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MELTDOWN OFTHE MELTING POT Decision at the border: Who can stay, who mustgo? By Charles Phillips 22 FORMULA FOR SUCCESS U.S. industry's struggle to make the customerking again. By Steve Salerno 24 BATTLE REPORT: HEARTBREAK RIDGE Inch by inch theyfought and diedfor a hillAmerica will neverforget. By Vernon Pizer 26 GLASNOST: THE WAITING GAME

When the Soviets played this game before, it was called detente. By Brian Crozier 28 HOME AWAY FROM HOME For48years and three wars, the USO has entertained U.S. troops on land and sea. By Philip C. Clarke 30 THE WOUNDS OFWAR Partfour ofthe Legion/'Columbia University Study examines the wounds the world ignores. 34 STRIKE UP THE BAND Some ofAmerica's best music isfound in the Legion. 36 SPRING NEC MEETING REPORT VAunderbudgeting imperils veterans' health-care system, warns Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke. 38

$1 BILLION FORECLOSURE? Bankruptcy threatens the VA home-loan program. 40 DEP ARTMENTS

BIG ISSUES Should The 1978 Panama Canal Treaties Be Repealed? 10

LETTERS 4 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 14 LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION 44 COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 VETERANS UPDATE 32 VETERANS ALERT 46

DATELINE 8 LEGION NEWS 42 PARTING SHOTS 60

COVER . . . "these dead shall not have died in vain.

The American Legion Magazine, a leader among national general-interest publications, is published monthly by The American Legion for its 2.9 million members. These military-service veterans, working through 16,000 community-level posts, dedicate themselves to God and country and traditional Amer- ican values; strong national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows and orphans; community service; and the wholesome development of our nation's youths.

AUGUST 1989 1 The Greatest Marches Ever Recorded! TIKI! ^(Ml^O^IRfl ARTHUR FIEDLER ARTHUR FIEDLER Conducting THE POPS The Boston ThcW»rlds Greatest Marches Pops Orchestra mm FOR GOD AND COUNTRY It has been said that march music is the most uplifting and inspirational music ever written. And when you hear this trium- Editorial Offices phant album by Arthur Fiedler and the won- 4PI 700 N. Pennsylvania St. derful Boston Pops, you will wholeheartedly P.O. Box 1055 agree. From the moment Arthur Fiedler lifts his Indianapolis, IN 46206 baton until the final glorious crescendo of brass and per- 317-635-8411 cussion you just know you are listening to the most joyous collection of music You Get All 22 Marches you have ever heard. On Record or Tape! H.R "Sparky" Gierke Hear the trumpet fanfares . . . woodwind flourishes . . . rousing THE STARS AND STRIPES National Commander trombones . . . and heart-pounding percussion of the mighty Boston FOREVER Pops Orchestra as they perform the great themes to Sousa's THE STARS SEMPER FIDELIS Daniel S. Wheeler AND STRIPES FOREVER. . . Elgar's POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE . . . WASHINGTON POST MARCH Publisher/Editor-in-Chief COLONEL BOGEY MARCH from "The Bridge on the River Kwai" . . .

. . H. POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCH OF THE TOREADORS from "Carmen" . Victor Herbert's Raymond Mahon Editor MARCH OF THE TOYS MARCH OF THE TOYS from "Babes in Toyland" ... 22 of the world's most Managing ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS famous, best-loved marches all in one magnificent stereo collector's album. Joe Stuteville MARCH OF THE TOREADORS Turn up the volume and listen to the glorious barrage of trumpets. March Associate Editor with the wooden soldiers into battle, celebrate our national heritage and lift YANKEE DOODLE T. Douglas Donaldson up your spirits as you hear the cymbals clash in a final uproar of musical jubila- AMERICAN PATROL MARCH Assistant Editor tion. Only Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra in this exclusive new DIXIE Good Music Record Co. collection can give you such rare listening pleasure. Simon Smith STRIKE UP THE BAND Art Director Plus A FREE GIFT . . . for within days. | yours sending us your order 30 THE THUNDERER MARCH | , NO-RISK COUPON William L. Poff HIGH SCHOOL CADETS Production Manager COLUMBIA THE GEM OF THE f THE GOOD MUSIC RECORD CO., Dept. AF-01-89 ^ 1 352 Evelyn Street, RO. Box 909, Paramus, NJ 07653-0909 OCEAN Advertising Director NATIONAL EMBLEM MARCH I YES, please rush THE GREATEST MARCHES OF THE WORLD TREASURY i for me to preview for 30 days without obligation. I understand that I may return Donald B. Thomson THE YELLOW ROSE OF the album for any reason whatsoever and receive a full refund. The American Legion Magazine BOSTON COMMANDERY MARCH P.O. Box 7068 I Make check or money order payable to Good Music Record Co (NY & NJ res add sales tax.) SEVENTY-SIX TROMBONES Send Record Album. Send Cassette Tape. Indianapolis, IN 46207 317-635-8411 EL CAPITAN MARCH $9.98 $9.98 ST. LOUIS BLUES - MARCH (Enclose $1.50 for mailing and handling per item.) Publisher's Representatives WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK Name Fox Associates, Inc. BOGEY MARCH Chicago: 312-644-3888 COLONEL Address York: 212-725-2106 NOT AVAILABLE IN STORES New MAIL COUPON TODAY ity _ . State . . Zip . Los Angeles: 213-487-5630 -J Detroit, Ml: 313-543-0068 Atlanta: 404-252-0968 San Francisco: 415-989-5804 His Best-Loved Hit Recordings! London: 01-385 8812

jj/dif Jhehin The American Legion Magazine Commission EDDY Milford A. Forrester, Chairman, Greenville, SC; J.H. Morris, Vice Chairman, Baton Rouge, LA; James R. Kelley, National Commander's Rep- jr resentative, Wayne, PA; George F. Ballard, DUCHIN Belleville, IL; J. Leslie Brown Jr., Louisville, KY; Joseph Chase, Hatboro, PA; Richard J. Cherry, One Of The Piano Legends Toledo, OH; Donald Conn, South Bend, IN; James W. Conway, Charlestown, MA; Lincoln From a time when life was slower, and the songs were more roman- Cox, Kirby, WV; Orval E. Faubus, Conway, AR; tic, come the vintage recordings of the great Eddy Duchin. Who can- Halbert G. Horton, Topeka, KS; W.B. (Brad) 24 Unforgettable Hits not remember with pleasure the charming simplicity of Alice Blue Jorgens, Beardsly, MN; Eugene J. Kelley, or the hummable, singable melodies such as Smiles, Shine Savannah, GA; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, LOVELY TO LOOK AT Gown, On Harvest Moon, or the lilting strains of Pretty Baby and Lovely IA; Larry G. Lewis, Bensenville, IL; Nathaniel SMILES To Look At. J. McKee, Princeton, NJ; J. Fred Mitchell, Brewton, AL; Everett G. Shepard, III, MY BLUE HEAVEN Here in this truly marvelous collection, the sound of Eddy Duchin Woodstock, CT; George G. Sinopoli, Fresno, SHINE ON HARVEST MOON brings back as only music can do, the special memories that everyone CA; James R. Wood, Bartlesville, OK; Paul T. treasures. The eighteen nostalgic melodies which he performs here are SOMEBODY LOVES ME Woodard, Lacey, WA; Neal L. Thomas Jr., Con- written. Sit back, relax ALICE BLUE GOWN some of the most beautiful "evergreens" ever sultant, Colorado Springs, CO. and put your feet up while Eddy Duchin plays you through the years. APRIL SHOWERS Limited Edition Recording Copyright 1989 by The American Legion I'M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES This collection is one of our Limited Edition Series, and we urge you Price: Annual subscription, $12; Post- THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT to take advantage of this offer TODAY If you do not agree that this is sponsored gift subscriptions, $4; Single copy, IT HAD TO BE YOU one of the most delightful record collections you have ever owned, simply $2. To subscribe, send $12 ($18 in foreign while this edi- PRETTY BABY return it to us for a full and complete refund. Order now countries) to Membership Processing Dept., tion is still available. P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. TILL WE MEET AGAIN Change of Address: Notify The American THREE O'CLOCK IN THE Plus A FREE GIFT . . . yours for sending us your order within 30 days! MORNING Legion, Membership Processing, Dept., P.O. NOT IN STORES MAIL COUPON TODAY Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Attach old I KISS YOUR HAND, MADAME NO-RISK COUPON v address label, provide old and new addresses CHOPIN NOCTURNE (HIS THEME) card number. Allow 8 [ THE GOOD MUSIC RECORD CO., Dept. ED-01-89 ) and current membership YOU'RE MY EVRYTHING 352 Evelyn Street, RO. Box 909, Paramus, NJ 07653-0909 weeks for change of address to take effect. Also , notify your local post adjutant directly at local I YES, please rush THE GREAT EDDY DUCHIN on your unconditional WHY DO LOVE YOU I money-back guarantee. Make check or money order payable to Good post's address. WHEN DAY IS DONE I Music Record Co. (NY & NJ res. add sales tax.) microfilm copies, please write to: IF I COULD BE WITH YOU To request 1 Send Record Album. Send Cassette Tape. University Microfilms, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann SOMETIMES I'M HAPPY Arbor, Ml 48106 I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Enclose $1 50 for mailing and handling per item.) ROSALIE Name _ Member Audit Bureau of Circulations TIME ON MY HANDS Address WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED

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Congress shall make no law respecting slope" whereupon our freedom of an establishment of religion, or prohibiting speech would surely slide away if cur- the free exercise thereof; or abridging the tailed in any manner. There are some freedom of speech, or of the press; or the who feel that this case proves that our right of the people peaceably to assemble flag is a political icon and nothing and to petition the Government for a more.

redress ofgrievances. That's how some people feel. I feel

—First Amendment angry, disgusted and sick. It is difficult to speak about what has happened, yet

VBHHH HEN our Founding it is impossible to be silent. I 1 Fathers wrote the First What has happened to our nation?

H I - I H Amendment to the Why are we now debating the political

H I I I fl Constitution, they and intellectual ramifications of the III H made clear certain decision? Why are we patiently listen- * B 1 WL basic freedoms to be ing to this nonsense about how it J H I fl| extended to all citi- enriches our American heritage? I 3 HM zens. Eloquent in its Why do we feel no joy over this great nnl simplicity, this first constitutional victory? article of our Bill of Rights sets forth Fll tell you why. We're dumbfounded.

certain "unalienable rights" never We know in our gut that this is wrong. before guaranteed to a nation's people. Surely, neither our Founding Fathers, Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke Surely when they had finished writing, nor our Congressmen, nor anyone in the authors looked upon their work with the history of our republic ever a certain sense of pride, for even the Why do we intended that anybody should be most common of people would have no allowed to burn the very flag that has difficulty understanding their rights. feel nojoy been draped on the caskets of those who

As I now re-read this basic statement died to preserve all that it represents. over this great of human dignity and ponder the body Let the whole world intellectualize

of law that has sprung up around it, I constitutional it, and it won't change a thing. Let the

ask myself how, in the name of all that whole world politicize it, and it won't victory?' our nation stands for, could our highest change a thing. This is neither a liberal court interpret these words to mean that issue nor a conservative issue. Our flag it's okay to burn our flag in protest? is neither a Republican flag nor a On June 21, Gregory Lee Johnson had burned and spat upon, and sought Democratic flag. Old Glory doesn't

carved out his own tawdry place in his- protection under the law it symbolizes. subscribe to any creed but the Amer- tory by challenging our right to protect Eventually the Supreme Court heard ican creed. from desecration the one symbol of our the case and ruled that desecration of Some take curious comfort in their nation that has stood tall through shot the flag as a form of political expression belief that the court's decision is merely and shell, and been purchased with the was permissible under the freedom of an admission of reality. They point to blood of patriots. Outside of an arena in speech clause of the First Amendment. the "gross commercialization" of the

Dallas where the Republican National There are some who feel that the high flag as it hails from the roof of the Convention was being held in 1984, court's split decision merely reinforces corner filling station or grocery store. Johnson burned the United States flag the strength of our laws, in that we can Rubbish.

while he and fellow demonstrators tolerate the most repugnant of acts and It flies as a celebration of our free chanted, "America, the red, white and extend First Amendment protection to enterprise system that affords all men blue, we spit on you!" those who exploit the very laws that and women the opportunity to pursue Then, when the state of Texas prose- shield them. There are some who feel their own private dreams as far as their cuted him for flag desecration, he that Johnson's victory is a victory for us talents and skills will take them.

wrapped himself up in the same flag he all because it keeps us off that "slippery Please turn to page 54

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Deceptive Mailing "This development could bring about a change in sea war- fare and not one to our benefit," Aspin said, in releasing a Some direct response firms are camouflaging their sales report by a committee of specialists. The report pitches by using an envelope that bears a title, logo or called for the U.S. Navy to establish programs for coping insignia similar to those of U.S. government agencies. with the new development. Congress has had limited success in trying to ban or curb this form of misleading advertising, but a new proposal to muzzle the deceptive practice has been introduced by Rep. Faster Warnings Olympia J. Snowe of . 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Many of the non-accredited colleges award degrees to stu- dents mainly based on work and life experiences. Students Hope Afloat? can often obtain a bachelor's degree for about $1 ,800 and a Congress wants the Navy to name a ship after comedian doctorate for about $2,000. Bob Hope. That request was contained in the 1989 Depart- ment of Defense Authorization Bill in which lawmakers said None For The Road Hope "expressed extraordinary patriotism and character for more than 50 years in peacetime and in three wars. Revoking licenses is the most effective method to deter "Disregarding his own safety and convenience, he has drunk drivers, according to the National Transportation journey to all regions of the world ... to ships at sea and to Safety Board (NTSB). combat zones ashore solely and selflessly to be with soldiers, Quoting recent studies to support its claim, the board has ." sailors. 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SHOULD THE 1978 PANAMA CANAL TREATIES BE REPEALED?

Rep. Gerald B. Solomon, R-New York Rep. Bill Richardson, D-New Mexico

When one party violates Panamanian strongman the terms of an agree- Gen. Manuel Antonio ment, the agreement is YES NO Noriega, through fraud and ended. It's time for us to stop our one- brutal intimidation, stole the Panama- sided compliance with the Panama Canal nian election. The sordid events of last Treaties and to declare them null and May, culminating in the bludgeoning of void. vice presidential candidate Guillermo There is no way the United States can Ford, have led many to believe that the turn over control of the hemisphere's United States should abrogate the most important waterway to the hemisphere's most brutal Panama Canal Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978. thug and convicted drug runner, Gen. Manuel Antonio While the situation in Panama calls for strong action on Noriega. behalf of the United States, abrogation of the treaties would Former President Jimmy Carter signed the treaties with do little to advance democracy and U.S. interests in that the late Gen. Omar Torrijos, who wasn't the president of embattled nation. Panama. The treaties rest on the understanding that the Proponents and critics of abrogation agree that U.S. policy Panamanian government would be both friendly and legiti- toward Panama should have specific goals: the removal of

mate. It has been neither. Noriega as head of the Panamanian Defense Forces; reform

The Pentagon reported 680 incidents of harassment of the PDF, including removing it from the Panamanian against Americans, ranging from rape to stopping school political process; and support of a legitimately elected buses, and more than 1,000 treaty violations by Noriega's government. These goals support a democratically elected henchmen have been reported since February 1988. Noriega government which can return political stability and also thumbed his nose at us and the rest of the Free World by economic growth to Panama. Abrogation of the treaties, stealing the Panamanian election last spring. Under interna- however, would severely hamper our ability to pursue these tional law, the treaties are no longer worth the paper they're goals. written on and should be abrogated. It's that simple. The United States is in the unique position of enjoying Unless Noriega is ousted and replaced by a legitimate support for its objectives both within Panama and throughout government and Panamanian forces stop terrorizing and the hemisphere. In May, the Organization of American harassing American citizens, including women and children, States met to discuss the Panamanian situation. With the the United States should nullify the treaties and keep the exception of Nicaragua, every nation voted in favor of a canal. resolution condemning Noriega's actions. This support will

Because America is a naval power and leader of the Free make U.S. actions more effective. Abrogation of the treaties, World, the Panama Canal is as important to us now as when however, would undoubtedly jeopardize this support and

we built it. In fact, it's probably even more important. bolster Noriega's position within Panama, where Noriega's When America entered World War II, German U-boat nationalistic and anti-American attacks are likely to gain activity shifted instantly from the North Atlantic to the credibility. In the eyes of the hemisphere, abrogation would Caribbean basin. Then that waterway was vital to America's transform Noriega from a drug-running thug to a legitimate

defenses and commerce, and it is even more important today national leader who is protecting Panama's interests. Sup- because America could be called upon quickly to defend port of the United States would erode quickly. leaving us

Europe. America must preserve its ability to transport arms with few options to pursue. and other materials through the canal. President Bush's measured response— removing U.S. depen- More than 10 years ago, Ronald Reagan reminded us that dents and sending troop reinforcements— signaled that the the Panama Canal belongs United States was serious in

to us. We paid for it. We its demands on Noriega with- YOUR OPINION COUNTS, TOO built it. We shouldn't forfeit out jeopardizing our objec- Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- it unless we get ironclad tives there. Abrogation would points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), guarantees by a legitimate, undermine U.S. support in U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), democratic Panamanian the region and severely limit U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. government. our diplomatic options.

