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Vol. 145, No. 5 The Magazine for a Strong America

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THAT PERFECT SEASON By David Boyd Legion Basebali gets a great World Series - and a record batting average

JUST ORDINARY SOYS By John Perry Their shared moment was the stuff of history. THE GOOD SERGEANT

Wow a hero put his name and iife to worl< for his community.

A FREE RIFLE AND ROAT RIDE By David Penticuff Four Doughboys recall their days in the "Great War.

HOLDING COURT By Layne Cameron Basketball legend John Wooden talks about the game.

THE UNFINISHED SUSINESS OF WORLD WAR II Americans hope to break ground for a Capital Mall memorial on Veterans Day 2000. VENTION^NEW ORLEANS SO GALLANTLY STREAMING Legionnaires commit to another year in service to God and Country. RESOLUTIONS

For the good of the nation, The American Legion resolves. .

IN THE SPORIGHT While the good times rolled, a lot got done.

MEET YOUR LEGION LEADERS Meet those who will have top leadership roles for 1998-99. PEI^AIITMEN

BIG ISSUES Should Public Schools Be English Only?

VETVOICE WASHINGTON WATCH !i VETS

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 11 VETERANS UPDATE 11 PARTING SHOTS

COVER Desert Sform/painting by Mike Hagel. The original of tliis rendering hangs in the National Executive Committee room of The American Legion National Headquarters. Information on acquiring poster-size

copies autographed by some of the subjects depicted is available on page 7.

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Inve nr Lust lOMPLIMENTS on the September You really Uke to rub veterans' noses .issue. FDR's legacy was good but into your love affair of the late John Wayne. Now you have his photo on C'Iflawed1 as he rode in on the coat- the I tails of Hoover who was blamed for cover of your magazine. All can Thanks, Private Ryan the Depression. A man named think of when I see his photo is all the Brownell in the Hoover administration great Americans who served in WWII BELIEVED myself to be a courageous designed the as a means to get while he declined to serve. What next? Is man. But after experiencing "Saving WPA the Legion planning to honor Wayne money moving. FDR was able to get it Private Ryan," I feel it is my duty to implemented. posthumously with a medal? write to all of you. I studied military his- Bill Hewson Norman Graber toi-y in college. I have always had a deep Ontario, Calif. San Marcos, Calif. interest in the military's traditions, history and its battles. I was never a soldier myself, and one of the biggest mistakes One Small Step father nf Cnol of my life was not dedicating myself to statement that "when Willis H. FOUND it interesting that Audrey our nation's armed forces. THE I Stubbart ("A Remarkable Life," Sep- Carrier designed a system for air con- The terror, anguish, sorrow and loss I 1902," tember) believes man walking on the ditioning in is not accurate felt during and after the film was over- ("Turning On, Tuning In, Booting Up," moon "was a great event, but it didn't whelming. My heart was filled with mankind any good." The inventions September). In 1844, Dr. John Gorrie of pride knowing how courageous those do that have spun off from the space pro- Apalachicola, Fla., invented mechanical men were, and I couldn't forget that my air for his small hospital, grams are unbelievable. The spirit of conditioning grandfather's entire unit was killed that Alfred designed the air condi- soared after that first and Wolf gray summer morning on Omaha Beach. America moon walk. Young people became energized tioning system for the New York Stock The tears of sorrow make it difficult in 1901. to get involved in furthering the future Exchange for me to express to you the heartfelt Carrier's invention of the psychomet- of this proud nation. thanks and overwhelming pride I have in Patt Germann ric chart and development of the formu- all of you. How can I make others Madison, S.D. lae are still in use today. He was a Working For Old Glory|

Past National Vice Commander Doris Gross of Washington (left in photo) recently presented Rep. Linda Smith with a certificate of appreciarion from the Citizens Flag Alliance, Inc.. Smith was among 314 House members who voted for the flag-protection amendment in June 1997. At press time, the Senate was expected to vote on the proposed amendment. Senate Joint Resolution 40. Members of the Legion-founded CFA, Inc., an umbrella group consisting of more than 130 businesses, civic, veterans and fraternal organizations, have been working overtime since 1994 for passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to pass legislation prohibiting the physical desecration of the Rag of the United States. Several lawmakers have been recognized by the CFA for their support.

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. Cliarleston. S.C. heart problems and excessive lung scarring? Charles P. Glosser Unmentioned THE AMERICAN LEGION Interlaken, N.Y. CONGRATULATIONS on your Magazine welcomes letters that in September 1998 issue. Might I concerning articles appear point out, however, that between Smokescreen the publication. Be sure to include your hometown and a page 26 and 28 you went from 1969 to DO not understand The American daytime phone number for 1977, with items concerning an inci- I Legion diatribe concerning the Sen- verification. All letters are subject dent with an eastern U.S. Senator, and ate vote to eliminate "benefits for continued with the Muppet Show. to editing. Send your opinions to: veterans for compensation and med- No place in that entire article, nor in ical care for conditions linked to the entire magazine, except one letter THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE tobacco addictions they incurred while to the editor, did I see a single mention P.O. 80x1055 in the military." How does anyone of the Vietnam Era War. Indianapolis, IN 46206 know that the addiction occurred If that event, which left hundreds of while in the military? thousands of casualties, and over You can also contact us via Many of us started smoking while 52,000 killed or missing in action, not e-mail directly or through the in the military and eventually quit. If I to mention POWs and MIAs whose World Wide Web: became a drunk since the booze was whereabouts are still unknown, was cheap, should the taxpayers be not worthy of mention, then a great e-mail: [email protected] part of the history of this century has required to pay for this addiction? We Internet: http://www.leglon.org been neglected. are all responsible for our individual

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Star-spangled Smithsonian AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- THEZINE mounted a huge cry against the Smithsonian Museum for its Enola Gay exhibit. Now that same museum is trying to restore the deteri- orating, original Star-Spangled Banner

that flew atop Fort McHenry, where is our equally loud support for the Smithsonian's positive work? James L. Persoon Grand Haven, Mich.

Absent Allegiance RECENTLY attended my grand-

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couldn't believe what I didn't see or hear. Some 30 graduates had joined the armed forces; The American Legion Post presented several scholarships; yet "God" was never mentioned during the entire ceremony. There was no Pledge of Allegiance or flag on display. Are all schools downgrading "God and country" through silence? Joseph Foisy Brushton,N.Y.

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Much has been written and discussed about

"Saving Private Ryan." And while it might not I convey the full fury of war, this epic depiction has caused many to reflect upon some fundamental truths about the spirit of the men and women who have worn the uniform of our country: Courage under fire. Doing the dirty work that results when diplomacy fails. Com- mitment to the mission. Keeping the faith with the buddy next to you. And never removed from cam sire a a GI's mind are the loved ones back home and the life left behind. In war and in peace, Americans always have answered the call, often placed in situations rife with cliches and ironies. It's the flatlander farm boy transplanted in a dense jungle, the fast-talking Brooklynite who stands a silent watch on the bridge, the pacifist-turned-grunt, the girl from next door who flies jets or tends to the sick and wounded, and the "Holy Joe from Koko- mo"—the one guy in the barracks everyone expected to wash out of basic training—who becomes the honor graduate.

LD GLORY gently waves in the I believe it's fair to say a large number of breeze before the image fades into a those who have not served appreciate what veter- scene aboard the heaving landing ans mean to this country. Consider a letter recent-

craft as it approaches the beachhead. ly received at American Legion National Head- Men and boys in battle dress, quarters from Jack McGrogan of San Jose, Calif.:

mashed together like sardines, wear "... I just want to take a moment to say 'thank I grim masks foreshadowing what is you' to American veterans. I have a good job, a to come. Some mouth silent prayers good wife, four lovely kids, a nice house, two

to their God. cars and I live in a nice neighborhood. But none "Check your gear! Keep low and of this would have been possible if you hadn't keep moving!" someone yells, as the heeded the call and done your duty to fight for craft's door plops into the pounding surf. The our freedom. gate to Hell opens, and the troops are greeted by "At the time, you may not have known a hurricane of machine-gun lire and a deadly exactly what you were doing or why you were

rain of mortar and artillery. Welcome to Nor- doing it. But the course of history was changed mandy, June 6, 1944. by you and your fellow service members. Thou- This opening scene of Steven Spielberg's sands made the ultimate sacrifice for our coun- movie, "Saving Private Ryan," is graphic and try and our way of life.

gripping. The camera swings in rapid, jerky "I guess that leaves it to people like me to try movements as if to show the battle through the and live a good life, appreciate the great things eyes of a GI. The pinging of ricocheting bullets we have in this country and remember vets. I

and explosions mix with the desperate voices of will try to keep this in mind whenever I feel like

the wounded and dying. I have real problems. What we Americans have

War, as combat veterans will tell you, is a is special and it ain't free. To all veterans, I surrealistic roller-coaster ride of mayhem wish them good health and peace to you and mixed in with lengthy waits. It's gore, blood, your families." fear and tears with boredom and an occasional And this, too, is my wish for those who have dose of defensive dark humor. War is ugly and served or are now serving on the eve of Veter- inglorious—but good people rise in the heat of ans Day 1998. For veterans know all too well battle and perform gloriously. War is not a that freedom is an expensive thing—and it's a price we've always been willing to pay.

