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The Magazine for a Strong America Vol. 140, No. 5 ARTICLES May 1996

PROTECTING THE LEGION'S STATUS The American Legion must remain a wartime veterans organization. 12

SWIFT STORM IN THE GULF

Trained to defeat the in battle, U. S troopsfound 'sforces to be easy prey. By Joe Stuteville 1

STANDING DUTY FOR FOLKS AT HOME The American Legion helps Gulf War veterans and theirfamilies. By Anthony Miller 20

THE PRICE OF SERVICE

For many Gulfveterans, life will never be the same. By Trent D. McNeeley ZZ

THEIR TIME HAS COME

Desert Storm veterans are becoming Post leaders. 24

SADDAM'S TOXIC PLOT U.S troops might hare l)een exposed to low levels ofchemical or biological weapons, says an expert. 26

DO DADIES DREAM?

Desert Storm parentsface the nightmare oftheir children 's birth defects. By Ken Schamberg 28

IN GRATEFUL TRIDUTE Honoring those who died during the Gulf War. 56

D E P A T M E N T

VETVOICE 4 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 14 VETS 40

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 VETERANS UPDATE 36

WASHINGTON WATCH 11 LEGION NEWS 38

COVER For many Gulf War veterans and theirfamilies, the war has made life difficult, and they 're turning to The American Legionfor help. Photo by Peter Beck/The Stock Market.

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Even Make English The Official U.S. Lan- which ripped out about 200 feet of our the advertisements are for men only. I guage?" (Big Issues, March) did not side. That was damage greater than think we deserve a column just for us. address one important issue. English is four or five torpedoes would have done, Doris L. Hermann becoming the de facto language of but we didn't sink. They can take a St. Louis world commerce, technology and eco- beating and still keep ticking. nomics. You cannot conduct financial K.D. Snider Thank you so much for publishing, trade, fly an aircraft across borders or New Carlisle, Ohio "You've Come a Long Way—Maybe." be an air traffic controller unless you As a disabled female vet returning from are fluent in English. As a former crew member of the active duty for Desert Storm, I, too, In short, the use of English is much USS Missouri, I was very much have had no choice but to fight for more than a political question and a impressed with your article on battle- comprehensive medical care at my matter of cost. English competency is a ships. At our last reunion in , it local VA hospital. matter of necessity. was discussed by the Missouri associa- I am still disabled today due to a Richard D. Norton tion what should be done with the lengthy wait for back surgery. Only one Wyndmoor, Pa. Mighty Moe. major back surgery a month is per- formed at the VA in my area and my Your article mentions Flag Thoughts as a possible site for her. I disagree requests to go elsewhere for treatment As the daughter of a WWI veteran, with this, since my children and grand- were denied. The women vet- the wife and sister of WWII vets, and children wouldn't have much chance to erans here are still waiting for a pro- mother of two sons who served in Viet- visit aboard the ship where the surren- gram for Post Traumatic Stress Disor- nam, I want to commend and laud der was signed ending World War II. I der as well. "We'll Be Back." (February 1996) would prefer San Francisco or Bremer- We so often hear about VA's budget Next to God and country, the flag is a ton, Wash., for her permanent berth. problems. If veterans were treated special symbol of our nation and I urge all former Missouri sailors to properly and in a timely fashion, per- should be treated with honor and write the Navy and also your senators haps we would not have to be disabled respect. and representatives concerning this for so long. No private business would Keep up the good work and don't choice. be allowed to treat their injured give up the fight. 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feed. (See WHEN ZOCOR SHOULD NOT BE USED.) Women who are or may become pregnant: Pregnant women should not take ZOCOR because it may harm the fetus Women of childbearing age shoulil not take ZOCOR unless it is highly Pediatric Use: ZOCOR is not recommended for children or patients under 20 years of age. unlil(ely that they will become pregnant. If a woman does become pregnant while on ZOCOR, she should stop taking the drug and talk to her doctor at once. SIDE EFFECTS

Women who are breast-feeding should not take ZOCOR. Most patients tolerate treatment with ZOCOR well; however, like all prescription drugs, ZOCOR can cause

side effects, and some of them can be serious. Side effects that do occur are usually mild and short- WARNINGS lived. Only your doctor can weigh the risks versus the benefits of any prescription drug. In clinical stud-

Liver: About 1% of patients who took ZOCOR in clinical trials developed elevated levels ies with ZOCOR, less than 1 .5% of patients dropped out of the studies because of side effects. In a large, of some liver enzymes. Patients who had these increases usually had no symptoms. Elevated liver long-term study, patients taking ZOCOR experienced similar side effects to those patients taking placebo enzymes usually returned to normal levels when therapy with ZOCOR was stopped. (sugar pills). Some of the side effects that have been reported with ZOCOR or related drugs are listed

below. This list is not complete. Be sure to ask your doctor about side effects before taking and Your doctor should perform routine blood tests to check these enzymes before and during ZOCOR to discuss any side effects that occur. treatment with ZOCOR. The tests should occur at 6 weeks and 12 weeks after you begin taking ZOCOR, and about every 6 months thereafter, if your enzyme levels increase, your doc- Digestive System: Constipation, diarrhea, upset stomach, gas, heartburn, stomach pain/cramps, tor should order more frequent tests. If your liver enzyme levels remain unusually high, your doctor anorexia, loss of appetite, nausea, inflammation of the pancreas, hepatitis, jaundice, fatty changes in the should discontinue your medication. liver, and, rarely, severe liver damage and failure, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

Tell your doctor about any liver disease you may have had in the past and about how much alcohol you Muscle, Skeletal: Muscle cramps, aches, pain, and weakness; joint pain; muscle breakdown. consume. ZOCOR should be used with caution in patients who consume large amounts of alcohol. Nervous System: Dizziness, headache, insomnia, tingling, memory loss, damage to nerves causing D/luscle: Tell doctor right if or your away you experience any muscle pain, tenderness, weakness and/or loss of sensation and/or abnormal sensations, anxiety, depression, tremor, loss of weakness at any time during treatment with ZOCOR, particularly if you have a fever or if balance, psychic disturbances. you are generally not feeling well, so your doctor can decide if ZOCOR should be stopped. Skin: Rash, itching, hair loss, dryness, nodules, discoloration. Some patients may have muscle pain or weakness while taking ZOCOR. Rarely, this can include muscle breakdown resulting in kidney damage. The risk of muscle breakdown is Eye/Senses: Blurred vision, altered taste sensation, progression of cataracts, eye muscle weakness. greater in patients taking certain other the lipid-lower- drugs along with ZOCOR, such as Hypersensitivity (Allergic) Reactions: On rare occasions, a wide variety of symptoms have been ing drug Lopid* (Gemfibrozil), a fibrate, llpid-lowering doses of nicotinic acid (niacin), reported to occur either alone or together in groups (referred to as a syndrome) that appeared to be based the antibiotic erythromycin, certain Intravenous/injectable antifungal drugs, or drugs that on allergic-type reactions, which may rarely be fatal. These have included one or more of the following: suppress the system (called Immunosuppressive drugs, immune such as Sandimmune** a severe generalized reaction that may include shortness of breath, wheezing, digestive symptoms, and [Cyclosporine]). Patients using along with any of these drugs should be carefully ZOCOR low blood and even shock; an allergic reaction with swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or monitored by their physician. The risk of muscle breakdown is greater in patients with kid- throat with difficulty swallowing or ; symptoms mimicking lupus (a disorder in which a person's ney problems or diabetes. immune system may attack parts of his or her own body); severe muscle and blood vessel inflammation;

If you have conditions that can increase your risk of muscle breakdown, which in turn bruises; various disorders of blood cells (that could result in anemia, infection, or blood clotting prob- can cause kidney damage, your doctor should temporarily withhold or stop ZOCOR. Such lems) or abnormal blood tests; inflamed or painful joints; hives; fatigue and weakness; sensitivity to sun- conditions include severe Infection, low blood pressure, major surgery, trauma, severe light; fever, chills; flushing; difficulty breathing; and severe skin disorders that vary from rash to a serious metabolic, endocrine and electrolyte disorders, and uncontrolled seizures. Discuss this burn-like shedding of skin all over the body, including mucous membranes such as the lining of the with your doctor, who can explain these conditions to you. mouth.

Because there are risks in combining therapy ^ith ZOCOR with lipid-lowering doses of Other: Loss of sexual desire, breast enlargement, impotence. nicotinic acid (niacin) or with drugs that suppress the Immune system, your doctor should Laboratory Tests: Liver function test abnormalities including elevated alkaline phosphatase and biliru- carefully weigh the potential benefits and risks. He or she should also carefully monitor bin; thyroid function abnormalities. patients for any muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness, particularly during the initial months of therapy and If the dose of either drug is increased. Your doctor also may mon- NOTE: This summary provides important information about ZOCOR. If you would like itor the level of certain muscle enzymes In your body, but there is no assurance that such more Information, ask your doctor or pharmacist to let you read the professional labeling monitoring will prevent the occurrence of severe disease. muscle and then discuss it with them.

PRECAUTIONS

Before starting treatment with ZOCOR, try to lower your cholesterol by other methods such as diet, exer- cise, and loss. Ask your doctor about how best to do this. Any other medical problems that can MERCK cause high cholesterol should also be treated. ^ ZOCOR is less effective in patients with the rare disorder known as homozygous familial hypercholes- terolemia. ZOCOR is a registered trademark of Merck & Co., Inc.

Drug Interactions: Because of possible serious drug interactions, it is important to tell your doctor what 'Lopid is a registered trademark ol Warner-Lambert Company. other are taking, drugs you including those obtained without a prescription. "Sandimmune is a registered trademark of Sandoz AG.

ZOCOR can interact with Lopid, niacin, erythromycin, certain intravenous/injectable antifungal drugs. Copyright© 1996 by Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. J6Z018(419) First Iraq, Now the "State Establishment for the Pro- duction of Pesticides." Iraqi use of poi- As we look back at the Gulf War son gas was a decisive factor in forcing five years later, some of the most gnaw- a truce in the Iran-Iraq war of 1988. ing concerns involve nuclear weapons. And, of course, Gulf War Syndrome Given the powder keg of confusing seems to point an accusing finger back political and religious agendas the Gulf at possible chemical encounters during is, threats of this nature can never be Operation Desert Storm. taken lightly. A Gennan company is also suspect- Although Desert Storm devastated ed in the construction of a chemical- Iraq's full-steam-ahead program to weapons plant in Libya, says Krosney. develop weapons of mass destruction, The silver lining here is that Libya has one expert says that communist Chi- basically "given up" on trying to build a nese and Russian support for the Iran- nuclear device, he adds. ian nuclear program could produce the Of all the links to the Iraqi nuclear next major flashpoint in the Middle program, the German role is perhaps East. Iran may be less than five years the most distasteful. Krosney says the away from having an atomic weapon. German government failed to step in Herbert Krosney, who writes about despite repeated American warnings in the arming of both Iran and Iraq in his the 1980s that its companies were help- explosive book. Deadly Business, says ing Iraq build a nuclear bomb. The the Iranian problem looms even larger authoritative Nucleonics Week maga- than Iraq's because Iranian rulers are zine reports that a German scientist motivated by fundamentalist Islamic stole and then sold to Iraq the top-secret ideology: "It's a far more dangerous sit- "ATCH design for the TC- 1 1 centrifuge capable uation. You have the potential of a of producing the enriched uranium. The bomb being used by terrorist elements By CliffKincaid scientist worked for Urenco, the Dutch- or by the Iranian regime itself." German-British consortium. Krosney tells THE AMERICAN German officials were reportedly Legion Magazine that tactically, Iran nium—and the know-how to use it. considering charging him with high is just picking up where Iraq left off. "There is a constant flow of traffic treason. "The centrifuge secrets are "It is striking how many different between nuclear experts of the two out," confirms Krosney. weapons systems the Iraqis were going countries," says Krosney. Given its seminal involvement with after. They went after a long-range can- Krosney believes that the prospect of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, non, the 'Supergun;' two or three dif- a major confrontation with is 's recent decision to cut its ferent ways to get the atomic bomb; a being swept under the rug. He sees dark support to the UN commission investi- poison-gas program; and a biological- humor in the fact that China's illegal gating the Iraqi program has greatly weapons program," he says. "They copying of American tapes and CDs angered U.S. and UN officials. Ger- were going after everything in an received so much ink and air play, many cited financial reasons. extremely ambitious way." while the stench of its far deadlier Two final ironies here: U.S News & Rolf Ekeus, who heads the UN com- nuclear deals is virtually undetectable World Report says that the UN com- mission charged with monitoring Iraqi in the major media. China, something mission itself includes suspected Iraqi nuclear activity, says Iraq even tried to of an equal-opportunity trafficker in agents. And Germany is currently develop "radiological weapons," simi- atomic materials, is also said to be sup- seeking a permanent seat on the UN lar to the now-defunct U.S. neutron plying Pakistan with the raw materials Security Council. bomb, which scatter radioactive materi- to build a so-called "Islamic bomb." al in a nonexplosive manner. Says Krosney, "The Iranians have And in ... tried to get the same kinds of weapons. Glass Houses One critical question, says Krosney, They've looked all around the world." The Chinese problem emerges amid is whether Tel Aviv intends to sit still Two places they've been looking of the backdrop of increasing revelations for all this. Would the Israelis decide late are China and Russia. This became about the West's own role in the to take out Iran's nuclear reactors expedient when the West tightened up Mideast arms buildup. The British gov- before they become troublesome? At ernment was recently hit with charges feels, Israel is its export controls after its experience the moment, he not pre- with Iraq. Iran has been relying on that it secretly relaxed its ban on sales pared to stage a military strike like the America's two premier Cold War foes of arms-related machinery to Iraq dur- one it conducted in 1981 on the led for potential bomb fuels. Russia sells ing the 1980s. The uproar almost to French-supplied Osirak nuclear reactor reactors capable of making plutonium, a no-confidence vote in British Prime in Iraq. That's because a strike on Iran while China markets nuclear materials Minister John Major and the calling of "could lead to a major war" in the capable of manufacturing enriched ura- early elections. Middle East. Indeed, Krosney believes Even more implicated in the Iraqi Israel's fear of an Iranian bomb is a Washington-hased Cliff Kincaid arms machine is Germany. Krosney major factor behind Tel Aviv's desire writes for Human Events and other says that a German company sold Iraq a for a comprehensive Middle East publications. poison-gas plant officially identified as peace accord.

