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CHALIiNGES IN THE 106TH CONGRESS

The budget squeeze has hit older veterans, but look for progress on the Gl Bill of Health. M

DOUBLE EXPOSURE By Tony Miller

A new study will focus on the long-term effects of Agent Orange. i

BALLAD OF A GREEN BERET By Robin Moore

A Special Forces soldier rises to the top of his profession. 21

FIDEL'S FAILED UTOPIA By Georgie Anne Geyer

The 40-year consequences of a communist revolution are revolting.

CONSCIENCE WITHOUT COLOR interview Renaissance man Ken Hamblin makes waves on Denver's airwaves. il

STANDARD ISSUE By Tom Slear

Military gadgets can become civilian necessities.

TO BRING THEM HOME By Terry Coffey

Legion official views North Korea MIA operations. 42

FACING THE MORAL CRISIS By David Penticuff Legion leaders chartDEPARTMENTSa course of honor to protect Old Glory and America's veterans.

VETVOICE BIG ISSUES VETS

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 11 VETERANS UPDATE PARTING SHOTS

WASHINGTON WATCH i LEGION NEWS

COVER Gen. Henry Shelton (Department of Defense photo)

The American Legion Magazine, a leader among national general-interest publications, is published monthly by The American Legion for its 2.7 million members. These wartime veterans, working through nearly 1 5,000 community-level Posts, dedicate themselves to God and country and traditional Ameri- can values; strong national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows and orphans; community service; and the wholesome development of our nation's youths.

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though, encourages immigrants to Criminal Act keep their foreign tongue. As a result, THE Second Amendment means just they are quietly forced into language what it says: "The right of the peo- ghettoes. No American deserves that. ple to keep and bear arms shall not Marylyn Monares Anich be infringed." I am tired of the liberal Omaha, Neb.

politicians and media making it look like the law-abiding gun owner is the cause of crime. Passing laws that "Yes"tnEnglisli abridge the Second-Amendment rights VOTE "yes," public schools should of citizens will not stop criminals. be English only. And Congress William Roth Jr. should make English the official lan- Ocean View, N.J. guage. Why? So children can learn English quicker and reduce wasteful spending by duplicating documents AlltHeWay and counterproductive teaching. Let's SHAME on you for not mentioning do it before it's too late. Sgt. Alvin York's unit. I was told Richard Fenzel York was a member of the 325th Inf. Louisville, Ky. No Guns for Honor Guards Rgt., the only Army unit which was regu-

Massachusetts legislature just lar infantry in World War I, glider-bome THE Medic! passed the most comprehensive in World War II and airborne when I was and egregious firearms control bill a member of the 82nd Airbome. EVERY veteran will testify that our in the nation. One part, which affects Joe Hale government promised lifetime med- all veterans groups, states that citizens Elwood, III. ical care for each retiree and family at cannot take a firearm into any public no cost to the veteran. Now our govem- area. Hence the color guards cannot ment disavows this promise through dis- take their firearms with them. If con- "No" to Bilingual Schools tortion, deception and other dishonorable victed, they could face jail terms and BILINGUALISM threatens to rip language while some veterans struggle felony charges. Perhaps the magazine apart the United States much the and sometimes lose their life savings and could take an impartial view of this same way as Canada is being torn homes to pay their medical bills. law and report to our fellow Legion- apart now (Big Issues, November). As What action is The American Legion naires on what may soon be coming to a naturalized citizen, I had a hard time taking to restore this promise? One per- their state. learning English. After I became an son who is taking action is Bud Day,

George R. MacKinnon American, I spoke only English, espe- Medal of Honor recipient, POW in Wobiirn, Mass. cially to my children. Bilingualism, Hanoi, and attorney. He is representing

MEETING THE 'GIMME FIVE' CHALLENGE

IN ITS first month. National Commander "Butch" Miller's or quality Garland pens with this inscription: "National Com- "Gimme Five!" competition has produced 25 winners, accord- mander's Gimme' Five! Award, '98-'99." Each recruiter can ing to Membership officials. The first winners have received earn a maximum of four awards, officials say. confirmation by letter, and each winner's silk tie, mouse pad "This is a great opportunity to boost your Post's mem- or pen will be forwarded when received at Headquarters. bership muscle while helping yourself to some great little National Commander Miller recently announced his new prizes," says Commander Miller. "And the great thing is, member-award program, one that's available to every blue- this is open to any Legionnaires who want to take the time cap Legionnaire. Offering friends or co-workers celebrato- to improve their Posts by reaching out to fellow veterans in ry "high fives" is a practice that's gravitated from the sports their community." world to general usage, and now it's also a celebration of Under the contest rules, both the Post commander and Post initiative in membership recruiting, which seems to be adjutant must verify the recruiters' new members, sign off on working really well. Membership officials report. them and then mail the cards directly to National Headquarters

How's it work? Recruit five new members for your Post for processing. Recruitment fomis are to be filled out with the between Veterans Day and April 14, 1999 - The American recruiter's name. Post, Department and address, plus the Legion Birthday Target Date, 95 percent - and take your pick names of the five members recruited and their temporary of three great prizes. Recruiters are earning unique, "Gimme membership numbers. For more information, contact officials Five!" neckties, red American Legion computer mouse pads at your Post, Department or National Headquarters.

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Hnlml I'slmct © 1 998 Warner-Lambert Company % nearly 10,000 members in a class-action rated hero of World War 11. To help the nation to examine the continuing deploy- group seeking restoration of the lifetime cause, Legionnaires should voice their ment of our forces in South Korea. medical care promised. Call (800) 972- support to the: Citizens' Stamp Adviso- Because it is a constitutional issue of pol- 6275 for membership information. ry Committee, Stamp Marketing Devel- icy, this needs to be a congressional Harry G. Ril^y opment Branch, U.S. Postal Service, process rather than an activity of the Niceville, Fla. 475 L Enfant Plaza, SW, Rm. 4474 E, executive branch or of the Pentagon to Washington, D.C. 20260-6756. investigate. Joseph D. Martin Long-term interests could aid in Stamp of Honor Philadelphia, Pa. developing a mutual defense treaty, WAS fortunate enough to have met rather than short-term military opera- Audie Murphy in 1955. It was truly tional goals. Our pullout should be an honor. This is part of the One Korea based on the lengthy British model of reason I wish to make other Legion- GIVEN that North and South Korea withdrawing from Singapore rather than naires aware of the effort to implore the combined would constitute a massed the American model of withdrawal U.S. Postal Service to issue a commem- formation of major regional, perhaps from Vietnam. If the process is started orative stamp to honor the most-deco- even global, power, it is time for our now, there is reason to believe Ameri-

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shortcoming. Their income taxes, When I enlisted at age 17, I was decided to do what we had to do and though, probably paid for the ship's fuel told that they would always take care serve our country. The records will that brought many of us home. of me and my family. Now, while the show that we served our country some Robert E. Behm records show the illnesses and all that 60 years. I believe Commander New Wilmington, Pa. was treated, they want to insist the Miller's messag? (November) will maladies are not service-connected - bring out a lot of strong Americans

they deny them all. Maybe if we again. I let my grandson read it because For the Books would confront them with those a 12-year-old doesn't know what we ENJOYED the November interview broken promises, they would speed went through in those days. with John Wooden (Holding Court). up their claims processing. William M. Harrington His is a message, and he himself a James P. Stanton Oakley, Calif. living example, that goes to the core of Minneapolis

tour of Pennsylvania, National FOR REMEMBERING During a her essay, "July 4, Take a Moment to Remember Our Veter- Commander "Butch" Miller stopped in at John Lewis Shade ans," which was based on her childhood experiences with cer- Post 6 in Clearfield. During his visit, Miller presented a veterans. Also talcing part was Pennsylvania Department tificate of appreciation to Robertson Williams for Rebecca Commander William Neitz (left).

