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THE AMERICAN

JUNE 1978 Volume 104, Number 6 National Commander Robert Charles Smith

LEGION CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers, please notify Circulation Dept., MAGAZINE JUNE 1978 P. O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206 using Form 3578 which is available at your local post office. Attach old address label and Table of Contents give old and new addresses with ZIP Code number and current membership card num- ber. Also, notify your Post Adjutant or other COMMANDER'S MESSAGE: PROTECT OUR YOUTH 6 officer charged with such responsibilities. National Cdr. Smith backs fight on drug, alcohol douse The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Publication Offices 1608 "K" Street, N. W. THE BELL THAT WON'T BE SILENT 8 Washington, DC 20006 202-393-4811 Advertising Dept. 202-347-7647 'RED ONE' SPANS GENERATIONS 10 (New York direct line) 212-586-3460 Famed First Division led the way in WWI, WWII and Vietnam Office of Publisher 342 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10017 SO PROUDLY WE HAIL 14 212-682-8982 Old Glory is making a comeback as another Flag Day nears Advertising Sales Bassinette/White Co. POTOMAC STILL ECHOES PRAISE OF WASHINGTON . 16 50 E. 42nd St., New York, NY 10017 Cannons roar and flags dip in on-going tribute to Washington Tel. 212-986-6210 Representing: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Fox Associates, Inc. SOVIET ARMS GAINS SEEN , 18 200 E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL, 60611 Former negotiator Paul Nitze warns of concessions to Moscow Tel. 312-649-1650 Representing: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, OFF THE HIGHWAY: MARSHALL, Ml 20 Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Her old dreams have died, but bit of Americana survives N. Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, S. Carolina, Florida. WHEN 'CONUS' SPELLED HOME! 22 Robert Redden Assoc., Inc. Teaneck, 07666 Air-Evac nurse recalls wounded who left Vietnam P.O. Box 999, NJ, Tel. 201-837-5511 Representing: New York, New Jersey, Connect- icut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District THE LEGACY OF THE THIRTIES 24 of Columbia. POW hero delivers a message to his old school—and aU graduates Jules E. Thompson, Inc. 1111 Hearst Bldg., San Francisco, CA, 94103 Tel. 415-362-8547 SHOULD CONGRESS APPROVE TUITION CREDITS?. ... .26 Via 2560 Tejon, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 Tel. 213-378-8361 PRO: Sen. William V. Roth Jr. (R-DE) CON: Dr. Ernest L. Boyer, Representing: Washington, Oregon, , U.S. Commissioner of Education Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Col- orado, Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, Columbia. TAVERNS WERE BEACONS IN COLONIAL AMERICA 28 British

Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor and Associate Publisher, Raymond J. McHugh Photo Credits Production Manager, John A. Stanley Managing Editor, Frank Kuest The First Division Monument on Senior Editor, Grail S. Hanford Kramer the grounds of the President's Park Legion News Editor, Rex C. Art Editor, Walter H. Boll of the White House in Washington Advertising Coordinators has been expanded to include a tribute Darlene Thomas and Joanna Adamus Publisher, to those of 'The Big Red One' who Circulation Manager and Assistant Dean B. Nelson, Indianapolis, IN fell in Vietnam. Department In- of The American Legion Magazine Commission: terior cover photo captures spring- Milford A. Forrester, Greenville, SC (Chairman) time splendor of monument. Adolph Bremer, Winona MN (Vice Chairman); James R. Kelley, Devon, PA (National Commander's Repre- Other photo credits include Mrs. Ben H. sentative); Billy Anderson, Miami, FL; Norman Bie- Comiskey, Jr.; Shirley Starbuck, U.S. Army bel, Belleville, IL; Andrew J. Cooper, Gulf Shores, Photograph, Jerry Martineau, Black Star/ AL; John J. Dunn, Sr., Scranton, PA; Raymond Dennis Brack, UPI, Marshall. Michigan His- Fields, Oklahoma City, OK; Frank J. Holcshuh, toric Homes, U.S. Air Force Photographs, Youngstown, OH; Eugene Kelley, Savannah, GA; John Martinez, Adm. James B. Stockdale, James V. Kissner, Palatine, IL; Keith A. Kreul, Fen- The Bettmann Archive, Culver Photos, Peg- nimore, WI; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, 1A; gy Deely, American Legion News Service/ Loyd McDermott, Benton, AR; Morris Meyer, Stark- Dave Spaner, San Diego Padres, Louisiana ville, MS; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, LA; Bruce Superdome, Harrisburg, PA Register. E. Penny, Seattle, WA; Floyd J. Rogers. Topeka,

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pervisory jobs beyond their capacity. NOTES ON Reforms are needed. W. H. Pusch OUR DESK Houston, TX Sir: During Capt. Shreve's heydey on the Mississippi (March issue), New Albany, IN ranked second only to in boat building. It was Letters to the Editor sir: Congratulations on the March at New Albany that the Robert E. perse- article on Gen. Pershing. His Lee, fastest boat on the river, and sir: The April article "The Soviet verance and courage should be an the 365-foot Eclipse, the largest, Line on Panama" should be required example. were built. Alan D. Stephens reading for every member of Con- M. J. M. Bigg New Albany, IN gress. We all owe a vote of thanks Tigard, OB its magazine for to the Legion and Sir: It's never too late. I just saw a public such is- enlightening the on sir: Your March article on Gen. WW II picture of a damaged B-17 sues. Joseph H. Lesh Pershing highlighted his nickname bomber that was printed in your Princeton, IN "Black Jack," but did not point out November 1972 issue. I was the pilot that he got it because he commanded of that plane, but I want it sir: After more than 50 years in the known black soldiers at one time. As an that without the courage, coolness Legion this is my first letter to the American who happens to be black, and skill of my co-pilot, Lt. E. editor. I do not understand the sen- John I'm of this part of the Per- Booth of the 100th ators who voted for the Panama proud Bomb Group (H), shing story. , there treaties when they have sworn to was no way George E. Evans that airplane could have act for the good of the nation. Ev- been landed Penns Grove, safely. But for our ery one of them should be defeated NY him crew would not have survived. at the polls. S. M. Heffner Hawthorn, PA Sir: I enjoyed Dr. William Carter's Frank E. Valesh February article, but I disagree with St. Paul, MN sir : The Panama treaties circumvent his view that the Constitution guar- Sir: the Constitution. The Constitution antees democracy in America. The Enjoyed the February story on the Nazi requires the consent of Congress, not Constitution states we are a Republic. attack on Aruba. I met the merely the Senate, for disposal of Neither the U.S. Constitution, the German Paul Just in early 1945 Canal Zone property. Declaration of Independence nor the when he was commander of the U-546. J. Ellis Bowen constitutions of any of the 50 states He had just torpedoed a U.S. ship Gloucester, MA make mention of democracy. and depth charges from my ship W. Michael Thompson sank his sub. He was rescued. sir: What happens to the property Albany, GA R. M. Rhoades rights of American citizens if we Cleveland, OH leave the Panama Canal Zone? Sir: The Aruba story (February) Mrs. Rowland Roberts sir: As individuals we cannot be Callao, reminded me of U.S. Task Force 1280 MO strong or powerful, but if we all join that landed only a few days before a veterans organization they can be sir : We should build a sea-level canal the Nazi attack. Our weapons were strong old through our membership. and make the Panama Canal a still aboard ship. I'm glad to know real dead horse. W. G. Broderick why we weren't invaded that night, Boston, MA George English as we fully expected. (Continued on page Frenchtown, NJ Albert F. Scholl 47 sir: Your covers are sensational. Connersville, IN Congratulations to all involved. Sir: The February article on the 'Honor America' Mrs. John Koenig Third World renewed my concern Maspeth, NY Days June 14-July 4 about the black power activities of sir: Enclosed please find photograph United Nations Ambassador Andrew The 1978 Honor America pro- of the exhibit we are now showing Young. We don't need him. gram, conducted by the Ameri- in our display room (Bartlett-Collins Jack A. Farley can Historic and Cultural Company) based on your February San Rafael, CA Society, will be observed from cover. David Reese Flag Day, June 14, to the Fourth sir: A WWI veteran, bent with age, Sapulpa, OK of July. arrived at the Pearly Gates. "Did The Honor America project, you get your pension?" St. Peter created in 1975 and approved by asked. "No, sir," he replied. "When I Congress and former President heard a buddy remark that we would Ford and endorsed by President get it when, er . . . someplace . . . Carter, is a continuing Bicen- froze over, I decided not to wait." tennial observance. Joe Dunn Legion posts or departments N. Little Rock, AR considering participation may contact The American Historical sir: I am a veteran and a retired and Cultural Society, Inc., 927 government worker, but I cannot National Press Building, support blind veterans preference. Wash- Too many government employes, ington, DC 20045. "riding their preference," reach su-

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The Commander's Message

Protect Our Youth Against Drug Abuse

Today's youth are beset with many interrelated turbing to note that 70 percent of this age group drink problems. They come in many different forms and beverage alcohol to some extent. Immediately, the ques- degrees of complexity. In this month's message, I want tion comes to mind—Why do teenagers drink? to briefly discuss two such areas which should deeply • Unfortunately, parental influence and example is the concern every American and do involve The American number one cause. Not realizing the effect of social Legion through its Children & Youth Program. They drinking on their youngsters is a major blunder by are: child abuse and teenage drinking. Although these many parents. issues are often dealt with separately, a closer look will • Peer pressure. Haven't we all felt this as adults? It show an intertwining nature. is even greater during the teenage years when accep- Consider this: Parent comes home drunk. Parent tance of any kind is important. physically abuses other family members, especially the • Rebellion against authority. Another major pressure children. One of the children is 15 years old. To escape point that parents can control. such an atmosphere, the child often stays away from • Emotional disturbances. Such things as anxiety, inse- home. Child befriends other youth who have similar curity, extreme self-consciousness and lack of self- problems. They gather together. At one such meeting, confidence. These reasons alone do not justify why nationwide, more teenagers (and even pre-teenagers) are drinking than ever before. What is more tragic is that a signifi- AMERICAN LEGION cant number of these young drinkers are misusing alco- hol in ways that often disrupt their lives and threaten EVERY PENNY COUNTS child welfare the health and safety of themselves and others. We adults should be jarred into action just by reading of FOUNDATION, INC. the increase in drunk driving fatalities and arrests for alcohol-related offenses involving youth. To prevent irresponsible drinking, our children must they try drinking to further escape reality and continue develop healthy attitudes starting in early childhood. the practice. Years later, child becomes a parent. Cur- These attitudes can be developed most effectively within rent statistics show that based on childhood experiences, our families if we, as parents, are prepared to react this new parent will probably have a drinking problem honestly and openly and through well-planned alcohol and will most likely physically abuse his children. This education programs in our schools—each supporting the unfortunate situation presents a vicious cycle that con- other tinues to perpetuate itself. As adult citizens of this great Nation, we must join Very briefly, let's look at each problem separately: together in positive ways to combat the atrocity of child Conservatively, the Children's Bureau abuse and teenage drinking. The very stability of our places the annual incidence of child abuse at about future is at stake and what better insurance can we 50,000 to 70,000 cases. During the next five to 10 years, invest in than direct involvement with our youth. such cases of maltreatment will probably top 1.5 million. We of The American Legion can be most helpful There will be some 50,000 deaths. Most fatalities will be through our Children & Youth programs in needed children three years old or younger. preventive efforts. The avenues of service are open and Although all states have laws requiring medical prac- always in need of your interest and support. One step titioners to report suspected cases of child abuse, the beyond caring is ACTION! Motivate your concerns. appalling nature of this problem still demands increased Direct your efforts in the form of organized, construc- national attention. This sickening blight on our society tive programs geared to help overcome these threats must be challenged by many if we can ever hope for a to our society. brighter future. Part of the challenge can be met by learning the facts about child abuse, helping abuse victims and their parents with your time, resources and understanding and by supporting legal and social efforts to combat child abuse. Concerning the issue of teenage drinking, it is dis-

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Veterans Newsletter

VIETNAM-ERA BONUS INFORMATION: Bonus PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDS END applications for Connecticut-era veterans OF 20-YEAR MILITARY RETIREMENT: A Presi- must be filed by July 1, 1978... North dential Commission on military retirement Dakota's bonus deadline is Dec. 31, 1978 has recommended the end of a system whereby with applications available from the North officers and enlisted men can retire from Dakota Adjusted Compensation Division, the armed forces after 20 years of service. . P.O. Box 1117, Bismarck, ND 58505... The commission said present system could Michigan's Vietnam bonus still has two cost $100 billion a year in 40 years and that years before expiration. . .New Hampshire such retirements now account for about and Illinois filing deadlines were scheduled one-twelfth of the Defense Department to expire last year but both states have budget. granted indefinite extensions. . .Vermont and Massachusetts have no filing deadline SENATE OKAYS BILL EXTENDING LEGION MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY DATES: The Senate, for bonuses .. .veterans from states still accepting bonus applications and who feel by voice vote, approved a bill amending they are eligible should contact veterans* The American Legion's charter for membership affairs agencies in their home states... eligibility ... The bill extends dates for Three states are still accepting applica- membership in the Legion for Vietnam era tions for Korean and World War II service veterans from Aug. 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975. bonuses: Connecticut (deadline is July 1, The original cutoff date was Aug. 15, 1973. Sen Birch Bayh (D-IN) introduced legisla- 1978) , Massachusetts and Illinois (no deadlines) tion. .. Companion bill is in the House Judiciary Committee. IRS ANNOUNCES NEW RULING ON MILITARY RETIREMENT PAY: Internal Revenue Service has announced a new ruling which affects veterans who have been receiving regular military retirement pay and are retro- actively awarded a disability rating by

the Veterans Administration. . .The problem in such a situation is the treatment of retirement pay already received for federal

income tax purposes. . .Previously , IRS had held that no portion of regular military retirement pay could be excluded from gross income, even though the disability rating

might have been awarded retroactively. . The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held in 1976 that retroactive disability determination by the VA was controlling and that the taxpayer was entitled to exclude part of the retirement benefits previously received from gross income... In its ruling, IRS states that it will follow the Court of Appeals decision as precedent in disposing of similar cases. This is the threatened Veterans Administration hospital with SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO REVIEW RULING training center that was proposed for Camden, NJ. The White BARRING "DOUBLE DIPPING" FOR SOME EX- House has stricken it from the VA budget for fiscal 1979 and The American Legion is leading a fight in Congress to save it MILITARY PERSONNEL: The Supreme Court refused to review a lower court ruling barring CARTER PAY STAND MAY AFFECT VETERANS' full retirement pay for some 5,000 retired PREFERENCE President Carter may have military officers now employed by the federal torpedoed his own elaborate plan to overhaul government in civilian jobs. . .The ruling the civil service system with his announce- involved the Dual Compensation Act under ment that he is recommending a 5.5 per cent which a person who held a regular military ceiling on federal and military pay commission may not collect all military raises... One of his main objectives in retirement pay after retiring and taking a the civil service reform is to limit and civilian j ob with the government . . . An ultimately do away with the preference estimated 145,000 retired military personnel given veterans in seeking and holding with reserve commissions now working for federal jobs... His pay announcement has the federal government as civilians were not upset federal employe union leaders who may affected by the ruling. . .They will continue ask Congress to junk whole civil service to draw full military retirement pay as proposal. well as their civilian earnings.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 7 Aunt Malindy Harris (inset) and her bell that wouldn't be silent

The Port Lavaca United Meth- survivors began leaving, moving to built their new building, the bell odist Church bell rings and the safer ground. would be given back to them. town is reminded of two individuals Malinda Harris, a black woman "Aunt Malindy" attended the Epis- whose courage spanned a century. who was a member of the Methodist copal Church when the Methodist The bell still rings because a black Church, remained. circuit rider was not in town. woman refused to let a group of Another devastating storm roared The story of Aunt Malindy sur- white men take the bell from India- across Indianola in 1886, causing faced when a 1927 article written by nola on the Texas coast in the early such grief and damage that nearly Rev. M. A. Dunn, a preacher who 1890's. And, in the 1950's, a man re- everyone fled, leaving behind a salty, served the congregation in 1901, was fused to give up until enough money wrecked, ghost town. Still, Malinda reprinted in Frontier Times, in May was collected to claim the bell from Harris stayed. 1976. the tower of the vacant church. Then In the early 1890's a group of Aunt Malindy died in 1914 and he hounded everyone until a stand white men from the Victoria Meth- left her property, which consisted of was built for the historic old bell in odist Church, 40 miles inland, rode half a lot valued at $250 and per- 1974. to Indianola to get "the finest bell in sonal property valued at $25, to the No one knows how the bell came Texas" off the wrecked church. They white Methodist Church. She was the to belong to the Methodist Church in were met by Malinda Harris. The only black communicant in the the old seaport of Indianola. Perhaps tiny black woman insisted she was church, sitting quietly on the back it came off one of the ships which the lone survivor of the church and row every Sunday morning. brought immigrants and supplies to refused to let them have the bell. L. E. Gross had never heard of the port that was known as the Plym- They left empty-handed. Aunt Malindy. He had heard that the outh of the Southwest. Malinda Harris finally moved 12 bell, now back with the white In 1875 a killer hurricane swept miles up the coast to Port Lavaca Methodist Church, came from India- across Indianola, killing hundreds of where she opened a white boarding nola. He said, "I'm a country boy. residents. The storm destroyed vast house. She loaned the bell to the Until I moved to Port Lavaca, I amounts of property, including the Episcopal Church with the under- never attended a church that had a Methodist Church building. Many standing that when the Methodists (Continued on page 20)

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The Commander-in-Chief has noted in this Division a special pride of service and a high state of morale never broken by hard- ship or battle. General Orders 201 A.E.F. Nov. 10, 1918 That order, signed by Gen. John J. Pershing, was the World War I equivalent of today's Presidential Unit Citation. The First Division wore it proudly. Born in St. Nazaire, France, in June 1917, the First was a hurriedly assembled collection of new and old. Some battalions and regiments could trace their lineage back to the Revo- lutionary War; others were born in the French port city as Pershing stubbornly sought to build an Amer- ican Army that would function as a distinct entity on the Western Front and would not be submerged into French or British forces. The success of the First Division was crucial to Pershing's concept. The men under Maj. Gen. William L. Sibert didn't let Pershing down. It was the first division in France, the first to serve in trench warfare, first to fire a hostile shell, first to lose a man, first to capture a prison- er, first to repel a German raid, first to man any independent sector and first to capture a town (Cantigny). New England's 26th Yankee Di- vision was the first division com- mitted against the Germans in its entirety and for 60 years World War I veterans have argued the merits of the 1st, the 27th, the 32nd Red Ar- row, the 42nd Rainbow, the 91st, and on and on; but there was something distinctive about the division that wore a big red one on its shoulder. There is even argument over how that shoulder patch got there. One story has it that the Ameri- cans painted the numeral on all its English-made trucks to distinguish them during the battle of Soissons and that those numerals inspired the patch. Another story has it that a division general cut a strip from a pair of red flannels and stitched it to his sleeve. When a brash young lieu- tenant remarked that the general's underwear was showing, the lieuten- ant was ordered to design a divisional A First Division color guard at Fort Riley, KA poses in World War I uniforms of "Big insignia. Red One." Left to right: PFC Durbin Chesnut, SP4 Terry Reves, William SP4 Shaffer, Ordered into the Somervillier sec- PFC Ingual Farrow and SP4 Donnie Nabors. The division is based at Fort Riley, but tor in Lorraine Oct. the one brigade is in a "forward" billet in Germany and most units are airlifted to Ger- on 21, 1917, many once a year for NATO maneuvers First Division suffered its initial cas-