MAY 1996 11 Woodrow Wilson signed the bill into million members!'" The American law in September 1919, just two One of the Legion's founding princi- months before the Legion's first ples centered on securing compensation Legion must National Convention in Min- for WWI veterans who were killed or neapolis. disabled, and assisting their loved ones. remain an The Godwin Report men- Eligibility for certain VA medical care tioned by Miller was named also is based on service in wartime. organization for Ralph M. Godwin, the Not to be overlooked are important Mississippi NECman who court decisions affecting The American for wartime chaired a committee appointed by Legion's ability to promote fair treat- delegates to the 1984 National Conven- ment for veterans in its dealings on veterans. tion in Salt Lake City. Formed in the Capitol Hill, an ability tied to the aftermath of military operations in Legion's tax exempt status as a non- Lebanon and Grenada, the committee profit organization. MERICA'S wartime veter- was tasked with researching and Essentially, the Internal Revenue ans are special people who reviewing all previous eligibility stud- Service (IRS) allows taxpayers to have sacrificed a part of ies and precedents. deduct contributions to nonprofit their lives, and sometimes The founders envisioned eligibility groups under the Code 501 (c) (3) pro- life itself, so that the nation based on a veteran's honorable service vision. This doesn't apply to nonprofits and its institutions might during wartime. Purposely, they made that lobby Congress, however, except live on. no distinction as to length, location or for veterans' advocacy groups such as For more than 200 circumstances of service. The comrade- The American Legion. A taxpayer's years. Congress, the courts ship growing from sacrifice and hard- lobbying group sued the IRS, claiming and the American people have taken ships incurred during wartime service the special status enjoyed by veterans pains to recognize that unique contribu- cannot be overlooked as one of the groups was unconstitutional under the tion by America's veterans. Legion's reasons for being. ]n the Pre- First and Fifth amendments. If Con- Within the ranks of The American amble to the Constitution of The Ameri- gress allowed the Legion to lobby, why Legion, various Departments over the can Legion, Legionnaires declare their not all other nonprofit groups? years have passed resolutions urging intent "To preserve the memories and In a 1983 ruling, the Supreme Court expansion of membership eligibility to incidents of our associations in the upheld the unique status of wartime include all the country's 26 million vet- great wars." veterans organizations. Then-Justice erans. National Legion leaders, howev- (now Chief Justice) William Rehnquist er, caution such efforts ultimately may Godwin Committee upheld that wrote that Congress intended to "subsi- undermine the founders' intent in form- THEconcept, rejecting by vote of 4-3 a dize lobbying by veterans organizations ing this association of wartime veterans. proposal to open eligibility to all in light of legitimate longstanding poli- "The push to open the membership veterans who served honorably after cy of compensating veterans for their comes up nearly every year, and it's a Dec. 7, 1941. In doing so, the commit- past contributions by providing them well-meaning proposal aimed at tee acknowledged a dual reality: with numerous advantages." increasing our membership," says increased potential membership does In its decision, the high court recog- Butch L. Miller, chairman of the Con- not translate to increased membership; nized that Congress traditionally stitution and By-Laws Committee, and opening eligibility to all veterans extends special recognition to its citi- National Internal Affairs Commission. might risk—with Congress and the zen-soldiers who answer the call in "The problem is, we studied this courts—the unique status its members times of national emergency. more than 10 years ago in the Godwin have earned through service during Chairman Miller concedes Legion-

Report and it won't work. Changing wartime. naires will continue the open eligibility our status as a group of wartime veter- "The committee found that of the 28 debate in the future. He urges advo- ans may even end up doing more harm million veterans alive in 1984, all but 4 cates to study the Godwin Committee than good to the organization we all million were eligible to join the Legion Report and previous studies conducted love," Miller adds. anyway," says Miller. "Even today, by the Stickel Committee (1965) before The American Legion, he says, is roughly the same numbers apply. changing one of the principal pillars of wartime-exclusive for several com- We've still got around 10 to 12 percent The American Legion, a move that pelling reasons. Other veterans' groups of all eligible veterans as members. could affect its tax-exempt status. claim to have been around longer, but Like Commander Daniel Ludwig says, "It's one of those things in life that the Legion is the first federally char- 'If we could get just 16 percent of all once it's given up, you never get it tered veterans organization. President veterans eligible to join us, we'd have 4 back," says Miller.

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religion. Anybody who goes once has got to go back," he says. "It's just a really lovely spot where you can actually take the time to step down and reflect on the things that have happened in your life, and where you are today," adds past commander Elliot ; Some 100.000 people Morrison. t visit tliis oafinedfai The Cathedral offers discounts for veterans at its Cathedral House bed and i onnuolly. A pocl

spiritual renewal. In 1957, Congress tween May and November. ing than the previous one. "They did it recognized its Altar of the Nation as the One of its strongest supporters is on their own. You can't describe the "first memorial to all men and women The American Legion's John Humiston feeling," she says.

who have given their lives in service to Post 1 1 of nearby Jaffrey, which coor- A full house of between 500 and

this country." The Women's Memorial dinates the Cathedral's many veteran- 1 ,000 visitors is expected for the annual Bell Tower, at the shrine's entrance, related functions. The Post provides Memorial Day service this May 30 at 2

was dedicated in 1967 as the first firing squads and fully uniformed honor p.m. Once again, Jaffrey Post 1 1 will memorial to America's female war and color guards whenever a veterans' play a key role in coordinating the ser- dead. group or veterans' families hold ser- vice. "I'm just really glad to have The Cathedral hosts 120 weddings vices there. "Anything we can do for them," says Lisa M. LaFleurm, the

and 40 baptisms annually, and holds the veteran," says Theodore J. Renauld, Cathedral public relations director. over 75 memorial, religious and patri- the Post's sergeant at arms. But Post Commander Richard Davis otic services. A nonprofit organization Because both are dedicated to God shrugs off the praise. "We work hand supported entirely by private donations, and country, the bond between the in hand with them. We're very happy

the Cathedral of the Pines welcomes Legion and the Cathedral was perhaps to do it. That's what we're here for," he some 100,000 visitors each year bc- inevitable. "It's easy to get involved as says. a Legionnaire, but also as a human The Cathedral of the Pines is locat- Jeanne E. Prevell is a freelance being," says Renauld. "You immediate- ed ojfRte. 1 19, a few miles east of Rte. writer and former newspaper editor ly acquire a warmth for this place, and 202. Follow the signs upon entering from Fitzwilliam, N.H. you don't have to be of any specific Rindge.

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ly with the indigo smoke from burning Droning swarms of giant flies feasted By Joe Stuteville oil wells set ablaze by Iraqi soldiers. on their newly found desert desserts. There was a slight chill in the air as on The veiled face of an old woman HAHRAN was three an autumn day back in Indiana. Perfect peered from behind a window at a hours at our back as we weather for a football game. nearby house. She rapidly ducked headed north along the Our bus stopped to take on fuel away when I waved.

desert highway to Ku- before we crossed the border. It wasn't Our gas tanks were filled, and it

wait. It was mid-morning long before I found myself surrounded was time to move on. Our destination and the sun should have by Syrian and Egyptian troops—most- was still more than an hour away. been bearing down with ly fast-talking, chain-smoking little Our multinational force of reporters fireball intensity. Instead, fellows with wide smiles who were and photographers—Americans, Ger- the skies slumped heavi- packing military hardware that was mans, New Zealanders, British and i new when JFK was delivering his French—scurried aboard the bus. An Executive editor Joe Stuteville and inaugural address. We shook hands Australian television news crew in the photof^rapher John E. Simon traveled and posed together for photographs in back of the bus passed around bottles to Saudi Arabia in February and front of an Iraqi tank abandoned along of ale, forbidden beverages throughout March 1991 to cover Operation the roadway. most of the Arab world. Desert Storm. Their worii appeared in The only visible casualties of war * * * the June 1991 issue oflHE AMERI- here were a couple of dead goats and a More than six months had passed CAN Lf-GioN Magazine. camel behind the fueling station. since Saddam Hussein's army rum- After conferring with Saudi King Fahd, President George Bush immedi- ately deployed elements of the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne divisions to Saudi Arabia. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a burly, tough-talking four-star Army general, was given the task of organizing and commanding a force that ultimately would be used to drive Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Troops from other nations soon joined more than 500,000 GIs in the Gulf region. Meanwhile, negotiators hoped to PRIDE—A member bring the crisis to an end peacefully. of the 82nd Airborne greets The condemned the U.S. troops invasion and politely asked Iraq to by displaying vacate Kuwait, much in the way that Old Glory. bled south into Kuwait. during the occupation. Many you might ask a busy waitress to bring Within a few hours of their of those stranded were not you a second cup of coffee. Iraq's invasion on Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi troops even Kuwaitis, but foreign nationals negative response was tantamount to had complete control of the oil-rich from other Arab countries and the saying it had a legitimate claim to emirate. The last radio broadcast from Near and , working as laborers steal another nation, murder its people Kuwait's Ministry of Information was to send money home to their families. and take control of its oil fields. The a pathetic cry for help, an echo of The whole world watched uneasily United Nations issued a Jan. 15 dead- despair: "Hurry to our aid," a voice and wondered how long it would be line for Iraq to withdraw. 1 said. Then the signal fell dead. before Saddam's troops moved further The deadline was ignored, and in Murder, rape, torture and looting south into Saudi Arabia. Hussein's the early morning hours of Jan. 17, became the order of the day for those greediness outweighed only his brutal- 1991, U.S. Navy and Air Force war unfortunate enough to be left behind ity, analysts said. planes, joined by coalition aircraft,

17 streaked across the skies of Baghdad, mid-February, we were awoken dropping bombs and firing missiles by air-raid sirens, and a few designed to take out critical Iraqi moments later we heard the defense sites. Operation Desert Storm echo from two explosive thuds. had begun. A group gathered outside the Schwarzkopf was determined the hotel and looked upward to the operation would not take the no-victo- black canopy, looking for some ry course of the , in tell-tale signs of other attacks. which he served as a combat officer. A fly-boy for the British His order to commence the operation Royal Air Force, one of many was a combination of pride and poet- staying at the hotel, turned to ry: "I have seen in your eyes a fire of me. "Looks like you Yanks

determination to get this war job done took care of it. I guess your quickly. My confidence in you is total, Patriots will give us another our cause is just. Now you must be the night's sleep," he said, before thunder and lightning of Desert strolling back into the hotel Storm." lobby.

