7 (804) 625- Mattmiller, 1207 Manitau, Louisville, KY 40215 (502) MP 366-5851 4745 Monaco Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 451- 6401 (July-Arlington, VA) Dave 456th AAA Bn. (WWII) (May-Statesville, NC) Thomas 0565 M.C.B. 121, B Co. (1969-70) 795th AAA Bn. (Sept-San Antonio, TX) C. David MacVaugh, 249 W. Mechanic St., New Hope, PA 1 8938 Kyles, 2209 E. Broad, Statesville, NC 28677 (704) AW 872-3320 Burns, 103 Center, Maquoketa, IA 52060 (319) 652- (215)862-0552 458th Ord. Evac. Co. (June-LaPlata, MO) Lester 2165 Medical Dpt., USS John F. Kennedy CVA 67 (Aug- 809th AVN Engr. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Bushkill, PA) John Ashland, OH) Tom McFadden, 1003CR1353, Rt. 5, Gudgell, Rt. 2, Box 234, Meadville, MO 64659 (816) 938-4325 Hazuka, 144 Stevenstown Rd., Westbrook CT 06498 Ashland, OH 44805 (419) 289-7619 (203) 399-9269 Minemen Assn. (Aug-Yorktown, VA) Lyal Stryker. 8517 462nd Ord. Evac. Co. (WWII) (May-Kansas City, MO) 814th Tank Destroyer Bn. (June-Savannah, MO) J.D. Deerwood Dr., N. Charleston, SC 29418 (803) 553- Ernest Hall, Rt. 2, Box 75, Naples, TX 75568 (214) 2713 Duncan St., St. Joseph, 64507 1450 835-8221 Conner, MO (816) 279-9634 NAS Sanford (June-Sanford, FL) Chuck Fitzgerald, c/o 470th AW AAA Bn. (July-New Hope, PA) Elmer Dau, Br. Sanford, FL 820th AVN Engr. Bn., HQ/A/B Cos. (Sept-Dayton, OH) Fleet Reserve Assn. 47, Box 461 , 1249 Horsham Rd., Prospectville, PA 19002 (215) Clare Olmsted, 620 W. High St., Hastings, Ml 49058 32772(407)330-1706 643-0534 (616)945-5687 Naval Minewarfare Assn. (Aug-Reno, NV) Herb 487th AAA Bn., B Btry. (Oct-lrving, TX) Cleetus Goss, 820th Engr. Bn. AVN (July-Des Moines, IA) Rudy Lewis, Stettler, 3604 Greenleaf Dr., Santa Rosa. CA 95401 5043 Brillo St., San Diego, CA 921 1 7 (61 9) 272-5480 Rt. 5,Albia, IA 52531 (515)932-7383 (707) 545-8626 489th Port Bn. (Sept-Lynchburg, VA) Luther Booth, 893rd Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Hazelton, PA) Harry Navy Seabee Vets of America (June-Cincinnati) Robert 1 Ford St., Lynchburg, VA 24501 (804) 847-6770 Sinclair. 684 Md Rt. 3 No., Gambrills, MD 21054 (301) Metz Jr., 10683 Stonewood Ct., Cincinnati, OH 45240 503rd MP Bn., A Co. (Sept-Appleton, Wl) John Ensley, 923-3190 (513)851-3105 Appleton, 733- 335 W. Prospect Ave . Wl 54911 (414) 906th Ord. HAM Co. (Oct-Reno, NV) Frank Boston, 241 OH Dept/NCB (June-Cincinnati) Robert Metz, 10683 5286 E. Canterbury Dr., Stockton, CA 95207 (209) 477-61 67 Stonewood, Cincinnati, OH 45240 (513) 851 -31 05 534th AAA Bn., A Btry. ( Aug-Seymour, IN) Arnold 1000th Engr.Tdwy. Bridge Co. (Oct-Myrtle Beach, SC) South China Patrol, Asiatic Fleet (June-Tulsa, Ok) Rotert, Rt. 4, Box 121, Seymour, IN 47274 (812) 522- Louis Feraco, 502 Schoolhouse Ln., Willow Grove, PA Charles Tate, Box 88, Nahcotta, WA 98637 (206) 665- 7336 19090(215)657-2674 5049 537th Engr. (LP) Co. (Sept-Council Bluffs, IA) Robert 1021st Engr. Treadway Bridge Co. (Sept-Colorado Torpedoman's Mates Assn. (Oct-Little Rock, AR) Doty, 219 Locust Lodge Ave., Council Bluffs, IA51503 Springs, CO) Vernon Jensen, 4223 N. Chestnut, Ronald Curtis, 2954 Hilleman Ave., St. Louis, MO (712)328-0418 Colorado Springs, CO 80907 (719) 599-3036 63114(314)427-6140 545th Ord. HM Co. (July-Greenville, SC) A.L. Suddeth, 1061st Engr. PC&R (July-Rome, GA) Housch Doster, USS ABSD 4 (Aug-Cambridge, MA) Raymond Dorney, 37 Wallace St., Greenville, SC 29605 (803) 232-7024 1 1 4 Melson Rd. S.W., Cave Springs, GA 301 24 (404) 57 Sycamore St., Everett, MA 021 49 (61 7) 387-851 551st Engrs. HP Bn. (WWII) (June-Petersburg, VA) 