10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 Artist's sketch illustrates design of First Division Memorial on grounds of President's Park at the White House

1st Memorial Includes Tribute to Vietnam Dead President Calvin Coolidge dedicated the First Di- division who had fallen during World War II in North vision Monument on the grounds of the White Africa, , Normandy and across the face of Eu- House on Oct. 4, 1924. Gen. John J. Pershing took the rope. salute of veterans who had served with him in the And they came a third time—on Aug. 20, 1977—to American Expeditionary Force in France in World dedicate an east parapet of the same granite whose War I and all joined to honor the 5,516 men of the bronze tablets count more than 3,000 First Division division who died in France. men killed in Vietnam between June 23, 1965 and Apr. The names of the dead were etched in bronze tab- 7, 1970. lets imbedded in the Massachusetts granite at the base The First Division Monument is believed to be the of a towering shaft that was crowned by a golden fig- first truly national memorial to American dead in the ure of Lady of Victory, created by sculptor Daniel Vietnam War. Chester French. He was the man who created the More than 100,000 men were assigned to the First brooding figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Division in those Vietnam years. Members won seven Memorial, the Minute Man who stands forever at Con- Medals of Honor. cord Bridge, Harvard University's John Harvard and During World War II the division spearheaded the Columbia University's "Alma Mater." invasion of North Africa in 1942, the invasion of Sicily World War I was "the war to end all wars" and the in 1943 and the invasion of Normandy at Omaha men of "The Big Red One" left Washington 54 years Beach in 1944. It was in Czechoslovakia on V-E Day ago confident that their work was done, their tribute —after 443 days of combat. It recorded 23,480 dec- complete. (The monument was built with contribu- orations, including 16 Medals of Honor. tions from division members.) The First served for 18 months in Europe during But the men of the First Division were to return World War I. After more than a year of action on the again to the plaza just south of the Executive Office Western Front it was chosen for duty with the Army Building. It was Aug. 24, 1957 ... A parapet of gran- of Occupation and was headquartered at Montabaur, ite, mined from the same quarry at Chelmsford, MA Germany. had been created at the west edge of the plaza. Its The First Division is now stationed at Fort Riley, bronze tablets bore the names of 5,566 men of the KA, with one "forward" brigade on duty in Germany. ualties that same night when a Ger- American divisions took over the on the grounds of the President's man raid the 2nd Battalion of the Saizerais sector. On Aug. 30 the First Park at the White House in 1924. 16th Infantry. Thirteen men were American Army was born. The First Brig. Gen. Frank Parker com- killed, 19 were wounded and 11 were Division was part of it. manded the First Division in the taken prisoner. The war was on. The First Army struck at St. Mi- final, bloody two months of World There were few respites in the hiel on Sept. 12-13. In 19 hours it War I as it played a key role in the next year. advanced 14 kilometers. The war of Meuse-Argonne offensive, supported After a winter in support of defense was over. the spectacular advances of the 2nd French, Moroccan and British divi- The First Army included the 1st, Marine Division and crashed open sions, the First occupied its own sec- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 26th, 35th, 42nd, the door to the strategic French city tor in April and within a month it 78th, 80th, 82nd, 89th, 90th and 91st of Sedan. captured Cantigny, a crucial victory divisions at that time. In the assault on Sedan, Army in Pershing's argument for a sepa- Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall records say, the First Division rate American Army. commanded the First Division during "marched all night for two nights, The argument was sealed in July the St. Mihiel offensive that spelled fought all day for two days and cov- when the American First and Second the beginning of the end for German ered at least 60 kilometers across divisions, operating with two French armies. Summerall later became country and through woods, and for divisions, drove the Germans back 11 president of the First Division Asso- the last 10 kilometers in the face of kilometers in a five-day offensive ciation and was a key figure in rais- the enemy." south of Soissons. In August, still ing funds for the towering First Between Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, the part of the French 8th Army, the Division Memorial that was erected First Division was credited with de-

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stroying eight veteran, well-equipped, Three sons of President Theodore sion to cross the Rhine in late 1918 well-rested German divisions. Roosevelt served with the First Di- to begin the occupation of Germany. The price was fearful. The bronze vision—Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, (In the spring of 1945 the First tablets at the base of the monument Jr.; Lt. Archie Roosevelt and Capt. fought its way across the same river.) in Washington bear the names of Kermit Roosevelt. The First Division came home 5,516 First Division men killed in A famous alumnus who gave his from World War I in 1919. Most of action. Over 20,000 were wounded. name to the English language was its men returned to civilian life; the Another First Division memorial is Lt. (later congressman) Maurie division was disbanded; individual housed on the "Cantigny" estate of Maverick of Texas. The noted mili- units were scattered along the East the late Col. Robert R. McCormick in tary historian S. L. A. Marshall was Coast. The division was reorganized Illinois. McCormick, publisher of The a lieutenant in the 16th Infantry. in 1939 and was the first sent to Chicago Tribune, served with the The division staff had a bright young England in 1942. With 1945 came 10 First Division in the attack on the major named George Catlett Mar- years of occupation duty in Germany. French town. shall who later became Army chief The First was rotated back to Fort McCormick commanded the divi- of staff in World War II, secretary Riley, KA in 1955, only to be tapped sion's Fifth Field Artillery, the old- of defense and the secretary of state again in 1965 as the first division est unit in the United States Army. who engineered the Marshall Plan ordered to Vietnam. Alexander Hamilton organized it in for the recovery of Western Europe Other divisions can match the 1776. between 1945 and 1950. First in legends, but there is some- Another First Division man, Capt. thing about being No. 1. William F. Lee, came up with the concept for the World War II Jeep and he designed the World War II World War I Series GI helmet. This is another in the monthly Former Sen. Sam Ervin of North series of articles on American Carolina, a prominent figure in the participation in World War I. Watergate investigations, won the The series marks the 60th anni- Distinguished Service Cross, Silver versary of the Great War and the Star and Purple Heart while serving deeds of the men and women who with the First Division. founded the American Legion. Division Inscription The First was the first U.S. divi-

Those Salvation Army Donuts Were a Second Choice! It was exactly six decades ago get the first day's batch of 150 He wasn't disappointed. May 28, 1918—when a young Sal- doughnuts. Along with the doughnuts, apple vation Army captain named Jessica They were crullers because the pies and bread, the Salvation Army Winter made a batch of doughnuts girls had no cookie cutters, but the gave spiritual aid and comfort to the at Bertuale, a French village that next day someone brought in an soldier, trying to cheer him up as served as headquarters for the U.S. empty wine bottle and a spent shell- best it could. First Division. It was the same day case to use as a rolling pin. The top In all, there were 1,507 men and that American troops entered their of a tin can became a doughnut cut- women Salvation Army officers serv- first major engagement, Cantigny. ter. The second day's output totaled ing on the French, Italian and Rus- Actually, the doughnuts were a 300. There were no holes in the cen- sian fronts in World War I. About second choice. The Salvation Army ter of the doughnuts until one morn- 500 came from the United States. lassies, as they came to be known, ing when the top of a coffee perco- Cooking was only one of the tasks originally intended to bake pies, lator came loose. After that it was of the lassies. They wrote letters cakes and bread for the doughboys, used to cut the holes. home for the boys, prayed with those but at the front no stoves and ovens Eventually, the lassies were cook- who wanted to, mended torn and were available and supplies were ing 5,000 doughnuts a day and when tattered uniforms, played checkers even scarcer. About all Jessica had ovens finally became available they or dominoes and operated canteens was flour and lard, so it was dough- made apple pies like mother used to where the men could get tooth- nuts. make. As the doughboys became bet- brushes, shaving materials, chocolate The first doughnuts, however, were ter acquainted with the Army lassies and other items. believed to have been made at Mon- they came up with unusual requests. But the doughnuts were their tiers on October 19, 1917, by a group One boy brought in a helmet full of trademark. that included Lieutenant Colonel eggs. "I just bought them from a As one "Sallie" said: Helen Purviance, Staff Captain farmer," he said. "Would you please "Ordinarily we don't think of George Anderson and Margaret fry 'em for me, sunny side up?" He doughnuts as a feast, but if you were Sheldon. ate all 12 eggs in five minutes. living in muddy trenches, being shot As Colonel Purviance remembers, Occasionally, American aviators at, eating hardtack, and came out of "We had a little round stove, so low flew from bases miles away to take the lines dead tired, needing sleep I had to get on my knees to fry the back a planeload of Salvation Army and a bath and a shave, and if you doughnuts, and the only pan we doughnuts. One time, a plane flew suddenly hit a spot where someone could get in the village held eight over a camp and dropped a note: "I offered you steaming hot coffee and ." doughnuts at a time. . . but soon will be back tomorrow to get about doughnuts, it would seem like the fragrance drifted through the 100 doughnuts for a bunch of hungry heaven. Everything is indeed rela- camp. Four hundred men lined up to guys. Don't disappoint me." tive." —Philip R. Smith, Jr.

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2 nylon or a combination of 1 by 2 wool and nylon. For economy, many personal flag users are satisfied with cotton bunting. Those wanting more quality buy nylon for its strength and responsiveness to breeze. A ". . . A thoughtful mind, when ganizations, municipal, state and fed- nylon/wool combination is the top it sees a Nation's flag, sees not eral governments, schools, clubs and of the line providing strength and the flag only, but the Nation it- even extremist cults. All Legion- softness. With an open-weave con- self; and whatever may be its naires are familiar with The Ameri- struction the effects of whipping are symbols, its insignia, he reads can Legion flag displaying its deep- lessened for longer life. Such flags chiefly in the flag of the govern- blue field, the Legion emblem in the are not cheap. A garrison flag in this ment, the principles, the truths, middle and an inscription of post, textile mix costs about $800. Flags the history which belongs to the location and number. larger than the garrison size, which

Nation that sets it forth" . . . While most flags are essentially is 20 by 38 feet, have been manu- Henry Ward Beecher exhorative, many are created for factured but they are impractical We are a nation passionately de- practical use only: the 40 flags for since their life is short. One mam- voted to the U.S. flag and to flag international code signaling, the red moth U.S. flag raised over the Ver- usage. Who can truly describe the flag of danger, the skin-divers' flag razano Narrows Bridge in New York pride the nation felt when the U.S. warning of underwater activity, the in observance of the Bicentennial flag was planted on the moon? What flags of the Weather Bureau that tell was whipped to shreds in hours. The greater veneration can be expressed of impending storms, race track flags incident was costly and embarrass- for flag and country than the Iwo and the numbered golf flags are good ing. Jima flag raising immortalized now examples of flags not equated with The garden variety of the outdoor in statue? decoration or patriotism. Even a U.S. flag is a real bargain according Scholars of flag history say that white cloth fluttering from your to Michael Liberman, president of lacking a heraldic background we car's antenna signaling trouble on the Valley Forge Flag Company, Inc. have been quick to turn to flags to the road is a rudimentary flag. Some selling for under $10 have 115 symbolize our principles, sense of Our penchant for flags has individual pieces of fabric. No other belonging, loyalty and authority. spawned a multi-million dollar in- cloth item manufactured involves Flags of all descriptions are used by dustry. The Thomas Register lists that much sewing at such a moder- civic groups, religious organizations, hundreds of manufacturers nation- ate cost, he says. Some 680 yards of corporations, youth and fraternal or- wide who supply flags, banners, pen- thread are used to sew a flag 5 by

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 8 feet. Moreover, a sewn outdoor flag Unknown Soldier in Arlington, as- are strictly observed but you must requires 12 different machines. sist veterans organizations with make your wishes known in your Indoor flags are made to be dec- their assemblages throughout the request to your congressman. orative. Here, color, luster, luxury city, field innumerable calls from Flags, of course, are official sym- and draping quality are the prime organizations and individuals con- bols. From the company guidon to requisites. cerning questions of proper observ- the Army organizational flag, all Sizing flags to poles puzzles many. ance, and, finally, decorate the colors are rigidly controlled by The Manufacturers advise that the graves of the more than 100,000 Institute of Heraldry, U.S. Army, length of the flag should be ap- dead lying in the Arlington National formed in 1960. Battle flags carry proximately 25 percent the height cemetery with 7" by 11" flags set only the streamers of engagements of the pole. For example: A 40-foot at each headstone. that they are entitled to display. pole should take a flag 10 feet long. The most active flag raising site in Beyond serving the military A small, two-story house would find Washington is the U.S. Capitol forces, the Institute designs flags a flag 3 by 5 feet appropriate. A where flags fly at the request of for government agencies and their large, two-story house or a two- Members of Congress for constitu- senior officials on request. The new and-a-half story house is best dressed ents. The practice began in 1937 flag of the Department of Health, with a flag 4 by 6 feet. With three- with the hoisting of six special flags. Education and Welfare (HEW), is a story homes the 5 by 8 feet size is In 1954, 924 were recorded but the creation of the Institute. best. figure leaped to 2,766 the following While the flags of all the military Although our inclination to fly year. By 1960, the number had are numerous, the Navy is partic- flags is amply demonstrated nation- reached 16,013. In 1976, the year ularly burdened with regulations wide, no area can rival Washington, of the Bicentennial, 62,860 flags and protocol. This can be attributed DC for flag flying amenities. Flags were momentarily hoisted. On July to much custom and tradition and are flown over all government build- 4th of that year, 10,471 flags were because flags once played an impor- ings, military posts, the White flown in honor of the day. It took tant role in communication. Even House, the U.S. Capitol, the embas- a crew of 50, working around the today the Navy uses flags for signal- sies and National cemeteries. clock in shifts and using 20 flag ing, to proclaim identity, to an- The routine of flying flags over nounce the presence of ranking of- Washington poses few problems ex- ficers aboard, the leaving of port cept for replacement due to wear. or a ship's commissioning. (The two flags that fly over the According to the U.S. flag code, U.S. Capitol night and day must be Flag Code no other flag may be flown above replaced every two or three weeks the U.S. flag, with one exception: at a cost of $30 each.) However, During naval church services at sea, military ceremonies, state funerals a naval church pennant may be and visits from foreign dignitaries Really Rests flown above the flag. create complex problems. To insure Although there are now 50 stars correct protocol, special units in in our flag no star is individually government agencies and the mili- Respect representative of any state. The tary have been instituted. In any On stars are regarded collectively as be- ceremonies involving the military, longing to us all. the Directorate of Ceremonies and Laws against desecrating the U.S. Special Events, a part of the U.S. For Colors flag are incorporated into our Flag Military District headquartered at Code. This code and the flag codes Fort McNair in Washington, has of most states, which are basically responsibility. adaptations of our federal code, are The unit keeps an inventory of specific. "Whoever knowingly casts military colors, state flags, flags of poles, to get the job done. The cere- contempt upon any flag of the the United Nations and the personal mony is brief, an average of three United States by publicly mutilat- flags of U.S. dignitaries. A 59-page seconds up, two seconds down with ing, defacing, defiling, burning or Army Regulation manual deals with no holding period. All the while the trampling upon it shall be fined not flag protocol. The Navy's volume is operation is monitored by closed more than $1,000 or imprisoned for ." bigger. Even so, there have been circuit television to assure that flags not more than a year or both. . . mistakes with flags of foreign na- are actually flown. The language is clear and of- tions—the wrong flag has been Anybody can have a U.S. flag fenders would seem to be easy tar- brought to a ceremony or someone flown from the Capitol building but gets for prosecution. But a woman failed to observe a sinistra display requests must be sent to a Member attorney in the Department of Jus- (certain foreign flags are displayed of Congress. They forward the re- tice familiar with flag desecration so that the body of the flag is to quest to the Flag Office buried in issues says the Flag Code is "a the left from the viewpoint of the the basement of the Capitol build- paper tiger" with no criminal or bearer). If the wrong flag should ing. Four secretaries process orders civil penalties to effect prosecution. be brought to a ceremony and dis- and the certificates that guarantee "People write in and ask for prose- covered, it would be removed. Omis- that the flags did, indeed, fly over cution and there's nothing we can sion is regarded as least insulting. the Capitol. U.S. flags can be bought do," she says. "For example, an ail- When flags of many nations are to from the stationery rooms of Con- ing career officer calls from a sick- be displayed simultaneously, the ar- gress and are a bargain, almost at bed in the Walter Reed Army Hos- rangement is in alphabetical order wholesale price. They are available pital after observing the Hanafi with all flags flown at the same in two sizes: 3 by 5 feet and 5 by 9 Moslems displaying the U.S. flag height. Memorial Day is especially feet in cotton or nylon. You may inverted: he wants this stopped. A hectic for the Directorate. It must send your own flag for flying but it housekeeper for a motel discovers a cope with a complex and demand- must be an official U.S. flag. Re- slick magazine left by a guest. It ing ceremony at the Tomb of the quests for flying on a particular day sports a cover with a nude female

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 15 figure draped at the pelvis with the U.S. flag. The housekeeper tears off the cover and sends it to the Presi- dent asking that something be done. Potomac Still Echoes An Equal Rights Amendment advo- cate calls to find out if its permissi- ble to block out 15 stars of the U.S. flag to symbolize the 15 states fail- Praise of Washington ing to ratify the ERA Amendment. She is told it is strictly against Dis- trict of Columbia law. Ships of the U.S. Navy passing ington died Dec. 14, 1799.) Silence The Flag Code is loose, because George Washington's tomb at surrounded us, except when broken Congress hasn't been able to draw Mount Vernon on the Potomac River by the cannon's sound and the echo the line in freedom of expression. carry on one of the oldest ceremonies and re-echo of that sound from the No person within the executive of the military services: A salute to near and distant hills . . . the whole branch has the authority nor is the hero of the American Revolution ship's company was uncovered and there a single agency in government and the nation's first President. motionless. The associations con- that can advise on what is right or The ceremony was first recorded nected with the ceremony, seemed to of wrong with the appropriateness in the autobiography of Commodore make a deep impression upon us all, our flag. What's more, state laws Charles Morris, who was a midship- as they did certainly upon me. When have been struck down with respect man aboard the frigate USS Congress the salute was finished the sails were to prosecution. sailing up the Potomac in May 1801. again set, the colors hoisted, and we the code, the U.S. flag is ." Under It was the first ship to call at the new proceeded up the river . . . never to be used in association with naval shipyard in the District of The frigates USS United States advertising. Notwithstanding, the Columbia. and USS New York followed the staffing of company flags or pen- Morris wrote: Congress into the Washington Navy the same flag pole with the ". nants on . . About 10 o'clock in the morn- Yard. U.S. flag occurs. Other abuses lay ing of a beautifully serene day we That salute by Navy ships proceed- with flag emblems on clothing items passed Mount Vernon. Every one was ing up and down the Potomac con- and packaging. on deck to look upon the dwelling tinues today. If available, 21 guns The flag code also is confusing at where Washington had made his now is the order of the day. times. Section (c) paragraph 175 of home. Mrs. Washington and others of It wasn't until 1906 that the tradi- Title 36 states "no other flag or the family could be distinguished on tion became a Navy regulation. That pennant should be placed above or, the portico which fronts the river. year, President Theodore Roosevelt if on the same level, to the right When opposite the house, by order of was on board the yacht Mayflower of the flag of the United States of Captain Sever, the sails were lowered, sailing down the Potomac when it ." America. . . In the next para- the colors displayed half-masted, and passed Mount Vernon and gave its graph the code instructs: No person a mourning salute of thirteen guns salute. Roosevelt promptly issued shall display the flag of the United was fired as a mark of respect to the this General Order: Nations or any other national or memory of Washington, whose life "Marine guard and band paraded, international flag equal, above, or had so recently closed, and whose bell tolled and colors halfmasted and in a position of superior prominence tomb was in our view. (Gen. Wash- the beginning of the tolling of the or honor to, or in place of the flag bell. When opposite Washington's ." of the United States. . . Other tomb, buglers sounded taps and inconsistencies arise over display of Marine Guard present arms, and offi- the flag at night, use of the flag in cers and men on deck stand at atten- political demonstrations and proper tion and salute. The colors will be flag display on automobiles. mast-headed at the last note of taps Yet our inherent devotion for the which also will be the signal for flag provides little room for con- 'carry on'." troversy. This intense feeling for Today's honors are the same except flag and country was echoed by Sen. that the national anthem is played if James B. Allen (D-AL) in recent a band or musical group is present. debate on the Panama Canal This was prescribed in 1913. In a treaties. "Does the average citizen sense, the Navy is paying tribute to now know that the American flag George Washington's foresight on will not be permitted to be flown naval affairs. in a place of honor, even at our mili- Beset by overwhelming British sea tary installations, and, according to power through most of the Revolu- the speeches of the Panamanian ne- tion, Washington wrote in 1780 that gotiators, will be permitted at our "in any operation, and under all cir- own bases only when inside and cumstances, a decisive naval superi- when displayed jointly with a Pan- ority is to be considered as a amanian flag in the position of fundamental principle, and the basis honor? Allen asked. upon which every hope of success "Perhaps this latter point is triv- must ultimately depend." ial, but it typifies the entire pro- Any American standing on the banks of the posed agreement . . . our flag in a Potomac near Mount broom closet and our vital Canal at Vernon should remember that when the mercy of the banana republic." he hears the toll of the bell of an —Maury Delman American warship as it passes by.

