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1 THE AMERICAN LEGION

May 1 982 Volume 1 1 2, Number 5 For God and Country

4 Commander's Message 12 From Faith To "Our Greatest Asset" Commitment: A Veteran's

£ Letters Perspective By Capt. Gerald L. Coffee, USN

Our readers comment That so many of us came close to dyins is at the heart of

our commonality as veterans of war. But what, really, is the 10 Big Issues fine line that separates the survivors from those we honor on Memorial Day? "Should the New Department of Education Be Abolished?" 14 New Hope for Stroke 24 News to Use Prevention By Dr. Arthur S. Freese

Helpful hints for consumers Each year, some half million Americans suffer a stroke. But, thanks to medical discoveries and education, many more 25 Books are either dodsins that stroke or bouncins back to complete health after being stricken. • Interesting new titles World's Fairs: Past, Present 26 The Message Center 16 and Future By Roberta Roesch Of importance to veterans There's more to World's Fairs than cotton candy. There are 28 Dateline Washington colored bathtubs, patent corn broom handles, laser beam saws and much, much more. Issues and opinions from the capital

Pipeline To Defeat By Samuel Stanley 30 News for Legionnaires 18 Sometimes battles are not won by men, equipment or Your organization at work firepower. Fate—or luck—defeated Rommel at El Alamein 52 Parting Shots during WWII. To leave you laughing 20 Puzzling Visions of the Near-Dead By Phyllis Zauner

Even some skeptics have become convinced that many of their almost-dead patients have been given a peek through the door that leads to the hereafter.

magazine articles, Dr. Arthur S. pleasant contact with Rommel in About our authors . . . Freese here turns his medical exper- WWII and have been curious about Navy Captain Gerald L. Coffee, au- tise to those who seek, "New Hope him ever since." That curiosity has thor of "From Faith To Commitment: For Stroke Prevention." translated, in part, to his article in A Veteran's Perspective," addressed this issue, "Pipeline To Defeat." The American Legion National Con- What happens when we die? Scien- vention in Hawaii last August. His tists and doctors are finding convinc- Roberta Roesch, author of "World's theme then, drawn from more than ing evidence that life may not end Fairs: Past, Present & Future," says seven years' experience as a POW in when the heart stops, reports Phyllis her fascination with the subject must North Vietnam, was "Faith: The Key Zauner in her article, "Puzzling Vi- be in her genes since her grandpar- To Survival." Here he expands on sions Of The Near-Dead"—a subject ents honeymooned at the 1876 Cen- that topic and focuses upon the re- far different from cashing in on mem- tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. sponsibilities of all veterans born orabilia, and old-time railroads, the She has lectured about World's Fairs of the unbounded faith derived from subjects of two recent articles she and appeared on radio and TV to their own survival. wrote for the Magazine. discuss them.

Author of 25 books and hundreds of Samuel Stanley says, "I had an un- Cover by David Taylor.

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3 — THE AMERICAN LEGION May 1982

Commander's Message THE AMERICAN LEGION Our Greatest Asset

National Commander hours to help develop the character, Jack W. Flynt leadership, patriotism and scholar- ship of the young people placed in their charge. They labor mightily to The American Legion Magazine see those youths touched by Ameri- Editorial & Advertising Offices 700 North Pennsylvania St. can Legion programs come away with . Box 1055 a sense of pride in themselves and in Indianapolis, IN 46206 317-635-8411 their service to this nation and their fellow man. Publisher America's special children, too, are Dean B. Nelson bolstered by the efforts of Legion- Assistant Publisher/Editor naires on high school tracks and in Daniel S. Wheeler gymnasiums around the country. Managing Editor Gerard T. Atchison They are the mentally retarded who Senior Editor have learned that sports and physical Grail S. Hanford activity are the quickest, surest road Associate Editor to health, growth and self-confidence. Kathleen Whitehead Since its beginning, Special Olympics Art Editor James A. Chaney has reached more than one million of Production these youngsters, thanks in large part Bill Kroeker to the efforts of Legion volunteers those innumerable huggers and help- ers who've embraced the spirit of the Advertising Sales Robert Redden Assoc., Inc. Special Olympics oath: Let me win, P.O. Box 999, Teaneck, NJ 07666 201-837-5511 Jack W. Flynt but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. The measure of your commitment The American Legion Magazine Commission Milford A. Forrester, Chairman, Greenville, SC; Adolph to help the mentally retarded learn F. Bremer, Vice Chairman, Winona, MN; James R. During my 30 years as a Legion- that their retardation need not mean Kelley, National Commander's Representative, Devon, PA; Norman Biebel, Belleville, IL; Victor Broom, naire, I have found nothing more defeat is evidenced in a couple of Fulton, MS; Andrew J. Cooper, Gulf Shores, AL; John J. richly rewarding or personally inspir- statistics. With fewer than half of Dunn, Sr., Scranton, PA; Martin T. Jansen, Little Chute, WI; Eugene J. Kelley, Savannah, GA; James V. ing than working with America's our Posts reporting, we learn that Kissner, Palatine, IL; Frank J. Holcshuh, Youngstown, youth through our youth programs. more than $2.5 million has been spent OH; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, IA; Arthur M. McDowell, Indianapolis, IN; Nathaniel J. McKee, This is hardly an earth-shattering Posts to help Special by Olympians Princeton, NJ; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, LA; Bruce E. pronouncement for the countless Le- and other mentally retarded since Penny, Seattle, WA; Floyd J. Rogers, Topeka, KS; George G. Sinopoli, Fresno, CA; Ralph L. Smith, gionnaires who, like me, have found 1978. The number of Special Olympi- Bartlesville, OK; Dewey C. Spencer, Mabelvale, AR; that service to our nation's children ans assisted by us each year is nearly Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, CT; George J. Zanos, carries rewards that far outstrip any 18,000. Sr., Wellsburg, WV; Keith H. Gwilliam, Consultant, Roy, UT; Jerome Neuberger, Consultant, Staten efforts we might expend. Island, NY. May is a particularly appropriate month in which to take a look at our The American Legion Magazine (USPS 020-540) is efforts on behalf of America's great- published monthly by The American Legion, 700 North There is not a child who Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Price: is est asset—her young people. It a yearly subscription, $9.00; single copy, $1.00 in of our youth month which many cannot be counted among our POSTMASTER: send address changes to: Circulation programs high gear: the 57th sea- Department, PO. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. greatest assets—so long as son of nationwide competition in Send editorial and advertising material to: The American Legion Baseball is American Legion Magazine, 700 North Pennsylvania there are good Americans St., RO. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. launched, Legion Posts begin screen- Copyright 1982 by The American Legion. to teach and guide him. ing candidates for Boys State, and, Microfilm copies available: University Microfilms, 300 across the nation, Legion volunteer N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 "huggers" and "helpers" begin work- ing with the mentally retarded youth Change of Address Notify Post Adjutant and Circulation Dept., P.O. Box participating in Special Olympics. Beginning in the spring and - 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Attach old address label, Youth programs such as Legion ning through the summer months, on provide old and new address and current membership card number. Allow 8 weeks for change of address to Baseball and Boys State are staffed any given weekend, Legionnaires can take effect. by dedicated and highly trained Le- be seen along playing fields shouting gion volunteers who derive personal encouragement to these very special Non-Member Subscriptions satisfaction from their volunteer ef- young people. The notion is demon- Send $9.00 ($15.00 in foreign countries) to Circulation Dept., PO. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. forts. These volunteers know those strated time and time again that if programs are so very important to our Legionnaires are committed to those youth because they teach sportsman- children with normal minds and ship and citizenship. They work long (Continued on page 48)

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AT THIS (March) . I met Jerry Sage when we choice selection. INCREDIBLE both were prisoners of the Germans Drue B. Garrison LOW PRICE: in North Africa, and my subsequent Portland, OR war experience paralleled his some- $4999 what in that I was a POW in North- Wreckdiving ern in 1943, but eventually es- • Frank Bianco's interesting descrip- caped and made it to the British tion of the sunken submarine in lines distant. OVER 300 miles We would "Wreckdiving" (February) , fasci- FIVE FEET have much to recount should we meet nates me as I was a radarman aboard TALL! again. the USS Wyfels when, in January Ernie S. Hill 1945, we sank a submarine in the Phelps, WI same general area near Block Island. Could there be another one to be Burma-Shave discovered? • What a delight to read "Burma- Everett Pierce Hand Shave Remembered" by Dr. David Chariton, I

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9 THE AMERICAN LEGION May 1982 Big Issues

Should The New Department Of Education Be Abolished?

Yes. The Department of Ed- No., AboUshing the Depart- ucation should never have been ment of Education would accom- established, and it should now be plish almost nothing. It would not abolished. reduce government spending, elimi- Looking at the history of the de- nate or even reduce the modest partment's creation, there can be no number of federal employees admin- dispute that many education pro- istering federal education programs grams were entangled in the organi- and would not improve education Sen. William zational briar patch of the former Sen. Claiborne for the young people of America. S. Cohen Department of Health, Education Pell I believe the programs adminis- (R-ME) and Welfare. Name a health or wel- (D-RI) tered by the Department of Educa- fare program that is spared that tion are, for the most part, sound agony. But there has been no persuasive evidence that programs that have proven highly valuable in supple- the problems plaguing federal educational programs menting and assisting local and state educational pro- have been reduced since the department's creation. grams. These include programs that assist handicapped One of the major reasons advanced by advocates of youngsters and disadvantaged youths, as well as help the separate department was that greater efficiency needy young people afford a higher education. Those would result from the consolidation of education pro- disliking these programs should ask Congress to change grams scattered throughout the federal bureaucracy. them, instead of abolishing the department that adminis- The Department of Education, however, does little to ters them. If you don't like the laws, change them, but promote consolidation. Many federal education pro- don't shoot the policeman charged with enforcing the law. grams, including school lunch, Indian and veteran edu- Much of the campaign against the Department of Ed- cation programs, were not transferred to the new de- ucation is fueled by complaints of federal bureaucratic partment. Each is too deeply rooted in the subsoil of "meddling" with state and local education programs. I its political constituency. don't agree with everything the department does. I don't Since the department neither consolidates previous agree with everything the State Department or Interior education programs nor offers any reasonable assurances Department does either, but I am not proposing that that administrative problems have been lessened, we those departments be abolished. Instead, I try to change must evaluate the need for the department and the more the Congressional policies and programs those depart- centralized focus for education policy, which it implies. ments are required to carry out. Indeed, if you look It is argued that the department increases status and closely we find that the most serious intervention with visibility of education in the federal government and local schools comes not from the Department of Educa- recognizes it as a fundamental national activity. That tion but from the Justice Department. I don't hear pro- point is arguable, but the real question is whether we posals to abolish that department. want to increase the federal role in education. We need a Department of Education for efficient, The diversity of our present educational system is coordinated management of federal education programs. one of its great strengths. This stems at least in part Education is an important national concern, with more from our strong tradition of citizen involvement in de- than 60 million Americans enrolled in some kind of termining education policy at the state and local levels. educational program. The federal education budget, Unlike other countries, we do not have a national ''min- while only 10 percent of the total national spending on istry of education" which establishes and controls edu- education, is large enough to warrant cabinet status. cation for all of the nation's schools. Instead, we have The Education Department budget, at $14 billion, is larg- school boards comprised of community representatives er than the individual budgets of the Commerce, Jus- who make educational decisions for public schools. tice, State or Interior Departments. History clearly demonstrates that whenever the feder- In the year and a half since its establishment, the De- al government becomes involved in a matter previously partment of Education has also recorded some very sig- handled by state and local governments, the state and nificant achievements. It has cut in half the time it local roles inevitably decrease. In recent years, as the takes to issue federal educational regulations. The per- federal share of education costs has risen, local school sonnel in the department have been cut by more than districts have become increasingly ensnared by onerous 500 employees, thus saving more than $20 million. Bet- federal regulations. The temptation to attach strings ter procedures have been instituted for processing stu- to federal education monies is always present, and the dent loans and new collection procedures have been tendency of federal agencies to promulgate endless regu- implemented for students who have defaulted on their lations that erode or preempt the authority of state and loans. This has resulted in $42 million being returned to local government is well documented. the U.S. Treasury. We cannot hope to curb the growth of bureaucracy by The evidence indicates that the new department is indulging its appetite and calling it reorganization. We doing its job well. It's hard to see what would be gained deserve bette by abolishing it.

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To Commitment: A Veteran's Perspective

By Capt. Gerald L. Coffee, USN

Each Memorial Day, Americans—and especially we veterans—remember and pay homage to countrymen who have made the supreme sacrifice in the service of their nation and its cause. As we do so in humility and thanksgiving, we can't help but be more acutely aware of their infinite spirit. In turn, this sense of awareness seems to awaken in each of us a sense of honor, loyalty and dedication to the principles for which our comrades gave their lives. Their sacrifices were ultimate. Yet how close to that same end so many of us also came. This is at the heart of our commonality as veterans of war. We can relate to our fallen brothers and to one another. Indeed, our own sacrifices were frequently within an inch or split second of those who now lie within the living earth sacrifices born of the unforgettable terror of combat, numbing boredom of watchfulness, or, especially in my case, years of frustration and misery in enemy prisons.

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How many times God, through His plan, intervened for skies above Europe. Keeping faith in one another was us the living . . . and that's the narrow line between us paramount. We kept faith in the alertness of the point- and those we remember on Memorial Day. men on patrol, in the judgment of the seniors in charge We veterans, in our nearness to death and all it in- when even routine decisions could mean life or death for volved, have been tempered. Just as steel becomes tough all, in the skills of the nameless medics and chopper and hard through the extremes of fire and water, we, pilots who may have saved our lives. We kept faith in too, have become tough and hard and durable. We've our wives or girls, so far away, to be true and to hack it been tempered by the pain, terror and fear of combat. and endure on their own. And we kept faith in our fel- We've been tempered by the sorrow of loss—seemingly low Americans to back us up and support us when it futile, inexplicable loss. We've been tempered by frus- sometimes seemed they didn't care. tration over our own weaknesses, but also by pride in our That was the faith that sustained us then. That was courage and achievements. And, finally, we've been the faith that has sustained veterans of every war tempered by the very awe of our own survival. The since this nation's birth. Why should it work differently uniqueness of our experiences in time of war has en- now? Everyday we need to keep faith in each other. We dowed us with special capabilities and it is for us to need faith in one another at every level. We need faith discover how those strengths can be aoplied to life today. within our own families—spouse to spouse and parents Let me suggest they can be applied through the appli- to children—faith in one another to communicate frankly cation of an absolutely unbounded faith, a faith born of and clearly, with the assurance that our views will be met our indomitability and manifested in four distinct direc- with patience and understanding. tions: faith in ourselves and in our own potential; faith We need to keep faith in one another professionally, in one another and our collective potential; faith in our with our co-workers and business acquaintances. And we country; and faith in our God, from Whom we derive the ( Continued on page 42) spiritual strength to put it all together. Yes, faith is the manifestation of our tempering, so we—each of us in the privacy of our mind—must consider its meaning and "How many times God, through His plan, effect on our lives from here on out. ." First of all, faith in one's self has to be the most intervened for us the living . . natural outcome of surviving a difficult and desperate experience. The simple fulfillment of duty, the contain- ment of fear, the endurance of the unendurable—these provide the means by which we come to really know ourselves. These are the means by which we learn of both our strengths and weaknesses, by which we come to accept them at face value with all of their implications. These are the means by which a man looks into his soul and learns, perhaps for the first time, who he really is. And that insight, coupled with the inevitable faith in ourselves that such knowledge engenders, sets us apart. After surviving war, we look the world straight in the eye and say, "I can handle anything you can dish out! I know because I've been there before. I hacked it. And I not only survived that one, but I will get stronger and more capable with every successive trial." That type of attitude is important to America today, just as it was in times past. We who have been thus tempered now have the ability and opportunity—working within our Ameri- can system—to change things that are wrong in this na- tion, and even in the world. We have the advantage of working from a foundation of knowing what's really right and really wrong; of knowing what's really im- portant and really unimportant, without being swayed by popular rhetoric or misguided peer pressure. We have the self confidence—the faith in ourselves—to make a better America for ourselves and our children. Second, keeping faith in our fellow man—in each other—should also come more naturally to us. In the prisons of Hanoi where I was held captive for over seven years, the Vietnamese realized there was indeed strength in unity and that is why they kept us POWs isolated and in solitary confinement for as long as they had the facilities to do so. Similarly, in the jungles and paddies of the South Pacific or Southeast Asia there was strength in unity, and the same held true for the

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Thrombosis (a blood clot), by far the most common of strokes, occurs when a thrombosis f forms in one of the arteries of the brain or neck blocking all or part of the flow of blood to the brain.

