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WILL THE RUSSIANS RULE THE WURLD? 12

The Soviets' goal is clear, but how will the West respond?

WHAT HOPE FROM GORBACHEV? 14 Used to cruder types, Westerners are taken in by this new Soviet leader. By Dr. Robert Conquest

TERROR IN THE SKY 16

Slack airport security is terror's ticket to ride. By Jerome Greer Chandler

200,000 MILES BETWEEN CAR CHANGES 18 A prescription for your car's good health. By Phyllis Zauner

THE PROBLEMS OF BATTLEFIELD MEDICINE 20

Who will answer when the wounded cry, "Medic!"? By Maj. Gen. Henry Mohr

AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM: WHY IT PERSISTS, WHAT WE MUST DO 22 Prospects are bleak, but not hopeless, for 8.5 million jobless. By Vernon Pizer

CELEBRATING THE HARVEST 24 Autumn riches reflect the bounty of God's good earth. By Gary Turbak

VIETNAM VETERANS ARE STILL PAYING THE PRICE 28 Legion-Columbia University Study focuses on the human cost of war.

DALE L. RENAUD ELECTED NATIONAL COMMANDER 32 New Orleans Convention elects Iowan to head The American Legion 1985-86.

ASTHMA: UNDERSTANDING AN ANCIENT DISEASE 62

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BIG ISSUES 11 Should We Repeal The War Powers Resolution?

LETTERS LEGION NEWS 30 POST OF THE MONTH 40

DATELINE WASHINGTON LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION 36 ORBEN'S WORLD 59

VETERANS UPDATE 27 VETERANS ALERT 38 PARTING SHOTS 64

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Regardless of the of one of the chief inalienable rights of In late 1972 I had the opportunity to comparative strengths of Russia and American citizens the right of fran- talk to several civilian Vietnamese — the United States, the article ignored a most important consideration in the event of nuclear war — the environ- The Price ofFreedom mental effects that a large-scale nuclear war would produce. I believe nearly "The Russians are especially when they believe the odds are every environmental expert in both the in their favor, they were in Czecho- coming! The Russians as United States and Russia agrees that are coming! All I read slovakia, Hungary and Afghanistan. the use of even a small percentage of today is that the Rus- While many nations use force against their arsenals could, and most probably sians are coming!" their enemies, Russia doesn't hesitate to would, render the Earth uninhabitable. writes an exasperated use it against their "friends" as members reader. 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Strom Thurmond, a recipient of The trolled since the end of World War II; American Legion's Distinguished Ser- the same country that has never strayed The Army, Too its self-enunciated goal of destroy- vice Medal. from It was gratifying to read "Korea: ing democracy; and the same country "There are ominous forces that seek to Memories of a Forgotten War" (July), that has helped lead invasions and conquer, control and acquire by force which capsulized that war very well and takeovers across the globe, such as An- what they cannot gain in peace," Thur- did a good job of pointing out the posi- gola, Mozambique and Ethiopia in Africa; mond said of the Soviets, "and the de- Yemen in the Middle East; Vietnam and tive results of the effort we put into it. fense of our nation has never been more Afghanistan in Asia; and Cuba and As an Army rifle platoon leader in the important than it is now. We cannot ig- Nicaragua in our own backyard." 7th Infantry Division, I landed at Inchon nore the fact that we no longer hold a military advantage over the Soviet One only has to know the Soviets' his- alongside the 1st Marine Division as part tory of expansionism to forewarned Union." be of X Corps and later, as part ofthe Army's about their ultimate objective. Har- As 3rd Bn. 17th Inf. Regt. reached the Yalu Now the Soviets have moved into the vard philosopher George Santayana River. At the same time, other elements Pacific, a heretofore exclusive bastion of warned: "Those who cannot remember American power. Facing Pacific-based of the 7th Inf. Div. were decimated the past are condemned to repeat it." took the U.S. forces today is one-third of the The American Legion wants people when they and the Marines Soviet SS-20 missile inventory of 400 nu- to remember history, especially the vio- brunt of the initial Chinese onslaught. clear warheads; 80 Backfire bombers cap- lent record of Soviet aggression. To do Thus, while I have always had the high- able of striking Pacific targets with either that requires continuous exposure to est regard for the fighting abilities of nuclear or conventional weapons; more the nefarious methods the Soviets use the Marines, I would like to see the than 2,000 combat planes; two of its three in their quest for world domination. It's Chosin Reservoir battle and subsequent aircraft carriers; operational and about the principle of repetition: If said, or breakout and fight to the seacoast put 120 submarines, more than half of which published, often enough, people eventu- are nuclear-powered. in proper perspective by giving the ally take heed. Army its just dues. There should be no doubt in anyone's It's also the principle of eternal vigi- Leslie P. Holcomb Jr. mind that the Soviets will not hesitate to lance: the price you pay for freedom. use their power brutally and directly, The Editors "Yanks Down Under" Post 1, Sydney, Australia

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Senators Bill Bradley and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey Soviet Plans For Global War have introduced legislation that would ban the use of lead The Soviet Union believes that the next world war will be pipes and lead solder in new construction. It also would re- a decisive global conflict between two diametrically opposed quire warning labels on packages of lead solder. socio-economic systems — socialism and capitalism — stated Bradley cited reports that show a direct relationship be- Pentagon officials in the 1985 analysis of "Soviet Military tween blood-lead level and high blood pressure, that the Power." higher the intake of lead, the higher is the risk of birth As a result, the USSR is developing a single strategy to defects. Science has long recognized that the ingestion of place the political, economic and military forces of its Eastern lead by children can result in learning disabilities. Bloc satellites under a Soviet commander-in-chief. The Environmental Protection Agency said the largest Specific Soviet aims in the global war, said the Pentagon source of lead in drinking water comes from the corrosion of report, would be to defeat NATO, to occupy the NATO coun- pipes that carry water supplies. tries and to use European economic assets to speed USSR New York, Minnesota and parts of Canada already warn recovery; to neutralize the United States and China; and to residents to run their water before using it and advise preg- dominate the postwar world with its brand of communism. nant women against using water from lead or lead-soldered The next world war would involve most of the world's pipes. Denmark, West Germany, Great Britain and The nations. In the Soviet view, the war could begin with conven- Netherlands already have passed legislation to control the tional weapons, but could escalate into a nuclear conflict. use of lead plumbing in drinking water supply systems. The Soviets would try for a quick victory, but would be pre- pared for a protracted war, the analysis concluded. A Nation Losing Its Memory Helping Ourselves to Lose A group of ex-U.S. officials and historians has reported that the government may be becoming too technically ad- The United Nations gets $1.5 billion — about 25 percent vanced for its own good and is in danger of losing its collective of its annual budget — from the United States to run its memory. The Committee on the Records of Government said multiple activities, yet participating nations vote overwhelm- that with Uncle Sam shifting from paper to computerized ingly against us on the issues. records, the possibility increases that valuable documents Support for the United States in the United Nations is could be lost forever. "embarrassingly low, even among those countries that are Because tapes and disks require so little space, more docu- direct beneficiaries of our largesse," said Sen. Bob Kasten ments are being stored in this form, but with no means of of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Foreign Operations identifying and preserving historical records, many dis- Subcommittee. Egypt, second largest recipient of U.S. aid, appear as word processors erase texts and substitute new sided with the United States last year on only three of 10 ones. There is also concern over the longevity of tapes and key votes; one in eight on all issues. Saudi Arabia, which got disks. Under the best conditions, tapes begin to deteriorate military aid, and Jordan, which is seeking arms and economic in 15 years and disks in five. assistance from us, opposed the United States' position on As technology advances, it has left the world with only most key votes. two machines capable of reading early forms of computerized Israel, largest donee of U.S. military and financial assist- materials from the Census Bureau, said the committee. One ance, voted with the United States 90 percent of the time; is in the Smithsonian and the other in Japan. and the NATO allies, 62.7 percent on 154 issues. The United The committee found that if the federal government's col- Kingdom and West Germany did not oppose us on any key lection of documents were stored in standard four-drawer issue. filing cabinets, it would stretch from Washington to New As for our neighbors, Mexico backed the United States Orleans. Storage costs the taxpayers some $300 million only once in 10 votes; and Canada supported us 71.2 percent annually. of the time. In the Western Hemisphere, only Cuba and Nicaragua ranked lower than Mexico. Quote of the Month Lead in Our Drinking Water "We must never lose sight of the fundamental principle Clean drinking water has been a concern for many years, that when weighing defense decisions, in the interest of our and just when progress is being made to control the dumping nation's survival, we must always come down on the side of of hazardous pollutants into our water supplies, we are rec- security. Regardless of taxes or deficits, inflation or social ognizing the danger of lead contamination from the pipes in needs, the security of 236 million Americans is not nego- our homes. tiable ..."

Concerned over the ill effects linked to lead poisoning, U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater

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Should We Repeal the War Powers Resolution?

Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo.

The War Powers resolu- The War Powers Resolution tion is bad law and bad should not be repealed. It policy and it ought to be YES should be strengthened. The repealed. The biggest mistake Congress original purpose of the Resolution goes

could make is to think it controls the de- directly to the well-spring of our nation cision of when and where to make war in the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 of defense of U.S. citizens, their liberties) that document says, "The Congress shall

and this country. Congress tried it in the I have the power to declare war." The War early 1970s and its restrictions on the armed forces led di- Powers Resolution was originally conceived as a way to re-es- rectly to the final collapse of South Vietnam, the genocide tablish that clear demarcation between the President's pow- in Cambodia and the loss of a neutral Laos. ers to direct a war and Congress's power to declare such The statute says the President cannot engage troops actions. Presidents, from Lend-Lease to Vietnam, have blur- beyond 60 days, without a declaration of war or a specific red that line almost beyond recognition. They have taught vote of Congress. The troops can be removed at any time by us that our nation cannot successfully pursue a military action Concurrent Resolution. Just imagine if Franklin Roosevelt without the support of its people, including an agreement faced this procedure before war was declared against Nazi between the Congress and the President. Germany. He could not have sent the Marines to occupy Critics of the War Powers Resolution and of Article I, Greenland and Iceland under orders to cooperate with British Section 8 tell us that the founding fathers never could have armed forces already there. Nor could he have directed Ameri- anticipated today's age of ICBMs, guerrilla warfare, ter- can warships to escort and protect British convoys and to rorism and weapons proliferation. True enough. These same destroy German submarines on sight. A Congress which had critics, however, also say that today's world has no time for renewed the military draft by only a single vote would not congressional declarations of war, and that Congress must have approved these actions. Only presidential initiative surrender some of its authority to the executive. To that could and did preserve resistance in Europe to Nazi Germany. statement I reply, "Nuts." The founding fathers recognized And who can forget the failure of Congress in 1973 to act that there are times when the President must act unilater- on President Ford's request for humanitarian legislation au- ally — such as in defense of the nation or its armed forces thorizing the evacuation of U.S. citizens and allied peoples and made provisions for such occurrences. Offensive actions, from Indochina? The operation was completed while Con- however, require congressional sanction. This arrangement gress was still debating the issue. remains sufficiently broad to cover any legitimate threat. The framers of the Constitution knew the legislature could The War Powers Resolution as exists today, however, needs not be depended upon for prompt and effective action in some work. Although I was one of the original sponsors of

every emergency. They gave Congress power to establish the the 1973 Resolution, I did not vote for the final version of

Armed Forces, but left direction over these forces with the the bill. Amendments so weakened its meaning that, instead President, whom they designated as commander-in-chief and of reasserting congressional authority, the Resolution, as gave all the executive power. passed, gives the President additional powers and authority I have catalogued over 200 incidents when Presidents, act- — specifically the ability to conduct a 90-day undeclared war. ing without any declarations of war, placed military units in The founding fathers knew firsthand the danger of an hostile situations outside the country in defense of our citi- executive branch with unbridled powers. Their conflicts with zens and freedoms. The War Powers Resolution flies in the the King of England and his governors ended in the Revolu- face of this history. It denies the President the flexibility he tionary War. Tempered by their experience, the founding needs to carry out his sworn duty to preserve, protect and fathers wanted the decision to wage war, the most important defend the Constitution. decision any nation can make, to be a collective judgment of Challenges to freedom must be met while they are still the President and the Congress. A strengthened War Powers manageable. The Resolution is not only unconstitutional; it Resolution can be and should be an important reassertion of should be repealed on the basis of common sense. the balance between the President and the Congress.

OCTOBER 1985 11 Massive expansion ofespionage, military aid to the Third World and covert support/or terrorism are part ofthe Soviet effort to undermine free peoples around the world. In this exclusive interview, DoD's Richard N. Perle tells what the United States must do to combat them.

American Legion Magazine: Mr. Perle, what do you consider the most dangerous threat facing the United States today in terms of our international security?

Richard Perle: The single most significant threat is the Soviet Union and its growing military capability.

Q* Looking at the Soviet Union's rising support for com- munist movements around the world, what conclusions should be drawn as to that nation's ultimate goals? _ It's important to be clear about the sources of support A* for movements aligned with or favorable to the Soviet Union, particularly in the Third World. I don't believe that such support arises from the effectiveness of the Soviet model as a magnet for leaders in other countries who are looking for a path to stability and prosperity for their people. It arises, rather, through an effective Soviet campaign to suborn potential leaders and leaders in power through a variety of devices. Military assistance, for example, which in some cases enables them to remain in power. The clearest example of

that is Afghanistan where the Afghan government has been

installed and is maintained in power by the Soviet Union and would, in my view, collapse at once without the active inter- vention of Soviet armed forces. Other devices include bribery, intervention in elections and the exploitation of social cleav- ages of an economic, ethnic and tribal nature.

In short, it isn't that the world is drawn to the Soviet Communist vision of a better future; but rather that people who are prepared to achieve power with help from some- where, find a willing source of assistance in the Soviet Union Richard N. Perle, who has written numerous articles on whose interest is not, in my view, in the long-term betterment U.S. foreign policy, was appointed Assistant Secretary of of the people of those countries but, rather, in expanding Defense for International Security Policy in March 1981. Soviet influence.

12 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Q* What are the most effective weapons being used by the communists in this world effort? _ Their effort as a whole has to be seen A* against the background of their military power. The shadow of that military power is a significant element in their activities in a number of countries. That military power means they can supply weapons. It means they can join with countries that are weak relative to hostile neighbors. They may be the source of hostility, but, nevertheless, the Soviets have been prepared to sustain and support them with respect to their neighbors. Syria is a good exam- ple of that; Ethiopia is another. The Soviets also have been in a position to dispatch surro- gates around the world: East Germans are en- gaged in subversive and intelligence activities; Czechoslovakia is supplying weapons; Bulgaria is supplying everything up to and including as- sistance in assassinations; and Cuba, of course, is intervening massively in Africa and Central and Latin America with technical assistance, training, military equipment and troops. A lot of places in the world are either lightly is to military "advisers" to lead- armed or not armed at all. Costa Rica comes ENFORCERS— The USSR always eager lend ers of weak countries who then learn they've lost freedom of choice. to mind as a country that never saw the neces- sity to maintain a military force. The same thing is true in Angola. A small number of Cuban troops can make £$« Does the very existence of this model explain why a very large difference in an area that has had relative peace the Soviets are so virulent in their propaganda tirades and tranquility and, therefore, does not have a significant against the United States and our system? military establishment. The Soviets know that and they have effectively used, A. Yes. Propaganda is largely ineffective. worked with and supported their Cuban surrogates and other surrogates of Eastern Europe. One finds North Koreans fly- Q. People are beginning to see through it? ing aircraft in other countries. There is no technique for the If people have access to alternative information, they extensions of Soviet power that one can not find examples A. see through it. This is why one of the first things the com- of somewhere in the world. munists do after gaining a foothold anywhere is to seize con- trol of mass communications, because the Soviet message Q* What should the United States be doing to effectively does not stand up well in competition with information from counter this drive? the rest of the world. It is why the Soviets go to great lengths _ The most effective thing we have going for us is the to jam Western radio broadcasts. They are comfortable with A* strength of our American model. The model of political a situation only where the State controls utterly the flow of democracy and a free and productive and growing economy information. It is essential to the continuation in power of is a very appealing model around the world. It doesn't take the Soviet elite. And that is a model they seek to impose bribery and it doesn't take surrogates and it doesn't take elsewhere in the world, because they know from experience intervention to persuade those who are given a choice, that that the free flow of ideas and communications invariably the democratic model is the one they ought to pursue. leads to questioning of the Soviet model. On the whole, the aftermath of the Russian Revolution which carried with it, in the minds of many around the world, Q* Should the United States be lending direct support the promise of a socialist Utopia, has given way. to anti-communist revolutionary forces in such nations as

So, ideologically and philosophically, the West is on the Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Cambodia? offensive. Where stability can be achieved, we've had con- _ Absolutely. Indeed, I don't know how one would justify siderable success. A* denying support to those groups and individuals in coun- El Salvador is a good example. The turmoil of a couple of tries like Afghanistan and Nicaragua and elsewhere who sub-

years ago in El Salvador has subsided. There clearly is still scribe in the main to our values or who wish to express some an insurgency in El Salvador, but there is now in that country of our most important values. a freely elected democratic government that's far stronger There was a period in which the Soviets freely supported than many top-level observers would have predicted a couple movements around the world aimed at destabilizing govern- of years ago. Continued on page 4-2

