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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 5 JULY/AUGUST 2012
Reporting From the Front
Inside: Marguerite Higgins: 4 White Sands 6 Jobs for Vets She Knew More About War !an 12 Marine Week Real Dogs, Real Hearts the Men Who Fought !em 15 By Ailsa Craig
California, ma- named chief of the Tribune’s Tokyo joring in French, bureau. Shortly after her arrival in Assignment: Combat then earned a Japan war broke out in Korea. One master’s degree of the "rst reporters to arrive, she in journalism was quickly ordered out of the coun- reporters killed in from Columbia try by General Walton Walker, who Iraq and Afghanistan University. argued that women did not belong She joined the at the front and the military had no New York Herald time to worry about making separate of reporters who, in Tribune and after accommodations for them. previous wars, braved two years, per- Higgins went over Walker’s head the intense horror of suaded her edi- and appealed to his boss, Gen. Doug- tors to send her las MacArthur, who agreed with her, overseas as a war even sending a telegram to the Herald correspondent. Tribune: “Ban on women correspon- !e year was 1944 dents in Korea has been lifted. Mar- arguerite Hig- and after short stints in guerite Higgins is held in the highest gins earned a London and Paris, went professional esteem by everyone.” It master’s de- to Germany in the spring was there Higgins did the work that The Cleveland Plain Dealer assigned M gree in journalism from of 1945. won her, along with "ve male war Columbia University, In 1950, she was correspondents, the Pulitzer Prize served as a war correspon- named bureau chief for for international reporting. dent in WWII, Korea, and the Tribune in Tokyo, In 1955, she was named chief of Vietnam. She died in 1966 and when war broke out the newly-created Moscow bureau and is buried at Arlington in Korea, she was there. for the Tribune, and in 1963 joined National Cemetery. She Marguerite Higgins with Not for long, if Gen. Wal- Newsweek and took an assignment Gen. MacArthur (above) jammed a great deal of liv- and arriving at the Front. ton Walker had his way. to Vietnam. After visiting villages Vietnam: ing and working into 46 He ordered her out of the throughout the country and inter- years, including winning country and said women viewing hundreds of major "gures, a Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for interna- didn’t belong anywhere near the she wrote, “Our Vietnam Nightmare.” Korean War: tional reporting. front lines. Plus, he added, he wasn’t After two years in Vietnam, she She was three years old before going to provide separate accommo- was fatally struck with a tropical dis- she saw the U.S.; Higgins was born dations for a woman. ease that resulted in her death on World War II: in Hong Kong, where her father She was there was Dachau was lib- January 3, 1966. She was survived worked at a shipping company. She erated and later covered the Nurem- by her husband, Lt. Gen. William E. World War I: graduated from the University of berg war trials. In 1950, Higgins was Hall and a son and daughter. PUBLISHER Terence J. Uhl
EDITOR John H. Tidyman Contents 11 BRAVO 40 3 (216) 789-3502 [email protected]
4 White Sand of Tarawa ASSOCIATE EDITOR Harry Besharet 5 CHAPLAIN 5 Rev. Ralph Fotia OUTDOORS John Barbo
6 New Hope for Veterans ART DIRECTOR 6 Job Opportunities Laura Chadwick OFFICE MANAGER 7 Gerald Mason, RTA and War Annabelle Lee Dowd For advertising 8 information, call: in Westlake 9 4 Terence J.Uhl 10 (216) 912-2863 [email protected] DD 214 Chronicle 11 is published by Terence J. Uhl Principal The Uhl Group 12 Another Take on 700 West St. Clair Avenue Suite 414 Marine Week Cleveland, OH 44113 [email protected] 13 The Dangerous Veteran Phone: (216) 912-2863 14 Golf Fax: 11 (216) 771-5206 14 The GI Bill 15 Real Dogs, Real Hearts