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in the Senate, you've already seen results. Last year, Posts large and small in every district handed out pro-flag literature, circu- lated petitions and thanked pro-flag lawmak- ers for their support. Legionnaires urged Americans to show their colors at their homes and businesses to such effect that Senate passage of the flag amendment was thwarted only when some opponents took advantage of delaying tactics. This month, the pro-flag forces, including the 135 civic and service organizations that are members of the Citizens Flag Alliance, II Slori will be back. We'll be placing flag protection, which is - and always has been - favored by 80 percent of Americans, at the forefront of Congressional action with more i k k pro-flag people in office than ever. None of the National Commanders who have had the honor of being your chief spokesmen in this 10-year fight ever assumed triuipli the effort would be a cake walk. On the other hand, none of us - and none of you - have E ARE CALLED. At the top ever doubted that the last try would end in of! of this new year, we're back triumph. in the game for a constitution- This effort on behalf of our country goes al amendment to allow the way beyond New Year's resolutions. I'd bet American people to protect most of you have this year's programs for the their flag. Our triumph is so flag amendment and other Legion initiatives close that last year only our planned out. And it's a solid guess you've opponents' use of rule-book included much, maybe all, of the following:

technicalities prevented it. • Keeping in touch with elected representa- We Legionnaires grow tives in Washington, D.C., and being clear, daily in our commitment and concise and polite, missing no opportunities determination, our patience and focus. And to award a deserved "attaboy." Maintaining we have a record of success in what we set that communication will benefit our efforts

out to do. It took years of persuasion and when it comes to the GI Bill of Health and a homework to meld many patchwork govern- fair shake for veterans with service- and ment agencies into the Veterans Administra- tobacco-connected health problems. tion and then into the Department of Veterans • Seeing the opportunities, not the prob-

Affairs. It took years of research to break the lems, in expanding and refining Post pro- government's pattern of denial on Agent grams, and talking up the National Emer- Orange and Gulf War illnesses and keep faith gency Fund with the goal of making it a with those veterans. regular item in the Post's charitable budget.

I don't cite our successes and lasting con- Taking care of our own, and taking pride in cerns just as another pat on the back but as a doing so, are righteous things to do. measure of The Legion's patience and persis- • Looking for opportunities to display the tence - and of our blue-capped Legionnaires' U.S. Flag in public as well as for opportuni- devotion to comrades and country. You've ties to salute those who do so. And teaching written thousands of letters to our political by example, leading when needed and follow- representatives in our nation's capital and ing through to make worthy projects work. answered the misinformation and poorly rea- Happy 1999. May our service to God soned commentary in so much of the media. and country bring pride and satisfaction And, given there are now more pro-flag votes to us all.

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Military Readiness. Since the great military buildup of the 1980s, American military forces have been reduced precipitously. Army

protests from Legionnaires, Congress last year service-connected divisions were disbanded, naval vessels moth- disability ratings to veterans addicted to nicotine who now have related Illnesses. balled, aircraft wings broken up; this is the legacy of the 1990s. Many experts have compared the armed forces' current profiles to those of the addicted veterans with tobacco-related illnesses, "hollow forces" of the post-Vietnam War who acquired this addiction while on active 1970s. duty, could receive service-connected disability The American Legion is deeply concerned ratings. Four years later, the General Counsel with this dramatic downsizing of the armed decided such veterans must prove three things forces. Following the collapse of the former to be considered for service connection. They Soviet Union, many defense specialists have are: seen a need to reduce U.S. military forces to use • The veteran must have a tobacco-related a so-called "peace dividend" for domestic pro- illness grams. However, the elimination of the former • the veteran must be addicted to nicotine Soviet Union as a threat has merely substituted • the addiction must have existed while on several smaller threats for one large one. Border active duty in the armed forces. disputes between various nations, struggling All three criteria must exist to be considered democracies, the fragmentation of larger nations for service connection. into smaller countries, ethnic warfare and Last year. Congress agreed on legislation to nuclear proliferation in the third world; all these deny service-connected disability ratings to vet- things put tremendous strains on world peace erans addicted to nicotine who now have tobac- and place increased demands on U.S. military co-related illnesses. The provision was con- servicemembers, both active-duty and reserve. tained in Public Law 105-178, the Nonetheless, thousands of servicemembers Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century are being pushed out of the military to serve the

(popularly called TEA21). Congress credited its balanced budget without regard to readiness for budget with an estimated $15.4 billion in future the myriad responsibilities the armed forces savings over five years from denying this bene- have been assigned.

fit, then used most of the "savings" to pay for In testimony last October before the Senate future highway improvement and related pork Armed Services Committee, officers of the Joint barrel projects. Chiefs of Staff conceded that increased opera- The American Legion adamantly opposes tion tempos and quality of life levels are affect-

this new law and believes it is a blatant abroga- ing troop readiness. tion of Congress' legal, moral and ethical As active duty forces shrink. National Guard responsibility to veterans. Historically, the fed- and reserve components are increasingly filling eral government condoned, encouraged and in the critical specialties. Quality of life issues subsidized the use of tobacco products by mem- are critical to maintaining a viable total force. bers of the armed forces. The DoD is still the Many military experts feel that too much is largest distributor of tobacco products to mili- being spent on state-of-the-art equipment and tary members and their families through mili- weapon systems and not enough to serve the tary exchanges, commissaries and clubs. servicemembers or their families. The Ameri- In addition, less than 8 percent of tobacco can Legion adamantly opposes further cuts in compensation claims had been granted before defense spending or personnel levels. the legislative repeal of the VA General Coun- -American Legion National Legislative Division stcff

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New Dafa. The project also includes a new survey and will build on the 1984 data, collected from questionnaires sent to 12,884 Legionnaires in Colorado, Indiana, Mary- land, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Researchers are interested in participants' service experience and updates on their physical and emotional health. Stellman and staff will compare the new data with the previous study, taking into DECADE after the landmark "American Legion account that memories and perceptions change with time. and Columbia University Study of Vietnam Vet- Under the Agent Orange Act of 1991 (Public Law 102- erans," Legionnaires are teaming up again with 4), Congress required the VA to contract with an indepen- their Columbia University colleagues for an dent agency to review all medical literature on human important follow-up study. health effects from herbicide exposure. For years, the gov- Legionnaires are searching for Vietnam-era ernment ignored or debunked calls for independent study of comrades to follow up on the five-year study of veterans and Agent Orange, until confronted by findings in Vietnam veterans, published in 1989 in the jour- The American Legion and Columbia University study. That nal Environmental Research. Dr. Jeanne Stellman and her led to passage of the Agent Orange Act of 1991. husband. Dr. Steven Stellman, contradicted the govern- The law requires the VA to adjudicate Agent Orange- ment's contention that an accurate Agent Orange study was related claims in line with the National Academy of Sci- impossible since no one could determine which troops were ences findings. Ultimately, it makes Vietnam veterans with exposed. health problems tied to their exposure to herbicides in The 1989 study demonstrated a link between exposure to Southeast Asia eligible for disability compensation. combat and herbicides in Vietnam and subsequent health problems. Thousands of veterans reported conditions that A Legion Mission, in October, American Legion included severe skin rashes, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, National Headquarters staff members conducted a ran- high blood pressure, rare cancers and birth defects in their off- dom sampling by mail of 9,000 Legionnaires in the ini- spring. So why this follow-up study? tial study. A mailing to an additional 3,500 members is scheduled this month. Researchers also hope to collect ThB Next Step. "We are doing what we wanted to do 500 blood samples to be analyzed for traces of dioxin, a in 1988 when we announced our findings to Congress," Stell- highly toxic, carcinogenic component of Agent Orange. man says of "Herbicides in Vietnam: Developing Methods The blood samples also will be screened to determine if for Characterizing Exposure." "This is the next step. Hopeful- tissue samples are contaminated with dioxin. ly, this study will allow a flurry of new medical studies to go Legionnaires willing to help locate veterans from states forth that will be based on our exposure model." in the original study and veterans in the original study will- Columbia University and the Stellmans are carrying out ing to participate in the follow-up are asked to contact their the technical work for the National Academy of Sciences and Department Headquarters, The American Legion's Wash- the VA to develop methods for assessing exposure. The final ington Office, (202) 861-2772, or call Columbia University, report is due by May 2001. toll free, (888) 340-3050. m • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1999 Why Paint It? HQ When It's So Easy To

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20 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1999 TWAS June of 1997. Sur- fessed with a chuckle. rounded by Green Berets, Shelton related to the Pentagon their bushmen trackers, lo- caller that in 1967 he was captain of cal tribesmen and Namib- Green Beret Detachment A- 104 on ian military personnel. the mountainous border of Vietnam Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, and Laos when the "marriage" took chief of Special Opera- him by surprise. His 12-man Special tions Command, was visit- Forces team led four companies of ing a Special Operations South Vietnamese troopers and a Forces unit near Namibia's company from a Montagnard village border with strife-ridden against infiltrating Viet Cong and Angola. North Vietnamese regulars. Formerly known as South West Africa, Namibia, on Africa's west coast, is rich in diamonds and minerals and one of many countries assisted by American SOF. A summons to the telephone at the Country Club Hotel in Windhoek, Namibia's capital, linked Shelton to a Pentagon official who asked if the general would like to be considered for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before the nomination could be made official, the Washington func- tionary said, he needed to ask the general if there was anything in Shelton 's background that might embarrass the Defense Department or any reason why he might hesitate to accept. No reason at all, the general was about to respond. Then he remem- bered an incident early in his career as a Special Forces officer in Vietnam. "I do have a second 'wife'," he con-

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JANUARY 1999* THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 21 The day Shelton was asked to take command, A-104's former commander had been hauled out in a straight jacket. The executive officer was missing, presumed dead, and the team sergeant was totally disorient- ed. That was how bad the combat had been. Shelton was flown into A- 104 at 10 a.m. to find the missing XO's decapitat- ed body had been brought to camp and that the team sergeant was drunk. Shel- ton sent the sergeant back to base and reorganized his team, duly transform- ing A- 104 into the scourge of the area.