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Immersion is a highly My constituents' views, effective means of learn- and those of many others, ing any language. Chil- have led me to the conclu- dren are particularly adept sion that there is a need for at picking up a new language us to establish a common-sense lan-

unless, it appears, they are enrolled guage policy in this country. HR in a bilingual education course run 123, which passed in the House in by the bilingual education bureaucra- the 104th Congress and has been re- cy. Then, these kids fail miserably. introduced in the 105th Congress, Thai's right. The data are in. Children who are enrolled does just that. in bilingual education programs in our public schools lan- It would establish a policy that meets the changing guish in those courses for up to five years. The California needs of a multilingual population without burdening any- State Board of Education reports that just 5 percent of His- one. And that's why I voted in support of HR 123 in 1996 panic students are successfully moved into English lan- and am a co-sponsor of this legislation. guage instruction each year. This is a staggering 95 per- HR 123 would give us the ability to proactively cent failure rate. approach language issues by involving all citizens and This monumental disaster is not that surprising when their elected representatives in deciding what services will you realize that in the typical "bilingual" education class be provided in other languages. No doubt there is wasteful students receive roughly 30 minutes of instruction in Eng- spending resulting from irresponsible and duplicative lish while the rest of the day is spent speaking their native printing of government documents in multiple languages. tongue. These students then typically go home to a family There must be checks in place to prevent this sort of prac- of non-English speaking parents and siblings. Under these tice from occurring as a result of an arbitrary decision by circumstances, there is no pressure or incentive to learn a government bureaucrat. English. We must continue to support quality bilingual educa- This is a tragedy. No student can reach his or her full tion programs for children and adults so that they can potential in our society if they cannot communicate in the learn English quickly. We live in a society dependent on common language of our nation. Yet, the bilingual educa- rapid and accurate communication; our goal for all citi-

tion lobby is digging in its heels to save "their" program. zens, foreign-bom as well as native bom, must be profi- Regrettably, the bilingual education lobby has resorted ciency in the spoken and written English word. While to inappropriate emotional arguments to defend the status Congress must continue to aggressively oversee federal quo. Anyone who points out the flaws and inadequacies of dollars going into bilingual education to ensure that the the current system risks being labeled a "racist" or an funds are being used to teach English instead of widening

"immigrant basher." While it might make effective poli- the language gap, I do not believe the time has come to

tics, it does not alter the brutal findings of every major throw away this program designed to teach people to report issued in the last decade on this topic. While facts speak English. can be hard, they demonstrate that bilingual education is Another side of this is that most Americans are woe-

not working. This problem will not go away just because it fully uneducated about other cultures and languages. In

is an unpleasant one. this increasingly global economy, it is incumbent upon Another hard fact is that immigrant parents want their Americans to learn the languages and cultures of our trad- children to learn English as quick as possible. A 1996 ing partners if we are going to compete effectively. nationwide poll by the Center of Equal Opportunity If you look at what is happening around the globe, in showed 81 percent of Hispanic parents wanted their chil- countries such as Bosnia, where cultural, racial and lan- dren taught in English. A guage-related differences March 1998 California have led to civil war, it Field Poll revealed that 61 Your Opinions Count, Too. reminds us how important percent of Hispanics sup- Senators and representatives are interested in con- it is to have some basic, port Proposition 227, stituent viewpoints. You may express your views by unifying elements in our writing Honorable (name), U.S. Senate, Wasli- which would end the bilin- The national culture. English ington, DC 20510, or Thie Honorable (name), House gual program and create has done that in the past, of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. You may an "English immersion" and it should continue to call the U.S. Senate at (202) 224-3121; the House at program for non-English (202) 225-3121. serve as a unifying force speaking children. in this country.

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THE WINNER'S CIRCIE pitchers and tell them to keep it off balance, move the ball around. And told hitters to there George W. Rulon American ClicK Cowger RRI Award we our go up swinging. They are a class group of Legion Player of tlie Year (most RBD kids. They work hard." Chad Opel 25 by Chris Wright The hard work earned the Edwardsville, III. State College, Penna. Edwardsville players and coaches a $3,000 scholarship from Buick Rob Feller Strikeout Award trip to two Major League World

F. Daniel Jr. (most strikeouts) Series games this fall and shortstop Sportsmansiiip Award 41 by Ralph Roberts Opel a trip to the 1999 Baseball Hall Ralph Roberts Cherryville N.C. of Fame ceremonies in Cooperstown, Cherryville, N.C. N.Y., for winning the George W. $2,000 scholarship from Gatorade Rulon American Legion Player of the Year honors. Louisville Slugger Award Opel also earned a $3,000 scholar- (best batting average) Ken Schaake, Manager; Steve ship from Buick. Of Opel, Schaake .632 by Chad Opel Haug, coach; Keith Opel, remarked, "He's one of the catalysts. Edwardsville, III., coach; Mike Schaake, coach. He's the one kids look to for leadership." Rawlings Rig SUck Award Opel's .632 batting average is the (most total bases) second highest ever in National tour- 34 by Ralph Roberts nament history. Doug Palmer of New Cherryville, N.C. Ulm, Minn., batted .659 in 1978. For Edwardsville (41-7) the victory capped off a tremendous season, with 81 wins in high school and Legion Baseball play. Many of the Edwardsville players felt the American Legion Baseball World Series was a perfect place to showcase the talent of the team. And in a town where winning is not a sure In a preliminary game, a player for State College, Pa., goes belly-down Into second as a thing, Edwardsville took a gamble and der stretches for the throwout. found its national title.

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TEPPING off the train in Paris on the cool, crisp a generation. morning of April 7, 1919, Sgt. Alvin C. York found his tinguished Service Cross that had been way to the Hotel Gabriel presented to him by Gen. John "Black- without any trouble. He had jack" Pershing himself (and which

made several visits to the would have a Medal of Honor beside it city since the Armistice five within two weeks). months before, and was fa- A casual observer might have been miliar enough with the astonished to learn that less than two streets to set off from the years before, this humble hero had been massive, ornate railway station with a a farmer and blacksmith in an isolated sense ot conlidence. Tennessee hamlet 12 miles from the York had come to represent his fel- nearest paved road. Farmer low enlisted soldiers at the founding of York was a pacifist, a lay The American Legion, organized and preacher, engaged to be mar- chartered on that day to honor veterans ried and destined for a life of by helping provide for them and their happy obscurity. Not only families. During the ceremony in the el- had he never ridden a train, egant hotel ballroom, the sergeant found he had never even seen one. himself standing with a host of interna- (In 1928, 10 years after tional dignitaries. York was at ease York's military service, the among them, proudly wearing the Dis- nearest passenger train stop was in Oneida, Term., nearly John Perry and Alvin York share 40 miles away.) the distinction of having been A little red post card drafted. His recent book, "Sgt. York: changed all that, and began a His Life, Legend & Legacy," is the chapter that would rewrite in support o first complete biography of this the history of his life and the famous Tennessee soldier. lives of many others. The

24* THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1998 card was delivered by horseback to the post office in Pall Mall, Tenn., and ordered Alvin York to report for service in the U. S. Army. Soon after, York board- ed a train for boot camp, then sailed for Europe to fight the Germans in France.

Early on the morning of Oct. 8, 1918, York's platoon was on a desperate mission. The battalion assault on German lines had been halted by withering machine-gun fire. To advance, American soldiers had to charge down a hillside into a valley, making them sitting ducks for Spandau emplacements on the oppo- site slope. York's unit was ordered to

work its way around the line, distract the gunners and relieve the main assault force. Running through thick underbrush, the platoon literally stumbled upon Ger- man reserves eating breakfast. The ensu- ing fight attracted the machine-gunners, who turned their weapons on the flank- ing Americans with deadly effect. In minutes many in the platoon were killed or wounded, including every noncom; the ranking soldier left was then-Corpo- ral Alvin York. While others tended to casualties and guarded the Germans they had taken prisoner, York began picking off the machine-gunners one by one. After he killed more than 20, others began to sur- render. York formed up his command of seven privates and marched the prisoners back to American lines, collecting more enemy prisoners as he went. When he arrived at headquarters, the division commander. Gen. Julian R. Lindsey, sent for him. "Well, York," he said, "I hear you have captured the whole damn German army." "No, sir," York answered. "I only got 132." From the time the Allied advance began on the morning of Oct. 8 until York

NOVEMBER 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 25 toon resumed typically anonymous lives We have always back home: truck driver, farmer, bar- JustOrdiDarylOjlS tender, night watchman, junk dealer, fought for that right factory worker and teacher. Others did not fare so well, and their readjustment (to free). If returned with his captives, three hours be we became a new battlefield. The world and 15 minutes had passed. In about the have stopped, then they returned to was being transformed. time it takes to play a baseball game, a Within a year after demobilization, legend was bom and a hero made. His we owe the memory women had gotten the vote, Prohibition example inspired a generation, and his was in full swing, and radio networks legacy still touches us. All because of a of George Washington and intercity highways were on the hori- little red post card. zon. The war was old news and the York's battlefield experience an apology, for he Roaring 20s were in the spotlight. It was brought him a lifetime of honors and ac- easy to forget about the doughboys, and claim. But war didn't make Alvin York wasted his time at many Americans did. a hero; it only brought his heroism to the Speaking at the Tomb of the Un- surface. War didn't define this Ten- Valley Forge/ known Soldier on Memorial Day 1941, nessee soldier, but it stripped away with Nazis on the rampage and a strong every non-essential element to the point non-interventionist movement slowing where, in the blood and fear and exhaus- Alvin York America's aid to Europe, Sgt. York re- tion of battle, he knew what defined him minded a nationwide radio audience because he didn't have the strength to that a soldier's battle is never won. "By hold onto anything else: faith, family, lifetime of tall tales to entertain the our victory in the last war, we won a freedom. grandchildren with every Christmas. lease on liberty, not a deed to it," he Millions of other doughboys shared Others found their memories trans- said. "England is fighting for the right of that same fear, saw the same gruesome formed into nightmares and nervous her people to be free. We have always

destruction. It forced them to look inside breakdowns. Military discipline brought fought for that right. If we have stopped, themselves and decide what was most out the leader in some men and the lag- then we owe the memory of George important—the core beliefs they lived gard in others. Yet in spite of their Washington an apology, for he wasted for, and which they never took for grant- uniqueness, every soldier's experience his time at Valley Forge." ed again when they finally, thank God, forged a common bond with all the rest. The least we can do now, on the 80th got home. Theirs was a shared moment that was anniversary of the Armistice, is listen The effect of the war on returning the stuff of history. Famous or not, hero with grateful hearts to the recalled deeds vets was as individual to them as their or not, they were there. of these ordinary boys. We honor their fingerprints. Some came back with a Surviving members of York's pla- sacrifice as a most precious legacy.

