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STAR WARS: CHANGING STRATEGY IN A VOLATILE WORLD 18

The choices are clear. It's either SDI or assured destruction. By Lt. Gen. Daniel 0. Graham AMERICA'S VULNERABILITY FROM SPACE 20 Are we headedfor a nuclearPearl Harbor? By Steve Salerno MAFIA ON THE RUN 22

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'A PIECE OF MY HEART' 34 Dark memories ofwomen who survived the horrors ofwar. APLASTIC ANEMIA: THE OTHER BLOOD DISEASE 36 26 A mysterious, often fatal, disease stalks our nation 's youth. By Edward Edelson

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BIG ISSUES Should SDI Be A Bargaining Chip In Arms Negotiations? 10

LETTERS 4 LEGION NEWS BRIEFS 46 VETERANS ADVISER 56

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION 50 ORBEN'S WORLD 75

DATELINE WASHINGTON 8 POST OF THE MONTH 52 PARTING SHOTS 80

VETERANS UPDATE 38 VETERANS ALERT 54 THE COVER Test-firing the rail gun, an SDI space weapon. Starlight Photo By Roger Ressmeyer. 32

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Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women the average person . . . because 1 saw so There is no surplus in the treasury, " Who SeiTcd in Vietnam, says that perhaps much death and destruction. I saw what and the till is being stuffed with lOUs so little has been heard "because we are happens when people stop communicat- and broken promises. Why leave future used to thinking of women as safely away ing." generations a nation that is morally and from combat areas, shielded from the For a further glimpse of the heroism, the economically bankrupt? There must be realities of war" agony and the sacrifices of America's a dollar limit and a time limit to this In Vietnam, there were no safe areas, women who served in Vietnam, turn to and the only reality was death. Nurses page 34. insanity. Why wait any longer? practiced their profession despite the daily The Editors John F. Sisson Arvada. Colo.

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HEN our annual Washing- champion team, asking their support in ton Conference convenes this national effort. These youngsters this month, we will have offer exemplary role models for their the opportunity to generate friends and lend credence to the excel- several new initiatives on lence and success of our program. behalf of America's veter- Many young men already have taken ans and the nation's youth: advantage of one of our most successful • We will carry our concern about programs—American Legion Base- threats to the VA health-care system ball. In 1986 we succeeded in reversing directly to your representatives and a slow, but steady decline in the number senators on Capitol Hill. of teams sponsored by posts since 1982. • We will intensify our drug abuse We recorded a modest gain of 64 new education programs in America's com- teams, bringing the total number to munities. 3,656. Considering that 53 percent of • We will renew the vigor of one of all major league baseball players in our most popular youth programs 1985 at some time played American

American Legion Baseball. Legion Baseball, it is gratifying to This month is our first opportunity to see a resurgence of this outstanding present to your representatives and Americanism program. senators the results of our user survey of Nafl Cnulr. Jciiucs P. Dean We believe there is no activity more VA health-care facilities nationwide. As truly American, with its aim to give this issue of THti American Legion materials supporting a nationwide edu- every boy in every community in our Magazine went to press, survey ques- cation program for children and their nation an opportunity to be a member of tionnaire data were being compiled and families. These materials, available a team, to be a team worker, to be a analyzed for the Washington Confer- from our National Americanism and competitor for honors in a game in ence. Children and Youth Division, include a which winners and losers alike prove Once again we arc proving that, by new brochure with messages from the themselves to be aggressive, alert, and far, only the poorest, oldest and most American Legion Auxiliary national lovers of fair play. It is through pro- infirm veterans apply for VA health care president and me, and from the Presi- grams such as this that we can reassure and that in spite of a steadily declining dent of the United States. our children that we believe in them and share of the federal budget, the VA is In a recent conversation with Presi- we are doing all we can to highlight the one of the most efficiently run govern- dent Reagan, I outlined what The Amer- positive attributes of our youth. ment agencies. ican Legion has done in the past, and I As your National Commander. I

It's important to remember that, over committed every available resource at deeply appreciate the cooperation of all the years, we have established a posi- our command to join him and the First Legionnaires involved in this initiative, tive rapport with VA officials, and we Lady in getting drug awareness infor- and in all other American Legion pro- have a history of frank and open discus- mation to the nation's youth through our grams. Personal contact in our com- sion with Congress. American Legion Children and Youth program. munities is the key to furthering the war legislative efforts have been instrumen- The drug problem often is a family against drug abuse and promoting our tal in exempting programs for veterans problem. I believe that it can be addres- Americanism programs. from automatic cuts called for by the sed at the family level, rather than Personal contact with your legis- Gramm-Rudman budget-saving act, spending so much time and effort on lators concerning veterans affairs is the and our VA hospital user survey is only locking people up, and we intend to dry key to their understanding current the latest of our efforts to seek informa- up the market with this program. threats to the VA system. Through these tion vital to the future of the veterans I am sending letters to the 1986 efforts, we are giving new life to our health-care system. graduates of Boys Nation, 1986 depart- pledge of devotion to mutual helpful-

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the National Research Council of the National Academy of Pentagon's Revolving Door Sciences has called for a federal prohibition against smoking The "revolving door" syndrome appears to be swinging in on commercial airlines. Scheuer says the restriction would other agencies besides the highly publicized White House- improve both health and safety of passengers and crews. Michael Deaver case, says a General Accounting Office Scheuer also is concerned that ozone and other air con- report on the Defense Department and its private contractors. taminants, coupled with low relative humidity, may act with The GAO found that 26 percent of former mid- and high- smoke to increase its harmful effects. level defense officials had made decisions at the Pentagon With 28 percent of Americans taking at least one air trip that affected their current employers. Twenty-one percent of annually, and with some 70,000 flight attendants working the ex-officials now work on the same program or weapons long hours inside the cabins, the time has come to do away system they were responsible for at the Pentagon. During with on-board smoking, Scheuer said. their last two years at the Pentagon, 33 percent came in contact with representatives of the defense contractor for whom they now work. Forty-five percent continue to do Government lobs Grow business with the old-boy network at the Pentagon and 6 While employers around the country are being forced to let percent do so on a daily basis. workers go, jobs with federal, state and local governments While the study did not uncover any specific wrongdoings, grew by 254,000 to a total of 16,690,000 as of October 1985, it did find that many former defense officials are not report- the Commerce Department reports. That's an increase of ing employment with Pentagon contractors as required. about 1.5 percent over 1984. Provisions to toughen the restrictions on mid- and high- The largest gain, 2.7 percent, was in federal hirings. There level positions were incorporated into the 1987 defense was a 2.2 percent increase in state employment and 0.9 budget authorization before Congress adjourned. percent in local governments. Federal civilian employment increased primarily in national defense, international relations and postal areas, which Live-sightings Continue account for more than 61 percent of the workers. State and local government employment rose in education, health and There have been 91 unresolved first-hand sightings of correctional activities, which hire 52 percent of the employees. POWs and MIAs in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Leonard H. Peroots, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. But only 12 of these Getting The Bugs Out reports have reached the Pentagon since 1982. The new $300-million U.S. embassy complex in Moscow 'Although the number is small," Peroots said, "we attach is so infested with "bugs" of the electronic species that it may extreme importance to each and every report we receive." have to be torn down before it is completed, and Rep. William There were no reported live-sightings in 1985. S. Broomfield of Michigan is boiling about the situation. He also said no one knows whether Americans who may be Although no action was taken on the congressman's reso- alive in Southeast Asia are there voluntarily or against their lution before the 99th Congress adjourned, it would have will. A study of all information available suggests the strong prohibited the Soviets from occupying their new embassy in possibility of prisoners still being held by Vietnam. (See Washington until the "bugging" problem is corrected at our related story, page 42.) embassy in Moscow. Broomfield said recent reports show that State Department Legal Dope Problems technicians found electronic devices planted in the precast pillars, floors and walls in the Moscow embassy. As constuc- Just about every American is aware of the national prob- tion continues, more are being found. lems stemming from illegal imports of heroin, cocaine and The congressman said that Soviet workers built the shell of other illegal drugs, but little publicity has been focused on the the building and then were banned from the site. It was at this growing problem of prescription-drug abuse and misuse. point that U.S. technicians checked the building. Discovery Sen. Dave Durenberger of Minnesota said that a recent of the listening devices may result in the U.S. government Food and Drug Administration report indicated that 50 per- demolishing the building before it is occupied. 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Should SDI Be A Bargaining Ciiip In Arms Negotiations?

Rep. Norman D. Dicks, D-Wash. Rep. Jim Courier, R-N.J.

The President's concept On March 23, 1983, the Ad- of Strategic Defense Inita- ministration launched the tive is many things to YES Strategic Defense Initiative, many people. As envisioned, it is a highly a research program designed to explore complex structure of layered defenses de- technologies for rendering ballistic mis- signed to protect against incoming missiles. siles obsolete. In 1983, the Soviet SDI

SDI is a research program to study the program was more than 25 years old and practical and technical feasibility of being funded to the tune of $10 billion to achieving such a system, which is decades $15 billion per year. away from deployment. Profound advances in computer soft- The advocates of SDI negotiation speak with the same ware technology, targeting and design would be necessary voices that promised the United States greater security as a before even a limited type of layered defensive structure could result of the ABM and SALT treaties. Under the ABM Treaty, be deployed. But, as a research program, it can provide both sides agreed to deploy only insignificant ballistic missile bargaining leverage for achieving an arms reduction agreement defenses (the United States later dismantled even these with the Soviet Union. modest systems). Under the SALT treaties, both sides agreed There are some policy concerns that must be addressed to limitations on strategic offensive forces, to be followed by before leaping into a defensive arms race. Certainly the Soviets significant reductions in these forces. The virtual absence of are concerned about the potential offensive capability of the defenses and the reductions in offenses were intended to be type of missile-killing devices envisioned by the United States the main constituents of a program to perpetuate the "mutual in this so-called "Star Wars" program. Adevice that is designed assured destruction" doctrine. to destroy Soviet missiles as they are launched or in flight could Unfortunately, the promise of security through anns control have offensive potential, and, therefore, the research program proved elusive. Until 1967, the Soviet Union was convinced can push the Soviets into concessions that could be highly of the value of ballistic missile defenses. Since then, the advantageous to us and promote stability. Should we "barter," Soviets have publicly endorsed the MAD doctrine, while then, with the SDI to achieve deep cuts in Soviet offensive 10,000 Soviet scientists covertly pressed on with their SDI arms? program. They now have a full ABM system around Moscow Yes. There are ways in which agreements can be reached to 10,000 interceptor missiles capable of destroying some U.S. constrain the research on the SDI program, postponing ultimate ballistic missiles — and a sophisticated system of radars. The deployment, in return for cuts in Soviet missiles. This is the United States has no defenses against ballistic missile attack. choice the President faced in Reykjavik: He was forced to Before the SALT treaties were signed, the Soviet Union choose between two of his major arms control objectives had 2,300 ballistic missile warheads. After 14 years of "arms achieving mutual and deep cuts in offensive weapons and com- control," the Soviet Union has more than 8,000 ballistic- mitting the United States to building the anti-missile shield. He missile warheads and threatens each of our important military was not prepared in Reykjavik to discuss limiting the SDI centers with at least three warheads. Obviously, negotiations program, even though an added benefit of such an agreement proved very fruitful for the Soviet Union, which explains would have been that, with fewer Soviet missiles to defend their eagerness to have SDI on the table. against, the task of designing an effective SDI system would be Rather than bargaining away SDI, we should deploy those made much easier. defensive systems that are available now, as the Soviets Although the offer remains technically on the table, many already have done. These systems could be complemented of us in Congress worry about the potential of launching later by more robust, effective systems. The net result would another round of uncon- be a reduction in the effec- strained arms buildup, if YOUR OPINION COUNTS, TOO tiveness and value of bal- progress is not forthcom- listic missiles on both sides. Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- ing at the Geneva arms re- This way, SDI would be a points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), catalyst for, rather than an duction talks. I hope the U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), U.S. President will reconsider House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. impediment to, real nuclear his position. arms reductions.

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I told him, thinking it would put his The Hallowed Ground mind at ease. "That's what I wanted to talk to you

about, colonel. I want to go forward."

"I'll never feel right if I don't go up when I'm needed," he said. "I'm needed now. I'm older than most of these kids. ofl^MO I've had a lot of experience looking after myself while hunting back home. I can HERO ISLAND— Ga//an- look after them up forward." try was common on Iwo Jima, and Sgt. Elmer "All right," I said, "I'll grant your Montgomery, a Blble-tot- request, but only because you're old ing Marine clerk, was enough to know what you're doing and

among the bravest. because it means so much to you."

I never saw Elmer again. A Marine from his front-line unit told me the story: The platoon commander had been killed and Elmer was assigned, under a staff sergeant, as assistant platoon com- mander. The order came to attack. The patched-up platoon moved across a slight rise and into a small saucer-shaped

area where it was pinned down by a carefully camouflaged Japanese machine gun. If the men tried to move back, the gun would get them. If they stayed, they would soon be blasted apart by mortars. Elmer crawled and rolled within yell- Work piled high, and the hours were ing distance of the staff sergeant. "When By Brig. Gen. J.D. Hitde long in that little Quonset hut office. I draw the fire," Elmer shouted, "roll the But, when Elmer did have a moment, I platoon back over the rise." And while LATE February each noticed he would lean his chair against the platoon commander was shouting year, my mind reaches the wall and pull a small, white, leather- "No!" Sgt. Montgomery stood up and, back to a little island in the covered Bible from the hip pocket of his firing his rifle from his hip, walked into far Pacific called Iwo Jima fatigues. Wherever the Bible fell open the machine gun. and a man named Elmer nN in his hand, he would begin to read They never found Elmer. A few min- Montgomery. and find serenity. utes after his platoon reached safety our We first met on Guam in artillery laid down a barrage on the late 1944 during the final REMEMBER one evening, when we machine-gun emplacement. The big phases of that campaign. I I were working late, Elmer's glance shells churned the ground and everything had been ordered to take over logistics fell on a stack of books. "I see you on it mercilessly. He and his little white, for the 3rd Marine Division. We needed have a copy of Omar Khayyam's Rubai- leather-covered Bible became, forever, a clerk-typist, and Sgt. Elmer yat," he said. "It's one of my favorites." part of the hallowed ground of Iwo Jima. Montgomery reported. "What's your favorite verse?" I asked. I suppose memories fade and maybe Elmer looked like the vindication of "I sometimes think that never blows Sgt. Mongtomery's Navy Cross is almost the whole Marine Corps personnel sys- so red, the rose as where some buried forgotten. But whenever I think back to tem. He wore the stripes of a buck Caesar bled," he responded. He had it all the brave men I have been privileged sergeant, but there was nothing tough perfect. to know, Elmer heads the list. And or fierce about this young Montanan. In February 1945 we sailed for Iwo whenever my eye falls on a copy of the His sensitive face, deep-set eyes, thin, Jima. After several days of fierce fight- Rubaiyat, I can't help but believe that if almost frail figure hardly matched the ing, division staff sections were ordered a rose were ever to bloom where Elmer gung-ho Marine prototype. to provide replacements for badly fell, it would be redder than any "where As we began to work together, I be- mauled front-line units. I had to provide some buried Caesar bled." came more and more convinced that two. It's not a pleasant job to pick men On Nov. 21, 1970, while serving as Elmer was the right man in the right trained in support tasks for the "meat assistant secretary of the Navy for Man- job. He typed well, took shorthand, grinder," but I selected the two I power and Reserve, 1 had the pleasure to understood administration, kept things thought could best be spared from my be the speaker at the launching cere- moving. He was a perfect man behind supply operation. I was about to send monies for the Knox-class frigate Elmer the man behind the gun. the names to the division adjutant when Montgomery. Ifanyone had asked ifI had After Guam was secured, attention my XO popped into my dugout. Sgt. used my influence to have the ship named shifted to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Montgomery wanted to see me. after that heroic Marine, I could have Reprinted bv permission. The San Diego Union. The sergeant saluted and informed answered the questioner honestly: "I Copyright 1987. me he had heard about the call for rein- sure did!"