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held by the British. As the sun ByAlanR.Walden began to rise on the morning of Sept. 14, Key saw the 15 "broad the late summer stripes and bright stars" of the of 1814, the free- tattered, torn and singed, giant

dom and indepen- battle flag. It was all the inspira- dence so dearly tion Key needed to write the nNwon less than 32 words of the "Star-Spangled Ban- years earlier was ner" we all know so well. already in peril. Then, as suddenly as it had Driven to drastic begun, the battle was over. The action by the British army fell back from Balti- impressment of U.S. sailors on more to re-embark, and the the high seas, the sporadic inter- British fleet departed. ruption of commerce and urgings Today, Americans share the of those in Congress called the thrill of this great victory by vis- "War Hawks," the United States iting Ft. McHenry, however, the declared war on . years have taken a toll on the At first, all went well. Isaac once-mighty fortress. The walls Hull in the Constitution and that stood against the British, Thomas Truxton in the Constella- housed Confederate prisoners tion roamed the Atlantic and STILL WAVING - Francis Scott Key watches the and provided comfort to the bested the whenever British bombardment of Ft. McHenry from the deck wounded of World War I are hon- and wherever they met. The of a British ship. The sight inspired him to write the eycombed with decay. The gun sleek, swift, rakish words to our National Anthem. emplacements are in dire need of clippers compounded England's work, and many artifacts must be misery with lightening raids on found and exhibits replaced. British shipping, often within sight of On Sept. 12, 1814, the British Through the efforts of the volunteer England. On Lake Erie, Oliver Hazard landed at North Point and began their group called Patriots of Ft. McHenry, Perry won a stunning victory for con- march toward Baltimore. Around mid- the fort's 175th anniversary will be trol of the Great Lakes. night on Sept. 13, another British force celebrated with a variety of events, However, an ill-advised foray into attempted to overwhelm Commodore most of them held during the week of and the burning of York (now John Rogers' forces who were guarding Sept. 9-16. Included in the events are Toronto) brought swift and almost fatal the city's east side. parades of tall ships, an essay contest retribution. The British aimed a mas- All night the British fleet hammered for school children, and the staging of sive assault at the Middle Atlantic Ft. McHenry with gun, rocket and an original musical drama. coast. The British army that had routed mortar fire. For 25 hours the bombard- Only through the generosity of the Napoleon brushed aside the ragtag ment continued. The British knew that American people will this historic militia at Bladensburg, burned Wash- unless Ft. McHenry was taken, the national shrine be preserved. Ft. Mc- ington, D.C. , and then turned northeast invasion would fail and the war would Henry was a cornerstone of America's toward Baltimore. Offshore, a mighty be over. fight for freedom and liberty, and your British fleet moved slowly up the Ches- Maj. George Armistead, the garrison contributions will ensure that genera- apeake Bay to join the army. commander, estimated that no fewer tions understand the price of our unique

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naming The American Delegatefrom : I say call it "The Legion, the founders did American Legion. " We will soon show

not merely stumble across them wliat it means

that name, nor was it the After several minutes of spirited nNoffspring of a brainstorm debate, the name won favor with the session behind closed majority of delegates and was accepted.

doors. In fact, acceptance But it wasn't only the name of the of the name was far from organization that met with controversy. immediate and less than By the time the founders gathered at unanimous when the organization the St. Louis Caucus, several units of tasked a group to provide a list of the Legion had been formed throughout recommendations. the nation, with new ones gaining tem- "The name of our organization was porary charters each day. The units selected with great deliberation and referred to themselves as Posts; how- forethought," said Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. ever, the committee on the Legion con- "Sparky" Gierke. "Founders wanted a stitution and bylaws wanted to call the name that members would carry with local units "Billets." Some delegates pride, a name that would easily identify vehemently protested the term. their common ideals and the organi- Delegate from New Jersey: My objec-

zation's principles to the American tion to the word "billet" is that it is not a public." dignified word. It has many unpleasant Shortly after the gavel fell to open the associations, as those men who slept in HISTORIC MOMENT -Delegates to proceedings at the Paris Caucus on France will testify. Billet means some place the first National Convention in Min- March 1919, a where lie down 15, 15-man committee neapolis approved the name. you and sleep— and The was assigned to collect and submit American Legion is not going to lie down names for the organization. Informally, and sleep. many members had already been refer- As the democratic process ran its

ring to it as the Legion, and to one of the gathering, which was composed course, it became clear that the majority another as Legionnaires. mostly of junior officers and enlisted wanted their local units to be called Several names were submitted: Com- men. Gordon was able to swing most of Posts. The committee acquiesced. rades of the Great War, Veterans of the the gathering to his side, and the name More was in store for the fledgling Great War, Liberty League, Army of the was tentatively approved. organization in the following months. Great War, Legion of the Great War, A vote on the name was scheduled On Sept. 16, Congress granted The Great War Legion, The Legion, The again when delegates met in St. Louis American Legion a federal charter, the American Legion, American Comrades the following May. Another "Commit- first veterans' group ever to become of the Great War, Society of the Great tee on Name" was assigned to make incorporated and formally recognized War, The Great Legion and American recommendations. It chose only one, by the U.S. government. Comrades. After some discussion, the "The American Legion of World's War The historic moment arrived when committee opted for only five, Veterans." It drew immediate response delegates met for the first National Con- including "American Legion," minus from the floor, according to the minutes vention in Minneapolis in November, the "The." It was the last name on the of that meeting. and gave their final blessing to the list and had the least support. Delegate from New York: I propose, Mr. name of the organization and its When the committee reported to the Chairman, an amendment; that the name constitution. floor on March 17, the most ardent be "The American Legion." "In less than eight months from the supporter of "American Legion" Delegate from Ohio: Mr. Chairman, I time that the founders first met, the among the crowd was Maj. Maurice K. think that "American Legion" by itself is organization had multiplied beyond Gordon of Kentucky. His bemused not at all sufficient. To the average civilian. expectations," Gierke said. "More than

reasoning was that because it was the Tlie American Legion might be an organi- 750,000 men and women were proud to

last choice of the committee headed by zation of— well, street cleaners. . . it is not be members of the world's best and

high-ranking AEF officers, it would comprehensive enough . . . they will not fastest growing veterans' organization

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0RGANIZERS who ans to the Enola Gay restora- hope to restore the tion. An article in the August Enola Gay and 1988 issue of The American publicly display the Legion Magazine about the bomber that flew bomber, its mission and Tibbets the first atomic generated hundreds of letters, mission over according to Stewart. are seeking the The project was given a support of Legion- further boost several months naires and other veterans to ago when the Atomic Library complete the project. and Technology Foundation Best known of the B-29 joined forces with the associa- Superfortress class of WWII air- tion. Both organizations are craft, the Enola Gay, piloted by preparing information pro- Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., who grams and brochures that pro- named it after his mother, mote the history of Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on and its refurbishment. Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Once restoration is com- bringing the war to an end and CREW'S VIEW— The Enola Gay's cockpit and bomb pleted, the historic airplane will ushering in the nuclear age. bay have been refurbished, but much work remains. be prominently displayed. Cur- "Aside from its obvious his- rently, the plane is on display at torical significance, the most the Smithsonian facility in Suit- compelling reason why the Enola Gay professional restorers assigned to the land, Md., where it is being renovated. should be restored is that it is a sobering project. Among other sites considered as pos- symbol and reminder of the fragility of The restoration group is seeking sible permanent homes for the Enola peace," said Frank Stewart, who, along donations that will be used exclusively Gay, is the Strategic Air Command with Donald C. Rehl, founded the to pay the salaries of additional aircraft Museum near Omaha, Neb. Enola Gay Restoration Association. restoration experts. "Every cent we One of the project's key backers, and

Stewart, a member of Indianapolis' collect will go toward restoration," perhaps one of the least visible since it Robert E. Kennington Post 34, and Stewart said. "We believe that with the began, was the man who was at the con- Rehl served as flight officers on one of extra help, the Enola Gax can be com- trols of the Enola Gay 44 years ago this the 1 5 bomb crews of the 509th Compo- pleted by 1991." month. Tibbets, who retired from the site Group, which Tibbets commanded. Air Force as a brigadier general, said

The association was formed to draw HE project gained the early support the best possible place for the bomber is

public attention and help in restoring of the Legion when delegates at the where it will be the most accessible to the B-29. At the end of the war, the T 1988 National Convention adopted historians, aviation buffs and most of Enola Gay quietly became a footnote to Res. 212, encouraging Legionnaires all, American citizens who are curious history and wound up in a number of and the public to support the Enola about one of the most important turning dusty hangars over the years. Gay's restoration and public display. points in mankind's history.

Although it became the property of Stewart said his group is taking the "Display of the Enola Gay is one way the Smithsonian Institution's National "grassroots approach" to gain public to teach all generations about the stag- Air and Space Museum in 1949, resto- support for the project. "Those who can gering costs of war and the staggering ration on the plane didn't begin until 27 best appreciate the plane's restoration price of peace in this world," Stewart years later. are veterans, especially those who said. "The Smithsonian staff is making served in World War II," he said. Tax-deductible contributions and progress and their workmanship is Indeed, military strategists grimly esti- queries about the project should be sent superb," Stewart said. The plane's mated that casualties on both sides to the Enola Gay Restoration Fund,

cockpit and bomb bay have been would have exceeded 1 million had the 1 1004 E. 40 Hwy, Independence, MO completed, but about 20,000 hours United States been forced to invade 64055. All contributions will be of work remain. "That's a tremendous mainland Japan. acknowledged with a personal response amount of work for just two people," Stewart said that Legionnaires have from the Smithsonian Air and Space he added, referring to the number of tended to be the most responsive veter- Museum, Stewart said.

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fill its agreement of last October to By Philip C. Clarke close or consolidate 145 domestic mili- tary bases that the Pentagon considers HO says you can't fight obsolete and unneeded. city hall? Leading the base-closing campaign When Congress tried is the Council for Citizens Against Gov- to slip through a 5 ernment Waste, a spinoff from the percent pay raise last Grace Commission, a group of business February without a and professional leaders appointed by House vote, an unpre- President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to cedented outpouring find ways to save money and eliminate of protests from tax- the federal budget deficit. The commis- payers forced a roll call on the red-hot sion produced a three-year plan for issue. nearly 2,500 spending cuts of more Some citizen protesters inundated than $424 billion, about a third of which their lawmakers' offices with bushels of have since been implemented. Among teabags, symbolic of the anti-tax the recommendations pending Boston Tea Party of colonial days. are the military base closings, The vote to kill the proposed which the commission claimed pay hike was 380 to 48 in the would save taxpayers $2 billion House and 94 to 6 in the Senate. to $5 billion a year. Few congressmen wanted to risk The council now is targeting the wrath of voters in the next "several big spenders in Congress election. who are attempting to stop the The White House also has been on deficit-cutting base closings for political the receiving end of citizen protests. gains. "The council disputes critics who When Treasury Secretary Nicholas Roosevelt from a 12-year-old Cuban argue that the shutdowns will create Brady floated the idea of a "user's fee" admirer named Fidel Castro, asking for severe economic hardships in nearby on deposits to help rescue ailing savings a "ten dollars bill green American." communities, citing a government and loan institutions, howls of indigna- Castro received a reply from the White study showing that base closings in the tion from the public and the financial House but no money. past have actually increased private industry quickly punctured that trial Another letter, signed by a group of business activity and civilian employ- balloon. nuclear scientists, warned President ment. Americans have a tradition of vent- Harry Truman of the "unimaginable Under discussion in Washington are ing their feelings to politicians that devastation" of the atomic bomb. It was proposals to convert some of the bases predates the Revolutionary War. In sent July 17, 1945, the day after the marked for closing into detention cen- 1773 a band of 60 patriots dumped a first atomic test explosion in the New ters for convicted drug offenders, or as shipment of English tea into Boston Mexico desert. jails to relieve the nation's overcrowded Harbor to protest King George Ill's prison system. If this would save the taxes. When the British closed the CURATOR Stacey Bredhoff said the taxpayers' money, the Council for Citi- harbor in retaliation, Connecticut Gov. exhibition's purpose is to illustrate zens Against Government Waste is sure Jonathan Trumbull, wrote to the British the relationship between the people to be heard from, because its supporters Parliament, demanding that the harbor and the government. "Collectively," now number almost 250,000— up from be reopened. added Bredhoff, "they say something only 6,000 a year ago. Trumbull's letter now is displayed at about one of the rights we have in this Across the country, alert citizens the National Archives in Washington as country: the right to address the govern- stand ready to bombard Washington part of an exhibit titled "American ment, ask for help, express dissent and with new volleys of letters, telegrams, Voices: 200 Years of Speaking Out." propose policy changes, all without phone calls, petitions — and more The exhibit includes letters, petitions fear of reprisal." teabags. Surely, the Founding Fathers and other public expressions to govern- Today's citizens are no less reticent had such expressions in mind when, in ment leaders dating from colonial days, about speaking their minds, especially the First Amendment to the Constitu- through the Civil War, the Great Depres- in opposition to excessive government tion, they guaranteed our freedom of sion and World War II to the present. spending. Piling on congressional speech and "the right of the people . . Among the more intriguing items is a desks these days are telegrams, letters to petition the government for a redress 1940 letter to President Franklin D. and postcards urging the House to ful- of grievances."

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S a nation built by immigrants, the United States traditionally has welcomed more of the world's needy and oppressed peoples than all other countries com- bined. But generosity has limits, especially when abused. Since late February, the United States has been denying permanent entry to thousands of illegal aliens from Central America who filed what immi- gration officials describe as frivolous applications for political asylum. The action, unprecedented in scope, has drawn fire from civil libertarians and others who see a reversal of America's role as a beacon of hope and CROSSING OVER — A favorite spot of illegal aliens for entering the United States is liberty. The Catholic Bishops of Texas, at El Paso, Texas, where the Rio Grande narrows. for example, likened newly built alien detention centers in the Rio Grande Valley to concentration camps. A planned four-mile-long ditch just inside lawfully and decisively regain control jumpers were well-versed in the appli- the U.S. -Mexican border south of San of our 2,000-mile southern border. cation process; they went straight to the Diego has been denounced as Last summer, waves of Nicaraguans, nearest INS office to apply for political America's Berlin Wall, despite its Salvadorans and other Central Amer- asylum, some with prepared applica- purpose to curb widespread smuggling ican refugees, seeking to escape the tion forms and IDs already in hand. of illegal aliens and drugs in speeding region's unending strife, began pouring Other aliens simply kept going without vehicles. Defending its actions, the across the Rio Grande into the Browns- registering, ending up on the streets of Immigration and Naturalization ville, Texas, area. They overwhelmed Miami, Los Angeles and other cities, the Patrol, adding to the burdens and tensions of Service said it had no choice but to outmanned U.S. Border INS agents and local relief agencies, overcrowded Hispanic neighborhoods. Charles Phillips, a free-lance journalist creating near-chaos in communities "Nearly any foreigner who sets foot based in Greensboro, N.C., specializes in unable to cope with as many as 2,400 on U.S. soil may apply at a district INS

government affairs. new arrivals a week. Most of the border office for permanent asylum," said

22 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Duane Austin, chief spokesman for the many Americans as well as some mem- INS. "No matter how unqualified or bers of Congress, including Sen. Lloyd frivolous the claim might be, the Bentsen of Texas and Sen. Alan K. refugee can remain here another three Simpson ofWyoming. Simpson said the or four years by taking advantage of our \NLY those incentive to migrate here illegally is drawn-out appeal process." 0 who almost entirely economic, not political. The sudden influx of illegal aliens face persecution "Only those persons who truly face from impoverished and war-battered persecution in their homelands should Central America poses an explosive in their home- be given refugee or asylum status," problem for the United States, one that land should be Simpson said. Secretary of State James Baker said The U.S. intelligence community is already is "right on our doorstep." In given refugee or concerned about the possibility, if not the last half of 1988 alone, more than probability, that the aliens arriving from 30,000 undocumented aliens checked asylum status/ communist countries include spies, in at INS offices in south Texas. While saboteurs and terrorists. Among the waiting to be processed, thousands of Cuban boat people in 1980, for exam- the newcomers moved into makeshift ple, were an estimated 18,000 single family camps and shelters throughout action to reverse the INS' tough policy. men of military age. Intelligence the Rio Grande Valley, raising public Mark Schneider of Proyecto Libertad sources believe at least some of them health and safety concerns. (Project Liberty), a non-profit group in were trained guerrilla specialists of the Before the influx of Central Amer- Harlingen, Texas, questioned the INS' Castro regime. icans surged out of control, the pre- discretionary rights to deny political So far, Managua's commandantes vious administration had taken a gener- asylum. He also complained that the ostensibly have allowed all but military ally benign attitude toward the would- new policy will only encourage immi- draft dodgers to leave the country. be refugees who crossed the border grants to evade immigration authori- Because of the Sandinistas' close col- illegally and requested political ties, often with the aid of unscrupulous laboration with Cuba and the Soviet asylum. But as the number of arrivals smugglers who offer their services bloc, U.S. authorities are screening as from Central American countries to aliens. many of the newly arriving Nicara- soared to more than 50,000 last year In Managua, scores of fly-by-night guans as possible. The same applies to and appeared headed for more than travel agencies called "excursions," refugees from Vietnam and increased 100,000 this year, the INS decided have been selling illegal trips to the arrivals from the Soviet Union and something had to be done. United States for about $1,200. A few Eastern Europe. On Feb. 21, 1989, INS Commis- months ago the INS arrested groups of Ironically, while intelligence and sioner Alan C. Nelson announced that illegals flying from Los Angeles to New immigration officials are desperately Central Americans who filed invalid York as part of $4,000 package deals seeking a solution to the alien problem, claims for political asylum would be sold to Central Americans by smug- legislation recently passed will admit detained in a large "tent city" near gling-ring operators. 10,000 additional aliens who do not fit Brownsville, pending deportation or INS appears to have the support of Please turn to page 51 appeal decisions. To shorten the proces- sing as well as increase surveillance of the Texas border, more than 500 federal officials were moved into the Browns- ville area. Nelson said the new policy is firm but fair and would "send a strong signal to those people who have the mistaken idea that by merely filing a frivolous asylum claim, they may stay in the United States. This willful manipulation of America's generosity must, and will, stop." The new policy applies stricter interpretations to the 1980 Refugee Act, which limits political asylum to aliens who can demonstrate a "well-founded fear of persecution based on race, reli- gion, nationality, membership in a par- ticular social group, or political opin- ion." The restriction has disqualified most of the recent asylum seekers from Nicaragua, "many of whom even admit they are Sandinistas," Nelson said. HUDDLED MASSES — Refugees await processing by the Immigration and Naturali- Lawyers representing immigrant zation Service in temporary shelters and camps along the border. rights' groups said they will seek court

AUGUST 1989 23 foreign industry, as well as the premier By Steve Salerno TO REGAIN ITS advocate of a management style now embraced by blue-chip corporations F AMERICA hopes to COMPETITIVE EDGE, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard and USX. avoid what some econo- Petersen developed his insights the labeled "an mists have hard way. "The first year I was presi- economic Pearl Harbor," U.S. INDUSTRY dent (1980)," he recalled, "we set a we must revamp the atti- corporate record for losses— some $1 .5 tudes and working regi- MUST GIVE WORKERS billion." Almost half of Ford's hourly mens of our labor force. workers were laid off. That message is preached A GREATER STAKE Petersen then undertook a total trans- at every opportunity by formation of the company, rethinking Ford Motor Co. chairman Donald Peter- and reshaping almost every aspect of Petersen IN COMPANY sen. Nearly a decade ago, the organization. The changes paid off. engineered a 180-degree turnaround in Ford's flagging image through his slo- SUCCESSES OR Steve Salerno is a California-based free- gan, "Quality is Job One." Today, lance journalist whose articles appear in Petersen has emerged as a general in FAILURES. a variety of America' s most respected America's counterattack against magazines.