Ceremony. Over the next few months, the Montagnards' chief took Shelton's measure. Then, at a buffalo sacrifice ceremony, a young Montag- nard woman was seated close to the American commander. After they had sipped rice wine through straws for some time, the interpreter came over to Shelton and announced that the chief wanted to present this young you to know that this long house," he the interpreter—that he was a devout lady, his daughter, to the captain as gestured toward a house being built in Christian and that he was married and his wife. the village, "belongs to you and your had two small children back home. "This is the greatest honor the new wife." He said he recognized the great hon- tribesmen can bestow," the interpreter Shelton choked on the "yard" or—but since Shelton was the "chief announced. "You now have a Mon- brew. To the proud chief and his new to the men of A- 104, he had to stay in tagnard wife. The chief also wants "wife," Shelton explained—through their camp. Fortunately, the Montag- nard chief seemed to understand. The Department of Defense deputy was amused: "That was 30 years ago. There was no marriage license involved. And in any case she isn't going to come back here and testify." Nevertheless, had the general ne- glected to mention the matter, there might have been a bit of a flap, given Washington's scandal-charged atmosphere. A newspaper did locate Shelton's long-retired A-104 executive officer, Jim McLeroy, who con- firmed Shelton's story of a Montag- nard "wife."

To a Standard. Shelton has lived by what he calls The Washington Post standard of conduct. "I always said an action ought to not only be le-

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22 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE - JANUARY 1999 Anything the free Hugh Shelton, commanding the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, world can do to was ordered to plan the take-over of Haiti. By September, wide-spread ri- oting had placed U.S. Ambassador destroy terrorist William E. Swing and his staff in per-

il. Shelton was given the "go ahead" capabilities and by Adm. Paul David Miller, commander-in-chief, Atlantic. production of And then President Clinton's last- minute diplomatic mission—former chemical and President Jimmy Carter, retired Gen. Colin Powell and former Georgia biological weapons Sen. Sam Nunn—reported from the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince can no longer be that Cedras had agreed to a peaceful landing.

off limits. Thus it was a non-violent con- frontation when Shelton met Cedras and he missed the camaraderie and the next morning. Shelton wasted no challenges. Even though he was words. "You're going to cooperate working for wonderful people, he with me. When I tell you to do some-

liked the Army better. With Car- thing, you'll do it. But the second you olyn's encouragement, he applied for stop doing what I tell you to do, a commission. you'll no longer get any coordination. A few months later, a telegram or- We in fact will just do it. If you resist dered Shelton to Fort Bragg, N.C, for you'll pay a severe penalty. Do you the Special Forces Officers Qualifica- understand?" tion Course en route to something Cedras looked up from his notes and Stonewall Jackson hang on the called RVN—Vietnam. and said, "I understand." wall. Hugh's grandmother was Shelton knew that Cedras kept his brought up in North Carolina just af- An Officer's Career. Thus began a heavy weapons, artillery, mortars, ter the "War Between the States" as career that by 1994 would bring Shel- mounted machine-guns and four B she insisted on calling it. She lived to ton to the notice of the president and 150 rocket launchers at Camp d' Ap- be 92 and instilled in young Henry top U.S. military strategists as a result plication, outside Port-au-Prince. So Hugh Shelton the values of integrity, of his planning and command of "Op- Shelton stated, "My men and I will be honor, and courage that Robert E. Lee eration Uphold Democracy." This at Camp d'Application tomorrow represented. was the Haiti mission to remove mili- morning. I want you to have whoever Hugh (the future general never tary dictator Raoul Cedras in favor of is in charge of the camp meet me and liked "Henry") grew up on a farm in the democratically elected Jean my officers there and turn over all of Tarboro, N.C., and in the neighboring Bertrand Aristide. Haiti had become a that ordnance to us. Do you under- town of Speed. His father, a farmer drug exporting center, and its impov- stand that?" who sold farm machinery, was med- erished citizens were fleeing to Flori- This was the moment of truth, ically exempt in World War II. His da shores in growing numbers. Shelton thought. If Cedras gave up mother was a schoolteacher who In June of 1994, Lt. Gen. Henry his heavy weapons, his military capa- played piano in the Speed Baptist Church. Eighty years old now, she still is there every Sunday. Shelton went to North Carolina ONLY ONE OF THREE REMAINS State University where requirements included two years of ROTC. He Chinese Nungs who guard- through their tour with Delta. graduated as a second lieutenant and Theed Project Delta Headquar- We're going to train you well, but immediately went through Ranger ters, Nha Trang, South Viet- you are in a high-risk outfit." school, the Army's most physically nam, looked with pity on the re- A year later, Capt. Hugh Shel- and mentally demanding course. placements: 1st Lt. Hugh Shelton ton had learned to handle fear. Then he married his childhood sweet- and two other young officers re- And after another year, he was heart, Carolyn. porting for duty. back in Vietnam for a second tour In July, 1965, Shelton completed The briefing officer welcomed as a company commander in the the mandatory two years of service them to the outfit with grim ad- 173rd Airborne Brigade. and decided to try civilian life. He vice. "Don't get to know the guy But the men who had been to had majored in textiles at N.C. State on your left or the right too well his left and right at the Nha Trang and accepted a job with Regal Textile because both of those are going to briefing were killed in action. Corp. After six months, he told Car- die. Only one out of three lives —Robin Moore olyn he had really enjoyed the Army,

JANUARY 1999 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 23 asymmetric warfare, threatens toe-to-toe with U.S. conventional America from many directions. Shel- forces. ton points out that could include flood- ing the market with drugs, cyber at- Terror's Future. One particularly bility was finished. The Haitian gen- tacks on computer networks, using terrifying type of asymmetric warfare eral hesitated. Then he looked up and crime rings to disrupt legal structure would be the use of biological and with an abrupt nod said, "OK." and bombing embassies as in Tanza- chemical weapons. "We have got to To make sure Cedras didn't miss nia and Kenya—anything but going become the world leader in the ability the point, Shelton ordered to defend against these an AC 130 helicopter gun weapons of mass destruc- ship to shadow Cedras, Ce- tion," Shelton avers. dras' own personal storm One step taken recently cloud. It unnerved Cedras, was to retaliate for the who asked Shelton why it Aug. 7 bombing of the kept circling wherever he United States embassies in happened to be. Nairobi and Dar Es "General, you'd better Salaam. America launched hope you never have to cruise missiles against ter- find out," Shelton replied. rorist infrastructure linked Shelton's final act, after to Saudi Islamic fanatic seeing Cedras off to exile, and multi-millionaire was to restore President Osama bin Laden. Aristide to the presidential Cruise missiles also de- palace. stroyed the Shifa pharma- The operation was fine ceutical plant in Khartoum. testimony to a well-trained "This facility," General team. As then-Secretary of Shelton announced, "is in- Defense William Perry told volved in the production of Shelton later, "The only chemical weapons agents. reason you could do what Bin Laden has extensive you did was because you ties to the Sudanese gov- had a Super Bowl team that ernment, which controls could respond to an audible this chemical facility." at the line of scrimmage." A Bin Laden is reported to great analogy, Shelton have offered his terrorists thought. $10,000 for each American man, woman or child killed Special Operations. In in the "fatwah" or religious February 1996, Shelton be- war he ordered. Anything came chief of Special Oper- the free world can do to de- ations Command in Tampa, stroy terrorist capabilities Fla. The concept of Special and production of chemical Forces, Rangers, SEALs, and biological weapons can special boat units, and air no longer be off limits. commandos under one boss If Shelton is now the best was the lesson of President 0 man for the job of Chairman

Carter's 1979 effort to res- 1 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cue American hostages held 1 surely his tall, blonde wife, in Tehran. Gen. Hugh Shelton and his wife, Carolyn, at their Fort Myer quarters ; Carolyn, is his ideal partner. The failure of the rescue in Arlington, Va. 1 "The military way of life mission, blamed on its " makes you more of a team fractured command struc- than any other job you could ture, made a single commander im- 'The military way of ever be in," she observes. perative for joint SOF missions. The mother of three boys, Car- As assistant division commander life makes you more olyn learned not to show anxiety of the 101st Airborne in the Gulf for her husband's safety during his War, then-Brig. Gen. Shelton partici- of a team than any overseas assignments. "It's all part pated in proving that future enemies of what makes the homecoming of the United States can expect only other job you could more precious. Those are wonder- immediate and devastating losses in ful times, and they (civilian that. He and I any "Mother of All Battles." ever be in.' wives) don't have But, the enemies of democracy tell have had so many honeymoons be- themselves, there's got to be a way to cause there have been so many get at America. The apparent answer. Carolyn Shelton separations."