777-8795 USS Adm. W.S. Benson AP 120 (July-Portland, OR) Clinton Hill, 261 S.W. 13th St., Dania, FL 33004 1289th Combat Engrs. (June-Las Vegas, NV) Dan Donald Ackerman, Box 99, Bolivar, OH 44612 (216) 574th/565th Bns. (July-Moline, IL) Angel SAW Fegley, 8651 Foothill Blvd.. Sp. 86, Rancho 874-3117 Zaragoza, 1581 9th St., San Bernardino, CA 9241 1 Cucamonga, CA91730 (714) 985-6496 USS Amesbury DE 66/APD 46, USS Bates DE 68/APD (714)889-7853 1322nd QM Serv. Unit (W) (June-Baltimore) Joseph 47, UDT 12 (June-Louisville, KY) Leroy Heuglin, 3708 593rd Engr. Boat & Shore Rgt., C Co. 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ft 45 Original Hit Recordings by the Great Stars of That Golden Era On Records, Tapes & Compact Discs

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Ralph Ware 1509 Regency Woods. Rd , Richmond. VA CO) William Greenhalgh, 654 Haggerty Rd., 23233 (804) 741-0488 Wetumpka, AL 36092 (205) 567-6566 USS U.S. Grant AP 29 (June-Ocean Shores, WA) 10th Air Base Comm. Det. (Aug-Mankato, MN) Robert Eres. Muellerleile, Rt George 8316 29th Ave N.W , Seattle. WA981 17 3, Box 79. Mankato. MN 56001 (507) 2nd Ftr. Sq., Ftr. Grp. (Oct-Grand (206) 784-7664 345-6766 52nd Island, NE) Clyde Headley, Rt. 2, Box 33, Shelton, NE 68876 USS Valley Forge CV/CVA/CVS 45/LPH 8 (Marines 14th Ftr. Grp., 351st Air Serv. Sq. (All Sqs.) (Oct- (308) 647-5136 Included) (July-Madison. Wl) Leroy Holzworth, 4702 Dayton, OH) Burt Cox, 3640 Kelso Rd., North Adams, 287-4289 10th Ftr. Sq., 50th Ftr. Grp. (WWII) (Oct-Baltimore) B.B. Shaffer Ave , Madison. Wl 5371 6 (608) 221-3073 Ml 49262 (517) Morrison, Box 1258, Riverdale, GA 30274 996- USS Walton DE 361 (Aug-Baltimore) George Duquette, 15th ADG, 2486th QMTC (Sept-Jefferson City. MO) (404) 7253 1864 White Kennel Rd., Lot 9, Burlington, NC 27215 William Shaefer, 1059 S. Country Club Dr., Jefferson 47th Bomb Sq., 41st Bomb Grp., 7th (Oct-Kansas (919)227-8331 City, MO 651 09 (314) 893-2962 AF City, MO) John Mahan, Box 232, Hinsdale, 03451 USS Warrington DD 383 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Larry 20th Air Depot Grp. All Sqs. (Aug-Dayton, OH) Charles NH (603) 336-7457 Eichman, 61 Beachurst Dr., No. Cape May, NJ 08204 Anderson, 3132 S. Harlan St., Indianapolis, IN 46237 48th Communications Sq. (Aug-Las Vegas, NV) (609) 886-0463 (317) 786-1856 Tom

Martin, 204 Laurel Ln., Coll i nsvi lie, USS Wayne APA 54 (Sept-Greenbelt, MD) John McFar- 33rd T.C. Sq., 374th T.C. Grp. (June-Wichita, KS) VA 24078 (703) 647-8593 land, 4305 Yucca St., Beltsville, MD 20705 (301 ) 937- Charles Mead, 1729 S. Erie St., Wichita, KS 67211 65th Trp. Carrier Sq. (WWII) (Aug-West 7204 (316) 686-1248 Palm Beach, FL) Hawkey, 106 Union Dr., VB 11 (WWII) (Apr-Washington) Edwin Wilson, 126 47th Bomb Grp. (WWII) (Apr-Orlando, FL) Costa Bud New Madison, OH 45346(513)996-3851 Pfeiffer St., San Francisco, CA941 33 (415) 956-151 Chalas. 67Trapelo Rd., Belmont, MA 021 78 (61 7) 484- 317th Ftr. Intercepter (Aug-Tacoma, Virginia Beach Radar Sch. Personnel (Sept-Virginia 5620 Sq. WA) Kenneth Roberts, 8310 55th St. W., Tacoma, WA 98467 Beach, VA) Joe Thompson, 7045 Bexley Dr., Indianap- 49th Ftr. Grp. Assn. (WWII/Korea/Vietnam) (May- (206) 565-4962 olis, IN 46256 (31 7) 849-4957 Alamogordo, NM) John Roth, 1017 Adams S.E., 330th Sq., 93rd (June-Castle AFB, VP 11 (1952-54) (July-Oradell, NJ) William Press, 169 Albuquerque, NM 871 08 (505) 268-2903 Bomb Bomb Wing CA) Mike Bogna, 525 Baker Ct., Atwater, 95301 Kinderkamack Rd., Oradell, NJ 07649 63rd AAF-FTD (Douglas/WWII) (Oct-Jekyll