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SHE SERVED TOO...

Forfar too long, military women have been treated as second-class citizens. By Chandra M. Czape 20

ENGINE OF DEMOCRACY

The Library ofCongress is only a mouse click away. 22

PHANTOM PAIN

He could never ever be a good-enough hero. By Deborah Mattingly Conner 24

HOUSES OF HEALING

Ronald McDonald-type homesfor veterans and theirfamilies. ByJohn W. Alexander 26

A HELD OF THEIR OWN

Never-say-die Legionnaires turn a Brooklyn junkyard into ballfieldsfor kids. 28

DECAUSE THEY CARE

Special Americans doing special thingsfor others. By Anthony Miller 31 DEPARTME NTS

BIG ISSUES Should America replace the dollar bill with a coin? 10

VETVOICE 4 ON DUTY 14 LEGION NEWS 36

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 16 VETS 40

WASHINGTON WATCH 12 VETERANS UPDATE 34 PARTING SHOTS 60

COVER Today 's woman in the military: earning the respect that 's long overdue. See Page 20

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Syracuse, N.Y. The article cites an error made by John L. Davis the Office of Personnel Management Springfield, Va. (0PM) in rating the qualifications of Flag Correction Mr. John Minnick for a position with In Veterans Update (January) we Editor's note: The above letter is the National Holocaust Museum. 0PM reported that veterans were entitled to from the same Mr. Davis mentioned in later admitted its error and gave Mr. a flag flown over the nation's capital both the article and Mr. King' s letter. Minnick priority consideration for an when they are buried. They are enti- He no longer works for the federal gov- equivalent position. This was an tled to an American flag. However, the ernment. extremely rare case. only way to obtain a flag flown over The article wrongly charges that the capital is by contacting your con- equal employment opportunity laws are Star Wdtcii gressman or senator and you may have at odds with Veterans Preference laws. to pay for it. I was rather concemed over the tiny There is simply no evidence that veter- article, "Stars Named For Child Vic- ans have been discriminated against as tims," in January's Legion News. While Right Stuff a class or that they are under-represent- the intentions of Post 502 are certainly I fail to see the purpose of "The ed in the Federal work force, as com- admirable in memorializing the 19 chil- $60,000 Cat" (February 1996). When pared to the civilian labor force. dren killed in the Oklahoma City feder- adults are unable to follow the rules The article cites the case of John L. al building bombing, the Post's inten- they have agreed to follow, why does Davis, a civilian employee with the tions are not being carried out. this necessitate an article that basically Army Corps of Engineers, who it Companies selling star names are condemns homeowner associations should be noted took full advantage of simply providing a "novelty" service. (HOAs)? 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"I HAD A TOUGH TIME GOING THE DISTANCE."

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terazosin (ter-A-zo-sin) • HYTRIN helps relieve the symptoms of BPH. It does think we can use VA as a scapegoat on NOT change the size of the prostate, which may con- hydrochloride this one. Federal laws regulate the use tinue to grow. However, a larger prostate does not necessarily cause more or worse symptoms. of appropriated fiinds. When used to treat • If HYTRIN is helping you, you should notice an Money approved for spending by effect on your particular symptoms in 2 to 4 weeks of HYPERTENSION or Congress can only be used for the pur- starting to take the medication. BENIGN PROSTATIC pose for which it was appropriated, i.e. • Even though you take HYTRIN and it may help you, HYPERPLASIA (BPH) HYTRIN may not prevent the need for surgery in the defense, CIA, FBI, etc. Use for other future. purposes can lead to federal charges Please read this leaflet before you start taking HYTRIN. Other important facts about HYTRIN for BPH and prosecution. Canteen workers are Also, read it each time you get a new prescription. This is • You should see an effect on your symptoms in 2 to a summary and should NOT take the place of a full dis- paid from nonappropriated funds, 4 weeks. So, you will need to continue seeing your cussion with your doctor who has additional information which do not rely on the federal bud- about HYTRIN. You and your doctor should discuss doctor to check your progress regarding your BPH and to monitor your blood pressure in addition to HYTRIN and your condition before you start taking it and get. The money is generated from your other regular check-ups. at your regular check-ups. activity outside the function of Con- • doctor has prescribed is used to treat high blood pressure Your HYTRIN for your BPH HYTRIN (hyperten- gress and is basically self-sustaining. and not for prostate cancer. However, a man can have sion). HYTRIN is also used to treat benign prostatic prostate hyperplasia (BPH) in men. This leaflet describes BPH and cancer at the same time. Doctors I don't agree with all the applica- usually recommend that men be checked for prostate HYTRIN as a treatment for hypertension or BPH. tions of nonappropriated funds, but I cancer once a year when they turn 50 (or 40 if a fam- What is hypertension (high blood pressure)? ily member has had prostate cancer). These checks feel their use in a VA hospital is entire-

should continue even if are taking Blood pressure is the tension of the blood within the blood you HYTRIN. ly appropriate. Where else can an in- HYTRIN is not a treatment for prostate cancer. vessels. If blood is pumped too forcefully, or if the blood patient get shaving supplies, writing vessels are too narrow, the pressure of the blood against • About Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). Your doctor materials or snacks? the walls of the vessels rises. may have done a blood test called PSA. Your doctor

is that If high blood pressure is not treated, over time, the aware HYTRIN does not affect PSA levels. David Jones You may want to ask your doctor more about this if increased pressure can damage blood vessels or it can Lost Nation, Iowa cause the heart to work too hard and may decrease the you have had a PSA test done. flow of blood to the heart, brain, and kidneys. As a result, What you should know while taking HYTRIN for these organs may become damaged and not function cor- hypertension or BPH Female Feedback rectly. If high blood pressure is controlled, this damage is less likely to happen. WARNINGS I hope "You've Come A Long Way,

Treatment options for hypertension HYTRIN Can Cause A Sudden Drop in Blood Pres- Maybe" (February 1996) doesn't give a sure After the VERY FIRST DOSE. You may feel Non-drug treatments are sometimes effective in control- false impression of the Cincinnati VA dizzy, faint, or "light-headed" particularly after you get up ling mild hypertension. The most important lifestyle I from bed or from a chair. This is more likely to occui^ Hospital. have been going there for 15 changes to lower blood pressure are to lose weight, reduce after you've taken the first few doses, but can occur at any years and can't say enough good things salt, fat, and alcohol in the diet, quit smoking, and exer- time while you are taking the drug. It can also occur if you cise regularly. However, many hypertensive patients about the staff. The personnel and the stop taking the drug and then re-start treatment. require one or more ongoing medications to control their care I receive have been the best. blood pressure. There are different kinds of medications Because of this effect, your doctor may have told you to used to treat hypertension. You doctor has prescribed take HYTRIN at bedtime. If you take HYTRIN at bed- Dorothy F. Rolf time but need to get up from bed to go to the bathroom, HYTRIN for you. Newport, Ky. get up slowly and cautiously until you are sure how the

What HYTRIN does to treat hypertension medicine affects you. It is also important to get up slowly from a chair or bed at any time until you learn how you HYTRIN works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood Your February "You've Come A passes through them more easily. This lower react to HYTRIN. You should not drive or do any haz- helps to Long Way, Maybe" about VA care for blood pressure. ardous tasks until you are used to the effects of the med- ication. If you begin to feel dizzy, sit or lie down until you women veterans was very interesting. What is BPH? feel better. Personally, I would see my local vet- prostate is The a gland located below the bladder of men. • You will start with a 1 mg dose of HYTRIN. Then erinarian before I would go to VA. It surrounds the urethra (you-REETH-rah), which is a the dose will be increased as your body gets used to tube that drains urine from the bladder. BPH is an enlarge- the effect of the medication. Gloria Radios ment of the prostate gland. The symptoms of BPH, how- • Other side effects you could have while taking Clovis, Calif. ever, can be caused by an increase in the tightness of HYTRIN include drowsiness, blurred or hazy vision, muscles in the prostate. If the muscles inside the prostate nausea, or "puffiness" of the feet or hands. Discuss tighten, they can squeeze the urethra and slow the flow of any unexpected effects you notice with your doctor. Wage Rage urine. This can lead to symptoms such as:

• a weak or interrupted stream when urinating How to take HYTRIN The issue that proponents of mini-