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE In 1989, Ford's chairman proclaimed the company healthier than ever before. In recounting the primary reasons for Ford's comeback, Petersen credited his decision to dash the ancient managerial heirarchies that stifled productivity and created administrative logjams. "Power in the work place must be shared," he said. "After management and union learned they had much to gain by working together, they had to learn how to work together, how to communicate, to solve problems jointly, to build teams." This approach, dubbed Participative Management, led to the creation of internal think tanks with colorful names such as the Alpha Team, the Catalyst Working Group and the Fac- tory of the Future Fund. Executives are encouraged to allow decision making "at the lowest level at which expert knowledge is found," thereby eliminat- ing the almost endless series of approvals that clog work with company politics. "At all levels in Ford," said Petersen, "workers are called upon to make deci- sions crucial to the business." Worker input played a large role in the develop- the successful Taurus and Sable ment of WORKING TOGETHER-Ford chairman Donald Petersen (second from right) insists models. Now, the Catalyst Working that workers be included in the decision-making process. Group is on the verge of a break- through: a catalytic converter that elim- inates the need for scarce platinum. employees to the high-technology envi- sary adjustment. Even in emergencies, "In a large and complex company," ronment. "By 2000, 75 percent of all union job classifications are strictly Petersen said, "you can't direct each employees in the United States will observed. Assembly lines have even employee to generate quality in isola- need to be re-trained or taught new been shut down while a key worker tion and expect that by magic those skills," said Petersen. "Many of our visited the bathroom. efforts will merge effectively. The skilled trades people now must be com- Relaxation of these outdated work people in each work group, each office, puter literate. Clerical employees now rules has heightened what management each function, each division must work are often technicians in the true sense guru Peter Drucker calls "the global together to achieve quality." of the word, routinely operating elec- view." By familiarizing themselves with Within this framework, relationships tronic equipment." varied aspects of production, workers between labor and management— trad- who spend the bulk of their day driving itionally forged in distrust— become ORE than 20,000 Ford workers rivets or painting fenders learn to see based on mutual respect and under- are enrolled in computer courses. their function in terms of the com-

standing. "It's no longer us versus I About 9,000 more take classes to pany's overall objectives. Observed them," said Petersen. improve basic verbal skills, and com- Petersen, "Employees are expected to Such enlightened policies are pany-assisted college enrollments have understand the larger issues, to vigor- gaining favor throughout American more than doubled since 1984. ously pursue the competitive edge industry. AT&T president Robert Allen The effort to broaden the factory essential to prosper." holds "town meetings" with workers to workers' educational background has The improvements wrought by the bolster camaraderie. Like Petersen, been complemented by a movement to new approaches are measurable.

Allen believes in delegating responsi- broaden their job responsibilities. In its Petersen cited a more than 65 percent bility to "the men in the trenches," and struggle against overseas competition, increase in product quality, greatly stresses accountability and quality con- America has long been handicapped by enhanced productivity and efficiency, trol at every level. USX, formerly U.S. union restrictions that narrowly define reduced costs and waste, a higher Steel, which is enjoying a strong each worker's scope of activities. Some market share and the best profits in the rebound after almost a decade of disas- of these limitations have adversely auto industry worldwide for the past trous market performance, aggressively affected productivity. For example, in two years. At the same time, the com- solicits employee advice and pays many factory settings, a worker who pany's break-even point has been cut by bonuses to workers whose ideas are notices an easily correctable flaw in about 40 percent. implemented. another worker's area of specialization For Ford and a growing number of A second goal has been to acclimate is prohibited from making the neces- Please turn to page 55

AUGUST 1989 25 HEARTBREAK RIDGE

its way northward found itself blocked ByVernon Pizer THE MONTH-LONG by a formidable obstacle — a four- mile long, north-to-south, knife- edged ridge held by a strong enemy N the late summer of BATTLE ON THE force. 1951, tentative truce talks The ridge was strategically important had been initiated between because it dominated the enemy's main the United Nations Com- KOREAN MOUNTAIN line of resistance and also overlooked and the North mand the major supply route for the North Koreans. Despite the on- Korean forces. The U.N. force was again, off-again talks, the RANGE CLAIMED Korean War continued as bitterly as ever. In mid- Vernon Pizer, a free-lance journalist based September, a United Nations task 18,000 CASUALTIES. in Valdosta, Ga., writes extensively on the force that had been slowly grinding military and war.

26 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE determined to take the ridge. The with casualties that they ran danger- regiments staged an assault on the cen- enemy was just as determined to hold it. ously low on medical supplies. tral peak. On Sept. 13, units of the 23rd Inf. Late on the afternoon of Sept. 23, The ploy worked exactly as planned. Regt., U.S. Army's 2nd Inf. Div., two dozen GIs managed to crawl to the The enemy artillery targeted the tanks launched an attack on the southern- summit of the central peak, but with in the valley, as the infantrymen, no most of the three principal peaks their light weapons they were unable to longer harassed by the lethal artillery, looming along the rugged ridge line. It reduce the enemy bunkers around the clawed up the steep slope, slowly quickly became apparent to the crest. The next morning the North gaining ground on the North Koreans. attacking Americans that they were Koreans counterattacked the small By daybreak, Oct. 6, the central peak pitted against a major enemy force that American unit, sweeping the survivors was firmly in American hands. Now the was well dug in, with many sturdily from their toehold on the mountain top. remainder of Heartbreak Ridge had to bunkered machine-gun emplacements Aircraft from a U.S. Navy carrier off be wrested from the enemy. supported by artillery. All that day and the coast swept in on Sept. 29, to bomb, On Oct. 8, Sgt. 1st Class Tony K. all the next, the Americans attacked strafe and napalm the central peak. This Burris of the 2nd Div.'s 38th Inf. Regt. repeatedly, sustaining heavy casualties. was followed by repeated ground was advancing with Co. L when his unit Each time they were repulsed by the was halted by intense fire from a heavy withering North Korean fire. Other machine gun in a bunker. Charging attacks in different sectors of the ridge forward alone, Burris pelted the enemy were no more successful. emplacement with grenades, killing 15. The battlefield comprised some of The following day he led his men on an the most rugged terrain along the entire assault to the top of the ridge despite peninsula. Extending from each of the BuRRIS being wounded twice. Their hold on the three major peaks were numerous ridge was precarious because of smaller ridges which stretched off to DELIBERATELY machine-gun fire from a hidden posi- the east and the west, like the ribs tion. Calling up a 57mm recoiless-rifle radiating from a giant backbone. The DREW ENEMY FIRE team, Burris deliberately drew enemy craggy ridges were covered by mur- ON HIMSELF SO fire on himself so the North Koreans derous, wide-sweeping fire from the would reveal their position. As soon as estimated 1 ,000 bunkers dug along the THE NORTH the enemy opened fire, the recoiless high ground. To make matters worse, team knocked out the machine-gun the enemy troops facing the Americans KOREANS WOULD nest. were battle-tested veterans whose Refusing to be medevaced, Burris orders were to fight until death. REVEAL THEIR advanced with his company and ran On Sept. 17, an enemy wave struck into heavy fire from two entrenched hard against a platoon of Co.C, 23rd positions. Darting forward, Burris used

Inf. , which was holding terrain along grenades to knock out the first emplace- the foothills leading to the approaches ment, killing its six-man crew. Then he to the southern-most peak. The platoon charged the second position, destroy- fought courageously, but was outnum- ing it with his final grenade as he fell, bered by the fanatical enemy. After fatally wounded. Inspired by Burris, sustaining several casualties, it was Co. L resumed the advance and took its forced slowly back. But Pfc. Herbert K. primary objective, Hill 605. Burris also Pililaau stood his ground, firing his was awarded the nation's highest mili- automatic rifle from his foxhole and tary award for heroism. lobbing grenades until all of his Despite their losses, the North ammunition was expended. Then he Koreans resisted fiercely to the end, drew his trench knife, climbed from his repeatedly counterattacking the Amer- foxhole and closed with the enemy in icans, who were now advancing all hand-to-hand combat until he fell, mor- along Heartbreak Ridge. On Oct. 12, tally wounded. Later, counterattacking the last enemy position on the north Americans retook the position and peak fell. Now all of Heartbreak Ridge counted 40 enemy dead around assaults, but little headway was made was at last in U.N. hands. At the start of Pililaau's position. Pililaau was awarded against the numerically superior, well- the month-long battle, the ridge system the Medal of Honor posthumously. entrenched enemy, who lay down a mur- was heavily wooded; at the end it was Sometime early in the second week derous curtain of small arms, mortar denuded of trees except for shattered, of the battle for the high ground, the and artillery fire. shell-splintered stumps. battlefield was dubbed "Heartbreak On Oct. 5, a coordinated attack of The long battle had been a significant

Ridge." The name stuck because it was American riflemen and tanks was but costly victory. It had taken a toll of so appropriate; the ridge was a heart- launched. The tanks obviously were 1,832 American dead and wounded. breakingly tough nut to crack. There unable to scale the steep ridge, but they But it had been much more costly for also was heartbreak in the large number served as decoys by bulling up the the enemy; their fanatical but fruit- of casualties the Americans suffered in broad valley east of Heartbreak Ridge less defense of Heartbreak Ridge had their repeated assaults on the ridge. At to draw enemy artillery fire away from cost them about 16,000 dead and times the aid stations were so swamped the ridge. Meanwhile, two infantry wounded.

AUGUST 1989 27 Perspective CLASNOST THE WAITING GAME

1973, Brezhnev described his policy of By Brian Crozier detente as "a decisive shift in the corre- Neoring bankruptcy, lation of forces" in favor of the Soviet ACED with the bewil- the Soviet Union Union. "By 1985, we will be able to dering scope and pace of exert our will whenever we need to," he change in the Soviet welcomes talks of boasted. Union under Mikhail Gor- peace, especially Instead, when Gorbachev came to bachev, Western policy- power in 1985, he inherited a bankrupt makers seem more divided when it needs state on the edge of economic and and uncertain than ever social collapse. Gorbachev's true before. Western loans to foreign policy can be understood only F It is natural for the West in the light of this decline. Bankrupt save its economy to hope that the Soviet Union will and unable to exert its will, the Soviet evolve into some kind of democratic Union could no longer afford the state, and cease to be a threat to peripheral empire largely built during Western democracies, but fundamen- the Brezhnev years. For a military talist regimes do not readily change. is an established principle of Soviet superpower with a Third World econ- For the Leninist State to renounce its strategy. omy, the drain had become intolerable: ideology would have been like the late It is vitally important that the West up to $5 billion a year to Cuba, includ- Ayatollah Khomeini disavowing Allah avoid any repetition of the errors of the ing the Cuban forces in Angola; $600 and the Prophet Mohammed. recent past. Leonid Brezhnev (1954- million to $800 million to Nicaragua; Glasnost means "publicity" in Rus- 82) — now blamed for the economic $3 billion to and ; sian, though usually taken to mean stagnation and social corruption of and up to $5 billion to Vietnam.

"openness." Although it encourages the Soviet Union — embraced detente In foreign policy terms, it had democratic aspirations, it does not with great enthusiasm. The outcome become urgent for the Soviet Union to mean democracy. In fact, Gorbachev was an impressive flow of loans and make drastic cuts in its imperial outlays, has denounced the idea of competing credits from the West and Japan, which and to secure massive, official and Soviet parties as "rubbish." Partial helped the Soviet Union expand its private loans and credits from Western elections to the new Supreme Soviet in peripheral empire by financing coups in sources. March were free only in the sense that Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, The first of these requirements is the voters were allowed to vote against Nicaragua and Grenada, and Soviet- being met by Cuban, Vietnamese and party candidates. There still were no supported insurgencies in Angola, Soviet troop withdrawals in Angola, opposition parties that offered a choice Mozambique, Cambodia and El Sal- Cambodia and Afghanistan. The of anti-communist candidates. vador. Brezhnev also launched the Afghanistan withdrawal, in particular, In his much-quoted U.N. speech last unwinnable war in Afghanistan, from helped to secure the Western loans and December, Gorbachev specifically which Gorbachev now has extricated credits. It had become imperative for reaffirmed Leninist internationalism, the Soviet forces. the Soviet Union to present a new, though he did denounce force, the This expanded empire was part of the peaceful and democratic image to the threat of force and interference in indi- Brezhnev Doctrine of November 1968, outside world. In this, Gorbachev has vidual countries. Deception, however, which, after the Soviet occupation been brilliantly successful, as shown in in Czechoslovakia, justified armed favorable ratings in public opinion polls Brian Crozier, author of The Nuclear intervention if socialism is endangered in the United States and Western Freeze Trap, is a consultant on interna- in any country of "the socialist com- Europe. tional affairs who lias visited more than 60 monwealth." Money has come from West Germany

countries as a foreign correspondent. At a secret meeting in Prague in notably, with $2. 1 billion; and France

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE A VICTIM MOURNED — Despite the rhetoric ofglasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev showed no hesitancy in crushing demonstrations in Georgia and other socialist republics seeking independence from the Soviet Union.

and Britain, which have offered credits to Soviet territory. The new Soviet of about $1 billion each. Gorbachev's image was further reinforced by Gor- image-building campaign culminated bachev's U.N. speech in 1988, which in the 1 987 Washington Summit and the invited unilateral troop withdrawals INF Treaty, and his state visits to Britain and weapon cuts. The immediate payoff and West Germany. was seen in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's None of this, however, necessarily resistance to U.S. -Great Britain plans to means that the Leninist foreign policy modernize the obsolete, short-range ENERGIZING - Western aid and tech- objectives have been abandoned. They nuclear missiles on German soil. nology are essential to the survival of are pursued by more sophisticated Simultaneously, Moscow's prop- Soviet industry. means. The Soviet regime has entered a aganda services have been skillfully new phase, now being described by exploiting two mutually exclusive lines. of the immense resources, skills and some Sovietologists as "parasitical co- One line presents the United States as wealth of Germany, and the end of existence." the Soviet Union's partner in achieving NATO. In assessing the East-West strategic world peace. The other stresses the Fortunately, President Bush called position today, we must acknowledge theme of a "common European home" Gorbachev's bluff concerning the Wall that, for the first time since the Cuban —which excludes the United States. and seized the initiative at the NATO Missile Crisis of 1962, the United Summit in Brussels last May, leaving States has a decisive advantage over the stakes are high: Germany, and Gorbachev to pick up the challenge on Soviet Union. THEthe unity of the Alliance. The his visit to Bohn a fortnight later. From Gorbachev's standpoint, the decoupling of the United States On one specific point, the Soviet best way of regaining lost ground is to from its European allies is a long- leadership had won a major propaganda alter the Western perception of the standing Soviet objective. The prize victory, in the readiness of Western

Soviet Union, so that it is no longer offered to the West Germans by implica- leaders, including Prime Minister Mar- perceived as a threat, but as a partner tion is hard to resist: gradual reunifica- garet Thatcher, to declare that the Cold in world peace. The INF Treaty of tion with East Germany, using the War is over. We have been here before, December 1987 served this purpose demolition of the Berlin Wall as a major not once but several times. The notion and also removed, from a Soviet inducement. The prizes, from Mos- that the Cold War is over was widely standpoint, a perceived Western threat cow's point of view, are the harnessing Please turn to page 53

AUGUST 1989 29 "

USO'S HAGEL: "/ don't know of a tougher job anywhere than being in the military.

uneasy years of peace. In so doing, the non-profit civilian organization has depended entirely on private contribu- tions, without a nickel of government aid. The USO began out of desperate necessity on the eve of our entry into World War EL Striving to keep pace with a massive military mobilization, the organization set up centers wherever space was available, including churches, store fronts and even railroad sleeping cars. The first two USO clubs opened on Nov. 28, 1941, in Fayetteville, N.C., near Fort Bragg. At the height of the war, the USO operated 3,035 clubs and other facilities overseas, 76 of them in alone. Stateside, hundreds more USO clubs and lounges were open around the clock, from Times Square to small communities near training camps. One serviceman waxed poetic in a letter from the USO lounge in Flomat- ron, Ala., written in the fall of 1943 after 21 months away from home. "It was cold tonight," wrote the GI at 4 a.m., "dark and cold. We were all sick of steel rails, cold stares. Five hours to wait in a humble junction in a little Alabama town. One light, a friendly light sifting its way through soot and cinders on the outside. Inside music, laughter and friendliness in an atmos- phere of home. Officers and enlisted men at peace in this world, if only for a few moments. My heart goes out to the USO from coast to coast, in humble junctions everywhere." Someone conducted a poll in the war years to determine what servicemen liked to do most at USO clubs. Not surprisingly, dancing and meeting girls came first. But when asked what they actually did on their last USO visit, in Wherever military By Philip C. Clarke order of frequency, the GIs said they wrote a letter, read a magazine, listened personnel and to radio, talked to girls, listened to buddies, their families VER since it was founded records, played games, met in early 1941 at the urging saw a movie and took a shower.

are stationed of President Franklin D. Throughout World War II, about 1 .5 overseas, the USO Roosevelt, the United million Americans volunteered their Service Organizations services to the USO, totaling an esti- is there to bring (USO), an outgrowth of mated 160 million hours of donated six major charitable insti- time. Many Americans worked a full comfort cheer and tutions, has brought a touch of home comfort, cheer and a Philip C. Clarke, a former AP correspon- touch of home to countless GIs and dent, is a free-lance journalist and editor into their lives. their loved ones through three wars and who contributes regularly to this magazine.

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE irrepressible Bob Hope and Martha Raye. Since Vietnam, the USO continues to sponsor about a dozen big-star shows a year for troops overseas. Most of the USO's 161 facilities— 69 in the U.S. and 92 overseas— are family oriented, and are located in such areas as air- ports, fleet centers and family and com- munity centers. The USO currently provides services to more than 5 million service person- nel, including the families of 850,000 personnel abroad U.S. Navy ships. Because of the demands of service life, including long deployments and tours to remote locations, military families face hardships often unfamiliar to typ- ical American families. For example, Navy ship deployments, averaging six to eight months, result in about 84,000 temporary family separations annually. Culture shock, language and ethnic barriers in foreign countries; loneliness and boredom; housing shortages; finan- part THEY'RE SPECIAL — Top entertainers such as Loretta Lynn join touring shows as cial difficulties; and lack of adequate perpetual tribute to the nation's men and women in uniform. of the USO's child care are among the stresses often unique to military life. That's where the day or night at a war industry job, then the letters of gratitude— and there are Please turn to page 52 dashed off to USO centers to help the many— are carefully preserved. One GI GIs whatever way they could. wrote: "It was the winter of '44 and I USO's entertainment branch, Camp had been shipped back to the 141st

Shows Inc. , became the largest single General Hospital in England after enterprise in show business history. getting hit at Pont a Mousson, France. I

From 1941 to 1947, it staged about one- never bothered with the USO. It was too half million performances for 213 mil- tame. But after two months in the hospi- lion troops. By V-E Day, its curtains tal, I was climbing walls. Then a USO were raised around the world at least show came — Sam Levine in 'Three 700 times a day. Men on a Horse.' I don't think I had

And the indefatigable Bob Hope really laughed since '42, but I sure did wasn't the only performer. More than that day. Funny what sticks in your 7,000 entertainers appeared overseas mind over the years." during World War II— many times that number at stateside camp shows. Audi- AFTER the war, the USO demobilized ences ranged from as many as 15,000 all but a skeleton headquarters staff. GIs sprawled on open ground to as few But with the start of the Korean War as 25 men in jeeps at some lone outpost in 1950, the USO returned to the spot- or a row of wounded soldiers in a field light, with about 300 clubs and 1 1 3,394 hospital. volunteers. USO Camp Shows staged Comedian Joe E. Brown, who lost 5,422 performances for the troops in his son during the war, was the first Korea. Hollywood star to tour Alaska and the Vietnam brought problems of an Aleutians, Southwest Pacific combat unpopular war on the homefront, but areas and the China-Burma-India thea- the USO stuck by the troops in South- ter. Meantime, Bob Hope and Jerry east Asia. For the first time, it operated Colonna & Co. were off on their cele- close to combat areas, in some places, brated rounds from Alaska and so close that GIs returning from patrol to England, Africa, Sicily and the South checked their firearms at the door. In Pacific. Martha Raye also entertained Vietnam, GIs watched 5,600 shows by troops in every major theater of war in visiting entertainers, including the the 1940s. They brought warmth and laughter to weary GIs, many of whom LOTS OF HOPE — Bob Hope has become would never see home again. a Christmas tradition to U.S. troops over- At USO headquarters in Washington, seas and sailors aboard Navy ships.