OCTOBER 1985 13 WHAT HOPE FROM GORBACHEV?

whom a half dozen could be similarly By Dr. Robert Conquest AN OPTIMISTIC quoted. One, the late Nadezhda Mandel- stam, said in the days of Brezhnev that IHENEVER a new WEST GIRDS FOR she did not believe the older generation Soviet leader emerges, wanted a "new orgy of terror and kill- there are voices in the A CHARISMATIC ing. Knowing so well what it means they West to express the are cautious." The old terror hit the hope, sometimes even LEADER OFFERING party, too, and they were lucky to sur- the certainty, that this vive; but the new "criminal stock," she will lead to a change for RENEWED HOPE- added, "are young people with no mem- the better. It has not ory of the terrible years, who would be done so yet. But with BUT FOR WHOM? capable of anything." I Gorbachev's rise to This is putting it strongly. But if we General Secretary, it is at least true that are to understand the possibilities, we a member of the "younger" generation need to consider not our superficial im- has reached the top. pressions, but the actual record of these Westerners need to resist their ten- coming to the top even less than its men. We need, too, to use our imagina- dency to blind optimism and recognize predecessors. The people of Brezhnev's tions in considering people from a totally that Gorbachev, despite his refined ap- generation laid the basis for their careers different culture. pearance and gracious manners, is not in the worst years of the Stalinist terror. a "closet" Westerner who will reverse That put the mark of Cain on them. The IS easy to see that the Ayatollah all that we find reprehensible about the new generation is coming without that IThas different standards from ours, but Soviet government. In fact, as a man mark. It is more flexible, but there is the Politburo dresses in Western- whose life has been formed by the dreadful cynicism, careerism and com- style clothes, and uses a more or less system and who has been found accept- plete indifference to ideals in inter- Western vocabulary, and we do not look able by the Stalinists and Leninists still national affairs. As far as internal at more essential points. To put it in power, Gorbachev could be expected matters go, they only care about the another way, people find it possible to to be more, not less, severe. trough they swill from, and what mat- imagine J.R. Ewing, but think of Gor- The first thing to note about this ters is that the trough be full." bachev and his Politburo as some sort younger generation now taking power is The contents of that trough being not of abstract "leaders" or "statesmen." A that it is the pure product of Stalinism. merely wealth and privilege, but also, J.R. Ewing would be, in fact, a mild, Even those older men born in 1910 to and above all, power, both for its own restrained member of the Politburo. 1915 have some adolescent memory of sake and as the only support for the rest. What gives Gorbachev and his gener- the time before Stalin. Not so the new Sakharov's views are shared by all in- ation a different image from Brezhnev figures. Supposed abandonment of the dependent observers in the USSR, of or Chernenko in the West is that they Stalin heritage fails anyhow when we consider that the top leadership, the Politburo and Secretariat, still includes six members of Stalin's personally se- SOVIET LEADERSHIP: NOTHINC lected Central Committee. Even among the younger men we find such figures as Vice Premier Aliev, who served 28 years in the Secret Police, starting in 1941. In fact, the new men are regarded with special distrust by those best equipped to judge. As Andrei Sakharov summed it up: "I like this new layer of leaders

Robert Conquest, scholar, diplomat, poet, lecturer and author of 11 books on the Soviet Union, is scholar-curator of the Russian and East European Collec- tion of the Hoover Institution.

LENIN STALIN KRUSHCHEV 14 are members of, and have the life-style a special type of "new Communist" was of, a newer "priviligentsia." They sought. luxuriate in Western goods and fashions. What evidence there is about today's Their wives are kept well dressed, un- Gorbachev tends to confirm his picture. like the old peasant women of their At the recent meeting of the Warsaw predecessors. They resemble, if at a pact, the other Soviet bloc communists vastly lower level, those cultured reported a bullying style. On his visit French-speaking princes and counts who to England he was asked about the fate represented Russia in Paris and London of the imprisoned civil rights activist in the 1820s, charming all with their Sharansky, whose only crime was to de- manners, and then went back to flog mand Soviet observance of the Helsinki serfs to death. "I like this new layer Agreement, which they had "solemnly" Not that the new men of the present signed. When his name came up, Gor- of leaders coming to promotion are all that young. Ligachev, bachev said that he was "filth" (he used the most powerful, is 64. Gorbachev him- the top even less than a coarser word) who deserved to be in self is only young in comparison with jail. As with Stalin, the charm, such as his predecessors. Lenin's career was its predecessors," it is, can be turned on and off to suit over Gorbachev's current age. Stalin the occasion. at said Andrei Sakharov. had held the post for 10 years and consol- Then Gorbachev is represented as a idated full power four years previously, new broom, a reformer. The Soviet at that age. Westerners accustomed to cruder types, economy, and society as a whole, is cer- but it is not very difficult to be more tainly in a bad state. This is no secret ORE to the point, Malenkov charming than Brezhnev. Even Stalin from even the old leadership, who has who succeeded Stalin as the was found full of charm by Western lead- constantly urged improvement. The only leading figure in 1953, was ers and Western writers, too. A more solid improvement would be more incen- MI three years younger, and had analytical look at Gorbachev will put tives. Even under Stalin, economic com- held powerful posts for 20 years (as more stress on his record and back- promises were made on this line, like against Gorbachev's six), yet he was un- ground than on his occasional smiles. the "private plot" on which the peasants able to consolidate his power against Gorbachev was recruited to Moscow grew and still grow a high proportion older rivals and was overthrown within University from the Stavropol area by of the country's agricultural products. two years. This will remind us that Gor- Stalinist talent spotters in the early There have been signs that Gorbachev bachev has not created anything re- 1950s. There, he quickly became a de- and those associated with him might sembling a true power base. There is partment secretary of the Komsomol, allow some concessions to improve out- no one in the leadership who is truly the Young Communist League. put. But given the power and inertia of beholden to him. Stalin, Khrushchev A classmate of Gorbachev noted him the vast bureaucratic caste, who do very and Brezhnev had their "tails" (as the as undistinguished but cunning, osten- nicely with the present system, even Russians put it). Gorbachev, on the con- tatiously orthodox, and particularly mild reforms are likely to run into trouble trary, is the nominee of forces outside hard-line in all discussions. He joined —unless put through by overwhelming his control—or, more accurately, a com- the Communist Party in 1952, that fright- political strength, which Gorbachev promise candidate between various ful year when Stalin was recruiting for does not have, and at best can hardly forces. He will have to fight and use all a new super-terror; when the leading achieve for years. the familiar weapons of Politburo in- Jewish writers were shot; when Russia's Some improvement may be effected, trigue to gain real power, and there will leading doctors, mainly Jewish, were but hardly enough to really lift the be rivals alert to prevent this. Perhaps arrested and tortured for false confes- country out of its rut. The burgeoning he will win. Perhaps not. sions at a trial which, had Stalin not Mafias of corruption that marked the Whether he is personally successful died, was to lead to their public hanging Brezhnev epoch may be cut down; so or not, for the moment he represents in the Red Square and the deportation Continued on page 4-6 for the West the sort of man we are of all Jews to Siberia—together with likely to face throughout the next dec- a major purge against the older mem- ade. He seems to have charmed some bers ofthe Party itself. For all ofthis,

CHANGES BUT THE

BREZHNEV ANDROPOV CHERNENKO GORBACHEV mm— HOSTAGE The televised image of an airline pilot being mistreated by a ter- rorist brought the horror of the skyjack- ing into every home.

Sunday morning—about the time they were eating breakfast—329 human be- ings were executed. In all likelihood Air India Flight 182 had been sabotaged. June 1985 — one of the blackest months in the history of commercial aviation—made manifest an apparent axiom of air safety: Passengers have to face mortal danger before major secur- ity measures are enacted. For years, the security sieve at Athens — where the TWA hijackers boarded—had been the worst kept secret in the industry. After a visit there last November, staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee suggested that the Greeks participate in the State Department's anti-terrorist training program. The offer was refused. In suc- ceeding months, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Montreal-based The terrorist assault on TWA Flight 847 International Air Transport Association reviewed Greek procedures, trying in sent shock waves through thefriendly vain to get high officials to face up to their airport's security shortcomings. shies and alerted the world that airport Even after the TWA hijacking, the security is a global responsibility. Greeks insisted that all was well. The country's director of civil aviation told an Aviation Week and Space Technology 847—Athens to Rome—was packed writer, "There is no need for improve- ByJerome Greer Chandler with Americans. Arabs, Israelis and ment at the airport now." Europeans have known the true nature of the beast for years, but it took the /T TOOK "passenger power" to E WOVE the fine fabric voice of pilot John Testrake to transmit prompt the Greeks to clean up then- of airport security in the terror into the livingroom: "He has act. After the U.S. government another era, one in pulled a hand grenade pin and is ready issued a travel advisory warning U.S. which loners and losers to blow up the airplane if he has to," citizens of above-average potential for threatened airplanes. radioed Testrake to the control tower. terrorist activity at Athens, cancella- When such misfits "We must, I repeat, we must land at tions began to deluge travel agents. slipped through the Beirut. We must land at Beirut. No Greek officials estimated there were mesh, the result was alternative." 10,000 cancellations. Others said the more often than not Before the drama ended, an Ameri- number was higher. "Significantly, what

l annoyance, inconveni- can sailor was murdered and thrown really frightens them is that people ence, perhaps a quick trip to Havana. onto the simmering tarmac of what are canceling conventions two years On June 14, 1985, Americans dis- passes for an international airport. hence," said one observer. covered that another kind of hijacker While cameras focused on Beirut, ter- Just how safe are international air- exists, a predatory species driven to a rorists struck again: A bomb ripped ports in general? feeding frenzy by the promise of Ameri- through Frankfurt International, kill- Air transport is interdependent. can blood. ing three people, two of them children. What happens in Milan can affect pass- When it was assaulted, TWA Flight Another explosive device detonated at engers in Minneapolis. Because of the Tokyo's Narita International where two strength of the dollar, more Americans Jerome Greer Chandler is a contribut- baggage handlers died. As the acrid are traveling abroad than ever before ing editor of International Passenger dust cleared, half a world away bodies and from an increasing number of Association, which is concerned with and bits of airplane bobbed in the North domestic airports. It used to be that if commercial aviation safety. Atlantic. At approximately 8:15 on a you wanted to fly overseas, you had to

16 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE depart from New York, Los Angeles or a handful of other gateways. Now, pass- engers can fly non-stop to Europe from Orlando, Fla., Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, and Minneapolis, among others. Easy access cuts both ways. While increasing passenger convenience, it also yields new opportunities for terrorists. Testifying on proposed anti-hijacking legislation, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey said, "The world has sence—we have an entirely different Greek police—before packing them in changed. Terrorism is in full force and profile of the hijackers. They're fanatics a nylon travel bag. The weapons passed not isolated to any part of the world." who are seeking to gain political through x-ray screening undetected. triumphs by terrorizing and murdering Smith said a member of the IAPA com- fllNCE 1973, FAA statistics indi- innocent passengers." plained that only once in 45 trips had m^k cate that more than 100 attempted At Atlanta's Hartsfield International he been challenged to verify just what W0 hijackings and similar crimes have Airport—the world's busiest in terms he was carrying on board in his lead- been foiled by airport security. Some of scheduled commercial aircraft opera- lined, x-ray-defeating pouch. This au- 30,000 weapons have been confiscated tions—one armed, uniformed police thor has had the same experience. In from people passing through security officer mans the domestic security the IAPA member's instance, the items checkpoints. On the surface, the num- checkpoint. While a slew of security were computer tapes; in mine, film. In bers are impressive and seemingly indic- guards checks carry-on bags and moni- either case, guns may have breezed ative of an effective system. tors the magnetometers, they are un- through without raising an eyebrow. A closer look reveals something else. armed and "have no arrest power," said As a result of Flight 847, the airlines Dan Smith is manager of consumer Hartsfield spokesman John Braden. The and the FAA maintain it's going to be and industry affairs for the Interna- situation is fairly typical of the United harder to get away with that sort of tional Airline Passenger's Association States as a whole. thing. Among the new precautions are: (IAPA). He said the current airport As for all those weapons confiscated, physical inspections of carry-on articles, security system in this country was in Atlanta it's usually a case of a "house- as well as x-ray examinations on selected never designed to stop the new crop of wife who has a small handgun in her flights. terrorists. pocketbook and has forgotten about it," As for passengers themselves, no "My own feeling is that the system said Braden. Again, the Atlanta pattern machine exists to instantly probe a per- was developed to meet a different kind is typical of that at other major U.S. son's psyche. The nearest thing the of challenge," he said. "Back in the early terminals. United States has to it is something the 1970s when we introduced the magne- Forgetful housewives are one thing, FAA won't even admit exists: a secret tometers (metal detectors) and the but what about someone serious about security profile by which supervisors x-ray screening devices, it was essen- breeching security? The TWA hijackers are trained to spot hijackers and ter- tially to prevent hijackings where pass- wrapped grenades and a 9mm pistol in rorists. It was developed from similarly engers wanted a free ride. Now—in es- insulation material — according to Continued on page 50 AP/WIDE WORLD

AIRPORT PERIL— Shiite terrorists blow up a Jordanian passengerjet at Beirut, a reminder of the vulnerability of airport security.

OCTOBER 1985 17 — — 200, 000 Miles Between CarChanges

Most car owners seem to believe that when their car starts falling apart it's time

By Phyllis Zauner to get rid of it. Not so. Just a little love will add life and miles to the old workhorse.

M I 'M ALWAYS in a race with the M H junkyard," bemoaned Willy H Loman in Death ofa Salesman. I "I just finished paying for the I car and it's on its last legs." about "extended service intervals" and great, greasy hulk, have it cleaned. A Does it have to be so? Is ob- say that new cars are practically mainte- clean engine runs cooler and you can I solescence inevitable? nance free. While this is true, car spot problems better. Then check out Theoretically, you can keep makers may also be inadvertently lulling the vital signs. a car going just about forever if you owners of the '80s cars into new levels Hoses, cheap and easily replaceable, replace parts and rebuild systems at of involuntary service neglect "low" should be pliable and free of cracks and certain intervals. As a practical matter, maintenance doesn't mean "no" mainte- swellings. In newer cars they're built to "forever" may be out of reach. But use- nance. withstand higher under-hood tempera- ful life can be significantly extended by For example, replacing rotted wea- tures and should last three to five years. practicing good car care. ther stripping can be costly; yet anyone Belts should be free of cracks and Astonishing as it may seem, there are can buy a spray bottle of conditioner frayed edges. Check belt tension by people out there who have watched all that will preserve it for years when pressing thumb at mid-point; long belts five black 9s on the odometer turn over wiped over the rubber regularly. shouldn't depress more than a half-inch, together—not once but several times. A motorist can spend $15 periodically shorter ones a quarter-inch. A loose al- In fact, Edward Donaldson of Eugene, on an oil and filter change, or he can ternator belt allows the battery to run Ore., has set a benchmark for auto- run the same oil until it turns into tar down or causes overheating. A loose air- mobile long life. in the crankcase, then cough up $1,000 conditioner belt can flip and break some- In 1966 he bought a well-worn second- for an overhaul. thing. hand Mercedes for his 260-mile daily Spark plug wires should be free of commute from Eugene to Portland KNOWING what needs to be done dirt and grease. Wipe them gently with and ran it another 290,000 miles. regularly can save big bucks and a soft rag. Spark plugs are lasting Then he bought a new Mercedes 220 add years of life. An automatic longer these days, thanks to unleaded diesel and had a special odometer instal- transmission fluid and filter change gas, but don't push it beyond 50,000 led that went to seven figures. Ridicu- runs around $35, versus $400 to $800 miles. They may look good while per- lous optimism? Not at all. Within 10 for a transmission overhaul. Having the forming poorly. years it turned over to one million miles. cooling system flushed and coolant re- Battery terminals should be free of Over a decade, he said, he spent $4,718 placed on schedule is relatively inexpen- corrosion and coated with non-metallic on upkeep and put in maybe one hour sive. Replacing the radiator costs far grease. a week. "You could run a white handker- more. And if the car overheats badly be- Automatic transmission fluid should chief over the engine," he said. cause of a corroded radiator, that could be checked with engine running and The key to longevity can be found in cause damage that might eventually parking brake on. If fluid is brown or the glove compartment, following the destroy the engine itself. has a burned odor it should be replaced. meticulous maintenance outlined in You don't have to be mechanically in- In any case, fluid and filter should be the owner's manual. clined to keep your car looking good and replaced every two years, and more It is neglect, not planned obsoles- running well. You do need to be willing often with high speed driving in hot cence, that most often hastens a car on to devote a little time and attention to weather. Don't overfill! its way to the junk heap. it on a regular basis. Open the hood Brake and power steering fluid levels Today's auto manufacturers talk once a week and look around. If you've should be checked. Tires should be never had a close relationship with an eyeballed for uneven wear. Shock ab- Phyllis Zauner is a Sacramento-based engine, don't be put off by the maze of sorbers can be checked by leaning on a free-lance journalist who specializes in wires and hoses. Once you become fender and bouncing the car; if it keeps consumer and general-interest articles familiar with everything it will look less bouncing after you let up, shocks need for national magazines. formidable. If the engine looks like a replacing.