Island, GA) CA (209)358-1051 VP 812 (Korea) (July- Whidbey Island, WA) Richard Paul Schlundt, 3149 N. Winfield Ave., Indianapolis, IN 376th Service Sq. (May-Galveston Island, TX) Tex Martin, 4040 Maureen Dr. #202, Col. Hts., MN 55421 46222(317)924-1825 Walters, Rt. Box Huntington, (612)788-3823 63rd Station Compl. Sq. (sp) (WWII) (June-New 1, 1781, TX 75949 (409) 876-5166 VPB 119/VP 7 (Aug-Brunswick. ME) Frank Houle, 302 Braunfels, TX) Joe Isbel, 475 Comal, New Braunfels, 459th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept-San Francisco) Lyle Blairmore Blvd. E„ Orange Park, FL 32073 (904) 264- TX 78130(512)625-6020 McCarty, 19235 Harleigh Dr., Saratoga, CA 95070 9623 63rd Trp. Carrier Sq., 403rd T.C. Grp., 13th AF (WWII) (408)867-3160 VS-1-D14, VS 51/66 (Oct-San Antonio, TX) J.H. Robin- (May-SanAntonio,TX)AronTobiska,31 S. Holland St., 748th AF Band, 5th AF, APO 710/970 (July-Chicago) son, 5072 Polaris St., Jacksonville, FL 32205 (904) Lakewood, CO 80226 (303) 237-8995 Jack Foy, Box 3053, Chicago, IL 60654 (708) 475-4493 786-8853 72nd Trp. Carrier Sq. (Sept-Cincinnati) Edward Ginal, 877- 2865th GEEIA Sq. (1968-70) (July-Champaign, IL) WAVES (National) (July-Clearwater Beach, FL) Winnie 246 DePont Ave. , Tonawanda, NY 14150 (716) Robert Safranek, 8431 Ashley Dr., Broadview Hts., OH Donahue, 14312 Avalon St., Hudson, FL 34667 (813) 6199 44147(216)526-6525 863-4807 75th Bomb Sq. (B-25) (Sept-Denver) Jerry Berg, 6338 Helicopter Pilots Assn. (Oct-Ft. Walton Beach, FL) Kevin Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82009 (307) 632-1447 Helicopter Pilots Assn., Box 821 , Shalimar, FL 32579 76th Trp. Carrier Sq. (WWII) (Oct-Portland, OR) William (904) 862-4425 WehrSr., Rt. 1 , Box 1 93, Watsontown, PA 17777 (71 7) 538-1501 Pilot Class 56U, 3308th Trng. Sq. (Nov-Kinston, NC) Marines Bill Dyer, 1607 Cambridge Dr., Kinston, NC 28501 81 st Sq„ 436th T.C. Grp. (WWII) (Sept-Dayton, OH) T. W. (919) 527-0425 Bonecutter, 620 Randolph St., Wilmington, OH 45177 1st Bn., 28th Mar., 5th Div. C. Co. (Sept-Albuquerque, (513)382-4351 86th Air Dpt. Sq. (San Antonio/Ireland) (Oct-San NM) Bill Shadley, 601 Glenoak St. No., St. Petersburg, Antonio. TX) Jack Wait, 201 Mayfair Dr., Shreveport, FL 33703 (813) 525-1277 222-7747 2nd Marine Div. (Sept-Portland, OR) D.W. Dowdakin, LA71107 (318) 86th-72nd Air Serv. Sqdrts., 52nd Air Serv. Grp. (CBI) Coast Guard 3933 S.E. Oak St., Portland, OR 97214 (503) 234- 4242 (Sept-Johnson City, TN) John Hillenbrand, 4 Avondale, Johnson City, TN 37604 282-5108 4th Bn., 12th Mar., Mike Btry. (WWII) (July-Nashville, (615) USS Bisbee PF 46 (Navy Included/Korea/WWII) (May- 3t5th Bomb Wing Assn. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) TN) Lou Hum, 10101 Woodglen Vista Dr., Santee, CA Charleston, SC) William Fugua, 607 Branway Dr., Clarence Juett, 3057 Page St., City, 92071 (619) 448-1419 Redwood CA Richmond, VA 23229 (804) 740-9040 94063(415)366-6687 4th Marine Div. (WWII) (June-St. Louis) Elmer Depron, USS Campbell CG W-32 (May-Seattle) Walt Rettig, 31 6th T.C. Grp. (Oct-Cincinnati) Jak Smith, 8307 Roland 31 9 N. 4th St., St. Louis, MO 631 02 (31 4) 421 -0042 4680 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, NY 14226 (716) 833-4725 St., Cincinnati, 45216 761-2593 6th Mar. Div. Assn. (National) (Aug-Milwaukee) OH (513) USS Key West PF 17 (July-Baltimore) Vincent Positan, 317th Air Serv. Sq. (Sept-Cherry Hill, NJ) Al Peak, 1025 Raymond Schlinder, River Ln., Springfield, ) 379-1 8292 Rat Fremont, Wl 20 Gregory Rd , NJ 07081 (201 742 Chesterfield Rd., Haddonfield, 547- 54940 (414) 836-3333 NJ 08033 (609) USS Leonard Wood APA 12 (Navy Personnel 9365 8th Defense & AA Bn. (Oct-San Diego) Dave Blakely, Included) (Sept-Angola, IN) Dean Goranson, Rt. 6, 325th Air Serv. Grp. (Ireland/England) (Oct-San 31333 Powell Dr., Exeter, CA93221 Box 273, Angola, IN 46703 (219) 665-2690 Antonio, TX) Jack Wait, 201 Mayfair Dr., Shreveport, 15th Marine Rgt. (WWII) (July-Savannah, GA) Bill USS LST 886 (Sept-St Louis) Joseph McAuley, 89 LA 71 107 (31 222-7747 Sams, Box 193, Sylvester, GA31791 (912) 776-4640 8) Jeanette Ave., Staten Island, NYC, NY 10312 (718) 334th G-3-11/A, 3rd 155 Howitzer Bn. (1941-45) (July-Ft. Signal Co. Wing (Sept-St. Paul, MN) Leonard 984-4349 Edstrom, 104 N. Dale St., St. Paul, 55102 Collins, CO) Sam Plott, 9912 Marguerita Ave., Glenn MN (612) 222-2727 Dale, MD 20769 (301 ) 805-1 521 H-2-1, 1st Mar. Div. (WWII) (Oct-Galeton, PA) James 343rd Ftr. Sq. (England/WWII) (Sept-Sikeston, MO) O.L. Daugherty Dr., 103 Charlotte Ln., Sikeston, Young, 55 Sherman St., Galeton, PA 16922 (814) 435- MO 8824 63801 (314) 472-1380 Miscellaneous MAG 15 (WWII) (June-Reno, NV) Richard LaFono, 429th Bomb Sq., 2nd Bomb Grp. (WWII) (Sept- 22990 King Rd., Box 339, Trenton, Ml 481 83 (800) 862- Lafayette, LA) Bernard Scalisi, 322 Park Ave., 9212 Abbeville, LA 7051 0 (31 8) 893-2044 AM American Veterans (July-Chillicothe, OH) John Payne, 7305 753, Hillsboro, OH 45133 (513) 365- Mar. Ftr. Sq. 542, VMF-N/VMF-AW/VMFA/VMA (May- 454th Bomb Grp. (Italy/WWII) (Oct-Nashville, TN) SR Atlantic Beach, NC) R. Haggas, 49 Cambridge Rd., Ralph Branstetter, Box 678, Wheat Ridge, CO 80034 1500 (May-Roanoke, VA) L.W. Whitesboro, NY 13492 (315) 768-7777 (303) 422-6740 American EX-POWs/VA Marine Corps Tanker Assn. (Aug-Oceanside, CA) Dave 478th Serv. Sq., 30th Mat. Sq., 22nd Air Base Grp., 5th Hulcher, 1904 Navion St., Richmond, VA 23228 Bataan & Corregidor Survivors (Other Far East EX- Zaslow, 817 Raintree PI., Vista, CA 92084 (619) 758- AF (WWII) (Sept-Denver) Leo Feauto, Box 12, 0614 Jackson, NE 68743 (402) 632-4341 POWs) (Aug-Fontana Village, NC) Wayne Carringer, 479-6205 US Marine Raider Assn. (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) Francis 485th Bomb Grp. (Sept-Dayton, OH) Robert Deeds, Box 46, Robbinsville, NC 28771 (704) 4643 286th St., Toledo, 4361 1 726-0650 Chosin Few (Campaign 26) (Nov-Las Vegas, NV) C.J. Hepburn, 471 1 Del Monte Ave., San Diego, CA 92107 OH (419) (619)222-8030 494th Bomb Grp. (H) (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) McKee, Box 1917, Palm Desert, CA 92261 (619) 347- David Rogers, 3333 Sierra View Ln,, Sacramento, CA 4427 VMB613 (Sept-Long Beach, CA) Robert Cherry, 1 041 S. Christmas Island, Central Pac, APO 915 (Sept- Oakwood Ave., Geneseo, IL 61254 (309) 944-6444 95821 (916)487-1856 Linn VMS 3 (June-Oklahoma City) Leon Ledson, 2921 892nd Chem. Co./Air Oper. (July-Springfield, IL) Percy Cooperstown, NY) Ernest Garrels, 402 St., Benson, IL 61 51 6 394-2273 Greenon Ln., Tallahassee, FL 32304 (904) 575-6659 Boyer, Box212, Middletown, IL62666 (21 7) 445-2722 (309) 74501 (918)423-4310 931st Signal Bn. (Oct-Gainsville, FL) Troy Marshall, Navy Mail Serv. Vets Assn. (All Branches) (Sept-San 6003 Dogwood Dr., Orlando, FL 32807 (407) 277-1864 Antonio, TX) Maynard Hamilton, 5501 Seminary Rd.,

1117th MP Co. AVN (CBI) (Aug-Jekyll Island, GA) Ron #1 1 09, Falls Church, VA 22041 (703) 845-5428 Faircloth, 403 12th Ave., S.W., Eastman, GA 31023 (912)374-5703 Army Air Forces 1126/1399th MP Cos. AVN (WWII) (Aug-Grand Haven, Ml) Gerard Sussillo, 41 5 74th St., Brooklyn, NY 1 1 209 (718)748-8338