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we cannot do anything about all the evidence to verify pre- i ' it. If another Cuban missile vious conclusions about crisis should come along, we Soviet military capabilities.

would have to be a lot more Team B, as it was called, leery of the Soviets actually was headed up by Dr. using theirnuclear capability STMn Richard Pipes, a Harvard his- this time. tory professor and former Likewise, if just one director of East European

Soviet SS- 1 8 missile carrying and Soviet Affairs at the Na-

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our direction, either by acci- team, I participated in draft- dent or otherwise, the Presi- ing its 1976 report — a report dent would have only two that drew a much more choices: push the button for ominous estimate. As a mat-

World War III or accept the ter of fact, it was obvious to devastation of 10 U.S. cities-. Team B that the Soviets were Although this is a worst- trying to build a war-winning case scenario, this great CHANGING STRATEGY capability against the United country of ours today stands States and its allies in the utterly defenseless against nuclear and conventional the danger of an annihilating IN A VOLATILE WORLD arenas. nuclear attack. Yet, the polls Statistically, the CIA had indicate that at least 60 per- estimated the Soviets were cent of our citizens are una- By Lf. Gen. Daniel O. Graham putting no more than 3 per- ware of the nation's vulnera- cent to 5 percent of Gross bility. They can't believe McNamara adopted the no- years, our primary intelli- National Product into their

that our government would defense strategy of Mutual gence service, the CIA, vastly military when, in fact, it was choose to leave the country Assured Destruction, or underestimated Soviet mili- more like 12 percent to 15 totally and deliberately un- MAD. It theorized that by tary capabilities and inten- percent. Although the CIA defended. leaving the United States tions. estimates were raised sub- In the mid-1960s, then deliberately defenseless stantially after the Team B Defense Secretary Robert against nuclear attack, the DURING the latter part of report, the agency's analysts Soviets would do the same the Nixon administra- again tried to revise down-

on their side. Thus, it was tion, the President's ward their estimate of the believed, neither side would Foreign Intelligence Advisory Soviet military's share of attack the other for fear of Board (PFIAB) began look- GNP to about 8 percent, or being counter-attacked and ing at the rosy assessments thereabouts, compared to destroyed in return. Unfortu- ctMiiing from the CI A and the 6.5 percent for the United nately, Moscow never got Board of National Estimates. States. the message, and MAD be- The assessments were con- Assessing Soviet military came OAD, Our Assured stantly saying things such as, strength is difficult at best. Destruction. As another de- 'Well, the Soviets cannot Although our reconnais- fense secretary, Harold solve the anti-submarine sance satellites take many Brown, conceded a decade problem for at least the next pictures of the Soviet Union,

later: "When we build, they 10 years," and "the Soviets there is much that this so- j dif- called national de- build; when we stop build- are having economic means of j ing, they build." ficulties, which will slow tection cannot do, especially | Americans have a right to down their military produc- when cloud cover intervenes Lr. Gen. Daniel O. Graham ask why this asymmetry per- tion." Such conclusions were or the Soviets practice con-

( USA. Ret.), former deputy sisted for so long, despite repeated and rationalized cealment, which they gener- director of the CIA and later Moscow's relentless arms year after year, despite evi- ally do. But even our most DIA head, is the director of buildup, the greatest in his- dence to the contrary. efficient and costly collec- High Frontier, a private think tory. A major reason is that In time, the PFIAB mem- tion efforts are not very use- tank that spawned SDI. for much of the past 20 bers, being a sophisticated ful if the people analyzing

18 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SPACE ARTILLERY - One MIRROR WIZARDRY - The of SDI's defensive layers 1985 U.S. -made Nova, the may include the elec- world's most powerful laser, "beyond reasonable doubt found there was always one tromagnetic rail gun, which employs a system of mirrors analysis that said the would orbit in space to de- that the Soviet leadership did kind of to amplify and aim devastat- stroy incoming missiles. not subscribe to MAD but Soviets are in terrible eco- ing beams of light. regarded nuclear weapons as nomic trouble and therefore tools of war whose proper cannot or will not build up the information have a bias employment, in offensive as their military capability. But Today, they have 44,000 that destroys its utility. I've well as defensive modes, this has never been true. tanks and continue to turn

seen it happen when, for promised victory.") Amid all the economic de- out strategic missiles in pro- ideological reasons, some of vastation following World duction-line fashion. They're the top analysts I've dealt SOMETIMES a bias can War II, the Soviets never also building two new types with would suppress evi- be ascribed to wishful changed their priorities from of bombers and more sub- dence. They didn't want to thinking. In my 17 years the military to the civilian marines. There simply isn't a talk about the evidence be- in strategic intelligence, I sector. contest between guns and

cause it ran counter to their butter in the Soviet Union. basic world Nor is there any contest be- outlook. POWERHOUSE — The particle-beam fusion accelerator Pipes has commented on is being used to create x-ray power for SDI. tween hawks and doves in the CIA's lack of concern the Kremlin. That's another over the unexpected buildup myth. It's either very naive of Soviet strategic capabili- "mirror-imaging" or it's de-

ties in the 1 970s , and that the signed to have a political im-

USSR had deployed 1 1 new pact in the United States. strategic systems against Aside from such miscalcu- only one deployed by the lations, there is the question United States. All this, he of whether our intelligence noted, was "brushed aside community has been pene- with arguments that made trated by the Soviets. It is sense only in terms of the perfectly obvious to me that MAD doctrine." (Pipes, they have been able to do so however, said Team B found Continued on page 58

FEBRUARY 1987 19 —

AMERICA'S VULNERABILITY FROM SPACE

SOUTHWEST Russia, near the Afghanistan bor- ARE SOVIET SPACE WEAPONS der, a very special kind of gun is aimed skyward. Its CAPABLE OF KNOCKING OUT nNgoal is not to put up flak or to shoot down incoming OUR EARUV^ WARNING SYSTEM? missiles. When it is fired, there is no apocalyptic blast and no mushroom cloud. Its bullets are virtually silent and By Steve Salerno invisible. Nor can the gun do any direct damage to the United States. In fact, the bulk of our ICBMs in their silos. sophisticated alternative. In the past six weapon's target is about 23,000 miles The current goal of the Soviets' months, powerful Soviet ground-to- overhead, in deep space. ASAT program is to subvert American space microwaves are believed to have But this unique Soviet gun, with its reconnaissance through two principal disabled U.S. reconnaissance satellites high-energy microwave output, may means: spoofing (the sending of errone- on more than one occasion. well be the most dangerous weapon ous data that will confuse or mislead At the heart of Moscow's new ASAT America faces as it approaches the ground technicians) or jamming (the program is the phenomenon known as era of space warfare. For lost amid all total interruption of data transmission). electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. Con- the rhetoric about the current adminis- Used effectively, either technique sisting of disruptive and electrically tration's SDI space defense system is would allow Moscow to embark upon disorganized waves of magnetic activ- Moscow's own venture into advanced unseen military actions. ity, EMP is usually spoken of as one of anti-satellite —or ASAT— weapons. the incidental complications of nuclear And as one newsmagazine recently the past few years, the war. Scientists have known for years editorialized, "A breakthrough in anti- BEFORE Soviets relied a that an atmospheric nuclear blast gener- satellite weaponry could very well be a had on more con- that ates electromagnetic shock waves, breakthrough to chaos." ventional ASAT system, one which can temporarily disrupt commu- Reasons for such concern are not orchestrated a collision between our satellites and Soviet co-orbital inter- nications. For example, it is theorized hard to find. The mission of the U.S. ceptors. In this scenario, that a lone lO-megaton warhead deto- reconnaissance satellites now believed Moscow would nated a few miles up in the atmosphere to be targeted by Russian high-tech launch a bomb that circled the earth in

, could, an orbit designed to bring it to a rendez- over Cheyenne Mountain. Colo. weaponry is to monitor the military vous with the desired satellite. fora time, disable much of the sensitive status of the Soviet Union. In particular, When the close communications machinery that links the probes are on the lookout for ele- two objects were together, the Russian weapon would detonate, send- NORAD to its airborne units. ments, such as unusual activity at mis- ing tons of shrapnel into our probe. effects are hard to predict be- sile silos, that could predict a sudden To EMP this day, the Soviet secret base atTyura- cause our experience with nuclear assault on NATO or the United States. tan in Central Asia is believed to serve weapons in everyday settings fortu- The key to our retaliatory capacity as a storehouse of boosters and warheads nately has been quite limited. A nuclear and the key to deterrence as well — is for the device has not been used above ground sufficient early warning of a Soviet to be used purpose. the United States since 1963. How- launch. Only through such warning can However, the efficacy of the Soviet by always been ever, after a 1962 Pacific test, the ef- we hope to avoid a pre-emptive attack: interceptor program has suspect. In tests since its in fects of EMP were observed in Hawaii: a nuclear Pearl Harbor that destroys the deployment 1968, the system has a success rate of House alarms went off without appar-

Steve Salerno is a California-based no better than 50 percent. ent cause; streetlights flickered; car free-lance author who writes on defense Therefore, in 1980, the Soviets ignitions refused to crank; and radio issues ofAmerica. began turning to a more technologically broadcasts were beset with static.

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to our SHOCK WAVES -/\ nuclear blast in There is little doubt of outlook for national retaliatory space can disrupt communications that among experts that the security would have to are vital to the nation's defense. EMP-bearing micro- capacity is be considered grim." waves currently being All the more worri- satellites in varying orbits, is consid- employed by the Soviets adequate some is that doubts ered a vast improvement over current can play havoc with the early warning about our space shuttle versions. However, it depends on sur- functioning of our satel- program, coupled with mounting our present launch woes and lites; this happens when of a Soviet the recent unreliability deploying the system. the short-wave beams of our Titan rockets, launch. strike and the satellite have left us without a ._URTHER, after a 1984 study, the can neither receive or- sure-fire way of putting "National Academy of Scientists of- ders from the United new satellites into orbit t fered a number of valuable recom- States nor transmit the on short notice. mendations to reduce the threat of EMP all-important pictures "The failure of a effects. Among them was the use of fiber

single launch . . .could that are the basis of U . S optics rather than metal wiring for elec- intelligence gathering. negate all our capabil- trical connections because the metal Some sources speculate that the Soviets ities for satellite reconnaissance for a acts as a conductor of damaging EMP also are experimenting with a second, protracted period of time," noted a waves. more destructive, ASAT option: ground- 1980 report, parts of which were re- But these are prescriptions for the based lasers. The laser transmitters are vealed recently. The report went on to future. For now, we have to hope that thought to be located at a Soviet mili- deem such a failure "disastrous for the current satellites can hold the fort until tary installation near Moscow. entire technical collection effort," po- the next generation of probes lifts off. If, indeed, some of our satellites tentially leading to our being "com- Against this backdrop, the adminis- already have been "dazzled"— infor- pletely blinded." tration's steadfastness on the Star Wars mation in this area is top secret—then The picture, however, is not al- issue seems to be less a matter of stub- reconnaissance of the Soviet Union together hopeless. Currently, under the bornness than survival. Said one Penta- now may be left to a small handful of Air Force's Spacecraft Technology pro- gon official, "Soviet willingness to cameras-in-the-sky. No doubt the suc- gram, we are developing solar panels attack satellites clearly calls into ques- cess of Soviet tests also would serve to that are more survivable and faster, and tion the sincerity of their alleged con- embolden their military leaders. Said communications hardware that is less cerns about SDI." one Pentagon source, "Maybe the worst prone to jamming. In 1985 alone, the Or, as Larry Speakes once described aspect of this is that the Soviets could Air Force spent nearly $150 million on the Soviets' call for a moratorium on get the idea they're capable of putting satellite survivability. Meanwhile, the anti-satellite weaponry: "It's simple; our surveillance craft out of business at Navy's Navstar Global Positioning they have an ASAT system and don't

will . . . The implications of that kind System, a planned network of up to 24 want us to have one."

FEBRUARY 1987 21 Interview

U.S. offorney Rudolph Giuliani of New York has played a central role in the war against organized crime. He discusses the mob's crippling losses in this interview.

CRIME BUSTER -G/u//an/ was the driving force ttiat brought eight Mafia bosses to trial, resulting in their subsequent convictions.

Myf/M OH THE WM ^our successful We got terrific cooperation from the New York State American Legion Magazine: J. prosecution of the Mafia's "big eight" marked a major n« Organized Crime Task Force under Ron Goldstock, and breakthrough in the government's war on organized trom District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman's office. Both of crime. How did you do it? these groups contributed prosecutors and agents to work along with the FBI and the New York City Police Depart-

Attorney Giuliani: It was a combination of factors. ment. Even Italian authorities helped out. I made a trip to Wc needed the RICO statute as the tool to bring the case Italy in 1984 with Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York, and together We needed electronic surveillance in order to gather members of my staff. We met with Italian officials who evidence on key suspects. We needed the witness protection agreed to supply us with a tremendous amount of information program to protect the lives of those who cooperated as that was very helpful. We had a good relationship with the witnesses. Mainly, we needed a group of dedicated and Italian authorities that continues to this day. They send people talented people who were willing to spend literally thousands over here to work on our investigations and we send people of hours working on the case, some of them at risk to their over there. lives. Q« What's the next step in your attack on organized Q* Were you or your staff threatened by the mob? crime? Various types of threats were received by many of the There are a number of major cases under investigation, |. J- n* people involved in the investigation, not just against A* and .some others under indictment to be pro.secuted. We myself and members of my staff. In fact, one New York City must continue to win these eases for the next three to five police officer who was working with the FBI's task force was years to have a permanent effect. If we were to just rest on our murdered by the mob in January 1986. This strengthened our laurels, based on what's been accomplished so far, the mob resolve to go after them and everybody worked twice as hard. would be back as before in just a year or two. We intend to keep the heat on, and that includes other groups we describe Q* What kind of cooperation did you get from other law- as "emerging" organized crime outfits that are moving in enforcement agencies? where the Mafia has moved out. There easily are 20 to 25 of

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i 'OUR FAILURE HAS BEEN IN NOT MAKING ETHICAL EDUCATION IMPORTANT

these groups operating in areas where the Mafia's power is receding. And some of them are even more violent and dangerous.

Q» Are you referring to so-called ethnic groups, such as the Taiwan-based United Bamboo? Yes. We've learned you cannot ignore these groups at J- n* their early stages. We ignored the Mafia in the begin-

ning and allowed it to grow into a national and international

problem. It is much easier to deal with these groups when they are in the earlier stages.

Q* Is corruption in the labor unions a major target? Yes. It's a source of great strength for the mob. It I- A* permits their control of some locals and even interna- tional unions. It also fosters political corruption, provides a stranglehold on certain areas of the economy and allows the mob to perpetuate itself so that control can be passed from one (Mafia) member to another. PRISON-BOUND — Carmine "Junior" Persico, don of the Colombo family, is one of the convicted men. He also faces another prison Q« How does this mob influence affect the average con- sumer? term of 39 years for raclceteering.

It acts as an illegal tax on the things you buy and the J. n* services you pay for. For example, in New York it obstacle to creating a more lawful society in the United increases the cost of construction by 20 to 25 percent above States? actual costs. This added cost is passed along to the consumer, _ Teaching ethics to people at early ages so they under- to the people who rent space, and to the people who buy n* stand the difference between right and wrong. It's as

products from stores renting in the buildings. All of this simple as that. I think our failure has been in not making contributes to the cost of living in New York and in other ethical education as important as other aspects of education. cities where there is Mafia influence or mob control. Q Do you see any progress in this area? Q« In your opinion, what is the biggest remaining Some, but not as much as I would like. It's something A for our future that we have to focus on.

THE RISE AND FALL OF ORGANIZED CRIME Q In the schools, churches and families? — Definitely. Unfortunately, these institutions don't have Organized crime flourished in America because A* the same influence over as many people as they once law-enforcement agents, for too many years, lacked did. We have to understand that an awful lot of young people the legal weapons to effectively combat the mobs. that have grown up in the past 10 to 30 years have not had the While the law went after mobsters on an individual, ethical education that we believe they should have had. crime-by-crime basis, the underworld built up a vast, ruthlessly disciplined network of powerful Mafia Q* What can average citizens do to help clean up crime "families," preying on U.S. society. in America? Few outsiders knew how big the Mafia had be- _ When information about crime — organized crime, come until the FBI and other investigative bodies A* political corruption, "white collar" crime, or any form cracked the Mafia's "code of silence." There are about of crime —comes to their attention, they should have the 1,700 formal, oath-taking Mafia members in the United courage to help combat it. They should be the kind of citizens

States who belong to 24 "families," most of them who get involved, go to the authorities and help clean it up

concentrated in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and rather than try to hide it. other major cities. The public's attitude toward the Mafia is changing. Q« From your experience, is the federal Witness Protec- The recent "commission" trials in New York revealed, as tion Program helping? never before, the real Cosa Nostra: a venal, aging under- _ Sure. In the commission case, for example, we had a world bureaucracy whose sole purpose is greed at soci- Aa number of contractors testify against organized crime ety's expense, and whose day of reckoning has come. people who were extorting money from them. They felt a Most citizens no longer are in awe of the Mafia or so great deal of security in knowing that the responsibility fell fearful of its reach. not on just one person, but on nine or 10 people testifying together. There's great strength in numbers.

FEBRUARY 1987 23 TWILIGHT

The FBI and other By Philip C. Clarke law agencies are cracking down on ^mmmm OR the FBI and other ded- H icated crime busters, the organized crime. H 10 straight weeks in a We may now have H Manhattan courtroom last H fall constituted the trial of the tools to whip H the century. Federal pros- the good. H ecutors in court described mobfor H 11^1 for a jury how the Mafia

W :. "commission, organized crime's board of directors, manages a $150 billion-a-year network of extor- also present. Much of the information tion, loan sharking, construction-com- was gathered by sophisticated elec- pany payoffs and murder of its rivals. tronics and included 150 secretly The prosecution presented a devas- recorded audio and video tapes, plus tating array of incriminating evidence hundreds of photos taken by hidden while seven top crime bosses and their cameras with long-range lenses. There lieutenants, representing four of the also was sworn testimony from more than five Mafia families in New York City, 80 witnesses, many of them former sat in the room. An eighth boss. Car- Mafia members who were risking death mine (Junior) Persico of the Colombo by turning informer in defiance of the family, acting as his own attorney, was organization's code of secrecy. In terms of real-life drama, the in- trigues that unfolded outdid the "god- Philip C. Clarke, afonnerAP correspond- fathers" of fictional fame. In one taped ent, is afi'ee-lance journalist and editor conversation, picked up by a bugging based in Greensboro. N.C. device secreted in Anthony "Tony

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SEEKING ANONYMITY finger before the family leaders shook — Covert operations hands, kissed him on the cheek and of crime today bosses pronounced, "you are a member from contrast sharply with now on." He was informed that break- the free-wheeling days death. of the Roaring '20s ing the Mafia rules would mean when mob leader Al The jury in the New York trial, whose Capone openly ruled members remained anonymous against Chicago's gangland. the possibility of mob reprisals, found all eight Mafia defendants guilty of racketeering charges. Although the defense is appealing, the convicted men face the likelihood of spending their remaining years behind bars. "The verdict," said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who directed the prosecution, "has resulted in dismantl- ing the ruling council of La Cosa Nostra" (Italian for "OurThing"). "Organized crime in America will never be the same again," said FBI Director William Webster. He called the case, several years in the making, "the greatest investigative effort against organized crime ever mounted in the United States."

Indeed, it marked the first time that law-enforcement authorities had man- aged to bring to justice so many Mafia

leaders all at once. How they did it was a triumph of detective work and legal ingenuity.

HANKS to the 1970 federal Racke- j

!:] teer Influenced and Corrupt Organi- J zation Act (RICO) prosecutors were able to obtain indictments on the basis of a "pattern of racketeering." Such a pattern was considered to have been established if a defendant committed at least two acts of organized crime. The New York indictments specified mur- der, among other things. But to convict, the jury first had to be convinced that the accused were actually associated Ducks" Carallo's black, chauffeur- family was headed by a boss, underboss with the commission. La Cosa Nostra's driven Jaguar, the Lucchese family don and counselor, followed by "captains" ruling body. discussed other Mafia members under in charge of the "soldiers" or ordinary The commission's existence was con- investigation for drug dealing, growl- members. He identified the five New firmed with the assistance of two other ing, "They gotta be killed!" York Mafia families — Lucchese, crucial laws: a 1968 act broadening the One of the federally protected wit- Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and use of electronic surveillance in fight- nesses, Angelo Lonardo, identified as Bonanno — adding that their bosses ing crime and a 1970 law establishing the highest Mafia figure ever to testify sat on the "commission" that controlled the witness protection program. This for the government, calmly ticked off the Mafia. assured Mafia informers of federal pro- numerous gangland murders he had Under questioning, Lonardo also tection in exchange for their testimony. "authorized" while underboss of the described his own initiation into the Many of the actual criminal charges Cleveland crime family. Included was a Mafia in a macabre ceremony in a involved the rigging of concrete prices murder he personally committed— the Cleveland hotel room in the 1940s. for construction projects in the New killing of the man who had gunned There was a gun and a dagger on the York area. down his father, an early Mafia boss. table, a picture of a saint was burned to Armed with RICO and the coopera- Lonardo testified that each Mafia ashes, and blood was drawn from his Continued on page 64

FEBRUARY 1987 25 Amencas WORKING POOR

Some 15 million Americans are classified as "working poor" who barely make ends meet. The Great American Dream doesn't mean much to them anymore.