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Those are routine checks that will changing filters every 30 days." He said new gasket is installed the engine purrs help keep your car healthy. filter change should be based on time again. But if there is one single most impor- rather than mileage, and a quality Research by Motor & Equipment tant thing to do for your car, it's to depth-type filter is worth the expense. Manufacturers Association shows that change oil regularly — not because it (He prefers cotton.) during the first three years the average gets dirty, but primarily because its pro- A clean car lasts longer, especially car is virtually trouble-free. Then as tective additives are depleted after when handwashed gently with a com- things start to wear out pride of owner- 4,000 miles of driving. Once gone, wear mercial car wash soap (rather than ship wanes, neglect sets in. The love accelerates quickly. Manuals recom- kitchen detergent). Hose out mud and affair is over. "It's cheaper to buy a new mend 10,000-mile intervals (filter salt that collect on underside. Vacuum car than repair the old," the owner change every other oil change) —but interior often. Use a silicone-based con- announces. drivers who make their cars last beyond ditioner to preserve dashboard vinyl. 100,000 miles, running well not just Preventive maintenance isn't some- CERTAINLY costs of labor and parts hanging together, thing automotive are not cheap. But even if annual change twice that uj aftermarket execu- maintenance and repair bills run often. The manual tives dreamed up $600 to $800, a new car would cost distinguishes be- 1 1 is neglect, not to increase sales. far more, in cash as well as depreciation. tween "normal" 1 planned obsoles- It's a way to avoid And there is no time in the life of a driving and "severe premature wear well-maintained car when "everything use," but unless cence, that most often through scheduled falls apart" at once. you live on the inspection and re- A good mechanic is well worth Great Plains and hastens a car on its way placement of fluids, searching for. Often he's a neighborhood use your car only to the junk heap.)) filters and any part shop owner whose garage is neat (but in mild weather for subjected to rub- not too neat), who has modern equip- long trips, you bing, sliding, ment but doesn't believe every job calls probably qualify for "severe" usage. Fre- pounding, heat, corrosion or extremes for expensive new parts, and whose bus- quent oil change is cheap insurance of pressure. iness comes from word-of-mouth rec- against premature engine wear. There's a hallowed myth among car ommendation. Race-car driver Bobby Unser said he owners that "when everything starts He is an ally who believes — and so believes frequent filter change is even falling apart it's time to get rid of your should you—it's never too soon, seldom more critical. "If you're really serious car." It's just not true. Even the dreaded too late, to give your car love and atten- about getting more than 150,000 miles "blown head gasket" is nothing more than tion. And your car will give you 200,000 from your car," he said, "I suggest a worn seal between two parts. Once a (or more) miles of service.

OCTOBER 1985 19 DEFENSE ISSUES

THE KU1EHS IF MTTLEFIELD

By Maj. Gen. Henry Mohr

A MAJOR conventional war started today, 6 of every six die 7 battlefield wounded might Must out of seven wounded GIs not survive because combat because of a shortage of combat medical medical care needed to save DFtheir lives is not available. If specialists? We cannot afford to wait for we were drawn into such a war today, the Department a full-scale war to find the answer. of Defense could not provide an adequate level of medical support to our military forces. This is the situation as it was described to me treated within 6 to 10 hours probably sion-essential equipment and training by Pentagon officials in June 1985. would not survive. opportunities. As a result of problems This is a damning indictment of per- The prediction that 1 in 7 wounded over which they have had no control, sistent and dangerous deficiencies in men could be treated with present com- many Reserve and Guard units are not military readiness of the United States. bat medical capabilities represents a mission-ready. Few, if any, large Re- As early as 1978, it was known that com- small measure of improvement, but it serve component medical units, such as bat medical care for the U.S. Armed certainly is not comforting for the re- field hospitals, have their full authoriza- Forces was critically inadequate. This maining unfortunate six. tions of wartime equipment. was confirmed by a 1981 Government On the positive side, Mayer pointed Yet the capabilities of the Reserve Accounting Office report to Congress. out that adequate combat medical care forces to contribute broadly and Dr. John F. Beary III, then Assistant in Vietnam saved about 98 percent of economically to national defense exist Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, wounded men brought into field hospi- and their use is being appropriately ex- determined that all available active and tals. This shows what can and must be panded. It is worth noting that a major Reserve force medical resources could done. percentage of the best medical profes- treat only 1 in 10 battlefield wounded Joining with Mayer in working for im- sionals in the military are in the Reserve in a NATO conventional war. provements is James Webb, Assistant forces. As recently as 1984, the same assess- Secretary of Defense for Reserve Adding to the effect of what could ment was made by Dr. William Mayer, Affairs. A major share of responsibility suddenly become a combat health care the current Assistant Secretary of De- for combat medical care has been placed crisis is the effect of inadequacies on fense for Health Affairs. Mayer also on the Reserve forces, with more to America's ability to mobilize. The Selec- warned that the wounded who are not come. Webb has made medical readi- tive Service Act of 1948, as amended, picked up from the battlefield and not ness a top priority of the Reserve prohibits drafting anyone until ade- forces. quate medical care is provided. Maj. Gen. Henry Mohr, U.S. Army While the Reserves have repeatedly At least 45,000 doctors, nurses and (Ret.), is a syndicated columnist on proven their competence by perform- health care specialists who would be re- military affairs and foreign policy for ance, historically they have been se- quired immediately for the early stages the Heritage Features Syndicate. verely shortchanged on support, mis- of a war are not available. Additional

20 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE medical units, facilities and equipment in allowing qualified, practicing nurses conflict. The concept never has been that would be urgently needed still do who lack college degrees to serve in the tested under pressure. But, allied na- not exist. military. Those not having college de- tions will surely meet their own require- Administrative actions can establish grees are not now being accepted by ments first. Help that comes to our and organize units and provide them the military. forces may consist of whatever they can with facilities and equipment. But this The military might consider accept- make available—adequate or not. will not solve immediate needs at the ing qualified, practicing nurses without Will it be said that the people of this outset of a war for field-trained health college degrees, electing either to com- great nation would send their sons to care specialists—from doctors and sur- mission them, or appoint them as war- battle without medical care needed to geons to nurses and many types of medi- rant officer nurses. save the lives of the wounded? Are the cal professionals and corpsmen. This would tap an undisturbed pool costs of providing adequate medical Any consideration of registration or of personnel in a highly critical profes- care for those who serve this nation too induction will set off a storm of protest. sion, and might partially reduce the great? Yet no alternative to peacetime registra- need for peacetime registration or a Even the wish list of corrections are tion or a draft to help solve this problem draft of nurses. spread out over years—until the "early has surfaced. At the core of the medical readiness 1990s," if then. Interestingly, about 97 percent to 98 problem is a policy adopted several Americans have never been content percent of nurses are women. Histori- years ago at the urging of Congress, with second-rate medical care for their cally, women have never shirked their which has thrown the military forces military forces. They are not likely to responsibility to this out of balance. The tolerate military medical care deficien- nation in time of policy was aimed at cies when it is known in advance that need. This gives "improving the tooth- the life or death of U.S. servicemen is hope that when they to-tail (combat-to- likely to be at stake the moment a war understand the life support) ratio" of breaks out. and death impor- the military forces. tance of their avail- That policy was well ability now, they intended, but in the will respond. he Selective judgment of some In what consti- Service Act of military experts, tutes a major na- was carried too far. tional security issue, 1948, as amended, Numerous sup- the Selective Service port units, (includ- system lacks au- prohibits drafting ing medical), be- thority to deal with came victims and medical personnel anyone until were eliminated. shortages. adequate medical "Host Nation Sup- Missing is a reli- port" (HNS) from able system to re- care is provided.^ allied countries was spond to a DoD call said to be an answer. for health care per- m However, even with

sonnel either before ! the existence of or at the moment HNS agreements, when a crisis erupts. There are no cur- nobody knows if the next major military rent provisions for registration or induc- operations will be in a part of the world tion of health care professionals; not where HNS is available. This is a major even for the purpose of their identifica- flaw in the concept since there is no tion, location, professional classifica- agreement with any potential enemy tions and fitness for service—and none that the next war will be fought where for the advance peacetime training that it is most convenient to us. Such an as- everyone going to the field should have sumption could be overly optimistic and for his own protection. Living, working highly dangerous. and surviving in a combat field environ- It simply is not known how well HNS ment is vastly different from the civilian may work under the enormous pres- life of most health care professionals. sures and confusion of sudden major If a war should suddenly break out, there could be a wild scramble to try to MISSING MEDIC—Many wounded assemble medical resources. Right now, U.S. soldiers would die in a war today because of insuffi- where the trained people, facilities and cient medics and combat equipment would come from on short surgeons. notice (or none at all) is troubling to contemplate. A great many men could die, unnecessarily, as a result of this gap in U.S. military preparedness, especially if a major conventional war comes at any time in the next several years. There may be a partial, but not necessarily popular solution

OCTOBER 1985 America's Unemployment Problem Why It Persists, What We Must Do

The changing job unevenly across the population. Only By Vernon Pizer one major group—white women—is market has left 8.5 relatively better off jobwise now than a decade ago. The rest—especially

I HE good news for Amer- million Americans blacks, teenagers, Hispanics and factory ica's labor force is that unemployed. At the workers—are worse off, some much civilian employment in re- worse off. To these must be added a cent months has trended bottom of the heap new group that now has become widely upward to higher peaks, acknowledged as persistently un- bringing the welcome lies the veteran. employed and underemployed: the prospect of a regular pay- Vietnam-era veteran and the recently check to more than 107 separated serviceman. T million workers. The bad Donald E. Shasteen, assistant Secre- I news is that the good news tary of Labor for Veterans' Employ- is illusory; it is no cause for concluding ment, reports that "unemployment that the job outlook in the nation is among this group reflects the national sound. It isn't. pattern of joblessness but the figures The inescapable fact is that un- are generally higher than among non- employment continues to be a very real, veteran job-seekers. In other words, very persistent problem that is sapping meaningful employment for the Vietnam- the country's economic vitality and era veteran and the recently separated weakening its social underpinnings. For serviceman is doubly elusive." 8.5 million Americans the last paycheck One major reason for the high level has become merely a memory and the of the out-of-work is that the nature next one is no more than a hope, in and composition of the American job many cases only a forlorn hope. Thus, market is experiencing a fundamental America is confronted by the strange CROSSROADS — Unemployment lines reshaping. Jobs in the traditional manu- and worrisome anomaly of an economy can mean new careers or dead ends. facturing industries are down sharply, that is giving jobs with one hand while done in by the introduction of labor-sav- it is taking them away with the other. today is worse. Unemployment appears ing technologies and especially by the "Make no mistake about it," to be stuck obstinately around the 7.3 shrinkage of whole industries laid low cautioned Dr. Bruce Kaufman, percent level. That is unacceptably by competitive blows from imports. So economics professor at Georgia State high. It has to be brought down." factories that once thrived now wither University, "we are caught up in a stub- and the labor base shrinks. Workers born unemployment problem of serious T IS WHEN one analyzes the num- who are thus displaced can take little proportions. Here we are some 2.5 bers that their significance begins comfort from new job opportunities that years into the recovery phase of a major to emerge with disheartening clar- are being created across America be- recession and unemployment is greater ity. To be officially counted among cause they are either in the high-tech now than it was at the same point in the unemployed one must have occupations for which most of them are the recovery from the recession of a dec- been actively seeking a job during untrained or they are in low-paying, ade ago. That is certainly just cause for the preceding four-week period. dead-end service-type fields like flip- concern." However, there is a large, though un- ping hamburgers and pumping gas. A Dr. Gerald Glyde, professor of labor quantifiable, number of the long-term sadly apt, graphic term has been coined studies at Pennsylvania State Univer- jobless who have become so discouraged to describe this wide swath of the nation sity, reinforced the same dismal theme. by the fruitlessness of the quest for em- whose industrial complexes are decay- "Relative to the recovery from the re- ployment that they are no longer hustling ing: the Rust-belt. cession of the 1970s the job situation for work. So if the turned-off, laid-off "The Rust-belt is hurting, really hurt- were to be factored into the statistics, ing," Glyde said. "Wherever there is un- Vernon Pizer, a Georgia-based journal- they would become even grimmer. But employment there is hardship, but in ist and author, frequently writes about even this does not reveal the complete the Rust-belt of the Northeast and the U.S. social problems. picture because the numbers are skewed Midwest the distress is more acute than

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elsewhere and the outlook remains bleak." What went wrong? How did we wind up in this job-squeeze? The experts seem agreed that govern- ment planners must shoulder much of the responsibility for the problem. Kaufman said, "The choice was made by the economic planners to bring down the level of inflation by accepting a de- gree of slack in the economy. The goal of forcing inflation downward was com- mendable but achieving it by means of a slack economy translated itself into a slack job market. It simply traded off one evil for another evil." Glyde put it this way: "Instead of making a commitment to full employ- ment, the authorities opted for an economy with enough flabbiness built into it to hold prices in check. The end result is that we have bought low infla- tion by paying for it in unemployment. In my opinion we are paying an un- acceptably high price."

officials have not been FEDERALidly twiddling their thumbs on the sidelines hoping that the situation would right itself of its own accord. Their major initia- tive to thin out the ranks of the unemployed has been the enact- ment in mid- 1983 of the Job Partnership Training Act. Operating under the De- partment of Labor, JPTA is designed to teach the out-of-work the skills they must have to cope successfully with the demands of today's changing job market. Funded by an annual appropriation of around $3.5 billion, it currently has up- ward of 500,000 trainees enrolled in a CLOSED DOORS — Technological advances and economic changes have perma- wide variety of courses. What distin- nently altered where and how Americans work. guishes JPTA from similar predecessor programs such as CETA (the Com- thing as a free lunch. You get only what are the least trainable and they are the prehensive Employment and Training you pay for and so far the government ones who are falling through the cracks. Act), is that the private sector plays an has been unwilling to pay for enough In spite of whatever flaws CETA may active role in running it out in the field, JPTA to do the job properly." have had, it concentrated on the bottom thus ensuring that it is geared closely Glyde put his finger on another major of the barrel, the hard-core un- to the realities of the marketplace. criticism—"creaming. " Creaming is the employed, and it had an effect on them. Nationwide, some 11,000 employers sit skimming off of the most promising and The JPTA concept is sound but it needs on the community councils that operate best educated of the jobless for training to do more for the hard-core jobless and JPTA on the local level. under the program. It is not difficult to it needs funding more nearly matching Department of Labor files are replete perceive the attraction of creaming—it the dimensions of the task confronting with success stories of enrollees who provides assurance of the trainability of it." have been trained—or retrained the enrollees. "It is clearly an exercise From the point of view of at least one under the program and are now gain- in futility and a waste '^resources to try group—veterans—JPTA, whatever its fully employed in worthwhile jobs. to train a school dropout for a job requir- shortcomings, is a decided improve- According to one report an impressive ing good grounding in higher mathema- ment over CETA which paid scant at- 70 percent of enrollees who completed tics," said a member of one local council tention to their special needs. JPTA training during the first six months that in defense of the practice. mandates programs under Shasteen to JPTA has been functioning have found Glyde does not deny the point but he meet the employment training needs of work. But despite its successes the pro- asserted that "the best educated and Vietnam-era veterans as well as those gram is not without its critics. One the most trainable of the unemployed disabled or recently separated from the widespread complaint is that it is seri- are the very ones who are most likely service. "It is no more than simple jus- ously underfunded. In its peak years, to find jobs on their own, or at least to tice to make a special effort in their be- CETA's budget was approximately find them with minimum outside assist- half," Shasteen said. "In addition to all three times greater than JPTA's. As one ance. The ones who have the greatest of the well-recognized reasons for doing economist saw it, "There is no such need for help are precisely those who Continued on page

OCTOBER 1985 23 ,

AVELOGUE Celebrating

The orange-red hues of autumn evoke praises to God for a land of bounty, as we partake in our nation's abundant harvest— a fall celebration dating to America's meager beginnings.

By Gary Turbak

AUTUMN the real rich- ness of our nation is made manifest. In this season there swells up out of the fertile American earth an abun- nNdance unlike any other on BOUNTIFUL HARVEST — The fruit of the land, more desirable than royal jewels, the planet. In the waning forms a brilliant tribute to the nation's generous soil and diligent people. days of each year, we stand in awe of bountiful, beautiful farmers and tourists gather to watch America. threshing machines separate chaff from As good stewards, we celebrate the golden grain. land's generosity. From coast to coast, But food is not the only harvest. A this is the season of fall festivals — tri- bounty of beauty presides, too. Wher- butes to the nation's bounty. Autumn ever hardwood forests stand, autumn travelers will do well to exchange sleek colors frame the skyline, and awe-struck highways for nature's backroads and humans gather to celebrate the season. visit the small communities where the Brass bands come out of doors, and voice of grass roots America sings parades march down a hundred main praises to the land. streets. In twos and threes, residents You can breakfast on pancakes at the and travelers alike slip off to stroll quiet Buckwheat Festival in Kingwood, W. Va. m paths through orange-red woods. spread apple butter on homemade bread Regardless of where your autumn at the Apple Butter Festival in Burton, travels take you, somewhere nearby a Ohio; sample seafood at the Crab Festi- festival is going on. Somewhere not far val at Lacombe, La.; and sip wine at a away, people have gathered to celebrate host of California fetes honoring the fruit the harvest. join them. Revel in the TRADITIONS — The varied ethnic heri- Go of the vine. tages of the American people show up cornucopia of delights that is autumn in In Carroll County, Tenn., they cele- In the choices of food grown and the America. brate pork. In Wisconsin it's cheese. In ways they are prepared. Circleville, Ohio, it's pumpkins. In Mitchell, S. D. they have built a huge Each September in Norwalk, Conn., , Planning a Trip? palace to commemorate the corn harvest. oysters are honored—and consumed. From roadside stands, vendors sell Remember to use your Gary Turbak, an award-winning free- the produce of a summer's labor. With American Legion lance journalist, writes articles on U.S. sweet juice dripping from their chins, travel for this and other general-inter- watermelon fanciers savor their succu- Family Benefit Plan est magazines. lent fruit. In Midwest wheatfields,

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ALL-AMERICAN FAVORITE — 77ie uses for apples seem endless, whether crisp from a tree, baked in a pie, or crushed for juice, cider, sauce and preserves.