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Ct. 1 548-7561 stock #3, San Jose, CA 951 7 (408) 248-862 25045 (304) Take fX*\ 8th Serv. Grp., HQ Sq., 1 1th Serv. Sq., 482nd Serv.Sq. WWII Night Fighter Sqs. 348-550th (May-Cincinnati) (Sept-Lancaster, PA) John Heckler, 76 E. Harbor Dr., Harold Skripsky, 4296 Fox Meadow Dr. S.E., Cedar Teaticket, MA 02536 (508) 540-1303 Rapids, I A 52403 (319) 363-1111 in America. \^

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American States or any of the regional assigned to SouthCom, I was told the bodies and just keep to ourselves. defense of the Panama Canal really does not require ground troops in infrastructure dependent on the drug Q- Do you see other attempts from Panama, if Panama is a functioning and stable democracy there is trade. So it's just a question of having the extreme right or the far left to and no internal threat. honest government and stopping it. I undermine democracy and seize The internal threat, obviously, is the think it will stop. power in Panama? biggest problem. Up to now there has A We 're going to have some uncer- 0. How best should the United tainty on the extremes, but been no effort to destroy the canal. But the other thing that worries is States and Panama establish close and Panama is a country that has an absence me that friendly relations after the recent, of polarization such as we see in other when the United States has an extensive unsettling events? Central American countries. We don't military presence in the country, the tendency is to have a Panamanian coun- Well, I think it will be very easy have those extremes of the right and A terpart. Because position is because we have had quite a close left, or the extremes of wealth and pov- my one of demilitarization I believe relationship throughout history. erty. We have a very large middle class of Panama, that if maintain a very large Because of the U.S. intervention, there and the extremes are very much on the we U.S. military presence in Panama, has been a lot of communication fringes. our police force will again gradually con- between the two governments, and I vert into another military machine. expect that to continue on a very reg- Q B Does Panama need another ular basis. army, or should it only have a national police force, as in Costa Rica? Q a What major mistakes have been 0. 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In early August 1961 , the number of tanks— had the allied forces in West refugees neared 2,000 a day. Determined Berlin wished to remove them." to halt the "brain and brawn drain" crip- According to Jan Sejna, the deputy H-finG Sizes pling his regime. East Germany's commu- defense minister of Czechoslovakia when nist boss, Walter Ulbricht, flew to Moscow the Berlin Wall went up, Khrushchev HE! King Size Bide to get Khrushchev's consent to build a knew his options. Sejna, who later wall. Before dawn on Aug. 13, thousands defected to the West, said he attended a of East Berlin workers and police Warsaw Pact meeting in Moscow in early (VOPOS) began laying barbed wire. August 1961, at which the Soviet leader Many Hearing Khrushchev gambled that the West outlined a contingency plan. If the would not resist. He had history on his Western powers moved to tear down the Problems Can side. In 1948, when Josef Stalin wall as it was being erected, the East attempted to starve West Berlin into Germans were to retreat several hundred Be Helped. submission by blockading its life lines to yards in stages to await the arrival of

