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The Magazine for a Strong America Vol. 131, No. 2 August 1991

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LET'S PACK IN THE PACS m ft Lobby money clouds politicalprocess. By Rep. AndrewJacobs Jr. 12

LEGION GRADE CARD The annual Consolidated Post Reports tabulations. 14

BULLET-BITING BUDGET AGAIN

' T T A 1 i 1 1 1 11 ft 1 1 VA has implemented several benefit restrictions. 16

THE WAR ON STANDARDS

From Bach to rock, standards have changed. By Michael Medved 19

DANGER ON TAP ftft Polluted drinking water ignitesfear. By Robert Mc&arvey 22

TO BEYOND AND BACK

Near-death experiences defy explanation. By Vernon Pizer 24

MYTHS BEHIND MILITARY SPENDING

Misguided calls to cut defense budgets continue. By M. Stanton Evans 26

HI-TECH: CAN AMERICA MAINTAIN ITS EDGE? The President's science adviser outlinesformulafor success. 28

A FRIENDLY INVASION

Newfoundland warmly welcomed U. S. GIs. ByJohn Cardoulis 30

THE "WHAT-YACHT?" CLUB

Post291 weighs anchor and wins trophy. By PatMichaels 32

FATAL INFRACTIONS

North Chicago VA Medical Center investigated afterpatients ' deaths. 36 D E P A R T M E NTS

BIG ISSUES Should Congress Pass The Brady Handgun Bill? 10

VETVOICE 4 VETERANS UPDATE 34 VETNET 42

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 LEGION NEWS 40 PARTING SHOTS 64 26

COVER The War on Standards. By Bill Cigliano.

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To: The American Historical Foundation paper. (Maximum of two lines; 20 characters per line 1142 West Grace Street, Dept. T156 VU^«^ including spaces and punctuation.) Richmond, Virginia 23220 W^fcfwF Telephone: (804)353-1812 'ÎSJ^ Check enclosed for $ TOLL FREE: (800)368-8080 . ... . _~ , AC • • Charge to: Visa, MasterCard, AmEx. v t ui -n. a t ,»7 u Yes, I wish to reserve The American Legion World War II Bayonet of Honor and the Walnut Wall Dis- Card No Exp play. I understand that this is a limited edition of only 5,000 and that a portion of the proceeds go directly to Signature The American Legion. After my payment in full is Name received, my Bayonet will be delivered within 60-90 days. My satisfaction is guaranteed or I may return Address the Bayonet within 30 days for a full refund. My payment in full (or credit card authorization) of $199 per Bayonet is enclosed. Please send the personalized plaque. Enclosed is f^^SÂîîî^^, my personalization request on a separate sheet of expiration dale and signature. Virginia residents add 4.5% tax. T156 The next day I left my essay at the Required Thanks, Dad base of the memorial, with a note Work This letter is written in response to I definitely believe people on welfare attached saying: your article "The Things They Left should be required to work. Why For God and Country Behind" in the May 1991 issue of The should the working class support You gave your lives. American Legion Magazine. In people who sit around on their dead This is what I give 1988, I was asked by my high school butts and do nothing? To you, from my heart. English teacher to write an essay about D Mary Nale And with a prayerfor the Vietnam War. Lubbock, Texas Peace on Earth. My first step in research was to ask Thank you, my father, a Vietnam veteran, about his People who are on welfare should Tim Holt experiences in Vietnam. That turned work. Why should people be paid for If I am ever asked to give my life in out to be a bad idea. All I got in nothing? Too many times the working order to protect America or its policies, response was a blank stare and a few class people of this country have been I would do so willingly, accepting no tears. So I left that alone. called on to help those who won't help honors but one— that I be remembered Several days later, I received a sur- themselves. It's quite evident that many in the same way as those who have done prise. When I got home from school one of those who don't work can work. the same before me. day, I found a box on my bed with a Glen Wolford Tim Holt note. The note said: Gardeners, Pa. Temple Hills, Md. Use this ifyou need to. Love, Dad No Copayment VETVOICE I'm calling about this new copay- I was astonished when I opened the ment of $2 for every prescription from box. lot of can't Legionnaires have VA pharmacies. A guys Before I ever saw the contents of the Hundreds of afford to pay that $2. At the present called 1-900-28-VOICE to share box, I thought my father was an time, I can, but in the future, who their opinions, vote on current issues engineer in Vietnam. I was wrong. He knows how much it will be? We should had been an infantryman. and possibly have their comments start getting petitions to our con- in In the box I found pictures smeared published The American Legion gressmen. the cost with a brown, dried liquid, which I later Magazine. Considering ofa D Don Tanner learned was blood, as well as a Bronze 29-cent stamp, paper, envelopes, McCookLake, S.D. Star, a U.S. Air Medal and a Combat other stationery and the time required Infantryman's badge. to write, a letter is a cumbersome and

After looking through the contents, I slow way to send an opinion. Many Vets' Voices readers wanted a quicker way to veteran, I use hospi- realized I had never asked, "What did As a WWII VA you do in the war, Dad?" And I express themselves. Now, if you want tals in Omaha, Neb., and Denver, Colo. to voice immediately, call for better care. somehow felt ashamed about it. After an opinion I could not have asked several days of trying to find a title for 1-900-28-VOICE. The Vetvoice line Of course, there was an exception once also allows more readers to share in a while. I have been in hospitals my essay, I realized maybe that ques- VA opinions. The magazine is limited to since 1986. The medical tion was the title I needed. So I used it. 171 days May

During the time I did my research, I publishing about 15 letters per issue, staff has my fibrosis of the lungs in made dozens of trips to the Vietnam but each month on the Vetvoice line, remission, and I've had open-heart

Memorial. And each time I cried. there 's room for thousands of opin- surgery in a VA facility. The evening before my essay was ions. Some of those opinions are pub- But our care is gradually being taken due, I spent several hours just looking lished in the Vetvoice department of away. There are wings of hospitals and at The Wall, and at about 1 1 p.m., when the magazine and indicated with a complete floors not being used because there were only a few people there, I sat D symbol. of lack of staff. The lack of staff comes down and read my essay to the names If you want your opinion heard, from lower wages and longer hours. I on The Wall. call 1-900-28-VOICE. Calls cost $1 hope they start giving veterans the kind In the end, my essay received an A- per minute and proceeds support of care we deserve.

but what made mc feel good is the day I Legion programs. This month, you can Charles D. Richards

brought it home for my father to read. vote on the questions Do you believe North Platte, Neb. When he finished he was crying. He the new standards accurately reflect turned to me and hugged me and told life today? see page 20, and Should For the past six years, I've been a me he loved me, and then left the room. U.S. financial aid to foreign coun- patient at a VA hospital in San Fran-

I can never really understand why he tries be reduced? sec page 64. cisco. I've had appointments cancelled

cried, and I do not think America will for tests that I badly needed. 1 have as ever understand the tears of veterans 1-900-28-VOICE many as three appointments a week.

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I know they couldn't handle any excess ufacturer and anti-consumer. He refers tural and social way of life) casualties in the event of war. Six years to a 1990 bill requiring a 40 percent Under God. With liberty (freedom from ago there were twice as many beds as increase in fuel economy by 200 1 as an oppression, tyranny, or the domination there are now. attempt to stampede legislators into of a government not freely chosen; VkDonMadill passing quick-fix laws. That's an freedom ofthought or action, or exemp- San Francisco average of only 4 percent a year. He also tion from forms of compulsion or indig- advocates larger, more expensive autos nity, regard as a human right) It's very clear we do not have fair and with the justification that such vehicles And justice (the rendering of what is due equal, compassionate health care for all are what American consumers want. or merited)

veterans. The closest VA hospital to me He cites 1979 safety statistics as proof For all (the entire substance or extent of: is in Cheyenne, Wyo. , 360 miles away. that larger cars are safer than 1979 All of the United States). For specialized care, I have to go to Nissans and Toyotas. So what? The R.W. "Dutch" Holland Denver, Colo. While in the Denver facil- point is not extraneous safety statistics Show Low, Ariz. ity, I met veterans from Montana, South or size versus imported cars; the point Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma is fuel economy, consumer cost, and the and New Mexico. I doubt the VA hos- environment. Homeward Bound I'm still sitting here in Saudi Arabia, pital in Denver is large enough to take Joseph A. Sullivan waiting for my turn to rotate once again care of Denver-area veterans, let alone South Euclid, Ohio those from half a dozen other states. back home as a veteran of another war. I leisure Arden Coad I wholeheartedly disagree with Sen. spend some of my time reading articles Dubois, Wyo. Donald W. Riegle Jr. Money talks, and about the celebrations received what the big money oil companies spend by the troops returning from the Persian I believe VA is ill-prepared in case of for lobbying in Washington is an exam- Gulf. another war to treat casualties. The VA ple. Most people don't know that Being a Marine Corps veteran of hospital near me has cut its beds from imported automobiles give far less gas Vietnam and Cambodia, just like my I it 3 1 3 in 1 986 to 202 now. There ' s just not mileage than do the same cars in the brother before me, find exciting to enough beds available. country that manufactures them. The know our country has opened her eyes Craig Close powerful oil company lobbies have to the meaning and purpose of the Pawtucket, R.I. made the policy of Congress not to Armed Forces of America. Today we allow imported automobiles that give return home as a unit from the Persian I'm calling about the new service- more gas mileage. Gulf. Most units never returned as a connected disability rating for hearing- William A. Wolf group from Vietnam, only the surviving impaired veterans. I believe the VAs Ocean City, Md. members of the groups who were lucky new criteria for rating that disability enough to make it home. But where listed a veterans-come-last should be as were the open arms, hugs and kisses we dirty trick. Pledge Defined see now, and why was there so very few Norris I read "Pause for the Pledge" DA/ As to say "welcome home"? I short item I Marble, N.C. (May), was reminded of a Maybe today's young generation are written in 1985 about the pledge. I had the children of the early Vietnam veter- dug through the files and found it and Fuelish ans, and they want the troops to return thought it might strike a chord in some. to know I don't believe Congress should raise home with pride and be proud I would like to define for you the Pledge the fuel efficiency standards (May, Big that they did the right thing by serving of Allegiance to the Flag of the United Issues). The cars they are making now in the Gulf War. Whatever the reason States of America. that are not safe, and I will not buy one of may be, I am happy to know when I allegiance (fidelity to the I this time, wife and those cars. I think it is worth the loss in pledge return home my mileage to enhance my chances of sur- government) son will be waiting for me, and the viving an accident. More people get To the Flag (a piece of cloth or bunting whole world will be saying "welcome color to designate killed by these small cars. I believe the bearing devices and home." auto manufacturers should continue a nation) Let this be a tradition that will be making big cars and provide safety to Of the United States of America and carried on forever, and never again will drivers until an alternative to gasoline to the republic (a state in which the anyone turn their backs on the men and can be found. sovereignty resides in the people and women of the U.S. Armed Forces for D William Ellison the legislative and administrative serving their country in any conflict. Sierra Vista, Ariz.. powers are lodged in officers elected by StaffSgt. Chip Sours them) U.S. Armv Reserves

In Big Issues in May, Sen. Donald W. For which it stands. One nation (a body 351st Ord. Co. Ricgk Jr. of Michigan gave reasons for ofpersons associated with a particular Saudi Arabia

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SAVIORS OF THEIR COUNTRY WHEN THE GUNS BEGIN TO SHOOT

". . .For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, because of funding shortfalls in the VA an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's budget. The lack of vision in funding "Saviour of 'is Country when the guns veterans' health-care programs will

. begin to shoot. . send many needy veterans to other "Tommy" by Rudyard Kipling public sources— if they seek help at all for their problems. That's why the UDYARD Kipling knew Legion submitted a VA budget proposal a thing or two about to Congress this year. human behavior, espe- Although we've shared common cially in how differently a challenges during the past year, we've

nation treats its defenders also had common victories. Not long in times of war and of after our first troops were sent to the peace. He knew that sol- Persian Gulf, it became clear to all of us diers are praised when that the families they left behind needed they answer the call of help, and that's why we established distant war thunder— and he knew that the Family Support Network of The soldiers and their needs are forgotten American Legion, which has responded after the storm has passed. to more than 33,000 calls for help, As America distances itself from the ranging from requests for emergency Persian Gulf War, appreciation of the cash aid to providing moral support. 'I Cmdr. Robert S. Turner valuable service performed by our Nat We continue to walk the road together ground troops, air warriors and naval in our goal to gain a constitutional units becomes more distant, too. That's "... For it's Tommy this an' Tommy amendment to protect the U.S. Flag from nothing unusual. The appreciation for that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" political pyromaniacs and those who Minutemen and colonial soldiers But it's "Saviour of 'is Country when believe our national banner is merely rapidly waned when they returned from the guns begin to shoot ..." fabric and thread. Several state legis- the War of Independence. And it began When the smoke clears from legisla- latures have adopted memorializing to happen as our troops headed for tive firefights, we're confident Desert resolutions that would compel Congress home from Kuwait City and Saudi Storm veterans will receive fair bene- to reconsider the amendment. Arabia last March. fits. It may not happen next week, next I'm thankful for all of the assistance Already, we're hearing grumblings month or even next year. But it will so many have given me during my on Capitol Hill about The American happen. The American Legion doesn't watch. The Department Commanders

Legion-drafted Desert Storm Service- begin any task it will not see through to have been most cooperative; the Dis- person's Act of 1991, the legislation completion. trict and Post Commanders, most hos- that would increase educational aid to While Legionnaires will stay focused pitable; the National Staff, most loyal; veterans who served during that era, in the struggle for a new Desert Storm and the rank-and-file bluecapper, most from the current level of $350 per G.I. Bill, we cannot ignore other nag- supportive. Your counsel has been wise month to $777. ging problems that need solutions. At and your friendship has been warm. Some say the bill will cost too much this writing, thousands of veterans are We've traveled a long road together and will scuttle plans to help slash the watching the doors to VA medical in the past year, but it's a journey national deficit. Some bellow that facilities slammed in their faces without end. The pride in what we do because Desert Storm veterans were an for others was evident in every com- all-volunteer force, they were aware of munity I have visited. That pride has the chances of being mobilized for war, been the source of our strength and the and, therefore, should not be eligible for same that guided American Legion any benefits greater than what was founders 73 years ago in Paris. We've available when they enlisted. I can't succeeded where others have fallen help but wonder if such complaints short or given up. Why? mask another message: We've had America on our minds.

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PR2349 Big issues

SHOULD CONGRESS PASS THE BRADY HANDGUN BILL?

Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, D-Hawaii Sen. Steve Symms, R-ldaho

In Atlanta, a man walked The debate on gun control out of a mental institution is heating up again. You've and into a pawn shop YES NO been hearing politicians where he easily purchased a "Saturday resurrecting the same tired arguments to Night Special" handgun. The next day, force law-abiding citizens to wait seven he entered a shopping mall's food court days before they can purchase a hand- at lunchtime and opened fire, killing one gun. Common sense tells me that forcing man and wounding four others. The a person to wait seven days to purchase a Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act firearm will do no good in curbing vio- will prevent these purchases. The Brady Bill establishes a lent crime. simple seven-day waiting period for those who wish to buy a Anyone who believes that a criminal will go to the local gun handgun. store, fill out an application, sign a statement that he or she is This bill alone won't drastically alter the unbelievable not a felon, then wait for seven days while police use scarce number of Americans murdered with handguns each year— financial and manpower resources to perform federally

9,013 people in 1989— but it will save lives. Police officers mandated background checks must also believe in the tooth know this and that's why the 217,000 members of The fairy. It will be law-abiding citizens who will fill out the Fraternal Order of Police favor the Brady Bill. The organ- application, wait the seven days and subject themselves to ization issued this statement: "If the seven-day waiting the police checks, while the common criminal goes into the period will save just one life, the life of a law enforcement alley or to the black market to obtain his weapon of choice. officer or the life of a citizen, then (Congress') work will be When California increased its state-mandated waiting successful." period from two to 15 days, the state's homicide rate rose Despite the simplicity and common sense of the Brady 125 percent. In the 10 states which have imposed a waiting

Bill, it does not enjoy universal appeal. The National Rifle period, there has been no corresponding decrease in violent

Association (NRA) fought the legislation before it recently crime during the last two decades. passed the House of Representatives. The NRA sees the bill A more practical problem with the bill is the inability of as an erosion of our Second Amendment right to bear arms, the police to conduct an accurate background check. There and a possible first step to the confiscation of guns, even are 1 1 states which do not have automated criminal records, those belonging to law-abiding citizens. and 10 others have less than 65 percent of their records on It's true that some gun opponents would favor an all-out computer. The U.S. Attorney General conducted a study on gun ban. I would vote against that, and I cannot foresee ways to identify felons who attempt to purchase firearms Congress passing such a law. We must not undermine the from dealers. According to the report, "records of 40 percent right of law-abiding citizens to own a gun. At the same time, to 60 percent or more of felony convictions are not currently this does not mean we should be able to buy a handgun available in automated form." almost as easily as we buy a hamburger or soft drink. More important than data availability is data quality. In the House, the NRA supported replacing the Brady Bill The same Attorney General's report states, "Approximately with an alternative known as the Staggers Amendment. This 50 percent of the cases where persons appear to have a measure, drafted by Rep. Harley Staggers of West Virginia, criminal history record based on initial name search are would have allowed immediate handgun purchases, but eventually found to be false hits." As the level of rhetoric required the buyer undergo an instant, computerized increases, it is important to remember one basic fact: criminal records check. Unfortunately, many states do not Guns don't kill, people do. have criminal records on computer yet, and it will be years I, for one, will continue fighting for stronger penal- before they do. Given time, ties aimed at criminals computerized criminal and will resist any and VETVOICE 1-900-28-VOICE record checks also could all attempts to penalize save lives, so we should To voice your thoughts on anything in The American Legion Magazine, call honest, law-abiding citi- VETVOICE 1-900-28-VOICE. You can vote on current issues, receive a tally keep that concept alive. But zens by restricting their that includes your vote, record your opinion, and hear opinions of others. for today, we should pass Calls cost $1 per minute and proceeds support Legion programs. constitutional right to the Brady Bill. bear arms.

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candidates as distinguished from the By Rep. AndrewjacobsJr. candidates chosen by PACs. It's a nice 'Who pays arrangement. It's called freedom." T ONE time or another One hears it said that a legislator can you have probably said, the fiddler calls accept campaign money from lobbyists "Why in the world would and not be influenced. My answer is, that provision be in the the tune.' When given the trickery of one's own subcon- tax code? It isn't logical." PACs finance the scious mind, how could the public or Oh, but it is logical, even the legislator know whether influ- quite logical to the lob- campaign fiddler ence has been put into play? The answer byist who made the Poli- to that question is easy. One can be sure tical Action Committee you can bet that a PAC contribution does not influ- (PAC) contribution and pulled the there are going ence a legislator only if the legislator string to form the loophole. does not accept the PAC contribution.

How much does one toilet seat cost to be strings Does this mean I think lobbyists and when purchased at your local retailer? attached. the politicians who take campaign con- Six bucks? How come the Pentagon tributions from the lobbyists are not paid $600 each when it was buying ••••••••••••••••• nice people or that they are always great numbers of the same item at what wrong? Not at all. It simply means I one might suppose would be think their relationship wholesale? If you are look- should be on the basis of ing for an answer, you might ideas reasonably put forth take a long look at the PACs and unsweetened by money. that lobbyists for special Some say that without lob- interests use to "sweeten the byists' money, congressional judgments" of public offi- campaigns would not be cials. sufficiently financed and A lobbyist recently sent a challengers would be dis- I m handsome PAC contribution §j 1 advantaged. My father says for my congressional cam- the difference between a paign. With the check came a $50,000 congressional cam- letter that included this paign and a $500,000 cam- claim: n the latter i-m paign is that in "PACs allow over 4.5 mil- • J 7 case "they'll find some way lion people to be involved in / to waste $450,000." A big our nation's electoral proc- spender in a campaign is ess. And we hope you will likely to be a big spender work to preserve that right." in Congress if elected.