• a feeling that you cannot empty your bladder com- Follow your doctor's instructions about how to take mum wage (Big Issues, February) pletely HYTRIN. You must take it every day at the dose pre- never address is, if increasing the mini- scribed. Talk with your doctor if you don't take it for a • a feeling of delay when you start to urinate few days, you may have to restart it at a 1 mg dose and be mum will reduce the number of people • a need to urinate often, especially at night, or cautious about possible dizziness. Do not share HYTRIN in poverty, why not increase it to $15 • a feeling that you must urinate right away. with anyone else; it was prescribed only for you. an hour and eliminate poverty entirely? Keep HYTRIN and all medicines out of the reach of Treatment options for BPH children. I don't mean to be glib, but the lib- There are three main treatment options for BPH: Store capsules between 68-77°F (20-25°C). eral wing of Congress still doesn't get • Program of monitoring or "Watchful Waiting". Protect from light and moisture. it. They have wrecked their con- Some men have an enlarged prostate gland, but no FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HYTRIN symptoms, or symptoms that are not bothersome. If AND HYPERTENSION OR BPH, TALK WITH stituents' financial wherewithal by their this applies, you and your doctor may decide on a YOUR DOCTOR, NURSE, PHARMACIST OR giveaway programs for the sake of a program of monitoring including regular checkups, OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. instead of medication or surgery. few votes. They are doing us no favors

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OTOR BLADES from a fact, it has asked VA to over-represent chopper could be heard women in its epidemiological studies. slicing at the wind, creat- (If only 7 percent of Gulf War veterans ing the subtle but appro- are women, and only 7 percent of the priate atmosphere for the research involves women, they will not dedication of the Viet- get accurate results.) VA has listened to nam Women's Memorial our , and women are being in 1993. Hundreds of given the consideration they are due. Vietnam veterans knew All of America and everyone in uni- this sound all too well, especially nurs- form needs to do what The American es who had to treat the wounded and Legion has done: recognize that comfort the dying flown into their women in the military have different mobile hospitals. health-care needs and must be given "I am still bothered by the sound of the best care available. helicopters," said retired Army Lt. Col. But there is more to giving women P. Evangeline Jamison, a nurse in the credit they deserve than memorials World War II, and Vietnam. and medicine. They must be treated Legionnaire Diane Carlson Evans, fairly while in the service too. In this chair and founder of the Vietnam month's issue of THE AMERICAN Women's Memorial Project, added: "At LEGION Magazine, Chandra Czape a time when joining the military was chronicles military women's struggle unpopular, 265,000 volunteered for respect in "She Served Too..." on women Nat' I. Cmdr. Daniel A. Ludwig to support our troops in Vietnam, page 20. 10,000 of them serving in-country." given respect and fair treatment. "The Gulf War showed very clearly At the closing of the dedication, During Desert Shield and Desert that women were good enough to die," Jamison looked at the site where the Storm, some 48,790 women were Navy Capt. Rosemary Mariner says in Vietnam Women's memorial now deployed to the theater of the article. In fact, 16 women died dur- stands, some 300 feet from The Wall, operations, constituting 7 percent of ing the war and two were taken prison- and smiled. "This is a first step in those in the war zone. If anyone needed ers of war. recognizing those who fought in an illustration of the price women pay We are very fortunate to have brave Vietnam—all the people—men and in the service of our country, the out- men and women who have equally con- women," she said. break of Desert Storm illness symptoms tributed to the national security of our Women serving in our military is among thousands of female gulf veter- country. Just as women have shared the nothing new; they have been called ans is a harsh eye-opening discovery. burden, we must let them share in the upon in many conflicts, from the Amer- Some 6,200 women veterans of the praise. ican Revolution to Bosnia. Women Gulf War have sought medical exams Finally, I turn to another subject of were also in some of the smaller opera- from the Department of Defense (DoD) vital importance to us all: the youth of tions such as Grenada, Panama, Soma- and the Department of Veterans Affairs America. Since April is traditionally lia and Haiti. (VA) for what many believe to be Children & Youth month within The

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haunted by the costs of war. so it would not be accurate to say that other related themes, the remarkable Although the women's memorial is they all suffer from Gulf War Syn- story of how local Legionnaires turned a great tribute, America must take drome," cautions Matthew L. Puglisi, a 30-acre wasteland into a neighbor- many more steps until women are director of The American Legion's Per- hood treasure for the young athletes of given the credit they deserve for their sian Gulf Task Force. "We are pushing Brooklyn, N.Y. I hope that you will role in protecting and defending our for studies that could give us a good read "A Field of Their Own," page 28, nation in the service of the U.S. Armed idea what we're dealing with." with a deep sense of pride in what your

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Sen. Rod Grams (R-Minnesota) Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Massachusetts)

On Nov. 17, 1995, the ^^^^^k Overshadowed by the U.S. House and Senate l%l ^ M debate over the budget is passed an extraordinary YES ' ^ a "lifestyle" discussion piece of legislation—the "Balanced Bud- that will affect each and every one of us. get Act of 1995." It was the culmination Do we maintain our $1 bill or do we cre- of a promise we made to the people last ate a $1 coin to replace it? November when we said we'd take this Let's examine the merits of replacing country in a better direction if they elect- the $1 bill with a newly minted $1 coin. ed a new majority to Congress. The "Bal- First and foremost, we have to look at anced Budget Act of 1995" is proof that there is a better way, the projected costs of this currency change, as well as any and its centerpiece is our promise to balance the budget by savings associated with it. 2002. It is true that coins would far outlast paper bills, thus low- We're now tackling the hard choices we must make to ering circulation costs slightly. However, the savings would eliminate the deficit, which means improving the way gov- be offset over the near term by the costs of removing paper ernment conducts the business of the people and carries out currency from circulation—a major waste of the current our responsibilities in the most cost-efficient manner possi- stock of paper bills. In addition, the U.S. Mint, which is on ble. One simple way to accomplish both goals, while moving record as opposing a switch to the $1 coin, has reported it toward a balanced budget, is to switch from using $1 bills to wiU take considerable time and expense to get the new coin $1 coins, which 1 introduced this year as legislation titled the into circulation. Even after necessary production capacity is "One Dollar Coin Act." achieved, the federal government would have to undertake Nearly every study shows that the "One Dollar Coin Act" an expensive campaign to market and promote the coin to would save taxpayers dollars. For example, the Federal the general public. Reserve Board estimates that because of reduced printing Producing and promoting the coin would cost taxpayers costs, the $1 coin would save $456 million each year. And $22 million over five years, the U.S. Mint reports. These up- along with its fiscal rewards, consumers will appreciate the front costs mean any potential savings would not come for a convenience of the coin when it comes to using pop long time. The final factor that would affect savings from machines, laundry machines and parking meters. the $1 coin is technological advancements. Cash is rapidly Another group of Americans who would benefit from the being replaced in everyday financial transactions by credit switch are those who suffer from a visual disability. Our leg- cards, debit cards, transaction cards and automatic with- islation is a major step forward for these Americans who run drawals. The question of what kind of currency we use will the risk every day of accidentally spending a large bill or of become less and less important. being cheated when receiving change. The American people overwhelmingly prefer the $1 bill. Every major industrial nation has already switched to A Gallup poll in June 1995 showed that 77 percent of the high-denomination coins. In fact, Canada has experienced so public opposes replacing the $1 bill with a coin. Most peo- much success with its $1 coin, the "loonie," that it's now in ple prefer the bill's light weight, are familiar with it, and see the process of issuing a $2 coin as well. it as the basic unit of our currency. A new survey shows that once the American people learn The Director of the Mint believes that if the American that replacing $1 bills with coins will save substantial people are forced to give up the $1 bill, they'll simply amounts of money and move this nation closer to a balanced switch to the $2 bill. In 1979, the government made an effort budget, they support our legislation by a nearly 3-to-l mar- to issue the Susan B. Anthony dollar, and earlier, the Dwight gin. The "One Dollar Coin Act" is an excellent opportunity D. Eisenhower dollar. Both moves failed because of the to deliver the real change public's negative reaction. that was demanded by the YOUR OPINIONS COUNT, TOO Some $300 million worth voters last November: To of unwanted Anthony Senators and Representatives are interested in constituent view- root out waste and abuse in points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable coins are stacked away in the federal government, (name), U.S. Senate, Wasliington, DC 20510, or The Honorabie the Mint. improve efficiency, and (name), U.S. House of Representatives, Wastiington, DC 20515. For the taxpaying gen- Or, you may call the U.S. Senate at: (202) 224-3121; and the most importantly, help bal- eral public, the $1 coin is House at (202) 225-3121. ance the budget. IJ not a good deal at all.

