January-February 2015

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Homecoming 1973 Veterans Day In Washington, DC National Commander Milton Moore, Jr. represented AXPOW at the White House and Arlington Cemetery. Vice President Biden was the keynote speaker at Arlington.

In Elk Grove, California 49ers Chapter, Sacramento, AXPOW, in the Elk Grove, CA Veterans Day Parade. Picture # 1 Left to Right: David McAnlis, Civilian Internee, Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, Philippines and the Los Banos Internment Camp, Philippines. Sadie Moles, Civilian Internee, born in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila Philippines. Ted Cadwallader, Civilian Internee, Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, Philippines (retired master sergeant, USAF). Eldon Koob, 28th Infantry Division, ETO. Art Bishop, 106th Infantry Division, ETO (retired USAF LTC). Bill Hureaux, 35th Infantry Division, ETO. Picture # 2 Left to Right: David McAnlis, Ted Cadwallader, Sadie Moles, flag bearers, all civilian ex- internees, PTO. The military POWs were riding in the parade in a 1925 Dodge sedan and a 1967 Mustang. table of contents Jan/Feb 2015 officers/directors 4 commander 5 Operation Homecoming nso 6 Forty-two years ago, on February 12th, medsearch 7 a C-141A Starlifter transport jet with a andersonville 12 distinctive red cross on its tail lifted legislative 13 off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, and the namPOW 14 first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war pow-mia 15 began their journey home through civilian 15 Operation Homecoming. By the day’s events, looking for 16 end, three C-141A aircraft would lift off convention 17 from Hanoi, as well as a C-9A aircraft camp morton 20 from Saigon, South Vietnam. In a Alan Dunbar’s story 25 steady flow of flights through late “wingmen” 26 March 1973 under terms set through your stories 29 the Paris Peace Accords, 591 POWs re- valentine 30 turned to American soil. voluntary funding 31 first call home Photos curtesy of Lee Humiston contributions 32 new members 33 National Convention ! It’s coming June 24-27, 2015 at the Arlington taps 34 Hilton, Arlington, TX. There’s more information in this Bulletin chaplain 36 and every Bulletin until Convention. Bring your kids...your raffle 39 grandkids...Activities abound! Six Flags, Cowboy Stadium, Hurricane quartermaster 42 Park, The Ballpark at Arlington...and plenty more. You’ll have a great time meeting old friends and new. We’re also working to ensure the Publisher future of AXPOW and different ideas will be presented at the Con- vention and be voted on. Make your voice heard! PNC Maurice Sharp 9716 54th Street CT West University Place, WA And speaking of conventions, our state departments and chapters 98467(253) 565-0444 are dwindling because of age and health. If you see your dept. [email protected] convention coming up, make an effort to attend. You’ll be glad you Editor did. Cheryl Cerbone UMB Credit Card 23 Cove View Drive Every time a member – or member’s family or friends – signs South Yarmouth, MA 02664 up for the new UMB credit card (which features our marching (508) 394-5250 men on the face), AXPOW receives $50.00. That’s like making [email protected] a $50 donation to the organization when you sign up. We also Intrepid Staff Reporter get a percentage of every dollar spent if you use the card each Alice A Booher month. You also get benefits from using the card...there is no annual fee and at the end of the year, you’ll receive a statement Deadline for the Mar/Apr 2015 of your annual charges, broken down by category. Makes filing issue is Feb. 1, 2015 your taxes easier! Please send all materials to the editor at the above So benefits for us and benefits for you. Won’t you take a few address. minutes and apply for this card today?

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© 2015 American Ex-Prisoners of War Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 3 axpow officers & directors 2014-2015 National Headquarters - Clydie J. Morgan, Executive Director/Treasurer, 3201 E. Pioneer Pkwy, #40, Arlington, TX 76010 (817) 649-2979 (817) 649-0109 fax [email protected] Officers Directors National Commander North East Region North Central Region Milton “Skip” Moore 2965 Sierra Bermeja Charles A. Susino John W Clark Sierra Vista, AZ 85650 951 Gates Ave. 1201 S Johnmeyer Ln (520)459-7295;(520)533-3757 fax Piscataway, NJ 08854 Columbia MO 65203 [email protected] (732)463-8355; (732)221-0073-C (573) 445-3621 [email protected] [email protected] National Sr Vice Commander David Claypool Edward L. 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Lollar [email protected] 292 VZ CR 3727 Alice Gollin - Wills Point, TX 75169 Western Zone (903)560-1734;(903)560-1705 fax 37231 Turnberry Isle [email protected] Palm Desert, CA 92211 (760)610-1271;(760)610-1752 fax [email protected] Committee addresses appear with their columns have been paid so no money is involved. We are looking at get- news ting a donation to the organization right now. Some legal things have to be worked out but I am from confident that we will get it. It will help the organization quite a hq bit. Happy New Year! Where does the It was an honor to represent this time go? organization at the Veterans Day celebration in Washington DC. We are gearing up for the 2015 My fiance and I had a real good National Convention. It is here in National Commander time there. We had breakfast at Arlington again. We have new and the White House with Vice Presi- exciting things for you to do. Milton M Moore, Jr. dent Biden and then went to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers We have arranged for you to take As I sit by my computer writing for a beautiful ceremony. Paul a tour of Dealey Plaza, the area my next column, I am reminded Galanti and Cheryl Cerbone were where President John F. Kennedy that this is the Thanksgiving, there with me. I had the honor of was shot. There is a memorial to Christmas, and New Year time. I placing an AXPOW Wreath at the him and it is right across from hope that everyone had a fantas- Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. the infamous Grassy Knoll! tic Thanksgiving and spent it with family and friends. Remember Next is a tour of the 6th Floor Mu- that there are a lot of people out seum in the former Texas School- there that don’t have that oppor- book Depository building where tunity. We have a whole lot to be Lee Harvey Oswald hid out. The thankful for. I also hope your Museum chronicles the assassi- Christmas and New Year are bet- nation and legacy of President ter than ever. We need to put John F. Kennedy; interprets the Christ back into Christmas. Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark District and the John We held our mid winter meeting F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza; and in Arlington Texas on the 15th of presents contemporary culture November. It was a good meeting. within the context of presidential The weather was really chilly history. though. It is my honor to let everyone know that we have a new We then go Dallas Holocaust Mu- Treasurer. Marsha Coke was se- seum across the street. The per- lected by the Board of Directors My heart was filled with all kinds manent exhibit gives visitors a to take over the job from Clydie. of emotions when I did that. I felt view of the Holocaust by focus- Clydie did a very good job. An so proud. I visited the Viet Nam ing on one day during the Holo- audit will be done before every- Wall, the Korean War Memorial, caust—April 19, 1943. The exhibit thing is finalized. Please give Mar- the World War II Memorial, and also highlights the first European sha your thanks. I know she will the Iwo Jima Memorial. Those box car brought to the US. This be excellent at her new position. were very well done and again car was likely used to transport Our By Laws committee came up emotional. If you are ever given Jews to concentration or extermi- with some wonderful ideas to get the chance to go see them please nation camps. our by laws updated. I would like do. It will be something you will to thank all the people on that never forget. So mark your calendar now and committee for you time and plan to attend the National Con- commitment to our great Orga- In closing, I would just like to say, vention June 24-28. Look for nization. We are still working on everyone keep a smile on your more information in your maga- getting our tax exempt status face and love in your heart. zine. back. We have a few more forms to refile from years back and are Ex-POW Bulletin working hard with the IRS to get all of this done. All the back fees Jan/Feb 2015 5 VA Implements Second Phase of and shared their best practices nso Choice Card Program from VA’s high-performing Cards sent to Veterans waiting facilities throughout the more than 30 days for care organization. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA announced that it Significant improvements have began mailing Veterans Choice resulted nationally: Cards on November 17 to Veterans currently waiting more Scheduling more than 1.2 million than 30-days from their more appointments in the past preferred date or the date that is four months than in the same Ruth Powell, Director medically determined by their period last year. In total, VA medi- 191 Florence Road physician for an appointment at cal centers have scheduled over Waltham, MA 02453 a VA facility. 19 million Veteran appointments 781-899-0726 from June to October 1, 2014; “VA continues to focus on Cost-of-Living Adjustment implementation of this new Reducing the national new pa- (COLA) Information for 2015 temporary benefit so that tient Primary Care wait time by Monthly benefits will increase 1.7 Veterans receive the timely 18 percent; percent in 2015. quality care they need in a way Congress has passed the Veter- that reduces confusion and Completing 98 percent of ap- ans’ Compensation Cost-of-Liv- inefficiencies,” said Secretary pointments within 30 days of the ing Adjustment Act of 2014, and Robert A. McDonald, who penned Veterans’ preferred date, or the it will increase veterans disabil- an open letter to Veterans date determined to be medically ity payments for millions of vet- announcing the implementation necessary by a physician; erans and their dependents. The of the Choice Card program. bill provides increases in these Authorizing 1.1 million non-VA areas, beginning Dec. 1, 2014: The Choice Program is a new, care authorizations, a 47-percent disability compensation temporary benefit that allows increase over the same period additional compensation for de- some Veterans to receive health last year; and pendents care in their communities rather clothing allowance than waiting for a VA Increasing the amount of time dependency and indemnity com- appointment or traveling to a VA providers could deliver care to pensation to surviving spouse, facility. The first round of cards Veterans by increasing the and along with a letter explaining the amount of clinic hours in pri- dependency and indemnity com- program was issued on mary and specialty care and pensation to children. November 5 to Veterans who are through adding weekend and eligible based on their place of evening clinics at our medical The 1.7 percent cost-of-living ad- residence. VA is now engaging in centers. justment (COLA) will begin with the next phase of its rollout – benefits that beneficiaries receive eligibility explanation letters are VA is America’s largest integrated in January 2015. being sent to Veterans waiting health care system with over more than 30 days from their 1,700 sites of care, serving ap- The yearly COLA on federal ben- preferred date to be seen or proximately 9 million Veterans efits is based on inflation as mea- considered medically necessary enrolled in health care services. sured by the Bureau of Labor Sta- by their physician. The Choice Program is part of tistics’ Consumer Price Index for the Veterans Access, Choice, and Urban Wage Earners and Clerical To improve service delivery, VA Accountability Act of 2014 Workers (CPI-W). The COLA re- has prioritized efforts to (VACAA), enacted more than three flects changes in average prices accelerate Veterans off of wait months ago, to enable VA to meet for a market basket of goods and lists and into clinics through the the demand for Veterans’ health services from the third quarter Accelerated Care Initiative begun care in the short-term. of 2013 to the third quarter of over the summer. Through this 2014. initiative, VA medical centers For more information about the have increased access to care Choice Program, call 1-866- 606- Ex-POW Bulletin inside and outside of VA, added 8198 or visit http://www.va.gov/ more clinic hours and work days, opa/choiceact/. Jan/Feb 2015 deployed mobile medical units 6 3201 E. Pioneer Pkway, Suite 40 pow medsearch Arlington, TX 76010 Marsha Coke, Chairman (817) 649-2979 e-mail: [email protected]

Restless Legs Syndrome

What is restless legs syndrome?

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder characterized by throbbing, pulling, creeping, or other unpleasant sensations in the legs and an uncon- trollable, and sometimes over- whelming, urge to move them. Symptoms occur primarily at night when a person is relaxing or at rest and can increase in severity during the night. Moving the legs relieves the discomfort. Often called paresthesias (abnormal sensations) or dysesthesias (unpleasant abnormal sensa- form. Childhood RLS is esti- More than 80 percent of people tions), the sensations range in mated to affect almost 1 million with RLS also experience a more severity from uncomfortable to school-age children, with one- common condition known as pe- irritating to painful. third having moderate to severe riodic limb movement of sleep symptoms. Some people with RLS (PLMS). PLMS is characterized by The most distinctive or unusual will not seek medical attention, involuntary leg twitching or jerk- aspect of the condition is that believing that they will not be ing movements during sleep that lying down and trying to relax taken seriously, that their symp- typically occur every 15 to 40 sec- activates the symptoms. Most toms are too mild, or that their onds, sometimes throughout the people with RLS have difficulty condition is not treatable. Some night. The symptoms cause re- falling asleep and staying asleep. physicians wrongly attribute the peated awakening and severely Left untreated, the condition symptoms to nervousness, in- disrupted sleep. Although many causes exhaustion and daytime somnia, stress, arthritis, muscle individuals with RLS also develop fatigue. Many people with RLS re- cramps, or aging. PLMS, most people with PLMS do port that their job, personal rela- not experience RLS. People who tions, and activities of daily liv- RLS occurs in both men and have PLMS and do not have RLS ing are strongly affected as a re- women, although the incidence is or another cause for the PLMS sult of their sleep deprivation. about twice as high in women. It may be diagnosed with periodic They are often unable to concen- may begin at any age. Many indi- limb movement disorder (PLMD). trate, have impaired memory, or viduals who are severely affected PLMD may be a variant of RLS and fail to accomplish daily tasks. It are middle-aged or older, and the thus respond to similar treat- also can make traveling difficult symptoms typically become ments. and can cause depression. more frequent and last longer What are common signs and with age. symptoms of restless legs? As many as 10 percent of the U.S. population may have RLS. Several RLS is classified as a movement People with RLS feel uncomfort- studies have shown that moder- disorder, as individuals are able sensations in their legs, es- ate to severe RLS affects approxi- forced to move their legs in or- mately 2-3 percent of adults der to gain relief from symp- Ex-POW Bulletin (more than 5 million individu- toms. als). An additional 5 percent ap- Jan/Feb 2015 pears to be affected by a milder 7 and impairment of daytime func- yet know if these factors actually medsearch cont’d... tion. cause RLS: pecially when sitting or lying