20 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1998 county seat of Jamestown. The institute, which has become one of the top performing high schools in Tennessee, is the most no- Tte Good Serieant table of the projects "The Sergeant" (as he continues to be remembered) pursued in the years following World

1 OSPEL music dominates hamlet of Pall Mall, Tenn., still be- War I. A founder of The American local radio waves, hemmed lieve in propriety and duty. A funeral Legion in Paris, York shunned offers into the valleys and hollows procession encountered on a twisting, for endorsements and careers that by the surrounding Ten- narrow ribbon of highway up the side would have taken the war hero per- nessee mountains where of a mountain requires respect as traf- manently out of The Valley of the Alvin York lived when he fic stops on the thinly defined roadside Three Forks of the Wolf and made wasn't in France fighting until the grieving roll past. "If you him wealthy. Instead, he applied his

1 Germans—or on the road hadn't stopped in Fentress County, celebrity in fund-raising campaigns trying to raise money for a good you might have been shot," jokes to improve the lives of his neighbors. cause. Doug Young, superintendent of the The former conscientious objector People in and around his home Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute in the was deeply involved in his communi-

~~N0VEMBER 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 2J The Good Sergeant~~

~~ty and country, and served as head of the Fentress County draft board dur-~~

ing World War II. A man with a third- grade education, York worked tire- lessly for more and better schools and highways in his home country long before Washington's "War on Pover- ty" focused on the region. "He traveled to every state and just about every city in the country," says Andrew Jackson York, 68-year-

~~old son of the World War I ' Medal of Honor recipient. "We never did think of him as a hero and he never did think of himself lEGACV Andrew York stands next to a portrait of his fatlier in tlie home~~

that way." where Sgt. York raised him. The World War I hero rests in a Fentress Andrew York is a Tennessee County cemetery (below) in an area that was the only place he wanted to live. Gary Cooper was spied smoking as "Sgt. park ranger and gives tours of the York" and sent York an apology on an autographed home his father received as a gift picture (left). from the people of the state after his

return from war. It is the same home in which Andrew York grew up. In earned from the movie. August, more than 12,000 cars More than 20 American stopped at the York home site, operat- Legion Posts in Ten- ed by the State of Tennessee along the nessee organized a drive York Highway, U.S. 127. to pay the debt, which "You sure have something to be was eventually settled proud of," a tourist tells Andrew with the IRS for $25,000 York, whose father died in 1964, 10 friend and physician in 1961. years after suffering a paralyzing for Sgt. York. "The To this day, the stroke. His mother, Gracie York, died sergeant was an in- school in Jamestown in 1984. vestor, always trying that York started and

~~"I'm glad the place was closed for to strike it rich. But he toured the country rais-~~

1 1 years before it opened up," the used all his money for the institute and ing money to support remains his per- ranger says as he points toward the building he wanted to make into a petual monument. Test scores of stu-

~~York's bedroom. "Sometimes it's still Bible school." dents there rank above the national av-~~

hard. I was bom in that room." The 1941 film, "Sergeant York," erage, even though many of the Life at the house was a whirlwind, provided more fame and money for students face challenges linked to even after illness struck. "He laid in the real Sgt. York. He had personally poverty —often cited as a reason for bed until 1964, still people would approved the casting of Gary Cooper failure at other schools. come by to see him—and he'd tell in the title role but apparently raised "Sixty-six percent of our students them to come on back, Andrew York objections when he spotted the actor eat free or reduce priced meals," remembers. "I don't see how he stood smoking a cigarette while in costume. Young says. "We're poor folks."

it. If you showed up here around din- Alvin York, who was very devout in Alvin York wanted to do some- nertime, they'd invite you in to eat." his religious faith, did not want anything for the boys and girls who lived Gracie York was accustomed to one drinking or smoking and portray- on top of this mountain, the superin- fixing meals for dozens or more on a ing him or members of his family at tendent says, and he succeeded. moment's notice. "She'd order pinto the same time, his son says. Cooper "Everything we do here, we tie into beans by the hundred-pound bag," sent a photograph with an apology to his philosophy." Andrew York says. York. His performance in the film Andrew York says his father Many took advantage of York's won him an Academy Award for Best poured his whole heart into the insti-

~~generosity, which he extended to a Actor. tute. "It's hard to explain how much it fault. People on the streets of Sgt. York built a bible school near meant to him, really." He also remem-~~

Jamestown would tell Sgt. York about his home with the money he garnered bers what it was like being a student in their financial problems, his son says, from selling the rights to his life story a high school named for his father, the and he'd wind up agreeing to stand to Hollywood. The school, however, most famous man in Fentress County behind their notes—which he often still stands empty after rarely being and, for a time, the State of Tennessee. wound up paying. used. Never an accomplished busi- "You got picked on a lot," the park "He was a busy person," says 90- nessman, aging and bedridden, he ranger says. "I got into a lot of fights year-old local historian Wilma Pinck- found himself owing a debt to the In- for him. ley, whose late husband was a close ternal Revenue Service for the money — David Penticujf

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1 16,000 Americans were one. Then the United dead or dying from all States, with its re- causes. In the Battle of sources and fresh Belleau Wood alone, U.S. young men, enlisted in casualties have been cal- the Allied effort. An culated at 5,200 per end was finally made square mile. Civilians and THREADS OF HISTORY Louis to the war, victorious- soldiers alike perished Watson enlisted when the ly, within 18 months. from a virulent flu that woolen mill where he "I joined because a worked went on strike. He swept Europe at the end of young fellow would went from producer to user the war and added to the of uniforms. get a rifle and trip over- torment. seas in a boat," Fackler THERE Doughboys Fackler knew many says. "I worked at the the 2nd Battalion, who departed never to again see home. Hershey Chocolate Co. It wasn't that I 329th Infantry, assume "I left with 250 men," he says. "Only wanted to fight and die; it was the ad- the "on guard" position seven of us made it back to Harrisburg." venture.' in bayonet training, Oct. 5,1918, during their first week in France.

town, Pa., remembers. "I really didn't recover." For the next 80 years Fackler, who lives in an assisted-living complex in AUentown, wouldn't be able to run for distance or swim with his peers because the German gases burned away I Fackler (left) poses with a the lining of his lungs. "I can feel the e. Only he and six men effects all the time," he says, his voice would return to Harrisburg from rising in pitch while trying to talk and his outfit. draw in air simultaneously, "even to this day." 'We were trained A medic came upon Fackler and carried the former chocolate factory to accept it as employee to relative safety. "I was a it was, fighter," says Fackler, who served as you saw a sergeant in the Army's 28th Divi- Charles your buddies Fackler's lungs sion and returned with two Purple

Hearts. "It was kill or be killed." rigltt next to recovered from In June 1918 Fackler's 28th Divi- a 1918 German sion, a.k.a. "Iron Division," included you l(ilied/ poison-gas attack. about 24,000 troops, mostly from the Pennsylvania National Guard. Before Charles Fackler Nov. 11, about 14,000 of the division

NOVEMBER 1998 • LEGION MAGAZINE • THE AMERICAN Jl ears, Marbury could have heard the bu- gler's notes. But the television was too loud. Bob Barker and the studio audience of "The Price Is Right" drowned most everything out. The native of Dadeville, Ala., said he enlisted in 1917 to escape relentless rural poverty. His mother worked as a cook, ironed clothes and picked cotton. "That was the only way she had to make a living... They told me I was going to get a job in Newport News, Va," he

says. "... I was in the 310th Service Bat- talion, U.S. Army. A buck private." He made only the smallest of movements as he spoke. "I was in Belgium, Holland and France. We built soldier camps. We loaded the ships and unloaded the ships. They sent us overseas, paid us $30 a FORCING THE FRONT Gunners of the 2nd Infantry Division support an advance in 1918 against German entrenciiments. month and board and a place to stay. We had it tough, but under the circum-

stances it was a great experience." Sacrifices of those who reshaped down the steamer's coal bunkers, His battalion was charged with tak- the world during the Great War might painting them white and making them ing food and other supplies to the men stand as immortal, but their bodies do livable for returning doughboys. on the front lines. "My back was like a not. "We are going fast," says 99-year- The Arcadia made five transatlantic freight train," Marbury says. old Louis Watson, National Comman- voyages hauling troops home, includ- Given no weapons but being close to

der of The Veterans of World War I, ing passage for some members of the the fighting sometimes made him feel USA, Inc. "Most are over 100 years famous "Harlem Hellfighters" of New like "a sitting duck." old. You don't know when you are go- York's 169th Infantry Regiment. The And racism followed him over there. ing to go yourself." black soldiers who made up that unit "Some of the American whites, they Watson, a member of American Le- were highly decorated and exceeded wouldn't fight with the colored.. .We region Post 120 in Daytona Beach, Fla., by five days the length of front-line ally weren't allowed to mix and social- estimates only about 3,300 U.S. veter- service of any U.S. regiment. But in a ize," he says. "If they found you were

ans of World War I are living. He segregated Army, black soldiers often mixing and mingling, they'd run you served in the Navy, joining at wound up doing the hard work of ser- like a rabbit." Fairhaven, Mass., in 1918 because he vice battalions outside the action. The end of the war didn't change found the naval re- that. cruiting station before Leonard Marbury "They had a big celebration," he says he found the National Leonard Marbury re- of the day of the armistice. "We didn't