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The 'Rash Card'' The difference is that Collins wants Army veteran Timothy McVeigh to use those troops to protect and patrol may use Persian Gulf War Syndrome as our borders and stop the drug trade, a defense against charges he blew up while Browne says he favors the legal- ization the federal building in Oklahoma City. of drugs. They also agree on repealing the This is the belief of Aubrey J. Leager, who says he has been in contact with federal income tax. They're both associates of McVeigh's lawyer, opposed to abortion, but Collins sup- ports repealing the court decision legal- Stephen Jones, and is on "stand-by" as a witness in the case. izing abortion and Browne wants the An Air Force veteran, Leager sus- government to stay out of it. pects that he and McVeigh have some- thing in common—exposure to biologi- A Farewell To Arms? cal warfare agents. Fearing the demise of NATO, Leager says he has been diagnosed British defense experts are alarmed by with infection an called mycoplasma the rapid moves toward establishment the same problem Dr. Garth L. Nichol- of a European Army. "The Atlantic son says is showing up in most cases of Alliance is the rock of our defense poli- Gulf Syndrome. difference is War The cy," declared British defense secretary that Leager believes infected he was Michael Portillo in a major speech. about years ago as part 20 of an experi- "Britain will not join a European mental vaccine program. Army," he added. The General Accounting Office has To solidify its ties with the United estimated that at least 500,000 people ^ATCH States, Britain has made several recent were subjected to federally sponsored major purchases of U.S. weapons, radiation, biological and chemical By CliffKincaid including Tomahawk cruise missiles experiments from 1940-1974. and Apache attack helicopters. Ger- Leager says the symptoms of infec- many and France are moving in the tion can include personality changes, The Army counters that Macedonia opposite direction, having set up a aggression, stress and pain. McVeigh, is a Chapter VI operation that didn't joint procurement agency to purchase showing evidence of a rash, reportedly require congressional approval. New's arms. requested compensation for Gulf War lawyers, pressing their case in the The Franco-German Tiger heli- Syndrome in 1992 and was turned courts, have assembled all 97 U.N. copter is already a reality and the two away. Security Council resolutions concerning countries plan to build transport air- the former Yugoslavia, including Mace- craft and armored personnel carriers. U.N.-desirable donia. None refers to Chapter VI. All, however, do refer to Chapter Vn. It sounds like a bookkeeping prob- Tax-Exempt Terrorism To justify the operation, New's lem: Is the U.S. deployment of several Security experts fear that a much- lawyers insist, the Army must find at hundred Army soldiers to the U.N. publicized "covert" operation against least one specific U.N. resolution which operation in Macedonia conducted Iran could backfire, leading to terrorist states that the mandate for the Macedo- under Chapter VI of the U.N. charter attacks on Americans. The anti-Iranian nia operation is Chapter VI of the U.N. having to do with the "settlement of operation was conceived by House Charter. disputes" or Chapter VII, concerning Speaker Newt Gingrich and reportedly "threats to the peace." is costing the CIA $18 million. Former The answer to this seemingly eso- Three's Company top FBI official Oliver Revell says Iran- teric question may determine whether Ross Perot isn't the only one plan- ian-sponsored radical Islamic groups Army Specialist Michael New eventual- ning a third-party presidential campaign such as Hizbullah and Hamas are ly wins his case in the civilian courts. this year. Charles Collins, a business- "presently represented" in the United New recently was given a bad con- man, has chosen the independent route States, and that Hamas has even estab- duct discharge for refusing to wear U.N. after getting shunned by the GOP, and lished tax-exempt front groups that col- symbols on his Army uniform and Harry Browne, the author of numerous lect funds. "The American taxpayer, report to a U.N. commander. But his financial books, is running on the Lib- ironically, is subsidizing militant orga- lawyers, led by retired Marine Col. Ron ertarian ticket. nizations that support terrorist groups," Ray, contend the Macedonia operation Browne, though, has the advantage he says. has not been approved by Congress as a of a timely book. Why Government In an article in the Chapter VII operation under the terms Doesn't Work (St. Martin's Press), in Quarterly, Revell said a public televi- of the U.N. Participation Act and is which he cites a Gallup Poll showing sion program unearthed details about therefore illegal. that 60 percent of Americans want a pro-Iranian terrorists in the United third party in the 1996 presidential race. States that his own FBI failed to Washington-based Cliff Kincaid Collins and Browne agree on one thing: uncover. There's a "major gap in U.S. writes for Human Events and other removing U.S. military forces from for- defenses against terrorism," he con- publications. eign soil. ceded.

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From the Revolutionary War to Tailhook and beyond, the history of women in tine

service is one of too mucin abuse and too iittie credit.

By Chandra M. Czape

HE WAS born the same year Jackie Cochran be- came the first woman to break the sound barrier 1953. It was symbolic, actually, because Navy Capt. Rosemary Mariner would herself later break a number of barriers for mili- tary women. Mariner became the first woman to command an operational aviation squadron, and was among the first of her sex to earn naval aviator's wings.

"In 1975 I was the first woman to start flying jet fighters," says Mariner, who as a girl idolized Cochran and fighter pilot Chuck Yeager, who pre- ceded her to Mach 1. "I was an absolute anomaly. The media didn't know much about women's contribu- tions so they treated everything as new and different." The media's patronizing attitude toward Mariner should surprise no one. Throughout our history, America often enough—in short, "man" enough—to has overlooked servicewomen's contri- serve their country. butions and neglected their concerns. "Society in general has overlooked The message always seemed to be that women's contributions, period, says women were not good enough or strong retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught, president of the Women in Chandra M. Czape is an Indiana- Military Service for America Memori- based writer specializing in women' al Foundation, Inc. issues. Today, the news for women just

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immature girls in boarding school, even though the average enlisted woman was three to four years older than the "As long as are women average enlisted man, and many of assumed to be outside the them were accomplished nurses. main mission of tiie military, This bias showed up particularly in the armed forces' response to pregnan- ttiey will be regarded as cy. With men and women thrown second-class citizens. together in mass numbers for the first —Maj. Gen. Jeanne Holm USAF [Ret.) time in a military setting, the burden of the inevitable pregnancies came to rest solely with women: If they conceived,

entering the service is somewhat bet- they were discharged. Meanwhile, the ter. Women now comprise about 14 men who impregnated them would suf- percent of today's active-duty forces fer no comparable setback in their and their influence can be read in near- careers. Lawrence Korb, a former assis- ly every area of military activity. They tant secretary of defense, is one of maintain aircraft, set sail on combat many observers who feels the double ships, drop practice bombs, drive standard was grossly unfair to the

trucks and fill many other nontradi- enlisted woman. As he puts it, "Unless

tional roles. During Desert Storm, it was an immaculate conception, she women could be seen nightly on TV, didn't get pregnant on her own." huddled right next to their male coun- sexual harassment and advancement "Society-at-large believed that a

terparts, M-16s slung over their shoul- began in earnest during World War II. woman's place was with her family," ders. And they are highly visible in The nearly 400,000 women who joined says Holm, who in 1942 became one of Bosnia, where, among other things, the armed forces then were hardly the first women to join the Women's they pilot the huge cargo planes that received as equals. To begin with, they Army Corps. "Especially if she had dispersed GIs and equipment through- could not be a part of the mainstream children. Her career had to be sec- out the peacekeeping zone. military. Instead, they were relegated to ondary." Still, it has been a long, hard the all-women"s units—and even there Women who got through the war climb—and few would deny that there they were restricted to just 2 percent of with honorable discharges still were not are peaks left to be scaled. the armed forces. treated as veterans. The traditionally Although women have been According to retired Air Force Maj. male Veterans Administration (now the involved in the military since the Revo- Gen. Jeanne Holm, author of Women in Department of Veterans Affairs) didn't lution, their fight for changes in poli- the Militaiy: An Unfinished Revolution, know how to adapt to the growing cies concerning pregnancy, family life. the services treated enlisted women like Please turn to page 48

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The Librarian of Congress, director of tlie world's largest library, discusses how stored knowledge, from books to the Internet, helps America win wars, educate children and prepare for the next century.