down, accompanied by an irre- Individuals with RLS can some- Chronic diseases such as sistible urge to move the af- times experience remissions— kidney failure, diabetes, and pe- fected limb. These sensations spontaneous improvement over ripheral neuropathy. Treating the less commonly affect the arms, a period of weeks or months be- underlying condition often pro- trunk, or head. Although the fore symptoms reappear—usu- vides relief from RLS symptoms. sensations can occur on just one ally during the early stages of the side of the body, they most of- disorder. In general, however, Certain medications that ten affect both sides. symptoms become more severe may aggravate symptoms. These over time. medications include antinausea Because moving the legs (or drugs (prochlorperazine or other affected parts of the body) People who have both RLS and an metoclopramide), antipsychotic relieves the discomfort, people associated medical condition drugs (haloperidol or phenothi- with RLS often keep their legs in tend to develop more severe azine derivatives), antidepres- motion to minimize or prevent symptoms rapidly. In contrast, sants that increase serotonin, and the sensations. They may pace those who have RLS that is not some cold and allergy medica- the floor, constantly move their related to any other condition and tions-that contain sedating anti- legs while sitting, and toss and experience onset at an early age histamines. turn in bed. show a very slow progression of the disorder; many years may Alcohol and sleep deprivation A classic feature of RLS is that pass before symptoms occur also may aggravate or trigger the symptoms are worse at night regularly. symptoms in some individuals. with a distinct symptom-free pe- Reducing or completely eliminat- riod in the early morning, allow- What causes restless legs ing these factors may relieve ing for more refreshing sleep at syndrome? symptoms, but it is unclear if that time. Other triggering situ- this can prevent RLS symptoms ations are periods of inactivity In most cases, the cause of RLS is from occurring at all. such as long car trips, sitting in unknown. However, it may have a a movie theater, long-distance genetic component; RLS is often How is restless legs flights, immobilization in a cast, found in families where the on- syndrome diagnosed? or relaxation exercises. Many set of symptoms is before age 40. individuals also note a worsen- Specific gene variants have been There is no specific test for RLS. ing of symptoms if their sleep associated with RLS. Evidence in- The four basic criteria for diag- is further reduced by events or dicates that low levels of iron in nosing the disorder are: activity. the brain also may be responsible for RLS. Symptoms that are worse RLS symptoms may vary from at night and are absent or negli- day to day and in severity and Considerable evidence suggests gible in the morning; frequency from person to per- that RLS is related to a dysfunc- A strong and often over- son. Individuals with mild RLS tion in the brain’s basal ganglia whelming need or urge to move may have some disruption of circuits that use the neurotrans- the affected limb(s), often asso- sleep onset and minor interfer- mitter dopamine, which is needed ciated with paresthesias or ence in daytime activities. In to produce smooth, purposeful dysesthesias; moderately severe cases, symp- muscle activity and movement. Sensory symptoms that toms occur only once or twice a Disruption of these pathways fre- are triggered by rest, relaxation, week but result in significant quently results in involuntary or sleep; and delay of sleep onset, with some movements. Individuals with Sensory symptoms that disruption of daytime function. Parkinson’s disease, another dis- are relieved with movement and In severe cases of RLS, the order of the basal ganglia’s the relief persists as long as the symptoms occur more than dopamine pathways, often have movement continues. twice a week and result in bur- RLS as well. densome interruption of sleep Physicians should focus largely RLS also appears to be related to on the individual’s descriptions Ex-POW Bulletin the following factors or condi- of symptoms, their triggers and Jan/Feb 2015 tions, although researchers do not relieving factors, as well as the 8 presence or absence of symp- medsearch cont’d... moderate symptoms include de- in the evening than in the after- creased use of caffeine, alcohol, noon until finally the symptoms toms throughout the day. A and tobacco; supplements to cor- are present around the clock. The neurological and physical exam, rect deficiencies in iron, folate, initial evening or bedtime dose plus information from the and magnesium; changing or becomes less effective, the symp- individual’s medical and family maintaining a regular sleep pat- toms at night become more in- history and list of current medi- tern; a program of moderate ex- tense, and symptoms begin to cations, may be helpful. Indi- ercise; and massaging the legs, affect the arms or trunk. Fortu- viduals may be asked about fre- taking a hot bath, or using a heat- nately, this apparent progression quency, duration, and intensity ing pad or ice pack. A trial of iron is reversible by removing the per- of symptoms as well as their ten- supplements is recommended son from all dopamine-related dency toward daytime sleep pat- only for individuals with low medications. Another important terns and sleepiness, disturbance iron levels. Although many adverse effect of dopamine medi- of sleep, or daytime function. people find some relief with such cations that occurs in some measures, rarely do these efforts people is the development of Laboratory tests may be per- completely eliminate symptoms. impulsive or obsessive behaviors formed to rule out other condi- such as obsessive gambling or tions. Blood tests can identify Medications are usually helpful shopping. Should they occur, iron and vitamin deficiencies as but no single medication effec- these behaviors can be reversed well as other medical disorders tively manages RLS for all indi- by stopping the medication. associated with RLS. In some viduals. Trials of different drugs cases, sleep studies such as may be necessary. In addition, The FDA has approved gabapentin polysomnography (a test that medications taken regularly may enacarbil, which metabolizes in records the individual’s brain lose their effect over time, mak- the body to become gabapentin, waves, heartbeat, breathing, and ing it necessary to change medi- for the treatment of moderate to leg movements during an entire cations periodically. severe RLS. night) may identify the presence of other causes of sleep disrup- Common drugs prescribed to Other medications may be pre- tion (e.g., sleep apnea), which may treat RLS include: scribed “off-label” (not specifi- impact management of the dis- cally designed to treat RLS) to re- order. Dopaminergic agents (drugs that lieve some of the symptoms of increase dopamine), largely used the disorder. Diagnosing RLS in children may to treat Parkinson’s disease, have be especially difficult, since it been shown to reduce symptoms Benzodiazepines can help indi- may be hard for a child to de- of RLS and PLMS when they are viduals who have mild or inter- scribe where it hurts, when and taken at bedtime and are consid- mittent symptoms obtain a more how often the symptoms occur, ered the initial treatment of restful sleep. However, even if and how long symptoms last. choice. The U.S. Food and Drug taken only at bedtime they can Pediatric RLS can sometimes be Administration (FDA) has ap- sometimes cause daytime sleepi- misdiagnosed as “growing pains” proved ropinirole, pramipexole, ness. Benzodiazepines such as or attention deficit disorder. and rotigotine to treat moderate clonazepam and diazepam are to severe RLS. Both drugs are gen- generally prescribed to treat anxi- How is restless legs erally well tolerated but can ety, muscle spasms, and insom- nia. Because these drugs also may syndrome treated? cause nausea, dizziness, or other side effects. Good short-term re- induce or aggravate sleep apnea sults of treatment with levodopa in some cases, they should not RLS can be treated, with care di- plus carbidopa have been re- be used in people with this con- rected toward relieving symp- ported. dition. toms. Moving the affected limb(s) may provide temporary Although dopamine-related Opioids such as codeine, relief. Sometimes RLS symptoms medications are effective in man- propoxyphene, or oxycodone can be controlled by finding and aging RLS, long-term use can lead may be prescribed at night to di- treating an associated medical to worsening of the symptoms in minish pain and help to relax in- condition, such as peripheral neu- many individuals. This apparent ropathy or diabetes. progressive worsening is re- ferred to as “augmentation.” With Ex-POW Bulletin Certain lifestyle changes and ac- chronic use, a person may begin Jan/Feb 2015 tivities that may reduce symp- to experience symptoms earlier toms in persons with mild to 9 ods of diagnosing and treating medsearch cont’d... the syndrome, and discover ways In other related reseal disorders dividuals with more severe symp- to prevent it. or research programs funded by toms. Side effects include dizzi- the National Institute of Neuro- ness, nausea, exacerbation of NINDS-supported researchers are logical Disorders and Stroke, con- sleep apnea, and the risk of ad- investigating the possible role of tact therch, NINDS scientists are diction. dopamine function in RLS. Re- conducting studies to better un- Anticonvulsants such as searchers suspect that impaired derstand the physiological mecha- gabapentin and pregabalin can transmission of dopamine sig- nisms of PLMS associated with decrease the sensory distur- nals may play a role in the disor- RLS. bances such as creeping and der. Additional research should crawling sensations and nerve provide new information about Where can I get more pain. Dizziness, fatigue, and how RLS occurs and may help in- information? sleepiness are among the pos- vestigators identify more suc- sible side effects. cessful treatment options. For more information on neurological disorders or research pro- What is the prognosis of Workshops and conferences grams funded by the National In- sponsored by the NINDS as well people with restless legs? stitute of Neurological Disorders as nongovernment organizations and Stroke, contact the Institute’s have emphasized the need for RLS is generally a lifelong condi- Brain Resources and Information further research on animal mod- Network (BRAIN) at: tion for which there is no cure. els and the complex roles of Nevertheless, current therapies dopamine interaction with iron BRAIN can control the disorder, mini- levels. For example, serum fer- mizing symptoms and increas- P.O. Box 5801 ritin, an index of iron deficiency, Bethesda, MD 20824 ing periods of restful sleep. has been shown to predict the se- Symptoms may gradually worsen (800) 352-9424 verity of RLS symptoms in older http://www.ninds.nih.gov with age, although the decline individuals. may be somewhat faster for individuals who also suffer from an associated medical condition. GETTING DIAGNOSED WITH In addition, some individuals have remissions—periods in RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME which symptoms decrease or dis- appear for days, weeks, or months—although symptoms People are diagnosed with restless legs syndroms if usually eventually reappear. A diagnosis of RLS does not indi- they answer yes to the following four questions: cate the onset of another neurological disease, such as Parkinson’s disease. 1. Do you have the urge to move your legs because of unpleasant feelings in them? What research is being done? 2. Does the urge to move increase if you are resting The National Institute of Neuro- or sitting down? logical Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a component of the Na- tional Institutes of Health, is the 3. Do the unpleasant feelings decrease or go away primary Federal sponsor of re- when you move your legs? search on brain and nervous system disorders. The NINDS seeks to increase scientific understand- 4. Are the unpleasant feelings and the urge to move ing of RLS, find improved meth- worse in the evening and at night? Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 See your primary care physician for help. 10 POW MEDSEARCH PACKETS

