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VA treats, and the reductions in our waiting lists, ‘Putting veterans fi rst’ are fueled by the 40-percent increase – if you The relationship between the Department of include the president’s 2005 budget request – in Veterans Affairs and the men and women who VA’s health-care budget during my watch. If the served our nation in uniform is “a matter of president’s budget for 2005 is approved, I will have trust,” as you stated in your February article. more than $1 billion available in 2004 and 2005 to However, VA’s doctors and nurses cannot provide get construction projects started and begin trans- the quality health care necessary to fulfi ll that forming CARES from a promise into the reality of trust if our nation consigns veterans to health better, more convenient medical care for veterans. care in facilities built, designed and located to This transformation will not take place over- provide medical care as it was practiced after night. Implementation of major construction World War II or even World War I. projects identifi ed in the plan will require the CARES (Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced rigorous analysis that comes with the required Services) is about quality health care, not about congressional authorization and appropriation. In money. It is a 20-year blueprint for reversing the no community is VA even considering closing past decade’s declining VA health-care construc- facilities and just leaving. Even in those few tion budgets by outlining a systematic, nation- locations where facilities would be realigned, we wide, multibillion-dollar plan for the facilities will retain the outpatient capacity providing most needed to provide 21st-century veterans with more of the care for most of our veteran patients, with convenient access to modern medical treatment. inpatient care provided at nearby VA facilities or Today’s veterans, and the VA that serves them, under contract by community hospitals. In some inherited a health-care system built when hospital places, that care will be in brand-new clinics. beds and medical care were synonymous. That My guiding principle is “putting veterans fi rst,” equation no longer holds true for modern medi- and I am determined to give timely, quality health cine. The million dollars a day consumed by care for veterans a higher priority than maintain- unneeded and obsolete buildings and referred to ing obsolete or duplicative buildings. VA has in the frequently cited GAO report is the symptom already made similar transitions at facilities like of VA’s challenge, not the reason for it. We won’t the former medical centers in Fort Howard, Md., address the root cause until we create the modern and Fort Lyons, Colo. CARES is nothing new; it is health-care infrastructure that veterans in the only more systematic and national in scope. And 21st century deserve and are counting on. when the process is completed, America’s veter- While money is not the reason for CARES, ans will have better access to a more modern money is a critical resource for our health-care health-care system – a health-care system worthy system and for CARES. The past three years of of their trust. unprecedented growth in the number of veterans – Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi

Promises broken ment department, and as a analysis. But we must recognize It’s not a fi ght U.S. veterans veterans organization, we can that federal departments, agencies want (“A Matter of Trust,” Febru- challenge VA’s cost-benefi t and bureaus are creations of ary). It’s the damn health care we congressional legislation. They were told we’d have after we are overseen and funded by served, if and when we ever WE WANT Congress, not the amount the needed it. All VA hospitals should YOUR OPINIONS GAO recommends or the president remain open, even if only one The American Legion Magazine proposes. VA does not have a veteran may need care. We didn’t welcomes letters concerning budget large enough to provide all get anything extra for going to articles that appear in the authorized health services for all war, just keeping our freedom and publication. Be sure to include your eligible veterans. The American the benefi ts they told us we’d hometown and a daytime phone Legion and individual veterans have. Now it looks like everyone number for verifi cation. must communicate our concerns in Congress is a used-car sales- All letters are subject to editing. about VA’s budget and spending man; nothing they say can be Send your opinions to: plans to our congressmen, for believed. Promises made should The American Legion Magazine they hold VA’s purse strings. be promises kept. P.O. Box 1055 – Curtis MacKenzie, Suffolk, Va. – Charles O’Donahue, Tacoma, Wash. Indianapolis, IN 46206 Facts and fi gures Congress in control You also can contact us VA states that if you built VA leadership doesn’t have directly via e-mail or through something in the 1950s, it’s by a choice but to prioritize its the World Wide Web: defi nition old space. For the relatively scarce resources. [email protected] record, let’s examine the facts: CARES may not be the best ap- http://www.legion.org n The University Drive campus proach conceived by a govern- in Pittsburgh is only a year

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©2004 Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. 20350260(1)(645C)-ZOC-CON To find out if you qualify, call 1-800-MERCK-75. ZOCOR. It’s your future. Be there. who are prescribing a new medicine for you that you are taking ZOCOR® (simvastatin). ZOCOR can interact with the following: • Itraconazole • Ketoconazole • Erythromycin • Clarithromycin • HIV protease inhibitors • Nefazodone PLEASE READ THIS SUMMARY CAREFULLY, THEN ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT ZOCOR. • Cyclosporine NO ADVERTISEMENT CAN PROVIDE ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO PRESCRIBE A • Large quantities of grapefruit juice (>1 quart daily) DRUG. THIS ADVERTISEMENT DOES NOT TAKE THE PLACE OF CAREFUL DISCUSSIONS The risk of myopathy is also increased by gemfibrozil and to a lesser extent other fibrates and niacin (nicotinic WITH YOUR DOCTOR. ONLY YOUR DOCTOR HAS THE TRAINING TO WEIGH THE RISKS acid) (≥1 g/day). AND BENEFITS OF A PRESCRIPTION DRUG FOR YOU. The risk of muscle breakdown is increased with other drugs: • Amiodarone USES OF ZOCOR • Verapamil ZOCOR is a prescription drug that is indicated as an addition to diet for many patients with high cholesterol. Some patients taking lipid-lowering agents similar to ZOCOR and coumarin anticoagulants (a type of blood For patients at high risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) because of existing heart disease, diabetes, vascular thinner) have experienced bleeding and/or increased blood clotting time. Patients taking these medicines disease, or history of stroke, ZOCOR is indicated along with diet to reduce the risk of death by reducing coro- should have their blood tested before starting therapy with ZOCOR and should continue to be monitored. nary death; reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke; and reduce the need for revascularization procedures. Central Nervous System Toxicity; Cancer, Mutations, Impairment of Fertility: Like most prescrip- WHEN ZOCOR SHOULD NOT BE USED tion drugs, ZOCOR was required to be tested on animals before it was marketed for human use. Often these Some people should not take ZOCOR. Discuss this with your doctor. tests were designed to achieve higher drug concentrations than humans achieve at recommended dosing. In some tests, the animals had damage to the nerves in the central nervous system. In studies of mice with high ZOCOR should not be used by patients who are allergic to any of its ingredients. In addition to the active ingre- doses of ZOCOR, the likelihood of certain types of cancerous tumors increased. No evidence of mutations of dient simvastatin, each tablet contains the following inactive ingredients: cellulose, lactose, magnesium or damage to genetic material has been seen. In 1 study with ZOCOR, there was decreased fertility in male rats. stearate, iron oxides, talc, titanium dioxide, and starch. Butylated hydroxyanisole is added as a preservative. Pregnancy: Pregnant women should not take ZOCOR because it may harm the fetus. Patients with liver problems: ZOCOR should not be used by patients with active liver disease or repeated blood test results indicating possible liver problems. (See WARNINGS.) Safety in pregnancy has not been established. In studies with lipid-lowering agents similar to ZOCOR, there Women who are or may become pregnant: Pregnant women should not take ZOCOR because it may have been rare reports of birth defects of the skeleton and digestive system. Therefore, women of childbearing harm the fetus. Women of childbearing age should not take ZOCOR unless it is highly unlikely age should not take ZOCOR unless it is highly unlikely they will become pregnant. If a woman does become that they will become pregnant. If a woman does become pregnant while on ZOCOR, she should stop pregnant while taking ZOCOR, she should stop taking the drug and talk to her doctor at once. The active taking the drug and talk to her doctor at once. ingredient of ZOCOR did not cause birth defects in rats at 3 times the human dose or in rabbits at 3 times the human dose. Women who are breast-feeding should not take ZOCOR. Nursing Mothers: Drugs taken by nursing mothers may be present in their breast milk. Because of the WARNINGS potential for serious adverse reactions in nursing infants, a woman taking ZOCOR should not breast-feed. (See Muscle: Tell your doctor right away if you experience any unexplained muscle pain, tender- WHEN ZOCOR SHOULD NOT BE USED.) ness, or weakness at any time during treatment with ZOCOR so your doctor can decide if Pediatric Use: ZOCOR is not recommended for children or patients under 10 years of age. ZOCOR should be stopped. Some patients may have muscle pain or weakness while taking ZOCOR. Rarely, this can include muscle breakdown resulting in kidney damage. The risk of Geriatric Use: Higher blood levels of active drug were seen in elderly patients (70–78 years of age) com- muscle breakdown is greater in patients taking certain other drugs along with ZOCOR: pared with younger patients (18–30 years of age) in 1 study. In other studies, the cholesterol-lowering effects of ZOCOR were at least as great in elderly patients as in younger patients, and there were no overall differ- • Cyclosporine, itraconazole, ketoconazole, erythromycin, clarithromycin, HIV protease ences in safety between elderly and younger patients over the 20–80 mg/day dosage range. Of the 7 cases inhibitors, the antidepressant nefazodone, or large quantities of grapefruit juice (>1 quart of myopathy/rhabdomyolysis among 10,269 patients on ZOCOR in another study, 4 were aged 65 or more daily), particularly with higher doses of ZOCOR. (at baseline), 1 of whom was over 75. • Gemfibrozil particularly with higher doses of ZOCOR. SIDE EFFECTS • Other lipid lowering drugs (other fibrates or ≥1 g/day of niacin) that can cause myopathy when given alone. 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-lived. Only • Amiodarone or verapamil with higher doses of ZOCOR. your doctor can weigh the risks versus the benefits of any prescription drug. In clinical studies with ZOCOR, The risk of muscle breakdown is greater at higher doses of simvastatin. less than 1.5% of patients dropped out of the studies because of side effects. In 2 large, 5-year studies, Because the risk of muscle side effects is greater when ZOCOR is used with the products patients taking ZOCOR experienced similar side effects to those patients taking placebo (sugar pills). Some of listed above, the combined use of these products should be avoided unless your doctor the side effects that have been reported with ZOCOR or related drugs are listed below. This list is not complete. determines the benefits are likely to outweigh the increased risks. Be sure to ask your doctor about side effects before taking ZOCOR and to discuss any side effects that occur. The dose of ZOCOR should not exceed 10 mg daily in patients receiving gemfibrozil. The Digestive System: Constipation, diarrhea, upset stomach, gas, heartburn, stomach pain/cramps, anorexia, combined use of ZOCOR and gemfibrozil should be avoided, unless your doctor determines loss of appetite, nausea, inflammation of the pancreas, hepatitis, jaundice, fatty changes in the liver, and, that the benefits outweigh the increased risks of muscle problems. Caution should be used rarely, severe liver damage and failure, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. when using ZOCOR with other fibrates or niacin because these can cause muscle problems Muscle, Skeletal: Muscle cramps, aches, pain, and weakness; joint pain; muscle breakdown. when taken alone. Nervous System: Dizziness, headache, insomnia, tingling, memory loss, damage to nerves causing weak- No more than 10 mg/day of ZOCOR should be taken with cyclosporine. ness and/or loss of sensation and/or abnormal sensations, anxiety, depression, tremor, loss of balance, The combined use of verapamil or amiodarone with doses above ZOCOR 20 mg should be psychic disturbances. avoided unless your doctor determines the benefits outweigh the increased risk of muscle breakdown. Skin: Rash, itching, hair loss, dryness, nodules, discoloration. Your doctor should also carefully monitor for any muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness, Eye/Senses: Blurred vision, altered taste sensation, progression of cataracts, eye muscle weakness. particularly during the initial months of therapy and if the dose of either drug is increased. Hypersensitivity (Allergic) Reactions: On rare occasions, a wide variety of symptoms have been Your doctor also may monitor the level of certain muscle enzymes in your body, but there is reported to occur either alone or together in groups (referred to as a syndrome) that appeared to be based on no assurance that such monitoring will prevent the occurrence of severe muscle disease. allergic-type reactions, which may rarely be fatal. These have included 1 or more of the following: a severe The risk of muscle breakdown is greater in patients with kidney problems or diabetes. generalized reaction that may include shortness of breath, wheezing, digestive symptoms, and low blood pres- sure and even shock; an allergic reaction with swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and/or throat with difficulty If you have conditions that can increase your risk of muscle breakdown, which in turn can swallowing or breathing; symptoms mimicking lupus (a disorder in which a person’s immune system may cause kidney damage, your doctor should temporarily withhold or stop ZOCOR. Also, since attack parts of his or her own body); severe muscle and blood vessel inflammation, sometimes including rash; there are no known adverse consequences of briefly stopping therapy with ZOCOR, treatment bruises; various disorders of blood cells (that could result in anemia, infection, or blood clotting problems) should be stopped a few days before elective major surgery and when any major acute or abnormal blood tests; inflamed or painful joints; hives; fatigue and weakness; sensitivity to sunlight; fever, medical or surgical condition occurs. Discuss this with your doctor, who can explain these chills; flushing; difficulty breathing; and severe skin disorders that vary from rash to a serious burn-like conditions to you. shedding of skin all over the body, including mucous membranes such as the lining of the mouth. Liver: About 1% of patients who took ZOCOR in clinical trials developed elevated levels of some liver enzymes. Patients who had these increases usually had no symptoms. Elevated liver enzymes Other: Loss of sexual desire, breast enlargement, impotence. usually returned to normal levels when therapy with ZOCOR was stopped. Laboratory Tests: Liver function test abnormalities including elevated alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin; In the ZOCOR Survival Study, the number of patients with more than 1 liver enzyme level elevation to greater thyroid function abnormalities. than 3 times the normal upper limit was no different between the ZOCOR and placebo groups. Only 8 patients NOTE: This summary provides important information about ZOCOR. If you would like more on ZOCOR and 5 on placebo discontinued therapy due to elevated liver enzyme levels. Patients were started information, ask your doctor or pharmacist to let you read the prescribing information and on 20 mg of ZOCOR, and one third had their dose raised to 40 mg. then discuss it with them. Your doctor should perform routine blood tests to check these enzymes before you start treat- ment with ZOCOR and thereafter when clinically indicated. Patients titrated to the 80-mg dose should receive an additional test at 3 months and periodically thereafter (eg, semiannually) for the first year of treatment. If your enzyme levels increase, your doctor should order more frequent tests. If your liver enzyme levels remain unusually high, your doctor should discontinue your medication. Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889 Tell your doctor about any liver disease you may have had in the past and about how much alcohol you consume. ZOCOR should be used with caution in patients who consume large amounts of alcohol. ZOCOR is a registered trademark of Merck & Co., Inc. PRECAUTIONS Drug Interactions: Because of possible serious drug interactions, it is important to tell your doctor what ©2004 Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. other drugs you are taking, including those obtained without a prescription. You should also tell other doctors 20350260(1)(645C)-ZOC-CON vet voice younger than the Highland Drive to try and fi x it. Why not replace need, the pursuit of physical campus. all taxes with a fl at retail-sales health and mental awareness, and n The administration publicly tax? Intimidation, for one. Hiding a life with a moral basis. Those stated that when $100 million is the true cost of this government is who denigrate Scouting cannot allocated for new construction at another. If everybody could see measure up. The only way they the “newer” University Drive the incredible “costs” of govern- can achieve standing is to tear facility and the Highland Drive ment, people would say “enough.” down the program. I hope Legion- facility closes, 60 percent will – Bill Kenyon, Las Vegas naires will seek out and support fund research and only 40 percent those who, like the Boy Scouts, veterans care. Vouchers save money exemplify standards of the The apparent benefi t here is Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., highest order. unlabeled pork, while needy and opposes educational vouchers – Vernon N. Kerr, Los Alamos, N.M. defenseless veterans suffer with because they “weaken public less. At a CARES meeting at the schools by draining them of ‘Enough for me’ Highland Drive campus, veterans students and funds” (Big Issues, I read your interview with Bob advocates who testifi ed were held February). Most proposals, includ- Dole and loved it (“A Lasting to a fi ve-minute limit. Local ing the soon-to-be-implemented Tribute,” February). My own health-care offi cials testifi ed for Washington, D.C., program, father received two Purple Hearts roughly 25 minutes. Who’s kidding provide a voucher that is worth during World War II. I remember, whom? It’s all about the money. far less than the average cost per as a child, staying home with my – Bob Sloma, New Kensington, Pa. pupil in the public school from father on several occasions to aid which the student transfers. The him. He had great diffi culties Cuts hurt, not help effect: public schools have more walking due to shrapnel in both In his article “Tax Americana,” money per pupil with which to knees. He served on the USS Borie Donald Lambro points out that improve the school, reduce taxes in the North Atlantic and survived state and local governments are or both. Why would anyone when a German U-boat sank the raising fees, sales taxes and oppose a system that benefi ts all ship. He told me his reward was income taxes. These are attempts students, public and private, and an assignment in warmer water. to recover revenue lost largely as saves money to boot? Maybe it He was stationed on the USS Barry a result of drastic cuts in federal has something to do with the in the South Pacifi c and again money that states depend on to contributions and votes delivered survived when Japanese kamika- fund needed programs. These by teachers unions. zes sank it. cuts are one way that the Bush – Dennis Duffy, Lynbrook, N.Y. My father was a typical administration pays for its huge World War II veteran. He quit tax cuts. Even if the average No to vouchers high school to fi ght for his American saves a couple hundred Since the draft ended, the country, and at the end of the war bucks on his federal income public-school system is the only he resumed his life. One wife for taxes, he’ll likely end up spend- part of the American melting pot life, six children and a 12-hour-a- ing it in support of state and local left in our culture. Many people day job, and he never, ever services. want to use vouchers to create a complained. He never sought Nobody I know likes to pay biased, fragmented school compensation and dealt with his taxes. But the fact is that Ameri- system. We see the fruit of that own injuries. In 1968 he had three cans enjoy one of the lowest tax kind of education in Afghanistan sons serving in the Navy, two in burdens, as a percentage of GDP, and all over the Middle East. Mak- combat in the Mekong Delta. I in the industrialized world. ing public schools better is the was injured and spent a year in a Unfortunately, all government best place to start. Each school military hospital. My father died services cost money. Cutting district has a board, and it is at an early age. I can only hope revenue can only lead to cuts in relatively easy to be elected to a that he was as proud of us as services. We must be willing to seat since so many parents sit on we are of him. pay for the services we want and, their thumbs waiting for someone I will be in Washington for the in the case of veterans, deserve. to raise their kids for them. My dedication of the National World – Craig M. Mancuso, Stow, Ohio kids went to public schools and War II Memorial. Due to the did well. I say no to vouchers. invited guests and crowd of Broken system – Tom Westfall, Glen Dale, W.Va. onlookers, I probably will not Anybody with half a brain can even see the memorial that day. fi gure out that the income tax Decaying nation But I know the accomplishments isn’t working. More than 10,000 I appreciate The American of my father and thousands upon pages comprise the income-tax Legion’s stand on the Boy Scouts thousands like him will be code. Employees of the IRS don’t of America. The principles on remembered and honored. That is even know what’s in it. The which the Boy Scout program is enough for me, as it would be system is broken. The government built are timeless: duty to God more than he would expect. simply adds new codes and taxes and country, helping those in – Barry W. Curtis, city and state withheld