Hussein urged his troops on, Later, I would rediscover the describing the work at hand as the feelings that often accompany "mother of all battles." His forces GIs into battle. Army Sgt. retaliated against the coalition forces William Clemons Jr. and his by launching Scud missiles targeted fellow troops of D Company, for Riyadh and Dhahran in Saudi Ara- 11th Brigade, 43rd Air Defense bia, and Tel Aviv in Israel. U.S. air Artillery, understood their grim defense troops in Saudi Arabia quickly task well in the heart of "Scud responded by knocking most of the Valley." "We were scared at Scuds out of the air with Patriot mis- first, but as we knocked those siles. A few did slip through, the most damn things out of the sky, we tragic incident occurring near the end grew more confident in our of the war when a Scud slammed into abilities," Clemons said. a barracks near Dhahran, killing 28 But D Company's biggest U.S. troops. fear, according to Specialist Tyrone Hill, was not of being WOMAN'S WORLD—Army Sgt. Carol LaRoche of the 24th Inf. Div. was well-equipped for her Gulf tour. The the target: "We don't want to Birmingham, Ala., native didn't seem to mind being fail the people those Scuds are there, either. In less than aimed at. There are a whole lot 100 hours, of people depending on us and we can't let them down." Hussein's ^f: ^ ^ Shortly before dawn on Feb. 'mother of all 23, U.S. soldiers and Marines, accompanied by a formidable battles' became land armada of tanks and artillery, stormed into southern the granddaddy Iraq and Kuwait. Meanwhile, Iraq's military geniuses in of all defeats. occupied Kuwait City were staring out at the Persian Gulf, waiting for an amphibious The fear of Scud missiles was on assault that would never come. everyone's minds throughout the war, The U.S. -led coalition swept not so much for their explosive power, through southern Iraq and into but the potential for delivering chemi- Kuwait, meeting resistance, but cal and biological weapons. Hussein driving through Iraq's forces did, in fact, use such agents against the like a jackhammer. In less than rebelling Kurds in northern Iraq a few 100 hours, Hussein's "mother

months after the war. It seemed that of all battles" became the everyone in Saudi Arabia, military and granddaddy of all defeats, with civilian alike, had gas masks strapped lens of thousands of Iraqi

^^^^ tolu iheirmen hipsiii|)s or1)1 slungsiuiig overI their shoui- troops on the run and hundreds of others throwing down their AN OLD FAIVIILIAR SIGHT—Marine Sgt. Timothy Kovacs weapons and surrendering. of Pueblo, Colo., did what GIs of other wars did before VH|| On our second ni ght in Riyadh There were even reports of him—used his helmet to shave in. '"^"n shortly after arriving:g in-country in Iraqi troops surrendering to

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journalists, giving a new spin to

the old adage: The pen is more mightier than the scimitar. Many of the enemy troops particularly those who had been deployed in the front lines for months and often without sup- plies—were glad the war was over for them. They were hun- gry, they were tired and frankly their hearts apparently weren't up to the task of being cannon fodder for Hussein. Some were battle-wearied from Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. * * * Near the end of the ground

war, I was at King Khalid Military City near the Saudi-Iraq border, inter- viewing U.S. medical troops, when a C-130 land- ed on the runway with

wounded Iraqi POWs. As I stepped up on the ramp in the rear of the plane, one of the POWs in a sling smiled a toothless grin and raised his index finger in the air: "Meester Bush. He num- ber one!" ^ ^ ^ At a news conference at coalition headquarters in Riyadh, Schwarzkopf used gridiron terms to describe the victory. With its air force all but grounded in the early stages of the war, Iraq no longer had the aeri- al reconnaissance to detect the coalition ground force, STILL ON GUARD— which had boldly swung north- CpL Julio Hashow of , east into Iraq from northern top photo, relaxes Saudi. Led by a U.S. Army during a break In mechanized infantry division, desert training. the coalition troops had com- pleted a brilliant end-around play that trapped the enemy and BACK SAFELY—Air forced others to retreat. Force 1st Lt. Ralph Hansen of Gresham, And retreat they did. The Ore., above, fills out main road leading north out of his log after a mission over the Kuwait City was turned into a Saudi desert in his highway to hell. Fleeing Iraqi A-10 anti-tank troops packed into military aircraft. vehicles of every kind and description, not to mention those who carjacked Mercedes HAWK ALERT— and Volvos from dealerships. Marine Lance Cpl. Dajvan Jones of Those who refused to sun'ender Albany, N.Y., left, or fought back were stopped adjusts a HAWK dead in their tracks by coalition missile at an alrbase in firepower. Saudi Arabia. Coalition forces were poised Please turn to page 48

19 Veterans Of The Gulf

Standing Duty For

Folks At Home

says Debra Smith. "Without The Amer- Whether it was money for food or fixing things ican Legion, we would have been on

around the house. Legionnaires were ready to the street." Smith, ill from health prob- iend a hand to the famines of Desert Storm troops. lems associated with Persian Gulf Syn- drome, credits the one-time rent pay- ment with keeping the family afloat Facing few options, the Jackson, while his claim for Social Security dis- By Anthony Miller Miss., mother of two called the local ability was awaiting approval. National Guard Armory, where she Before most of America's sons and

] F Laura Towne had been learned about The American Legion's daughters departed for the war zone, J able to send an SOS in late Family Support Network. Towne called the Family Support Network was up 1990, the message might the toll-free number and her problem and running. With a blitz even Gen. have read: "Husband's was relayed to the Legion's Depart- "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf PPI National Guard unit activat- ment of Mississippi. Department Adju- might have envied, the Legion ed for Persian Gulf War. tant James Herring and then-Depart- launched a flurry of announcements Red tape snarling pay allot- ment Commander Robert Gosa verified promoting the network through videos, ments. No money for food. her need, issuing the family a $150 radio spots and newspaper ads. Kids hungry." grant to them over until Uncle Sam As they had done for families on the "1 wasn't looking for a handout," straightened out dad's pay records. homefront in past conflicts, grassroots

Towne says. "All 1 needed was a loan For the Smith family of Lewiston, Legionnaires came to the rescue. In to buy food for me and my daughters." Idaho, their crisis occurred a few years Oklahoma, for example. Legionnaires after David Smith returned home from helped the mother of a young man sent Anthony Miller is associate editor Gulf duly with the 1st Marine Div. to the Gulf recover his stolen car, of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- "It's so easy to get into a hole finan- though they had to drive to North Car- ZINE. cially, but it's hard to get out of it," olina to retrieve it. In Arkansas, an

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Smith faced eviction before the Legion stepped in to cover a month's payment accounting firm offered its until his disability their families. And by the Legion's "Operation Mail Call" by tax services to military fami- check arrived. November 1990 the Legion Indiana students and senior citizens. He

lies within a 50-mile radius. was shipping 15,000 copies also stopped by Legion China Post 1 in Fred Beans, owner of a Doylestown, a month of THE AMERICAN LEGION Dhahran, which became a haven for Pa., car dealership, offered his mechan- Magazine to units in Saudi Arabia. grunts happy to have a place to "chill ics' skills free to area military families out" from the desert heat, relax and once more. N MORE than 20,000 instances dur- even do their laundry. Temporary Financial Assistance ing 1990-91 alone, the Legion's Fam- The Legion continued to help troops requests increased as the push to mobi- lily Support Network helped families after they returned from Desert Storm. lize and deploy U.S. forces disrupted of Desert Storm troops with emergency One of them was Marine Michael

more lives. In a one-year period begin- financial assistance to pay for food, rent Bradford of Rock Island, III. Battling ning in November 1990. National or utilities, as well as arranging for health problems since his return. Brad- Headquarters processed 192 requests Legionnaires to mow lawns, make ford was about to lose his gas and elec- for $85,000 in financial aid to families household repairs, provide babysitting tricity when Legion Service Officer of veterans. On their own initiative. or keep the family car running. Erling Catlin of Post 227, East Moline,

Legionnaires at the Department level The Legion contingent that went to 111., stepped in and paid the family's also made substantial contributions to Saudi Arabia in October 1990 was the utility bill. help the families. first private tour of the war zone autho- The Legion Family Support Net- In a letter to President Bush within a rized by DoD and the State Depart- work may never be a footnote in histo- few weeks of the Iraqi invasion of ment. Turner, National Adjutant Robert rians' accounts of the Gulf War. But to Kuwait, National Commander Robert W. Spanogle and the 1991-92 leading the generation of Americans who S. Turner pledged the full force of the candidate for National Commander. fought and won Desert Storm, The organization's nearly 15.000 Posts and Dominic D. DiFrancesco, visited troops American Legion's "devotion to mutu- 10,000 Auxiliary Units and SAL and listened to their concerns. Turner al helpfulness" became much more Squadrons to support the troops and delivered letters written specially for than words on paper.

MAY 1996 21 Veterans Of The Gulf

By li-ent D. McNeeley

_m ESERVISTS and iw. National Guard 'Tisrnbers activated I J I W^^m during the Gulf War The Price Of —^^B expected trouble I H from their Iraqi ^ I H foes. Chances are, blue ^Hflf black H I H though, they didn't green 0t white the ^^B^H expect toughest purple ^Wednesday^ battles would be fought back -^^ I )t ys of the Week home in America. ^Jamrary Sunday For many, mobilization entailed »iintin I ^ a cut in pay from their civilian Monday earnings. For others, the return Tuesday home found them without work or possibly with health problems or injuries from the conflict that ham- pered their search for jobs. 1st Sgt. Bob Smith knows first- hand the problems faced upon returning home. "For many, your whole life starts over again. That was certainly my case," he says. Smith held a sales job before departing for the Gulf, one of sev- eral white-collar careers he pur- sued after his active duty service in the early 1970s. Salesmen must follow leads from qualified con- tacts for success, and Smith's sources simply looked elsewhere while he was in the Middle East.

"My contacts were gone when I

came home, so 1 got into a factory, manufacturing batteries. That was really the first blue-collar job of my life," Smith says. "I don't have HIS OWN BOSS— a college degree, and it seems for With no teaching most good jobs anymore you have jobs around when

to have that sheepskin. I guess it proves tion fully in society, despite he returned, sity didn't even know where reservist James Hale you're tenacious." occasional problems from to mail my degree and I had bought a child Smith set out to find another job in his yet-undiagnosed malady. care center. to go back to the state for the business world. He knew it Of course, having a my teaching certification," wouldn't be easy, and some nagging degree doesn't guarantee Hale says. health problems wouldn't help. Due to work either, as Sgt. James Hale, a Because a better job simply never some rashes and memory loss. Smith Marine Corps reservist from Pennsyl- came along for him. Hale cashed in on contacted the VA's Persian Gulf Syn- vania, can attest to. He shipped out for a few favors friends owed him and, drome registry. After spending some Saudi Arabia just after graduating from with additional help from his family, time on unemployment and working Penn State with a degree in education. got back into education, albeit in a various part-time jobs, he has clawed Hale had been substitute teaching for a slightly different manner than he had his way back, and now works with a while, and planned to parlay that into a originally planned. The young Marine mortgage broker. He continues to func- full-time job. Unfortunately, when he and his new bride bought a child care

returned all the slots were filled. center for preschool and kindergarten Trent D. McNeeley is assistant edi- "I went looking for work, and kept kids. tor of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- hearing, 'What happened to you?' Hale and Smith are by no means

ZINE. Nobody knew where I was. The univer- exceptions. Countless members of the

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Some 140,000 Reserve and National Guard members were called up

to serve In the Gull Few, It any, planned on losing ttieir Jobs Service while they were gone.