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Amount enclosed $ ______(includes shipping/handling*) MasterCard and Visa accepted (circle one) ($5.00 mini- mum charge) Card Number: Expiration Date: Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 11 anti-aircraft fire. The eight air- legislative 2014-2015 Legislative men recovered are being re- Committee turned to their families for burial PNC Charles Susino, Jr. with full military honors. The ND Charles Anthony Susino initial finding was in 2001 and after exhaustive work, the re- [email protected] mains were accurately indentified. This is not a one ceiving their cards later this time finding, rather the Defense month. VA expects that all veter- department has ongoing efforts ans who were enrolled in the VA to locate and identify missing health care system on August 1, servicemen and do so locating 2014, will receive their cards by our serviceman as an ongoing January 2015. However, receiving basis. Worth noting, there are ci- PNC Charles Susino Jr a Veterans Choice Card does not vilian efforts which assist in this instantly authorize you to start Chairman important mission often using receiving health care from non- their own resources, an example VA doctors. All care received was documented on a recent through the Choice Program Mid-term elections 2014 resulted showing of “60 minutes” TV must be pre-authorized and co- broadcast. in a wave of change. There was a ordinated by VA. shift in party from a Democratic majority in the Senate (53 Dem - We need the House and Senate to The Defense POW/MIA Office an- 45 Rep - 2 Ind.) to the Republicans act on “Putting Veterans Funding nounced the identification of re- holding 53 seats. In addition, First Act”. This legislation will mains belonging to eight airmen while the total number of veter- provide Advanced Appropria- who had been missing-in-action ans serving in Congress will de- tions for all Department of Vet- since World War II. Returned crease slightly to approximately erans Affairs discretionary bud- home are: 100, the Senate has increased in get accounts. Advanced Appro- its representation for those with · Army Air Forces 1st Lt. priations continues to be an im- military service from 20 to 21, the William D. Bernier, 28, of portant issue so your efforts are first increase since the 1982 elec- Augusta, Mont. needed to contact your members tion. Tom Cotton of Arkansas of Congress. The proposed Bills and Joni Ernst of Iowa won their · 1st Lt. Bryant E. Poulsen, are S. 932 and HR 813. races, making them the first two 22, of Salt Lake City, Utah Iraq veterans ever elected to the Signed by the President into law · 1st Lt. Herbert V. Young Senate. You can go to the National are the cost of living adjustments Jr., 23, of Clarkdale, Ariz. Defense PAC website to identify if for veteran’s disability compensation and dependency and in- your members of Congress are · Tech Sgt. Charles L. demnity compensation for sur- veterans and their background. Johnston, 20, of Pitts- viving spouses and children. The burgh, Penn. The Veterans Access, Choice and amount of the increase, which Accountability Act required VA to · Tech Sgt. Hugh F. Moore, was based off of the Consumer implement the Choice Program 36, of Elkton, Md. Price Index and determined by by November 5, 2014. Starting this the Social Security Administra- week, veterans who live 40 or · Staff Sgt. John E. Copeland, tion (SSA) is an increase of 1.7 more miles away from a VA medi- 21, of Dearing, Kan. percent beginning December cal facility will have the opportu- 2014. nity to choose whether to receive · Staff Sgt. Charles J. Jones, their health care at VA or in their 24, of Athens, Ga. As a reminder, you can research community, through non-VA doc- the status of any Bill in Congress tors. Veterans who live within 40 · Sgt. Charles A. Gardner, 32, by accessing the website miles of a VA medical facility, but of San Francisco, Calif. govtrack.us and search by Bill are currently waiting longer than The crew of the B-24D Liberator number or subject. Politicians 30 days for VA care will begin re- was on a mission out of Nazdab must hear from us to take the Air Field in New Guinea to attack correct action! Ex-POW Bulletin an anti-aircraft site at Hansa Bay Jan/Feb 2015 on April 10, 1944, when the air- 12 craft was shot down by enemy andersonville National Historic Sites in 1998. From 2006 to 2009 Alan was em- ployed by the Department of the Air Force where he served as the wing historian for the 116th Air Control Wing (JSTARS). He deployed to southwest Asia with the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, a diverse wing providing airpower and support of Opera- We not only thank Alan for his tion Enduring Freedom, Opera- years of dedication and commit- tion Iraqi Freedom and the Com- ment to the NPS but we also thank bined Joint Task Force Horn of him for his friendship. We wish Andersonville NHS Africa. Alan returned to him and his family the very best Andersonville as Chief of Re- in this new chapter of their lives! 496 Cemetery Road source Management in 2009. Andersonville, GA 31711 For anyone wishing to keep in touch with Alan, he can be reached (229) 924-0343 During his NPS career Alan has at:[email protected] also served as Acting Superinten- dent at Horseshoe Bend National Chief of Resource Military Park and Moores Creek Living History National Battlefield. He is also The parks holds several Living Management Alan Marsh currently a member of the South- History Weekends throughout east Cultural Resource Advisory Retires the year. During these events, liv- Council (SECRAC). ing historians, re-enactors, and park rangers will help visitors Alan’s many accomplishments understand the lives of Union and include development and plan- Confederate soldiers as well as ning of the Ocmulgee Indian Fes- civilians near the end of the Civil tival for which he was nominated War at the actual site of the infa- by the park for the Freeman mous prison. Tilden award, development of the Jimmy Carter boyhood farm, and Throughout the day, the staff and development of the National Pris- volunteers at Andersonville Na- oner of War Museum tional Historic Site will lead visi- (Andersonville). He has also been tors through the events which instrumental in the development took place every day within the and growth of an oral history Andersonville prison (Camp program at Andersonville that Sumter) as well within the Con- now includes over 1,000 inter- federate camps and offices. views with former prisoners of war. Alan Marsh, Andersonville’s The living historians will explain Chief of Resource Management the activities and challenges that retired in mid-December. Alan the soldiers from both sides has twenty-nine years of service faced daily: with the federal government. He How did these men endure the many began his career with the Na- hardships they confronted daily? Were tional Park Service at Ocmulgee these men any different than the normal National Monument as a Park soldier in the field? What was the reac- Ranger and later acquired his law tion of the young boys and old men as- enforcement commission. In signed to the operation of the over- 1992 he transferred to crowded prison? Andersonville National Historic March 14-15, 2015 Site as Supervisory Park Ranger Alan with longtime AXPOW and became the Cultural Re- Ex-POW Bulletin volunteer Gerry Smith of New source Specialist for both Hampshire speaking with students Jan/Feb 2014 Andersonville and Jimmy Carter 13 cells, enjoying fresh air and the lation and laws into an emotional namPOWs freedom to go anywhere and do rollercoaster such that a cool, anything made repatriation a dispassionate, objective look at heady, almost giddy experience. a controversial issue always Everything – everything – seemed came in dead last behind in- to live up to the eagerly antici- flamed passions. pated perception we’d created in our minds. Everything seemed Raw emotion, not fact, divided possible. the country about the war in Viet- nam so that it was still being And then reality hit. fought in the election of 2004. Divisive emotions convinced Paul E. Galanti Despite a disproportionate num- enough people that they’re owed 804.389.1668 (cell) ber of our band becoming gen- something by the rest of us (for [email protected] eral and flag officers, Senators basically doing nothing) that the and Representatives, Mayors and “Gimme” generation rules in poli- Presidential Candidates, every- tics. Homecoming plus 42 – thing wasn’t perfect, after all. Having already learned that we It turns out that until people are keeping things in weren’t invincible – as many 20- faced with horrible alternatives, perspective somethings think - it still came they have nothing from which to as a shock to see the changes that draw a meaningful comparison. had ensued. I’m not going into The term “hunger” connotes I suppose it’s not a milestone as all the major changes but suffice something different to, say, a such things go. 42 is just a num- it to say that our entire country New Yorker who missed a meal ber. Its anniversary stone is the had changed mightily. We were than it does to a recently released Amethyst which doesn’t slide as welcomed home but… Our mili- 6’ tall, 100 lb. former POW! Simi- easily off the tongue as its more tary profession was no longer the larly, those who fought and sac- famous anniversary-markers, most respected profession in the rificed for this nation see red (as gold or silver. country. The federal government in rage) when those who have which had consisted of, basically, done nothing, who haven’t But there are 591 former Vietnam the State Department, the De- served, who haven’t actually done War POWs who were released 42 fense Department and the U.S. anything complain about the ter- years ago during Operation Post Office and a handful of bu- rible state of affairs in this coun- Homecoming in the winter of reaucracies had been trans- try. 1973 – more than half held for formed into an intractable mono- longer than five years. Many were lith. When LTJG Everett Alvarez, Put in perspective, the years have held under truly brutal condi- the first aviator captured in gone by too quickly. Many who tions - among the worst ever suf- North Vietnam, was shot down came home with us are no longer fered in American history. And during the Gulf of Tonkin crisis here. But the ones I know best like the POWs of earlier wars, they in August 1964, the Defense still get along well with each were ecstatic about their re-dis- Department’s budget was nearly other. We have a great time at our covered freedom and much more half of the government’s total! reunions. And we won’t be dis- appreciative of things they’d pre- tracted by those who badmouth viously taken for granted. A I suppose it was television that our administration or way of do- simple hamburger engendered made it happen. Television ing things without offering a much more pleasure than it did helped to dumb down our entire positive course of change. before six, seven or eight years of nation creating a flock of useful 700 calories/day’s worth of idiots whose miniscule knowl- And, at that reunion for a few pumpkin soup and rice. edge about any particular prob- brief moments, we will return to lem was no barrier to their dis- those great post-release days, 42 Just walking outside – just being coursing at length on a solution. years ago, when there truly is not able to walk outside - and seeing Or even campaigning on that is- a bad day when there’s a door- vistas unimagined in 7’ x 7’ black sue without fear of informed knob on the inside of the door. opposition. Ex-POW Bulletin Television was such a great gen- PaulPaulPaul Jan/Feb 2015 erator of emotion that it helped 14 take our entire system of legis- breakfast and one for dinner pow-mia civilians each day. That was it.

We traded a small can of “old” mustard powder for a big bunch of Talinum.(Sort of like a pig weed/spinach which individuals grew if we had some dirt)