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sponded to my article, which appcaicu in the Chicago Daily News, "We advertise 28 flavors, but we make about 40 that should fix Fidel!"

That Was Then, in 1959 Cuba had one of the best developed economies in Latin America, along with Argentina and Uruguay—today, it is at rock bottom alongside Haiti. In 1959, Cuba had won the awed admira- tion of the whole world—today it is considered a comic fossil of both revolution and development. In 1959, Cuba's foreign debt was less than $100 million—today, Castro owes more than $10 billion to Western banks, $30 billion to Russia and $2 billion to the U.S. government and its citizens. "Instead of restoring democratic rule, as he had promised from the Sier- ra Maestra, Castro made Cuba waste more than three decades by building a much of the world like a Moses parting political system that has now proven to Castro's legacy the waters of hatred and suffering in be bankrupt world-wide," Ernesto Be- Cuba. He would form a "democratic tancourt, an early close associate of revolution," and above all, he would Castro's, wrote in the 1998 edition of will be one destroy the island's historic dependence the classic book, "Cuban Commu- upon the United States. nism." "He wasted three decades as the of unfulfilled Those were the days of dreaming no Soviet Bloc sugar bowl, while most of small dreams: Castro's would be no Latin America developed the capacity

less than the quintessential revolution to export a diversity of products. ... He promises and an for the 20th century! forced almost 20 percent of the Cuban

By the time I saw him in the summer population to leave the country. He Impoverished of 1966, it seemed the revolution, by made Cuba a more repressive police then publicly communist, was still on state than [Gen. Fulgencio] Batista ever Fidel's determined track. did. ...The Cuba he will leave is as weak Cuba. "What we are seeing is the institu- and devastated as it was at the end of tionalization of the revolution," this Spanish rule in 1898."

tall, bearded figure, as always in his military uniform, told By Georgie Anne Geyer me then, in his incongruously high-pitched voice. "What I FTER FIDEL CASTRO mean by that is that no one marched down on Havana man is that important any- in January 1959, he spoke more. The revolution has its constantly of the "paradise" own momentum." that he would make of poor, At another point, the bar- long-suffering Cuba. "For budo revealed to me in humor the first time, the republic his obsessive hatred of Cuba's will really be entirely free," dominant neighbor, as we he said grandly, as he spell- talked about the imposing new bound the euphoric Cuban ice cream parlor across the people. "The people will street. "We now have 28 fla- have what they deserve..." vors," he said, seriously. This rough barbudo, who had swept "That's more than Howard down from the Sierra Maestra Moun- Johnson's has. That shows we tains with a few hundred men to defeat can do everything better than a brutal dictatorship, seemed then to the americanos." Then he went on, talking and gesticu- Georgie Anne Geyer is a syndicated lating broadly—and a week columnist and frequent contributor to later I was even almost sad- this magazine. She's the author of the dened for the heartbreak it MOUNTAIN MARAUDER In 1957. sNII champion of the downtrodden biography, "Guerrilla Prince: The Un- would cause him when peasantry. Castro and his rebels train in the mountains. told Story of Fidel Castro." Howard Johnson's dryly re- How could all that have happened? First, when Castro officially adopted communism in 1962, most analysts saw this act as a genuine ideological conversion and the idea of the Soviet Union moving into the Western Hemisphere, through Cuba, rightly terrified the United States. But in truth, Castro was nothing more than a Fidelista (Latin for, "First come I!") who used Moscow merely as a cash cow. using that backing to turn Cuba away from the world's consummate modem partner, the United States. Second, by moving out all the upper classes (1960-61) and then the middle classes (1961-66)—through both na- tionalization and threat—he assured Sheritt pays $9 a day for each worker, Cuban prelate, Archbishop Pedro himself of a population that was totally but it pays that amount to the govern- Neurice Estiu of Santiago de Cuba dependent upon him. Then, by making ment—in dollars. The workers are then even went so far as to urge the crowds little, intrinsically powerless Cuba one paid by the government in worthless to demystify "false messianism." of the most militarized countries in the Cuban pesos the equivalent of 50 cents. But in the months following, the world, he built up himself as a leader in Supporters of a detente with Fidel number of priests on the island re- the underdeveloped world, while fur- then point to the free markets and indi- mained the same, less than 240 for a ther impoverishing Cuba itself. population of 1 1 million; most church-

Finally, by still clinging tight to the es remained closed, while religious ed-

Soviet camp when it was collapsing in ucation was still prohibited, and the the 1980s and '90s, Castro completed Castro oversaw so church still had almost no access to the the circle of bankrupting Cuba. government-controlled media. Mean- while, Fidel was, as always, the Machi- The Economics of Oz. For maoy crazy sdieoies. avellian, using the "legitimization" eign critics of American policy like to brought by the Pope's visit to be once claim the longtime American embargo again feted across Latin America and on American products to Cuba unfair- ...He could fliake the indeed the world. Meanwhile, Fidel ly held Cuba back; but the fact is the still insisted capitalism was evil and embargo does not stop Castro from that the real alternative was "socialist buying products, American or other- Wizaril of Oz M like globalization," another Fidel invention. wise, anyplace in the world. No, the Fidel is now 73 years old. His face is roots to the economic disasters of Cas- more gnarled, and his beard is complete- tro's Cuba are to be found in his own a great ecooomist. ly gray. At times, he seems physically incapacities and complexes. In the weak and tentative as he travels abroad, 1960s and '70s, for instance, he over- but there is no convincing proof of any saw so many crazy schemes—creating vidual restaurants and hotels that he terminal disease. In the early '80s, he "new cows" through his own eerie ge- has recently permitted Cubans to oper- named his younger brother Raul as his netics and wholly unscientific meth- ate. But what Fidel gives on Monday, successor, but Raul, for many years head ods, promising a huge and totally im- he takes back on Thursday: One day he of the Cuban military, has no hold on the possible "Ten Million Ton Sugar Har- announces "free farmers' markets," people. Indeed, Fidel was always sim- vest," grandiosely planting and the world "oohs;" the next day, he patico; Raul is considered the antithesis everywhere, even in impossible closes them. For instance, four years of charm and charisma. climes. He could make the Wizard of ago, individual Cubans were allowed Moreover, there is abundant evi- Oz look like a great economist. to open "private restaurants" in their dence that classic Spanish caudillo Fi- Cuba's recent "opening" to foreign homes—in the last year, however, the del in truth was very much like the old investment has also been brought to government began charging these op- "after me, the deluge" French kings; he light. For example, one of the few for- erators $200 a month (a huge sum in told Time Magazine three years ago, "I eign companies really producing some- Cuba) for every room, vacant or full. don't care what happens to Cuba after thing in Cuba is Sheritt of Canada, With Fidel you've got to complete I'm gone." which is mining nickel. Under Castro's every "ooh" with an "ahh." But he does care about one thing: In communism, the foreign company The Pope came, yes, and made a 1985 when TV Anchorman Dan hires workers from the government; momentous historic impression. His Rather suggested he had made Cuba