New Hope For Stroke Prevention The leading cause of long-term disability in the U.S. can be curbed

By Dr. Arthur S. Freese some disruption of the brain's vital thus cutting off blood to part of the blood supply. It can have permanent brain. On April 12, 1945, as World War II or temporary effects, and cause vary- 3. Cerebral hemorrhage is the third was winding down, 63-year-old Presi- ing kinds and degrees of disability major cause of stroke though it ac- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt cried out, ranging from paralysis to loss of counts for only about 10 percent of "I have a terrific headache!" and speech or memory. occurrences. A ruptured cerebral pitched forward unconscious. In a There are three major causes of artery deprives the brain of blood, few hours he was dead of an uncom- stroke: and the blood from the bleeding ar- mon kind of stroke, a massive brain tery itself presses on brain tissue, hemorrhage—one that could be pre- interfering with its functioning. vented today. One of the world's Rarely, however, does a stroke greatest scientists, 46-year-old Louis "just happen"; usually your body Pasteur, suffered his first stroke in "Usually your body warns warns you of impending danger and 1868. It left an arm and a leg para- " you should memorize the warning you of impending danger . . lyzed. Yet, like Roosevelt, if Pasteur signs so you can seek help in time: had lived in the 1980s both his first • Passing trouble in speaking, or an and later strokes could probably have inability to do so at all; difficulty in been prevented. understanding what others say to Even today, though, some half mil- 1. Thrombosis is by far the most you. lion Americans suffer a stroke every common. A thrombosis (blood clot) • Sudden, but temporary, weakness year and about 200,000 die; it is the forms in one of the arteries of the or numbness of your face, arms or leading cause of long-term disability brain or neck blocking all or part of legs, on one or both sides. in the United States. It can strike at the flow of blood to the brain. • Abrupt but passing visual difficul- any age—nearly half occur before 2. Embolism is the second most ties—dimness or even loss of sight, the age of 65—and it afflicts almost common cause of stroke. A bit breaks especially in one eye; any period of twice as many men as women.. off a distant blood clot and is swept vision. A stroke is a sudden loss of brain along in the blood stream until it • Headaches without known cause; (cerebral) function, the result of lodges in a small cerebral artery, any alteration in the patterns of

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Embolisms, the second most common Cerebral hemorrhages occur when cause of strokes, occur when a bit a ruptured cerebral artery deprives breaks off a blood clot, is swept the brain of blood, and the blood along in the blood stream and lodges from the bleeding artery presses on in a small cerebral artery, cutting brain tissue, interfering off blood to part of the brain. with its function.

your usual headaches. McDowell—warn: "Transient ische- Any such symptoms should be mic (insufficient blood) attacks are noted along with details and length the most important warning symp- of duration —and then go promptly to toms of impending stroke. They oc- your doctor. One of the biggest risk factors of cur in up to one half of all patients Another important warning sign is stroke is suffered by those with who develop stroke." Armed with this much more severe and is in a class high blood pressure. type of information about how your by itself. Not all strokes are massive body is functioning, physicians today and debilitating—there are less severe can frequently prevent massive strokes known to laymen as "little stroke. strokes." Doctors call these "TIAs," Transient Ischemic Attacks. They The Risk Factors usually reach full strength in less than one minute and the victim ex- Risk factors are traits or habits periences any or all of the common which are connected with the develop- warning signs just listed. TIAs com- ment of disease and they can reveal monly last only a few minutes, but information vital to determining what they may endure for up to 24 hours. preventive measures will be effective. They leave no permanent damage By far the most important of these and are generally believed due to a risk factors in stroke are hyperten- temporary interference with cerebral sion (high blood pressure) and ather- blood supply (e.g., a blood clot pass- osclerosis (hardening of the arteries) ing through the arteries) Doctors generally agree that a TIAs demand prompt medical con- blood pressure reading of 120/80 is sultation, however, because, as two ideal, but there is disagreement over leading stroke experts—University of what is abnormal. Mayo Clinic ex- Utah's Dr. Clark H. Millikan and perts, for example, regard only those Cornell University's Dr. Fletcher H. ( Continued on page 44)

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bathtubs, pressure cookers, metal (Chicago, 1933-34) ; home air condi- awnings, washable wallpaper, plastic tioning and television (New York,

dishes and—miracle upon miracles 1939-40) ; the first spacearium (Seat- even an electric clothes dryer. tle, 1962); and satellite television Although many world's fairs are and the world of computers (New By Roberta Roesch not financial successes, all of them York, 1964-65) tell the story of human progress and Some memorable innovations Henry Ford defined a world's fair as show the industrial, cultural, histori- weren't brought to the fairs, but were a place where people can see how cal and technological development of born there and have since become rich the world is in ideas, how much the world. Often they initiate build- everyday pleasures. At St. Louis in there is yet to do, and the point at ing designs that influence architec- 1904, for instance, a young English- which we need to begin. Most exhibi- ture for years to come, as well as man from India served hot teas in his tions have done just that and, in introduce practical inventions and Far East tea house. But the Missouri America, these giant expositions have innovations for public viewing. To summer was so warm everyone hur- provided many countries with daz- cite just a few: the Otis elevator and ried past the tea house to buy cold zling showcases in which to display Alexander Graham Bell's telephone beverages elsewhere. In desperation their progress, their hopes and their (Philadelphia, 1876); the Kodak the young man tried serving his tea forecasts for the future. camera that dispensed with glass in tall glasses packed with ice. When For example, at Chicago's World plates in favor of film capable of tak- the crowds stopped to sample the in-

Columbian Exposition in 1893, a far- ing 48 snaps (Chicago, 1893) ; a radio viting new drink, they liked it and sighted representative predicted that tube and new systems of wireless frosty ice tea became an instant someday there would be aircraft that telegraphy (St. Louis, 1904) ;.a trans- American tradition. could speed through the sky at 60 to continental telephone call and auto- In another part of the fair, an 80 miles per hour. And at Chicago's mobile transportation (San Francisco equally enterprising salesman in-

Century of Progress Exposition in and San Diego, 1915-1916) ; a balloon vented the ice cream cone when, after 1933, the model homes of the future with a gondola in which a scientist running out of plates, he obtained a

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supply of waffles from a neighboring The Space Needle graced Seattle's quently been held along the shores concession and folded them into world's fair in 1962, and this year of Africa, Asia and Europe. Before cones. In still another area, a sausage the Sunsphere symbolizes Knox- that, and even before the birth of salesman put his meats into buns and ville's energy theme. Christ, fairs were born as bazaars sold them to a hungry yet mobile Despite their lofty themes and where merchants could show off and public as "hot dogs." symbols, their inventions and inno- sell their wares as well as garner sup- Most fairs have a theme. "Building vations, all fairs have also had their port for their ideas. Much later, be- the World of Tomorrow" was the detractors—people who said, "It cause of the way fairs helped trade, theme of the 1939 New York World's can't succeed" or "We don't want it Prince Albert of England and some Fair. "Man in the Space Age" was here." When the first world's fair of his countrymen built the first used by the 1962 fair in Seattle; New opened in London in 1851, engineers world's fair—the "Great Exhibition York used "Man's Achievements on told the fair committee that the gal- of the Works of Industry of All Na- a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding leries of the famed Crystal Palace tions"—and sponsored a contest for Universe" in 1964; and the 1982 might crash and during a debate in an exhibition building design. World's Fair in Knoxville, TN— Parliament a colonel prayed that hail One entrant was Joseph Paxton, which began May 1—declares that and lightning would destroy the an engineer and former gardener. A "Energy Turns the World." steel and glass building before the traveler from South America had Ever since the 1904 fair in St. fair could open. Still later when fair brought him a huge water lily with Louis, most exhibitions have also had planners in Chicago hoped to hold five-foot-wide leaves with criss- a theme symbol. The Louisiana Pur- an exposition, some critics were quick crossed ribs that were light, but very chase Monument was the theme sym- to ask, "Who ever heard of having a strong. Inspired by Nature's work, bol at St. Louis. San Francisco had fair so far from the Eastern sea- he decided to model a great crystal the Tower of Jewels in 1915, and the ports?" palace after the leaf's design. His Tower of the Sun in 1939. New York Actually, it was not an ill-con- blueprint was accepted despite the had the Trylon and Perisphere in ceived question since fairs in the prophets of doom, and when the 1939-40, and the Unisphere in 1964. Middle Ages—and since—had fre- ( Continued on page 38)

The six-story United States Pavilion at The 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN, houses exhibits of energy technology and U.S. energy plans for the future. After the Fair closes, the structure will remain as an energy research center.

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Pipeline To Defeat The turning point at Field Marshall Rommel, the infamous "Desert Fox'1 El Alamein was an engineering the battles North Africa, lectures his troops. of of miracle

By Samuel Stanley importance and vast treasure in oil, 30th, an exuberant Rommel wrote his would be frighteningly vulnerable. A wife: "Only 100 miles more to Alex- What was the real turning point in link-up with the Japanese most like- andria." By nightfall his forces the Battle of El Alamein, that last ly would follow. scouted El Alamein, 40 miles away. gasp effort in which Field Marshal Hopcs^for the AlHeiL^ausewould For the British, El Alamein was Rommel sought to conquer Egypt thjrj-il^h^^ringr^omewherealong that last ditch stand beyond which during World War II? Undeniably, 'those 400 miles—from Tobrutrtw a nothing in the way of firm resistance the valor and greater might of thef could be expected. There on June Eighth Army did finally prevail. Be- 29th the retreating forces came to a fore this happened, however, the (ser^ halt, prepared to fight. The defenses mans might well have captured Alex- were carefully planned. They con- andria, and so forestalled that build sisted of four "boxes," i.e., fortified up in strength which Montgomery, areas strung out from Alamein on the British Commander, exploited in "Dumbfou the coastal road southward some 40 brilliant moves. Fortunately, miles to the Depression Mont- almost thi ft a mirage, Qattara gomery was afforded the opportunity. (which was considered impassable). It is possible, though, that this came the British Alamein, the strongest and northern- about through a bizarre quirk of fate stared in most, was occupied by the 1st South . . . and this is how it happened. African Division. It was here that In that June of 1942 things never General Auchinleck, commanding, ex- looked worse for the struggling pected the brunt of an attack, and Eighth Army. Tobruk, that bastion of events proved him right. Next was Allied resistance, had fallen to an the box at Deir el Shein, held by the inferior Axis force which had simply 18th Indian Brigade; then came Bab outmaneuvered the defenders. What chosen spot hVEgypi—a defendable el Qattara sheltering the 6th New was left of the Allies joined in a head- line had to Wset up/ At Mersa Mat- Zealand Brigade and finally the Naqb long retreat eastward along the coast ruh the^jjignth Arniy made a tenta- el Dweis box with a solitary brigade to the borders of Egypt with the tive standi but quickly gave it up from the 5th Indian Division. These enemy in hot pursuit. The men were when events showed that the posi- troops were all the British had left. dispirited, having tasted nothing but tion could be easily outflanked. With their limited strength it was defeat for two months. The chase heated up; three crack impossible to defend all 40 miles Egypt had to be held at all costs. Panzer divisions—the 21st, 15th and between Alamein and the Qattara De- If that nation fell into Axis hands, 90th Light—snapped at the heels of a pression. Hence the establishment of the whole Mideast, with its strategic disorganized Eighth Army. On June the four "boxes," the most feasible

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alternative. The enemy was expected The pipeline, however, was to play a point, though, the appearance of a to slip between them, after which decisive role in what came later. group of British tanks—one in front, several small motorized units, scraped These preparations were rooted in the other on their flank—made them together from whatever was at hand, the hope that time was on the Eighth pause to reconnoiter. The following would lie in ambush. It was not the Army's side. After the long chase, day, with their plans firmed, they at- ideal arrangement, but it had to do. Rommel's troops would be exhausted tacked that last obstacle on the way One drawback was that in squeez- and need days to recover before to Alexandria. ing through intervals between boxes pushing on to their ultimate goal. In numbers the opposing forces the enemy would have to stumble Allied reinforcements, which had were roughly equal, and by compari- upon a newly laid pipeline intended been culled from all over the Near son with totals in other decisive to supply water to each of the first East, would be given a chance to battles neither looked imposing. The three fortified positions. The line ran get set. But the defenders, as they had Eighth Army boasted a bare 50 tanks, from the filtration plants at Nubarieh at Tobruk, underestimated Rommel. a score of field pieces and like their through Alamein and then southward. The respite lasted a scant 24 hours. opponents, some 5,000 men. The

British forces near El Alamein capture a German tank and crew of one of the crack Panzer divisions assigned to Rommel.

In that desert land, water would be On June 30 th the three panzer divi- panzers mustered slightly fewer unobtainable otherwise. So most like- sions, with no evidence of fatigue, tanks, but these were supported by a ly the enemy would be suffering from stormed the Northern Box. But the complement of the deadly self-pro- thirst, this pipeline, when and if 1st South African Division put up a pelled 88s—a weapon the British found, would be a Godsend. Chock stubborn fight and refused to budge. could not match. full, the pipeline could hold 60,000 Probing for a soft spot, the panzers July 3rd dawned in a pall of stifling, gallons, more than enough to satisfy swung south, to run head-on into the ever-increasing heat. The men on both three skeleton divisions. Worse yet, second box at Deir el Shein, which sides were near the breaking point after refreshing themselves they could they hadn't known existed. Still, it from exhaustion. The Germans had cut it off. But this was a risk that had took them only another day to over- tasted no water for more than 24 to be taken. In the direct case, the whelm the 18th Indian Brigade, and hours, and it was largely the prospect reservoirs behind the boxes might still on July 2nd the panzers were set to of cool refreshment that spurred them hold just enough for an emergency. plunge ahead unopposed. At this (Continued on page 22)

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Puzzling Visions Of The Near-Dead

By Phyllis Zauner was surprised to find that in every group of students, at least one could tell it possible to have a glimpse of of a similar near-death experi- Is Can we, if only for life after death? ence. Are the compelling experiences re- a moment, glimpse "What amazed me from the begin- ported by people who have had a ning," he writes, "is the great similar- narrow encounter with death merely the hereafter? ity in their reports." hallucinations? Or are the dark pas- As might be expected, Moody's sageways, dazzling lights and sing- Are some people book met with considerable interest from ing voices described by patients new- receiving clues the public, and considerable ly revived from cardiac arrest or deep skepticism in scientific circles. Even Moody had to admit that although coma actually tantalizing pieces of that this life evidence that this life is merely a the reports were all authentic, they had preview of things to come? is merely a preview not been researched and recorded These questions about life after according to rigorous scientific pro- death and "out-of-body" experiences of things to come? cedures. were the subject of hot debate when Nevertheless, this hint of a possible a panel of 60 prominent psychologists clue to the secrets of death was too strong to be ignored, and scientists convened at the annual meeting . of the American Psychological Associ- more intrigued than they had ex- ation in Los Angeles last August. pected to be—have since begun to There is growing evidence of a readiness on the part of physicians and scientists to take such episodes seriously. While it is difficult to prove these near-death experiences are actually excursions into another world, there seems to be a convincing residue of supporting evidence—and it's based on carefully honed scientif- ic experiments that even the most hardboiled skeptic has to look at twice. The disbelievers are there. But they're finding it more and more dif- ficult to prove their case. The controversy began several years ago when Dr. Raymond Moody, Jr., published accounts of some 50 such survivors in a book entitled, "Life After Life." Moody's interest was initially piqued as an undergrad- uate when his psychiatry professor revealed he had been "dead" on two occasions, 10 minutes apart, and that the most fantastic things had hap- pened to him during that interlude. Several years later, when Moody was relating this account to students in a philosophy class he was teaching, he