AUGUST 1989 .

Veterans update

preSS time, the supplemental spending bill for with an office at the University of Hanoi College of Medicine. veterans was in joint conference as lawmakers attempted to The agreement allows Schecter to conduct definitive iron out differences between House and Senate versions. The research on the effects of the defoliant Agent Orange, which

$1.2 supplemental package included $340 million more for was sprayed on Vietnam between 1962 and 1 97 1 . He said the the desperately ailing VA health-care system for the research could help settle the claims of many U.S. Vietnam remainder of FY 1989, which ends Sept. 30. veterans who say they suffer health problems as a result of The delay in passing the bill has been blamed on political Agent Orange exposure. infighting between both chambers and among factions in Schecter said Vietnam is an ideal location to examine the each chamber. One source of heavy debate involved $822 effects of Agent Orange because the people in northern million in new funds for anti-drug programs which were Vietnam have extremely low contamination of dioxins, but added to the spending bill. the people in areas where the sprayings took place, primarily Meanwhile, VA announced additional cutbacks in medical in southern Vietnam, have high concentrations of the dioxin. services in late May because of the delayed supplemental He said he believes the presence of other dioxins and similar funding. VA Secretary Edward J. Derwinski levied a nation- chemicals from industrial production that have accumulated wide, temporary freeze on medical care for categories B and in the bodies of most Americans may have obscured the C veterans with non-service-connected ailments whose effects of the dioxin contained in Agent Orange. incomes are above the limits set by law. Derwinski said other necessary actions included decreasing staff levels through attrition, halting maintenance and spending for medical equipment, and delaying construction of new facilities. Ihe American Legion's opposition to the us. Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke said the Legion was co-production of the FSX aircraft with Japan was formally "greatly disturbed" by Derwinski's announcement. "Clearly, presented in a letter to Rep. Thomas S. Foley of Washington the impasse on Capitol Hill over supplemental funding left shortly before his selection as Speaker of the House. Secretary Derwinski with no other choice," Gierke said. He "This joint venture could serve to compromise the current said the Senate's refusal to act promptly could cost VA 100 U.S. lead in aircraft technology at a time when the US. trade medical employees per week and cause shutdowns of critical deficit with Japan is estimated at $55 billion a year and medical services. rising," wrote E. Philip Riggin, director of the National Derwinski said the funding shortfall, as of May, had Legislative Division. created staff shortages of some 4,000 medical personnel Riggin commended Japan's wish to modernize its air below the level mandated by Congress and had resulted in force, noting that it would lessen the defense burden that for about 600,000 less outpatient visits this year. so long has been placed on the United States. However, he Also in May, the House and Senate approved a budget said, in reference to the trade deficit, "If Japan were to buy agreement that would authorize about $11.5 billion for the F-16 aircraft off the shelf, it would get the world's best veterans' medical care in FY 1990, which begins Oct. 1 fighter at an excellent price." The proposed FSX co-production with Japan presents more than a trade problem, Riggin said. "It calls for the sharing of American ingenuity and technical data that should be reserved for the U.S. aviation industrial base. We urge that Nationa. Women Veterans Foundation is The FSX co-production between the United States and Japan be seeking the names of women who served in the U.S. Armed prohibited." Forces during World War II. The Foundation wants to honor Similar letters were sent to the House majority and these women by telling Americans about their service to minority leaders, and 30 members who publicly oppose FSX country. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the co-production. beginning of World War II, a kick-off reception, dinner and USO show will be held in Atlanta on Oct. 28, as a nationwide salute to WWII women veterans. Contact Evelyn Monahan, P.O. Box 10114, Atlanta, GA 30319. The New Jersey Agent Orange commission is looking for Army and Air Force veterans who think they were not exposed to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam. Volunteers will be asked to go to New Jersey to participate in AIs VA moves toward less stringent eligibility require- the commission's Pointman research project and undergo ments for Agent Orange compensation, an American scien- 3Vi days of medical and psychological testing. All expenses tist will continue research on the herbicide in Vietnam. will be paid by the state. In late May, Dr. Arnold Schecter, a professor of preventive Eligible veterans must be between 37 and 43 years old and medicine at the State University of New York at Binghamton, must have served in Vietnam between 1967 and 1970. For announced he had been given permission to open an Agent more information, call William W. Lewis at (609) 984-7396, Orange research office in Vietnam. Schecter said he signed or write to New Jersey Agent Orange Commission, P.O. Box an agreement with Vietnamese officials that will provide him 1717, Trenton, NJ 08607-1717. "

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THE AMERICAN LEGION AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDY

Wounds of War

1982, Mike Rego of Southeast Asia? Ceres, Calif., was afraid HOW MANY Convinced that the to look into a mirror after government wasn't in a small scarlet splotch OTHER MIKE REGOS any hurry to answer nNappeared on his neck one that question. The day and rapidly spread American Legion be- over his entire body. ARE OUT THERE gan its own investiga- Rego's skin cracked and tion into the Agent Michael Rego swelled, and the slightest Orange controversy LOOKING FOR Long Binh. 1968 movement left him racked in pain. Then and other problems his hair began to fall out in clumps. HONEST ANSWERS faced by Vietnam veterans. The find- "I couldn't look at a mirror," Rego ings of The American Legion and Co-

said. "All I saw was a nightmarish lumbia University Study of Vietnam human scab looking back." While VA FROM A GOVERN- Veterans were unveiled late last year doctors puzzled about the possible and published in the scientific journal. causes of his mysterious and painful MENT WHO SENT Environmental Research problems, the Army veteran was con- "The wounds suffered by Vietnam vinced the source of the skin ailment THEM INTO WAR? War veterans continue." said NatT and other maladies could be traced to Cmdr. H. F. "Sparky" Gierke, who, like his 1967-68 tour of duty in Long Binh, Rego. also was stationed in Long Binh South Vietnam. Rego, a supply spe- during the war. "For those who were cialist in the 1st Logistics Command, exposed to Agent Orange, the Legion worked at Area 208 Depot, a sprawling believes that the health of many of these military warehouse. Among the mate- veterans has been jeopardized." rials stored in the facility, he said, were From 1962 to 1971, U.S. military

drums filled with chemicals, many of forces dumped 1 2 million gallons of the which were code-striped with orange defoliant on Vietnam, Laos and Cam- paint. The herbicide Agent Orange got bodia to strip away the enemy's jungle its name from the orange-painted cover. Agent Orange was sprayed from

drums in which it was stored. C-123 cargo planes, , "I'm convinced that many of my trucks, boats and by troops who carried health problems today are the result of the herbicide in backpacks. The Legion my exposure to Agent Orange," said study correlated spray missions with Rego, who is rated 60 percent disabled troop deployments to illustrate casual by VA because of arthritis and the rare connection. skin condition called pityriafis rubra Of the 6,810 American Legionnaires pilaris. "My skin problems began after of the Vietnam era who participated in

I reported for duty at Long Binh." he the study. 2.087 were identified as said. "I had a constant rash and so did having been exposed to Agent Orange. the other guys in my company. We just Using survey questions to determine

chalked it up to tropical climate." exposure levels of the veterans, re- Rego and thousands of veterans suf- searchers concluded that 947 (45.4 fering from a variety of inexplicable percent) received low exposure; 538 health complaints live with the (27.9 percent), medium; and 557 (26.7 DEEP-ROOTED — Veterans who saw haunting question: Are their conditions percent) suffered high exposure. heavy combat suffer considerably linked to their exposure to Agent "Overall, men who served in South- more health problems. Orange, which was used extensively in east Asia reported a higher incidence of

34 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE heart disease, benign fatty tumors, skin rash with blisters, change in skin color and increased sensitivity to light," said Dr. Jeanne Stellman, who directed the study with her husband, Dr. Steven Stellman. Veterans who were categorized as having experienced high levels of combat and increased exposure to Agent Orange also reported having more incidents of fatigue, faintness, generalized aches and nausea, skin problems, colds and sore throats. The study also found that herbicide handlers — 83 were identified as having that specific duty in Vietnam — had significant problems with high blood pressure and ulcers, in addition to the aforementioned ailments. HERBICIDE HANDLERS— Aircrew members who participated in Agent Orange Researchers did not attempt to link spray missions reported more problems with high blood pressure and ulcers. Agent Orange exposure to cancer. "Our study was specifically not designed to determine if a relationship between compensation. Only five of 34,000 exposure and cancer existed," Jeanne i IT veterans who have filed VA claims were Stellman said. "The study population granted compensation. That statistic • was too small." may improve for veterans because of a However, scientists long ago con- l WHE wounds of recent federal-court decision that

that is or requires VA to relax its stringent cluded dioxin carcinogenic, a Agent Orange of- cancer-causing agent. Agent Orange : requirements which force veterans to contains dioxin. : ten don't surface prove their ailments are directly related The study also examined the repro- to Agent Orange exposure. for years. I just ductive rates among the wives of Viet- I Stellman said the Legion study nam veterans who were exposed to clearly demonstrates that veterans : want the truth Agent Orange. It was determined that classified as being exposed to Agent the risk of miscarriages and low birth I while there is Orange have statistically higher levels weights was greater among those of health complaints. Researchers said still spouses than those of veterans who did : time' the pattern of complaints paralleled the not serve in Southeast Asia. health effects of laboratory animals "There is a clear dose-related risk of exposed to Agent Orange. miscarriage among the wives of Agent By 1971, Rego had long since joined "If anything, the Agent Orange sec- Orange-exposed veterans," Jeanne the civilian ranks, but he still suffered tion of the Legion study demands that Stellman said, adding that another skin problems and began to experience answers must be provided to the count- important side effect was noted during frequent rectal bleeding. A few years less thousands of American GIs who the research. "We also observed that after those symptoms surfaced, Rego might have been exposed to dangerous maternal smoking also exhibited a was given a chest X-ray and doctors herbicides," Gierke said. "Veterans like powerful effect on miscarriage rates." told him both lungs were scarred, prob- Mike Rego deserve honest answers from The study did not specifically ably the result of inhaling chemical their government and the people who examine the rate of birth defects among fumes. sent them to a faraway land to fight in a the children of Agent Orange veterans; In 1982, Rego began a new treatment long, bitter war." however, that subject will be investi- at the San Francisco VA Medical Center Rego, a 40-year-old father of a teen- gated by Legion researchers in the with an experimental drug, which he aged girl, said his search for the causes future. alleges was not administered in accord- of his many physical problems has kept Mike Rego's health began its slow ance with stringent Food and Drug him going over the years. "VA doctors trek to hell at 2:30 a.m., Nov. 30, 1967. Administration guidelines. The result of can identify a bullet scar or missing That's when he and other troops in the the treatment? His neurological system limb as a war wound, but the wounds of 570th Supply Co. were ordered out of was all but destroyed by the drug, a Agent Orange veterans often don't sur- their bunks to fight a raging inferno potent neurotoxin. face for years. I'm not pointing any

sweeping through the Area 208 ware- Since 1986, VA has been required to fingers of blame. I just want the truth house. Rego, who was 18 years old at the provide examinations and treatment to while there's still time," Rego said. time, said many of the chemical drums veterans on a presumptive basis that For now, the only truth Mike Rego exploded because of the intense heat. their health complaints are related to gets is when he looks into a mirror. Rego and his fellow GIs fought the fire Agent Orange exposure. However, VA

without any protective clothing or gear. has been less responsive to claims for Next : How Veterans View VA ,

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The Tonawandas RTHUR Coote stood WINNING COMBINATION - Maestro backstage at the 1988 William Weikert, an award-winning, high- band of New York school music teacher, provides the American Legion National conductor's skills that are vital to the to Convention guarding the expects repeat Tonawandas band's overall excellence. as the Legion's stage door while the champion Tonawandas ager of the Joliet, 111., Harwood Post 5 top musical Post 264 Band performed. Band, which won the annual Legion Goose bumps played up band competition 23 times. Although group at next and down Coote 's spine, Coote retired from the band in 1988, he month's National and a knowing smile crept across his has followed the emergence of the face. He knew the Tonawandas, N.Y. Tonawandas band as Legion champi- Convention in band had the sound of a winner. With ons. Coote, who probably has seen more than 30 years of American Legion more Legion band contests than most, Baltimore. But band experience, he could feel it. continues to attend the competitions. the competition Coote heard those winning sounds The American Legion band competi- often when he played in the percussion tion was already more than 20 years old will be stiff. section and was drum major and man- when Coote joined the Joliet band as a

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE high schooler in the 1950s. Evolving late 50s. Some are doctors, engineers or from the drum and bugle corps of WWI factory workers. Some are professional days, today's Legion bands are usually musicians, and 20 of their 80 members 80 to 100-piece concert groups much are Legionnaires. like the ones that will entertain Legion- To reach the finals at the National naires at the 1989 National Convention LlKE the other Convention, the bands must compete in Baltimore. 176 Post bands, in, but not necessarily win, their The Monahan Post Band from Sioux Department competition. Up to 14 City, Iowa, received the first Lemuel the Tonawandas Legion bands usually participate in the Bolles Trophy for band excellence at the national contest. They are judged on a is of National Convention in 1927. Many composed warm-up song, usually a march, a sym- bands have won the competition more people from all phonic concert piece, and a four-to than once, but none have established a seven-minute floor show. Bill Stokes, virtual dynasty like the Post 5 Joliet walks of life. the Chief Judge of American Legion band. From 1946 to 1971, the Joliet Contests, said the main criteria for band's reign as champions was inter- judging the bands are overall excellence rupted only twice, in 1956 and 1957. in ability, quality of music, stage pres- Coote recalls the unique style of the expense. "I'm proud to be in the Legion ence and the conductor's skill. The Joliet band during performances. band. They're a great group of musi- winner of the national contest is "They fired cannons, unfurled huge cians" Perone said. "The band brings a declared the Commander's Band and flags, fired shotguns, and rang a one- lot of publicity to the Post because of leads the Convention parade. ton bell. It was a real extravaganza." the parades we're in." Finishing just behind Tonawandas in According to Coote, even with a The band of Tonawandas Post 264 1988 was the Aurora American Legion flamboyant performance, no band can was founded in 1929 by WWI veterans Band and the third place Sikora Post be a Legion national champion without and has been the New York Department American Legion Band, also from talented and dedicated musicians who champion since 1947. In addition to its Tonawandas, NY. are committed to practice. This past 1988 victory, the band won national At the Baltimore Convention, the year, the Tonawandas band practiced at American Legion competitions in 1972 band contest will be at 1 1 a.m. , Sept. 2, least one night a week in addition to and 1986. It also has performed con- at The Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in performing in about 12 concerts and six certs in many U.S. cities and at the Hopkins Plaza, two blocks from the parades. In preparation for the 1988 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Convention site. Five bands, including convention competition, the Tonawandas Memorial. Tonawandas are expected to compete band endured a grueling schedule, prac- Like the other 176 Post-sponsored for the right to be called the Comman- ticing from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for three bands, the Tonawandas band is com- der's Band and the first place prize, days before the contest. prised of people from all walks of life. which has been raised this year to "The long hours spent practicing Their ages range from the low 20s to the $2,000. " created tension and under that tension, our performance jumped up a couple of levels," said Jim Perone, a saxophonist in the Tonawandas Band. "We thrive on intensity, though." However, Coote said the pressure also gets to some performers. "I've seen people get violently sick at the contest, it's so tense," he said. An obvious prerequisite for any championship band is talent and, according to David Abrahamian, the Tonawandas band manager, his group's depth in talent enabled them to win the 1988 contest and the $1 ,500 first prize. "We were able to show off each part of our band through the music we selected, and we don't have any weak sections," Abrahamian said. The dedication of the Tonawandas band members is reflected in their weekly practices and commitment to each other. Some members, like Perone, are so dedicated that when their regular jobs prevented them from leaving with the band for the Louisville POPULAR PERFORMERS— The band brings national recognition to Post 264 through convention, they flew there at their own its concerts and parade performances throughout the United States.

AUGUST 1989 37 SPRING NEC MEETING

Veterans' Medical Care

In Peril, Gierke Warns

More than a decode ofVA underbudgeting is now taking its toll, Natl Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke told the National Executive

Committee. "The Legion is fighting to keep the VA health-care system intact for veterans who need special care" he said.

chronically anemic nated. VA's woeful budgeting in recent budget threatens to derail years also threatens the agency in other VA'sthe delivery of health care areas. for veterans, Nat'l Cmdr. "The budgeting problem has reached H.F. "Sparky" Gierke crisis proportions," Dr. Harry N. Beaty warned the national lead- told the NEC. "Unless something is ership of The American done to correct the constant deficits, Legion, during the 1989 VA's affiliations with certain univer- NEC Spring Meeting in sities and medical schools may be Indianapolis, May 10-11. jeopardized." Beaty, dean of North- "Veterans are concerned about the western University Medical School, an VA medical system — and rightfully institution affiliated with Lakeside so," Gierke said in his opening remarks VAMC in Chicago, said affiliation to the National Executive Committee in programs provide medical students, Indianapolis. "More than a decade of nurses and other health professionals underbudgeting VA medical programs with valuable clinical and research finally has caught up with reality. It's a experience in VA hospitals. In turn, VA reality where hospital beds are being hospitals are able to maintain staff eliminated and veterans are being levels and have an employment pool turned down for vital medical treatment." from which to draw. VA has affiliations OTHER THREATS -Dr. Harry N. Beaty, Plagued by a massive deficit. Con- dean of the Northwestern University with 103 of the nation's 127 medical gress was forced to appropriate an Medical School, said that VA affilia- schools. additional $340 million during the tions with medical schools are also in "The ability to sustain meaningful current fiscal year to keep VA medical jeopardy. education programs for doctors and programs from going bust. For years, nurses is being affected," Beaty said, the Legion has warned Capitol Hill that warning that some medical schools the VA's annual budget was insufficient who need special care." might be forced to discontinue their to meet the medical needs of veterans. Gierke cited the VA Medical Center affiliation programs if VA health care is "There can be no doubt whatso- in Albuquerque, N.M., as one example allowed to erode. ever that the integrity and future of how underbudgeting has affected Beaty said additional appropriations of VA health care is at a crossroads health care. Budget cuts earlier this don't come close to dealing with years today," Gierke said. "The American year forced the facility to lay off medi- of underbudgeting. The Legion and Legion is fighting to keep the VA cal workers, and as a result, treatment other experts have estimated the health-care system intact and ensure for non-service-connected veterans — 8 agency's fiscal shortfall is between

that it continues to serve veterans percent of the patients — was elimi- $650 million to $1 billion.