April 2004 7 The American Legion Magazine commander’s message A half century of heart “In the years to come, 1953-54 will be looked for children who need our help. upon as the time when the cornerstone was Grassroots fund drives and memorial laid for a real program of prevention in The contributions from Legion family organiza- American Legion’s child welfare program.” tions have kept the CWF growing and – Report of the National Adjutant to the American giving for fi ve decades now. Legion’s National Child Welfare Commission, 1954 In the CWF’s 50th year, I challenge this organization to continue in Dr. Murphy’s r. Garland D. Murphy of El Dorado, spirit and raise $2 million in fresh money Ark., believed with all his heart in for the fund. Done of The American Legion’s most This year, $338,700 in CWF grant money coveted principles, one that was fi rst is going to 13 organizations that help articulated in a 1924 resolution at the birth children in need. Benefi ciaries in 2004 of the original Child Welfare Commission. include a program to help prevent child- The principle was simply “a square deal hood injuries, one to reduce teen pregnan- for every child.” cies, another to improve the lives of A fl ight surgeon who received the children with special health-care needs, Bronze Star during World War II, Murphy and many others, such as EveryChild Inc., National followed his honorable military service of Austin, Texas, which received a $40,000 Commander with years of Legion dedication. He helped CWF grant for “A Family for Every Child,” John Brieden develop a veterans-preference housing a program designed to give disabled Chase Studios project, served as commander of the children a chance to grow up in a loving Legion’s Department of Arkansas, as a family. This year’s CWF grants will also “In the member of the national Child Welfare help pay for birth-defect research, provide Commission and later as a national vice education on juvenile diabetes, and deliver CWF’s commander. important information to parents of Bob Legan of Russellville, Ark., was a children who are fi ghting cancer. 50th year, I young Legionnaire when he met the doctor. The spirit of this program is written in challenge this Legan recalls the profound presence the preamble to The American Legion Murphy had among veterans in the state; Constitution: “to inculcate a sense of organization he was revered as a fair, fi rm and thought- individual obligation to the community, ful advocate who never strayed from the state and nation.” This organization’s to raise organization’s fundamental principles. “Dr. founders believed that the children of Murphy was a powerful leader of veterans America need veterans to step up and $2 million in Arkansas,” Legan says. “But he was deliver hope for the future, a future we for the really, really passionate about helping once swore allegiance to protect for them. under-privileged and sick children.” I am proud to say I belong to an organi- fund.” In 1953, Murphy donated to The American zation that gives hope to thousands of Legion mineral and oil interests on 10,000 young people who bravely face circum- acres of land he owned in the Williston stances that are hard to explain and Basin of North Dakota beyond their control. Dr. and Montana. The gift Garland Murphy, who had one condition: that died in an automobile revenues be used to help For more info crash in 1966, believed children. More impor- To donate to the Child Welfare the welfare of children Foundation, visit www.cwf-inc.org tantly, the gift put online, write to Executive Secretary, was a solemn responsi- bedrock under a program American Legion Child Welfare bility of veterans. I that has grown, one Foundation, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, believe that, too. donation at a time, into IN 46206, or call (317) 630-1202. Each year, the Legion today’s Child Welfare presents at National Foundation. Convention the Garland In 1955, three organizations – The D. Murphy Jr. Award to the department Delinquency Control Institute, the National whose Legion family has contributed most Association for Retarded Children, and the to the CWF. The department that wins the National Society for the Prevention of award this year will not only have my Blindness – received $22,500 from the gratitude, but also the satisfaction of CWF. Since then, the fund has grown to knowing that thousands of children will more than $5 million in value and has have a chance for a square deal, thanks to delivered more than $6 million in grants help from The American Legion family.

8 April 2004 The American Legion Magazine Fighting Back with Aricept®

Mom’s forgetfulness turned out to be Alzheimer’s. But we didn’t just sit here and do nothing. I got her to a doctor right away and he put her on ARICEPT.® Now she’s doing better.*

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Adverse Events Reported in Controlled Clinical Trials in at Least 2% of Patients Receiving ® 5-MG AND ARICEPT (donepezil HCl) and at a Higher Frequency than Placebo-treated Patients 10-MG TABLETS Body System/Adverse Event Placebo ARICEPT® STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF ALZHEIMER'S™ (n=355) (n=747) ARICEPT® (Donepezil Hydrochloride Tablets) Percent of Patients with any Adverse Event 72 74 Brief Summary—see package insert for full prescribing information. INDICATIONS AND USAGE ARICEPT® is indicated Body as a Whole for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. CONTRAINDICATIONS ARICEPT® is contraindicated Headache 9 10 in patients with known hypersensitivity to donepezil hydrochloride or to piperidine derivatives. WARNINGS Anesthesia: Pain, various locations 8 9 ARICEPT®, as a cholinesterase inhibitor, is likely to exaggerate succinylcholine-type muscle relaxation during anesthesia. Accident 6 7 Cardiovascular Conditions: Because of their pharmacological action, cholinesterase inhibitors may have vagotonic effects Fatigue 3 5 on the sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes. This effect may manifest as bradycardia or heart block in patients both with and without Cardiovascular System known underlying cardiac conduction abnormalities. Syncopal episodes have been reported in association with the use of ARICEPT®. Syncope 1 2 Gastrointestinal Conditions: Through their primary action, cholinesterase inhibitors may be expected to increase gastric Digestive System acid secretion due to increased cholinergic activity. Therefore, patients should be monitored closely for symptoms of active or Nausea 6 11 occult gastrointestinal bleeding, especially those at increased risk for developing ulcers, e.g., those with a history of ulcer Diarrhea 5 10 disease or those receiving concurrent nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). Clinical studies of ARICEPT® have shown Vomiting 3 5 no increase, relative to placebo, in the incidence of either peptic ulcer disease or gastrointestinal bleeding. ARICEPT®, as a Anorexia 2 4 predictable consequence of its pharmacological properties, has been shown to produce diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. These Hemic and Lymphatic System effects, when they occur, appear more frequently with the 10 mg/day dose than with the 5 mg/day dose. In most cases, these Ecchymosis 3 4 effects have been mild and transient, sometimes lasting one to three weeks, and have resolved during continued use of Metabolic and Nutritional Systems ARICEPT®. Genitourinary: Although not observed in clinical trials of ARICEPT®, cholinomimetics may cause bladder outflow Weight Decrease 1 3 obstruction. Neurological Conditions: Seizures: Cholinomimetics are believed to have some potential to cause generalized Musculoskeletal System convulsions. However, seizure activity also may be a manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease. Pulmonary Conditions: Because of their Muscle Cramps 2 6 cholinomimetic actions, cholinesterase inhibitors should be prescribed with care to patients with a history of asthma or obstructive Arthritis 1 2 pulmonary disease. PRECAUTIONS Drug-Drug Interactions Drugs Highly Bound to Plasma Proteins: Drug Nervous System displacement studies have been performed in vitro between this highly bound drug (96%) and other drugs such as Insomnia 6 9 furosemide, digoxin, and warfarin. ARICEPT® at concentrations of 0.3-10 µg/mL did not affect the binding of furosemide Dizziness 6 8 (5 µg/mL), digoxin (2 ng/mL), and warfarin (3 µg/mL) to human albumin. Similarly, the binding of ARICEPT® to human albumin Depression <1 3 was not affected by furosemide, digoxin, and warfarin. Effect of ARICEPT® on the Metabolism of Other Drugs: No Abnormal Dreams 0 3 in vivo clinical trials have investigated the effect of ARICEPT® on the clearance of drugs metabolized by CYP 3A4 (e.g. cisapride, Somnolence <1 2 terfenadine) or by CYP 2D6 (e.g. imipramine). However, in vitro studies show a low rate of binding to these enzymes (mean Urogenital System Ki about 50-130 µM), that, given the therapeutic plasma concentrations of donepezil (164 nM), indicates little likelihood of Frequent Urination 1 2 interference. Whether ARICEPT® has any potential for enzyme induction is not known. Effect of Other Drugs on the Other Adverse Events Observed During Clinical Trials ARICEPT® has been administered to over 1700 individuals during Metabolism of ARICEPT ®: Ketoconazole and quinidine, inhibitors of CYP450, 3A4 and 2D6, respectively, inhibit donepezil clinical trials worldwide. Approximately 1200 of these patients have been treated for at least 3 months and more than metabolism in vitro. Whether there is a clinical effect of these inhibitors is not known. Inducers of CYP 2D6 and CYP 3A4 1000 patients have been treated for at least 6 months. Controlled and uncontrolled trials in the United States included (e.g., phenytoin, carbamazepine, dexamethasone, rifampin, and phenobarbital) could increase the rate of elimination of ARICEPT®. approximately 900 patients. In regards to the highest dose of 10 mg/day, this population includes 650 patients treated for 3 months, Use with Anticholinergics: Because of their mechanism of action, cholinesterase inhibitors have the potential to interfere with 475 patients treated for 6 months and 116 patients treated for over 1 year. The range of patient exposure is from 1 to the activity of anticholinergic medications. Use with Cholinomimetics and Other Cholinesterase Inhibitors: 1214 days. Treatment emergent signs and symptoms that occurred during 3 controlled clinical trials and two open-label trials A synergistic effect may be expected when cholinesterase inhibitors are given concurrently with succinylcholine, similar in the United States were recorded as adverse events by the clinical investigators using terminology of their own choosing. neuromuscular blocking agents or cholinergic agonists such as bethanechol. Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment To provide an overall estimate of the proportion of individuals having similar types of events, the events were grouped into a of Fertility Carcinogenicity studies of donepezil have not been completed. Donepezil was not mutagenic in the Ames reverse smaller number of standardized categories using a modified COSTART dictionary and event frequencies were calculated across mutation assay in bacteria. In the chromosome aberration test in cultures of Chinese hamster lung (CHL) cells, some all studies. These categories are used in the listing below. The frequencies represent the proportion of 900 patients from these clastogenic effects were observed. Donepezil was not clastogenic in the in vivo mouse micronucleus test. Donepezil had no trials who experienced that event while receiving ARICEPT®. All adverse events occurring at least twice are included, except effect on fertility in rats at doses up to 10 mg/kg/day (approximately 8 times the maximum recommended human dose on a for those already listed in Tables 2 or 3, COSTART terms too general to be informative, or events less likely to be drug caused. mg/m2 basis). Pregnancy Pregnancy Category C: Teratology studies conducted in pregnant rats at doses up to 16 Events are classified by body system and listed using the following definitions: frequent adverse events—those occurring in mg/kg/day (approximately 13 times the maximum recommended human dose on a mg/m2 basis) and in pregnant rabbits at at least 1/100 patients; infrequent adverse events—those occurring in 1/100 to 1/1000 patients. These adverse events are doses up to 10 mg/kg/day (approximately 16 times the maximum recommended human dose on a mg/m2 basis) did not disclose not necessarily related to ARICEPT® treatment and in most cases were observed at a similar frequency in placebo-treated patients any evidence for a teratogenic potential of donepezil. However, in a study in which pregnant rats were given up to 10 mg/kg/day in the controlled studies. No important additional adverse events were seen in studies conducted outside the United States. (approximately 8 times the maximum recommended human dose on a mg/m2 basis) from day 17 of gestation through day 20 Body as a Whole: Frequent: influenza, chest pain, toothache; Infrequent: fever, edema face, periorbital edema, hernia postpartum, there was a slight increase in still births and a slight decrease in pup survival through day 4 postpartum at this hiatal, abscess, cellulitis, chills, generalized coldness, head fullness, listlessness. Cardiovascular System: Frequent: dose; the next lower dose tested was 3 mg/kg/day. There are no adequate or well-controlled studies in pregnant women. ARICEPT® hypertension, vasodilation, atrial fibrillation, hot flashes, hypotension; Infrequent: angina pectoris, postural hypotension, myocardial should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus. Nursing Mothers It is infarction, AV block (first degree), congestive heart failure, arteritis, bradycardia, peripheral vascular disease, supraventricular not known whether donepezil is excreted in human breast milk. ARICEPT® has no indication for use in nursing mothers. tachycardia, deep vein thrombosis. Digestive System: Frequent: fecal incontinence, gastrointestinal bleeding, bloating, epigastric Pediatric Use There are no adequate and well-controlled trials to document the safety and efficacy of ARICEPT® in any illness pain; Infrequent: eructation, gingivitis, increased appetite, flatulence, periodontal abscess, cholelithiasis, diverticulitis, drooling, dry mouth, occurring in children. ADVERSE REACTIONS Adverse Events Leading to Discontinuation The rates of discontinuation fever sore, gastritis, irritable colon, tongue edema, epigastric distress, gastroenteritis, increased transaminases, hemorrhoids, ileus, increased from controlled clinical trials of ARICEPT® due to adverse events for the ARICEPT® 5 mg/day treatment groups were comparable thirst, jaundice, melena, polydipsia, duodenal ulcer, stomach ulcer. Endocrine System: Infrequent: diabetes mellitus, goiter. Hemic to those of placebo-treatment groups at approximately 5%. The rate of discontinuation of patients who received 7-day and Lymphatic System: Infrequent: anemia, thrombocythemia, thrombocytopenia, eosinophilia, erythrocytopenia. Metabolic and escalations from 5 mg/day to 10 mg/day, was higher at 13%. The most common adverse events leading to discontinuation, Nutritional Disorders: Frequent: dehydration; Infrequent: gout, hypokalemia, increased creatine kinase, hyperglycemia, weight increase, defined as those occurring in at least 2% of patients and at twice the incidence seen in placebo patients, are shown in Table 1. increased lactate dehydrogenase. Musculoskeletal System: Frequent: bone fracture; Infrequent: muscle weakness, muscle fasciculation. Nervous System: Frequent: delusions, tremor, irritability, paresthesia, aggression, vertigo, ataxia, increased libido, Table 1. Most Frequent Adverse Events Leading to Withdrawal restlessness, abnormal crying, nervousness, aphasia; Infrequent: cerebrovascular accident, intracranial hemorrhage, transient from Controlled Clinical Trials by Dose Group ischemic attack, emotional lability, neuralgia, coldness (localized), muscle spasm, dysphoria, gait abnormality, hypertonia, Dose Group Placebo 5 mg/day ARICEPT® 10 mg/day ARICEPT® hypokinesia, neurodermatitis, numbness (localized), paranoia, dysarthria, dysphasia, hostility, decreased libido, melancholia, Patients Randomized 355 350 315 emotional withdrawal, nystagmus, pacing. Respiratory System: Frequent: dyspnea, sore throat, bronchitis; Infrequent: epistaxis, Event/%Discontinuing post nasal drip, pneumonia, hyperventilation, pulmonary congestion, wheezing, hypoxia, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pulmonary collapse, sleep apnea, snoring. Skin and Appendages: Frequent: pruritus, diaphoresis, urticaria; Infrequent: dermatitis, erythema, skin Nausea 1% 1% 3% discoloration, hyperkeratosis, alopecia, fungal dermatitis, herpes zoster, hirsutism, skin striae, night sweats, skin ulcer. Special Diarrhea 0% <1% 3% Senses: Frequent: cataract, eye irritation, vision blurred; Infrequent: dry eyes, glaucoma, earache, tinnitus, blepharitis, Vomiting <1% <1% 2% decreased hearing, retinal hemorrhage, otitis externa, otitis media, bad taste, conjunctival hemorrhage, ear buzzing, motion sickness, spots before eyes. Urogenital System: Frequent: urinary incontinence, nocturia; Infrequent: dysuria, hematuria, urinary urgency, Most Frequent Adverse Clinical Events Seen in Association with the Use of ARICEPT® The most common adverse metrorrhagia, cystitis, enuresis, prostate hypertrophy, pyelonephritis, inability to empty bladder, breast fibroadenosis, fibrocystic events, defined as those occurring at a frequency of at least 5% in patients receiving 10 mg/day and twice the placebo rate, breast, mastitis, pyuria, renal failure, vaginitis. Postintroduction Reports Voluntary reports of adverse events temporally are largely predicted by ARICEPT® ’s cholinomimetic effects. These include nausea, diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, muscle cramp, associated with ARICEPT® that have been received since market introduction that are not listed above, and that there is inadequate fatigue and anorexia. These adverse events were often of mild intensity and transient, resolving during continued ARICEPT® data to determine the causal relationship with the drug include the following: abdominal pain, agitation, cholecystitis, treatment without the need for dose modification. There is evidence to suggest that the frequency of these common adverse confusion, convulsions, hallucinations, heart block (all types), hemolytic anemia, hepatitis, hyponatremia, neuroleptic events may be affected by the rate of titration. An open-label study was conducted with 269 patients who received placebo in malignant syndrome, pancreatitis, and rash. OVERDOSAGE Because strategies for the management of overdose the 15- and 30-week studies. These patients were titrated to a dose of 10 mg/day over a 6-week period. The rates of common are continually evolving, it is advisable to contact a Poison Control Center to determine the latest adverse events were lower than those seen in patients titrated to 10 mg/day over one week in the controlled clinical trials and recommendations for the management of an overdose of any drug. As in any case of overdose, general supportive were comparable to those seen in patients on 5 mg/day. See Table 2 for a comparison of the most common adverse events measures should be utilized. Overdosage with cholinesterase inhibitors can result in cholinergic crisis characterized by severe following one and six week titration regimens. nausea, vomiting, salivation, sweating, bradycardia, hypotension, respiratory depression, collapse and convulsions. Increasing Table 2. Comparison of Rates of Adverse Events in Patients muscle weakness is a possibility and may result in death if respiratory muscles are involved. Tertiary anticholinergics such as Titrated to 10 mg/day Over 1 and 6 Weeks atropine may be used as an antidote for ARICEPT® overdosage. Intravenous atropine sulfate titrated to effect is recommended: No titration One-week titration Six-week titration an initial dose of 1.0 to 2.0 mg IV with subsequent doses based upon clinical response. Atypical responses in blood pressure Adverse Event Placebo 5 mg/day 10 mg/day 10 mg/day and heart rate have been reported with other cholinomimetics when co-administered with quaternary anticholinergics such as (n=315) (n=311) (n=315) (n=269) glycopyrrolate. It is not known whether ARICEPT® and/or its metabolites can be removed by dialysis (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or hemofiltration). Dose-related signs of toxicity in animals included reduced spontaneous movement, prone position, Nausea 6% 5% 19% 6% staggering gait, lacrimation, clonic convulsions, depressed respiration, salivation, miosis, tremors, fasciculation and lower Diarrhea 5% 8% 15% 9% body surface temperature. DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION The dosages of ARICEPT® shown to be effective in controlled Insomnia 6% 6% 14% 6% clinical trials are 5 mg and 10 mg administered once per day. The higher dose of 10 mg did not provide a statistically significantly Fatigue 3% 4% 8% 3% greater clinical benefit than 5 mg. There is a suggestion, however, based upon order of group mean scores and dose trend ® Vomiting 3% 3% 8% 5% analyses of data from these clinical trials, that a daily dose of 10 mg of ARICEPT might provide additional benefit for some patients. Accordingly, whether or not to employ a dose of 10 mg is a matter of prescriber and patient preference. Evidence from Muscle cramps 2% 6% 8% 3% the controlled trials indicates that the 10 mg dose, with a one week titration, is likely to be associated with a higher incidence Anorexia 2% 3% 7% 3% of cholinergic adverse events than the 5 mg dose. In open label trials using a 6 week titration, the frequency of these same Adverse Events Reported in Controlled Trials The events cited reflect experience gained under closely monitored conditions adverse events was similar between the 5 mg and 10 mg dose groups. Therefore, because steady state is not achieved for 15 of clinical trials in a highly selected patient population. In actual clinical practice or in other clinical trials, these frequency estimates days and because the incidence of untoward effects may be influenced by the rate of dose escalation, treatment with a dose ® may not apply, as the conditions of use, reporting behavior, and the kinds of patients treated may differ. Table 3 lists treatment of 10 mg should not be contemplated until patients have been on a daily dose of 5 mg for 4 to 6 weeks. ARICEPT should be emergent signs and symptoms that were reported in at least 2% of patients in placebo-controlled trials who received ARICEPT® taken in the evening, just prior to retiring, and may be taken with or without food. and for which the rate of occurrence was greater for ARICEPT® assigned than placebo assigned patients. In general, adverse events occurred more frequently in female patients and with advancing age. 200177 Revised December 2000