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accumulate a mass of information peace, you resist. Nevertheless, real- "I was in cardiovascular training under controlled conditions about izing you still have tasks to do, you at the time, and routinely dealt with what the last moments of our lives elect to return to your body. And people who were in cardiac arrest, so are like. you live. a psychiatric social worker and I Like Dr. Moody, they are struck Bizarre experiences like this are re- started to check this out for our- by the startling similarity in ac- ported by more than half the people selves. Then we started hearing these counts. While not everyone experi- who have been declared clinically experiences—ones that I could match ences all of the same sensations, all dead. Are they fantasies? up with medical information right on accounts have some of the following One of the most confirmed skep- the spot." elements: tics was Dr. Michael Sabom, an assis- Now, five years later, he has writ- Soon after you realize you are tant professor of medicine and a staff ten a book, "Recollections of Death," dead, you hear ringing or buzzing physician in Atlanta. After reading in which he describes the accounts of noises, and you are hurtled through Moody's book, he dismissed it as "all war veterans, auto accident victims a long, dark tunnel. After this, you for the birds," and set out to prove and surgical crisis cases. find yourself out of your own body, that such things just couldn't hap- What specifically interests Sabom floating above the scene you've just pen. are reports of people who leave their been part of. Detached and inter- unconscious bodies to observe the ested, you watch the resuscitation scene from another vantage point. In attempt on your body. Now other some cases, the patient may even things begin to happen. You are "Then I was back at the move to another room and give a de- greeted by friends and relatives who tailed account of what is happening have already died; they reach out to hospital and the doctors there. help you. Then a loving spirit of a were trying to revive me." One of his earlier cases concerned kind you have never encountered, a man who was being revived during bathed in dazzling light, appears and a cardiac arrest, after having been non-verbally asks you to evaluate clinically dead for several minutes. your life, helping you along by play- Shortly after being resuscitated, he ing back scenes of the major events. told Dr. Sabom that he had floated At some point, you face a barrier (it A man who had clinically "died" on outside the operating room and had may be a fence, or a wall, or just a the operating table, only to be seen three members of his family line) , and it is here you realize you revived a few minutes later, reported entering the hospital to pay him a must make a decision whether to he had floated outside the operating visit. "He correctly identified all cross that barrier or to return to room and seen family members who, three," says Sabom. "What struck me your own body. Unwilling to leave without his prior knowledge, had most was that the visit had been a your present state of joy, love and come to visit him. surprise, not planned, and there was no reason why these three relatives should have come rather than several others. "To me, such experiences are the most impressive. In about 15 cases, after hearing the patient's version of what he had observed during the lapse of his life, I literally retraced the events and pieced together what had actually gone on. And it all checked out. "In one case, the revived patient described in detail how he had floated above his body and watched the operating team at work. He de- scribed the instruments, how the heart looked and the operative pro- cedure itself. I was amazed—this man was from rural Florida, there was nothing in his background to in- dicate that he could possibly have picked up this medical knowledge otherwise." Sabom says it's one thing to have a revived person say he met old Uncle Harry while he was "unconscious. "But after 10 or 15 people have told ( Continued on page 46)

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Official 200th Anniversary Pipeline To Defeat AMERICAN (Continued from page 19) on. Such relief, however, had to come quickly if collapse was to be avoided. EAGLE For the British the issue was not one of thirst but of numbing fatigue. COMMEMORATIVE BEITBUCKLE The two forces clashed in a thicken- ing swarm of dust and billowing sand. This was it. The embattled Eighth Army fought for its life and the vital cause it upheld. Tanks and armored vehicles wheeled in and out, infantry dug in while the clamor of battle became deafening. For those weary troops it was a fight human strength could not long sustain. Something had to give. Then something gave. From the swirling dust over a thousand enemy soldiers, hands in the air, staggered forward. It was surrender. Dumb- founded, almost thinking it a mirage, the British stared in amazement. These 1,100 men were all that re- mained of the 90th Light Panzers. Plated with SOLID SILVER Layered with Once inside the British lines, the ragged troops begged and clawed for their captors' water bottles, and grad- PURE 24-KARAT GOLD ually, as they were able to talk, they gasped out an explanation. Just mo- STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION ments before, they said, the division THE AMERICAN EAGLE, stirring symbol of our great nation's eternal had stumbled upon an exposed pipe- vigilance in defense of freedom, was adopted for the Great Seal of the line and had paused long enough to United States by the Continental Congress on June 20, 1 782. Now—200 punch it full of holes. Frantically, years later—the eagle continues to soar free and unfettered over the the thirsty men had gorged them- greatest bastion of freedom the world has ever known. selves with water. But agonized as To commemorate the 200th anniversary of this proud symbol of our they were, they had swallowed many country, International Monetary Mint master engravers and minters mouthfuls before realizing it was salt have struck a special, high-relief, limited-edition collector's buckle in water. their silver plate, accented with a layer of pure, 24-karat gold. It will be offered Then torment became un- only during the commemorative year, after which time the dies will be bearable. It was soon clear who had permanently destroyed. lost that bitter fight. Each buckle will be individually numbered, and each original owner Maj. Peter Rainer, an engineer of- will be permanently registered in the Official Archives of the Mint. ficer who witnessed the incident, NOTE: These buckles will be minted in a strictly limited edition. gives a picture of what happened and Lowest Registry Numbers will be assigned to the first orders received; to why. It was he who had arranged the assure that you receive a coveted low Registry Number, prompt action is laying that fateful strongly urged. of pipeline that supplied water to the fortified boxes. International Monetary Mint is an independent agency not affiliated with the U.S. Mint or any government agency. It had been completed only days be- fore the attack, that attack which d it D0RDERS ' 1-800-345-8502 came so suddenly. Unwilling to risk WALLcSll^IULLl l-MttfSee ASmm In Pa. call 1-800-662-5180 precious fresh water, he had been testing the line for leaks with salt- International Monetary Mint, Inc., Dept. AM- 52 water instead. And, by the fortunes Huntingdon Valley, 19006 390 Pike Road, PA of war, his timing was perfect. If Silver plate and 24-Karat Gold 200th Anniversary American Eagle Commemorative Please send me Rommel had delayed his attack, as Belt Buckle(s) as indicated below: One American Eagle Commemorative Buckle Only $1 9.95 & $1 .00 Shipping & Handling circumstances suggested he must, the Save $7—2 Suckles just $35.00, post paid pipes Save $1 3—3 Buckles just $50.00. post paid would have carried refreshing, residents please Sales Tax.) life-giving water. Enclosed is $ add 6% Charge it: MasterCard VISA American Express Diners Club By a quirk of fate, Rainier put a

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VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL CONSTRUCTION which earlier this year ruled WWII mer-

UNDER WAY . . . Ground-breaking for the chant seamen ineligible for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, designation . . . The Legion is on DC was conducted March 26, with a con- record as opposing "the efforts of any tingent of Vietnam veteran Legionnaires, person or groups of persons to acquire Natl. Cdr. Jack Flynt and Natl. Adj. designation as 'veterans' who did not render service in the active military, Robert Spanogle in attendance . . . "The courage and valor with which naval or air service of the United America's Vietnam veterans fought the war States," according to a 1980 Legion reso- and the fierce battle they waged to see lution on the matter . . . The seven this memorial built are finally at an groups denied veteran status in the end," Flynt said during the ceremony. recent ruling are Army Air Force civil- The ground-breaking ceremony was held ian operations analysts of WWII, war- after the National Park Service cleared time members of the Civil Air Patrol, the way for construction of the memorial Gura Air Depot construction engineers by issuing a building permit to the of WWII, former members of the U.S-. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. The Maritime Service Training Organization, action followed Interior Secretary James civilian aircraft logistics specialists G. Watt's March 11 decision to allow assigned to Vietnam during the war, construction to proceed while details of American civilian POWs/Internees in statuary, a flagstaff and flag, which Vietnam and WWII aircraft procurement are to be added to the memorial site,, are inspectors ... A 1977 law permits worked out. In a telegram to Watt, Cdr. civilians who served alongside the mili- Flynt congratulated the secretary for tary in wartime to apply for veteran his decision and thanked him for "his status and authorizes the Air Force to personal involvement in securing prompt determine each case on behalf of the action on the compromise design concept Secretary of Defense. by both the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission on Fine VA CHIEF OF CHAPLAINS NAMED Father Arts ..." Construction of the Vietnam James B. Martin, a deputy director of the Veterans Memorial is expected to be com- VA's Chaplain Ser- pleted in time for dedication on vice, has been ap- Veterans Day, November 11, 1982. pointed by VA Ad- ministrator Robert VIETNAM ERA VETS UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS P. Nimmo to be the RISE . . . Unemployment among under-40 new Director of Vietnam era veterans reached an all-time Chaplain Service high for the third consecutive month in for the agency. February (the most recent month for Father Martin, a which statistics are available). During 60-year-old Chicago that month, 40,000 more joined the job- native, was or- less ranks, pushing the total to 663,000 dained to the and their unemployment rate to 9.6 per- priesthood in 1946.

cent . . . The statistics get worse when He volunteered for the minority 40 years and older is con- the Navy Chaplaincy sidered. In February, 56,000 of them Father James B. Martin in 1951, and during were unemployed, compared to 33,000 a the Korean War year earlier, making the total of Viet- served with the Marine Corps for three nam era veterans looking for work years and with Naval Air for two. He 719,000. Another 479,000 noninstitution- holds the Naval Reserve rank of Captain, alized Vietnam era veterans were classi- retired. In 1972, he entered the mental fied as neither employed nor actively health chaplaincy, served on the staff seeking jobs, but "outside the labor of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washing- market." The unemployment rate for the ton, DC, until he transferred to the youngest 25-29 age bracket of Vietnam VA chaplaincy in 1975. Prior to his se- era veterans climbed to 14.2 percent, a lection as a VA deputy director of the full three points above that for males Chaplain's Service, he served as a staff the same age who never performed chaplain for three years at the VA military service. Medical Center" in Battle Creek, MI. Father Martin will lead 506 full-time VETERANS STATUS RULING ANNOUNCED . . . chaplains and 403 less than full-time Seven additional categories of war- chaplains, as well as 222 contract or related civilian personnel have been fee basis chaplains in his new duties denied veteran status by the Air Force, as Chief of Chaplains.

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PEOPLE QUOTES Protecting Defense Work Secrets & — The rising tide of foreign investment in American Entering The Subliterate Age "I'm worried that we're industry is arousing concern in Washington over pro- entering a subliterate age, in which nobody will ever read tecting national defense secrets. 'War and Peace' unless he's in a sanatorium. All these

The problem arises when a foreign firm buys domi- cassettes, videodiscs . . . the complete works of any artist nant or substantial interest in an American company in 153 minutes ..." Francois Truffaut, French film- that is carrying out defense work in classified projects. maker. — Some 12,000 industrial facilities, with 1,200,000 em- Kind Of President We Want "Americans want it both ployees, have been given security clearances for these ways. They want a man of convictions, but then they ." projects. want a man of pragmatism . . Harry McPherson, When a foreign company buys into one of these de- aide to the late President Lyndon Johnson. fense contractors, they immediately come under the Take The Plunge—"You can talk about things, but no- scrutiny and regulations of the Defense Investigative body will pay any attention in this life until you get Service or the Department of Energy. The alien owner off your backside and do them ... If you ask too many must literally give up control and access to any of the people their views and you consider them carefully, you defense work, or give up the contract. Most foreign end up doing nothing. You have to take the plunge, and buyers simply pull out. In Congress, however, some if it doesn't work, it doesn't work." Prince Charles, members are calling for tighter supervision and stricter United Kingdom. controls. "Hard Headed" Institution—"It is not in the business of redistributing wealth from one set of countries to an- Hospice Care Gains Support in Congress other set of countries. It is not the Robin Hood of the Hospice care, a program for providing specific and international financial set, nor the United Way of the sympathetic attention to the terminally ill, is gaining development community. The World Bank is a hard- increasing support in Congress. Inasmuch as the termi- headed, unsentimental institution that takes a very prag- nally ill—those deemed with six months or less to live matic and nonpolitical view of what it is trying to do . . . are mainly to be found among senior citizens, the legis- to assist a country both to accelerate its economic growth lators are seeking to provide a financial contribution to and enhance the economic opportunities of its people, the hospice program through Medicare. and thus make possible a better standard of living for The hospice movement, initiated in the early 1970s, all." A. W. Clausen,, president, World Bank. has steadily grown as an alternative way to care for the Scientists Are Human Too—"People need to realize that dying. Today, some 170 programs are active in helping scientists are human beings like everybody else and that the terminally ill to carry on, with as little pain and as their pronouncements may arise from their social preju- few disruptions as possible, assisted by physicians, ." dices, as any of our pronouncements might . . Stephen nurses, social workers, psychiatrists and skilled volun- Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist, Harvard Univ. teers. The emphasis is on palliative and sympathetic Aid To Russia Becomes Blackmail—"Trade and eco- care, rather than on curative care. nomic relationships originally conceived as incentives for The first hospice program, started in New Haven, CT, Soviet restraint are becoming instruments of potential in 1973, was funded by the National Institute. Cancer ." Soviet blackmail used not by us but against us . . Private organizations maintain the hospice movement Henry Kissinger, former Sec'y of State. today, which despite the lack of federal financial back- — On Raising Political Funds ". . . It is the part of being ing, is rapidly spreading over the nation. an elected official I like the least. It is a form of begging, Gun Control Fight With A Twist no question about that. But most people don't give un- The continuing battle over gun control has taken a less they're asked. Rep. Claudine— Schneider (R-RI). new twist. Advocates of gun registration, prohibition and Government Leaks: Paradox ". . . We fully recognize other curbs have taken to the local streets and are chalk- the paradox inherent in our system. The press has been ing up community victories; but in Congress, supporters doing its job—collecting information—better than the of firearms ownership have initiated a new drive to government has been doing its job protecting national protect freedom of arms. security information." William P. Clark, Presidential The latest gun fight erupted at the end of 1981 when advisor. a federal court upheld a ban on possession of firearms An Irreplaceable Intellectual Resource—"The elderly enacted by Morton Grove, a small Illinois suburb, in- are an irreplaceable intellectual resource—but because spiring a series of similar ordinances in cities and towns of the negative stereotype society holds, they are often around the country. Although the issue is still to be unappreciated." David Van Tassel, U.S. social history determined in the U.S. Supreme Court, the spread of the and gerontology specialist. ban has aroused gun champions in Congress. They've Why Soviets Need West—"The goal of Stalinist imperi- rushed in with a bill that would curb localities from alism is to benefit from the highly efficient economies of taking such action, perceived to be a violation of the the European West, thus enabling it to run its own in- Second ." 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THE AMERICAN LEGION May 1982 NEWS FOR LEGIONNAIRES

debators (some say the loudest) who've failed to do their homework. Statements made by some indicate they lack an understanding of the flTSTEM mission of the VA as mandated by Congress, they've failed to consider the impact of their intended actions UNDER upon their constituents or—in some particularly regrettable instances they just plain don't know what they're talking about. Debate over this year's VA budget indicates some of the same old myths are being treated as fact on Capitol Hill, and "tunnel vision" is still an acceptable method of viewing the needs of veterans, among others. This article takes a look at some of the arguments being espoused by crit- ics of the VA health care delivery sys- tem specifically. We believe the facts —and a sense of historical perspec- tive^—soundly refute those arguments.