When I returned the Lobby money, by the way, check, I wrote the following: obviously is not doled out "The Constitution allows on the civic basis of equal those 4.5 million people to opportunity for challengers be involved in our nation's and incumbents. The money electoral process. PACs have goes to those incumbent and nothing to do with it. The non-incumbent candidates Constitution allows each of the donor believes will be those people to choose and most likely to do what the contribute to his or her own lobbyists want them to do. "Who pays the fiddler

Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr. of calls the tune." When PACs Indiana represents the 10th finance the campaign fiddler District and does not accept you can bet there are going l'A( i ontributions. to be strings attached.

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Dept. 570-21 1 Box 1730, Hicksville, NY 11802 HE phrase, "You ain't Consolidated Post dents at Boys State conventions nation- heard the half of it," may wide, culminating in Boys Nation, a be poor grammar but it Reports document national gathering of tomorrow's aptly describes the annual leaders at Washington, D.C. More than Consolidated Post Reports the thousands of $2.8 million was spent for Boys State (CPRs), which measure volunteer hours and Boys Nation programs in 1990. the 3.1 million Legion- • Made contributions to the United naires' contributions to Legionnaires work in Fund, Red Cross, handicapped children their communities. and other financial aid of more than 10 their communities $ During the 1989-90 reporting period, million. Legionnaires donated more 55 percent of American Legion Posts sub- nationwide. than $6.5 million to needy children in mitted Consolidated Post Reports to cash, goods, gifts and services. National Headquarters in Indianapolis. • Sponsored in excess of 2,600 ath- "In practical terms, the failure to report letic teams, including 1,552 American all the good things Legionnaires are Legion Baseball teams, at a cost of doing for their fellow veterans, the $11.1 million. needy and American youth does not • Last year Legion Posts spent $1.6 diminish those contributions," said million sponsoring Boy Scout units. Bruce Thiesen, chairman of the Mem- Some of those scouts qualified for a bership and Post Activities Committee. portion of the nearly $3 million in It does, however, detract from the effec- academic scholarships Posts sponsored tiveness of Legion officials who rely in 1989-90. upon statistics provided in CPRs to • Community service projects cost promote the Legion's work in a dozen Legion Posts more than $6.9 million, endeavors, from veterans' rehabilita- with members donating 2.6 million tion to Americanism programs. hours of volunteer time in accom- "I think if more Post Commanders plishing community goals. knew how important the information • Awarded 9,227 Reserve Officer contained in the CPRs is to The Amer- Training Corps (ROTC) medals. In the ican Legion, then we'd have a response area of crime prevention, 1,239 Posts rate in the 90 percent range," said sponsored programs, and another GIFT LIFE— Legionnaires Herman G. 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' Good Music Record Co., Inc. in testimony last September, low- income veterans suffer most from these new restrictions because they are not poor enough to receive hospital care and medicine from VA, yet cannot afford to pay their own health-care Bullet-biting expenses." The American Legion has proposed a FY 1992 budget for VA that attempts to recognize fiscal realities on Capitol Hill

while it provides adequate funding for VA programs. The Legion's proposed BUDGET AGAIN FY 1992 spending plan would restore some programs and benefits lost to the budget ax in recent years. Chronic staf- 7b save money, VA has implemented fing problems in VA facilities also are several benefit restrictions, but addressed in the Legion proposal. Con- gress recently took a step in bolstering low income veterans will suffer most VA's ability to compete for quality personnel by passing into law H.R. 598, which authorizes special pay rates for VA health-care professionals, particularly doctors and dentists, who work in areas in which federal salaries are not competitive with private sector pay. Because of shortfalls in medical-care funding, hospital beds are being closed and personnel lost to attrition are not being replaced. The so-called "cost- saving" measures quietly enacted under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 only delay the costs for veterans medical care while continuing the phase-out of VA care for non-service connected veterans, and increasingly, veterans suffering health problems from service-connected ailments (see "Deadly Care," The American Legion Magazine, July 1991). One of the most sweeping changes in the SEE-THROUGH BUDGET— Because of inadequate VA funding, hospital beds are new law eliminates veteran Categories being closed and personnel lost to attrition are not replaced. A, B and C, opting instead to define levels of care by mandatory and discretionary categories. The mandatory HOEVER originated for medical care in FY 1992 would reach category, the former Category A vet- the saying, "figures $14.3 billion, not a cure-all to chronic eran, receives first call on VA hospital don't lie," obviously under-budgeting which has afflicted beds and all treatment services under a never balanced a VA for years but a realistic goal to re- complex and often contradictory set of checkbook or scanned store hard-won benefits. The National criteria. The discretionary category, the bottom line of the Commander pointed to inadequate fund- encompassing the former Category B VA's budget appropri- ing as the reason behind tightening and C veterans, stands to take the ations for fiscal year restrictions in veterans health-care biggest hit as care for non-service con- 1992. eligibility, particularly during the past nected veterans continues its slide to On paper, the administration's two years, resulting in the VA system's extinction in the VA system. budget recommendations to fund VA inability to provide health care to those "There is a current veteran popula- medical care for the next fiscal year who need it most. tion who will be unable to obtain beginning Oct. 1 show a $1 billion "It is ironic that as a grateful nation VA health-care services because of increase in funding from the previous welcomes home its newest generation inadequate funding, who have insuffi- year, to a proposed $13.3 billion from of veterans from a successful campaign cient family support systems and little the $12.3 billion Congress appro- in the Persian Gulf, previous genera- or no health insurance coverage. It is priated in FY 1991. tions of American veterans struggle these veterans who, in the past, have Under a Legion-proposed budget against a tide of ever-tightening regula- relied on the VA health-care delivery plan unveiled by National Commander tions which restrict access to VA health system as a last safety net," said Frank

Robert S. Turner last spring, spending care," Turner said. "As I told Congress Please turn page

if, AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Remember when you learned the truth about phone service?

Most people have never given much thought to their telephone service. It's just there. But when war takes you away from everyone and everything you love ... to places where there are no

phones . . . you learn to take nothing for granted. Veterans know from experience that a phone call can make a difference. That's why we've joined with Sprint for a special long distance program. When you sign up, you'll receive The American 1-800-669-8585 Legion Calling Card, a $5 Sprint certificate and 60 minutes of long distance FREE. More importantly, 5 percent of every dollar you spend on long distance will be contributed to Legion programs. To switch to Sprint PLUS "'send in the attached 000 000 0000 0000 reply card, OR call 1-800-669-8585 and ask about The American Legion/Sprint Program. Existing Sprint 0 S77-8000 FOR COMPUTER TONE customers call 1-800-877-4040. Don't just make a call, make a difference. ,

C. Buxton, deputy director of Veterans funding increased 10.3 percent, just psychiatric hospital out of 21 in the

Affairs and Rehabilitation. $600 million, or less than 1 percent per system has been built in the past 29 For FY 1992, the Bush Administra- year during a decade the medical con- years. Legion proposal for FY 1992: tion requests that Congress spend $33.2 sumer price index (CPI) soared to $796 million ($600 million for major billion to operate VA. The request double-digits. Legion proposal for FY construction, $196 million for minor includes $16.9 billion for benefit pro- 1992: $14.3 billion. construction). grams; $13.3 billion for medical care; • The largest single outlay in the VA • The American Legion urges VA $646 million for major and minor con- budget is administered through the Vet- officials to develop a plan to deal with struction; and $847 million for general erans Benefits Administration (VBA), the expected increase in veterans operating expenses that includes $57.3 which operates 59 regional VA offices burials as the World War II generation million for the National Cemetery Sys- nationwide, in Puerto Rico and the passes away. Thirty of VA's 65 open tem. The final congressional appropria- Philippines. The decline in beneficiaries national cemeteries are scheduled to tions for the coming fiscal year were not during the past three years is expected close during the next 20 years while available at press time, but the fol- to be offset by the increase of active peak burial years approach for WWII lowing compares the administration's duty personnel prompted by the Gulf veterans. According to the government, request with the comprehensive pro- War, and the war eventually will annual burials are slated to increase to gram The American Legion favors: increase the numbers of active duty, 1 15,000 by the year 2010, nearly a two- • In testimony before a Senate Reserve and National Guard troops fold increase over current figures. The Appropriations subcommittee on May eligible for disability compensation. To administration's $57.3 million budget 17, Buxton predicted the spend-down keep pace, The American Legion pro- request is inadequate to conduct neces- provisions of the 1990 omnibus act will poses an increase in the VBA staff of sary environmental impact studies in a run contrary to VA's mission to provide 725 employees. The extra staff should half dozen urban areas not adequately health care to veterans according to enable VBA to speed processing of served by the National Cemetery Sys- fair, consistent eligibility guidelines. claims and reduce error rates. Legion tem. Legion proposal for FY 1992: $70 "We have witnessed countless veterans proposal for FY 1992: $17 billion. million. During recent hearings on seeking VA health-care services only to • Funding for construction must be Capitol Hill, congressmen viewed be told they no longer qualify. We see a adequate to renovate and modernize photographs of the Riverside, Calif. continuing decline in the workload existing facilities. The Legion applauds National Cemetery depicting sunken totals throughout the system. This plans by VA officials to update existing graves and neglected, battered decline does not reflect a reduction in facilities rather than embark upon headstones. veterans' health-care demands, but major new construction projects during The Legion will continue its fight to instead reflects the barriers to access the next several years. The administra- restore the headstone, plot and burial raised by a lack of adequate funding," tion proposes $450 million for major benefits to eligible veterans reduced by Buxton told lawmakers. construction in the coming year, but Congress last year. The decade of the 1980s was a fiscal because of a preponderance of aging The litany of battles to be fought so disaster for the ranks of America's facilities in the VA system, annual hard-won benefits can be reinstituted aging veteran population. On paper, the spending for major construction should continues on many fronts. Too many level of appropriated dollars for med- be at least $600 million to maintain and veterans who suffer health problems ical care during the decade rose $6.5 modernize facilities. The need for such and have no other recourse but VA are billion, to $12.3 billion in FY 1991 funding levels is supported by the fact being told they are no longer entitled to from $5.8 billion in FY 1980. In con- that 1 1 3 out of 1 5 1 VA general hospitals treatment. New skirmishes erupt daily, stant dollars, adjusted for inflation, are at least 29 years old; and just one VA like the latest effort to eliminate a mandated $2 copayment for prescriptions filled at VA facilities. The paperwork AMERICAN LEGION costs to. generate an invoice for every BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS prescription would consume most of the financial benefit to VA while this LEGION GOVERNMENT long-run-for-a-short-slide approach FY 1992 PROPOSED FY 1992 would severely hurt many veterans MEDICAL CARE $14.3 billion $13.3 billion whose only source of medical care and CONSTRUCTION medication is VA. The Legion will be watching next MAJOR $600 million $450 million month for the scheduled release of the MINOR $196 million $196 million final report by the Commission on the MEDICAL/PROSTHETIC Future Structure of Veterans Health RESEARCH $280 million $216.2 million Care, appointed in 1990 by VA Secre- NATIONAL CEMETERY tary Edward J. Derwinski. The commission will recommend a plan to SYSTEM $70 million $57.3 million ensure VA delivers quality, cost-effi- VETERANS BENEFITS cient health care to eligible veterans on ADMINISTRATION $17.0 billion $16.9 billion an equal basis. To that end, The Amer- VETERANS STATE ican Legion will continue pushing for adequate funds so VA can deliver on its HOME PROGRAM $85 million $85 million promise to America's veterans.

18 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE I Ugliness has enshrined I been

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I becomes a i replacement I for the ability • to inspire.

VERYWHERE around us, in every realm of artistic endeavor, we see evidence of the rejection of traditional standards of beauty and worth. In the visual arts, in literature, in film, in music of both popular and classical variety, ugliness has been enshrined as a new standard, as we accept the ability to shock as a replacement for the old ability to inspire. In film, the art form which I most regularly consider, the process of degradation has already reached levels that should lead all thoughtful critics to despair for the future of the medium. Indescribable gore drenches the modern screen, even in movies allegedly made for families. And the most perverted forms of sexuality— loveless, decadent, THI WAR ON brutal and sometimes incestuous— are showing regularly at a theater near you. Perhaps you haven't seen The Grifters, a critical favorite of the last few months. Oscar winner Anjelica Huston co-stars with John Cusak in a story about the sexual tension between a mother-and- son team of con artists. In the climactic sequence, Huston attempts to seduce her boy in order to steal his money, but this heart- warming family reunion ends

Michael Medved is a co-host of the televi- By Michael Medved sion show Sneak Previews.

AUGUST 1991 19 MAN TO MAN — We've certainly come a long way from the Andy Hardy series with Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone.

Roche wrote an eloquent and important book that highlighted the threat within our culture to those values of civility and faith that many of us hold most dear. The name of the book was A World Without Heroes. And that is precisely the sort of world that Hollywood portrays

again and again on screen. It is a world in which ugliness and emptiness emerge as the new standard for our society. The second front in this war against standards involves an attack on the family that seems to gather new force with every passing year. For thousands of years, society has acknowledged the fact that a permanent partnership between a man and a woman, for the purpose of nurturing children, offers the best chance of human happiness and fulfillment. This fundamental notion has not only been challenged in recent

years, it has been assaulted- with unparalleled ferocity by some of the most powerful forces in our culture. The popular music business, for instance, has become a global enterprise of staggering proportions that with blood spurting endlessly from his In years past, in the heyday of Gary generates billions of dollars every year severed jugular vein. Cooper, Jimmy Stewart and Katharine through the simple-minded glorifica- This kind of work is regularly Hepburn, Hollywood was accused of tion of animal lust. described as high art, along with creating characters who were larger Once upon a time, parents worried another sort of ugliness that is even than life, more deeply lovable and about the impact of idolized crooners more commonly celebrated on movie admirable than people in the real world. like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or the screens today. Film after film centers Today, the movie business regularly Beatles, but these performers were on characters who are, fundamentally, offers us characters who are smaller despicable — amoral losers who give us than life, who are less decent, less intel- BABY TALK— Even films that celebrate nothing to admire, nor even to care ligent, less noble than our own friends child rearing, such as Look Who's Talk- about. and neighbors. Four years ago, George ing, portray single people as parents. VETVOICE

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20 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ELVIS THE PELVIS-Par- THE WAR ON ents once worried about the influence of crooners such as Elvis, Frank Sinatra and The Beatles.

in the course of a film, it invariably marks the conclusion of a romance, never tender, wholesome roman- the beginning nor the mid- tics compared to today's dle of the love relationship. music scene. The singers of Even those films that yesterday certainly ex- seem to celebrate the joys ploited sexuality as part of of child-rearing display a their appeal, but the fan- contemptuous attitude tasies they purveyed in toward marriage. A few their songs still centered on years ago, Hollywood dis- long-term emotional rela- covered that babies could tionships between men and serve as a major draw at the women. What is most strik- box office, and attempted ing about the popular to lure moviegoers with a music of the moment is the series of diapers-and-for- cold, bitter and sadistic mula fantasies. The three edge to the vision of most successful of these fleeting sex it promotes. films, Three Men and a Another message of the Baby, Look Who's Talking, music that is ceaselessly reinforced by often depict a marriage that is radically and Baby Boom, featured single people television and movies is the perverse dysfunctional. in the parental roles. The underlying but pervasive idea that "kids know Apparently, some stern decree has message could hardly be more clear: best." Teen-agers are regularly por- gone out from the upper reaches of the Infants may be cute and cuddly and trayed as the source of all wisdom, Hollywood establishment that love desirable, but they are best enjoyed sanity and sensitivity, while their par- between married people must never be without the inconvenient entangle- ents are shown as hopeless, benighted portrayed on screen. If a wedding occurs Please turn to page 52 clowns. With Bart Simpson regularly turning up on all lists of the most admired Americans, we've certainly come a long way from the Andy Hardy model, with young Mickey Rooney learning life's lessons from his father, the stern but kindly judge. This new idea that children have all the answers, and have to show the older generation how to live and how to adjust to the brave new world around them, is a hold over from the destructive obsessions of the '60s youth culture, and it poisons the climate for family life. According to the Census Bureau, two- thirds of all American adults are currently married, but movies today focus overwhelmingly on single people. If you want to test this premise, all you have to do is pick up a copy of any metropolitan newspaper and read the entertainment section to see what's playing at your local theaters. The number of films about single people will outnumber the films about married people by a ratio of five or six to one. And even those relatively rare films that do make an attempt to show life within a family will most

DRIVING SUCCESS-7he success of Driving Miss Daisy shows Americans want wholesome entertainment.

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vapors in basements and sewers. This is By Robert McGarvey a problem ignored for many years. We

cannot afford to ignore it any longer." EOPLE move to rural Ask the residents of East Setauket, Arrowhead Villas in Long Island, about that. They recently

California for the quality learned they are sitting on top of a 1 of life nestled in the San million gallon lake of gasoline which, Bernadino Mountains and in places, is as deep as seven feet. Or go nearby Lake Arrowhead. to Brooklyn, N.Y., Greenpoint section, At the 5,000-foot eleva- where there's a 17 million gallon under- tion, the air is clean and ground petroleum lake—which is half-

crisp. So is the water again as big as the 1 1 million gallon drawn from deep wells. At least the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. That leak, water was, until the morning Cher Fish EVEN MINOR too, is dwarfed by a petroleum ocean, turned on her kitchen faucet and out estimated to be 250 million gallons, poured gasoline. LEAKS MAY BE recently found under a Chevron Fish wasn't alone. Other residents, refinery in El Segundo, Calif. Nobody, too, suddenly found foul water flowing however, rules out discovery of still from their spigots. When the cause was CATASTROPHIC larger leaks. "There are many leaks that

traced, it turned out the local water haven't been detected yet," Epstein company had poisoned itself. Sited IF VAPORS said. "We're just beginning to inven- adjacent to the public wells was a pair of tory the extent of the damages." water-company-owned, underground BUILD UP IN The EPA's Helga Butler, planning steel tanks holding gasoline and diesel chief for the Office of Underground fuel. Estimated to be 40 years old, the BASEMENTS AND Storage Tanks, tells the "why" behind underground tanks, over time, had this epidemic: "Most of the under- sprung leaks and polluted the com- ground storage tanks were installed in munity's water supply. SEWERS, CAUSING the 1950s and '60s when everyone was Arrowhead Villas isn't alone. From heading out to suburbia." Builders and

Mahwah, N.J. , where 60 percent of the EXPLOSIONS. buyers alike preferred tanks to be water supply is threatened, to Fort hidden underground, rather than above Madison, Iowa, where the entire water ground where they were unattractive, supply was contaminated, communities capital 7V" added Long Island lawyer used space and posed a fire hazard. large and small are grappling with the Cary David Kessler. Placed out of sight, many of the buried problems caused by leaking tanks. Lois Epstein, an underground tank tanks were forgotten. But that was a "Leaking underground petroleum specialist with the New York-based mistake. Steel tanks have a useful life storage tanks are becoming the environ- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), span of 20 to 30 years— after that, rust mental issue," said Dwight Merriam, explains the scope of the problem: eats holes through the metal, which president of the American Institute of "There are an estimated 5 million means "time has run out for many," Certified Planners and a land-use underground storage tanks across the Merriam said. attorney in Hartford, Conn. country, and about one in every four is Nor can tank owners count on getting "These tanks spell trouble with a leaking. Even a minor leak can be cat- the maximum life out of their tanks, astrophic to the environment and, of said Merriam. "Improper installation Robert McGarvey is a Los Anf>eles-based course, there is also a substantial risk of causes many tanks to develop leaks free-lance journalist. explosions resulting from buildup of prematurely. Put a scratch in a steel