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EL187X01MD © 2002 Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. All rights reserved. big issues The Medicare prescription bill Rep. Tom DeLay Sen. Harry Reid SUPPORT R-Texas D-Nev. OPPOSE By passing the Medicare Adding an affordable, prescription-drug plan, Con- comprehensive and voluntary gress began writing a new drug benefi t to Medicare has chapter in American health been one of my top priorities in care. This bill creates a stronger the Senate. That’s why in June and more secure health-care I voted to support a bipartisan system for American seniors, prescription drug bill in the bringing Medicare services into Senate. That bill wasn’t per- the modern, prescription-drug fect, but it was a good fi rst step era of medicine while ensuring toward providing a comprehen- the program’s survival for future retirees. sive drug benefi t under Medicare. American seniors are perfectly capable of Unfortunately, negotiations with the House of making smart health-care decisions, but without Representatives made the bill much worse. So the kind of fl exible plans that have become com- when it came back to the Senate, I had no choice monplace in private plans since the 1960s, they but to vote against it. The bill will leave millions of can’t tailor their services seniors worse off than to their own needs. The they are today, and it “If we can spend a legislation we passed threatens the future of “The bill will leave little now to save created incentives for a the Medicare program millions of seniors variety of new options, itself. It is a bad bill. lives and money allowing older Ameri- Specifi cally, the worse off than they later, that’s a good cans to choose from legislation would make are today, and it plans based on their tens of thousands of deal for everyone needs rather than the seniors pay more for threatens the future involved.” dictates of Washington prescription drugs. of the Medicare bureaucrats. That’s because thou- It also provides a guaranteed prescription drug sands of seniors who program itself.” benefi t to everyone covered by Medicare, which will receive health care from save money for seniors and Medicare alike, thanks their former employers will lose that coverage. to the preventative value of prescription medicine. If And seniors who qualify for Medicaid will have to we can spend a little now to save lives and money pay more for their medications than they do now. later, that’s a good deal for everyone involved. The new drug benefi t created in the bill is Second, the Medicare program needs more confusing and inadequate. For example, a senior competition to improve quality and keep costs in must spend $810 out-of-pocket per year before he check. The new bill provides incentives to strength- or she will receive a penny from Medicare. And a en existing private plans and creates an environ- senior who spends $5,000 a year on drugs will be ment where new products and services can emerge. stuck with almost 80 percent of the bill. Of course, seniors satisfi ed with their current Perhaps worst of all, because of pressure from big coverage can leave their benefi ts as they are, but drug companies, the bill explicitly prohibits Medi- new choices will drive down costs and improve care from negotiating lower drug prices on behalf services for everyone in the program. of America’s 40 million seniors. And the bill does Third, this legislation is the best opportunity to not allow Americans to import drugs from Canada, prepare America’s health-care system for major where prices are much lower. Finally, this legisla- demographic shifts that will – if left unaccounted tion changes Medicare by limiting the amount of for – cripple our health-care system. Thirty million money that can be spent on the program – mean- more Americans will age ing, over time, services into Medicare over the could be cut and premi- next decade. As this YOUR OPINIONS COUNT ums will likely rise. occurs, reforms in this Senators and representatives are interested in constituent I will continue fi ghting legislation will become viewpoints. You may express your views in writing at the until Congress passes more critical than ever. following addresses: legislation that provides The bill provides the best The Honorable (name) The Honorable (name) a more generous drug opportunity in a genera- U.S. Senate House of Representatives benefi t, lowers the cost tion to improve American Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515 of prescription drugs and health care and make Phone: (202) 224-3121 Phone: (202) 225-3121 strengthens the Medi- Medicare viable. care program.

April 2003 11 The American Legion Magazine ImageBank BY ROBERT BRYCE Since the Internet bubble burst about three years ago, investors have been besieged by a wave of corporate scandals unprecedented in American history. The list of implosions includes Enron, WorldCom, HealthSouth and many others that are by now well known to the American people. As these corporate sharks swirl through our TV newscasts, it’s worthwhile to look back for a moment and ask a few questions. First of all, what drove these characters? Will we see more scandals? What regulations have been put in place to deter future scandals? And fi nally, given all this greed, what should small investors be doing to protect themselves?

Of the looting that occurred in corporate and an ice sculpture of Michaelangelo’s America, it’s diffi cult to fi nd a more egregious David, complete with chilled vodka fl owing example than the allegations faced by the from the sculpture’s manhood. In all, Rigas family, which ran the now-bankrupt Kozlowski was accused of looting Tyco for cable-TV company Adelphia Communica- some $170 million and infl ating the stock tions. As recently as 2001, the Rigas family’s prices an additional $430 million by disguis- stake in Adelphia was worth $900 million. ing the company’s true fi nancial condition. Somehow, that wasn’t quite enough. Federal In early February, Kozlowski was still on prosecutors say the family borrowed about trial in New York, where his lawyers felt $2 billion from the company without ever confi dent that they had raised reasonable alerting the shareholders or the Securities doubt of his guilt; he rested his case without and Exchange Commission. Prosecutors also calling a witness or taking the stand himself. have charged that the company’s founder and Enron CEO Ken Lay set a standard, too. In former CEO, John Rigas, used $13 million of the three years before Enron’s bankruptcy, the company’s money to build a golf course. he sold $184.4 million worth of company Rigas, two of his sons and other Adelphia stock. And yet in January 2002, Lay’s wife, executives now face federal charges. Linda, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show, While the Rigases set a high standard for saying she and her husband had “nothing lowliness, their avarice was almost matched left” and were “fi ghting for liquidity.” The by former Tyco International CEO Dennis weepy Mrs. Lay neglected to mention that Kozlowski, whose compensation package her idea of “nothing” included an $11 million totaled $62.4 million. He allegedly used condominium in Houston’s ritzy River Oaks Tyco’s money to pay for a $6,000 shower neighborhood, several other Houston homes, curtain and a $15,000 umbrella stand for his as well as a house in Galveston and three home. He also tapped Tyco to pay for his houses in Aspen. wife’s $2 million birthday party in Sardinia, The psychology behind this excess is which featured Jimmy Buffett playing music diffi cult to fathom. B. Espen Eckbo, founding

April 2004 13 The American Legion Magazine “New laws and tough cops will help protect your investments. But they do not replace vigilance.” director of the Center for Corpo- alleged crimes, and each time, he two counts of securities and wire rate Governance at Dartmouth was acquitted. In the 1930s, a fraud. He’ll serve at least 10 years University, blames what he calls Wall Streeter named Richard in prison and pay $23 million in America’s “superstar culture.” He Whitney looted a pension fund. penalties. Sam Waksal, the says CEOs become insulated from He later pleaded guilty to embez- former CEO of ImClone Systems, the real world and “an over- zlement charges and went to has gone to jail for his part in an whelming hubris sets in. It takes prison. In the 1970s, Robert insider-trading scheme that the form of not caring about the Vesco bilked $200 million from a sparked an investigation of mundane details of corporate company called Investors Over- celebrity homemaker Martha governance. They begin thinking seas Services. He fl ed to Cuba to Stewart. Jack Grubman, the they own the company.” avoid prosecution. The 1980s ethically challenged telecommuni- That attitude was certainly the launched a riverboat-load of cations analyst at Wall Street case at Enron, a company that swindlers who rode high on the fi rm Salomon Smith Barney, was typifi ed many of the worst traits oil and real estate frenzy of the fi ned $15 million for his role in of corporate America. Jeff savings-and-loan disaster, a mess creating fraudulent research Skilling, Enron’s former presi- that cost American taxpayers reports. dent, once told a coworker, “All $300 billion. In the 1990s, we had More arrests and indictments that matters is money. You buy the failure of Barings Bank, the are almost certain. And the loyalty with money. Don’t ever oldest bank in England – brought regulators at the Securities and forget that.” Skilling certainly down by Nick Leeson, a young Exchange Commission are believed it, and he left Enron trader who had lost $1.4 billion fi nally getting more funding. with a fortune. He sold $70.6 trading fi nancial derivatives. This year, the agency’s budget million in Enron stock before All of these scandals point to will approach $1 billion – a abruptly quitting in August one unassailable fact: business pittance when you consider that 2001, just months before the skullduggery will never disap- it’s responsible for regulating an company failed. pear, because humans will American equities market worth always be greedy. Some people $15 trillion. History of Greed. Rigas, Koz- are willing to bend or break the lowski and top Enron offi cials are rules in order to make a fast Taking Action. New laws and just the latest in a long line buck. But since Enron’s bank- tough cops will help protect your who’ve become rich – and ruptcy on Dec. 2, 2001, regulators investments. But they are not a infamous – in a hurry. In fact, a and legislators have been work- replacement for vigilance. Here cursory scan of Wall Street ing hard to minimize their are a few things investors should shows that American investors opportunities. keep in mind: have been hit by greed scandals In 2002, Congress passed the with predictable regularity. Sarbanes-Oxley Act to curb n If you don’t understand it, In the post-Civil War era, corporate miscreants. While the don’t buy it. Just because a infamous robber baron Jay Gould new law isn’t perfect, it’s a good company dominates an obscure made $10 million by attempting start. The measure requires market with an obscure technol- to corner the gold market. Gould corporate CEOs to sign their ogy doesn’t mean it will be became so expert at manipulat- fi nancial statements and certify profi table. Investing guru Peter ing the stock market that angry that they are accurate. If they Lynch sums up his philosophy investors began tracking him knowingly sign inaccurate by saying, “Know what you own down to seek revenge. To protect statements, they face stiff fi nes and know why you own it.” If himself, Gould always traveled and jail terms of up to 20 years. you can’t explain in 30 seconds with a bodyguard even while Companies are required to have or less why you own a stock, you strolling near his home on New more independent board mem- shouldn’t own it. York’s Fifth Avenue. bers and provide ways for whis- In the 1920s, a wheeler-dealer tleblowers to voice their concerns. n Educate yourself. The Internet named Samuel Insull promoted While regulations are swell, has leveled the playing fi eld. the stock of his company, Com- handcuffs and jail cells send a Regular investors have access to monwealth Edison. Despite its far more compelling message. much of the same information enormous debt load, Insull’s com- About two dozen people at Enron that used to be available only to pany was the darling of Wall have either been indicted or Wall Street insiders. Most major Street. When the company forced to give up assets. Enron’s companies allow the public to collapsed, Insull fl ed to Europe. former chief fi nancial offi cer, listen to their quarterly confer- He was tried three times for his Andy Fastow, pleaded guilty to ence calls with analysts, either

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n the wake of the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress acted swiftly to approve new legislation aimed at preventing future terrorist aggression against the United States Iand its citizens. The legislation was given a lengthy title: the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act of 2001. Also known as the USA-PATRIOT Act, or USAPA, the act amends some 15 pre-existing laws, giving increased surveillance and investigative powers to U.S. law-enforcement agen- cies. Although the PATRIOT Act at fi rst was hailed as a powerful tool to combat and prevent terrorism, the act has come under increasing criticism from opponents who charge that it violates civil rights. One of the act’s strongest advocates is longtime terrorism expert Victoria Toensing. A former deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, Toensing established the department’s terrorism unit. She worked on a number of high-profi le cases, including the bombing of Pan Am Flight 830 and the takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Toensing has served in other key posts, including chief counsel to Sen. Barry Goldwater when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Now an attorney in private practice, Toensing says many criticisms of the PATRIOT Act are based on misunderstandings or misrepresentations. She recently discussed the law with The American Legion Magazine.