My mother cooked and mashed the taro and added the corned beef to make “hamburger patties.” JVC Alice Gollin, Chair She cooked them on a tin sheet PNC John Edwards with Mabeline face cream for oil. Chairman Christmas Menu Lunch– She made a salad out of the gar- 889 Randall Road STIC – 1944 – lic and Talinum. Niskayuna, NY 12309 (518) 393-3907 phone/fax We were allowed to go to early A small amount of taro was morning mass. We followed the mixed with the lugao and the drained pineapple chunks for des- USS Oklahoma priests to the dimly lit part of the museum which was in the Main sert” muffins.” Before serving she Exhumed Remains building. We carried our tin cans spooned the juice over the muf- On Nov. 13, 2014, Sen. Chris with us so to be ready to go to fins. It was incredible! Murphy of Connecticut prodded the chow line after mass. On top Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel of the stuffed water buffalo, the Before my mother cooked lunch for specifics on when and how priest layed out the holy water, a she made me take Dodie and Bud, the exhumed remains of sailors cloth and crucifix. He was only my sister and brother, for a walk. who died on the USS Oklahoma dressed in a tattered pair of They didn’t want the kids to see in 1941 would be returned to shorts held up by a frayed rope. my dad cutting up their crudely their families. His feet - bare. He was emaciated made rocking horse for firewood. Sen. Murphy and 14 other sena- like the rest of us. His short ser- tors had written the Pentagon mon was praying for liberation That night the kitchen line served eight months ago requesting that and compared this Christmas us REAL rice mixed with a bunch the remains of 22 sailors from with the stable scene in of camotes. (sweet potato) Two the Oklahoma be returned to Bethlehem where animals sur- scoops for each. We finally went their families, who had asked for rounded the Holy family. WE to bed with full stomachs, which them. The sailors were among agreed as we looked at the stuffed was too good to be true. more than 400 who died when the animals of buffalo, snakes, wild Oklahoma was torpedoed and pigs etc. MASARAP! Sascha Jansen capsized during the Dec. 7, 1941 surprise attack by Japan. Later that day, our last Christmas BACEPOW meal in Santo Tomas was a co- Bay Area Civilian Ex- lossal hit. Our immediate family Prisoners of War. of five invited my dad’s brother “Keeping the Promise”, “Fulfill Membership is open to all their Trust” and “No one left and his family of four. The nine behind” are several of many of us were delighted to celebrate former prisoners mottos that refer to the ef- together. of the Japanese, their forts of the Department of De- families, and friends. fense to recover those who be- We had on hand for nine people: There is an active 2 garlic buds came missing while serving descendents group. our nation. The number of 1 can of corned beef (our last Americans who remain miss- Kit one) www.bacepow.net ing from conflicts in this cen- 1 small can of pineapple (our Commander, Angus tury are: World War II last Kit one) Lorenzen (73,000+), Korean War (7,921) 1 taro root (from our Elephant Cold War (126), Vietnam War Ear plant) Ex-POW Bulletin (1,642), 1991 Gulf War (0), and 1 scoop Lugao (watery rice gruel Jan/Feb 2015 OEF/OIF (6). which we received one ladle for 15 me all his letters and papers and I have been trying to piece things together. I have recently made contact with Laura Caplan who has sent me events a copy of the book she published about her father Dr Leslie Caplan, Jan. 30 - Feb.11, 2015. Manila and I briefly made contact with Joe Liberation 1945. We are on our O’Donnell earlier this summer as I way again with Philippine Airlines would love to read the parts of’ The – Rajah Tours International, and Shoe Leather Express’ that touch on yours truly, Sascha Jansen and twice & sent back out prior to the the places my father would have friends. MABUHAY! See you in last battle where he was captured. been. Sadly it’s out of print in the UK. My information is: Susan Morley Manila! For information, contact We are trying to get info on how he (nee Pollock) The Oast House, Hearts Sascha at [email protected]. got his Bronze Star; we know he saved 2 of his men from a halftrack Delight Lane, Wingham, near Canter- right before it exploded. His real bury, Kent CT3 1EP, U.K. name was Bryan Liverar, but all ser- looking vice records were Liverall because My father L. A. Oakes, Jr. was a POW initial entry clerk spelled in wrong & of Japan during WWII. Captured on that really bugged him. He had his Philippines. Needless to say he spent for name corrected after the war was almost the entire war as a POW, but over. In the picture, he is the first one came home safe and sound. Before I am trying to get any info I can on on the left in the front row. Any help he passed away in 2009 we had my dad Bryan D Liverall. The info you can give me with me so appreci- many chats about his experiences we have is he was shot in September ated, he didn’t start talking about and he even wrote a small book. But 1944, leg amputated in German field any of this until he was 85 years old he is not my problem. SGT. W. A. hospital, then sent to Allied hospi- & died soon after. My name is Sharon McArthur or SGT. W. A. McAuthur tal in Nance, France by germans then Davis; telephone # 636-586-3447. is. From what I understood from dad, sent to Nurnberg-Langwasser Stalag when they were released to Ameri- 13D maybe Oflag 73 area with 15 Trying to trace anyone who knew my can custody, many prisoners just other US, English, French & Russian father Dr Robert Pollock who started laying stuff they had down officers. He was sent to Switzerland treated American POWs on the and leaving it. Well, the only thing for POW exchange. I have a photo of forced march from Stalag Luft 1V to dad picked up someone left was a him & 12 other soldiers & on the Stalag X1B from Feb to March 1945. New Testament. The New Testament back some of them signed the photo My father was at both Stalag Luft V1 is from the POCKET TESTAMENT & Dad wrote “me & the boys in Ger- and 1V where he was Chief Medical LEAGUE with a membership card many as a prisoner of war Jan 15, Officer for the British. Unbeknown stuck on the inside front cover. The 1945, so I am assuming this was to any of the family he placed an ad- name is SGT. W. A. McArthur, or taken in Switzerland before leaving vertisement in the EX-POW Bulletin McAuthur. Really hard to tell if the for US on a Swedish ship. Back in of March 1993 asking to hear from fourth letter is a r or a u. On the ad- states went to Holland general hos- th POWs he treated during the 602 mile, dress line it looks like: Co. C. 118 pital for more amputation & then 87 day forced march. Amongst his M G. Brigade. What I am taking for a later to Mcclosky General Hospital papers I found two replies. One from “G” might be a “P” or a “Q”. Anyway, in temple Texas where fitted with an Ernest L Smith, of Wichita Kansas, there is no doubt it came back from wooden leg & did therapy. He was who wrote to my father to remind Japan. So he must have been a POW from a small town in Missouri, Luckey him that he had saved his life by per- at some point. outside of Desoto, MO. He did ba- forming an emergency tracheotomy I know this is little to go on and I sic at Ft. Knox, KY & AIT at Pine when he had diptheria at Stalag Luft might be staring down another blind Camp, NY where he earned tech 5 1V. I made contact with him recently alley. Anyway, do you have any ideas CPL rank. then shipped to and we have been corresponding. The how I might could find out where he Chippenham, England where trained other man was a Kenneth H Smith was from and who his family is. I’m troops in armored vehicles; told us from Kountze, Texas who remem- sure they would like to have the New his halftrack was favorite vehicle to bered my father on the march. I did Testament back. Thanks for any help drive. Dec 1943 shipped to try to make contact with him but or recommendations you could give. Strasbourg, Germany joined with heard nothing. 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Submit to: David Claypool, Chairman PO Box 38 Ex-POW Bulletin Hampton MN 55031 Jan/Feb 2015 (612) 245-2247 [email protected] 19 legal requirements for “place of uni- Confederate troops at Ft. Donelson, When it Rains it Pours: versal interest” to include open- TN, the POW issue became instantly ended stables for horses, stalls and severe; more than half needed emer- Camp Morton sheds for cattle, sheep and hogs, an gency medical care which was given by Alice A. Booher exhibition hall for machinery, animals at the Camp, annexes, a gym, post and produce, a dining hall and two- office and a few private homes, During mid-19th Century, Indianapo- story office building. mostly by civilian volunteers. Less lis was an important center of com- than a year later Camp Morton would merce mostly due to the railroads. When war broke out at Ft. Sumter, have 5,000 POWs, and soon 1,000 On February 12, 1861, Abraham SC on April 12, 1861, President Lin- from the First Battle of Shiloh, mostly Lincoln’s celebratory train stopped coln called for 75,000 troops. The enlisted. By war’s end, Indianapolis there on his way to his inauguration; State of Indiana’s Republican Gov- would have built 24 war installations a much sadder train would stop ernor Oliver P. (Hazard Perry Throck) around the city. there going the opposite direction Morton2, a strong Union man, cabled after his death in April 1865. Be- his close ally Lincoln on the 15th that Early on, few POWs were sent to In- tween those train trips, in April 1861, he had already raised 10,000 (and dianapolis, and while no one knew Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC fell, af- later more) troops and was finding a what to do with them, it was not of ter which many things changed for site to train them. Morton asked his great concern since it was not felt Indianapolis, including at a small par- newly tapped adjutant general Lew the war would last long. POWs would cel of land dubbed Camp Morton. Wallace (lawyer, later author of Ben report to HQ daily, but if they had During the 1861-1865 period, that Hur) to survey; he reported the State money, they could live in a hotel; if site would develop a remarkably di- Fair Grounds was the only suitable not, they could get jobs to earn verse legend ranging from excellent site. Union troops arrived immedi- funds. Doctors worked together on to atrocious. Some problems were ately, refitting construction was fran- care while the community gave cloth- due to the relentless heat of Indiana tic and some new structures relied ing, bedding, jelly, fresh baked summers versus the frigidity of Indi- on green lumber. A Ladies Patriotic bread. Mrs. Morton’s group was as ana winters; other disasters were sim- Association was formed by Gover- generous with the Confederate ply and unequivocally man-made, nor Morton’s wife, Lucinda Burbank POWs as it had been with the Union and there was plenty of blame to go Morton3, who presided with a gener- troops that preceded them. While pro- around for that. ous heart and an iron hand, prepar- Union and occasionally violently so, ing clothing, sheets, pillows, towels, Indiana had many Southern support- According to aggregate recounting blankets. Appeals to the community ers (some areas on the Ohio River of contemporaneous history1 , Samuel yielded warm clothing, and staples voted to join the Confederacy) mak- Henderson, the first mayor of India- to supplement a limited source of ing some of Mrs. Morton’s volunteers napolis, owned a 36 acres tract, Otis’ supplies and food. The soldiers com- nervous lest they be misconstrued as Grove, on the then outskirts of town plained about the food all summer, being sympathizers. [the area bounded by Talbott and but with the coming of autumn 1861, Central Avenues, and 19th and 22nd the U.S. Government took over sub- Preparations to turn the fledgling Streets.]. The “Grove” consisted of sistence, and soldiers more fondly fairgrounds-training center into a elevated lush ground hosting black recalled prior fare. working POW camp were furious and walnut and oak trees, verdant with fast. Early relatively hardy POWs ar- four springs, perfect for day-outings. Circumstances of war brought a POW rived by rail, were greeted and es- On one corner of the property was a influx in three general groups: politi- corted to camp by townspeople. As swampy area, very dry in summer, but cal prisoners whose allegiance was war progressed, arriving POWs be- prone to flooding in the spring-thaw, questioned (later spies and sundry came more famished, exhausted, ill, thanks to a pesky tributary of the others), officers, and enlisted or non- wounded and hospitality was less larger Fall Creek before it meets the commissioned chummy. However, if the situation White River. In 1837, the State officers, each was not all positive, by all accounts, stepped in - spent money to widen, of which did at least for the first two years, Camp deepen and dredge the creek, called better when Morton was probably better than it “State Ditch” (later dubbed “The held separately. most other POW camps. The Indiana Potomac” by Confederate POWS), The U.S. Govern- cold descended hard on the South- designated it a “place of universal ment asked Gov. ern POWS; they were unfamiliar with interest”, and in 1859, took posses- Morton how the food and became ill. Some of- sion of the land and christened it many POWs he ficers had “colored” servants with “The State Fair Grounds”. Construc- could take; them; that raised all sorts of prob- tion was initiated to discharge the Morton said lems, so the Governor told them to 3,000 - so they leave if they wished, but if they Ex-POW Bulletin quickly sent him stayed, they would be under military Jan/Feb 2015 3,700. With the control. Quite a few stayed and be- surrender of came orderlies in hospital facilities. 20 some 16,000 The enlisted POWs were young, pri- guards, new raw field Camp Morton, cont’d... troops to find and train, had to get a new comman- marily small farmers or squatters; few dant in place, and then the had uniforms and all had lost extra U.S. Government issued a clothing or coats at surrender. new set of POW rules. He obtained new, young, un- Gov. Morton was having trouble keep- Morton undertook some interesting trained, undisciplined, and unskilled ing his political act together after initiatives including baking their own troops, and was given no choice but 1862, and participated in some cre- bread and selling what remained, to enforce the new rules. As Com- ative activities to control dissent, setting aside the money in a Fund to mandant, Morton picked David Gar- Southern sympathizers and the buy things from sutlers like blankets land Rose, U.S. Marshall for Indiana Democrats (who withdrew their en- and bacon. Other resources were for a year. Rigid and colder in tem- tire ticket and when Union men generated for that Fund for odd item perament, it would be said of Rose searched the departing train, purchases. Camp Morton had its share that he certainly was “no Owen”. dumped their personal weapons in of serious problems ranging from Thereafter, POWs (and often others) the creek, earning the name The Battle mail to discipline but Owen tem- blamed Rose as the source, real or of Pogue’s Run). He also had a lot pered the harshness and isolation by imagined, of much that went wrong on his POW-plate, from finding guards introduction of books, recreational at Camp Morton including rumors, to rule making and supplementing opportunities, music; Mrs. Morton’s unrest, incidents, attempted escapes limited Federal supplies. His best volunteers were able to supply many and Fund mismanagement. decision may have been appointment staples that could not be obtained 4 of COL Richard Owen as comman- elsewhere. Morton would have liked to (and dant. Strong, smart, experienced, dis- might have been permitted to) redis- ciplined, in the early months of the In May 1862, war was raging and tak- tribute some of his POWs to other POW camp he was genuinely admired ing an inordinate toll and Gov. Morton Midwestern camps had not the spec- as a skillful leader. Owen was needed Owen to return to active Yan- ter of prisoner exchanges raised its quoted in the Indianapolis Sentinel kee soldierly field duties along with many heads. On one hand, morale of April 17, 1862, as saying that his his men. The Confederate POWs were problems within the POWs were mini- aim was to treat the POWS in a way so apprehensive at Owen’s departure mized by the rumors of exchanges, “calculated to make them less rest- that they did something quite re- but even after signing the documents less in their confinement, and likely, markable: they petitioned the Gover- on July 22, 1862, for myriad reasons, when they returned to their homes, nor to keep the regiment at command things did not go smoothly. One to spread among their friends and at the camp, and Owen in charge, in unique circumstance that had to be acquaintances the news that they exchange for which they effectively addressed was what happened if a had been deceived regarding north- promised to be “good” (e.g., follow POW did not want to be exchanged. ern men”; he apparently meant what rules, etc.) for the duration. Morton Commandant Owen had earlier writ- he said. To supplement the new rules had no choice to decline but their ten via channels to Secretary of War for all camps, Owen set up collat- petition was duly noted. Ironically, Stanton that at least 2/3rds of the men eral Rules for Camp Morton, which Owen and his men went into KY taken in TN “would regret any cir- were of sufficient excellence that where at Munfordville, he was cap- cumstances which induced or com- they were later adopted for all tured along with part of his regiment. pelled them again to take up arms Northern POW camps. During Owen’s Owen’s earlier generosity to the Ft. against the Union”. Discussions be- tenure, only 13 of the 4,200 POWs Donelson POWs was repaid by gan as to how to administer the oath tried to escape; there was some dys- former POW General Buckner, himself of allegiance to those POWs at Camp entery, typhoid fever and pneumonia, also now back Morton. In the meantime, most of TN but otherwise no widespread dis- in service, who was in the hands of the Union any- ease problems. thanked Owen way under Andrew Johnson as mili- and returned his tary governor. Johnson’s plan to in- With POW complaints about food and sidearms; Owen terview all TN POWS in Northern expense being considerable, Camp and his men camps, who asked to swear alle- were greeted giance to the Union, was greeted with with friendli- turmoil and some violence on both ness by their sides in Camp Morton. Within a short former prison- time, some 300 had taken the oath ers, now their and left Indianapolis for Nashville, captors. 5 6 months after their arrival. All sorts