Guard office. "I was members what it was like celebrate together. That was what we working in a woolen to be a black soldier the were supposed to do. We got a whole lot mill making Army first time the whole world of dirty deals," he says. and Navy uniforms," went to war. Marbury has good memories, too. he says. "I decided to "I wanted to be my own "We were going all over the world. We enlist when the mill man," he says. were doing our duty and serving our

went on strike. I wore About noontime. Taps country. ..All-in-all I'm glad. We did one of the uniforms blew softly through steady what the law wanted. The worst part for I'd helped make." rain across the grounds of me was they didn't want us. They didn't Hostilities ended the Dayton VA Medical recognize or appreciate all we'd done." before the ship to Center where Marbury which Watson was makes his home. The Bob Walsh assigned, the USS Ar- sound rose up from the ad- Home was the place everyone want- OPPORTONITY Leonard cadia, left port. She jacent National Cemetery ed to go, says 103-year-old Bob Walsh, Marbury went to war to still made the trip to escape rural poverty and between old trees and cen- a wagoner with the 88th Infantry Divi- Europe with Watson his own man. ter buildings, a mishmash sion. Wagoner is a rank which no longer aboard to help fetch of architectural styles de- exists. It belonged to the cavalry. the American Expeditionary Force noting various construction periods in Walsh's job was to ferry officers home. the 131 -year history of the hospital. An- around, usually by motorcycle and side- "I was on a list to go to gunnery other veteran was being laid to rest over car. school," he says. But fighting ended the next hill. If someone had raised the "I rode a motorcycle on the worst of before he went into training and his window behind his head in the nursing all days," he says. "The weather was mission changed to one of scrubbing home day room, even with 98-year-old very bad over there at that time. I drove

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Took Lt. Healy out at 1 :30, went to Minorville and Bernecourt. Back here at 4 p.m. War is over today. Lots of talk about it. Sup- per at 5:30." Fackler couldn't recall a lot of deep discussion or reasoning about the war among soldiers.

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ORLD WAR II ruined National Capital Albert Fickel's three- Planning Commis- day pass. sion, by an 8-2 vote, A fireman aboard approved architect USS Pennsylvania Friedrich St. Flori- (BB-38), Fickel had an's revised design "finagled a pass" for a National World ashore that was set to War II Memorial to start the minute he be built on the Mall in came off his 4-to-8 Washington, D.C. watch aboard ship that It's taken nearly as Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. The fu- long to have the de-

ture member of American Legion Post sign OK'd as it took 39 in Taylor, Texas, had big plans to cel- U.S. forces to whip ebrate his 21st birthday. Hitler and Tojo. "I came off my watch at No. 3 engine After site dedica- room, changed clothes, squared my hat tion on Veterans Day and started to go topside," Fickel recalls. 1995, the project He heard explosions and figured sailors mired down in a de- were exploding dynamite again, clear- sign controversy. The ing coral reef from the harbor. The memorial site is on Pennsylvania, flagship of the Pacific the east end of the fleet, was on keel blocks undergoing Reflecting Pool be-

routine maintenance in No. 1 drydock tween the Lincoln Memorial and the Bob Dole is co-chairman of the fund- when Japanese bombs began falling at Washington Monument. Critics of St. raising campaign, working with Freder- 7:55 a.m. Florian's original design for the memor- ick W. Smith, the Marine veteran who is

A hit killed 26 Marines aboard Penn- ial complained it blocked the vista be- president and CEO of Federal Express. sylvania, but the battleship dodged de- tween the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Speaking in Indianapolis on May 22 struction that day to rejoin the fleet in Memorial. American Battle Monument at the dedication of Indiana's World March 1942, and amass battle distinc- Commission officials asked St. Florian War II Memorial, Dole invoked the past tions in 13 Pacific operations. Fickel re- to revise his plans and submitted the in support of the National World War n tired a chief machinist's mate in 1959, memorial's new look in May to Wash- Memorial. but he never forgot fallen friends such as ington's Commission of Fine Arts. With "It is important that we remember the his buddy, David McMasters, who was both commissions' endorsement secure, voices and deeds of those young men killed at Pearl Harbor on the USS Ari- officials hope to break ground by Veter- and women who liberated whole conti-

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land; Arizona lost 80 percent of its com- Meanwhile, more than $28 million in died for a future they would never see," plement, 1,177 Americans dead. gifts from 150,000 individuals and said Dole, a member of Post 99 in his More than a half-century later, Amer- dozens of veterans' groups, corporations hometown of Russell, Kan. "In World

icans are shaping a lasting remembrance and foundations has been raised toward War II, the American spirit of hope and to the generation that fought and won the $100 million needed to complete the decency saved the world," Dole said, World War II on battlefronts, behind the memorial. Former Senate Majority adding that completing the national

~~lines and on the homefront. In July, the Leader and World War II Army veteran memorial is, "the unfinished business of~~

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~~THE FUTURE UF THE PAST Groundbreaking on the World War II memorial, designed by Friedrich St. Florian, is scheduled for 2000.~~

for president, said the memorial is not Harrington told commission members. only an important reminder that free "Less than half of the 16 million men people can prevail against tyrarmy, but and women who served in uniform dur- its prominent location on the Mall in the ing the war are still with us. I'd like to nation's capital will serve as a potent re- see this monument built in time for them minder to ftiture generations. to enjoy. Mr. Chairman, give us the "In peaceful times war memorials green light. My generation's got one may seem out of place and out of fash- more job to do!" ion," Dole said to a crowd of several In voting, "yes," commission mem- hundred gathered for the Hoosier bers acknowledged that America's memorial's dedication. "But they are ap- World War II generation did its job, a propriate now because we are at peace. monumental task generations to come Memorials such as this remind us how will marvel to consider. Dole recalls that our peace came to be. They prod us to as young soldiers, he and his buddies remember that what is unthinkable to- were too caught up in the everyday day was once routinely thought and may struggle to survive to see World War II

be again, unless we are vigilant." as the epic it was. They didn't hear the Dole suffered severe wounds while call of history, he said, but the voice of ANOTHER MISSION Bob Dole, formerly Senate serving with the 10th Division friends, voices that confident majority leader and a Wold War II vet, is a co- Mountain were and chairman of the fund-raising effort. in Italy in 1945. For his personal sacri- fearful, and all too frequently, "silenced fice, he was awarded two Purple Hearts in a moment, in a place far from home." and a Bronze Star. He said the World War II Memorial will the Second World War." Another voice from the World War II teach future generations of Americans to The American Legion, by resolution, generation. Army veteran and Legion- heed the voice of those who fought, fully supports the campaign and urges naire Herman G. Harrington, represent- served and died. its members, Posts, Districts and Depart- ed his peers last spring before the Com- Those sentiments are echoed by Na- ments to support this perpetual tribute to mission of Fine Arts in Washington. tional Commander "Butch" Miller. "We the World War 11 generation. All mem- Harrington, a member of Post 1231 in need a reminder that just men and bers of The American Legion family are Rensselaer, N.Y., and chairman of the women can prevail, and the memorial urged to send their contributions toward National Internal Affairs Commission, planned for the Mall accomplishes this. the National World War II Memorial to: conveyed his own sense of urgency for World War II is one of those rare mo- The American Legion, P.O. Box completing the memorial. ments in history that looks 781138, Indianapolis, IN 46278-8138. "With each day, about 1,000 World even larger from a distance." Dole, the 1996 Republican candidate War II veterans answer the filial call," —Anthony Miller

~~1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER ^j) Legionnaires rally 'round Old Glory, dodge the rain and conduct business at New Orleans.~~

~~ATIONAL Commander past, mentioning November's 80th I'm proud of you. I'm honored to have~~

~~Anthony G. Jordan's year anniversary of the end of World War I. worn your National Commander's cap.~~

~~was all about change. At He noted the Founders of The Ameri- I have always felt this cap belonged to~~

every stop in his globe-trot- can Legion were passionate to get you more than it belonged to me." ting turn at the helm of the things done for veterans, widows and For Jordan, the symbolic end to his world's largest veterans' orphans. They were determined to pre- busy year came during the opening organization, Jordan told serve core American values and worked plenary session, Tuesday, Sept. 8, in Legionnaires they had to to ensure the men and women of the the New Orleans Hilton Riverside change the way they do armed forces went to war prepared. Hotel. In his report to National Con- business at their Post. "They weren't afraid to call for vention delegates, he summed up by Jordan's message didn't change—that's what the original GI calling for positive change in how The mean Legionnaires should tinker with Bill was all about: changing the American Legion conducts its pro- success. No, he said, innovative covenant between veterans and the grams, treats its members and attracts change must strengthen the tradition of government they served," Jordan said, new generations to carry on for those service to veterans and their families pausing to remove his red cap and plac- who won the 20th century's major con- so that Persian Gulf-era and other, ing it on the lectern. He paused again, flicts. younger Legionnaires can inherit that his emotions bubbling near the surface, Jordan introduced a list of distin- legacy in the 2 1 st century. then told delegates: "You changed guished speakers that included Secretary In looking ahead, Jordan invoked the America for the better the past year. of State Madeleine K. Albright; Joint

40 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1998 YEAR TO REMEMBER PNC E. Roy Stone Jr., S.C., pr< National Commander Jordan witli a plaque, honoring at the helm of the Legion and his service to God and coun

Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Henry H. Shelton; Secretary of Veterans" Affairs Togo D. West Jr.; retired Maj. Gen. Patriclc Brady, chairman of the Citizens Flag Alliance; and historian Stephen E. Ambrose, best-selling author of "Undaunted Courage," "D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War 11" and "Citizen Soldiers." Legionnaires were swept up in a deluge of activities; the event is part business, part fun and all about renew- ing friendships and meeting new com- Anthony Jordan M rades in service to God and country. and his wife, | But Legionnaires, Auxiliary members Claudette, greetM and the Sons of The American Legion guests at the 1 deluge in New Commander's m coped with another B?!met. M Orleans. Tropical Storm Earl was scheduled

NOVEMBER 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • i|j WINNING WORDS Kirk Mitchell, a reporter witti the Mesa Tribune SPIRIT OF NORMANDY AWARD The Comman- (Ariz.), is presented with The American Legion's Fourth Estate Award der displays the special award for Steven Spielberg, by Jordan and National PR Commission Chairman Bob Morrili. director of the blockbuster, "Saving Private Ryan."

to roar ashore the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 2, to greet early convention arrivals. Fortunately, the storm skirted New Orleans. Rain lingered into Sunday, Sept. 6, as contingents began to form on Decatur Street in the French Quarter for the National Convention

Parade. It was a washout before it started. The torrential rainfall by itself did not force the cancellation, says Jeffrey L. Olson, chairman of the National Convention Commission. "I called the National Weather Ser- vice at the airport, and they reported a large Level Three storm with signifi- cant electrical activity," he recalls. Olson asked for that in English: "Does that mean lightning?" he wanted to "GOOD GUY" The Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, archbishop of New Orleans, know. Why, yes it did. Olson called receives the prestigious James V. Day Award from the Past Department Commanders Club. Jordan, Al Robotti of New Jersey and Dick Pedro of New York present the National Commander Jordan and rec- plaque. ommended scrubbing the parade, a first (organizers didn't schedule a parade in Phoenix in 1991 due to intense heat; other parades, during World War II, were abbreviated affairs). The rain, though relentless, was tolerable. The danger from lightning was not, con- cluded organizers, unable to argue with safety considerations.