The American Legion Magazine: mid-1980s. Up until then, we passenger overboard), we had Why did you become an expert on weren’t prosecuting terrorism legislation in place for hijacking, the PATRIOT act? cases outside the United States. but we didn’t have it for shipjack- Victoria Toensing: I have been We had no jurisdiction. We ing. We had to pass more legisla- involved in terrorism legislation prosecuted cases pursuant to a tion. We thought we had it and the prosecution of terrorists multilateral treaty. Before the covered then, but we didn’t have from early on. I started the Achille Lauro case (wherein it covered. Another terrorism terrorism section at the Justice terrorists seized a cruise ship case – the shootings at the Rome Department. That was in the and threw a wheelchair-bound airport (in 1985) – was not

18 April 2004 The American Legion Magazine new wiretap order. We had to stop and write up new papers, which took at least a week. We, as prosecutors, couldn’t keep up with them. So we changed the law so that we could have a roving wiretap. The ability roved with the person. It went from phone to phone. You didn’t have to go into court each time the person switched phones. So the law was changed for criminal cases but not for terrorism.

TALM: How did that impact our ability to prosecute terrorism cases? VT: This hurt us in 1985, when TWA Flight 847, en route from Athens to Rome, was hijacked and forced to land in Lebanon. Robert Stethem, an American serviceman aboard the fl ight, was murdered. Other American males on board were kidnapped and taken to Beirut. We didn’t know where they were. We had reason to believe, though, that the kidnappers would communicate with other people in a major American city. We hoped that if we could listen to these telephone conversations, we could learn where the Americans were being held and execute a rescue. We put in wiretaps, but the wiretaps did not fi t within the laws. Even Courtesy Victoria Toensing though American citizens were covered. We had to pass addi- lance Act, or FISA. FISA is how being held captive, and a service- tional legislation. Our legislation we put wiretaps on people to gain man had been murdered, we were started out for hijackings and foreign intelligence. You do not ordered to take down the wire- shipjackings, and it grew to cover use it for criminal cases. This is taps. We lost that avenue of any terrorist act outside the signifi cant, because the wiretap- investigation. The PATRIOT Act United States in which Ameri- ping law originally was written changes that. Now we can use cans are victims. While I was at for criminal cases. That law was roving wiretaps on terrorism the Justice Department, those written when people only had investigations. The PATRIOT Act types of cases were under my one phone plugged into a wall. applied the roving wiretap, which jurisdiction. I was there at the There weren’t cell phones or even we already had for criminal cases, very beginning. I always had an portable phones. When you to terrorism crimes. interest in terrorism, but other wanted to get a wiretap, you had people did not. to fi gure out which phone was TALM: The PATRIOT Act has a being used by the suspected provision that enables investiga- TALM: What does the USA- criminal. You got the tap for that tors to delay notifying a suspect PATRIOT Act do? phone and not for the person. If that he or she is being investigated VT: It does a lot of things. You the person used another phone, for terrorism. Can you comment really can’t just say, “the PATRIOT you had to get a tap for that on that? Act.” There are many parts to phone also. As technology VT: This is not a new power. This this legislation. advanced, drug dealers in par- is where opponents of the ticular began using cell phones. PATRIOT Act do their arguments TALM: What are some of the They used one a week then threw and the public an injustice, when most signifi cant parts? it away. This was their cost of they complain about the delayed- VT: Let’s talk about the change in doing business. Each time they notifi cation law. They act as if it’s the Foreign Intelligence Surveil- switched phones, we had to get a never been allowed. But it has.

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Case law throughout the ages a case where someone has used a Have we done everything says that people need to be bomb in a particular city, the possible under the law so that notifi ed if there has been a grand jury has always been able people cannot move? No. We’re personal search of something to go to a library to see who has an open society. We’re a democ- that belongs to them. This checked out a book on bomb- racy. We balance our freedoms includes a search of someone’s making within the past six against the needs for national house or mail. The court started months or year. Additionally, the security. Even in a closed soci- carving out exceptions, for … a FBI could get business records. ety, such as Saudi Arabia, you delayed notifi cation. This was in Under the old law, this meant cannot prevent attacks. cases where there was a need to travel records. The FBI could get preserve a life, to preserve the hotel records. It could get storage TALM: What are the act’s integrity of the investigation, to records. The PATRIOT Act says weaknesses? prevent fl ight or to prevent terrorism investigators can also VT: Every one of these laws can be intimidation of witnesses. In get library records. There is good used for good. They also can be terrorism cases, you want to be reason for this. We knew that used for evil. There is the concern able to conduct your investiga- several terrorists had used library that they could be misused by tion without these risks. Let’s say computer systems. They went some U.S. attorney who just gets a terrorist is sending money from there because the libraries were off on having power. The problem the United States to someone in like a refuge. But we don’t have with the Justice Department is the Middle East. Wouldn’t we to have the situation where that it is reluctant to rein in U.S. want to follow that money and terrorists can go to libraries attorneys who abuse their power. see who’s receiving it and what because libraries are sacrosanct. The Justice Department has got to they’re trying to do with it? If we Let’s say you have a situation learn that when allegations are get a search warrant, and the whereby the subject of a terror- made against U.S. attorneys, they suspect is notifi ed right away, ism investigation has used a have to take them seriously. That’s that process will be shut down library computer. This informa- where I come down on my immediately. tion comes up at 7 a.m. on a constitutional-protection side. Any Saturday. The grand jury won’t law can be abused. The grand jury TALM: A number of American be available until Monday can be abused. The PATRIOT Act cities have passed resolutions morning, two days later. You can be abused. We need suffi cient condemning the PATRIOT Act for want to be able to search those oversight from the Justice Depart- violating civil rights. Are these computer records. Previously, ment and from Congress. legitimate concerns? Does the act you would have to wait for the impinge on our civil liberties? grand jury to issue a subpoena. TALM: Is this why the act has VT: If the PATRIOT Act is Under the PATRIOT Act, you been so controversial? violating civil rights, then it will don’t have to wait for that VT: We as a people believe go up in the usual process to the process to go through. You can strongly in our liberty. We know Supreme Court, and it should. A go to the library and search the that people can abuse laws. But local authority, such as a city or a records. You still have to have a those who oppose the PATRIOT state, does not have the authority judge look at it ahead of time and Act would do a much better job to say, “We’re not going to obey a give the order, but you don’t have expressing their concerns if they federal law.” The concept is to wait to take it before the grand were truthful about their con- federal pre-emption in specifi c jury. This is a practical thing. It cerns. You can’t complain about areas of law. Federal law trumps is carrying out the law in a the library provision without local law. That’s just it. The only speedy way. saying that we’ve always been thing that trumps that is if the able to look at library records. federal law is unconstitutional. TALM: What about notifi cation? Let’s debate the act on its merits. That would be a civil-rights Do you have to tell the subject violation, and the person being about the search? TALM: What are the act’s aggrieved would have to take it VT: We’re talking about business strengths? up, not a local government. records. When you go to the VT: I believe we have to rear- library, those records are the range our concept of law enforce- TALM: Critics have charged that library’s. In the same way, hotel ment. Prevention is a different the PATRIOT Act enables the records belong to the hotel. This concept for us to grasp. We are government to spy on our library is not a personal search. accustomed to waiting for a habits. Can you comment on this? crime to take place. Now we VT: Again, this is like the TALM: Does the PATRIOT Act can’t do that, when an entity like delayed-notifi cation provision. have loopholes that could benefi t al-Qaida has declared war on us. This has been a power of the terrorists, or allow them to evade We need these laws. I stick up for grand jury for ages. Investigators detection? the PATRIOT Act. x have been able to get library VT: Of course, although I records. If, for example, you have wouldn’t phrase it that way. Article design: Doug Rollison

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BY KAY GRANT battle sites. From medals to Symbolism abounds in the Japanese Gar- malaria pills, from torpedo tubes den of Peace: raked gravel represents ocean waves; stone and greenery clumps, ould you repeat that?” to tanks, the gallery pays tribute the Pacifi c Islands; the stream, raindrops I asked, not believing to the war that changed the returning to the ocean. “Wwhat I had heard from world. The Nimitz Hotel, run by National Museum of the Pacifi c War Daryl Whitworth of the Freder- his grandfather in those times, icksburg, Texas, Convention & was Nimitz’ boyhood home and sinking most of the Russian navy Visitors Bureau. is now part of the in the 1905 Japanese-Russo War, Whitworth pointed museum complex. thus leading to Japan’s 20th- to the garden of the The historic hotel is century naval prowess. While a National Museum of devoted to the fl eet young midshipman at the U.S. the Pacifi c War and admiral himself, Naval Academy, Nimitz met Togo repeated, “The Japa- underscoring his life and came to respect his strategic nese people funded and career. abilities. In 1934, he marched in a memorial to Adm. The quarter-acre Togo’s death-day parade in Japan. Nimitz.” Here was Garden of Peace was The Japanese consider Nimitz the rare and noble funded by defeated one of the three foremost admi- irony of a defeated Japanese military rals in the world, along with Togo nation honoring offi cers and civilians. and Britain’s Lord Nelson – a its conqueror. A replica of Adm. regard that comes as much for his The impressive Heihachiro Togo’s humanity as for his military museum is located in meditation study was aptitude. At the end of World War National Archives the picturesque constructed in Japan, II, when looters were destroying Texas hill country of Fredericks- disassembled and transported to the Mikasa – Togo’s fl agship – burg, a city of fewer than 9,000 Fredericksburg. Along with Nimitz stationed guards to protect souls that German immigrants funding the memorial, Japan sent the vessel and even contributed settled in 1846. Until World War I, seven craftsmen in 1976 to his own money to help restore it. German was the town’s primary reassemble the study and put in In addition, Nimitz is venerated in language, and you still hear it the garden, designed by Taketora the eyes of many Japanese for spoken from time to time. The Saita, one of Japan’s leading ensuring that captured samurai museum is here because Chester landscape architects. swords were returned to their W. Nimitz was born in Fredericks- The Garden of Peace links the owners after the war. burg in 1885. two former enemies – Nimitz and Whether walking in the tranquil The largest section of the Togo – in the solace of a space garden or touring the absorbing 9-acre complex is the George comprised of a fi shpond, rocks, museum, one gets a deeper Bush Gallery, where exhibits and plants and trees of varying understanding of the Pacifi c war dioramas provide a balanced heights. It is the most traditional and the people who fought in it. x perspective of the contentious Japanese garden in Texas, says World War II years. Exhibits are Helen McDonald, the museum’s Kay Grant is a freelance writer chronological, portraying world assistant director. living in California. events of the time and displaying Nimitz admired Adm. Togo, a photos and artifacts of Pacifi c man revered by the Japanese for Article Design: Doug Rollison

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BY MICHELLE MALKIN immigration system. At least two against the law to recruit and hire bin Laden-linked bomb plotters such intruders. And it’s already ays before the terrorist attempted to cross illegally against the law to harbor or attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, through our land borders. otherwise encourage them. The DPresident George W. Bush In the immediate aftermath of problem isn’t that the law is was entertaining the idea of an the Sept. 11 attacks, the White unclear. The problem is that so amnesty bill for illegal aliens House wisely backed off its talks many government offi cials are from Mexico. “If you can make a with Fox. But now, as elections unwilling to enforce the law – and living in America, and you can’t loom and minority vote-pandering to uphold the will of the vast fi nd a job in Mexico, family begins, leaders from both major majority of Americans who reject values don’t stop at the southern parties in Washington again seem open-borders chaos. Poll after poll, border,” he said. “People are bent on passing yet another both before and after the Sept. 11 coming to work to provide food disastrous amnesty program for terrorist attacks, show that Ameri- for their families.” illegal aliens, one that would cans overwhelmingly oppose Mexican President Vicente Fox encourage more uncontrolled amnesty for illegal aliens. A Zogby put a full-court press on Con- immigration – and greatly under- poll performed the week before the gress. Condemning the idea that mine national security. Sept. 11 attacks found opposition “good fences make good neigh- to amnesty among virtually every bors,” Fox asserted that “circum- No Legalization. Last December, major demographic group in stances have changed … We are Department of Homeland Security society, including Hispanics. now bound closer together ... our Secretary Tom Ridge told a Miami Ridge received vocal criticism links are countless and growing.” audience that the solution to out- from some conservatives, such as Bush and Fox discussed every- of-control illegal immigration is to Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., after thing from the possibility of new legalize the 8 million to 12 million his muddled comments. But temporary “guest-worker” pro- illegal aliens currently in the Ridge was merely refl ecting the grams to a radical “regularization” country. “I’m not saying make mindset of virtually all the program to legalize the entire them citizens, because they leaders in both major parties. All illegal-alien population from violated the law to get here,” of the then-Democratic presiden- Mexico. Circumstances, however, Ridge explained. “You don’t tial candidates expressed support changed in an unimaginable way reward that type of conduct by for some form of amnesty, as when 19 foreign invaders mur- turning over a citizenship certifi - does Senate Minority Leader Tom dered some 3,000 people on cate. You determine how you can Daschle, Secretary of State Colin American soil. The connections legalize their presence. Then, as a Powell and President George W. between border control, immigra- country, you make a decision that Bush, who unveiled an amnesty tion enforcement and homeland from this day forward this is a plan in January that would allow security became clearer than process of entry, and if you violate the entire illegal-alien population ever before to the nation. Three that process of entry, we have the to apply for a “temporary guest of the hijackers had illegally resources to cope with it.” The worker” program, increase the overstayed their visas. Seven of government, Ridge opined, must number of green cards issued to the 19 obtained fraudulent “decide what our immigration legal permanent residents – identifi cation cards with the help policy is and then enforce it.” untold numbers of which would of illegal-alien day laborers in Huh? presumably be issued to protect- Virginia. And this wasn’t the fi rst It’s already against the law to ed illegals – and provide Social time Osama bin Laden’s network cross our borders or overstay visas Security benefi ts for illegal aliens had exploited America’s lax without permission. It’s already from Mexico.