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TANK TOP— Lois Epstein, an underground tank specialist with the here are an estimated New York-based Environmental Defense Fund, examines a tank. 5 million underground tanks dissolving until vast sources, but, most leak experts are nationwide, and one in quantities of water are worried about an altogether different polluted. One estimate source. "Big business is fairly well every four is leaking.^ from the National Wild- aware of the problem and is taking life Federation is that a remedial actions." said Merriam. leak of just one and one- "Nowadays, with leaking underground tank and, before many years go by, you half cups of petroleum per hour can tanks, as often as not, it is the home- lose the tank to rust." Fiberglass tanks, contaminate 1 million gallons of owner who is the cause." which appeared on the market as an ground water in a day. The explanation is that, as mandated alternative around two decades ago, are "Once water is polluted, the costs for by 1988 EPA regulations, owners of rust-free but "installation is more crit- cleanup can escalate very fast," said large commercial tanks found at ical still," said Merriam, adding that Epstein, who pegs the average cost per gasoline stations and industrial com- even a small rock in fill used as leveling incident as high as $100,000. Those plexes now are required to install leak can in time trigger stress fractures in a expenditures come with no guarantee. detection systems and purchase fiberglass tank. "It's not like you can read in a cleanup cleanup insurance. That's a big step As for why leaks can be catastrophic, cookbook how to make this go away," toward ensuring there won't be more the answer— as in Arrowhead Villas, said William H. Spitz, an engineering East Setauket incidents, but "the regula- Mahwah, and Fort Madison— is in the geologist with the New York State tions exempt more tanks than they water we drink. Petroleum and its 300 Department of Environmental Conser- cover," said Epstein, who points to component chemicals are linked with vation assigned to the effort to sponge regulatory exclusion of farm and home diseases ranging from cancer to anemia up the East Setauket leak, where costs heating oil tanks in the millions. "A through skin and eye irritations. Mix have already eclipsed $10 million, and homeowner could have a small leak, petroleum products with ground water, the end isn't in sight. "There are very during many years, and never know it. which half the country's population different principles from surface-water But even a tiny leak can be disastrous depends upon for drinking water, and spill cleanups. Here we have a problem for drinking water. The EPA predicts cleanup becomes critical, but also without being able to touch and see it." that even with its regulations, 62,000 expensive. That's because many of Granted, the huge leaks such as in private and 4,700 public wells will be petroleum's components are highly East Setauket and Greenpoint invari- contaminated by petroleum products water soluble. Once in water, they keep ably are traced back to industrial Please turn to page 49

AUGUST 1991 23 'O BEYOND AND ByVernon Pizer BACK MPMM N MID-1988 while Sir I Alfred Ayer, an Oxford I professor stricken with I pneumonia, was in the I intensive care unit of Uni- A Gallup Poll reports more than 8 million I versity College Hospital in Americans undergone near-death I London, the screen on the have I monitor he was connected experiences, but scientists have yet WKkmmaM to registered an abrupt, steep drop in his heartbeat. As the to provide an adequate explanation. medical team raced to his side, the recording flattened out, and he went into cardiac arrest. miraculously risen from the dead. But, radiant light from which emanated an Working swiftly, the doctors fought devoid of the purple prose and the aura of well-being and serenity. Often to restore Ayer's heartbeat. Four hokum of the tabloids, articles have this joyous voyage included reunion minutes after it had quit beating, the also appeared in serious journals with loved ones who had died. stalled organ began once again to pump describing the accounts of individuals What is going on? Could it be a kind blood. Later, he had regained when who report undergoing remarkably of religious ecstasy as some skeptics consciousness, Ayer told his doctors strange experiences while on the verge claim? Ayer cultivates inhospitably arid that during his four minutes of "death" of death. Researchers investigating the ground in which religious fervor can he had undergone an eerie experience: phenomenon term it an NDE, a near- take root. He is an avowed atheist. For He had been confronted by an exceed- death experience. all of his adult life he has adamantly ingly bright light. More than that, he opposed the notion of some form of life declared that in some mysterious research is ongoing and find- after death. Now, he concedes, he is not manner he had been made to realize THEings thus far are incomplete and quite so certain that death is the end of that this penetrating light was respon- inconclusive, but what has become everything. sible for the governance of the universe. clear is that Ayer and Reese have plenty Some skeptics theorize that NDEs strange brush with Prior to Ayer's of company. A recent Gallup Poll indi- are simply dreamlike hallucinations death, singer Delia Reese accidentally cated more than 8 million Americans stimulated by the brain in response to in her walked through a glass door report having undergone an NDE. How physical trauma. These hallucinations, rapidly California home. Losing blood many outside of the United States put they believe, are colored and shaped by from several severed arteries, she was forth the same claim is unknown, but it the individual's cultural conditioning rushed to a hospital in a near-death is surely safe to assume that the number and by previous events that claimed his condition. She later revealed that while is huge. attention. But that would not explain the emergency room team was working The Gallup Poll is surprising not only the near-death experiences reported by feverishly to stave off her death, she had because of its sheer weight of numbers, those too young to have been molded the sensation of floating free from her but also for the similarities in what by cultural influences and previous and of observing the comatose body occurred as described by those events. scene from above the gurney on which claiming to have undergone an NDE. An Idaho pediatrician, Dr. Melvin she lay. Typically, they report that, like Reese, Morse, became intrigued when a 7- time to time one of the super- From they floated free of their bodies and year-old patient who had nearly market tabloids runs a lurid account of looked down on the scene from above drowned told him that while she was a modern-day Lazarus who has while feeling sensations of peace and unconscious in the swimming pool she joy. For some, that was the extent of saw a light, and as she moved toward it,

Vernon Pizer is a veteran journalist based their NDE. However, many reported an angel-like figure appeared to guide in Vaidosta, Ga., who frequently contrib- that after floating free of their bodies her along the way. Seeking other young- utes to this magazine. they glided through a tunnel toward a sters with similar accounts to relate. Dr.

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE RLOATING free of their bodies, they were confronted by an exceedingly

bright light.

reported having a combination of both. What emerged as the most perplexing, most inexplicable aspect of many accounts is that some said they observed the scene from above after floating free of their bodies and were able to describe in detail the medical interventions the doctors employed on their unconscious bodies. Investigators trying to unravel clues that could provide a key to unlocking the enigma of the near- death experience are frus- trated when they probe for a common thread among those who have undergone an NDE. The source of their frustration is the inescapable fact that those who have had a near-death experience are as different from one another as all the hues of the color spectrum.

The Gallup Poll made it clear that they differ by age, sex, education, race and ethnic heritage, religious

belief or lack of it, cultural background, geography and the nature of the illness or trauma they sustained. In groping for any kind Morse ultimately found 50 who said Sabom's patients, resuscitated after of linkage, some investigators seize on they had undergone a near-death experi- suffering cardiac arrest, revealed to him the fact that so many NDEs involve ence. One of the children was only four that he had undergone an NDE during passage through a tunnel toward a years old. Taking into account their the period of the arrest, the cardiologist bright light, and they couple this experi-

youth, it seems improbable that the was nagged by the elusiveness of a cred- ence with the obvious truth that near-death experiences described by ible, logical explanation for the occur- everyone who has experienced an NDE these children could in each instance rence. He began seeking other cardiac also has experienced the process of have been shaped by cultural condi- patients who reported undergoing being born. From this starting point, tioning and prior events. similar experiences, eventually discov- these theorists then postulate that in a Morse is merely one of numerous ering 100. Some described having out- near-death experience the mind physicians who have encountered the of-body experiences, some reported somehow dredges a memory of the NDE phenomenon in the course of their having mystical experiences involv- birth process, that the tunnel in the practices. When one of Dr. Michael ing lights and spirituality, and some Please turn to page 59

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which it follows that, if we have a mon- much in the 1970s, outgoing President By M. Stanton Evans strous deficit, the military must be the Jimmy Carter proposed, in his final problem. budget, a substantial buildup of the MONG its other history- Such themes have been sounded Pentagon. The five-year spending making effects, Operation repeatedly in the media and Congress, increase achieved by Reagan was actu- Desert Storm in the Persian to the point where many Americans ally less than Carter proposed. Gulf has laid to rest some apparently accept them as unvarnished • The truly mammoth increases in long-standing myths about truth. Repeated stories about $600 federal spending for this period have the U.S. military. toilet seats, cost overruns on weapons been for non-defense, domestic pro-

One of these is the notion projects, and constant references to grams—which therefore bear the chief that, "since the Cold War Ronald Reagan's "trillion dollar build- responsibility for the deficit. This is over," we no longer up" have conveyed a message of mas- upward surge of domestic spending need to worry about the state of our sive overspending on defense. continues at a rapid pace today. defenses, or commit substantial re- This, however, is the biggest myth of The accompanying graphic (Table I) sources to them. Not far behind is the all. In fact, the long-term budget trend shows the long-term decline of military related concept that we have been of the United States is exactly the outlays as a share of federal spending. spending too much on high-tech reverse of this familiar picture. Across a Given the usual publicity on this topic, weapons, merely to appease the appe- span of decades, the trend of military the numbers are nothing short of amaz- tites of the Pentagon and the military ing. In 1961, when John F. Kennedy yen for ever more expensive "toys." was President, defense consumed some Both these arguments look feeble in 51 percent of the federal budget; in the light of what happened in the gulf. 1971, even with the Vietnam War in While there is reason to doubt that the progress, it was down to 37.5 percent; Cold War is over and done with (witness in 1981, when Reagan arrived in the crackdown in the Baltics), there Washington, it was down to 23.2 per- would still be plenty of problems to cent—less than half of what it had been contend with even should this prove to in the Kennedy era. be the case. Saddam Hussein is only kCROSS A It was this statistical nose dive, at a one example. The world, unfortunately, time of Soviet buildup and global still has its share of Qaddafis, Castros, SPAN OF DECADES, expansion, that convinced a lot of and Assads who can disturb the peace people we had to refurbish our and threaten the security of the West. THE TREND defenses. The extent of this "defense As for the "toys," it is chilling to OF MILITARY consensus" by 1980 is seldom men- think what might have happened in the tioned now, but it was a potent factor at gulf if we hadn't acquired them. Mil- FUNDING the time. John M. Collins, military lions who witnessed the spectacular expert at the Library of Congress, fireworks over Riyadh and Tel Aviv, and HAS BEEN recalls: even more so the people on the ground "Bipartisan support for a better bal- in these locations, are thankful today SHARPLY DOWN, ance between U.S. and Soviet armed that the United States had the Patriot forces emerged full blown early in anti-missile system, Tomahawk cruise NOT UP. 1980. It embraced the executive missiles, and other high-tech weapons branch, Congress and most informed at the ready. members of the American public. Argu- Even so, the drumbeat about the ment about a U.S. buildup centered spending has been sharply down, not need to cut back the military has con- mainly on what to procure, in what up — a pattern that continues with a tinued—and our national priorities are quantities and at what rates. President vengeance in the present era. Among following suit. The argument at this Carter started the biggest peacetime the key particulars from the fiscal point is almost entirely budgetary. Please turn to page 56 record: Whatever the merits of our perform- • Measured as a share of the national ance in the gulf, it is argued, we have budget, or of the nation's total economic gone too far on spending for defense; at Table I output, military outlays over the past a time of $300 billion deficits, we Defense Spending As three decades have fallen like a stone. simply can't afford to keep lavishing A Share of Federal This trend was partially interrupted in dollars on the Pentagon. Budget- 1961-92 the Reagan era, but has since resumed Frequently stated in this discussion Year % ofBudget its downward journey. is the idea that military outlays are • Even under Reagan, the deviation 1961 50.8 the major culprit in the budget melo- 1965 42.8 from the long-term trend was surpris- drama. The decade of the '80s, sup- 1971 37.5 ingly small, as well as temporary— posedly, was a time of stringent cutback 1975 . . 26.0 percentage points in the total 1981 23.2 on domestic spending and simulta- few 1985 26.7 budget. As a result, defense as a share .r.-iiwy neous expansion of defense — from 1990 23.9 of federal spending was essentially the 1992 (est.) 20.4 same in 1990 as it had been in 1980, Source: Office of Management and Budget. M. Stanton Evans is a frequent con- and was in a new state of free fall. tributor to this magazine. • Because defense had declined so

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Supercollider, memory chips end genetics- progress in these cruciol fields will determine the notion's security ond competitiveness, soys the President's science odviser.

I UPERCOLLIDER, supercomputers, memory coveries wherever and whenever they're made, without delay. chips, genetics, nucleonics— these are more than That's the key point. If you get too far behind the frontiers, exotic research targets for today's scientists. you simply are no longer competitive. Progress in these crucial areas will determine the

nation 's security and trade competitiveness for all Q- Do we have the people and resources to do that? thefuture. The President's science adviser here tells A I'm completely confident that we have the know-how, where U.S. technology now stands, compared with the technology, the people . . . and therefore the others— and where we're going. opportunity to remain competitive. But it's going to require D. Allan Bromley, a leading nuclear physicist, is that we have a much greater spirit of cooperation among our assistant to the Presidentfor Science and Technology and director companies, our universities and our government laboratories of the Office ofScience and Technology at the White House. He is than we have ever had before. If we work together, we can a past president ofthe American Associationfor the Advancement take on any competition the world can throw at us. However, of Science, the world's largest scientific society, and is currently if we spend most of our effort competing with one another, on leavefrom Yale University, where he was a professor ofphysics. then we can be picked off one by one.

American Legion Magazine: The growth of stiff Q. Are you concerned that Japan is stealing our Japanese competition, coupled with West Europe's technological secrets and using these to create products economic resurgence, has made many wonder: Is the that out-compete the United States? leader- There's question that is true. We did that for cen- United States in danger of losing its technological A no ship? turies in regard to Europe, up until World War II. In today's world, we simply cannot protect our technology. D. Allan Bromley: Not at all. Except at the margins, the What we have to do, instead, is to be much more aggressive United States remains the strongest science and technology in our negotiations with the Japanese, with the Europeans, enterprise the world has ever seen. What has happened is that with the Koreans, with everyone, so that when they get a other countries, by focusing their resources and efforts in benefit from us in technology, we have to be sure that we get rather narrow areas, have managed to move up to equal us a comparable benefit from them. We haven't done that in the and, in a few areas, to move ahead of us. That's not surpris- past. We have tended to be rank amateurs in negotiations of ing, and it shouldn't be any real cause for alarm. It's what we this kind. And we have not done our homework to the extent might expect as other countries build their economies. we should. Even so, we need to be concerned for one particular reason: In those areas where we don't ourselves define where 0- Everyone seems to be clamoring for more federal scientific frontiers lie by our work, we have to be close spending for research and development. Why can't U.S. enough to those frontiers so that we can exploit new dis- industry do more?

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "The development of super-

computers is return on federal investment in academic, basic research is 28 one of the percent per year. That's a pretty good return. President's Second, the way we do research in this nation is inextric- three major ably tied with higher education. In addition to gaining new knowledge, we train the young minds that are going to use initiatives that knowledge creatively in the future. for the 1992 And third, the search for the unknown, the pushing back fiscal year." of the frontiers of human ignorance is what really charac- terizes our civilization. It's what separates us from the animals. It's a fundamental part of our culture. It's the greatest adventure of mankind. D. ALLAN BROMLEY

Q The Persian GulfWar has re-emphasized our depend- A You have to distinguish between basic research and the ence on imported oil and our energy vulnerability, yet actual development of attractive products and services. nuclear power development today is flat on its back. Can In basic research, you cannot predict when, where or to anything be done to get that rolling again? whom the benefits will flow. And therefore, no single institu- A Absolutely. As part of the national energy strategy, we tion can guarantee to its stockholders or its management that have emphasized the importance of re-establishing a they can collect a sufficient fraction of the benefits to justify viable, dynamic nuclear industry in this country. Yet this their making the necessary investment. That is also true in cannot be done by simply doing more of the same we did the development of generic technologies. A couple of exam- before. We made a basic mistake in the early days of nuclear ples are particular new memory chips and high-resolution energy in this country in that we allowed the architects and imaging devices. These are devices that can be used engineers to redesign the wheel— to build each reactor as a throughout industry and throughout the national security totally new entity, which then took years and years to be area. Here the federal government has the opportunity to certified as adequately safe. In my view, what we must do is move in and work with the private sector to make the United develop new reactor types that are intrinsically safe. And States competitive on an international scale. these are now available. Utilities or any other organization that requires electrical energy can buy these in convenient, Q- What does the nation get for all the money spent on standardized units— certified as being safe. research? Now, we have to convince the public that such nuclear A Three ultimate things: First, a recent study by Edwin power units are not only safe but that they are in the public's Mansfield at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the interest . . . because they are the only technology that can nation's most distinguished economists, has shown that the Please turn to page 54

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into World War II on the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador and since 1940, more than 100,000 U.S. troops have served there.

engineers in 1940, followed by thou- Before World War II, the island of ByJohn Cardoulis sands of American troops during and Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony, after World War II, the lives and social was a quiet, peaceful country. Situated HE feelings American serv- customs of Newfoundlanders were off Canada in the North Atlantic, with icemen and women have changed forever. its wild and beautiful coastline, New- for Newfoundlanders is Before 1939, Newfoundland and its foundland conveyed a ruggedness born reflected in many ways, territory, Labrador, were unknown to of relentless and unforgiving seas. Its

from friendship to family most Americans. Today, it is a friendly most eastern shore is the closest point ties, from love and sorrow port-of-call for more than 42,000 in North America to both England and to an inseparable, amiable visiting American tourists each year, Europe. Labrador, the Newfoundland bond that has grown dur- and a homecoming for thousands of territory located on the mainland of T ing 51 years of association. Newfoundland women and their Ameri- Canada, is a vast, sparsely populated With the arrival of a few U.S. Army can husbands and their children. wilderness that reminds visitors in winter that the Arctic Circle is not far away. Newfoundland, in 1949, became the 10th province of Canada. Many changes have occurred on the island since 1940, but the people still retain the friendliness and hospitality that has always impressed the thousands of American military personnel and their families who were stationed there during the past 50 years. At the beginning of hostilities in Europe in 1939, and the declaration of

ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY- The Atlantic Ferry Command flew more than 50,000 airplanes to Europe from Newfoundland.

V) AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE SHORE THING—Second Marine Brigade units wade ashore at Argentia, New- foundland, during invasion maneuvers. Samaritan Place: A LIVING MEMORIAL President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to help, direct assistance from the United States, not yet at war, was ham- pered by the U.S. Neutrality Act. Amer- ican warships and aircraft were not allowed to sail or fly directly to the war zone in England, nor participate in any way without involving the United States in the war. A lend-lease plan devised by Presi- dent Roosevelt early in 1940 to assist England consisted in part of shipment of war materials from the United States to Canadian and Newfoundland ports, where they were transhipped to Eng- land by British ships. Hundreds of THE early morning hours of American-made bombers were flown Dec. 12, 1985, stand out as the to the Canadian border, where they greatest peacetime U.S. military were towed across by Canadians and tragedy ever, when a chartered then shipped by sea to England. On Arrow Air Lines passenger jet Aug. 16, 1940, President crashed after takeoff and burned at Roosevelt established the Gander International Airport, Joint Permanent (U.S. /Cana- Newfoundland, resulting in the dian) Board of Defense. Thus loss of all aboard. Two hundred the concept of the Anglo- and forty-eight soldiers of the American Lend-Lease Agree- 101st Airborne Division, Fort

ment was born. Campbell, Ky. , and eight crew The escalation of the war in members died in the disaster. The Europe enticed the U.S. War American soldiers were returning Department to strengthen its home for Christmas to be with military positions in defense their families, after serving with ATLANTIC OCEAN of the Western Hemisphere. the U.N. peace-keeping force in the Britain was in dire need of war- Sinai Peninsula. ships and the United States It was Canada's worst air dis- required bases outside its bor- aster and one of the greatest losses ders to protect its interests. A suffered by a single division of mutual agreement was made the U.S. Armed Forces in peace between the United States and or war. Newfoundlanders were England on Sept. 2, 1940, in deeply moved by the tragedy. The which the United States would Township of Gander immediately supply Britain with 50 U.S. prepared for visiting relatives and destroyers in exchange for friends from the United States, and leased land in Newfoundland, arranged for appropriate church war on Germany by Britain and France Bermuda and the West Indies. Britain services and visits to the' crash on Sept. 3, 1939, Newfoundland was accepted the destroyers in exchange for area. In August 1990, the Gander immediately recognized by the United leased land in the West Indian Islands Masonic Memorial Complex and States and England as the most and in British Guiana. However, in the the Town of Gander erected a strategic location in the North Atlantic case of Newfoundland and Bermuda, monument at the Arrow crash site. defense. Contingency plans by the U.S. the land was leased to the United States The tribute consists of a soldier War Department and the Ministry of for 99 years, free of any remuneration. atop a massive rock, holding hands War in England concluded that if Ger- Newfoundland, under British rule in with two children. The monument conquered Britain, Hitler at but its many would 1939, was already war faces Fort Campbell, Ky. , and it is concentrate on North America by way defenses were practically nil. Canada appropriately named "The Silent of Iceland, Greenland and Newfound- was asked by England to assist New- Witness." Dignitaries from Canada land. Please turn to page 50 and the United States, including In May 1940, conceding that Eng- the 101st Airborne Division, were land would not be able to continue on present for the unveiling. its own, British Prime Minister Winston John Cardoulis is the author of the book Within a few weeks, the Town of chronicles the Churchill requested immediate assist- Friendly Invasion, which Please turn to page 51 ance from the United States. Though U.S. military in Newfoundland.