SOGGY marchers, color guard THEunits and band members headed back to their hotels for impromptu concerts and friendly milling around. Delegates also exercised their right to be heard in Washington, specifically with their senators on Capitol Hill. Hundreds of American Legion fam- PATRIOTIC PARTNERS Department of Virginia officers are in the spotlight as ily members stopped by the Citizens they are awarded the William Randolph Hearst Americanism Trophy. Beaumont Enter- sent e-mail prise Vice President Aubrey Webb (third from right) presents the trophy, which recog- Flag Alliance booth and nizes a Department for excellence in promoting citizenship activities. messages to their U.S. Senators in sup-

~~42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1998 MARY LOU RETTON GOLD MEDAL GYMNAST~~

"In this century, we have prevailed with our allies in two global The Olympic Gold medalist in gymnastics now champions the cause of the wars... Now, we confront new dangers at a time of great turbulence Children's Miracle Network. David Pierson, Covington, La., joins Retton and complexity." and tells conventioneers how the networl( helped him after an accident.

port of Senate Joint Resolution 40, study of the flag-protection issue since the flag-protection bill. With the vote 1990, pollsters discovered the numbers imminent, flag-backers figured the are consistent on the question of pro- time had come for a full-court press in tecting the flag: A majority of Ameri- favor of returning to the people the cans passionately want their flag pro- decision whether or not Old Glory tected from physical desecration. They deserved protection under law. E-mail don't believe such laws endanger visitors were armed with the roll call Americans' hard-won free speech records of their senators, their e-mail rights which, incidentally, America's addresses and office phone numbers; veterans for two centuries have fought many Legionnaires followed up their and died to uphold. Results of the e-mails with pro-SJR 40 phone calls August poll of 998 adults were and post cards. released at a press conference on Capi- While Legionnaires sent messages tol Hill. Convention delegates watched of support, National Vice Commanders on huge monitors. and volunteers handled phones in a Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Sen. "war room" in the National Headquar- Max Cleland of Georgia, who intro- GEN. HENRY SHELTON ters staff office. In July, the CPA sent duced SJR 40 last February, welcomed CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF 100 postcards to every one of the near- pollsters from the Gallup Organization, "By helping shape international environments, ly 15,000 Legion Posts for distribution as well as several Senate colleagues we can help prevent conflicts from to members. The members sent them who support the measure. Attending escalating." to their Senators, urging them to back SJR 40. Legionnaires at Snider- Richardson Post 273 in Grand Marsh, Wis. were the first to check in. Their 30 members had mailed 95 postcards. Before the 1989 Supreme Court

decision in Texas v. Johnson, flag-protection laws were on the books in nearly every state. The existence of such laws didn't prevent Americans from exercising their free speech rights under the Constitution. That threat was perceived, if not invented and ham- mered home, by opponents of SJR 40. That category includes the American Civil Liberties Union and the Ameri- TOGO WEST JR. SENATOR MARY LANDRIEU can Bar Association. VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY OF LOUISIANA Most Americans feel otherwise, as "No eligible veteran who comes to a VA Though not a co-sponsor of SJR 40, the revealed by the latest poll conducted medical center for care will be turned away," lawmaker promises Legionnaires she will vote by the Gallup Organization. In its third pledges West, an Idaho Legionnaire. for the amendment.

NOVEMBER 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • l|3 delegates to contact their senators. Walter Ehlers and George Wahlen rep- resented the World War II generation, Ehlers from the European Theater, Wahlen from the Pacific Theater. Retired Gen. Ray Davis, a three-war veteran whose heroic action during the Korean War earned him his nation's highest award, followed. Next were Mike Fitzmaurice and retired Gen. Jim Livingston, a Georgia native who lives in New Orleans. The delegates clapped and shouted their approval of these exemplary Ameri- cans who articulated their love of country in deeds. In his remarks, Brady brought up a theme from Steven Spiel- berg's epic war film, "Saving Private YOUTH CHAMPIONS Kevin Sladek, Boys Nation president; Erin Piettenberg, Ora- Ryan" and tied it to the struggle over torical Contest winner; Nate Philo, Legion Basebali Player of the Year; Kelly Dove, Jr. values exemplified by the flag-protec- Shooting Sports champion; and Marl( Sukraw, Legion Scout of the Year, share a tion amendment. moment with the commander before they address convention delegates. "I think the greatest lesson of the movie was lost in the blood and gore," were South Carolina's Strom Thur- minds one way or the other, he said, Brady said. "The fundamental question mond, Iowa's Charles Grassley, Idaho's but young people who don't inherit an to ask about Private Ryan is this: Was Larry Craig and North Carolina's appreciation for America's special he worthy of the sacrifices of the men Lauch Faircloth. Entertainer Pat Boone place in history won't care about pre- who saved him?" Brady asked. Later was also on hand to lend his support. serving its unique symbol of unity and generations of Americans must look at "The will of the people is unques- nationhood. Brady—a Vietnam War themselves and wonder the same thing tionable: They want the U.S. Senate to Medal of Honor recipient—pointed to when it comes to the U.S. Flag. send to the states a flag-protection con- polling indicating that one in six of "Are we the kind of people the vet- stitutional amendment for ratification. those questioned, 15 percent, fear the erans of World War II and the veterans The Gallup Poll shows three out of nation's young people don't under- who came after them sacrificed their four Americans support an amendment stand what the flag symbolizes to care lives for? It was not the courts or the that would, in effect, take the fate of enough to protect it. American Civil Liberties Union who Old Glory out of the hands of the gave us our freedom, veterans did, and courts and put it back in the hands of TUESDAY'S opening session, if Private Ryan's saviors could come the American people," Jordan said ATBrady introduced five other Medal back today, they would be in the front after the CPA news conference. of Honor recipients whose actions line fighting to save Old Glory," Brady "I'm confident that the required testify to the conviction that the flag is told applauding delegates. two-thirds majority in the Senate will more than, "just a piece of cloth." One Legionnaires honored the creative respect the most important free speech by one, they stood at the lectern urging force behind one of 1998's most com- of all: the voice of 'We the People' and pelling films. Jordan presented the first- pass SJR 40 so that the people can ever "Spirit of Normandy" award to the decide this issue." Oscar-winning producer/director Steven Gallup's Debra Christian shared Spielberg. Spielberg, who was in Jordan's confidence and had the num- Europe and couldn't attend in person, bers to back up the validity of earlier addressed delegates via videotape that polling on the flag issue. According to included clips from "Ryan." He thanked the survey, 76 percent of respondents Legionnaires for the honor, but said favored allowing Congress authority to plaudits more properly are due the real pass flag-protection laws, a course of heroes: the World War II generation. action that 52 percent agreed with Author Stephen E. Ambrose has "strongly." Also, 75 percent believe devoted years of study and writing to Americans' First Amendment right to ensuring that the World War II genera- free speech is adequately protected tion, one of the most extraordinary in already, while 74 percent termed flag- U.S. history, isn't forgotten. The best- burning an inappropriate expression of selling author of "Citizen Soldiers" free speech rights. and "D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Cli- CPA supporters such as Brady mactic Battle of World War 11" lives in believe the flag campaign is more than nearby Bay St. Louis, Miss., and a fight for "letting the people decide" serves as president of the proposed DAD'S THE ONE Craig Miller nomi- the issue; it's a fight for values and for nates his candidate of choice for the National D-Day Museum. New the future. Adults have made up their office of National Commander. Orleans rates as a suitable site for the

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"An inspirational video experience to uplift us, our kids, and grandkids, as well. " - Pat Boone museum because it was the base of heroes when she sees them, calling tance or inspired by American ideals," Andy Higgins. He is the designer of The American Legion "one of our Albright told convention delegates on the landing craft that bear his name, country's truly great organizations." Wednesday, Sept. 9. boats that no less an authority than Hitler's invading armies drove Albright touched on pressing threats Dwight D. Eisenhower credited with Albright and her parents from their troubling American foreign policy making the D-Day landings possible. native Czechoslovakia to London, planners. In these days of global terror, The D-Day Museum is scheduled to where they saw uniformed Americans the United States makes the highest open June 6, 2000, the 56th anniver- as liberators. profile target, Albright said, and our sary of the Normandy landings. "The story of my family has been failure to prepare is measured in casu- There was no shortage of American repeated in millions of variations over alty counts. She said the recent heroes in the convention hall, though more than two centuries in the lives of embassy bombings in Kenya and Tan- not all were singled out for recogni- those around the world who have been zania represent nothing new, that the tion. Secretary of State Madeleine liberated or sheltered by American sol- U.S. recognizes it's in an ongoing, Albright, however, said she recognizes diers, empowered by American assis- undeclared war against international

INFLUENCES Miller is joined by his stepfather and mother, Ken and NEW HEADGEAR PNC Stone pre- GUIDING Loretta Wiemann (left), Wabasha, Minn. To his right are his friend, Cathy Carruthers of pares to place the cap of National Com- Virginia, and son, Craig (right), who serves on active duty with the Marines. In the back mander on Miller, an Army veteran of the row are former Virginia NECman Roger Messier, PNC Stone and former Virginia Adjutant Vietnam War. Wilbur Walker.