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for it." - Paul Martin How is the civil rights movement of the 1960s different from or similar to what's going on today in the same realm? locked out of mainstream America with no opportunity to Alt's very different from the '60s. There were clear participate in the American dream no matter how diligently obstacles to be overcome. There were clear verbal and they might try. That's nonsense. It's hokum that benefits physical attacks against people who look like me. Today, people like Louis Farrakhan, John Conyers, Charlie Rangel we've got the likes of Louis Farrakhan creating a small fief- and all the others who are desperately terrified that if they dom for himself, keeping black people isolated in the ghetto. break up the plantation of the ghetto, they will have to com- If we cannot make it in the United States of America in the pete politically at large. latter half of the 20th century with all the laws to protect us,

we can't make it anywhere. Q. Well-known figures such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jack- son and Louis Farrakhan are said to be spokesmen for Qo What are some of the real and most pressing issues the African-American community. Do they or don't they facing the nation? What, in your opinion, are the non- accurately represent the views of mainstream African- issues Americans are bombarded with daily? Americans? A A real and pressing issue is the deliberate and con- certed effort on the part of white liberals and black A. They, like myself, have no right to assume the mantle of racists to drive a racial wedge between the American peo- verbal authority for any community. There's only one com- ple along racial lines. Stone by stone, thread by thread, munity I can speak for honestly and forthrightly, and that is brick by brick they are tearing down the republic. What the American experience. Beyond that, they are reflecting a are you going to give me in place of America when you perspective or philosophy that will benefit them socially, destroy it? They never have an answer for that. economically or politically. INTERESTS You have taken a lot of heat from some critics who say A MAN OF MANY you have turned your back on civil rights initiatives such m Personal: Age, 57; born, go; producer of film docu- as affirmative action. How do you respond to such claims? Brooklyn, N.Y. First genera- mentary "March on Washing- Today blacks live with all the benefits available to every A tion son of West Indian immi- ton" for national networks American. Yes, life is competitive, but blacks have excep- grants; currently resides in and the State of Michigan. tional opportimifies. That accusation is absolutely ludicrous. with his wife, Sue; Denver On the Shelves: Author of has two children and two "Pick a Better Country" To what extent does racism exist today in America? grandchildren. (Simon and Schuster). How do we better bridge the gulfs between peoples of different color? Career Highlights: Award- Current Occupation: Nation- ally syndicated talk-show host, When you can show me a country on this planet where winning photographer, Detroit A political and social commenta- there is no racism, where there is no sexism, I will pay Free Press; "life on the tor, newspaper columnist. attention to the deceptive politicians, crooks and criminals street" photographs have destroying our courts and making the streets unsafe. been published in Time, Life Interests: Licensed pilot, and The New York Times; certified scuba diver, avid You describe yourself as an American hero and living covered the 1968 Democratic fly fisherman, skier and proof that America works. What do you mean by these two National Convention in Chica- motorcyclist. claims?

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001 THE INTERNET & E-MAIL The Defense Department's ARPANET and "message communications" have evolved into vital civilian tools. OOS SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME Engineer Michael Scanlon's combination of a water bed and Navy sonar monitors an infant, summons caretakers at need and vibrates the bed to restart breathing. 003 VISIBILITY Shared research on vehicle I visibility gives automakers more conspicuous autos and the Army less conspicuous tanks.

004 CUBANES Man-made molecules for explosives have shown unexpected anti-cancer and anti-AIDS activity.

005 INSIDE REACH The Air Force's neutron source, non-destructive aircraft inspection technology is used by Susan Autry at UC- Davis to treat malignant brain tumors.

By Tom Slear

ET'S START with the big enchilada, the grand- daddy of military benev- olence. In the early 1970s, defense contrac- tors and research labora- tories began linking their mainframe computers. Back then, the hookup was called ARPANET, in deference to the Ad- vanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the Defense Department 1 that gave the network its impetus, s

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1999 tions" were preferred to products, began calling the lab al- talking over the telephone. most immediately. The calls contin- ARPANET, of course, ue today, and they won't stop any- evolved into the Internet, time soon. As part of a Defense Lo- and "message communi- gistics Agency effort called Apparel cations" became e-mail, Research Network, Paquette and oth- which has done for human ers at the Natick lab are looking into interaction what the re- three-dimensional computerized mote has done for televi- body scanning as a means to custom- sion viewing. fit uniforms. The Internet is but one "We still have some problems; of many marquee donations for example, converting a three-di- from the military. The mensional computerized image into Global Positioning System, a two-dimensional pattern," Paque- or GPS, was conceived, de- tte says. "But, yes, there could be a veloped and fielded by the day when you walk into a local de- § Defense Department. The partment store and walk out with a two dozen satellites have suit that fits just right." become a veritable world- There could also be a day when wide utility for navigation. driving a car will be safer because With a GPS receiver- of research at the Army's Visual available at most electronic Perception Laboratory in Warren, stores—you can determine Mich. The Army has always been the location of your boat, concerned with making its vehicles car or hunting spot anywhere in the less visible. Toward that end, the world to within 70 meters. (The mil- lab's visual model continually itary signal provides location to with- refined what made vehicles harder in seven meters.) to see. Radar, the jeep, lasers, jet en- Then researchers at the lab flipped gines, flight simulators (along with the coin, reversing the logic of the the off-shoot, virtual reality) and visual model to help figure out what airbags are some of the other, more makes vehicles more conspicuous. visible donations from the military. The lab ran a test on rear-window But the underpinning of technology brake lights. General Motors was im- transfer has always been about the pressed, at least enough to enter into bit players, the products and ideas a multi-year cooperative venture to that pass from the Defense Depart- enhance driving safety. ment to the commercial market- "Right now we are looking into place with hardly a whimper. such things as alternative head- Take something as prosaic as lights and heads-up displays," says body dimensions. Companies in- Thomas Meitzler, the lab's director. volved with everything from athlet- "The Army gets the benefit of the ic shoes to car seats to cockpits can car manufacturers' vehicle technol- never get enough of this kind of ogy, and the car manufacturers get data. "We get calls regularly from use of the lab." such places as Reebok, General Such cooperative arrangements Motors and Sikorsky," says Steven (the bureaucratic term is Coopera- Paquette, the anthropology coordi- tive Research and Development nator at the Army's Research, De- Agreements, or CREEDA for Ruth Hough worked for the De- velopment and Engineering Center short) make sense in an era of im- fense Communications Agency as in Natick, Mass. ploding defense budgets. Both an engineer in the mid-1970s, by In the late 1980s, the lab mea- military and civilian organizations which time data files were moving sured 9,000 male and female sol- contribute a share and everyone routinely among military computers diers of every ethnic background - benefits. Hi-Shear Technology throughout the world. 240 body measurements each. The Corp. in Torrance, Calif., received "It didn't take very long to real- Army undertook the ponderous ef- help from the Army while devel- ize that instead of whole files, only fort with an eye toward designing oping a hand-held rescue tool updates, or short pieces of informa- uniforms and other personal equip- tion were needed," says Hough, now ment, such as rucksacks and gas Tom Slear, a freelance writer based a vice president with ARINC, a masks, for a better fit. in Maryland, is a former contributing communications technology compa- Civilian companies, knowing the editor to National Defense magazine. ny in Annapolis, Md. It got so that value of such data in developing His work has also appeared in Army network "message communica- more comfortable and functional Times and Boys' Life.

JANUARY 1999 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 3/ strong enough to cut through rein- The Army gets catinny sent the cubanes to The Na- forced bars and electrical con- tional Institutes of Health for tests. duits. The cutter was dubbed Life- the benefit of the Surprisingly, not one of the 150 Shear and 44 of them aided the compounds came up positive. That rescue effort that followed the Ok- car manufacturers' news was followed a short time later lahoma City bombing. by another shocker. The Hi-Shear/Army connection vehicle technology, NIH routinely tests for anti- made sense in that Life-Shear AIDS and anti-cancer activity. Two makes use of scaled-down cannon and the car of the cubane compounds showed technology. Often, however, these promise. From more powerful ex- cooperative ventures evolve from manufacturers get plosives to a possible cure for strange bedfellows. AIDS —who would have thought? lab. The automatic target recognition use of the The Army promptly entered into a system the Air Force developed to cooperative research agreement find hidden enemy tanks, aircraft between military technology and with the Albert Einstein College of and command centers is being adapt- civilian application developed inad- Medicine in New York City to ex- ed by the Cornell Medical Center in vertently at the Army's Picatinny plore the AIDS angle further. New York City to assist physicians Arsenal in New Jersey. Researchers "Basically, the cubane provides a and radiologists in detecting and at Picatinny design explosives. warhead," says Dr. Harris Gold- classifying tumors. Similarly, the Quite literally, they want more hang stein, a professor at the college. Air Force's nondestructive inspec- for the buck. In their search for the ""When it's linked to a molecule that tion technology, which uses neu- perfect bang (big boom, low will guide it to a specific cell, the trons generated by a small nuclear weight, no residue), they lusted af- cell is destroyed, be it a cancerous reactor to check for microscopic cor- ter cube-shaped, manmade mole- cell or an HIV-infected cell. It's a rosion in aircraft, is being reapplied cules called cubanes. neat concept, though there are a lot at the University of California-Davis But cubanes were labor intensive. of developmental issues that have to Medical Center in the hope of treat- Half a gram required some 30 steps be resolved." ing malignant brain tumors. and a year's worth of work by a half Another connection is nearly as "This is cutting edge technolo- dozen scientists. In 1994. re- unusual: Sudden Infant Death Syn- gy," says Susan Autry-Conwell of searchers at Picatinny simplified the drome, Navy sonar, and an engineer UC-Davis' Department of Neuro- process to a few days and a handful at the Army's research laboratory in logical Surgery. "There are clinical of steps. They had their Holy Grail, Adelphi, Md. trials going on right now nationally and an unexpected bonus as well. The engineer, Michael Scanlon, and internationally." Explosive materials are usually developed a sensor pad consisting of One of the more bizarre cormections quite toxic, so researchers at Pi- a Navy sonar microphone inside a water-filled bag. The water con- ducts sound, picking up an infant's heartbeat, breathing, voice, and movement with little interference. The beauty of the pad is that it requires no attachments to the baby. If the infant's heartbeat or breathing stops, an alarm alerts the parents. Meanwhile, the pad begins vibrating to prompt the baby to breathe. A civilian company has already pro- cured a license for technology. The Army hopes one day to use a variation of the pad to continuously monitor the heart rate and breathing of wounded soldiers. The idea came to Scanlon while sitting on a water bed in a store. When he moved, the entire bed moved. At the time he was working with the Navy on a sonar program. He realized the possibility of combining a sonar sensor with a vibra- tor in a water-filled pad. After that, as Scanlon says, "Everything just came together."