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Uncertainty over SALT II ne- But, he warns, this advantage will the USSR enjoying the central posi- gotiations, declining U. S. mili- dissipate, perhaps by 1980, with tion and interior lines of communi- tary power, a serious imbalance of American decisions to scrap the B-l cation and supply; and, in part, to payments in international trade and bomber, limit the U. S. cruise missile, the greater military effort by the cancellation, delay and procrastina- delay development of the MX (mo- USSR and its Warsaw Pact partners. tion on weapons systems all are part bile intercontinental ballistic) mis- "In the years up to the early of the United States' nagging prob- sile system and slice the Navy's 1950's, this was offset by the U. S. lem in today's world. shipbuilding program. nuclear monopoly. 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S. negotiating team from 1969 to President Carter's postponement cover NATO targets and thus main- 1974 that concluded the SALT I of the neutron warhead program, tain a theater balance. As the agreement with the Soviets. He is a Nitze says, will have no immediate Soviets deploy increasing numbers knowledgeable, consistent critic of impact on the current U. S. military of SS-20 MIRVed (multiple inde- the American stance in SALT II ne- strength, but it can influence the pendently targeted warhead) mis- gotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. Russians to get tougher in SALT siles and backfire and other bombers, Recently returned from Britain negotiations. maintaining a theater nuclear bal- and Western Europe where he met Nitze says Moscow has won a ance will become increasingly diffi- with leaders of the NATO alliance, propaganda round against the Amer- cult. 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States from transferring technology Right now, Nitze says, the United "At all times since World War II, important to the conventional de- States enjoys a one and a half to one the Soviet Union has been in a fense of Europe because of limita- advantage over the Soviet Union in superior position as to non-nuclear tions on the transfer of weapons, terms of military hardware (both force relations on the European cen- components or technical information strategic and tactical), technical tral front and on the northern and leading to weapons limited by a know-how and application of these southern flanks," Nitze said. "This SALT II treaty." resources. has been, in part, due to geography, (Continued on page 54)

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They Say It't Wonderful (Frank Sinatra) I've Heard That Song Before (Harry James) Got a Pebble in My Shoo (Ella Fitzgerald) When I Take My Sugar (Shop Fields Orch.) More Than You Know (Lena Home) A Tisket, A Tasket (Ella Fitzgerald) Don't Got Around Much (Duke Ellington) Side by Side (Kate Smith) When the Saint* {Louie Armstrong) It's the Talk of the Town (Johnny Desmond) I've Got a Crush on You (Frank Sinatra) Harbor lights (Shop Fields Orch.) Band) Tangorino (J. Dorsey Orch.) I Surrender Dear (Mel Torme) This Can't Bo Love (Johnny Desmond) Woodchoppers Ball (Woody Herman Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Glenn Miller Orch.) Blueberry Hill (Louie Armstrong) Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland) Swans* River (Tommy Dorsey Orch.) Strings of Pearls (Glenn Miller Orch.) Green Eyes (Tommy Dorsey Orch.) Don't Fence Me In (Shop Fields Orch.) Bast Things in Life Are Free (Frank Sinatra) I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Mel Torme) Navy Fight Song (Glenn Miller Orch.) Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller Orch.) Elmer's Tune (Lawrence Welk Orch.) Lady Bo Good (Count Basie and the Orch.) Boogie Woogie (Tommy Dorsey Orch.) So Rare (Jimmy Dorsey Orch.) Cuddle Up A Little Closer (Ink Spots) When You Were Sweet Sixteen (The Ink Spots) To Each His Own (Ink Spots) Bugle Call Rag (Benny Goodman Orch.) Flat Foot Floogie (Louie Armstrong) Orch.) Music Makers (The Harry James Orch.) In The Modd (Glenn Miller Orch.) If I Didn't Care (Ink Spots) Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller

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Ihey're1 here, Major." "T "All right, Sarge. Admit them." The doors to the air-conditioned Casualty Staging Ward opened and walking casualties from all over Southeast Asia came off the Clark Hospital Medvac bus. They were my patients. I was an Air Force nurse, on duty in the Philippines, 40 miles from Manila, 900 miles and two jet hours from Vietnam. They came every day, sometimes by the hundreds. Some still wearing their bloody fatigues. They would stay 24—at the most 48 hours depending on the weather—before being flown home. They were the lucky patients—the ambulatory. Some hobbled on long leg casts and crutches. Others clogged along in short, ankle walking casts. Many wore bandages on their heads. Others hid an injured eye with a black patch or metal shield. Some had an arm in a cast or a sling. And some were drug addicts, hiding from the bright De- cember sun behind dark glasses. Their more critically injured comrades were admitted to another part of Clark Hospital. I can't remember all of them. They came every day for my 18 months. They were from the Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Seabees, Air Force, and some were South Korean. I do remember Jones, Tapeworm, Clarence, Cha, Kim, Ho, Casey and San Diego. Ah, those Koreans—resourceful, independent, devilish and mischievous. I worried about them, but war seemed so minor a pitfall in their young lives. Yet in all of them, American and Korean, I sensed that behind the comical playfulness were men who'd left a life they'd learned to deal with, and wouldn't soon forget; yet, it would not plague them. They had survived. As for the Americans, some force would get them to CONUS—home—the Continental United States. Watching the clumsy determined step of the last patient off the bus, clutching his ditty bag, trying to steer the heavy cast on his foot and manipulate his crutches, too, I thought of mealtime the day before and the young Marine on shaky crutches in a long leg cast, his right arm in a sling. I offered help. "I can do it myself," he said. I left him struggling to cut the roast beef on a plate stuck to his bed table with masking tape. The black lad across from him had finished his lunch. "The VC (Viet Cong) knows I'm a UCLA fan," he told me. "Got a football scholarship week before I was drafted into the Army." I tried not to think of the damage to the arteries, nerves and muscles in his right thigh as I cheered him up. The Marine grinned. "Ma'am, would you like a kiss?" I felt all eyes on me, but I said, "Yes I would." My grinning hero reached under his pillow and pulled out a chocolate kiss wrapped in silver paper. He unwrapped it, tossed it to me. We all laughed. "Young man," I said, "you've led me into temptation. I'll have to give up sweets, starches and sex for Lent." "Next year, huh, Major?" joked the Seabee in the next bed. I winked at him. Then in stepped Casey. He stood in the doorway, a pretty A U.S. military medvac transport wings homeward with Filipino girl under each arm. "My status symbols," he wounded aboard (top); 1st Lt. Sheila R. Whipkey, AF flight called out to the ward. His feet were more unsteady than my Edward J. nurse, talks with AF Capts. Joseph E. Milligan and Marine's with the roast beef. He tried to bow—almost lost Mechanbier en route (middle), and a patient has his blood his footing. The girls giggled. It was not supposed to be pressure checked in flight (bottoni) 22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 — .

funny. According to Air Force regu- "Then what does HA mean?" "The first leg of CONUS Air Evac lations, Casey had broken the "No "Hostile Action. You were hurt flight is Japan," I explained. "Some Drinking" rule. He had missed his injured while engaged in combat patients leave Air Evac there to re- flight to CONUS. He was a dis- with the North Vietnamese." turn to duty at , Okinawa or ciplinary problem. But I was a nurse, "Viet Cong," he said. at bases and aboard ships throughout not an MP. Another said, "That's hostile ac- Japan. From Japan you go to Hickam The technician had told me Casey tion." Then went on, "I'm next. The in Hawaii. From Hickam, the last had signed the Patient Log "Sitting doctor told me, I could have epilepsy. stop is , Vaca- out under a banana tree." "Major," They're sending me home for some- ville, CA. There you're flown to mili- the technician said, "there are no thing like this," pointing to the clean tary hospitals all over the United banana trees on Clark. He's in scalp scar left permanently hairless States for final hospitalization and Angeles City." by a bullet wound. disposition. "You think so?" "It's precautionary," I told him. "Even to San Diego," I told the "Angeles City's the biggest town "The doctor wants you to get the patient with a sling. He smiled. outside the base. You can buy any- best treatment." It was a typical session. Air Evac thing. And you know Baby Face More questions. (Continued on page 48) Casey (he was 20 but looked 16). He can't con you, Major." The Air Evac liaison officer already knew Casey had missed his flight to the States. I had no choice. Another disciplinary report—he's on his way through the vicious cycle of behav- ioral problems that will plague him for life, I thought. He hates routine. "...AMERICA'S TOPMOST VALUE A psychiatrist had labeled him a Florida by Norman Ford "passive aggressive personality." IN RETIREMENT HOUSING" The girls left and Casey slept, but on awakening, he left again. NO CASH DOWN. Usually after a shower and clean pajamas and a robe, patients who NO CLOSING COSTS had no immediate medical appoint- ment went to the hospital exchange VA-APPROVED for a hot dog or hamburger, a milk- CONSTRUCTION. shake and a view of pretty girls. been quiet except The ward had $191.43 A MONTH. $20,990 Lexington, shown with optional garage. for Kim and his wheelchair. I was BEAT WINTER. BEAT INFLATION. BEAT EXPENSIVE LIVING. GRAB THIS CHANCE OF A surprised to see my visitor. The pa- LIFETIME TO OWN YOUR OWN RETIREMENT HOME IN SUNNY FLORIDA. tient, his arm in a sling, fire in his eyes, stood in the door of the nurse's BUY NOW before inflation drives the prices up. You can now own a 1, 2 or 3 office waving a sheet of paper. bedroom home at Veterans Village for as little as $20,990 to $33,390* (includes landscaped lot). Carrying charges as low as $191.43 a month, "This dude in Air Evac said I'm guaranteed mortgage to buy in Florida's first retirement community espe- going to C-O-N-U-S; I don't want to cially for veterans. That means NO CASH DOWN, NO CLOSING COSTS, LOW go to C-O-N-U-S; I want to go to AS A VETERAN, you are entitled to take advantage of a new low interest, VA San Diego." MONTHLY PAYMENTS, NO NEED TO DIP INTO YOUR SAVINGS. (Special "San Diego is in CONUS," I ex- VA-approved model for qualified disabled vets.) plained. "CONUS means Continental United States." ENJOY A FABULOUS FLORIDA VACATION FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. At Veterans Village. Golf course, four major shopping centers, Gulf Coast "All right, then. He had me wor- beaches and fishing all within a five mile drive. Million-dollar clubhouse on ried. You sure it's in San Diego?" the premises pool, saunas, gym, meeting, game and hobby rooms (mem- "No, San Diego's in CONUS." — bership optional). VA hospital 30 miles from Veterans Village. "That's what I mean." SEND COUPON FOR FREE KIT TODAY. Another patient came up. 'Prices subject to change without notice. "Ma'am, I'm going to Japan. Why's "Includes monthly carrying charges of approx. $164.87 that?" prin. & int., $17.49 r.e. taxes; $9.07 ins. "You're Navy?" "The only sailor, ma'am." VETERANS VILLAGE, INC. "The Navy needs you, then. In 3912 Seven Springs Blvd. Seven Springs you'll catch with your Japan up New Port Richey, Fla. 33552 AL-21 ship." Send my FREE Veterans Village Kit (color brochure, model plans and "And give the beach to Casey." prices, and Florida inspection trip details) by return mail. Shaking his head, he walked away. Where was Casey? I didn't have Name time to ponder. There were other Address questions. A chubby patient squeezed .Zip. through the group, rubbing his ear. City . State "Ma'am, does '1 C psychiatric' I would like to plan a visit to Veterans Village. mean crazy?" no cost or obligation EQUAL HOUSING phone No. ( ) "No, it's an Air Evacuation classi- OPPORTUNITY fication for someone who has a per- sonal problem."

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 23 School Honors Two MOH Heroes

The Legacy of the Thirties personal and national, for aesthetic Graduation Oratory By Adm. James B. Stockdale reasons, but for practical reasons. about American values Such a man recently spoke at my echoes again this month remember this as a balanced in- college and visited my home. His I stitution, run neither by those who name is Henry Kissinger. He la- across the land, hut Abing- place exclusive emphasis on intel- mented the collapse of Vietnam, the don, Illinois, High School lectual development while eschew- reducing to almost meaninglessness ing values of all kinds, nor by those the blood and lives of thousands of is unique. It has just hon- who, while considering values im- American soldiers, all sacrificed on ored tivo graduates who portant, place total emphasis on the the altar of domestic dissent and wear The Medal of Honor development of individual creativity undisciplined free expression. He and thereby inspire instant gratifica- spoke of national responsibility, the —Maj. Robert Dunlap, tion and undisciplined self-expres- need for Americans to realize that USMC, Ret., a hero of Iwo sion. we are now the shock troops guard- and Adm. James The Abingdon High School of the ing the passes. Jima, 30's had a blessed mixture of moral At breakfast Henry Kissinger con- Bond Stockdale, com- tone and disciplinary content that versed at length with my house mandant of The Naval prepared its students not only for guests and family, including two of success, but met that more stringent my teenage sons and two of their War College at Newport, challenge of education of preparing teenage friends. RI, who endured seven them for reverses and failures as "Boys, don't expect to be rewarded well. for those losses you achieve by the as a prisoner war years of An important task of education is restraint of moderation," he said. in North Vietnam. to impart the understanding that al- At the Naval War College I am From Adm. Stockdale, though one must continually try to also getting conservative advice from succeed, he should be able to accom- intellectuals of quite a different sort. Abingdon heard an un- modate the realization that life is not One is Emeritus Professor of Phi- usual address—a knitting always fair. Many of us in prison losophy Philip Rhinelander of Stan- camps in North Vietnam remembered ford University. together 200 years of of the prophetic scripture: Science, says Rhinelander, is America, a stirring de- "I returned and saw that the race merely tactics; morality is strategy. is not always to the swift, nor the My students are deep into ad- fense of moral discipline battle to the strong, neither yet vanced technology; almost all of and a challenge to youth. bread to the wise, nor riches to them have masters degrees in the The American Legion men of understanding, nor yet physical sciences. And in this War favor to men of skill, but time and College mid-career "mental refueling Magazine shares these ex- chance happeneth to them all. . . . stop" that we give our officers, I have cerpts as an answer to For as fishes are taken in an evil decided to teach a needed elective as the birds are caught in course next year. The course will not those students who may net, and the snare, so also are the sons of be on science nor on military tactics, have doubts about the men, snared in an evil time, when but on Rhinelander's "strategy," i.e. basics of life in America. it falls suddenly upon them." on moral philosophy. It will be called I have no basis for judging the "Foundations of Moral Obligation." practical options available to those Its description goes as follows: designing curricula for public schools "Since Socrates moral philoso- education today. But I hope for a phy has been taught as a tech- balance of emphasis of the sort we nical discipline and as a guide knew in the 30's. We of the genera- to life. Basic ideas to be dis- tion have learned that academic skills cussed in this course include alone will never get you by. This may right, good, honor, duty, free- sound odd to the youth who are now dom, necessity, law, justice, hap- continually told of technical break- piness, insofar as these pertain throughs, dawning of new ages, hu- to the human situation generally, man progress and self-realization. and to the military ethos in par- I ask the youth to listen to us of ticular. Lecture topics, discus- the generation of the 30's and we will sions and readings will be drawn tell you that the wisdom of the ages from both classical and modern is returning, that innovative failure sources including the Old Testa- has become a public embarrassment. ment, the Socratic Dialogues of Today, we hear more and more re- Plato, the ethical writings of sponsible voices saying one needs a Aristotle, Kant, Mill and Sartre. star and rules to live by. There will be supplemental read- The people behind these voices are ings in Emerson, Epictetus, not advocating disciplined lives, both Dostoevski, Conrad, Koestler,