38 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Problems abound in other areas, especially in VA outpatient clinics. "We have about 150,000 visits to our facility (Lakeside VAMC) each year," Beaty said. "This is a facility that was built years ago and designed to handle less than 25 percent of that volume." Beaty also said VA's budget problems

have made it difficult for the agency to recruit and retain high-quality physi- cians and other health specialists because VA technology in many areas lags behind advances in the private sector. "All of these factors directly or indirectly have an effect on the future of affiliation," Beaty said. "And if you don't believe affiliation programs are important, consider this: More than 50 percent of (American) physicians today received some portion of their training at VA facilities." Some believe the solution to VA's FIXED BAYONET— On behalf of the Michigan Department, George E. Harvey budget problems can be solved by presents a statue of a World War I doughboy to Natl Cmdr. Gierke. The statue is consolidating the agency's health-care displayed in the library at National Headquarters. services with those of the Department of Defense. The Legion adamantly opposes merging medical services, man of the Legion's Veterans Affairs the Centers for Disease Control to study

arguing that it would rob VA and DoD and Rehabilitation Commission; NEC- the health effects of Agent Orange. of their autonomies and seriously man Charles F. Langel of Nevada; and During the meeting, the NECmen hamper their capabilities to fufill their A.V. "Bubba" Akin of Georgia, a also were warned about federal budget respective missions. VA primarily member of VA&R's executive section. cuts that jeopardize national security. treats an older generation and special- The team will visit VA medical facilities Roger A. Munson, chairman of the izes in chronic care and rehabilitation; nationwide and evaluate the effects of Legion's National Security Commis- DoD hospitals serve a younger genera- sharing agreements. sion, said a proposed $10 billion cut in tion of military men and women, and Among other key resolutions passed DoD's FY '90 budget will result in the their families. by the NEC was Res. 8, which officially deactivation of an Army mechanized "The American Legion sees this endorsed the findings of The American brigade, retirement of the aircraft proposal for what it really is — the Legion and Columbia University Study carrier USS Coral Sea and seven breaking of a moral contract with of Vietnam Veterans and urged an , and troop reductions in the America's veterans," Gierke said. investigation into what happened to the Air Force. Overall, the military "Delivery of health care to our ever- millions of taxpayers' dollars given to strength will be reduced by 16,000 increasing aging veteran population is troops in the next fiscal year. The in jeopardy if lawmakers follow ill- administration also has proposed advised proposals to consolidate VA slashing Strategic Defense Initiative and military medical services." spending $1 billion. The NEC reaffirmed Legion opposi- "While some may argue that the tion to consolidation when it adopted changes in the Soviet Union under Res. 29, one of the 45 resolutions Gorbachev have reduced the threat to passed at the meeting. our national security, we cannot lower "Merging veterans' health care with our guard," Munson said. "Despite military hospitals is an unacceptable political rhetoric and promises to proposition, and we cannot afford to let reduce their military, the Soviets it become a reality," Gierke said. continue to build and improve their The Legion is not opposed to VA and forces throughout the world." military hospitals sharing equipment The following program and policy and other vital medical materials. resolutions were passed by the NEC:

However, some believe that share Res. 1 supports amending Title 38, U.S. agreements, if not monitored, will Code, to authorize adult-day care, respite and hospice care on a cost-sharing basis snowball into medical mergers. between VA and state veterans' homes. The Legion plans to monitor the Res. 2 urges Congress to ensure that quality of veterans' health care at VA DoD weapons systems are purchased and procured from manufacturers. and DoD facilities where sharing STEPPING DOWN -A special resolu- U.S. Res. 3 supports automatic waiver of tion commended W.D. "Cuz" Harrell of agreements exist. Nat'l Cmdr. Gierke premium on VA insurance for 100 percent Georgia, who retired from the NEC appointed a task force composed of permanently and totally disabled veterans. after 26 years. Chester F. Stellar of Ohio, vice chair- Please turn to page 49

AUGUST 1989 39 .

$1 BILLION FORECLOSURE?

AVY veteran Dave James The VA home loon The home-loan program guarantees of Houston, Texas, attained commercial lenders that if a veteran his American Dream in progrom is losing defaults on a loan, VA will pay up to 50 1987 when he purchased percent of a loan to $45,000, and 40 billion yearly. his family's first house $1 percent for loans more than $45,000, through the VA's Home The couses ore with a maximum guarantee of $36 ,000 Loan Guaranty program. In most cases, VA pays off the entire His dream became a night- mony, but the loan to protect its interest. Many of the mare a year later when solutions ore few properties purchased by veterans he was laid off from his job at the oil during boom times at inflated prices refinery. Mortgage payments mounted, ond uncertoin. had to be sold at rock-bottom prices and the bank foreclosed on James' loan. during bust times, especially in high- James and other veterans in similar default areas such as Houston and circumstances have watched their plans Denver. Worse, many of the foreclosed for home ownership fade in the past few properties remain unsold. years as some U.S. industries have Another reason why the loan pro- fallen on hard times and were forced to gram has flirted with insolvency can be let employees go. As house payments traced to VA's Direct Loan portfolio, fell behind, VA lenders foreclosed, and which, for many years, provided loans vacated properties sat empty and to those unable to obtain credit from unsold, pushing the VA Home Loan private lenders. Principal and interest Guaranty program to the verge of bank- payments collected from veterans were ruptcy. In each of the past two years, placed into a revolving fund. As the Congress has been forced to appro- fund grew, money was transferred to priate almost $1 billion to bail out the cover veterans' defaulted loans in the VA loan program. guaranty program, negating the need "The problems plaguing the program for additional appropriations. show no signs of disappearing soon," "The program was never intended to said Joe Frank Jr., chairman of The be a profit center for VA," Frank said,

American Legion Economic Commis- "but it did maintain a steady cash flow." sion. "Another $1 billion shortage Then a not-so-funny thing happened on looms ahead in fiscal year 1990." the way to the bank — VA was forced to What has caused one of govern- sell more than $2 billion of its Direct ment's most successful programs, one Loan portfolio to help offset the federal that has helped more than 13 million deficit crunch in the early 1980s. veterans buy homes since 1944, to "The primary source of supplemen- teeter on the edge of financial disaster? tary income to support the loan pro- One of the major factors has been gram during its lean years was unemployment, especially among vet- LOST DREAMS— About 25,000 veter- siphoned, and unemployment con- erans working in the severely crippled ans lose their homes in foreclosures tinued to balloon among veterans with oil industry region between Texas and each year. VA-backed loans," Frank said. Colorado. As unemployment surged, Legion officials have cautioned that the number of defaults on VA-backed deficit-offsetting appropriations, which loans increased dramatically. About in some veterans owing as much as 40 have been allocated every fiscal year 25,000 veterans like Dave James lose percent of their income to mortgage since 1984, are only quick-fix solutions their properties and homes on loan payments. and do not address the underlying foreclosures each year, and VA buys • VA personnel cuts that caused poor causes of the problem. back the property. or neglected screening and counseling Some members of Congress believe Other reasons for the home-loan pro- practices in processing VA home loans. the home-loan program can be salvaged gram's problems include: • VA failure to sell repossessed prop- through mortgage indemnity fees • Poor lending practices that resulted erties before their values began to fall. Please turn to page 45

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Vietnam Vets Forum For Saving My Life!" Set Fop Convention

HE myriad them by Francis Scott Key. health and so- Britt Small and Festival cial problems will headline this year's faced by many entertainment, which also Vietnam combat includes military ensembles veterans will be examined in and Legion marching bands. a forum at The American Le- Conventioneers will be gion's 71st National Conven- treated to wide range of tion at Baltimore, Sept. 1-7. ethnic foods that have The Vietnam Veterans become the trademark of Forum will be led by Drs. Baltimore. Activities begin Jeanne and Steven Stellman, at noon. the co-directors of The Later on Labor Day, American Legion and Co- Gierke and American Legion Baltimore Convention Center Mezzanine Level lumbia University Study of Auxiliary President Alice Monday, September 4 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Vietnam Veterans. Discus- Galka will throw out the first Tuesday & Wednesday. September 5 & 6 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m sions will center on several ball at "American Legion aspects of the study, includ- Baseball Night" at Memorial ing the health problems of Stadium. The game between veterans who were exposed the Cleveland Indians and * to Agent Orange and the the Orioles begins at 7:35 NA+E Be a N»i/oiijI Convention Slootf Dortw • Give idc QiH of Lite ^ ) % * , multitude of social and p.m. A pre-game ceremony psychological problems will include color guards faced by combat veterans. from the Department of The Sheraton Inner Harbor "The historical and cul- The findings of the land- Maryland and a presentation and Stouffer Harborplace tural offerings of Baltimore mark Legion study were pub- of gifts to players on both hotels are co-headquarters provide a unique opportunity lished in the December 1988 teams who are graduates of for the convention and to Legionnaires and their issue of Environmental Re- American Legion Baseball. national staff. Both are families," Gierke said. search. The forum will be Convention business will located downtown near the "That's what makes it the held at 9 a.m., Monday, begin Tuesday, Sept. 5, when scenic Inner Harbor. ideal convention city." Sept. 4, at the Baltimore delegates convene to con- Convention Center. "The sider 1989-90 resolutions. forum is intended to clear up Several dignitaries will problems and attempt to speak during the three-day answer questions that may Convention, which will cul- Legion World Series On TV still linger about the study," minate with the election of IT press time, The Legion plans to use said Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. the new National Commander. ESPN had agreed some of the commercial time "Sparky" Gierke. As usual, the Legion will in principle to during the game to promote

Later that day. Legion- conduct a blood drive, which i televise the final its programs and member-

naires will have the chance will be held at the Conven- A I game of The ship, and to tell The Amer- to unwind at the fourth tion Center, Sept. 4-6. Last American Legion World ican Legion story. Commer- annual Legion Festival. The year. Legionnaires in Louis- Series, to be played Aug. 27 cial sponsors also are being theme of this year's event, ville donated 160 units of in Millington, Tenn. The sought for the telecast. which will be held indoors at blood, and Legion officials championship game, sched- This year, almost 79,000 the Convention Center, is "A expect to equal or better that uled to be aired Aug. 29 at young people played Amer-

Star-Spangled Celebration mark this year. "Legion- 1 p.m. EST, will feature the ican Legion Baseball, and of Faith, Freedom and Fam- naires always rally to this two finalists out of 4,000 currently more than 50 per- ily," in recognition of the worthy cause," said Roger A. teams that started the season cent of major-league baseball 175th anniversary of the Munson, chairman of the Na- this past May and June in 50 players participated in writing of the National An- tional Security Commission. states and . Legion baseball.

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Gierke Speaks At His Post On Memorial Day

T'S as impor- comrades and never forget tant that this their sacrifices." special day be Gierke, the Legion's first observed in Vietnam veteran National places such as Commander, also asked his

Watford City as it is in listeners to remember POWs Arlington National Ceme- and MIAs who are still unac- tery," Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. counted for. "Sparky" Gierke told Le- Although Gierke's duties gionnaires and others attend- as state Supreme Court Jus- ing Memorial Day services tice required him and his in Watford City, N.D. family to move to the capital Gierke, a life member of at Bismarck, he still holds a Carl E. Rogen Post 29, Wat- fondness for the Post and ford City, gave the keynote town where he became a address at Veterans Memo- Legionnaire. "Veterans rial Park. "The men and Memorial Park holds special RETURNS— Nat'/ Cmdr. Gierke visits Watford City, N.D. women we honor today were memories for me," he said, our friends and our neigh- recalling that he and his bors," he said. "Their lives friends played American The American Legion was its county. Each year the came to an end in faraway Legion Baseball on a base- established, erected flag- Legion Post conducts Memo- lands; we returned home to ball diamond nearby. poles in the park to fly the rial Day services with the continue our lives. It's our Post 29, which received its nation's colors for deceased local Veterans of Foreign duty to remember our fallen charter in 1919 shortly after veterans in Watford City and Wars post.

timore next month. He was First Randy, Now Rodney sponsored by Post 27, Warren. BETTER TIMES Votava, the son of Mr. and REFUNDS Mrs. Donald Votava, main- Votava Takes Scout Honors refunds are avail- tains a 94.23 grade-point FULL able to Legionnaires J. Vo- ODNEY average at Warren High and American Legion tava, 17, a War- School. He plans to attend Auxiliary members who ren, Minn. the University of North , subscribed to the defunct high-school Dakota and study aviation or Better Times magazine in R junior, has been prepare for a teaching career. 1985. named the 1989 American Eagle Scout since 1986, An Subscribers who have Legion Scout of the Year. He he has received five palms not already filed for follows in the footsteps of and earned more than 50 claims should write to: brother Randy, who was the merit badges. National Judge Advocate, Legion's 1986 Scout of the Named runners-up for the The American Legion, Year. Their older brother, Jef- award and receiving $2,000 P.O. Box 1055, Indianap- frey, was the 1984 Min- scholarships are Robert M. olis, IN 46206. Please nesota American Legion Boyer, 17, sponsored by enclose a copy of the can- Boy Scout of the Year. Post Ocala Memorial 27, celed check (front and Votava will receive an Fla.; Scott L. Cornie, 18, back) and a copy of any $8,000 college scholarship Beaverton, Ore.; Post 124, other correspondence or from the Legion and an all- P. IV, and William Guerard documentation of the expense-paid trip to the 1989 Rodney J. Votava 17, Alberta City Post 123, subscription. National Convention in Bal- Ala.

AUGUST 1989 43 Legionnaires in action

Issuing a challenge . . . finally getting LEGIONNAIRE a medal . . . honaring Ira Hayes . . . burying

Civil War vets . . . promoting Post honor OF THE MONTH

guards . . . helping an injured youth.

reebles-Vaughn-Wideman Post 253, rial Day ceremony. The Union soldiers, Festus, has issued a challenge to other missing in action for 125 years, were Missouri Posts to donate $1 per Post members of the 55th Massachusetts member to the Missouri Veterans Volunteer Regiment and the legendary Memorial construction fund. Post 253 54th Massachusetts, the first black Commander Dick Hudson and Adjutant regiment in American history. The sol- Homer Boyer recently presented a diers' remains were discovered during check for $971 , the number of mem- new construction on Folly Island, S.C. bers in their Post, to Joe Kist, depart- ment finance commission chairman. Evelyn Poe of Post 1, Tulsa, Okla., reminds posts with honor guards to Robert H. Lawson 'ecause of bureaucratic red tape and spread the word in their communities snafus, many GIs wait long periods that they are available for all veterans' becoming a Legionnaire before they receive the medals they funerals. SINCEa decade ago, Robert H. Lawson is a of her post's example have earned. One of the most recent of Poe, who member has become a shining honor guard, said a friend of hers did of The American Legion spirit these veterans is not call them because she was una- of service to others. R. Lee Fisher, who on ware that veterans were eligible for the Lawson, a of Post finally received his member sad to realize that others recently Distinguished Fly- service. "I was 202, Douglas, Kan., they are eligible," she finished his consecutive term as ing Cross after 44 may not know second that coincided years. Fisher, Past said. Post Commander, a term Department Com- with a year serving as County Comman- mander of Mary- der. During that time, Lawson led Injured Simeon High School football efforts to the omitted of a land, was presented add name player Kenneth Jennings received Wall," a with the DFC and citation by PNCs Kansan to "The Moving $3,500, the proceeds from a benefit Veterans Robert E. L. Eaton and Clarence Bacon mobile model of the Vietnam dance given by Dorie Miller Post 915, Memorial. at Post 168, Thurmont, Md. Fisher Chicago. Representing the Post were veteran also spear- climbed into a B-17's open bomb bay The Vietnam Andrew Mosley, benefit chairman Veterans Day observances in his without a parachute or oxygen mask headed (left), and Post Cmdr. Charles Clark. county, speaking at and manually dropped a dozen 250- hometown and patriotic ceremonies at three schools pound bombs over Germany in 1945. and a cemetery. He also used his powers of persuasion to get Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden to speak at Post 202 's Memorial Ira H. Hayes Post 84, Sacaton, Ariz., Day Services last year. seeks help in raising $75,000 to erect a Lawson's involvement in Post and monument of its namesake, the Pima community programs extends to other Indian Marine who participated in the areas, as well. He has served on schol- historic flag raising on Iwo Jima in arship committees and selection com- World War II. The Post plans to dedi- mittees for Boys State, and works cate the monument on Oct. 1, during extensively with Boy Scouts. He also the second annual Ira H. Hayes Recog- has been active in projects to help the nition Day. Write to Post 84, P.O. Box needy and elderly in Douglas. 186, Sacaton, AR 85247. "Bob Lawson is a dedicated and con- cerned Legionnaire," said Dale L. Kerr, assistant adjutant of the Kansas Depart- hen the remains of 19 black Civil Wh ment. "He's always willing to help, and War veterans were reinterred at the whenever there's a need, you can national cemetery in Beaufort, S.C., depend on Bob Lawson being the first Legionnaires and Auxiliary members one to raise his hand and volunteer." of William E. Carter Post 16, Matta- pan, Mass. , were present for the Memo-

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FORECLOSURE WHY RENT CABLE WHEN YOU CAN Continuedfrom page 40 BUYA TV SATELLITE ./ SYSTEM^eV99m charged to veterans who obtain VA- backed loans. The fee would be used to (The Same Way the Cable Co.'s Get Their Signal) eliminate a veteran's remaining loan Start to View Some of The obligation if a foreclosed property is OVER 200 STATIONS OUT THERE FOR YOU sold at an amount less than the DID YOU KNOW THAT SATELLITE TV mortgage balance. That proposal was • IS MUCH CLEARER THAN CABLE included in H.R. 5221, which cleared • BRINGS IN PURE STEREO RECEPTION- BETTER THAN ANY SYSTEM YOU CAN the House and, at press time, was being BUY considered by the Senate. r ABC' The veteran's share of the indemnity fee would be 1.25 percent of the loan amount; however, the fee would decrease to 0.75 percent if the veteran made a 5 percent down payment on the home. The government would con- tribute an additional .075 percent of the • VIEW OVER 200 CHANNELS The best EVERYTHING YOU book of its loan amount over a three-year period. . . . FREE. 50x MORE THAN WANT TO KNOW kind to Service-connected disabled veterans PAY CABLE SYSTEMS show you ABOUT SATELLITE TV would not have to pay the indemnity • HIGHER QUALITY PICTURE how you • Colorful, exciting and up-to-date. Shows how easy it is to get in on the fee. AND SOUND THAN CABLE can get the revolution in television viewing. The Legion lent its support to the • VIEW WHAT YOU WANT right system • Uses friendly, simply written language at the right -with over 200 photos and illustrations. indemnity fee proposal by adopting FROM DISNEY to XXX price. • Saves you money selecting your system and planning your own home Res. 472 at the 1988 National Conven- • Movies • Cinemax • HBO • Sports Network earth station. tion at Louisville, Ky. Frank said the • Disney • Arts And Entertainment • Movie ONLY Channel • TV From Around The World • Guides you through all the channels fee would be a far better alternative • Shopping Networks • Financial News Network and programming so you'll be an • News Network • Super Stations • Erotic expert "bird-watcher" in no time. than hiking the current 1 percent user's Entertainment • Playboy Channel • X Rated • Even shows you how to Fantasy Unrestricted Network $795 fee. "The user's fee is nothing but a • UNSCRAMBLE the Scrambled (You Can Lock These Out When You Want) Signals tax," Frank said. "Veterans get the Legally! privilege of paying for an entitlement THERE'S SOMETHING EXCITING UP THERE ...FOR ANYONE they have already earned. least the At Why pay $39 or more, each month for just 21 channels when you can have 100 or more channels. . .for just pennies a month. mortgage fee provides peace of mind if 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE a veteran ever becomes financially TRYJT SATELLITE TV, Dept. 7007 (615) 254-7230 strapped and faces foreclosure. RBST! I 300 McCann St. Nashville, TN 37210