They say bad Ex-POW Bulletin things come in threes, and if so, June Jan/Feb 2015 1862 must have been a nightmare for Gov. Morton; he had a new batch of 21 erate General John Hunt Morgan’s The State Fair returned to the site Camp Morton, cont’d... horsemen raided Southern Indiana by 1868 (and remained there until and supposedly planned to burn In- 1891) when businessmen bought the of scenarios were instituted for the dianapolis and release the POWs at site. A new state fairgrounds was Camp Morton exchanges to include Camp Morton, but he never made it situated on Fall Creek Parkway where rosters (and charts showing tables of that far. However 1,100 of his cap- it remains today. In the meantime, equivalents for numbers of officers tured men were brought to Camp developers built streets and did ma- to be exchanged for privates or com- Morton, and more arrived shortly jor work on the drainage situation, mon seamen), organizing transport, thereafter, raising the POW level to turning it into an upscale residen- return of monies and weapons, etc. 3,000 by August 1863 when fortu- tial district called Morton Place. Af- nately for the camp, more than 1,000 ter 1890, Herron-Morton place be- were transferred to Camp Douglas. came more famous as President Ben- This period was filled with escapes jamin Harrison’s home neighborhood. and widespread unrest, made toxic In 1962, the Indiana Civil War Cen- by rewards to informers and several tennial Comm. placed a state histori- changes of commandants as troops cal Camp Morton marker at 19th and and their leaders were needed in the N. Alabama. field. The estimated 1,700 POWs who died On October 22, 1863, COL Ambrose at Camp Morton (1862-1865) were Stevens became commandant, when buried in wooden coffins in trenches the Camp had 2,362 POWs and a on lots purchased at Indianapolis’ mortality rate of more than 12.45%. City Cemetery, later expanded and By September 1, 1862, a damaged, Supplies such as food and clothing renamed Greenlawn. Original filthy Camp Morton was cleared of were relatively ample, but buildings gravesites had wooden headboards Rebel POWs and clean- up com- were falling down, discipline was with painted ID numbers. Some POWs menced, but before much could be poor, and the creek exhibited its old were exhumed and returned to their accomplished, Indiana troops again habit of bad drainage. The 1863-4 families, but 1,616 Confederate required training spots and Indiana Indiana Winter went to 20 degrees POWs remained at Greenlawn, where volunteers, captured at Richmond below zero and the place became “a a fire in 1866 destroyed remaining and then sent home on parole, death trap”, averaging three deaths records. Remarkably, this was not needed accommodations. Paroled a day. As year ended, more Confed- the end of it. Northern POWs were supposed to be erate POWs arrived from Chatta- housed at Annapolis and Camp nooga, a military prison was finished, In the 1870’s, urban development led Chase but Governor Morton inter- and escape attempts continued. By to reburial of the POWs remains to vened to try to help their circum- July 1864, POWs numbered 4,999 an unmarked mass grave at stances and get his own men back. and the summer heat precipitated Greenlawn. According to the National This proved the adage that one must more illness. The ever-present water Park Service, until the 20th Century, be careful what one wishes for, be- problems, including Fall Creek, national cemeteries were built only cause by the end of September, 3,000 which exuded limestone, exacer- for Union soldiers and thus not avail- troops were back at Camp Morton, bated malaria and diarrhea. The hos- able for these POWs. 8 The exact site albeit the place was still much of a pital added a ward but barracks was later located for the U.S. gov- used-up mess with few provisions were decrepit. In the couple of ernment by COL William Elliott in available through the U.S. Government months prior to war’s end in April 1906. A monument, erected in 1918 for parolees. Within the basic premise 1865, 2,600 POWs left as part of a to honor those 1,616 POWs, many of that they render no duty which would prisoner exchange. By June 1st, the whom died at City Hospital, was free troops for active service, none- last 308 POWs were set free along moved to Garfield Park in 1928. 9 theless they guarded, policed, repair with 7 Union “deserters” (captured Camp Morton itself blended into his- barracks, drilled and morale slightly by the Confederates, took the oath tory; PS 45 students and teachers improved in Indianapolis. of Southern allegiance as POWs, were erected 10 a stone marker at the site. recaptured and re-incarcerated a The remains in the mass grave were By 1863, COL James Biddle became Camp Morton as traitors) 6and 40 incrementally moved to Crown Hill Commandant. His own regiment had assorted other prisoners. 7 by1933. Later, a 2-year project to been captured at Muldraugh Hill, KY, identify these veterans was led by paroled in the field, and had been Two months after the war ended, two Indianapolis police officers living at Camp Morton awaiting POW property that remained was sold at Steve Staletovich, Wayne Sharp and exchange. New POWs arrived and public auction. Buildings were the Crown Hill Society, a result of soon left, and others arrived. Confed- cleared by August, Indianapolis al- which, 10 bronze plaques mounted Ex-POW Bulletin located rehabilitation money, and on granite bases were placed at the the State Board of Agriculture re- site. The area was rededicated in Jan/Feb 2015 ceived some money from the U.S. 1993 in a ceremony that included 22 Government for property damages. Camp Morton, cont’d... holds some other remarkable Yankee POW remains. John H. King, a PVT in 2 Morton is one of the fascinating men of the 9th IND Vol. Cavalry, was captured his era. Born in 1823, he was a hatter’s representatives during his first encounter with the apprentice, attended Miami Univ., stud- ied law and sat on the bench. A Demo- enemy, sent to Andersonville POW (and Rebel dirt crat who switched to Republican in 1854, which was Prison where he nearly died; then sent as Lt. Gov. he assumed the gubernatorial comingled with home on the steamboat Sultana fol- spot in 1861 and was elected thereto in Hoosier soil) lowing release (a ship which ex- 1864. According to the National Gover- from 14 former ploded and killed and scalded nors Association, when Pres. Lincoln Confederate 1,200 soldiers); Ivan Walker, who es- asked for troops in April 1861, the Indi- states and terri- caped Libby Prison (Richmond, VA); ana legislature was sluggish to fully re- tories. Each Abel Streight, who planned and ex- spond, and Morton raised the money himself to equip and pay some 6,000 sol- year, Civil War ecuted the Libby Prison escape for diers. See http://www.nga.org/cms/ reenactors still 100 POWs. home/governors/past-governors-bios/ honor these vet- page_indiana. He apparently was a man erans with a ceremony held in front who generated strong opinions; his pur- of the “Confederate Mound”. 11 ported idiosyncratic political and personal behavior is well documented. These veterans now share an adja- 3 cent resting place with many other Lucinda, daughter of Isaac and Mary B. Civil War participants: numerous gen- Tozel Burbank, married Oliver P. Morton May 15, 1845; they would have at least erals; Dr. Samuel Fahnestock, a Chris- three children. By all accounts, she was tian Commission volunteer who went caring, smart, forgiving, tenacious, intui- to Louisiana during the Civil War to tive and intense; her brother John A. treat liberated slaves and was killed Burbank, a mercantile businessman, af- there; Medal of Honor winner (Mis- ter the Civil War moved to NE, became sionary Ridge, TN), Charles W. Brouse; 4th Territorial Governor of the Dakota and Catherine Merrill, a nurse who treated later Governor of WY after which he re- Confederate POWs; Dr. William Indiana lost about 700 men during turned to Indiana . See http:// dantate.featuredblog.com on The Isaac Wishard, Supt. of City Hospital, re- the war. Indianapolis’ most historic Burbank Family of Centerville, IN. sponsible for untold Union soldiers landmark, the Soldiers and Sailors Lucinda is also buried at Crown Hill sent home for care from field hospi- Monument in the center of town, was Cemetery tals; Edward Black, a drummer boy erected primarily in honor of Civil . at about age 10; Richard Gatling, in- War (and later other) veterans; it was 4 Born in Scotland in 1810, Owen was well ventor of the gun; Daniel Prunk, em- debated from 1888 and finally dedi- (European) educated and moved to IN in balmer and later doctor. cated in 1901. One final irony per- 1827 at age 17. He fought in the Mexi- haps is that with all the gravesite can War and with his brother, surveyed A special area was dedicated for all moving over the years, the now phan- the NW Territory, and became Chair of the Natural Science Dept., U.S. Military tom site of Camp Morton, through veterans on Memorial Day 1988 and Academy at West Point for 9 years, then has expanded since then, with veter- which an estimated 9,000 POWs returned as IN State Geologist. After the ans of all periods of service buried would pass during the Civil War, is War, Owen became a professor at Indi- (e.g., Hezekiah Smith and Elder John only about a mile from the eternal ana Univ. for 15 years and did a number Morrow from the American Revo- final resting place for the 1,616 of surveys (NC, AZ, and NM); Owen Hall lution; some from Indian Wars; POWs at the serene lush Crown Hill at IU is named for him. In 1872, he be- and Henry Clay Conner, USAAF in Cemetery which is close enough to came the first President of Purdue Univ. Fall Creek to perhaps hear the water then returned to IU. He died of acciden- WWII, defender of Bataan, evaded tal poisoning in March 1890, and is bur- whisper on a quiet day. capture and organized guerilla ied in Crown Hill Cemetery. See force in the west of Clark Field; www.in.gov/idoa/1783.htm (Endnotes) . and many from Korea, Vietnam 1 A book used extensively herein 5 In a final tribute from the Confederate and recent conflicts). Crown Hill originated with a high school student Cemetery including the Confed- POWS, a bust to Col Owen sits on a paper in 1932. The Manual Training HS marble pedestal, main floor, State House. erate Plot and the nearby Crown social studies chair, Dr. Joseph Moore The tribute was to be a plaque, but do- Hill National Cemetery that was and Mrs. Hattie Lou Winslow of the nations were so generous that a bronze established for Union dead, was Shortridge HS social studies department bust was substituted. Designed by the and Butler University, extended the study listed on the National Register for daughter of a Confederate soldier, the and published it in Historic Places in February 1973. 12 inscription is: “Colonel Richard Owen, 1940 as Vol. 13, #3 of the Indiana His- Commandant, Camp Morton 1862, Tribute torical Society (IHS) Publications, under Crown Hill Cemetery, one of the larg- the name Camp Morton 1861-1865: India- Ex-POW Bulletin est in the country at 555 acres, and napolis Prison Camp. IHS Jan/Feb 2015 incorporated in September 1863 as reprinted it in a hardback edition in a nondenominational facility, also 1995. 23 Camp Morton, cont’d... TN, Confederate Veteran (1898); Den of had been located. Ignored in the neigh- Misery by James R. Hall. W&M is prob- borhood, I remember them in mid 1940- by Confederate prisoners of war and their ably the best for most including argu- 50’s in front of a family home in the 2100 friends for his courtesy and kindness”. ments between Dr. John S. Wyeth and the block of N. New Jersey Indiana GAR re: conditions and POW 11 See Book I Confederate Burials in Crown 6 See the 150th Anniversary history by treatment (1863-5). Many of the argu- Hill Cemetery, Marion County, Indiana Wissing et al, Crown Hill: History, Spirit, ments are directed at a few overly enthu- (1998), and Book II, Crown Hill National Sanctuary, a beautiful coffee table book siastic guards. Cemetery, (2002) by the Genealogical So- by the Indiana Historical Society Press ( ciety of Marion County, available from 8 Indianapolis, 2013), available through the http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ the Crown Hill Main office. The books Crown Hill Cemetery Heritage Founda- national_cemeteries/Indiana/ includes a history of the cemetery includ- tion. (e.g., PVT Robert Gay, a 27-year-old Crown_Hill_Confederate_Plot.html ing reprints of numerous news articles, schoolteacher, had taken the Confeder- . and the first and last name of each sol- 9 ate oath as a POW, was returned to Indi- The weathered and worn white granite dier, their rank, military unit/date of ana, convicted of treason and shot be- memorial remains at GarfieldPark. With death and origin state. See also Wayne L. side his newly dug grave at Burnside Bar- the help of historians, the local chapter Sanford’s Memories of the Past: A Tour of racks just south of Camp Morton. It was of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led Crown Hill Cemetery, Recalling nearly 200 the “first and only military execution in by African American Army veteran Brian Years of Indianapolis and Marion County the West during the war; many other sol- Blevins, with relatives on both sides of History, (1996) published by Crown Hill ders with similar stories were pardoned the Civil War, has a project to focus on Cemetery for the same offense”. Three bounty the POW camp and restore the 102 year jumpers were executed the following old monument according to The India- Thanks also for onsite cooperation from year at Burnside Barracks. There was also napolis Star Marianne Randjelovic, Vice President of a large number of Union dead buried in- Development, Crown Hill Heritage Foun- cluding at the national cemetery portion , July 12, 2014, which reports that the dation, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organiza- of Crown Hill, making “rest in peace” a names on the plaques include 24 black tion. “fluid concept”; in the first public notice soldiers, and others such as the name of 12 of the cemetery in the Indiana State Sen- William Blythe, a great- Similar special areas exist for veterans’ tinel, Oct. 22, 1863, Crown Hill used per- great grandfather of Pres. William J. burial in many public and private cem- manence as a sales tool. Clinton. eteries nationwide; these are overseen by the National Cemetery Administration of 10 th 7 The details of specific events are found This was at Alabama and 19 Sts. the Department of Veterans Affairs, Re: in W&M and in a few contemporary books Someone also laid small rectangular low Sec. 32, Lot 285 of Crown Hill, See also and newspaper articles by former POWs brass “”Site of Camp Morton” markers in http://www.cem.va/gov/cems/lots/ and others. e.g., Vol. VI, #12, Nashville, the grassy strip between the sides of the crownhill.asp north-south streets in the area where it . National Convention 2014 TOURS

1. Dealey Plaza , the area where President John F. Kennedy was shot. There is a memorial to him and it is right across from the infamous Grassy Knoll.

2. 6th Floor Museum in the former Texas Schoolbook Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald hid out. The Museum chronicles the assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy; interprets the Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark District and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza ; and presents contemporary culture within the context of presidential history.

3. Dallas Holocaust Museum across the street. The permanent exhibit gives visitors a view of the Holocaust by focusing on one day during the Holocaust—April 19, 1943. On this day three important and very different events happened: The 20th Deportation Train from Belgium was attacked by partisans; The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began; The Bermuda Conference met. These events illustrate wartime heroism, Jewish resistance against all odds, and government and diplomatic indifference to the fate of Europe’s Jews. The exhibit also highlights the first European box car brought to the US . This car was likely used to transport Jews to concentration or extermination camps.