By Fred Jordan

ACH \ cai". the number of working poor — those people just one rung up from the bottom of the economic hidder who work hard but have Httle to

show it — gets a little bigger, and the Great American Dream moves farther away.

Their dilemma is personal: measured in deprivation, deferred dreams, and

life lived on hold. Their condition is public; measured in further losses to an already sputtering economy and addi- tional burdens on already overloaded public service systems. The solution, according to some peo- ple who have been following the prob- lems of the working poor for years, will require a revolution in American public whose specialty is poverty — Sheldt)n LIFE'S STRUGGLE -There was a time education, a change in the way we do Danziger of the University of Wiscon- when a job guaranteed food on the table and shelter overhead. Not now. business in this country and, perhaps, a sin at Madison and Peter Gottschalk of dose of old-fashioned patriotism. Bowdoin — set the number of working How big is the problem? poor American households in 1984 at disabled, full-time students, or women In testimony before a U.S. House 6.6 million, or an estimated 15.8 mil- with children under 6. subcommittee last year, two scholars lion Americans. The number of people at the bottom Danziger and Gottschalk defined of the economic heap is on the rise. Fred Jordan, of Syntactics, a Washington, '"working poor" as hou.seholds headed Between 1967 and 1979. the percentage D.C., communications firm, has written by persons who are "expected to work." of low earners in the work force was 19;

numerous articles on the economy. that is, persons who are not over 65, it had jumped to 26 percent by 1984.

26 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "'Low earners," the next group up from working poor, are defined as household heads that earn less than $204 a week in 1984 dollars. There were 17 million such households in 1984. So, although they are not neces- sarily poor in the strict sense, heads of smaller households could still work 52 weeks a year at this weekly wage and never make as much as the poverty income for a family of four. Danziger and Gottschalk told the subcommittee members that their results cast doubt on the "popular perception that most of these households are poor because their heads, though capable of doing so, do not work," and showed that most poor households with an able- bodied head have "substantial labor market attachment." Half the mothers in this group, whose youngest child is over 6, worked at some point during the year compared to 80 percent of the men who A WAY OUT — A better education to improve job sidlls would increase the standard of head poor households with children. living for America's poor and rescue them from feelings of hopelessness.

O JEFF Faux and his colleagues at growth during the years 1965 to 1973, But why are the working poor stuck the Economic Policy Institute in to 1.9 percent in the years since 1979, a in dead-end jobs? Washington, D.C., the growing slump paralleled by the growth of un- "There are many answers to that plight of the working poor in America is employment from 4.5 percent in 1965 question," said William H. Kolberg, part of a larger and even more chilling to 7.2 percent in 1985. Obscured in that president of the National Alliance of development: We have come to the end overall figure is black unemployment at Business, an independent, non-profit of the steady growth of work and pros- 15.1 percent, more than twice the white corporation that works with business, perity that characterized the country unemployment rate of 6.2 percent. labor, education and community groups since World War II. Family and house- Faux said he saw and feared an Amer- on the unemployment of the disadvan- hold incomes since 1973 ican economy increas- taged. "Some are illiterate; many are have "fluctuated along a ingly developing as two dropouts from school and have few Low earners, the declining trend line . . . tiers — one for the rich skills; some are mentally or physically and in 1985, both family next group up and one for the poor. He handicapped; many are victims of dis- and household real in- found multiple crimination in education; some suffer from the working reasons comes were below their for the nation's economic from alcoholism or drug addiction. 1973 peaks: $27,735 poor, earn less stagnation: no national versus $29,269 for fam- than $204 a week economic game plan; i'^ I IT laziness is not a major factor ilies; $23,618 versus American executives lor their plight," Kolberg said. in 1984 dollars. $25,444 for households. seeking short-term prof- "Most of us seek self-respect in What affects the middle There are more its, instead of productiv- the way that society calls for — work. classes, affects the work- than 17 million ity and competitiveness; These people are no exception. ing poor, said Faux. He "These are the marginal people," said such households American executives of also said that declining multinational firms not Kolberg, a former assistant Secretary of real wages was the major in America. seeing themselves as Labor. "The least little thing — a hurt reason for declining in- Americans and not cal- foot, a strained back — can drop them comes and increasing in- culating the effect of onto welfare." equality between both their decisions on the Some poor and low-earning house- groups. Since they hit American economy; the holds qualify for federal, state and, their peak in 1973, aver- absence of a trade pol- occasionally, municipal assistance of age earnings in today's icy, which led to a whop- cash, food stamps or goods. But Dan- dollars have declined substantially — ping trade deficit that robs Americans ziger and Gottschalk said that welfare weekly wages by 14.5 percent and of jobs; bloated defense spending that isn't the answer to escaping poverty for hourly wages by 10.1 percent. absorbs too much tax money and too low-earning heads of households. "They Faux conceded that the 1970s' oil much brain power; and too much of are independent, and while they are crises caused a jump in consumer prices private capital needed for economic independent, they don't need assistance that forced earnings down from 1973 expansion going to finance stock and programs," Kolberg said. onward. But the larger reason, in his real estate speculation and corporate But Kolberg was quick to point out analysis, is the slower growth of our takeovers. Foreign competitors don't that working poor are especially vulner- economy, down from 3.5 percent annual work under these handicaps. Continued on page 68

FEBRUARY 1987 27 Natural disasters seem to be on a rampage, striking more frequently and resulting in greater loss oflifethan

ever before. Is it something we've done?

By Isaac Asimov

0URING the night of Nov. 13, 1985, a long-dormant volcano in Colombia came roaring to life and buried a town at its foot in warm mud, killing 25,000 people who had been sleeping peacefully. More than 60,000 survivors were either injured or left homeless. On Sept. 19-20. 1985. twin earth- quakes rumbled through Mexico City, ERUPTION — Does media coverage today make disasters seem more awesome? the world's largest city. Some 20,000 people were killed, 40,000 were in- jured, and 31,000 were left homeless. In that same year, a powerful quake struck in Chile on March 3, and left 150,000 homeless, though only 177 Ravages were killed. Other quakes struck in of China and in the Soviet Union. In the northeastern United States, on May 31, 1985, dozens of tornados swirled over the land, in the worst such demonstration on the record books. They killed 88 people, injured hundreds NATURE and wiped out whole towns. Add landslides, avalanches, killer ral disasters cyclic, and is it that we are own age can remember years past when typhoons and hurricanes, even a record just at the bad end of the pendulum? disasters happened rarely, and were not number of aircraft disasters, and it Actually, if we look at such matters the everyday occurrences they are now. would seem that nature is on a rampage. carefully, it seems quite clear that natu- Why is that? Can it be that, for some reason, our ral disasters strike randomly. That does The answer is that this is an illusion planet has been sufficiently manhan- not mean that they do so evenly and that that is due to the advance of human dled by us to be shaken out of its every year is the same as every other. technology. equilibrium? Or can it be that certain There are both bad years and good years Nowadays, our communications supernatural powers are annoyed with and if these occur randomly then, every satellites, whirling in orbit about the us? once in a while, we may have a long Earth, and the television sets in every Will such catastrophes continue to period of relative quiet, and then, unex- home, bring us the details of every grow progressively worse? Or are natu- pectedly, a period in which many years disaster at once. For days we watched Isaac Asimov, professor of biochemistry are turbulent. There is so far no way of the weary crews striving to rescue one at Boston University- School ofMedicine, predicting the bad years, or of prevent- more baby from the piles of rubble into has puhHshed more than 300 books and ing them. which much of Mexico City had been written hundreds of articles about nearly Yet this suspicion of randomness of shaken. We could see the damage, look every branch of science. disaster doesn't seem right. People my into frightened, despairing eyes, be-

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come totally aware of the scope of the ago, hardly noticed Krakatoa island. AGELESS FOES — /n man's struggle against the elements, weather satellites disaster. Moreover, we tend to measure the and other methods of early detection Yet, it was not the worst earthquake intensity of a disaster by the number of seem unworthy adversaries to the de- disaster in history by far. On Jan. 23, people killed or the millions of dollars structive forces of nature bent on inflict- 1556, an earthquake shook down cliffs worth of property destroyed, thus pre- ing untold casualties and damage. in northern China, and the collapsing sent-day catastrophes may seem much earth buried and killed 830,000 people worse than those of the past. After all, Trembling was felt as far away as in the space of five minutes. Europeans there are far more people on Earth today Boston, and 150,000 acres of timber- at that time never as much as heard of and they are far more densely packed land were destroyed. The course of the the catastrophe. We know of it only together, so that people are bound to be Mississippi was changed in several through Chinese records. killed in greater numbers in any catas- places, new lakes were formed and Again, on Aug. 27, 1883, the little trophe today than in similar catas- some swamps were drained. And yet island of Krakatoa, between Java and trophes a century or more ago. we know little of the casualties in this Sumatra, exploded and set off a vast disaster. On the other hand, if an tsunami (tidal wave) that drowned AGAIN, human structures of all earthquake of the same intensity were 36,000 people on nearby coasts. People kinds — factories, dams, power sta- to take place in the same area today, in Europe and America heard about it tions, high-rise apartments—crowd many thousands of people would surely afterward with little detail and, of the Earth as never before and each is be killed, and many millions of dollars course, with no television pictures. Life far more expensive than anything like worth of property would surely be de- went on in the West just as though it in the past. Any present-day catas- stroyed. Even a small earthquake in the Krakatoa never exploded. trophe, therefore, is bound to destroy same place nowadays would do more But when Mount St. Helens under- far more property than in the past. damage than the monster quake of went a comparatively tiny eruption in For instance, the most dreadful earth- 181 1-1812, and people would get the the northwestern United States on May quake ever to strike the United States impression that somehow earthquakes

18, 1980, killing a few dozen people, did not take place in California. It took were growing worse. we watched events nightly on televi- place in the apparently quiet and stable Yet, humanity has been spared the sion, saw the climbing columns of Midwest, as a series of shocks began on greatest disasters of all; disasters smoke and ash, the creeping mud flow Dec. 6, 1811, and reached their climax which, it is possible, may be cyclic. At and the dust falling on Portland, Ore. To with a ferocious quake on Feb. 7, 1812. the present moment, scientists are argu- Americans, it must have seemed that The quake was centered near the Missis- ing heatedly over the possibility that Mount St. Helens was a much more sippi River at the spot where New Ma- every once in a while, a rain of comets awesome disaster than distant, long drid, Mo., now stands. Continued on page 75

FEBRUARY 1987 29 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Preserving AMERICAS rULTURE

Photosmphs tn' Richard Cha

ITHIN the walls of Hepplewhite and Sheraton furniture AMERICANA -The Sec- the drab State Depart- repose on 150-year-old Georgia pine retary of State's ceremo- nial office (above) re- ment building are floors bedecked with multi-colored flects t/ie splendor of wonderous works of oriental rugs. Paintings of America's many East Coast man- beauty that represent rich heritage and portraits of her great sions. Furnistiings in- the golden age of leaders adorn the walls. Brightly pol- clude Pembroke tables, American design and ished silver, lustrous porcelain and rare an 18tti-century chande- craftsmanship. woods lend touches of elegance. lier and Newport, R.I., chest, circa 1765. Sym- Accented with 18th- The Thomas Jefferson Reception bols of the Great Seal top century King of Prussia marble, stately Room with its walls of brilliant Wedge- the columns, and carved chandeliers and twin pilasters guarding wood blue, niches and architectural roses accent the door arched doorways, the diplomatic recep- designs by Jefferson himself, is consid- jams. The Thomas Jeffer- tion rooms are laden with treasures of ered the most beautiful reception room son State Room (right) is American culture. in the entire country. one of 10 named for early diplomats. The room fea- Each room is exquisitely laid out American Hepplewhite and Sheraton tures architecture Jeffer- with 18th- and 19th-century Americana. furniture, with their sculpted lines and son designed for his be- Chippendale, American Queen Anne, natural wood grains that glow from cen- loved Monticello. turies of tender care, grace the James Monroe Reception and Drawing rooms. The John Quincy Adams Drawing Room glistens with masterpieces of early American cabinetmaking, silken red and gold damask sofas and chairs. About 60,000 honored guests pass through these archways annually. But. the rooms belong to the American people, and they remain a living monu- ment to early American grace and splendor

Iniirs jre :i\:iik)hle h\ appoinlmenl only. Conlad your I'.S. senator or rfprt'senlalivc. or write Tour Offiee. Room 14').V Dept. ol Slate, VVashin(>ton, D.C., 20520.

TREATY OF PARIS - British diplomats refused to pose for Benjamin West's painting.

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE DIPLOMACY'S HOME - A portrait of Secretary of State George C. Marshall (top photo) adorns the reception room named for him. The room is furnished with Chip- pendale and Queen Anne fur- niture. Mahogany side chairs (center) that once belonged to Gov. Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania (1744-1800) ac- cent the Gallery leading to the reception rooms. The table is set in the James Madison Din- ing Room (bottom), which is used for small receptions. The eagle-decorated side chairs were aboard a yacht used by James and Dolly Madison.

FEBRUARY 1987 31 WHAT'S Right With America

An octogenarian ofmany letters calls on the wisdom ofSocrates, the vision of Tocqueville and the eloquence ofChurchill to get to the

heart ofAmerica 's greatness. Our UNSHAKABLE In America FAITH The majesty and might of America, as seen from abroad, is attested to by

one who hated everything American. It is generally accepted in law that an admission is the strongest evidence.

Thus, it carries great weight that Stalin, who hated America, at Teheran declared that without America's military aid. By Ernest Cuneo Hitler would have conquered Russia. Ironically, to repeat Stalin's statement in Russia today is a crime against the OME 2,500 years ago. state. Socrates — the GadtTy of At the end of World War II, another Athens—was put to death foreigner came forward to testify for for his constant criticism America. Winston Churchill said that

of Athens and its civiHza- were it not for the 'American Shield," tion. Yet Socrates, if he the communists would have overrun were an American today, Europe. The shield is still there — and would be perfectly free to so is the communist threat. The silenced speak, write and, indeed, hundred-million captives behind the GADFLY — The duty to speak out was even picket. His right to be a critic Iron Curtain who would like to vote for fatal to Socrates. would be protected by the U.S. Con- America with their feet could tell the stitution. world what is right about America, if Recognizing that the right to criticize obscured by the tens of thousands of they were permitted to speak. is indivisible with the right of a free American gadflies riding on its rump. Does America really want peace?

man in a free country, the founding Certainly some stinging criticisms After the war, America demobilized its fathers threw the mantle of constitu- serve a purpose. But so do the tremen- great armies, mothballed its mighty

tional protection around the American dous accomplishments of the 112 mil- fleets and dismantled its tremendous air gadfly forever. The result is that the lion working American men and force. Thereafter, its amber waves of homebred critics of America have women who make up the Great Amer- grain fed a starving world, friend and

multiplied so prolifically that the mag- ican population. More particularly, it is foe alike. It rebuilt the economies of

nificence of this great nation is at times a stinging rebuke to the American crit- war-torn countries. Churchill called the ics that the warmest and most apprecia- Marshall Plan the most un-sordid act in Ernest Cuneo— attorney, journalist, tive pats on the back for America come recorded history. Along with its other

editor, OSS officer and historian —draws from foreigners. Indeed, if Americans gifts, it created tens of thousands of on the lessons learned over eight decades could see themselves as others see us, scholarships for foreign students who to present his views of "What's Right the Americans" esteem for themselves learned first-hand what America seeks With America." would rise. most is world peace.

32 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE To measure the progress of America, HEART OF A NATION — ^mer/ca's un- just imagine what the reaction would be wavering faith in itself is embodied in ttie pioneering spirit of its peopie, ttie stoic to the average American if he were mag- inner strength! of its women and thie ically transported back to address Presi- American work eth/c so aptly symbolized Washington and the First dent George by "Rosie ttie Riveter" in WWII. Congress and simply told them about the facts of his daily life: "Gentlemen, 200 years from now, ally deep faith alone that caused Pilgrim Americans will fly faster and farther families to board a cockleshell craft to than the birds; dive deeper and swim cross the wild North Atlantic to build a faster than most fish. They will see new life in a hostile wilderness. It was through their own bodies with x-rays. that same deep faith that led young They will see in the dark and over the couples to leave the coast to cross the horizon with radars. They will be able Allegheny passes into the wilderness to talk around the Earth by simply dial- with an ox, a Conestoga wagon, an ax. ing a number on a device in their homes a plow, seeds and a Bible. called a telephone. Americans will fly Though mostly overlooked, the over oceans in hours, and will witness burden of these terrible frontier years coronations in London simultaneously Americans could was borne by American women. As De with Londoners. And you, Ben f Tocqueville perceived it, "The singular

Franklin, will find it difficult to believe prosperity and growing see themselves as strength of that electricity, which you unlocked America ought mainly to be attributed from the heavens with a key and a kite, to the superiority of their women." The others see them, their now furnishes tens of millions of Amer- American frontier women of a century ican homes with instant energy the equiv- esteem themselves and a half ago died very young, but alent of 1,200 slaves in ancient Rome. for their monuments are not in the modest And what is the reaction of your prog- gravestones of the old cemeteries. They would rise eny to all of these miracles? Gentle- are in the great and throbbing cities of men, I regret to tell you that they've the areas they settled. From Columbus become so used to these miracles, have cause he has not yet attempted it." and Louisville to Kansas City and Den- become so matter of fact, that they De Tocqueville could not have im- ver, the teeming cities proclaim the bitterly complain when they don't work agined how prophetic he was. In 1903, quiet heroines. instantly." the Wright brothers flew an airplane a The truth is that America waxed great

Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman few hundred yards. In 1969, Americans before it had technology, because all the who traveled throughout America in the walked on the moon. technology now or to come cannot early 19th century, wrote: "The incredi- It is this deep and unshakable faith in create the high resolve of the human ble American believes that if something self that has made—and is continuing heart. And that "heart" is key to what's has not been accomplished, it is be- to make—America great. It was liter- right with America.