JAMES H. Billington has his way, Thomas which is the world's largest think tank. Jefferson's handwritten rough draft of the Decla- ration of Independence will only be a mouse 0. How does a library help win wars? click away. A Knowledge can be a weapon. During nF Appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the Desert Storm, the Department of 13th Librarian of Congress, Billington has moved Defense asked our assistance to determine the library at racetrack speed onto the information whether or not the terrain would handle superhighway. The library's web site already han- heavy tanks and land carriers. dles a million hits a day. Billington plans to digi- They couldn't really find out by aerial tize millions more items in the library's vast storehouse, mak- photography how solid the terrain was. Noth- ing them available free of charge via computer to people all ing could be worse than to have that brilliant over the world (URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov). flanking operation sink in sand. And knowledge is something the Library of Congress is Our researchers went through a lot of not short on. If you lined up the bookshelves used by the material and what they found useful was old library, they would stretch 532 miles—roughly the distance archaeological records of digs in southern Mesopotamia, between Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio. particularly German archaeological diaries because they In this interview, the Rhodes scholar and former Harvard were very meticulous. history professor explains why America needs knowledge We were able to inform the military that their mission

and how the Library of Congress can contribute to the could succeed. And it did. national defense of this nation. Q. With government downsizing, is the Library of Con- AMERICAN Legion Magazine: Many Americans gress fighting for its survival as well? don't really know what the Library of Congress is or A Congress has been very generous in subsidizing us over what it does. What is its mission? the years. While they haven't cut our budget, we have lost about a tenth of our staff because of mandatory staff pay JAMES H. BILLINGTON: We help America win wars, raises and price increases. We've also had to cut back on educate children and prepare for the next century. reading hours in the reading rooms.

The Library of Congress is the world's largest library.

We're the repository for 1 10 million items. We also have the 0. How many items does the library log each day and largest film and television archive in the world, with over will that decrease because of these staff cuts? 3()(),00() titles in our collection. A Of the 48,000 items we receive each day, we keep less In addition to that and many more services, we run the . than 7,000. We are trying to reduce that to 5,000. But Copyright Office and the Congressional Research Service, it's that extra margin of having what nobody else has that

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Library security: "Closing SCROLL^ the stacks to sctiolors DpAD SH was very painful for me. But It prevented theft and damage.

Access: There Is always a danger information might be misused. But Ifs worth the risk.

Democracy: "For a demooraoy to work In a

large complex society, It has to be based on the dynamic use of knowledge.

Hidden Value: 7\ breakthrough in leukemia research came from an obscure German text we kept which all the libraries in had thrown out or never collected In the

first place.

makes us so valuable throughout the world. According to the head of research at Sloan-Kettering, a Q- You are a proponent of the information superhigh- breakthrough in leukemia research came from an obscure way. Do you see it giving everyone access to knowledge? German text we kept. All the libraries in Germany had Aril give you one interesting example of the power of thrown out or never collected the text in the first place. So the new electronic communications. I happened to be in the things that look like junk today may help solve the prob- Russia during the great changes in August of 1991 lems of tomorrow. I was asked by the new reformist government to advise them on how to open up their archives. In return for that Q. What role do you see the library and libraries in advice, they let us have 500 secret Soviet archive documents general playing in a democratic state? to exhibit during the Bush-Yeltsin summit in the summer of A An absolutely central role. For a democracy to work in 1992. a large complex society, it has to be based on the We digitized that material and when we sent it back to dynamic use of knowledge. In other words, for the system to parliament—which you may remember was warring with be self-correcting and self-participatory, all its citizens have Yeltsin's government at that time—they impounded the to have access to knowledge. exhibit, so it was never seen in Russia. There can't be information have's and have not's. We are getting digitized material on the Internet because everyone Q. Parliament moved against the exchange of knowl- has to have access to it if Americans want a fair and open edge and against democracy? democratic society. Please turn to page 52

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He never danced with his daughter because of a WWII wound that cost him a leg. But he felt something far greater was missing.

only briefly in uniform himself. humorous to joke now that I left home By Deborah Mattingly Conner We grew up in the ever-expanding for political reasons, the decision was shadow of Washington's Capitol, heart-wrenching at the time. My father HE DAY could not have where he worked long and successful couldn't accept his country in any form been more beautiful. I hours as a lobbyist for veterans' causes. but an idealized one, and there was no stood with my mother and Always involved in some form of pub- room for discussion or dissent. So I left the deacon beside the long lic service, he was the recipient of to work my way through college, and black limo and watched the many awards and held by all in high he refused to speak to or about me dur- attendant open the back personal esteem. At home, however, he ing those years.

door of the hearse. Then I was a different man: angry and remote, Over time, we managed to craft a saw them approach—the unable to connect to a family he clearly fragile truce. It was during this time honor guard, walking slow- loved, but wouldn't allow to love him that I acquired what came to be for me ly, rhythmically, their presence a ghost- back. a magic book—in effect, an instruction ly, stoic echo of what honor guards From the distance of years, I see manual for my father. It was The Glory have always been, and meant, through now that he couldn't love himself and the Dream, William Manchester's the centuries. They had come to claim because part of him was lost, incom- mammoth social history of America my father as one of their own. plete, claimed by places and a past he from the Depression to the 1970s. The His entire life had been bound up in wouldn't speak of. The whole of my book was populated with real people, the image of the soldier. It stood next to childhood was spent walking around real lives, instead of textbook facts. It him, remembering, in everything he the gaps of his missing pieces. His told more than the cardboard when, did. This was true even though he was anger was a minefield my family grew where and what. It told the who and the to accept as our domestic landscape. why.

Deborah Mattingly Conner is a My generation came of age in the For the first time, I began to under- freelance writer who resides in difficult and absurdly romanticized stand why certain words and phrases

Alliance, Ohio. years. Though it is The Depression, The War, Korea. The sent to Northern Ireland as a mechanic, and the few small ragged pic- tures in the scrapbook left from that time show

a tall, skinny blue-eyed boy, his arms encircling the shoulders of his beloved brothers-in- arms. He sits smiling with them around a campfire, his eyes shin- ing and looking very like the grandsons he

would never know. In all

my life, I never saw his eyes shine like that. His unit was bound to go on to the shores of in the first great assault there. But they would go on without him.

We didn't go to the beach when I was a child. My father never danced. He was an amputee, and his full-leg prostheses was never strange or curious

to me. It was only part of him, and he

was happy to have it, proud of his skill in making his deficiency undetectable. Any improvement in its mechanism was a welcome wonder to him, and he was delighted to help and encourage others who shared his affliction. On his last trip to Mexico, he was thrilled that his new appliance would have a mold- ed realism—even toes—that would allow him to wear shorts and sandals. When we would ask him casually how he lost his leg, he always said, "In the war." The explanation somehow Communists, The Bomb—were incan- which they filled with the creature sufficed and was never elaborated on, tated by my father with such awe and comforts they had sorely won. Hence, even to my mother. After I read Man- dread, and why the desecration of also, the wordless, distant love they chester's The Glory and the Dream and America's symbols stimulated such showered upon us, a product of their his personal account of the war in the automatic, wordless rage in him and need to escape the torment of their Pacific, Onward Darkness, my dad and others of his generation. During my youth and feel things strictly on their Please turn to page 52 parents' coming of age, the once vast own terms from now on. The relation- world had shrunk magically, impossi- ship with their children would be per- bly before their very eyes. Their con- fect, they decided. There was no room temporaries had been through such a for any questioning or arguing that whirlwind of drama, courage and hor- might break the spell. They would ror that they spoke to us about it only in forge ahead, keep the show on the road. mystical phrases they didn't want to I finally saw that they simply explain—things too big to talk about couldn't talk about the pain and fear except as raw concepts. they had lived. They couldn't explain Manchester explained and mapped their sacrifice. And my generation was the complicated terrain of the War too ignorant and arrogant to under-

Generation, making it clear that they stand. had been young, too, and had the same But in my father's case, it was even yearnings, hopes and dreams that I more than this. had.. .only they never dared act on those My father had joined the war the dreams until after the heartless war had first moment that he could. The STAR GAZING—Actress Betty Grable absorbed their youth, leaving them dis- youngest child in a large family, he meets the author's father, Charles E. Mattingly, and other GIs during World illusioned, determined to control and wanted to follow in the footsteps of his War II. perfect the future. Hence the '50s, brothers. In the Army at last, he was r" r iimiNG