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Kafka, and Solzhenitsyn." I think I'm filling a gap in the backgrounds of modern technocrats. I thought a great deal about this town in my years of absence, partic- ularly during those four years when I was in solitary confinement. I've gained emotional stability and strength from these memories. Col. Sam Johnson, U.S. Air Force, from Dallas, TX was one of my early listeners. He was my cellmate for two months in the summer of '67. In our joy at being together we discussed endlessly our experiences as boys. Music was a typical subject. I happened to drop a few words one time about my experiences with the Abingdon band and its appearance on Main Street. Sam paused and said, tell about "Go back and me more Maj. Robert Dunlap, left, and Adm. James B. Stockdale pose with Iwo Jima model that Abingdon band and its Main at their alma mater, Abingdon, IL High School Street bandstand." When did they play? Wednesday night. How did maiden name was Katherine Beard. I now leave to this schoolhouse they set up the bandstand? My uncle The paternal grandmother of Maj. the print of the Battle of Yorktown Lloyd Bond used to tow it to the Robert Dunlap, my cohort in this of 1781, suitably inscribed to say that bank corner and install the lights dedication, was Ida Latimer. They one of the company commanders of just before sunset. How did the peo- were first cousins, both born in Knox infantry at this battle which won ple applaud? They honked their au- County before the Civil War. Their American independence was the tomobile horns. grandfather, Joseph Beard, was born great-great-great-great grandfather POW's starved for information in Tennessee in 1802, when the west- of both Robert Hugo Dunlap and tapped stories like this through walls ern boundary of the United States James Bond Stockdale. and later, partly as a joke and partly was right over here at Burlington, The picture shows a hail of artil- as a means of mental exercise, mem- IA. Joseph remembered the War of lery arching over the heads of our orized the names of all the members 1812. His father fought with Andrew troops. That artillery was under the of the Abingdon band that I could Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. command of Brig. Gen. Henry Knox, remember. Joseph's grandfather, David, had a close friend of George Washington Four years after my Abingdon brought his family to Tennessee in and the man for whom this county stories became popular, I found my- the late 18th century to take ad- is named. self in a cell block with six other vantage of the land gifts to veterans, This picture of the Battle of York- "old guys." We were able to talk at the GI Bill of Rights of the Revolu- town is a tribute to the founding fa- night and not having paper, pencils tionary War. thers of '76, and I have another or books, we assigned one another Recently in Washington, DC in the tribute to the founding fathers of lecture topics. For instance, each of chambers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 30's. That's only fair, for they us would take a night and deliver I was talking to Adm. Blackie Wei- paid for this school, I among them about a one hour lecture on the life nel, an old Illinois boy and former as a farm owner. of his father. This, of course, created skipper of mine. (He was Command- The central event in the lives of interest in our town. I could talk for ing Officer of the USS Ticonderoga that generation of Americans that

an hour on Tony's pool hall. . . . and I was a fighter com- bear the biggest brunt of taxes to- It's possible in an hour's time to mander aboard when the Vietnam day was probably World War II. The describe the total impact of the in- War started in 1964.) On his wall bloodiest of its battles in the Pacific dustrial revolution on America, using was a print of a scene in the Battle was Iwo Jima. It lasted a little over Abingdon as an example. We had the of Yorktown. a month and ended in March 1945. rich farmer's daughter who went on A Family Bible entry of Joseph Our Marines attacked the island to a trip with her parents to England Beard's son had said: acquire a base for B-29's which were in the 19th century, met a young "My great grandfather, Captain to be employed in bombing the home English industrialist named Jim David Beard, was born in Vir- island of Japan. Iwo Jima was de- Simpson, and talked him into com- ginia in llkk- He commanded a fended by 20,000 stoic Japanese who ing back and starting a pottery in company in Colonel Lynch's regi- were heavily dug in. America her hometown. I'd tell how he ment under George Washington launched against it the largest Ma- stopped in Newcastle, PA and ac- and fought at the seige of York- rine assault force in history, the quired the artisans, some 10 Italian town and the surrender of combined Third, Fourth and Fifth potters, and brought them to a farm Cornwallis." Marine Divisions. The Marines community to start an industry. The I told Blackie of my forthcoming started ashore on Feb. 19 and ulti- industry thrived and faltered and trip to Abingdon and of the coinci- mately 6,000 of them were to be thrived. The immigrant artisans be- dence and asked him if I could get a killed and 17,000 wounded. came examples of hard work and copy of that picture. He stood up, On Mar. 13, 1945, Adm. Raymond good citizens. Their sons became took it off the wall and handed it to Spruance, Commander of the Fifth merchants, their grandsons are now me. "Take it, take it back to that Fleet attacking Iwo Jima, sent a professional men. schoolhouse where it belongs," he letter to his wife, Margaret, in Coro- My grandmother Stockdale' said. (Continued on page 51)

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Opposing Views on a Question of Increasing Importance

CON Should Congress Approve

Soon two groups will be left in our nation's col- Califano's front office!). leges—the very poor and the very rich. The Expand the existing pro- middle group—"the very taxed" will be shut out. grams and you expand The average annual costs of a college education the fraud and the high are up about 75 percent and so are taxes paid by administrative costs middle income taxpayers. In the last 10 years, the which can be avoided per-capita tax burden has increased 144 percent under my tuition tax and we find less and less money to keep to spend credits. on the things we choose—not what government My tuition tax credit says we must spend our own dollars on. The case would cost the same as for need is apparent. Any parents struggling to Carter's proposal. The send, keep in school, or looking forward to paying difference is people have the freight for their children's college or post- freedom of choice. HEW Sen. William V. Roth, Jr. secondary vocational education know the need. wants its costly strings (R-DE) Even the Administration has conceded that. attached. Why is Carter, Califano & Co., so against tuition According to the Congressional Joint Committee tax credits? We sharply differ in philosophy. HEW's on Taxation, 85 percent of the benefits of tuition bureaucrats really believe all wage and salary tax credit would go to families earning less than earners' dollars are the property of the federal $30,000. Over 67 percent goes to middle income government—that taxpayers are the milk cows of families earning between $10,000-$30,000. The Ad- society and they must give their entire yield to ministration's claim that it would benefit "mainly Uncle Sam. If you are lucky, you might, just might the wealthy" is baloney! Even the Congressional get some relief from federal programs financed by Budget Office has said Carter's expanded grant your own tax dollars. HEW feels you "fragment program would cost more than tuition tax credits. educational policy" if they don't handle your money The only time HEW cries "raid on the treasury" is relief is for the first—with a large handling fee! when proposed people making My tuition tax credit is the most direct and over $10,000, who pay 94 percent of all the taxes. simplest means for immediate relief. All it requires Middle income Americans don't want a handout just of is one line on the IRS tax form and your ability to to keep more their own money. subtract the credit from the amount of taxes you owe. That way you send less money to Washington, avoid having to fill out a 12-page form, beg, plead poverty and bare your financial soul to HEW bureaucrats who can't keep track of the programs they now handle (one out of every six student loans is in default—including 318 employes in HEW and one $33,000 per year employe in Mr.

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Tax Credits for Tuition Costs?

FIRST GLANCE, the Where post-secondary education is concerned, ATtuition tax credit is there is a serious problem in the distribution of the deceptively attractive proposed tax credit. a cash payment for every The tuition tax credit is a consistent subsidy un- family with a child in related to income. The wealthy can and do send higher education or in a their sons and daughters to college, irrespective of private elementary or cost, and a tuition subsidy would make a negligible secondary school. On difference in the family's standard of living. Yet, closer look, it is seriously the dollar value of the subsidy even for the very flawed. rich would be exactly the same as that for middle income parents educate their sons and A little discussed but who very large weakness in daughters at considerable sacrifice. Dr. Ernest L. Boyer Another flaw is in the assumption that middle U.S. Commissioner of the plan is that it dele- Education gates determinations of income families are able to make large cash outlays institutional qualification to the Internal Revenue at the beginning of the academic year so long as Service, a wholly new and inappropriate role for they are assured of a fixed payment from the In- ternal the Department of Treasury. However, there are Revenue Service later on. other flaws that are of far greater consequence for There is a question of escallation of costs. The the future well-being of American education. Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of tuition tax credit in its first full of op- I do not believe that Americans at any income program year level should receive additional federal aid to send eration at $4 billion. There is no assurance that the their children to private schools when public price tag would not rise every year as college costs schools are available to them. go up, Elementary-secondary, tax credits tear at the fabric of public education. Besides the obvious question of constitutionality, a tax credit would not target educational assistance to those groups who need it most. Through existing programs, the federal govern- ment now provides between $50 and $75 per student a year in private school, and there also is an existing tax deduction for the portion of church collection devoted to parochial schools. By adding on a tuition tax credit, the federal government's for students in private schools support would be I have read in the American Legion Magazine for | greater than its support for those in public schools. June the arguments in PRO & CON: Should Congress Approve Tax Such preference for private education would be Credits for Tuition Costs?

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taverns Were Beacons Tn Colonial America The New England Almanac for known tavern was licensed by the December 1704: General Court of Massachusetts in 1634; by 1675 the Rev. Increase The days are shorty the weather's Mather was complaining that every cold, other house in Boston was a tavern By tavern fires our tales are told. that was an exaggeration, but such Some ask for dram when first establishments had multiplied. come in, The earliest New England taverns Others with flip and bounce begin. were licensed to serve two purposes: the provision of drink, food and An English traveler in the colonies lodging of a sort; and the fostering in 1700 wrote: "The heart and spirit of religion. Thus it was, in 1651, that and news center and lifeline of each Boston granted one John Vyall per- village is its tavern. How many a mission to "keep a house of common life has been saved by flips and entertainment, provided he keeps it bounces!" near the new Meeting House." The Flip was made in Colonial America arrangement had to do simply with by filling a huge pewter or earthen heat. two-thirds full of strong There was never a fire kindled in beer, sweetening it with molasses or colonial meeting houses, whereas dried pumpkin, and adding rum of every tavern kept a roaring blaze an amount left to the judgment of throughout cold weather. Many of the tavern host—"weather severe, the congregation at each church more rum in beer." This mixture was service had traveled miles to get stirred and heated with a red-hot there, and it was customary for them iron loggerhead, which made it foam to thaw out in the tavern before and bubble high, and gave it the de- going next door to sit for the first sired burnt taste. Sometimes two or two hours of the sermon. three fresh eggs were beaten into For small children there was the concoction, making it quite warm, honey-sweetened elderberry frothy and giving it the name juice, sweet cider or sassafras tea. "bellows-top." "Ciderkin," a weak cider made by a Bounce was a rum drink which second pressing of apple pulp after it could be of various flavors. Cherry had been watered, was available in bounce, for instance, was made by most taverns and considered suitable mixing five gallons of new rum with for youngsters. five gallons of fresh cherries and In the 1650's, taverns, sometimes sealing the mixture in a keg for a called "public houses" or "ordi- year, at any time after which, when naries," were built in Fitchburg, MA, opened, it was "guaranteed to Providence, RI, and several other set- bounce." tlements before churches were Taverns came into existence soon erected. So, for a time, church ser- after the English secured a foothold vices were held inside the taverns. in the northern colonies. The earliest Puritan "Elders, Deacons and Select-

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Fraunces Tavern, left, was a favorite New York meeting place. Sketches capture flavor of 17th and 18th Century inns

men" met in the taverns to plan keeper can not knowingly harbor in guest at Phillips' Tavern in Virginia ecclesiastical affairs, including "seat- house, barn, or stable any rogues, wrote that "coffee cannot be pre- ing the meeting." The ticklish busi- vagabonds, thieves, sturdy beggars, pared without some training, and ness of allotting seats to members of masterless men or women." When people who are not accustomed to the congregation, while making ad- one Robert Coles got drunk at the elegant living had better leave it justments to appease complainers, tavern in Braintree, in September alone." often involved prolonged argument 1633, he was "fyned ten shillings and The first tavern in New Nether- over a bowl of bounce—-about the enjoynd to stand with a white sheet land (New York) is believed to have wealth, standing and disposition of of paper on his back, whereon been built in 1642 with West India the various parties. Drunkard shalbe written in great let- Company funds near the present Roger Mowry's Tavern, the first ters, and to stand therewith soe long Pearl Street and Coenties Slip. Ac- tavern built in Providence, was estab- as the Court find meet, for abusing cording to the 17th century Dutch lished in 1655, and Roger Williams, himself shamefully with drinke." chronicler DeVries, it was built by the founder of Rhode Island colony, Alice Thomas, a Boston tavern- Director-General Kieft "in order to preached there. Mowry's was for a keeper, was fined 50 pounds and accommodate the English, from time the center of all community given 38 lashes after being found whom he suffered great annoyance" activity. Once it was used as a jail. guilty of furnishing "frequent secret when he had to entertain them in his By 1700, distilleries to supply the unreasonable entertainment in her own home. "It was named the Stadt multiplying taverns were in oper- house to lewd & notorious persons of Harberg, or City Tavern," DeVries ation throughout New England, but both sexes, giving them opportunity continued, "and it happened well for the traffic in spirits was heavy long to commit carnal wickedness." travelers." before then. Even the pious Pilgrim The main feature of the early By 1678, some 14 years after the Fathers did not frown on strong tavern was a big "public room" con- Dutch colony had been captured by drink in moderation. In 1630, Wil- taining tables and benches, and a the British and renamed New York, liam Bradford, the second governor huge fireplace on one side. The stock it had at least 10 taverns. French of Plymouth Colony, recorded amus- of "refreshment" was kept in bar- wines could be had for 15 pence a ingly that a consignment of two rels and jugs in back of a counter. quart, brandy for six pence a gill, hogsheads of mead (a fermented Behind this room were the dining hard cider for four pence a quart and brew of water, honey and malt) had room and kitchen, and upstairs were beer for three. Very sweet wines arrived but, when tapped, had been small guest rooms. After all the beds called "sack" were usually available, found to contain less than six gal- upstairs were in use, wayfarers as were gin and rum. lons, the balance of about 100 gal- simply rolled up in their blankets As early as 1684, Philadelphia lons having during transit "been and lay down on the floor of the ordinaries had a standard price, fixed drunke up under ye name of leachage public room with their feet toward by proprietor William Penn, of six and so lost." the fire. With daylight they could pence for "a good warm meal." The ordinaries of early New Eng- splash cold water on their faces at land were so vital to existence that an outdoor basin. Breakfast varied, Colonial General Courts passed laws but was often milk-laced mush penalizing communities that failed to served with beer or cider. Some 17th provide them. Yet, there is evidence century taverns offered a warm that public houses were on occasion breakfast beverage brewed from the source of civic worry. The Great dried goldenrod, sage and blackberry and General Court of Massachusetts leaves. Coffee was virtually unknown passed a law stating that "a tavern in the 1600's. As late as 1713, a

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 29 Taverns in Pennsylvania were obli- his family from the Dandridge Tavern, and there saw "a number of gated to offer travelers a night's plantation to Williamsburg, the colo- planters at ninepins." His next stop lodging, two meals, "beer as re- nial capital of Virginia, for his was "at 3 o'clock at Mills Ordinary, quired" and "a fire if needed" for daughter Martha to be presented to where there were likewise a great three shillings. society, the Dandridges all stayed at number of people at ninepins." Since many colonials could not the Raleigh Tavern. Later, Martha During many years before the read, most tavern signs were pic- attended dinners and dances at the Revolution, Tories recognized tav- torial. There were Golden Bulls, Red Raleigh, for some years in the com- erns, particularly those in New En- Lions, Black Horses, Blue Anchors, pany of her first husband, Daniel gland, as places where Patriots Green Dragons and the like. In Custis, and then with her second hus- gathered to agitate for liberty and Salem, MA in 1645, a tavern-keeper band, George Washington. plot subversive activities against the had his license granted with the con- The Raleigh, the most famous Crown. But the Tories' reports to dition that "there be sett up some tavern in Virginia throughout the royal governors, and the resultant inoffensive signe obvious for direc- 18th century, was a big, white, threats to tavern operators, did lit- tions to strangers." The Rhode Island L-shaped wooden building with many tle to lessen the "group grumbling" courts in 1655 ordered that a person dormer windows. It had a swinging in public houses. Patriot Samuel appointed to keep an ordinary signboard bearing a picture of Sir Adams, "The Great Agitator of the "cause to be sett out a proper Signe Walter Raleigh, the bearded and Revolution," sent his agents around at ye most perspicuous place of ye ruffed patron of Virginia, and a to the most frequented New England said house—and this to be done with leaden bust of Raleigh. In 1742 the taverns to set in motion angry con- all speed." tavern's proprietor was jovial Henry versations against the unjust eco- The famous American artist Gilbert Wetherburn, who was noted as "a nomic and political demands of Eng- Stuart painted the signs of several gifted mixer of Arrack punch," a land, and he repeatedly appeared taverns in the vicinity of Philadel- drink of secret formula which himself at taverns "to plan actions phia, including that of the King of Wetherburn served with Tipsy Cake, to recover just rights." The Boston Prussia Inn. Benjamin West also a four-layered confection, all sprin- Tea Party was planned at the Green painted tavern signs in the Philadel- kled with sherry and spread with Dragon Tavern in Boston. phia area, among them, in 1771, the strawberry and apricot jam and In 1774, New York City had its picture of three elaborate kings' almonds, and topped with whipped own Tea Party, planned at the crowns for the Three Crowns, a noted cream. Fraunces Tavern by the Sons of tavern located on the King's High- The Virginia taverns were great Liberty and the Vigilance Committee way in Salisbury Township. places for gambling. A man named to protest taxation without repre- protesters marched There were not as many taverns George Fisher, traveling by horse- sentation. The the Fraunces to the waterfront, in rural areas of the colonial South back north from Williamsburg in from stormed aboard the ship London, as in the North because of the hos- 1755, wrote in his diary that when tea chests into pitality available to travelers at the he stopped at Chiswell's Ordinary in emptied her New returned to plantations, but those in the towns Hanover County at about 8 o'clock York Harbor and then the tavern to toast their deed and tended to be more commodious than in the morning, he saw planters "at discuss further actions. their Northern counterparts. In cards." "Something after ten," he —Peggy Robbins 1746, when Col. John Dandridge took continued, he reached Ashley's

'First in War' Washington's Words Still Ring True schools George Washington believed in a Years later, when Jefferson re- Act in 1862, state land-grant training was well-trained standing army ready to tired to Monticello, he wrote his were set up. Military provided the defend the country. The Revolution friend, Sec'y of State James Monroe, compulsory. The Army instructors and equipment. won, he was still troubled that the "We must train and classify the National Defense Act of army lacked trained officers. whole of our male population and Until the Officers Thomas Jefferson and George Clin- make military instruction a regular 1916 created the Reserve

, the program ton suggested that one college in part of collegiate education. We can Training Corps (ROTC) loosely associated with the each state be responsible for officer never be safe till this is done." was only needs. The 1916 law training. Upon graduation these It wasn't until 1819 that the tra- Army's own Army, the Na- trained leaders would be commis- dition of military instruction on ci- merged the Regular Guard and the Army Reserve sioned to serve in the Regular Army vilian campuses was accepted. Capt. tional of the United States. for a short period of time. Alden Partridge, former superinten- into the Army founded the graduates served with dis- To Washington, it seemed the per- dent of West Point, ROTC I, II, fect solution. In 1777, students from American Literary, Scientific and tinction in World Wars Since 1916, ROTC has the College of William and Mary, in Military Academy at Northfield, VT. and Vietnam. than 450,000 Williamsburg, VA, formed the Col- Students combined a liberal arts de- commissioned more Today, over 70 per- lege Company and fought in several gree with a military science educa- Army officers. cent of the young men and women major battles. tion. On graduation they became bar of a second But Congress pigeon-holed Wash- officers in the Army. who earn the gold lieutenant come from the more than ington's proposal. Jefferson kept it By the mid-1800's, the Citadel, the 250 colleges and universities and alive with his premise in forming Virginia Military Institute and some 600 cross-enrollment schools the University of Virginia that "stu- University of Tennessee were offer- with offering Army ROTC. dents should be required to spend ing civilian education coupled also Navy and Air Force some time learning military maneu- military training. There are Morrill programs. vers and tactics in general." With the passage of the ROTC

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 31 Dateline Washington . MORE MILITARY STATIONS FOR WOMEN. BOMBS EASILY AVAILABLE FOR TERRORISTS! FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES DECLINE.