"When a veteran loses his home, he I YOU CAN EVEN RENT Please rush me the Basic Guide to Satellite TV for only $7.95. Add $1.50 for postage and handling. loses a part of the American Dream," A SATELLITE SYSTEM | Enclosed is check or money order for my $ , Frank said. "The American Legion, as AND GET CREDIT FOR | 0R char e t0 m VISA 1=1 MasterCard. co-author of the legislation that created YOUR PAYMENTS WHEN I 9 V n EXP. the home-loan program, feels obligated YOU PURCHASE IT. | ACCT NO DATE. not only to help find a fiscally appro- And now local ordinances do not apply. The government I NAME. priate solution, but also to ensure that ruled that local ordinances veterans who need this type of readjust- cannot restrict a dish —We'll I ADDRESS. even tell you where to lease a ment benefit will continue to get it." system for less than cable CITY

with an option to'buy it. I STATE ZIP. © 1989 NCC CORP TAPS r CANADIAN GEESE* Friends & Neighbors Will Ask Oral O. Cox, SC Department Commander (1971-72), "Are They Real"? Department Vice Commander (1968-70). LAWN ORNAMENTS Regis F. Cusick, PA Department Commander (1963-64), Department Vice Commander (1958-59). 20" Tall No, they're not real — but they sure look like Conrad J. Erickson, MN Department Commander (1983- Authentic Markings real Canadian Geese. Lifesized and authentically 84), Department Vice Commander (1976-77). Harry L. Foster, CA National Executive Committeeman Colored they measure about 20" tall. Crafted from (1949-52), Alternate National Executive Committeeman 100% EXTERIOR GRADE Materials. Ground Stakes (1948-49), Department Commander (1947-48), St. attached — just press into ground. Especially Louis Caucas. Robert J. Jackson, FL Department Commander (1986- effective when places in groupings — and our 87), Department Vice Commander (Northern Area) special multiple prices are so very low. (1983-84). Canadian $4.88 Dan C. McDonough, National Vice Commander (1981- No. 8177 — Goose 82), AK Department Commander (1975-76), Depart- Two Only $9 - Three Only $12 - Six Only $21 ment Vice Commander (1973-75). Mail Order with check, cash or money order. Include $2.85 postages handling fee (non- refundable). Allow 3- 5 weeks delivery. Woodrow William Sinkular, SD Department Comman- All merchandise shipped under no risk, 30 day home trial. N.Y.S. residents must include local sales tax. Send order to: der (1975-76), Department Vice Commander (1974-75). Carl J. Studer, France Department Commander (1969- 2345 70), Department Vice Commander (1968-69). UQ^ER-1R^UN^,JER._200/|L P0SJ_R^.,JMCHM0NX_ NJJp538j

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Veterans alert

Donald Johnson. 3027 Dawn Dr., Lake Havasu City, AZ William Bullard Jr., Rt. 1, Box 245, Wagram, NC 28396 86403 (602) 764-3646 (919)369-2348 OUTFIT REUNIONS 161st Inf., 25th Div., Cannon Co. (Dec-Orlando, FL) Joe 808th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Oct-Metairie, LA) Leland Poblocki, 259 St. Charles St., Winona, MN 55987 Durbin, Rt. — (507) 2, Box 83-B, Amite. LA 70422 (504) 748-5694 Guidelines Outfit Reunion notices must be 452-9106 820th Engr. AVN Bn. HQ Co. (Aug-State College, PA) submitted on official forms only. To obtain forms, send a 180th Inf., 45th Div., H Co. (Thunderbird) (Sept- David Parsons, 81 Dudley Rd., Wethersfield, CT 06109 self-addressed, stamped envelope to: O R. Form, The Ardmore, OK) Kenneth Converse, Box 245, Tishomingo, (203) 563-3439 American Legion Magazine, PO. Box 1055, Indianapolis, OK 73460 (405)371-3235 840th Engr. AVN Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Jackson, MS) Floyd IN 46206. Notices must be received at least five months 195th Ord. Dpt. Co. (Korea) (Sept-King of Prussia, PA) Wells, 2906 Blossom St., Columbia, SC 29205 (803) before reunions are scheduled and will be published only Adolph Lightman. 1945 Guernsey Ave., Abington, PA 799-7616 on first-come, first-served a basis. Notices are published 19001(215)885-1962 893rd AAA AW Bn., A Btry. (Sept-Wildwood, NJ) Al only one time unit per per year. 204th CA AA Rgt. Assn. (WWII) (Oct-Shreveport. LA) Vitolo, 305 S. Mam St., Cape May Court House, NJ Raymond Norwood, 2038 Bermuda St., Shreveport, LA 08210 (609) 465-7673 71105(318)865-7620 974th Engr. Maint. Co. (Aug-Berea, KY) Oneal LeMay, 204th F.A. (Little Joe) (Oct-Las Vegas, NV) F.A. Lingner, 1277 Fork Church Rd., Lancaster, KY 40444 (606) 792- Army 3633 Fox Run, Cibolo, TX 78108 (512) 629-2140 6061 214th MP Co. (Aug-Marion, IN) C. Joy, Box 611, Marion, IN 998th Engr. Const. Bn., HQ/Serv. Cos. (1951) (Oct-Jim 46952 (317) 662-6507 Falls, Wl) Bailen Faldet, 910 15th Ave. N.E., Rochester, 3rd Cav. Grp., 3rd & 43rd Recn. Sqdns. (Sept-Novi. Ml) 226th AAA S/L Bn., C Btry. (Sept-Cranford, NJ) A.J. MN 55904 (507) 282-3453

Jim Schovan, 1509 Dorothea. Berkley, Ml 48072 (313) DiMaggio, 67 Westfield Ave., Clark, NJ 07066 (201 ) 382- 1257th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Little Rock, AR) Alvin 542-8094 8563 Strauss Jr., 5500 S. Grandview Rd., Little Rock, AR 4th Replacement Dpt. (1942-49) (Sept-Kansas City. 237th A A Bn., B Btry. (Sept-Nashua, NH) Albert Coffey, 5 72207 MO) Jack Hollingsworth, 11207 Northwood Lake. Laconia Ave.. Nashua. NH 03060 (603) 595-9878 3094th QM Refrig. Co. (Fixed) (Oct-Atlanta) B.L. Northport, AL 35476 260th AA Arty. Assn. (Oct-Bethesda. MD) Joseph Cannon, Rt. 1, Box 342, Palmetto, GA 30268 (404) 463- 8th Inf. Div. Band (WWII) (Oct-Houston) Warrend Trammell. 6819 Benjamin St.. McLean, VA 22101 (703) 3783 Fredrick, 3514 Saddleback Ln., Lutz, FL 33549 (813) 356-1993 3527th Ord. Med. Auto. Maint. Co. (Sept-Canton, OH) 961 -2732 280th F.A. Bn. (Sept) Ken Keating, 640 Hospitality Dr., Harold Ritz, 204 Parkland, S.W., Massillon, OH 44646 9th Rgt., 2nd Inf. Div. B Co. (Oct-San Antonio. TX) Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 (619) 324-1101 (216) 837-9353 Vernon Woody, Box 641, Princeton, TX 75077 (214) 736- 301st Ord. Rgt., 4th Bn., 976th Ord., N Co. (Sept- Los Angeles Military Police (Sept-Omaha. NE) Thur- 3393 Wichita, KS) Paul Grate, 3204 Bonn. Wichita, KS 67214 man Williams, 1165 Holgate Ave., Maumee, OH 43537 15th Tank-Tk, 351st Inf. Rgt. (Trust) (Oct-Orlando, FL) (316) 943-8609 Station Hospital (Camp Edwards, MA) (Aug-Cape Cod, James Robblee, 5773 Olde Wadsworth, Arvada, CO 303rd Inf., 97th Div., Anti-Tank Co. (WWII) (Sept- MA) Edward Spinard, 62 Archer St., Pawtucket, Rl 02861 80002(303)421-2308 Columbus, OH) Fred Kempski, 152 W. 13th St., Deer 16th Arm'd F.A. Bn., 9th Arm'd Div. (Oct-Pittsburgh) Park, NY 11729 David Kessler, A-10 Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA 304/610th Ord. Bns. (Sept-So Sterling, PA) Hank Lusch, 15146 (412)372-8480 5023 N Main. Box 11. Longlake, Ml 48743 517) 257- ( Navy 16th Evac. Hospital (WWII) (Sept-St. Louis) Mrs. H. 3852 Church, 52 Leitch Ave., Skaneateles, NY 13152 (315) 314th Inf., 79th Div., G Co. (Sept-Hapeville, GA) PH. 685-6603 Barnett. 3041 Gordon Cir., Hapeville. GA 30354 (404) 3rd NCB (WWII) (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) Alice Syposs.

18th Machine Records Unit Mbl. (Oct-Atlantic City, NJ) 768-1541 551 Woodward Ave , No. Tonawanda. NY 14120 (716) William Smith, 24 Kettle Creek Dr., Brick, NJ 08723 (201 335th Rgt., 84th Inf. Div. G Co. (Sept-Greers Ferry, AR) 693-6555

477-0372 Romie Cole, Rt. 1, Box 92, Greers Ferry, AR 72067 (501 9th Spec. NCB (Sept-Indianapolis) Jerome Gulsvig, Box 23rd Inf., 2nd Div. F Co. (WWII) (Oct-Lanston, SC) Buck 825-7113 265, Brooten, MN 56316 (612) 346-2542 Harmon, 303 Hendrix, Lexington, SC 29072 339th/1179th Engrs. (Oct-St. Louis) Joseph Hofnchter, 51 st NCB (Sept-Federal Way, WA) Fred Bassett, 1030 27th Div. Assn. (Sept-Saratoga Springs. NY) Stanley 1718 Bird Dog Ct., Loveland, OH 45140 (513) 677-0267 Pike, N.E., Auburn, WA 98002 (206) 833-0666 Resue, 31 Main St., Ballston Lake, NY 12019 346th Ord. Dpt. Co. (Oct-Pittsburgh) Walter Martin. 3969 61st Seabees (Sept-Gulf Shores, AL) George Nelms, 32nd Cav. Recon. Trp. (Oct-Tomah, Wl) M.H. Shafman. Quince Rd., Plymouth, IN 46563 (219) 936-4900 4136 Fredricksburg Dr.. College Park, GA 30337 (404) 205 Averill St., Sparta, Wl 54656 (608) 269-4119 357th Trans. Co. (Vietnam/1968-69) (Oct-Hagerstown. 767-6260

32nd Station Hospital (Nov-St Petersburg Beach, FL) MD) J.M. Sipes. 454 Pangborn Blvd , Hagerstown, MD 70th Seabees, 1005/1006/578/579 Detachs. (Sept- Willard Havemeier, Rt. 2, Box 160, Conestoga, PA 17516 21740 (301) 790-1053 Niagara Falls. NY) Walter Siergiej, 6664 Wayne Dr., (717)872-5501 359th Engrs., F Co. (Sept-Evansville. IN) Raymond Derby, NY 14047 33rd Arm'd Engr. Bn., 7th Arm'd Div., A Co. (Sept- Schroeder, 1001 N. Schroeber Ln.. Evansville. IN 47712 Corry Boot Camp 1942, Corry/Whittng Field Sq. 8C Topeka, KS) Dan Harbison, 4811 Fairmont Ave.. Pas- (812)985-2816 (Sept-Kansas City, MO) Mark Whiteaker. 807 Lake

cagoula, MS 39567 (601 ) 762-6366 361st Inf. Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Phoenix. AZ) Walter Manor Dr., Box 471, Trenton, MO 64683 (816) 359-2079 35th Rgt., 25th Div. H Co. (WWII) (Sept-Springfield, IL) Barton, 12011 S. Oneida St., Phoenix. AZ 85044 (602) N.A.T.T.C. & NAS (Norman, OK) (Sept-Norman, OK)

Clare Johnson, Rt. 1, Box 14, Shannon City, IA 50861 893-3288 Framcis Brandt, 1067 S.E. 42nd St., Loveland, CO (515) 772-4271 389th Port Bn. T.C. (Sept-Callicoon. NY) Russell Carl, 80537 (303) 669-6083 36th Engr. Rgt. (C) (WWII) (Nov-Lebanon, PA) Irving 710 Chimes Rd., Paramus, NJ 07652 Navy Air Transport Serv. (Sept-Frankfort, Germany) Cherney, 3032 Braelock Cir., Clearwater, FL 34621 (813) 405th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Roanoke, VA) Warren Victor Kish, 12716 Silver Ln., Sugar Creek, MO 64050 799-3093 Dillard, 2033 10th St. N.W., Roanoke, VA 24012 (703) (816)461-3190 37th Div. Vets (FL Chapter) (Nov-Orlando, FL) D.E. 366-3576 Navy Mats/NATWING PAC (VR3/6/7/8/22) (Nov-

Martin, 5125 Jo St., Zephyrhills, FL 34248 (813) 782- 413th Inf. Rgt.. 104th Div., I Co. (WWII) (Aug-Kansas Beach, VA) Monte Umphress, 1348 Hanchett Ave., San 2289 City, MO) Dale Rigdon, 1303 S. Austin Blvd., Cicero, IL Jose. CA 95126 (408) 295-0218 44th Div. Signal Co. (Nov-Pigeon Forge, TN) Harold 60650 Submarine Rescue Vessels (Oct-Pensacola. FL) Pete Franz, 419 N. Ash St., Deshler, OH 43516 (419) 278-2811 438th AAA AW Bn. (Oct-Baltimore) Charles Hoyt. 6945 Poisson, 1500 3rd Ave., #33, Chula Vista, CA 92011

56th General Hospital (Oct-Mystic. CT) Winston German Hill Rd.. Baltimore. MD 21222 (301 ) 284-6857 (619) 426-9893 Hawkins. Box 82. Mansfield Center. CT 06250 (203) 423- 486th Bomb Grp. (H) (Sept-Tucson, AZ) John Pedersen, UDT 12 Frogmen/USS Bates (Oct-Dallas) Wayne Morris, 3656 507 Nannette Dr.. St. Louis, MO 63125 (314) 892-1482 1910 Berkley. Dallas. TX 75224 (214) 337-1502 65th Signal Bn. (Oct-Nashville, TN) Troy Spear, Box 9, 512th Engr. L.P. Co. (Sept-Nagshead, NC) Frank Unit C, Co. 149, Sampson Nav. Trng. Sta. (Sept- Burkesville, KY 42717 (502) 433-7604 Lonergen, 5908 Camberly, Springfield. VA 22150 (703) Waterloo, NY) William Russell, 3916 Idumea Rd., 76th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Elliott Cutler 451-4123 Corryton, TN 37721 (615) 933-0031 Jr., Jackson Ave., Rt. 2, New Windor, NY 12550 (914) 537th AAA AW Bn. (Oct-St. Paul, MN) Gilbert Unger, 1308 USS Allen M. Sumner DD 692 (Battle of Ormoc Bay 496-6808 Neva Dr., Dayton, OH 45414 (513) 278-2803 participates) (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Roy Ferguson, 145 82nd Arm'd Ren. Bn., 2nd Arm'd Div. (Oct-Statesville. 552nd AAA Bn. Assn. (Oct-Chicopee, MA) Earl Soucie, N E. Fatima Terr.. Port St. Lucie, FL 34983 (407) 878- NC) Russell Cunningham, 13155 Walters Rd., Mar- 5Tyrone St., Springfield. MA 01104 (413) 733-6222 3422 tinsville, IN 46151 (317) 528-2420 553rd Army Engrs. (Sept-Neenah, Wl) Ray Wippich, 98 USS Arizona Assn. (Dec-Tucson. AZ) H.F. Zobel. 4044 92nd Signal Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Kansas City, MO) Larry 3rd St., Neenah, Wl 54956 (414) 722-3049 Loma Riviera Cir., , CA 92110 (619) 222-7758 Orechia, 2654 Arcade Rd., Norwalk, OH 44857 (419) 556th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Louisville. KY) Herb Lashhorn, USS Betelgeuse AKA11/AK28 (Oct-Norfolk. VA) Roy 668-5464 3516 Williams Dr., Weirton, WV 26062 (304) 748-7778 Hoffman, 253 Alliston Rd., Springfield, PA 19064 (215) 94th AAA, G Btry., 744th AAA, A Btry. (Sept-Bellville. IL) 556th Engr. H.P. Bn. (Sept-Elkhart. IN) John Powell. Rt. 2, 543-5624 Herbert Schwagel, 3720 Micelle Dr., Bellville, IL 62223 Box 316, Walkerton, IN 46574 (219) 369-1588 USS Bountiful AH 9 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) James (618)234-2783 606th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Oct-Spnngfield, MO) Arthur Wilhoit, 107 S. Cherokee, Clinton. MO 64735 99th Inf. Bn. (sep) (Viking) (Sept-Fargo, ND) Owen Hicks. Box 313, Ava, MO 65608 (417) 683-4476 USS Bradford DD 545 (Oct-Baton Rouge, LA) Verne Voxland, 1608 15th St. So., Moorhead, MN 56560 (218) 707th Tank Bn., C Co. (Aug-Burlington, IA) Bob Martens, Bergeson, Box 491, Hartland, MN 56042 (507) 845-2288 233-6365 106 Clyde's Dale, Windsor, VA 23487 (804) 242-6836 USS Brooklyn CL 40 (Sept-Harnsburg, PA) Alford Wells, 109th Inf. Rgt. (WWII) (Oct-King of Prussia, PA) Albert 739th AAA Gun Bn., 90mm (Sept-St. Louis) Robert 429 Appian Ave., Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (804) 340- Leone, 752 Sproul Rd., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 (215) 525- Hepps, 130 Girard PI., Kirkwood, MO 63122 (314) 965- 9018 3596 3948 USS Canopus AS 9 (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) Andrew 112th F.A. Assn. (Nov-Trenton. NJ) Nick Chiacchio, Box 749th Tank Bn. Assn. (Oct-San Diego) James Bobbett, Henry, Box 637, Thousand Palms, CA 92276