Total cost is $40, including transportation and admission into all three historical sites. Register on the Convention Registration page. Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 24 Three years later — after losing his Dunbar and his platoon were among WWII veteran recalls brother, Joseph, a Navy commander 7,000 soldiers from the 106th Division whose ship was sunk while chas- who “went into German captivity and ‘men we left behind’ ing German submarines off the would spend the duration of the war By KEITH ROGERS coast of Italy — Dunbar found him- in a series of POW camps,” according [email protected] self in the Battle of the Bulge as to the division’s website. ©LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL captain of a communications platoon in the 106th “Golden Lion” Di- He was among 185 officers who were vision. herded into boxcars and hauled by Former Prisoner-Of-War Alan Dunbar, train to Oflag 64 near Schubin, Poland. It was the snowy winter of Decem- 96, holds his World War II photograph at ber 1944 and they had dug fox- That’s where he met “the man who his Las Vegas home Sept. 16, 2014. (Keith holes in the pine forest along the saved my life,” Lt. Col. John K. Waters, Rogers/Las Vegas Review-Journal) border of Belgium and Germany. the son-in-law of Gen. George S. Patton, Dunbar’s unit, which was part of who had been captured in Tunisia in the 422nd Infantry 1943 and was in charge of the camp’s Regiment, was po- 1,500 officer POWs, mostly from the sitioned near the North Africa campaign. German towns of Auw and With the war in Europe at a turning Schlausenbach. point, Russian forces were bearing down on Nazi-occupied Poland. On the morning of “When the Russians made their ad- Dec. 16, thousands vance, the German commander de- of German artillery cided they were going to evacuate the pieces started camp,” Dunbar said. pounding the area. The Germans’ plan was to march the “What would fol- American prisoners back to Germany. low in the next few days would be- “It was in the dead of winter. My boots, At age 96, Alan Dunbar admits that come known as the largest defeat I just about couldn’t get them on be- his World War II experience as a of the U.S. Army in World War II,” cause my leg was swollen. My feet wounded American soldier in Ger- according to the 106th Division’s were swollen,” he said. “So the Germans man prison camps made him “as sen- website. “Over the next three days, told me that since I couldn’t walk they timental as the next guy.” the 422nd and 423rd Regiments were going to leave me by the side of became completely cut off from That’s why on National POW/MIA the road.” the rest of the division.” Recognition Day today, he said he But Waters confronted the German will be thinking about “the men we guards. Memories of what happened Dec. left behind. The men who were killed. 19, 1944, still burn in Dunbar’s The men who were wounded.” “He said, ‘This man is an American of- mind. ficer. He’s entitled to privileges. And “I’m giving it to you from the heart one of the privileges is that since he “I was with my wire crew. One of because I feel that somebody’s got is wounded he can ride in the meat the guys was on top of a tree. He to know that it’s tough to see a man wagon.’ These were for the people who says to me, ‘Captain, I see a lot of die that you’ve been training,” he said were sick or shot,” Dunbar said. Tuesday at his Las Vegas home. Germans out there.’ The next thing you know they engulfed us,” he re- “He told the German commander, ‘This called. “It hurt me when I lost somebody unit is not going to leave this camp because he was wounded and he until you ...” wasn’t taking care of himself,” he “There was so damn many of them and so few of us. We fought them said. “You become kin to them.” But before Waters could finish, “the for a while,” he said, describing the German commander says, ‘He rides in “glancing blow” from a bullet that Having just graduated from Temple the wagon.’ This man saved my life. I pierced his left leg. University, Dunbar was among the admired this man, and we became very first draftees from Philadelphia im- good friends,” Dunbar said. mediately after the Dec. 7, 1941, Commanders of the 422nd and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 423rd regiments decided it would Following a brief stint as an enlisted be best to surrender than see their man, he quickly became an officer soldiers killed. Ex-POW Bulletin candidate who emerged from Fort Jan/Feb 2015 Benning, Ga., as a second lieutenant. 25 When the procession stopped at Philadelphia, Cleveland, San Diego, stock exchange quotes from across night, Waters would come to the meat Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. the Channel in London. Their use in wagon and “pick me up bodily and commerce and war was fast, quiet carry me into the barn where we were He retired from the VA in 1980 and and dependable. supposed to sleep. I said to him one moved to Las Vegas. time, ‘Colonel, you saved my life.’ Heroic bird feats have been praised And he says, ‘No I didn’t, Alan. I was Since World War II, he has received since Greeks first voiced poetic, and just doing what was right.’” “lots of letters from the parents their saving of combatants and civil- thanking me for bringing their sons ians became legend. In 1871, during On March 27, 1945, Patton had sent back. But, it’s all in a days work,” he the Franco-Prussian War, the French a task force 50 miles behind enemy said. used hot air balloons to transport lines to liberate the Hammelburg, homing pigeons behind enemy lines, Germany, prison camp where Waters and microfilm literally flew in a mil- and Dunbar were being held. Waters Wings of War: lion messages between Paris and “went out to greet the task force and London. In 1914, during the First a German guard shot him in the back,” Extraordinary Wingmen Battle of the Marne, the French army Dunbar said. by Alice A. Booher accompanied troops with 72 pigeons. The Brits levied considerable fines Waters was so badly wounded, the Every military aviator will tell you that for those who would kill, wound or Germans released him to allied au- a good wingman is indispensable molest the birds. The U.S. Navy had thorities, but they captured the task and often key to their success – the more than a dozen pigeon stations force “and they became POWs with flyer’s version of “having one’s back”. in WWI, and the birds would fly nearly us,” he said. However, many may not realize that 11,000 missions after being thrown some of these wingmen are some- either up or down (depending on the After about 10 days, the American what smaller that ordinarily consid- location of the propellers) out of the prisoners were transferred to the in- ered, and that “wingman” may be a aircraft; 11 of them were MIA, but famous Stalag VII-A camp at bit more a literal than figurative va- the other 219 birds delivered suc- Moosburg, Germany. riety. cessful messages. On the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS LANGLEY, On April 29, 1945, a task force from (commissioned in October 1922), a the 14th Armored Division suc- pigeon house was placed in the stern. ceeded in liberating Moosburg. Individually the birds worked well, but when they were released as a “And Gen. Patton came in with his group, the flock of birds roosted in two silver revolvers. He says, ‘Gentle- the cranes of the Norfolk shipyard men, I am here to liberate Moosburg ending that project. and send you all back to where you came from,’” Dunbar recalled. “And According to the some guy in the rear says, ‘The hell Army Historical with that general. Where the hell are Foundation1, during we going to get the planes to go WWI, U.S. combat home?’ commanders usually transmitted “And they sent in over 100 C-47s to messages by wire, pick up the POWs. There were 1,500 but in unfavorable POWs. And they flew us to France.” situations, they used pigeons. After World War II, Dunbar stayed in When the U.S. entered the war in touch with Waters, who recovered Birds, usually pigeons, have been 1917, the U.S. Army Signal Corps had from his wounds and went on to be- used in wartime for 5,000 years, 600 carrier pigeons, provided by Brit- come a four-star general. He died in early-on mostly only for short dis- ish breeders and trained by Ameri- 1989. tances. By mid-12th century, civilian can soldiers. They carried messages bird-mail (pigeon post with post of- on scraps of paper inserted into a Dunbar retired as a lieutenant colo- fices and postmasters) was a thriv- lightweight canister attached to the nel and then worked as a claims ad- ing business. Scientists and breed- bird’s leg. Once released, the bird judicator for Veterans Affairs in ers worked on the hardy little flyers, would fly to his homing coop behind and by 1819, a trusty swift homing American lines and a bell would pigeon could fly 200 miles in a day, sound. Records show that during the Ex-POW Bulletin a skill which greatly expanded its Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 442 pi- occupational horizons. In the early geons were used to deliver messages Jan/Feb 2015 19th century, homing pigeons were in the Verdun area. One pigeon 26 used in many Belgian cities to bring known as “Kaiser” was captured dogs and 1 cat for courageous ac- wingmen, cont’d... tions such as bringing the news of landings at Dieppe (“Beach Comber”) from the Germans, carrying its little and Normandy (“Gustav”); a dog who camera. Another pigeon known as made 20 parachute jumps in North “The Rocket (Mocker)” served 52 mis- Africa (“Rob”); for keeping morale sions before being wounded by the high in a Japanese POW Camp (“Judy”) enemy, receiving the French Croix de (on which we wrote earlier in the Bul- Guerre and Distinguished Service letin); in the Battle of Lye Mun on Cross. The most famous of the flock Hong Kong Island; for leading their may have been “Cher Ami” (a Black owners out of the World Trade Cen- was confirmed that the content was or Blue Check cock) who delivered ter on 9/11 (“Salty” and “Roselle”); for a top secret encrypted message. 12 critical messages from the front locating a weapons arsenal in Iraq; Now the problem is to decipher it. 3 lines, the most important of which tracking nationalists in Malaya; and The Brits estimate that they used was on October 4, 1918 when fight- several for detecting explosives in 250,000 pigeons during the war. The ing was fierce, and a lot of friendly Afghanistan, some of whom died or proximity of this recent find to fire was taking a toll. The bird was went MIA in the effort. Many Ameri- Bletchley Park (the home of Alan Tur- blinded in one eye, shot through the cans first learned of one valiant bird ing and the Allied cryptographers, breastbone and suffered a nearly from an unexpected source, a recent and also the location of the MI-6 pi- severed leg from enemy fire, but got Antiques Roadshow in England, geon loft) has added cache. Britain’s the important message through to hosted by the stylish journalist Fiona top secret GCHQ listening post and commanders to “stop shooting at our Bruce. A visitor had brought a classy decoding department knows it was own folks”. Remarkably she survived rather formal-looking pigeon photo one of two birds carrying the same and made it CONUS but died in June of “Billie”, along with Billie’s actual message; one suggestion is that it 1919. The colorful taxidermied one- Dinkin medal, and the written cer- was coming from the site of Allied legged bird is at the Smithsonian tificate for his efforts out of RAF landings at Normandy since it was National Museum of American His- Waddington in August 1945, all now found near the HQ of British Field tory “Price of Freedom Americans at preserved at the Allied Forces Mas- Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery at War” exhibit along with the Croix de cot Club. As Bruce quipped, we can Reigate right before the D-Day land- Guerre with Palm that she received probably assume Billie never tried to ings. This might make the chimney from the French. 2 wear his medal. bird an associate of “Gustav” who brought the first report of the In WWII, the UK During WWII, the Normandy Landing, after having deployed use of pigeons worked for some time carrying mes- 250,000 hom- might have been sages for the Belgian resistance. ing pigeons, further ex- many of whom panded since it The Swiss continued their pigeon were valiant was reported section until 1996. According to a beyond all be- that they could new book, From Pigeons to Tweets: lief. The Brit- be trained to de- A General Who Led Dramatic Changes ish People’s liver small explosives to precise tar- to Military Communications (the au- Dispensary for gets, but the British Pigeon Policy tobiography of LTG Clarence E. Sick Animals Committee nixed the idea. While the McKnight told with Hank H. Cox, established Brits phased out the birds by 1948, 2013), when McKnight entered West the Dinkin Medal in 1943 to honor MI-5 had concern about their con- Point (Class of 1952), the Army was the work of animals exhibiting continued use by the enemy, and accord- still using the birds on the battle- spicuous gallantry or devotion to ingly, 100 birds were maintained un- field including a homing-pigeon duty while serving in military conflict, til 1950. In 1957, the U.S. Signal equipped signal platoon laying wires and came to be known as the ani- Corps transferred 2 hero pigeons to during the Korean War. However, as mals’ Victoria Cross (although per- the National Zoo in Washington, late as 2010, Indian police sus- haps not by those humans who “Anzio Boy” and “Global Girl” who pected that a captured pigeon had earned the VC). Not surprisingly, the had completed 66 missions between come from Pakistan. 4 These remark- Dinkin would be awarded immedi- them. able warriors are also commemo- ately to three pigeons, and thereaf- rated in places such as “Yankee ter, to many more birds including an In 1982, a gentleman living in Surrey, Doodle Pigeon” of the Hanna-Barbera Irish one named “Paddy”, and the near famed spymaster’s Bletchley cartoon Dastardly and Muttley in their American Pigeon Service’s “G.I. Joe” Park, found the remains of a pigeon Flying Machines, and in several Brit- (who flew 20 miles in as many min- in his chimney. He noticed a small ish films and games. “Old Sarge” was utes delivering a message that saved red capsule attached to its leg. The Ex-POW Bulletin 1000 lives). From its inception until find created quite a stir in Great Brit- September 2014, the award has been ain, and after much investigation it Jan/Feb 2015 made to 4 horses, 31 pigeons, 29 27 . wingmen, cont’d... 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On November 9, 2014, the Fox River Valley Chapter awarded Anthony Hufnagel his POW medal. commemorated in book and film, The 5 Flight , recently shown at the Yan- In attendance kee Air Museum in NYC, introduced were Past by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Chapter Commanders In memory and honor of these amaz- Norman ingly faithful warriors, we can remember the words of JM Barrie, in his The Zuckerman & Donald McCormick, Anthony Hufnagel, PCC William Little White Bird: “The reason birds Howland and Roberto Salazar from the Chicago Regional Office can fly and we can’t is simply be- who presented him with his medal. Congratulations! cause they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” changing regulations to get them New Regulations the benefits more quickly.” (Endnotes) Automate Burial 1 Cher Ami- Winged Warrior, National Payments for Veterans’ This automation enables VA to Museum of the U.S. Army, Call to Duty, pay a non-service-connected or Vol 9, Issue 1, March 2014. Survivors service-connected burial Estimated 62,000 Surviving allowance to an estimated 62,000 2 See also http:// Spouses Benefit from Regulation eligible surviving spouses out of Changes a projected 140,000 claimants for pigeon_racings.tripod/com/ burial benefits in 2014. Surviving wartime_pigeons.html. New burial regulations will now spouses will be paid upon notice allow the Department of of the Vet-eran’s death using 3 See George Dvorsky, Remains of Veterans Affairs (VA) to information already in VA WWII military Pigeon Ignites Code automatically pay the maximum systems. The burial allowance for Mystery at http://io9.com/5956950/ amount allowable under law to a non-service-connected death is remains-of-world...;see most eligible surviving spouses $300, and $2,000 for a death more quickly and efficiently, connected to military service. also Can You Crack the Code? Spy without the need for a written Chiefs Stumped By Secret Message Found application. This revised regulation will further expedite the delivery of on Leg of Dead WWII Pigeon at http:// Under former regulations, VA these benefits to surviving www.morror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ paid burial benefits on a spouses, reduce the volume of codebreakers-stumped, etc. reimbursement basis, which claims requiring manual required survivors to submit processing, and potentially make 4 See Fowl Play: Alleged Spy Pigeon Held receipts for relatively small one- available resources for other in India, at http://tribune.com.pk/ time payments that VA generally activities that benefit Veterans story16913/. paid at the maximum amount and their survivors. permitted by law. 5 See http://www.pigeonsincombat/ For more information on mon- com/film/html; and “VA is committed to improving etary burial benefits, visit http:/ www.americanwwii.com/ the speed and ease of delivery of /www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/claims-special-burial.asp. articlespigeons-of-war monetary burial benefits to Veterans’ survivors during their time of need. The recent changes Ex-POW Bulletin allow VA to help these survivors Jan/Feb 2015 bear the cost of funerals by 28 Undaunted, she moved her As I write this, I am 81 years old, business to the center and close a survivor of the depression and to the trolley and bus lines in WWII as a prisoner of war in Your Plymouth. There her business Germany for 15 months, and I am flourished, and she hired three still amazed at the extraordinary more operators. She worked six accomplishments of my great- Stories days a week, and on weekends grandmother, my grandparents worked 10 and 12-hour days. My and parents – so much with so grandmother would prepare hot little. They set a great example for The story of owning a meals for my mother and her me in how to deal with adversity staff on their late nights, and at in life, and for that I am eternally beauty salon in the the age of 101 would carry them grateful, and to my wife Agnes Depression years from her house on Hillside Whitlow Roberts who had all of Avenue to near Main Street, two their best characteristics. My grandfather, David Haslem, miles downhill, and return trip was a coal miner who worked for two miles uphill. Zachariah David Roberts $2.00 a day, and sometimes Past National Commander worked only one day a week. My 601 North Shore grandmother Elizabeth Haslem’s Tinton Falls, NJ 07753 father, William Jenkins, was a Welsh immigrant coal miner who somehow managed to buy a two- The Great Depression in the acre farm on Plymouth Township United States began on October Mountain and made it into a 29, 1929, a day known forever productive farm to supplement after as “Black Tuesday,” when the his income. His wife Hannah died American stock market–which This was during the height of the in 1924, and he completed the had been roaring steadily upward depression years. How did they raising of his eight children for almost a decade–crashed, finance opening a business? For himself. plunging the country into its equipment, $2 down and $2 a most severe economic downturn month, with a payment time of 2 My father, Zachariah Roberts, was yet. Speculators lost their shirts; years. Prices at that time were 35 a coal miner, and when the mine banks failed; the nation’s money and 50 cents. Permanent waving closed he worked on the WPA. My supply diminished; and was the big ticket item with mother, Adaline Elizabeth Roerts, companies went bankrupt and machine waves before cold the daughter o David and began to fire their workers in waving was introduced. Prices Elizabeth Jenkins Haslem, was a droves. Meanwhile, President were: $2.50, $3.50 and $5.00. beautiful, intelligent and Herbert Hoover urged patience ambitious person who had two and self-reliance: By 1932, one of small children, Zachariah David the bleakest years of the Great and Elizabeth to raise, when she Depression, at least one-quarter decided to take a beauty culture of the American workforce was rd course. On the 23 of February, unemployed. 1931, she received her diploma. This is the first in a series of After completing her course, the stories of growing up in the managed a large beauty salon in Depression. We hope to continue Wilkes-Barre for Madam Fenwick running these slices of American Even at those prices, many who not only owned the beauty life, so send in your story to the people could not afford to have school, but also salons in editor and we’ll publish them on their hair done, so they would Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. a semi-regular basis. Next barter. A local pharmacist’s wife, deadline is: Feb. 1, 2015. Edyth WW Gerald, gave my My mother decided to go into her Thank you! Cheryl own business in Plymouth, PA. mother a beautiful hand-painted Her first location did not work Limoge dish, dated 1910, in out because it was too far from exchange for beauty services, and a second Limoge dish also dated Main Street and bus service was Ex-POW Bulletin not available at the time. 1910. Jan/Feb 2015 29 Lost/Last Valentine: Treat Yourself by Alice A. Booher

Every February, even the usually crankiest of us may briefly con- sider a bit of “Valentine-ness”, and if you are amenable to sugges- tions, here you go, obtainable in several forms.