006 YOU ARE HERE In-car computers, linked to the Global Positioning System, could And everyone, military and civil- end spousal debates about stopping to ask directions. ian, will benefit.

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THE CUBAN people suffer THE AMERICAN peo- under the harsh yoke of Cas- ple might recall that tro's failed version of com- earlier this year I pub-

munism. There is no ques- licly praised President

tion that life under Castro is miserable Clinton's decision to ease and worsening. Food rationing, hous- restrictions on humanitarian ing shortages and the fear of being assistance to Cuba. I went a step hauled off to jail for criticizing the further, as well, urging the presi- government are daily reminders of the dent to go further in regards to police state 90 miles from our shores. that island nation.

It appears some in the United States are forgetting the bat- The president should be commended for adopting the tles the brave men and women of our armed services fought spirit of the papal visit to Cuba last January and also for to preserve our freedoms. The struggle against communism making it easier for Cuban-Americans to assist their and totalitarian dictatorships did not end with the fall of the families in Cuba and for humanitarian organizations to Soviet empire. Our victories were won so we and others get supplies to the island. might be free. This is the time for the president to seize the initia- In Washington, we frequently hear from so-caUed experts tive and put the full weight of his presidency behind a about the shifting dynamic of the Cuba debate. During the six change in policy toward Cuba. years I've been in Congress, predictions about the end of the A sizable delegation of Cuban-Americans visited embargo have never stopped, and there are some who ignore Washington earlier this year to lobby in support of HR the reality of Cuba today. These misguided individuals want 1951, the bipartisan legislation to remove restrictions to do business with the tyranny, exploit Cuban workers and on the donation and sale of food, medicines and medical keep the Cuban people under the slavery of communism. equipment. The embargo against Castro is the most important lever- They were successful in their efforts, and the Cuban age for freedom available to Cubans in their struggle to bring people will benefit from their actions. I cosponsored about a democratic society. The destruction of the Cuban that bill and am the author of HR 3173, a bill to lift the economy is a daily reminder of the failure of Castro's bmtal embargo entirely. and totalitarian communist policies. The promise of immedi- I learned much during my trip to Cuba last January, ate and open access to the U.S. market is a powerful incentive which coincided with the historic visit by Pope John for change. Paul II.

I have heard many misleading arguments on why we I spent many hours talking with the people of Cuba, should end the embargo. These are made by people who and the one thing they were all opposed to was the cloak their desire to make money from the Cuban "apartheid embargo. Whatever their feelings politically, they economy" by claiming to argue on behalf of Cubans. In real- agreed that the embargo was not helping them or mak-

ity, the only reason the Cuban economy is in shambles and ing their lives any easier. people are struggling to find enough food is that the Castro As the ranking member of the Ways and Means dictatorship has pillaged Cuba for 40 years and destroyed Committee, which shares jurisdiction over such legisla- what was previously the most advanced economy in Latin tion, I have encouraged hearings on these bills in the America. Subcommittee on Trade. In 1995, at my request, the The overwhelming majority in Congress strongly opposes subcommittee convened a hearing on the potential for the Castro tyranny and stands firmly on the side of the Cuban trade with Cuba. people. Witii Castro reaching the end of his brutal existence, There's no argument that the embargo on Cuba has ending the embargo unilaterally, without waiting until the failed. Cuban people achieve their freedom, would be like snatching Indeed, it has worked against the interests of the defeat from the jaws of victory. Cuban people and the When there is a government interests of the United in Cuba that seeks to normal- Your Opinions Cooot, Too. States. ize relations with its own Senators and representatives are interested in con- Just as President Clin- people, the U.S. embargo stituent viewpoints. You may express your views by ton is opening a new era of will constitute the most writing The IHonorable (name), U.S. Senate, Wash- relations in other areas of ington, DC 20510, or The l-ionorable (name). House important leverage available the world, an era of respect of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. You may to the people; when it hap- and mutual interest, we call the U.S. Senate at (202) 224-3121; the House at pens, I wiU be at the forefront (202) 225-3121. should be doing the same of ending the embargo. with Cuba.

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Vet Preference Strengthened France Honoring 'Doughboys' TO FOLLOW up on last month's item on ment, only the executive branch was bound important federal veterans preference legis- by veterans preference guidelines. MOST of the old warriors are gone, and the

lation ("Employment Bill Works Well for Enforcing provisions of the original vet- 80th anniversary of the end of World War I is Vets"), the Veterans Employment Opportu- erans preference laws had become a frus- history. nities Act of 1998 became law Oct. 31, trating farce for veterans shut out of job According to the VA, nearly half of the

1998. competition by agencies that routinely skirt- 4,800 surviving U.S. World War I veterans

The measure is the most formidable vet- ed the law. Under the new statute, veterans (they include 460 women) served on French

erans preference legislation since the origi- whose preference rights are violated can soil or in its territories during the war, making

nal provisions laid down by the Service- seek redress through the federal courts. In them eligible for the National Order of the men's Readjustment Act of 1944, the addition, hiring personnel now are legally Legion of Honor (Chevalier).

original Gl Bill of Rights. prohibited from violating veterans prefer- The order will not be awarded posthu- "This nation made the decision 50 years ence rights. mously, say embassy officials. The Depart- ago to recognize the sacrifices and extra The new law also expands employment of Veterans Affairs is supporting this commitment made by our veterans for our ment opportunities for disabled veterans effort by helping French embassy officials in country," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. and Vietnam and Persian Gulf-era veter- Washington verify the applicants' service

"This law ensures that special recognition," ans with vendors doing business under records. While the VA is working with French

added Hagel, who sponsored the Senate bill federal contracts. officials, the French government will determine last spring along with a fellow veteran. Sen. ALSO FROM December's Veterans awards of the Legion of Honor to U.S. veter-

Max Cleland, D-Ga. Veterans' groups also Update files: The VA has filled its quota for ans.

extended thanks to the House sponsor, participants in its testing program for Pluto- For a form and instructions, write (no Florida Republican Rep. John Mica. nium exposure among veterans involved in phone calls, please) to: Embassy of France, The Veterans Employment Opportunities atmospheric nuclear testing, or who were Project "1918-98," 401 Reservoir Road N.W.,

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A RECENT VA General Counsel ruling United States Code provisions concerning divorce or annulment. brought bad news on healthcare, education and restoration of dependents and indemnity com- The VA General Counsel, however, ruled home loan benefits for veterans' surviving pensation benefits for surviving spouses who last October that the new section applies only

spouses who remarry. At issue is an amend- remarry. Under the revision, section 1311, to DIC. A remarried surviving spouse does ment to Title 38 provisions tacked on to the remarriage doesn't bar eligible surviving spous- not regain eligibility for medical care under

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HE NATION- said every dime spent in the effort to reestablish the AL Executive right to protect the flag has been worthwhile. The Committee of campaign has created much "collateral good" by The American organizing efforts touching the fives of patriotic cit- Legion was izens everywhere. called to defend Dan Wheeler, CFA president, read an essay American val- from Jared Beck, an 11 -year-old boy living in ues and protect Mount Ayr, Iowa, who recalled a Friday night he our flag and our and Iowa's NEC member Bill Rusk attended a fellow veterans high-school football game. Beck, a sixth grader, during its Fall wrote that he and the other children in his class had meeting in Indianapolis. been invited to carry flags onto the field at a varsity The NEC responded. football game in September. The flag display was "America is in a state of sponsored by The American Legion.