AUGUST 1991 31 HE awards ceremony in Ensenada, Mexico, was prestigious. Flag officers in the crowd represented such elegant yachting organizations as the San Diego Yacht Club, current home of America's Cup. T There were representatives of The Royal Australian Yacht Club of Sydney, the swank St. Francis Yacht Club of San Francisco and others from as far away as France and England. More than 500 sailboats from around the world had competed in the classic annual race from Newport Beach, Calif., to Ensenada, Mexico. The Con- verse- Wurdman Trophy was about to be presented. The prize— not unlike the America's Cup, though not as prestigious—is a valued perpetual trophy in the shape of a sterling silver pitcher. It CLUB was first awarded in 1906. Behind the officials, the winner's burgee — the little tri-cornered flag a boat flies to Legionnaires show what yacht club it represents— was pulled up the mast as the speaker from Post 291 announced the victor. "The winner with the fastest time in the began The American ." PHRF J-class is . . said the official as Legion Yacht Club a hush came over the crowd of some 5,000. "The winner is, The American of Newport Beach, Legion Yacht Club." Calif, in 1966. "The what?" gasped many of the yachtsmen in attendance. You could see them trying to decipher the red-white - and-blue burgee with its "sniper scope" By Pat Michaels cross hairs at the center. It was not a known burgee in the often snobbish what yacht circles of yachting. "The world. It was started by Post members official. club?" somebody asked an in 1966. Newport Beach is an exclusive "The American Legion Yacht Club," water-oriented community and has the he repeated. "The yacht Half Fast, skip- world's largest yacht harbor, with more pered Haines, flying the colors by Tony than 14,000 yachtsmen calling it home of The American Legion Yacht Club of port. The American Legion Yacht Club Newport Beach, Calif." He lifted the and Post 291 overlook the bay with a large trophy from the awards table as private beach, yacht marina and moor- the crew of Half Fast climbed jubilantly ings offshore. The initiation fee of to the stage to accept the honors and the nearby yacht clubs ranges from the low cup. thousands to as much as $25,000. Dues Until May 1991 , the cup was dis- range from $75 a month to $250 a ON DECK— From left, Tony Haines, Tom Holmes Patrick Merrinian played in the entrance hall of American month. Membership entitles a member and manned the Half Fast to win the 1990 Newport- Legion Post 291 . It is the envy of the to use the yacht club facilities, to com- Ensenada Race PHRF J class. more than 83 yacht clubs that comprise pete in organized racing by flying the the Southern California Yachting burgee and to use the services of other Association, as well as the clubs from yacht clubs. A St. Francis Yacht Club tunities and have the same guest privi- around the world that had tried to cap- member from San Francisco visiting leges at most other yacht clubs through- ture it in the 1990 race. San Diego, for instance, can use the out the world. The only difference is American Legion Yacht Club is The facilities of the elegant San Diego Yacht there is no initiation fee to join the club the club of its kind in the only yacht Club, and have dinner served by white- and, instead of monthly dues, there is gloved waiters, just as if he were a local one annual assessment. Members must

Pat Michaels is a California-based free- member. be Legionnaires. Once that require- lance journalist who has written about 3(H) An American Legion Yacht Club ment is met, annual dues are $25 for

magazine artk les. member can also enjoy the same oppor- members of Post 29 1 . Members of any

'i? SHIP SHAPE-Post 291 overlooks the Newport Beach Bay (above), and from left, Commander Bill von Esch, Secretary Sally Chapman and Treasurer Frank Kaiser manage Post operations.

American Legion Yacht Club is like any other accredited yacht club in the world. Its unique building is decorated

with nautical gadgets, and it has the

typical yacht club mast which it erected in 1990 in honor of fellow member Robert Owens, a retired Marine major who was a fighter pilot ace and hero at Guadalcanal.

But it is probably that mast and the

flags it flies that distinguishes the Legion club from all others. On the staff of honor is the American Flag. Behind the top of the mast is that unique burgee which so few recognized at the winner's salute ending the 1990 Newport-Ensenada race. Then there is other American Legion Post can also club announced a competition among the rigging cross-bar which holds the enjoy membership privileges of the yachtsmen to show their love of the eight "etiquette" lifts which fly the yacht club for $26.50 a year. That way a American Flag. Other yacht clubs were flags of the commodore and those of his Legionnaire yachtsman on Lake Michi- invited to participate by decorating fellow flag officers whenever any of gan or anywhere else can be eligible to their vessels patriotically and simply them are "aboard." However, The compete in inter-club yacht races, or sailing past the reviewing committee American Legion Yacht Club has a simply fly The American Legion Yacht stationed under the mast of The Ameri- ninth lift on its mast that others don't: Club burgee while they visit other can Legion Yacht Club on the bay. The the black-and-white banner of the POWs neighboring yacht clubs. Legionnaires were slightly chagrined— and MIAs. On July 4, 1990, The American and proud—when a judging committee, That POW-MIA flag symbolizes the Legion Yacht Club received front-page largely composed of media people, spirit of The American Legion Yacht recognition for its "Old Glory Regatta." selected as the winning boat, Post 291 Club. It is a winning yacht club with its

While our flag was under fire in Con- Legionnaire Bill von Esch's Sea Baron. eyes on the America's Cup, but its heart gress and at the Supreme Court, the In most respects, except dues, The is in The American Legion.

AUGUST 1991 33 .

Veterans update

'T he American Legion is convinced that the Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia. ". nation can afford a more realistic educational assistance . .she is adamantly opposed to any initiative to get to the package for military veterans," John Hanson, director of the heart of the problem, and, more importantly, interferes in or

Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Division, told the Senate actively sabotages POW/MIA analyses or investigations. . Veterans Affairs Committee during testimony in support of Her influence in 'jerking around' everyone and everything the Legion's newly proposed Persian Gulf GI Bill for Desert involved in the issue goes far beyond the 'war and MIA Storm veterans. protester gone straight' scenario.'" The Legion plan would increase the monthly basic educa- Commenting on Peck's charges, National Commander tion assistance for veterans to $777, and restore the non- Robert S. Turner said: "While we continue to oppose any contributory clause which does not require veterans to help proposal that the United States give diplomatic recognition to fund the benefit. The proposal also calls for 36 to 45 months Vietnam as a means of obtaining information about the of entitlement, depending on length of service. missing American citizens in Southeast Asia, we will not be Hanson said some congressmen have disagreed with the hamstrung by a private, not-for-profit group which appears to Legion's proposal because military men and women today be acting independent of the government on a very sensitive are not drafted, but volunteer to serve. matter." Turner said the Legion is totally committed to the "There may never have been a better trained military in our families of the POWs/MIAs, but added that the Legion "will history, but we cannot ensure that we will always be so lucky not be part of a government side show that provokes more in the future if we don't offer something of real value in questions than it answers." exchange for that service," Hanson said during testimony. In a letter to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Turner "We wonder about efforts to provide tokens of appreciation requested to be kept fully informed on the matter and indi- for these men and women. What if they had made only a cated to the Secretary that the Legion might have to reassess token effort against Saddam Hussein?" its long-standing support for government-to-government The Legion presented the Persian Gulf GI Bill proposal negotiations on the POW/MIA issue. because studies have shown that today's military education benefits provide only about 42 percent of the average cost of attending a state institution. Veterans of earlier eras received between 90 percent and 100 percent of their education and of unemployed veterans increased training costs paid by the government. The number by more than 90 percent in the past year, according to James "We trained and educated a work force that became the B. Hubbard Jr., director of the Legion's Economic Commis- great American middle class. We set a standard the world sion, who testified before a Senate subcommittee about the envied, and the money came back in higher taxes and proposed 1992 VA budget. increased production," Hanson said. During testimony, Hubbard stated that the proposed $42.2 Hanson also testified that the Legion fully supports re- million reduction in the Disabled Veteran Outreach Program employment rights for returning servicemen and women. (DVOP) would not provide for the 1 ,880 positions needed to "If service in the Reserve or National Guard becomes a conduct the program. burden for our citizens, they will not serve, and the active Hubbard told the subcommittee the proposed budget does duty force must be used to take up the slack if national not provide enough funding for other veterans employment security is to be maintained," Hanson said. services, such as the Local Veterans Employment Represen- tative (LVER). The mandated level for LVER staffing is

1 ,600, but the proposed budget only provides for 1 ,492. Hubbard also criticized plans to reduce the size of the is calling for full disclo- The American Legion military and slash funding for veterans' employment pro- sure on the progress and results of a DoD investigation into grams. "We believe it makes no sense to send men and an alleged cover-up of information about POWs/MIAs. women to war, bring them back, force them out of the service The Legion's action comes on the heels of the resignation and release them into a moribund economy while eliminating of Col. Millard A. Peck, director of the Special Office of the very programs designed to help them with a transition to Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, Defense Intelligence civilian life," he said. Agency. Peck alleged a cover-up in a resignation memo that stated the POW7IV1IA issue "is being manipulated by unscrupulous people in government, or associated with government. Some K arc using the issue for personal or political advantage and Kentucky Vietnam-era veterans with service others use it as a forum to perform and feel important, or in previous wars are eligible for a bonus from the state. The worse," he wrote. "The sad fact, however, is that this issue is bonus will be in addition to bonuses already paid for service being controlled and a cover-up may be in progress. The in World War II or the Korean War. entire charade does not appear to be an honest effort, and The deadline for filing applications is Oct. 31, 1991. For may have never been." more information, call 1-502-564-5220, or write to The In his memo, Peck also questioned the role of the executive Veterans Bonus Branch, P.O. Box 1424, Frankfort, KY director of the National League of Families of the American 40602.

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Don't let this valuable protection opportunity pass you by. Give your loved ones the added security they deserve. Enroll now. June 1989 and March 1990. The VA report, released March 25, revealed a FATAL staggering array of mismanagement, misdiagnoses, ill-advised surgical procedures, shoddy record keeping, poor supervision of medical residents, and failure to deliver the type of care most needed by the majority of patients. Legion officials, however, com- mended VA Secretary Edward J. Der- winski for conducting a thorough investigation and reporting the results of the VA's internal probe. "We have informed the secretary that, while we salute him for his prompt and courageous response VA Office of Inspector Generol uncovers in North Chicago, The American Legion will be looking over his shoulder at VA mismonogement end shoddy heolth core medical centers and clinics around the country," said John Hanson, director of of North Chicogo VA Medicol Center. the Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Division. Testifying April 24 before a House subcommittee, Hanson said the Office of Inspector General's report revealed a disgraceful record of neglect. "We are deeply troubled by the apparent lack of care and compassion by some of the management team at the North Chicago VAMC," Hanson told the House Sub- committee on Hospitals and Health Care. "We are equally troubled by the rush to explain away deaths caused by incompetence. Veterans have earned more than that kind of treatment, and

we will continue to demand it. They also deserve to know that their advocates care about real solutions, reached thoughtfully, not quick fixes which will deny them their care and further embar- rass us all." The revelations led to the immediate suspension of all vascular and ortho- INVESTIGATED — VA conducted a 10-month investigation of the North Chicago pedic surgical procedures; and VA offi- VAMC by studying records of patients who died after treatment. cials severed the center's affiliation with the Chicago Medical School, effective next spring, though VA has the

option to rescind its order if warranted. The hospital's chief of staff was trans- FATAL slippage in health National Commander Robert S. Turner. ferred, while hospital director Leonard care contributing to the "Those Americans who were willing to Rogers, who left North Chicago VA after deaths of at least six vet- lay their lives on the line for their he was promoted to a post in Washing- erans at North Chicago country should not be forced to face ton, D.C., was transferred and disci- A VA Medical Center has undue hazards in the wards of a state- plined when the controversy broke. The sparked an outcry among side VA medical facility," Turner said. record of neglectful treatment investi- veterans and concern on Anonymous letter writers who gators uncovered at North Chicago VA Capitol Hill about the charged North Chicago VA with deliver- made headlines nationwide. Some

quality of care in the ing substandard care at its l ,000 bed examples: country's 1 72 VA hospitals. facility prompted a l()-month investiga- • A 69-year-old man admitted July

"Our nation recently showed its pride tion begun in June 1 990 by the VA 17, 1989, undergoes an operation to in the accomplishments of our newest Office of Inspector General. A review remove his vocal cords. Nursing per- generation of Desert Storm veterans, team initiated on-site investigations by sonnel and a medical student assigned but we cannot help but be disgusted studying medical records for 43 of the to the case note bleeding from the inci- over the shabby treatment of those who 140 patients who had died after receiv- sion but take no action, despite lab bore the burdens of past wars," said ing treatment at the center between Please turn page

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VA's surgical concluded North Chicago VA's affiliation sultant who reviewed the case criticized agreement with the Chicago Medical the staff's failure to diagnose the School was a major handicap to deliver- severity of the veteran's condition, and ing the level of care consistent with the for clamping arfartery during surgery center's mission. North Chicago had that led to kidney failure. been designated the primary psychiatric -- the amazing walk-behind "brush hog" that-- • CLEARS & MAINTAINS meadows, pastures, A 68-year-old man complained of facility for the medical district. The woodlots, wooded and rough non-lawn areas chest pains and shortness of breath six bulk of the center's patient population with tall ease. CUTS grass, weeds, brambles, days after undergoing prostate surgery required primary care, extended care tough brush and saplings up to 1 " thick. in February 1990. physician ordered and geriatrics programs. But the report CHOPS/MULCHES most everything it cuts. 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OR the fourth will compete in the double- consecutive elimination finals in Boyer- year, ESPN town, Pa. About 82,000 will televise the youths played Legion F final game of Baseball during the 1991 The American Legion World season, and more than 60 Series. percent of today's major The game will be played league baseball players par- Aug. 25, and ESPN will tape ticipated in Legion Baseball. the game for showing Aug. Gatorade is sponsoring

27 at 1 p.m. (EST). $10,000 in scholarships this As a 30-year high, 4,132 year, awarding eight $1,000 BOMBS AWAY— Master Sgt. George K. Turnes painted this personal address on an F-16 fighter's Legion Baseball teams are scholarships to one player bombs on behalf of American Legion Post 188 of Liverpool, N.Y. The F-16, ready participating in the 66th an- from each region and $2,000 for takeoff, is from the 174th Fighter Wing stationed in the nual tournament, and the to The American Legion Persian Gulf. winners from eight regions Baseball Player of the Year.

The Scout of the Year award tional Merit Scholar and a tertain veterans once more. Alabama Youth is the most recent accomplish- Congressional Scholar. Hope will be featured ini

ment in Thomas's years of He plans to attend Massa- the three-hour Freedom Fest i Named Scout scouting. He earned his Eagle chusetts Institute of Technol- that includes a special indoor Scout Award at age 13 and ogy and major in biomedical parade which will recognize

earned all Cub Scout awards, engineering. the' membership accomplish- Of The Year including the Arrow of Light. The three runners-up re- ments of Legion Depart- Thomas, a member of Ex- ceiving $2,000 scholarships ments. plorer Post 50 and a senior at are Andrew S. McCampbell, Forty-five years ago, Indian Springs School, also 17, Sweetwater, Tenn.; Homer Hope received the Distin- became National Boy Scout L. Howard III, 17, Greenville, guished Service Medal at the Jamboree Patrol Leader in Miss.; and Ted D. Glasco, 18, 28th National Convention in 1985, and he has received Bird City, Kan. San Francisco. For almost several God and Country re- 50 years, Hope has enter- ligious awards. tained U.S. troops in all wars For being named The Amer- and many locales, including ican Legion Scout of the Hope To Bring World War II, Korea, Viet- Year, Thomas will receive an nam, Lebanon, Grenada, $8,000 college scholarship, Panama and Desert Storm. which will be disbursed RoadShow To Freedom Fest begins at 3 during a four-year period, p.m. and will include musi- and he will receive a trip to cal presentations, a memo- the 73rd National Convention rial service and a tribute to in Phoenix, Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. OB HOPE, who Desert Storm forces. About In addition to his scouting has traveled to 15,000 Legionnaires, Aux- achievements, Thomas has re- foxholes, war- iliary members, and Sons of

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Family Support Network Receives ASAE Community Service Award

HE American | / M 1 Legion Family aboard Cunard Princess Support Net- CANARY ISLANDS work has helped Including FREE Roundtrip Airfare (A value of up to $1000!) I more than 33,000 Celebrate the return of the PRINCESS from "Rest Relaxation" military families and recently CUNARD & earned a Certificate of Excel- service for our troops in the Persian Gulf with a fantastic cruise to the exotic and sunny Canary Islands. Legionnaires will experience a delightful alternative to the . lence for community service from the American Society Caribbean with attractive prices. Sailing roundtrip from Malaga, you'll visit: of Association Executives 7-Day - Tangier, Funchal and Gibralter 11 -Day - Same as 10-Day itinerary plus (ASAE). Sailing: 1991 - Dec 14; 1992 - Mar 28 exciting Casablanca Of about 300 entries, The Sailing: 1991 - Nov 2, Nov 23 - Family Support Network and 1 0-Day Tangier, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, 1992 -Jan 4, Jan 25, Tenerife, La Palma, Funchal 46 other associations re- Feb 15, Mar 7 and Gibralter ceived recognition in such Sailing: 1991 - Nov 13, Dec 4 14-Day - Gala Christmas Cruise areas as education, product 1992 -Jan 15, Feb 5, (11-Day itinerary plus Agadir) and safety standards, profes- Feb 26, Mar 18 Sailing: 1991 -Dec 21 sional standards and codes ^Malaga to Athens of ethics, research and statistics, international activities, and community service. EUROPE aboard "5 Plus Star" Vistafjord Although the Persian Gulf War has been won and troops Including FREE Roundtrip Airfare from East Coast Cities!

are returning home, the Enjoy unparalleled luxury aboard Cunard's "5 Plus Star" Vistafjord while sailing Family Support Network Europe's most popular itineraries. Choose from: continues to serve families BALTIC BLACK SEA MEDITERRANEAN and members of the U.S. mil- (Summer '91 & '92) (Fall '91 - Summer/Fall '92) (Fall '91 - Summer/Fall '92) itary. Through the Family Support Network, Depart- NORTH CAPE SPAIN/CANARIES ments and Posts have given (Summer '92) (Fall '91 & '92) more than $45 ,000 in finan- *Rate based on double occupancy of grade stateroom cial aid to those in need. "H" on Dec. 14 Cunard Princess cruise including Early Booking Savings. Any military family need- ing assistance can still call toll free 1-800-786-0901 for For Information or Reservations; Call or Write Today: assistance. "I proud that ASAE HARiTiEORD 800-828-4813 am cums* recognized the value of the ^^^yp.v.MPN NATIONWIDE /TOLL FREE

Legion's continuing con- 1 Linden Place, Great Neck, NY 11021 Ships registry: Bahamas tributions to the country," said National Commander Please send me information on Cunard's programs for Legionnaires. Robert S. Turner. "But more important, 33,000 persons Name have been helped by Ameri- Address can Legion volunteers during City State Zip the Persian Gulf War." : Phone Number of past cruises