• • 41) THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 1998 terrorism. The new twist, she said, is the emergence of terrorist coalitions not bound to any government, that operate across national borders and have access to the latest technologies of destruction. "Well-financed terrorist leaders such as Osama bin Laden have vowed to kill Americans worldwide," said Albright, whose own security contin- gent equaled that of a visiting head of state and included dogs sniffing for explosives in the Hilton Riverside convention hall.

"Their goal is to cause America to abandon its friends, allies and responsi- bilities. To that, I can only say, to use an old U.S. Army expression, 'Nuts!' The nation whose finest planted the flag CHANGING OF THE GUARD Anthony Jordan congratulates Butch Miller at Iwo Jima and plunged into hell at moments after Miller took the oath of office. Omaha Beach will not be intimidated." Albright thanked The American allowing the belief that Americans can fronting a shrinking military force, one Legion for supporting the United States be assaulted with impunity. As Presi- down 700,000 troops, or 40 percent,

strike on bin Laden 's training camps in dent Clinton said, our people are not from 1989 levels. Scaling back the mil- Afghanistan and a suspected chemical expendable." itary in the 1990s might be an weapons plant in Sudan, America's inevitable result of America's Cold War response to the embassy bombings. IOINT chiefs chairman Gen. Henry triumph over the former Soviet Union, In addition to diplomatic efforts and H. Shelton was among comrades but U.S. commitments worldwide resort to force as warranted, Albright Jiwhen he addressed Legionnaires mean 125,000 young Americans still said the legal systems in the United on Wednesday, Sept. 9, and it showed. deployed far from home. America's States and other nations have often "As a young man in North Carolina, commitment to stability seems the lone proved effective against terrorists. She I was aware of what veterans did for constant in a still-dangerous world, noted courts have brought suspected ter- our country and communities," said Shelton said. rorists to justice in the World Trade Cen- Shelton. "Soldiers, sailors, Marines "By helping shape international ter bombing and the murders at the CLA and Coast Guard members are carrying environments, we can help prevent headquarters in Langley, Va., and are the on your legacy, and I can assure you conflicts from escalating," Shelton focus of efforts to try those responsible they are making you proud." said, citing America's pivotal role in for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 The chairman asked for Legion- ending the factional strife in Bosnia, at over Lockerbie, Scotiand. naires' continued support on national least for now. The United States' trip- Weapons of mass destruction are a security and readiness issues con- wire force at the 38th Parallel in Korea second problem for U.S. foreign policy. Regional tensions between India and Pakistan triggered a disturbing series of underground nuclear tests by both sides earlier this year. On another front, Iran is testing a new missile in its pursuit of nuclear weapons capabili- ty and North Korea recently launched an experimental missile that crossed Japanese territory on its way to splashdown in the Pacific. Striking back at terrorism involves risks, Albright conceded, but, "...Risks are present MILLER-MEN Elected to serve as National vice commanders the next year are, from left, Leo either way. Firmness pro- Burke, Stockton, Calif.; John Morris, Houston, Texas; Fernando "Fred" Goulart, Pawtucket, R.I.; vides no guarantees, but it Miller, Roger Tingler, Covington, Ga.; and Jim Gravenstein, Topeka, Kan. Profiles on these and is far less dangerous than other National officers appear on page 58.

• NOVEMBER 1998 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE l|J GAINING SUPPORT Legionnaires check out information about ttie World NOT FORGOTTEN The flag-draped War II Memorial planned for the Mall in Washington, D.C. The Legion fully supports empty chair is a solemn reminder of our the project. See related article, page 38. missing servicemen. has deterred an irrational, aggressive rifice all for their buddies and their The VA developed the enrollment sys- North Korean regime from literally country. And once they leave service, tem to streamline its operations and "crossing the line" for 45 years. veterans with health problems related improve delivery of care, not to deny Shelton said that while the overall to their service who require medical care to their customers. In the first quality of troops remains high, the mili- care should be able to turn to the VA. place, any veteran in the system before tary is finding it increasingly difficult to In his address to Legionnaires, VA 1996 is already enrolled. Adds West, find good recruits in a robust economy Secretary Togo West was at pains to "No eligible veteran who comes to a with plenty of options for ambitious clear up a misconception some veterans Veterans' Affairs Medical Center for young people. For example, career mil- have about the department's Patient care will be turned away. We will itary pilots are taking early outs to try Enrollment System. The erroneous enroll them then." their skills in the civilian airline indus- rumor is that if veterans eligible for VA Under the enrollment system, veter- try, which offers lucrative salaries and health care and service-connected dis- ans are grouped in seven categories by attractive benefit packages. ability compensation don't enroll with priority of care, with the first group of

Finally, said Shelton, America's the VA by Oct. 1, they could lose their those veterans rated 50 percent dis- security stands on the shoulders of benefits. abled or higher. The categories contin- young men and women willing to sac- Not true, West told Legionnaires. ue down the rungs of eligibility until reaching the non-service connected veterans whose incomes and net worth meet guidelines set by statute. The American Legion supports any effort that speeds delivery of medical care to veterans. But it

believes its blueprint for reforming the VA, the GI Bill of Health, offers the fairest, most comprehensive approach. The VA probably agrees, since it's already incorporated reforms such as allowing dollars from third-party payers—Medicare and private insurers—into the VA system, a major component of the GI Bill of Health. West also pointed to improvements the VA is making in women's health care and in claims processing. Speeding processing time is a constant priority, but easing delays is

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~~Res. No. 199 Support for funding concun'ent receipt of military retired pay and VA disability compensation.~~

Res. No. 244 Codify employment and training priority for veterans. Res. No. 200 Support for quality of life features for armed forces personnel, military retirees and their families. Res. No. 245 Support for civilian certification and licensing of military train-

Res. No. 202 Support for legislation for absentee military voting rights. AMERICANISM Joseph E. Caouette Jr. (N.H.), Chairman Res. No. 266 Support for hiring preference for veterans in federal c Res. No. 203 Support for separate gender basic training.

~~Res. No. 1 Support for constitutional amendment to protect the U.S. Flag- Res. No. 204 Support for funding concurrent receipt of military separation~~

~~Res. No. 313 Support for oversigtit of tfie U.S. citizensfiip process. FOREIGN REUTIONS John A. Brieden III (Texas), Chairman pay and veterans' disability compensation.~~

Res. No. 314 Support for efforts to combat illegal aliens. Res. No. 205 Support amendment of Unifomied Services Former Spouses Protection Act. Res. No. 315 Support for amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow selected non-citizen veterans to seek naturalization or admis- Res. No. 3 Support for relations with the Republic of China- Res. No. 206 Support for the fonner ban by the Department of Defense on

the homosexuals serving in the arnied forces, sion to U.S. Res. No. 10 Support for legislation to restore Missing Service Personnel Res. No. 316 The American Legion policy on conscientious objectors. Act of 1996. Res. No. 207 Support for modernization of the U.S. Navy and Marine

~~Res. No. 317 Opposition to a constitutional convention. Res. No. 101 Support for re-examination o( Panama Canal treaties of~~

~~1977- Res. No. 208 Support for full funding for the U.S. Coast Guard. Res. No. 318 Support use of English in naturalization ceremonies.~~

Res. No. 102 Support for adequate funding c 1 drugs in Latin Ameri- Res. No. 312 Support for burial eligibility criteria at Artington National Res. No. 319 The American Legion policy on U S. internal security. Cemetery. Res. No. 320 Support for a constitutional amendment to support school Res. No. 209 Support for America's future through domestic activism. prayer.

Res. No. 210 Support, promote and protect U.S. vital national interests in VETERANS AFFAIRS AND REHABILITATION Res. No. 321 The Amencan Legion policy on the Pledge of Allegiance. principles of foreign policy. Chester F. Stellar (Ohio), Chairman Res. No. 322 Support for returning patriotic holidays to traditional dates. Res. No. 212 The American Legion policy on the People's Republic of Res. No. 17 Support for veteran nursing home at Fitzsimmons Amiy Med- Res. No. 323 The American Legion policy on the National Anthem. China- ical Center. Res. No. 324 Support for av^arding the Congressional Medal of Honor to Res. No. 213 Support for U S- interests in the Pariama Canal- Res. No. 28 The American Legion policy on tobacco-related disabilities. the Four Chaplains. Res. No. 215 The American Legion policy on the United Nations. Res. No. 36 Allow concurtent payment of compensation or DIC and educa- Res. No. 325 Support for reopening the naturalization application period for tional benefits to dependent children. Res. No. 216 Support for regulation of lobbying reforni. Filipino veterans- Res. No. 75 Seek legislation to pay accrued benefits in a pending claim up Res. No. 218 Support for priority POW/MIA actions. Res. No. 326 Oppose foreign manufacture of U.S. Flags. to the date the deceased veteran's claim was filed. Res. No. 219 The American Legion policy on Worid War II, Cold War and Res. No. 327 Support English as the official language of the U.S Korean War POW/MIAs, Res. No. 76 The American Legion policy on dependency and indemnity Res. No. 328 Support for immigration reform. compensation. Res. No. 220 The American Legion policy on Vietnam POW/MIAs. Res. No. 329 Support expediting naturalization of Hmong vi'ith honorable Res. No. 77 improve disability and death pension program. Res. No. 294 The Americari Legion policy on Cuba, service. Res. No. 78 The Americari Legion policy on the state veterans' home pro- Res. No. 295 The American Legion policy on Mexico, CHILDREN AND YOUTH Elmer Fuhrhop (Ohio), Chairinan gram- Res. No. 297 The American Legion policy on Central America- Res. No. 26 Oppose legalization of marijuana- Res. No. 79 The American Legion policy on VA compensation. Res. No. 298 Support for the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EAI). Res. No. 301 Support amending Immigration and Nationality Act to provide Res. No. 90 Protect disability rating after 10 years.

equal treatment in admission of all children of U.S. citizens. Res. No. 93 The American Legion policy on the National Cemetery System. Res. No. 302 Support for school nutrition program- INTERNAL AFFAIRS Herman G. Harrington (N.Y.), Chairman Res. No. 97 Provide full medical care for World War II veterans.