Meanwhile, a study undertaken by Rep. James R. Jones (D-OK) , disclosed that a large number of the members of these are associated with special Pentagon is pleased with the committees T he including 120 from AT&T, 104 performance of women in the military interests, from AFL-CIO, and 594 from the University services, and is seeking Co ngressional California higher education family. authority to make more stations and posts of Altogether, 2,048 committee positions available to the ladies in uniform. were held by federal government employees. In a status report to h is colleagues, (D-WI said that Sen. Will iam Pr oxmire ) PEOPLE & QUOTES all services had been conducting tests to determine the prospects and impact of ANY FOOL KNOWS POOR EXCHANGE ". problems caused the utilization of women, and "As for the stock market, . . The i ncreasing ownership of have been favorable. The any fool knows that stocks by private the results under-priced—except the property cannot be compared a t rial of men are Navy, for example, after people who keep selling with the magnitude of the nd women sailors working and living them." Forbes Magazine Edi- problems we will encounter a government the U.S.S. Sanctuary, concluded tor Malcolm Forbes. if the federal aboard gets control of our private every shipboard that "women can perform land." Idaho Rep. Steve function with equal ease and expertise^ Symms. " Navy as the men. As a result , the WE'LL DELIVER plans to assign women to 55 sea- "We intend to safeguard going ships, if Congress okays. the production of oil and its transportation to consumer have nations without interference Terrorists and criminals Defense the by hostile powers." little difficulty obtaining Secretary Harold Brown. explosives needed to make ROAD TO ABUSE of lax U.S. con- bombs because "... We learned our pain- trols, according to a Senate ful lesson in the nightmare subcommittee investigation. Our of Watergate, that power controls is stringent in the hands of unelected. system of and of manufacture, unaccountable advisers until the point executive assistants to the but once the explosives are President behind White House distributed to the mines, con- walls can result in an abuse of power." Virginia Rep. s truction sites, etc., the Herbert Harris. system becomes a "shambles," SUNSET? the subcommittee learned. U.S. NAVY ". trends are P ilferage of explosives, and . . If current market," allowed to continue, the bal- t he resulting "black ance of maritime superiority make it relatively easy for could tip substantially and the bombs to be made or ob- favor the Soviets in 10 years." tained by racketeers and politi- Adm. James Holloway. cal terrorists, who in 1975, "Gentlemen, we have that report from DON'T BLAME TV according to the latest avail- the Ethics Committee." "We believe that if a prod- statistics carried out THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE uct is harmful it should be able T with in the marketplace. killing 69 dealt 1,701 bombings T Eliminating television adver- persons and i n juring 326 . Property tising in such situations does SEES BIAS- address the problem." damage was over $27 million . not "Many public officials have Wasilewski, presi- Unless Congress takes action, the sub- Vincent will either an appalling lack of dent, National Association of committee warned, the bomb-throwers economic understanding or a Broadcasters, continue to wreak havoc on the nation. disheartening bias against ." BAR BEWARE business—or both . . Mar- J. W. "To treat a bar certificate may be going up, but riot Corp. President Everything else Marriott Jr. of admission to practice law Fede ral advisory committees and com- as a passport to try any and FRANKLY ~ in any TITO- - ' of~- a case « s are oing down. President Carter — everyV^VV^J-J kind — ; mission g more sense, many of "Frankly speaking, I would court makes no has kept his promise to abolish medical created not like to live in America, than to say that a t.hs advisory bodies traditionally school degree qualifies the In True, there is democracy, in to hel p run the government agencies. some respects even too much, holder to perform every kind Chief Justice 1977, he succeeded in reducing the while in others there is none." of surgery. ' Warren E. Burger. number of committees to 875 from 1,159. President Tito of Yugoslavia.

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Congress IsHeedingLegionPleas merest ges- shall be employment beyond the „ . • _ TT _ a cw„ „ and,nd that have been planned Hearings in House and Senate com before the Senate that Congress ture," Kerby testified veterans affairs executed in the manner mittees dealing with Governmental Affairs Committee con- have brought strong has intended." and appropriations sidering President Carter's plan to Legion On another Congressional front, protests from The American civil service Kerby, Director of the overhaul the federal major administration effort to Austin E. against a Legion, system. programs. Ecomonics Commission of the reduce federal veterans The Carter package would abolish decried legislation supported by the Legion has attacked President Commission, creating The ultimately limit and the Civil Service ultimately Administration to Carter's plan to limit and Office of Personnel Management, eliminate veterans' preference in fed- a new eliminate veterans' preference for independent Merit Systems employment. a separate, veterans seeking federal eral reduce nondisabled suffer- Protection Board and sharply gov- "Only those veterans actually employment and those already in retention and promotion service-connected disability hiring and job and it ing from ernment seeking promotions preference for veterans. are to receive any preference in federal took aim at the fiscal 1979 budget recommendations for the Veterans Ad- ministration. The Legion asked Congress for a Americans Are Losers substantial increase in the VA budget beds to prevent elimination of 3,132 Smith Says from the current VA hospital system, On Canal, proposed veterans the year 2,000—by a nar- cancellation of the National Cdr. Robert Charles Smith Panama by NJ, and curtail- one-vote more than the required hospital at Camden, predicted that Senate ratification of the row research and other medi- majority, 68 to 32. By ment of VA Panama Canal treaties "will have a two-thirds the same vote by the same cal services. profound effect on the future of our exactly responsive to the senators, the Senate earlier had ap- Congress appears nation." and House neutrality treaty. Legion appeal. The Senate He added: "The American Legion proved the Committees already Smith vowed that the Legion would Veterans Affairs believes the Senate has weakened our the in the fiscal continue its vigorous opposition to are considering increases position in relation to other world some $2 bil- giveaway because Congress must 1979 VA budget totalling powers and will result in serious harm canal $19 billion re- now enact implementing legislation be- lion more than the to the economy of the United States." the treaties will be in force. quested by President Carter. The Senate ratified the second of the fore not asking Observers forecast that Congress will "The American Legion is two treaties—this one giving the Canal veterans," (Continued on Page 35) for any new programs for and American Zone properties to Robert E. Lyngh, Director of the National Veterans Affairs and Re- House habilitation Commission, told a LEGION Appropriations subcommittee. "We ask NEWS of the only that programs that are ongoing

MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 34 THE AMERICAN LEGION TAPS Feb. 5. Mr. Hynes was Dept. Cdr. of The Taps Notice mentions, when- Ind. (1959-60). ever possible, those Legionnaires who have held high National or Department Floyd L. Young, 84, Dept. Cdr. of Indiana Office in the Legion. US Government, (1930-31) died Jan. 29. or other forms of national prominence. Walter C. Hickman, 84, died Jan. 24. Francis A. Riordan, 79, died March He served as Dept. Cdr. (1940-41) and 7. Mr. Riordan was Dept. Cdr. of as Alt. NECman (1951-53) for Arkan- Arizona (1932-33). sas.

Debra Annette Morris (right) accepts the Sam H. Jones, 80, was Dept. Cdr. Roy B. Gardner died Feb. 20. Mr. first place winner's scholarship check of (1930-31) and a member of the NEC Gardner, 84, served Ohio as Dept. $8,000 from John Sollman, National Representative to this year's Oratorical (1931-35) representing Louisiana. Cdr. (1939-40). Contest held in Klamath Falls, OR. Gabriel Olga, 65, died March 17. A Former Sen. John Marshall Butler, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34) Dept. Cdr. of Massachusetts (1955-56). 80, of Maryland, died March 14. In constantly growing needs and interests Mr. Olga also served as a member of 1956, Pres. Eisenhower presented him of their children. Debra received a the NEC (1959-60) and as Nat'l. Vice The American Legion Merchant Ma- scholarship check for $8,000. Cdr. (1970-71). rine Award for his work in the Senate Second place winner was David on behalf of the nation's merchant Silva, 17, senior from St. Peter's High Donald W. Hynes died suddenly on marine. School for Boys, Staten Island, NY. Silva was awarded a $5,000 scholar- ship check. Third place went to Neal Ray Jones, 17, a junior at Smithfield- Selma High School, Smithfield, NC. He received a $3,000 scholarship at the college or university of his choice. Fourth place winner was Roberta Jane Zachary, 18, from Shafter High School, Shafter, CA. Her prize was a $2,000 scholarship. The finals were hosted by Post #8, Klamath Falls. John Sollman, member of the National Americanism Commis- sion and Chairman of the Oregon De- partment Americanism Commission, served as National Representative. Awards presented this year bring to more than $585,000 the total scholar- ship funds awarded since the contest was begun in 1938.

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34) not consider this legislation until after the November elections. "We believe that the Senate's action was not in the highest national inter- est," the commander said, "and we will continue our efforts to fight for what we believe is right for the United States of America." UNLESS YOU DON'T HEAR IT He pointed out that the American people did not support the Administra- Today, there is a good chance that you can hear better. Possibly with a tion's giveaway of the Canal Panama Beltone aid so tiny it may very well escape notice. Yet it's meticulously and that even though amendments and crafted to provide the best possible hearability . . . reservations were attached to the treaties, there are no guarantees that . . . with gold, silver and platinum components that resist the the Panamanians would abide by them. corrosive effects of rain, snow and perspiration.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 35 legislative Affairs Occupy Legion Leaders activities of National Legislative affairs in Washington have dominated the spring Texas. Cdr Robert Charles Smith and Legislative Commission Chairman Al Brown of (R- These photos capture some highlights. Top left: Rep. John P Hammerschmidt (D-LA) and Rep. G. V. AR) Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-TX), Rep. Joe D. Waggonner "Sonny" Montgomery (D-MS) meet at Legion reception honoring Teague. Center: Smith meets Chairman Russell Long (D-LA) of the Senate Finance Committee; Right: (U-ui) Commander discusses veterans preference with Chairman Abraham Ribicott Chairman Brown and of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. At left, from top: Director Frank Hood Legislative Director Mylio Kraja greet veteran VA Information Senate Majority Leader at reception; Commander discusses Panama treaties with J. Rhodes of Robert Byrd (D-WV); Smith briefs House Republican Leader John National Committee Arizona on Legion views; Smith and Brown pose with Democratic Republican Leader Howard Chairman John C. White; Brown meets with Senate Veterans Committee Baker TN- Cdr Smith with Chairman Alan Cranston (D-CA) of

Robert B. Morgan (D-NC) Senate Roll Call Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) Edmund S. Muskie (D-ME) Here is the 68 to 32 vote by which Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) the Senate ratified the second or Sam Nunn (D-GA) (R-OR) "give the canal to Panama" treaty: Bob Packwood Claiborne Pell (D-RI) For James B. Pearson ((R-KS) (R-IL) Abourezk (D-SD) Charles H. Percy James William Proxmire (D-WI) Wendell R. Anderson (D-MN) Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-CT) Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-TN) Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-MI) Birch Bayh (D-IN) Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD) Harry L. Bellmon (R-OK) James R, Sasser (D-TN) Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-TX) (D-DE) John Sparkman (D-AL) Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-IL) Edward W. Brooke (R-MA) Adlai E. Stevenson Robert T. Stafford (R-VT) Dale Bumpers (D-AR) Richard Stone (D-FL) Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) Talmadge (D-GA) Howard W. Cannon (D-NV) Herman E. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-CT) Clifford P. Case (R-NJ) Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D-NJ) John H. Chafee (R-RI) Lawton Chiles (D-FL) Against Frank Church (D-ID) (D-IA) James B. Allen (D-AL) Dick Clark (R-OK) Alan Cranston (D-CA) Dewey F. Bartlett Burdick (D-ND) John C. Culver (D-IA) Quentin N. Jr. (I-VA) John C. Danforth (R-MO) Harry F. Byrd Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) Carl T. Curtis (R-NE) (R-KS) John A. Durkin (D-NH) Robert Dole Thomas Eagleton (D-MO) Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) (D-OH) James O. Eastland (D-MS) John Glenn (D-KY) Mike Gravel (D-AK) Wendell H. Ford W. Hart (D-CO) E. J. Garn (R-UT) Gary (R-AZ) Floyd K. Haskell (D-CO) Barry Goldwater (R-OR) Robert P. Griffin (R-MI) Mark O. Hatfield (R-WY) Paul Hatfield (D-MT) Clifford P. Hansen William D. Hathaway (D-ME) Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) (R-CA) Jesse A. Helms (R-NC) S. I. Hayakawa (D-LA) H. John Heinz III (R-PA) J. Bennett Johnston Kaneaster Hodges (D-AR) Paul D. Laxalt (R-NV) Lugar (R-IN) Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) Richard G. Huddleston (D-KY) James A. McClure (R-ID) Walter (D-MT) Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) John Melcher Inouye (D-HI) Jennings Randolph (D-WV) Daniel K. (R-DE) Henry M. Jackson (D-WA) William V. Roth Jr. (R-NY) Harrison H. Schmitt (R-NM) Jacob K. Javits (R-PA) Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) Richard S. Schweiker William Lloyd Scott (R-VA) Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) (D-MI) B. Long (D-LA) John Stennis Russell (R-AK) Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) Ted Stevens (R-SC) Charles McC. Mathias Jr. (R-MD) Strom Thurmond Spark M. Matsunaga (D-HI) John G. Tower (R-TX) George McGovern (D-SD) Malcolm Wallop (R-WY) Milton R. Young (R-ND) Thomas J. Mclntyre (D-NH) Howard M. Metzenbaum (D-OH) Edward Zorinsky (D-NE) JUNE 1978 —

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© The John Sturges House, Inc., 1978 |i J *— — — Dealers' Inquiries Invited. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 37 12-0 victory was the most overwhelming in the long series. Williams smacked his first round-tripper in the fourth off Kirby Higbe who once played Legion ball for Richland Post No. 6 in Colum- bia. SC.

By the way, 1946 was Williams' first full season with the Red Sox following duty in World War II as a Marine flier. Four years later the Marines took him away to Korea. Next month baseball is bringing its All-Star game to his home- town for the first time. , of Penoach Post No. 464 in Adel, IA, took part in five All-Star games, including a three- chore in Williams' 1946 game. "Rapid Rob- ert" was the starting pitcher for the and went through his allotted three without allowing

San Diego Stadium, home of the Padres, is the site for this year's All-Star baseball a run. He struck out four. game. Superimposed is Dave Winfield, Padre outfielder and a native of St. Paul, MN, The legendary Yogi Berra, who with the University of Minnesota team. Winfield contributed $20,000 who starred played with the Fred W. Stockham for Padre tickets for underprivileged kids in San Diego and sponsors college scholar- Post No. 245 while growing in the ship programs in Minnesota up Hill district of St. Louis, MO, was a Milbank, SD there is a marble tive in every one of the All-Star games 15-game All-Star selectee. In 1959 in Inmonument with the inscription: beginning with Earl Averill and Chick the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, "In this city on July 17, 1925, by Hafey, who were named to the Ameri- Yogi clouted a two-run homer on the action of the South Dakota Department can and entries in 1933. way to a 5-3 American win. of The American Legion, the nation- That game was played in Chicago's Stan "The Man" Musial, a graduate wide organization of Legion Junior Comiskey Park. The classic was of Ernest Jobes Post No. 212 in Donora, Baseball was first proposed as a pro- dreamed up by the late Arch Ward, PA, played in 24 All-Star games. In gram of service to the youth of then sports editor of the Chicago Tri- 1955 he walloped a in the America." bune, as part of Chicago's "'Century of bottom of the 12th inning to give the In October that same year, the pro- Progress Exposition." National League a 6-5 win in Milwau- posal became a reality when the na- Neither Averill, who was to perform kee's County Stadium. The hit came tional convention in Omaha passed in four other All-Star games, nor Hafey off Frank Sullivan, of the Red Sox and Resolution 482. The first national turned in noteworthy accomplishments Legion ball in Burbank, CA. tournament was played in 1926 in in that first effort, but Averill, from Cincinnati's Johnny Bench, who Philadelphia with Yonkers, NY (Cook Snohomish, WA, and representing the learned his fundamentals with Havens- Post No. 321) defeating Pocatello, ID, , sparkled in the 1934 Cannon Post No. 24 in Anadarko, OK, 23-6 for the title. This year's "Legion inter-league meeting by belting a pinch lists 10 All-Star games. He has hit " will be held Aug. 31- and later a double to drive in three home runs and driven in six Sept. 4 in Yakima, WA. South Bend, three runs as the Americans whipped runs in 25 All-Star at-bats. His buddy IN is the defending national champion. the Nationals, 9-7. But that was also Pete Rose figured in one of the most Records fail to show if any member the game in which Carl Hubbell struck memorable All-Star moments. The of that first championship club went out in succession five of the American score was tied 4-4 at Cincinnati in on to the major leagues, but Bill Grieve, League's most vaunted sluggers: Babe 1970 when Rose singled with two out Yonkers coach, did become an Ameri- Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al and the bases empty in the bottom of can League umpire. Simmons and Joe Cronin. the 12th. Billy Grabarkewitz, who In the years that followed, however, Perhaps the most glittering of all played for San Antonio (TX) Post hundreds of one-time Legion base- the stints by Legion-bred major leaguers No. 10, followed with a single, Rose ballers advanced to the major leagues, was turned in by Ted Williams in stopping at second. Jim Hickman also scores of them achieving headline fame Game No. 9 in Detroit's Briggs Sta- tagged pitcher Clyde Wright for a and a dozen reaching the Hall of Fame dium, July 8, 1941. single. Rose was off with the crack of in Cooperstown, NY. More than 400 Williams, who played Legion ball for the bat and tore around third as Hick- have played in the Major League All- San Diego Post No. 6 as a teenager, man's hit dropped in front of Amos Star Game. The 49th All-Star Classic cracked a two-out, three-run homer in Otis in short center. Pete kept on rac- will be played in San Diego, CA the ninth to earn the American Leaguers ing for the plate as Otis fired the ball to July 11. a 7-5 triumph. Williams played in 18 catcher Ray Fosse. Fosse caught it just Legion lads in Cooperstown are Yogi All-Star games but to this day he as Rose hit him. Fosse, his glove and Berra, , Roy Campanella, insists that his 1941 blow was his "most the ball went in three different direc- Bob Feller, Ralph Kiner, Eddie Ma- thrilling hit." tions. Rose fell across the plate with thews, Joe Medwick, Stan Musial, Ted Ted's most productive All-Star Game the winning run. Williams, , Warren Spahn was the 1946 affair played at home in Fosse played Legion ball for Post and . Boston's . He staged a No. 147 in Marion, IL. Hickman once We know they were great, but there one-man demolition of the National starred for Cleaves Post No. 178 in were some All-Star performances by League. All Ted did that afternoon was Ripley, TN. other Legion grads that fans still talk hit two home runs and two singles in Just look at what they started back about. four at-bats to drive in five runs and in Milbank, SD in 1925. There has been a Legion representa- score four. The American League's —Mil Chipp

38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 400 Baseball Grads Have Played in Classic