GIANTS — Enormous machines gather In the crops once harvested by hand.

SYMBOLS — Corn stalks and pumpkins have become synonymous with Halloween, MAGIC — Autumn colors transform wood- harvest festivals, Thanksgiving and the advent of fall. lands and scenery of the Midwest.

OCTOBER 1985 25 Stay in action with Electric Mobility Be independent with the little Rascal! Declare your independence with the electric-powered little Rascal 3-wheeler. Go wherever you like, when-

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Emergency Veterans Job Training would be guaranteed no later than three years after enact- ment into law. was revived when pending veterans health care legis- Legion officials strongly urged that employer sanction pro- lation was amended in the Senate to add six months to the visions include a verifiable identification system to thwart the program. Without the amendment, the program probably current flood of counterfeit documents available. Moreover, would have died last month. If enacted into law, the amend- the Legion continues to urge Congress not to offer amnesty ment would allow a veteran, eligible to participate in the to alien intruders who, if amnestied, in effect would be re- program, to enter a training program with an employer until warded by Congress for thumbing their noses at U. S. laws. March 1, 1986. The Emergency Job program was enacted in 1983 as a two-year program to address the needs of veterans displaced not that anyone opposes the idea of by the 1982 recession. The American Legion has been seeking It's a Korean War Memorial, it's just that apparently no one an extension of the program, even though severe federal can agree on who should pay for it. "We have overlooked budgetary constraints have created congressional resistance. their contributions for 30 years," Sen. William Armstrong of Earlier this year the House passed legislation that would Colorado told his fellow senators as he introduced S. 1223, also temporarily extend the program. This extension not only which calls for erecting a memorial to honor Korean War would allow already certified individuals to enter a program veterans. "Congress should act now to redress this disservice of on-the-job training, but also extend the period in which and appropriately honor those who served," the senator said. an unemployed individual could be newly certified as eligible Armstrong's bill would have government and private funds to participate. pay for the memorial. Over in the House, Congressman The fact that each chamber has voted favorably on extend- James J. Florio of New Jersey has sponsored H.R. 2205 ing the program is good news. However, unless the Senate which permits up to $5 million in federal funds for a Korean is willing to go along with the House on allowing new certifi- War Memorial. Meanwhile, The Chosin Few, an organization cations, the program's extended life may prove to be short. of 1,300 survivors of the Chosin Reservoir, is no longer wait- ing on Congress to act. The organization has commissioned the sculptor who designed the Iwo Jima monument, Dr. Felix The Children's Justice Act, s. 140, intro- duced by Sen. Paula Hawkins of Florida, has passed the de Weldon, of Newport, R.I., to design a Chosin memorial Senate. The legislation, responding to the increased inci- which would also honor all veterans of the Korean War. The dence of child sexual abuse, authorizes additional grants to Chosin Few decided to erect a memorial with private financ- states under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ing after studying the unsuccessful attempts since 1960 for for identification, treatment and prevention of sexual abuse. a federally funded monument. The American Legion supports In addition to key administrative changes in handling child construction of a Korean War Memorial, but prefers it be built funds. sexual abuse cases, the bill, importantly, would establish with private procedures for videotaping victims' statements and testi- mony to protect the victim from further trauma of being are being made to erect a memo- interrogated in open court while facing the accused Plans rial in Washington, D.C., that will salute every man and perpetrator. woman who served in the U. S. Navy. Other important amendments would require the National The memorial, being built with private donations, will be Center on Child Abuse and Neglect to compile, evaluate and located next to the FBI building, across the street from the disseminate information regarding child abuse programs to National Archives on Pennsylvania Avenue, midway between the states. Also the FBI would be required to collect and the Capitol and the White House. publish data indicating the offense, age of the victim and the The dominant element of the memorial project will be an relationship of the victim to the offender. amphitheater with a concert stage that will offer summer evening concerts by the U.S. Navy Band and other service The Senate Judiciary Committee has and civilian musical groups. approved an amended version of Wyoming Sen. Alan Perhaps the most talked-about feature of the memorial is

Simpson's immigration reform legislation. The bill, S. 1200, the U.S. Memorial Log, a computerized record of names, provides for civil penalties for employers hiring illegal aliens. rates or ranks, and service dates of Navymen and women In addition, criminal penalties can be levied against em- who choose to participate, or have been memorialized by ployers who repeatedly employ illegals. The proposal calls descendants, families or friends. Visitors will be able to call for a nine-member legalization commission whose members up specific names and see them displayed on a giant video must all be favorably disposed toward amnesty. Amnesty screen. would be declared after the legalization commission deter- For information on how to participate in the memorial log, mined that employer sanctions and increased border enforce- write to: The U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, Box 12728, ment had curtailed the flow of illegal aliens. In any event, Arlington, VA 22209-8728 or use the toll-free numbers: 1-800- whether a favorable or unfavorable determination, amnesty 821-8892 or 1-800-533-4079 (in Virginia).

OCTOBER 1985 27 HIGH LEVEL OF COMBAT STILL TAKING ITS TOLL VIETNAM VETERANS

Vietnam combat ETERANS who fought the However, some groups of combat vet- j bloodiest battles in Vietnam veterans are still erans reported incomes that were $5,000 suffer poorer health, earn less than men of the same age and edu- $3,000 to $4,000 less in an- bearing the brunt of cation who were non-combatants. In nual income, have a signifi- battle. For them the addition, 6 percent of intense-combat cantly higher divorce rate veterans have poverty-level incomes of and are not as happy as spoils of war have less than $6,000, twice the number com- veterans who experienced pared to other Vietnam-era veterans. only light combat or no been illness, low Stellman said a surprise finding I combat. income and broken showed that education did not come into These findings are the results of a play in determining the effect of heavy two-year survey of nearly 7,000 Vietnam marriages. combat, at least not among the Legion- veterans that was conducted by The naires surveyed. There were no dif- American Legion and Columbia Univer- ferences in the levels of educational sity. Completed in July, the study found attainment among those in the heaviest that veterans exposed to intense com- fighting as compared to those who did the most damaging conditions of war. bat continue to suffer mental, physical not go to Vietnam. However, when age The Stellmans estimated that among and social trauma long after they have and education were taken into account, men born in those years, the annual in- left the battlefield. exposure to intense combat had a major come level of combat veterans today Among the problems studied were effect on family income. "Again, this is appeared to be $3,000 to $4,000 less than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Agent just the tip of the iceberg," Stellman men of that age group who did not ex- Orange exposure, other health-related said. "There are large numbers of men perience intense combat. matters and the socio-economic effects who are far worse off." For example, among those born in of military service on veterans who Exposure to combat also has affected 1944-45, the mean income level was served during the Vietnam War. The marital status. The divorce rate for vet- $21,199 a year for those who served in study also asked Vietnam-era veterans erans with intense combat is signifi- Southeast Asia but did not see combat, their perceptions of the benefits, serv- cantly higher than for other veterans and $21,149 among those who served ices and medical care provided by the who served either under different condi- outside Southeast Asia. But among Veterans Administration. tions in Southeast Asia or served else- those who saw the highest level of com- Launched in 1983 by then-National where. About 25 percent of those who bat, the mean income was $18,039. Commander Al Keller Jr. , the study was experienced intense combat have been undertaken because "The American divorced, compared to 12 percent for Legion has long been concerned about those who saw little or no fighting. problems facing Vietnam veterans, who "Our analysis showed a clear and con- comprise our youngest category of sistent adverse social effect of exposure members." to combat among members of the study Directed by Dr. Jeanne Stellman of population," Stellman said. "Specifically, Columbia University's School of Public we found that as the mean level of trau- Health, and her husband, Dr. Steven matic combat experiences increased so D. Stellman, an assistant vice-president did the divorce rate. Conversely, annual of the American Cancer Society, the family income declined as did the re- study included Legionnaires in Colorado, ported levels of general happiness and Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio satisfaction with increased levels of and Pennsylvania. The survey analyzed combat. the answers of veterans aged 36 to 41, "These veterans of intense combat ap- the findings of which may be only the SOUTH' pear to be literally paying a financial tip of the iceberg with regard to the VIETNAM cost, as well as an emotional one, for their effect of combat on veterans, Jeanne combat experience," Stellman said. Saigon Stellman said. "These men clearly bore the brunt of the She said veterans born between the war and its aftermath." years 1944-49 were the group with the Because of these and other findings, largest percentage serving in Southeast Stellman said, "It showed that it is Asia and the group that experienced necessary to differentiate among men

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John F. Sommer Jr. deputy director , of The American Legion's National Vet- erans Affairs and Rehabilitation Divi- sion, Washington, D.C., said that addi- tional information on overall health and well-being will be released soon, although he did indicate that the surveyed veter- ans with intense combat experience had "general health reports more closely re- sembling men 10 to 20 years older who did not see combat." Sommer presented part of the PTSD findings during the founding meeting of the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in Atlanta in September. His report focused on the experience and satisfaction of the Vietnam veteran in the study with the VA's recognition and treatment of PTSD. Sommer said that the findings of the Legion-Columbia study will be pre- sented to Congress, to the VA, to other federal agencies, as part of the Legion's efforts on behalf of Vietnam veterans, and to the scientific community so that BATTLE CASUALTIES Vietnam veterans exposed to intense combat continue to suffer the results might complement other through a 25-percent divorce rate, double that of those who saw light combat. current studies of Vietnam veterans. In the months ahead, The American who served in Southeast Asia on the combat peers. Also, in the portion of Legion Magazine will publish more on basis of actual wartime experience in the report dealing with perceptions of the remaining portions of the study as order to demonstrate some of the major the VA, the men who had not been in the information is released by the re- effects of service." Southeast Asia gave the VA better searchers. Among other topics to be In addition to lower income and a marks on all questions except one con- covered will be the effects of PTSD and higher divorce rate, the high-level com- cerning awareness. Both groups felt health problems that might have been bat veterans were significantly more strongly that the VA failed to make vet- caused by exposure to Agent Orange or dissatisfied and unhappy than their non- erans aware of available services. other substances.

MEETING THE NEEDS OF VETERANS

findings of The American certain seriously disabled veterans While the Legion developed its or- TheLegion-Columbia University "Viet- who required special vehicles. ganizational policy and interpreted it nam Veterans Study" mark another in legislative support, Legion posts In 1968, the Legion initiated its milestone in 20 years of Legion work were urged to assist in locating Viet- "Our Kind of Guy" program, which in- on behalf of Vietnam veterans. veterans who were exposed to volved personal contact with thou- nam Agent Orange and other such toxic The Veterans Pension and Readjust- sands of returning veterans to advise chemicals while on active duty. ment Assistance Act of 1967 (Public them of those benefits and to assist The American Legion offered assist- Law 90-77), in addition to some "fine them in applying for the benefits appli- ance in filing and developing appro- tuning" of the "Cold War GI Bill," ex- cable to their needs. priate claims for VA medical treatment tended wartime benefits to Vietnam Also in 1968, the Legion increased its and benefits to any veteran who had veterans of honorable service in the participation in Job Fairs throughout developed health problems from such armed forces since Aug. 5, 1964. the nation to assist veterans in gaining exposure. employment and job training oppor- Many wartime benefits either were In 1983, the Legion pushed for legis- tunities. In 1983, the Legion was out not available or were cut back for the lation calling for presumption of serv- front in support of legislation which veterans of the post-Korean War ice connection for certain diseases became the Emergency Veter- period. With the change of their status, related to Agent Orange exposure and ans Job Retraining Act. Vietnam veterans became eligible for entered into a joint research project such benefits as compensation for war- During the 1970s the Legion became with the Columbia University School disabilities (wounds or disease) at the acutely aware that Vietnam veterans of Public Health. The results of this wartime rate which was significantly had special needs and problems, not study will provide scientific, credible higher than the peacetime rate, for non- the least of which were psychological background information for Legion service-connected veterans pensions, readjustment to civilian life, getting presentations on behalf of veterans a two-year presumption of service-con- and holding a decent job, and coping and will help the Legion set the course nection for psychosis and a monetary with the delayed effects of combat for its own programs of personal serv- allowance toward an automobile for stress and exposure to Agent Orange. ices to the veterans in the community.

OCTOBER 1985 29 — LEGION NEWS

CONGRESS PROPOSES TO CUT '80 VA BUDGET BY $300 MILLION

VETERANS programs are For this reason, many fiscally conser- vate health insurers for the cost of care facing a $1.15 billion cut in vative Senate critics are characterizing for veterans with their own health the next three years, ac- the savings in this year's budget as insurance policies. These changes have cording to a budget resolu- "funny money" or all done with mirrors. been estimated to save far more than tion that was adopted by the This is why fiscal conservatives are the $300 million required by the budget. House and Senate. seeking even deeper cuts than planned The Senate still could approve all these

The resolution, approved Aug. 1, di- for the budget when Congress takes up cuts in a reconciliation bill. rects the Veterans Affairs committees reconciliation and appropriates legisla- Meanwhile, the House Veterans Af- of both chambers to identify $300 mil- tion later this year. The American fairs Committee has expressed its lion in specific veterans program cuts Legion, among others with strong in- adamant opposition to user fees. On in FY 86, $400 million in FY 87 and terest in preserving the integrity of that subject the House should prevail $450 million in FY 88. Specific program worthwhile spending programs, is over the Senate. However, the Senate cuts were not covered in the resolution, gratified that the resolution minimizes may very well insist that the House go only dollars to be saved. cuts that could have been approved in along with at least some form of means Areas where cuts will occur were to programs for this fiscal year, which be- test for health care eligibility and for be outlined in authorizing committee came effective Oct. 1. third-party reimbursement by private recommendations submitted to Con- Although the savings in the resolu- health insurers. In addition, if the House gress by Sept. 27. tion are modest compared to what the adopts a reconciliation package esti- Apart from the $300 million slated to Senate was seeking, there is still a seri- mated to save $300 million in VA costs be cut from VA programs next year, ous danger that even deeper cuts may for FY 86, and the Senate adopts a pack- several other programs of Legion con- occur. When the Senate originally age with much more in savings, the con- cern also would be affected. Postal sub- passed its version of a budget last May, ference committee called to iron out sidies, for example, are to be cut by 14 it assumed there would be increased differences between the two versions percent. The Small Business Adminis- user fees for VA guaranteed home could arrive at a final compromise cut- tration is to be cut next year by $450 loans, means-tested eligibility for VA ting more deeply into VA programs million. Defense, on the other hand, will health care and VA collection from pri- than the House originally intended. be permitted to increase $10 billion, to cover inflation. Even though the budget resolution is the subject of much hand wringing, and calls for a spending reduction of more than $276 billion over the next three fiscal years, for the out years of FY 87 and FY 88, it is only a blueprint. HAVE YOU The resolution is non-binding, and does not carry the force of law. SEEN Each year Congress passes a budget that encompasses spending plans for CHILD? three fiscal years. This budget resolu- THIS tion seeks cuts of $5 billion in FY 86, $90 billion in FY 87 and $130.7 billion in FY 88. Whether or not Congress will hold to this year's budget resolution next year, MISSING Cherrie Ann Mahan, 8. Last and actually carry out its commitment seen Feb. 22, 1985 in Saxonburg, Pa. Hair: Brown. Eyes: Hazel. Height: 4'2". to cut $90 billion in FY 87, remains to Weight: 68 lbs. Contact: Children's be seen. If the Congress does what it Rights of PA, Inc., telephone (215) usually does in election years, and next 437-2971; or National Center Hotline, year is one, it will fail to cut as deeply 1-800-843-5678. as it has obliged itself to do this year.