6524, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (609) 883-8371 6780 Olivet PL, Salt Lake City, UT84121 (801 ) 943-3203 USS Cavalla SS 244 (Aug-Reno, NV) Woodrow Wert, 34 133rd Inf.. 34th Div., C Co. (Oct-Cedar Rapids, IA) Eldon 756th F.A. Assn. (Oct-Ft. Monroe. VA) Samuel Corrado. Wambold Ln., Petaluma, CA 94952 (305) 777-2966 Johnson, 1241 30th St. S.E.. Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 4345 E. Barlind Dr.. Pittsburgh, PA 15227 (412) 884-9544 USS Chemung AO 30 (Oct-Pensacola. FL) Charles (319) 362-3522 778th Tk. Bn., D Co. (Sept-Tomah, Wl) Kenny Flock. Box Webb. 1421 Heritage Landing Dr., Chattaoonga, TN 135th, 136th Rgts., 47th Div./1953-54 (3rd Div., Ft. 86. Wilton. Wl 54670 (608) 435-6832 37405 Benning/1954-55) (Oct- Newport, TN) Robert Crowe, 789th E.P.D. Co. (Sept-Ft. Wayne, IN)Thomas Fultz, 4332 USS Chepachet AO 78 (Sept-Hampton, VA) George Box 394, Ball Ground, GA 30107 (404) 735-2893 Sanford Ln„ Ft. Wayne, IN 46816 (219) 447-2690 Bailey. 124 Miller Dr., Hampton, VA 23666 160th Inf., 40th Div., C Co. (WWII) (Oct-Laughlin, NV) 794th AAA AW Bn. Officers (WWII) (Oct-Savannah, GA) USS Coates DE 685 (Oct-Hyannis. MA) Charles Katan, 5

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(WWII) (Nov-Oklahoma City) USS LST 762 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Charles Quilico, 6111 May 249- 5989 Howard Caylor, 211 Ivy Ln., Boerne.TX 78006 (512) Ave., Boise, ID 83703 USS Gold Star AG 12, Penguin M 33, Insular 9256 USS LST 787 (Oct-Orlando, FL) Ralph Burns, 8-B (Marines 62nd Trp. Carrier Grp. (Oct-Oklahoma City) Jim Boles, Force, R.L. Barnes, Pre WWII Guam Fallbrook St., Whiting, NJ 08759 (201 ) 350-4182 included) (Sept-Nashville, TN) Herb Huff, 7057 Holiday 3112 Windsor Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73122 (405) 943- USS Poole DE 151 (Aug.-Knoxville, TN) Donald Macchia, Rd. N., Jacksonville, FL 32216 (904) 724-3077 0405 256 Spruce St., Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (201) 748-0731 USS Hansford APA 106 (WWII) (Aug-Amarillo, TX) Glenn 74th Serv. Grp., 390th Serv. Sq., 9th AF, Team A (Oct- Campbell, Box 836, Canyon, TX 79015 (806) 655-2286 Baton Rouge, LA) Glenn Bock, Box 11, Sherman, NY USS Henderson AP 1 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Bill 14781 (716)761-6587 Molen, Box 602, Milan, IL 61264 75th Trp. 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(H) (Eng/WWII) (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Vietnam Veterans (Sept-Lake Ouachita, AR) Jerry Ambrose, 47 Laurel Ave., East Orange, NJ 07017 (201) Walter Mayer, Rt. 2, Box 118- A, Cheney, WA 99004 (509) Hearn, Box 1967, Hot Springs, AR 71902 (501 ) 525-0514 677-0833 299-3250 USS LCI (M) 802 (Oct-St. Louis) Paul Smith, 297 Cope St., 367th Ftr. Grp. Assn. (Nov-Tarrytown, NY) Harold Chait, Roseville, OH 43777 (614) 697-7340 356 Auburn St., Whitman, MA 02382 (617) 447-3920 USS LCI 560 (Dec-Orlando, FL) Garnett Coffey, 1029 395th Serv. Sq. (Sept-Buffalo, NY) Don Brennen, Beaver LIFE MEMBERSHIPS North Bend Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45224 (513) 542-8623 Meadows Rd„ Machias, NY 14101 (716) 942-3917 USS LST 286-313 (Oct-Jackson, MS) Martin Copenhafer, 460th Bomb Grp. (Sept-Lake Buena Vista, FL) Robert Alva N. Bowers Jr. (1988), George J. 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(Oct-Sacramento, CA) George VMSB 241 (WWII) (Oct-Pensacola, FL) Vic Wier, 4843 Marusky, Rt. 1, Box 263B, Fayette City, PA 15438 (412) Woodland Dr., St. Joseph, Ml 49085 (616) 429-7914

AUGUST 1989 47 'HEY, SPARKY, WE HIT 100 PERCENT

CONGRATULATIONS to the following Post Commanders and all their members who helped achieve the 100 percent goal for 1989. Your dedication, continued recruitment of new members and renewals will ensure our reaching the national goal of 3 million members. The following 100 percent Posts are listed alphabetically by state and then by Post number, city and Commander's name. —H.F. "Sparky" Gierke, National Commander.

ALABAMA Kenfield; Post 482, Ojai, Bill Hasting; Post 484, Simi Valley, Oscar Escarcega; Post 502, Moorpark, Mario Silos; Post 534, Orcutt, Jack Alvarez; Post 686, Oakview, Clifford Tousignant; Post 69, Eutaw, Reginald Henderson; Post 29, Livingston, Charles W. Richardson; Post 138. Post 309. Los Angeles, David Clark; Post 336, Los Angeles, Esther Pickerall; Post 424. Alabaster, Monroe Goggins; Post 131, Columbiana, Jim L. Mayhew; Post 96, Montevallo, Hollywood, Mort Faber; Post 677. Los Angeles. Elmer Jones; Post Pasadena, Weiers; Donald Lovelady; Post 45, Sylacauga, Lane Hebson; Post 55, Ashford, Nunnelly Wright; Post 13, Anna Post 78, Claremont, Keith Powell; Post 180, Azusa, Alfred Santa Cruz; Post 442, San Gabriel, 145. Brundidge, Lennie Ellis; Post 42, Elba, Hayward Grimes; Post 73, Enterprise, Terrell L. Herbert Hammack; Post 508, Rosemead, Joseph Macias; Post 536, Pasadena, Grady Tubbs; Ellis; Post 82, Ozark, Dr. S.R. Davis; Post 165, Hackleburg, Hugh Lee King; Post 33, Haleyville, Post 748. San Gabriel. Salvador Gallegos; Post 769. Walnut, Gary Hardy; Post 790, West David Nolan; Post 91, Hamilton, Rex Avery; Post 9. Jasper, Ray Rutledge; Post 71, Attalla, Oscar Covina, Roy Keck Jr.; Post 27. Long Beach. Paul Razien; Post 51, Whittier, Donald Barker; Post L. Walden; Post 155, Bynum, Edward King; Post 156, Choccolocco, Richard Ferguson; Post 270, Downey, Roland Rollins; Post 314. Hawthorne, Louis Magrini; Post 359, Norwalk, Charles 111, Oxford, Barry Pruitt; Post 109, Pell City. Roy Banks; Post 349, Ragland. Paul E. Embry; Post Melton Jr.; Post 718. Bell, Jennie Crum; Post 804, Los Angeles, Gabriel Lopez; Post 206, Los 36, Auburn, Z. T. Jones; Post 21, Camp Hill, Albert W. Jenrette; Post 67, Valley, A. L. Hay; Post Angeles. John Whitaker Jr.; Post 288. La Crescenta, Edward Mayer; Post 308, Reseda, Earl 143. Dadeville, Neil W. Chase; Post 321, Opelika, Henry Jones; Post 152, Opelika, E. W. Bell; Post 311, Lancaster, Paul Stehouwer; Post 467, North Hollywood, Anthony Geml; Post Robinson Jr.; Post 135. Phemx City, Willie Richardson; Post 317, Montgomery, C. L. March; 507, Newhall, Armie Trujillo; Post 538, Sylmar, Harold McNerney; Post 581, Burbank, David Post 118, Tallahassee, W. D. Landers; Post 93. Tuskegee. John L. Sides; Post 80. Andalusia, Buzzhart; Post 582, Northridge, Dale Anderson; Post 605, Agoura Hills, A. Sandoval; Post 735, Bennet I. Hughen; Post 79, Brewton, Clifton L. Haveard; Post 157, Gantt, Wendell Moody; Post Sepulveda, Edward Gonzales; Post 53, Hemet. Lawrence Boettcher; Post 79, Riverside, Earl 54, Georgiana, 0. D. Watson; Post 24, Greenville, W. Clay Hayes; Post 139. Red Level. James W. Ervin; Post 129, Banning, James Smith; Post 328, Norco, Arthur Willin; Post 418, Riverside. Owen; Post 168, Anderson, Henry L. Hammond; Post 11, Florence, William L. Hanberry; Post Franklin Ashemore; Post 428. Beaumont, Alfred Mosier; Post 574, Sunnymead, James Ridge; 356, Florence, Richard L. Boddie; Post 303. Sheffield, James L. Brown; Post 49, . Post 739. Indio, Herman Grandos; Post 763, Dst Hot Springs. Ray Worrell; Post 800, Idyllwild, Wilburn Moore; Post 129, Blountsville, James Gray; Post 52. Hartselle. Edward W. Summers; Richard Allert; Post 146. Oceanside. Mary Zing; Post 275, La Jolla. Herman Froeb; Post 303, Post 176. Huntsville. Grady Rutherford; Post 351. Huntsville. Willie Joiner; Post 22. Bessemer. El Caion. Keith McGlaughlin; Post 310. San Diego, Emerson Andrews; Post 332, Ramona, Charles W. Burchay; Post 344. Bessemer, Dan Davidson; Post 137, Fairfield, Rupert L. Ragan; Mason Taylor Jr.; Post 364. Lakeside. Charles Schreiber; Post 416, Encinitas, Paul Francis; Post 43, Birmingham, Marvin L. Floyd; Post 335. Fairhope, Prince Powe Jr.; Post 250. Theodore. Post 450, Coronado, R. Parker; Post 492. San Diego. Ronald Ayers; Post 619. Warner Springs, John L. Beaver; Post 44, Gulf Shores, Andrew J. Cooper; Post 48, Lillian, Mildred Drollinger; Peter Larghy; Post 776, Fallbrook. Leroy Chrisman; Post 305, Los Angeles, Raymond Otero; Post 76, Mobile, Homer L. Pippen; Post 87, Dawson, Duard Harper; Post 8. Guntersville, James Post 320. City of Commerce. M. Lopez; Post 398. Culver City, Stephen Gianni; Post 516, Los Burke; Post 215, Mentone, Howard L. Carson; Post 94. Albertville. James H. Jarvis; Post 39, Angeles, Tom Clark; Post 549, Lawndale. Gerald Johnston; Post 612, Inglewood, Robert Valley Head, William K. Clayton; Post 123, Tuscaloosa. Johnny Williams; Post 327. Aliceville. McGuinnes; Post 209, Los Angeles, Rex Sullivan; Post 253. Beverly Hills, Gene Wallace; Post Walter W. Jones. 386, Hollywood. Dominic Nanni; Post 539, Los Angeles, Joseph Wilson; Post 106, Redlands, ALASKA Joe Bass; Post 229, Adelanto. George Salazar; Post 262, Fontana, James Culbertson; Post 421, Highland. Minor Tolbert Jr.; Post 700. San Bernardino, Arthur Stephenson; Post 754, Colton, Post 57, Fairbanks. Patrick J. Ginley Jr. Pascual Oliva; Post 761. Joshua Tree, William Leinenbach; Post 105, Redwood City, Edward ARIZONA Munkeboe; Post 238, Pacifica, Joe Gibbs; Post 410. S San Francisco, Patrick Bowes; Post 474, Halt Moon Bay, Fred Harris; Post 666, San Bruno, John Wilson III; Post 828, Redwood City, Post 102, Tucson, Donald R. Lane. Larry Estava; Post 224. Coleville. Charles Evans; Post 265, Independence, Frank Little; Post CALIFORNIA 490, Rosamond. Bud Willm; Post 672, Lee Vining, Dalton Smith; Post 41. Monterey, Gerald Lemcke; Post 64, Santa Cruz, Robert Lemmons Sr.; Post 512. Carmel, Alvin Chapin; Post 72, Post 689, Culver City, Albert Levesque; Post 18, Visalia, Henry H. Elliott; Post 457, Big Pine. Anaheim. Robert Parker; Post 132, Orange, Robert Plasch; Post 133, Huntington Beach, John H. Schulz; Post 555, Midway City, Eleanor Smith; Post 679, Yorba Linda. William Eoff; Charles Montero; Post 222. Laguna Beach. Grant McCombs; Post 266, Long Beach, Keith

Post 716, Los Alamitos, William Richardson; Post 138, Holtville, Elmer Haawes: Post 597, Elliott; Post 267, La Habra, Ronald Meehan; Post 286, Garden Grove, Michael Riddle; Post 291, Brawley, Mariano Mendoza; Post 801, Bombay Beach, Raymond Vernimme: Post 84, Auburn, Newport Beach, David Woolett; Post 327, Seal Beach, William Greenberg; Post 423, San Ralph Dahlstrom; Post 130, Grass Valley, Carl Cundy; Post 169, Roseville, Robert Noyes; Post Clemente, John Randall. 439, Truckee, Lloyd Everett; Post 587, Forest Hill, William Saunders; Post 620, Rocklin. Art Jensen; Post 775, Loomis, Tony Aguilar; Post 76, Ukiah, David Eby; Post 385, Boonville. Ross COLORADO Murray; Post 415, Hoopa, Herbert 0'Neil; Post 548, Gasquet, Harold Martin; Post 815, Leggett, Post 16, Walsenburg. Ray Bustos Jr.; Post 95. Del Norte, J. Desi Medina; Post 142, San Luis, William Ochoa; Post 369. Fall River, Robert Fredette Sr.; Post 463, Hayfork, La Vern Sutton; James Olivas; Post 55. Buena Vista, Darrell Krick; Post 73, Montrose, Marion Hopkins; Post Post 530, Happy Camp, George Bernhard; Post 746, Anderson, Jim Barnes; Post 163, Alturas, 82, Elizabeth, Oliver Cook; Post 72, LaJara, Arthur Rendon; Post 168, Manzanola, John Crouch; Arlie Brown; Post 329, North Portola, Richard Fender; Post 446. Bieber. Aubrey Bieber; Post Post 8, Rocky Ford, Calvin T. Grubbs; Post 121, Deer Trail, George Robinson; Post 125, Eads, 664, Downieville, Premo Cassol; Post 17, Chico. Arnold Griffin; Post 34. Willows, Ernest Cosky; Leslie Rittgers; Post 49, Limon, John E. Hendricks Sr.; Post 138, Stratton, Dwight Lewis; Post Post 42, Marysville, Ernest Kenter; Post 95. Oroville, Charles Robertson; Post 154. Arbuckle, 66. Akron. Robert Benish; Post 19, Fort Morgan, Howard Foster; Post 134, Peetz, George C. Robert Alexander; Post 167, Red Bluff. Jack Bennett; Post 210, Gndley. Mario Duarte; Post 789, Fehringer; Post 26, Eaton, Reuben Schrader; Post 102, Fort Lupton, Jim Puckett; Post 18. Wheatland, John Sohrakoff; Post 807, Marysville, Charles Fitzpatrick; Post 28, S. Petaluma, Greeley. Lewis B. Peck; Post 111, Louisville, Donald A. Ross; Post 161, Arvada, Harold Tegler; John Scharf; Post 37, San Rafael, Holle Kuhre; Post 39, Sebastopol, Earl Galbraith; Post 111, Post 23, Aurora, Ronald J. Piecuch; Post 206, Aurora, Polly Kitchen; Post 84, Bear Valley, Ron Healdsburg, Donald Arata; Post 182, Suisun, John Boop; Post 199, St. Helena, Dave Curtin; Rice; Post 22. Northglenn, Winnel E. Harvey; Post 1187. Castle Rock. Curtis D. Jensen; Post Post 208, Dixon, Edward Hainline Jr.; Post 231. Calistoga, Arnold Enderlin; Post 330, Clearlake 204, Denver, Jose C. Montoya; Post 87. Denver, Samuel Malone; Post 185, Denver, Florence Oaks, Albert Aguiar; Post 338, Rohnert Park, Robert Damon; Post 540, Novate Gene Brinkman; Miyahara; Post 211, Denver, Neal L Thomas Jr.; Post 202. Thornton, Harold E. Morrow; Post Post 764, Lucerne, Henry Bethel II; Post 391, Sacramento, Joe Silva; Post 637. Citrus Heights. 13, Canon City, Arthur Akell; Post 5, Colorado Springs, Dutch Ward; Post 25, Florence. Abe Boulding; Post 696, Sacramento. Ping Leong; Post 1. San Francisco. Rafael Bertuccelli; Benjamin Osowicki; Post 1919, Florence. Ralph L. Christy; Post 42. Aguilar, Mike Riccatone; Post 244, San Francisco, John Sasinowski; Post 333, San Francisco, Joseph Puig Jr.; Post 400. Post 2, Pueblo, Carl Cameron; Post 148. Antonito, Anselmo Quinlana; Post 51, Homelake, San Francisco, Raymond Henderson; Post 404, San Francisco, Kay Fujimoto; Post 590, San Richard L. Crush; Post 110. Saguache, Gordon Bradshaw; Post 108, Pagosa Springs, Richard Francisco, Michael Clark; Post 599. San Francisco. Joseph Bava; Post 54, San Francisco, Edwin G. Girardin; Post 190, Crawford, Harold Cunningham; Post 65, Delta, Gordon T. O'Brien; Post Hall; Post 429, San Francisco, John Harrison; Post 10, Richmond, Byram Peck; Post 115. 97, Paonia. Jack H. Hatton; Post 12, Tellunde, Raymond J. Fisher; Post 37, Grand Junction, Walnut Creek. James Hart; Post 171, Concord, William Dowling; Post 331, Pleasant Hill, William S. Britton; Post 164, New Castle, Richard C. Jolley; Post 50, Palisade, John F. McClain; Michael Cappellotfi; Post 517, Lafayette, Karl Bartle Jr.; Post 47. Livermore, Charles Barton; Post 78. Rifle. Orval L. Sowder; Post 89, Hayden, Ronald G. Nereson; Post 74, Meeker, Charles Post 68, Hayward, Bernard Overmiller; Post 237, Pleasanton, Jack Fioro; Post 647, Alameda, W. Bloomfield. Arthur Phillips; Post 675, San Lorenzo, Billy Gray; Post 732, San Leandro. Earl Sequeira; Post 837, Fremont, Nick Janakos; Post 108, Amador, Angelo Piccardo: Post 190. Ripon. Mike CONNECTICUT Stuart; Post 235. Stockton, Katherine Isheim; Post 249. Manteca; Graydon Bannert; Post 376, Post 91, Plainfield, Moreau. Angels Camp, Louis Anderson; Post 402, Stockton. Amador Martinez Sr.; Post 632. Stockton, Andre Jerry Donovan; Post 787, Wilseyville, Simon Olman; Post 803. Stockton. Charles Douthil; Post FLORIDA 74, Modesto. Michael Difrancia; Post 166. Los Banos, Manuel Silva; Post 168, Patterson, Wallace Garcia; Post 300, Groveland, Earl Bass; Post 567, Mariposa, Fred Scranton; Post 681, Post 248, Tampa, Robert Norton; Post 164, Boynton Beach, Ray S. O'Connell; Post 321. Twain Harte, Carroll McDaniel; Post 217, Gilroy. Raymond Zaragoza Jr.; Post 250, San Jose, Cooper City, Norman D. Walker; Post 181. Vera Beach, Jerry Morgan; Post 76, Tavares, Harry