April 2004 25 The American Legion Magazine commentary

Enforce the Law. Most n 1986: The Immigra- arguments in favor of “The primary objective of our immigration tion and Reform Control amnesty begin with the Act blanket amnesty for premise that immigra- policy is not to serve as an economic relief an estimated 2.7 million tion enforcement is illegal aliens. impractical given the fund for the rest of the world.” n 1994: The Immigra- massive numbers of tion and Nationality illegal aliens currently living in felony to knowingly employ an Act, Section 245(i) temporary the United States. “The truth is we illegal alien, but the law is almost rolling amnesty for 578,000 can’t and won’t deport even a never enforced because employers illegal aliens. small share of the foreign workers have failed to distinguish illegal n 1997: Extension of the Section who do so much to keep our econ- aliens from legal aliens and U.S. 245 (i) amnesty. omy running,” writes Tamar citizens. A nationwide worker n 1997: The Nicaraguan Adjust- Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute, identifi cation-verifi cation database ment and Central American an amnesty supporter. “(We) need linked to the Social Security Relief Act for nearly one million to offer these valuable laborers a database and alien-registration illegal aliens from Central way in, out of the shadows. And numbers would provide employ- America. the best means to do so would be ers the tools they need. Enforce- n 1998: The Haitian Refugee a gradual scheme under which, ment of the law would follow, and Immigration Fairness Act am- over time, they earn legitimacy.” after a few highly publicized nesty for 125,000 illegal aliens The idea that illegal aliens are cases, demand for illegal alien from Haiti. hiding fearfully in the shadows is labor would dry up, and most n 2000: Extension of amnesty for laughable to most residents of bor- offenders would leave on their 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed der states – and to an increasing own volition. eligibility under the 1986 act. number of residents in fl yover n 2000: The Legal Immigration country – where immigration “Tough Noogies” Policy. Another Family Equity Act, which includ- outlaws have ready and open pro-amnesty argument is that ed a restoration of the rolling access to driver’s licenses, health granting residency to illegal Section 245(i) amnesty for care, education and employment immigrants already in our country 900,000 illegal aliens. shelters. In any case, Jacoby and will stem the future fl ow of illegal These amnesties failed to other leading amnesty supporters aliens. The historical record decrease illegal immigration. On seem to assume that mass depor- provides absolutely no evidence in the contrary, the number of tation is the only tool we have to support of this claim. Seven illegal aliens has tripled since handle illegal aliens, which is not amnesties have been enacted President Reagan signed the fi rst the case. Under current law, it is a inside the past two decades: amnesty in 1986. The total effect

The Legion’s opposition to illegal immigration

BY RON ENGEL tion ceremonies and instructed Generally, they perform work immigrants on the English where labor shortages exist. So The American Legion is unalter- language, assisting their adjust- what’s the problem? ably opposed to illegal immigra- ment to the American way of life. They broke the law to get here. tion and the apparent lack of At the same time, the Legion The American Legion cannot enforcement of immigration laws also envisioned a time when this condone the breaking of this by federal government agencies. country would have to withdraw country’s immigration laws when Immigration is a critical issue to the welcome mat, due to increas- the preamble to its own Constitu- national security, as evidenced by ing numbers of new immigrants tion says members “promote law the terrorists admitted into this and the diffi culty of assimilating and order.” Immigration laws country, who went on to commit into U.S. society. The Legion were established to regulate the the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. passed resolutions asking Con- admission of non-citizens into American Legion positions on gress for limited quotas, calling this country. Violation of immi- immigration date back to the for strict enforcement of immi- gration laws is a violation of the organization’s roots. In 1919, gration and customs laws and the Legion’s rules of conduct. Legionnaires opened their arms removal of illegal aliens. Acceptance of these undocu- to a wave of immigrants from An estimated 8 million to mented aliens is an invitation for foreign lands. The organization 11 million illegals live and work others to illegally enter the worked with the government in among us today, from coast to country. Previous amnesty providing meaningful naturaliza- coast and border to border. programs s see immigration page 28

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tance to attend a college or [immigration] have proved For more info university in the United States. ineffective at curtailing the Contact Americanism and Children & n Restrict the eligibility of illegal invasion and, according to some Youth Division, The American Legion, aliens to receive publicly funded immigration-reform groups, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. assistance. only served to fuel a greater E-mail: [email protected] n Provide the U.S. Border Patrol infl ux of illegals. with the necessary resources for The American Legion’s position worker” legislation proposed by effective security. is outlined in Resolution 307, President Bush in January. n Require all legal aliens to carry passed by delegates to the 84th The amnesty issue is only one technologically secure identifi ca- National Convention in Charlotte, of the Legion’s immigration tion documents that are verifi - N.C., in 2002. It reads: “The positions. Others include: able by any employer or benefi t American Legion opposes all n Support strict enforcement agency through a central data- legislation that would result in the of employer sanctions as called base. The American Legion granting of amnesty and legal for in current labor and immigra- opposes the acceptance of the residency, in any form or by any tion law. matricular consular card as a name, to millions of illegal n Oppose efforts that would legal form of identifi cation. immigrants currently in the United allow illegal aliens to receive in- States.” This includes illegals state tuition rates, federal or Ron Engel is deputy director of The working in this country who other government education American Legion’s Americanism would be pardoned under “guest- grants and/or fi nancial assis- and Children & Youth division.

of the amnesties was even larger handle on who is here and Airlines counter at Los Angeles because relatives of the “regular- eliminate the vast black market International Airport on July 4, ized” aliens later joined their for bogus identity papers. But it is 2002. Those covered by the 245(i) law-breaking family members. reasonable to assume that illegal amnesty provision included not Supporters say amnesty is a aliens with criminal records or only Mexican day laborers who compassionate matter of family known ties to terrorists would not entered the country illegally but reunifi cation for hard-working apply for amnesty. Amnesty also visa overstayers – a category undocumented immigrants would do nothing to prevent such that covers the likes of Sept. 11 mostly from Mexico and Central individuals from continuing to hijackers Hani Hanjour, Nawaf al America. But the primary live here illegally, nor would it Hazmi, and Satam al Suqami, objective of our immigration prevent them from obtaining and those who worked in the United policy is not to serve as an using false identifi cation papers, States illegally – such as several economic relief fund for the rest as the Sept. 11 hijackers did. of the 1993 World Trade Center of the world. The primary goals History suggests that even bombers, and those who failed to should be the preservation of our amnesty programs with narrow maintain continuously lawful sovereignty and the safety of U.S. focus may be vulnerable to abuse status – for example, Sept. 11 citizens. Entering the United by terrorists. Egyptian brothers hijackers Mohamed Atta and States is not a divine right. Those Mahmud Abouhalima and Marwan al Shehhi. who want to come to this coun- Mohammed Abouhalima – both Compassion must not override try must queue up for a visa like here on expired visas – won vigilance. Our resolve to enforce everyone else. We need a “tough amnesty under a farm-worker immigration laws in the wake of noogies” policy, with no excep- program after cooking up bogus Sept. 11 must not be weakened. If tions, when it comes to alien claims. They went on to partici- our government is willing to lawbreakers who violate the rules pate in the 1993 World Trade defend the borders of other and then complain about unfair- Center bombing. Section 245(i) nations, it must fi rst be willing to ness when they’re caught. They benefi ciary Hashem Mohamed defend its own. x should accept the consequences Hadayet entered with a tourist of their actions. They are not visa in 1992, only overstayed for Michelle Malkin is a syndicated entitled to be here. fi ve years and then applied columnist, FOX News Channel In an attempt to address post- successfully for legal permanent analyst and author of “Invasion: Sept. 11 worries, amnesty sup- residency under 245(i) when his How America Still Welcomes porters claim their proposals will wife hit the Diversity Visa lottery Terrorists, Criminals and Other enhance public safety and nation- jackpot – another immigration Foreign Menaces to Our Shores” al security. Supporters argue that abomination that benefi ts illegal (Regnery, 2002). amnesty would allow the federal aliens. He went on to gun down government to get an immediate two people at the El Al Israel Article design: Doug Rollison

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BY PAT CONROY he true things always and his neck were broken, and he ambush me on the road and had shattered his left scapula in Ttake me by surprise when I the fall. When he was well am drifting down the light of enough to get to his feet (he still placid days, careless about fl anks can’t recall how much time had and rearguard actions. I was not passed), two armed Viet Cong led looking for a true thing to come Al from the jungles of South upon me in the state of New Vietnam to a prison in Hanoi. Jersey. Nothing has ever hap- The journey took three months. pened to me in New Jersey. But Al Kroboth walked barefooted came it did, and it came to stay. through the most impassable In the past four years I have terrain in Vietnam, and he did it been interviewing my teammates sometimes in the dead of night. on the 1966-1967 basketball team From the book, “My Losing Season,” He bathed when it rained, and he at the Citadel for a book I’m by Pat Conroy. Copyright ©2002 slept in bomb craters with his two writing. For the most part, this by Pat Conroy. Published by Nan Viet Cong captors. As they moved has been like buying back a part A. Talese/Doubleday, a division farther north, infections began to of my past that I had mislaid or of Random House. Reprinted erupt on his body, and his legs shut out of my life. At fi rst I with permission. were covered with leeches picked thought I was writing about being up while crossing the rice paddies. young and frisky and able to run At the very time of Al’s walk, I up and down a court all day long, After we talked basketball, had a small role in organizing the but lately I realized I came to this we came to a subject I dreaded only antiwar demonstration ever book because I needed to come to to bring up with Al, but which held in Beaufort, S.C., the home of grips with being middle-aged and lay between us and would not Parris Island and the Marine having ripened into a gray-haired lie still. Corps Air Station. man you could not trust to “Al, you know I was a draft In a Marine Corps town at that handle the ball on a fast break. dodger and antiwar demonstrator.” time, it was diffi cult to come up When I visited my old team- “That’s what I heard, Conroy,” with a quorum of people who mate Al Kroboth’s house in New Al said. “I have nothing against had even minor disagreements Jersey, I spent the fi rst hours what you did, but I did what I about the Vietnam War. But my quizzing him about his memories thought was right.” small group managed to attract a of games and practices and the “Tell me about Vietnam, big Al. crowd of about 150 to Beaufort’s screams of coaches that had Tell me what happened to you,” waterfront. With my mother and echoed in fi eld houses more than I said. my wife on either side of me, we 30 years before. On his seventh mission as a listened to the featured speaker, Al had been a splendid for- navigator in an A-6 for Maj. Dr. Howard Levy, suggest to the ward-center for the Citadel; at Leonard Robertson, Al was very few young enlisted Marines 6 feet 5 inches and carrying 220 getting ready to deliver their present that if they get sent to pounds, he played with indefati- payload when the fi ghter-bomber Vietnam, here’s how they can gable energy and enthusiasm. For was hit by enemy fi re. Though Al help end this war: roll a grenade most of his senior year, he led the has no memory of it, he punched under your offi cer’s bunk when nation in fi eld-goal percentage, out somewhere in the middle of he’s asleep in his tent. It’s called with UCLA center Lew Alcindor the ill-fated dive and lost con- fragging and is becoming more hot on his trail. Al was a battler sciousness. He doesn’t know if he and more popular with the and a brawler and a scrapper was unconscious for six hours or ground troops who know this from the day he fi rst stepped in six days, nor does he know what war is bullshit. as a Green Weenie as a sopho- happened to Maj. Robertson I was enraged by the sugges- more to the day he graduated. (whose name is engraved on the tion. At that very moment my Wall in Washington and on the father, a Marine offi cer, was Author Pat Conroy of South Carolina MIA bracelet Al wears). asleep in Vietnam. displays posters and mementos of his When Al awoke, he couldn’t But in 1972, at the age of 27, I father, upon whom the writer based his move. A Viet Cong soldier held thought I was serving America’s 1976 novel “The Great Santini.” AP an AK-47 to his head. His back interests by pointing out what

April 2004 31 The American Legion Magazine massive fl aws and miscalcula- after listening to Al’s story, that I troops well and that the Viet Cong tions and corruptions had led her began to make judgments about would have had their hands full if to conduct a ground war in how I had conducted myself they entered a fi refi ght with us. Southeast Asia. during the Vietnam War. In the From the day of my birth, I was In the meantime, Al and his darkness of the sleeping Kroboth programmed to enter the Marine captors had fi nally arrived in household, lying in the third- Corps. I was the son of a Marine the North, and the Viet Cong fl oor guest bedroom, I began to fi ghter pilot, and I had grown up traded him to North Vietnamese assess my role as a citizen in the on Marine bases where I had soldiers for the fi nal leg of the ’60s, when my country called my watched the men of the Corps trip to Hanoi. name and I shot her the bird. perform simulated war games in Many times when they stopped Unlike the stupid boys who the forests of my childhood. That to rest for the night, the local wrapped themselves in Viet Cong a novelist and poet bloomed villagers tried to kill him. His fl ags and burned the American darkly in the house of Santini captors wired his hands behind one, I knew how to demonstrate strikes me as a remarkable irony. his back at night, so he trained against the war without fl irting My mother and father had raised himself to sleep in the center of with treason or astonishingly bad me to be an Al Kroboth, and huts when the villagers began taste. I had come directly from during the Vietnam era they sticking knives and bayonets into the warrior culture of this watched in horror as I metamor- the thin walls. Following the U.S. country, and I knew how to act. phosed into another breed of air raids, old women would come But in the 25 years that have fanatic entirely. into the huts to excrete on him passed since South Vietnam fell, I I understand now that I should and yank out hunks of his hair. have immersed myself in the have protested the war after my After the nightmare journey study of totalitarianism during the return from Vietnam, after I had of his walk north, Al was re- unspeakable century we just left done my duty for my country. I lieved when his guards fi nally behind. I have questioned survi- have come to a conclusion about delivered him to the POW camp vors of Auschwitz and Bergen- my country that I knew then in in Hanoi and the cell door locked Belsen, talked to Italians who told my bones but lacked the courage behind him. me tales of the Nazi occupation, to act on: America is good enough It was at the camp that Al French partisans who had counted to die for even when she is wrong. began to die. He threw up every German tanks in the forests of I looked for some conclusion, a meal he ate and before long was Normandy and offi cers who summation of this trip to my misidentifi ed as the oldest survived the Bataan Death March. teammate’s house. I wanted to American soldier in the prison I quiz journalists returning from come to the single right thing, a because his appearance was so wars in Bosnia, the Sudan, the true thing that I may not like but gaunt and skeletal. But the Congo, Angola, Indonesia, Guate- that I could live with. extraordinary camaraderie mala, San Salvador, Chile, North- After hearing Al Kroboth’s among fellow prisoners that ern Ireland and Algeria. story of his walk across Vietnam sprang up in all the POW camps As I lay sleepless, I realized I’d and his brutal imprisonment in caught fi re in Al, and did so in done all this research to better the North, I found myself passing time to save his life. understand my country. I now harrowing, remorseless judgment When I was demonstrating in revere words like democracy, on myself. I had not turned out to America against Nixon and the freedom, the right to vote, and be the man I had once envisioned Christmas bombings in Hanoi, Al the grandeur of the extraordinary myself to be. I thought I would and his fellow prisoners were vision of the founding fathers. be the kind of man that America holding hands under the full fury Do I see America’s fl aws? Of could point to and say, “There. of those bombings, singing “God course. But I now can honor her That’s the guy. That’s the one Bless America.” basic, incorruptible virtues, the who got it right. The whole It was those bombs that con- ones that let me walk the streets package. The one I can depend vinced Hanoi they would do well screaming my ass off that my on.” It had never once occurred to release the American POWs, country had no idea what it was to me that I would fi nd myself in including my college teammate. doing in South Vietnam. My the position I did on that night in When he told me about the country let me scream to my Al Kroboth’s house in Roselle, C-141 landing in Hanoi to pick up heart’s content – the same N.J.: an American coward the prisoners, Al said he felt no country that produced both Al spending the night with an emotion, none at all, until he saw Kroboth and me. American hero. x the giant American fl ag painted Now, at this moment in New on the plane’s tail. I stopped Jersey, I come to a conclusion Author Pat Conroy’s other works writing as Al wept over the about my actions as a young man include “The Great Santini,” “The memory of that fl ag on that when Vietnam was a dirty word Lords of Discipline” and “The plane, on that morning, during to me. I wish I’d led a platoon of Prince of Tides.” that time in the life of America. Marines in Vietnam. I would like It was that same long night, to think I would have trained my Article design: Doug Rollison

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The Sept. 11 generation knows why force is sometimes necessary. To Make Men Free

BY ALAN W. DOWD

make men holy, let us die to Why do America’s armed forces fi ght? make men free.” That’s the question the U.S. Richard Dawkins argues that the Relying on interviews of Iraqi Army War College’s Strategic aggressive traits that ultimately POWs, perspectives from embed- Studies Institute asked in the lead to confl ict, whether interper- ded media, discussions with wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom, sonal or international – as well personnel from the 3rd Infantry in a wide-ranging study that as the traits that lead to confl ict Division, 101st Airborne Division compared the combat motiva- avoidance – are hard-wired into and 1st Marine Division, and tions of the current cohort of the gene itself. History books tell comparisons with similar data American troops to that of earlier us that we fi ght because of pride from earlier wars, SSI’s aptly titled cohorts. Although some of SSI’s and politics, resources and “Why They Fight” report found fi ndings will come as a surprise, riches, king and country. that the motivations of the men many refl ect exactly what the Perhaps the highest motivation and women who liberated Iraq are American people would expect of of all also is the least common: to very much in line with that Civil their military. fi ght for freedom, especially the War anthem. Although plenty of Science tells us that genetics is freedom of others. Yet this national-security justifi cations one reason men fi ght. Military concept of what might be called existed for war in Iraq – from historian John Keegan notes that “altruistic war” is not at all Saddam’s links to terror, to Iraq’s some scientists cite “a psycho- foreign to Americans. After all, underground weapons program, logical basis for a theory of one of the most stirring stanzas to the need to enforce U.N. aggression.” Freud, for example, from “Battle Hymn of the Repub- resolutions and thus stabilize the concluded that “man has within lic” – penned in 1862, during Middle East – the troops largely himself a lust for hatred and what some call a war of libera- believe they are fi ghting and destruction.” British biologist tion – declares, “As He died to dying to make Iraq free.