It's more cost-effective to send veterans in need of care to private hospitals for that care instead of maintaining a separate health care system for them. The facts say otherwise. The rate of cost increase in the delivery of care is running between five and 10 percent lower in the VA than it is in the pri- vate sector. During 1980 and '81, the cost of medical care from the private sector increased 18 percent. The VA, because it is a national system, has a broader and more effective method of cost control than its private counter- parts. Thus, costs went up only eight percent in the VA during the same period. Further, we believe this argument is most generally heard from those who would most stand to benefit from having veterans placed in private sec- tor hospitals—those same private sec- tor hospitals. The nation currently has about a 37,000-bed surplus in pri- The choosing of sides, energetic The system works—and works well vate hospitals, most of which were debate, compromise and conciliation —so long as the participants realize constructed as the result of an enthu- have long been hallmarks of our their individual responsibilities in the siasm for profit taking. Now they're democratic process. It assures us that process. They must do their home- stuck with the surplus, as well as with all sides are heard, all the facts are work so as to be able to distinguish a surplus of doctors who're wondering presented and all the information fact from fallacy, and so as to place how they are going to maintain their needed for intelligent choices* are —in proper perspective—the impor- $100,000 a year income. available. tance (or lack therof ) of their actions They've come up with their own Nowhere is the notion of democrat- to the constituents they serve. solution: With 30 million veterans ic debate more vigorously practiced Over the past several years, it's who are getting old and bound to get than on Capitol Hill—particularly grown increasingly apparent to The sick, if we can get hold of them we've during those congressional sessions American Legion that, where debate got a built-in income and we've filled wherein the national budget is dis- over the Veterans Administration is our surplus beds. cussed. concerned, there's been a number of Even if it were cost-effective (which

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it obviously isn't) those hospitalized relegated to the charity ward of a programs are routinely higher than veterans wouldn't get the quality or public hospital. It would be more ap- the VA and the same people pay the degree of care in a private hospital propriate if the country, in return for higher costs: we, the taxpayers. that they are currently getting in his service, would see that he is at the VA system. In the private sector, least well cared for medically when Programs that don't directly relate there is not going to be that measure that is necessary. to VA patient care—like scientific of concern and dedication to the vet- Both rationales are still valid to- research and training the nation's eran's welfare that we find in the VA day. The service-connected disabled health professionals—are too expen- system. In the private sector, the doc- use only about 30 percent of the avail- sive, don't fulfill the VA's mission of tor would treat the specific com- able resources in the system. There's treating the sick veteran and should plaint only. room to treat the nonservice-con- be reduced or eliminated. In the VA, when the veteran is ad- nected. And, as said earlier, Ameri- In 1947, the Department of Medi- mitted, he is given comprehensive cans still believe veterans should be cine and Surgery within the VA was care. In other words, whatever is cared for by the federal government established and codified under Chap- wrong with him is taken care of so and not warehoused to a charity ward ter 17, Title 38 USC. At that time, a that when he is discharged, he is in a public hospital. three-fold mission was mandated by healthy and able to take care of him- Another factor is that who, when law for the Department: to care for self. In addition, all VA hospitals all is said and done, can accurately the sick and disabled veteran, to par- have social workers who work with distinguish between those with ser- ticipate in training health manpower the veteran to ensure he is returned vice-connected and nonservice-con- for the nation and to participate in to a secure economic and supportive nected illnesses? In spite of the best basic research. (A fourth mission re- personal environment. efforts of modern medical science, it is quirement has been added in recent This is particularly important when impossible to completely evaluate the months, but more of that later.) you consider the category of people effect of war on an individual. The So research and training are part who are using the VA system. They combat experience is one of the most of the VA's mission, as mandated by are, for the most part, -people who traumatizing events that can happen law. Thus, to reduce or eliminate have not been getting good health to a human. Many people who serve them through budgetary actions may care. Most are from the lower eco- in war show the effects of that service suggest to some that such actions nomic strata and they're not in very in a variety of ways throughout their would be in violation of the spirit and good overall physical condition. lives. intent of that law. You don't get this kind of compre- This is part of the rationale that led But laws can be changed. The real hensive care in the private sector be- the Congress and the VA to establish heart of the argument presupposes cause there's no money to be made the Vet Outreach Centers. Further, that the VA could get along without this way. when Congress first set up the VA such programs. The VA could not medical care program, they acknowl- provide quality, comprehensive care Veterans over 65 and those veterans eged that our nation cannot complete- without such programs. What may be with nonservice-connected conditions ly evaluate the extent of its obligation even more surprising to some is the should not be entitled to free care in to those who fought our wars and thus fact that the entire American medi- the VA hospital system. That leads to guaranteed we would look after that cal system would drastically suffer as abuse of the system by those who can veteran if and when he becomes ill well. If the U.S. leads the world in afford to pay for their own care and and cannot care for himself. medical advances and the quality of places an inappropriate strain on the Then we have the over-65 veteran medical care available to its citizens, system's resources. whose access to free VA medical care a great deal of the thanks goes di- The facts don't support this argu- "leads to abuse of the system by those rectly to the VA research and train- ment either. But before we look at who can afford to pay." ing programs. those facts, a quick historical review Who is this abuser and why doesn't Consider research from the doctor's is in order. he show up on the VA patient rolls? point of view. The VA has partici- Back in 1924, the World War Vet- The overwhelming majority of those pated in many of the most dramatic erans Act provided for admission of VA patients are single, elderly and advances in medical science that have nonservice-connected cases to the ex- poor. They need that care because occurred in the last 35 years because tent that resources were available. they have nowhere else to turn. There some of the finest researchers in the The rationale for this was two-fold. are no mythical millionaires on the medical field have joined the VA's First, there was space in the system. VA rolls who can afford to go else- research staff. They've joined because The service-connected cases were not where. Common sense tells us that if they could get funding for their re- using all the available facilities. Sec- a millionaire has a terminal illness, search, combine that research with a ond, there were a lot of poor veterans he's going to buy himself the finest clinical practice and hone their skills. who were getting sick and ending up hospital suite he can and go out in In 1977, the VA produced two Nobel in public charity hospitals. The mood style, not consign himself to a 20-bed prize winners. These people were not of the nation then (as it is today) VA hospital ward. researching veterans medicine. They was that this is no way to treat Finally, if you deny the over-65 vet- were doing medical research for all our veterans. A man who honorably eran access to the VA health care people under VA auspices. serves his country in war who sub- system, he'll turn to Medicare and For the last two years, in spite of sequently gets sick should not be Medicaid. The costs through those ( Continued on page 36)

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You'd better smile when you say "American Legion" around Owen Mashburn (below), one of the gunslingers who populate Legion- town, U.S.A. Most visitors, though, can't help but smile at this re-creation of a Wild West town. (Photos by Wayne Ruple)

Alabama Post Brings the Wild West to the Old South

By Wayne Ruple With the help of nationally known artist Carney Waller, who previously Shoot-outs between the town mar- helped design movie sets in Old Tuc- shal, Black Bart and his dastardly son, a plan and drawing of the pro- band of outlaws, the twangy sound posed town was soon rendered. of country music, the swirling color The town was built at an esti- of square dancers and doggers, and mated cost of $15,000, using rough some real down-home cooking are all scrap lumber. The 12-foot-wide store- part of the Wild West excitement to fronts are built on block foundations. be found in Legiontown, U.S.A. The Post anticipates adding an old The town, located near Ashville, rustic school house and church to AL, is a unique undertaking by Legiontown sometime in the future. American Legion Post 170 and Aux- The town is certainly a beehive of iliary. It sits on some four acres of activity during the Post's annual land purchased by Post 170 for their events marking Memorial Day, the new Post Home which is adjacent to Fourth of July and Labor Day, but the Wild West town. Post members would also like to see Thirteen storefronts, including the their little community become a year- "Rot Gut Saloon," "Red Dog Cafe," round attraction. "General Store," "St. Clair County Besides holding trade days during Pioneer Bank," "Fells-Wargo Ex- which stores are rented to sellers, press," "Bertha's Hotel," a dressmak- Cdr. Collett says the Post is consid- er, bootmaker, jail, livery stable, wa- ering several options for the year- terfall, picnic tables and bandstand round operation of Legiontown. make up the town which is the cre- The stores and shops could be ation of Post Cdr. Herbert Collett rented out to lawyers, doctors, arts and his fellow Legionnaires. and crafts people and the like, while For years, the Post had been spon- small industries which would hire soring annual activities on the court- veterans could be sought to locate in house square of Ashville. Hundreds some of the buildings. of people would pour into the small "At the present time we're com- town to sample the Post's roast pig, pleting a couple of these buildings listen to local country-western music for our employees to live in," he says. talent and watch the Wild West gun- "The town will be extended as far as fights on one of the local streets our finances will let us go." closed for that purpose. Collett also notes that the museum, After building the Post Home, Post which houses antique farm imple- members decided to bring the people ments, old knives and Legion memo- to them rather than take their shows rabilia, will be enlarged to accommo- and activities into town and the idea date more items. of a Wild West town was born. And if that weren't enough, Post .

May 1982

Community Service in Action!' Legion Photo Contest Announced

National Public Relations Director Deadline for entries is August 31, Michael E. Alexander has announced 1982. The American Legion's "Community Winners will be determined by Service in Action!" photo contest, three judges with photography expe- open to any Legion member in good rience. All entries must be original standing with his or her local Post. and solely the property of the entrant. Prizes include a $300 first prize, In the event a prize-winning photo is $200 for second and $100 for third. found to have violated his rule, the The winning photos, which best rep- Public Relations Division reserves the resent the photo contest's theme, will right to take any action they may also be published in a future issue of deem suitable, including the return The American Legion Magazine. of the prize awards. Photos must show an American All photos will become the sole Legion member or Legion activity. A property of the Public Relations Di- member may enter only 170 members have looked toward the one black vision. Entries must be postmarked and white, 8" 10" photo. 1982 World's Fair up the road in X The photo no later than August 31 and sent to: must be accompanied Knoxville, TN and begun laying by the entrant's The American Legion Photo Contest name, address, phone plans to attract possible Fair traffic number and a Public Relations Division brief description identifying from nearby Interstate 59. photo P.O. Box 1055, A few questions remain: Does content. Indianapolis, IN 46206 Black Bart get his comeuppance? using Search for Witness Forms available Does the town marshal's sense of only PA 16146 from State Legion Service Officers. Please con- 4th Inf. Div. Assn. (Ivy) (July-King of Prussia, tact CID# truth and justice prevail? And what, , The American Legion Magazine, PA). Joseph Motil, 827 E. 6th St., Bethlehem, P.O. Box 1055, 700 Pennsylvania St., Indianapo- PA 18015 ( 215 ) 866-2831 really, can one lis, Ind. obtain at a "Fells- 46206. 4.2 Chemical Mortar Men (WWII & Korea) (June- Wargo office?" Edgewood, MD). 4.2 Cml. Mortar Men, Box 751, 839th Aviation Engr. Bn. Kenneth R. Ford is seek- Edgewood, MD 21040 The curious will have to travel to ing witnesses to verify a claim that while sta- 5th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Aug-Hutchinson, KS). tioned at K55 Osan, Korea in March 1953, he Mrs. Ashville, was Claire Watrous, 8549 Lowell St., St. Louis, AL to find out. © injured during a construction accident. MO 63147 (314) 867-8308 Contact CID 785 5th Evac. Hospital (Korea) (June-Marietta, GA). 4th Defense Bn. Z. Pigott Ryder needs witnesses Gordon Forsyth, 562 N. Marble St., Rockmart, to verify a claim that while stationed at New GA 30153 (404 ) 684-6113 Hebrides, New Zealand and Guadalcanal in 6th F.A. Vets Assn. (Sept-Lancaster, PA). Peter LIFE MEMBERSHIPS 1942, he suffered injuries to his legs, back and Salvatori, 2239 Newberry St., Williamsport, PA The award of a life membership to a Legion- ears. Contact CID 786 17701 (717) 323-3258 naire by a Post is a testimonial by those who Showa AB, Japan. Warren H. Brookshire needs 8th Arm'd Div. Assn. know best (July-Chicago). Henry that such a member has served The witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed Rothenberg, American Legion 180 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL well. at Showa AB, Japan in April, 1946, he suffered 60601 Below are listed some of the previously un- a seizure at the Enlisted Men's Club. Contact 8th Cav. Regt., Hvy. Mort. Co. (1954-57) (July- listed life membership Post awards that have CID 788 Wellington, KS). Monty Treft, 810 S. St., been reported to the editors. "C" Co. "I", 33rd Inf. Vernon L. Carender is seeking Wellington. KS 67152 (316) 326-5013 witnesses to verify a claim that while 11th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Aug-Phoenix, AZ). Alvin R. McKinney, Donald A. Browning, stationed Alfred at Camp House, TX in August 1943, he suffered Pfeiffer, 2328 Admiral St., Aliquippa, PA 15001 Frederic M. Gogolan (1981), Post 1, "Phoenix, AZ a back and leg injury when he fell off an em- (412) 375-6295 Chet L. Fisher, Harry A. Schueler (1982), Post bankment. Contact CID 789 17th Airborne Div. Assn. (Aug-Buck Hill Falls, 62, Youngtown, AZ Hondo Army Air Base. John A. Mitchell needs PA). Edward Siergiej, 62 Forty Acre Mountain Charles H. Niemeyer, Eugene L. Fought (1981), witnesses to verify Rd., Danbury, CT 06810 (203) 748-3958 Post 801, Bombay Beach, CA a claim that while stationed at Hondo Army Air Base, in 19th Combat Engrs. (WWII) (July-Milwaukee). Paul E. Hackett (1980), Robert G. Fritz (1981), TX March, 1943, he suffered Earl Cottingham, 9018 Waterford St. S, Post 108, Chicago, IL an injury to his back and left arm Square in a fall. Contact CID 790 Greenfield, WI 53228 Paul C. Stewart. Henry W. Stahl (1980), Alan 21st AVN Engrs. (WTO) (Sept-Gettysburg, PA). R. Hoock, Richard E. Hoock, Arnold Trost, Basic Training Unit. Arnold L. Alvord needs wit- A. Calvin Eckert, Rt. Lawrence R. Vanover, Frank R. nesses to verify a claim that while stationed 3, Box 316, Dillsburg, PA Lindhorst, Joel 17019 766-6511 H. Morrow, Jay Paukey, George D. Cox, Robert at Camp Robinson, Little Rock, AR in 1945-46, (717) 22d Gen. Hospital (June- Atlanta). Raymond Hed- E. Healh, Fred Massie, Jr., Forrell McPheeters, he was hospitalized when he fell and rammed quist, 2019 S. Mulford Rd., Rockford, IL 61108 Norman Smothers (1981), Post his left knee against a cement step. Contact 485, Dupo, IL (815) 399-8964 Gordon E. Wells (1981), Post 124, Westfield, CID 791 25th Inf. Div. Vets Assn. (July-Washington). MA 841st Ord. Depot Co. Bob B. Mann needs wit- Robert Muzzy, 809 Forston Dr., Takoma Park, George A. Rohrer, Jacob Himmel, Bruce E. nesses to verify a claim that while stationed MD 20912 (301) 434-0192 Tinker (1981), Post 3, Sault Ste Marie, MI at Fort Knox, KY in 1943, he injured his knee 30th Inf. Div. Assn. (Old Hickory) (July-Winston- Roy F. Sauer (1981), Post 15, Detroit Lakes, playing football which was further complicated Salem, NC). Saul Solow, MN by physical training. Contact CID 792 13645 Whippet Way E.. Delray Beach, FL 33445 * Kenneth M. Tarr (1981), Post 21, Concord, NH USS Granville. John Starczek needs v witnesses to 36th Div. Assn. (Sept-Houston). Leonard Wilker- Judson MacNeal (1981), Post 174, Wayne, NJ verify a claim that while aboard ship in April son, P.O. Drawer C.K., Malakott, 75148 G.F. Pellecchia, S.J. Pellecchia (1973), 1946, he became paralyzed TX J. from the waist (214) 489-1644 Glaser, C.N. Hicks (1978), F.P. Culotta, R.J. down. Contact CID 793 38th Engr. Regt. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA). Emile Cochiarelli (1979), J.R. Culotta, W. Courter, Joseph, 4107 Mitscher Ct., Kensington, J.E. Schuler, A.A. Competiello (1980), P. Furfaro, MD 20895 (301) 946-3848 A.J. Pellecchia. C.J. Ritts, J.C. Ross, N.H. Ross (1981). Post 421, East Hanover, NJ OUTFIT REUNIONS 45th Gen. Hospital (WWII) (June-Williamsburg, VA). Gerry Robinson, 4419 Rd., Rich- Robert Graham (1981), Post 927, Green Island, Reunion will be held in month indicated. For Cranford mond, VA 23224 (804 ) 232-6858 NY particulars write person whose address is given. Harrison B. Waddell (1982), Post 166, Goose Notices accepted on official forms only. For 52d Signal Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Little Falls, NJ). Creek, SC form send stamped self-addressed envelope to Harry Swain, 2044 Pryor Ln., Billings, MT Phillip E. Nored, John P. Thompson, Joseph B. O.R. Form, American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 59102 (406) 259-3835 Puryear, Joe F. Parker, June Crutchfield (1981), 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be 58th Fighter Cont. Sq. (Sept-Orlando, FL). Albert Post 8. Pars, TN received five months before scheduled reunion. Leonard, 4836 Determine Ln., Louisville, KY Phillip F.T. Davis, Charles R. Brown, John L. Earliest submissions are favored when the volume 40216 (502) 447-5636 Butler, Robert T. Tomas, Paul R. Young (1981), of notices is too great to print them all. Notice of 69th Inf. Div. (Aug-Milwaukee). Clarence Mar- Post Bremerton, 68, WA Outfit Reunions are run oly once during a calendar shall, 101 Stephen St., New Kensington, PA year. 15068 (412) 335-3224 71st Tactical Recon. Group (Aug-Buffalo, NY). COMRADES IN Army Truman Partridge, Sr., 40 South Ln., Angola, DISTRESS NY 14006 Readers who can help these veterans are urged 1st Arm'd Div. Assn. (Old Ironsides) (Aug-Las 78th Lightning Div. Band (July-Chicago). W.J. to do so. Usually a statement is needed in sup- Vegas, NV). Bill Beasley, Box 5675, Anderson, Hoel, 10 Westwood Ct., Forest, port of a VA claim. SC 29623 (803 225-2643 Park IL 60466 ) (312) 748-7128 Notices are run only at the request of American 4th Arm'd Div. Assn. (July-Columbia. SC). Sam- Legion Service Officers representing claimants, uel Schenker, Sr., 2440 Victoria Dr., Sharon, Continued . .