AUGUST 1991 41 use of the new system now. "We thank you for your VetNet con- Reunion Coordinators cept," wrote Herbert W. Reith, national secretary of the Coast Guard Combat Veterans Assn. Reith also enclosed a copy of an article about VetNet prepared for the group's newsletter. Ralph A. Lewis is forming the Escort Carrier Sailors and Airmen's Associa- tion. He said many WWII veterans want a quick and efficient way to find buddies. "This (VetNet) could be a great help," he added. "Many thanks "It's More Than A Reunion Service" for what you are doing." The response has been gratifying to EUNION coordinators know their group's personal 5-digit National Commander Robert S. Turner. ^across the nation are VetNet number to use the system. VetNet switched on the phone systems praising The American Directory assistance is available at 1- June 1 and logged more than 4,000 Legion's new VetNet pro- 800-348-VETS. calls in the first two weeks of operation. gram. Several thousand Several general VetNet message Many of the first calls were reunion groups are enrolled and new requests boards have been created for each coordinators leaving messages for their arrive daily. branch of service and combat era (see groups on VetNet "bulletin boards." About half the VetNet groups are accompanying chart). These special "The VetNet program you have estab- planning reunions and the other half are VetNet numbers (VNOS) are for callers lished is absolutely beautiful," wrote using VetNet's MailCall to keep in who want to try to reach individuals, or Lawrence L. Hamacher Jr., a retired touch with each other by phone on a seek information about groups that are brigadier general who serves as execu- regular basis. not currently enrolled in VetNet. tive director of the 28th Division VetNet can be reached from Touch- Additional features will be an- Heritage Association. Tone phones by dialing 1-900-773- nounced later, but those groups with "Thanks a million," noted Everett VETS (1-900-773-8387). Callers must individual numbers are making good Mills, coordinator of the 591st Engineer Boat Regiment. Larry Neuer-

berg of the USS Gage ( APA- 1 68) added, "Thanks for the help that is being given WHAT IS for organizing reunions. It is long over- due." VETNET is a telecommunica- VetNet will tell you the price of But as many callers are discovering, tions service for veterans, their the call and other basic instructions. VetNet doesn't stop with just helping to families and friends. The system After the greeting you will be asked organize reunions. VetNet is a way for provides a fast, simple and economic to enter the 5-digit VetNet group veterans to keep in touch throughout way to help military groups get number. You may also elect to hear a the year. VetNet's MailCall feature

together . . . and stay in touch. VetNet demonstration message. immediately follows the coordinator's VetNet is the product of Softguard After entering the 5-digit number, message. By using MailCall, VetNet Systems, Inc., the company that you will hear a message from the callers can leave messages for the coor- helped develop the very successful reunion coordinator of the group dinator and for others in the outfit. Family Support Network of The you selected. When this message is Each outfit with a VetNet number has

American Legion that was estab- completed, you will be asked if you its own MailCall system so callers hear lished to help Desert Storm families. want to use the group's MailCall only messages from people in that par- You can call the VetNet number feature or return to the main menu to ticular unit. Most of the first MailCall from most touch-tone telephones. select another group. messages have been from outfit mem- You will need the VetNet number of VetNet guides you through the bers who have lost touch with their the group you want to reach. These entire process. You may hang up at buddies and want to attend the next five-digit numbers are published in anytime. In MailCall, you can skip reunion. However, other messages are The American Legion Magazine, over messages, record and edit your making their way into MailCall. are provided by group coordinators own message or simply listen to Some callers request cards for hos- and are also available from VetNet news from other callers. NOTE: pitalized buddies. Others need help or Directory Assistance by calling toll VetNet cannot be reached from some are planning small gatherings between free touch-tone phones because local reunions. A few messages have phone companies do not have the announced new grandchildren, retire- 1-800-348-VETS necessary switching equipment. We ment and other welcomed news. are working with the phone com- Examples of VetNet and MailCall To find out information on a par- panies to correct this situation. Also messages are available by dialing l- ticular group, dial be aware that pay phones and some 900-773-8387 and entering 12345 when 1-900-773-VETS company switchboards will not asked for an outfit number. Calls cost

(I -900-773-8387). process VetNet calls. $ 1 per minute and proceeds are used for American Legion programs.

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port, 8836 Evanston Way, Kansas City, MO 64138. 472nd AAA Bn. (Oct-Kissimmee, FL) Edwin Kwiat, 838

Victory Ln Justice, IL 60458. 1 11172 , 1250 OUTFIT REUNIONS 26th Arty., 108th Arty. Grp., F Btry. - (Dong Ha, South 488th AAA Bn. (Sept-Zion, IL) Art Blase, 190 S. Wood

Vietnam) (June 1993-Las Vegas) Terry Davey, 1 1370 Dale Rd., #707, Wood Dale, IL 60191 . 11146 Outfit Reunion notices should be submitted on official Wahl Rd., St. Charles, Ml 48655. 11224 512th Engrs. (Sept-Madison, Wl) John Witt, 428 S. Bird forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped 275th Port Co. (Sept. -Kansas City, MO) Leon Kirk, 739 St.. Sun Prairie, Wl 53590. 11176 envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion Forest, Topeka, KS 66616. 21868 526th Arm'd Inf. Bn. - (WWII) (1 992-Orlando, FL) Will Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. 27th Tank Bn., 20th Arm'd Div., B Co. (Nov.-St. Louis) Wasson, 6000 San Jose Blvd., 1 F, Jacksonville, FL Because of printing schedules, notices should be Charles Shada Jr., 4322 Cox Ct., Santa Rosa,, CA 32217. 11216 received at least five months before reunions are held. 95409.21853 52nd Medical Bn. - (WWII) (Oct-Lockport, NY) William Notices are published only one time per unit per year. No 280th F.A. Bn. (WWII) (Oct.-) Joe Re, 2128 16th Ave., Smith, 75 Willett St., Albany, NY12210. 15583 notices are published in November. San Francisco, CA 941 1 6. 1 621 535TH ORD. HM Co. (Sept. -Dubuque, IA) Kenneth

285th FA Obsn. Bn. (Sept-Norfolk, VA) C.H. Cook, Rt. 1 Teeter, 1771 Sherbrook Dr. NE, Cedar Rapids, IA

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- 2nd Inf., 5th Div., I Co. (WWII) (Sept -Battle Creek, Ml) 551st AAA Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Ashville, NC) Benjamin Army Leon Belardinelli, 1351 Windsor Ct., Elgin, IL 60120. Knauf, 58 Wright Rd., Henrietta, NY 14467. 16307 15387 555th/563rd/566th/573rd SAW Bns. (Nov.-Baltimore) 303rd Inf., 97th Div., D Co. (Sept-Pleasanton, CA) Clem Robert Norton, 2013 Wooded Way, Adelphi, MD 102nd Medical Bn., 27th Div. (Sept. -Eureka Springs, Schlosser, 1 Co. Rd. 10 #207, Waconia, MN 55387. 20783. 21872 AR) Vernon Thiele, 7355 McLellan Dr., Walton Hills, 11160 571st Signal Co. (Sept-Columbus, GA) Robert Berry OH 44146. 21858 30th Inf. Assn., Cannon Co. (Sept-Memphis, TN) Dave Sr., 203 Second Ave., Haddon Heights, NJ 08035. 103rd Inf. Div. (WWII) (Sept. -Dallas) Betty Ellseworth, Jolly Jr., 30 Wallace Rd., Memphis, TN 38117. 11152 15751 8260 Moreland Rd., Jerome, Ml 49249. 21864 30th Inf. Div. (Sept. -Long Beach, CA) Saul Solow, 1 3645 57th Signal Bn. (Oct-Warwick, Rl) John Trombi, 15 108th Inf. Rgt., 40th Div. (Nov.-Rochester, NY) Jim Whippet Way E., Del Ray Beach,, FL 33484. 21854 Peach Tree Lane, Coventry, Rl 02816. 11127 Noblitt, 312 McBrien Rd., #225, Chattanooga, TN 31 st General Hospital - (WWII) (Oct-Colorado Springs) 602nd FA Bn. (Pk) (WWII) (Sept -Denver) Art Helmers, 37411. 21859 Francis Schweitzer, 9408 W. 77th Ave., Schererville, 1 4000 E. Linvale PI., #505, Aurora,, CO 8001 4. 1 5591 109th Evac. Veterans (WWII) (Sept-Philadelphia) IN 46375. 11131 615th Ord. Bn. (Oct-Sandusky, OH) August Lombardo, Howard Klitgaard, 9073 N. Silver Brook Ln., Brown 322nd Medical Bn., 97th Inf. Div., A Co. (Oct - 38 W. Chestnut St., Norwalk, OH 44857. 11182 Deer.WI 53223.16648 Nashville, TN) Norman Mathis, 2109 Linden Ave., 635th TD Bn. (Sept. -Overland Park, KS) Harold Pelleg- 10th Arm'd Div. Veterans Assn. (Aug-Birmingham, AL) Middletown, OH 45044. 21869 rino, 1630 W. 28th Terr., Topeka, KS 66611. 21873 Samuel Murow, Box 213, Bay Port, Ml 48720. 15959 328th FA Bn., 337th Inf. Rgt., 310th Engr., A Co. (Sept - 65th Field Hospital (Oct. -Kings Mountain, NC) Ollie 10th Inf. Assn., 5th Div. (Sept-London, KY) Clifford Cincinnati) CD. Inman, Box 932, Union, SC 29379. Harris, Box 639, Kings Mountain, NC 28086. 21857 Wilford, 1502 Melvine St., Ypsilanti, Ml 48198. 11169 21871 661st TD Bn. (Sept-Biloxi, MS) William Beswick, Box 10th Mountain Div. (Sept-Cadillac, Ml) Roy Puckett, 32nd General Hospital - (WWII) (Oct-Ft. Lauderdale, 576, West Point, VA 23181. 11166 31642 Grove Dr., Livonia. Ml 48154. 11179 FL) Joe Thompson, 1 10 Cypress Club Dr., #123, 68th AAA Gun Bn. - Korea (Dec. -Beverly Hills, CA) 112th Armor, 2nd Bn. (Oct. -Ft. Worth, TX) Dale Pyeatt, Pompano Beach, FL 33060. 1 1 1 40 George Hernandez, 270 S. Robertson Blvd., Beverly - Box 1 0045, Austin, TX 78766-1 045. 21860 334th Ord. Depot Co. (May-Cincinnati) Joseph Hagen, Hills, CA 9021 1.16721 116th Inf., 29th Div., E Co. - (WWII) (Sept-Gatlinburg, 1539 Kinney Ave., Mt. Healthy, OH 45231 . 16729 69th Inf. Div. (Sept-Biloxi, MS) Clarence, New Ken- TN) John Hornberger, 12350 Muscovy Dr., Jackson- 33rd Inf. Div. - (Including support groups) (Sept- sington, PA 15068. 11165 ville, FL 32223. 11161 Louisville, KY) Lyle Powers, 202 S. Seventh St., 707th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Sept -Kansas City, MO) John 118th Inf., 30th Div., I Co. (Sept-Rock Hill, SC) John Brighton, Ml 481 16. 11150 Bickers, Box 481 , Gulf Breeze, FL 32562. 1 6702 Snipes, 1260 Porter Rd., Rock Hill, SC 29730. 11159 355th Engrs. - WWII (1992-) Jack Lawlor, 3810 E. 735th MP Bn. (Oct-Gettysburg, PA) Joseph Kelly, Rt. 1, 121st QM Car Co. (Oct-Shartlesville, PA) Harold Northern Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21206. 11230 Box 382B, Belvidere, NJ 07823. 16676 Casper, 633 State St., Hamburg, PA 19526. 16651 36th FA (WWII) (Oct.-Charleston, SC) Danny Tanous, 2 738th FA Bn. (July 1992-Seattle) John Daniels, Box 28, 123rd Gen. Hospital (Sept -Cleveland) Thomas Wagonwheel Rd., Sudbury, MA 01 776. 21856 Long Lake, MN 55356. 11209 Glennon, 82 Arlington Rd., Woburn, MA01801. 21861 37th Div. Veterans Assn. (Aug-Youngstown, OH) 37th 739th AAA Gun Bn. (Sept-St. Louis) Robert Hepps, 130 130th Inf., 33rd Div., L Co. (Sept-Springfield, IL) R.T. Div. Vets Assn., 65 S. Front St., Rm. 707, Columbus, Girard PI., Kirkwood, MO 63122. 11178 Gibson Jr., 51 2 2nd St., Elizabeth, PA 1 5037. 11121 OH 4321 5. 15753 740th Tank Bn. (Aug. -Oklahoma City, OK) Jack Fryrear, 131st QMTrk Co. (Oct.-Shartlesville, PA) Guy Degler, 387th Inf., 97th Div., D Co. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) 602 Ute Ave., Stillwater, OK 74075. 21874 Port Clinton, PA 19549. 21862 Wally Speers, Rt. 1 Box 46A, Lavale, MD 21 502. 16229 745th R.O.B. (Oct. -Orlando, FL) Vernon MacPhee, Box 1 36th Trans. Co. (Med Hel) (Sept-Austin, TX) Lawrence 387th Rgt., 97th Div., A Co. (Aug-Cincinnati) Charles 1945, Hampton, NH 03842. 15494 Chiappino, 9700 ChukarCir., Austin, TX 78758. 21863 Hunt, 10686 Creeknoll Ct., Cincinnati, OH 45221 747th/777th MP Bns., LA MP SCU-1909 (Sept -Omaha, 1 3th USASA Field Station (Sept. -Nashville, TN) William 16467 NE) Thurman Williams, 1 165 Holgate Ave., Maumee, Garner, 1 0063 Fairview Dr., Oklahoma City, OK 731 59- 3rd Arm'd Cav. Rgt., G/l & Howitzer Cos. (1953) (Oct - OH 43537. 21875 7230.21852 Norfolk, VA) Robert Wilson, 3001 NC 57, Hillsborough, 755th Tank Bn. (Sept-Houston, TX) C.H. Hickman, 714 151st Inf., 38th Div., Cannon Co. (Oct-Gainsville, TX) NC 27278. 21849 Hampton Hill, Tyler, TX 75703. 1 1 1 39

Elmo Frost, Rt. 1 , Box 345, Gainesville, TX 76240. 439th Signal Bn., Heavy Const. (July 1992-Hilton 756th FA Bn. Assn. (Sept. -Pittsburgh, PA) Samuel 11118 Head, SC) Lester Bell, 25 Tudor City Place, #2012, Corrado, 4345 E. Barlind Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15227. 151st/175th FA Bns., 34th Inf. Div. (WWII) (Sept - New York, NY 10017. 11201 16132 Minneapolis) Leon Spittle, 451 1 Russell Ave. N., 44th Engr. Bn. - (Korea) (Sept-Louisville, KY) Harold 765th Trans. Railroad Bn. (Korea) (Sept -San Diego) Minneapolis, MN 5541 2. 21855 O'Connel, 1 134 Liberty St., Braintree, MA 02184. Art Stahovich, 805 Ramblewood Dr., Anaheim, CA 166th General Hospital (Sept-Milwaukee) Monica 11171 92804. 21880 Carollo, 3609 N. Tucker Place, Milwaukee, Wl 53222. 460th Engr. (Sept. -Indianapolis) M.B. Furr, 624 Hamil- 774th TD Bn. (Oct. -Chattanooga, TN) Frank Kerzner, 15529 ton St., Newton, NC 28658. 16623 Box 352, Fisher Rd., Stamford, NY 1 21 67. 15852 175th Cannon Co., 29th Div. Assn. (Sept -Atlantic City, 467th AAA AW Bn., C Btry. (Sept-St. Louis) Al Uzzetta, 81st Chemical Mtr. Bn. (Sept-Toledo, OH) Edward NJ) Philip Paul, Rt. 338, Box 642, Knox, PA 16232. 1424Gravois Rd., High Ridge, MO 63049. 10432 Please turn page 21865 1886th Engrs. (WWII) (Sept -Imperial, MO) Les Terrell, 5195 W. Leonard Springs Rd., Bloomington, IN 47403. 21882 18th/1st FA Bns. (Sept-Ft. Sill, OK) John Driskill, 19 VETNET'S MESSAGE BOARD

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192nd General Hospital (Sept-Davenport, I A) Ralph AIR/ARMY COASTGUARD/ Zurliene, Rt. 5, Charter Hill, Princeton, IL 61356. 11122 ARMY NAVY AIR FORCES MARINES OTHERS 195th Ord. Depot Co. (Korea) (Sept.-Norristown, PA) VNO VNO VNO VNO VNO Adolph Lightman, 1945 Guernsey Ave., Abington, PA 19001.21866 1st FA Bn., 6th Div., C Btry. (Sept -Lafayette, IN) WW I 21589 21590 21591 21593 21594 Hartsel Livingston, Rt. 2, Box 50, Monticello, IN 47960. 21848 200th QM Gas Supply Co. (Oct -Clearwater Beach, FL) WWII 21549 21550 21551 21553 21581 John Ovenchick, 687 Churchmans Rd., Newark, DE 19702.21867 - 223rd Bn., 40th Inf ., M Co. (Korea) (Oct-Red Bluff, CA) KOREA 21554 21555 21557 21558 21582 Billie Polley Sr., 1 1677 Andrews St., Red Bluff, CA 96080 11191 226th AAA S/L Bn., B Btry. (Nov-Daytona Beach, FL) VIETNAM 21559 21561 21562 21563 21583 Aaron Funk Jr., Box 664, New Philadelphia, OH 44663. 11167 23rd Engrs., Field Maint. Div. - (Verdun/1959-61) GRANADA 21565 21566 21567 21569 21585 (February 1992-Lake Havasu City, AZ) Frankie

Loccisano, 2434 Burnett St., Brooklyn, NY 1 1 229. 11229 PANAMA 21570 21571 21573 21574 21586 250th Engr. (C) Bn., A Co. (Aug-Gatlinburg, TN) Joe Turner, 6968 Kingsroad Dr., Southaven, MS 38671 11148 PERSIAN GULF 21575 21577 21578 21579 21587 265th FA Bn., C Btry. (Sept-Amana, IA) Donald Daven-

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Tiberio, 259 Pumpkin Hill, New Milford, CT 06776. Novotny, Rt. 1, Box 128, Swisher, IA 52338. 21148 USS LST-339 (May 1992-Myrtle Beach, SC) D M. 16486 USS Baham (Sept-Stroudsburg, PA) Albert Kuenzler, Rt. Shropshire, Rt. 1, Box 29, Eden, NC 27288. 11194 842nd Ord. Depot Co. (Sept-Rapid City, SD) Jess 5, Box 5192, Newton, NJ 07860. 11181 USS LST-498 (Oct. -Newport News, VA) Charles Dorner,