West Germany 1 10 miles away, the allies Soviet troops and tanks stationed outside Chicago, I li—A free offer of special inter- responded not with force, but by Berlin. A decision on what to do next est to those who hear but do not under- mounting a massive airlift that in 15 would then be made. stand words has been announced by months delivered more than 2 million As it turned out, a contingency plan Beltone. A non-operating model of the tons of food and other supplies to the was not necessary. Washington's reaction most popular canal hearing aid in beleaguered city. Then, in June was limited to a statement by Secretary America today will be given absolutely 1961, State Rusk, said: "Limita- free to anyone who sends for this free Khrushchev renewed Soviet threats of Dean who model now. against West Berlin at a stormy summit tion on travel within Berlin is a violation

Send for this model, it will show you meeting with Kennedy in Vienna. of the four-power status of Berlin." After how tiny hearing help can be. It is not a Coming only seven weeks after the Bay two days of Western inaction, it appeared real hearing aid and it's yours to keep free. of Pigs debacle, Vienna was an unnerving obvious that the communists had tacit The actual aid weighs less than an eighth experience for the young leader. permission to build their wall and con- of an ounce, and it fits completely into the "Whenever I want the West to howl," struction continued. ear canal. Khrushchev had boasted, "I step on its Whether an armed response would models are free, so we suggest These toes in Berlin." have led to conflict with the Soviets may you write for yours now. Again, we repeat, Later, at an Iraqi embassy reception in never be known. There is little doubt that there is no cost, and certainly no obliga- Washington, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail the allies' 1 1 ,000-man armored force in tion. All hearing problems are not alike Menshikov was overheard saying, "In the West Berlin had the means to remove the and some cannot be helped by a hearing final analysis, and when the chips are wall in its initial stages. Two years later, aid but many can. So, send for your free down, the won't fight for after the wall was built, a retired U.S. model now. Thousands have already been Americans said: "I have mailed, so be sure to send your name, ad- Berlin." officer in Berlin could dress and phone number today to Dept. Years later, Maj. Gen. Albert Watson equipped my tanks with grappling hooks 14712, Beltone Electronics, 4201 West II, who in 1961 was the U.S. Comman- and torn down the wall as fast as the Victoria Street, Chicago, Illinois 60646. dant in Berlin, wrote, "I am convinced communists tried to build it." In California, your local authorized that the communist leaders decided to In any case, the order never came. Beltone dispenser may call. start sealing off the East Berlin border as What did follow was an epochal struggle

62 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE between the forces of oppression and a Some missed the nets and died. The people yearning to be free. In a real VOPOS later walled the windows. Early sense, Berlin became a barometer of the escapees into West Berlin came by the Cold War. hundreds through the city's sewers-, until In late October 1961, as the com- the communists sealed them off. munists were strengthening their wall Four people made it through by with more concrete and bricks, a floodlit crouching inside a giant cable drum. An mine field, attack dogs and watchtowers East Berlin girl