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Unanimous Choice in New Orleans

IOWA'S DALE L. RENAUD ELECTED NATIONAL COMMANDER

W HB S THE voice of the vete- Demonstrating his belief that effec- ments as a member of the Executive W JRh ran, The American tive teamwork at every level of the or- and Communications committees, chair- IB Legion must continue to ganization gets the job done, Renaud man of both the Convention Resolutions H H be heard clearly and revealed a membership recruiting and Committee in 1970 and the Communica- fl^H loudly whenever some community service plan that will incor- tions Committee in 1971. He has also Hr^H well-meaning but naive porate the combined efforts of both The served on the Foreign Relations Com- H H budget-trimmer looks to American Legion and the American mission. JH H veterans as an escape Legion Auxiliary. "Under the plan," Re- To each of these assignments, Renaud hatch for cutbacks in programs," said naud said, "one goal is for every Amer- brought a people-oriented leadership, newly elected National Commander ican Legion post and its Auxiliary to much of it learned from 24 years' experi- Dale L. Renaud after his acceptance achieve at least 100 percent membership ence in the insurance business. He is speech to about 3,000 delegates at the president of the MacRae-Renaud

67th National Convention in New Agency, Inc. , out of Bondurant and Des Orleans. Moines. "He is an excellent evaluator "We must impress upon Congress MEAM means "To- of people and takes special interest in that the VA budget is not responsible their responsibilities as they relate to for the deficit in any way, shape or form," gether Each Ac- The American Legion," a long-time as- Renaud said. "In the past 10 years, sociate said. spending trends show that the cost of complishes More." "I love people, and we have the great- veterans benefits and services has in- est people in the world in The American creased 55 percent, while all federal Legion," Renaud said. His interest in spending has increased 163 percent." in the coming year. Another goal is for people stems from his rural background Emphasizing that the cost of veter- the post and unit to jointly undertake where "there always seemed to be ans' programs declined from 5 percent a community service project that will enough time to really get to know of the total budget in fiscal year 1975, benefit children and youth." people." He was born and raised on a to 2. 7 percent during the fiscal year that Love of children and youth was a farm about IV2 miles from Bondurant, ended in September, Renaud said, natural evolution for Renaud, a father a town of 1,248 people. "Congress has proposed a $300 million of three. He has devoted much of his Educated under the GI Bill, he holds cut in the VA budget for fiscal year 1986 personal and professional life to the a business administration degree from and even larger amounts for fiscal years spiritual, physical and educational de- Simpson College. While in college he 1987 and 1988. We oppose, and will al- velopment of America's children and married Patricia Ann Newell, a graduate ways oppose, any cuts in the VA budget youth. Over the past 15 years, he has of nursing from the University of Iowa. that would result in less than adequate served as a member, vice chairman and They have three children: Pete, 24, who health care and benefits for those who chairman of the Americanism Commis- lives on the farm and works in Des have laid it on the line for their country. sion, which is responsible for such Moines; Nancy, 18, who is attending A Coast Guard veteran of the Korean Legion programs as the High School Northwest Missouri College; and Ann, War and the fourth Iowan elected to the Oratorical Contests, Boys State, Boys 16, a high school sophomore. office of National Commander, Re- Nation, Boy Scouts and American "We try to do everything as a family, naud has served 31 years as a Legion- Legion Baseball. and with active teen-agers, that usually naire—29 with Samuel H. Bridge Post Throughout his Legion career, Re- means doing what they like to do, but 396 of Bondurant, Iowa. During that naud has served with distinction in vir- that's fine with all ofus," Renaud said. time he has been a staunch believer in tually every office at the post, district Pat and Dale Renaud, both active team play. and department levels, including com- members of the Bondurant Church, also "TEAM" to Renaud, means "To- mander of his Bondurant post from 1964 spend much of their time together work- gether Each Accomplishes More." "We to 1966 and district adjutant, vice com- ing for the Legion. She has attended work as a team, we Legionnaires," he mander and commander from 1967 to many national conventions and has served said. "If we want to change something 1969. as unit, county and district president of in The American Legion, we do so by Recognizing his effectiveness as a the Auxiliary. "I can't think of any one resolution, beginning at the post level, manager and his reputation for getting who could help me more in this job," up through district and department, the job done, Iowa Legionnaires elected Renaud said. into national and the convention. It's him Department Commander in 1971, As he stood before his fellow Legion- teamwork all the way; it's Legionnaires and National Executive Committeeman naires after his election, Renaud, who working together. in 1979. He served one-year assign- turns 53 this month, said "The real plea-

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sure is sharing with all Legionnaires the American Legion must remain up-front, ON VETERANS BENEFITS: "The knowledge that The American Legion alerting Congress and the American American Legion, which is composed of will continue to march forward with people of the Soviet danger to this Americans first, and veterans second, anticipation, enthusiasm and confi- nation. does not irresponsibly demand exces- dence." "We must be forever mindful, how- sive benefits for veterans with total dis- He urged each post and Legionnaire ever, that our defense of the nation and regard for the nation's economic well- to adopt a plan of action to further the commitment to peace can be only as being. Veterans benefits are rights that goals of The American Legion and strong as the will of our military men have been earned, not privileges that promised that the national organization and women. We must jealously guard have been granted and can be withdrawn would continue to initiate and assist in their earned benefits as well as those at whim. One of the most disturbing programs that would fulfill their plans. of veterans no longer on active duty. trends involving veterans benefits He said that although "a tidal wave of ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: "In today is the attempts to apparently change is sweeping across America, in- our continued quest for verifiable nu- squeeze out most veterans from the VA troducing new concepts and technolo- clear controls, our negotiations must health care system. The means test and gies, the principles of this organization demonstrate the strength of determina- third-party reimbursements, if ap- will not change," and he encouraged tion, rather than the weakness of con- proved, would be giant steps toward members to pursue programs that sup- converting VA health care from a bene- ported the four pillars of The American fits program to a cost-sharing plan. We Legion — Veterans Affairs, National must exert every ounce of opposition we Security, Americanism and Children can ill afford possess to stop that from happening. and Youth. "Anything less than full funding for During a recent interview with The to lose more military VA programs is unacceptable. By 2000, American Legion Magazine, Re- ground to the there will be 13 million veterans who naud shared his views on topics of con- are 65 years or older, and they will need cern to all Legionnaires. Here are ex- Soviets." the geriatric research and care that cerpts from that session. the VA cannot provide without proper ON MEMBERSHIP: "Membership funding." will be the number one priority, and 3 cession. We can ill afford to lose more ON WORKING WITH CONGRESS: million members is our goal. Last year military ground to the Soviets. "We have a good working relationship the ranks of Legionnaires swelled by "The communist expansion in Central with Congress, but we must continue more than 100,000, the biggest gain America must not be allowed to roam working together as a team to ensure since 1946, so I know we can do it. While unchecked. We must seek public and our veterans get the services and bene- we've been helped considerably by Di- congressional support for a firm U.S. fits they are entitled to. Since the Amer- rect Membership Solicitation and direct policy to help the democracies in Cen- ican Revolution, Congress has always billing, personal contact at the grass- tral America and to establish closer taken the initiative to assure the nation roots level is still the most rewarding relations with Mexico, the ultimate ob- does not forget those who have borne and dependable method of signing up jective of communist expansion in the the highest duty of citizenship by joining new members. area." the Armed Forces to defend the national "There are those who would like the ON THE POW/MIA ISSUE: "This interest." membership eligibility dates changed to vital issue still lingers unresolved and include Grenada and Beirut, but the is a source of great anxiety and sadness That interest will be the constant 3,000 delegates to this convention set- for many American families. While traveling companion of National Com- tled that debate: There will be no mem- there are strong signs of better cooper- mander Dale L. Renaud as he embarks bership eligibility date changes. The ation from the Vietnamese, I am sure on his year-long journey across America American Legion is a congressionally progress on this issue is not as fast as and around the globe, fulfilling the rigor- chartered organization of war-time vet- it could be for families of the POW/MIAs. ous demands as the leader of the nation's erans and that's the way we must stay. From the outset, The American Legion largest veterans organization. His in- Nevertheless, we are at a period when has demanded a full accounting and has tegrity, determination and quick smile our membership can increase dramati- urged that the issue receive the highest will conquer obstacles and win many cally. Vietnam-era veterans have, or national priority. new friends for the Legion. During his are, settling down with families and ON WOMEN VETERANS: "Thou- quest to maintain The American Legion's looking to organizations with programs sands of women served in Southeast hard-earned reputation as America's that meet their needs and those of their Asia, yet their contributions go largely premier veterans organization, he would children. The Vietnam veteran has be- unnoticed by most Americans who do like to become the first national com- come aware that the Legion has these not realize that women, too, witnessed mander in 40 years to crack the 3-million programs and he is joining us in greater the horrors of war. The American Legion mark in membership. The goals he has numbers—a fact verified by the numer- appreciates the sacrifices these women set before himself personally and before ous special Vietnam posts that have made and is pushing to get better VA our 2.6 million members are ambitious, been established recently. treatment facilities for women. to be sure, "But," says Renaud, "they ON NATIONAL SECURITY: "There have been some improvements are also realistic. They are our mandate "Clearly, the most serious threat to our in women veterans medical care within for 1986. national security is the rapidly growing VA, including an awareness by VA staff "I believe we are on the leading edge strength of the Soviet military. Fortu- of women veterans' gender-related of the greatest era in American Legion nately, we have taken positive steps to medical problems, specially trained per- history. Never have the challenges been keep pace with the Soviets in recent sonnel and equipment, and the need for greater, never have our collective re- years by beefing up our strategic de- privacy, but we must maintain our ef- sources of talent and determination fense forces and by improving our re- forts to ensure that no woman veteran been more readily available. We are taliatory capabilities in the event of a is unaware of the entitlements or bene- truly a TEAM, and "Together Each pre-emptory strike by the Soviets. The fits she has earned. Accomplishes More!'"

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Feller Pitching Award. He and team- Kokomo Is Perfect Host mate Steve Nelson won the Louisville Slugger Award for the highest batting average, each hitting .500. Olson had 16 hits in 32 appearances and Nelson went 17 for 34. MIDLOTHIAN, l/A., POST 180 "A program of service to the youth of America" are the words inscribed on a marble monument in the community of Milbank, S.D., where American Legion Baseball began 60 years ago. Today WINS LEGION WORLD SERIES nearly 4,000 teams in 50 states and Puerto Rico compete for the national championship. Barrett's ninth inning In addition to the 1985 title, Mid- The other regional winners that came Richardsingle brought Ron Wroniewicz lothian also earned individual awards to Kokomo this year and their sponsor- home from second to give Mid- from The American Legion. Star ing posts were: John Coleman Prince lothian, Va., Post 186, a 3-2 vic- pitcher Tris Lipscomb was named Post 9, New London, Conn.; Jesus Bruno tory over Sacramento, Calif., Player of the Year for his 5-0 record and Post 134, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico (1984 in the 1985 American Legion 0.50 ERA during the regional and nation- champion); Woodward Post 19, Wood- Baseball Championship Sept. al play. Lipscomb's photo will be mounted ward, Okla.; Ben J. Seifert Post 132,

2, at Kokomo, Ind. on a plaque and placed in Baseball's Hall New Ulm, Mo.; Omaha Post 1, Omaha, The finalists were a perfect illustra- of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., for the Neb.; and West Covina Post 790, West tion of the coast-to-coast involvement coming year. Covina, Calif. of the Legion's baseball program that Midlothian's team manager Maurice According to George Rulon, national has been conducted in cities and towns Beck and coach David George shared director of The American Legion Base- for 60 years. the Jack Williams Memorial Award for ball program, the selection of Kokomo The Sacramento-Midlothian match on adult leadership. as the 1985 site was an excellent one. Labor Day culminated a five-day, double- Catcher Mike Musolino of runner-up "The community spirit, close coopera- elimination tournament and ended a Sacramento walked off with two awards: tion and total community involvement season ofgames for 3,592 Legion teams. the Rawlings Big Stick Award for his has been clearly evident during the Sacramento was undefeated at the be- 40 bases and the Dr. Irwin L. Cowger more than two years of preparation for ginning of the final day and Midlothian's Memorial Award for 20 runs batted in. the series," he said. only loss was a 1-0 shutout in an earlier The James F. Daniel Jr. Sportsman- James DeArmond Golliday Post 6 of meeting with Sacramento. ship Award went to Sacramento center Kokomo was the sponsoring post for the During the afternoon, the Depart- fielder Bobby Jones. tournament. Rulon said the organiza-

ment of Virginia champions beat the fa- Gregg Olson of Omaha, Neb. , earned tion by the post was one of the best he'd vored California team 8-4, forcing a 15th awards in hitting and pitching. Olson, ever seen. The post formed five game to decide the championship. who also received a four-year athletic divisions and 24 committees with more In the nightcap, Ricky Jarvis was the scholarship to Auburn University, tied than 300 volunteers to ensure the series' winning pitcher for Midlothian, bring- Larry Gonzales of West Covina, Calif., success. ing his record to 6-1 in regional and na- with 43 strike-outs to share the Bob "The outstanding success of Kokomo tional play. Tim Harding led the winners this year provides a real challenge to with two hits. FIELDER'S CHOICE Midlothian's Mark Rapid City, S.D., which will host the Among the 15,328 fans who watched Chambers is forced at third during the American Legion Baseball World Series the series was National Commander 1985 world series at Kokomo, Ind. next year," said Rulon. Dale L. Renaud, who was sitting in the stands less than 24 hours after his elec- tion to the Legion's highest office by delegates at the 67th National Conven- tion in New Orleans Aug. 28. Noting that more than 50 percent of the current major league ballplayers as youths participated in American Legion Baseball, Renaud said: "There's a lot of ballyhoo about our boys making it into the majors, but we don't kid ourselves. We know the boys have the talent to begin with, and they'd probably get there whether they played Legion ball or not." Renaud said the real value of the pro- gram is the educational opportunities and character-building experiences it affords the players. "The ones that go on to a professional baseball career are just a drop in the bucket compared to the 70,000 youths who participate in Legion ball each year," he said.

OCTOBER 1985 35 LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION

Rekindling the fires of hope in the sick and Korea; Andres Jr. fought in Vietnam; and Pedro Juan was one of the Marines despairing... sacrificing to achieve a personal wounded during the enemy attacks against Americans in Beirut. best. . . putting the needs of others first. . .finding

80,000 veterans jobs. . .and giving one's all for Or'ne of the largest flags in Ohio was God, Country and Legion. put in place by Wellston Post 371. The 20-by 38-foot flag flies from a 76-foot high pole in the new Wellston Veterans Memorial Park, near the standard-sized .UDOS...to high achievers Bill 7, Brunswick, Mo., for his unselfish baseball field that the Legion is con- Graichen and Wade Saunders of Post "love, muscle, care and concern" de- structing for the Legion's baseball team. 783, Stanton, Calif., for signing up 58 voted continuously to his post and com- The field of blue on the flag is 16 feet P.U.F.L. members this year, and reach- munity to Bernard Lowe of Post 671, long and each star is 10 inches wide. ing 110 percent of Swisher, Iowa, for 18 years of putting their post's mem- the needs of others ahead of his own bership goal .... to Howard Gardner Post 281, Tyrone, Jn the How's-Your-History category, to Charles E. Neu- Pa. , for initiating a cross program that what department of The American baum, former assist- ensures each deceased veteran of the Legion covers two countries several ant state adjutant post will receive a cross built, erected thousand miles apart? The Depart- of Pennsylvania, for and maintained by fellow post mem- ment of Canada, al-l his fifth "Quill bers. The program, paid through volun- though one of thef Award" from the Pennsylvania Amer- teer efforts of post members, has already smallest in number, ican Legion Press Assn. Neubaum was installed 627 crosses, each with the is the largest in area cited for an article titled, "The Amer- name of the departed inscribed on it. with posts in Canada ican Legion's Goals are Explained." and Ireland. This to the Hallstead, Pa., American Legion year, for the first legionnaires at Post Carlisle, for donating $1,500 to help a sick 7-year- 101, time in its 61 -year Pa., are prepared for disasters. old boy realize his dream trip to Florida Mem- history, Canada held bers recently purchased a 22-foot .... to Alan Seeger Post 2 in Mexico, van its annual conven- for conversion to a mobile for its efforts to keep history alive and kitchen that tion in Killarney, accurate. Post members inform those will be available to serve beverages and Ireland. who don't know that during World War food during major disasters. During off- disaster duty, the van will be used to support post fund-raising activities. The Xm. new monument dedicated to the van is equipped to serve 200 persons. veterans of Marshall County, S.D., stands on the courthouse lawn at Brit- ton, S.D., thanks to the county's Amer- ^cmndres Alvarado Mirabel was re- ican Legion and VFW posts. cently honored by Luis Pacheco The American Legion posts of Britton, Lespier Post 125 in Puerto Rico for his Kidder, Langford and Veblen, and Brit- contributions to the Legion and to the ton VFW sponsored the construction of nation. A veteran the dark red granite monument that II, Mexico sent an air squadron of 300 of World War II, stands more than five feet high and men to fight with U.S. forces in the Pa- Mirabel returned to bears the inscription: cific. The squadron was cited by Presi- Puerto Rico after "Dedicated to all veterans of Marshall dent Truman, who said, "Squadron 201 the war and helped County and surrounding area, and to participated in many attacks on enemy found Post 125. He those who will come after us, for their positions, and fought with great success and his wife have service to God and Country." in destroying ships, installations and reared 12 children enemy personnel" to Joseph F. Hill and now have 38 Post 156, Waltham, Mass., for donating grandchildren. Serv- *^F've wanted to be a singer all my $500 to the Shriners Hospital for Crip- ing the nation in life," said Vice Commander Arthur W. pled Children-Boston Unit Burns Insti- times of strife seems Nelson, Lawrenceville Post 414, New tute to Legionnaires Edmund E. to be a particular Jersey. The veteran of World War II Wojciechowski Sr., and Lawrence E. trait of the Mirabel realized that desire recently by singing Oley of Post 443, Glassport, Pa., whose family. In addition to Mirabel's par- "The Star-Spangled Banner" in opening names were entered in the Congressional ticipation in the "second war to end all ceremonies at Giants Stadium for a New Record for their services on behalf of wars," three of his sons also have fought Jersey Generals-Memphis Showboat veterans and the community to for the defense of American ideals in football game. Proceeds from ticket sales Tyson Nichols, Rucker McAllister Post three different areas: Angel fought in by Legionnaires went to renovate the