moral crisis," National Com- "In my mind I was thinking, 'Hot Dog!' this is mander Butch Miller told just the thing for me to do," the letter read. "My NEC members. "And at father and grandfather have always taught me to

times such as these, right- respect the flag and what the colors stand for. Blue is

eous people must stick to for loyalty. White is for purity and Red, courage...!

their guns because our cause must admit, I was a little bit nervous as well as excit-

is at stake. And the cause is ed when my grandfather took me to the field. To my

everything we believe in." astonishment, I found that I was the only sixth grad-

MUler spoke just a week er there. Mr. Rusk then says, 'Even if it's just you

after he testified before Con- and me boy, we'll do it.' My heart began to sink as I gress on key veterans' saw more and more of my sixth-grade classmates

issues. It was also less than come and make their way to the stands instead of

a week after the Senate coming onto the field. Soon, I noticed two other stu-

failed to bring to a vote a dents were standing next to Mr. Rusk. I could see the proposed constitutional amendment that could halt pride in his face as we took the flags in our hands flag desecration. The Commander vowed an and slowly began the march across the field." amendment resolution now wUl be brought before both houses of Congress in January and sent to the states for ratification in 1999.

"Our cause is the work of hard-working, tax- paying parents who try very hard to raise their kids to respect the values that men and women died defending," Miller said. "We cannot have a society in which five judges in black robes overrule the teachings of you as parents, of your parents and your grandparents." In 1989 the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, repealed the right to protect the flag from physical desecration. Retired Maj. Gen. Patrick H. Brady, Medal of Honor recipient and chairman of the Citizens Flag \m m Alliance—a nonprofit group spearheading efforts to restore the right of flag protecfion—also spoke of the moral crisis facing our country.

"To bum an American flag is a sign of moral

I TRiflli Retired Maj. Gen. Patrick in an individual," Brady told the NEC. weakness Brady declares during ttie Fall NEC meeting that "To legalize the burning of the American flag is a "no lie must be left lying" in the debate over flag sign of moral weakness in America." protection. Brady challenged Legionnaires to leave no lie unchallenged in the debate over an amendment. He

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been raised in a world where it Res. I Urges the VA to provide presumptive is legal to desecrate the flag. service-connection for cold-related injury. "For virtually all his life the Res. 2 The American Legion policy on expo- media has been telling him the sure to ionizing radiation. flag is nothing more than a Res. 4 Supports special pensions for Ameri-

symbol," Wheeler said. "...I can veterans of World War I. wonder if his children or Res. 5 Details Legion participation in the grandchildren will understand Compensated Work Therapy Pilot Program. why we would call our flag Res. 6 supports exemption from co-payment " 'Old Glory.' for former POWs who receive their prescriptions The American Legion leg- from VA hospitals, clinics or outpatient facilities. islative agenda also includes Res. 7 Calls for legislation to extend eligibili- passage of a GI Bill of Health ty for health care to Purple Heart recipients. to assure adequate medical care for veterans and families Economics into the 21st century. Chester (Chairman Ray Smith, North Carolina) Stellar (Ohio), chairman of the Res. 29 Urges Congress to amend the Internal National Veterans Affairs and Revenue Code and extend the Home Loan pro- I Rehabilitation Commission, gram to Lebanon, Grenada, Panama and Persian reported to the NEC that sev- Gulf veterans. eral provisions of the Legion-sponsored effort have Res. 30 States The American Legion policy been implemented, including greater ambulatory on promoting veterans' preference in state civil care services for eligible veterans and more rev- service employment. enue sources for VA health care. But much work remains to be done. Internal Affairs NEC members approved a proposal from the (Chairman Herman G. Harrington, New York) [E(ii's \m Finance Commission to buy land at the former Fort Res. 11 Urges North Carolina's Highway Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis. The property Historical Advisory Committee to approve and will be the site of a new building for Haynes and fund a marker in honor of the late PNC Henry L. Partners Communications—a Legion-owned Stevens Jr. (1931-32), the state's only National direct-mail division—and the Emblem Sales Divi- Commander of The American Legion. sion. The project would alleviate space problems faced by both operations. Total cost of the expan- National Security

sion is expected to be under $4. 1 million. (Chairman Allen L. Titus, Indiana)

Joseph E. Caouette Jr., Chairman of the Ameri- Res. 14 Recommends that Congress increase canism Commission, reported 59 additional shoot- resources to enhance military readiness, quality ing clubs have joined The American Legion Junior of life and modernization. Shooting Sports program, and more than 5,000 Res. 16 Opposes United Nations gun-control SI baseball teams are registered in American Legion measure. Baseball, with participation by nearly 92,000 Res. 17 States The American Legion policy young people. on maintaining military cemeteries in the United Jeffrey L. Olson (Minn.), chairman of the Con- States. vention Commission, reported that many Ixgion- naires at the National Convention in New Orleans Finance told officials they wanted the event scheduled (Chairman George W. Boucek, Illinois) before the Labor Day weekend. In order to comply, Res. 22 Authorizes expenditure of $27,000 dates for the 2002 convention in Charlotte, N.C., for participation in the uniformed musical have been reset for Aug. 23-26, 2002. groups during the 1999 National Convention Excluding strictly "housekeeping" measures, parade. the policy and program resolutions approved Res. 23 Reaffirms commitment to gain con- by the Nadonal Execufive Committee Oct. 14-15 stitutional protection for the U.S. Flag. include: For a copy of the complete text of any resolution, write to: The American Legion, Attn: Americanism Library Section, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis,

(Chairman Joseph E. Caouette Jr., New Hamp- IN 46206; or by e-mail: [email protected]. shire) —David Peinicuff

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Tribute to Tennessee Veterans Spans tlie Globe RESTING on a cushion pylons, each depicting a differ- of water in the middle ent element of the war and fea-

of Tennessee is a repli- turing photography from that ca of everything time. By the war's close, 5,73 America's World War service members from Ten- n generation saved - the world. nessee had given their lives. It's there because The Mike Hammer, Adjutant American Legion and retired for the Department of Ten- Army Maj. Gen. Hugh Mott, nessee, says the Memorial two parties who did their part to means a great deal to veterans win the war, worked to assure throughout the state and that that those who fought and died Mott's efforts were instru-

would not be forgotten. mental in making it a reality.

Legionnaires, in a cam- It all took several years and paign Mott spearheaded, $1.5 million to make the helped create a striking Memorial a reality. Service or- memorial to honor Ten- ganizations, corporations, nessee's sons and daughters civic groups and individuals who served in the great 20th all contributed, and the State of

century struggle. It lies in the Tennessee matched their dona- Bicentennial Capitol Mall at tions. Also spent along the way Nashville and features an was a great deal of energy Hugh Mott, retired Army Major General and a member of Post 5 in eight-ton black granite globe from Legionnaires throughout Nashville, and Jennings B. Loring, Past Department Commander of engraved to represent the the state and Mott, a member Tennessee, stand by the 8-ton granite depiction of the world at war - world of the early 1940s. In- of Post 5 in Nashville. part of the $1.5 million World War II memorial Mott campaigned to create. cluded are sites that bear "I spent three months at names such as Guadalcanal, Legion headquarters," Mott Midway and Normandy. The says of his time at the Depart- erect a statute of a soldier. the first time in the drive on distances from Tennessee to ment of Tennessee writing When Mott's pushing Berlin, a bridge across the the great battles are also letters asking for donations. was done, the Legion in the Rhine. Mott received the etched in stone. Suspended in "I wrote to the various Legion Volunteer State had raised Distinguished Service Cross its fountain, the granite plan- Post commanders. We just nearly $1 15,000 toward con- for his efforts to save the et can be turned by the touch kept pushing all the time; struction of the Memorial, railway bridge at Remagen of a child's hand. that was the main thing." which was dedicated on Vet- in Germany, notes Hammer. Embedded in the marble The tribute to World War erans Day in 1997. The Le- That bridge provided a floor surrounding the globe are II veterans was long over- gion exceeded its contribu- crossing for Allied forces gold stars. Along the sides of due, Mott says, and organiz- tion goal of $100,000. Three and was crucial to an expe- the 80-foot plaza are 10 granite ers wanted to do more than other veterans organizations ditious ending of the war. also had $100,000 goals, but After the war, Mott con- none came close. tinued to serve his commu- With the help of Depart- nity and country. He became ment staff, Mott launched an police chief of Nashville and effective mail campaign, Adjutant General of the Ten- and many American Legion nessee National Guard. Posts and individuals with "I'm no hero; I'm just contributions of $5,000 or one of those lucky GIs who

more now have their names made it through," Mott says. in stone at the Memorial site. "The heroes are the ones ly- The Memorial is now ful- ing under white crosses ly funded, and the State of around the world." Tennessee is responsible for Thanks to the efforts of its maintenance. Mott, Hammer and The Mott saw action as an American Legion in Ten- Army lieutenant in the Euro- nessee, those heroes won't pean Theater. His record in- be forgotten. Tennessee's World War II Memorial proudly in centennial Capitol Mall. cluded a part in securing, for — David Penticujf