FEBRUARY 1987 33 .

'A Piece ofMy Ueart

America's women also went to war in Viet- nam. They suffered; tliey died; finey endured liorrorsofwar-a glimpse of which can be seen in their letters to home.

ECAUSE I had come to you would spend on them, they the clothes, and I was trying to comfort Da Nang as a captain, with wouldn't live. They were called "expec- him ... He was wide awake even though all this experience, they tants," and you would have to put them half his face was gone, and he was

made me head nurse in the in an area behind a screen to die — these scared. I remember cutting off his emergency room. There 19-year-old kids. clothes and the horror of taking one of

you would get the casual- his boots off and his foot still being in ties as soon as they came the boot.

off the dustoffs, the air #~AEF0RE Vietnam, I worked in the ambulances. So you would JL-^ emergency room on the jail ward, do the lifesaving measures to be done but nothing could prepare you for the /REMEMBER having really angry

on the wounded, and you would do horrible things you saw here . . . The feelings about the people who had triage. Nurses would have to do triage first day they had multiple casualties, gotten out of being there, because a lot because we only had so many doctors, and they got as many doctors, nurses of these kids in Vietnam were really and most of them ended up working in and corpsmen as they could down there young, and they were so far away from

the operating room. Sometimes casual- It was just incredible; these big Chinook their families. They were so brave and

ties couldn't even go to X-ray ; they were helicopters came in, and the corpsmen they would come in . . . They were really

so bad that they had to be taken right went out and got all these guys. I re- hurting, and they were really afraid. into the OR. There were three or four member one of the nurses saying, "'You Many of them hadn't had a good home- operating rooms in Da Nang, and they take him." I'll never forget him because cooked meal or even a good meal —you were always busy. Because the docs he was my first one. Everybody was know, they'd been eating C-rations and

were so busy in OR, the nurses in the bad, but they were alive . . . There is a stuff for such a long time — and their

emergency room had the job of doing wonderful line in a poem by Thomas fatigues were so dirty. I remember one triage. You had to make the decision Hardy that really gets me: the line is kid in particular; both of his legs had

about those people who were wounded "Alive enough to have strength to die." been shattered by a grenade. And I re- so bad that no matter how much time And that is exactly how this boy was. member him saying, "I'm okay, so why He was a really good-looking boy — don't you look at someone else?" An- These letters were reprinted with permis- Jimmy was his name — with blond hair, other thing that would just amaze me is sion from A Piece ofMy Heart bv Keith and half of his face had been blown that they would hardly ever ask for Wafker © 1986. published by Presidio away, and the first thing the nurse said anything for pain. I'd worked in the Press. 31 Pamaroii Wa\. Novato. CA to me was "Cut off all his clothes." They emergency room in the States, and 94947. give you these huge scissors to cut off people come in with the smallest things

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just screaming out in pain and wanting important to them." Here some of the blanket over us and sneak— us off the something. And here are these kids with guys were dying, and in the middle of it compound. The old adage "You work

really horrendous injuries. I think they they'd say, "Oh, you smell good." A lot hard, you play hard" — I mean those

were just so happy to be alive and to be of the women went out of their way to guys . . . they knew how to party, but it somewhere safe that they would never look good for their patients, just be- was like they never knew if it was going

complain about their pain. cause they wanted to do that much more to be their last party . . . and nobody for them. talked about the war out there. Every- body would talk about things like what /DON'T remember his last name they were going to do when they got his first name was John. He was 21. /REMEMBER a patient who had home, what kind of car they were going into a helicopter tail rotor. He'd gotten married just before he came walked to buy, the places they were going to about the brain to Vietnam. And he was shot in the face. Anybody who knows visit, the job they were going to get, knows about the frontal lobe what He absolutely lost his entire face from — etc. Then, when you got to know some ear to ear. He had no nose. He was blind. one of the corpsmen, and shortly after " of the guys and you'd notice that they that everybody, called the "give a It didn't matter, I guess, because he was weren't there at the next party, I mean, lobe, because once you lose it you don't absolutely a vegetable. He was alive you didn't ask, "Where is so-and-so?" give a about anything. This guy and breathing; tubes and machines were You just didn't do it. You sort of knew had lost his frontal lobe, and he was like keeping alive . . . I just ... I couldn't him . . . You would hope that it was his time handle it. To think of how one instant a child. He had one of the nurses write a to go home, but. . letter to his wife he had a wife and had affected his life . . . His wife's life — was completely changed, his parents, two kids at home — and started the let- in it for a ter, I a /THOUGHT, "You work his friends, me — it affected me too. "Dear Honey, did stupid thing," like a little all while, you'll get more accustomed And all because of one split second. I and he talked boy, and to it and it won't be so shocking." But, got to realizing how vulnerable every- you could think of was now his wife had you never did, because every boy who body was. And how vulnerable I was. I three kids, because this man would came in was an individual. You knew took care of him for a week. They finally never function again. that he had a mother and father, a girl- shipped him to Japan, and I never heard friend and boyfriend, and if this wasn't from him again. ... It seems like every WOMAN was dating one of the going on they would be at home partying patient on that ward, when they left, /FA guys from an infantry group and he in college somewhere like they should took a piece of me with them. would come in and say, "We are having have been. For some reason I could a stand-down, could you get a few never get that out of my mind, and that's

/HAVE to tell you about my corps- women together?" we would get on the why I think it was hard for the nurses, men. You were not allowed to frater- truck with the supplies they were taking because you just never forgot that, you nize, but of course you worked with back to their unit; they would throw a Continued on page 70 them more than anybody else. During the day you might work with a couple nurses and a couple corpsmen, but at

night it was you and a corpsman. And

you just got so close to those guys. I can remember a couple of mine—especially J.D. and Dotson—would've done any- thing for you or for the patients. You could put so much trust in them. But you never went to their club, and they

never went to ours. What I miss is being able to know where they are and how they're doing. Hoping that they're get- ting some of this feedback about what good jobs they did and hoping they got

something out of it. I'd like to call them

up now and say, "Boy, I think of you guys a lot."

E KNEW that our guys appre- yy ciated women. To prove a point: You get these guys with their legs blown off and in agony and in fear, and in the middle of all this they stop and look at you and say, "God, you smell so

good." And they said it to me all the

time. So I made a point to wear per-

fume. And I would think, "Yeah, that is Apustic anemia 7he Other Blood Disease'

Maryland Legionnaires are at fine cuffing edge ofefforfs fo save fine iives of Americans affiicfed wifti fiiis dreaded disease.

By Edward Edelson

0OLJG Johnson and the other members of Legion Post 183 in Parkville. Md., had scarcely heard of aplastic anemia when a 16-year-old Boy Scout in a post-sponsored troop was diagnosed as having the HAPPY ENDING — Scoff Torbeck, an Aplastic Anemia victim, and Ed Huneke of Post 183, share a happy moment after treatment restored Scoff's health. disease in July 1984. Sud- denly, they found themselves in the middle of a life-and-death drama whose in the center of bones where red and ment, Johnson and his fellow Legion- reverberations could help thousands of white blood cells are produced, shuts naires met another patient who was down production. Without cells, having a worse time similar patients in the years ahead. red the —a 9-year-old East Everything the Legionnaires heard body's tissue doesn't get enough oxy- Coast girl whose bone marrow trans- gen. Without white cells, plant wasn't working out. in about aplastic anemia from Dr. Lyie L. the body can't She died Sensenbrenner and the other physicians fight infections. And without the cells December 1984. who were treating the youth, Scott called platelets, which cause blood to Torbeck.at Johns Hopkins Medical clot, even a minor injury can cause fatal THIS time, a lot of the Parkville bleeding. Legionnaires had Center in Baltimore sounded bad. BY become personally involved in aplastic When people think of a life-threaten- Transfusions can keep aplastic helping anemia ing blood disease, leukemia— cancer anemia patients going for some time, patients, partly because one post but the best hope is a bone marrow member, Morris Millman, had a son of the blood — usually comes to mind. transplant, replacing the with the disease. To aplastic Aplastic anemia, "the other blood dis- bad marrow keep with good cells from a close relative anemia patients supplied with white ease," is an equally serious blood dis- whose tissue matches the patient's. The cells and platelets, doctors use a order that strikes without warning and is Johns Hopkins doctors couldn't find a technique called hemapheresis, which extremely difficult to treat. Although it suitable donor for the teen-ager, but removes just those cells and puts the red is little known, it strikes many Ameri- they put a treatment that has cells back in the body. Since the big cans each year, almost a third of them him on had under age 25. good results for some patients: regular concern with blood donation is replac- doses of drugs that depress the body's ing red cells, hemapheresis allows What happens in aplastic anemia is In his case, the treat- donors to give much more often than if that the bone marrow, the spongy tissue immune system. ment worked. He was soon out of the they donated whole blood. Edward Edelson, a science writerfor the hospital and recently enrolled as a Before long, about 250 Legionnaires New York Daily News, specializes in freshman at Clem.son College. had signed up for the hemapheresis articles about science and medicine. But as they followed the scout's treat- program run by Johns Hopkins and the

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Chesapeake Regional Red Cross. When ters also have agreed to participate. the Legionnaires learned that the Hop- Johnson and the other hemapheresis kins doctors had to go to England to volunteers at Parkville will be right in find a bone marrow donor for the 9- the middle of the action. The target of year-old girl, they went into action. the registry will be hemapheresis "That sort of infuriated a number of donors, Braine said. us here," Johnson said. "Here we are "To be eligible for the registry," said the greatest nation on earth and we had Braine, "a person's tissue type needs to to depend on a lady from England to be known and he has to be in good give marrow." health. Tissue typing is very expensive, The Legionnaires soon learned that so most physicians feel that the natural the United States doesn't have a central source of volunteers for the registry is registry of possible bone-marrow people who already are donating plate- donors. Without such a registry, trans- lets, because tissue typing is required plant doctors have a much harder time for that. There are over 100,000 tissue- finding suitably matched marrow for an typed volunteer donors in the country. aplastic anemia patient. Some have been approached at three or To kick things off, the Parkville four blood centers to see if they're will- Legionnaires helped set up a state aplas- ing to donate bone marrow, and the tic anemia committee, chaired by response has been 50 percent to 70 per- Johnson —probably the only one in the cent positive." American Legion, he said. They also requested the American Legion Child POTENTIAL donors will be given a Welfare Foundation, Inc., to contribute consent form to sign and a medical $22,500 a year for three years so that checkup before they go into the the Aplastic Anemia Foundation of marrow registry. Things are moving LONGER LIFE — /M/st; Troxell will see more birthdays with the help of American America could start a national educa- right along, Braine said. "We expect Legion grants. tion program concerning the disease. that by early spring we will have a The request was granted. donor pool of about 50,000 people," he "They have launched us as far as said. marrow from close family members of public awareness goes," said Lynn Anyone who wants to join the regis- the patient, Sensenbrenner said. Rauch, executive director of the Balti- try should start by inquiring whether the The hope is that the marrow registry more-based foundation. "I can't tell you regional Red Cross knows of a local will save more lives by allowing doctors how much it helps an organization like hemapheresis program. "Take note that to find closer tissue matches in unre- ours. We've mailed 7,000 brochures to marrow donation is done under general lated donors. A close match is essential physicians and the response has been anesthesia and requires hospitaliza- because in a bone marrow transplant, tremendous." tion," Braine said. the transplanted tissue can literally Another boost came from the U.S. The success rate with bone marrow reject the body, sending out its white

Navy, which is providing funds to set up transplants is 85 percent, but that has cells to attack the tissue that surrounds it. a national registry of bone marrow been achieved with carefully matched The need for close matches is one donors. The Navy obviously has its own reason why there were only about 100 interests in mind: As the Soviet disaster bone marrow transplants for aplastic at Chernobyl showed, marrow trans- anemia in the United States last year, plants often are required urgently by even though there are about 2,000 cases victims of radiation poisoning caused of the disease in this country each year, by accidents with nuclear reactors, such Sensenbrenner said. as the ones that power the Navy's sub- Research still is needed to solve the marines and carriers. But for physicians many mysteries of aplastic anemia, such as Dr. Hayden G. "Bud" Braine, notably its cause, Sensenbrenner said. who works with Sensenbrenner at Hop- It's known that some drugs and toxic kins, the immediate result will be a substances can cause it, but most cases better chance for aplastic anemia pa- just happen without warning. Research- tients, as well as victims of leukemia ers suspect that some breakdown of the and other blood cell cancers who also immune system causes aplastic anemia; can be helped by marrow transplants. if they find exactly what goes wrong,

The marrow donor registry will be a they might be able to prevent it. But combined effort by the Red Cross, the meanwhile, the new bone marrow regis- American Association of Blood Banks try promises to give many more aplastic and the Council of Community Blood anemia patients a fighting chance for

Banks, Braine said. So far, it has signed life. up 30 Red Cross regional blood centers, For further information call (301 LONGEVITY — V/rg/n/a Brittingham, 52, 20 AABB regional centers and three one of the oldest survivors of Aplastic 955-2803 or write to Aplastic Anemia Council of Community Blood Bank Anemia, has Sensenbrenner and fellow Foundation ofAmerica. P.O. Box 22689, Centers. Eight marrow transplant cen- researchers to thank. Baltimore, MD 21203-9990.

FEBRUARY 1987 37 VETERANS UPDATE

orrection to tax information: Veterans "We're certainly going to monitor this because we've got c Update in December reported that taxpayers who do not $100 million of the taxpayer's money invested, but we're itemize may not claim charitable deductions, including waiting for CDC to give us some answers," Montgomery volunteer mileage, for the 1986 tax year. The provision said. "We have to leave this issue up to the experts." applies to the 1987 tax return, not 1986. Montgomery recently told reporters that "if there is a real problem, we should move ahead and compensate these people —but we need some real evidence." Civilian health-care clinics for retired veterans are becoming increasingly popular with the military Beneficiary travel pay awarded to veterans services. The Navy followed the Army's lead when it opened when they visit VA hospitals for treatment may be cut four regional civilian-operated clinics last November to treat off or drastically reduced. military dependents and retirees. The NavCare clinics are As The American Legion Magazine went to press, the located at Virginia Beach, Va.; Jacksonville, N.C.; Mayport, VA was studying a plan to eliminate travel pay for veterans Fla.; and San Diego. The Navy plans to open at least four using their own vehicles or public transportation for treat- more this year. ment at the nearest VA medical facility. Under the plan, The Army established Primus clinics in 1985, and their beneficiary travel pay would still be awarded to veterans success prompted the Navy to adopt a similar program. Like arriving at VA hospitals by special transportation such as Primus, NavCare is only for routine medical care such as ambulances, air ambulances or wheelchair vans. physical exams, laboratory tests and minor illnesses or The Legion and other opponents of the plan said it would injuries. The Navy still provides care for serious illnesses deny needy veterans access to VA medical facilities. A 1985 through Champus or its inpatient care at Navy hospitals. VA study tends to bear out those claims. The study, in part, The Navy contracted with a Maryland-based health-care found that most users of the beneficiary travel pay program company to operate the clinics. The company hires doctors, had annual incomes under $10,000 and were more likely to nurses and other medical help, buys medical supplies and be unemployed or retired, compared to non-users. The study rents office space for the clinics. also said that 71 percent of program users were service- connected disabled veterans and that 29 percent were non- service-connected veterans. Other findings in the study medal to honor U.S. POWs probably The determined that: will not be available for distribution for several • Program users were more likely to have been admitted to a months, according to Sen. William V. Roth Jr., of Delaware, VA hospital during the previous 12 months than non-users. a co-sponsor of legislation last year authorizing the medal. • Program users were more likely to have made 20 more The design consists of an eagle, surrounded by barbed wire outpatient visits to VA facilities during the previous 12 and bayonet points, with an inscription on the reverse side. months than non-users. The medal will go to former POWs who are still on active • Program users traveled greater distances than non-users. duty or who received an honorable discharge, or their legal A decision on the VA's proposal to cut beneficiary travel is heirs. An announcement will be made when the medal is expected later this year. available. "The POW medal is a fitting recognition of military service under the most difficult circumstances — an individual Certified photocopies, i nstead of original doc- forfeiting his freedom in the cause of freedom," Roth said. uments, may soon be accepted by the VA for certain claims filed by veterans. The VA is studying a proposal that would allow veterans to Veterans suffering from Agent Orange submit photocopies as evidence of birth, death or relation- exposure can take heart in knowing that their claims ship in connection with claims for veterans benefits. Current also will receive full attention in the new Congress. However, regulations call for original documents or certified copies

it may be several months before lawmakers can decide if issued by the custodian of public records. The originals are government compensation should be granted. returned to claimants after photocopies are made by VA Rep. G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery of Mississippi, chairman employees. of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said the committee The current procedure is cumbersome for the VA and a will continue to conduct hearings this year to determine if burden to claimants who, fearing the loss of important there is a medical link to exposure to Agent Orange. He said documents in the mail, bring their originals to the nearest VA the committee is waiting on the results of testing being office for reproduction. conducted by the Centers for Disease Control, a study which The VA has identified four groups who would be au- until recent months was stalled because of disputed testing thorized to prepare photocopies: VA employees authorized to

procedures (see related article, page 41 ). administer oaths, representatives of veterans' organizations

Montgomery said it was too early to tell if veterans seeking accredited by the VA, military personnel appointed by base compensation for Agent Orange exposure have a valid claim. commanders, and any official of an approved educational Many veterans exposed to the dioxin-based defoliant have institution or rehabilitation facility who is authorized to

blamed it for medical problems, ranging from cancer to birth certify enrollments when documentary evidence is submitted defects, in their offspring. for claims.

38 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE One of life's last remaining bargains just got even better.