36 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE amphitheater at the local Lyons VA and was honorably discharged at the Hospital. end of that war. Recalled to active duty Nelson, a retired New Jersey State in 1942, he served in the Asiatic-Pacific LEGIONNAIRE Department of Labor employee with 32 Theater, and was discharged again in years of service, has been the soloist at 1946. He was recalled once more in 1950 OF THE MONTH his department's convention for the past and served with the 10th Air Force in three years. Korea until he was retired on his 60th birthday in 1951. In the four wars he served his country, Waller never suf- If you're a veteran looking for suc- fered a combat wound and never lost cessful, productive veterans pro- his continuous service to The American grams, you might want to live in Legion. A Legionnaire for 66 years, Pennsylvania. This year, Pennsylvania Waller is a member of Monahan Post 64, has provided job Sioux City, Iowa. Hats off to a veteran's placement for more veteran! than 80,000 veter- ans, including more than 35,000 Viet- jT*he 1982 Boys Nation president, nam-era and 4,500 Joseph M. Wiegand, found a way to Aime Louis Adams disabled veterans. use his physical fitness for community Some of the pro- service — running 182 miles to raise 15 years, Aime Louis Adams grams are Jobs for Vietnam Veterans, awareness of the work done by United has been one of the sparkplugs the Job Search, the Disabled Veterans Way. FORof The American Legion Base- Outreach, listings Wiegand, from Palatine, 111., ran "A mandatory job and ball program at Post 246, Moline, enforcement of veterans preference in Marathon a Day for the United Way" or 111. state hiring. Another 49,500 veterans 26 miles a day for seven days. He com- But Adams is more than a received veteran-to-veteran counseling pleted the trek in Chicago on Aug. 5, sports enthusiast. He is also and referral services through Veterans then returned to college in Tennessee known as an all-around hard Outreach and Assistance Centers. These where he is studying political science. worker for the Legion. achievements reflect continued devotion A Navy veteran of World War II, to a strong veterans affairs program '^Rolling for Dale," and "Cookies Adams joined Post 246 in 1967. He and from a state that recently designated for Dale," were the themes of two fund- his wife, Ruth, soon were regulars its Interstate Highway 81 as the Amer- raisers during the campaign of Dale L. among the volunteers who conducted ican Legion Memorial Highway. Renaud for National Commander. weekly fish fries to raise funds to sup- Sponsored by the port the post's two baseball teams. The Bondurant Amer- Adamses still are primary workers at recruiting new members is one of R< the dinners. the toughest battles department com- ican Legion Auxil- Adams served three years as chair- manders face throughout the year, yet iary, Unit 396, man of the Children and Youth Commit- at year's end, some commanders not Bondurant, Iowa, tee, four years on the Oratorical pro- only have met their goals, but also ex- the ladies sold 132 gram, and one year as post commander. ceeded them. This year's first-place dozen homemade dinner rolls, He was appointed assistant coach in winners in the "Top Department Com- cinnamon and and 188 1970. In 1977, after throat surgery for mander" competition were: Richard H. dozen cookies, raising nearly $800 for cancer, he retired from his civilian job Mibach from California, 115 percent Renaud's campaign coffers. The drive must have helped: See page 32 for an but hardly skipped a beat in Legion over goal; Earl C. Nuttall, Md. , 107 per- work. He became manager of the post's cent; Howard Jessen, Wash., 109 per- introduction to the new National Com- baseball team in 1978 and still holds that cent; Stan C. Stueve, Ore., 112 percent; mander, Dale L. Renaud. position. Since 1980 he also has been and Larry Little, Nev., 119 percent. 14th District Junior Legion Baseball Winners received an expense-paid trip M he Quakertown, Pa., Memorial chairman. Recently, he also helped to the National Convention in New Stadium has undergone $50,000 in im- develop the post's first home field on Orleans. provements the past year as a direct land donated by the City of Moline for result of the Wallace Willard Keller Post Veterans Memorial Park, which was Everett Waller first fought with 242 sponsorship of an American Legion dedicated in 1984. Gen. John J. "Blackjack" Pershing baseball tournament. Said Donald E. Temple, post adjutant, against Pancho Villa's raids along the The post's role in the tournament this "There is no way to measure the finan- U.S. border in 1916 during the Mexican past summer was cited by the local cial value of the work Aime has done Border War, and was honorably dis- newspaper as providing the impetus for and continues to do for the Moline charged in 1917. Six months later he en- the improvement program. The major American Legion Junior Legion Base- listed in the Army. In 1919 he fought as expense was for a lighting system to ball program." an American doughboy in World War I, allow night games.

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VETERANS ALERT

"A" Co., 36th Sig. Hv. Constr. Bn. WWII Ike Patch, 5710 Pebble Cr. Ct., Apt. 1403, Bethel Park, PA 15102 (412) OUTFIT REUNIONS Air Force 833-5298 "A.B" Cos., 371st Med. Bn., 71st Div. Joseph Quintavella, Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices are published for 23 Lakewood Terr., Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Legionnaires only and must be submitted on official 14th Ftr. Sq„ 53rd Grp. (Panama & Fla.-WWII) (Apr- "B" Co., 807th Engr. AVN Bn. WWII Thomas Dingess, Nashville, TN) Robert Johnston, 6031 Hollywood Blvd., forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped 583 Campbells Cr. Dr., Charleston, WV 25306 Sarasota, 924-6726 envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion Magazine, FL 33581 (813) "C" Co., 865th AVN Engrs. Wilber Smith, 443 S. Church 4925th Test Grp. (Atomic) (May-Albuquerque, NM) Maj. P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be St., Virden, IL 62690 Diego, received at least seven months before reunions are John Hardison, 2556 Chicago St., #10, San CA "C" Co., 1262nd Combat Engrs. WWII Cuny Pittman, Box scheduled and will be published only on a first-come, 92110 (619) 276-6899 234, Harrisonburg, LA 71340 A.F. Sq., 8508th Grp. first-served basis. 9414th Reserve Recovery AFRR HQ Btry., 942nd F.A. (Dec.-'44-May '45), 40th F.A. Grp. Worth) (Apr-Ft. Worth, TX) Ken Adcock, Box (GSW-Ft. (1945) Ronald Horton, #5 Charleston Tr., Box 75-489, Ft. Worth, 76106 624-8116 4001, TX (817) Garden City, SC 29576 Med. Detach., 997th F.A. Bn., 5th Corps (Ft Ord, ETO- Army WWII) Earl Morton, 1 5 MacGregor Rd., Pueblo, CO 81 001 (303) 545-7203 WAAC Caravan Show (1 943) Marion McMannis, 1 500 Ser- (Western States) (Apr-Fresno, CA) Army Air Forces 11th Airborne Div. pentine Dr., St. Petersburg, FL 33705 (813) 867-4304 LeRoy Franklin, 24581 Florence, Coming, CA 96021 (916)824-5105 2nd Air Commando Grp., 1st & 3rd A.C. Grps. WWII 21st Corps, US Sect. WWII (Rhinet Danube Assn.) (Apr- (Nov-Osage Beach, MO) Robert Eason, Rt. 1 , Box 28, Deauville, France) Bob Adams, 1031 Hamilton Rd., Park Navy Orange, VA 22960 (703) 672-4074 Hills, KY 41011 (606) 581-4192 319th Depot Repair Sq. (Foggia, ttaly-1 944-46) (Apr-New (Oct-Las Vegas, NV) Donald 30th Medical Depot Co. WWII Orleans) Bernard Tusa, 1613 Severn Ave., Metairie, LA Acorn 10 Hank Bagnell, 16 Knapp Ave., Greenfield, MA Reitzer, 324 E. Tropicana, #10, Las Vegas, NV 89109 70001 (504) 833-5832 01301 645th T.D. Bn. (Apr -Oklahoma 189th, 202nd F.A. Bns., 410th Bomb Grp. Assn. WWII (Feb-Orlando, FL) Edward Aviation Supply Depot 825 (Rol-Namur-WWII) Fred City) Zane Ambrose, 4325 Curzon, Ft. Worth, TX 76107 Dionne, Box 222, Olympia Fields, IL 60461 (312) 747- Ashley, 10109 Mountain View Rd., Sun City, AZ 85351 738-3733 (817) 2211 (602) 972-7019 251st CA. (AA) Regt. (Pearl Harbor) (Dec -San Diego) Composite Sq. VC88 WWIIGerald Adams, 501 Hartford 92041 George Holland, 9626 Lemon Ave., La Mesa, CA Rd., Fort Gaines, GA 31751 (619) 697-4720 Fleet Post Office (Pearl Harbor-Korea) Denio Sanchez, 320th Engrs. (Topo-Corp) (Feb-Orlando, FL) Richard 4708 N. Fremont Ave., Tampa, FL 33603 Orlando, Johnston, 2216 Owasso Ct, FL 32818 (305) Marines L.C.I. (L) 1076 Frank Takatch, Box 144, Divemon, IL 62530 293-0542 (217) 628-3802 321st Signal Bn. (Feb-Houma, LA) Amos Friloux, Rt. 1, Navy Enlisted Retired Dental Tech. C.C. Cormier, 659 2nd Airdrome/1 7th AA Bn. (SpW) (May-Orlando, FL) Box 200, Bourg, LA 70343 (504) 594-5069 Sawtelle Ave., San Diego CA 92114 Charles Henry, 6596 Lochober Cove, Memphis, TN 381 1 343rd Ord. (Apr-St. Charles, IL) Francis Schuett, 1 121 Lin- Newport Armory (Oct-Dec-'42), USS Tohoma (Dec. '42- (901) 365-6530 coln Ave., Ottawa, IL 61350 (815) 434-6288 Jun.-43), Arthur Mlddleton PA25 (1944-Aug-'45). USS 782nd Tank Bn. 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USS LSM 155, WWII Donald Ladwig, 4201 Garden In., Ralston Berrier, James E. Saylor (1985), Post 94, Topeka, KS 66614 (913) 272-9102 Valparaiso, IN USS LSM 450 WWII Ed Tilton, 8306 N.W. 59th St., Tamarac, Marines Philip J. Boucher, Harold Hersom, J. Henry Vachon FL 33321 (1985), Post 26, Biddeford, ME USS LST 137 James Cline, 203 Boone Dr., Summerville, John Paul Raeder, Carroll W. Shoemaker (1985), Post Amphibious Recon. Bn. Fleet Marine Force Robert Peters, SC 29483 (803) 871-6968 217, College Park, MD 15749 Palm Beach Blvd., #358, Ft. Myers, FL 33905 USS LST 498 LW. Brown, Box 26, Starkville, MS 39759 Winfred Lange (1985), Post 87, Alexandria, MN (813)694-0359 (601) 323-4126 John Pisarklewicz (1985), Post 4, St. Louis, MO U.S.M.C. Detach. (London, Eng.-1955-57) Lyle Hickey, USS LST 668 Austin Kurtz, 906 Linden St., Clearfield, PA Roy L. Rash, Lamolne E. Mohling (1983), Post 61, 6516 Deer Park Rd., Reisterstown, MD 21 136 (301) 833- 16830 (814) 765-7388 Kansas City, MO 2503 USS LST 673 Bill Landers, Rt. 1, Box 250, Sugar Camp Paul Smothers (1985), Post 220, Branson, MO Rd., Covington, KY 40107 (606) 356-9833 Andrew Burneko, Joseph L. Buttacavoll Jr., Gregory USS LST 697 Jack Stephens, Rt. 6, Box 35, Tunkhannock, Esposito, Thomas Farrell, August Meyers, Francis PA 18657 (717) 836-2536 Palmer, Albert Panara, Fred Smith, Harry Smith, William USS LST 808 James Pettyjohn, Box 1022, Bainbridge, GA Miscellaneous Waller (1984), Helen Withey, Stanley Hladun, Sam Tam- 31717 burino, Philip Marian), Francis Lowell (1985), Post 24, USS LUCE DD522 (Survivors) Richard Flaum, 2042 E. Rome, NY 63rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11234 (718) 444-3922 Allied Airmen & Prisoners of War (Rescued by Slovene Alfred Bachler (1985), Post 118, Woodhaven, NY USS Alexander J. Luke DE577, USS Massey DD778 D A. Partisans) John Hribar, 634 N.E. Lullaby Rd., North Port, David R. Albon, Edward S. Allard, Cecil A. Ammerman Downing, 509 E. 2nd St., Anamosa, IA 52205 FL 33596 (813) 426-5898 Jr., Lauren Andres, Raymond J. Back, Charles Barone, USS Pandemus ARL18 WWII Jesse Noble, Rt. 2, Box 331 EX-POWS (Wiesbaden, Germany) Harold Swanson, Wesley E. Beach, Donald L. Behrns, John A. Blackowitz, Pendleton, IN 46064 10544 W. 400 N., Michigan City, IN 46360 George T. Border, John J. Bridge II, Raymond F. Brider, USS Ormsby APA49 Herbert Matta, 514 Meadowview Rd., William L. Brokenshire, F. J. Bubb Jr., Albert D. But- Forest Grove, OR 97116 (503) 357-8748 green, James J. Burns, Anthony J. Capanl, John A Carlo, USS PC 564 (Channel Islands Survivors-Mar. 1945) Alex J. Camduff, James A. Carter, Darwin P. Christy Jr., Wesley Johnson, 6484 N. Park Ave., Indianapolis, IN COMRADES IN DISTRESS Foster Crlssey, Frank T. Czysz, Alfred J. DeMart, 46220(317)253-4801 Dominic J. DeMart, Elmer Degenhart, Clarence W. USS P.H. APA223 WWII Ralph Kennedy, 7692 Willow Point Durwald, Robert W. Emerson, Clinton W. Eshelman, Dr., Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 573-3365 Readers who can help these veterans are urged to do Clarence F. Forpahl, Robert J. Frank, Andrew T. Fusco, USS Saginaw Bay CVE82, V.C. 78 Robert Treister, 516 so. Usually an eyewitness statement is needed in support Michael R. Gabor, Leonard C. Gademsky Jr., Francis P. W. Chapman Ave., Placentia CA 92670 of a VA claim. Gane, Elmer H. Garlapo, Andrew Glover, Thaddeus S. USS Sitka APA1 1 3 Ray Bell, 51 2 W. 2nd, St. Elmo, IL 62458 Notices are run only at the request of American Legion Goscinski, William B. Grawe, William F. Greer, Bernard USS Skagit AKA105 (1950-53) Don Vogan, 950 Watkins Service Officers representing claimants, using Search for T. Hanley, Donald G. Hartman, Walter James Heller, St., Conway, AR 72032 Witness Forms available only from State Legion Service Benjamin C. Helwlg, G. Delwin Hervey, John W. Hlggins, USS SC1301 WWII James Devero, 102 Oakdale Way, Officers. Please contact CID (number), The American Warren J. Hlldebrandt, Edell R. Howell, Hazen M. Hull, Michigan City, IN 46360 (219) 872-5797 Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206 Richard W. Hull, Howard H. Juhre, James J. Kampas, USS Neal A. Scott DE769 WWII Val Swegel, 845 Bellevue James F. Karsten, Albert C. Kaufman, Frank J. Keller, P., E., Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 324-6816 "I" Co., 1013th ASU. Willard D. Belanger needs witnesses Otto Kell Jr., Lawrence A. Kimble, Warren R. Kluge, USS Spector MS36 (1943-45) Mike Abraham, 12673 Clar- to verify a claim that while stationed at Ft. Devens, Mass., Donald H. Knople, Fred A. Korte, LeRoy Kottke, Lewis ence Or. Rd., Akron, NY 14001 (716) 542-9653 in 1953, he suffered injury to his knees and back while W. Lamson, Joseph F. Lewis, Raymond E. Lewis, Ralph USS Thetis Bay CVE90 Tom DeCarlo, 320 S. Suffolk St., repairing the barracks and while stationed at Ft. Dix, he E. Llbrock, Walter Lion, Charles M. Long Jr., Dean P. Ironwood, Ml 49938 (906) 932-0597 hurt his back while operating a donut machine. Contact Luke, Arthur A. Maerten, Frank L. Mago Jr., Dominic A. USS Tlsdale DE33 WWII John Besemer, 530 Oceanpoint CID 1009 Maiolo, Frank P. Malone, Robert E. Marohn, Elmer H. Ave., Cedarhurst, NY 11516 (516) 295-3722 USS PCEC 877. Charles Arthur Penney is seeking witnes- Martin, Peter Masich, Allen C. McCully, Andrew Meholick, USS Charles R. Ware DDB65 (1945-46) Henry Fipps, 10 ses to verify a claim that while aboard ship, he injured his Franklin C. Metzloff, Hiram G. Meyer, Donald W. Miller, Fox Bay Rd., Loris, SC 29569 (803) 756-2000 shoulder and foot during gun practice and suffered from Elmer B. Moje, Paul Molnar Jr., Franklin C. Neschivitz, USS Wright CVL49 Russell Weist, Rt. 2, Harpursville, NY emotional anxiety. Contact CID 1010 Wilber V. Nugent, Robert T. Ogorehock, John L. Pels, 13787 116th Engr. Bn. Harry A. McConnell needs witnesses to Gus E. Pernesky, Michael Popovlce, Maurice W. Proy, USS Yosemite AD19 Robert Wickham, 10677 CR 59 W., verify a claim that while stationed at Korea in Dec. 1951 Louis Rabb, John J. Rozycki, Domenic A. Ruggirello, Rt. 1, Carey, OH 43316 to Jan. 1953, he injured his back while working with heavy George H. Schmidt, Louis W. Schmeichel, Donald E. equipment. Contact CID 1011 Schopp, Willard L. Schulmeister, John H., Schweitzer, Guam M.I. George T. Walker is seeking witnesses to verify William Sesko, David S. Smith, Richard F. Smith, William Air Force a claim that while stationed at Guam in 1947, he was G. Spence, Ernest Stefanuccl, Silvio W. Stefanuccl, hospitalized with a back injury due to an accident while LaVern M. Tomm, LeRoy F. Townsend Jr., Gordon P. working in dry dock. Contact CID 1012 Tusslng, Oscar Vogt Jr., William R. Wagner, William M. 33rd Arty. Bn. William E. Brawn needs witnesses to verify Wattengel Jr., J. Robert Weber, Norman W. Wendt Jr., 64th Hq. Sq. (Mlnter Field, CA) Walter Sterk, Rt. 2, Box a claim that while stationed at Ansbach, W. Germany Norman L. Zimmerman (1985), Post 264, Tonawanda, NY 103, Wyoming, IA 52362 during 1 956-59, he was exposed to carbon-tetrachloride William E. Dunn (1978), Eugene R. Merkle (1980), 390th Serv. Sq., Team "A", 74th Serv. Grp., 9th A.F. in performance of assigned duties. Contact CID 1013 Edgar D. Smith (1984), Post 1066, Massapequa, NY Glenn Bock, Box 1 1 , Sherman, NY 1 4781 (71 6) 761 -6587 313th Port Co. Louis Hudnall needs witnesses to verify a George C. Baer (1985), Post 1790, Rochester, NY 454th Bomb Grp. (Italy-WWII) Ralph Branstetter, 3763 Hol- claim that while stationed at Green Island, South Pacific, Robert Brousseau, Robert J. D'Avlgnon, Lee F. land St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 (303) 422-6740 in June 1944, he was wounded by the enemy. Contact Kellogg Jr., Kenneth C. Lafley, Noah Lathrop, Christine 491st Serv. Sq. (Midland AFB-WWII) John Carlton, Rt. 1, CID 1014 B. Levarn (1984), Post 19, Bristol, VT Winchester, IL 62694 Robert E. Clark, Harold T. Durant, Robert D. Gray, Adelord L. Taylor, Donald L. Perron, (1985), Post 76, Barton, VT Army Air Forces LIFE MEMBERSHIPS John Kremer, Donald A. Skarda (1985), Post 187, Wis- consin Dells, Wl