Here are the names of the 400 grad- McGlothlin, Tug McGraw, Denny McLain, Cal McLish. uates of The American Legion baseball Roy McMillan, Dave McNally, Joe Medwick, program who have been named to the Denis Menke, Jim Merritt, Andy Messersmith, Cass Michaels, Stu Miller, Don Mincher, Bill teams for the annual Major League Monbouquette, Rick Monday, Wally Moon, Bill Moran, , Don Mossi, Don Mueller, All-Star Game: Pat Mullin, Bob Muncrief, George Munger, Joe Adcock, Hank Aguirre, Dick Allen, Gene Thurman Munson, Bobby Murcer, Stan Musial, Alley, Bob Allison, Max Alvis, Mike Andrews, Ray Narleski. Charley Neal, Dave Nelson. Graig John Antonelli, Richie Ashburn, Earl Averill, Ed Nettles, Hal Newhouser, Phil Niekro, frv Noren, Bailey, Gene Baker, Earl Battey, Hank Bauer, Billy O'Dell, Johnny Odom, Al Oliver, Claude Mark Belanger, David Bell, Gus Bell. Johnny Osteen, Micky Owen, Andy Pafko, Joe Page, Bench. Yogi Berra, Ken Berry, Don Blasingame, Jim Palmer, Milt Pappas, Dave Parker, Mel Rik Blyleven, Frank Boiling, Bobby Bonds, Ray Parnell, Al Pearson, , Gary Peters, Boone, Lou Boudreau, Jim Bouton. Fritz Peterson, Billy Pierce, Lou Piniella, Vada Pinson, Johnny Podres, Howie Pollet, Bob Larry Bowa, Ken Boyer, Jackie Brandt. Harry Purkey. Brecheen, George Brett, Jim Brewer, Tom Brewer, Ed Brinkman, Lou Brissie, Don Buford, Bob Dick Radatz, Ken Raffensberger, Willie Ran- Buhl, Jim Bunning, Lew Burdette, Smokey Williams Bench dolph, Vic Raschi, Ron Reed, Pee Wee Reese, Burgess, Jeff Burroughs, Jim Busby, Steve Busby, Hal Reiser, Rick Reuschel, Jerry Reuss, Rip John Callison, Roy Campanella, John Candelaria, Repulski, Rick Rhoden, Jim Rice, Bobby Rich- Steve Carlton, Gary Carter, George Case, Dave ardson, Bill Rigney, Robin Roberts, Brooks Larry Hisle, Don Hoak, Gil Hodges, Ken Holtz- Robinson, Frank Robinson, Preacher Roe, Richie Cash, Phil Cavarretta, Bob Cerv, Dave Chalk, man, Johnny Hopp, Art Houtteman, Frank Dean Chance, Chapman, Gino Cimoli, Jim Rollins, John Romano, Buddy Rosar. Pete Rose, Sam Howard, Dick Howser, Sid Hudson, Randy Coates. John Roseboro, , Joe Rudi, Pete Run- Hundley, Ron Hunt, , Jim Hunter, nels, Bob Rush, Bill Russell, Connie Ryan, Jack , Gerry Coleman, Joe Coleman, Fred Hutchinson. Sanford, Ron Santo, Richie Scheinblum, Johnny Conigliaro, Conley, Tony Gene Mort Cooper, Larry Jackson, Ransom Jackson, Reggie Jack- Schmitz, Al Schoendienst, Don Schwall, Herb Crandall, Cullenbine, Culp, Joe Del Roy Ray son, Jackie Jensen, Tommy John, Alex Johnson, Score, Tom Seaver, Andy Seminick, Bob Shaw, Cunningham, Babe Dahlgren, Buddy Daley, Alvin Dave Johnson, Bob Johnson. Bill Johnson, Randy Chris Short, Norm Siebern, Sonny Siebert, Roy Dark, Jim Davenport, Bucky Dent, Murry Dick- Jones, Willie Jones, Eddie Joost. Duke Josephson, Sievers, Curt Simmons, Ted Simmons, Bill Singer, son, Larry Dierker, Dick Dietz, Bob Dillinger, Jim Kaat, Al Kaline, Ed Kasko, Bob Keegan, Ken Singleton, Bob Skinner, Bill Skowron, Jim DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, Dick Donovan, Dom George Kell, Charley Keller, Pat Kelly. Ken Kelt- Slaton, Edgar Smith, Hal Smith, Reggie Smith, Al Downing, Walt Dropo, Don Drysdale, Ryne ner, Jim Kern, Buddy Kerr, Don Kessinger, Har- Duke Snider, Warren Spahn, Gerry Staley, Wilver Duren. Bruce Edwards, John Edwards, (Doc) mon Killebrew, Ralph Kiner. Dave Kingman, Stargell, Rusty Staub, John Stearns, Dave Sten- Dock Ellis, Elston. Del Ennis, Carl Erskine, Don Bobby Knoop, Darold Knowles, Jim Konstanty, house, Vern Stephens, Bill Stoneman, Mel Stottle- Estrada, Darrell Evans. Chuck Jerry Koosman, Jack Kramer, Tony Kubek, Har- myre, Dick Stuart, Frank Sullivan. Elroy Face, Ferris Fain, Ron Fairly, Dick vey Kuenn. George Kurowski, Chet Laabs, Clem Frank Tanana, Birdie Tebbetts, Johnny Temple, Farrell, Bob Feller, Mark Fidrych. Rollie Fingers, Labine, Ray Lamanno, Jim Landis, Norm Larker, Garry Templeton, Gene Tenace, Frank Thomas, Jim Finigan, Eddie Fisher, Carlton Fisk, Curt Dave LaRoche, Frank Lary. Lee Thomas, Bobby Thomson, Jim Tobin, Tom Flood, Foiles, Forsch, Fosse, Hank Ken Ray Cookie Lavagetto, Gary Lavelle, Vernon Law, Tresh, Gus Triandos, Virgil Trucks, Thurman Bill Freehan, Jim Fregosi, Bob Friend, Augie Bob Lemon, Buddy Lewis. Whitey Lockman. Tucker, Bob Turley, Wayne Twitchell. Johnny Garver, Steve Garvey, Galan, Mike Garcia, Ned Johnny Logan, Mickey Lolich, Sherman Lollar, Vander Meer, Mickey Vernon, Hal Wagner, Bob Gibson, Dave Giusti, Jim Gentile, Joe Ed Lopat, Stan Lopata, Peanuts Lowrey, Sparky Leon Wagner, , Harry Walker, Gordon, Sid Gordon, Billy Grabarkewitz, Ted Lyle, Ray Mack, Bill Madlock. Sal Maglie, Art Jerry Walker, Lee Walls, Don Wert. Vic Wertz, Gray, Grich, Dick Groat, John Grubb. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 39 Legion Legislative Calendar

The House Veterans Affairs Sub- committee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance, chaired by Rep. G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery (D-MS), has reported the following measures to the full committee for consideration: • A clean bill in lieu of H.R. 10337 providing a 6.5 percent increase in service-connected com- pensation for veterans and DIC benefits for widows and orphans of veterans who died as a result of service-connected disabilities. A 6.5 per- cent increase was also approved in the clothing allowance. Included in the language of the clean bill were the provisions contained in H.R. 10352 which clarifies the intent of Congress in providing for exemption of taxation of compensation paid in lieu of military retired pay (as it stands now, some veterans are being forced to pay federal in- come taxes on payments which the Congress in- tended to be tax free.) The proposed bill also contains the language of H.R. 11530 to increase compensation for veterans who have lost three extremities from service- connected causes. • The second clean bill would decrease the min- imum disability rating from 50 percent to 40 per- cent at which a veteran would be provided additional compensation for dependents. • The third clean bill would increase the special pension paid to winners of the Congressional New Orleans 'Extra' Medal of Honor from $100 to $200 monthly. • A clean bill was also reported in lieu of H.R. 10338, which increase by $300 monthly the aid and attendance rate to certain totally disabled veterans who are in need of constant medical Super Dome Contests aid and attendance instead of just regular, un- skilled aid and attendance. • H.R. 9994 would take into account the devas- tating nature of a long-standing service-connected Pep Up Convention disability on the veteran and his family by pro- viding for payment of DIC to veterans' survivors, even if death from natural causes was not related A musical spectacular is taking shape ters for The American Legion Auxiliary to his service-connected conditions. However, the bill provides the veteran must be rated perma- as Legionnaires push final arrange- and the Eight et Forty. The Sons of nently and totally disabled for his service-con- ments for The American Legion's The American Legion will have their nected disability for 10 or more years or from time of discharge until his death. National Convention in New Orleans, sessions in the Grand Hotel. Conven- • H.R. 11531 was favorably reported providing a 6 percent cost-of-living increase in DIC for Aug. 18-24. tion headquarters offices will open dependent parents. The finals of the junior and senior Aug. 14 in the French Market Exhibit All of these bills which the subcommittee recommended to benefit the service-connected drum and bugle corps competition will Hall, Hyatt Regency Hotel. veteran and his survivors would have an FY 1979 cost of $449.3 million. be staged Sunday night, Aug. 20, in The annual American Legion Con- the famed Super Dome, the largest vention Parade is scheduled for Mon- roofed stadium in the world and the day evening, Aug. 21. Oldtimers' Corps scene of the 1978 Dallas-Denver A registration fee of $5 is required Super Bowl football game. of all who attend convention sessions. Sets Sights On Paris "It will be the greatest setting we The annual American Legion Con- When the 60th anniversary of the have ever had for our musical compe- vention golf tournament will be played signing of the Nov. 11, 1918 armistice tition," said Convention Corporation Aug. 21 at Lakewood Country Club, is celebrated in France, the Saulte Ste. President Al LaBiche. "Tickets will be site of the New Orleans Open. Marie, MI WWI Drum and Bugle Corps only $6 each and every spectator will wants to be there. Loyd Sellers Dies; have an opportunity to explore the Originally there were 36 members. Super Dome as well as enjoy the music Last of Honor Guard Today their number has dwindled to and marching. We think it's a great Loyd Sellers, 78, the last surviving 18. Their ages range from 79 to 86. bargain. Just a tour of the Super Dome honor guard that served at the burial of The corps claims to be the last sur- costs $2.50." the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Na- viving unit of its kind. Members are Convention Director Bill Miller says tional Cemetery, VA died March 17 at more likely to roll along than march registrations are "brisk" and some of the Michigan Veterans Facility, Grand in a parade, using a low-slung skeleton the finest units in the country are ex- Rapids, MI. trailer. They play such WWI favorites pected, including the nationally-recog- A charter and life member of Cassard as "Over There," "Long Long Trail" nized Caballeros of Hawthorne, N.J. Post 208, The American Legion, he had and "Echoes of France," better known Approximately 25,000 Legionnaires received a picture of the burial a few as "Mademoiselle from Armentieres." and American Legion Auxiliary mem- years ago and a certification that he was If the citizens of Sault Ste. Marie bers and their families are expected to the last living honor guard member have their way, corps members and attend the convention. The Hyatt from then Vice Pres. Gerald Ford. their wives will spend Nov. 11, 1978 at Regency Hotel will be convention head- For many years, Sellers was the Le- Armistice Day memorial services "over quarters for The American Legion. gion's service officer for the Fifth Mich- there," in Paris. The city has formed a The Fairmont Hotel will be headquar- igan District. committee to arrange such a trip.

40 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 Tribute to Arkansas Commander Sometimes We Forget Too Soon

When the Liberty Ship O. L. Boden- a member of the Arkansas Tax Com- hamer went to its final resting place in mission. 300 feet of water two miles off Haul- At the 1929 National Convention in over Inlet on the Florida coast, who Louisville, "Bodie" was elected national recalled O. L. Bodenhamer? commander by acclamation—the first The stripped-down hull, obtained commander to receive a convention's from the government by the state of unanimous vote. He was Arkansas' Florida, was to be part of the Pflueger only national commander. By the Bos- artificial fishing reef, but winds pushed ton National Convention in 1930, reached a new it about a mile off course. Legion membership had The 440-foot craft is the largest of high, almost one million members. nine ships sunk in the area since Oc- "Bodie" married Irene Richardson of tober 1969. Within weeks, marine El Dorado in Massachusetts after the result growth covers such a ship and it be- Boston convention. He died as a comes a feeding spot for fish. of burns in a 1933 explosion in an oil The Florida Department of Natural field near Henderson, TX. Resources tried to find out who O. L. The Victory Ship Bodenhamer was launched at the Delta Ship Building Bodenhamer was. Nobody seemed to O. L. Bodenhamer know, until his nephew, Bill Boden- Co. plant in New Orleans during Aug- hamer of Miami, called The Miami ust 1944. Mrs. Bodenhamer, a past South Arkansas Fine Arts Center, a Herald. Department President of the Arkansas municipal swimming pool and several O. L. "Bodie" Bodenhamer, was na- American Legion Auxiliary, christened Little League baseball fields. tional commander of The American the ship. A marker for the park was presented Legion, 1929-1930 and the fifth De- After his death, citizens and friends to El Dorado in September 1976 by partment Commander of Arkansas dur- arranged to purchase a 20-acre me- Mrs. Bodenhamer as her bicentennial ing 1922-23. He attracted statewide morial park in El Dorado. The first project. It was overdue. Perhaps not one attention in 1922, as Commander of the building on the site was American person among 10 in El Dorado knew Roy V. Kinard Post No. 10 at El Legion Post No. 10. Today, it also ac- the park was a memorial site. Dorado, when the membership jumped commodates Memorial Stadium, the We can't afford to forget men like from 74 to 814 of 1,000 eligible vet- Boys Club, the Teen-Age Club, the "Bodie." erans in the county. A native of Goldthwaite, TX, "Bodie" a Week graduated with honors from the Howard Makes Over $60 EXTRA Shop! Payne Baptist College at Brownwood In Own Sharpening Sharp-All made and Baylor University at Waco. He was "My Belsaw spare me $3,500 last year just in an English teacher at San Marcos Bap- time.^ time. Now I'm going full tist College in San Marcos, TX when your own boss. It's great to be the United States entered World I Michigan War David swanson — Utica, in 1917. 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Pres. 609H Field City, tion, serve on the Arkansas Park Com- Bldg., Kansas Mo. 64111 mission and direct campaigns for the Send details of FREE TRIAL OFFER and Free Book "Lifetime Security" Salvation Army and Community Chest. In 1925, he organized the El Dorado Name Real Estate Assn. and served as presi- Address dent of the Arkansas State Real Es- tate Assn. and the El Dorado Chamber City State Zip J of Commerce, and was a director of the State Chamber of Commerce and No obligation ... No salesman will call

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 41 Ohio Youngsters Tramp the Halls of Congress

Winners of the Department of Ohio Americanism and Gov- nati, Rep. Thomas A. Luken and Theresa Smith of Cincinnati. ernment test program recently made their annual tour of Lower left: Connie Unger of Canton and Rep. Ralph S. Regula. Washington, sponsored by the Ohio Department. It included Lower center: Samuel L. Devine and Ohio's First Vice Cdr. visits to Ohio congressional offices. Top left: Kathryn G. Eldon 0. Bohn. Lower right: Rep. Charles J. Carney and Robert Gardner of Mansfield, Rep. John M. Ashbrook and James Taraszewski of Youngstown. The tests were taken by 90,000 Sherman of Norwalk. Top right: Michael H. Glaser of Cincin- Ohio high school students. The 18 top students were on tour POSTS IN ACTION

With one exception, these veteran members of Clayton, NY Post 821 received 60-year membership pins at a recent post birthday dinner. Left to right: C. Andrew Mills (45 years), Charles Bentzen, Royal LaLonde Sr., Bernard Sweeney, Howard W. Corbin and Melvin Stage. Other 60-year eligibles are Leonard Bombard, Glen W. Fultz Sr., Leland Gokey, Robert P. Grant, George Hutchinson, John A. O'Toole, Irwin Turcotte. Howard W. Pierce has been a member for 58 years

New York Dept. Cdr. John P. Tipping of Nassau County, right, presents first issue of Empire State Legionnaire, of- ficial New York publication, to Na- tional Cdr. Robert Charles Smith

Post 1671, Cortland, NY has dedi- cated a stone monument and bronze plaque to all Cortland County women who have served their country. Past Cdr. Doris Jebbett made the presenta- tion to County Legislator Robert Bays. Chicago Aviation Commissioner J. Patrick Dunne receives plaque from Aviation Post Ed Cook, New York Department vice 651 commemorating his 50 years of service to aviation. Dunne joined Illinois Na- tional Guard aviation unit in 1927 and served in WWII and the Korean War. He is a commander, attended and the Hancock former manager of Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Left to right: Post member John Barrett, Air Force Base honor guard performed. Dunne, Post Cdr. Bernard Bellario and Vice Cdr. Grosvenor E. Glenn

42 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 : —

Reay Walker, Arthur Woodbury Jr. (both 9th Army Air Force, 302nd Airdrome Sqd. 1978) Post 230, Sherrill, NY Need to hear from comrades who recall Richard Arabinko, Stephen Decker, James Rowland Mixon fell through a lad- Labhola Chosen Charles Kelly, Geo. Pedersen, Arthur Penny, der while loading a bomb at an abandoned Burnett Redder (all 1977) Post 1308, Pine airport. Vesoul, France, 1945. Contact CID Bush, NY 484. Edward Tucker (1978) Post 1451, Sanborn, Co D 18th Eng, Co A 410th Eng—Need infor- June Legionnaire NY mation from anyone who remembers Rob- James Eid (1978) Post 62. Walhalla. ND ert P. Stewart contracted frostbite to his Fred Labriola of Joseph J. Carbat Paul Clemens (1978) Post 101. Carlisle. PA hand, legs, feet, arms and ears in transit Robert McDaniel, Walter Pasierbek (both from has been Lake Hulane, Yukon Territory to Post 299, Belleville, NJ, 1978) Post 175, Washington, PA embarkation point for Attu Island, Alue- chosen as "Le- Bonifacio Cuyzon, Esperidion Cadungog, tions, Alaska Jan. 13. 1943. Contact CID Alejantiono Nunoz, Eulogio Gernalo, Alfonso 485. gionnaire of the Ulbo (all 1978) Post 11, Cebu City. PI 290th Inf, 75th Div—Need to hear from Post 49, Smithfield. VA Month." Bill Bailey (1978) comrades who recall Lee P. Davis dam- Robert Winkler, Kenneth Butler (both aged his hearing due to an explosion while Labriola, a Le- 1977) Post 20, Bitburg, W. Germany stationed on the Rhine River Feb. 1945. Joseph Christman, John Shepard, Charles Contact CID 486. gionnaire since (all 1973) Post 435, Superior, WI Kolanczyk 1st Army, 99th Div, Co L, 393rd Inf—Need 1919 and a Life Memberships are accepted for pub- information from anyone who remembers lication only on an official form, which we Roberts Duncan McKinlay suffered from charter member provide. Reports received only from Com- bad nerves and hemorroids while stationed at Lichtenfeld. Germany, Feb. or Mar. of Theodore Roo- mander, Adjutant or Finance Officer of Post which awarded the life membership. 1945. Contact CID 487. sevelt Post 4, They may get form by sending stamped, 1221 388th Eng. Pipeline Co—Need to hear self-addressed return envelope to: from comrades who recall Albert R. Fans- Vineland, NJ, has "L.M. Form American Legion Magazine, lau was hospitalized for leg injuries while served as post 1608 K St., N.W. Washington, D.C 20006." stationed at Inchon, Korea, Sept. 1953. On a corner of the return envelope write LSM 330—Need information from anyone commander and the number of names you wish to report. who remembers James Bolton suffered a No written letter necessary to get forms. nervous condition while stationed at Bain- has been Post bridge, MD, May 5, 1945—August 15, 1946. Labriola 2 99's service offi- COMRADES IN DISTRESS Contact CID 489. 6975 Inf Regt. Co E—Need to hear from cer for the last 16 years. Readers who can help these veterans are comrades who recall Roy F. Sproule, Jr., urged to do so. Usually a statement is head in served as Essex county chap- sustained a injury truck accident He has needed in support of a VA claim. in Gesson. Germany, 1945-47. Contact CID lain and as Essex county sergeant-at- Notices are run only at the request of 490. American Legion Service Officers represent- 5th RCT, 24th Div—Need information from arms for the last 8 years. ing claimants, using Search For Witness anyone who remembers George A. Cook- Forms available only from State Legion Labriola has compiled 7,500 hours sey had a lung condition and asthma Service Officers. Please contact CID # . attacks while stationed at Panwumjanam, as a volunteer worker at the East Orange The American Legion Magazine, 1608 "K" Korea, June and May 1951. Contact CID Street NW. Washington, DC 20006. 491. Veterans hospital during the last 15 271st Inf, 69th Div, Co G—Need to hear from Co C, 11th Arm'd Inf Bn—Need to hear from years. In addition he has been instru- comrades who recall Robert D. Motsinger comrades who recall Barney Streeter con- bronchitus while stationed at tracted yellow jaundice while on the front pensions for 150 contracted mental in obtaining Camp Shelby, MS, July 1943. Contact CID lines in Italy, July 1944. Contact CID 492. veterans or their widows. 461. Inf. Training Camp Roberts, Paso Robles, Normandy, Jan. 10, 1941—Need information CA—Need information from anyone who from anyone who remembers Harold J. remembers Robert James Schnebly injured NEW POSTS Gauthier hurt his legs and feet. Contact his back while unloading a freight car of CID 483. steel, March 25, 1941. Contact CID 494. The following new posts were re- cently chartered by the American Legion Just Plant... And Watch It Zoom! Bagdad Post No. 104, Bagdad, AZ; Phoenix Post No. 105. Phoenix, AZ; Hubert H. Hum- phrey Post No. 342, Ocala, FL; Veteran's Village Post No. 343, Seven Springs, FL; Tommy Weston. Indoor Flowering Houseplant Jr. Post No. 283. Dawson. GA; Soperton Post No. 284, Soperton. GA; Satilla Post No. 285, Woodbine, GA; Central Post No. 132, Indianap- Reaches The Floor In 10 Weeks! olis, IN; Princess Post No. 136, Mishawaka, IN; Krotz Springs Post No. 391. Krotz Springs, LA; Ennis Spradley Post No. 503, Plaquemine, LA; Plant Today And By Next Week It Will Wyoming Post No. 154, Wyoming, MI; Twin Already Begin to Brim Over Its Planter, Cities American Indiana Post 419, St. Paul, MN; Trailing Lacy Tendrils Of Lustrous Green 1st Viet-Nam Post No. 1897. Brooklyn, NY; Cape Verdean Post No. 100, Pawtucket, RI; Major Foliage, Twinkling With Decorative Golden Paul Christman Post No. 189. Tullahoma, TN; Starry Flowers! Bassett Post No. 303. Bassett. VA. • GROWS BEAUTIFULLY IN SUN OR SHADE LIFE MEMBERSHIP • SO HARDY, IT REQUIRES ALMOST NO CARE! The award of a life membership to a Le- • COVERS ITSELF WITH HUNDREDS OF gionnaire by a Post is a testimonial by those BLOSSOMS AND SCARLET BERRIES YEAR who know best that such a member has served The American Legion well. •ROUND! Below are listed some of the previously • SPROUTS SO FAST WE CALL IT THE unpublished life membership Post awards "INSTANT GARDEN OF DELIGHT"! that have been reported to the editors. They are arranged by States or Departments. So magnificent... and so easy! Now you can turn any dreary corner of your home into a breathtaking floral Edsel Anderson (1977) Robert Oakeson