The book is a NY Times and USA Today bestseller called The Last Valentine by James Michael Pratt, (published in 1996, republished in paperback by St. Martins in 1999). The screenplay by Maryann Ridini Spencer and Barton Taney, The Lost Valentine, was first aired by CBS in January 2011 as an award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame star- ring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sean Faris and Betty White. One does not have to be a special fan of any of these actors to be moved by the film. It features the devel- oping story of a TV journalist (Hewitt) who profiles a WWII widow (White) whose husband, a naval aviator, was lost on the Bataan peninsula in 1944 and declared MIA. They had met and married in 1943; he entered combat the following year, leaving her pregnant with a son, who now has his own grown son (Faris). Eventu- ally the LT aviator’s loving letters had stopped and she received the telegram saying he was MIA. Their last moments together had been in a train station where she had handed him a homemade Valentine. Refusing to believe he was dead, the widow revisits that station every Valentine’s Day. To cut to the chase: with some help, the journalist is able to locate family of a fellow crewmember who had sent a letter home with an account of the crash which contains leads which they follow-up in The Philippines. An elderly native eye-witness is found and provides, via Skype, the story of the MIA pilot who was wounded, healed and fought with the guerillas only to be killed by a Japanese sniper and buried on the spot. Searchers are able to pinpoint his primitive interment site, and remains are recovered along with his effects including the “lost/last” Valentine. With proper authentications and following Navy protocols, after 66 years, now listed as KIA and posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star and the Navy Cross, his body is returned with full military honors arriving via the train station.

The film is dramatic but not overly so, well acted, with enhancing unintrusive music (including several versions of Dream a Little Dream of Me) and all in all is quite palatable. Hewitt does not overact and her clothing is not distracting; the subplots are modest and tolerable; the storyline is not overly compli- cated and fairly historically accurate. Betty White is simply extraordinary, a fact recognized by her nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Series. [White, born in 1922, has won myriad awards since she entered show business in 1939. She was age 89 at the time of the film’s first airing. In her personal life, Betty married first husband, Dick Barker in 1945; he was an U.S. Army Air Corps pilot. She interrupted her own show business career during WWII to join the American Women’s Voluntary Services.]

The Hallmark Channel occasionally reruns The Lost Valentine, last in October 2014. Look for it on TV just prior to Valentine’s Day 2015 (it is also available on DVD), get comfy and put on the popped corn. Admittedly, there are some soppy moments: it is Hallmark after all, and they sell greeting cards, but rise above that and take a chance on something special. The experience puts a very human face on the families left behind when service per- sonnel are MIA, POW or unrecovered KIA - and gently but powerfully provides undeniable support of the recovery efforts that continue in real life and on which we report so frequently herein. Collaterally, the audience reached by the film (and the book) is outside the realm of those who ordinarily might know the com- parable stories which have been repeated so often in our history - that is very positive and worthy of a Valentine. Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 30 AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR VOLUNTARY FUNDING PROGRAM

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AULNER, John Edward Jr., of to the 82nd Airborne. He fought FAHRER, Samuel, of East Omaha, NE passed away May 7, in numerous battles including Meadow, NY passed away Aug. 17, 2013. He was shot down over the The Battle of the Bulge. Joe was 2014. During WWII, he served th th Ferrara River Bridge in Italy, cap- captured by the Germans as a with the 28 Div., 110 Inf. Co C; tured and held at Luft IV, then POW and later escaped. Surviv- he was captured in the Battle of marched across Germany. Both ing family includes a daughter the Bulge and held in Stalag 9B, he and his wife are life members and a son, four grandchildren Berga-un-Ulster. Survivors in- of AXPOW. John leaves his loving and six great grandchildren. clude his wife, Pearl. wife of 64 years, Jean, 2 daughters, 2 sons, 9 grandchildren and CODIAN, Louis, 94, of Akron, OH FAUST, Adeline Carter, 81, of 14 great-grandchildren. passed away Nov. 22, 2014. He was Chester, SC died Nov. 13, 2014. a proud veteran of the Army dur- She was the wife of the late Julien BELL, James, of Alexandria, VA ing World War II. He fought in the Grant. Adeline was an active died Sept. 30, 2014 at the age of battle of Huertgen Forest, where member of the Catawba Chapter 83. He was captured after being he was wounded and captured by AXPOW. She is survived by 2 shot down north of Haiphong in German forces. He was a mem- daughters, 3 granddaughters, 2 1965 and held 89 months until ber of Northeast Ohio Chapter. brothers and extended family. being liberated during Operation Lou is survived by his wife of 68 Homecoming in Feb. 1973. Survi- years, Marge, 3 daughters, 1 son, FILKO, Joseph, of Bethlehem vors include his wife of 40 years, 5 grandchildren, 4 great-grand- Township, PA passed away Sept. Dora, 3 children, 2 step-children children, 1 brother and numer- 26, 2014 at the age of 94. Serving rd and 11 grandchildren. ous nieces and nephews. with the 803 Corps of Engineers, he was wounded and captured on BROWN, John D. “JD”, 85, of Fort DAVES, Edward H., of Fresno, CA Corregidor; he was held 3 ½ years Smith, AR passed away Sept. 20, died May 2, 2014. He served in the until liberation. Joe will be dearly th st 2014. He was serving in the 24th 8 AF, 401 BG based in missed by his son, 2 grandchil- Inf. When he was captured as he Deenthorpe, England. His plane dren and a loving family. headed towards the Yah River in was shot down; he was captured Korea. He was held in Camps 4 and held in Luft 1, Barth until lib- GEORGE, Albert D, of Taylor MI, and 5. JD’s most cherished trea- eration. He leaves his wife of 69 died Sept 22, 2014, He served in th st nd surers are his wife of 60 years, years, Edna, 1 daughter, her fam- 8 AF, 491 BG, 852 BS and was Sue, 1 daughter, 2 grandsons and ily and a large and loving ex- held in Luft 4, then marched one great-grandchild. tended family. through Germany. He is survived by his wife, Shirley, 2 sons, 1 BURNS, Frank, 90, Surprise, AZ, a DERRINGTON, Joan O., of daughter, 9 grandchildren and 8 member of the Agua Fria Chap- Littleton, CO passed away Sept. great-grandchildren. He was ter died October 19, 2014. Dur- 26, 2014. Her husband Robert dearly loved by his family. th th ing World War II, he was captured (PAC, 25 BS, 40 BG, Rangoon, while serving in the Philippines Burma) predeceased her. She is GRIFFITH, Martha Josephine, on Bataan and Luzon. He is sur- survived by 4 sons, 1 grandson age 92, of Plainview, TX passed vived by his wife Chong. and 3 great-grandchildren. away October 27, 2014. She was the widow of ex-POW Hubert (2nd st CICCHINELLI, Joseph M., Sun ELLSWORTH, Ralph Edward, of Btn., 131 Field Artillery “Lost City West, AZ, a member of the Missouri Valley, IA died Sept. 18, Battalion”). Both Martha and Agua Fria Chapter, died October 2014. He was 92. He was captured Hubert were active members of th 9, 2014. Joe was a distinguished while serving with the 306 BG, AXPOW and the Texas Dept. th WWII veteran with the 551st Para- 369 BS while flying over where Hubert served many years chute Infantry Battalion attached Schweinfurt; he was held in as chaplain. She is survived by Maulhausen and Stalag 17B. Ralph one son, one daughter and one Ex-POW Bulletin leaves 1 daughter, 1 son, 2 step- sister. Jan/Feb 2015 children, 4 grandsons, 7 great- grandchildren, 2 brothers and 1 34 sister. taps cont’d... ture, he was held in Stalag 12A. 5 great-grandchildren and 1 sis- . Earl was a member of AXPOW and ter. the Mile High Chapter. Survivors HASMAN, Norman J. 88, of Sun include his wife, Alice and fam- O’DONNELL, Gloria, 89, of City West, AZ and North Chili, NY, ily. a member of the Agua Fria Chap- Chesapeake, VA and Goodyear, AZ passed away October 31, ter, died July 5, 2014. He was a MORGAN, Mae Elvera, of Sioux WWII tail gunner on a B-24 air- 2014. She was the widow of Ri- City, IA died June 6, 2013. She was chard W. O’Donnell and a long craft and shot down twice. Norm 81 and a member of the Rocky is survived by a brother and his time member of the Agua Fria Mountain Chapter, AXPOW. Her Chapter, Sun City, AZ. She is sur- six children and many grand- and husband, Glenn (ex-POW, 84th Inf. great-grandchildren. vived by two sons, three daugh- Div.) predeceased her. She leaves ters, nine grandchildren and two 2 sisters, 2 stepchildren and great grandchildren. HOWARD, Thomas Hugh of many nieces and nephews. Pikeville, NC passed away Sept. 6, O’DONNELL, Joseph P. of 2014 at the age of 90. During MORROW, Bernard G., of th Robbinsville, NJ died Sept. 23, WWII, he served with the 8 AF, Tacoma, WA passed away Oct. 11, 324th BS, 91st BG (H). After capture 2014. He was captured after be- 2014. While serving with the AAC ing shot down over Austria and he was held in Luft 4. Hugh was a during WWII, he was shot down, life member of AXPOW and past held in Luft 4, then marched captured and held until liberated across Germany. After liberation, commander of the Dept. of North by Patton’s Army. His wife of 65 Carolina. He as a member of the Joe was a very active member of years, Naydene, 1 son, 2 daugh- the former Continental Chapter, Coastal Plains Chapter. Survivors ters, 10 grandchildren and 6 include one daughter. AXPOW where he served as Com- great-grandchildren survive him. mander. He was vitally interested JIRON, Salvatore “Sal”, of Glen- in documenting Luft 4 and wrote MOTTERN, Eulah two books on the subject. Survi- dale, CA passed away Sept. 29, B. “Sweetie”, of 2014. He served in the Navy dur- vors include 1 stepdaughter, 10 Watauga, TN grandchildren, 10 great-grand- ing the Korean War. His wife, passed away Sept. Dorothy Rose was a civilian POW children and a large extended 16, 2014. She as family. in Santo Tomas Internment Camp 92. Sweetie and during WWII. Sal leaves cousins, her late husband, OLSON, Rolland T. “Ole”, of Chi- extended family and many Sonny, were ac- friends. cago, IL died in Jan. 2013. During tive members of WWII, he served with the 15th AF, AXPOW both at the local and na- 461st BG; he was shot down, cap- JONES, Lillian J., wife of Richard tional level. Sonny was National (ex-POW captured in the Philip- tured and held in Luft 1, Barth. Commander and Sweetie was al- He leaves his wife, Jeanne, 2 sons, pines and held 3 ½ years) died ways by his side at conventions. Nov. 13, 2014. Both Lillian and 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren and Survivors include 1 son, 1 daugh- 3 great-grandchildren. Richard were active members of ter, 4 grandchildren, 5 great- AXPOW and were a familiar sight grandchildren, 1 great-great- at conventions. PFANNENSTIEL, Victor John, of granddaughter and 1 great-great- Loveland, CO passed away Oct. 14, great-granddaughter. She was a McDONALD, John B. of Sun City 2014. He was captured while serv- kind and gentle woman who will ing in Korea HQ Btry., 82nd AAA Center, FL formerly of Chicago, be missed by all who knew her. IL passed away Sept. 23, 2014 at Bn. and held in Death Valley and Camp 5. Survivors include 2 the age of 95. He was captured MURRAY, Charles Rutledge Sr., st sons, 1 daughter and 3 grandchil- while serving with the 331 Inf., of St. George, SC died Sept. 22, rd dren. 83 Div. during WWII. He was 2014. During WWII, he served held in Oflag 64 and 13C. John is rd with the 103 Inf. Div., participat- PFLUM, William J., 90 of St. Pe- survived by 4 children, 5 grand- ing in the invasion of South children and 3 great-grandchil- tersburg, FL died Sept. 20, 2014. France. He was captured and held th rd dren. Serving with the 8 AF, 453 BG, until liberation. Charles was an 733rd BS during WWII, he was cap- active member of AXPOW and the MICKELSON, Earl S., of Littleton, Lowcountry Chapter. He leaves CO passed away Sept. 18, 2014. his wife of 61 years, Dorothy, 1 Ex-POW Bulletin During WWI, he served with the daughter, 1 son, 5 grandchildren, Jan/Feb 2015 508th Para. Inf., 82nd AAB. After cap- 35 shot down and held in Luft 1, taps cont’d... SCHNECK, David, of Bel Air, MD Barth until liberation. Survivors died Sept. 22, 2014. He was cap- include 2 daughters, 3 grandchil- tured and held until liberation. tured during the Battle of the dren, 1 great-grandchild and their He is survived by his wife Bulge while serving with Co. C, families. Roseann, 4 children, 7 grandchil- 75th Div. He was held in 12A until dren and 3 great-grandchildren. liberation. Survivors include his WALLER, Delphine T., 89, of beloved wife, Zita, 2 sons, 1 Waskom, TX died Aug. 8, 2014. ROLEN, Mary, of Springfield, VA daughter, 6 grandchildren, 8 She as the widow of ex-POW passed away Nov. 29, 2014 at the great-grandchildren and 1 sister Herschel (27th BG, survivor of the age of 86. Both she and her hus- and their families. Bataan Death March and 3 ½ years band were active advocates for captivity). Delphine is survived POWs. Bill served as Executive SPERLING, Alvin B., 93, of Wash- by 1 son and 1 grandson. Director of AXPOW for 5 years; ington, DC passed away Oct. 14, Mary worked in the office and re- 2014. As part of the 83rd Inf. Thun- WARNER, June, mained involved after his death. derbolt Div. he was wounded out- of Hammon, OK She was also active with the Ad- side St. Lo and captured. He was passed away visory Committee on Former liberated by Patton’s Army. Alvin March 17, 2014. Prisoners of War and Gold Star leaves 3 sons, 8 grandchildren and She was the wife Wives. Survivors include one 6 great-grandchildren. of Past National daughter and one son and his Commander family. SULZER, Evelyn V., of Sun City, Jack. June loved Arizona, passed away August 27, traveling with RUBIN, Sylvia, 87, of Monroe 2014. Evelyn was the widow of Jack. They went to all 50 states Township, NJ died Aug. 9, 2014. ex-POW Robert Sulzer and a long and several countries in their 68 Both Sylvia and her late husband time member of the Agua Fria years of marriage. At National (ex-POW Bernard) were members Chapter. She is survived by one Conventions, she was sur- of the Central Jersey Chapter, daughter, a sister and a brother. rounded by Warners and extended AXPOW. She is survived by one Warners. She also loved to sew; daughter and two grandchildren. THOME, Michael N., 96, of Sacra- making all of Pam’s clothing un- mento, CA, member of the 49ers til she got to jr. high school. Her RUTLEDGE, Tillman Joe passed Chapter, AXPOW, and a life mem- other interests were gardening away October 25, 2014. During ber of AXPOW, died September 23, and cooking (her grandchildren WWII he was captured in the Phil- 2014. During WW II he was were convinced that no one fried ippines and endured the rigors of trained in military intelligence chicken like grandma), but her the Bataan Death March and 3 ½ and military government. He main interest was her family. In years of captivity; he was a POW served with the 106th Inf. Div. and addition to Jack, June leaves by the age of 17. He followed his was captured during the Battle of daughter Pam, 4 grandchildren, military experience with contin- the Bulge. His wife predeceased 15 great-grandchildren and 1 ued devotion to his country, as him. He is survived by two great-great-grandchild. an active and vocal member of daughters, two grandsons, five the San Antonio Chapter, AXPOW, sisters, one brother, and many WILSON, Earl, 89, of Bradenton, volunteering at Wilford Hall nieces and nephews. FL died Sept. 30, 2014. Earl Medical Center, Lackland Air proudly served in the USA with Force Base, and at the Audie L. VOGEL, Charles Franklin, 91, of the 423rd Inf., 106th Div. He was Murphy Memorial Veterans Hos- Hereford, CO passed away Sept. captured in the Battle of the Bulge pital since its opening in 1973; he 28, 2014. He was shot down while and held in Stalag 4B. He leaves 1 had over 41,000 volunteer hours serving with the Army Air Corps; daughter, 1 son and 1 grandson. with the Department of Veterans he was captured and held in Stalag Affairs. His wife, Joyce, prede- 17B. Charles was adjutant of the WYLIE, Charlotte P., of Lexington, ceased him; he leaves 2 daugh- Rocky Mountain Chapter, AXPOW. SC passed away Nov. 20, 2014 at ters, 2 sons, numerous grandchil- He leaves his wife, Anita, 1 son the age of 91. She and her hus- dren, great-grandchildren and a and 7 grandchildren. band, ex-POW DC “Pete” Wylie, host of friends. were active members of the WALDMAN, Wesley Leon, of San Catawba Chapter, AXPOW. In ad- Antonio, TX died Nov. 27, 2014. dition to Pete, Charlotte is sur- Ex-POW Bulletin He was 93. During WWII, he served vived by 3 sons, 4 grandchildren, Jan/Feb 2015 with the 15th AF, 97th BG; he was 3 great-grandchildren and 1 sis- 36 ter. so but “…shall be saved.” There- chaplain fore it follows that prayer is put- Recipe for a ting one’s hand in God’s. Happy New Year Prayer leads us through an invis- ~ Anonymous ible door in to the presence of God. However, worry leads away Take twelve fine, from trusting God into another full-grown room filled with disappointment months; see that and hopelessness. these are thor- oughly free from God does not stop us from wor- old memories of rying. We have to stop ourselves bitterness, rancor ND Benny from worrying. It has been said and hate, cleanse them com- that prayer does not cancel Rayborn pletely from every clinging spite; worry. But worry will cancel pick off all specks of pettiness prayer. and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all Worried Prayer? Most people who read this article the past—have them fresh and probably have never been a pris- clean as when they first came Prayer. What is it? Talking to oner-of-war. But imagine the from the great storehouse of God? Praising God? Giving worry that each of them must Time. thanks to God for the good have shouldered. And with good things in your life? Acknowledg- reason. They were in the midst Cut these months into thirty or ing God’s presence in your life? of the enemy. Things looked thirty-one equal parts. Do not at- The thoughts of your heart? grim to minimize their situa- tempt to make up the whole Things you want? tion. Who could they trust? Who batch at one time (so many per- could they turn to? sons spoil the entire lot this way) Prayer is a lot more than all of but prepare one day at a time. the above things rolled into one. I would guess that most would have practiced Philippians 4:6 “Be For one, it is communion with Into each day put equal parts of careful for nothing; but in every- God. You are visiting God. And faith, patience, courage, work thing by prayer and supplication yes, we expect answers to our (some people omit this ingredi- with thanksgiving let your re- prayers. Usually we expect a “yes” ent and so spoil the flavor of the quests be made known unto answer while failing to realize rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, God.” that “no” is just as much an an- kindness, rest (leaving this out is swer as “yes”. ”No “ is not the like leaving the oil out of the They had nothing but with God answer we usually desire. It has salad dressing— don’t do it), they had everything. In closing been said that some of the best prayer, meditation, and one well- I will leave you with this ques- blessings are unanswered selected resolution. prayers. In most cases that tion: What do you have? means a “no” answer. Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a We are taught to pray usually at BennyBennyBenny pinch of folly, a sprinkling of an early age by our parents, “I lay play, and a heaping cupful of me down to sleep, if I die before good humor. I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to keep”. In my experience, there is no faith as strong as that of a child. It is sad that as we grow, As we make our resolutions for we often lose that trust in the Al- the year ahead, let us go forward mighty. with great hope that all things can be possible Prayer is an acknowledgement of faith. Acts 2:21"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call Ex-POW Bulletin on the name of the Lord shall be Jan/Feb 2015 saved.” Not maybe. Not I hope 37 Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 38 50/50 drawing June 28, 2014 Arlington, TX