34 April 2004 The American Legion Magazine commentary

U.S. Air Force

According to SSI, that Post-World War II feeling refl ects an evolu- “Hollywood’s howls notwithstanding, surveys also found that tion in the motivations of troops were motivated by U.S. combat forces – or we don’t goosestep into battle or the “strong group ties that perhaps better said, an developed during com- evolution in how these romanticize the horrors of war.” bat.” Some call it unit motivations are expressed. cohesion, others the The SSI researchers note that responses about the desire to get brotherhood of war; it was a studies conducted after World the war over with and get home. potent motivator for American War II found that most American This should come as no troops throughout the Cold War GIs were motivated by a desire to surprise. For most Americans, and remains so today. According fi nish the job and return home. war is not glory and conquest is to data cited by SSI, group ties This strand of thinking runs not a sign of strength. Ours is and “buddy relations” were throughout the American experi- something less than a warrior critical factors to combat motiva- ence. Recall the words of Gen. culture – something altogether tion in Korea and Vietnam. Norman Schwarzkopf on the eve different from Rome or the Likewise, among U.S. veterans of of the Gulf War, some 45 years militarist societies of the last the war in Iraq, “the most after World War II: “I have seen century. Hollywood’s howls frequent response given for in your eyes a fi re of determina- notwithstanding, we don’t combat motivation was ‘fi ghting tion to get this job done, and goosestep into battle or romanti- for my buddies.’” done quickly, so that we may cize the horrors of war. So it Ideological notions such as return to the shores of our great stands to reason that the people liberty and equality “were not nation.” SSI found that veterans who fi ght America’s wars yearn major factors in combat motiva- of the Iraq war offered similar for home rather than empire. tions for World War II soldiers.”

April 2004 35 The American Legion Magazine U.S. Air Force

Obviously, this isn’t First, our culture has refl ective of every GI; “Veterans of the war on terror – changed. For good or ill, indeed, it may be quite today’s culture encour- contrary to our popular what tomorrow’s history books ages people to be more conception of the World open, more transparent, War II combat veteran. might call the ‘Sept. 11 generation’ – more emotive, truer to However, it does resonate themselves. The stoicism with what my grandfa- are more willing to talk about of men like my grandfa- ther, a veteran of Nor- thers is no longer mandy and the Ardennes, freedom than earlier generations.” admired, let alone once told me: he didn’t celebrated. Satellites go to war to liberate and the Internet enable Europe. He went because ity and fl ag-waving were us not only to observe the war “someone or something had to frowned upon within the mili- but to observe the warrior, in real stop the Nazis and the Japanese tary in decades past. “While time. The openness is unfi ltered, once and for all.” today’s soldiers still feel awk- the emotion unrehearsed. And Likewise, the anecdotal ward speaking of idealistic SSI’s fi ndings are a refl ection of evidence from the postwar period motivations, they may be what we have seen. “Neither seems to indicate that the grand relatively less inhibited about bloodthirsty nor triumphalist,” idea of fi ghting for freedom was articulating idealist notions as military historian Victor Davis seldom a motivator during the compared to soldiers of the Hanson explained after the Cold War, as historian Derek past,” the SSI report concludes. statues fell in Baghdad, “Ameri- Leebaert explains in “The Fifty- “New soldiers are socialized to can soldiers came across on our Year Wound.” be comfortable talking about television screens as idealists He writes, “Military draftees value-laden ideas.” eager to liberate the unfree and and recruits lost millions of man- In other words, veterans of the return home, content that they years in places like Kiska, Alaska, war on terror – what tomorrow’s had defeated killers and saved belowdecks on some stinking history books might call the innocents.” supply ship in the Pacifi c, or “Sept. 11 generation” – are more The Iraqi people are glad they stenciling jeeps at Fort Ord in willing to talk about freedom did. According to a Gallup poll, California.” As a consequence, he than were earlier generations. almost two-thirds of Iraqis say adds, “most of these men’s fi rst They are fully capable of explain- liberation from Saddam’s rule is impression of public service was ing the sometimes-complex worth the temporary privations that it wasted their time. Later, rationale that compels them to of the U.S.-led occupation. And when others were conscripted fi ght and die for something more than two-thirds say they after them, they believed it bigger than themselves. As their believe their lives will be even wasted their money as well.” commander-in-chief explained, better fi ve years from now. in words he borrowed from the SSI researchers identifi ed yet The New Motivation. Given the prophet Isaiah, “Wherever you another important cultural historical record, it came as a go, you carry a message of hope, change: Today’s troops “come surprise when U.S. troops said a message that is ancient and from a generation that trusts the “liberating the people and ever new: ‘to the captives, come military.” In the aftermath of bringing freedom to Iraq” out; and to those in darkness, be Vietnam, only 20 percent of motivated them to fi ght. free.’” It may sound corny or Americans between 18 and 29 However, as the SSI study quaint, but it isn’t patriotic expressed confi dence in the U.S. points out, veterans of earlier propaganda to conclude that military. Today, 70 percent of confl icts were not necessarily many of the men and women college students say they trust apathetic to freedom. Rather, it who are waging the war on terror the military “either all or most of is more likely a byproduct of the have openly embraced that as the time.” The impact that public implicit and sometimes overt their mission. support – or its absence – has on social constraints placed upon What has triggered this troops in the fi eld cannot be earlier generations. Sentimental- change? Other changes. overstated. As Alexis de Toc-

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Box 25, Vergennes, VT 05491 U.S. Army queville observed long In addition, SSI before America turned “Unlike their fathers who fought found that Iraqi units sour on Vietnam, “Among often fragmented along democratic nations, the in Vietnam, unlike their grandfathers tribal or regional lines, private soldiers remain thus drastically dimin- most like civilians; upon and great-grandfathers who fought ishing their combat them, the habits of the effectiveness. nation have the fi rmest in World War II or Korea, This provides a fasci- hold and public opinion nating contrast. On the has the most infl uence.” the veterans of operations one hand, we have a The military has military that essentially changed as well. Unlike Iraqi Freedom and Enduring refused to fi ght for its their fathers who fought own homeland, let alone in Vietnam, unlike their Freedom are all volunteers. for the freedom of its grandfathers and great- people. On the other, we grandfathers who fought Every soldier, sailor, airman and have a military that in World War II or Korea, fought for the freedom of the veterans of operations Marine wants to serve.” a foreign people. An Iraqi Freedom and authoritarian system that Enduring Freedom are all couldn’t hold Iraq’s volunteers. Every soldier, sailor, more patient than earlier fi ght- relatively homogeneous army airman and Marine wants to ing cohorts. In Iraq, as in together stands in contrast to a serve. That makes all the differ- postwar Japan and Germany, as military made up of Jews and ence, especially in a confl ict like in Korea and Vietnam, uncer- Muslims, Hindus, Christians and this – a confl ict that blends all tainty is corrosive. If the mission atheists, blacks and whites, the killing and suffering of is unclear, if the fi nish line keeps Latinos and Islanders, Asians and traditional warfare with all the moving, even the most motivat- Arabs, rich and poor, immigrants draining tension and uncertainty ed and professional troops will and native-born – all held togeth- of a cold war. As Fred Peck, a grow weary. er by little more than an idea. military writer and retired Freedom and the God-given Marine, wryly observes, “In Freedom and Fear. If an evolu- right to be free has proven more today’s (all-volunteer force) … tion has occurred in the motiva- powerful than those centrifugal it’s a punishment to kick people tions of American soldiers and forces of faith, ethnicity and race out. In the draft era it was a Marines, SSI found similar shifts that sometimes call into question punishment to keep them in.” in the motivations of America’s the unity of the United States – The all-volunteer force concept enemies. The Nazi and North and far more powerful than the makes the U.S. military more Vietnamese armies, for example, fear that created an illusion of lethal, more fl exible, more were motivated by a sense of unity inside Iraq. motivated, and more intelligent solidarity with their fellow In this way, the Americans than it has ever been – and more comrades to defend their home- who are fi ghting in Iraq, Afghan- cosmopolitan, more thoughtful, land. Iraqi troops, by contrast, istan and all the other pitched more open to differences than were motivated by coercion and battles of the global war on terror most of the people it defends. As fear of retribution. “Even with have much in common with their Hanson comments, “Students are coalition forces to their front,” forebears. They are fi ghting for more likely to be segregated by SSI’s researchers concluded, our freedom and, whether or not race in the lounges and cafeterias “they were fearful of the dreaded they admit it when interviewed, of ‘progressive’ universities than Baath Party to their rear.” Yet for the freedom of others. x they are in the mess halls of according to the SSI study, some aircraft carriers.” Iraqi POWs reported that they Alan W. Dowd is director of the However, there are limits to were willing to kill their offi cers Hudson Institute in Indianapolis. what the AVF can achieve. SSI’s in order to surrender, rather than report warns that the AVF is not face the U.S. juggernaut. Article design: Holly K. Soria

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40 April 2004 The American Legion Magazine The Civil War ended with veterans in blue showing the deepest respect to their foes, “Americans to Americans.”

BY JAY WINIK Excerpted from the book away their guns and remove their “April 1865: The Month that cannons, but, if Grant was Saved America” by Jay Winik, going to have anything to do published in April 2001 by with it, it would not also destroy HarperCollins Publishers, $32.50. their dignity. Copyright © 2001 by Jay Winik. All rights reserved.

hatever fears Lee may Lee’s aide settled upon the have harbored that home of Wilmer McLean. For a Wmorning about Grant’s few moments, the only terms, the Union sound was the thump and general’s fi rst swish of feet trotting up gesture was the worn wooden astonishingly steps of his home. conciliatory Lee’s aide, – and Charles Mar-

National Park Service; Artist, Keith Rocco farsighted. shall, went Having in, fol- defeated the lowed gallant Army of soon Northern Vir- thereafter ginia, U.S. Grant by one of was letting his Grant’s vaunted foe, Robert aides, and E. Lee, choose the then Lee him- time and place of his self. Lee, resplendent surrender. However in his magnifi cent crisp gray seemingly insignifi cant, uniform and with his engraved it was a remarkable act that, like sword at his side, sat down in the Grant himself, spoke simply yet parlor at a small wooden table, clearly: the North may defeat the inside enemy territory, and, in Confederate armies, it may strip painful silence, waited.

April 2004 41 The American Legion Magazine Half an hour later, at mately acquainted with 1:30 p.m., came a new “From West Point, through his all the arts of war, save sound: the trot of one: surrender. Union horses. thirty-six years of military service, Lee But after a bit, the Confederate general
had become intimately acquainted with found his voice and inter- rupted again. “I presume, With his queer, stum- all the arts of war, save one: surrender.” General Grant, we have bling stride, U.S. Grant both carefully considered entered. He was sword- the proper steps to be less, dressed in a private’s muddy know I met you on that occasion, taken, and I would suggest that shirt, his boots and trousers were and I have often thought of it, you commit to writing the terms splattered with mud, his cheeks and tried to recollect how you you have proposed, so that they were pink, his blue eyes clear, his looked, but I have never been may be formally acted upon.” hair dark. For the fi rst time in able to recall a single feature.” “Very well,” Grant said, “I will nearly two decades, in this The conversation momentarily write them out.” square, somewhat cramped lagged, but then Grant continued room, the two generals would see nervously to chat (“Our conversa-
each other in the fl esh, face-to- tion grew so friendly,” he re- face. On this day, there would be called, “that I almost forgot the As the completed letters of no rituals, no pageantry, no object of our meeting”), until Lee surrender were being copied, excessive ministrations. Rather, it fi nally interrupted him. Grant again rushed to fi ll the would be their destiny to dictate “I suppose, General Grant, that silence, this time explaining why the fate of their two armies – and the object of our present meeting he was not wearing his dress set down the outlines for what is fully understood,” he said sword (in fact, years later, Grant would one day again become quietly. “I asked to see you to would admit to being embar- their common country. ascertain upon what terms you rassed at wearing “no sword [and] Lee rose to his feet. The two would receive the surrender of dirty boots”). When the letters men shook hands, and then they my army.” were ready, the acceptance, hand- took their respective seats, eight Grant replied, “The terms I signed by Lee, was given to feet apart. About a dozen of propose are those stated substan- Grant’s secretary. Then Lee Grant’s staff offi cers positioned tially in my letter of yesterday, somberly shook hands with Grant, themselves quietly around the that is, the offi cers and men gave a courtly bow to the other parlor, a room that now pulsed surrendered are to be paroled offi cers in the room, and left. with hidden excitement, awaiting and disqualifi ed from taking up By now, a crowd of anxious the dazzling piece of theater arms again until properly ex- sightseers was clustered around about to be played out, even as it changed, and all arms, ammuni- the front porch to catch a was suffused with Lee’s private tion, and supplies to be delivered glimpse of the Confederate anguish. For his part, Lee’s face up as captured property.” general. His face fl ushed a deep revealed nothing. “What General Lee nodded. Whatever he felt at crimson, Lee emerged onto the Lee’s feelings were, I do not that exact moment, Grant’s words porch, carrying his hat and know,” Grant would later write. would have eased his worst fears gloves. Here he paused, put on “As he was a man of such of the morning. “Those are,” Lee his hat, and slowly drew on his dignity, with an impassible [sic] now said, “about the conditions I gloves, absentmindedly gazing face … his feelings … were expected would be proposed.” out into the fi eld beyond. Once, entirely concealed from my “Yes,” Grant reassured him, “I then twice, then a third time, he observation.” Interestingly, it was think our correspondence unconsciously balled his left Grant, however, not Lee, who indicated pretty clearly the action hand and pumped the fi st into exhibited nervous tension, even a that would be taken at our the palm of his right. Still sense of awe at the occasion, as meeting; and I hope it may lead seemingly oblivious to his he did his best to put Lee at ease to a general suspension of surroundings, he automatically with a friendly overture. “I met hostilities and be the means of returned the salute given to him you once before, General Lee, preventing any further loss of by the Union offi cers crowding while we were serving in Mexico, life.” Grant continued on his around the porch, then descend- when you came over from theme, happily talking of the ed the stairs. Now, as if drawing General Scott’s headquarters to future, of reunion and the himself back from a daze, he visit Garland’s brigade, to which I prospects of peace. For his part, glanced deliberately in one direc- then belonged. I have always Lee said nothing, perhaps feeling tion and then the next. Not remembered your appearance, uncertain, even slightly stunned. seeing his horse, he called out in and I think I should have recog- From West Point, through his a half-choked and more than nized you anywhere.” thirty-six years of military half-tired voice, “Orderly! “Yes,” acknowledged Lee, “I service, Lee had become inti- Orderly!” The horse was brought