showpiece. . one that continually rewards you with (1978) Post 72, Phoenix, AZ Felten Tompkins, Ruel Ward, Paul Knob- extravagant cascades of gorgeous blooms— hundreds lauch (all 1978) Post 314, Hawthorne. CA upon hundreds of 'em! —and glossy red berries bright Alex Fornal, Howard Wilkins (both 1975) against the crisp green foliage! Now you'd think that a Norbert Le Page, Dennis Mendonsa (both plant so lovely to behold would be extremely difficult to 1978) Post 471, Oakland, CA raise, but not this incredible housewarmer! Almost all Henry Jacobsen, Harry Elder, Leslie you've got to do is plant and watch it zoom quickly Hague (all 1978) Post 19, Orlando, FL — Kenneth Webb (1978) Post 43, Homestead, spilling over its planter (FREE with order!) till it reaches FL the floor! This amazing "Instant Garden of Delight" thrives Forrest Fuller, Joshua Garner, Leon Hall, in sun or shade, indoors or outdoors! Order several right now! Henen Jarrell, Arthur Jepsen (all 1978) Post 81, Melbourne, FL Robert Lessen (1978) Post 182, Arma, KS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! MAIL COUPON TODAY! L. C. Self, Wilford Shiftier (both 1976) Wm. Lape, James Lang (both 1977) Post 53, Hillsdale, MI SPRING GROVE ACRES, Dept. L 5071 Enclosed is $ (Pa. residents add sales tax.) Thomas Jesse Harlow, Richard McCrackin, 200 Jackson Street, Box 98, Spring Grove, Pa. 17362 Miller, Dennis O'Connell, Peter Peiffer (all | 1978) Post 380. Carson City, MI NAME. Please send me the incredible cascading Dr. C. H. Boelke, Joseph Elliot, C. G. | (Please print) Frye, Edwin Gartzke. Ole Gerdes, Emil "Instant Garden of Delight" Flowering I Hannaman (all 1978) Post 89, Blue Earth, I Houseplant (L-00837SE) as. indicated ADDRESS . MN I below on full money-back guarantee Otto Wurth (1977) Post 37, St. Louis, MO complete with FREE planter. Alfred Daniels (1977) Post 97, Grafton, NTI J CITY. Fred Campleman, James Capra, Albert I DONE Plant only $2.98 plus 60c postage & handling Fratanduono, Raymond Grace, Dorothea I TWO, punts just $4.98 plus 90c postage & handling Lucke (all 1978) Post 94, Clementon, NJ Q FOUR Plants just $8.98 plus $1. 25 postage & handling STATE. .ZIP. James Flaherty, Carl Weber Sr. (both 1969) Post 391, Mine Hill, NJ ©Spring Grove Acres. 1978 •

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 43 - MAKE MONEY! Who? What? When? Millions of tires have damaged or mis-matched white- walls. They can earn you big profits with our equipment Leonard M. Auman, 5010 'sW 14th St., Des and you can start a business customizing tires. You Moines, IA 50315, would like to hear from any- charge 53.50 per stripe per tire which can mean $14.00 or one serving on USS RUSSELL IDD 414) from more for a set of 4 tires. Your cost is only 20c and takes 1939-45. only 20 minutes. You can easily average 10 cars a day. at ? ? ? $13.80 profit each for a big $138.00 daily profit. NO Paul J. Dvorshock, Rt. 6, Carbondale, IL FRANCHISE FEES, ROYALTIES. OR OVERHEAD TAX 62901, would like to hear from former mem- BENEFITS. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED. We provide an bers of medical detachment of 42nd Inf. Div., expense-paid trip to Dallas, Texas for full training and you from 1944-46. can become a Tire Customizing Specialist or distributor in 9 9.9 a very short time. Donald Knox, Executive Producer of Chicago Public TV, would like to hear from survivors Distributor $60,000 of Bataan Death March for research material. "This is what I grossed the first ninety Write WTTW-TV, 5400 N. St. Louis Ave., Chi- days." —Bill Smith, San Jose, CA. cago, IL 60625. 9 9 9 Post 101, Carlisle, PA celebrated 59 Dealer $5,400 Government history project interested in con- tacting active at years of The American Legion with past "/ grossed this amount in two months, part persons who performed duty a "listening in" stations, communications inter- time." —Brian Stoneback, Carrollton, Texas commanders-past presidents recognition cept, codes and ciphers, or U.S. cryptology. night. Left to right are Cdr. Floyd W. Owner/Operator Write P.O. Box 3431, Crofton, MD 21114. $20/Hour ? ? ? Morris and Auxiliary President Reba "/ gross this operating my tire customizing Lonnie Ferrell, 2509 N. 66th Ave., Omaha, Lambert. unit."—Dennis DeStefano, South Orange, N.J. NE 68104. would like to hear from former members of 35th Ftr. Gp, 39th Ftr Sq., in • Repair Curb 0amage_ South Pacific in WW II. • Whitewalling 9th Arm'd Eng—(Aug) Jake Elmore, Star Rt., Box 1091A, Hot Springs, SD 57747 • Color Stripes Floyd Cottle, 519 E. Tulsa, Sulphur, OK 73086 11th Arm'd Div— (Aug) Alfred Pfeiffer, 2328 wishes to contact former shipmates stationed in • Lettering Admiral St., Aliquippa, 15001 American Samoa from 1944 to 1945. PA 13th Corps (Aug) John Bitting, ? ? ? (WW2)— 10104 Quinby St., Silver Springs, MD 20901 Ray Jordon, Rt' 1, Keota, OK 74941 would 14th Cav Regt— (Aug) Bud Hendrix, 6405 like to locate members of the 65th Combat Eng Co (Vietnam 1967-68). Roseland Dr., Des Moines, IA 50322 16th Arm'd Div (Aug) Lester Bennett, ? ? ? — RT #5, Box 31, Napoleon, OH 43545 Bob F. Driscol'l, Rt ' 1, Dassel, MN .5532.5 20th Inf, 6th Inf Div, Co (Aug) Lynn would like to hear from members of the 151st A— Rainbow Div. Balbach, RR #1, Box 142, Springfield, MN ? 9 ? 56087 Inf 3rd Raleigh W. Croft, P.O. Box 294, Marion, KY 21st HQ Co, Bn—(Aug) Geo. Ryals, Jr., 42064 wishes to contact former members of RT 3, Box 297 B, Thomaston, GA 30286 24th Inf Div, 5th 6th 26th Co B, 603rd Eng (WW1). RCT, Tnk & AAA 167 TIRE COSMOTOLOGY, INC. ? ? ? Bn— (Aug) Howard Lumsden, Hickory St., Wood River, IL 62095 Trail, Members of the 814th Pioneer Inf stationed fQl 10920 Indian Suite 201 32nd Regt, 3rd Div, at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, KY, please Arm'd Arm'd Co D— Dallas. TX 75229 4447 Phillips Dr., contact Dr. Orris V. Cooper, 1027 St. James St., (Aug) John Tucker, Call Toll Free: 1 -800-527-7438 for free literature. Alexandria, LA 71301. Wichita Falls, TX 76308 34th Dietzen, 1104 ? ? ? Gen Hosp—(Aug) Joe Servicemen wishing to join the 89th Div Sunset Dr., Kimberly, WI 54136 (WW2) please contact E. C. Buchanan, 2419 34th Sig Co—(Aug) Bud Larson, 1016 3rd St. j Address 57201 37th St., Des Moines, IA 50310. NW, Watertown, SD 38th Eng Regt (Aug) Larry Buffington, Phone No. ? ? ? — 30th Depot Repair Sqd, 8th and 9th AF 3835 Keswick Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211 Unit Historv now available, please contact Jo- 38th Regt, A Co, 2nd Div (WW2)— (Aug) City . State_ seph McLaughlin, Box 120, 491 School Rd., Charles Reber, 236 N. Franklin St., Lan- Blue Bell, PA 19422. caster PA 17602 ? ? ? 40th Cav Recon Trp (WW2)— (Aug) Edward Carl W. Braun,'287 E. 8th St., Brooklyn, NY Hunt, Box 68, Covington, GA 30209 11218 would like to contact men who signed a 40th Trp Carr Sqd, 317th Trp Carr Wing German Flag the dav they were liberated from (WW2)— (Aug) Phil Lowe, RR #6, Box the Luftwaffe POW Camp #3. 556, Warsaw, IN 46580 ? ? ? 41st Inf Div—(Aug) Harry Robshaw, Jr, If you served with the 2nd AEF in Europe 4814 66th Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20784 and was at the meeting in Paris, 1927, please 43rd Eng Bn—(Aug) Robert Pine. 1149 contact Lucius M. Stephens, PO Box 40, Lometa, Marsh Ave., Ellisville, MO 63011 TX 76853. 45th Div MP Co (Korea)— (Aug) Sid Camp, ? ? ? 200 W. Court, Atoka, OK 74525 Former members of the 1st and 2nd Pilipino 46th Sig HV Cons. Bn— (Aug) Boyd Hiser, Regt. US Army, WW2, please contact PO Box 9154 Springhill Crt, Greenbelt, MD 20770 18121, San Francisco, CA 94118. 50th Eng Co C, Comb Bn (WW2)— (Aug) ? ? ? Walter Pralle, 4400 Pioneers Blvd., Lincoln, Floyd B. Huger, Pigeon Hill Court, Pigeon NE 68506 Cove, MA 01966 would like to contact any 51st Sta Hosp—(Aug) Wm. Ashburn, 1823 S. personnel of the US Navy 6th Fleet who remem- 16th East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105 ber the Marina Beach at Cannes, or the Basket- 63rd Eng Co A 44th Div (WW2)— (Aug) ball Games at Palma, Spain. Alves Harder, Shoals, IN 45781 ? ? ? 69th Inf Div 661st Tnk Dest Bn 777th Tnk THE FIRST HURRAHS FOR Servicemen who were stationed at Camp Fre- Bn—(Aug) Clarence Marshall, 101 Stephen A BRILLIANT NEW BIOGRAPHY mont, Menlo Park, CA during 1917-1918, please St., New Kensington, PA 15068 contact Chester Vaughn, 819 9th Ave., Red- 70th Inf Div—(Aug) Orville Ellis, 9255 Birch J. DALEY. J. OF MAYOR RICHARD wood City, CA 94063. Tree Ln., St. Louis, MO 63126 74th 372nd Assoc. (WW2) (Aug) Albert Di- "A charm- ? ? ? — ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.: Gilarmo, 211 Spring St., Du Bois, PA 15801 ing and perceptive account of America's OUTFIT REUNIONS 81st Inf Div (WW2)—(Aug) Forrest Nestle- last great city boss." road, 1702 W. 29th South, Wichita, KS Reunion will be held in month indicated. 67217 For particulars write person whose address LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN: "Eugene Ken- 82nd Arbne Div— (Aug) Dan Serilla, 4522 N. is given. 29th Dr.. Phoenix, AZ 85017 nedy has captured Dick Daley 'the man' and Notices accepted on official forms only. 83rd Inf Div (WW2)—(Aug) Sam Klippa, the era." For form send stamped, addressed return 1500 Mutual St., Pittsburgh, PA 15204 envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion 84th Inf Div—(Aug) Clayton Gimler, 2400 JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: "Irish, Magazine, 1608 K St. N.W., Washington, D.C. S. 76th St., Milwaukee, WI 53219 20006. Notices should be received at least Catholic, and replete with tribal affection: let 86th QM Bn Co B 3482 Ordn—(Aug) Frank five months before scheduled reunion. No Wright, Box 203, Monroe, NC 28110 it hard- be known that even a recusant, written letter necessary to get form. 88th Inf Div—(Aug) Peter Montagnoli, 5246 shelled Baptist can enjoy it." Earliest submission favored when volume Bixler Ave., Lakewood, CA 90712 of requests is too great to print all. 94th Sig Bn—(Aug) Kalmer Ostby, 1510 3rd NORMAN MAILER: "Kennedy has become ARMY Ave., NE, Rochester, MN 55901 a good writer, a fine and distinguished re- 95th Inf Div— (Aug) Theodore Nelson, PO 1st Cav Div (Aug) Smokey Holcomb, Assoc. Box 1274, Chicago, IL 60690 porter in the vein of Journalism." — best New Reunion, Ft. Hood, TX 76545 95th Med GT Bn—(Aug) Walter Gantz, 829 1st Div Society—(Aug) Arthur L. Chaitt, Palm St., Scranton, PA 18505 5 Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118 101st Arbne Div—(Aug) Grady Newman, 501 4th III. & 130th Inf, 33rd Div— (Aug) Howard c/o MI Fed. Savings. Marquette at 6th St., Gaddis, 531 E. Thompson Ave., Hoopestow, Minneapolis. MN 55402 IL 60942 104th Inf (WW2)—(Aug) Ken Parsons, 4156 5th Arm'd Div—(Aug) Harry Whitesell, 111 University Ave.. San Diego, CA 92105 W. 19th St., Grand Island, NE 68801 106th Ren Trp 106th Inf Div— (Aug) Wm. The Life and Times of 6th Inf Div— (Aug) Carl Arft, RT #3, La- Randall, 560 Pine St. Apt. 1-4, Royersford, mar, MO 64759 PA 19468 MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY 7th Arm'd Div—(Aug) Glenn Fackler, 23218 107th Eng. Assoc & Components, 107th Regt, Springbrook Dr., Farmington Hill, MI 107th Bn, 254th Eng Bn, 522nd Eng Co, S10 9 5 EUGENE KENNEDY 48024 1121st Eng Grp HQ—(Aug) Ed C. Vick- 8th Cav Recon Trp, 8th Inf Div— (Aug) strom, PO Box A, Ishpeming, MI 49849 THE VIKING PRESS; Richard Harbold, Box 102, Franklintown, 110th Inf, 28th Div Anti-Tank Co-Med Det PA 17323 —(Aug) Frederick Barnhart, 201 W. Fay- 44 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1978 ette St., Connellsville, PA 15425 ford, Millville, RD #2, PA 17846 (WW2)— (Aug) Geo. Graham, 6882 Norton 112th Cav— (Aug) Claude Rigsby, 4472 Pres- 694th QM Bn, HQ & Med Det (Guam 1944-45) Ave., Ventura, CA 93003 ton Cir., Dallas, TX 75211 —(Aug) G.P. Dumont, Box 508, Old Town, 1981st QM Truck Co—(Aug) Charles Meade, 113th Cav Gp— (Aug) Frank West, 4307 ME 04468 RT #1, Box 65, Lawson, MO 64062 Aurora, Des Moines, IA 50310 702 Tank Bn—(Aug) Tom Barry, 2584 Bram- 1991st QM Truck Co— (Aug) Louis Scobee, 113th Med Bn 38th Div (WW2)—(Aug) Gor- blewood Dr. W., Clearwater, FL 39129 264th Ave. SE., Enumclaw, WA 98022 don Lucas, 700 S. Milton St., Renssilaer, 709th Tank Bn Co C (WW2)—(Aug) Arnold 3468th Ord MM Co (WW2)— (Aug) Clifford IN 47978 Boggess, 118 Taylor St., Hurricane, WV Robertson Sr., 1632 36th St., Davenport, IA 118th Ord Co (MM)— (Aug) James Burns, 2 25526 52806 Netop Dr., Providence, RI 02907 712th Rwy Oper Bn Co C (WW2 & Korea)— 3711th QM Truck Co—(Aug) Clifford Corder, 120th Ord Co (MM)— (Aug) Denzil William- (Aug) James McBee, 2025 Kentucky, Jop- 505 Woodburn Rd., Rockville, MD 20851 son, RT 2, Box 88, Pauls Valley, OK 73075 lin, MO 64801 3816th QM (GS) Co—(Aug) Thomas Fair- 128th Inf Co C 32nd Div & 135th Med Regt 726th Railway Vets—(Aug) J.F. Schroeder, brother, 1401 Collier Rd., Pontiac, MI 48055 Band— (Aug) Victor Biechler, 1218 E. 6th 5220 Mora Dr., El Paso, TX 79932 3820th AAA AW Bn—(Aug) Robert Bump, St., Marshfield, WI 54449 728th Ord Co, Co E 103rd QM Regt, 28th Inf 1093 Stratford Ln., Hanover Park, IL 60103 128th Inf Regt 32nd Div Co D— (Aug) Her- Div (WW2)—(Aug) Francis Linn, 210 E. 3942nd QM Co— (Aug) R. T. McDaniel, PO man Owens, PO Box 302, Rice Lake, WI Middle St., Gettysburg, PA 17325 Box 683, Monahans, TX 79756 54868 742nd MP Bn—(Aug) Don Martindale, 1320 USA Ambulance Serv (1917-19)— (Aug) 129th Inf Cannon Co—(Aug) Eugene O'Hara, 1st St. SE., Oelwein, IA 50662 Thomas Ellis 209 E. Maple Ave., Merchant- 3328 Garretson Ave., Sioux City, IA 51106 760th Tank Bn—(Aug) John Gregor, 10324 ville, NJ 08109 131st AA Gun Bn (WW2)—(Aug) Leo Koch, Laramie, Oak Lawn, IL 60453 USA Warrnt Off— (Aug) PO Box 2040, Res- 11486 Bingham Terr., Reston, VA 22091 761st FA Bn— (Aug) Charles McCormick, 600 ton, VA 22090 133rd Inf Regt 34th Div Co B ( WW2)—(Aug) Fayette St., Washington, PA 15301 XMAS Island, APO 915 (WW2)— (Aug) David Arthur Van Erem, 514 S. Hackett Rd., 775th Tank Bn— (Aug) Sam Yonovitz, 3212 Buente, 120 Arch Ave., Pittsburgh, PA Waterloo, IA 50701 Falbo Ave., Lorain, OH 44052 15202 134th Inf Serv Co & Band (WW2)—(Aug) 802nd Med Air Evac Sqn (1942-45)— (Aug) Harry Dahlgren, 1011 E. 14th St., York, NE Stanley Potts, Star Rt #6, Box 9, Everett, 68467 PA 15537 NAVY 142nd Inf Co B 36th Div—(Aug) Mrs. Victor 808th TD Bn—(Aug) Ervin Mick, Box 73, Davidson, 22 Queen Ann St., Friendship, Hampton, NE 68843 NY 14739 811th Tank Dest^(Aug) Virgil Knoop, 8719 1st Corp MT Bn FMF Co C— (Aug) Cutty 145th Inf 37th Div Co E— (Aug) Robert Center St., Louisville, KY 40215 Hamilton, 421 Buena Vista, Ashland, OH Sark, 4695 Dam Rd #3, El SoBrante, CA 818th Tnk Dest Bn—(Aug) Charles Srock, 94803 44805 715 Townsend PI., Niagara Falls, NY 14301 152nd Inf 38th Div Co L— (Aug) Fred Kirk- 1st Mar Div— (Aug) Carl Scott, 69 Orchard 831st Sqd 485th AA Gp—(Aug) Howard Ln., New Albany, IN 47150 endall, 109 Mary Mac Dr., Warsaw, IN Woodyard, 3539 Butternut Dr., Lambert - 46580 4th Mar Amph Tractr Bn— (Aug) John ville, MI 48144 Benedict 26741 N. Shore Dr., Beloit, OH 194th FA Grp HQ Bat— (Sept) Jerry Tureen, 841st Eng Avn Bn (WW2)—(Aug) Joe 517 SW 2nd Ave., Cambridge, MN 55008 44609 Hetherington, 5005 Del Ray Ave., Bethesda, 5th & 14th Def Bn (WW2)— (Aug) Hiram 198th & 138th FA Bn (WW2 & Korea)— MD 20014 Raque, 3733 Mamaroneck Rd., Quillin, 2121 Meridian St., Huntsville, AL (Aug) Lyn 870th FA Bat B (WW2)— (Jul) Charles Louisville, KY 35811 "Emily Weder"— Kerby, 6265 E. Lake Dr., Haslett, MI 48840 8th Mar Def & AAA Bn— (Aug) Francis 211th HSC, USAHS HM 871st Airborne Eng Bn (Aug) Francis (Aug) Dr. Werner Bachmann, Northfield — Ryan, 910 Grimes Bridge Rd., Roswell, GA Wood, 3312 St., Erlanger, 41018 01462 Mary KY 30075 Rd., Lunenburg, MA 938 FA Bn H2 Bat^(Aug) Albert Metcalfe, 217th FA Bn 44th Div HQ Bat^(Aug) Don 16th NCB— (Aug) Harold Halvorsen, 1037 RR1, Box 303, Mercersburg, PA 17236 934 Shayler Rd., Cincinnati, OH Vallejo St., Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Ruehl, 977th Eng Maint (Aug) Gene Meyer, 407 45245 Co— 21st NCB— (Aug) Dale Nease, 24 Highland Poinsettia, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951 Dr., Chickasha, OK 73018 242nd FA Bn—(Aug) Lawrence Wiechman, 993rd Eng Trdwy Brdge Co (Aug) H.D. 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46 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JU NE 1978 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4) stamp commemorating our service. Honor recipients." My paternal Always we are passed by. Can the grandfather, Jacob Parrot of Kenton, sir: Is it time for veterans to orga- American Legion help us? OH received the FIRST Congres- nize political campaigns and push Lillian F. Miller sional Medal of Honor March 25, candidates at all levels of govern- Brooklyn, NY 1863, and by material grandfather, ment? William J. Doka Winter Haven, FL Lt. Wilson W. Brown, received the Sir: In light of the attack on veter- seventh Medal of Honor from Presi- ans' preference this is a crucial mo- dent Lincoln. Your February story on the Sir: ment when ex-servicemen must voice Joseph W. Parrott "Third World" failed to mention the their objections to their representa- West Salem, that the United States has OH billions tives in Congress. The Civil Service Israel. The Ameri- given or loaned to reduce veterans Commission would Sir: I am disturbed about increasing can news media has done a poor job to the same status as draft dodgers. foreign purchases of American real of telling us just what aid and com- H. K. Hickel Nation mitments we have given to that estate and enterprises. This Tacoma, WA and its benefits were not purchased country. Talugu with money, but with young Ameri- Walter Sir: I am totally opposed to Presi- can lives. Will these non-American Franklin Park, IL dent Carter's plan to revamp civil property owners and their sons de- service veterans' preference. The the fend America in a future war? We Sir: As a charter member of country should continue to assist vet- need controls. WWII Armed Guard, I congratulate erans in employment and job secur- article concern- Arthur Tusing you on the February ity. Blytheville, AR ing the Nazis' planned attack on James R. Hurst Aruba. Lt. Cdr. Hardison (I forget Tecumseh, OK Sir: Your WWI stories recall estab- his first name) commanded the lishment of the Pershing Rifles, an Armed Guard center in Brooklyn and Sir: The suggestion to allow women ROTC organization that was born at his men did much to make the Carib- to serve on fighting ships is the the University of Nebraska to per- bean safe. dumbest thing I have heard of. Do petuate Gen. Pershing's traditions. Charles J. Catjlfield they plan to throw them overboard Gen. Curtis LeMay, former com- New Haven, CT when the shooting starts? Roy M. Firle mander of the Strategic Air Com- mand, was a Pershing Rifleman at Sir: Your February story "Panay In- Dexter, NY cident" said the Sino-Japanese War Ohio State. began in 1937. Actually it began in Sir: There should be no limit on vet- J. W. Raser 1931 when the Japanese seized erans' preference in government em- Beatrice, NE Manchuria. ployment. Boston, MA Phil Davis advertisement Joseph Alecks Bridgeton, NY Many Hearing Sir: In view of the strain that the Sir: In the February story "The devalued dollar has placed on GIs Navajos' Secret Weapon," the author Problems Can serving in Germany, Japan and states that early in World War II South Korea, I think we should the Japanese decoded each new bring these people back to the USA Be Helped American code. He should have said where they can live and enjoy it. "voice code." Our classified written Ginnattassio Chicago, 111.—A free offer of spe- ciphers were never broken. Inci- John C. Springfield, cial interest to those who hear dentally, the Navajos did a great job. MA but do not understand words has David L. Higginbotham Sir: If any congressman, senator or Bar Harbor, ME been announced by Beltone. A cabinet member received even one non-operating model of the small- dollar in bribe from the Koreans or After discharge, I continued to est Beltone aid of its kind will Sir: anyone else he should be prosecuted. in Vietnam for six years as a be given absolutely free to anyone work G. R. Campbell civilian. I was delayed in using my answering this advertisement. Tower Hill, IL GI Bill educational benefits and my Send for this non-operating 10 years' eligibility ran out while I Sir: I would like to call your atten- model, put it on and wear it in was a full-time student. I believe tion to an error on Page 24, April the privacy of your own home. these benefits should be extended for issue of The American Legion Maga- It is not a real hearing aid, but veterans who have encountered rea- zine. "Sen. H. John Heinz, member will show you how tiny hearing sonable delays. ." of Terrysville, PA Post 161 . . This help can be, and it's yours to Gary E. Masters should read: "Member Perry High- Denton, TX way Post 161." keep, free. The actual aid weighs Dan L. Rees less than a third of an ounce, and Sir: I was disappointed that the Wexford, PA it's all at ear level, in one unit. American Legion did not take a Editor's Note: We stand corrected These models are free, so we formal stand against the Nazi parade and apologize. suggest you write for yours now. in Skokie, IL in April. Again, we repeat, there is no cost, Herbert Rumerman Sir: I have seen an article in the Jan- certainly obligation. Thou- Belmont, MA uary issue in which daughter Avery and no Manning Schonland of Mr. and Mrs. sands have already been mailed, Sir: We Yeomanettes of WWI Navy Rodney C. Schonland "is believed to so write today to Dept. 4795, duty have been trying for years to be the first child ever to have both Beltone Electronics, 4201 W. Vic- get the Postal Service to issue a grandfathers who are Medal of toria St., Chicago, IL 60646.