The National 4th (IVY) Division Association 1st Place JEANNE BREESE, AZ $202.20 2nd Place MARIE CARLSSON, TX $151.65 donated back to organization Formed at Camp Greene, NC, on November 17, 3rd Place MARIE CARLSSON, TX $101.10 1917 for service in World War I. The “IVY Division” donated back to organization has a long and distinguished heritage that continues 4th Place ELLEN BLOCKER, MS $50.55 through World War II, the Cold War in Europe, Vietnam, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation These drawings help raise money needed for our Enduring Freedom. operating expenses. They allow our members to participate in a very worthwhile project, while Membership in the Association is open to all giving them a chance to win. 50% of the dona- former Veterans and currently serving Soldiers tions will be given to the General Fund and the of the 4th ID and attached units. The 96th Annual other 50% are awarded as prizes. The amounts Reunion will be September 9-14, 2014, in are determined after all donations are received. Lexington, Kentucky. You do not have to be present to win. Please make copies of the tickets on the other side and Check our website at www.4thinfantry.org for offer them to your Chapter members, family membership and reunion information. and friends. We are asking $5.00 for 6 tickets. These donations are not tax deductible. Fill out the tickets and send them and your donations “Steadfast and Loyal” to: National Headquarters ~ 50/50 Drawing 3201 E. Pioneer Pkway, #40 Arlington, TX 76010-5396

request for The 106th Infantry membership application Division Association American Ex-Prisoners Organized at Camp Lucky Strike 1945 active of War since 1946

If you are a former 106th Infantry Division vet, were th Name: ______attached to the 106th,a relative of a 106 veteran, you are eligible for membership in the Association. Address:______City/State/Zip:______The CUB Magazine is published three times Membership is open to US Military and Civilians per year. Published since 1946. captured because of their US citizenship and their Annual Reunions held yearly since 1947. families.

Do NOT send dues with this request Jacquelyn Martin, Membership Chairman for an application 121 McGregor Ave. Mail to: Mount Arlington, N.J. 07856 American Ex-Prisoners of War 973-663-2410 3201 East Pioneer Parkway, #40 E-mail: [email protected] Arlington, TX 76010-5936 (817) 649-2979 voice Ex-POW Bulletin (817)649-0109 fax Jan/Feb 2015 e-mail:[email protected] 39 American Ex-Prisoners of War American Ex-Prisoners of War 50/50 Drawing 50/50 Drawing PLEASE PRINT Name:______Telephone: ( )______PLEASE PRINT Name:______Telephone: ( )______Address:______Address:______City/State/Zip:______City/State/Zip:______

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City/State/Zip:______City/State/Zip:______Here is my donation of $5.00 for 6 chances to win the drawing. Here is my donation of $5.00 for 6 chances to win the drawing. Prize amounts are determined by the total amount donated. Prize amounts are determined by the total amount donated. Mail your donation American Ex-Prisoners of War Mail your donation American Ex-Prisoners of War and entry to: 50/50 Drawing and entry to: 50/50 Drawing 3201 E. Pioneer Parkway, Suite 40 3201 E. Pioneer Parkway, Suite 40 Arlington, TX 76010-5396 Arlington, TX 76010-5396 You do not have to be present to win. Your donation is not tax deductible. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Donation not required to enter. You do not have to be present to win. Your donation is not tax deductible. Thank you for your support. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Donation not required to enter. Ex-POW Bulletin (6/15) Thank you for your support. 6/15) Jan/Feb 2015 40 American Ex-Prisoners of War

Ex-POW Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 41 AXPOW Gravesite Medallion AXPOW Vest Order Form AXPOW Challenge Coin (For members only) Name______

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Size (Men/coat, Women/chest measurement) ______The Medallion is 4", Bronze/Brown Long, Regular or Short______with Lacquer. Hardware for mounting is included. Weight - Name on front of vest approximately 1.25 lb. ______check with your local cemetery great gifts...great hand- before ordering to see if medallions Chapter Name (back of vest) outs...great way to show your are permitted. ______pride in your organization $75.00 AXPOW Logo on front/Five Price: $55.00, includes S/H services on reverse plus $15.00 S/H/I Please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery. Shipping costs on two or ea more is $20.00. $10.00

Official AXPOW Cap (specify size) 40.00 Name Badge Order Form 12x18 AXPOW Graveside Flag 10.00 Vinyl Cap Bag 3.00 (for members only) Aluminum License Plate 5.00 Necktie w/logo (regular only) 30.00 3” Vinyl Decal 1.00 Actual size of badge is 3” Inside Decal 1.00 U.S. Flag Bolo Tie 20.00 size of a credit card Mini POW Medal Bolo Tie 30.00 8” Vinyl Decal 6.00 Brooch pin 5.00 PLEASE PRINT: 12” Vinyl Decal 10.00 EX-POW pin (goldtone) 5.00 AXPOW Prayer Book 2.00 Ladies Prayer Book 1.00 Logo pin 5.00 Name ______POW DVD – ETO or Pacific 11.00 POW Stamp pin 3.00 Line 1 ______Past Chapter Commander pin 5.00 “Speak Out” Education Packet 6.00 Past Department Commander pin 5.00 Line 2 ______Magnetic Ribbons 5.00 Challenge Coins 10.00 Name Badge with name & chapter and Eagle pin w/Barbed Wire (silver) 8.00 city: $6.00(includes S/H) CLOTH STRIPES (specify which title) 3.00 Vest Chainguard 8.00 Life Member · Chapter Commander · Chaplain · 4” Blazer Patch 4.00 Ship to: Historian · Past Chapter Commander ·Chapter Adj/ 2” Medallion (for plaque) 6.00 Street ______Treas ·Chapter Adjutant ·Chapter Treasurer Canvas Totebag w/4” logo 15.00 Dept Commander ·Past Dept Commander AXPOW Notecards (pkg of 25) 6.00 City/State/Zip ______Dep’t Treasurer · Dep’t Adjutant·Sr. Vice Special Prayer Cards (pkg of 25) 6.00 Commander · Jr. Vice Commander AXPOW By-Laws 5.00 Service Officer · Legislative Officer·Past Chapter We accept Master Card/Visa Officer · Past Department Officer QUANTITY ITEM SIZE / COLOR PRICE

For orders up to 4.00, add $3.00; For orders 4.01 to 7.99, add $4.00; For orders 8.00 to 25.00, Shipping/Handling/Insurance: add $8.00, For orders 25.01 to 49.99, add $13.00; For orders 50.00 to 99.99, add $15.00 For orders over 100.00, add $20.00 Checks/Money Order/Credit Card Accepted. Total: $ For credit card orders: Card # ______Expiration: ______(Check one) Master Card ______Visa______Name ______FOR ALL ORDERS, MAIL TO: Address ______AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR City, State, Zip ______3201 East Pioneer Parkway, Suite 40 Phone ______Arlington, Texas 76010-5396 817-649-2979 [email protected] POW/MIA Chair of Honor Dedication

Princeton University and Rolling Thunder®, Inc. National dedicated a “POW/MIA Chair of Honor” on November 22, 2014, the first at an Ivy League School. The dedication was at Princeton’s home football game against Dartmouth College at the Princeton University/ Power’s Field Stadium. The Chair was dedicated by Ex-Prisoner of War Staff Sergeant Charles Susino, Jr. who was held captive for fourteen months in German Prison camps during WWII. Accompanying Sergeant Susino was Artie Muller, Executive Director of Rolling Thunder®, Inc. National along with the POW/MIA Chair of Honor Committee person Elaine Martin and other members of the organization. Mr. Susino provided these statements at the dedication. “I would like to thank Rolling Thunder and Princeton University for providing this POW/MIA “Chair of Honor”. It is so important because it represents veterans from all wars, both past and present, which were missing in action or prisoners of war and did not come home. As I look at the chair, I see many faces from the battlefield that never returned, yet envision them with us today. Let this chair serve as a sobering reminder, that we as a nation and society must never forget their sacrifice…. please remember. God bless our troops. Thank you. “ All orders for products sold by Bronze Grave Medallions AXPOW National Organization, including dues/subscriptions should be mailed to: American Ex-Prisoners of War National Headquarters 3201 E. Pioneer Parkway, Suite 40 Arlington, TX 76010-5396 (817) 649-2979/ (817) 649-0109 fax e-mail: [email protected] No collect calls, please

Thank you for supporting the American Ex-POWS with your purchases of National $75.00 plus $15.00 S/H/I Merchandise. Shipping costs on two or more is $20.00. change of address form Include your mailing label for address change or inquiry. If you are receiving duplicate copies, please send both labels. If moving, please give us your new address in the space provided.

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