made fake Soviet army bristling with machine-gun toting uniforms for three of her male friends. guards, Khrushchev decided once again They had practiced the Red Army salute to challenge Western rights in Berlin. for the East German guards, who smartly East German border guards suddenly saluted back and waved their car demanded to inspect the IDs of through. One man rigged a wire and uniformed allied personnel passing pulley which he tossed off a rooftop to a through the Friedrichstrasse gate, other- friend in the West late at night, and slid to Every purchase unconditionally wise known as Checkpoint Charlie. It safely in a homemade ski chair with his guaranteed or your was a clear violation of the city's four- wife and young son. money back! power status and the allies refused the Bernd Bottger, an engineering stu- communist demand. dent, secretly built a mini-submarine Wright Arch Preserver ® Within minutes, Soviet and American equipped with a small motor and navi- America's finest comfort shoes. Hand- crafted since 1876. Choose from more tanks were muzzle to muzzle on opposite gated 1 8 miles across the Baltic Sea to than 40 styles. Sizes from sides of the demarcation line. Calling the Denmark, using a handmade snorkle. 6 to 16, AAA to EEE. communists' hand, an American staff car Later, in West Germany, he was hired by All feature Wright's fa- mous Arch-Preserve escorted by three jeeps with rifle-car- an enterprising company to mass pro- Comfort System. rying MPs, drove past the trigger-tense duce his mini-sub for sport and rescue East German guards into the Soviet sec- operations. tor. The jeeps then returned, leaving the Werner Pool, an American GI, came staff to re-enter the U.S. sector alone. to the rescue of a refugee who had car young WaU^Ovef Again, it was halted on the communist been shot and wounded by guards in a American classics for side, and again the MPs in their jeeps border "death strip." As the VOPOS than a century, Walk-Overs' sped to the scene. After several minutes carried him away, Pool shouted in Ger- casuals combine top quality and outstand- of forthright discussion, the staff car was man, "Let the boy go!" A West Berlin ing comfort 8 to 14, AA to EEE released and the threat of a crisis sub- policeman nearby reinforced Pool. The sided. The communists had blinked first. VOPOS released the boy and he crawled "We are defending the freedom of to freedom into the West. A grateful West Paris, London and New York when Berlin Mayor, Willy Brandt, presented B new balance America's only advanced standing up for freedom in Berlin," Ken- Pvt. Pool with a special citation. line of athletic shoes nedy later would proclaim. Two years President Ronald Reagan's address at available in hard- to-find sizes. 7 to later, Kennedy came to West Berlin the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987, 16, AA toEEEE where he delivered his famous pro- contained this challenge: "General Secre-

nouncement: "Ich bin ein Berliner, (I am a tary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you Berliner.) There are many people in the seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and SEBAGO Comfortable casuals from world who really don't understand, or Eastern Europe, if you seek liberaliza- Maine's finest handsewers say they don't, what is the great issue tion, come here to this gate! Mr. Gor- for more than 100 years 6V2 to 16, AAA to EEE between the Free World and the com- bachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, munist world. Let them come to Berlin. tear down this wall!"