STRATTON VA MEDICAL CENTER ALBANY, NEW YORK

ber 6 confirmed she was checking out. It will provide a home away from home fifty years He Spent Those words were like music to our for veterans or their families undergo- creating some of ears." ing extensive in-patient or out-patient That's how WWII Navy veteran treatment, and it will provide a place to Alexander Eakins describes his arrival stay for the families of hospitalized vet- NewYorl^'s finest last October at the Zachary and Eliza- erans." beth M. Fisher House located at the Nearby sat a beaming Zachary and buildings. Today lie Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center Elizabeth Fisher, holding hands and (VAMC) in Albany, N.Y. He and his taking in the spring sunshine and an liis wife and create wife, Marion, had traveled from their ever-brighter moment in their lives. home in Rome, N.Y., so she could They knew that by the end of 1995, for families. new hope undergo surgery to replace a valve in four more houses would be completed: her aorta. For the 10 days his wife two at VAMCs in West Palm Beach, remained hospitalized, Eakins was a Fla., and two in the Minneapolis area. By John W. Alexander guest at the Fisher House, where he The Fishers' uncommon generosity was joined at different times by their has been a common phenomenon for HERE WE were. Like children. years. But they don't consider it gen- Mary and Joseph with no The Fisher House in Albany, only erosity—just a way of saying thanks to room at the inn. But with a seven months old at the time of Eakins' a segment of Americans who don't

check of her file.s and a visit, was the 19th Fisher House built, often hear it. Says Fisher, who turned smile, she said she may be but the first one constructed at a 85 last September: "We love the mili- able to help. A phone call VAMC. VA Secretary Jesse Brown tary and we love our country, so it's a from a lady in Suite Num- was on hand for the dedication in privilege and a pleasure for Elizabeth March 1995. and me to be in a position to show, in a T John W. Alexander, a "When a veteran is seriously ill, the tangible way, our feelings about them. retired Navy commander, is director constant support of a loving family can We make a living by what we earn, but of communications and public affairs be the best medicine in the world," we make a life by what we do for oth- for the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Brown told the gathering. "That is why ers," says Fisher, who built a reputation Society. this Fisher House is so very important. as a leading real estate investor and

THE AMERICAN LEGION and restful. My wife and I walked to and from the medical center and Fisher

House—it was a good physical fitness walk. This house goes beyond my wildest dreams," Peterson adds. While he and his wife have always helped the needy and supported worthy causes, terrorist acts in the Mideast moved them to even greater acts of philanthropy. After the 1983 terrorist bombing of the Marine barracks in TWenty-three and the 1987 missile attack on the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, the Fisher Houses couple established the Zachary and are home to Elizabeth M. Fisher Armed Services Foundation to assist military families families facing facing a crisis. The foundation also cre- the triple blow ated a college scholarship fund for the children of military personnel, retirees of critical and veterans. illness, financial The idea for Fisher Houses came in 1990, when Pauline Trost, wife of for- MALCOLM GROW USAF MEDICAL CENTER pressures, and mer Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. ANDREWS AFB, MARLYAND separation. Carlisle Trost, approached the Fishers with the idea to build "comfort" homes on the grounds of military medical developer of a number of prestigious Russell Peterson of Pine City, facilities across the nation. office buildings gracing midtown Man- Minn., learned about Fisher Houses "Since we had the foundation," says hattan. through the nursing staff at the Min- Fisher, "and I'm a builder, the idea Fisher Houses welcome all active neapolis VAMC after he was admitted made sense." And the builder had a duty, retired and military veterans and for a series of radiation treatments for blueprint in mind. Each house would their families. Guests fill out an appli- cancer. "The Fishers really touched our comprise about 5,000 square feet and cation obtained from the military or a lives," says Peterson, an Army veteran be designed to match the prevailing VA hospital admissions office. who served in field artillery in 1946-47. local architecture. They would be Depending on occupancy levels, "A year ago my wife had bypass divided into two stories, with eight turnover rates and waiting lists, selec- surgery and I stayed in a hotel at some suites and a floor plan that provided tions might be limited to families of in- expense. This experience has been mar- privacy, but offered common-use areas patients with life-threatening illnesses. velous. to encourage guests to spend time A family's income and distance they've "The Fisher House staff took us together rather than remain alone in traveled also are considerations. under their wing. Our room was quiet Please turn to page 54

APRIL 1996 27 TASK FORCE— Members of the Kings County American Legion gatlier for a victory pose after tlie dedication of the Brooldyn baii field. Many young people will benefit from this remarkable project.

can Legion of Kings County, If was vast a N.Y.—a section better known as wasteland Brooklyn—has done what very few thought possible: They have af garbage. taken a 30-acre parcel of waste- land strewn with garbage, junk Junk cars cars and enormous rats, and trans- formed it into an authentic field of and rats In dreams for the American Legion Brooklyn. ballplayers of Brooklyn. "The city never thought we Then the could put it all together," says past County Commander/Department Legion Vice Commander Joe Saia, as he walks the perimeter of the one moved In. completed field. Bending to pick up an errant stone, Saia continues, "We were the only ones who

knew we could get it done." For some time, Frank Gior- lEWED FROM the dano, New York Department's rooftop of the housing Judge Advocate emeritus, had project across the been pressuring the City of New street, The American York to provide a field dedicated Legion Recreational specifically to Legion play. The Facility at 102nd Kings County Legion program Street and Seaview had been in existence for over 40 Avenue in Canarsie, years, and involved over 1,520 New York, appears ballplayers. Brooklyn Legion offi- mostly as a broad expanse of dirt, Overall, it takes a fair amount of cials felt the program deserved a per- stretching out and filling the horizon. It imagination to visualize the architectur- manent home. is winter, and the complex of as-yet- al grandeur foreseen in the blueprint for As Giordano saw things, this was unfinished fields is coated with frost; the project. But it takes no imagination hardly a frivolous request. "In Brook- there are pipes laying right about where at all to picture the scores of joyful lyn, ballfields suitable for Legion play a second baseman would make his kids, to hear the umpires yell, "Play are not easy to find," he says. "Permits pivot on a double play, and the base- Ball!" or to smell the hot dogs cooking have to be renewed annually, and lines, for the most part, are less a on a barbecue tended by a parent vol- there's always a lot of juggling." Year straight line than a mere suggestion of unteer. after year the teams ended up being one. In the space of a year. The Ameri- shuttled to various fields at schools.

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churches and other facilities all over the In the county, often on relatively short notice. "We never knew where we might be enormous task asked to play next," adds Ed Wilson, of clearing the Adjutant of Kings County and vice land, 'We chairman of the Legion ball program. There were incidents where the almost Legion players would gather at the expected to day's designated venue only to find another team already installed on the find Jimmy field. If the problem could not be Hoffa/' says resolved quickly, the Legion games would have to be cancelled. Legionnaire national anthem Even if the boys were fortunate Joe Saia. Kings County Legion to actually get to play, the enough Posts open tlie teams then had to contend with the dedication. have been available." fields themselves, which were not deep, treacherous ravines. It Daunting though the always of the highest caliber. had weeds 8 feet high and rats 1 8 inch- project was, the Legion quickly mobi- This not only affected the quality of es long. There were even squatters liv- lized for action. The first priority was to play, but posed a very real danger to ing there." Giordano shakes his head. secure cooperation from people who the players when you consider the size "A field of dreams, it was not." might be helpful to the cause—specifi- and strength of the young men involved Still, Giordano conveys profuse cally, those who could provide dona- in Legion ball and the aluminum bats thanks to Borough President Howard tions of labor and materials. Toward they typically use. "That ball is coming Golden, whose office needed to this end, Giordano formed a corpora- at you at upwards of 100 miles an approve the project on behalf of the tion consisting of heavy hitters in the hour," says Saia, whistling for added Legion. "Without Howard's help," says community: people whose influence he effect. "You don't want to Giordano, "even the waste- felt could help bring others on-board. have to worry that it's going FOR THE KIDS— land they gave us wouldn't Among the directors of American to ricochet off a little piece Kings County Legion Legion Kings County Youth Recre- band conductor of a half-buried cinderblock ational Facilities, Inc., were Edward Irwin IMeyer and his and shoot up and hit you in grandchildren enjoy Cush, public relations and business the face." the festivities. manager of Local 316 of the Iron Through three years of Workers Union; Joseph Hydok, a meetings, officials from the City of senior vice president of Consolidated New York stonewalled, evaded and Edison Company (ConEd), New generally ducked the issue of providing York's major provider of gas and elec- fields. Says Wilson, "They kept putting tric utility service; and Thomas Reilly, us off and putting us off. Finally, they senior security officer of Pfizer, Inc., a just told us flat out they couldn't give major pharmaceutical company. With us the ballfields we wanted. So we said, such individuals ardently selling the