David Phillippi; Post 344, Sunnyvale, Paul Soper III; Post 380, Santa Clara, Merrill Card; Post Dean; Post 336, N. Fort Myers, Earl H. Henderson; Post 131, Greenville, Bobby J. Brown; Post

399, San Jose, William Prader; Post 444, Morgan Hill, William Shutt Jr.; Post 503. Saratoga, 152, Tampa, Thomas M. Hughey; Post 2. Wauchula, Curtis Exelle; Post 186, Spring Hill, Herbert Maurice Cazel; Post 558, Los Altos, Zigmunf Jaworski; Post 642, Cupertino, Frank Gallego; J. Scheerer; Post 193, Pensacola, Willie J. Moore, Sr.; Post 20. Belle Glade. Michael Jones;

Post 809, San Jose, Anthony Torres; Post 3, Hanford, John GUlio; Post 11, Madera, Fred Post 163, Melbourne, George L. Aichiele; Post 147. , Bruce C. Skinner ; Post 125. Russell; Post 55, Fresno, George Stone; Post 100, LeMoore, Tim Lee; Post 110, Oakhurst. Gulfport. Donald T. Duffy; Post 16, Gainesville, Clement E. O'Shields; Post 83. Glen St. Mary, William Herfwig; Post 346, Firebaugh, Tom Barragan; Post 350, Tollhouse, Wilbur Comstock; Roger D. Harris; Post 95, Frostproof, Glen Scharb; Post 310. Hallandale, Joseph Redfern; Post Post 509, Fresno, Joseph Santora; Post 594, Fresno, Raymond Mathers; Post 607, Fresno, 136, Pine Island, Chester S. Polowy; Post 18, Wildwood, Clyde L. Clause; Post 19, Orlando,

John Parker; Post 15, Tulare. David Manlove; Post 18, Visalia, Henry Elliott; Post 20, Porterville, Robert J. Proctor; Post 79, New Port Richey, John Van Wezenbeeck; Post 252, Seminole, E. Neuenschwander; Post 63, Bakersfield, Bob Mahaffy; Post 215. Wasco, James Estes; Post Nelson Green; Post 300, Miami, O.J. Balik; Post 173, Holiday, Owen F. Gunn; Post 145, 221, Tehachapi, Steve Barker Jr.; Post 232, McFarland, Wayne Dawson; Post 634, Alpaugh, J. Islamorada, Howard B. Russell; Post 6, Deland, Herbert N. Nerge; Post 289, Daytona Beach, Cotter; Post 640, Delano, Sixto Baracero; Post 674, Buttonwillow, Anthony Baurlich; Post 682, Doris Clarke; Post 188, Delray Beach, Lawrence Strainge; Post 137. Jacksonville, C. Lamar Bakersfield, John Kimberger; Post 779. Terra Bella, Jose Cantu; Post 785, Visalia, Richard Cannon; Post 19, Orlando. Robert Proctor; Post 333, Key Largo, Larry R. Walkins; Post 335, Maldonado; Post 48, Oxnard, Bernard Dunhom; Post 136, Arroyo Grande, Thomas Gregg; Post Hudson, Arthur Minsky; Post 328, Christmas, August W. Sidabras; Post 275, Dunedin, Marge 382, Camarillo. Robert Formnals; Post 432, Cambria, Don Campo; Post 481, Fillmore, Dean L. Wooley.

48 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SPRING MEETING Foot Pain Is No Continuedfrom page 39 Laughing Matter Res. 4 supports legislation permitting honorably discharged Vietnam veterans to apply for $20,000 National Service Life Insurance. Res. 5 supports increasing service- disabled life insurance to $50,000. Res. 6 urges legislation to provide a Sore equal partnership between state and more 'Ankles federal governments in sharing per diem Corns, costs in State Veterans' Homes. Calluses,' Res. 7 supports improved compensation Bunions, and pay for VA health-care professionals. Toe cramps Res. 8 supports the results of The Ameri- can Legion and Columbia University Viet- nam Veterans Study. Res. 9 seeks increase of payments to veterans deemed incompetent. Fallentor Res. 10 urges the President and Con- sore arches gress to provide funding for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder inpatient program. Res. 1 2 opposes the transfer of Assistant Secretary of Veterans Employment and At Last-Instant Relief! Training (ASVET) from the Labor Depart- ment toVA. shoes, even boots. won't Res. 13 urges ASVET to coordinate with If you suffer from foot pain you work You DoD to expand training programs for mili- know better than anyone it's no even realize you're wearing them. See tary personnel leaving the service and laughing matter! Especially when you for yourself: Test "FOOT CRADLE" in seeking civilian employment. have .corns, calluses, pain in the balls your shoes entirely at our risk. Res. 14 urges establishment of a Vet- of your feet, burning nerve endings, erans Vocational Training and Retraining How It's Guaranteed To painful ankles, old injuries, backaches, program through the Labor Department. Work For You. Res. 17 establishes an American Legion or just plain sore, aching feet. Like all great inventions it was Education Assistance program to provide Now with SwissCo "FOOT CRA- financial research assistance to college- DLES" you will look back on suffering quite simple once he figured it out! The bound students. needlessly, and laugh at having put up secret of the "FOOT CRADLE" is in the Res. 18 seeks income tax exemption for with foot pain when you really didn't unique, contoured design. Just as your paid to Crime Stoppers. rewards have to. body weight shifts naturally with each Res. 19 opposes medical user fees step, so does the CRADLE. It's de- charged to military personnel, retirees and Doctor's Scientific signed to apply the natural laws of foot their dependents. Discovery Ends Foot Pain. motion to pain-racked feet. "FOOT Res. 20 opposes national service pro- grams that would compete with armed A Swiss doctor who specialized CRADLES", handmade from genuine forces for manpower. in foot therapy knew that painful feet European leather, easily .* . Res. 29 opposes merging of VAand DoD needed to be properly supported and " • i slips into any pair of medical services. cushioned in any pair of shoes. No one shoes you own. Once Res. 30 opposes joint U.S. -Japan pro- knew better than he as he watched jj you start walking or duction of FSX military aircraft. his patients try one remedy after running, you'll feel the Res. 33 seeks federal and states' legis- another. Anything his patients difference immediately. lation to encourage stronger penalties tried never provided long- Suddenly, you no longer for gross misuse and desecration of the wince you walk. The U.S. flag. lasting relief from pain. when from your corns Res. 36 changes site of 1989 American Finally, he set out to pain and Legion Baseball World Series to Millington, solve the problem himself. calluses will disappear. WE Tenn. After testing dozens of spe- GUARANTEE IT. Try "Foot Cra- Res. 38 denounces efforts to remove cial shoes and insole sup- dles" for 30 days at our risk. If you reference to "God" from U.S. currency, ports, he invented the ama are not completely free of foot pain, Pledge of Allegiance and the National motto. zingly successful "FOOT CRADLE". return them for a full refund. Res. 40 establishes American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame for those who have The "Foot Cradle" Insert 30-Day Risk-Free Trial been strong supporters and sponsors of the r>SwissCo International, Dept.YAL.089 A triumph of Swiss inventive baseball program. | 712 No. 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103 genius! "FOOT weighs less YES! 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AUGUST 1989 49 ^Homecoming

from the Statue Sculpted for the Memorial,1 Washington, !).( ROPIN' N' RIDIN' IN IOWA

BANNER BEARER— Natl Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke, who appeared in the 1989 Rose Bowl Parade, makes another appearance on horseback at the Sidney, Iowa, rodeo.

VER since Philip Hall grown from a Sunday gathering of local was 8 years old, he has residents to thousands of spectators watched broncos kick dirt who come from throughout the country. and hurl riders into the air Each year during the first full week of

at the annual Sidney, August, the 1 ,200 population of Sidney Iowa, rodeo. Now the increases almost ninefold, and many adjutant of Williams- families make rodeo week their annual Jobe-Gibsori Post 128, family vacation. Hall still enjoys the The Sidney National Championship bucking, broncobusting and lassoing Rodeo, which is sanctioned by the Pro- with the same child's enthusiasm. But fessional Rodeo Cowboys Association, The Homecoming statue is a dramatic symbol of reunions Hall also has to look at the business side includes such events as bull riding, calf familiar to Navy families everywhere. Now you can as well. The Sidney Rodeo has become roping, steer wrestling, trick riding, display your own Homecoming statue, which is being issued by the United States Historical Society in coopera- Post 128's largest fund-raiser, earning barrel racing and wild cow milking. tion with the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation. When you as much as $40,000 each year for the The Post's seven-man rodeo committee acquire The Homecoming, you become a Sponsor of the Post's community programs. works all year on the rodeo, hiring Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.— a living tribute to all the men and women of the Navy who The Post's 66-year-old rodeo has announcers, clowns and other acts, and have served their country in war and peace. Available in gained national and international atten- organizes the 400 volunteers who work 8-inch bonded-bronze, mounted on a round walnut base tion and has provided Sidney with money the rodeo. with engraved brass plaque. for athletic equipment, a swimming Among those who appeared or per- YES! I wish to acquire (qty) f/omea>witHgstatue(s) pool, parks and a country club. In addi- formed in the rodeo are Jimmy Dean, based on the original sculpture by Stanley Bleifeld, at tion to the $10,000 donated to the com- Jerry Reed, Dale Robertson and Nat'l $135 each plus $2.50 for shipping. I will be appointed an Individual Sponsor of the Navy Memorial and will receive munity and needy people last year, the Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke. a Certificate of Authenticity and Sponsorship. 30 day Post also sent eight boys to Boys State. "That's some of the best bull riding return privilege. However, the rodeo had humble I've ever seen," said Gierke, who Check enclosed for $

( Make check payable to The Homecoming ) beginnings, according to Sidney folk- appeared on horseback in the rodeo's Charge: VISA MasterCard lore. Before Legionnaires organized the Grand Entry parade last year. "The No Exp Virginia residents please ailil 1 Vf, sales tax rodeo in 1923, veterans from the Civil people in Sidney really know how to put War gathered in Sidney each summer on a show." and rode wild horses within a circle of This month Hall, Post Commander buggies. Today, the cowboys are not the Harold D. Snyder and other members of City State Zip rowdy ranch hands of old, but profes- Post 128 again welcome Gierke to Sid- Mail to: The Homecoming, c/o U.S. Historical Society sional entertainers. The audience has ney, as he rides in the entry parade. Dept. A8, First and Main Sts., Richmond, VA 23219 804-648-4736.

50 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE other illegal activity, not only under- cuts our laws, but also has an impact on MELT DOWN crime, health costs, welfare depen- Work part time, full time — Continuedfrom page 23 dency, displacement and the like," job right at home — we help Nelson said. "Illegal immigration, if not you every step of the way. No doubt it ... a small our nation's about as engine~ firmly checked, erodes pro, you can cash in on the huge de- strong heritage of legal immigration." mand for qualified men in one of Amer- ica's fastest growing industries. YouT existing refugee or immigration into Given the vulnerability of our bor- be able to command top hourly rates of f rorrf categories. ders, the ultimate answer may not be $25.00 to $30.00 per hour — and that's just for labor. Under the provisions of the 1980 ours alone. In poverty-plagued and Plenty of business waiting for qualified men. Refugee Act, refugees authorized for politically oppressed Nicaragua, a 65,000,000 Small Engines Are In Use Today!

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Continuedfrom page 6 the United States of America. We are a nation born of Our 16,000 American immigrants, many of whom Legion Posts and our 1 1 ,000 risked their lives to live American Legion Auxiliary under this flag. Whether they Units— 4 million members docked at Ellis Island or in strong— have already begun San Francisco, one of the a petition drive. But, if we first sights they beheld was are to succeed in ensuring Old Glory waving proudly in the protection of our flag, the air that was free. They this must be an American knew it was not the flag of undertaking. We are com- their fathers, but it would be mitted to this cause and we the flag of their children, and are asking every American of their children's children. to be committed with us.

Neither was it the flag of a Therefore, I am inviting perfect nation, but it was the you and the people of this banner of a good nation that great nation to go into your strove for equal justice and communities armed with a opportunity for all. It was a petition stating: "We, the flag that embodied all of undersigned, hereby petition their hopes for a better the adoption and ratification of tomorrow. It was their flag, an amendment to the Constitu- and not the flag of their tion of the United States of king — it was the flag they America providing that dese- would revere, protect and cration of the United States even die for. Flag slmll be a crime. Our flag stands in an hon- Send your petitions, no ored place in our houses of matter how many names worship because it is a they may contain, or your symbol of our religious free- ...I hese dead shall not letter of support, or post card doms. It waves over our to: The American Legion, schools as a testament to our P.O. Box 538, Indianapolis, have died in vain. . . heritage and to our freedom Indiana 46206. These peti- of opportunity. It flies over tions and letters will be pre- our state houses and federal sented to the Speaker of the buildings as testimony to our House of Representatives, to representative form of gov- the President of the Senate, ernment. And it flies in our and to their counterparts in yards and from our homes as every state in the Union. a reminder that we are a free people patriot" to understand that the symbols This issue will not resolve itself. The today because of those who paid a dear of our freedom deserve to be protected. Supreme Court's decision can only be price throughout all of our yesterdays. Tens of thousands of brave, selfless reversed by the manifested will of a

Many a Gold Star Mother knows only American men and women have died to people who are stirred to action. It is too well what our flag means. I met protect our flag from desecration at the an evil thing for a nation to permit its such a mother during a recent visit to hand of our enemies. We have a sacred sacred symbols to be freely desec-

Pennsylvania, a woman who had lost a obligation to ensure that their flag will rated; it cheapens the lives and sac- son in Vietnam. She told me that each not now be desecrated by those they rifices of those who gave their last full time she looks at or touches that folded died to protect. measure of devotion for their country. flag presented to her by a grateful We as citizens must exercise our right Yet, as a wise man once observed, nation, she remembers her son and under the First Amendment to "petition "The only thing necessary for the senses his presence. It's easy to the Government for a redress of griev- triumph of evil is for good men to do imagine what she is feeling right now. ances." We must rally round our flag nothing." Is there any argument which would and demand a constitutional amend- We stand on a slippery slope persuade anyone who has followed our ment making flag desecration a crime. indeed, if we as a nation are not suffi- flag into harm's way that it's now okay In the words of Edmund Burke, "It is ciently offended by the desecration of to tear it from its flagstaff, douse it with not what a lawyer tells me to do; but our sacred symbols to be moved to lighter fluid, spit on it, curse it and burn what humanity, reason, and justice tell action. I am confident, however, that it ... as an expression of free speech me I ought to do." we will have a redress of grievances protected by the Constitution it sym- And what we ought to do— what we that recognizes the rights of the mil- bolizes? must do — is send a united message to lions who revere our flag and deeply You don't have to be a veteran to Washington and to every state legisla- oppose the destruction of this pri- understand what the American flag ture that "we, the people" will not allow mary symbol of our American free- means, nor do you have to be a "super anyone to legally desecrate the Flag of dom.

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Association of Airborne Veterans" Als Americans, it's in our blood to compete. It's PARATROOPER TOUR of TAIWAN why we've come so far, so fast. But victory isn't sweet if you don't

21-31 October 1989 play it straight. • Jump with the Chinese paratroopers, Veterans know that, so do we. non-jumpers also welcome.

• $2,285 includes air fare, all accommo- That's why we don't market our adult products to anyone under dations and ground arrangements. age 18. It's part of our Code— has been for years. Send stamped self-addressed #10 envelope for complete information and application to: Our youth policy is strict and self-imposed. We've spent a great Suite 181 I.A.A.V. deal of time and effort making it work. 606 W. Barry Street, Chicago, IL 60657 Unfortunately, this isn't enough for some people. They think we shouldn't market to anyone.

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Parting shots

Heaven's Screen Door "How do you expect to get into Heaven if you continue to do bad things," asked littly Billy's mother after catching him in more mischief. "Well," said Billy, "I'll just run in and run out, and run in and run out until they say, 'For goodness sake! Either stay in or stay out!' Then I'll stay in." —Louise Marty

Deflated Windbag An after-dinner speaker once known for his long-windedness explains why he became equally known for his brevity: "During a

pause in one of my speeches, I over- heard a man ask, 'What follows this speaker?' And another fellow " replied, 'Wednesday' —T.R. Lawrence

Adventurous Souls

Most of us like to get away from it all, provided it's not more than a 10- drive " minute back. 'Hold on and I'll get her. She 's hitting the bottle. —Joni Cagle

Doublespeak Master When a politician clarifies an ear- Mother Knows Best Paper Mates lier statement, it usually means he's "I think Junior gets his intelligence My parents loved scrapping. afraid we understood it. from me," the proud father said. During one of their more memorable — /. Boyett "He must have," said the mother. combats, my father grabbed two "I still have mine." sheets of paper, handed her one and —Mary Eyged said, "Let's write down everything Yes, No, Maybe we don't like about each other." A woman's final decision is not Mom wrote busily, and dad sat and necessarily the same as the one she Cat Nipped stared at her. Whenever she would makes later. Veterinarian to cat owner: "Give stop to think, he would write some- —Tom Ta\lor him one of these pills every four thing on his paper. At last they hours. Then use this to stop your exchanged papers. bleeding." "I want my paper back!" my —Oliver Frazier mother said after she turned beet red. On dad's sheet, he had written

Foiled Again nothing but, "I love you, I love you, I Just when you finally find a suit- love you. ..." able pet for your teen-ager, you dis- —Martha Beckman cover there's a city ordinance against alligators. Marlys Huffman Progress Report After visiting her uncle in the hos- pital, the niece took the nurse aside and asked, "Tell me truthfully, is he NOTE TO CONTRIBUTORS making any progress?" The American Legion Magazine no "None at all," the pretty nurse longer accepts unsolicited submissions for temper. lost it this page. replied. "He's not my type." "Help me find dad's He —Oscar Thombuckle arid is he mad.

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