NEW CAREER— Bob Smith was in sales when he left. He had no leads or mar. They'll come from contacts when member serves on active armories in New Albany, he returned. duty for six months, she is Ind., or reserve centers in entitled to take an additional Redding, Pa. 90 days before informing her employer The more active role of the Guard of her intention to return to work. Less- and Army Reserve has not gone unno- er periods of service allow for shorter ticed by the government, however, and notification times. Congress has made sweeping changes • Returning soldiers must be given to reduce the physical, emotional and their jobs back at the same pay, seniori- economic effects. ty and status they would have had if Army Reserves and National Guard they had remained on the job. If they can offer similar experiences upon EIGHTEEN months ago, the Uni- missed a promotion, they must be returning from active duty. In missions formed Services Employment and trained and promoted. since the Vietnam War, the nation has Re-employment Rights Act (USER- In return, the law requires that shown a greater dependence on the RA) was enacted. This law ensures Guard and Reserve members must be National Guard and Reserves, especial- members of the Guard and Reserve honorably discharged, provide employ- ly in support roles. Nearly 140,000 of called to active duty will receive their ers with advance notice of their these part-time personnel served full- civilian jobs back once their stint is absence and notify them when they will time in the Persian Gulf. More than completed. According to Col. Jim Cha- return to their jobs. 2,000 Guard and Reserve troops were laire, national ombudsman for the Maj. Mary Ann Baldauf, the NCES- deployed in Haiti, with citizen-soldiers National Committee for Employer Sup- GR public affairs officer, says the mili- also serving in Somalia and Bosnia. port of the Guard and Reserve (NCES- tary has established committees in all "Weekend Warriors?" Maybe before, GR), the law specifies that: 50 states, the District of Columbia, but not anymore. • Employers must grant Guard and , , the If the shift continues, more and Reserve members time off for any mili- and the Marianas Islands, to resolve more of those called up for duty won't tary duty or training, including read- disputes between soldiers and their come from Fort Benning or NAS Mira- justment time. For example, if a Guard Please turn to page 48

MAY 1996 23 They won their war in no time fiat Now they are being os/cec/ to come forward again, this time to accept ieadership roies in the worid's iargest wartime veterans' organization.

CROSS THE nation in veterans. Then it was the Korean and Legion Persian Gulf War Veterans towns large and small, a Vietnam veterans' turn, and now Per- Task Force to fight for fair treatment of changing of the guard is sian Gulf War veterans are stepping ailing Desert Storm veterans and to taking place, as older vet- forward to lead the way. monitor issues that sorely affect their erans are relinquishing In the five years they have been eli- lives. command of Posts to gible to join the Legion, more than Still others came into the fold younger ones with fresh 45,000 Gulf War veterans have signed because of their patriotism, love of flag vision and a desire to up. or desire to help other veterans in their carry The American Le- Some no doubt joined because they communities. gion boldly into the 21st century. were personally helped by The Ameri- Take, for example, Staff Sgt. Bryan It's much like the chain of life in can Legion Family Support Network, Grzegorczyk of Francis Warren AFB, which the family's good name is which was created to provide emer- Cheyenne, Wyo. Grzegorczyk is one of passed from father to son. When they gency assistance and moral support to those go-getters at Post 6. "Somebody

returned home. World War II veterans their loved ones back home. on base told me if I put in as much time

were expected to eventually take over Others have come aboard because of in the Air Force as I do The American the reins of Legion Posts from WWI the establishment of 1 he American Legion, I'd be a master sergeant by

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once asking a new member to attend a Post meeting to help set up chairs. A few meetings later the young member felt comfortable enough to volunteer for a committee, he says. Like Grzegorczyk, former Army MP Ron Beedle believes older mem- bers should reach out to younger mem- bers eager to learn. Beedle, a member of Post 144 in Declo, Idaho, says he has been fortunate to have Fred Pre- ston, a WWII Navy veteran, as a friend and mentor at the Post. Another Gulf War hard charger, Beedle, 29, became a Legionnaire in 1994 and a year later was elected Post commander and led his Post to an all- time high membership.

"When I took over as commander, things were not too active, says Beedle.

"The whole Post decided it was time to let a younger member be commander.

I'm finding out that if everybody sticks

together, it works out. The more you do in the community, the more people will help." That attitude paid off for Post 144 and the Declo community on Memorial Day 1995, when Legionnaires dedicat- ed a memorial to Minidoka County vet- erans at a local cemetery. Topped by an American Legion emblem, the 4x6-foot stainless steel roll of honor includes the names of 82 area veterans buried there. Just down the road from Declo is Continued on page 51

now," says Grzegorczyk, known as that 120 Gulf War veterans are mem- "Alfie" at the Post because his name bers of the Post. uses a good chunk of the alphabet. A past commander and Gold Learning that a group of airmen on Brigade membership recruiter for Post the base needed a sponsor for a softball 6, Grzegorczyk is campaigning this team, Grzegorczyk went to his Post for year for Wyoming Department com- help. mander. He says he anticipates rolling The Post officers agreed to sponsor up 2,700 miles on his pickup truck the team in the Cheyenne Parks and attending District meetings and running Recreation League on the condition the for the office. players, all active duty Air Force mem- He says the secret in getting bers, joined the Post. younger members active in the Post is "I signed up 20 members in one to go slowly. RISING FAST—/n less than two years after joining the Legion, Ron Beedle night, and in the next week or two I "The big thing I found out was that became commander of Post 144, signed up 14 more, and now we've got you don't try to shove it down their Declo, Idaho. three teams," says Grzegorczyk, noting throats," says Grzegorczyk. who recalls

MAY 1996 25 ^INTERVIEW JONATHAN TUCKER

Saddam's Toxic Plot Did Iraqi military planners hatch a secret scheme to debilitate our troops with low levels of chemical and biological weapons?

HEMICAL and biologi- Before the start of the Gulf War, cal weapons (CBW) can Iraq also possessed a substantial BW do horrible things to the capability. The Iraqis produced at least human body. Most 19,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 8,500 countries view these liters of anthrax bacteria and 2,200 weapons as abhorrent liters of aflatoxin. In December 1990, and have signed interna- these three agents were filled into 166 tional treaties outlawing aerial bombs and 25 warheads for the their acquisition, posses- Al-Hussein missile—an extended- sion, and use. But a few nations, such range version of the Scud—and were as Iraq, have persisted in stockpiling deployed on a launch-ready status. and even using them. Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker has been a 0. During the Gulf War, did the CBW analyst for the congressional United States realize how extensive Office of Technology Assessment and Iraq's CBW arsenal really was? the U.S. Arms Control and Disarma- JONATHAN TUCKER A No, the Iraqi CW program was ment Agency. He was a member of a much larger in scale and scope biological-weapons inspection team in Iraq under the aus- than anyone had imagined, including U.S. intelligence. For

pices of the United Nations, and served for five months as a example, it was not known that Baghdad had produced sig- senior policy analyst on the staff of the Presidential Advisory nificant quantities of the supertoxic nerve agent VX. Iraq's Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. BW program was even harder to monitor. Several major In this exclusive interview with THE AMERICAN LEGION biological production facilities were not identified before Magazine, Tucker discusses Iraq's CBW arsenal and the the war and hence were not targeted during the coalition air

possible connection between Gulf War illnesses and low- campaign. Indeed, it was only several months after the level exposures to CBW agents during Desert Storm. war's end that UN inspectors discovered a huge BW pro- duction facility, known as Al Hakam, at a remote desert American Legion Magazine: What did Iraq have site outside Baghdad. in its toxic arsenal?

Q. Why was it so hard to assess Iraq's CBW capabilities? Jonathan Tucker: Chemical weapons (CW) are CBW production facilities are difficult to detect because man-made toxic gases or liquids that have incapacitating or A. most of the technology is "dual-purpose," meaning that

lethal effects. In contrast, biological weapons (BW) are dis- it has both legitimate commercial applications and potential ease-causing microbes and toxins—naturally occurring poi- military uses. For example, much of the chemical processing sons—thai cause illness or death. equipment for making pesticides is suitable for the produc- Iraq's chemical arsenal included hundreds of tons of mus- tion of nerve agents, and the same fermenters used to make tard agent, which induces painful skin blisters, and four vaccines can cultivate deadly BW agents such as anthrax types of nerve agents—tabun, sarin, GF and VX—which are bacteria. The Iraqis were also highly skilled at "deception among the most deadly chemicals ever produced. and denial" techniques, in which they deliberately sought to Not only did Iraq have an extensive chemical arsenal, but conceal the true nature of their activities from foreign intelli-

it had shown a willingness to use it. Iraqi forces employed gence services. mustard and nerve agents massively during the 1980-88 war with Iran and against the rebellious Kurdish minority in Q. Did Iraq deploy chemical weapons into the war zone northern Iraq. before Operation Desert Storm?

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A Several pieces of evidence suggest that such a deploy- HIGHLIGHT ment probably occurred. First, at least 18 declassitied U.S. intelligence reports on GulfLINK—DoD's web site on the Internet—refer to the presence of Iraqi chemical muni- tions in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO). Second, several Gulf War veterans have stated that they found chemical munitions with distinctive markings inside Surprises: 'T/ie /roq/ chemical-weapons Iraqi weapons bunkers in Kuwait, and that these bunkers program was much greater in scope were subsequently blown up by U.S. troops. In addition. Marine chemical-defense specialists who and scaie than anyone had imagined, operated FOX chemical-reconnaissance vehicles during the Inciuding U.S. infeiiigence." ground war have testified in congressional hearings that they detected CW agents inside Iraqi bunkers in the Danger: "Not oniy did Iraq have an Kuwaiti theater. extensive chemical arsenal, but it had Third, shortly after the ground war, PFC David Allen shown a willingness to use it Fisher, a U.S. Army scout, received a mustard-agent bum on his while exploring an enemy bunker complex a arm Strategy: Iraqi military planners recognized few kilometers north of the Kuwaiti border. The diagnosis that it is more disruptive to the enemy to was confirmed by Col. Michael Dunn, a former comman- injure and debilitate rather than kill, der of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Chem- ical Defense. because dead soldiers require less attention and resources than wounded Q. Does this mean that Iraq used chemical weapons? ones. A Not necessarily. Some veterans suffering from Gulf War illnesses have reported that immediately following Evidence: "Circumstantial evidence from a Iraqi Scud missile attacks, they experienced a burning sensa- variety of sources suggests that Iraq tion on the skin, choking, nausea, a profusely runny nose, deployed chemical weapons into the and a metallic taste before they could don their gas masks. A war zone. group of Navy encamped near the Saudi port of Al Please turn to page 50

MAY 1996 27 Veterans Of The Gulf

Perhaps more than anything—the mysterious illnesses, staggering medical bills and shattered lives—Desert Storm GIs are tormented by the thought that they have caused their children's birth detects.

By Ken Scharnberg

HE STILLNESS of the South Carolina night is interrupted only by the susurration of pumps and the gurgle of liquids, as sporadic beeps of moni- tors chart tiny Justin Dargan's life functions. What images form in the mind of a nine-month-old who fights daily for his life? Similar machines monitor two-year- old Casey Minns as he sleeps through the Maryland night. Unlike his brother, sister, and virtually all other healthy toddlers, Casey has never tasted food. Does he wonder what magic a choco- late chip cookie might hold? And what of Ryan Hager, who will soon 4? It's be Ryan has already had deniability. a familiar FAMILY TIES—The ly serving their country. numerous surgeries, but he's very scene, a grim rehash of gov- Dargans' lives Samuel and Nineer Dar- brave. He no longer screams when he ernment rhetoric repeated center around gan once had dreams, too. catches sight of the hospital. He sleeps whenever birth defects Justin, who since Nineer had earned her mas- birth has been at home in Ohio tonight, instead of an appear in children of parents ter's degree and planned on l(ept alive by four all-too-familiar hospital room. What exposed to atomic tests, or machines and going for her doctorate. Sam dreams visit his slumber? toxic chemicals like Agent several operations had spent time in the Army, Three children, all suffering from Orange. Attempts at rational on his heart. joined the reserves, then serious birth defects, all linked by a analysis tend to bog down in went back to the Navy, accu- common denominator of innocence and a haze of confusing data and poorly mulating 12 years of active duty and an pain, and an event that took place done government studies —poorly additional four years of reserve time. before they were bom—the Gulf War. done, that is, when they are done at all. He served aboard ship in the Gulf War. To date, there is no scientific But make no mistake, these children When he returned home, they had research that conclusively proves these and their illnesses are very real. They money in the bank and CD invest- children arc victims of the war. And are a new generation of victims, fol- ments, and their two children attended that's all the federal government needs lowing a bleak trail of statistical land a private school. Sam was stationed in

to continue its long record of plausible mines and control group booby traps on Norfolk, Va., when Nineer began their way to obscurity. They are chil- working toward a doctorate in public Ken S( harnhcr}> is the veterans dren of Desert Stonn: innocent casual- administration. The only cloud in their affairs editor of THE AMERICAN ties of war who have inherited their silver lining was Sam's knees, which Le:gion Magazine. father and mother's "crime" of faithful- he'd injured on deck while in the Gulf.