Weiberg, Rt. 1 , Box 1 2, Bigelow, MO 64425. 1 1 1 53 USS Basilan AG-68, SRU (Oct-St. Louis) Francis Rey, 208 Old Lakeside Dr., Grafton, VA 23692. 17834 86th Inf., I Co. (Oct. -Virginia Beach, VA) Joseph Dash, 1007 Paula Dr., Arnold, MO 63010. 11177 USS LST-5 (Oct-Myrtle Beach, SC) Bill Lester, 204 B 2205 Edmondson, Baltimore, MD 21228. 20692 USS Bell DD-587 (Oct. -Baton Rouge, LA) Ed Glenn, Longwood Lane, Conway, SC 29526. 11157 880th FA Bn., 69th Div., C Btry. (Sept -Cape May, NJ) 1056 Gen. George Patton Rd., Nashville, TN 37221. USS LST-503 (Sept.-New Orleans) John C. Morris, Rt. 2, F.C. Eley, 3042 Rightmire Blvd., Columbus, OH 45221 18092 Box 40, Monticello, IL61856. 18332 21881 USS Benewah APB-35 - (Vietnam/1967-68) (Oct- USS LST-656 (Oct-Eutawville, SC) Francis Antley, Lot 91st Chem. Mtr. Bn. (Oct. -Atlanta) James McCabe, Box Hickory, NC) A.B. Moore, Rt. 5, Box 499, Conover, NC 82, Eutaw Springs, Eutawville, SC 29048. 21989 2450, Peachtree City, GA 30269. 16395 28613. 11135 USS LST-743 (Sept-New Orleans) Lester Parker, 22136 9th FA Bn., 3rd Inf. Div. (Sept.-Owatonna, MN) Ray Hall, USS Blackhawk AO-9 (BADRA) - (Including assigned Avenue Morelos, Woodland Hills, CA91364. 11145 1319 Bigelow, Owatonna, MN 55060. 21850 DDs) (Sept-Sacramento) G.H. Mason, 2212 122nd USS LST-746 (1 992-Norfolk, VA) Kenneth Gorrick, 416 9th Inf. Div. Assn. - (WWII) (Sept-Milwaukee) Dan Ave. E., Puyallup, WA 98372. 11087 E. Fort Ave., Baltimore, MD 21230. 11195 Quinn, 412 Gregory Ave., Weehawken, NJ 07087. USS Bon Homme Richard CV/CVA-31 - Including air USS LST-781 (Sept.-Canton, OH) Al Michael, 4161 Bel 11124 groups (Aug. -Des Moines, IA) Jerry Miller, 1821 21st, Air Dr. NW, Canton, OH 44718. 18217 9th Inf. Div., Texas/Southwest Chapter (Aug - Rock Island, IL61204. 18065 USS Macon CA-132 (May 1992-Boston) John Amicone, Arlington, TX) Pete Rice Jr., Rt. 2, Box 258, Kaufman, USS Brooklyn CL-40 (Sept-Long Beach, CA) Alford 588Gallivan Blvd., Dorchester, MA 021 24. 11212 TX 75142. 21851 Wells, 429 Appian Ave., Virginia Beach, VA 23452. USS McCaffery DD-860 (April 1992-Jacksonville, FL) Camp Lockett-Mitchell Convalescent Hospital 11168 Edward Crowell, 3789 Eunice Rd., Jacksonville, FL (WWII) (Oct.-Campo, CA) James Hinds, Box 394, USS Butler DD-636/DMS-29 (Oct-Norfolk, VA) Joseph 32250. 11214 Campo, CA91906. 21883 Walsh, 3932 Indian River Rd., Virginia Beach, VA USS Mertz DTJ-691 (Sept. -Charleston, SC) Frank Counter Intelligence Corps (February 1992-Orlando, 23456. 11120 Hayden, 891 Westminster Dr. N., Vincentown, NJ FL) Dick Snyder, 1567 Heather Way, Kissimmee, FL USS Carter Hall LSD-3 (Nov.-Phoenix, AZ) Lillian 08088. 17470 34744. 11226 Luksich, Box 255, Graham, TX 76046. 21839 USS Montrose APA/LPA-212 (Oct-Gettysburg, PA) Frenchay Hospital, England - (52nd/1 00th/1 1 7th/ USS Castor AKS-1 (April 1992-Las Vegas) Walt Whitte- Robert Funt, 510 Rake Factory Rd., Biglerville, PA 298th Gen. Hospitals) (July 1992-Bristol, England) more, 2245 Cascade St. , Las Vegas, NV891 22. 1 1 204 17307.11192 BrendaEckard, Box 51 45, Hickory, NC 28613. 11199 USS Cavalla SS-244 (Oct. -San Antonio) Woodrow Wert, USS Mount Olympus AGC-8 (Oct. -Cocoa Beach, FL)

U.S. Army Rangers Assn. (Oct -Columbus, GA) 58-53 Heise Rd. N., Elma, WA 98541 . 21907 Howard Chalson, 5975 Adele St., Cocoa, FL 32927. USARA, Box 669, Columbus, GA31902. 21884 USS Chemung AO-30 (Sept -Nashville, TN) Charles 21912

Webb, 1421 Heritage Landing Dr., Chattanooga, TN USS Mountrail APA-213 (July 1 992-Pensacola, FL) 37405. 18077 Genie Walker, 7994 Brown Bridge Rd., Highland, MD USS Cincinnati CL-6 (Sept.-Bloomington, MN) Georgie 20777. 11218 Navy Christmas, 4510 Nantucket Blvd., #7, Youngstown, USS O'Bannon DD/DDD-450 (Sept-Nashville, TN) OH 44515. 17887 Robert Martin, 21613 137th Dr., Sun City West, AZ 107th Seabees (Sept. -San Antonio) Frank Glover, Box USS Cofer DE-208/APD-62 (Sept -Sparks, NV) Bob 85375. 11143 287, Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455. 18651 Under, 2070 Bradbury St., Medford, OR 97504. 21 137 USS Okinawa LPH-3 (Jan-Palm Beach Cty., FL) W.T. 57th Seabees (1942-45) (Oct.-Daytona Beach, FL) USS Dickens APA-1 61 - (WWII) (February 1992-Biloxi, Brown, Navy Avn. Supply Office, 700 Robbins Ave.,

Woodrow Skipper, 3221 Odell School Rd., Harrisburg, MS) Norman Rowse, 305 N. Brent St., Ventura, CA Philadelphia, PA 191 1 1 . 11207 NC 28075. 18026 93003. 11215 USS Ommaney Bay CVE-79 Assn. (April 1 992-San 70th Seabee Bn., 1005th/1 006th Dets., 578th/579th USS Eberle DD-430 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Robert Antonio) Lawrence FitzGerald, 3602 S. Parker St., CBMUs (Aug-Livonia, Ml) George Kiba, 78 Aberdeen McKenzie, 309 Catawba Ave., Newfield, NJ 08344. San Pedro, CA 90731 1 1 222 Cir., Leesburg, FL 34788. 11130 11125 USS PC-490 (Sept. -Dayton, OH) Oscar Fisher, 5694 AATC (Sept -Branson, MO) Arthur King, 2916Tiffin Ave., USS Elizabeth C. Stanton AP-69 (Sept -Norfolk, VA) Sherwood Forest Dr., Akron, OH 44319. 17861

Des Moines, IA 50317. 21896 Sherman Dickson, 802 Christine St., Houston, TX USS PC-570 (March 1 992-Cincinnati) R.D. McLaughlin, Amphib Base, Ft. Pierce/Attack Boat Flot. (WWII) 77017-4822. 18151 5631 Muddy Creek Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45238. 11196 (Nov.-Ft. Pierce, FL) Ed Brisbois, Box 3328, Ft. Pierce, USS Gilligan DE-508 (Nov.-Carmel, CA) W.K. Stewart, USS PC-619 (Apr.-Charleston, SC) Ray Goin, 1 Concord FL 34948. 21897 2641 5 Carmel Rancho Blvd., Carmel, CA 93923. PI., Morris Plains, NJ 07950. 21913 CAG-16(WWII) (Nov.-Pensacola, FL) W.J. Ruetle, 3837 21908 USS Randall APA-224 (Sept-Amarillo, TX) John Walsh,

W. Madura Rd., Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 . 21898 70-12 60 Ln., Ridgewood QNS., NY 1 1385. 11144 USS Gladiator AM-319 (Sept -Nashville, TN) Don CASU-F-20 (Sept. -Atlanta) Bob Rittenhouse, 1126 USS Renshaw DD/DDE-499 (Oct-Jersey City, NJ) Westerlund, 4708 E. Florian Cir., Mesa, AZ 85206. Elmone Dr., Borger, TX 79007. 18681 21909 Harold Taylor, 190 Fairview Ave., Jersey City, NJ DESRON-8/USS Wainwright/Trippe/Buck/Rhind/ 07304. 11183 USS Gold Star AG-12 (Nov.-Las Vegas) Richard Bristol (WWII) (Sept. -Washington, DC) Harry Cook, USS Rocky Mount AGC-3 - (Army/Marines/wounded McKinnis, 256 Arrow Way, Myrtle Creek, OR 97457. 868 Hopwood Ln., Virginia Beach, VA 23455. 18171 personnel included) (Oct. -Omaha, NE) John Vree- 18532 LITIS Staff, NAS Atlanta (Sept. -Washington, DC) Lois land, 3710 Armstrong St., San Diego, CA 921 1 1 Swinson, 603 Longview Ct. NE., Vienna, VA 22180- USS Henry A. Wiley DM-29 (April 1 992- Virginia Beach, 18380 3637. 21899 VA) W.A. Zinzow, 2277 Minneola Rd., Clearwater, FL USS Rogers DD/DDR-876 (Oct-Cleveland) George NAS New York - (Marines included) (Oct. -Ft. Lauder- 34624. 11228 Eichenberg, 1157 East Miner Rd., Mayfield Hts.. OH dale, FL) H.J. Marcus, 63-5141 Hilary P. (Sept-Asheville, 44124. 11123 Box , Margate, FL USS Jones DD-427 NC) W.A. 33063 17504 Richardson, 109 Hale St., Beverly, MA01915. 11162 USS Rutland PA-1992 - (Beach Bn./1 944-45) (October NAS NOLA - (Oct-) E. M. St. Romain, 751 1 Hansbrough USS Hue City CG-66 Commissioning (Marines 1992-Oceanside, CA) Donald Williams, 2012 Joanne Ave., New Orleans, LA 70127. 11251 Included) (Sept.-Pascagoula, MS) Pat Shea, Box Ln., Champaign, IL 61821. 11208 Navy MATS VRS - (VR-3/6/7/8/22 & NATWPAC) (Nov- 7003, Pascagoula, MS 39568. 21910 USS San Francisco CA-38 (Sept.-Chicago) Ed Wittier, Orlando, FL) Monte Umphress, 1348 Hanchett Ave., USS Ingraham DD-694/FFG-61 (May 1992-Charleston, Box 5206, Clearlake, CA 95422. 1 7805 San Jose, CA 951 26. 11126 SC) Arthur Jones, 1817W. Main, Massillon, OH 44647. USS SC-1280 (WWII) (July-Houston) Bob Johnson, Box Navy Section Base, Southport, NC (1942-43) (July 11203 1444, Pasadena, TX 77502. 21914 1992-Southport, NC) Frank Pischera, 772 Greenfield USS James O'Hara APA-90 (Apr -Fort Myers, FL) Jerry USS Schmitt (May-Buffalo, NY) John Daleo, 25 Dr, Port Orange, FL 321 19. 21903 Shuetz, 15130 N. Peeble Ln., Fort Myers, FL 33912. Rebecca Pk., Buffalo, NY 14207. 18188 Opticalmen/lnstrumentmen (Fall 1992-Williamsburg, 18557 USS Sepulga AO-20 (Oct. -Nashville, TN) Don Wester-

VA) D.R. Large, 189 Herndon Rd., Virginia Beach, VA USS John Paul Jones DD-932/DDG-32 (Summer 1 992- lund, 4708 E. Florian Cir., Mesa, AZ 85206. 18183

23426 14636 ) J.L. Laseter, 101 St. Andrews Dr., Ocean Springs, MS USS Shamrock Bay CVE-84 (Oct. -Columbus, OH) Fred Port Lyautey Radar Hill - (1955-57) (Sept-Bosco Bell, 39564. 11231 Griggs, 1989 Dandy Rd., Dallas, GA30132. 18063

Wl) Bob Rhoades, 504 N. Spring St., Odon, IN 47562. USS John Q. Roberts APD-94 ( Aug - Las Vegas) Ted Van USS Shelikof AVP-52 (Aug. -Kansas City, MO) Lee 11174 Epps, 410 N. Main St., Dodgeville, Wl 53533. 11133 Webb, 4419 Cambridge Ct., Independence, MO ROTC Class June 1946, U of New Mexico (Oct- USS Key West PF-17 (Nov.-Charleston, SC) Vince 65055. 21915 Dahike, Albuquerque, NM) Dick Primm, 3330 Knob Hill Ct., Positan, 20 Gregory Rd., Springfield, NJ 07081 . 21837 USS Shenandoah AD-26 (Sept.-Chicago) Bob Charlotte, NC 28210 17847 USS LCI (L) 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,32,33, 6208 W. 83rd PI., Burbank, IL 60459. 14480 Sampson NTS, Unit C, Co. 122 (1944) (Sept -Waterloo, 35,75,193, USS Sherburne APA-205 (June 1 992-Kansas City, MO) NY) Richard Meyers, 43 Maple Ln., Monroe, NY 209,211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,229,231, Bob Larrick, 430 N.E. 61st Terr., Kansas City, MO 10950 21901 232,238 (March 1992-Las Vegas) Paul Carter, 402 S. 64118. 11197 1992-Chicago Scouting Squadrons (WWII) (1 992-Pensacola. FL) Lucas St. , Iowa City, IA 52240. 1 1 232 USS Sproston DD/DDE-577 (Spring A M Klinger, Box 30244, Mesa, AZ 85271-0244. USS LCI-23 (July 1992-Dimondale, Ml) Vaughn Snook, area) J.M. Callaghan, 14459 River Beach Dr., C-124, 11213 4341 Hulett Rd., Okemos, Ml 48864. 11211 Port Charlotte, FL 33953. 11202 Seabees of America (Aug. -Cleveland) Joseph USS LCS (L) 101 (Sept-Jacksonville, FL) Anthony USS Sylvanla AFS-2 - (1965-70) (July 1992-lndianapo- Popovich, Box 291-49, Parma, OH 29149. 21902 Makitra Sr., Rt. 1, Box 57, Bath, NY 14810. 11134 lis) John Pierce, 6631 Halloway Ln., Lansing, Ml Ship Repair Unit, Olongapo, Sublc Bay (WWII) (Oct.'- USS LCS (L) 124 (WWII) Sept-Jacksonville, FL) J.W. 48917. 11206 Indianapolis) Jack Shanesy, 1353 Skylark Dr., Troy. OH Farmer, Box 429, Bowling Green, VA 22427. 21952 USS Tanner AGS-15 (June 1992-Kansas City, MO) 45373-1621 21900 USS LCS (L) 40 (Sept -Jacksonville, FL) Cliff Brafford, Donald Morse, 3495 E. Dansville Rd., Dansville. Ml Special Augmented Hospital 3 (WWII) (Oct. -Charles- 131 E. Seneca, Des Moines, IA50313. 21911 48819. 10261 Ion, WV) Darrell Riley, Box 6248, Charleston, WV USS Lenawee APA-195 (Aug-San Diego) C. Cremer, USS Tattnall DD-125/APD-19 (Sept-St. Paul, MN) 25302 21904 443 Linden St., Morgantown, WV 26506. 11249 Anthony De Marco, 31 Buxton Ct., Vincentown, NJ USN Armed Guard (Oct -Little Creek, VA) Robert Burrill, USS LSM-215 (Oct. -St. Louis) Roy Meyer, 1032 08088. 11173 5320 Brockie St., Virginia Beach, VA 23464 21905 Parkview Dr., Hamilton, MT 59840. 17536 USS Valencia AKA-81 (Nov-Williamsburg, VA) Leonard USN Armed Guard (Sept -) M M. Carlton, 6601 Benton USS LST-1027/569 (Oct.-Seekonk, MA) Nat Collura, Harper, 4194 Medway Ave., Columbus, OH 43213. St., Lincoln, NE 68507 21906 437 N. MacQuester Pkwy., Mt. Vernon, NY 10552- 11149 USS Arenac APA-128 (Sept -Cedar Rapids, IA) Joe 2608 21312 Please turn page

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Bill Graham, 3124 W. Campbell Rd., Lakeland, FL Fayetteville, NC) Charles Guemelata, 1 1 9 Aigler 33809. 18521 Blvd., Bellevue, OH 44811. 11164 Miscellaneous USS Waldron DD-699 (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Joseph Walsh, 460th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Oct. -Las Vegas) Robert Cutler, 3932 Indian River Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23456. 19135 U.S. Hwy. 19, #A16, Clearwater, FL 34624. 295th JASCO (Sept-Indianapolis) James Lentz, 7432 11119 16900 Audubon Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46250. 11193 -Seattle) USS West Point AP-23 (WWII) (Sept John 463rd Bomb Grp., 1 5th Wing, 15th AAF (Nov.-Orlando, Association of Retired Military Musicians (Sept - Daniel, Fuller, 3728 S. Independence. MO 64052. FL) Eugene Parker, Rt. 3, Box 188, New Matamoras, Columbus, GA) Fred Stearns, 61 14 Westbrock Dr., 21916 OH 45767. 16835 Columbus, GA31909. 21895 (Sept.-Nashville.TN) USSWrangell AE-12 Assn. Ralph 466th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept. -New Orleans) Lou COUNTERPARTS (Southeast Asia advisors) (Mar - Gaul, HCR 63, Box 32, Mifflintown, PA 17059. 21917 Loevsky, 1 6 Hamilton Dr. E., North Caldwell, NJ 07006. Louisville, KY) Adjutant COUNTERPARTS, Box 40. USS Wren DD-568 (Oct-Buffalo, NY) John Powell, 4 21888 Circleville, WV 26804. 17264 Donald Dr., Middletown, Rl 02840. 11223 482nd Bomb Grp., 36th/81 2th/81 3th/81 4th Bomb Marine Embassy, Paris (1966-69) (Aug. 1992- VC-9 - (WWII) (Oct-Pensacola, FL) James Perkins, Sqs., (England/WWII) (Sept. -New Orleans) Dennis Breezewood, PA) Clark Mayer, 554 Pangborn Blvd., 1 0250 Valle Dr., Tampa, FL 33612. 11256 Scanlan Jr., 1 Scanlan Plaza, St. Paul, MN 55107. Hagerstown, MD 21 740. 21894 VRF-32/FSU Dets. (June-Ft. Worth, TX) Rayburn Reid, 16966 Minnesota Civil Air Patrol (April 1 992-) Thomas 1015 W. 2nd St., Weiser, ID 83672. 21918 49th Trp. Carrier Sq., 313th Trp. Carrier Grp. (Sept- O'Conner, 16515 Frazer Way, Rosemount, MN 55068. Denver) Elmer Munkvold, 8922 Cherry Ave., River 11233 Grove, IL 601 71. 11198 4th Tow Target Sq., Liberty Field, GA (Oct. -New Air Force Orleans) Charlie McCown, Box 1418, Tullahoma, TN 37388. 21885 LET'S GET TOGETHER 100th Air Service Sq. (Oct.-Oshkosh, Wl) Fred Swinner- 506th Ftr. Grp., 457th/458th/462nd Sqs. - (WWII) (April ton, Orange Ave., Ashland,, 1 992-Las Vegas) John Grant, 926 Jamestown Ave., 292 OR 97520. 21844 This column is for notices of proposed reunions. Indian Harbor Beach, FL 32937. 1 1 200 11th Bomb Gp., (H) Assoc. (Dec. -Honolulu) Robert Notices should be submitted on official forms that can be 55th Weather Recon. Sq., 20th AF (WWII) (Oct.- May, Box 637, Seffner, FL 33584. 15172 obtained by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope Dayton, OH) Paul Wilch, 3106 Sheldon Rd., 19th Supply Sq., 19th Air Depot Grp. (Oct-Gallipolis, to Let's Get Together, The American Legion Magazine, Middletown, OH 45042. 16863 OH) Mrs. C.E. Johnson, 3338 St. Rt. 141, Gallipolis, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices are 56th Air Depot Grp. - (Guam) (May 1 992-Baltimore) OH 45631. 11129 published only one time per unit per year. No notices are Edward Brzozowski, 3409 Hudson St., Baltimore, MD 1st/2nd/3rd & 4th Strategic Support Sqs. (Oct. -El published in November, the Convention issue. Paso, TX) Ray Rote, 7741 N. 16th Lane, Phoenix, AZ 21224. 11221 85021. 21840 821st Bombardment Sq. - (Training Cadre/Selfridge Fields) (Oct-Kansas City, MO) Darrel 330 Bomb Grp. (VH) (Sept -Norfolk, VA) Robert Flis- & Godman Ayler, 7704 E. 90th St., Kansas City, MO 64138. 11147 chel, 725 Fairview Dr., Carlisle, OH 45005. 21842 93rd Ftr. Sq., 81st Ftr. Grp. (Oct. -Orlando, FL) John Army 339th Ftr. Grp., 8th AF (WWII) (Sept.-Cincinatti) Chet Dougherty, 201 Bartram Ln., Ocean City, NJ 08226. Malarz, 2405 Kings Point Dr., Atlanta,, GA 30338. 21845 21887 1019th Engr. TW/BR Co. (WWII) Charles Fankboner, Center Amarillo - 349th Air Engr. Sq., 86th Air Service Grp. (Oct.- Aviation Cadets to Basic Trng #12, Box 2076,, Kailua-Kona,, HI 96745-2076. 21927 Fort Sheridan) (May 1 992-Albuquerque, Nashville, TN) Franklin Watson, 2521 18th St., (1944/via 187th Inf., 101st ABN, 3rd Bn., Echo Co. Vietnam Kulczynski, 6101 Sequoia Rd. N.W., C22, Columbus, IN 47201. 21846 NM) Eugene (1970-71) Bobby Woodfin, 4004 Williamsburg Dr., 87120. 38th Repair Sq., ADG (Oct.-Owensboro, KY) Charles Albuquerque, NM 11234 Hopewell, VA 23860. 21920 (1941-46) (Oct.-Vandenberg AFB, CA) Sulkala, 808 Neponset St., Norwood, ME 02062. Camp Cooke 191st Assault Helicopter Co. (1967-69), Troy 21841 Jeffrey Geiger, WSMC/HO, Vandenberg AFB, CA McKenna, 22 Flanagan Rd., Sterling, MA 01564. 406th Ftr. Sq., 371st Ftr. Grp., 9th AF (Oct. -Myrtle 93437.21838 21991 Ocala Primary Flying School (Oct. -Ocala, FL) Robert Beach, SC) Robert Farley, 1 17 S. Greene St., Boone, 21st/34th Rgts., 24th Div., E,F,G,H/I,K,L,M Cos. C.L.