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AGENT ORANGE ViETMM's Last Battle

VEN die-hard optimists study has been held up for several would have to agree that months because scientists .cannot agree today, years after Agent on what method should be used to meas- Orange first gained na- ure dioxin levels. tional attention, we are CDC researchers now are conducting still a long way from resol- a pilot study using a new method to ving the controversy sur- measure dioxin levels of Vietnam veter- rounding this issue. But ans who were exposed to the herbicide. progress is being made. The testing involves 400 veterans—200 Since the Agent Orange issue first heavily exposed to Agent Orange and came to light in 1978, class-action suits 200 with less exposure. The test, which have been filed on behalf of veterans is expected to be completed this June, who believe that exposure to the de- will be used to validate other methods foliant while serving in Vietnam caused that were to have been used to measure their cancers, caused birth defects in the dioxin exposure of Vietnam veterans. their children, and caused a number of "We're determined to see that the other health problems. study is completed and that the ques- Despite veterans' convictions, most tions surrounding the controversy are DEFOLIANTS-/! U.S. plane sprays studies on Agent Orange and dioxin answered," said William F. Lenker, Agent Orange on a jungle in Vietnam. have reportedly determined that no chairman of the Legion's Veterans conclusive evidence exists linking the Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission. herbicide to cancer or other serious Hazards is aware of the study and rec- Meanwhile, the only health disorder illnesses, except for chloracne, an ommend that its members consider the the VA will recognize as linked to Agent acne-like skin eruption. findings of the study when they meet Orange is the skin condition called Now scientists are citing a study that again to determine what conditions chloracne. For the past two years, the may prove Agent Orange has had a pro- caused by Agent Orange exposure will VA has been directed by Congress to nounced affect on veterans. be granted service-connected status." pay disability benefits to veterans suf- The report that has many people fering from a liver condition called buzzing is the Kansas study by the Na- HILE the Kansas report was catch- porphyria cutanea tarda, even though tional Cancer Institute. The population- ing the eye of medical researchers. the VA didn't recognize the link be- based control study reported that a The American Legion was pre- tween the two. But the temporary bene- number of farmers who were exposed paring to release final results of its own fits were curtailed as mandated by law to herbicides used in Agent Orange Vietnam Veterans Study that was con- on Sept. 30, 1986. experienced high rates of lymphatic ducted with Columbia University. The As of Sept. 23, 1986, there were cancer. study looked at problems of Vietnam 29,191 veterans who had filed claims Published in the September issue of veterans — Agent Orange exposure. with the VA for disorders they believed the Journal of the American Medical Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and were caused by Agent Orange expo- Association, the Kansas study conclu- other health and socio-economic issues. sure. Although many claims have been sions said that farmers using the her- Doctors Jeanne and Steven Stellman, for chloracne, none has been allowed bicides for 20 days or more per year had the study's directors, are currently based on exposure because there was no a six-fold higher rate of lymphoma than evaluating follow-up information on evidence of the condition within six non-farmers. In some cases, the rate participants in the study, and are ex- months of leaving Vietnam, or the con- was as much as eight-fold. pected to release their findings in the dition was not diagnosed by a VA physi- The study concluded that human ex- next few months. cian. However, some of these claims posure to phenoxyacetic acid her- The Legion was among the first to have been allowed, based on causation bicides —Agent Orange —did not in- call for scientific studies of Agent other than Agent Orange. crease the risk of soft-tissue sarcomas Orange, and reaffirmed its position at More than 214,000 veterans have and Hodgkin's Disease, but did increase the 68th National Convention last year received medical examinations under the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma when it urged the President, the VA the VA's Agent Orange Examination a disease similar to leukemia. administrator and the Secretary of Program as of last July. The VA's com- Noting the importance of the Kansas Health and Human Services to exert puterized registry also showed 46,345 study, a Legion spokesman said, "We pressure to resolve the stalled Agent veterans received follow-up exams. The are going to make sure that the VA's Orange study that is being conducted by American Legion continues to monitor Advisory Committee on Environmental the Centers for Disease Control. The Continued on page 74

FEBRUARY 1987 41 POW/MIA solve to continue the war. There is no such divisiveness today on the POW/ MIA issue, however, and Hanoi knows it. It is a change in the national mood as 'A New Posture Of welcome to me as the renewed respect for the military.

The biggest factor is economic. Viet- nam has done no better under communist rule than any other country subjected to

it in the past 70 years. Vietnam's econ- COOPEBATIOiy' omy is in shambles. The Vietnamese need outside help badly, and they cer-

tainly can't expect it from other mem- Vietnam has promised to account for all ROW/MlAs bers of the socialist paradise. They can by 1988. U.S. officials tiave reason to believe get it only from the Free World, and they know they won't get it until they the Vietnamese their may keep promise. account for every missing American.

It was in this more cooperative frame of mind that Hanoi's Deputy Foreign By Rep. Gerald B. Solomon Minister Hoang Bich Son greeted us a year ago when, as chairman of the Task ^^^^V^ HEN I was in Marine Force on Prisoners and Missing in II II Corps boot camp dur- Southeast Asia, I led a contingent of H '"g the Korean War, I congressmen on a fact-finding tour. The fl I fl I Hill H was taught two princi- big breakthrough came when Son agreed H III B pies I've never forgot- that his government would honor its I ten: We don't leave commitment made in 1985 to account ^1 I I ^1 ^1 I wounded buddies be- for all missing Americans within two I hind; and, until all years. He also conceded there might be ^^^^Hl missing Americans Americans in Southeast Asia, but out- are accounted for, the U.S. government side government control and living in will never rest. the remotest areas. It's not a question of whether Amer- During the previous administration, icans remain in Southeast Asia, but Hanoi denied the very existence of rather who they are, how many there missing Americans. This small step are, and are they being held against forward came after numerous, but fruit- their will? less, high-level contacts by congres-

I can't condemn strongly enough the ON SITE — So/omon talks with a Cambo- sional and administration delegations dian refugee live-sightings. unprincipled grandstanding and exploi- about going back to 1977, not to mention tation of this issue by several groups approaches by families of MIAs. and individuals. If there is anything mittee. and the Task Force on Prisoners Son urged the U.S. government to more inhumane than the forced reten- and Missing in Southeast Asia, accom- forward all live-sighting reports to Viet- tion of American servicemen, it is the plished two things: It dispelled any nam. He indicated that three Viet- encouragement of false hopes in their charges of official coverup and foot- namese teams have been sent into the families, either for self-aggrandize- dragging, to my satisfaction and that of field to investigate 70 sightings, and ment or financial gain. the majority in Congress; it also con- agreed to allow American representa-

It is time to put to rest the contention firmed the "strong possibility" that live tives to accompany the teams. that government agencies were dragging Americans still remain in Vietnam and We are far from closing the books on their feet or sweeping this issue under a Laos. the 2,400-plus American servicemen rug. The recent Tighe Commission re- Apart from the pressure of the current still listed as missing. Nevertheless, port nipped that lie in the bud, coming administration, several strategic and there are reasons to be encouraged: to the overdue defense of many officials economic factors exist that explain Members of Congress, The American who are themselves career military men Hanoi's new posture of cooperation. I Legion and other veterans groups refuse who served in Vietnam. can't imagine Hanoi tormenting itself to let the issue go away. Also, more The commission was named after over the moral implications of detain- resources have been reserved to investi- retired Air Force Gen. Eugene Tighe, ing American prisoners 14 years after gate sightings and identify remains who was called in by the Defense Intel- the war ended. I can, however, imagine discovered in former war zones. ligence Agency he once headed, to Hanoi responding to an aroused interna- While we are concerned with the study the progress of POW/MIA ac- tional public opinion. Hanoi doesn't peace of mind of the families of missing counting. His final report, issued last regret its own inhumanity as much as it servicemen, there is more at stake. fall to the House Foreign Affairs Com- fears world perception of that inhuman- Should American soldiers ever again go

ity. into battle, they should do so knowing Rep. Gerald B. Solomon of New York is During the Vietnam War, Hanoi that their country is behind them, and chairman ofthe U.S. Task Force on Prison- counted on the anti-war movement in that no American prisoner of war will ers cmd Missing in Southeast Asia. this country to weaken American re- ever be forgotten.

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joined forces with the Pennsylvania War Veterans Council on a statewide pro- Success in Pennsylvania gram designed to ease local veterans" lingering problems. With the full sup- port of state authorities, a network of Governor's Veterans Outreach and As- sistance Centers was formed. Rebuilding Five regional centers were estab- lished with Department of Labor funds.

One of the centers' main purposes is to educate veterans about their benefits and changes in legislation that directly war-torn lives affect their lives. The services include counseling, referral, follow-up and advocacy for veterans. The centers also provide technical assistance and train- The state's veterans autreach and assistance ing to other agencies that want to bolster centers don'tJust wait for veterans to come their own services to former service- men and women. to ttiem. Ttiey tal

Bob Bishop, a Legionnaire, is director of the Pennsylvania Governor's Veterans Outreach and Assistance Center.

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PLAN. Order size checked below. If I am not completely satisfied, I CANNOT FAIL THIS TIME with the Total Diet. may return it in for a lull refund. Gone are those gnawing pains of hunger that force 30 days you to eat and eat and eat Your body will be under :ash ._„60 Day Supply S19 95 control as you slim down to your desired weight this Iheck Day Supply S34 95 Save 5 00 Order Day Supply $49 95 Save 10 safe natural way The Total Diet lets you eat plenty of ___J80 :harge lo Visa Plus PosI and Hndig S1 95 good tasting food. You eat as much as six times a ge lo Master Card USA Orders Add Salei day You are never hungry with the Total Diet You don't get that empty feeling in your stomach The .Card #_ Total Diet truly satisfies your desire to eat If you want to lose weight, the decision is in your hands Test after test shows this is the medically proven formula -STATE, -ZIP- that works so well. NO MORE FAT PROBLEMS. You 1986 CANADIAN & OUTSIDE USA S29 95 PER ORDER can have a lifetime free from fat. LEGION NEWS BRIEFS

Top recruiters in department-level Incentives Offered competition will be awarded trophies fashioned in the shape of their states Fop Recruiting New and inscribed with the number of mem- bers recruited. Memlieps In 1987 There's an added bonus this year for Legionnaires who recruit 50 or more new members: they will be designated ELL the Legion and sail the members of the "Gold Brigade," and Caribbean. That's the objective will be awarded a special windbreaker and top prize for Legionnaires and cap pin. Also, every member of the who are out to recruit the most new Gold Brigade will receive a special members in 1987. membership certificate and patriotic A seven-day Caribbean trip for two cap. goes to the "National Membership Re- In addition to post, district and de- cruiter of the Year," and isjustone of the partment awards, winners will receive many incentives being offered by the national recognition of their recruiting National Membership and Post Activi- performances. DESERVING GESTURE - Actor Ernest ties Committee in its drive toward a Recruiting from five to nine new Borgnine, a 10-year Navy veteran, is chairman of (he National Salute to Hos- 3-million-member Legion in 1987. members will earn a certificate; 10 to pitalized Veterans, wtiich begins Feb. 9. The top recruiter also will win an all- 19, a certificate and pin; 20 to 29, a The annual week-long observance en- expense paid trip to historic certificate, pin and belt buckle; San and 30 courages Americans to visit patients in Antonio, the site of the 69th National and above, a certificate, pin, belt buckle VA hospitals to express their gratitude to Convention, Aug. 21 to 27. The award and $25 gift certificate. those who have defended the nation in will be presented at the convention by Each Legion post will have the op- time of war.

Nat'l Cmdr. James P. Dean, and the portunity to submit the name of its lead- winner and his guest will attend the ing recruiter during the 1987 member- National Commander's Banquet as Dis- ship year, which ends March 17. New Booklet Heliis tinguished Guests. Interested posts should contact Na- Second-place winner will not have to tional Headquarters for certification Keep Burglars leave home to enjoy the reward for his forms, which must be completed by the Am efforts: an entertainment center that post commander or adjutant and sub- includes a VCR, color television and mitted to their respective department m HE American Legion's newest stereo. A second runner-up prize of a adjutants by April 1. Entries must be M booklet, Tlw Aiuericaii Legion $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond also will be submitted to National Headquarters no - M, Crime Prevention Program, awarded. Each of the next eight Legion- later than May i, 1987. Forms can be has some helpful tips on how to keep naires will receive Croton quartz wrist- obtained by writing The American burglars away. watches, and the final 15 will be Legion Membership and Post Activities The booklet provides common-sense awarded sterling silver rings inscribed Division, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, advice, ranging from inscribing iden- with "All-Time High." IN 46206. tification numbers on valuables to in- stalling quality locks on doors and win- dows. The publication, which has America's Veterans need your help! McGruff the Crime Dog on its cover, is

Yes, ril help my fellow veterans by becoming a member of The American Legion. I certify that I published by The American Legion served at least one day of active military duty during the dates marked below and was National Law and Order Committee in honorably discharged or am still serving honorably.

tm not eligible, but I want to help, so I'm sending $17.00 to show my support. Please send me cooperation with the National Crime The American Legion Magazine for one year. Prevention Coalition. $1 7.00 Check or money order enclosed MasterCard VISA Copies of the booklet are available by Charge Account # I Exp. Date [ writing National Correct your address below The American Legion,

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MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY DATES Army Dec. 22, 1961 — fulay 7, 1975 Navy

June 25, 1950 — Jan. 31. 1955 Air Force telephone number Dec. 7, 1941 — Dec. 31, 1946 Marines April 6, 1917 — Nov. 11, 1918 Coast Guard

46 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE FACTORY DIRECT U.S. Air Force Regulation Type Sunglasses

High Impact Resistant Glass for only

Heavy Duty Deluxe $5 Case ($7.50 Value)

A,, s part of its nationwide publicity campaign, a leading North Carolina firm Fully Adjustable . . . one size fits al will give away one of its most expensive pairs of U.S. Air Force Regulation Type Sunglasses for the astonishing publicity price of only $5 each to every person who writes to the company address (below). Plus with each pair you also receive a free crush proof leather grain vinyl case with heavy duty steel inner construction lined with felt to keep your investment clean and protected. These are the same quality glasses nationally advertised in leading media Yellow across America. All glasses Grey (great for shooting) have impact resistant glass lenses that are teardrop shaped. The lenses are held secure with high specification extra heavy plated frames for strength and durability. The sheer comfort of these glasses will be enjoyed due to Brown Mirror the specially designed nose pieces made of a soft com- pound and the fully adjustable wraparound earpieces that ensure a snug fit even in the roughest play. The best designed and most respected glasses you've ever seen, these authentic Air Force Regulation Type Sunglasses are per- fect gifts for everyone. Outdoor lovers all across America would love to own at least one pair, so don't miss out by responding too late. These are the fastest selling and most popular glasses ever sold by this multi-million dollar firm. These regulation type sunglasses will not be sold at this price by the company in any store. The sup- ply is limited, so don't delay. To obtain your Air Force Regulation Type Sunglasses, mail your name and address and $5 for each pair. (Specify: Yellow, Brown, Mirror or Grey). Add $2 shipping per pair. (N.C. Residents add sales tax). Allow up to 6-8 weeks for shipment. One year money-back guarantee. Make check or money order payable to N.P. Distributors. S and M accepted. Mail to:

N.P. Distributors, P.O. Box 160, Zirconia, N.C. 28790 1,000 see where work needs to be done and LEGIONNAIRE motivate others to become involved. STAMPS While Bagwell was commander from OF THE MONTH 1984 to 1986, the post doubled its mem- $2.95 bership, its poppy sales and contribu- tions to the Oklahoma Legion Chil- dren's Home. Oklahoma Adj. C.J. ^ GUARANTEED Wright said Post 8 was a low-key post when Bagwell was elected commander, WORTH OVER $30 AT but under his leadership "it became one STANDARD CATALOG PRICES! of the most active in the department, Reward yourself now — a great based on its service projects." opportunity to increase the value of As commander, Bagwell initiated your present collection or to start a improvements to the post home, do- new one. You get 1 ,000 all-different nated 15 flags to schools and scout postage stamps from over 55 countries. Plus Big Illustrated troops, and spearheaded the construc- Collectors' Catalog — Everything to tion of veterans memorials in two Enjoy the World's Most Rewarding cemeteries. Not content with being just Hobby! Tom Bagwell an idea man, Bagwell did most of the FREE! "FINDER'S GUIDE TO YOURS cement work on a new lOO-foot-long RARE AND VALUABLE STAMPS ". 1986 Legion- sidewalk at the post. This fascinating illustrated booklet OKLAHOMA'S will enable you to tell at a glance how naire of the Year, Tom Bagwell, After 24 years as a Navy corpsman, to recognize rare stamps — stamps may be retired but he's proba- he worked in private industry until 1978 considered relatively common once bly never worked harder in his and then retired to a career as a volun- and now worth up to hundreds and life. Bagwell, of Idabel Post teer, a "job" that includes showing his thousands of dollars each! 8, not only works as a full-time beehives to science classes, teaching Also, selections of other sensational stamps from our 10-Day Free Exami- volunteer and officer in civic Red Cross disaster relief classes, visit- nation Approval Service. Buy any or groups, but also turns up occasionally ing sick veterans, promoting Boys State none — return balance — cancel in community theater productions. and serving as a post trustee. He is Service anytime. Send $2.95 NOW.' Post Adj. Ross Chandler said Bag- active in more than 20 organizations MONEY BACK IF NOT DELIGHTED! his Limit One Advertised Offer Per Family well earned the department's top indi- and inspires other senior citizens by vidual award because of his ability to willingness to do his part and more. KENMORE, Mllford OT-621, N.H. 03055

$1000 A Month With Just A Hack Saw! © by Philip E. Brancalo Sr. 1986

Yes, you can make $1000 a ^hat Do I Do? hours of work is selling for over fore I finally found the right month and more with just a $228 in the stores. I can sell my design and measurements and I make beautiful indoor/out-

chaise lounge for anything I tricks to the manufacturing of hack saw in your spare time. door P.V.C. pipe furniture.

think my labor is worth. For P.V.C. pipe furniture. I only Hill You Get Rich? Such as chairs, lounges, tables,

once, the big manufacturing wish that when I started, I could swings, all kinds of No, you will not get rich, but and baby companies cannot compete with have bought these shop drawings furniture of P.V.C. pipe; you can make over $1000 a out me or you on prices. You will and I would have gladly paid and have been for 10 years. month in your spare time and find you will have more orders $100 for just one of them. P.V.C. pipe furniture is the hot- have bail it. a doing than you want! test selling furniture on the mar- / will pay you! I tried all those "Gel Rich" that are advertised, ket today, because it is unique Where can you buy the P. V.C. gimmicks Yes, 1 will pay you $25 for any and beautiful and will not rot or that never tell you anything Pipe? unique design shop drawing rust it will virtually last a life until you've sent them your $25, and You can buy the P.V.C. pipe that I can use in my collection time. and then you find out their from any local hardware store to and workshop manual. gimmicks were not for you. Profit Unbelievable! start. Plus I will supply you with How do you start? Well, I've tried them all and I'm The fantastic part of this busi- the name and address of one of 1) Decide if you like to work still not rich. the largest manufacturers of pipe, ness is the profit. with your hands to create things All 1 ever wanted was some- fitting, cushions, and table tops and want to make money. thing 1 could do in my spare time who will sell to you at wholesale with my hands, make a little prices and you do not have to buy 2) Can you afford $12.00 for money and enjoy myself and not a minimum amount, plus I will my shop manual and six have to buy $3000 worth of tools supply you with my shop manual drawings. or merchandise to do it and six detailed shop drawings 3) Send me your name and with pictures and measurements with Believe It Or Not address along your check of six different designs. for $12.00 to: 1 found the most enjoyable and profitable business working Just go look at some of this Do you need my shop drawings Philip E. Brancato Sr. P.O. Box with my hands and the only furniture in the stores and see No, you don't need my shop 237AL8 Riverview, Florida 33569 tools 1 use are a hack saw and some of the unbelievable prices drawings unless you want to save (813) 677-6948 measuring tape. The really nice it is selling for. hundreds of hours of trial and thing about it is any man, A chaise lounge that costs error work and thousands of Please allow about two weeks woman or ten-year-old can do it. $62.25 in material and three dollars that 1 had to spend be- for delivery. — . —

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'86 Veterans Day . . . remembering a

favorite son . . . honoring those who died at sea ... a tribute to a father and son ... the Legion on wheels

A rom dinners and dances to sol- they presented city officials with a emn ceremonies commerating those restored portrait of one of their favorite who served the nation in uniform, sons. Found tattered in a blighted area Legionnaires turned out to celebrate of the city was a picture-portrait later Veterans Day with unwavering pride. identified as William S. Ablett, a Cam- den man who was killed in action during the Meuse-Argonne battle in October Meembers of Hughes-Skiba Post 1918. Camden officials named a munci- Salamanca, N.Y., celebrated the 535, pal housing project, Ablett Village, national holida\ on the hanks of the after him. The portrait now hangs in Camden City Council chambers.