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John B. Gordon, one of Lee’s lain wrote, “On our part not a hardest fi ghters, who had been sound of trumpet more, nor roll If the spirit of Appomattox was shot through the face and wound- of drum; not a cheer, nor word, codifi ed on paper on the ninth, ed four more times during his nor whisper or vain-glorying, nor and reinforced between the two service to the Confederacy, and motion of man ... but an awed commanding generals on the who now commanded Stonewall stillness rather, and breath- tenth, it was enshrined in the Jackson’s old corps. This was the holding, as if it were the passing memories of the fi ghting men on last Confederate advance of the of the dead.” the twelfth. That day marked the Army of Northern Virginia, and The formal surrender contin- formal surrender of Lee’s army. it was carried out with stunning ued for seven full hours, encom- Above all, this surrender defi ed precision. Chamberlain would passing not just some 28,000 millenniums of tradition in which never forget it: “On they came, men, but over 100,000 pounds of rebellions typically ended in yet a with the old swinging route step arms, munitions, and colors that greater shedding of blood. and swaying battle fl ags … had been carried across some of crowded so thick, by thinning out the bloodiest battle lines. Cham-
of men, that the whole column berlain described it thus: “As seemed crowned with red … In each successive division masks But on this April day in 1865, the van, the proud Confederate our own, it halts, the face inward there was instead the formal ensign … Before us in proud toward us across the road, twelve stacking of arms and the last, humiliation stood the embodi- feet way; then carefully ‘dress’ somber folding of battle fl ags. ment of manhood; men whom their line ... They fi x bayonets, Men were not hanged, they were neither toils and sufferings, nor stack arms; then hesitatingly, saluted; they were not jailed, they the fact of death nor disaster nor remove cartridge-boxes and lay were honored; they were not hopelessness … could bend from them down. Lastly – reluctantly, humiliated or beaten, they were their resolve; standing before us with agony of expression – they embraced. Some of this was by now, thin, worn, and famished, tenderly fold their fl ags, battle design; much of it occurred totally but erect, and with eyes looking worn and torn, bloodstained, spontaneously. All of it mattered. level into ours, waking memories heart-holding colors, and lay It was Grant who had insisted that bound us together as no them down ...” upon a formal surrender – one other bond …” And fi nally, he added, from his that the participants would never Without having planned it – own heart, “How could we help forget – although, in typical and without any offi cial sanction falling on our knees, all of us fashion, he ordered that it be kept – Chamberlain suddenly gave the together, and praying to God to simple. The two sides met along order for Union soldiers to “carry pity and forgive us all!” x the stage road at the eastern edge arms” as a sign of their deepest of the village. Behind them mark of military respect. A bugle Jay Winik is author of the book stretched rolling farmland, call instantly rang out. All along “On the Brink,” about the end of groves of trees, and grass- the road, Union soldiers raised the Cold War. He is a regular covered hills. The Union offi cer their muskets to their shoulders, contributor to The Wall Street in charge of the ceremony was the salute of honor. “At the sound Journal, a senior scholar at the Joshua L. Chamberlain, the of the machine-like snap of University of Maryland and has fi ghting professor from Bowdoin arms,” Chamberlain recalled, appeared on CBS, C-SPAN College in Maine, who had won a “General Gordon started ... then and Fox. Medal of Honor for his valor at wheeled his horse, facing me, Gettysburg’s Little Round Top. touching him gently with the Article design: Doug Rollison

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Flag wavers the Army’s 25th Infantry take over The U.S. Army’s top man in a territory west of Baghdad most Europe is ordering troops under his recently administered by the 82nd command to wear the American Airborne. fl ag on their uniforms at all times. When the dust settles, eight of “In recognition of the Army’s the Army’s 10 active divisions commitment to the global war on will have been redeployed. While terrorism,” Gen. B.B. Bell an- most are headed into or out of nounced to Army commanders in Iraq, the bulk of the 25th Infantry Europe, “it is now appropriate for DoD Division and key Marine units are all soldiers to proudly wear the fl ag relieving the 10th Mountain on their fi eld/combat uniform, command will not have to pur- Division in Afghanistan. whether they are committed to an chase as many sets of uniforms to For its part, the Army concedes operation or in garrison.” comply with the Army’s old that the rotation is needed. As The According to a Stars and Stripes geography-based regulations. Washington Post reports, an report, Bell’s directive represents internal Army assessment indi- a policy shift, since soldiers The big switch cates that those four divisions typically wear the fl ag only when Bell’s troops are busy this returning from Iraq will be given away from their home stations. spring as the Pentagon rotates the Army’s lowest readiness For example, under the old policy, hundreds of thousands of person- ratings: C-3 or C-4. The divisions U.S. soldiers based in Germany nel in and out of Iraq. With units will bring back 650 helicopters, would wear the fl ag when de- based out of Germany leading the 5,700 tanks and armored vehicles, ployed to Kosovo or Kuwait, but way, the U.S. Armed Forces are in and 46,000 transport vehicles – all not when they are back in Ger- the midst of the largest movement of which need overhauled. It will many. Since the Army is re- of troops and equipment since the take between 120 days and 180 examining these policies, troops end of World War II. It’s called days for the divisions to be under other regional commands “Operation Iraqi Freedom II.” replenished and re-equipped. will probably be wearing the fl ag The fresh troops are coming from Lt. Col. Kevin Gainor said, more often as well. “These bases in Europe and the United “We’re trying to ensure the requirements were established at States, as detailed in a recent Stars experience and knowledge from a time when our Army was not and Stripes analysis. The 1st those units who have been here in committed to war and expedition- Cavalry, joined by National Guard Iraq is passed on to units that are ary operations/deployments to the units, replaces the 1st Armored in arriving.” Once completed, the extent we are now,” Bell said. the Baghdad area. The 1st Infan- operation will move something on Predictably, the troops are try Division and units of the 2nd the order of 120,000 troops out of pleased with the change. Some Infantry Division head to a sector Iraq and replace them with are motivated by patriotism, in north-central Iraq to relieve the 105,000 new troops. The rotation others by simple economics: Bell’s 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry. should be complete in June. order means that troops under his And the 1st Marines and units of – Alan W. Dowd

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The and research into its causes and trial found benefi ts for both treatment did not begin until after methods, especially trauma- the Vietnam War. Researchers focused therapy, though only have made notable progress since about 40 percent of participants then in understanding the condi- showed clinically signifi cant tion. As a result, many combat improvements. veterans and others with PTSD A study at 10 VA medical are benefi ting from new methods centers and one Army hospital is of treatment. Stockbyte now comparing the same treat- PTSD can occur following all Americans – 5 percent of men ments in women. The research is exposure to combat, natural and more than 10 percent of particularly timely because of the disasters, serious accidents, women – experience PTSD numbers of women serving in personal assaults or other trau- symptoms at some point. Iraq. The study is coordinated by mas. Patients often relive their New attention has been focused VA’s Vermont-based National traumas through fl ashbacks and on PTSD since the Sept. 11, 2001, Center for PTSD, one of the nightmares. They may sleep terrorist attacks. Public-health world’s leaders in PTSD research poorly and feel detached from offi cials in the United States and and treatment. others. Anxiety and depression other nations are concerned about Antidepressants and anti- are common. the impact of terrorism on emer- anxiety drugs have proven useful Aside from these psychological gency-response workers and the for treating specifi c PTSD symp- symptoms, the disorder is marked public in general. A study by the toms. Studies by Dr. Murray by identifi able changes in brain New York State Psychiatric Raskind of the VA Puget Sound chemistry. VA researchers were Institute found a heightened risk Health-Care System have shown the fi rst to document these of PTSD among people who that prazosin – a drug originally changes and to show how remind- simply watched television cover- approved for hypertension – may ers of trauma trigger the brain’s age of the attacks. reduce nightmares among PTSD stress circuits. Interestingly, VA and Yale patients. And a team that includ- Physical problems such as University researchers who studied ed VA researchers in Manchester, headaches, gastrointestinal the medical records of veterans N.H., found that the beta-blocker disorders, dizziness and chest with PTSD were surprised to see, propranolol may help prevent pain are common in PTSD on average, an improvement in PTSD after a trauma. patients. Health experts have symptoms in the six months Much remains unknown much come to recognize that strong following the Sept. 11 attacks. 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A wall of fl ame charges toward Alpine, Calif., homes during last fall’s devastating wildfi res in Southern California. The Alpine Sun California post aids wildfi re victims When the deadly wildfi res the roads were being closed, the barbecues, grills and heaters. As ravaged southern California last only way out of town going east the day became night and night fall, American Legion Post 258 was on Alpine Boulevard, where became day, on and on they in Alpine, Calif., opened its doors Post 258 is located. This road worked – through Oct 30. to victims fl eeing their homes became so jammed with campers, “These people gave and gave and businesses. Post members wel- cars, trucks and motor homes that and never even thought of closing comed stranded citizens with food, people began to park anywhere the post. The post operated on its shelter, clothing and compassion. they could, including the post self-appointed mission, giving aid In a letter to National Headquar- parking lot. People were attempt- to all, asking for nothing in ters, retired U.S. Marine Corps ing to make some sense of what return. Long after the fi re had Gunnery Sgt. Harry S. Skaggs was happening to them in the been extinguished, the post still provided his account of the late- midst of fear, panic and confu- provided food, clothing, monies, October fi res, commending Post sion. The post opened its doors to support and comfort. Still, the 258 for its devotion to mutual one and all. They provided a place post and its members asked for helpfulness in the community. to rest, water to drink, phones, nothing in return.” “As my wife and I watched the restrooms, snacks and, above all Skaggs praised post members fi re approach from the north, else, understanding. for their “totally unselfi sh devo- there seemed to be no threat,” “As the day passed, the post lost tion to duty, the principles and Skaggs wrote. “Suddenly, the electrical power, which also by-laws of The American Legion dreaded evacuation order came – means the water, as it operates on and the nation, and for their fi rst by air, then more sternly a well. For those who were compassion for mankind.” from the ground units. We made volunteering their time and For its efforts, Post 258 was our way to American Legion Post services, these setbacks did not recognized by National Command- 258. A short time after we arrived, even cause an eye to blink. Out er John Brieden and National the number of people being came the candles and the bottled Adjutant Robert Spanogle, receiv- evacuated became apparent. As water. On came the propane ing a plaque for humanitarianism.

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all rights reserved selfworx, inc. © 2003 HEALTHGROUP Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, cure or prevent any disease. legion news Cross-country trek supports CWF, memorial On Jan. 28, American lights included welcoming Legion Auxiliary member home an Air Force squadron Dee Caughlin returned to in Kentucky and attending a Stanwood, Wash., American Vietnam War veterans Legion Post 92 after com- reunion in Kokomo, Ind. pleting a 5,003-mile trek The trio often parked across America’s back roads. their truck for two to three Friends welcomed Caughlin days at American Legion home with a potluck dinner. posts along the way. With When the post agreed to each stop, Caughlin raised sponsor her walk, she additional funds for the war launched the Stride of Pride Dee Caughlin completed her cross-country walk in Key memorial and CWF. Foundation. Her goal was to Largo, Fla., and was presented a certifi cate by, from left, “After 9/11, everybody raise funds and awareness for Department of Florida Historian John Travis, Monroe County was fl ying the fl ag,” Caugh- Mayor Murray Nelson, Department of Florida Alternate The American Legion’s Child National Executive Committeeman Dennis R. Boland, and lin said. “They were sup- Welfare Foundation and the Department of Florida Children & Youth Commission porting the troops. I wanted National World War II Chairman John Rose. Courtesy Terry Angel to do this for our vets. Memorial in Washington, to People serving our country be dedicated May 29. accompanied by friends Susan and are fi ghting for our freedom.” “I had a golden opportunity to do Pat Patterson of Onalaska, Wash. By February, Stride of Pride what I always wanted to do: walk The Pattersons followed Caughlin had raised $9,738.96 for the Child across the country and do it for a in a truck with a 23-foot trailer. Welfare Foundation. Caughlin’s cause,” Caughlin said in a phone Sue often joined Caughlin, walking Web site, Strideofpride.org, lists interview from Key Largo, Fla., her about fi ve miles a day. contributions by state. destination. She walked in memory Caughlin walked 10 to 20 miles Caughlin went through 10 pairs of a departed friend who died from a day from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., of tennis shoes and lost a few childhood diabetes, and for her late steering clear of interstate high- pounds, but she didn’t suffered a father, John Frink, a World War II ways. Her trek across America’s single blister. Even though she veteran who died in 1974. back roads took her across 18 was glad to get home, she said The 45-year-old bar manager for states. “I’ve seen so much beautiful she’d make the trek again “in Post 92 hit the road on Jan. 1, 2003, country,” Caughlin said. High- a heartbeat.” Birth-defect benefi ts for children of Vietnam War vets The Department of Veterans VA also provides benefi ts to the disorders, birth-related injuries, Affairs provides monetary biological children of female or fetal or neonatal infi rmities allowances, disability-specifi c Vietnam War veterans diagnosed with well-established causes. health-care benefi ts and voca- with certain other birth defects, Benefi ts are paid at four levels, tional training, if feasible, to the as identifi ed by VA and associ- depending on the child’s degree biological children of Vietnam ated with the mother’s service in of permanent disability. War veterans born with certain Vietnam during the period of Covered birth defects include birth defects. Children must have Feb. 28, 1961, to May 7, 1975. but are not limited to: achondro- been conceived after the date on Covered birth defects do not plasia; cleft lip and cleft palate; which the veteran fi rst entered include conditions due to familial congenital heart disease; con- the Republic of Vietnam. genital talipes equinovarus, or One such benefi t is for children clubfoot; esophageal and intesti- born with spina bifi da. This nal atresia; Hallerman-Streiff benefi t is applicable to the For more info syndrome; hip dysplasia; biological child of any Vietnam Contact The American Legion Veterans Hirschprung’s disease, or con- War veteran diagnosed with any Affairs & Rehabilitation Division: genital megacolon; hydrocepha- manifestation of spina bifi da, Call: (202) 861-2700 lus due to aqueductal tenosis; except spina bifi da occulta. A E-mail: [email protected] hypospadias; imperforate anus; veteran parent of a child diag- Online: www.legion.org neural tube defects, including nosed with spina bifi da must (Click on “Veterans,” then “Vietnam spina bifi da, encephalocele, and have served in country in Viet- Veterans Information.”) anencephaly; Poland syndrome; nam, sometime between Jan. 9, For help with claims or to locate pyloric stenosis; syndactyly, or 1962, and May 7, 1975. Benefi ts nearest service offi cer: fused digits; tracheoesophageal are paid at three levels, based Call: (800) 433-3318 fi stula; undescended testicle; and on severity. Williams syndrome.

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Ritchie, quarters, which his bride gradu- who was killed in 1966 in Vietnam. then contacted ated from Okmul- Among the personal items, VA and learned gee High School in Goliat found citations for the that Ritchie and Oklahoma. Ritchie Distinguished Flying Cross, the his wife had attended Okla- Air Medal and the Purple Heart, children before homa University. all awarded posthumously, as his death. After Coburn attended well as some yellowed newspaper Ritchie’s death, Texas Southmost clippings describing the wedding the children College. At the ceremony of then-2nd Lt. Ritchie received VA Courtesy Eddie Goliat time of the to Elizabeth Joann Coburn in benefi ts for a wedding, Ritchie’s June 1956 at an Air Force base in number of years. However, since parents – the J.H. Ritchies – resided Harlingen, Texas. the VA benefi ts ended several in Okmulgee. His bride’s family, The citations were original years ago, the last known address- the Louis Morrison Coburns, copies, all in excellent condition. es for Ritchie’s children were no resided in Brownsville, Texas. Goliat wanted to return the keep- longer valid. Anyone with information about sakes to Ritchie’s family but wasn’t “Members of the post are hoping Ritchie’s family is encouraged to sure how to locate survivors. to locate someone in this man’s contact Steve Smithson, American A member of Greenwood, Ind., family,” Brislen said. “These are Legion National Headquarters, at Post 252, Goliat took the trea- prestigious awards, and we’re sure (317) 630-1406 or ssmithson@ sures to his fellow Legionnaires the family would want to have legion.org. CWF improves lives of America’s children For thousands of American organizations across the nation in raise $2 million this year for the children, everyday milestones of the hope of educating families and Child Welfare Foundation. This achievement are marked communities about the special is a mere 52 cents per Legion by pain, prayer, courage needs of young people. family member. and perseverance. Many Through the years, CWF annually receives hundreds require specialized care CWF has helped chil- of requests for funding. The CWF and face formidable dren suffering from board of directors carefully reviews obstacles. The good autism, spinal tumors, each application and allocates news is that these and brain and bone grants based on need. Millions of children have been, and disorders. CWF-funded America’s children have been continue to be, helped programs also educate touched through these grants. through The American doctors and parents Unfortunately, many worth- Legion’s Child Welfare about certain disorders, while proposals do not receive the Foundation. and provide care for dollars they desperately need due This year, CWF children with lung to insuffi cient resources. Last year celebrates 50 years and respiratory alone, many projects – totaling of service to ailments. CWF also more than $1 million – were America’s children. For more info helps children with turned down, due to a lack of Created in 1954 as a Write or send donations to: cancer, Down funds. The nation’s children American Legion Child Welfare repository of funds Foundation, P.O. Box 1055, syndrome, juvenile depend upon the generosity of from individuals Indianapolis, IN 46206 diabetes, multiple every member of the Legion who wished to Call: (317) 630-1202 sclerosis and retinal family, the primary contributors contribute to the Online: www.cwf-inc.org degeneration. The to CWF. With ongoing support, betterment of list goes on. The American Legion’s Child children, the National Com- Welfare Foundation will continue foundation has provided more mander John Brieden has asked to improve the quality of life for than $7 million to youth-serving the American Legion family to children everywhere.