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The FDA has continually reviewed Non-Surgical the effectiveness and safety of OTC analgesics for nearly two decades, and according to FDA spokesperson Susan Cruzan, "It's pretty clear that we will Solution be requiring more detailed warnings on analgesic packaging." "We have a saying in our industry, For Impotence said Walden, "that the most important commodity we market, perhaps more so than the medicine, is information. Simple, effective and safe, And no treatment has proven to be Everything depends on the proper use." ErecAid System® can put safer in over 15 years of use. But do people actually read and impotence in your past with- ErecAid System is medically understand the labels that come with out the risk and expense of surgery approved and available with a OTC medicines? In one study, 62 per- or drugs. excellent first step, prescription for An under S400. When cent of the people could not correctly ErecAid System may be the only medically necessary, ErecAid identify the active ingredient in the step you will ever have to take. System is approved for reimburse- brand of painkiller they take most often. ment by some Medicare and com- A SIMPLE NATURAL-LIKE According to experts, that is not mercial insurance carriers. METHOD, EFFECTIVE AND unusual. For more information call SAFE ErecAid System mimics the Many consumers may not realize our Toll-Free Information Line natural process more closely than that a variety of other OTC drugs con- 1-800-438-8592 -U.S. any other technique and can end tain analgesics. For example, Alka- 1-800-356-4676— Canada the worry of impotence. Thou- Seltzer is an aspirin product. Coricidin sands of users have found the Osbon Medical Systems decongestant tablets contain P.O. Drawer 1478, Dept. 20 Osbon Technique of vacuum ther- acetaminophen, as do several liquid apy greater effective. Augusta, GA 30903 than 90% cough and cold medications. These medications work all right alone, but mixing these OTC drugs could cause problems. For example, ErecAid System ibuprofen labels warn that the drug should not be taken along with by Osbon acetaminophen and aspirin. You should always carefully read the THE LEADING CHOICE IN IMPOTENCE MANAGEMENT label and follow the instructions of any medication. With more potent prescrip- tion medications, such information is even more important. Both prescription and non-prescription drugs can interact with each other, in some cases creating serious medical problems. According to the American Pharmaceutical Associa- tion, cigarettes can diminish the effec- tiveness of certain drugs, or create added side-effect hazards with others, as do some foods and beverages. For example, the antihistamines used to combat the symptoms of colds, hay fever and other allergies should not be taken with alcohol. The combination can cause extreme drowsiness and slow reactions. While taking bron- chodilators for asthma, bronchitis and emphysema, one should avoid bever- ages and foods with caffeine. Because both the brochodilators and caffeine stimulate the central nervous system, the mix could trigger a severe case of nervousness. The anti-inflammatories taken for

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The formula is marketed in tablet form in Americans because VA-backed interest salaries for health-care workers (see the United States under the trade name Cal- rates often set the standard for commer- article, page 38). The Legion is urging Ban 3000. A firm located in Tampa, Florida, cial mortgage loans. Congress to restore these funds through has exclusive North American distribution A related proposal also would supplemental appropriations. rights. A review of the customer files of this increase the home-loan indemnifica- But veterans should not have to go company revealed the names of hundreds of tion fee from 1 .25 percent to 1 .75 per- in people who have lost up to 10 pounds the first hat hand before lawmakers each year week and as much as 20, 40 or 60 or more cent of the loan. That increase would to obtain their entitlements and bene- pounds overall with Cal-Ban 3000. This is a raise the price of $75,000 homes to fits, bestowed upon them by a grateful golden opportunity for people who are plagued $76,312. nation in return for their sacrifices by fat and cellulite that they can't seem to lose One area of great concern to the while in uniform. In many ways, the by conventional methods. Legion is that VA plans to explore budget proposal heralds a new begin- Cal-Ban 3000 is reasonably priced at $19.95 fair for a 3-week supply and $38.95 for a 6-week future health-care share agreements ning in the and realistic treatment supply. Postage and handling is $3. To assure between the agency and Department of of veterans' needs. Veterans have been fastest service, orders are accepted by toll- Defense (DoD) hospitals. Currently, steadily losing ground in their fight for free phone only. VISA, Master Card, Amex VA and military facilities have agree- their rightful share of the overall budget and CO. D. orders are accepted. C.O.D.'s are ments to share specialized equipment for the past 10 years. Although the $2.00 extra. Orders may be placed by calling Anderson Pharmacals TOLL-FREE and services. The Legion is not budgetary process for fiscal year 1991 travel it's 1-800-255-5947. During this special phone opposed to such agreements, in princi- has a long road to before order promotion purchasers of a six-week sup- ple, as long as they are limited to the final, The American Legion will be ply of Cal-Ban 3000 will receive, absolutely sharing of resources. We're concerned there every step of the way to ensure free, a beautiful 24" double strand necklace of that some want to take the process a that veterans' concerns are heard and sparkling Chinese Faux pearls. step further and eventually have VA and understood. But it does seem a shame Call today to begin the pleasant transforma- DoD operate under the same medical that America's defenders have to fight tion from fat and flab to the slender firm body aegis. intent and their own government every year just to you want! If you fail to achieve a major weight This would destroy the loss you may return the empty bottle for a value of the entire VA medical system. get what was promised when the nation 100% refund. In looking ahead to the FY 1991 was in harm's way.

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