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION RELIEF—Lisa Hager helps her son, Ryan, with his but now his career is in breathing. Ryan, 3, jeopardy. Navy doctors has already undergone 10 say Sam's knees will get surgeries and no better and he's be- spent the first come a prime candidate eight months of his for a medical discharge. life in the hospital. "The Navy says they'll give him a medical buy- out of $38,000. Ju.stin's care will use that up within a month," says Nineer. A tragic story? Cer- tainly. A rare occurence? Usually—but less so in the case of Desert Storm. Ordinarily, Justin's con- dition appears just once in about 40,000 births. So far, at least four other babies with the same rare problem have been born to Gulf families. That's at least four more than should have shown up in the 40,000 births the Pen- tagon says have taken place in the Gulf War

Then Nineer became pregnant with with his vocal chords is rectified. Justin. Meanwhile, the infant clings to life. Late in the pregnancy, ultrasound One machine purifies the air he tests revealed that Justin had problems. breathes, another pumps food to his The right side of his heart was not stomach, another sucks fluids from his properly formed. "The first surgery cost trachea, and yet another monitors his more than $250,000," says Nineer. heart and breathing. "But CHAMPUS covered most of it." Gone are the savings, the CDs and Most, but not all. the private school. In December, their Right heart hypoplastia syndrome is local phone company cut off their ser- the technical term for Justin's condi- vice—an urgently needed life- tion, but because his digestive tract was line to the hospital if something malfunctioning as well, a G-tube had to happened to Justin. Nineer no be installed to allow food to reach his longer is pursuing her doctor- stomach. During the operation, a tra- ate. She gets a three-hour-a-day cheotomy was necessary and surgeons respite when a nurse comes to damaged Justin's vocal chords. their home to care for Justin. Today, Justin urgently needs two Sam's leave time was used more heart surgeries, but that must wait up during Justin's first surgen^'.

until the tracheal tube is removed, and The Navy granted him six- that can't happen until the problem months' compassionate leave.

MAY 1996 — ;

Veterans Of The Gulf

contingent. Nor is there any scarcity of other GULF WAR SYNDROME rare birth defects among Gulf veterans. Brad and Marilyn Minns' son, Casey, A Case Study was born in Germany with a birth defect known as Goldenhar. "Casey was bom with no left ear, a Spock right In Despair ear—like the guy on Star Trek—and a crooked jaw," says Marilyn. "His chest FORTY-TWO-YEAR- is not growing, and his esophagus was old Roger Parks, a regis- in two unconnected parts." tered nurse and Army She told of unsuccessful surgeries at reservist, was called to active Walter Reed Army Hospital where sur- duty during the Gulf War geons tried to manufacture a new and sent to an evac hospital esophagus out of part of Casey's colon. in a forward area. "The doctors described his esophagus "I was given every inocu- as being like Swiss cheese," she says. lation and pill known to The Minns finally lost confidence in the man," says Parks. "We had Army hospital, so they took Casey to chemical alarms sound in Johns Hopkins. "If we had continued to our area and we even went to follow Walter Reed's advice, Casey MOPP 4 [top level alert for would be dead," she says. Meanwhile, chemical attack]. We put on she says Brad, an Army MP with 14 our gear and took care of the ABANDONED—Roger Parks came home with a fungus years' service, will be forced out of the patients as well when that that eventually left him blind. Despite almost 19 ' military in May 1997. happened." years in the reserves and numerous medals, he gets no VA compensation. Casey is the Minns' third child. The Parks says the nuclear- two bom before Brad went to the Gulf biological-chemical person- are healthy, but Casey's condition is nel came around and told them there ications and sent me on my way. They causing the other two children stress was no need for concern: It was a false treated a lot of us that way." that requires counseling. The Minns, alama. "No one really believed that," Parks has mixed feelings about like the Dargans, are convinced their says Parks, who came home with an VA. "Individually, the people who children's problems are related to the "unidentified fungus" that eventually treated me have been terrific," he says, fathers' service in the Gulf. detached the retinas in his eyes, leav- but he is frustrated at VA's claims sys- Says Marilyn, "I think they knew ing him blind. "I was dmmmed out of tem. "Their own doctors, the retinal the risks when they sent Brad to the the reserves with 18 years, 10 months eye specialist they contracted to treat Gulf, didn't bother to five he bitterly. but warn anyone. and days," says me, all submitted statements concern- I want the government to his it take care of Thus robbed of retirement, ing my condition. The regional office Casey's medical expenses for the rest Parks would have been eligi- seemed ignored everything their own people of his life. It's the least they can do. My ble for VA disability compensation said. The Board of Veterans Appeals son has never tasted food. He can't if not for his blindness, then for other remanded my case back to the region- because he never had a chance to learn ailments, including short-term memo- al office and still no action has been to swallow. He lives 18 hours a day on ry loss, loss of balance, insomnia, den- taken." the pump, with only six hours off to tal pain, chronic fatigue and joint and Parks has a daughter, born long live a normal life, and he's been doing muscle pain, all classic symptoms of before the Gulf War, and she is that since he was bom, Aug. 7, 1993." the Gulf illnesses. healthy. But Parks worries about her, Another Goldenhar victim, little Not so. too, because she will be going to col- Ryan Hager, has already undergone 10 "The Army just cut me loose," he lege soon. If VA does not resolve his surgeries; he will be 4 on July 23. In says. "They acted like it was VA's claims, he does not know how he will fact, his first eight months of life were responsibility. VA acts like it is the pay for her schooling. spent in the hospital. Unlike in the Army's. We had to declare bankruptcy In end. Parks echoes the frustra- Minns' case, James Hager was out of and now we're living on my wife's the veterans: the service when Ryan was bom. Luck- income and SSI." tion of a great many Gulf President signed a bill granting ily, his company provided him with Parks filed for VA compensation in "The service-connected compensation for good insurance, but it has a lifetime 1991 for his blindness and in 1994 for ceiling of $1 million, which, says Lisa, his other problems. So far, he has not three years until they got to the bottom "is already half-used. Ohio does have a received one dime. When he submit- of what caused these problems. Where program for disadvantaged kids, but we ted a second claim in February 1994, is it? It's nothing more than politics is aren't eligible. 1 don't know what will "VA assumed my problems must be and damage control. This Agent happen when the insurance is gone." mental and gave me a bunch of med- Orange all over again." —KS

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actually become ill from the smell." After Brad returned from the Gulf, Marilyn herself experienced unex- plained blisters, akin to chemical BLEEDING LEGS— bums. William Pyle is For the wives of some Desert Storm rated 70-percent Ryan also has had a tra- disabled and he's worst-case statistical skew, combatants, sexual relations with their cheotomy that, after being in $30,000 in debt one would anticipate per- husbands has become a painful experi- place two years, damaged because of haps five or six such births. ence described as "shooting fire." medical bills VA his vocal chords. He, too, But there are at least 12 Could their problems, and Marilyn's as refused to pay. has digestive tract and respi- Goldenhar cases, and the well, be traced to whatever happened to ratory difficulties, and a numbers are growing, ac- their husbands in the Gulf? And why, if fused vertebrae. Hager says that while cording to Betty Mekdici, director of doctors term these blisters and skin the Marines warned troops of possible the Association for Birth Defect Chil- conditions "unexplained," do VA and short-term effects of some of the drugs dren (ABDC). Mekdici maintains a DoD researchers dismiss the problems they were given, "There was no warn- data bank of 250 Gulf War births, with Please turn to page 49 ing of any possible long-term effects." more arriving daily. Why isn't the federal government Granted, a registry is not a formal IS doing something about all this? For one scientific study, but that only under- THE LEGION thing, the government cites research scores the point: It's quite possible, THERE TO HELP suggesting that birth defects within the even likely, that there have been addi- WHEN THE American Legion was population of Persian Gulf veterans are tional Goldenhar births which have not formed in 1919, its founding princi- pal was very simple: veterans taking care no higher than birth defects elsewhere been registered. of veterans. True to this principal over the in the service. Problem is, looking Mekdici says that stud- govemment years, the Legion has found jobs for veter- behind such allegations requires sorting ies to date leave much to be desired. ans, helped them and their families out in through a quagmire of confusing and "They lumped all birth defects together times of need, and has continued to be staunch representative in obtaining sometimes incompatible data. Make the and came to the conclusion that the their benefits under an increasingly adversarial effort, however, and you are left with incidence of birth defects in Gulf War VA claims system. some eyebrow-raising questions. families was no higher than the overall Both William Pyle and Roger Parks in Consider Goldenhar. According to military norm," she says. "What they the "Do Babies Dream?" article are repre- most reference manuals, the condition did not look for was a distinctive pat- sented by American Legion service offi- cers. Both families were granted financial affecting Ryan and Casey has an inci- tem, for instance an increase in Gold- help through The American Legion Tem- dence of one in about 40,000 births. enhar births, to compare with the type porary Family Assistance program (see The Birth Defect Registry's of birth defects being experienced." page 20). And later this year, when the Executive Committee meets, The experience with the rare disorder has If there is a sad ring of familiarity in National American Legion will consider whether or been somewhat higher: one in about all this, it's because it's the same type not to sponsor a study on birth defects in children to 15,000 were bom with Gold- of "science" used by the govemment Gulf War families. Further information on enhar Syndrome during a 10-year peri- deny responsibility for birth defects of birth defects may be obtained by contact- od tracked by the Registry between children bom to Vietnam veterans and ing Betty Mekdici, the Association of Birth Defect Children. 827 Irma Ave., 1982 and 1991. Thus, even using the to those involved (often unwittingly) in Orlando, FL 32803: 1-800-313-2232. "liberal" California rates, testing. of course, it's not more you atomic And Gulf War veterans and their families would expect two or three Goldenhar just the children who are suffering. who need help should call The American cases, at most, among the 40,000 Casey's father. Brad, is sick and Legion hotline at 1-800-.504-4098. babies bom to Desert Storm GIs. In a believes the inoculations he received

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Veterans Update

FROM ERRORS APPARENT. .

lEPORTS filtering into lack of communication between VA insurance company is charged by VA American Legion head- medical centers and their regional for treating service-connected condi- quarters indicate that some offices. tions? R service-connected veterans For example, a veteran is given ser- "Call their VA hospital's MCCR I with private medical insur- vice-connection status for one condi- representative and find out what the ance—usually through their employ- tion. Later, a second condition is grant- billing was for. If it was an error, they er—are discovering that VA is billing ed, but no one at the regional office will correct it," says Linda Stalvy of their insurers for treating their service- bothers to inform the medical center. VA's public relations office. Veterans connected ailments. When the veteran is treated for the sec- also have the right to to ask for a waiv- This amounts to placing the respon- ond condition, the medical center com- er if the billing causes problems such as

sibility of wounds received in places puter shows it to be nonservice-con- over-extending insurance coverage like , Vietnam or Saudi Arabia on nected, and a bill is sent out. ceilings or raising premiums. American the backs of private insurance compa- These erroneous billings can be job- Legion service officers can help in nies. If you were injured when your threatening in today's atmosphere of requesting a waiver. tank ran over a mine near An Khe, do corporate downsizing. Disabled veter- Veterans also have contacted The you call Allstate? Hardly. ans have enough strikes against them American Legion in regard to a VA In fact, according to the United without ominous reminders from their questionnaire sent out to disabled veter-

States Code, collecting money for treat- employers that their care causes insur- ans; it asks not only for information ment of service-connected conditions is ance rates to rise. Worse, VA fees list- concerning their insurance, but the specifically banned. In fairness, VA ed on insurance claims often seem spouse's insurance as well. Often, says any bills it has sent out for service- excessive—$205 for a half-hour coun- when a veteran cannot get insurance, connected treatments are in error. The seling session for PTSD, or $194 for an the spouse may have insurance that cause of the mistakes range from sim- office call and consultation for an ex- includes coverage on the veteran. ple computer operator error to a nag- POW. Remember, charges are legitimate for ging problem VA has had for years What should veterans do when their nonserv ice-connected treament only.