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AMP, 90 BRIDGE STREET, WESTBROOK, ME legion news Gold Star Mothers remembered Legionnaires For 6,000 women whose sons in Action or husbands died in World War I Camden, S.C., Post 17 recently and were buried in foreign presented a check to the Camden graves, a pilgrimage to see the Police Department to purchase fi ve fi nal resting place of their loved bulletproof vests. Post Commander ones brought a measure of Perry McCoy said Post 17 donated one vest last year and decided to comfort. In the 1930s, the gov- donate again when members ernment took thousands of learned of the need for more. Just mothers and wives overseas to two weeks before the second visit cemeteries in Europe. donation, the bulletproof vest helped avert a tragedy. A South Carolina A new one-hour documentary highway patrol offi cer, Sgt. James produced by WILL-TV, “Gold Star Sinkler, was shot at point-blank Mothers: Pilgrimage of Remem- range while conducting a routine brance,” tells the emotional story traffi c stop. “If it weren’t for that vest, Sgt. of the journeys that, for many Sinkler wouldn’t be here,” South women, were their fi rst trips Carolina Highway Patrol Capt. Tony outside their own communities. Hancock told Legionnaires. “You It also looks at today’s Gold Star should be proud of your contribution to Camden. You can’t appreciate Mothers, many of whom lost sons what it means to an offi cer and his or daughters in Vietnam. The family unless you’ve gone through program describes how mothers Maude Betterton visits the grave of her what James and his family have.” wielded political power to get son, Cherrill, at Meuse-Argonne American Members of Pasadena, Calif., Congress to approve the Gold Cemetery in France. National Archives Post 13 attended a memorial Star pilgrimages. service in La Cañada, Calif., for U.S. Army Lt. Todd J. Bryant, 23, who was PBS Plus has offered this killed in combat in Iraq last October. program to all PBS stations. For more info Bryant, a member of Post 13, served Many across the nation will be Contact producer Alison Davis Wood: in the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor airing the program in May. Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, 1st Call: (217) 333-1070 Brigade, and was a platoon leader for Because each PBS station makes 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (EST) Monday to Friday the 4M1A1 Abrams Tanks. Bryant its own programming decisions, E-mail: [email protected] graduated from West Point in 2002. viewers should check local Online: www.will.uiuc.edu/pressroom Surviving Bryant are his father, listings for air times. Larry, and mother, Linda, both former Air Force offi cers; a brother, Maj. Timothy Bryant of the U.S. Marine Corps, attending Command and Staff History of the Gold Star Mothers School in Quantico, Va.; and a sister, Capt. Tiffany Bryant of the U.S. On May 28, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson approved a suggestion from the Army’s 50th Airborne Signal Corps, Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defenses that, instead of wearing stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. All are conventional mourning attire for relatives who have died in service of their country, members of Post 13, where Bryant’s American women should wear black bands on their left arms with gilt stars on the mother previously served as vice bands for each family member who died in war. commander. Since that time, a service fl ag displayed from a home or place of business has Carl D. Archer Post 528, indicated the number of members of the family or of the organization serving in the Belvidere, N.J., pays tribute to U.S. Armed Forces or who have died during such service. Blue stars indicate living 108-year-old Julius Hausold, a World members currently in the service, while gold stars indicate members who have died. War I veteran and post member. Thus, the term “Gold Star Mothers” applies to women whose sons or daughters have Hausold served with the 308th Field died in military service. Artillery in France, where he was wounded in action. Luneville, France, to honor U.S. liberators From Sept. 15 to 17, the city of 7th Army headquarters during the Luneville, France, will celebrate the For more info liberation of Luneville are invited 60th anniversary of its liberation by Request an offi cial invitation: as honored guests for the ceremo- the U.S. 7th Army during World Write: Gregory L. Owen, 3486 Nutmeg nial events. Those who wish to War II. The commemoration will be Court, Harrisonburg, VA 22801 attend will receive an offi cial conducted by the City of Luneville Call: (540) 432-0252 invitation from the Luneville and the Lorraine Battle Memorial, a mayor. In addition, the Lorraine French organization dedicated to honors to 7th Army Commander Battle Memorial will conduct a 10- honoring American GIs. Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch. All day battlefi eld tour that will Special events include memorial World War II veterans assigned to include liberation ceremonies.

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AIR FORCE Cav, Orlando, FL, 10/13-17, Phil A. Redman, Harold Dutton, (918) 647-3944; 98th Inf Div (727) 536-6577, [email protected]; 2nd Sqdn (WWII), Albany, NY, 6/14-17, Norman Johnson, 38th Air Police Sqdn, San Antonio, 9/16-18, 1st Armd Cav (Vietnam, 1967-1970), Branson, (607) 589-6061; 99th Armd FA Bn, Dayton, Jack Drysdale, (210) 436-0507; 58th Ftr Wing MO, 9/2-5, Tom Schluchter, (989) 684-4380, OH, 10/8-10, Harold L. Spicer, (937) 291-4227, (WWII), Colorado Springs, CO, 6/22-27, A.J. [email protected]; 3rd Bn 71st Air [email protected]; 102nd Inf Div “Ozarks,” Kupferer, (812) 945-7649, [email protected]; Def Arty, Branson, MO, 10/8-11, Howard Webb, Arlington, VA, 5/26-6/2, Jim McGinnis, 58th Ftr Bomb Wing 69th, 310th, 311th, (479) 648-2959, [email protected]; 3rd (765) 289-1714; 117th Assault Heli Co/8th 428th, 429th & 420th Ftr Bomb Sqdns Inf Div Society, Savannah, GA, 8/27-31, Linda Trans Co & Dets (Vietnam, 1961-1972), (Korea), Colorado Springs, CO, 6/22-27, A.J. Irvine, (360) 663-2521, info@thereunionbrat. Indianapolis, 6/24-27, Al Bennett, (229) 896- Kupferer, (812) 945-7649, [email protected]; com; 4th Bn 23rd Inf “Tomahawks,” 2500, [email protected] 65th TCS (WWII), Louisville, KY, 9/12-15, Bud Washington, 6/25-27, Doug Conn, (772) 223- Hawkey, (937) 996-3851 6419, [email protected] 126th AAA Gun Bn HQ Btry, Colorado Springs, CO, 6/23-26, Quent Johnson, (608) 92nd Periodic Maint Sqdn 92nd Bomb 4th Inf (Ivy) Div Assn, Branson, MO, 7/13-18, 455-4494, [email protected]; 148th Wing, Lincoln City, OR, 9/21-23, Donald Gregory Rollinger, 8891 Aviary Path R-29, Inver Inf Rgt 37th Div (Camp Perry), Port Clinton, Killgore, (509) 697-5980; 98th Bomb Grp/Wing Grove Heights, MN 55077; 7th Inf Rgt Assn OH, 8/27-28, Bruce Eberly, (937) 773-8625, Vets Assn, Arlington, VA, 9/7-11, Dennis “Cottonbalers,” Savannah, GA, 8/27-30, [email protected]; 163rd Inf Rgt 41st Posey, (770) 509-7734, [email protected]; Curley L. Faulk, (337) 625-8359, csmaar@aol. Inf Div (WWII), Helena, MT, 9/10-12, Joe 310th Bomb Wing, Galveston, TX, 9/30-10/3, com; 8th Avn Field Depot Sqdn, Nashville, Upshaw, (406) 442-5956, [email protected]; Ken Cook, (903) 935-3516, [email protected]; TN, 9/16-19, Vernon Kliment, (920) 682-7448, 183rd Avn Co “Seahorses,” San Antonio, 339th Ftr Sqdn Assn 339th Flt Test Sqdn, [email protected]; 20th Coast Arty 10/21-24, Mack Gibson, (704) 655-8584, Bloomington, MN, 9/23, Don Zupan, (952) Harbor Def (WWII), Corydon, IN, 8/14-15, Cecil [email protected] 496-0177, [email protected] W. Fravel, (812) 738-2623 188th Para/Glider Inf Rgt 11th Abn Div, 603rd AC&W Sqdn (Giebelstadt, Germany), 21st AAA AW Bn (SP) Assn, Colorado Springs, Independence, MO, 7/29-8/1, Bert Kurland, Portland, ME, 9/21-25, Roy Tassinari, (207) CO, 9/9-11, Lester F. Kenfield, (717) 939-4621; (252) 728-6482; 198th LIB 1/52nd Inf Medics, 784-5691, [email protected]; 676th AC&W 26th Inf Rgt Assn, Kissimmee, FL, 6/9-13, Gene Branson, MO, 7/16-18, Rick Waggoner, (712) Sqdn, Antigo, WI, 9/10-12, Doug Sylfest, (715) Cocke, (703) 250-9085, [email protected]; 27th 272-4627, [email protected]; 213th 627-2728, [email protected]; 3454th Tech FA Rgt Assn, Nashville, TN, 8/13-15, James R. Assault Support Heli Co, San Antonio, Tng Sqdn (Warren AFB, WY), Cheyenne, WY, Suessman, (973) 357-0033, jrs.cpa@verizon. 10/31-11/4, Lorinda Boyle, (888) 750-7447, 9/9-12, Joe Gordy, (970) 353-7445; 6147th Tact net; 29th Inf Div, McLean, VA, 10/6-10, John [email protected]; 353rd Comm Cont Grp “Mosquitoes” 5th AF (Korea), San E. Wilcox, (301) 695-9558, twoniner@earthlink. Recon Co, Westminster, MD, 6/7-10, Gus Diego, 10/6-10, Steve Rooney, (916) 489-0476 net; 32nd Inf Rgt Assn “Queen’s Own,” Gruneisen, (502) 458-3743, [email protected] Arlington, VA, 9/16-20, Helen Dyckson, (352) AACS Alumni Assn (AACS, AFCS, AFCC, 597-5912, [email protected] 413th, 523rd Army Ord, Cody, WY, 8/13-15, AFC4A, AFCA & AFFSA Units, All Members), Ralph Pickering, (419) 629-3997; 480th AAA Scottsdale, AZ, 9/23-26, Mac Maginnis, (253) 37th Eng Bn Const (WWII-1986), Branson, AW Bn (WWII), Palmerton, PA, 7/10-11, 474-8128, [email protected]; Avn Cadet MO, 7/29-31, Bryan H. Jackson, (706) 638-4886; Samuel J. George, (610) 681-4459; 503rd MP Class 54-06, Branson, MO, 5/31-6/3, Don 37th Inf Div, Washington, 5/27-30, Cyril Bn (Fort Bragg, 1951-1953), Springfield, IL, Meek, (870) 670-4479, [email protected]; Sedlacko, (614) 228-3788; 40th Inf Div 223rd 8/6-8, William H. McCartney, (217) 285-2999; Burtonwood AFB Assn, Santa Maria, CA, Inf Rgt, Las Vegas, 5/23-26, Norman Hackler, 511th Parachute Inf Rgt, Reno, NV, 6/17-20, 10/5-9, Richard F. Iwanowski, (773) 767-1810; (281) 444-5279, [email protected]; 40th Inf Div Leo Kocher, (509) 375-0220, leodonna@owt. Nagoya/Komaki AB Reunion Assn, Las 223rd RCT M Co (Korea), Palm Desert, CA, com; 517th FA Bn (WWII), Alexandria, VA, Vegas, 6/14-17, John Campo, (816) 407-0055, 9/24-26, Tully Valmassoi, (760) 346-1790; 42nd 10/18-19, Chuck Underwood, (515) 978-5576, [email protected] Rainbow Inf Div, Memphis, TN, 7/13-18, Pete [email protected] Pettus, (573) 431-6184, [email protected] Pilot Class 43-D, Eureka Springs, AR, 532nd Eng Boat & Shore Rgt, Ponchatoula, 10/7-10, Frank Dutko, (850) 932-3901, 47th Eng Bn, Branson, MO, 10/14-17, Harold LA, 9/16-18, Avery Brown, (225) 294-5611, [email protected]; Pilot Class 45-A (La Sage, (785) 256-6212; 63rd Inf Div Assn, [email protected]; 547th Eng Bn Junta, CO), Branson, MO, 10/11-14, Ray Bell, Falls Church, VA, 8/11-16, Albert J. Conti, (215) (Cbt) Assn, Pensacola, FL, 7/29-8/1, George (404) 634-4531, [email protected]; Pilot Tng 673-0867; 67th AAA Gun Bn C Btry & All McDonald, (850) 994-1063; 648th Eng Co Class 54-Q, Biloxi, MS, 11/9-12, Joe Viscount Other Btrys & HQs, New Philadelphia, OH, (Camouflage), Branson, MO, 10/14-17, Harold Jr., (239) 945-7348, [email protected]; 9/16-19, Eddie Cook, (330) 343-1732; 71st Inf Sage, (785) 256-6212; 771st FA Bn Btry B, SAC Abn Cmd Control (PACCS) Personnel, Div Assn (WWII), Manassas, VA, 9/12-15, Mac Evansville, IN, 9/15-17, David Scott, (815) Omaha, NE, 9/22-26, Fred Kemp, (520) 393- McMahon, (703) 368-7910; 83rd Arty, Fort 458-2416, dscott901webtv.net; 785th MP Bn 1054, [email protected] Sill, OK, 5/14-16, Al Schuller, (916) 990-0508, (WWII), Opalika, AL, 6/25-27, William Miller, [email protected] (502) 933-4577 Strat Air Cmd, Shreveport, LA, 5/12-15, Steve dePyssler, (866) 544-2412, rao@barksdale. 84th Eng Bn Const (Vietnam), Lake Tahoe, Americal Div 3rd of 18th Arty (Vietnam), af.mil; Women in the AF Assn, Palm Springs, CA, Richard Sharp, (314) 821-8640; 84th Inf Lawton, OK, 9/15-18, Lloyd Leonard, (217) CA, 10/13-19, Shirley L. Powell, (760) 324-1122 Div NE Chpt, South Fallsberg, NY, 6/9-11, Sy 235-6667; Americal Div FA (WWII, Korea, Kuppersmith, (516) 626-1645; 86th Blackhawk Vietnam), Asheville, NC, 5/3-6, Bob Miller, ARMY Inf Div Assn, Hampton, VA, 9/8-12, Richard (585) 924-5296, [email protected]; Arty Mapes, (203) 483-7558, marick12@comcast. OCS, Fort Sill, OK, 6/3-4, Joe Fleming, (217) 1st Bn 8th Cav 1st Cav Div (Vietnam), Orange net; 90th FA Bn Assn 25th Inf Div, Oklahoma 483-4475, [email protected]; ASA Park, FL, 6/9-13, James Knafel, (260) 244-3864; City, 10/20-24, Glen Krueger, (402) 274-5101, Korea Vets (1950-1975), Baltimore, 9/30- 1st Cav Div Assn, Milwaukee, 6/9-13, Dennis E. [email protected]; 97th Inf Div 386th 10/3, Jackie Rishell, (888) 681-5333; D Co Webster, (800) 234-9313; 1st Sqdn 2nd Armd Rgt 2nd Bn E Co, Oklahoma City, 6/4-6, 1/12 Inf 4th Inf Div (Vietnam, 1967-1968),

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