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23) on my duty sweater mimicking a When 'CONUS' Spelled Home! "general dancing the minuet." Before I could protest, the dance patients were as hungry for answers changed into a Karate lesson in as they were to get home. which Cha challenged Ho. Cha My day of duty ended. Stormy kicked. Ho fell to the floor, dramati- weather on the west coast and over cally clutching his stomach as if the Pacific had grounded the evacuees mortally wounded. Blinking one eye for another day. Korean patients had he moaned, "M-e-e-d-i-x!" already been at Clark for several Kim, his long leg casts propped up days. International bureaucracy is his wheelchair, his large slower. on bowed head in appreciation to Ho and Cha's I reached for my blue cardigan. It antics. 17. two years had vanished from the back of the Cha was Ho was Cha's senior and almost as mischie- chair. Kim's wheelchair swung into vous. had malaria, stood 5 feet, "I've avoided most of life's pitfalls, like the aisle between the beds and out He had a small head and squinty eyes. getting married, holding a job, and be- tall, the door. Lieutenant Jang, mus- coming a pillar of society." Ho and Cha, who liked to teach me cular, dignified, never smiled, but he THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Korean, taught that Back Ac Gun was at the door grinning. Cha had me means White House, and Ghock Hea winked at Jones, who threw down A Sa Dang is the capital of South the ace of hearts. KENO PLAYERS Korea. "You can't do that!" Clarence During your next trip to Nevada's casinos at except peeked under the card Jones threw play "KORPORATE KENO." More win- Everyone laughed Ho, ners! More fun! A business-like approach Sergeant Parks. The short, fat ser- down. "You see that! Ma'am you to Keno. An ideal system for one or two geant showed no tolerance with Cha oughta seen Jones—nurses had to couples. Send for my tested method. and Ho's horseplay. He typified ma- cut his clothes off." Send $5.00 to: Keno Kelly, P.O. Box rine in "Just a little lead in my feet, 35224, Edina, MN 55435. sergeant morality any coun- try's marine corps. ma'am." Cha saw me and flashed that mis- They knew I knew they were gam- chievous grin, put his head on my bling. They had to distract me. I shoulder and said, "No. 1." threatened to give the money to the I just took my sweater and headed Red Cross if I found it. But they for the back bay. I wanted to say grinned and kept playing. The threat goodbye to those patients, too, in was just a nurse's idle words. PORTABLE/ POCKET case they departed before I reported I reached the door. Jones told for duty next day. Like my Koreans, Clarence, "You can't beat my royal my Americans were no more than 18 flush." Hi-Lo Scanner to 20 years old. As I suspected, they "Casey taught you that sandbag- ATTACHES TO BELT were gambling ; the only reason they ging trick, didn't he, Jones?" weren't at the hospital exchange. I was reminded once again that COMES COMPLETE Casey hadn't appeared all day. He WITH The bearded, chunky sailor dressed couldn't be AWOL for another flight RUBBER DUCK in dirty Marine camouflage fatigues, his helmet cocked on the side of his stateside. FLEX ANTENNA head, danced a jig (on crutches) in Next morning I went directly to the to Casey, Reg. List Price S139.95 the middle of the floor while another bed assigned a neat (black hair and mustache) tried to island of clean linen amid the dis- 95 get him to peek into a black youth's array of pajamas and unmade beds. hand. "Tell me what Jones' got; can The hour came. The Medvac bus 69 I play my ace now?" he pleaded. was ready to leave. I was checking While Supply Lasts "No, Clarence. Not yet," a skinny Jones' toes for discoloration when the I Lo-Band covers 30-50 MHz (VHF) •Hi-Band Puerto Rican answered instead and applause came. looked up. There covers 150-174 MHz (VHF) • Manual/auto reached under the bed. "You gotta stood Casey. He grinned, saluted me selector switch • Individual channel lockouts have collateral. Beat Jones' ace." He smartly, got aboard and sat down. • Rugged compact design. set a pair of Ho Chi Minh slippers My mustachioed patient stood in ACCESSORIES: the door. "We sure gonna miss you, Crystal Certificates $2.95 ea. in the middle of the poker table. I "AA" Rechargeable Batteries did frown on the clogs made from ma'am." He spoke collectively. (Takes 4) $1.95 ea. castoff rubber tires being on the I waved. The bus pulled off. An- AC Adapter/Charger ... „ . $6.75 ea. bed. They were dirty. The men had other took its place. My Koreans, too, worn them in combat areas where it were going home. was possible to come in contact with Ho and Cha positioned themselves .< Add 6% any kind of bacteria infection. in the front seats. Sergeant Parks Sales Tax "Okay, Tapeworm, take the clogs lay on a litter on the upper deck. Cha off. The Major doesn't like it." stood up, leaned on my shoulder. "Ho LESLIE EDELMAN "I'm sorry, Ma'am." Tapeworm said you No. 1, too." Then I saw the U.S. Rt. 309, Box 547, Montqomeryville. was a hearty eater who never gained bottom of Park's cast. The dragon PA 1 8936 Phone Orders Call (21 5) 322-8599 an ounce. there licked his tongue menacingly. Name "Ma'am," the sailor danced over to I walked back into the empty Address. the bed. "Ma'am, you shoulda seen ward. St. Peter, I thought, they're City -State .Zip Tapeworm waltzing out there with all pixies. Whatever "CONUS" BankAmericard (Visa) & MasterCriarge Accepted the shrapnel in his foot." means, each has his own San Diego Card $ Exp. Date "I was gettin' out of the way of —to discover and rediscover. Cong's bullet, man." Tapeworm —Annie V. Babcock

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25) The Legacy of the Thirties What yoa don't know nado, CA from his flagship Indianap- olis (A member of the crew of the Indianapolis was one of Abingdon's favorite sons and famous athletes, cant hurt yot, right? Dave Stanforth. Dave lost his life a few weeks later when the Indianap- olis was sunk.) Admiral Spruance wrote: wrong, it can kill yoo! "A couple of days ago I sent you rolled up in a mailing tube the finest photograph that this war has given me up to date. It is That's why you need this remarkable new the Marines raising the U.S. flag on top of Suribachi. When we ELECTRONIC settle down, I want you to have this picture framed. Some first BLOOD PRESSURE class sculptor should do it in bronze it is so perfect." KIT. Margaret Spruance of Coronado found a first class sculptor. His name is Felix de Weldon. It took him a full nine and a half How much money? The cost for the com- years to complete his task, and the plete Astropulse 10 Kit is only $69.95 plus result is a gigantic bronze edifice $3.00 for postage and handling. (Illinois resi- "Flag Raising on Iwo Jima" which dents add 5% sales tax.)

has inspired millions of Americans You owe it to yourself to try it. You don t see it in Arlington, VA. who even need Order your Astropulse 10 Kit. Use it (with- When I told Felix de Weldon about a stethoscope out obligation or risk) for a full 15 days. Take this trip, and particularly the story of your blood pressure at least once a day, the one man who probably more than more often if you like. You'll not only see how easy it is to use, you'll see how much any other of the tens of thousands Know how many Americans are suf- more relaxed you are when you know what of Marines stormed the beaches fering from hypertension right this who your blood pressure is. very moment? 25 million, maybe more. of Iwo Jima made that flag raising if you're not thoroughly pleased with your And half of them don't even know they possible, he pointed to his first plaster Astropulse 10 Kit, for any reason, return it have it. working model there in our Naval within 15 days and your money will be re- it's frightening. But it doesn't have to be. funded in full. Or you will be issued a credit if War College Museum and said, "Take You should have your blood pressure you paid by credit card. it. Let's loan it to that school." checked every time you visit your doctor. IF YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU DON'T Of course, the story I told him was And, just as important, you should check it DON'T WAIT. Order yourself between visits. KNOW CAN HURT YOU, that of Capt. Bobby Dunlap, Com- your Astropulse 10 Kit immediately. manding Officer, Charlie Company, Now it s easy to do.

First Battalion, 26th Marines, Fifth With the remarkable new Astropulse 10, it's ©Douglas Dunhill, inc., Division, who took his 265 men incredibly easy to keep a regular check on ACordura Company ashore on the 19th (the first day). your blood pressure. You don't have to be a Mail This Coupon or By the time the flag went up on doctor or nurse. You don't need special CALL TOLL-FREE 800-621 -8318 training. You don't even need a stethoscope. Mount Suribachi five days later, 140 Illinois residents call 800-972-8308 Here's all you do: slip the cuff on, tighten it, of Bobby's men had already been and then inflate it by squeezing the rubber killed and, working on another part bulb. Astropulse 10 does the rest its micro- DOUGLAS DUNHILL, INC. of the island, he was still to lose electronic circuits and microphone trans- 4225 Frontage Road dept. 3153AL Oak Forest, II 60452 many more of his remaining 125. ducer pick up your pulses, measure them, Please send me complete Astropulse 10 and relay the information to the meter Already carrying shrapnel in his leg Kits $69.95* each plus $3.00 shipping and which, in turn, immediately indicates both @ at the time the flag went up, in the handling for each Kit. pressure readings in big, easy-to-see num- succeeding three days, all without Check or money order for bers, it also flashes an LED signal and emits $ is enclosed. sleep, Bobby was to take several a sound at both blood pressure readings more wounds. An eye was all but put to assist the hard of hearing or visually OR CHARGE MY out the next day. Finally, on the 26th handicapped. VISA/Bank-Americard Master Charge It's almost as easy as taking your tempera- of February, Bobby went down for American Express Diners Club ture. And, of course, it's far more important the count with a demolished hip. Card No. But there was something different Ask your doctor about it. I I I I I I I I I I I about Bobby Dunlap's trip in the Doctors know the danger of hypertension. stretcher back down the slopes to They know the importance of checking a pa- Expiration Date tients blood pressure. And they know it's the shoreline to the hospital ship. As SIGNATURE neither convenient nor economical to visit he passed, Marines under bombard- the doctor daily (even weekly) to do some- Name their foxholes, ment climbed out of thing the patient can do just as well himself (PLEASE PRINT) stood at attention and presented Just remember that Astropulse 10 is an aid Address arms. They were saluting him. to the doctor, not a substitute for a doctor, With this statue I dedicate this and you'll realize that this remarkable new City. school. May it be a symbol of pride Electronic Blood Pressure Kit is well worth the money. State. -Zip to the citizens of Abingdon past, Illinois residents add 5% sales tax. 3153AL present and future.

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