...To Hidden Truth of it —to defray costs and improve The projections were used by GAO VA's ability to bill third parties for health care for our veterans. in a report requested by Arizona Sen. medical costs— in spite of periodic At the same time, the committees John McCain to address inequities in errors—appears to be a good thing, but for Health and Human Services (HHS), the way VA distributes resources to its appearances are deceiving. True, VA who control Medicare and Medicaid, medical facilities. The report shows can bill an insurer for treatment of non- refuse to cooperate in passing legisla- that 118 VA medical facilities had to service-connected problems. So, this tion that would allow them to reim- ration care in areas where funding allo- means VA recoups its medical costs, burse VA for the treatment of cations have not kept pace with the right? Wrong. Only the costs of admin- Medicare- and Medicaid-eligible veter- influx of veterans. GAO also reported

istrating the bills comes back to VA. ans. Why? Could it be that by allowing that at least 40 VA medical centers did For years, through the unending VA to foot the bill, HHS's budget man- not ration care at all. GAO says these "benevolence" of our lawmakers, VA's ages to look quite healthy year after inconsistencies were caused by VA's budget has shrunk in terms of real dol- year? failure to reallocate money to adjust for lars. Meanwhile, according to congres- the shift in veteran population. sional dictate, VA has zealously stalked Shrinking Population In response to the GAO report, VA the elusive dollar, recouping some According to VA statistics used in a said the problem should be rectified by $600 million last year in medical costs recent Government Accounting Office dissolving the traditional four regions alone. But did this money go back to (GAO) report, not only is the number overseeing VA's health-care network VA to improve health-care delivery? of veterans shrinking, but only one and creating 22 veterans' integrated Not quite! All but $1 10 million went to state—— is expected to see any service networks (VISNs). However, the federal government's General Fund, significant increases in veteran popula- VA had not made efficient use of an

where it was applied to all sorts of wor- tion by 2000. Arizona and Florida will earlier plan to correct funding in-

thy projects such as spending $20,000 only see a 1 percent increase or equities, and claimed that it needed each to help build homes for former decrease in veteran population, and all more time for transition; that its facili- Soviet military officers. other states will lose veterans, VA says. ties were unable to adjust to major In spite of intense lobbying, the Eleven states, including New York, Illi- changes in their budgets; and also that Legion has not been able to persuade nois, and Kentucky, are expected to VA officials were uncertain what Congress that VA should be allowed to lose between 15 and 20 percent of vet- caused the financial inequities at spe- keep the money—or at least a portion erans, mostly due to deaths. cific locations.

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION "

EUROPEAN DOCTORS BREAKTHROUGH! Prostate Disorders Can Be Relieved or Deterred!

Jay N. Gordon, M.D., Sidney L. Snow, an ABC-TV medical M.D., a urologist correspondent and says, "An astonish- one of the leading ing 80% of men will physicians in America eventually get a said, "European prostate disorder research has shown Prevention is the key.

that Pymoxin allevi- For many patients I ates prostate problems in many men and see in my practice, the Serenoa contained to side effects. in appears have no Before Prostate Pymoxin has led to significant improv- you consider surgery or prescription ments in nocturnal frequency, urgency drugs with all of their possible drawbacks, and even to some extent, potency func- " I think you should try Pymoxin. tions.

Recently actor Bill Bixby and musician High Success Rate no side effects is remarkable especially in light Frank Zappa died from prostate tumors. They A high percentage of the participants of the fact that all surgical techniques and cur- were only in their fifties! Doctors say that most receiving the extract were relieved and astound- rent drugs do. This substance does not require a prescription, is inexpensive is avail- men over 60 have some degree of prostate dis- ingly no side effects were detected. Most men and now order—and it is not unusual for men in their were able to regain their normal sexual func- able in the United States. forties and fifties to have minor prostate prob- tions in a short time. An American company is now making lems. After the distinctly positive results were this new European formula called Pymoxin

published in several leading medical journals, using only premium quality pharmaceuticals. Have To Get Up At Night? American urologists and medical scientists Already, over 500 medical doctors are Do you have to get up at night to urinate, tested the substance on numerous patients with using Pymoxin. Every man over 40 should be feel urgency, delay or dribbling at other times? prostate disorders here in the United States. taking it daily to help prevent this awful dis- Well, these are the first signs of a prostate dis- Their results concurred with those of the ease. already suffering order. Do you feel pain or discomfort when uri- European doctors. Those should act nating? If so, the disease may have advanced. immediately.

May Cause Impotence! "My doctor wanted to operate on me. However, I decided to try Pymoxin first. Free Report On Avoiding And Until just a few years ago, surgery was the I'm glad that I did. They eliminated all the Correcting Prostate Problems only choice for prostate disorders, but it was a problems I was having. You save a lot me One of the nation's top urologists has writ- horrible one! A sizable percentage of men of pain and a big medical bill. Thanks!" ten a 40 page report (A $39.95 value) in plain became impotent as a result, and at best the — D. Goris, . English on what causes prostate problems, how surgery only postponed the problem for a few to avoid this affiliction and the successful years. most

Best Guard Against non-surgical it. The highly touted prescription drug cur- methods of treating Abstracts of Up until the 1950's, the percentage of men rently available has had limited success. The the research papers are included. This interest- afflicted with prostate problems was nearly ing and valuable report entitled. Prostate common side effect is sexual dysfunction—not 50% less than it is in the 1990's. a welcome alternative. Health, is yours FREE with your order of Scientists believe that one cause is the lack Pymoxin. A Better of particular mineral which we normally get from several vegetables. The prostate needs 10 An amazing medical breakthrough has been Try Pymoxin For 21 Days limes more of this mineral than any other organ made in Europe that promises to put an end to in the body. At No Risk many prostate disorders. 38 of Europe's most The problem is that vegetables today have prominent medical scientists conducted dou- And you'll save 25% to 55% for a limited very low levels of that mineral because chemi- ble-blind studies in France, Germany, time on this introductory offer. If you are not cal fertilizers do not replace it in the soil. Prior Switzerland and Italy at 13 hospitals. pleased, just return the unused portion within to the 1950's, organic fertilizers were more The doctors tested an extract from the bark for a full refund. is commonly used which replaced the mineral 30 days A 30-day supply of an African tree on over 600 patients who had keeping prostate disorders at bay for greater regulariy $39.95, now $29.95; 60-day supply, various stages of prostate malfunctions. number of men. reg. $69.95, now $49.95; 120-day supply, reg. In , where farmers refuse to use chem- $129.95, now $89.95; and 180-day supply, reg. ical fertilizers, men have 85% less prostate ATTENTION DOCTORS: The research $149.95. now $109.95. The FREE report. problems than men in the U.S. data that substantiates the effects of this for- Prostate Health, will be shipped separately to Many scientists have proven in rigid dou- mula is available to all licensed medical pro- clinical tests that you. fessionals. Just send the request on your let- ble-blind supplementing your diet that terhead. It will be sent to you by return mail with mineral and the bark extract men- Call toll-free anytime. 1-800-406-1307,

at no charge. tioned earlier can reverse may prostate prob- ask for Ext. SG138, or mail your order to: S & lems and prevent the progression of others. ATTENTION PATIENTS: Please consult G Labs, 892 E. William Street, Dept. SO 138, your healthcare practioner if you are experi- No Prescription Necessary Carson City, NV 89701. Add $4.00 for ship- encing symptoms of prostate illness. The fact that this powerful extract produces ping and handling. Legion News

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ENTUCKY tors in Washington refuse to all Americans, this is an voters rank represent voters back home, issue worth fighting for. protecting the they could find Voters are telling their sena- flag a top pri- (^j^l^^gj^g themselves out of a tors, 'I'll see you in Novem- ority and an job." ber,' " Wheeler said. important issue in their lag Polls have Six senators who voted decision to elect a new U.S. been con- against the amendment seek Senator. Alliance, Inc. ducted in reelection this year. They According to a Tarrance several key are: Sens. Joseph Biden, D- Group poll, 62 percent of "These results demon- states since the narrow Del., Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Kentucky voters say they are strate this issue is one voters defeat of the flag-protection John Kerry, D-Mass., Carl less likely to support Sen. feel strongly about and will amendment in the Senate Levin, D-Mich., Mitch Mc- Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., influence their decisions in last December. Survey Connell, R-Ky., and Paul knowing he voted against upcoming elections," said results mirror those from Wellstone, D-Minn. Six the flag-protection amend- Dan Wheeler, president of similar polls last year. "Our members of the House of ment. Seventy-two percent the Citizens Flag Alliance findings in Kentucky, Min- Representatives who voted of amendment supporters (CFA). "The American peo- nesota and other key states against the amendment also say McCormell's vote actu- ple strongly favor passage of demonstrate remarkably seek election to the upper ally makes them less likely a constitutional amendment strong support for the flag- chamber. They are Reps. to support him in November. to protect the flag. If legisla- protection amendment. For Richard Durbin, D-IIL, Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., Jack Reed, D-R.L, John Bryant, D- Texas, and Robert Torricelli, D-N.J. Seventeen senators Unking Lives in Lnngmont voting for the amendment seek reelection. ARY Barnett Wheeler said all CFA and Ralph Bo- poll results indicate Ameri- zella know the cans will make their feel- best way to ings known to legislators at contribute to the ballot box. "The CFA America's future is to work will continue educating with children. They believe people on this issue until a kids should be taught to flag-protection amendment understand and appreciate is passed by Congress and history, the arts and more ratified by the states. The about American culture. flag-protection issue is here That's why the two Legion- to stay, and so is the CFA," naires of Post 32, Long- said Wheeler, who also an- mont, Colo., decided to nounced that the CFA office begin an artist-in-residence has moved to The American program. Legion National Headquar- The idea was to create a GETTING TOGETHER—4 portion of the Veteran's Memorial ters. veterans mural in Long's Mural at Long's Peak Middle School in Longmont, Colo., Correspondence should Peak Middle School linking depicts the raising of the flag at . The mural, which now be addressed to: The students and veterans of the honors veterans without glorifying war, was a joint project Citizens Flag Alliance, Inc., of students and veterans in the community. community. Post 32 Com- P.O. Box 7197, Indianapolis, mander Benny Romero IN 46207-7197; 1-317-630- helped drum up support for community played in Amer- dents participated by wav- 1384 or FAX (317) 630- the project, which resulted ica's history. ing flags donated by the 1385. The office is open in a beautiful piece of art The mural was unveiled Post, singing patriotic between 8 a.m. and 4:30 for the school, and for the last fall at a school program songs, and listening to Leg- p.m., Monday-Friday. Voice students, a greater under- attended by 700 students ionnaires who visited dur- mail is available after these standing of the role their and 200 adults. The slu- ing the day. hours.