'Give us the land, we'll do it ourself.' idea of community involvement, the

And they said, 'If we can't do it, how project eventually would expand to can you?' We told them to let us worry include banks, other labor unions, about that." industrial concerns and a fair number That apparently was the clincher of good-hearted Brooklynites with no although the offer the city came across particular affiliation but "who just with was, to say the least, underwhelm- wanted to pitch in," as Saia puts it. ing. "The land they gave us was a The management of transforming dumping ground for garbage and the dump into ballfields fell to Saia, wrecked cars," says Giordano. "It had himself a retired ConEd engineer. "I tell you frankly," he says, smil- ment Adjutant Richard Pedro, ing, "it wasn't on first sight the Department Treasurer Anthony most attractive project I'd ever Minei, National Executive Com- had to tackle. But looking back, mittee Member William Brown, I'd have to say it was the most Department Vice Commander Dr. rewarding." Anthony Terranova and many On a gray day in May of other American Legionnaires 1995, an armada of trucks and joined elected New York officials tradesmen swung into action and community members to dedi- under Saia's direction. Nearly cate the fields. Fittingly, as 100 people dispersed themselves Detweiler at center stage praised through the site, confronting the the Legionnaires for their unflag- enormous task of clearing the ging dedication, work in another land. Trucks with winches helped comer of the complex pressed on, pull out the abandoned cars—at with crews measuring fencing and least 40 of them, some all but welding pipe joints together on buried underground. "We almost the framework for new backstops. expected to find Jimmy Hoffa," ("No rest for the weary," says says Saia, and his deadpan Saia.) Edward Cush, co-chairman expression tells you that he is of the construction program, only half kidding. expressed his gratitude to the crews still

In the ensuing 12 months, more than on the field, saying, "If I had a million

2,200 double-truck loads of fill were years I could never pay back in favors delivered, eliminating ditches that once what I owe these people." had dipped as low as 20 feet. Graders value of donated time, labor and mate- Just one of the six fields was ready and screeners were put into operation rials at "upwards of $5 million." for action in 1995, but that field saw to clear out rocks. Twenty-ton bulldoz- Wilson believes that the tactic of plenty of baseball. Two dozen teams ers plowed the fields, spreading out seeking donations of materials rather played a full schedule, punctuated by tons of donated soil. Truckloads of than outright cash grants was a winning the Borough President's Toumament in pipes, cement, wires and other materi- move and represents the wave of the August. This yccir, says Wilson, "We'll als began arriving daily. In time, the future in fundraising: "What we did be playing on three baseball fields and first shipments of clay and sod were was go to an organization and say, one Softball field, starting in mid-May." brought in, and something resembling a would you be willing to advance us All told, some 32 teams will see action ballfield began to take shape. some grass seed? We do that rather on the Brooklyn complex. There is This was a bittersweet time for Saia, than [ask for] a dollar amount. This even serious talk of adding a roller rink whose wife of many years struggled way they can see it. They come down in tribute to the memory of a slain New with illness. He spent countless hours and we point to the outfield and we say. York City patrolman. shuttling back and forth between the You see that grass out there? That's "The city never expected it to go field and the hospital and his home, try- your seed." This approach, says Wil- this far," says Giordano, sitting in a ing to cover all the bases, as it were. son, combats today's unfortunate wave nice Italian restaurant overlooking the

"Joe and I and a lot of the others of skepticism about fundraising and bay, a mile or so from the complex. were working six days a week," recalls also creates widespread community "They told us we couldn't build on the Wilson, "often from almost sun-up to involvement at a time when companies land." sundown. The operating engineers are besieged with requests for dona- He pauses, and his eyes betray the helped with the specs for the building, tions. mischievous twinkle of a lawyer who the iron workers put up the field house. On the morning of April 21, 1995, thrives on winning unwinnable cases. The plumbers got involved. It was a then-National Commander William Hefting a breadstick for emphasis, he total effort." Detweiler, New York Department growls, "So I told them, 'Oh yeah? Just Indeed, Giordano estimates the total Commander David Varney, Depart- watch us.' "

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Miller By Anthony GOD'S CHILDREN— Vantrease Russell has been "mother" to over 1,200 children who have lived with her at

I the Russell Home for * Children. Recognizing her special ability to communicate with children, Russell has ihcG id our reached out to parents of disabled youngsters F IT'S true that we own only her maternal and those with what we give away, Vantrease care over the special needs in the Orlando, Fla., area. irli, a spGcia p- Russell and other recipients of years to more ^ the 1995 National Caring than 1,200 Awards are set for life. kids at her Russell Home for Children in Russell and the other Good Orlando, Fla. p Samaritans were honored in Since 1988, the Washington, D.C.- Washington last December for based National Caring Institute has hon- their undying devotion to help- ored special Americans like Russell mm, IB I D ing others. those who give of themselves for the "The recognition has just been beauti- ful. You've heard of 'Queen for a Day'? Anthony Miller is the Associate " Well, I was 'Queen for a Night,' says Editor of THE AMERICAN LEGION the mother of seven who has extended Magazine.

APRIL 1996 31 benefits of others. Among them have been grandmothers, commu- nity activists, clergy and Ameri- cans representing all socio-eco- nomic layers. Recipients of the award have also included wealthy citizens, though no amount of money buys admission to this club. The only dues are compas- sion, selflessness and public ser- vice. For nearly half a century, Rus- sell has provided troubled and needy children with a loving alter- native to state or private institu- tions. "I was just a foster mother to anybody who needed help. I took one in, then another one, then another one. It all came to me like a spider web building around me. I didn't set out to do anything like this," says Russell, whose home currently shelters 27 children, has a 20-member staff and is supported by donations from Orange County agencies, charitable foundations and private citizens. Of Russell and her co-winners of the Caring Award, Colleen Noland, the National Caring Insti- tute's program director, says: "We see enough examples in our soci- ety of people we don't want to emulate. We want to reinforce the examples set by exceptional men and women we can point to as role models." Role models such as Amber Coffman, another winner of the Caring Award. Inspired by the work of Mother Teresa, the 13 year-old from Glen Burnie, Md., founded

Happy Helpers for the VILLAGE PEOPLE—Father Joe Homeless. Every Satur- Carroll is founder and director ol day, Amber and her the St. Vincent de Paul Village, schoolmates bag 400 which feeds more than 2,000 people daily in . lunches and distribute The complex also houses 855 them to the homeless in people and includes a medical Glen Burnie and other center, and centers for runaway nearby communities. teens and the chronically homeless. Amber has recently expanded her help to the

homeless by including LET'S DANCE—Jacques d'Amboise clothing and toiletries established 's along with the lunches. National Dance Institute in Her Caring Award also 1976. Since then, the institute has helped foster an awareness cited the time she gives of the arts in some half a million after school and weekends inner-city youths. The dance to volunteer work with the institute also offers scholarships National Multiple Sclero- and conducts international exchange programs. sis Society, the Adopt-a- Grandparent program and

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HAPPY HELPERS— I Motivated by the Im of V work Mother 1 Teresa, Amber iflP Coffman founded 4 the Happy Helpers ^ for the Homeless •l when she was just 10 years old. Today, .J three years later, she and her volunteer schoolmates prepare 400 bag lunches for the homeless every Saturday.