Legion literature that explains various bluecap programs. Painted on the out- .^^erhaps it was only fitting on Veter- side is a large Legion emblem and logos ans Day that Illinois Legionnaires for such programs as Buckeye Boys paid tribute to a life-long member State. who served in one war and lost his son

JE^egionnaires shoot for the stars

when it comes to investing in the fu- Allegheny River, where a tloral wreath ture of America. That's what Post 24, was cast into the water in honor of veter- Alexandria, Va., recently did when it ans who died and were buried at sea. awarded a $400 scholarship to young Before the ceremony, the post hosted a Jeffrey Gossett to attend U.S. Space dinner and dance where two Legion- Camp at Huntsville Space Center in naires were awarded medals for their Alabama. The ambitious seventh-grader exemplary combat service in Vietnam. spent a week at the camp, where he and Richard Meissner, a former Marine, others went through simulated astronaut and John Sampson, a former airman, training. In addition to the scholarship. were awarded New York's Conspicuous Post 24 provided round-trip airfare. in another. Sr. pre- Service Cross by post officers and local Frank H. Nagcl was officials. sented with a plaque by officers from

Post 1 19, Fox River Grove, for 65 years

of continuous membership. Nagel is past JL/egionnaires in Camden, N.J., re- commander of the post that bears the turned a bit of Camden's past when name of his son. Frank H. Nagel Jn, who died in combat during World War IL The father is a veteran of World War L

hen Legionnaires in District 1, Department of Ohio, want to get the Legion message out, they literally take

it on the road. Members from that dis- trict have restored a trailer that they use at county fairs, community homecom- ings and other functions throughout the district. The trailer carries a cargo of

50 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Why Are We Offering These Famous Nationally Advertis44 TM SWIFT 660/F™ Telescoping Spin Rods for only 'p

As part of its Anniversary Publicity Campaign, a leading New York firm will distribute one million (1,000,000) of its most expensive spin rods—the Famous Nationally Advertised'" SWIFT-eeO/F" Telescoping WhisperCast'" WhamRod'"—for the astonishing "Anniversary Price" of only $5 each to the first one million persons who write to the company address (below) before midnight, April 25, 1987. EXTRA BONUS This original Anniversary Ad must accompany your request. Copies If you or photostats are not acceptable. respond

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POST OF THE MONTH

Post 264, Lake Forest, III. Parades Are Its Speciality

HEN McKinlock Post 264 having them work with us," he said. ing the holiday season, the post distri- holds a parade, the entire "And the enlisted men really get a kick butes packages to needy families and city of Lake Forest, III., out of seeing their officers fry ham- residents of a nursing home, and en- shuts down and everybody burgers." sures that every hospitalized veteran

takes a holiday. That's the Post Adj. Larry Crone said the post's receives a gift at Christmas by its partici-

way it has been since 1921 membership of about 240 includes a pation in the statewide project. "Gifts when the Legion post number of military people who actively To The Yanks Who Gave." In addition, began sponsoring the annual parade and support post projects. In turn, the post the post organizes an evening of games carnival on Lake Forest Day. the first is helping Ft. Sheridan plan this year's and entertainment for patients of the VA Wednesday in August. celebration of its 100th anniversary. hospital each month. The post is the major organizer for But the majority of the post's efforts Through their association with the event that now takes six months of are directed toward community ac- Legionnaires on Lake Forest Day, com- preparation and has become a top attrac- tivities, ranging from assisting the high munity leaders have learned that Post tion in the region. Over the years, the school band to financing girls softball. 264 is always there when a special need Lake Forest Day Parade has grown into Crone said the post, in conjunction arises. For instance, the post answered a festival — a time for reunions and with the Lake Forest Recreation Depart- a request by the Lake Forest Preservation recreation —and an annual occasion to ment, sponsors winter skating races for Society last year to buy and install 10 build civic pride and patriotism. children and supports other recreation flags and poles in a landscaped area The carnival, which features food, programs through either cash donations near the train depot. Other public build- games and a $5,000 cash prize, is the or volunteer work. The post also uses ings graced by flags purchased by the

major fund-raiser that supports the the money it raises from Lake Forest post include the public library and recre- post's numerous community programs. Day to send three delegates to Boys ation center. Legionnaires also post One of the side benefits of the celeb- State annually; sponsors an Explorer flags at town buildings and shops dur- ration is the close relationship that has Scout post and cub scout packs; and ing patriotic holidays each year. developed between the Navy officers supports a color guard and rifle squad On special occasions, the post re- and men stationed at nearby Great that participate at veterans' funerals. minds the community of its heritage Lakes. Al Glover, one of the Lake Post Legionnaires also donate their and the Legion's history by presenting a Forest Day committee members, said time at the North Chicago Veterans Med- display of WWI uniforms, weapons and the sailors volunteer to work at the ical Center where several have earned other memorabilia. The display was celebration and have a good time doing awards for accumulating more than part of a historical collection compiled

it. "We enjoy their cooperation and 1.000 hours of volunteer service. Dur- by post historians for the post's 50th anniversary in 1985. Post 264 won the department historical contest in 1985 and 1986 for its history project. The records show the post's civic- mindedness not only in the Lake Forest Day parade, but also in other areas through the years. For example, early fund raising centered on minstrel and review shows that were produced with the assistance of two Chicagoans, Charles Corral and Gordon Freeman, who became known worldwide as the comedy team of Amos and Andy. Another post member who worked in the early stage shows. Benjamin Kebulsky, later moved to California and changed his name to Jack Benny. While the records reveal the Legion roots of the well-known, they also salute the hundreds of ordinary citizens who have worked through the post to serve the community in the best tradi- tions of the Legion's motto, "For God FAMILIAR SIGHT Post 264's color guard is a crowd-pleaser in ttie parade. and Country."

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208th MP Co. (Apr-Houston) Jim Waters. Box 936. Lufkin, "B" Co., 66th Signal Bn. (July-Johnson City TN) Frank TX 75901 (409)632-3361 Cox. 1707 E. Lakeview, Johnson City. TN 37601 (615) OUTFIT REUNIONS 277th Port Co. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Don Andrew, 928-1884 13 Avon Of,, Turnersville, NJ 08012 (609) 227-3766 "C" Co., 20th Inf. (July-Springfield, MO) Lenard Ziglar, Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices are published for 288th FA Observ. Bn. (June-Marietta. OH) Sam Cook, 4642 S, Walcott, Indianapolis, IN 46227 (317) 788-1325 Legionnaires only and must be submitted on official 106 Nolan Cir, Marietta, OH 45750 (614) 373-1326 "C" Co., 124th Inf., 31st Div. ( Apr-Guntersville, AL) forms, self-addressed, forms. To obtain send a stamped 295th JASCO Co. (Oct-Orlando, FL) J, Spinicelli, 776 Edgar Beatty 42 Twin Manor Northport. AL 35476 (205) envelope to: O R Form. The American Legion Magazine. Forest Glen Ct,, Maitland, FL 32751 (305) 647-1776 758-8897 RO Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be 322nd Med. Bn., 97th Div. WWII (Aug-St Louis) Warren "C" Co., 637th TD Bn. (Aug-Gullipolis. OH) Donald least received at seven montfis before reunions are Miller 1525 Autumn Dr., Manchester MO 63021 (314) Robinson, 291 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, OH 45631 (614) scheduled and will be published only on a first-come, 225-5425 446-2976 first-served basis 325th Glider Inf. Regt. (Sept-St Louis) Gregory Boyer, "C" Co., 735th Tank Bn. (Aug-Columbus, IN) Frank Chambers, Greentree 6308 Gramond, St, Louis, MO 63123 (314) 353-7224 309 S Dr , Muncie, IN 47304 (317) 357th AAA SL Bn. (Aug-Charleston, SC) Roy Hawkins, 284-2735 2484 Leeway N,E., Orangeburg, SC 29115 (803) 536-2554 "C" Co., 1007th SB Engr. (June-Cicero, IN) Robert Hunt, Army Box 446, Cicero, IN 46034 784-5295 430th AAA AW Bn. WWII (May-Rosemont. IL) Edward (317) Trennert, "D" Btry., 433rd (May-Nashville. 6149 Laura Ln , Tinley Park, IL 60477 (312) AAA Bn. TN) William 532-5870 Graham. 451 Lakewood Dr. Birmingham, AL 35209 1st Engr. Bn. (Sept-Tannersville. PA) Combat WWII 435th AAA, 473rd Inf. Assn. (Sept-Owensboro, KY) WR (205) 879-3005 311 Oscar Fellman, Sycamore St.. Weldon. NC 27890 Staples, 1150 N, Posey Lake Hwy,, Hudson. Ml 49247 "D" Co., 303rd Inf., 97th Div. (Apr-Litchfield, MN) Clem 536-2104 (919) (517) 547-5274 Schlosser Meadowood Apt. 2. Darwin, MN 55324 (612) 1 St Inf., 6th Div., Serv. Co. (Sept-Saginaw. Ml) Carl Kindt, 508th Engr. (LP) Co. (Aug-York. PA) Jack Rosenbluth, 693-8860

2426 Clinton St , Saginaw. Ml 48602 (517) 793-2911 "E" Inf., 2299 Mt Zion Rd , York, PA 17402 ( 717 ) 757-37 70 Co., 167th 31st Div. (May-Guntersville, AL) 2nd Chem. Mortar Bn. WWII (June-Caryville, TN) 508th Parachute Inf. Regt. WWII (Sept-El Paso. TX) Jim Jessie Walden, 4211 Morrow St., Guntersville, AL 35976 Wilson, Rt 1, Eugene Box 182. Speedwell, TN 37870 Allardyce. 335 Ardussi, Frankenmuth, Ml 48734 (517) (205) 582-5844 (615) 869-4572 652-6284 "G " Co., 28th Inf. Bsgt., 8th Div. (Aug-Paducah, Ky) 5th Bn., 4th Arty., 5th Div. (QuangTri) (May-Washington) 513th Engrs. (LP) Co. (1942-45) (Aug-Durham. NC) James Cogdill, Rt 2, Box 392, Charleston, MO 63834

Russell Ward. 7205 Miami Ave . Cincinnati, 45243 OH James Eggleston, Rt 5, Box 436, Roxboro, NC 27573 (314)675-3447 (513) 271-4051 (919) 599-5819 HQ Co., 124th Arm d Engrs., 13th Div. (June-Charles- 12th Arm'd Div. (Aug-Louisville, KY) Paul Hempfling Sr. 548th AAA Bn. (June-Frankenmuth, Ml) Edgar Rupp, 29 ton, WV) Willie Rosen, 7208 Chalkstone Dr., #T2, Balti- 11418 Hillcrolt, Houston, TX 77035 (713) 729-7586 ) Logo Ct , Jamaica Bay West, Ft, Myers, FL 33912 (813) more, MD 21208 (301 538-9327 21st AAA AW Bn., 25th Div. (All Btrys.) {July-Avon 482-6354 •K" Co., 147th Inf. (Sept-Springfield, OH) Harry Ark, 114 Lake, OH) Norman Babbitt, 225 EramoTerr, Hamden, 610th Engr. L.E. Co. (June-Monteagle, TN) Paul Smith, Fairview Ave . Springfield, OH 45504 (513) 323-8932 288-0174 CT 06518 (203) Box 374, Winchester TN 37398 (615) 967-0796 Ft. Richardson Military Personnel (1942-45) (July- 30th Signal Co. WWII (June-Hendersonville, NC) Ray 617th QM Depot Supply Co. (Sept-Dover OH) John Omaha, NE) Adrian Ingersoll, 244 Ohio Ave,, East Alton, 648-0744 Haley 2 Haley Ln , Canton. NC 28716 (704) IL 62024 254-4665 Terakedis, 211 High St . Dover OH 44622 (216) 343-6938 (618) 31st, 44th, 241st Engr. (C) Bns. (July-Little Falls. NY) 635th TD. Bn. (Sept-Denver) Harold Pellegrino. 1630 W, Persian Gulf Command Vets (May-Phoenix, AZ) Gerald Gerald Stone, 507 Lake St,, Herkimer, NY 13350 (315) 849- Terr 235-0110 Slocum, 4228 N 86th Dr , Phoenix, AZ 85037 (602) 28th , Topeka, KS 66611 (913) 866-5447 782nd Tank Bn. WWII (June-Pine Bluff, AR) William Coker 3543 34th Engr. Combat Bn. WWII (May-Nashville, TN) J M Louis A. Milne 200th Hosp. Ship (June-Myrtle 4401 Union Ave , Pine Bluff, AR 71603 (501 ) 879-2660 USAHS Birdsong, Rt 9, Box 251, Athens, AL 35611 (205) 232-5405 783rd Engr. Pet. Dist. Co. (June-Florence. KY) Stanley Beach, SC) Jim Rider, 40 Inlet Oaks Village, Murrells 36th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-San Antonio, TX) Leonard Fryman, 3415 Spruce Tree Ln., Erianger, KY 41018 (606) Inlet, SC 29576 (803) 651-6016 Wilkerson, Box 2049, Malakoff, TX 75148 (214) 489-1644 371-9073 XXI Corps US Sect. Assn., (Rhinel-Danube, WWII) 44th Engr (C) Bn. (Aug-Nashville, TN) Albert Cline, Box 791st AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) Stephen (May-Biarritz, France) Don Seedborg, 1915 Cedar Ave., 501, Gaflney SC 28342 (803) 489-6528 Apt 5, Long Beach, CA 90806 (213) 591 -4075 Savitsky 3172 36th St . Long Island City NY 11106 (718) 52nd Arm'd Inf. Bn., 9th Arm d Div. WWII (May-New 545-8836 Orleans) Vern Reaugh. 3009 Larkspur Run, Williams- 806th Tank Destroyer Bn. (May-Knoxville. TN) Richard burg, VA 23185 Allen, 208 W. Hillside Ave,. Barrington, IL 60010 (312) 58th Gen. Hosp. WWII (June-Pittsburgh) John George, 381-2989

50 Liberty St , Fredonia, NY 14063 (716) 679-1636 807th Engr. AVN Bn. (Aug-Milwaukee) Ben Craig, Box 58th Ord. Co. (Aug-Belleville, IL) Robert Sinkula, Ammo 547, Bucksport, ME 04416 (207) 469-3771 Navy

922 D" St , Schuyler. NE 68661 (402) 352-2349 811th TD Bn. ( Aug-Richmond, IN) Virgil Murphy, 5697 61st CA AA Regt., 184th AAA Gun Bn., 634th, 835th Oxford, Brown Rd , OH 45056 (513) 523-3254 (May-Minneapolis) Robert Miller 101 St C.B. Bn. (May-St Louis) Calvin Belt, 4801 Stratford AAA AW Bns. WWII 820th Engr. Bn. AVN (June-Pine Bluff, WY) John Jessen, Evansville, IN 422-1983 Rd , 47710 (812) , Adelphi, ) 937- 10924 Pleasant Acres Dr MD 20783 (301 Box 176. Pine Bluff, WY 82082 (307) 245-3829 Brunswick NAS Personnel WWII (June-Brunswick, ME) 6373 822nd T.D. Bn. Assn. (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) Joseph Hill, Mary Hinds, 4369 Bluewater Ave , Spring FL 33526 84th Inf. Div. WWII (Aug-Colorado Springs, CO) William Tncomi, 119 Mill Creek Rd., Niles, OH 44446 (216) 683-5699 Johnson, Box 26, Fort Myers, FL 33902 (813) 334-7917 652-1179 (904) CVL-CVE Sisters (Apr-Pasadena, TX) Gerald Shaw, Box 94th Inf. Div. (July-Baltimore) Ross Jordan. 1415 Orion 925th AVN Engr. Regt. (May-San Antonio. TX) Fred IL 560505, Miami, FL 33256 Rd . Batavia, 60510 (312) 879-7157 Canker, 3211 Hawthorne Dr. Amarillo. TX 79109 (806) Deep Freeze IV (1958-59) (August) Mel Havener, 278 96th Inf. Div. WWII (July-Memphis, TN) William Broschk, 352-3155 Lantana St., Camarillo, CA 93010 (805) 987-8158 17819 S Station Rd., Columbia Station. OH 44028 (216) 967th FA Bn. (176th, 228th FA Regt.) WWII (May-Balti- PBM Mariners (May-San Francisco) Spud Lambing, 62 236-5141 more) Louis Persiano. 1939 Dundalk Ave., Dundalk. MD Country Club Gate, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 (408) 372- 103rd Div. WWII (July-Denver) Rev. Harvey Ellsworth, 21222 (301) 285-0810 8260 Moreland Rd,, Jerome, Ml 49249 (517) 688-9249 5812 970th QM Serv. Co. (May-Ponca City, OK) W,T Kneblick, 104th Combat Engr. (Sept-Teaneck, NJ) Stanley SACO (US Nav. China, WWII) (June-Annapolis, MD) Bn. Rt 3, Box 331 A, Yoakum, TX 77995 (512) 293-6866 Mitchellville, 20716 Charles Cox, 16201 Oxford Ct , MD Sagen, 2205 Weston St., La Crosse, Wl 54601 (608) 1256th Combat Engr. Bn. WWII (Aug-Mars, PA) Michael 788-5073 (301)262-3633 Wokulich, Box 61, Rt 1, Mars. PA 16046 (412) 776-5556 (May-Chattanooga, TN) 104th Inf. Regt., 26th Inf. Div. (May-Kerhonkson, NY) Ulithi SLCU 34, Acorn 29 TC. 1991st WM Truck Co. (Aug-Des Moines, lA) Veryin Van Dr, Chattanooga, 37412 Roger Hemond, Box 3523, Springfield, MA 01101 (413) Sanderson, 3410 Ten Oaks TN