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#15670 #10427 THE UETERANS' CONNECTION 6th Helicopter/1 50th Trans Maint Co, 41st Inf. Div. Assn. #15766 (Korea/Japan, 52-63) #11295 41st QM Truck Bn, 1/516 QM Car/VMF 6th Inf Div, 63rd Rgt, Co H #22440 Truck/Bus Cos (Canal Zone, WWII) VETS® is a service that provides information about mili- 6th Inf Div, 6th QM Co #19142 #16276 6th Inf Div Assn (WWII/Korea/AK) 43rd Inf. Div., 102nd Rgt., Serv. Co. tary reunions, helps veterans find old buddies and arranges #20565 (Ger., '50/53) #20913 reunions, travel and accommodations. 6th Inf Rgt, McNair Bks (Berlin, 45-85) 43rd Inf Div, 169th Rgt, Tank Co (Ger, #22410 51-53) #13404 REUNIONS INFORMATION 6th QM Trng Rgt (Camp Lee, 41) 44th/55th AAA Bde. (53-55) #20748 #14193 44th Inf Div, 1 1 4th Rgt #1 61 1 This month there are 878 military reunions listed on these 7th/19th Evac Hospitals (Fort Dix/S. 45th Inf Div, 179th Rgt, C Co (Korea) Pacific, 41) #20890 #20481 pages. In addition, VETS® has information on more than 7th Army, 12th Chem. Maint. Co. 45th Inf Div, 179th Rgt, G Co (Korea) 12,000 other reunions. Call weekdays, 12 noon to 8 p.m., (Baumholder, Ger. '52/54) #14910 #22780 7th Army, 17th Inf Rgt (WWII) #23164 45th Inf Div, 279th Rgt #15902 CDT. Calls cost $1.95 per minute. The average call takes 7th Inf Div, 17th Inf Rgt Assn #18852 45th Inf Div, 279th Rgt, 1st Bn, Hq Co three minutes. 7th Inf Div, 31st Rgt #19698 #15871 7th Inf Div, 31st Rgt, F Co (Korea) 45th Inf Div, 279th Rgt, B Co #16206 1 (900) 737-VETS #18900 45th Inf Div "Thunderbirds" (WWII/ 1 (900) 737-8387 7th Inf Div, 31st Rgt, G Co #19159 Korea) #15990 If you know the VETS® five-digit number assigned to 8th Arm'd Div Assn "Thundering Herd" 47th Inf, 204th Med Bn, Co C (1951-53) #15403 #22408 your ship or unit, please give it to the operator. The number 8th Army, 8178th TAMM (Korea) 51st A/B Inf., LRP/LRSU, F Co. (VN/ #22448 Gulf/Ft. is printed after each outfit's name listed in the magazine. If Bragg) #16340 SthFAObs Bn #13295 51st Field Hosp., 2nd Unit (Coburg, you don't know the number or do not see your ship or unit 8th Inf Div, 13th Rgt (WWII) #16337 Ger. '44/45) #19507 listed in the magazine, VETS® operators may still be able to 8th Inf Div, 3rd Bn, Co 0 #22476 52nd Combat Avn. Bn. Camp Holloway 8th Inf. Div., 68th Arm'd Rgt., 5th Bn., B Assn. #11292 provide you reunion information. Units are enrolling in Co. (Mannheim Ger., '66/69) #20930 52nd Engr(C) Bn (WWII) #22479 VETS® daily. 9th Inf. Div., Ist-llth Arty.(VN) #21541 52nd MP Co #19841 9th Inf. Div., 2nd-39th (VN) #21549 55th General Hospital #15439 PLANNING A REUNION 9th Inf Div, 47th Rgt, 4th Bn, Mobile 56th Sig Bn Assn #16733 Riverine (VN 1969/70) #13758 59th Field Hosp. (Europe, WWII) VETS® will help you arrange your outfit's reunion at no 9th Inf Div, 47th Rgt (Ft.Riley, 1966, VN #19625 cost and save money in the process. Finders/Seekers® ser- 1966-69) #21393 62nd -Sig Bn, A Co (WWII) #12150 9th Inf Div, Mobile Riverine Force Assn 64th Gen Hospital (WWII) #16257 vices are included free for VETS® managed reunions. VETS® (VN) #22977 65th Inf. Div., 265th Engr., C Co. also will maintain reunion coordinators' mailing lists and 9th Ord. Bn., Spec. Wpns. Support #21204 #15585 67th AAA Gun Bn, C Btry (WWII) unit archives, and handle all reunion publicity needs. Tell us 10th Arty, 6th Bn (Ger, 63-67) #19421 #14147

what you want, and we will do the work. 10th Inf Div, 85th Rgt, I Co (Ft Riley 68th Med Rgt Assn #19266 '50/51) #19742 68th QM Refrig. Co. (WWII) #15418 REUNION PLANNING & TRAVEL 10th Mountain Div., 605th FA Bn., A 70th/554th AAA Gun Bns (Bethesda, Btry.(PK) #12374 MD 53/54) #19165 Call VETST/?AVEL. You'll get the lowest possible 10th Sta Hospital (WWII) #15953 71st Sig. Serv. Bn., B Co. (1945/46) 1 1th A/B Div Assn (Inc1 1 1th Air Assault, #21030 hotel, banquet, tour and travel rates. 42-65) #14244 76th General Hospital #16149 1 (800) 844-VETS 12th Evac Hospital, 212th MASH (VN- 79th Inf Div, 313th Rgt, 'Cross of Lor- Present) #23173 raine Assn" (WWII) #15637 1 (800) 844-8387 12th FA Observ Bn (WWII) #15396 83rd Chem Mortar Bn #16385 13th A/B Div Assn #15383 83rd Inf Div, 329th Rgt, E Co (WWII) FINOING A RUDOY 13th Major Port #22806 #16002 14th Arm'd Div "Liberator" Assn (WWII) 83rd Inf Div, 329th Rgt, Hq Co (WWII) Looking for a buddy or long lost relative? Finders/Seek- #10814 #16490 ers® service will send you a computer listing of names, 16th FA Observ Bn #15390 83rd Inf Div, 331st Rgt, I Co #20709 18th FA Bn. (Korea, '50/53) #11516 84th & 62nd Engr. Const. Bn. (Korea, addresses and phone numbers of people in the United States 20th Engr Bde (VN) #22283 1950-53) #14727 who have the same name as the person you're seeking. Find- 20th Engr(C) Assn, 20th/1 340th Bns, 86th Engr Hvy Ponton Bn (WWII) 1 1 71 St Gp HQ (WWII) #1 5365 #10471 ers/Seekers® guarantees you will get at least one name that 23rd Arty Grp/32nd Arty, 6th Bn (Ft 86th Inf Div, 341st Rgt, I Co (WWII) matches, or it will refund your money. Search fees are $25 Lewis, WA 62-64) #19769 #23020 23rd inf "Americal" Div (WWII/Korea/ 87th Chem Mortar Bn Assn #18925 per name. Allow six weeks for a reply. VN) #15926 88th MP Co #23159 Write Finders/Seekers®, P.O. Box 901, Columbia, MO 24th Inf Div, 21st Rgt, L Co (Korea, 91st Chem Mortar Bn (aka 1st Sep 50/51) #12001 Chem Bn, Co A) #16395 65205-0901; or call (800) 449-VETS. Mastercard/VISA 25th Inf. Div., 13th Arty., 3rd (How) Bn., 92nd Sig Bn (WWII) #10333 accepted. B Btry. (VN, '66/67) #19842 93rd Arm'd FA Bn Assn #15616 25th Inf Div, 24th Rgt, 3rd Bn, K Co 94th QM Baking Bn, A/B Cos(41-45) #22406 #16432 25th Inf Div, 27th Rgt (Korea, 50-53) 96th Inf Div, 383rd Rgt, E Co (WWII) #19090 #15527 OUTFIT REUNIONS 25th Inf Div, MP Co (Korea/HI/PTO, 53- 96th Inf Div Assn "Deadeyes" #16567 55) #13057 97th Inf Div, 365th FA Bn #15631 26th Inf Div Assn "Yankee Div" 97th Inf Div, 387th Rgt, C Co #11360

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letting off steam. I wouldn't get too close though. Already had a few folks about 50 kilometers south of Iraq's popped by friendly fire." civilian employers, and to educate capital as Schwarzkopf, the Saudi mil- His last comment reminded me of employers on the laws that protect itary commander and a handful of oth- what my Army drill sergeant once told reservists' rights. ers met with Iraqi military leaders in a our platoon in basic training nearly 20 "The reemployment rights of return- tent to draw up the terms of the sur- years before: "Friendly fire, isn't." ing vetercins are a vitally important and render. Indeed. The main drag, leading complicated topic for employers and * * * north-south near the banks of the Per- employees," says Maury Baskin, an The bus slowly entered Kuwait sian Gulf, was an endless stream of attorney in the labor and employment City, carefully dodging the chest-deep vehicles, and their occupants were fir- law section of Venable, Baetjer and craters left by artillery shells. The city ing AK-47s, M-16s and an assortment Howard. looked like Beirut with a hangover. of handguns. Many waved small He recommends all employers get Buildings were smashed and glass American flags and held posters with competent legal representation to scattered everywhere. photographs of George Bush and the ensure compliance with the complex Homes were gutted by fire, and emir of Kuwait. provisions of USERRA. That's good now empty was the hospital where U.S. soldiers and Marines stood on advice for the nearly 1.8 million non- Iraqi henchmen tortured and murdered the sidelines, the obvious heroes of the career military personnel who will be Kuwaiti and foreign nationals during hour. Kuwaitis shook their hands and affected by the act, too. the occupation. offered their thanks and small gifts. In this overly litigious society, how- Nearby were freshly covered The looks on our troops' faces was a ever, legal action should be the last mounds of earth, where the victims' mixed bag of fatigue, confusion and a resort. "Most problems are resolved by bodies hurriedly had been buried. The lot of pride. simply providing accurate information smiling likeness of Hussein was paint- "I ain't ever been kissed so much in to both sides," Col. Chalaire says. ed on the sides of some of the build- my whole life," said one sheepish Meanwhile, The American Legion ings, an ugly reminder of the seven- Marine. "I just wished a few of them has established the Persian Gulf War month occupation. hadn't been men." Era Veterans Task Force, headed by We stopped in front of the U.S. But not all were in a celebrating Matthew Puglisi, assistant director of mood. We later hitched a ride with an the Legion's veteran's affairs & reha- angry Syrian who remained in Kuwait bilitation division in Washington, D.C. The amazing walk-behind brush cutter! City during the occupation. Working with Dr. Les Boden, a Boston The DR» FIELD and He had taken the car at gunpoint University economics professor, the from a retreating Iraqi soldier. "They Legion hopes to develop and execute BRUSH MOWER were animals," said Khaldoum Alsafa- an economic impact study concerning CLEARS & MAINTAINS meadows, pastures, di, who lost family members and his Gulf War veterans. woodlots, wooded and rough non-lawn areas tailoring business during the occupa- Puglisi says the study will be com- with ease. CUTS tall grass, weeds, brambles, tough brush and saplings up to 1 " thick. tion. pleted within the next year, with inter-

CHOPS/MULCHES most everything it cuts. "Tears will not go away for many im results released whenever they Leaves of brush to pick up like NO TANGLE years, I think. We must rebuild. "Even would immediately benefit Gulf War hand-held brushcutters and sicklebar mowers. on the day before they fled from veterans. "We must ensure future veter- Perfect for low-maintenance wildflower meadows, European- Kuwait City, Iraqi troops were con- ans won't have their lives destroyed style woodlots, walking paths, ducting a last-ditch reign of terror. "I just because they were called up to or any area you only want to was at the mosque and saw them take defend their country," says Puglisi. mow once a month or once a season a Kuwaiti man away from his wife, "The price of service has already been