Res. No. 303 Support establishment of National Family Week. Res. No. 330 Support for awarding the Medal of Freedom to Harry W. Res. No. 126 Urges Congress to exempt Veterans Affairs Medical Centers Colmery- Res. No. 304 Support immunization programs. (VAMCs) from copyright infringement laws. Res. No. 331 Support for exempt status of Posts for income tax purposes. Res. No. 305 Support efforts to combat violence and vandalism in Res. No. 131 Enhanced Education and Training Readjustment Program for

~~schoolS- Res. No. 332 Support for legal immunity for volunteers- Service Persons (Gl Bill).~~

Res. No. 306 Support increased efforts to combat child pomography. Res. No. 333 Appreciation to convenhon host city- Res. No. 132 The American Legion policy on National Service Live Insur- ance (DVA-NSLI). Res. No. 307 Support efforts to combat drug trafficking. Res. No. 257 Support for Audio Murphy postage stamp. Res. No. 133 Provide Funding for DVA constmction program. Res. No. 308 The American Legion policy on production, sale and distribu-

~~Res. No. 141 The Gl Bill of Health- tion of obscene literature HATIONAL SECURITY Allen L. Titus (Ind.), Chairman~~

efforts assist families of children v^ith catastroph- Res. No. 143 Urge Congress to amend Title 38, USC. Section 107 to rec- Res. No. 309 Support to Res. No. 38 Support for funding to protect American citizens abroad. ognize Filipinos as veterans. Res. No. 55 Support for domestic energy production and conservation- Res. No. 144 Urge Congress to provide equal benefits to naturalized Fil- Res. No. 56 The American Legion policy on nuclear energy and nuclear ipino veterans- waste- Res. No. 145 Establishment of a new cemetery in northem Califomia. Res. No. 174 The American Legion policy on national security principles. ECONOMIC Ray G. Smith (H.C.), Chairman Res. No. 164 Support increase in claims personnel for VA. Res. No. 175 The American Legion policy on military forces in peacekeep- Res. No. 165 Elimination of lime limitations for filing applications for cor- Res. No. 40 Support for Local Veterans Employment Representatives ing operations- (LVER) Program- rection of military records- Res. No. 176 Support for the preservafion of America's defense industrial Res. No. 41 Support for Service Members Occupational Conversion and Res. No. 170 The American Legion policy on Agent Orange. (SMOCTA). Training Act Res. No. 171 The Amencan Legion policy regarding the use of depleted in Ameri- Res. No. 46 Support for the Small Business Administration uranium.

~~veterans v^orkforce Res. No. 172 Gulf War veterans' ilinesses. Res. No. 49 Support for employment of in government Res. No. 178 Support for a national missile defense system.~~

Res. 57 for Transition Assistance Program (TAP) to be perma- Res. No. 173 The American Legion policy on long-term care. No. Support Res. No. 1 79 Support for theater missile-defense systems. nently mandated and fully funded. Res. No. 237 Request Congress provide VA adequate funding for medical Res. No. 180 Support for the Unifomied Services University of the Health prosthetic research activities. Res. No. 58 Support for President's Committee on Employment of People Sciences (USUHS). and with Disabilities Res. No. 253 Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a geographically Res. No. 182 Support for collegiate and high school ROTC programs. Res. No. 59 Support for National Veterans Training Institute (NVTI). adjusted means test. Res. No. 183 Support oil exploration on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Res. No. for privilege being provided to veterans. Res. No. 260 Permit VA to be an authorized health care provider under all 62 Support homestead and coastal plain- duly licensed health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred Res. No. for preference for veterans in Housing and Urban 66 Support Res. No. 1 84 Support for the U S- Air Force- provider organizations (PPOs) and other similar plans, Development. Res. No. 1 85 Support for the National Space Program- Res, No. 273 Extend Persian Gulf War benefits to veterans who served in Res. No. 70 Support for homeless shelter funding. Res. No. 186 Support for aerospace production and research- Israel and Turkey- Res. No. 88 Support increasing the VA Home Loan Guaranty- Res. No. 187 Support for combating biological, cyberspace and other Res. No. 287 Reduce disability requirements for nonservice-connected Res. No. Maintain the Veterans Employment and Training Service. 96 threats to the U.S- in the 21st century-

~~Res. No. 99 Support for DoL Employment and Training Programs. Res. No. 188 Support for the non-federal roles of the National Guard. Res. No. 288 The American Legion policy on fomier POWs.~~

for Decennial in the Year 2000. Res. No. 139 Support Census Res. No. 189 Support for building disaster resistant communities through Res. No. 311 The American Legion policy on VA physicians and staffing Res. No. 161 Support for home improvements and structural alterations Project Impact. guidelines. grants. Res. No. 190 Support for combating crime in America.

Res. No. 162 Support for millennium stand-downs. Res. No. 191 Support for the second constitutional amendmenL For a copy of the complete Res. No. 163 Support funding for homeless programs. Res. No. 192 Support for the Merchant Marine

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Vietnam veteran, I understand Ralph T. O'Neil Department of France. the magnitude of the sacrifices Award—Department of Other newly elected FODPAL offi- made by the service's men and women Wisconsin. cers include Jimmie Foster, Alaska, and their families —during war and Chapel of the Four Chaplains Legion first vice president; Alfred S. Piatt, said. National Post 1, vice president peace," Smith of Honor Bronze Medallion— China second ; He noted the Legion already has con- Commander Anthony G. Jordan. Oriand Taylor, Hawaii, third vice presi- tributed more than $1 million of the $28 Employer of the Year Awards (Eco- dent; Mike Beavers, France, judge million raised so far and asked the nomic)—Lear Seigler Services Inc., advocate; Ignacio Santiago, Philippines, Legion's help in raising $72 million Milton, Fla.; Jak's Stripping and Refin- historian; Sally Bennett, Mexico, chap- more in two years. ishing. Garden City, Idaho; and Atlas lain; Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rico, After his bid to enlist the Legion, Roofing Corp., Ardmore, Okla. sergeant-at-arms; Robert J. Conrad, Smith was enlisted in turn in the Legion Garland Murphy Award (Children & Hawaii, secretary; Arnie Matanky, and presented a blue cap and a Life Youth)—Department of Florida France, treasurer; and Frank Bottigliero,

Membership in Post 1, Department of (Legion), Department of Ohio (Auxil- Illinois, breakfast chairman. Tennessee—as well as a $5,000 contri- iary) and Department of Ohio (Sons of bution from Volunteer State Legion- The American Legion). ROTC KUDOS naires. American Legion Fourth Estate MOST DEPARTMENTS took part Post 1291, Department of New York, Award—Kirk Mitchell, reporter. The in the ROTC Awards programs in presented Smith a check for $20,105, the Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. 1997-98, according to Legion officials, result of signing up Legionnaires as char- William F. Lenker National Service and nearly 10,000 medals were award- ter members of the World War n Memo- Trophy—Department of Minnesota. ed to deserving cadets in senior and rial Society. National Law Enforcement Officer junior ROTC units nationwide. of the Year—Earl P. McDonald, deputy Departments winning participation COMiVIANDER'S sheriff. Belle Chasse, La. awards for the year included Alaska,

ALIT1 LH SONCi. a little dance, a jok- IVIUTUAL ing juggler taking a chance. HELPFULNESS There was no shortage of entertain- LEGION FAMILY members respond- ment at the National Commander's ed with their usual generosity and Banquet for Distinguished Guests at concern to an appeal from The Ameri- this year's convention. Singer Marlene can Legion National Emergency Fund Ricci performed a range of songs, strik- to replenish accounts depleted by a suc- ing favorable chords with the audience. cession of weather-related disasters. When the music ended, comedian During the convention, $98,756 Michael Davis took center stage. The flowed into the fund, according to NEF dry-witted funnyman has performed on officials, and that didn't include further TOE TAPPIN' The band and color guard contests continue a grand and colorful Annerican Legion tradition. television and some of the hottest pledges.

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Blood Donor Awards are: "The great thing about CMN is that Joliet, 111., American Legion Band, Post Category I (Departments with all donations stay in the local area 1080, 95.5; Greater Kansas City Ameri- 100,000 or more members). Post par- served by the children's hospital," Ret- can Legion Band, 86.67; Oconomowoc, ticipation: Department of Florida; ton said. Wis., American Legion Band, 84; Individual participation: Department "CMN Champions" is broadcast live Waltham, Mass., American Legion of Minnesota. from Walt Disney World. The 1999 Band, Post 156, 76.33.