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M Marching to a Difloren! Drnmmer N MEMORIAL Day morn- rarely noticed patriotism. cause of restoring parades to honor ing, 1992, Harry Plows Along the way. Plows, an Army service members. The community climbed into his car to drive veteran of World War II and a mem- had been without a Veterans or down to Johnstown, Pa., Cen- ber of American Legion Post 137 in Memorial Day parade for more than a tral Park where he again Wimber, Pa., began wondering why decade, he says. raised the American flag in an act of Johnstown no longer had a Memorial "I'm thinking to myself to just get Day or Veterans Day it started; get a policeman to arrest Parade, as it and so me; get some publicity," he says. At- many communities tract enough attention to get others to once did. come out and organize a big parade "It was 8 o'clock in and remember fallen comrades. the morning," he re- Finally, more than five years after

calls. "There ' s not he started marching, a local legislator much traffic on Memor- spearheaded efforts to organize a pa- ial Day at that time of rade in Johnstown on Veterans Day. the morning." It started in 1997 and Plows, of So Harry Plows de- course, was chosen grand marshal. cided to start a parade "They wanted me to ride in a car," all by himself. the 76-year-old says. "I told them I'd That day and on each march, up front." Memorial Day since, Plows, a veteran of the Sicilian

H Plows donned his uni- and Italian campaigns of World War

1 form and marched in his II plans to be in each annual parade. 1 own parade of one down But he is still not afraid to march by

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g stown. that's what it takes to pay tribute to

^ He was, he frankly veterans. Harry M. Plows again stands ready to march through John- i admits, trying to attract "I'm still going to march up Main stown, Pa. Plows' solo marches on Memorial Day helped i attention and inspire Street on Memorial Day," he says. reinstitute patriotic parades in his hometown. > others to take up the — David Penticujf

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Washington, D.C., by a committee of James W.B. Herron, North Branford High 1 995 to offer scholarships to direct de- Samsung, American Legion and Ameri- School, Northford, Conn.; Christopher W. scendants of honorably-discharged can Legion Auxiliary representatives. Ap- Jewell, Logan High School, Logan, Utah; wartime veterans in recognition of the

plicants all participated in either American Rebecca Sue Keith, Saint Mary's High sacrifices of American servicemen and Legion Boys State or American Legion School, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Roy O. women during the Korean War. Auxiliary Girls State programs. Mears, Darby High School, Darby, Mont.; For more information about the Sam-

The awards are based on academic Rebekah J. Ryan, Mountain View High sung/American Legion Scholar pro- performance, financial need and school School, Mesa, Ariz.; Timothy J. Vasil, gram, contact your Post Boys State or and community involvement. High Tantasqua Regional High School, Unit Girls State chairman; or call Na- school juniors who complete a Boys State Fiskdale, Mass.; Dara N. Wakefield, Win- tional Headquarters at (317) 630-1207.

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American Legion D.C., $8,000 for "Children's Guardians of Hydro- school Vision Screening TheChild Welfare Foun- Express: Child Health Radio cephalus Research Foundation Book." dation, in its 44th Program." of Brooklyn, N.Y., $35,000 Project OZ of Blooming- year of helping Children's Haven and for "Hydrocephalus—a better ton, 111., $25,500 for "Best America's children, Adult Community Services, understanding." Practices: Violence Preven- awarded $379,450 to 23 non- Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., $10,200 Central Montana Healthy tion for High School." profit organizations in 1998. for "Targeted Nutritional Inter- Mothers Healthy Babies of The American Legion De- Grants awarded to support vention for Down Syndrome." Lewiston, Mont., $750 for partment of Kansas, Topeka, projects included : Children's Medical Center "Baby Changing Stations in Kan., $24,000 for "Drug Free Alton Ochsner Medical of Dallas, $7,500 for "Antici- Dad's Restrooms." American Ruler Bookmark." Foundation of New Orleans pating & Understanding the Juvenile Diabetes Foun- The Candlelighters Child- was awarded $7,000 for a pro- Long-Term Effects of Radia- dation of Los Angeles, hood Cancer Foundation of ject entitled "Radiation Ther- tion and Chemotherapy in $15,400 for "My Best Friend Bethesda, Md., $15,000 for apy Coloring Book for Chil- Survivors of Childhood Brain Has Diabetes." "The Candlelighters Child- dren with Cancer." Tumors." Michael's House of Cha- hood Cancer Foundation's an- APHS-American Pseudo- Erikson Institute for Ad- grin Falls, Ohio, $22,000 for nual newsletter." obstruction & Hirschsprungi's vanced Study in Child Devel- "Supporting Grieving Chil- The National Exchange Disease Society of Man- opment of Chicago, $24,000 dren Video." Club Foundation for the Pre- chester, Mo., was awarded for "Help for Children Grow- Mercy Medical Airlift of vention of Child Abuse of $15,000 for its project, ing Up With Violence." Manassas, Va., $15,800 for Toledo, Ohio, $15,000 for its "APHS - Community Out- Glaucoma Research "Medical System Awareness project entitled "National reach Program" to provide Foundation of San Francis- - Child Charitable Medical Shaken Baby Syndrome Edu- educational information and co, $15,100 for "Protecting Air Transportation." cational Campaign." support to children/families Sight, Supporting Families: National Crime Prevention THINK FIRST Founda- faced with the rare disorder. The Childhood Glaucoma Council of Washington, D.C., tion of Park Ridge, 111., Children Awaiting Par- Booklet." $20,000 for "A Tool Kit for $25,000 for "THINK FIRST ents, Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., Goldenrod Hills Commu- Safe Teens: Tools Communi- for KIDS"—an innovative was awarded $25,000 for nity Services of Wisner, Neb., ties Can Use to Prevent Youth program designed by injury "Families for America's $1,400 for "Goldenrod Hills Violence." prevention experts to teach Waiting Children." This Gazette." This grant will de- Ounce of Prevention Fund children in grades 1-3 proper grant will produce and distrib- velop and distribute a four- of Chicago, $24,800 for safety behavior. ute Children Awaiting Parents page newsletter on nutritional "Safer Start Publication and The Foundation Fighting Directories. information for pregnant Distribution." Blindness of Hunt Valley, Children's Express Foun- women and early childhood Pittsburgh Vision Services Md., $25,000 for "The Fight- dation, Inc. of Washington, development. of Pittsburgh, $3,000 for "Pre- ing Blindness News."

Willlur Wallier, In Memoriam

FORMER itary in May 1944. Following his service tor for the Virginia Bureau of Insurance American Le- in the infantry. Walker began his long and Arson Division. During the Korean War, gion National fruitful involvement with The American Walker was a special agent in charge of Vice Com- Legion. The local positions he held includ- investigations for the Office of Price Sta- mander Wilbur ed Post Adjutant, Finance Officer, Vice bilization. He also served as administra- Walker passed Commander and Commander. Walker tive assistant to Virginia Gov. J. Lindsay away Nov. 10. also served as adjutant for the Department Almond fi-om 1958-62, and to U.S. Rep. J occasions, as well as Daniel fi-om 1969-73. I He was 84. of Virginia on four Dan

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3 South Rich- On the national level. Walker chaired ticipant in constructing a memorial on the mond, Va., the National Legislative Council from spot where, during the Civil War, "Taps" Post 137, was elected National Vice Com- 1975-94, with a break for his term as a was composed and first sounded. He mander Aug. 26, 1976, at The American National Vice Commander, 1976-77. twice accompanied U.S. officials on in- Legion's 58th National Convention in Walker, a dedicated public servant, spection tours of South Vietnam. Walker Seattle. Walker was chief clerk of Selec- was supervisor of enforcement for the Of- received the Legion's highest award, The tive Service Board No. 8 for the city of fice of Price Administration, Virginia's American Legion Distinguished Service Richmond until his induction into the mil- Deputy Fire Marshal and chief investiga- Medal, in 1984.

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