ken leg, would I rather send you across town for an X-ray, or down the hall?" The "Father Joe" formula grouping all services the homeless the-National Kidney Foundation. calls "a mule line" serving 300 meals a need at a single site—has been adopted The Caring Institute also honors day to the needy, the St. Vincent de in Salt Lake City, Charlotte, N.C., Den- people who can provide positive Paul village has evolved into a massive ver and Las Vegas. answers to the question, "Who cares?" human salvage operation covering one In accepting his Caring Award, the People like Father Joe Carroll of San square block of downtown San Diego. Catholic priest looked around the room Diego, Calif., who has developed a The Bronx native considers himself and said, "I was amazed at the spec- "one-stop shop" approach to fighting more an entrepreneur than a social trum of people the institute found. It's the spiral of despair and accompanying worker. St. Vincent's current $16 mil- not just the Jimmy Carters or the Father social problems like homelessness, lion annual budget supports 260 full- Joes; it's young kids, it's grandmothers. mental illness and alcohol or drug time staff members at six centers that This is America. Every generation just dependence. provide housing for 855 residents and seems to have this inborn sense to help Father Carroll, 55, founder of St. offer a medical clinic, a shelter for run- people who need help." Vincent de Paul Village, doesn't like away teens and two facilities for people Like Vantrease Russell and 13-year- tags or barriers; a self-confessed wheel- with AIDS. old Amber Coffman, Carroll's brand of er-dealer, his persuasiveness and sense "We can take people through what- caring is not for sale; it is given away

of mission has made St. Vincent's one ever it is they need, rehab counseling, willingly and daily for those who need

of the country's most imitated rehabili- vocational courses, whatever, so we it. tation shelters for the homeless. can monitor their progress. If I'm a "I just won't settle for less than the Starting in 1982 from what Carroll doctor and you come to me with a bro- best we can do," says Carroll.

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Veterans Update

so, YOU WANNA BUY A HUWITZER?

N ALAMEDA, Calif., a projects eligible for surplus property fatigues to tools to computers may be couple months back, any- include elderly daycare, soup kitchens, found. Some are new and others are one interested in owning shelters, transportation services and used. The retail items are offered at a a basketball set—poles, other programs of public assistance. fixed price, and the inventory constant- backboards, even the elec- Under the guidelines set down by ly changes. tronic scoreboard—could have picked the General Services Administration DRMS officials point out, however, one up cheap. Same for desks, camping (GSA), DoD agencies get first crack at that you shouldn't get the idea you can equipment, cameras, virtually anything any items they might need, followed by go out and buy a howitzer for your very not classified as a weapon. other federal government agencies, own to keep the neighbor's dog off These items are all available from then state and local governments, non- your yard. AH weapons are demilita- the Defense Reutilization and Market- profit organizations and the public. rized, rendering them useless. ing Service (DRMS), the world's DRMS operates 100 retail outlets For a DRMS catalog list, call 1- largest military surplus store. around the country, usually located 800-GOVT-BUY (1-800-468-8289) or American Legion Posts are among near military bases. Sales are made by visit the DRMS WEB site via comput- those who may be able to obtain these spot bid, sealed bid or auction. Often er at http://www.drms.dla.mil or items free, providing they are used in the zone sales are of interest to small http://131.87. 1.51. programs devoted to the public good. businesses because they may contain To find out if your Post is eligible For example, a Post that sponsors a items like large numbers of desks or for donations of surplus property, write: homeless shelter could obtain free other types of office equipment. Even U.S. General Services Administration, lighting fixtures, desks, bunks and passenger cars are available. Suite 6002, 18th and F Streets NW, other items to furnish the facility. Other Other items ranging from jungle Washington, D.C. 20405.

Phone A Deposit However, another problem now According to Vogel, VA will seek exists. There is no money in the Philip- new regulations to guard against exces- Veterans who receive monthly com- pine budget to pay for the medals. The sive loan points. He says in some pensation or pension checks from VA government is looking for alternate instances veterans may not realize they are being urged to sign up for automat- means of funding, but as of now, those are inflating the amount of their loan ic deposit. VA has made the process who ordered medals, but did not get beyond their homes' actual market nearly painless by allowing veterans to them, are in for an indefinite wait. value. simply phone in their information. The Philippine officials assure veterans that While new regulations are being advantage of having monthly checks go their checks will not be cashed until the drafted, and before VA will issue a cer- directly to your bank is that electronic medals are once again available. tificate of eligibility, VA says it will deposits cannot be lost or stolen. require lenders to get signed statements VA also estimates that electronic from veterans acknowledging they are deposit saves the government 30 cents Point of Law aware of being charged more than the per check in printing and postage— Veterans who have recently refi- 2-point limit. potential savings of several million dol- nanced a GI home loan may be victims

lars if every veteran participated. of point gouging, VA warns. R. J. To switch to automatic electronic Vogel, VA undersecretary for benefits, Cyber CFR deposit, phone VA at 1-800-827-1000. says VA has seen instances where as Veterans who are hooked into the many as 7 discount points have been Internet can now access Title 38 Code MacArthur, Come Back! rolled into home loans already bearing of Federal Regulations, the regulations Veterans who participated in the lib- the full market interest rates. For VA VA bases its policies on. The Internet eration of the during World home loans, the number of points CFR is a searchable version of the regs War 11 and who had ordered Philippine percentage points against a home loan that allows users to type key words or Liberation Medals from the Philippine that mortgage companies can charge phrases and locate pertinent segments government will have to wait to get borrowers—is limited to 2. The prob- of the regulations. their medal. According to the Armed lem is, the 2-point limit guideline is The Internet address is: http://www. Forces Affairs Office of the Philippine voluntary, not compulsory. va.gov/regs/title38.htm. Outside of Embassy, some 15,000 medals were Ironically, the ability to add points, cyberspace. Title 38 CFR can be found originally cast and they were gone by closing costs, funding fees and other in most libraries, or purchased from the January 1995. Philippine Embassy offi- costs into the loan are factors that make General Printing Office (Phone 1-202- cials told THE AMERICAN LEGION VA home loans attractive. When inter- 512-1800). Magazine that as soon as new medals est rates drop, VA regularly informs However, veterans wanting to file

were cast, they would resume filling veterans that it may be beneficial to claims should still contact a Legion orders. refinance their home loans. Service Officer.

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION ! . , —

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MCCONNELL'S MAGNIFICENT FLIP-FLOP

ENTUCKY spend more time polls taken in recent years. Sen. Mitch studying voters' Kentucky state lawmakers McConnell wishes. in 1995 passed a flag K doesn't regret Citizens According to an memorializing resolution, voting against '1^^ independent poll one of 49 states to do so Senate Joint Resolution 31, conducted since the Supreme Court the flag protection amend- Alliance, Inc. i^ t f^"/" ruled in 1989 that flag dese- ment he helped defeat in ' overwhelm- cration was free speech, and December. Instead, he now ing number therefore protected by the seems embarrassed that he free speech to our country." of Kentucky's registered First Amendment. voted for a flag protection Despite opponents' at- voters, 80 percent, support McConnell said he bill back in 1990. tempts to prove otherwise, passage of a flag amend- couldn't foresee any cir- "I think we all do things members of the Citizens ment bill. cumstances that would con- in life that strike us later as Flag Alliance (CFA) insist Those numbers mirror vince him to support any mistakes, based upon our that protecting the flag is Americans' sentiments future flag protection experience and longer per- not a free speech issue at about the flag in nationwide amendment. spective," McConnell told all. The American Legion Dis- They say there is no con- patch recently. sensus in this country that "Since then," he went suggests a federal flag-pro- THE LON€l nOilO BACH on, "I have spent time tection law would endanger studying the First Amend- the citizens' right to free ment and have developed a speech. greater appreciation for the CFA officials recom- fundamental importance of mend the two-term senator