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Johnson, 514 Brown St., Jackson, MN 56143 762d MP Bn. (July-Ottawa, IL). G.W. Grand- . . . Continued (507) 847-2907 george, Rt. Leland, IL 60531 (815 ) 498-2480 Hqs., 2, 78th F.A. 79th Regt., 697th, 698th Bns. 355th Engr. Regt. (GS) (WWII) (July-Columbus, 785th Engr. Petroleum Dist. Co. (Aug-Chicago). (Aug-Hampton, VA). W.R. Vivian, 36 Ingle- OH). Phil Rack, 2819 Westerville Rd., Colum- Don McGurk, 8033 S. Fairfield, Chicago, IL 838-0784 wood Dr., Hampton, VA 23666 (703) bus, OH 43224 (614) 457-3187 60652 (312) 434-8385 83d Chemical Mortar Bn. (June-Orlando, FL). 356th AAA SLT Bn. (WWII) (July-Des Moines, 836th Engrs. AVN Bn. (Aug- Manhattan, KS). Herb Quina, 3929 Old Hwy. 36, Lakeland, #6, IA). Elmer Peters, Box 144, Glidden, IA 51443 Elma Bloom, Rt. 1, Clay Center, KS 67432 FL 33803 (813) 646-0183 (712) 659-3684 (913) 632-3057 89th Inf. Div. (Sept-Colorado Springs, (WWII) 458th Ord. Evac. (July-Watertown, SD). Lester 851st Engr. AVN Bn. (Aug-Fort Wayne, IN). Ir- CO). E.C. Buchanan, 2419 37th St., Des Moines, Gudgell, Rt. 2, Box 231, Meadville, MO 64659 win McMillan, 1005 S. Randolph St., Garrett, IA 50310 (515) 255-0736 (816) 938-4325 IN 46738 (219) 357-3532 (July-Willmar, Carroll 96th QM Bakery Co. MN). 480th AAA Bn. (July-Palmerton, PA). Samuel 945th (Mud) Mtr. Vehicle Dist. Co. (July-Dundee, Jacobson, 1101 Grace Ave., Willmar, MN 56201 George, Rt. 1, Palmerton, PA 18071 (215) 681- IL). Ralph Fischbach, 213 N. 5th St., Dundee, 235-0839 (612) 4500 IL 60118 (312) 426-3634 (Sept-Terre Haute, IN). 97th Signal Bn. (1941-45) 501st Prcht. Inf. Regt. Assn. (July-Columbus, 988th MP Co. (AVN) (WWII) (Sept-Frostburg, Haute, Carroll Field, Rt. 27, Box 338, Terre IN GA). Sumpter Blackmon, 240 Linton Rd., MD). John Robertson, 1130 Ashbridge Rd., 47802 (812) 234-0915 Columbus, GA 31904 (404) 322-4203 West Chester, PA 19380 ( 215 ) 696-8461 (July-Atlanta). Lee 101st CA AA Bn. (WWII) 512th MP Bn. (Fid. A) (WWII) (June-Gatlin- 1049th Signal Co. (Aug-Huntsville, AL). Carl Johnson, 1440 Blue Rd., Coral Gables, FL 33146 burg, TN). George Mustin, 141 S. Mendenhall Fincher, Rt. 1, Box 39, Arley, AL 35541 (205) 666-3025 (305) Rd., Memphis, TN 38117 (901) 682-7227 387-2454 Antonio, TX). Betty 103d Div. (WWII) (July-San 552d Engr. Hvy. Pontoon (June-Monroeville, PA). 1256th Combat Engrs. Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Cleve- Ellsworth, 824 Moreland Rd., Jerome, MI 49249 Warren Snyder, 625 N. 19th St., Allentown, PA land). Michael Kvasnak, 11820 Ridge Rd., N. 688-9249 (517) 18104 (215) 433-2650 Royal ton, OH 44133 Ren. Trp., 106th Inf. Div. (July- 106th Cav. 565th Ord. Co. Vets (July-East Point, GA). Wil- 1374th E.P.D. Co. (Aug-McCormick, SO. Hugh Columbia, William Randall, 560 Pine St. SO. liam Herndon, 2926 Brookside Ct., Marietta, Rhodes, 208 Keene Ave. N, Estill, SC 29918 Royersford, 19468 948-7387 #4, PA (215) GA 30067 (404) 953-0460 (803) 625-3741 Engrs. Bn. (June-Cleveland). Floyd 112th Combat 573d AAA (A/W S.P.) Bn. (July- Long Beach, 1915th QM Truck AVN (June-Eureka Springs, Stanard, 11666 Woodview, Hts., OH CA). Robert Hatten, 1911 E. 21st St., Long AR). Dan Matsenbaugh, Box 25988, Oklahoma 843-7695 44130 (216) Beach. CA 90806 (213) 438-0823 City, OK 73125 (405) 947-0794 Illinois Vets Assn. (Aug- 130th Inf., 4th 602d Signal AW Co. (June-Portland, OR). Elmo 3438th Ord. MM Co. (May-Richmond, VA). Ralph Hoopeston, IL). Howard Gaddis, 531 E. Thomp- Thomas, 4345 NW 190th Ave., Portland, OR Milley, 102 Glendale St.r Everett, MA 02149 son Ave., Hoopeston, IL 60942 (217) 283-7037 97229 (503) 645-2447 (617) 387-5191 38th Div. (Cyclone) (June-Jef- 149th Inf. Regt., 605th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Findlay, OH). "C" Btry., 166th AAA Gun Bn. (July-Wichita, fersonville, Marion Williams, 2005 Red- IN). Jack Hiatt, 6504 Cambridge, Indianapolis, IN KS). Gerald Fager, 1423 N. Baltimore, Derby, leaf Dr., Louisville, 40222 (502) 425-4963 KY 46220 (317) 251-8914 KS 67037 (316) 788-0289 (Sept-Denver). Felix 157th Inf. Regt. (WWII) 622d Engr. Base Equip.. Co. (Sept-Dayton. OH). "C" Btry-, 740th F.A. Bn. (June-Shrewsbury, 23rd Ave., Denver, 80215 Sparks. 7900 W. CO Ernest Rode, 36 Swan Dr., Pittsburgh, PA MA). Joseph Russell, 332 Maple Ave., Shrews- 233-2369 (303) 15237 (412) 364-6173 bury, MA 01545 (617) 756-3217 F.A. Assn. (WWII) (July-Reading, 190th Group 636th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-Fremont. NE). "C" Btry., 71st C.A., "G" Btry., 384th Artillery PA). Wes Duttinger, Box 111, Sunbury, PA Henry Probst, Box 291, Cook, NE 68329 (402) (AA) Bn. (July-Yazoo City, MS). A.L. Maurer, 17801 (717) 286-2708 864-4691 101 Ingram Ave. Apt. 11, Ingram, PA 15205 Bn. (July-Cherry Hill, NJ). 197th AAA (AW) 661st Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-Milwaukee). Wil- (412) 921-2208 Jim Duke, 3672 McKibbon Rd., St. Louis, MO liam Beswick, Box 576, West Point, VA 23181 "D" Btry., 165th AAA Gun Bn. (July-Columbus, 423-3151 63114 (314) (804) 843-2696 OH). Pamela Holt, 2287 Ashley Dr., Columbus, 250th F.A. Bn. (June-Lafayette, LA). Milton 720th MP Bn. (June-Killeen, TX). Joseph Selo- OH 43224 (614) 471-6486 Broussard, 108 Felecie Dr., Lafayette, LA 70506 vich, 1909 35th St., Kenosha, WI 53140 (414) "HQ" Btry., 166th AAA (Sept-Rolla, MO). Wayne 981-1418 (318) 654-0517 Flack, Box 233C, Postville, IA 52162 (319) 864- 250th Port Co. (July-Lexington, KY). James 741st Tank Bn. (July-Nashville, TN). Verdie 3623 Gariety, 7652 Ft. Recovery Rd., Ft. Loramie, Guest, Jr., 1518 Corder Dr., Nashville, TN "HQ & HQ" Btry.. 439th AAA (AW) Bn. (Aug- 582-5931 OH 45845 (419) 37206 (615) 228-1976 Willmar, MN). Charles Anderson, 1518 Monon- (July-Columbus, OH). Bob Witt- 274th AFA Bn. 744th Railway Oper. Bn. (June-Sarnia, Ontario, gala Ave., Willmar, MN 56201 (612) 235-4865 Lincoln, 69507 struck, 3440 Touzalin Ave., NE Canada). David Greenfield, 19970 Lathers, "Serv." Btry., 903d F.A. Bn., 78th Inf. Div. 464-2577 (402) Livonia, MI 48152 (313) 474-1955 (July-St. Louis). Edward Plonski, 3439 Crom- 287th F.A. Obsn. Bn. (May-King of Prussia, PA). 746th AAA Gun Bn. (July-Nashville, TN). George well Rd., Durham, NC 27705 (919) 489-9305 H.H. Manshower, 731 Walnut St., Royersford, Stewart, Box 495, Tonganoxie, KS 66086 (913) "A" Co., 63d Engrs., 44th Div. (Aug-New York). PA 19468 Abe Berg. 89-39 151st Ave., Howard Beach, NY Hospital (June-Clarksville, 845-2582 300th Gen. (WWII) 11414 (212) 641-5350 IN). Austin Lutz, 1566 Meadow Ln., New 753d Railway Shop Bn. (June-Bucyrus, OH). Ray "A" Co., 335th Engrs. (July-Bismarck, ND). Albany, IN 47150 (812) 944-9909 Tittle, 2512 Old Lake Rd. W, Huron, OH 44839 Ernest Delzer. 733A 2nd St. SW, Jamestown, 314th Inf. Assn. (WWII) (July- Dayton, OH). (419) 433-4336 ND 58401 (701) 252-5462 Richard Rairdon, 5975 Rd. 23N, Lewistown, OH 754th Tank Bn. Assn. (WWII) (July-Cleveland). "A" Co., 497th Port Bn. (July-Lexington, KY). Michael Stephen, 122 Churchill St., McKees 43333 Bob Breeden. 4501 Georgetown Pike, Lexing- 315th Inf. Regt. Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Cincinnati). Rocks. PA 15136 (412) 771-0510 ton, KY 40511 (606) 252-2003 Francis Oczko, 144 N. 6th St. , Hyde Park, 755th Railway Shop Bn. (July-Bucyrus, OH). New "A" Co., 821st AVN Engrs. (July-Streator, IL). 11040 352-7554 Perry, Sr., 6093 Leetonia Rd., Leetonia, NY (516) Eugene Daniel Schlecht, Box 413, Woodruff, WI 54568 351st Searchlight NE). Bob 424-7978 Bn. (June-Omaha, OH 44431 (216) (715) 356-3437 "A.B.CHQ" Cos., 48th Arm'd Med. Bn. (1950- 52) (Aug-Aberdeen, SD). Roy Gruenstein, 1516 N. Dakota St., Aberdeen, SD 57401 (605) 225- 6377 "B" Co., 86th QM, S482d Ord. Co. (WWII) (Aug- Greenville, SC). J.E. Cruse, 426 Broad St., Fairburn, GA 30214 (404) 964-7810 "B" Co., 115th Inf., 29th Div. (June-Hagers- town, MD). George Penner, 214 Woodpoint, Hagerstown, MD 21740 "B" Co., 134th Inf. (WWII) (July-Falls City, NE). Lloyd Faller, Rt. 2, Falls City, NE 68355 (402) 245-5598 "C" Co., 202d Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (July- Toledo, OH). Norman Krum, 1729 Parkway South, Maumee, OH 43537 (419) 893-2425 "D" Co., 375th Inf., 90th Div. (Aug-Syracuse; NY). Frank Vansanford, Jr., 8424 E. Mud Lake Rd., Baldwinsville, NY 13027 (315 ) 638-0945 "D" Co., 800th MP Bn. (Aug-New Prague, MN). Werner Witt, 506 Pershing Ave., New Prague, MN 56071 (612) 758-4522 "F" Co., 310th Inf., 78th Inf. Div. (July-St. Louis). Glenn McNamara, 117 N. Hill St., Geneseo, IL 61254 "H" Co., 155th Inf., 31st Div. (July-Pickwick Park, TN). George Tucker, 2706 E. Tennessee St., Corinth, MS 38834 (601) 287-2234 "HQ" Co., Security Plat., 11th Dif. Brig., Amerl- cal Div. (July-Springfield, IL). Denny Kirch- gesner, Rt. 1, Springfield, IL 62707 (217) 522- 3560 "HQ" Co., 14th Arm'd Div., Command "B" (July- Natl. Cdr. Flynt speaks during the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ground- Jamestown, NY). Clarence Anderson, Rt. 1, Box Kennedy, NY 14747 (716) 267-9005 breaking (see story, to the 415, ceremonies on March 26 page 26). Donations "HQ" Co., 40th Div. (May-Springfield, OH). Al- Memorial—scheduled for dedication on Veterans' Day this year—may vin McKee, Rt. 1, Box 147, Sandborn, IN 47578 (812) 694-7662 still be sent to WMF, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. "I" Co., 331st Dif., 83d Div. (June-Corbin, KY).

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Willard Cornelus, Box 045, Williamsburg, KT 40769 (606) 549-0760 "It" Co., 164th Inf. (June-Fargo, ND). Thurston Nelson, Rt. 1, Box 27, Hillsboro, ND 58045 (701) 436-4379 "M" Co., 116th Inf., 29th Div. (July-Emporia, VA). W.D. Rowell, Rt. 1, Box 75, Emporia, VA 23847 (804) 634-4845 Childress Bomb Class 43-7 (May-Childress, TX). John Woodley, 819 Byrne Dr., Montgomery, AL 36111 (205) 281-5641 QM Motor Transport School Detach. Holabird, MD (Sept-Baltimore). Robert Twyford, 212 W. Logan Ave., Dubois, PA 15801 (814) 371-2715 Society of the First Div. (July-Lake Placid, NY). Arthur Chaitt, 5 Montgomery Ave., Philadel- phia, PA 19118 WWII Night Fighter (Sept). Prosper Rufer, Box 616, San Rafael, CA 94915 XHI Corps Assn. (July-Boston). John Bitting, 10104 Quinby St., Silver Spring, MD 20901 (301) 593-8919 Navy 31st Spec. Seabees (July-Laughlin, NV). Ray Jenson, 508 Baker Dr., Cedar Falls, IA 50613 (319) 277-4014 37th NCB (Sept-Denver). Edward Custy, 3921 S. Benton Way, Denver, CO 80235 (303) 988-9012 51st NCB (Oct-Ukiah, CA). T.R. O'Bayley, 35 Betty St., Ukiah, CA 95482 (707) 462-6765 55th NCB (June-Medford, OR). Ralph Hirst, 150 Kern St. Sp. 47, Salinas, CA 93905 (408) 424- The American Legion's entry in this year's nationally televised Indianapolis 4335 77th NCB (WWII) (Sept-Arlington, TX). B.I. 500 Festival Parade is shown in this artist's conception. The float, designed Camp, 4821 Langley, Fort Worth, TX 76114 (817) 626-1103" to reflect this year's theme, "Previews: A Look At Tomorrow," 79th Seabee Battalion (June-Redding, CA). Roy will carry representatives of the Boys and Girls State Programs and H. Arnold, 735 Lincoln St., Redding, CA 96001 (916) 246-1239 feature a smoke-spouting rocket blasting off into the future. 114th NCB (WWII) (Sept-Port Hueneme, CA). Stuart Dodds, 406 S. M St., Lompoc, CA 93436 (805 ) 736-3008 33156 (305) 274-2238 636-6867 145th Seabees (Oct-Daytona Beach, FL). Herbert USS Croaker (SS 246) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Victor USS Osterhaus (DE 164) (Oct-Mesa, AZ). Joe Muhs, 73 Fallingwood Ter., Rochester, NY Lee, 5116 Old Atlanta Rd., Suwanee, GA 30174 Mowery, 1631 E. 3rd Ave., Mesa, AZ 85204 14612 (716) 663-1319 (404) 887-0483 CSS Patoka (A09/AV6) (May-Chula Vista, CA). CBMU 593 (July-Owensboro, KY). Leslie Martin, USS Darter (SS 227) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Hugh Ken Stephens, 502 Anita St. Sp. 25, Chula Vista, 1916 Windsor Ave., Owensboro, KY 42301 (502) Siegel, Rt. 3, Box 45, Boonville, NY 13309 (315) CA 92011 (714) 422-1419 683-4268 831-8450 USS PC 470 (June-Berrien Springs, MI). Jim Destroyer Escort Sailors Assn. (Aug- Norfolk, CSS Emmons Assn. (Sept-Portland, ME). David Zink, 4305 Berwick Dr., Toledo, OH 43612 (419) VA). Jack Collins, Box 68, Oviedo, FL 32765 Jensen, 87-26 259th St., Floral Park, NY 11001 478-8632 (305) 365-5331 (212) 343-3295 CSS Phelps (DD 360) (Sept-Nashville, TN). Har- LST Flotilla 7 (July-Norfolk, VA). Peter Ruf- USS England (DE 635) (Aug-Norfolk, VA). Ed- old Placette, 3336 Roanoke, Port Arthur, TX fenach, 3603 Zenith Ave. N, Minneapolis, MN ward Arterburn, 515 W. Virginia Ave., Peoria, 77640 (713) 962-1348 55422 (612) 588-4114 IL 61604 (309) 682-0718 CSS Phoenix (CL 46) (Dec-San Antonio, TX). Mel LST 177 (July-Youngstown, OH). Vincient Mon- USS Hancock (CV 19) (July-San Diego). Elmer Fragasai, 1316 Linden, Deerfield, IL 60015 giello, 201 W. Venango St., Mercer, PA 16137 Smith, Box 722, Julian, CA 92036 (714) 765- (312) 945-5667 (412) 662-3061 1614 USS Redfin (SS 272) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Martin LST 380 (Sept-St. Paul, MN). Earl Johnson, Box USS Harder (SS 257) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Mi- Schaffer, 1710 Elm St., Allentown, PA 18104 369, Circle Dr., Waverly, NY 14892 (607) 565- chael Geletka, Box 575, Wells, ME 04090 ( 207) (215) 433-7737 8536 646-2785 USS Seahorse (SS 304) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Joe LST 384 (Aug-Boston). Stanley Neal, 821 Sherill, USS Hobby (DD 610) (Aug-Helena, MT). Arthur McGrievy, 7525 University Ave., LaMesa, CA Liberty, MO 64068 (816) 781-1521 Habel, Box 217, Dutton, MT 59433 (406) 463- 92041 (714) 460-4725 LST 892 (June-Ft. Lauderdale, FL). Ernest John- 2401 USS Seal (SS 183) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Irvin