Thomas, 1343 SE 14th St., Ocala, FL 32671 . 21891 I A 50036. 21847 Honold, 1412 Reed St., Malvern, AR 72104. 11154 Privateer (Aug. Clara, 40th Bomb Grp. /28th Service Outfit - (WWII) (Oct- PB4Y1/PB4Y2 Sqs. -Santa CA) 22nd Inf., 4th Inf. Div., Rgt. HQ Co. (1950-52) James Ronald Sathre, 31 262 San Andreas Dr., Union City, CA Orlando, FL) Mrs. Flo Mallory ., Box 9252, Treasure Speicher, 382 Schuyler Ave., Kingston, PA 18704. Island, FL 33740. 11128 94587. 21892 21921 444th Ftr. Inter. Sq. (Oct-North Charleston, SC) Wallace 23rd Inf. Rgt. (1950-53) Andy Anderson. 2401 E LaJolla Mitchell, 535 Mimosa Rd., Sumter, SC 29150. 10045 Dr.Tempe, AZ 85282. 21922 47th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept -Seattle) Costa Chalas, 67 Coast Guard 3259th Signal Service Co. Harry Weyher, 750 Seventh Trapelo Rd., Belmont, MA 02178. 21843 Ave., 26th Fl., New York, NY 10019. 21928 85th Bomb Sq. (Aug. -Las Vegas) Richard McCormick, 3280th Ord. Base Depot Co. Daniel Addis, 1040 USCGC Alexander Hamilton (Oct.-) Tom Mullings, 8002 307 S. Meridian, Greenwood, IN 46143. 15164 Piedmont PI., Bellingham, WA 98226-2501 . 21929 Aladdin Dr., Laurel, MD 20723. 20295 900th Signal Depot Avn. Co. (Sept-Nashville, TN) 390th Rgt., 98th Div., M Co. (1942-46) Raymond Clark, USCGC Woodbine (Aug. -Grand Haven, Ml) John Emmett McKay, 1 1 7 Emerald Lake Dr., Dothan, AL 306 E. Linden St., Rome, NY 13440. 21925 Krueger, 725 Hubbard NE, Grand Rapids, Ml 49505. 36303. 11180 407th FA Grp., HQ & HQ Btry., 9th Army (WWII) Guy 17032 96th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept -New Orleans) Thomas Hall, 24 Pritchad Ave., Apt. CI, Aberdeen, MD 21001. USS Gen. W.P. Richardson AP-1 1 8 - (WWII) (Sept-New Thomas, 1607 E. Willow Ave, Wheaton, IL 60187. 11188 Orleans) Harry Parker, Box 732, New Paltz, NY 1 2561 21476 439th Engrs., C Co. (1951-53) Russ Zicht, Box 45, 11170 Flight Five, Augustana College, IL - (1943) (Oct-Rock Stanton, NE 68779. 11136 Island, IL) G. Lankton, 204 Kentucky, Park Forest, IL 475th Engr. Malnt. Co. Jay Hoffer, Box 1 58, Norvelt. PA 60466. 11225 15674.21926 Pilot Class 52-G (October 1992-Destin, FL) Jack Marines 563rd Ord. HM (TK) Co. (WWII) Paul Shannon, Rt. 3, Gilliland, Box 1472, Pensacola Beach, FL 32562. Box 9, New Albany, MS 38652. 20135 11210 1 st Bn., 3rd Marines - (1 968-69) (July 1 992-San Diego) 68th VFID, Tokyo QM Depot Jim Noblitt, 312 McBrien Bill Krueger, 7622 Highland St., Springfield, VA22150. Pilot Class 51-A (May 1992-Madeira Beach, FL) Clem Rd., #225, Chattagnooga, TN 3741 1 . 21923 Meyer, 5401 98th Way, St. Petersburg, FL 33708. 11217 716th MP (Vietnam) Duane Hursey, Rt. 1, Box 167, 11219 1st Scout/1 st Recon Co., 1st MarDiv. (WWII) (Oct. -St. Shelby, IA51570. 14163 Louis) John Hamilton, 1 South Pine St., Niantic, CT SBS-OISE Sections (WWII Europe) Robert Lehmann, 06357.21893 Box 431,, Natchez, MS 39121-0431 . 21930 4th Bn., 12th Marines, Kilo Co. - (Vietnam/1965-69) USAFAO-K (1972-76) Larry Majors, 941 Frontier Dr., Army Air Forces (July 1992-San Diego) Hal Sullivan, 19 Caldwell Dr., Henderson, KY 42420. 21931 New Milford, CT 06776. 1 1 220 1057th QM Co., 323rd Serv. Grp. (Oct. -Nashville, TN) 5th Field/Service Depot, Guam (Mar -Beaufort, SC) Charles Kitchin, 236 Gibson Ave., Philadelphia, PA Lee Edwards, 9900 Geneva Ave. S., St. Paul Park, MN 18974 21889 55071. 14347 Navy 1113th QM (Sept -Amana Colonies, IA) Lloyd Rice, 9th Defense/9th AAA Bns. (WWII) (Sept -New Orleans) Piper City, IL 60959. 21890 William Sorensen, 283 First Ave., Stratford, CT 06497. Amphibious Force Flagship Assn. Donald Shreeves, 18th Air Dpt. Grp., HQ&HO Sq. (Oct-Dayton, OH) 17143 31 5 W. Main, Princeton, MO 64673. 11187 Wayne Lasinski, 8000 W. Catherine Ave., Norwood Marine Det., USS Saratoga CV-3/60 (Oct-Valley Forge, ARU 145 (Guadalcanal/1943-44) John Slason, 727 ParkTwp., IL 60656. 16932 PA) Arnold Hall, 102 Halcyon Rd., Charlestown, IN 62nd, San Diego, CA921 14. 21941 23rd Acad. Sq., AAFTech. School Sqs. (1942-46) 47111. 11151 Band 192 Thomas Jackson, 2845 Coleman Rd., Annis- (Sept -Sioux Falls, SD) Anthony Sisti, 148 Moorefield Marine Det., Bermuda - (1953-57) (Summer 1993-New ton.AL 36201. 21947 St., Providence, Rl 02909. 21886 Orleans) Michael Capochiano, 35-41 80th St., Apt. 31 Boot Camp Co. 3556, NTC Balnbrldge (1944) James

312th Dpt. Repair Sq. (Sept -Atlantic City, NJ) J.B. Jackson Heights, NY 1 1372. 11227 McEntee, 1606 Monmouth PI. W., Richmond, VA Belwood Cir. Fairfield, Parrls - (Nov-Parris Island, Tiny 23233. 21942 Monzella, 765 , AL 35064. Island DIs (WWII) SC) 15130 Renaker, 1307 21st St., Port Huron, Ml 48060. 11163 Boot Camp Co. 353, NTC San Diego (1957) D.G. 336th Air Service Sq. (Oct -Pittsburgh, PA) Giles Parrls Island, SC - (Summer of '48) (1992-) Joe Johnson, 8521 Cherrycreek Dr., Centerville, OH

Lakeman, 555 Robert A. Taft Ln., Cincinnati, OH Brancati, 39 Roxton Rd., Plainview, NY 1 1803. 11205 45458. 21943 45244 20278 VMB-413 (WWII) (Oct. -San Francisco) Tommy Thomas, Boot Camp Co. 562, NTC San Diego (1948) John 339th Service Sq. (Oct -Niagara Falls) Stanley Box 490, Panama City, FL 32402. 21041 Sheskey, 2221 Rowley Ave., Madison, Wl 53705. Stachowski, 2030 Clinton St „ Buffalo, NY 14206. VMB-433 (WWII) (Oct. -San Antonio) Ken Will, 305 21944 16791 Oakwood Blvd., New Braunfels, TX 78130. 17118 FASRON-3, NAS Norfolk (1955-57) John Reeves, Rt. 7,

- 452nd Bomb Grp. Asm. (Oct-Las Vegas) John Wltte, 40 VMD-154 (Photographic) (Oct-Las Vegas) Chester Box 247, Jonesboro, AR 72401 . 21945 South 16th St., Richmond, IN 47374. 11142 Wood, 305 S. Harwood, Orange, CA 92666. 11175 Please turn page

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were phased out except for the Argentia Naval Facility. Samaritan Place: Build Your More than 100,000 U.S. troops were Today stationed in Newfoundland and Lab- A LIVING MEMORIAL Dream rador between 1940 and 1976. Tours of duty varied from 18 months to three Continuedfrom page 31 years. The romance of wartime made its mark on Newfoundland's history, as Gander and the Gander Masonic more than 25,000 Newfoundland Memorial Complex started a women married U.S. servicemen project in remembrance of the stationed there. Even today, some 600 tragedy called the "Samaritan ®azelle. retired or working American ex-serv- Place— Living Memorial." icemen are living in Newfoundland and The memorial is to be plain, yet 1-800-252-7742 Labrador. Hundreds of Newfoundland spectacular, quiet and cheerful, Or Send For Additional Information To: orphaned babies were adopted by and well maintained, and will American military families. When they show the love of the citizens of one I CLASSIC MOTOR vacated all the bases and sites, they left country for another. The men and CARRIAGES behind millions of dollars in real es- women who died in the Arrow 16650 N.W. 27th Ave. Miami, Florida 33054 tate. Hospitals, schools, gymnasiums, crash were engaged in maintaining chapels, dormitories, communications, peace in the world. memorial The Please send me a complimentary full color roads and a huge airport were but a few will reflect these thoughts as well as brochure: of the many former U.S. facilities in use being an everlasting tribute to peace Speedster Family today by the Newfoundlanders. in the world. Street Rod Family 335-H-1 The Newfoundlanders also share the It will be a unique complex in Nostalgia Family sorrow of several American military three distinct sections. The center Finished Cars tragedies that occurred there. The block (rotunda) will be a memorial sinking of the U.S. destroyer USS to the deceased 101st Airborne Namp

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Home Phnne ( ) foundland resulted in the deaths of 203 citizens accommodation for 200 sailors. But 185 seamen survived families and a visitors' suite for Bus. Phone ( ) Area Code because of the heroic deeds of the brave American family members who visit people of the two small villages of St. Gander. It is hoped the project will Lawrence and Lawn. President be completed in three years or less. Roosevelt cited all who participated in The overall cost of the memorial Retire to sunny Florida this dramatic rescue, and in 1954 the is estimated at $35 million. Partial and PIAY GOLF FREE U.S. government erected a large public assistance for the chronic-care and for the rest of your life! hospital in St. Lawrence in memory of seniors-accommodation facilities the sailors who died in the 1942 disaster already has been paid for through Free Video & Florida and in gratitude to the local people. The the Canadian government and the Retirement Portfolio building was named the U.S. Memorial government of Newfoundland. shows you how to live a country club Hospital. An estimated 600 U.S. mili- Funds required for construction of lifestyle on a fixed tary personnel have been killed in acci- the center core memorial rotunda retirement dents in Newfoundland and Labrador must be raised through charitable budget! since 1941. donations. Fort Pepperrell Post 9 of The Amer- Already, several thousand dol- "Two of my ican Legion Department of Canada lars have been contributed by favorite holes ofgolf celebrates its 50th Anniversary in St. Newfoundlanders and others. are at The Villages." John's, Newfoundland, this year. Ini- Campaigns for fund-raising Chi Chi Rodriguez tially formed in February 1941, the throughout the United States and Post received its first charter in August Canada are now under way. Sup- FREE Florida 1941. Members of the Post have been port of the project has been over- Retirement active during the years in community whelming. Letters from the White Portfolio & projects and most members served with House, the Prime Minister of Video Tour the U.S. military in Newfoundland. In Canada, The American Legion and CALL TOLL-FREE the was awarded the 1954, Post Veterans of Foreign Wars are but a 1-800-245-1081 National Commander's Cup for the few who support Samaritan Place. OR0RRETURI*RETURN COUPON TO greatest paid-up membership of any Tax-deductible contributions DEFT. CC-5A G G I% Vfilage§ 1 200 AVEN I DA C ENTRAL American Legion Post. sent to: k> ^ can be The Gander OF ORANGE BLOSSOM GARDENS LADY LAKE, FL 321 59 Newfoundland and its Americans Masonic Memorial Complex Inc. have shared five decades of friendliness 183-185 LeMarchant Road, P.O. NAME and close relationships. One phrase you Box 2002, St. John's, Nfld, ADDRESS will never hear in Newfoundland is Canada, A IE 3Y3. A copy of the CITY "Yank! Go Home." On the contrary, special brochure is available upon STATE ZIP since 1940, it has been "Yank! Come request. PHONE |_ Void where prohibited. NJREC #85-4-520 back to Newfoundland." j

AUGUST 1991 51 relativist, and He is definitely judg- that channel on your TV set, or to turn STANDARDS mental. The very nature of the Judeo- your radio off. If something offends Christian God is a Lord who makes you, then it's easy to tune it out." Continuedfrom page 21 distinctions. To the extent that we as Unfortunately, they're wrong. Popu- human beings feel that we are created lar culture is an overwhelming and in God's image, we make distinctions omnipresent force in this society; not ments of marriage. This is precisely the too, and we have standards. even the most determined and conscien- sort of irresponsible message that That is a position that is honored by tious efforts can effectively insulate

encourages the tragic epidemic of out- millions upon millions of our fellow you, or your children, from its powerful of-wedlock births that is sweeping the citizens, but it is regularly ridiculed in reach. The point is that you can say to country. the mass media. One of the national yourself, "I'll just tune out the messages With its single-minded focus on un- television networks has chosen to proof the media," but it's not possible married characters, the movie industry mote its most popular show with a scene today. In the past, if you talked about conveys the idea that it's exciting to live that mocks a family saying grace. With popular culture, you meant going to a on your own, but boring and stifling to the Simpsons solemnly gathered around movie theater perhaps once a week and live within a marriage. The unspoken their cartoon dinner table, Bart intones: paying your money to see a single show. assumption is that married people never "Dear God, we pay for all this stuff But modern technological advances experience anything that's interesting ourselves, so thanks for nothing." have brought us boom boxes, and enough to be dramatized in a feature Meanwhile, the federal government Walkmans, and VCRs, television and film. There are many sociological and pays to display a crucifix immersed in a MTV. The messages, the images, are psychological reasons that couples jar of the artist's own urine; and the everywhere around us, and seep into break up, but can anyone doubt that the nation's most prominent vocalist, every corner of our lives.

popular culture's determined assault on Madonna, abuses Christian symbols and Is it a coincidence that the war on the traditional family has contributed to sacraments in sexually explicit music standards in art, music, television and the problem? videos commonly viewed by children. film, corresponds with increasingly This brings us to the third front in the When I try to discuss some of these destructive behavior on the part of the current culture wars, and perhaps the issues with working professionals in the young people who are the most devoted most crucial battlefield of all, and that entertainment industry, they usually consumers of these media? Is there no is the attempt to undermine organized offer the same response: "Nobody's connection between the media's obses- religion. A war against standards leads forcing people to see these movies," sion with crime and violence and the logically and inevitably to hostility to they'll say. "If you object to the mes- fact that the number of 14 to 17 year

religion, because it is religious faith that sages that you're getting from a piece of olds who were arrested in 1990 was 30

provides the ultimate basis for all stand- creative work, then you can exercise times what it was in 1950? ards. The God of the Bible is not a moral your right to avoid that film, or to switch The rate of out-of-wedlock births in this country has increased by 500 per-

cent since 1960, and 1 out of 10 of all teen-age girls will become pregnant in 1991. The Centers for Disease Control recently reported that more than a quarter of American females have engaged in sexual intercourse by age 15 — five times the rate that prevailed as recently as 1970. How can media moguls plausibly maintain that these behavioral trends have nothing to do with the sex- drenched popular culture that plays such a central, all-consuming role in lives of so many young Americans? Ironically, the leaders of the entertainment industry downplay the signifi- cance of their own work, insisting that the fantasies they have created have no influence on anyone. The networks and the studios have commissioned studies CALL TOLL FREE 1 -800-221 -6603 from various experts to support their appallingly illogical contention that violence on screen has no connection to OUR TREATMENT IS NON-INVASIVE AND IS MEDICARE violence in real life, and intensely THE FIRST CHOICE OF MANY PHYSICIANS. sexual material does nothing to encour- ASSIGNMENT ACCEPTED IT IS A SAFE, EASY TO USE ALTERNATIVE age promiscuity. ON ALL QUALIFIED CLAIMS. TO SURGERY, DRUGS OR INJECTIONS. This same industry then turns around and asks advertisers to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for 30 seconds of encCPre, II1C MEDICAL PRODUCTS CENTRE air time in the hope that this fleeting exposure will directly alter the public's

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52 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE sion programming has no real world should also begin promoting the good, movie making about a young woman consequences whatsoever, and on the and providing uplifting alternatives to who undergoes a religious conversion other we're led to believe 60-second the trash that currently dominates the while suffering persecution at the hands spots that occasionally interrupt this scene. It's a sad fact that talented indi- of the Chinese communists. Without program are powerful enough to change viduals with traditional convictions or well-known stars or any promotion public perceptions of everything from religious scruples have too often shunned budget to speak of, this audacious little canned goods to candidates. active involvement in show business picture has drawn an amazing response

The industry is right when it touts the because of that arena's longstanding from the public, averaging more than impact of media images, but I can't reputation for sleaziness. Unfortunately, $6,000 per screening in its first weeks accept the contention that motion pic- this means abandoning the field to the of release. This means that in multiplex tures, and song lyrics, and music videos sickos and sybarites, and you see the theaters where it has played alongside and TV shows are somehow less influ- results on your television and movie big budget major studio productions, it ential than commercials. That is why screens. Let the call go out immediately: has easily clobbered films such as Rocky the current war on standards in the The outnumbered good guys in Holly- V or Goodfellas or Predator II. We need popular culture is such an important wood desperately need reinforcements. more films like China Cry, but we'll struggle for America's future. I believe Keep in mind that the entertainment only get them if concerned individuals that this will be the issue of the 1990s, industry is one area of endeavor in are willing to roll up their sleeves to the issue of values, of trying to maintain which a few gifted individuals can still dirty their hands, and to get to work, standards against those who are seek- make an enormous difference. The outside the mainstream if necessary, to ing to erase them altogether. American people have shown that they change the direction of popular culture.