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48 THE AH/IERICAN LEGION such as Louisville, Ky. Reports of records lost, hearings scheduled with- BABIES out notifying the service officer or the 32 Continuedfrom page veteran, and examinations missed are common. Pyle is rated 70-percent disabled and says VA was very slow rating him. Further, when he had to have emer- as familiar, known diseases? These are gency hospitalization at a local hospital just a few of the many questions with in Hood River, VA refused to pay the unsatisfactory answers. bill because they did not get 72-hours fathers Justin also notice. was forced to sell his home The of and Casey Pyle 58-Year-Old Stamp Set are experiencing health problems. Sam and is $30,000 in debt, $6,100 of which Dargan, a Navy radioman, suffers from is the hospital bill. He attempted to Honors America's Greatest fatigue, severe back pain and rectal return to his old job as warehouseman U.S. War Heroes bleeding. James Hager combats joint and truck driver, but in March 1996, Get this historic mint set of America's pains, dizziness and chronic headaches. the swelling and pain in his legs had greatest U.S. War Heroes and save 45% Hager, a Marine, was inoculated with become so unbearable he had to quit. off the regular price! This famous 1936- anthrax serum and given an anti-nerve "I would like some of us to go 1937 stamp set honors great military lead- ers 18th and 19th centuiy America. agent in the Gulf. He says when chemi- before the Senate committee and have of The 10-stamp set is yours in mint cal-detection strips attached to his them just look at us," he says. "What if fresh condition for only $3.00. Limit one unit's tanks and other vehicles turned we had been your kid? If this had hap- set. You'll also receive special collector's color, they were told to "ignore it." pened to a general or some lawmaker, information and pricelists along with- William Pyle of Hood River, Ore., there'd be all sorts of action." other offers on approval. echoes Hager' s concerns. "I was in VII The government has made a great I 1 Corps, a unit that went up against the show of concern over the Gulf illness Greatest U.S. War Heroes j Republican Guard," he says. "We issue, but the interim report issued by Send $3.00 and coupon to: ripped through their armor and defens- the Presidential Advisory Committee Mystic Stamp Co., Dept. XI 61 es, blowing everything up along the on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses was Camden, NY 13316 way. I think it is very likely that those only mildly critical of VA and DoD for Name tanks, containers or munitions con- their handling of Gulf War illnesses. Address tained chemical weapons." According to Matt Puglisi, director City/State/Zip Pyle, a 46-year-old veteran of both of the American Legion Persian Gulf Vietnam and the Gulf wars, was injured Task Force, anyone who sat in on the in the Gulf and underwent surgery to committee's hearings would have replace a knee. "Afterward, my legs thought the panel's report was based on turned purple and then started to some other hearing. In the hearings he Blebwsfc^^tipn bleed," he says. "VA has no idea what witnessed, he says DoD was raked over it is. They call it a cross between Van the coals for its mishandling of the Willibrand's disease and Gulf illness. investigations and lack of coordination My legs bleed from the inside out." and cooperation in releasing informa- Pyle's children were bom before the tion. This never made the report. Gulf War started, but his illness shows Even if research finally does reveal signs of contagium, a communicable something happened in the Gulf, no disease. His son has skin rashes, and system exists to help Gulf families. VA shortly after Pyle returned from the won't take the children; by law, VA Gulf in 1991, his daughter underwent can only treat vetercins. DoD won't take "See How America Grew" Village. Some- surgery and Pyle gave her blood. Now, them, because sick veterans are eased The Harold Warp Pioneer thing to fascinate every member of the like her father, the 19-year-old has out of the service. lawmakers? And family. The only Museum of Progress in problems with unexplained bleeding. Well, it's an election year. Somewhere the U.S. where items are placed in their Pyle has high praise for VA's doc- tonight, a fundraiser will take place and chronological order of development. See 350 antique autos, including the first Cadil- tors and nurses, especially the treatment some politician will promise to "do the lac built by Ford, 100 antique tractors, 20 he has received from Dr. Albert Yates, right thing" for these veterans. historic flying machines, 7 generations of oldest who is chief of orthopedics in Portland. For that matter, somewhere tonight, kitchens, living rooms & bedrooms, steam powered Carousel, old time toys, "Dr. Yates said there is nothing they a researcher will tally the results of dolls, guns and music machines. See can do. Congress has got to get VA some survey, look once more at who working crafts from the past and enjoy the decent health care funding. Those peo- signed the check for the grant financing frontier Village green with authentic build- ings from the past. Reasonable admission, ple at my VA hospital are doing super his work and wonder what "doing the second day free. Adjoining campground, work with almost nothing," he says. right thing" could do to him in his pub- motel & restaurant. Call 1-800-445-4447 If Pyle has complaints about VA, lish-or-perish world. for information. they are, like those of most Gulf veter- And somewhere tonight, a baby will Open Year Round, 7 Days A Week 8 a.m. to Sundown ans, in the area of claims. VA central- sleep, and his mother will lie awake in ized Gulf claims and in doing so, effec- the darkness listening to the machines 2 miles south of 1-80 at Exit 279. tively left Gulf veterans without keeping her child alive. And the tears Take Harold Warp Memorial Drive (Nebr. Hwy 10) to representation. Now, once a claim is will flow once again, as she wonders if Minden, Nebraska. Entrance on U.S. 6, filed, records, C-files and claims infor- her baby's dreams have been stolen U.S. 34 & Nebr. 10. mation are sent to a central location, forever.

MAY 1996 49 tion between the acute symptoms taining nitrogen dioxide, a poisonous reported by veterans and the effects of gas. After Scuds were launched, the TUCKER standard CW agents such as mustard rocket engines would often shut down Continuedfrom page 27 and nerve agents. For example, many in mid-trajectory before all of the veterans report that they felt a burning kerosene fuel and RFNA had been con- sensation on their skin shortly after a sumed. If significant quantities of Scud blew up nearby, yet it's known RFNA remained when the missile hit Jubayl had similar symptoms after a that mustard agent does not cause pain the ground, the resulting cloud of nitro- mysterious double explosion in the sky until about eight hours after exposure. gen dioxide may have exposed troops at 3 a.m. on January 19, 1991, a few An alternative hypothesis is that a as far as a few kilometers downwind. days into the air war. Most of those chemical known as red fuming nitric Indeed, many symptoms of nitrogen- who experienced acute symptoms that acid (RFNA), which Iraq used as an dioxide exposure are similar to those of night have since developed chronic ill- oxidizer in its Scud missiles, may have Gulf War illnesses. RFNA doesn't nesses. caused some toxic exposures. RFNA account for the whole story, however, However, there's not a clear correla- gives off a reddish-brown smoke con- since many sick veterans say they were not present near Scud impacts. Another possible explanation for Gulf War illnesses is that U.S. troops A Specid Offer For were exposed indirectly to Iraqi CW agents that were released into the atmosphere by the coalition bombing of American Yeterans From Iraqi munitions storage bunkers and then carried by weather fronts over The Mcmm Hotel & Casino. northern Saudi Arabia, much like the smoke from the Kuwaiti oil fires. ONLY Indeed, a few days into the air cam- paign, Czech chemical-defense troops near King Khalid Military City detect- ed low levels of nerve agent in the air, and French troops in the area made PER ROOM - similar detections. At the same time, PER NIGHT the M8A1 chemical agent detector/ UP TO FOUR ADULTS alarms deployed with U.S. units in SUNDAY -THURSDAY Saudi Arabia began to go off repeated- ly—so often, in fact, that the troops Coll Now & Receive FREE Comedy Mcfgic ultimately ignored or even disabled them. The Defense Intelligence Agency Tichu, Tw-For-One' Bwfets, A WEE has since studied the Czech detections carefully and concluded that they were Fun Book And A Qi/t When You Check In. probably valid. DoD officials insist that the nerve agent detected by the Czechs This summer, it's easy to stay at the could not have resulted from chemical

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Gulf War and is trying to address it. voking U.S. retaliation. Indeed, three Iraqi militaiy manuals on chemical and THEIR TIME pat^e Q. Why is it so difficult tu determine biological warfare, published before the Continuedfrom 25 whether Iraq used these weapons? Gulf War and translated by U.S. intelli- Since there were not large num- A gence, discuss the use of CBW agents bers of chemical casualties U.S. to produce nonfatal casualties rather during the war, it's clear that Iraq did than deaths, with the aim of disrupting Mountain Home, where another Air not resort to the widespread use of CW the enemy's operational tempo and Force veteran, Margaret Collier, is a Nevertheless, the agents. declassihed his logisti- overburdening medical and member of Post 101. Collier, 32, is a logs of the 1st and 2nd Marine Divi- cal infrastructure. Iraqi military plan- year away from earning a bachelor's sions and the Army's 101st Airborne ners recognized that it is more disrup- degree in history from Idaho State Uni- Division report several detections of to tive to the enemy injure and versity in Pocatello, where she served nerve and mustard agents during the incapacitate rather than kill, since as Post 4's first female commander ground war, using reliable methods far attention dead soldiers require less before moving west to Mountain such as the M256 chemical analysis kit and resources than wounded ones. Home. Conceding the point that and the mass spectrometer on the FOX This strategy is consistent with the vehicle. strength in numbers translates into reconnaissance The opera- fact that Iraq acquired nonlethal but tional also influence. Collier believes Legionnaires logs describe repeated incapacitating biological agents such as should be concerned with getting encounters with Iraqi chemical muni- more afiatoxin, rotavirus and camelpox. their fellow members to respond more tions left in bunkers and abandoned Since the end of the Gulf War, vehicles, corroborating eyewitness tes- to veterans' social and health-care con- senior Iraqi officials have denied that timony. cerns. they used CBWs, claiming that they Given all of this circumstantial evi- "We need to stop the bean counting were deterred by the U.S. threat to dence, it's clearly premature to rule out and get motivated," she says. "For our retaliate massively to any such attack. the possibility that U.S. troops were programs to work, we need volunteers Even so, the Iraqi denials should not exposed to extremely low levels of to get out in the community and find necessarily be taken at face value. chemical agents over a period of days these younger veterans. We need to tell Baghdad has consistently lied about its or weeks. DoD's own safety documents them, 'You're a veteran and you pre-war CBW capabilities and inten- that repeated exposure to sublethal shouldn't be ignored. Are you proud to note tions over the past five years, only have served? Are you proud to be an doses of nerve agents can have cumula- divulging infomiation grudgingly. tive toxic effects. Although such expo- American? Then join up.'" sures would not give rise to dramatic Q. How consistent are the symptoms Collier doesn't talk the talk without symptoms, it's possible that they may of Gulf War illnesses with low-level walking the walk. She and two other have contributed to the subsequent exposure to CW agents? women members at her Post are work- emergence of chronic illness. At a min- A A 1975 study by an East German ing with community leaders to fund a imum, this hypothesis deserves more scientist named Karlheiz Lohs shelter for battered women. serious attention than and the DoD VA found that people who had worked in For Margaret Collier, Ron Beedle, have so far been willing to give it. CW production facilities in Germany Bryan Grzegorczyk and thousands of veterans II were the Persian Gulf War who Qa Why would the Iraqis use low during World War and exposed to low levels of mustard and nerve were welcomed home to yellow rib- doses of CBW agents to debilitate agents over a period of years developed bons, the future is now abundantly our troops rather than kill them? health problems similar to those report- clear. One possibility is that the Iraqis A Those yellow ribbons have become intended to use chemical or bio- ed by Gulf War veterans. their blue caps of service. As National logical weapons on a large scale during Unfortunately, there's little if any Commander Daniel A. Ludwig puts it, the ground war but were prevented data on whether exposure to low levels "They are the ones who must preserve from doing so. Indeed, the remarkable of CW agents over a period of weeks or the strength and dignity of The Ameri- speed of the advancing coalition forces, months—comparable in duration to the can Legion for the benefit of those vet- combined with the effectiveness of the Gulf War—could also induce chronic erans who follow them." strategic bombing campaign in disrupt- illnesses. ing Iraq's military intelligence, com- munications and command structure, Q. What lessons have we learned from the Gulf War? made it difficult for Iraqi commanders IN One important lesson is that COMRADES DISTRESS to select battlefield targets for chemical A attack. Furthermore, the prevailing CBWs pose a major threat to our Readers who can help these veterans are urged to write witness letter, including the CID number. Send the winds, which for six months had blown military forces. Current U.S. Army a letters to CID, The American Legion Magazine, Box 1055, from the northwest out of Iraq, shifted chemical-defense doctrine does not Indianapolis IN 46206. Notices are published only at the requests of American to the southeast at the beginning of the even acknowledge the problem of sub- Legion Service Officers representing claimants using ground war, so that conditions were not acute CW hazards, and the M8A1 Search for Witness Forms available from Legion Depart- well-suited for chemical warfare. Any chemical agent detector/alarm lacks ment Service Officers. the sensitivity to CW use by Iraqi forces would have required detect such 3rd Brigade, 5th Bn., 60th Inf. Lawrence Kefler needs witnesses to verify that while stationed with the been sporadic and ineffectual, but it low concentrations. More research is 9th Div. In 1969-70, he suffered a gastrointestinal disor- still may have exposed U.S. troops to needed to determine the medical der due to dysentery. low levels of the agents. effects of low-level exposures. Unfor- MAAG, Lucien C. Gilbert needs witnesses to verify that while he was stationed with MAAC, Lis- possibility is that Iraq this is A second may tunately, issue absent from the bon, Portugal In 1956, he was hospitalized. have engaged in the deliberate low- list of medical research projects on Marine Combat Action Platoon Jerry L. Young needs witnesses to verify that while stationed with GAG 41- level use of CBW agents. Such use Gulf illnesses sponsored War by DoD 5, Dong Ha, Vietnam, In April 1970, he was Injured would have been carried out covertly, and VA. by a hand-grenade explosion.

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