son, 22 Amherst St., N. Grafton, MA 01536 DSS Kenton (APA 122) (Aug-Vandalia, IL). Dale Hill, 449 Prospect - St., Plantsville, CT 06479 (617) 839-4331 Slater, 1129 N. 2nd, Vandalia, IL 62471 (618) (203) 628-2893 LST 655 (July-Meridian, MS). Adrian Westlund. 283-1118 CSS Smith (DD 878) (July-Portland, OR). Ward Wardtown Rd., Perrysburg, NY 14129 (716) USS LCI-G80 (June-Clayton, GA). John Crunkle- Svart, 274 Cervandes, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 532-2550 ton, Box 219, Cornelia, GA 30531 (404) 778-4434 (503) 635-6319 LST 683 (June-Danville, IL). H. Schwabauer, 1209 CSS Louisville (Sept-Louisville, KY). James USS Snapper (SS 185) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Eric N. Logan, Danville, IL 61832 (217) 442-6750 Hamill, 819 W. Charles St., Piano, IL 60545 Swenson, Jr., 2749 Walnut Blvd., Walnut Naval Air Transport Sq. (Aug-Pensacola, FL). (312) 552-3991 Creek, CA 94596 (415) 939-4055 Capt. Alvin May, (Ret.), 1015 W. South Ave., USS Lowndes (APA 154) (Sept-Chicago). S.A. USS Spearfish (SS 190) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Independence, MO 64050 Carothers, 1001 Sylmar, Sp. 119, Clovis, CA R.N. Yokanovich, Box 33, Hastings, MN 55033 93612 299-4751 Naval Weather Serv. Assn. (June-Washington). (209) (612) 437-5674 USS Marblehead (CL 12) (June-Dallas). U.S. Submarine Vets (N.E. Don Cruse, 567 N. Livingston St., Arlington, E.R. Regional Conv.) Lauridsen, VA 22203 (703) 524-9067 6243 Rancho Hills Dr., Sah Diego, (WWII) (June-Philadelphia). Milton Brown, CA 92139 325 Emily St., Philadelphia, PA 19148 (215) USN Base Hospital 18, Lion 3 (July-Toledo, & 6 USS Marsh (DE 699) (Aug-Norfolk, VA). John 468-6269 OH). Edward Chlebowski, 306 W. River St. Box Cullinan, 36235 N. Mill Ct., Gurnee, IL 60031 U.S. Submarine Vets (WWD) (Aug-Hartford, 477, Deerfield, MI 49238 (517 ) 447-3609 (312) 356-2637 CT). Milton Brown, 325 Emily St., Philadel- Albert USS W. Grant (DD 649) (WWII) (Aug- USS Massachusetts Inc. (June-Somerset. MA). phia, PA 19148 (215) 468-6269 Charleston, SC). Nick DeMarco, St., 303 Vine Robert Grimes, 11 Spring St., Waltham, MA USS Tinosa (SS 283) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Bob Charleston, WV 25302 (304) 346-8350 02154 (617) 894-5797 Bentham, 165 Pearl St. 17B, Seymour, CT 06483 USS Arkab (AK 130) (Sept-San Diego). Tom USS McNulty (DE 581) (Aug-Norfolk, VA). Bill (203) 888-7051 Murray, Box 525, Sun City, CA 92381 (714) Oliver, 14 Wills Dr., New Hartford, NY 13413 USS Titania (June-Middle Amana, IA). Cliff 679-5905 (315) 732-3677 Trumpold, Middle Amana, IA 52307 USS Audrain (APA 59) (June-Amarillo, TX). B.B. USS Metcalf (DD 595) (Sept-Omaha, NE). Roy CSS Twining (DD 540) (Korea) (July-Cleveland). Newton, Rt. Clarence 1, Box 257A, Odessa, TX 79763 Churchill, 2500 S. 36th St., Lincoln, NE 68506 Kistemaker, 4822 Tiedeman Rd., (915) 563-3039 (402) 488-6983 Cleveland, OH 44144 (216) 251-8985 USS Batfish (SS 810) (Aug-Hartford, CT). Hugh USS Munargo (AP 20) (October). Pete Stout, 9676 USS Whitehurst (DE 634) (June-Charleston, SC). Lowder, 4542 Parkside Dr., Baltimore, MD Gallop Ln., Crestwood, MO 63126 (314) 843- John Shaver, 104 N. Oxalis Dr., Orlando, FL 21206 (301) 488-7590 9057 32807 CSS Belknap (DD 251, APD 34) (June-Norfolk, USS Mustin (413) & USS Hornet Survivors (May- VA). Paul Eisenman, 540 E. Portage Tr. Apt. Columbus, NE). Alvin Smith, Rt. 3, David City, Air Force 103, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 (216) 928-4415 NE 68632 (402) 367-4686 S3d Photo Recon. Sq. (July-Louisville, KY). Leo USS Briareus (AK 12) (Oct-Virginia Beach, VA). USS Norton Sound Assn. (July-Oxnard. CA). USS Shelton, 610 W. Michigan Ave., Hammond, LA James Clark, 631 Pennsylvania Ave., Prospect Norton Sound, Box 487, Port Hueneme, CA 70401 (504) 345-4253 Park, PA 19076 (215) 532-3578 93041 34th Bomb Grp. (H), 8th A.F. (WWII) (Oct- USS Cony (DD 508) (July-Milwaukee). Clarence CSS Oakland (CL 95) (Aug-Nashville, TN). Floyd Cincinnati). Ray Summa, 2910 Bittersweet Ln., Schultz, 4168 N. 92nd St., Milwaukee, 53222 WI Smith, 7644 Charlotte Pike, Nashville, TN Anderson, IN 46011 (317) 644-6027 (414) 463-4569 37209 (615) 352-2509 35th Security Police Sq., K-9 Corp, (Phan Rang USS Cowpens (CVL 25) (June-Cowpens, SC). USS Oglala (Dec-San Antonio, TX). Ted Nicolai, Gerald Shaw, 7875 SW 98th St., Miami, FL Jr., Box 1502, Garden Grove, CA 92642 (714) (Continued on page 49)

35 May 1982 TILLER USERS... Can your machine A System Under Attack do all of this? ( Continued from page 31) * Handle with just ONE HAND. * EVENLY break, turn & till soil. if Shred vegetation without tangling. * Leave NO WHEELMARKS or FOOTPRINTS. the demonstrated advantages of the hospitals. During the same period, The TROY-BILT® ROTO TILLER-POWER COM- program for all Americans, the VA's 20,106 medical students received part POSTER can do all this and more! That's why research budget has been drastically of their training in VA hospitals. The serious gardeners consider it the under-funded. That doesn't hurt just family doctor or the surgeon who j*. finest tiller available. See for the veteran, it hurts everyone. practices in the private sector more riM yourself! For complete details, "OFF SEASON" SAVINGS, and The VA's medical affiliation pro- than likely share a background of FREE 26-page booklet clip this gram offers many of the same ad- learning at a VA medical center some- and to: mail today vantages to all Americans and is where in the United States. Once threatened by the same budgetary again we see that if Americans enjoy TROY-BILT® Tillers narrow mindedness. a high level of medical care (and no 102nd St.& On the eve of WWII, the VA hos- one questions that we do) a large por- Ninth Ave., Troy, N.Y. pital system was not much more than tion of the credit goes to the VA. 12180 a human warehouse. The medical staff was populated by doctors who One way to save money in the VA were either too old to practice in the budget is to put a moratorium on con- private sector or—to be brutally hon- struction projects—both new con- est about it—were not sufficiently struction and facilities updating—un- capable to practice successfully in the til they've all been reviewed by the TROY-BILT" Roto Tiller-Power Completers Dept. A1279 private sector. Nor were doctors VA as to the need of such projects. 102nd St. & 9th Ave., Troy, N.Y. 12180 being trained in the numbers needed How much reviewing does a VA Please send the whole wonderful story ol TROY-BILT"5 Roto Tillers including prices and "OFF-SEASON" SAVINGS now in for either the returning war veteran construction project need before it's effect lor a limited time. or the American populace. approved? Currently, every VA fa- (Please Print Clearly) The previously mentioned 1947 re- cility has a five-year plan that is re- Name organization of the VA addressed this viewed at the VA's Central Office. A IAddress_ problem with the institution of the resulting composite five-year plan is

City VA's affiliation program. The pro- then sent to Congress with funding gram, which continues in effect today, requests. In Congress, all VA con- -zip- | State allied the facilities and resources of struction plans are reviewed by the the VA medical system with 105 of House and Senate Veterans Affairs Since 1957! the then 115 medical schools in the Committees and both houses' Ap- country. propriations Committees. The program brought some of the Two VA reviews and at least four finest medical practitioners in the na- Congressional reviews—to our way of A scientific formula of pure food tion into the VA hospital, along with thinking—demonstrate appropriate those practitioners' students—resi- concern for the proper allocation of substances for the RELIEF dents and interns. funds for carefully selected renova- Of Symptoms of Benign Thus, a hospitalized veteran might tion and construction projects. PROSTATE find himself under the care of one of The VA construction program ad- Hypertrophy (BPH) / the top doctors in his field by virtue dresses the need for constant renova- of that affiliation. For example, a vet- replacement of the deterio- PROSTEX OFTEN tion and RELIEVES: eran could enter the VA hospital in rating, aging multi-billion dollar • Frequency of urination Washington, DC, with a brain tumor. capital plant that is a national invest- • Burning sensations • Dribbling He could be operated on by one of the ment. Some critics have implied that • Discomfort finest neurosurgeons available who is the VA is building "new facilities all • Pain also the faculty of Georgetown fact is that • Hesitation on over the country." The • Straining University Medical School. If he there have been no new facilities put had had the operation performed at on the drawing board since the can- PLEASE NOTE: Prostex has been proven effective in relieving symptoms of BPH. Consult your physi- Georgetown University Hospital, it cellation of the Camden (NJ) VA cian to be sure that your symptoms are caused only would cost more than year. by Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. have him $5,000 hospital last for this service. But this doctor, who Keeping the VA physical plant in TRY PROSTEX® for 6 weeks and save $6.50 on large economy size bottle of 250 caps. earns only a consulting fee from the top condition is even more important (Satisfaction Guaranteed) VA, is performing the surgery at the today than in years past because, for Send check or money order to: VA because he also is given the facili- the first time in. its 60-year history, PROSTEX® ties and space to train his students. the VA has had a new and fourth mis- P.O. Box 430, Dept. A-7, Boston, MA 02118-0430 The doctor benefits from the affilia- sion recently assigned to them. They Or send for free Descriptive Brochure. Please send me: tion program, as does the hospitalized have been designated by Congress to Bottles of 100 capsules $ 9.00 veteran. So does the patient who's act as the principal national security Bottles of 250 capsules $16.00 never served in the armed forces or back-up for the military medical pro- (Note: You save $6.50 on large size) Price includes shipping and handling. MA residents add 5% sales tax. ever used the VA hospital facilities. gram. In the past, the VA took as PRINT Name The majority of doctors practicing in patients only those injured military the private sector today owe all or a people who were not expected to re- Address: _ part of their training to the VA affili- turn to active duty. Now, for the first City. -State. -ZP- ation program. In fiscal year 1981 time, it is going to begin caring for © there were 25,036 residents in VA disabled military personnel who will

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THE AMERICAN LEGION End the Pain and Misery of Tired Aching Feet be expected to return to active duty No matter how long you've in the event of a military emergency. suffered — be it three The Pentagon estimates the mili- months, or 30 years. No tary medical program would not be matter what your problems able to handle an anticipated mas- are—corns, calluses, pain in sive number of casualties. Thus, the balls of your feet, burn- they've asked the VA, under the new ing nerve endings, painful ankles, old injuries, back- law, for an initial allocation of 20,000 aches, orjust plain sore ach- beds. While The American Legion ing feet. believes it is fit and proper for the VA to assume this backup medical When you slip a pair of role, we wonder where the additional Feathersprings® into your shoes with every step you take, that if they beds will come from in light of bud- your pain will vanish almost in- don't work for you . . . we'll refund get cut-backs in construction and stantly. You'll be able to stand, your money in full with no questions renovation that already jeopardize walk, dance, even run in miracu- asked. existing bed levels and service. lous total comfort! Don't needlessly suffer pain and dis- comfort for another day. If your feet The preceding is a sampling of What are Feathersprings? are killing you, Feathersprings will some of the misconceptions being Well, they're a revolutionary foot bring you relief. Write us for more cited by those in the VA budget pro- support unlike anything you've ever detailed information. There is no ob- cess debates. The American Legion seen before. Each pair is custom ligation. No salesman will call. Just believes the facts speak for them- hand-formed and made for your feet fill out and mail this coupon. selves and that the American people alone. Remember, you have nothing to lose today have no less a commitment to but your pain. caring for the needs of their military How do Feathersprings work? veterans than they did when the VA Unlike conventional, mass-produced What people have to say system was first developed. Any con- devices, they actually imitate the about Feathersprings . . sideration of the VA budget must in- youthful, elastic support Nature in- "Received my wife's Feathersprings two tends your feet to have. clude both the facts and the wishes days ago. They are super-neither of us can of American people. © believe the results. She has What do Feathersprings had terrible feet for years; look like? already no pain. Inciden- tally, her sore knee is better They're all but invis- American Legion Life Insurance . . . As a retired physician, ible. Men and this result is amazing." Month Ending February 28, 1982 women can even Dr. C.O.C., $5,060 paid—age at death 52. Cause of death wear them with Tucson, Arizona —Kidney Ailment. Total premiums paid: ¥304. Benefits Paid January 1, 1982 open-backed sandals. "I was extremely skeptical when I placed my February 28, 1982 $688,716.00 order, expecting Total Interest Paid Since And because you can and was to be disappointed. Much to 1 * January, 1982 „ $ 2,705.91 change them from one Basic Units In Force my surprise, I found al- (Number) 251,207.0 pair of shoes to most immediate relieffrom New Applications Approved another, one pair is all knee and leg pains Since January 1, 1982 269 and New Applications Declined you'll ever need. corns on my right foot Since January 1, 1982 420 which were a source ofcon- New Applications Suspended tinuing pain and irritation Since January 1, 1982 157 How many people have (Applicants failed to return have ceased to trouble me." health form) Feathersprings J.C.J. Meridian, Miss. "Effective January 1, 1982. a 20 percent 'across the board' increase in benefits will be actually helped? extended . . . "At the present time I still wear the through December 31, 1982." As of today, over Feathersprings and indeed they perform The American Legion Life Insurance is an offi- cial program of the American Legion, adopted by 2,250,000 people of all ages with all well after seven years of use." the National Executive Committee. 1958. It is G.M.G., Dallas, Texas decreasing term insurance, issued on application types of foot, leg and back problems, to paid-up members of The American Legion sub- are enjoying blessed reliefthey never "Posed by professional models. ject to approval based on health and employment 1982 Featherspring International Corp. statement. Effective Jan. 1, 1980, death benefits thought possible. © 13100 Stone Avenue, North, Seattle, Washington 98133 ranged from $80,000 (8 units through age 29, 25 in Ohio) in decreasing steps to $125 (% unit at age 75 How do I know Feathersprings or over). Previously, maximum was 6 units. This FEATHERSPRING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION protection is available throughout life, as long as will help me? 13100 Stone Avenue North, Dept. AL052 the annual premium is paid, the insured remains are so certain Seattle. Washington 98133 a member of The American Legion, and the Plan We that Featherspring YES! I want to learn more about Flexible Feath- stays in effect. Available up to eight units at a Foot Supports will bring you relief erspring Foot Supports. Please send me your flat rate of $2-t per unit a year on a calendar year free brochure. I will watch for the large PINK basis, pro-rated during the first year at $2 a month I that there is no obliga- per unit for insurance approved after January 1. envelope. understand Underwritten by two commercial life insurance tion and that no salesman will call. companies, the Transamerica Occidental Life In- surance Co. of California and The United States Life Insurance Co. in the City of New York. The Print Name American Legion Life Insurance and Trust Fund is managed by trustees operating under the laws Address of Missouri. No other insurance may use the full words "American Legion." Administered by The American Legion Life Insurance Division, P.O. City State Zip Box 5609, Chicago, Illinois 60680, to which write When in Seattle visit the Featherspring Building. for further details. 9m HB H M M « M « M M fli « H M M M M «M J