2nd Emer. Air/Sea Rescue Sq. WWII John Crawford, 10 The award of a life membership to a Legionnaire by a Filbert Ave., Stratford, NJ 08084 post is testimonial by those who know best that such a "Taps" Available 7th Ferry Grp. & Northern Pilot Pool (Great Falls, MT) member has served The American Legion well. CD. Markle, 1104 Valley View, Glasgow, MT 59230 Below are listed some of the previously unlisted life Posts needing a cassette recording 15th Ftr. Command HQ Sq. WWII (Torremagglore, membership post awards that have been reported to The of "Taps" for sounding military funer- Italy) Don Bremer, 2117 Wyoming Ave., American S.W., Wyoming, Legion Magazine. als or patriotic services may receive Ml 49509 one by writing to George Gregory, 15th, 20th Weather Sqdns., 5th AAF WWII (SW Pacific, Billy J. Goodwin, James F. Fraughnaugh (1985), Post Philippines) Hercel Shultz, 620 Main St., El Centra, CA 171, Birmingham, AL 2985 Nightingale, Auburn Heights, 92243 William H. Fielo, Paul T. Artellan (1985), Post 512, MI 48057. 337th Slg. Co. Trp. Carrier Wing WWII C.J. Baker, 500 Carmel, CA The recording features the "Taps" W. 13th, Trenton, MO 64683 Hugh Chappel (1985), Post 27, Litchfield, CT 728th, 556th Serv. Sqdns. (Turner Fleld-WWII) Jim Gerald T. Shea (1985), Post 96, West Hartford, CT sounded at the funeral of President Tryder, Box 583, E. Hampstead, NH 03826 Robert J. Baker, Harry Cox, Joseph A. Fusca, Morris John F. Kennedy, complete with the 1400th, 1402nd, 1403rd AAFBU (European ATC-WWII) Wasserman Post Castle, (1985), 30, New DE firing of the rifle squad. Another re- Rosemarie Hills, S.R. Box 65, Palenville, NY 12463 (518) William T. Regan Clyde Jordan, Robert V. (1983), C. cording of "Taps" available from 678-5505 Handley, Marshall B. Steadham (1984), Post 154, "A" Co., 1906th AVN Engrs. (New Guinea, Leyte, Marathon, FL Gregory is the traditional Army Okinawa-WWII) William Spangler, 1730 Biddle Rd., Louis D. Miller (1984), Post 119, Fox River Grove, IL "Taps." Galion, OH 44833 (419) 468-4958 Clarence C. Brown, Ralph R. Hintz, Edward Vorpagel Copies of the recording are free, Class 22-42, AAF Trng. Detach. (Flint, MI-WWII) George (1985), Post 134, Morton Grove, IL Vangel, 164 Langdon Ave., Watertown, MA 02172-1403 Otto Ebert, Edward Seegers (1985), Post 414, Forest but donations are appreciated to de- (617) 923-9766 Park, IL fray the cost of materials, recording Liberal Army Airfield Phyliss Windle, Box 1626, Liberal, Richard C. Seyller (1985), Post 1191, Hooppole, IL and mailing. KS 67901 (316) 624-9425 George D. Pfeiffer (1985), Post 83, LaPorte, IN

OCTOBER 1985 39 POST OF THE MONTH

Post 457, Lone Tree, Iowa Stewardship Pays Dividends

AVENUE of 168 American school boy or girl who served as the of one man's considerable generosity. flags that salute deceased post's bugler for funerals. The post also Elmer Herring, a World War I vete- veterans of Johnson County, provides free sickroom equipment for ran and one-time member of the Legion ANIowa, stands as testimony to area residents. who spent his final years in a nursing the benevolence and good When Legionnaires heard that a young- home, was visited regularly by a Legion- stewardship that characterize ster suffering from brain tumors was naire. In Herring's will, he noted that John L. Mumm Post 457. going to Disneyland with his grand- he was impressed with the activities of The Lone Tree, Iowa, post father and wanted to meet the A-Team the Lone Tree post and its strong support received state recognition during the while in California, a post phone call for the community. He gave a $600,000 1985 Department Convention, walking arranged the visit, which resulted in au- trust fund to the post. off with the Community Service Trophy tographed photos of the child with Mr. "The trust fund has enabled us to do and the Commander's Award because T and Murdock and a poster of the cast things that we could not do otherwise, of its children and youth programs, com- to hang in the Legion's post home. Kruse said. He added that it is not al- munity service and general activities. After a storm destroyed flags belong- ways necessary to spend a lot of money. The broad spectrum of programs ing to the VFW post in a nearby town, Often the post's programs will cost less sponsored by the post include sending Lone Tree Legionnaires, who also lost than $100 but have far-reaching bene- eight boys to Boys State (and one girl flags in the storm, donated $232 to help fits. Among such low-budget programs to Girls State in 1985); awarding two the VFW buy replacement flags. are a drug abuse presentation by a teen- $500 scholarships to high school seniors; The post rents its home, one of the aged drug abuser, who discussed what presenting educational programs on largest buildings in the town of 1,014, drugs had done to his life, and a pro- Reyes Syndrome, teen-age suicide, for many social functions. On prom gram on teen-age suicide. drug abuse and missing children; and nights, the post home is provided free Some of the trust fund income was donating $2,492 in video equipment for of charge to encourage the junior and used to build the post home eight years the Johnson County Sheriffs Depart- senior classes to hold their proms locally ago. In addition, the post provides ment for use in child abuse cases. and without alcohol. money for the school to buy band instru- Each year the post donates $1,000 to Terry Kruse, post adjutant, enjoys ments, uniforms and sound equipment. the community-sponsored softball and talking about post projects and under- Funds also go to volunteer emergency baseball programs, and awards a $300 scores the point that much of what the units for training and equipment. scholarship at graduation to the high post does for the community is a result Post members sponsored "Ident-A- Kid" during which they fingerprinted more than 200 children so their prints will be available if a child is reported missing. Because of discussions with the sheriff's department during the fingerprinting sessions, the post donated video equipment that will be used to tape interviews with children and also will be used in other police work. Kruse said the post's membership, at the all-time-high level for seven years, is sustained because of the post's deep involvement in the community. The highly visible avenue of flags originated in 1964 with fewer than 30 flags, during a time when patriotism was low. The flags are flown each Memo- rial Day and July 4th. "The post is such an integral part of the community that even members of the town who are ineligible to join the Legion want to be associated with the post and help us with our projects," Kruse said. "We want to make the community as good a place as possible. To have volun- teers offering to help an organization IDENT-A-KID — Post Adjutant Richard Sexton, left, and Terry Kruse, right, fingerprint Danny Ronan. Personal information recorded with the help of Post 457 Legionnaires even though they can't be members could be used to identify or help locate missing children. speaks well for the organization."

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go bad .you're far the removal of corrupt officials has only led to the replacements becoming corrupt in their turn. The crackdown on corruption is not in trouble! itself an economic reform. To illegalize the black market in general would merely mean driving it further under- Now thanks to Coach "Cotton" Barlow, ground. Yet the emphasis at the moment is far more strongly on hard work and there's an answer! discipline than on fruitful changes. It includes yet another vast campaign Lightweight non-metal against alcohol. These measures have Custom form fitting pad construction allows full design prevents slipping range of motion and can never worked in the past. Moreover, and affords maximum be comfortably worn for mobility and comfort, hours.

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Glyde agreed with Kaufman and added a sweeping, new proposal—the Looks just like ordinary shoes except hidden initiation of a national industrial policy. inside is a height increasing innermold. Choose "The trend in the labor market in recent from a wide selection of Elevators, including dress shoes, boots and casuals. Satisfaction guaranteed. times has been to de-emphasize the role Exceptionally comfortable. Call or write today for Because of a factory over- of government planners and let the pri- your FREE color catalog so you can look 2" taller stock, we were able to ob- in almost no time. TOLL FREE 1-800-343-3810 vate sector fill the decision-making tain this inventory of car ELEVATORS® void. This is no way to obtain across-the- and motorcycle covers for Q Includes nylon carry- RICHLEE SHOE COMAPNY, DEPT. AL50 liquidation. case w/zip opening. board optimal results because the pri- P.O. Box 3566, Frederick, MD 21701 These tough, lightweight ALL SEASON covers vate sector has its own needs, its own wrap around your entire vehicle for maximum, priorities, and they may not coincide all-weather protection 1 They guard against with the needs of society as a whole. In rain, dust, snow, frost, air pollutants, tree sap. the past we have been so conditioned sun rays, etc. Covers made of rugged nylon MAN'S WIG*Qf taffeta. Acrylic coating resists moisture, rot, to evaluating economic undertakings in Stretch Wig Completely Covers ^fjr to pay mildew. Stretch ends provide snug, pull-tight a All Your Hair $ 50 terms of dollar costs that we have failed fit For daily "on/off" use, or long term storage 1 to consider social costs adequately. We Dimensions are for total car length, can no longer ignore them. The answer bumper to bumper. is an industrial policy that looks at SMALL: 150" to 165" people as well as dollars, at social values Mfr. List: *69.95 as well as economic values." Liquidation Price Now $25 Item H-685-61044-83 Glyde suggested the scope of what MEDIUM: 166" to 180" he has in mind by posing several ques- Stays in place on all size heads—easy to put on. Thinned Mfr. List: *79.95 and razor cut— handsome tapered look and lull sideburns. tions: "Should plant closings be regu- modacrylic fiber— looks Liquidation Price Now $27 Cool and lightweight. Made of like real hair— luster, rich body and bounce lated on a phased basis, striking a bal- Item H-685-61044-84 and feels has shampooed— never of human hair. Can be washed and ance between the needs of management LARGE: 181" to 192' loses its shape— can be combed, trimmed and restyled if you wish. Mention style number and color desired: Black, $ and of labor, instead of coming abruptly Mfr. List: 89.95 Off Black, Chestnut, Dark, Medium or Light Brown, Dark Blonde, Grey and Black mixed, Grey and Brown mixed. and denying workers time to assess Liquidation Price Now *30 Send $9.95 plus $1.95 for shipping and handling. Money Item H-685 61044-87 back guarantee if not satisfied. options and make choices to minimize X-LARGE: 211" to 235" FRANKLIN FASHIONS, Dept. M-601, the effect? What of the effect on the $ 103 E. Hawthorne Ave., Valley Stream, NY 11580 Mfr. List: 99.95 local community? Should a plant that is Liquidation Price Now *33 shutting down make a severance pay- Item H-685 61 044-85 ment to the community to support its MOTORCYCLE COVER social services to laid-off workers in the $ Mfr. List: (X-Lrg.) 39.95 $ 1 O same way that it gives severance pay to Liquidation Price Now HERNIA the employees themselves? These are Item H-685-61044-86 BRIEFS SSI Medicare Pays 80% Price subject to change after 60 days- Sales outside the kinds of points we should be raising BRAND NEW - No truss, belts or hard pads. Wash continental U S are subject to special conditions Please call or write to inquire. and wear. 88% cotton. Wear 24 hrs. Looks like and we have to set our best minds to regular underbrief. Operation not necessary. Write Credit card customers can order by phone. framing reasonable, equitable answers 24 hours a day. or call for free picture brochure in plain wrapper. within our basic value system." 7 days a week VISA Call Toll Free: 1-800-325-0007

{Orthopedic-Medical Mfg ) Conceding that the concept of a na- Toil-Free: H.P.H. CORP. 1-800-328-0609 Miami Dept 4G. 14120 SW 142 Ave. 33186 tional industrial policy is controversial, Your check is welcome! No delays in orders paid by check Glyde said, "I believe it is feasible, bene- ulti- C.O.M.B. CO.® Item H-685 ficial to society as a whole, and 14605 28th Ave N /Minneapolis, MN 55441-3397 mately will be in the best interest of Send Small car S25 ea. (Item H-685-61044-83). industry itself. After all, many major Send Med. car $27 ea. (Item H-685-61044-84). Turn Logs Into Send Large car S30 ea (Item H-685-61044-87). Lumber — And Cash trading and manufacturing nations Send X-Lrg. car $33 ea (Item H 685 61 044 85) Portable • Precise around the world operate under such Send X-Lrg cycle $13 ea. (Item H-685-61044-86) Accurately an industrial policy, bringing stability Add S3 50 shipping, handling for each cover (Minnesota residents add 6% sales tax. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery cuts a log to their labor forces without impinging Sorry, no CO D orders.) 30" dia. X 16' long

i or ! My check or money order is enclosed (No delays in pro- on profitability of their companies cessing orders paid by check, thanks to TeleCheck.) ability to penetrate foreign markets, in- Information send SI. 00 to: Charge MasterCard VISA That's why we se WOOD-MIZER. Dept F-14 portable bandsa* Acct No. Exp. 8180 W ioih Street cluding the American market. It is time mills than anyom PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY Indianapolis. IN 46224 Or Call (317) 271-1542 we took a leaf from their book." Name The proposal for a national industrial City . policy may be an idea whose time has FELLOW AMERICANS not come, but it is a concept that merits LEGIONNAIRES A PERFECT WAY FOR AMERICANS close scrutiny and evaluation. If one Sign here TO SHOW THEIR LOVE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND EACH OTHER WEAR thing is undeniably clear it is that what ON COLLAR, LAPEL OR AS TIE PIN. we have been doing until now has fallen C.O.M.B. CO. ONLY $1.00 EACH, PLUS 50t POST & HANDLING SEND CHECK OR M O ACTUAL SIZE million un- TO: National Novelties, Dept B short of the mark—8.5 Authorized Liquidator AMERICAN FLAG PIN P.O Box 14404 14605 28TH AVENUE NORTH Rochester, N Y. 14614 RICH COLORS employed Americans can attest to MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55441 -3397 that.