Wechel, 806 Park Dr , Vinton, lA 52349 (319) 472-2137 593-9512 (615)876-9466 3037th Co., 139th (May-Washington) Bill 113th Cav. Grp. (113th, 125th Sqdns.) (July-Cedar OBAM Davis. US Asiatic Fleet (4 Stacker) (July-Eagle, PA) Doris Holt,

1012 Grove St . Wilson, NC 27893 (919) 243-5753 Dadesville, 825- lA) 37 N Turkey Trot Rd., AL 36853 (205) Rapids. Tim Donovan. 209 Linden Ave , Highlands, NJ 07732 (201) 291 -4907 3511th MAM Ord. Co. (Sept-Marion, IL) Harris Pavey. 151 6995 115th, 196th F.A. Bns. WWII (May-Lawton, OK) Alfred Meadow Dr, Rt 66 & Brainard Rd,. LaGrange. IL 60525 USS ABSD 1 (June-Reno, NV) Louis Peters, 775 E, Foot- hill Rialto, (714)874-3029 (312) 354-4522 Blvd , #35, CA 92376 Douglass, 2536 Frazier Ave , Ft Worth, TX 76110 (817) (May-Charleston, Carol 923-5358 3594th QM Truck Co. (June-Nashville. TN) William Ellis, USS Achernar AKA 53 SC) Preston, 1491 Longbrook Dr, Cullman, AL 35055 (205) 120th Station Hosp. ETO (July-Memphis. TN) Dilmus Rt. 1, Beech Grove. AR 72412 (501 ) 886-6864 734-9394 Hearnsberger 4719 Kenmar Cove, Memphis, TN 38128 3611th QM Truck Co. WWII (Sept-Perrysburg. OH) Cecil Arided AK 73 ( Aug-Bremerton, WA) Philip Olson. (901)377-4015 Valentine, 810 Cherry St., Genoa, OH 43430 (419) USS St,, Ontario, 91762 (714) 984-9047 126th Inf., Cannon Co. (June-Elk Grove Village. IL) 855-3465 1358 W D CA USS Ashland LSD 1 (July-Elk Grove Village, IL) John Ralph Schmidt, 14769 60th Ave , Coopersville, Ml 49404 3938th QM Gas Supply Co. ( Aug-Bedford, PA) Percy Tschaepe, 906 W Loire Ct,, C3. Peoria, IL 61614 (309) (616) 837-8827 Miller, Box 103B, Rt, 5, Bedford, PA 15522 (814) 623-8366 135th Ord. MM Co. (Mar-Montvale. NJ) Frank Lanzante. 691-7380 "A" Co., 17th Engrs., 2nd Arm'd Div. (May-Nashville, USS Balao SS 285 WWII (Aug-Little Rock, AR) Merrill 76 Clinton Park Dr, Bergenfield, NJ 07621 (201 ) 385-0534 TN) Willard Curtis, 110 S Revena. Ann Arbor. Ml 48103 98118 149th Assn. (149th Regt. WWII) (June-Louisville, KY) Edson, 9720 Waters Ave. So , Seattle, WA (206) (313) 662-0084 Marion Williams. 2005 Redleal Dr, Louisville, KY40222 723-9228 "B" Btry., 188th FA Bn. (May-Fontana. Wl) Ben Busse. (502)425-4963 USS Barnett APA 5 (June-Denver) John Kolstad, 2213 19033 Hwy 173. Harvard, IL 60033 (815) 943-4063 831-6038 167th General Hosp. ETO (July-Manitowoc. Wl) Albert Ming Ave , Bakersfield, CA 93304 (805) "B" Btry., 467th AAA AW Bn. Sp. (June-St. Louis) Ralph USS Bataan CVL 29 (Apr-Pasadena, CA) Cliff Williams, De Feo, 1314 N, 10th St , Manitowoc, Wl 54220 (414) Steinhoff, St , IL Kirksville, 684-9549 4906 Howard Skokie, 60077 (312) 1802 E Normal St , MO 63501 675-5327 FA, Box 174th Ord. Depot Co. WWII (July-Perrysburg, OH) Arthur USS Belet APD 109 (Sept-St, Louis) Weaver 696, Galveston, IN 46932 (219) 699-6094 Best, 751 W Poinsettia, Toledo, OH 43612 (419) 478-8372 "B" Btry., 692nd FA Bn. (Sept-Minneapolis) Walter 195th Ord. Depot Co. (Sepl-Manassas, VA) Charles Frilts, Manferdini, 7131 North Shore TrI., Forest Lake, MN USS California BB 44 (June-Sparks, NV) Harold Bean, 8107 Mace Ct,, Manassas, VA 22111 (703) 361-4404 55025(612) 464-5022 616 W. Lafayette. Staunton, IL 62088 (618) 635-5638

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USS Calvert PA 32 (July-Nashville, TN) Billie Trout, USS John W. Weeks DD 701 WWII (Sept-Downington, Arnold Rd., Rl. 2, Christiana, TN 37037 PA) Hal Gross, 29 Shore View Dr, Yonkers, NY 10710 USS Cascade AD 16 (Aug-Branson, MO) Lyie Burchette, (914)779-4879 iVIarines Box 566, Hollister, MO 65672 (417) 334-6617 USS Yosemite AD 19 (May-Mayport, FL) R L. Wickham, USS Columbia CL 56 (Oct-Anaheim, CA) Joe Rice, 5604 10677 CR 59 W, Rt. 1, Carey OH 43316 (419) 396-6963

Plata St., Clinton, MD 20735 (301 ) 868-1260 1st Sep. Engr. Bn. (Oct-Bloomington, MN) Ray Hanson, USS Delta AR 9 (WWII/Korea) (Sept-Milwaukee) James 5889 Hyland Ct. Dr., Bloomington, MN 55437 (612) 835- Elder, 13010 W. Colfax PI., Butler, Wl 53007 (414) 781- 1779 7638 Air Force 2nd Amph. Tractor Bn. (June-Moline, IL) Robert Nelson. USS Foreman DE 633 (Sept-Cleveland) William Holley, Box 464, Woodhull, IL 61490 (309) 334-2311

58P Village Green, Budd Lake, NJ 07828 (201 ) 691 -2380 4th Marine Defense Bn. (Sept-St. Louis) Andy Doumouras. USS Fury, USS Corvettes ETO (Oct-Baltimore) Chester 4566 Gibson Ave.. St. Louis, MO 63110 (314) 534-1518 6th Emergency Rescue Sq. (Late 1987-Dallas) B.H. Rain- Tomaszewski, 846 Franklin St., Trenton, NJ 08610 (609) 9th Amph Tractor Bn., "B" Co. WWII (Sept-Pinedale, water Jr., Box 570, Ruston, LA 71270 (318) 255-3511 396-0453 WY) Harry Whyel, Box 189, Farmington. PA 15437 (412) 7th Ftr. Sq., 49th Ftr. Grp. (May-Panama City, FL) Robert USS Harris PA 2 (Oct-Biloxi, MS) Judson Hoomes. 1711 329-8537 Hoffstatter, 1124 Hushaw Ave., Chillicothe, IL 61523 Warren Dr., Ocean Springs, MS 39564 (601 ) 875-2188 24th Marines, H&S Co. WWII (Sept-Dallas) John Corso, (309) 274-2033 USS Hughes DD 410 (June-San Diego) J. P. Farmer, 301 Essex St., #206, Lynn. MA 01902 (617) 593-7583 41sl R.S.M. (Bremerhaven, Germany) (Aug-Kansas 25251 Nueva Vista Dr., Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 (714) 1-3-7, 1st Marine Div. (Vietnam) (Nov-Washington) Dan City, MO) Keith Barkley, Rt. 1, Box 86, Gretna, NE 68028 495-3318 Flavin, 112WiggensSt .West Lafayette, IN 47906 (317) (402)332-3116 USS Lamson DD 367 (Sept-Sacramento, CA) Ray Duley, 743-4973 75th Air Police Sq. (Oct-San Antonio, TX) Kenneth Heritage Sq. L3, Mission, TX 78572 (512) 581 -4632 VMTB 134 (1944) (July-Cleveland) Calvin Hutchins, 1541 Brunmeier, Box 181, Onida, SD 57564 (605) 258-2325 USS Lexington CV 2 (May-Tacoma, WA) Walt Kastner, Elmwood Dr., Ashtabula, OH 44004 (305) 778-2709 99th Bomb Grp. (H) (Apr-Dallas) Wilbur Dixon, 7831 466 Ivy Glen Dr., Mira Loma, CA 91752 (714) 681-1101 Fallmeadow Ln, Dallas, TX 75248 (214) 744-1005 USS Little DD803/DD79/APD4 (Apr-Seattle) Walter 385th Bomb Grp., 8th AAF (July-Dayton, OH) Ruel Reid, 3802 41st Ave. N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 (206) 522- Weikert, 6306 Green Leaves Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46220 7612 (317) 257-3969 i\/iisceiianeous USS LST 687 (June-Greensboro, NC) Fred Ingram, 1014 390th Bomb Sq., 42nd Bomb Grp., 13th AF (May- Piney Grove Rd., Kernersville, NC 27284 (919) 993- Denver) Charles Wells, 196 Athlone Beach, Bay City Ml 3904 48706(517)686-3678 Canadian/USA Personnel (Prince Rupert-WWII) USS LST 694 (Sept-Branson, MO) Robert Kirsch, Rt. 4, 417th Night Ftr. Sq. (June-Dayton, OH) Robert Perkins, (May-Prince Rupert, Canada) Judy Parkin, Box 1093, Box 117, Evans City, PA 16033 (412) 538-8151 Box 239, Rt. 2, Lancaster. NH 03584 (603) 788-2451 Prince Rupert, BC Canada V8J 4H6 (604) 624-5637 USS LST 797 (Oct-Myrtle Beach, SC) CO. Childress, 901st Engr. AF, HQ Co. WWII (July-Minneapolis) L.V China-Burma-India Vets WWII (May-Cape Coral, FL) 4820 Tartan Dr., Metairie, LA 70003 (504) 887-6412 Pearson, 2131 Fairways Ln., Roseville, MN 55113 (612) Homer Stephens, 7611 20th Ave,, N.W., Bradenton, FL USS LST (H) 951 (June-New Orleans) Don Heuer, Rt. 7, 631-0075 33529 (813) 794-3285 Box 454, Batesville, AR 72501 6147th Tac. Cont. Grp., 5th AF (1950-58) (July-Seattle) National Order of Battlefield Commissions (Oct-San USS LST 1091 (Aug-Charleston, SC) Furman Fowler, 1 Orville Long, 10621 S.E. PI Kent, Diego) A F Warnecke, 1916 Catawba St., Fayetteville. 236th . WA98031 (206) Murray Cir., Cheraw, SC 29520 (803) 537-3334 852-1030 NC 28303 (919) 484-2890 USS Mansfield DD 728 (Aug-Boston) Herbert Miller, 7 Perry St., Somerville, MA 02143 (617) 625-3414 USS McGowan DD 678 (July-Boston) Don Rogers, 30 Hurd St., Lynn, MA 01905 (617) 595-1137 USS IVIeasure AlVI 263 (May-Newport, Rl) Marty Feinman, Army Air Forces COMRADES IN DISTRESS 1030 Cedarhurst St.. No. Woodmere, NY 11581 (516) 791-9851 Readers who can help these veterans are urged to USS IVIurray DD 576 (IVIid-West) (Mar-Oak Lawn, IL) 6th Trp. Carrier Sq. (July-York, PA) Richard Deardorff, do so Usually an eyewitness statement is needed in John Opitz, 9345 Menard, Oak Lawn, IL 60453 (312) 1000 Butter Rd., Dover, PA 17315 (717) 292-1074 support of a VA claim. 422-1393 11th, 482nd Serv. Sqdns., 8th Serv. Grp., HQ (Apr- Notices are run only at the request of American Legion USS Nashville CL 43 (Sept-Albuquerque, NM) A.B. Lancaster, PA) John Heckler. 76 E. Harbor Dr., Teaticket, Service Officers representing claimants, using Search for Speed, 13229 Des Moines Way So., Seattle, WA 98168 MA 02536 (617) 540-1303 Witness Forms available only from State Legion Service (206) 762-0209 13th Airdrome Sq. (June-Hudson, Wl) Herbert Lyngaas, Officers. Please contact CID (number). The American USS James C. Owens DD 776 (Aug-San Diego) Lee Rt. 1, 809 LyIe St., Blanchardville, Wl 53516 (608) 523-4396 Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055. Indianapolis, IN 46206 Warren, 500 Southgate Ave., Daly City, CA 94015 (415) 30th Bomb Grp. (Oct-Denver) Homer Hall, 1901 Thomas 756-8445 PI., Arlington, TX 76010 (817) 261 -9247 51st Ftr Intercepter Wing, Suwon AFB Korea. Barton USS Pennsylvania (July-Memphis, TN) Sheran Fon- 45th Serv. Sq., 5th AF HQ (So. Pacific-WWII) (June- E. Blakely needs witnesses to verify a claim that while tenot, 5360 Rolling Acres Dr., Baker, LA 70714 (504) 774- Omaha, NE) Leonard Cross, 6228 Nebraska Ave., stationed at Suwon AFB in May 1953, he was hos- 7957 Omaha, NE 68183 (402) 571-2615 pitalized with a back injury from a roll over of weapons USS Peterson DE 152 (July-Reno, NV) Russell Jensen. 69th Ftr. Sq. (Werewolves) (May-Dayton, OH) Bob carrier Contact CID 1082 1324 Stanley Rd., Plainfield, IN 46168 (317) 839-2809 Humphreys, 5712 Rockhill Rd., Ft. Worth, TX 76112(817) USS LST 884. William D Dollman needs witnesses to USS Petrof Bay CVE 80 (VC-76/93 Sqdns.) (July- 451-8729 verify a claim that during the invasion of Okinawa in Apr Davenport, lA) Lloyd Baima, 105 7thAve. No., Hurley, Wl 92nd Airdrome Sq. (June-Dayton, OH) Larry Kabat. 1001 1945, he injured his left hand and back during enemy 54534(715)561-5272 WoodlawnTerr. Madison, FL 32340 (904) 973-2306 attack. Contact CID 1083 USS Pittsburgh CA 72 (Sept-Orlando, FL) Lee Warren, 421 St AAF Base Unit, (Muroc, CA) (May-Omaha, NE) 8th Army HQ, Real Estate Detach. John Sayers 500 Southgate Ave., Daly City, CA 94015 (415) 756-8445 382nd Bomb Grp.. (Pocatello), James Holsclaw, 510 N. Hallmark needs witnesses to verify a claim that while

USS Pope, USS Perch (May-Florence, KY) .Don 1 St, O'Neill, NE 68763 (402) 336-2313 stationed in Seoul. Korea in spring of 1955. he suffered Mathews, 574 Bellaire Dr., Venice, FL 33595 (813) 493- 438th Troop Carrier Grp. WWII (May-Louisville, KY) from nerve damage to the head, left hand, arm and side 8123 Ronald Worrell, 419 S. 4th St.. DeKalb, IL 60115 (815) feet. Contact CID 1085 USS Porter DDBOO (Sept-Minneapolis) Alan Jenkins, 340 756-6582 USS Endicott DMS 35/USS Oberon. Danny Rex Treece Andover Blvd. N.E.. Anoka, MN 55304 (612) 434-7045 586th Bomb Sq. WWII (May-San Antonio. TX) John needs witnesses to verify a claim that while aboard USS USS SC 536 (Aug-Seattle) Robert Wood, 812 Church St., Beale, 4206 Shadow Oak Wood, San Antonio, TX 78249 Endicott in Jan 1949. he suffered eye injury from powder

Union City, TN 38261 (901 ) 885-3967 1151st QM Co. AAF (Aug-Tell City, IN) Jack Felix, Rt 2. room burn USS Oberon AKA 14 in 1951, he suffered USS Norman Scott DD 690 (Aug-Fullerton. CA) John Box 235, Milan, IN 47031 (812) 654-3214 multiple injuries to teeth, back and right elbow when he Gabriel, 1100 S. Magnolia, Magnolia Manor #1, Fuller- AVN Cadet Class 42-B (Feb-San Antonio, TX) O A. fell down a ladder. Contact CID 1086 Inf. ton, CA 92633 (714) 680-0825 Simeral, 2903 Marlborough Dr , San Antonio, TX 78230 417th Regt., 76th Div. John R Fowler is seeking USS Shangri-La (June-Norfolk, VA) Bob Kissig, 6018 (512)344-8044 witnesses to verify a claim that while in service from 1944 Harrison St., Mentor, OH 44060 (216) 257-2434 Hammond Army Air Field (May-Hammond, LA) Chris- through 1946. he was hospitalized four limes with ar-

USS Shea DM 30 (Sept-Minneapolis) Don Orlicki, 2623 tina Buehler, c/o Citizens Nat l Bank, Box 2188, Ham- thritis. Contact CID 1087 3rd St. N.E., Minneapolis, MN 55418 (612) 789-9073 mond. LA 70404 (504) 542-2274 Crew #1. Gene Ragan is seeking witnesses to verify a USS Simon Lake AS 33 (June-Charleston, SC) J R. claim that while stationed at Westover Field, MA in Aug, Craven, 1268 Marvin Ave., Charleston, SC 29407 (803) 1944, radium was inserted in their sinuses so that they 556-2954 would be able to fly at high altitudes and have since had USS Sterett 407 (Aug-Bremerton, WA) Gorden Husby Coast Guard strokes. Contact CID 1088 Box 83, Stanwood, WA 98292 (206) 629-3746 4050th ASU, Enl. Staff & Fac. Btry. TA.S. Alfred J. USSThe Sullivans DD 537 (Aug-Lexington, KY) Charles Readinger needs witnesses to verify a claim that while McCarty, 66 Gardenia St.. Clearwater, FL 33515 (813) stationed at Ft. Sill in June-July 1953, he was treated at 461-5316 Port Isabel Lifeboat Sta. (Feb-Port Isabel. TX) Carrol the base hospital for a ruptured ear drum. Contact CID USS Thetis Bay CVE 90 (Aug-Steamboat Springs, CO) DeGeorge, 2422 Clover St., New Orleans, LA 70122 1089 Donald Brookshire, Box 770457, Steamboat Springs, (504) 945-8448 USS LST 1028. Loyd M. Calhoun is seeking witnesses to 00 80477(303)879-1234 USS Bisbee PF 46 (May-Boston) William Finlay, 375 verify a claim that while aboard ship on Jan 9, 1945, he USSTiconderoga CV/CVA/CVS 14 (May-Seattle) Bill Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester, MA 02125 (617) 825-0028 suffered wounds in the back, hips and head. Contact CID Brandenburg, 9008 11th Ave. N.W., Seattle, WA 98117 USS Key West PF 17 (Spring 1987-Norfolk, VA) Jerome 1090 (206) 782-7864 Nelinson, 3644 Seagull Bluff Dr., Virginia Beach, VA USS LSM 485. Luther Ward Woodward needs witnesses to USS Titania AKA 13 (June-Amana, lA) Harold Parrish, 23455(804) 464-5018 verify a claim that while aboard ship in April 1946, he was 1206 W. Franklin St. ,Taylorville,IL 62568 (217) 824-6275 USS Poole DE 151 (Aug-E Rutherford, NJ) Donald exposed to mustard gas chemicals while unloading USS Trenton CL 11 (Aug-Olympia, WA) John Copeland Macchia, 256 Spruce St., Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (201 chemical shells from a German battleship. Contact CID Box 893, Yelm, WA 98597 (206) 458-7220 748-0731 1091

FEBRUARY 1987 55 .