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Crystal Palace was completed it was people who witnessed the wonders of 1,851 feet long in recognition of the electricity—and especially George year of the fair—1851. There, also, Westinghouse's electric light bulb Antoine Sax demonstrated his sax- had the same mixed feelings about ophone, and the United States electric power that later generations showed Colt's revolver and McCor- would have about nuclear energy. mick's reaper. And women who saw cooking done by Because this first exhibition in electricity wondered if such appli- London was highly successful, some ances would ever have any practical businessmen from New York de- value. MEDICAL cided to have a similar exposition in A ferris wheel with 36 cars, each as America in 1853., Dubbed the large as a school bus and capable of "World's Fair for the Exhibition of carrying 40 passengers, was the high FILE the Industry of All Nations," it paid spot of the fair. The 250-foot wheel homage to its predecessor with a copy was the invention of George Wash- concise up-to-date information of London's Crystal Palace erected ington Gale Ferris, a brilliant young- on effective treatment of behind the present Fifth Avenue Pub- engineer who had been hired to cre- common medical problems lic Library. Among other features of ate an attraction that would top even the fair was a patent corn broom the famous Eiffel Tower. At first CAN'T SLEEP? handle that enabled homemakers to skeptics warned that no one would snap new corn brooms into the han- risk a ride, but throughout the fair NIGHTTIME PAIN? dles themselves. This innovation was more than 1,000 men, women and When your head aches, you can't sleep and ordinary sleep-aids like Sominex, Nytol and Unisom don't really promoted by the broom handle dem- children revolved every time Ferris's help—try Quiet World" It's a lot more than a sleep aid. In onstrator as a giant step toward wo- wheel went around. Other popular at- fact, you'd need the relaxant in Sominex plus the 2 pain relievers doctors recommend most to get all the help man's independence. When the New tractions included a copy of Colum- Quiet World brings. York world's fair closed in it bus's flagship the crowd-pleas- Quiet World makes 1854, and you drowsy... had not been as successful as its ing "Little Egypt," the belly dancer relieves your pain so you can sleep. English counterpart, and the New of her day. York Crystal Palace—designed to Following Chicago's extravaganza, last forever—burned to the ground St. Louis hosted the Universal Expo- four years later. sition of 1904 to commemorate the PAINFUL CORNS The next world's fair, the 1876 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Ordinary pads just cushion painful corns to relieve the Centennial Exhibition in Philadel- Purchase. Autos and "flying ma- pressure. Liquid Freezone* acts directly on the corn with phia, marked the 100th anniversary of chines" were the star attractions, special medicines that penetrate painlessly to the core of and the corn. In just a few applications, Freezone helps dis- the Declaration of Independence and one of the more than 100 cars dis- solve the corn away.. .layer by layer. Don't just cushion your corns. Dissolve boasted 167 buildings. One structure played came all the way from New them away with housed a painting destined to be- York under its own power. The first Freezone. 15^ come a classic: "The Spirit of '76," Olympic Games on American soil three life-sized figures of three gen- were played in the fair's stadium, erations of Americans—a grandfa- and to salute the games a statue, ther, son and grandson. On opening "The Victorious Athlete," stood on can be HEMORRHOIDS day, President S. the of one of the fair's sheer agony when you wipe with dry toilet tissue. Now Ulysses Grant and dome 1,500 prevent the irritation that dry toilet tissue can cause with the Emperor of Brazil turned on the buildings. The song "Meet Me In Preparation H* Cleansing Pads. They're pre-moistened, soft cloth pads with a fair's power source—a giant Corliss St. Louis" was first heard there and gentle cleansing agent Engine—and a special Centennial the future cowboy-philosopher, Will that soothes, cools, and freshens without dry toilet March written by Richard Wagner Rogers, was still only an attention- tissue irritation. was played. Everyone loved the en- getting barker. gine but hated the music. Even Wag- California hosted two fairs, one in ner had to admit that the best thing 1915 and the other in 1916. Both about the composition was the $5,000 celebrated the completion of the ARTHRITIS When you suffer with award he received. Panama Canal. The San Francisco the pain of minor arthritis you want fast relief. InfraFtub* Seventeen years after the Philadel- fair—The Panama-Pacific Interna- contains a unique combination of warm, soothing, pain- relieving medicines that start to work instantly. InfraRub phia fair, the World Columbian Ex- tional Exposition—was called "The delivers strong, penetrating relief that lasts for hours. position took place in Chicago's Jack- Light Fair," and was the first in What's more, InfraRub is barely scented. InfraRub: it's strong medicine without medicine smell. son Park. Scheduled to open in 1892, America purposely designed to high- it didn't begin until a year later be- light art and beauty more than in- cause of the enormous job of con- vention and industry. structing what was called "The White Inventions had their place, though, City," so named because the build- and one of the outstanding inven- ings were made of a gleaming white tions was the Edison storage battery, material. President which could furnish electricity to Use all medications only as directed. When Grover © 1981 Whitehall Laboratories. New York, N.Y. Cleveland touched the button that farms and provide power for farm ma- started the fair's machinery, many chinery. Thomas Edison came to the

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Before it Gets ANY HOTTER ! SEERSUCKER fair to be honored on Edison Day. While there, he placed one of the first transcontinental telephone calls, SHORTS in Or- from California to his home Vacation Travellers, HURRY/ ange, NJ. Another transcontinental Wear 'em, Pack 'em. They never trip the Liberty Bell event was the wrinkle / These crisp refreshing open made from Philadelphia in an seersucker shorts are easy care flatcar. Each day the crack was 100% polyester doubleknit. measured to be sure it wasn't getting Cooool, immaculate, and the sure any wider. Today no one is quite handsomest thing going, would have been done if it were. what wherever you are going / While the Panama-Pacific Inter- national Exposition was catering to And look/ ALL SIZES 30 to fair goers in San Francisco, down- 54/ All fuller cut and slightly state the Panama-California Exposi- longer for true comfort. 100% tion in Balboa Park, San Diego, was Wash and Wear, 2 front pockets, getting its share of visitors too. Trans- 2 back pockets, Talon® zipper, portation was the theme and every even the famous Ban-Rol® No-Roll driver who arrived after a trip of 500 Waistband. Four nice colors to or more miles received a special com- choose: Light Blue, Black & White memorative button. Forest Green and Camel/ Automobiles also played a large And a price you don't even have part in the Century of Progress in to think about /Only from Haband Chicago. This 1933-34 fair, also called and only right now / Use this order form "Rainbow City" because it was the ^ first world's fair to use such colors as blue greens, pale pinks and mauves, pairs r^fc I was built on Lake Michigan's shore ' Seersucker 95 in celebration of the Windy City's 2 3 for birthday. serious side of the Shorts 100th A 32.50 exposition was Henry Ford's exhibit up* ri* HABAND 265 N. 9th St., Paterson, NJ 07530 ""'Cirto w« of the Drama of Transportation, part choose ,„ Yes! Send me ALL THESE SIZES: 30-32- pri- s pairs of which came from Ford's own Sh°" 'u£,30days for which I enclose 34-36-38-40-42-44- collection. Along with showing plus $1.25 46*-48*-50*-52*-54* vate ,hem , tu"efundof towards postage & the car magnate's first workshop in *Please add $1.25 per pair. handling. Detroit and the first car he ever road COLOR Qty. Size Or Charge OVISA b tested, the exhibit portrayed ad- Master Charge Lt. Blue vancements in transportation from Acci. # Green c ° the time of early Egyptian chariots Exp. date _ Camel Black & White * to modern autos. Sally Rand and her HABAND 70R-00E famous fan made world's fair history 265 N. 9th Street Ship to at the same time, only less sedately. Paterson, N.j. 07530 Street . Apt.# Fair goers returned to San Fran- Established 1925 City/State -Zip cisco in 1939-40. The drawing card a. was the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, a man-made paradise in San Francisco Bay. This exhibition saluted the com- GARDENING? TRY AN AGCO FOR 2 WEEKS . . . YOUR pletion of both the San Francisco- IF YOU FIND A TILLER YOU LIKE BETTER. Oakland Bridge and the Golden Gate MONEY BACK Bridge. When it was time for the fair to open, the Governor of California f unlocked a special gate, built in the image of the Golden Gate Bridge, •MEL- with a jeweled key costing thousands i I Tills Deep Weeds Fast of dollars. Electric typewriters and NOT SOLD IN STORES FREE BROCHURE WRITE TO shortwave radios were also featured. AGCO PO Box 75., Southampton Pa 18966 Dept. A Tines There was even a wireless electronic TittBf 'PowerMoe Tiger Name picture that allowed visitors to see Why Shovel Or Hoe? Use an AGCO Street election returns when President Gives you bumper crops of fruits, vegetables & flowers liberal warranties. 2 wk money back trial period from AGCO City , Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected 1. High speed tiger tines till toughest grasses & clays

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May 1982 GARDENERS A Small Wonder.

. . . Continued The General Motors Futurama II During the same two years, a New transportation exhibit was an even York exhibition was marking the bigger and better preview of life in The *s 150th anniversary of the New York the future than the 1939-1940 Fu- Masport City inauguration of George Wash- turama. It forecast an orbiting post Home ington. This fair—dubbed "The office that sent picture mail around World of Tomorrow"—was in what is the world in seconds, cars that rode Gardener™ now Flushing Meadow Park, and on cushions of air instead of wheels, So light and versatile you can use it stressed science and industry. One and foresters cutting down jungles for most of your gardening chores. pavilion had a rocketport in which a with laser beams rather than saws. Many use it every time they garden! gun sent a rocketship across inter- Three years after the New York • Lightweight. Just 76 pounds. planetary fair fair closed, Antonio staged • Tills, Cultivates, Weeds, and more! space and, although San an • Tills like a Rear-Tine. To 9" deep. goers in 1939 weren't quite so amazed international exposition—HemisFair at this prospect as 1915 visitors had '68—for the 250th anniversary of the been, many still called it fantasy. founding of San Antonio. This fair, Another memorable pavilion was with a Pan American accent, was a For information, send to: recreation of the Masport America Inc. Futurama, a General Motors trans- Western Hemisphere Masport 200 Gate5Rd., Dept. ALH-25S6 portation exhibit in which a moving as it was when Hernando Cortez Sausalito, CA 94965 carry-go-round took visitors on a the Spanish conquerer of Mexico winding trip around the America arrived, as it had developed since, Name- forecast for 1960. The roads of the and as fair planners saw it for the Add ress_ future were shown as expressways, future. Its 622-foot-high Tower of the

City multi-laned highways, modern ramps Americas was the tallest observation and intricate bridge and tunnel net- tower in the Western Hemisphere. State- .Zip. works. Incredible or not, all became Expo '74, designed as an official PhoneJ- ) roads of the present during the 1960s event of the American Revolution Bi- ©1982 Masport America Inc. just as GM futurists had predicted. centennial celebration and the only The first American fair in the '60s major international exposition in the was the Century 21 Exposition in United States during the 1970s, was Do your Seattle in 1962. Along with the Space held in Spokane, WA. It was the first heels ache? Needle symbol, many exhibits envi- international exposition in this coun- sioned what we must do in the Space try since the accession of the U.S. to Age if we are to conquer space for the Bureau of International Exposi- peaceful purposes. Century 21 intro- tions in Paris and the first world's duced the country's first successful fair dedicated to the environment. In monorail with two trains that could keeping with this theme, 1,000 hom- transport passengers to the fair in 95 ing pigeons were released during the seconds, running back and forth on opening day ceremonies and fish two tracks between Seattle's shop- were stocked in reclaimed waters run- Why suffer another day with sore heels (and even heel spur aches) when Cushi-Heel Pillow ping area and the exposition. ning through the fair. gives you quick relief while you walk or run? In 1964-1965 New York presented Inside the United States Pavilion, Developed by an athlete who suffered just as the world's first billion-dollar exhibits put our environmental chal- you do, and who couldn't find anything which world's helped. His U.S. patented (No. 3,984,926) pads fair in Flushing Meadow Park. It lenges into historical and contempo- are exactly the right shape, density and com- honored both the 300th anniversary rary perspective, and the final scene pression to cushion the weight your heels must bear. Mailmen, housewives, waitresses, sales of the founding of New York City contrasted the joys and beauties of people, nurses, bartenders, school teachers, and our latest achievements in satel- nature with such ravages as strip min- people who must be on their feet all swear by them. Joggers, tennis, golf, basketball and rac- lites and outer space. The power and ing, smog, endless highway traffic and quetball players find they can now play in com- light exhibit—equal to 50 lighted fires that destroy the natural balance fort, even with heel spur problems. If not satis- fied, return within 10 days for full refund. Yankee Stadiums or 340,000 automo- of nature. Caldsron Products Inc. bile headlights—demonstrated the And this year, 1982, another A 13. P.O. Box 5117, Akron, Ohio 44313 (216) 864-8100 greatest concentration of light ever world's fair has opened. Known as Please send one pair of Cushi-Heel Pillows for only generated. Some buildings were so the Knoxville International Energy $5.95 postage and handling included. new in design they looked like fly- Exposition and located on the banks Save! Two pairs of Cushi-Heel Pillows for only $10.25 postage and handling included. ing saucers, sombreros or open um- of the Tennessee River, its emphasis Immediate delivery! brellas. is energy. 1982 World's Fair, Enclosed: check money order cash Shea Stadium was built to on The VISA MasterCard (accepted) house sports events. Along with the the first to be staged in the south- (Ohio residence add sales tax.) exotic foreign foods eaten at the fair, eastern United States, will run Check Men's shoe size Women's shoe size size: 6-7, 8-9 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 so many hot dogs were consumed that through October 31. 10-11, 12-13 Name one estimate figured visitors had eaten Despite the usual controversy to be Address enough to make a bridge of hot dogs expected over fairs and fair cities, City from Flushing Meadow Park to Knoxville met the criteria of the Bu-