56 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE My name is Jill. I am all ages and every wife of every Legionnaire.

sum, resulting from a The next step. modest, annual investment Help him choose from Benefits by "our" Legionnaire. Chart, next page, the number of units, all affordable, which meet the The time to meet budget. Complete the enrollment "that day" is now. form and mail with check or money Not tomorrow, order for the premium amount. not next week, Our promise. now. Once he's accepted, and remains an American Legion member, pays the Very simply, here's how to annual premium, coverage wilt not gain comforting dollars. Our Verified claims decreasing term plan provides be cancelled. when "that day" comes will be promptly supplemental dollars. processed. Others. Sisters, More so than other Donna, Ellen, Fran, Kim. Jean, Joanna, Sally, Gen. Sharon, Alice, nieces, aunts . . . and plans, the only Mary, Lynn. Norma, too, of course. very special friends. officially approved Any designated beneficiary. DONNA, ELLEN, FRAN, KIM. American Legion Life JEAN, JOANNA, SALLY, GEN. SHARON, ALICE, MARY, LYNN. Insurance Plan offers And NORMA. much. More than No matter your name, others. one day ahead, each One unit, $24 per year, billed annually, pays up to $12,000, of us will probably depending on the age of your face the loss of Legionnaire. u our" Legionnaire. 12 units, up to $144,000 benefit dollars, only $288 per year, Exclusions. It's almost certain. depending on age. No benefit is payable for death as a

We live longer. result of war or act of war, if death Woman-to-woman talk. When Qualification is easy. occurs, while serving, or within six that day comes to each of us, our Your Legionnaire must be in good months after termination of service, need will be the same. Extra dollars standing, under age 70. Able, too, in the military, naval or air force of to meet what's immediately ahead. to meet the health requirements any country or combination of Dollars, promptly paid in one lump of the Plan's underwriter. countries.

$50 Million in Benefit Dollars, paid since 1958. Complete next page application, mail with premium. Now. —

THE ONLY AMERICAN Join the Officially LEGION ONLY Approved Plan. LIFE INSURANCE up to 12 Units. Benefit PLAN Get 20% Bonus.

APPLY TODAY Select the num- BENEFITS—Yearly Renewable Reducing Term Insurance (Policy Form GPC-5700-781) ber of units from the chart at Benefits determined by age at death and include 20% SPECIAL INCREASE for deaths right, fill out the application be- occurring during 1985. Maximum coverage limited to 12 units. low and enclose your check or 12 Units 11 Units 10 Units 8 Units 6 Units 5 Units 4 Units 3 Units 2 Units 1 Unit Age at Death money order for the prorated $288 per yr. $264 per yr. $240 per yr. $192 per yr $144 per yr. S120 per.yr. $96 per yr. $72 per yr. $48 per yr. $24 per yr. premium indicated to provide Through age 29 $144,000 $132,000 $120,000 $96,000 $72,000 $60,000 $48,000 $36,000 $24,000 $12,000 coverage for the rest of the cal- 30-34 115,200 105,600 96,000 76,800 57,600 48,000 38,400 28,800 19,200 9,600 endar year. 35-44 64,800 59,400 54,000 43,200 32,400 27,000 21,600 16,200 10,800 5,400 45-54 31,680 29,040 26,400 21,120 15,840 13,200 10,560 7,920 5,280 2,640 IF YOU LIVE IN FL, IL, NJ, NY, 55-59 17,280 15,840 14,400 11,520 8,640 7,200 5,760 4,320 2,880 1,440 NC, OH, PR, TX, or Wl send for 60-64 11,520 10,560 9.600 7,680 5,760 4,800 3,840 2,880 1,920 960 special application. Applications 65-69 7,200 6,600 6,000 4,800 3,600 3,000 2,400 1,800 1,200 600 and benefits vary slightly in 70-74* 4,752 4,356 3,960 3,168 2,376 1,980 1,584 1,188 792 396 some areas. Make check or 75*-0ver 3,600 3,300 3,000 2,400 1,800 1,500 1,200 900 600 300 money order payable to: The American Legion Life Insurance Prorated Premiumf $48 $44 $40 $32 $24 $20 $16 $12 $8 $4 Plan. *No persons age 70 or over (including those desiring additional coverage) will be accepted for new insurance. 9 and 7 units also available. Please write for details. tPRORATED PREMIUM TO SEND WITH YOUR APPLICATION. The INCONTESTABILITY Your coverage shall be incontestable after it has premiums shown above are for the balance of 1985 for approved been in force during your lifetime for two years from its effective date. applications effective Nov. 1, 1985. Premiums for applications effective Dec. 1 or later are proportionately less, by $2 PER UNIT MAIL TO: The American Legion Life Insurance Plan PER MONTH, and any overpayments will be refunded. Premiums P.O. Box 5609 • Chicago, IL 60680 accompanying non-approved applications will be refunded in full.

effective EFFECTIVE DATE Your insurance becomes on the first day of Plan insured by Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company. the month coinciding with or next following the date your application is received, subject to Insurance Company's approval. Insurance Application Subject to Underwriter's Approval may be maintained in force by payment of premiums when due.

ENROLLMENT CARD FOR YEARLY RENEWABLE TERM NOTICE OF DISCLOSURE LIFE INSURANCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION OF INFORMATION

Information regarding your in- Full Name. .Birth Date. surability will be treated as con- Last Flrst Middle Mo. Day Year fidential except that Trans- america Occidental Life In- Permanent Residence. surance Co. may make a brief Street City State Zip report to the Medical Informa- -Relationship. tion Bureau (M.I.B.) a non-profit Name of Beneficiary. Example: Print "Helen Louise Jones." Not "Mrs. H. L. Jones" membership organization of life insurance companies which Membership Card No Year Post No State- operates an information ex- change on behalf of its I apply for the number of units indicated: £ members. Upon request by another member insurance The following representations shall form a basis for the Insurance Company's approval or rejection of this enrollment: all questions. company to which you have ap- Answer actively working? plied for life or health insurance, 1. Present occupation? , Are you now or to which a claim is submit- , Yes No If no, give reason. , , ted, the M.I.B. will supply such 2. Have you been confined in a hospital within the last year? No Yes If yes, give date, company with the information it length of stay and cause. may have in its files. 3. During the last five years, have you had heart disease, circulatory disease, kidney disease, liver disease, The Company may also release lung disease, diabetes, or cancer, or have you had or received treatment or medication for high blood information in its file to its rein pressure or alcoholism? No Yes If yes, give details surers and to other life in- surance companies to which all and recorded on this enrollment card are true you may apply for life or health I represent that to the best of my knowledge, statements answers it and complete. I agree that this enrollment card shall be a part of any insurance granted upon under the policy. insurance, or to which a claim to I authorize any physician or other person who has attended or examined me, or who may attend or examine me, is submitted. disclose or to testify to any knowledge thus acquired. Upon receipt of a request from Signature of you, the M.I.B. will arrange dis- Dated , 19 Applicant American Legion offers this Insurance through Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company, closure of any information it The Home Office: Los Angeles, California may have in your file. Medical GMA300 19 12 79 (Univ.) 5085 information will only be dis- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION closed to your attending physi-

left. Further, I authorize any cian. If you question the ac- I have received and read the Notice of Disclosure of Information at curacy of information in the physician, medical practitioner, hospital, clinic, or other medical or medically related facility, in- Bureau's file you may seek cor- surance company, the Medical Information Bureau or other organization, institution or person rection in accordance with the having any records or knowledge of me or of my health to give Transamerica Occidental Life In- procedures set forth in the Fed- surance Company any such information. eral Fair Credit Reporting Act. A photographic copy of this authorization shall be as valid as the original. The address of the Bureau's in-

. formation office is P.O. Box 105, Dated , 19 Signature of Applicant .

Essex Station, Boston, Mass. I apply for additional Legion Life Insurance. My present certificate number is — 02112; Phone (617) 426-3660. —

ORBEN'S WORLD Don't Buy a BIGTILLER., For a Small Job! Halloween parties this year are going to offer the biggest challenge ever. You will fill a tub with the new TV shows and bob for the good ones.

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back it better. A Lifetime Warranty on I'm what you might call an indoors kind the tines. A Lifetime Replacement agreement on engine. of person. The way I see it — I love the Mother Nature. I just don't want to Compare These Features: move in with her. • Easily weeds an average garden in 20 minutes • Women love Mantis And now it comes: October! Novemberr! • Turns on a dime, starts with the Decemberrrrr! flick of a wrist • A 3-Week IN-YOUR-GARDEN TRIAL

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By Drs. Roy Patterson and Mark S. Dykewicz

STHMA, a disease known to ancient Greek physi- cians, today affects more than 9 million Americans, and in one recent year cost A the United States an esti- mated $2.4 billion in medi- cation, hospitalization and lost wages. It is one of the most com- For some, getting rid of the dog or cat mon causes of absenteeism among school children, and in the United States is can help. For others, it's a regimen of allergy responsible for the death of several thousand persons annually. shots and medication. But new knowledge However, in recent years, substantial about this old disease is providing fuller, progress has been made in understand- ing and treating this ancient malady. more normal lives for asthma sufferers. Asthma is a disease of the lungs that causes narrowing of the airway, inflama- tion of the airway walls and production of mucous. As a result, the asthmatic patient becomes short of breath, wheezes and coughs. Both allergic and one to develop asthma, although emo- sion of their disease, although asthma non-allergic factors can contribute to tions may make uncontrolled asthma often tends to be a chronic disease that the lung changes and symptoms associ- worse. persists for much of a person's life. ated with asthma. Pollen, cats, dogs, How do you deal with this disease for While it has long been known that mold and house dust are the most com- which there's no known cure? people with family histories of asthma mon allergic factors, but a growing An allergist through an evaluation may be more likely to develop the dis- number of substances found in the work- attempts to identify which factors are ease, people can become asthmatic even place also are being recognized as con- involved in a person's asthma, because if none of their relatives has the disease. tributors to asthma. avoiding known allergic factors may re- Asthma treatments include avoiding These occupational substances, which duce or even eliminate the need for allergic factors, receiving immuno- can cause or worsen asthmatic prob- other therapy. For example, removal of therapy (allergy shots), and taking lems through non-allergic or irritant a cat or a dog from a home, or reduction medication. As mentioned earlier, avoid- mechanisms, include viral respiratory of house dust, may benefit someone ing known allergic factors should be infections, cold air, exercise and irri- allergic to those items. However, many done whenever possible. Selected pa- tants such as smoking, perfume, hair asthmatics do not have allergic factors tients with allergic asthma are given im- spray, paint and cleaning solutions. involved in their disease. Unfortu- munotherapy injections to fight pollen, Aspirin and related anti-inflamatory nately, some patients do not understand mold and house dust, and to reduce the medication also may aggravate condi- or accept this; therefore, they waste need for medication. However, such in- tions in a small number of asthmatics. time and money searching for non- jections do not benefit someone with Psychological factors do not cause some- existent allergies even after allergies non-allergic asthma. have been excluded by a thorough evalua- Medications are effective in control- Dr. Roy Patterson is professor and tion. ling asthma, although they do not cure chairman of the Department of People are often surprised to learn the disease. Several types of asthma Medicine and chiefofallergy-immunol- that asthma can develop at any age, medication exist, but physicians must ogy at Northwestern University. Dr. even in the elderly. Asthmatic children consider many factors when selecting Mark S. Dykewicz is chiefallergyfellow may have a spontaneous remission of the most appropriate for patients. In and instructor of medicine at North- their asthma, generally during puberty. mild cases, occasional use of only one western University. Occasionally, adults also will have remis- medication may be sufficient. In more

62 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE difficult cases, continuous use of several not without danger, and should be used types of medication may be required. under the care of a physician. When several classes of medication are Research sponsored by the National used together, their beneficial effects ^everal types of Institutes of Health, the Asthma and often are strengthened. Allergy Foundation of America and Theophylline-type medications (in- asthma medi- other organizations, has resulted in sig- are among the nificant advances in our understanding cluding aminophylline) cation exist, but most commonly used asthma medica- of asthma. Substantial progress has tions. Available in short-acting and physicians must con- been made in the discovery of a number timed-release forms that can be taken of mediator substances that are thought orally, these medications help prevent sider many factors to cause the airway changes found in and open up constricted airways in the asthmatics. Numerous research studies lungs. when selecting the are under way to develop and evaluate Albuterol, metaproterenol, terbuta- most appropri- new asthma medications. These include line and similar medications are related drugs that would block the production to epinephrine and are available as in- ate for patients.W or adverse effects of the mediator sub- halers, pills and liquid preparations. stances. New medications may eventu- These medications also open up air- abused by some athletes). The steroid ally lead to better control of asthma, ways, although they do so in a different medications are the most potent of all but testing such drugs for safety and pharmacologic way than theophylline asthma medications and may be life sav- effectiveness takes years of study. medications. Patients must be careful ing. Although side effects may rarely With current advances in our under- to use inhalers of this class only as di- occur with their long-term and high- standing and treatment of asthma, asth- rected, as overuse can be dangerous. dose use, the risk for this is now de- matics today should be able to enjoy Cromolyn is a powdered medication creased, thanks to improved under- normal activities and lead full, produc- taken by a special inhaler. Although it standing of proper dosage techniques. tive lives. Developments from research can aggravate uncontrolled asthma in These include giving the medications under way may make the future even some people, it can be an effective pre- only every other morning if possible. brighter for people who suffer from this ventive medicine for others. In the past decade, steroid inhalers ancient disease. When the above medications are not (beclomethasone, funisolide) have been effective or cannot be used in a patient, introduced that can reduce or eliminate THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GENERAL MEDICAL INFOR- cortisone-like steroid medications, such the need for systemic steroids that MATION AND ADVICE. ALTHOUGH THE INFORMATION as prednisone, must be used. (These are otherwise would be required. These in- IS BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE, YOU SHOULD CON- SULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FOR MEDICAL ADVICE CON- not the anabolic steroids that have been halers have fewer side effects, but are CERNING YOUR PARTICULAR CONDITION. .

PARTING SHOTS

Nostalgia

Would it be asking too much to have a movie that could be labeled "E" for entertaining? —Shelley Bassett

Taking the Cure

The thing about kleptomania is, if you've got it, you can always take some-

thing for it. —Fred Butler

Color Coding A driving instructor said to his stu- dents: "Go on green, stop on red, and take it easy when I turn white." —Edwin Goliath

Definition: After-dinner mint: What you need when the waiter brings the check. —Henry E. Leabo

The Next Super Salesman

Don't worry if your child gets excited over nothing. He may grow up to act in TV commercials. —Sam Curley "I'd like a refund on this dog whistle, he won't even put it in his mouth, let alone blow it." Next Stop: KP At lunch, the headmaster was shocked Neither Rain, Nor Snow . . Question of Birth A to see one of his junior cadets wipe his It had rained all night. By game time, One executive to colleague: "Well, no, fork on the tablecloth. a light snow was falling. The gridiron I wouldn't say he's conceited, but he's "Do you do that at home?" he asked was a quagmire as the captains of the absolutely convinced that if he hadn't sharply. two ancient rivals met for the coin toss. been born, people would want to know "No sir," the boy said. "At home we Upon completion of the coin toss, the why." have clean forks." winner was asked, "Which end do you —Tom Baily —Kenneth E. Hall wish to start from?" Looking down at the condition of the Trail field, the captain replied, "We'll kick Your Bread Crumbs with the tide." A mother was talking to her small —George E. Bergman son who was about to venture into a crowd on his own: "Remember, if you get lost, come right back here!" Russian Dilemma —Jay Norris

Then there was the little Russian girl who came home from school and asked, "Mother, do you think God knows that Flirting with Time we don't believe in Him?" "It's two o'clock in the morning!" the — Terri Schaeffer angry father bellowed to the teen-ager keeping company with his daughter. "Do you think you can stay here all Sorry, No Toasters night?" Sign in a doctor's office: "Open a "Gee, I don't know," the youth re- NOW Account—Pay before leaving." plied. "I'll have to call home and ask." "See what I mean? We don't have to go —George Winger —Oliver E. Frazier to your sister's to have fun."

64 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE $5babies

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These are the same famous KOMFY KID DOLLS nationally advertised in These Famous Nationally Advertised KOMFY leading media. They have the authentic "huggable- KID DOLLS will not be sold at this price by the soft" muslin bodies, wipe-clean faces and hands, company in any store. To obtain one at this and fluffy-thick yarn hair. Irresistibly lovable and special publicity price, mail this original publicity "komfy", each doll comes complete with its own ad to the company before midnight, December personal Birth Registry Certificate. 25, 1985.

These dolls stand over a foot tall. They are big, Each doll is covered by the company's full one- lovable, "komfy" dolls —actual put-your-arms- year money-back guarantee. There is a limit of around sized "pals" that children can really make two (2) dolls per address at this price, but if your friends with. Each one is fully dres- request is made early enough sed in a colorful play outfit (com- (before Dec. 19) you may request pletely machine washable). The up to seven. boy wears a handsome pair of overalls and a jolly plaid shirt; the To obtain your authentic KOMFY girl wears a cute "flower" pinafore KID DOLL, mail your name and and sun dress. (For extra fun, you address and $5 for each doll. Add can dress them in your little "hand- $2 shipping and handling per doll. me-downs", too.) (New York residents add sales tax.) Mail promptly and we guarantee Every child in America would earliest shipment for holiday sea- probably love to own an authentic son. Specify boy (A28421) or girl

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