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EDUCATING FOR FREEDOM 18 Our children should learn the truth about the Soviet Union. By Gary L. Bauer USSR: ARMS MERCHANT TO THE WORLD 20 Ivan sells arms to anyone willing to pay the price in cash—andfreedom. By Ellsworth Raymond FRANCHISING IS FLOURISHING 22 Here's how to get your own business . the easy way. By Phyllis Zauner WHERE PRESIDENTS LIVE AGAIN 24 Presidential libraries preserve memories and times of our nation's Presidents. By Lester David THE CONTROVERSY OVER C3I 26 What good is a strategic deterrent if it fails after the first strike? By Steve Salerno THIS WAR CALLED PEACE 28 The USSR has spent seven decades in a non-stop war to subvert the Free World. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION: WHERE THE MONEY GOES 29 Thousands lead normal lives because ofVA medical breakthroughs. VIETNAMESE PLEDGE TO RESOLVE POW/MIA ISSUE 34 The POW/MIA families' long ordeal may soon be over By Richard Childress I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER ANYMORE 70 Science searches for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. By Gary Turbak DEPARTMENTS BIG ISSUES Do Spies Warrant The Death Penalty? 10 LETTERS 3 LEGION NEWS BRIEFS 36 VETERANS ADVISER 46 COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION 38 ORBEN'S WORLD 61 DATELINE WASHINGTON 8 VETERANS ALERT 42 PARTING SHOTS 72 VETERANS UPDATE 29 POST OF THE MONTH 44 THE COVER The Chicago skyline: architecture past and present coexist. David J. Maenza photo The American Legion Magazine, a leader among national general-interest publications, is published monthly by The American Legion for its 2.6 million members. These military-service veterans, work- ing through 16,000 community-level posts, dedicate themselves to God and country and traditional American values; a strong national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows and orphans; community service; and the wholesome development of our nation's youth. FEBRUARY 1986 1 . 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You'll live a lot better for a lot less. Plan a visit now to the new Veterans Village. r 1 At no obligation to me , please send me a complete brochure & kit on Lakeshore Village. NAME (please print) ADDRESS CITY STATE. ZIP. I intend to visit during the month of: My phone No. is ( ) area code Veterans Village Inc. AL15 P.O. Box 1079, Homestead, Florida 33090 (Feb. '86) Prices subject to change without notice. *Qualified vets. rated. If the government promises have never been ashamed of the way Jobless Veterans training while in the service, then that our fighting men and women conducted The article on "America's Unemploy- is where they should get it. If they don't themselves, but of the way they were ment Problem" (October) was very dis- learn a skill, why should we expect they treated by their fellow Americans at turbing. I would support efforts to will do any better in a JTPA program home. The Vietnam veterans did their determine the cause and remedy for after they get out? jobs. This country owes them and all excessive unemployment of Vietnam Frank J. O'Neill our veterans our never-ending love and veterans. They have unique problems Dunlap, Calif. gratitude. and we all know it. Where I have seri- R. A. Gardner ous concern is the employment prob- Symsonia, Ky. lems for "recently separated service- Proud Reflections men." My compliments to Phillip C. Clarke What about "Be all that you can be in on a fine article, "Reflections on Viet- Wai of 1812 the Army," "A good place to start" and nam" (November). As one who viewed "A Veteran Is" (November) is most other recruiting slogans that I see on it on TV and in the press, I feel he finally appropriate, but the statement "A TV all the time? Are they just that touched on a subject that I totally agree. veteran is at once proud and humble: . slogans? Is the Department of Why are the media so touchy about crit- proud of the fact that in 200 years no Defense guilty of false advertising? I am icism? They are to blame for much of foreign enemy has set foot on American all for the schooling and training our the public opinion on Vietnam. They fed soil . ."is incorrect. young people get when they volunteer us constantly all the bad things that we The War of 1812 found the British army for a hitch, but I find it difficult to sup- were doing to the enemy. burning the White House in Washing- port the job preference they receive in Vietnam was a political mess that ton, D.C. The repainting of the building JTPA programs after they are sepa- caused needless suffering and lives. I to cover up the burn marks with white paint gave it the name by which it is known. Frank Beach Feeding the Crocodile North Haven, Conn. In the fetid backwa- care. At its depressed rate of growth, the ters of an ancient Afri- VA budget cannot care for these veterans. Always a Buddy can fishing village Throw the crocodile another arm. Hill" renowned for its pre- Then came the third-party reimbursement In "Taking the Next (Novem- ponderance of man- and means test meals.' The third-party reim- ber), Gen. Louis Wilson talks about the eating crocodiles, the bursement will require insurance companies buddy system and its foundations village chief was asked to pay the VA for medical care given to their developed early in life. I found the buddy how his people kept policyholding veterans. The means test will system also very strong late in life when, from being eaten by require veterans seeking health care for VA at 86, 1 was admitted for emergency care the crocodiles. non-service-connected illnesses to prove their at the Castle Point VA hospital. There, "It's simple," the old inability to pay for treatment. Throw the the buddy system took the form of one said, the wisdom of a lifetime etched on crocodile a leg. patient helping patient to free up valu- his weathered countenance. "To avoid being Next in the life-or-limb confrontations came able time for nurses. eaten by a crocodile, we feed it an arm. When the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings proposal to the it eats that, we feed it another arm. When balance the federal deficit by exposing vet- It's good to know our comradeship we run out of arms, we feed it a leg. Then erans benefits to the budget ax, while continues to be "an article of faith" late we feed it another leg.