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From Faith To Commitment

( Continued from page 13)

need to keep faith in our fellow men From my perspective there in Ha- Korea, and Southeast Asia, there and women whom we have elected noi, that reason became unequivo- really wouldn't be much freedom left. or appointed to lead us—those at cally clear. For having felt and seen Indeed, it is we veterans who have every level who, like our combat com- and listened to that Communist al- invested most heavily in the integrity manders, must also make "routine" ternative daily for seven years, ever of our nation and the values of free- decisions which have implications for stronger grew my conviction of pro- dom for which it stands. It is we who our collective survival. viding a non-Communist alternative should have the most faith in the To manifest our faith through sup- for the South Vietnamese, regardless fruits of that investment. And it is port, through encouragement or criti- of the outcome. And this was not just we who should provide the finest ex- cism: this is the "stuff" of our faith because I was living as a prisoner of ample of faith in America and her in one another. It is this mutual trust war. It was because we in Vietnam destiny, and her hopes for all those and faith which is the very heart of just as you in Korea, Europe or the held captive by their governments. our collective unity, our national Pacific had done before us—believed Finally, our faith in our God is a strength. And who should know bet- in and had faith in our country, our faith born of and nurtured by a very ter than we who learned such faith people and our cause. special spiritual relationship. The through our unspoken dependence When we returned to America after irony of this lies in the realization upon one another in time of war? our one year tour, or our seventh that in seemingly Godless wars and Third, what about keeping faith in year, we continued to see and hear Godless prisons, that relationship of America, and for all that she stands? all the bad in our country—all the love and dependence upon God be- Sometimes in that continuous sti- negative, all the sensational media comes all the stronger. In few circum- fling wave of anti-American propa- snapshots of our society. And some- stances were any of us ever closer ganda—propaganda which constant- times, even today, in this continuing, to our God than when we faced ly emphasized all that was bad in our overwhelming wave of negative prop- chilling uncertainty, relentless pain country, all about which we had the aganda, it is difficult not to become or impending death. And we have least reason to be proud—I would sarcastic and cynical about the prayed! Only God Himself knows have to say to myself aloud, "Hey, United States, our government, and how hard, how desperately we've wait a minute, Babe! Don't believe our system of democracy. prayed. We've prayed simply to live. that crap! You are an American and It sometimes causes us to shake We've prayed to return home. And America is your home. You know our heads and say, "God, why did we the fact that we live today attests to better. Keep faith!" go through all of that for this?" When the fulfillment of those prayers and And I would then reach way back in fact we are the very ones who to the role of God in our survival. into my past, almost desperately, and should be able to see things most In prison, contemplation of the recall the words of a high school clearly. It is we, America's veterans, 23rd Psalm was frequently a part of civics teacher, or of a minister or of who should be setting the example my personal spiritual routine be- an uncle who had fought in World of faith in our country and our sys- cause it seemed so pertinent. Indeed, War II. I would remember all they tem because we have not only seen the dungeon-like cells of the North had told me about the reasons our the alternative, but have also seen Vietnamese prisons were my "valley country had endured and the reasons the lengths to which others will go of the shadow of death," and yet the for our collective strength and ac- to oppose or escape that alternative. Lord prepared "a table before me complishments, and the reason why Now we've seen the hundreds of in the presence of mine enemies." it was worth all the loyalty and dedi- thousands of Vietnamese "boat peo- And so long as I had life to resist and cation and sacrifice that had been ple" risking all their possessions and hope to return, my cup did indeed required to make it endure. their lives to escape the system that "runneth over." It ran over because But in the pain of torture or the America's efforts were intended to I knew I would be returning to a anguish of despair, it was sometimes preclude. We see Cuban, East Euro- beautiful and free America—the ab- more difficult to see things so clearly. pean and Soviet artisans, intellectu- solute antithesis of the Godless, in- In such moments, as in the din and als, athletes and workaday people de- humane system which held me. confusion of combat, or in the des- fecting in droves; the people of Po- Now, after all that we Americans perate ministration to a dying buddy, land being our most recent example. have been through with one another the seemingly sterile cause of free- Recently, while talking to a man and with God, surely the same faith dom and dignity just didn't seem to from Indonesia, we were discussing which sustained us through Him in make much sense. There were so America's role in the international adversity must sustain us now. But many times when there was no rela- community and he summarized our many things tend to work against tion to cause or purpose, when simple discussion by saying pensively: that here at home. The pace and survival was paramount . . . times "Well, you know, if it was not for complexity of our lives, the material- when each of us, every combat vet- America, there probably wouldn't be ism and permissiveness of our society eran, has cried out "What in God's very much freedom left in the world." frequently cloud the issues. All this name am I doing here? What is it all And he was right. in spite of once familiar reminders ". for? Why?" But then each time things Considering the recent history of like "In God we trust," or . . one evened out again—and through faith the world—the last 60 or 70 years—if nation, under God." We have only to alone—we concluded that there had it wasn't for the dedication and sac- peruse the Federalist Papers or study to be a reason and the strength of rifice of Americans in Europe and the quotations engraved upon som- that conviction made us press on. North Africa, and the Pacific, and ber shrines to the likes of Jefferson

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Stroke Prevention

(Continued from page 15)

do whites, preventing stroke, but your doctor whose pressure is over 160/95 as and at an earlier age than should be consulted before embark- hypertensive, and those between though whites experience far more ing on a sports program (particular- 140/90 and 160/95 as borderline hy- TIAs. ly if you are middle aged and have pertensive. Regardless of the exact led a sedentary life). The exercises figures, investigators have found that Preventing Strokes usually recommended include walk- hypertensive people suffer strokes at and ing briskly, running, tennis, swim- from five to 30 times the rate of New medications, operations your- ming and bicycling. Exercise has those with normal blood pressure. Dr. simple measures you can take been known to favorably interact with Marvin Moser, New York Medical self offer new hope for stroke pre- cholesterol in the body, lower blood College Professor of Medicine, says: vention. The first step is an annual pressure and reduce weight which "Approximately 85 percent of strokes medical checkup to identify and deal — may be why it lessens your risk of are the result of hypertension in pa- with potential health problems. prevented, stroke when pursued in a reasonable tients in their 50s and 60s." Hypertension can be fitness program. Hardening of the cerebral arteries and it is a primary risk factor. As Before beginning use of the contra- has been found in 92 percent of stroke Dr. Lot B. Page, Tufts University explains: ceptive pill, women should consult patients studied, and it is the result Professor of Medicine, major their physician because the pill can of a lifetime of bad habits. At birth, "Even though heredity is a raise blood pressure and even blood . . other factors arteries have smooth inner linings. determinant . two fats in some people. Stress, too, has But with time, thick, rough, fatty de- are required to actually induce (high salt in- been shown to raise both cholesterol posits form and narrow the passage- blood pressure) . One is high and blood pressure, so living a little way. Blockage slows the blood flow, take, the other is obesity." The good more relaxed style of life will prob- which leads to an increase in de- news is that in 95 percent of the cases pres- ably reduce your risk. posits. Blood clots also form on the of hypertensive patients, blood It is with TIAs, however, that the linings (which are primarily choles- sure can be controlled without ad- have been side effects. Unlike F.D.R.'s most dramatic successes terol plaques) . Should a bit of either verse anti- achieved. Since blood clots are sus- thrombus or plaque break off, it may day, doctors now have potent it's been pect in TIAs, doctors have turned to be swept along until it lodges in a hypertension drugs, and cerebral artery causing an embolic- shown that simply eliminating addi- type stroke. Sometimes, too, neck or tional salt from food and a reduction cerebral arteries become blocked by in weight can materially reduce ab- blood clots or plaques to produce a normal pressures. Concerning smoking, thrombotic-type stroke, the most Atherosclerosis is largely still a common kind. matter of prevention. All evidence obesity and strokes—if you in the When thickened, stiff atheroscler- points to high cholesterol levels smoke, stop; if you're otic vessels develop, blood pressure blood as the chief villain. Special fats rises in order to force the life-giving diets with drastically reduced overweight, reduce. liquid through. In its turn, hyper- and cholesterol have been shown to tension damages arterial walls so stop the progression of hardening of re- that hardening begins or, if already the arteries and even to actually present, accelerates. Hypertension duce existing plaques and other thinners, drugs which prevent can also cause arterial walls to burst blockages. blood stop recurrent TIAs and and produce a cerebral hemorrhage Medical experts advise avoiding clotting, to consequently, the development of stroke such as F.D.R. suffered. high-cholesterol foods such as eggs, Although often suc- So hypertension and atherosclero- red meat, dairy products and satu- serious strokes. veal are cessful, these drugs are potent and sis are the primary culprits in stroke, rated fats. Fish, poultry and leave the patient in danger of hemor- but there are other risk factors as usually recommended, but in limited rhage anywhere in the body. Careful well. Among them are cigarette smok- quantities, and skim milk is allowed. regular laboratory tests of those using ing, which has been found to Plant foods such as vegetables, fruits such drugs are an absolute must for your risk of stroke. Heart disease, and grains are cholesterol free. De- safety. diabetes, excessive weight, a seden- tailed diets are available from the De- Another exciting discovery in the tary way of life and constant stress American Heart Association, the field of stroke prevention is described also increase your risk. Although no partment of Agriculture and the De- Ser- by one of its pioneers, Dr. William age is entirely immune to stroke, in- partment of Health and Human Professor of Neurology at creasing age does raise the risk and vices. However, it is best to check S. Fields, University of Texas: "Aspirin re- the 60s are generally considered the with your doctor before making any the duces or results in cessation of TIAs peak period. major dietary changes to assure your and among males there is a 50 per- Gender is yet another risk factor. safety. reduction in death and disability Roughly twice as many men as Concerning smoking and obesity, cent from stroke." The most effective dos- women suffer strokes and TIAs. Al- there is little that can be said here age is still being debated, with as though the menopause increases a that hasn't already been said before little as a half tablet daily now being woman's chance of stroke, this is due, —if you smoke, stop; if you're over- considered effective. Both because the in part, to increasing age. Race, too, weight, reduce. also useful in amount is likely to prove the key to is a factor—blacks suffer more strokes Proper exercise is

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Puzzling Visions Of The Near-Dead

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peace- are in accidents this near-death ex- me things I can go back and sub- death conjures up images of a the distaste of perience may last only minutes. And stantiate, it becomes more and more ful after-life to soothe as soon as it's over, their pain is difficult to shrug off. There's some- dying. The trouble with that explana- people there." thing going on here, and it can't be tion is that it assumes the Plainly, there's not any one theory explained in traditional ways." knew they were facing death. This is that can explain all aspects of the But Dr. Sabom is not prepared to not true in many instances. near-death visions. And none can ex- say these experiences represent a And there's another strange aspect plain how some patients can describe journey into after-life. There is, he that contradicts such interpretations. things they've seen while uncon- says, considerable difference between One doctor tells of a man who, as he things that could not be seen being near-death and dead, and that lay dying, saw a vision of two of his scious, Actually, one from the patient position. For ex- it's possible there may be a separa- brothers, both dead. ample, one man who suffered a heart tion of the mind from the physical had died only two days previously, If attack reported seeing a nurse timing brain, but he won't speculate beyond a fact the dying man didn't know. of in- the resuscitation procedure, even that. he was fantasizing on the basis mind, though she was standing behind him The fact is, there is no definitive formation stored in his own well outside his visual field. medical or legal definition of exactly how could he have expected to see and describe the machinery in when the moment of death occurs. the spirit of someone he didn't know Others re- the operating room, the position of Natural death is a gradual process. was dead? Other doctors have even the pattern on the First individual cells die, then tis- ported similar cases. the surgeons, beneath the operating table. sues, then organs and vital systems, Another explanation is that lack of floor believes more cases until the entire body ceases to func- oxygen to the brain could create an Dr. Sabom * would be reported if doctors and tion. Traditionally, clinical death has illusion of floating. But Dr. Sabom listen. "The been based on the absence of heart- doubts that would explain the star- nurses were trained to stories are very personal and hard to beat and breathing. There is, how- tling experiences reported by survi- words, and people are afraid ever, a period of five to- 10 minutes vors. A person deprived of oxygen does put into them." following that during which a rein- hallucinate, but his thinking is mud- others will laugh at Clack, a staff assistant at statement of blood circulation will dled, his speech slurred. "The think- Tommy Georgia where prevent the brain from dying for want ing of the people I've talked to is a Veterans Hospital in practices, says he believes 80 of oxygen. And so, more recently the crisp and dear. These aren't halluci- Sabom veterans definition of death has centered nations. What these people report to 90 percent of Vietnam injuries had around "brain death." seeing actually did occur, and has who suffered serious visions similar to his, but Some critics of the life-after-death been verified." near-death theory claim that most of the deaths Ronald Siegel, a University of Cal- don't want to talk about it. explosive have occurred where brain death ifornia researcher, has written several Tommy was hit by an the Cambodian could not be established by a verifi- papers in which he insists the experi- while fighting on he realized able electroencephalograph (EEG) ences described by revived patients border in 1969. Suddenly above the battle- reading. But in 1979 Dr. Fred are similar to hallucinations reported he was floating at his own body, Schoonmaker, chief of cardiology at by users of drugs like LSD. But dur- field, looking down them put it in a helicopter St. Lukes Hospital in Denver, re- ing the psychologists' convention in watching hospital. "I saw leased the findings of his 18-year Los Angeles, these views were severe- and take it to the in the operating room, study of 2,300 patients who had had ly attacked by Dr. Glen Gabbard of the doctors I was back at the a close brush with death. Of the num- the Menninger Clinic in Topeka as then somehow men were there ber, over 1,400 (70 percent) reported being "too limited, in that they offer battlefield, and my died be- near-death experiences. As a cardi- no answers to information perceived with me, the ones that had individuals. I felt each ologist at the scene of death, he was in the out-of-body state which is sub- fore me. As communicated. Then I was able to report 55 solid cases in which sequently verified, as reported by one, we hospital and the doctors completely "flat" EEG readings had Sabom." Data which doesn't fit into back at the revive me. The next been observed, some for up to three Siegel's theory are ignored, Gabbard were trying to days later and hours. In Schoonmaker's professional maintains. thing I knew it was 10 wanted to tell opinion, these people were medically Moreover, people who have ex- I was alive. Nobody legs, but they didn't dead, yet they regained conscious- perienced both near-death and drug- me I had lost my seen for myself what ness, some inexplicably, and reported related hallucinations say the two are have to—I had having near-death experiences. completely different. happened." experience convinced him By no means do all scientists be- Another theory advanced by some The good after this lieve near-death experiences reveal detractors is that the brain, under "there is something anything genuine about a possible stress, may release certain recently life." Certainly, scientists are not willing after-life. In fact, some are quite ada- discovered chemicals called endor- stand on the religious sig- mant in opposing such an idea. phins that are found to soothe pain to take a all this. But some have What, then, do they offer to ex- and bring a feeling of tranquility. But nificance of affected by what plain such strange happenings? once again, this doesn't quite fit the been profoundly witnessed. "No one who One alternate explanation that has facts, says Sabom. "When endorphins they have meets these people and hears their been advanced is that it's all wishful are injected, they provide pain relief without being thinking, that the person facing for hours. But for many people who stories can come away

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Commanders Message

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healthy bodies to become good Ameri- themselves on the field of competi- cans, they are equally dedicated to tion—and this year, like last year, those of our children who are mental- thousands of kids with dreams of big ly handicapped or physically dis- league baseball in their hearts are abled. For all of our children have an warming up in the same way that important role to play in the future hundreds of their major league idols of this nation. did before them. Over the years I've served at a The coaches, the players and the

Carol's illness prevented her from clirrlbing these number of Boys State conferences Legion volunteers who make the pro- stairs like she used to. She could move to a one-story and as a counselor at the Texas Boys gram work each year know they're house, but she loves this house. A Cheney Weco/ator J " State. I've watched scores of Amer- not simply preparing for nine young- solved Carol's problem by letting her ride from floor ica's leaders of the future attend Boys sters to play nine innnings of our na- to floor quickly and comfortably. As the first stairway

elevator to be UL-listed, it's virtually maintenance- State and return to their communities tional pastime in each game. The

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They have in citizenship, loyalty, respect for learned, by virtue of their Boys State rules, physical fitness and fair play $449.00 participation, how rich and varied is went hand-in-hand with the playing 9&*tf our heritage, how complex is our of each game. system of government, and how im- My first official duty as your Na- portant is our way of life not just to tional Commander following the Ha- Americans, but to the entire free waii Convention was to attend the world. 1981 baseball finals at Sumter, SC. I Compare Our hhwk . a u a Last year, more than boys can assure all Legionnaires that com- Bngss Stra,,on 30,000 With A Smaller Mustang Or 26" \ * * "16 "" The Overpriced »00$1500 CUT 9 m who had completed their junior year petition—and the lessons of citizen- " f Units t You'll See Why. 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