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for joining The American Legion, "I with young people," says Gravenstein. Ci NATIONAL VICE was asked." Looking at his impressive Gravenstein has been a member of resume suggests the question, "How the Legion for 24 years. He and his Leo P. Burke many others like Tingler have not been wife, Darlene, have five children. asked?" Gravenstein will guide the 536,000 While with the Army 1st Infantry members of the Central Region which Division, he was awarded the Purple includes France, Iowa, Kansas, Michi- Heart, Bronze Star and the Air Medal. gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Professionally, he is employed as a tex- Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. tile manager with Hercules, Inc., where raveling he has worked for the last 30 years. around the His service to the Legion is high- country and lighted with terms as Department Com- volunteer ser- mander and more recently as National 'Tped" vice are not new for Leo Burke. As a Chairman of Membership and Post M.Goolart Marine, he participated in a 45-day Activities. Tingler, a 20-year Legion- expedition to Greenland to test cold- naire, and his wife. Tootles are the par- Pawtuckel R.I. weather gear. In his business life, he ents of two children. circled the globe with the Sam Snyder Tingler, a member of Covington Water Follies. He is especially proud Post 32, will oversee the efforts of the of serving as chairman of the Califor- Southeast Region, which consists of Rhode Island nia Veterans Board. the 467,000 Legionnaires in Alabama, Legion- Burke's work with the National For- Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, naires are eign Relations Commission, Legislative Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto not losing their Commission, and positions as National Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir- Department Adjutant; they Executive Committeeman and Depart- ginia and West Virginia. along with 2.9 million other ment Commander have given him the members— are gaining a National tools to succeed in his new role as Vice Commander. National Vice Commander. Since leaving the Air Force, in Burke, a 39-year member of Karl which he served from 1969 to 1973, Ross Post 16, and his wife, Wilmena Fernando "Fred" M. Goulart has have seven children. forged a career as an entrepreneur. Burke will oversee the Western He spent five years in real estate, and Region, which includes the 353,000 for the last 18 years, he has been members of Alaska, Arizona, Califor- operating the Metal Spraying Co. nia, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Mexico, and Fernando's Liquor. Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ore- Goulart, a member of Cumberland gon, the Philippines, Utah, Washing- the last Post 14, believes what he and the ton and Wyoniinii. Forfour years, Legion give back to the community Jim Gra- to be the most rewarding work. That venstein has commitment is reflected in his four MANDER served as the National Vice Chairman years as Children and Youth Chair- on the National Security Commission. man. Roger LTingler His interest in protecting America Goulart, a 16-year member of the traces, in part, to his career in Navy sub- Legion, and his wife, Elizabeth, have marines. three children. Gravenstein, a member of Topeka He will represent the 811,000 North Post 400, has delivered for the members of the Northeast Region Legion as Department Commander, Connecticut, Delaware, District of District Commander and Post Comman- Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massa- der. He feels his most gratifying work chusetts, New Hampshire, New Jer- has been with the National Oratorical sey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Contest Finals. "I truly enjoy working Island and Vermont.

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hiuid in both Lussier's Legion and person- to work as Commander of Woodbridge al life. His wife, Roberta, has served as Post 364. Auxiliary president of Unit 28; daughter Before Moriarity was chosen as Aide, Robyn is a member of Unit 28, son Char- he was on track to lead his Post this year.

lie is a dual Legion/S.A.L. member, This seven-year member is First Vice Com- younger son Frank is a member of the mander and has served as chairman of Chil- same S.A.L. Squadron and Lussier's two dren and Youth, Ways and Means and the granddaughters are members of Unit 28 's Show Your Colors, America! campaign. Junior Auxiliary.

~~ohn Morris kes to view things The Rev. Rober! from the top. J.Sweeney Since serving his stint in the Army, he has spent the last 40 years working con-~~

struction in Florida and Texas. He is now the owner of Southcoast Roofing Co. Morris, a member of Griffith/Zann Post 594, believes the skills necessary for running a successful business mesh well have held all with guiding the Legion's programs and offices in my growth. "I enjoyed my term as District Post," says once was active Commander the most," says Morris, a Robert Klips- with other community organizations. "I Korean War veteran. "The result was two tine, a member of Gingrich-Poince Post resigned all others to be able to dedicate good years in working Legion programs 487. "I have also maintained a history of myself to the Legion," says Sweeney, a

~~and exceeding membership goals." my Post back to when it was chartered in member of Arthur Finnigen Post 1443.~~

Morris has served as his Post's First 1922." From his beginnings at the Post This focused dedication is also noted Vice Commander for five terms and as level, he has moved his way through the on his resume. The Roman Catholic priest Post Commander for two terms. He later ranks to end up right where he started: and Vietnam War Army veteran has worked his way up to Department Com- preserving history. served as Chaplain for the Goshen Post, mander and National Executive Commit- It's not surprising that Klipstine, a Arthur Finnigen Post, Orange County,

teeman positions. Marine Corps veteran of Worid War 11, and the Department of New York. This 29-year member and his wife, has been a Life Member for 42 years. Sweeney has also served on New York's Katherine, have eight children. During his tenure, he served as Aide to God md Countiy Committee. Morris will tend to the 660,000 Leg- Past National Commander Roger Mun- ionnaires of the Midwest Region, which son; National Chaiirnan of Naval Affairs includes Illinois, hidiana, Kentucky, Mis- and National Security; Department Com- souri, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas. mander and CFA Co-Chairman. At home, he and his wife, Nancy, have two George A. daughters. BuskirkJr. lyATIOiyALSGI-AT-ARIVIS His year as Aide has been his most memorable Legion experience. "The best George C. part was meeting outstanding leaders throughout our countiy." says Klipstine. LussierJr.

Manassas, Va. eorge Bus- kirk Jr., an Indianapolis William "Billy attorney, was eorge Luss- appointed as National Treasurer. His Moriariiy ier Jr. agrees appointment came after Webber with the V.A. LaGrange retired after serving 20 years. adage that LaGrange will remain with the Legion as

knowledge is power. Educating members a consultant. to the benefits of The American Legion Buskirk, a member of Frank McKin- has been his prime responsibility during from trav- ney Post 510 and an Army veteran of the Just his five terms as American Legion Col- eling with Vietnam War, is senior vice president lege Director. This Navy veteran of the Butch and trust officer at Union Federal Sav- Vietnam War has served two terms as already, I've ings Bank in Indianapolis. He is also a

Post Commander and three terms as Post learned more about the Legion tiian I ever brigadier general and assistant adjutant Adjutant at Quantico/Buck Keyes Post knew existed," says Billy Moriarity. After general of the Indiana National Guard.

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consolidated database to retrieve medical records for all patients patient and a copy of the record is retained for the hospital's files. treated in Army, Navy and Air Force hospitals. The records are sent to the record center within five years.

"Our goal is to inventory any known surviving hospital record Rostker says his office's goal is to assist veterans who require from the Gulf War and create a database with names of all U.S. records to establish VA claims for service-connected illnesses, as military and coalition forces and civilians," says Dr. Bemard Ros- well as those who wish to keep track of their medical conditions. tker, the Pentagon's special assistant for Gulf War Illnesses. To obtain copies of inpatient medical records of veterans The need for the database grew out of widespread concerns deployed to the Gulf, contact the Gulf War Outreach Task Force at expressed by Gulf War veterans and organizations such as The (800) 497-6261 and request a data search. The request form will

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Boyle, an investigator on Rostker's staff. "If veterans didn't know Individual health records of Gulf veterans are archived at two the name of the hospitals that treated them, there was no way of locations. The VA maintains records for Army veterans discharged finding their records." after 1992, and Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy veterans dis-

The medical records fall into two categories: individual and in- charged after 1994. To obtain copies, veterans should contact the patient hospital treatments. Individual health records include infor- VAat(800) 827-1000.

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VETERANS who participated in The VA claims that while the THE VA has launched a program to directly atmospheric nuclear tests or were urine analysis (bioassay testing) deposit most VA insurance payments in the part of the occupation forces of provides no "useful medical infor- bank accounts of 100,000 recipients. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, are mation," any positive result should "Veterans and their beneficiaries won't have eligible to be tested for the presence be taken seriously by affected veter- to worry if their checks are lost in the mail or of Plutonium. ans. stolen," says VA Under Secretary for Benefits

To confirm eligibility for the test, "Veterans' privacy should be Joe Thompson. "Electronic fund transfer will obtain more information or to safeguarded, but if you are aware of give them the peace of mind of knowing their request testing, atomic veterans an atomic vet who has tested posi- payments are guaranteed to be on time, every should contact the Nuclear Test Per- tive, please inform the VA&R Divi- time." sonnel Review program at (800) sion staff in Washington," Stellar The VA began late last summer mailing let- 462-3683. Eligible veterans who says. "We don't need to know the ters to veterans and beneficiaries receiving request and consent to the test will veteran's name, merely to know if monthly insurance payments, explaining the receive materials for self-collection they have tested positive; this helps advantages of direct deposits. At press time, of a 24-hour urine specimen. The us oversee the VA process and VA's Insurance Center says it plans to follow up local VA medical facility will package ensure that it is administered well." by mailing notices to veterans and beneficiaries and ship the specimen samples to a If a veteran who tests positive until all 100,000 recipients of monthly insur- laboratory for analysis. has filed a VA claim for disabilities ance payments have been contacted.

"Plutonium is the only radioactive related to ionizing radiation expo- EFT, the VA claims, is less expensive, faster material— of the hundreds of sure, the results should be submitted and safer than mailing checks. Federal law radioactive materials—released in as new evidence to support the requires that beneficiaries receiving monthly nuclear explosions that can be mea- claim. Those who have not filed a U.S. government payments, with some hard- sured in the human body years after claim are advised to consult their ship exceptions, must be paid through direct exposure," notes Chet Stellar, chair- personal or VA physician. deposit. man of the Legion's National Veter- Please report any positive test In January 1999, the VA will offer the EF ans Affairs and Rehabilitation Com- results or direct questions about the option to its insurance policyholders and bene- mission. "In the case of nuclear test to Matt Puglisi, assistant direc- ficiaries who are paid less frequently, including explosions, plutonium enters the tor, VA&R Division, at (202) 861- some 1.2 million policyholders who receive body through food or inhalation." 2772. annual dividends.

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