At Just 20 lbs., VETERANS What It Will Do Will Amaze You! ADVISER

Do you have c/uesrions concerning your Any veteran who served after J- veterans benefits? The American Legion Aa April 25. 1951, and is awarded a Magazine answers those questions in this service-connected disability, is eligible column. We regret that we cannot per- for Service-Disabled Veterans Insur- sonally answer eacli query. Write to ance (RH). You must file for this insur- The American Legion Magazine. ance within one year of the award of the Veterans Adviser Editor. P.O. Bo.x disability rating. 1055. Indiatiapolis. IN 46206. Q* Why is it necessary to have the 0» My husband died on active duty. property appraised when applying How long must we have been married for a VA loan? in order for me to receive benefits The law requires that the amount J. from the VA? n* of the VA loan may not exceed the Alfa veteran is married before serv- reasonable value of the property, con- If your garden is less than an acre, you • ing in the military or v\ hile on active struction, alterations, improvements or need a big, expensive tiller like you duty, no restrictions on the length of the repairs as determined by the VA. In need rabbits. What you need is one marriage apply for eligibility for sur- order to reach this determination the small, precision machine that can do a variety of jobs in the garden and around vivors" benefits for spouses. If a vet- VA requires an appraisal of the prop-

the yard . . . quickly, easily, neatly and eran marries after release from service, erty by a designated appraiser. economically. certain rules apply. Generally, if the The exciting Mantis Lightweight is marriage was for a year or longer, the Q« When the new Improved Pen- changing the way Americans garden. It spouse will qualify. Under certain con- sion was first enacted I was advised weighs just 20 pounds, so anyone can ditions, length of is that it would not be to advantage to . marriage my use it. It starts with a flick of the wrist . . immate-

cuts through tough soils . . . turns on a rial if, for example, the veteran and switch from the current plan. Is it

dime . . . weeds in and around plants, spouse had a child. possible that it might be to my advan- between narrow rows and along fence tage now?

lines . . . and runs all day on a gallon of Q* Will the VA furnish a grave It might be. The income limits have gas! What's more, with its inexpensive J-

attachments, it quickly becomes a fur- marker for a person who died in A* increased steadily and are tied to rower, lawn aerator or de-thatcher, a military service and whose remains Social Security increases. You should power edger, or a hedge trimmer! have not been recovered or iden- check with your nearest VA regional office. tified? 3- Week In-Your-Garden Trial . . Yes. A memorial headstone or My husband died in a VA medi- (that doesn't start until you start II Q* gardening) A* marker may be furnished on appli- cal center. Will the VA help with bu- cation of a close relative recognized as rial expenses? Best of all, you can try the Mantis — the next of kin to ctimmcmorate any Yes. In addition to a burial allow- risk free! If you don't love it, simply J- eligible veteran. ance, the VA will pay the trans- return it for a full refund. Aa portation charge to the place of burial.

Q« Is it necessary for me to inform

the VA of my new address if my Qa I have a Loan Guaranty Certifi- ©MMC 1987 monthly benefit check is handled cate of Eligibility that was issued to through direct deposit? me by the VA more than 15 years Mantis Manufacturing Co.

Line Rd 1 1027 Yes. Failure to keep the VA noti- ago. May I still use it? 1458 County , Dept |.

Huntingdon Valley, PA 1 9006 n* t ied of your current address could Yes. Certificates of Eligibility do J. Please send me information on the result in your missing important coiie- Aa not expire and are good for the revolutionary Mantis Tiller/Cultivator, and FREE 3-WEEK TRIAL. spondence sent to your address of record. maximum loan guaranty currently available.

Name I am a Korean War veteran and I Q* Address I am filing for a service-connected Qa When does the home loan eligi-

I City . disability rating. If I am rated serv- bility for a veteran expire? ice-connected, am I eligible for VA Loan entitlement is no longer sub- State .Zip. H I life insurance? Aa ject to an expiration date.

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unions in his re-election battle, lost. Planer Molder Saw WORKING POOR A single statistic may explain why Continuedfrom page 27 the gamble is worth it. In some states, the dropout rate is as high as 30 percent and rising. The dropouts are, for the most part, the children of the poor and minorities.

able to swings in the economy and "This is scary, said Sue Foster, Bre- greatly need help to prevent their be- zius' consulting partner. "Unless we coming dependent. Perhaps their best change our ways of dealing with them, available source of help is training under unless we make drastic changes in the the Joint Partnership Training Act pro- teacher-student relationships, we will grams, which Kolberg considers ex- face dropout rates of 50 percent. Think

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Mint in its own transparent handling collectors to whom it can mail its they could get the best deal. sheath to protect against inadvertent carefully prepared announcements of Would vouchers work? "The G.I. Bill smudges or scratches. Mint's current new acquisitions. There is no obligation The worked, didn't it? It was the biggest and national retail price for this Abe Lincoln to buy anything. To request your most successful voucher program in our Series "LL" Commemorative is $15.00; Abraham Lincoln Series "LL" Double history," Brezius responded. thousands have already been purchased Eagle Commemorative, free of charge, The voucher plan is already being at this price by other collectors. mail your name and address and voluntary tested in Arizona and other places $1 to: THE NATIONAL HISTORIC MINT, Lincoln Commemorative, where workers have been displaced Dept. 570-130, Box 256, Jericho, NY from their jobs. In California, a training 11753. Limit one (1) per address. No tax has been added to the employer's dealers, please. (E44740) portion of the unemployment insurance contribution to finance worker-training "The National Historic Mint is a private corporation not affiliated as and retraining. an agent or otherwise with the U.S. And Congress has made an important Government. move to help the working poor by

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know, almost glorying. . .1 realize that Weeds, Grass, and Brush! you have to face your problem of the • Controls nuisance growth in those areas past and go through it to the other side, ...with Garden Way's amazing you want to keep under control — but but sometimes it looks as if the people new TRAIL BLAZER Sickle don't want to mow as often as your lawn! are taking an awful long time to get to Bar Mower! • Cuts the thickest, toughest, tallest the other side. that's And prejudice on vegetation Including woody brush! my side, because I haven't even really Mow this 1500sq. ft. overgrown mess... • Goes anywhere — even steep heard anybody's story and I haven't lived slopes! what they went through either. My prayer Big 35" wide cut — powered for all the veterans who were in Vietnam wheels mows 1500 sq. ft. is that they can face everything that of overgrown weeds in less happened, and if they feel they've done than 5 minutes! something that deserves forgiveness, nOMTHEKUWERSW

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/ 1/IGHTS were especially difficult Name_ -A. T because this was the time when people who were wounded would be Address. very frightened—moaning and groan- City ing and calling out. Marines were in- State. -Zip- ®1987 Garden Way Inc. Continued on page 72

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The Affordable MY HEART CENTURY A ward- Winning Continuedfrom page 71 MOBILE HOME COMMUNITIES' Communities of Florida YOURS FOR: credibly stoic. It was surprising that . PERMANENT RETIREMENT they didn't cry out more than they did. LIVING There were a lot of times when they

. SECOND HOME died on us at night. I mean, I would go LIVING from one unit to the next and have three, . INVESTMENT four, five Marines die maybe in the HOMES period of one night. Some of them in my arms. I'd be holding them, and Century Communities offer you a wide range of Fun-in-the-Sun choices in new — they'd be hanging on "Oh, I don't mobile home hving, including communities with . . . waterfront living and marinas . . want to die!" You have to say, "Well, golf course living . . . large clubhouses . . . heated swimming pools . . . Jacuzzi whirl- God, I can't get involved, I can't get pools . . . plus many other amenities. To save you money and offer convenience, Century has its own Travel Club Agency and Merchant Discount Program. involved," but it's pretty damn hard not Some are double-wide communities with prices from $29,900 and some are single- getting involved when you see a 19- or wide communities with prices from $16,900. 20-year-old blond kid from the Mid- west, California or the East Coast A II 12 Communities have Lcdrn about Iht choices along wilh Ihe advantages avail- screaming and dying. A piece of my Guaranteed Lifetime Leases able to you as offered by Florida's largest provider of new mobile home communities heart would go with each! You know and are Developed MAIL TOi that their families would be getting a and Operated by CENTIRY COMMUNITIES (813) 647-1581 visit from the Marine Corps two days P O Box 5252 • Lakeland. FL 33803 —CENTUR Y— later. It was all I could do to hold back Name the tears, and we did hold back a lot, Choice locations include which I think was very unhealthy. Ocala, Leesburg, Wildwood, Street Address

Tampa-Plant City, Winter City State_ Zip. Haven, Lakeland, Haines AL. -J Phone City, Sebring and Eustis. ( KDAtlTtS FTER having served overseas and JL a. seen so many, many things, my life has really changed. It's the things that seem important to people here like a new car, a fancy house, a designer label

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Authorized Liquidator PROTECTIVE COVERS A computer analysis revealed that the CLOSEOUT three most used words in the English IHWU^TIOW '<0*" PRICES! language in 1986 were "Yes" on honey- moons, "No" in divorce courts and "Oops!" at the White House.

George Washington wore a powdered These tough, light- weight ALL SEASON wig, tight silk pants, woolen stockings, covers are factory wooden teeth and wanted to throw King overstock. They wrap George III out of America. Who could around your vehicle to guard against dirt, blame him for being irritable? dust, rain, snow, tree sap, frost, etc. • Covers are rugged nylon taffeta. • Acrylic coating resists moisture, rot.

• Stretch ends for snug, pull-tight fit. Valentine's Day is an educational experi- Measurements: Bumper to bumper. ence. It's when you learn that one pound Allow 10"-15" extra length for one-piece An administration clarification is when wrapunder bumpers, wagon models or of chocolates, wrapped in two pounds of you get all the news that's retro-fit to cars pre- 1959. satin, costs three pounds ofmoney. print. SMALL i-ist: *69.95 $ -lEn" 1CC" Liquidation Price 25 - lOU ino Item H-1983-4514-006S/H: $3.509.50 MEDIUM Mfr.List:»79.95 Liquidation Price . IDO - mn"lOU H-1983-4514-014 S/H: $3.50.50 The only safe way to drive in two feet of iVifr.List:*89.95 snow is to put on chains. You put them LARGE $ LJquidation Price 1R1"lOI 1Q9"la* 30 on anyone who wants to drive in two - Hem H-1983-4514-022S/H: $3.501.50 feet of snow. X-LARGE ivifr.ust:»99.95 193"-210" Uquidation Price »33 Item H-1 983-451 4-055 S/H: $3.50 JUMBO Mfr. Ust: * 109.95

. »36 211"-235" Liquidation Price . Hem H-1983-4514-030 S/H: $3.5050 Have you ever noticed? Greed is an itch IVifr. List: *39.95 $ that resists all scratching. MOTOR- CYCLE Liquidation Price . . . 15 Hem H-1983-4514-048 S/H: $3.50

enduring quote of our time The most Credit card membere can order by phone, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. may be: "I CAME, I SAW, I CON- NIVED." Toil-Free: 1-800-328-0609 Sales outside the 48 contiguous states are subject to ' it, Life is a ball. Some catch some throw special conditions. Please call or write to inquire.

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Lincoln was born in a log cabin and 52 Sign Here years later moved into the White I've to involved in House. Today he'd move into the White always wanted be C |0|M |B| Direct Marketing Corp. foreign affairs. It's the most stabbing in House and 52 years later would still be Authorized Liquidator the back you can do without being in an trying to sell the log cabin. 1405 Xenium L^ne North {Minneapolis, IVIInnesota 55441-4494 opera. itj 1987 Robert Orben

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An exciting portfolio of America's popular home designs specially edited by category. Order AGENTORANGE either the delightfully illustrated plan book of Continuedfrom page 41 your favorite house category, or the Complete HOME DESIGNS Collection. Your satisfaction guaranteed.

the Agent Orange Examination pro- gram to ensure tliat the VA medical exams are performed in a compassion-

Ft. — For 315 ONE STORY HOMES UNDER 2000 Sq. medium Restricted budgets 215 MULTI-LEVEL HOMES — Split levels bi-levels for flat & tiillsibe sites ate and informed manner. Delightful iraditional S contemporary exteriors & tloor plans. 192 pages 54 95 Exciting new dimensions m living. For varying budgets t92 pages $4.95 In other Agent Orange develop- ments, the VA recently contracted with the New England Research Institute to begin preliminary work on a medical study of women Vietnam veterans that would look at possible health effects 210 ONE STORY HOMES OVER 2000 Sq. Fl. — All popular styles Spanish. Western 223 VACATION HOMES - - A-trames chalets hexagons, lodges for summer Tudor. Frencti. elc For modest to country-estate budgets. 192 pages $4 95 and winter tun From 481 to 3238 sp ft 176 pages. 120 mlull color 54_95 related to exposure of Agent Orange '^WW^ "MQil""HO/vlE PLANNrRsTlNC. i and other medical problems. Dept. Bk - 23761 Research Drive i Today Farmington Hills, Michigan 48024 the Second Court Please stiip to me by return mail (circle ctioice). MEANWHILE, I 315 One Story Homes Under 2000 Sq. Ft. @ $4.95 of Appeals has granted a notion 210 One Story Homes Over 2000 Sq. Ft. @ $4.95 to stay the distribution of Agent ^V^ 150 IV1 STOBY HOMES — Cape Cod Williamsburg Tudor Contemporary uersionsww 150 Story Homes @ $3.95 | Orange payments established under the Dudgei and country-estate sections Expandable family plans 128 ' — pages S3. 95 360 Two Story Homes @ $6.95 im ALM72 settlement of class-action litigation in 215 Multi-Level Homes @ $4.95 223 Vacation Homes @ $4.95 August. The action freezes any further Complete Collection @ $19.95 (Saving $10.75) movement on the cash distribution plan. If and when the stay is lifted, about $150 million in settlement funds, plus

360 TWO STOflV HOMES — Tudors, Salt Boxes. Cambrels Mansaros. Georgians. City interest, will be paid to certain totally Farmnouse adaptations Also Contemporaries For all budgets 288 pages eg gg Zip disabled Vietnam veterans and to sur- 7 ALL SIX CATEGORIES - only $19.95. Get each of the six oul- In Canada mail to: Mtcti residents standlng plan books. Over 1250 designs. vivors of certain deceased Vietnam 4050 llluslratlons. 1168 Home Plannei kindly add 4°o pages. A $30.70 value, save $10.75. Blueprints available lor each de- I 20 Cedar St. N. sales tax Ctieck # | veterans. Eligibility criteria for the sign at low cosL.SIarl your home planning program now. Kitchener. Ont N2H 2W8 enclosed fo^ i ^1 payments will be announced later. Called the last battle of the Vietnam War, the Agent Orange controversy although progress is being made doesn't appear to be reaching a swift conclusion. However, The American Legion will continue to pursue resolu- tion of this priority issue. As results are NEW made known they will be published in this magazine. COLLEaOR LIFE MEMBERSHIPS

Life Membership notices are published for Legion- naires who have been awarded Life Memberships by their FILE posts Life Membership notices must be submitted on official forms which may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Life Memberships. The American Legion, PC Box 1055. Indianapolis. IN 46206

Samuel Chunowltz, Richard Draper, Meyer Frank, Hymen Herschberg, William S. Holland, George Johnson, Bertram Kay, Louis J. Lucas, Emanuel L. Meyers, Morton D. Mollner, Alan R. Rosen, Abraham B. Rosengard, James Ruzika, Thomas C. Whiting, New American Legion Magazine Collector File. Handsome, sturdy, Harold G. Wolf, Joseph F. Zarish, Theodore N. blue vinyl, will hold up to 24 issues of The American Legion Zekman (1986). Post 206. Chicago. IL John N. Giracca (1981). Post 127. Great Barrmgton, MA Magazine. Shelf size. Handy label insert on front and back for Walter Holden (1981). Post 204. West Boylston, MA Walter E. Richardson (1986). Post 293. Maiden. MO easy reference. Paul R. Colgan (1986). Post 21, Concord. NH Fred Barbaro, August Faber (1986). Post 130. Midland Order No. 74338 $6.95 plus $1.50 shipping and insurance. From Park. NJ John H. Jesmer (1986). Post 326. Lake Placid, NY National Emblem Sales Dept. M27, P.O. Box 1050, Indianapolis, Thomas MelluccI, John Lally (1986). Post 422, Flushing. NY Ind. 46206 Victor B. Wallace Jr. (1986). Post 221. Charlotte. NC John Konkus (1986). Post 473, Freeland, PA Robert E. Herman, Frank E. Luedeke (1986). Post 70, Oshkosh.WI

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