DISCOUNT DRUG PLAN PILES UP SAVINGS

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'E G I O N - Post 1 of Wilmington, NAIRES in Del., presented 102-year-old Pennsylvania WWI veteran Edwin E. need more than Shallcross with a Department comforting of Defense medal honoring words to recover from Janu- his service in World War I. ary flooding that left the Ninety-six-year-old entire state a federal disaster C.W. Phifer, a life member area. of Post 244, Richmond, By mid-February, Dep- Va., and his wife, 94-year- artment officials had re- old Annie, celebrated their ceived 30 applications for 75th wedding anniversary assistance and sent them this past December. along to The American Ralph J. Malphurs Sr., Legion's National Emer- Commander of Post 313, gency Fund staff at National Jacksonville, Fla., has Headquarters. donated more than 500,000 "We've been here 20 LIMIT OF ENDURANCE-Auxiliary member Judy Plate of St. sports cards to children at Charles, Mo., salvaged what she could of the family posses- years and this is the worst the Wolfson Children Hos- sions after floodwaters from the Missouri River devastated it's been. When I left, water pital. homes, busirtesses and farms in the Midwest in 1993. was knee-deep in our yard," Post 180, Plantation, says Delores Verbonitz, Fla., and the Department who belongs to Auxiliary the two habitable rooms left screened by local Legion of New Hampshire teamed Unit 456, Williamsburg, Pa. in their double-wide mobile Post or District officers up to send disabled veteran She and her husband. home. before being sent to the David Moorhead of Post 66, Legionnaire Dan Verbonitz, Department Adjutant Department and National Plymouth, N.H., to the Sun- applied for help through the Stanley Reinhard Jr. says levels, says Reinhard. shine State for an all- National Emergency Fund other Pennsylvania Legion- Contributions may be expense-paid, 10-day vaca- after floodwaters from the naires and their families sent to: The American tion. Post 180 annually Juniata River forced them to need short-term financial Legion, National Emer- sponsors a disabled veter- evacuate temporarily. The assistance to help rebuild gency Fund, P.O. Box 6141, an's trip by conducting couple is currently living in their lives. All requests are Indianapolis, IN 46206. fund-raisers to cover ex- penses. Post 301 of Austin- LEGIONNAIRES CAN BOOST VOTER TURNOUT town, Ohio, helped erect a memorial in honor of all the political season just conducting( a nonpartisan registra- WITH female veterans. beginning, plenty of time tion1 drive, a requirement under Rolando Cabanas, a remains for Legionnaires to regis- provisions of the Federal Election | member of Post 42 of Utu- ter voters or host a candidates' iCampaign Law of 1971. The idea, ado, , donated

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didn't even acknowledge that it exist- often complain of a "glass ceiling" that remained taboo. ed," says Holm, who served as director limits their ascent through the ranks. "It was a big deal," says Mariner, of the Women in the Air Force from It's never in black and white, but it's who waited to start her family until 1965-72. "Of course it occurred, but I there, some believe. after she took a job as professor at the don't ever recall it being a 'problem.' Even though 99 percent of positions National War College in Washington, The times were different. We thought in the armed forces are now open to D.C.; now, at age 43, she has a 16- differently. Men thought differently." women, few women rise to high ranks. month-old girl. "You were ostracized. That thinking had to change after Only 3.1 percent of one- or two-star There was never a good time to get two women blew the whistle on fellow generals and only 15.1 percent of lieu- pregnant." officers for sexual harassment and tenant colonel and colonels are women, While Mariner notes that pregnancy assault at the notorious 1991 "Tail- according to DoD figures from October is no longer viewed "as a career-stop- hook" reunion. DoD took an aggressive 1995. per," it's fairly clear that women still look at sexual harassment, and all "Women find that somewhere along suffer from the perception that their branches updated or created new poli- the pathway they don't want to contin- biological capacity for bearing children cies. ue the struggle," says Vaught, from the makes them less reliable soldiers. "Tailhook obviously raised sensibil- Women in Military Service for Ameri- In 1994 when the USS Eisenhower ity on all levels of our behavior as mili- ca Memorial Foundation. "They quit became the first with tary people," says DACOWITS' Pre- right at the point when they might be women as crew members, much was vatte. "We're not where we want to be, eligible for promotion. We lose all made of the 38 pregnant women but we are better than we were." those people who could have been aboard, even though only 14 of them The most significant result of Tail- selected." got pregnant after the cruise began. hook was a change in attitude. "In the Kieffer, who retired last year, said Prevatte thinks all the emphasis on wake of Tailhook a lot of people saw she hit the glass ceiling and didn't feel the issue is excessive. "I am not con- that women were being treated as sec- like fighting anymore: "It takes a long, vinced how much of an impact preg- ond-class citizens," says Jean Zimmer- long time to change. When I reached nancy really has," she says. "There is man, author of the 1995 book, Tailspin: 22 years and I knew I wasn't going to not more lost time for pregnancy. The Women at War in the Wake of Tail- get promoted, well, there was no pregnancy rates in the military are rela- hook. "They realized that without equal point." tively similar for other women in their responsibility there would never be Kieffer was the first and only same age group." In fact, a recent study respect." woman aircraft officer at Charleston by Patricia Thomas at the Naval Per- The large deployment of women to AFB in Charleston, S.C., and the high- sonnel Research Development Center the Middle East during the Gulf War est-ranking female officer at the base in San Diego, Calif., finds that men's was a watershed for women's credibili- when she retired. "I loved my years in and women's absences, including preg- ty. About 41,000 women went to the the military," she says. "Most of the nancy and convalescent leave, are Persian Gulf; statistically, the 7 percent men were wonderful; they really were. almost identical. figure represented the largest female But I do believe there are many, many Says Korb, now a senior fellow at deployment in U.S. history. Sixteen improvements that can be made. I don't the Brookings Institution in Washing- women died during the war, and two think women get the credit they ton, D.C., "They don't talk about the were held as POWs. deserve, and that is much more appar- men who leave for a lot of other rea- ent the higher up you go." in the gulf did everything The more positions that are open to sons. They tell you when women are WOMEN absent for health reasons. But if men men did except engage in ground women, says Holm, the less discrimina- are absent because of drinking—having combat. (As Mariner puts it: "I tion there will be. "As long as women " outside the fun—it's 'boys will be boys.' can get shot at —I just can't shoot are assumed to be main The "boys will be boys" mentality back.") mission of the military, they will be doesn't help women with regard to Despite the policies still keeping second-class citizens," she says. anti-fraternization policies, either. Writ- women off the frontlines, the war dis- Military women want nothing more ten to be gender-neutral, the policies pelled many myths of the female fight- than to be treated with respect and have nonetheless have tended to have their er. "The Gulf War showed very clearly the same opportunities as anyone else. most serious consequences for women. that women were good enough to die," Ultimately, they insist, that means A March 1995 Chicago Tribune article says Mariner, who commanded a Navy opening all positions to women. Every- tells the story of a young woman on the squadron during the war. "If you are one needs to be allowed "to be all they Eisenhower who was sentenced to good enough to die, you are good can be as long as they can do the job three days on bread and water because enough to fight." they are assigned," says Holm. she "fell in love with another crew In 1991, Congress repealed laws Likewise Mariner hopes someday if member." The man, now her fiance, banning women from flight in combat; her daughter wishes to pursue a career was not disciplined. two years later women were permitted in the military, her gender will not be a Which brings us to the most publi- to be deployed on combat ships. And factor. "It is very important to me as a cized (if not necessarily the most most recently, in 1994, the Army abol- mother that she be able to do what she important) issue facing today's military ished its "risk rule," opening all posi- is capable of doing, that no one put any women: sexual harassment. tions except those having a high proba- artificial limits on her."

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scholar, and I sympathize with other Readers who can help these veterans are urged to even if it meant not being at all. write a witness letter, including the CID number. Send the scholars. But by closing the stacks, it An entire generation silently letters to CID, The American Legion Magazine, Box 1055, prevented theft and damage, which was Indianapolis IN 46206. remembered the ones they left behind Notices are published only at the requests of American quite considerable, particularly as the similar symbolic shores. All the Legion Service Officers representing claimants using on market grew for plates and maps ripped Search for Witness Forms available from Legion Depart- heroics in the world wouldn't return ment Service Officers. out of old books. This was happening them. All that could be done was to with shocking regularity. Now, instead 1st Tactical Depot Sq. John R. Berryman needs wit- remember, hold tight to the future and nesses to verify that while stationed at RAF people through the pass on the mystery of life to your chil- of wandering Sculthorpe-USAF Base, England, Oct. 15, 1954, he stacks, the books are delivered to them. was handling Mark 5's and U235 nuclear weapons. dren. Contact CID 1328. Incidentally, it isn't just the public that With gratitude, I understood. 630th Light Equip. Co. Raymond McGIrt needs wit- is denied access. Of the library's 4,200 nesses to verify that while stationed at Ft. Campbell, All these things went through my Ky.,durlng1 947-49, that he Injured his back while employees, only 400 have book-stack mind that day at Arlington. In a dis- Jumping off a motor grader in 1948. Contact CID pas.ses. 1329. Please turn to page 54

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