There's a tendency at both ends of the are ready to respond when given the The change, when it comes, will political spectrum to confuse this ques- opportunity, as in the utterly unexpected amount to nothing less than a grassroots tion with absolutist claims about the $100 million success of a wholesome, revolution. It won't flow from the top need for censorship versus the protec- life-affirming film project like Driving down, but from the bottom up. If we tion of the First Amendment. Expanded Miss Daisy. place all our faith in a few bigwigs in censorship is not the answer, and Even more recently, an unheralded, Los Angeles, or New York, or Washing- attempts to move in that direction will low-budget picture called China Cry ton, nothing will happen. We must rely prove counter-productive. demonstrated once again that good instead on a thousand different centers The key issues in the current conflict values can mean good box office. This of energy and dedication, in every corner won't be decided in the halls of Con- off-beat production, funded by a deter- of these United States, to make sure gress or the offices of the federal bureau- mined group of evangelical Christians, that popular culture will once again cracy. They will be settled, as funda- may not be the greatest film ever made, reflect, and encourage, the fundamental mental questions are always settled but it's a heartfelt, passionate piece of goodness of our people. most effectively in America, through the application of free-market principles and displays of private-sector determi- nation and resourcefulness. Part of this process will no doubt SHUR CAR WIPERS involve sponsor boycotts, direct pro- tests, letter-writing campaigns and other MULTI-ACTION BLADE THAT CAN forms of organized pressure. These tolls are far more appropriate than new gov- TAKE ON ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS ernmental regulation, which is at best, a blunt, sloppy and ineffective instru- Will outlast all other wipers for years and years. ment. A group called CLEAR TV- Christian Leaders for Responsible Tele- THE SECRET IS IN THE MODULAR DESIGN vision—already has enjoyed some nota- that will give you 100% visibility ble success. They recently pushed through its unique Burger King, one of the largest adver- squeegee system! tisers on network television, to take out a series of newspaper ads in which the SHUR WIPERS come with company pledged its support for family the motor industry values, and promised to apply those standards of safety values in judging any future TV shows and durability Works it will sponsor. Multi-angled Shur Wipers' similar to While environmentalists are employ- nationally blade is made of durable wipers MONEY BACK ing all means available to persuade rubber to resist the wear advertised for $19.95 GUARANTEE major corporations to stop polluting and tear of our harsh r*Deer Creek Products, Inc., Dept. M198 our air and water, we should use similar winters. Shur Wipers have 3038 N.W. 25th Avenue, Pompano Beach, FL 33069 3 wiping blades that clean your persuasion to prevent the further pollu- Shur Wipers 1 pair only $4.95 plus $2.00 shipping & windshield in direction. each Blade handling. (Total $6.95) tion of our culture. It's high time to 1 removes snow, rain, etc. Blade 2 broaden our sense of corporate respon- Save! Shur Wipers 2 pairs only $8.95 plus $3.00 removes stubborn bugs and dirt. shipping & handling. (Total $11.95) sibility to include a serious considera- Blade 3 is a squeegee blade Make of Car leaving your windshield spotless. tion of the long-term impact of the Name Easy to install. Snap into your car's entertainment that a company may pro- pre-installed holders. Comes in Address duce or sponsor. two adjustable sizes. Please City As part of the continuing struggle, we indicate the make of your car. State .Zip must do more than protest the bad; we

AUGUST 1991 53 A No, but I think it is very important problems in our big cities come under HI-TECH to keep in mind that in the years control? ahead, as our funding on national Well, that will happen if, as we Continued page 29 A from defense almost certainly falls and inter- reduce our dependence on liquid national tensions are reduced, or appa- fuel for automotive use, in favor of rently reduced, this is just the time electrical power, we go to nuclear when we must increase our spending sources for the electrical energy. If we provide large blocks of electrical on research, both fundamental and use fossil fuels to generate the elec- energy without concomitant damage to applied, to prevent our being blind- tricity to power our electric automobile, prevent being sur- have simply transferred the burning the environment. This will be the thrust sided. We must our we totally of fossil fuels from mobile sources to that will eventually get us into a new era prised by new weapons of nuclear energy. technology that someone has developed fixed source of greater size. while we were looking the other way. Q. What about the hope of sepa- Q B Is national defense suffering from inadequate research? Q- Will the environmental pollution rating hydrogen from sea water and using that as a clean and efficient energy source? BThat is quite feasible now if you're prepared to put the required

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Q- What are the other two? Of Music You'll Always Love A The second one is education and human resources. And the third, which has boiled to the top of the political agenda worldwide, is the question Big Band of global climate change. Working with the Office of Management and Budget next year, we potentially will add two more to that list of presidential initia- Memories tives. One is biotechnology, because that promises to be as important in the ^ From the > future as physics and chemistry-based ®m^l33JQ 50 Original industry were in the postwar period. Super Hits And the second is materials science and technology, because almost every By The Great process that we know is limited ulti- Of The Most mately by the behavior of some mate- Stars Of Yesterday rial. For example, the Oak Ridge Famous No music in our history has ever given National Laboratory did a calculation us so much pleasure as the never-equal- for me that showed that for every degree Records led recording classics of the Big Band Fahrenheit that you could raise the Years! And now you can enjoy again the temperature of the average U.S. indus- Ever Made most popular records ever made by the most famous and most loved big bands trial process, your payback is $2 billion and singing stars of those Golden Years. per year. For the first time here are 50 of the most famous records ever made... all Q> Speaking of education, U.S. stu- Here Is All You Get yours to enjoy again in one remarkable dents seem to be deserting the sciences On Records or Tapes collection. in droves. to get Who can ever forget The Andrews What can be done I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN Tommy Sisters singing APPLE BLOSSOM them back into the fold? Dorsey and His Orchestra/Frank Sinatra, TIME. ..Glenn Miller's famous The trend, I believe, is now turned Vocal/The Pied Pipers • MARIA ELENA . Tommy A Jimmy Dorsey • SLEEPY LAGOON MOONLIGHT SERENADE. around. What we are seeing is a Harry James • TAKE THE "A" TRAIN Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra vocal, doing reflection of the fact that as opposed to Duke Ellington • AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN . . . the nearly all other careers, in science, Fats Waller • SUGAR BLUES Clyde great Nat King Cole singing UN- McCoy • THERE'S mathematics and engineering, students NO TOMORROW FORGETTABLE. . .the romantic magic Tony Martin • I APOLOGIZE Billy Eckstine of Les Brown and SENTIMENTAL make their career decisions during or • • UNCHAINED MELODY Al Hibbler I'M JOURNEY. Here are 50 all-time before their junior year in high school. LOOKING OVER A FOUR LEAF classics that will be loved for as long as Most other career decisions are made CLOVER Art Mooney • ALL OR NOTH- ING AT ALL Harry James Orchestra with people play records. much later. And so, if science has lost Frank Sinatra • APRIL IN PARIS Count No Risk Offer the students by the junior year in high Basie • HOW HIGH THE MOON Les All 50 famous records come to you school, we've lost them permanently. Paul/Mary Ford • LONG AGO & FAR on your choice of 3 long-play Records AWAY Jo Stafford • HEARTACHES Ted This focuses attention on the fact that ... or 3 Cassettes. The price? Only Weems • IF I DIDN'T CARE Ink Spots • our elementary schools are scandal- OLD BUTTERMILK SKY Hoagy Car $6.66 each. All 3 for only $19.98. And we unconditionally guarantee you'll ously inept at the moment. We have a michael • GOODNIGHT IRENE Gordon Jenkins • Judy enjoy every single one of the 50 tremendous opportunity and a responsi- OVER THE RAINBOW Garland • UNFORGETTABLE Nat King famous records over and over bility is to correct that, and this why Cole • LINDA Buddy Clark • GREEN again... or the collection won't cost the President's new education plan EYES Helen O'Connell/Bob Eberle/Jimmy you a penny. Be sure to mail the no- Dorsey • focuses primarily on doing something LET'S DANCE Benny Goodman risk coupon today. • APPLE BLOSSOM TIME Andrews about our elementary schools NOTIN UPON^TODAY Sisters • BOO HOO Guy Lombardo • I STORES-MAIL CO CAN'T GIVE ANYTHING ~~1 YOU BUT (~Jhe Beautiful Music Co., Dept. 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Reagan era. If defense takes only one- Table II: Carter v. Reagan quarter (or one-fifth) of the budget, Year Carter Proposal Reagan Plan Actual then logically it can be responsible only 1981 161.0 162.0 157.5 for that proportion of the deficit. 1982 184.4 188.8 185.3 These long-term trends are testimony 1983 210.4 226.0 209.9 1984 237.8 255.6 227.4 to continued pressure for increasing 1985 268.0 303.9 252.7 domestic budgets. Since the 1960s, Source: Office of Management and Budget (Expressed in billions of dollars) domestic spending has risen irrespec- tive of military outlays. From 1960 to 1990, military spending adjusted for By 1986, the Carter policy would —the type employed against Iraq. inflation increased by only 28 percent, have hiked defense to $299 billion, How we might have fared in the gulf if but federal "payments to individuals" amounting to 27.8 percent of the total there hadn't been at least a partial inter- grew by an almost incredible 500 per- budget. Reagan wanted to raise the ante ruption of the long-term downward cent. Defense grew from $ 1 92 billion to even further- to $343 billion and 36.8 curve of Pentagon spending is a disturb- $247 billion, measured in 1982 con- percent— more than one-third of total ing thought. stant dollars, while federal "payments outlays. The actual numbers under Current estimates are that we incurred to individuals" grew from $73 billion to Reagan, however, were a more modest a cost of $70 billion in the fighting, a $429 billion. $273 billion and 26.8 percent— both good deal of it for equipment and muni- "The overall spending totals [for the lower than the Carter trend line. That tions added to the weapons stock in the '80s] mask a critical policy develop- Reagan's outlays fell considerably short preceding decade. Absent such effort, ment," said Stephen Moore of the Cato of Carter's proposals seems known to the quantity and quality of our military Institute, "that has occurred over the practically no one. force would have been substantially past several years, a dramatic shift in Of course, even a relative shift of a degraded. federal spending from defense to couple of percent in a growing federal In the period 1980-85, when most of domestic programs. Most Americans budget amounts to tens of billions of the Reagan buildup was accomplished, believe that military spending has been dollars, so in this sense there was indeed military procurement levels almost climbing consistently since Reagan a "Reagan buildup" for the military. exactly doubled, increasing by 99.4 became President in 1981. The truth is And a good thing that there was. While percent. As noted by former Assistant that the Reagan defense buildup ended much of the added spending went for Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb, in 1986. Since 1989 the military budget modernization of our strategic triad "By the middle of the decade, U.S. mili- has declined roughly 10 percent in real arrayed against the Soviets, a lot of it tary expenditures exceeded those of the dollars." also went for procurement and upgrad- Soviet Union for the first time since the ing of conventional and theater weapons Please turn page reason for false impressions on ONEthis score was the tremendous attention focused on Reagan's early proposals to reverse the long-term trend, Individually proposals that were never realized in Numbered, Registered full. His plans for rapid military buildup LIMITED EDITION and domestic spending cuts were widely publicized, but the press corps seldom followed up on what actually happened WORLD WAR II JUST when the budgets were adopted. In fact, REMEMBERED™ year after year, military spending fell COMMEMORATIVE short of Reagan's plans, while total KNIFE $10 budget figures soared a great deal higher. LAYERED IN Thus, in the first five Reagan budget PURE 24KT GOLD years (1982-86), domestic outlays came in $556 billion higher than Reagan's initial plan, while defense came in $167 billion lower. And after '86, as noted, " 7V2 overall (blade 3'/2") the effort at getting increased dollars Delivery guaranteed only to the first for the Pentagon ground to a screeching 10,000 who order by Oct. 28, 1991 halt. These numbers, however, were never reported by the major media. All Available now... then NEVER AGAIN World War II Remembered, Dept. KR-61 the attention was focused on what 36326 U.S. 19 N., Palm Harbor, FL 34684 They were just "G.I. Joes", but they led the free world in the fight to Please send me one WORLD WAR II REMEMBERED Commem- requested, not the final budget. relight the lamp of freedom and liberty everywhere. Wherever they Reagan orative Knife for $1 0 plus $2.95 shipping and handling. triumphed, they proudly raised the Stars and Stripes, And for some, it knives only $19 shipping and handling. One irony of this outcome was that was the last time they would see our flag. Two plus S3.95

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AUGUST 1991 57 States acquired 4,898 heavy tanks and Policy observes, "Virtually every U.S. MILITARY SPENDING 975 new military helicopters. From weapons system employed in the gulf— 1981 to 1987, in keeping with the from the M1A1 main battle tank to the Continuedfrom page 57 spending trend, procurement numbers Bradley infantry fighting vehicle to the

were almost doubled (9,747 and 1 ,748, Apache attack helicopter to the Patriot

respectively). To which it should be missile. . .has been at one point or added that the later acquisitions another the subject of controversy, vitu- late 1960s. . .In his first six years in (Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters, perative criticism and nearly fatal legis- office, Reagan purchased nearly 3,000 etc.) were much more sophisticated lative attack." combat aircraft, 3,700 strategic mis- than their predecessors. The gulf experience helps put such siles, and about 10,000 tanks." The development and acquisition of controversy in perspective. In fact, we In these and other categories, the such weapons were fertile sources of the now have disputes about who ought to procurement numbers greatly exceeded cost-overrun and expensive-toy stories get the credit for such weapons, because those prevailing in the '70s. Korb notes that have been so popular in the media. many systems were on the drawing that, from 1974 to 1980, the United Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security boards in the '70s. Obviously, in the process of developing new systems, mistakes, corrections and further

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July 1 . Post Commanders also are urged to include under separate cover a NDE is explained by the birth canal and less fortunate. But the CPR statistics, written summary of special activities or the bright light by the operating room. however impressive, only tell part of the promotions their Posts pursued in This theory requires relying on assump- story. Nearly half of the Post Comman- meeting the needs of area veterans and tions that few are prepared to make. ders don't file reports; consequently, the community. Noted scientist Dr. Carl Sagan con- almost half of our volunteer workers do No matter how many CPRs are sub-

cedes that the birth-NDE theory has its not get the credit they deserve. Fortu- mitted, the record of accomplishment is adherents, but he also said the theory nately, the level of reporting is suffi- there for anyone who wishes to see how invites skepticism. cient to shine a national spotlight on the Legion works in thousands of com- What becomes clear from all of this Legion programs and initiatives. munities to maintain its tradition of is the inescapable conclusion that a Post Commanders are urged to turn devotion to "mutual helpfulness." near-death experience is a very real phenomenon. It cannot be dismissed as fraud, mass hysteria or religious Advertuemcnl ecstasy. And now, with the ever- See Why... increasing sophistication of medical tools and techniques, there is every likelihood that the number of NDEs will grow at an accelerating pace. Where There's A Will Is it a neurological response to trauma? Is it a natural hallucination? Canton, OH (Special) been praised by es- Is it a protective psychological mechan- You can spend mon- Heirs Pay tate planners and re- ism enabling people to cope with ey for a Will only to ported in financial major injury? Is it a glimpse of life after have a substantial part of your assets publications like The Wall Street Journal, death? There are supporters for each of needlessly taken by lawyers, courts and Business Week, Money, to name a few. these explanations. Perhaps the indis- executors through the probate process. You simply transfer all your assets into putable answer will come to each of us Why should you avoid probate? a Living Trust and name yourself or individually only when we come face to Simple. It costs too much and takes too anyone you want as trustees. face with the ultimate consequence of long. Probate also creates an "invasion Lawyers can charge an average of our mortality. of your family's financial privacy!" $60 for writing a Will - and then can get Woody Allen has said, "It's not that Probate can slice up to 10% from an up to 10% for probate. It's smart to set I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be estate and take months or years for Living Trust there when it happens." Take heart, up a settlement Woody. You just may get your wish in Working with a team of legal an as-yet-inexplicable way. In fact, the only thing worse than a scholars, DSA Financial Publishing Will for the average wage earner is the Corp. of Canton, Ohio has prepared a "~l nightmare created by no Will at all. Living Trust Kit designed so you can Because then the State decides who gets easily set up your own Living Trust WHOLESALE everything you own. You'll get complete instructions written CLUB" Now mere's a far better way to in easy-to-understand language, plus protect your estate than having only a illustrated step-by-stepforms. You also Yes Uncle Bernie! I'm at least 50 years old like you and I deserve a break Enroll me in your 50 Plus Wholesale Club today! Will. A new study reveals that a Living get complete guidelines on how to is Start my Savings with the following order: Trust a low-cost alternative to probat- custom tailor your personal Living Item Price Ship. Oty. Total ing a Will, even for an average sized Trust so that any special wishes you Multi-Blade Wipers 50t $1 Pair estate. may have for your estate are carried out HP -9000 $3 50c Sandwich Maker $10 $2.00 Today you can eliminate costly, It's easy to get your Living Trust Kit Cable Box $9 $1.50 time-consuming probate and legal fees All you have to do is send a check or Cat & Mouse Watch $5 50t by using a simple legal paper called a money order in the amount of $19.95 MEMBERSHIP FEE (New Members Only, $10 revocable Living Trust. It Order Processing Fee $3 avoids plus $2 postage and handling or charge Virginia Residents add sales tax probate attorney, managerial and court to your VISA/Mastercard by including TOTAL $ fees because there is no Will to probate. account number and expiration date to: Your family suffers Payment method: (Check one) no expense or DSA Financial Publishing Corp., Check Money Order Visa Mastercard settlement delays. And since a Living 708 - 12th Street N.W., Dept. Amex Diners Discover Carte Blanch W1525,

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TREE 112 Page Catalog Control Water Weeds Do your Amazing new Underwater Harvesting Tool! for Lovers of T chips the WATER-WEEDER Harvester heels ache? CJ-^and the

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Sheik Sale During a tour of America, a wealthy Arab sheik stopped his entourage by a roadside stand to buy an apple. The farmer told him the apple would cost $50. "Apples must be very scarce," said the sheik. "We got loads of apples," said the farmer. "Sheiks are scarce."

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Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.

Green Fees "I can't resist buying new golf equipment," one golfer said to his buddy.

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Toothpaste Account Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube — easy to take out, hard to Buck Stop No Know put back in. These days, more and more politi- "I don't mind my children knowing cians pass the buck, but they hold on to more than I did at their age," said one the tens and twenties. befuddled parent to another. "But I do SOUND OFF resent them knowing more than I do now." You can now "sound off" about Law Unabiding current issues through the Vetvoice lines The American Legion. This Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but of some lawyers practice anyway. Computer Interfacing month's question: Should U.S.

Is it just a coincidence? Computer financial aid to foreign countries dating started just a few years back, and be reduced? Call now 1-900-28- VOICE. You can vote, receive a tally Practical Prayer now these tiny laptops are springing up all over the place. that includes your vote, listen to opin- Lead us not into temptation. Just let ions of others and record your own. us know where temptation is, and we'll Calls cost $1 per minute andproceeds find it ourselves. support Legion programs. Spellin' Norman Some of the opinions recorded on "I feel sorry for the history students Vetvoice lines are published in The Executives of tomorrow," said one high school Bard Of American Leg/on Magazine and "Our meetings remind me of the student to another. "I mean, how would are indicated with the symbol. works of Shakespeare," said one you like to have to spell Schwarzkopf?" Q Here's how you've voted in pre- employee to another. vious polls: "How's that?" Do you believe VA has the "They're usually Much Ado About Legal-Easy resources to serve as a medical Nothing and result in a Comedy of Why is it that when you need a backup for DoD? Errors. lawyer, you always can find one? Yes 17% No 83% Should welfare recipients be required to work? Language Barrier Who's There? Yes 85% No 15% When opportunity knocks, you still To be an effective parent of teen- have to gel up off your butt and answer agers, you have to know two lan- 1-900-28-VOICE the door. guages—yours and theirs.

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