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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 1 . : ;

THE AMERICAN SEPTEMBER 1978

Volume JOS, Number 3

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The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Publication Office 1608 "K" Street, N.W. Table of Contents Washington, DC 20006 202-393-4811 Advertising Dept. 202-347-7647 GUADALCANAL'S MIRACLE GIRL 6 (New York direct line) 212-586-3460 Patsy Li survives a harrowing life experience Office of Publisher 700 North Pennsylvania St. RUSSIA'S LEFT HOOK 10 P.O. Box 1055 Indianapolis, IN 46206 Asia-Africa design of Soviet policy emerges 317-635-8411

THE LEGACY OF VIETNAM 16 Advertising Sales Report cites problems of Southeast Asia veterans Bassinette/White Co. 50 E. 42nd St., New York, NY 10017 OFF THE HIGHWAY: ART IN A SNUFF MILL 20 Tel. 212-986-6210 Representing: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. McGUFFEY'S READERS—THE OLD CLASSICS Fox Associates, Inc. ARE RETURNING TO SCHOOL 22 200 E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL, 60611 The famous books that served early American education Tel. 312-649-1650 Representing: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, 100 YEARS OF RECORDED SOUND 26 Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio. Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, N. Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- 27 sas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, S. Carolina, COURIERS: TODAY'S PONY EXPRESS Florida. Night and day they deliver the goods Robert Redden Assoc., Inc. P.O. Box 999, Teaneck, NJ, 07666 SHOULD WOMEN BE USED IN COMBAT? 30 Tel. 201-837-5511 PRO: Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI) CON: John K. Singlaub, Representing: New York, New lersey, Connect- Maj. Gen. USA, Ret. icut, Pennsylvania. Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia.

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Publisher, Bertram G. Davis Circulation Manager and Assistant Publisher, Dean B. Nelson Photo Credits Production Manager, John A. Stanley Managing Editor, Frank Kuest Senior Editor, Grail S. Hanford Cover photo: a one-room schoolhouse in Art Editor, Walter H. Boll the Ozark Mts. at Silver Dollar City, MO; Legion News Editor, Rex C. Kramer courtesy Shostal Assocs., NY. Inside, paint- The American Legion Magazine Commission ing "Snap the Whip" by Winslow Homer Milford A. Forrester, Greenville, SC (Chairman);

from the Bettmann Archive. Adolph Bremer, Winona, MN (Vice Chaifman) ; James Other photo credits: Rand McNally, U.S. Army Pho- R. Kelley, Devon, PA (National Commander's Repre-

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 3 Sir: "Night in June" (June issue) NOTES ON stirred memories of the 30th Engi- neering Bn in World War II, one of the Army's largest map-producing units. I remember Algeria where we OUR DESK produced combat maps of Yugo- slavia, Austro-Hungary and Czecho- slovakia for almost a year. If those maps had been used how different the world would be today. Albert R. Koehler Letters to the Editor Sir: Let's develop the neutron bomb, Berwick, PA but this time let's be sure we keep Sir: Do big carrier fleets still make its secrets for ourselves. Sir: I cannot understand those who sense? John M. Root, Jr. defend the illegal alien. That person There is a doubt about the ability Baton Rouge, LA is here because he violated the law. of the big carriers to survive attack Are we to provide him with food Sir: The "Yankee Doodle Dandy" from land-based aircraft and to pro- stamps, unemployment checks, etc.? story in the July issue contains an ject air power against the Soviet It's ridiculous! error. George M. Cohan did not re- Union from nearby locations. Sheldon Rumbolz ceive the Congressional Medal of It is time the American people Harrah, Honor. This highest decoration con- WA knew the truth—that new $2.5 billion ferred by the United States is award- Sir: I suggest a volunteer Junior carriers will be, in a nuclear war, sit- ed in the name of Congress to a per- National Guard (age 16-18). Find- ting ducks, because Soviet officers son who while enlisted in the Armed ing one's self and having an interest will know precisely where they are Forces, in action distinguishes him- in an occupation at an early age located if and when they press the self by gallantry and intrepidity at brings satisfaction and success in catastrophic nuclear button. Further- the risk of his or her life and above life. more, they would be easy targets for and beyond the call of duty. Ben A. Huddleston land-based airplanes, and missiles on George F. Moynihan, Jr. Anaheim, CA vessels 50 miles or more away. Palo Alto, CA Sir: Congress is fixing it so the se- I am speaking as one who believes Editor's Note: Thank you, Mr. nior citizen can't afford Social Secu- the most vital issue confronting the Moynihan. Congress authorized a rity taxes if he keeps on working, American people is to strengthen our special medal for George M. Co- nor can he live on the "benefits" if nuclear defense so no nation will ever han in 1940. he retires. dare attack the United States. I am Mrs. Don Boyles not asking for superiority, parity or Sir: I cannot agree with those who Clarksburg, WV equality, but merely sufficiency. To argue that young Americans should be article achieve it, we should build immedi- excused from repaying govern- Sir: I enjoyed December's on ately sufficient cruise missiles and ment education loans. They signed a Martha Washington at Valley Forge. their means of delivery and neutron contract, as I did when I received a She was my great-great-great-grand- bombs for the NATO allies to stop VA home loan in 1952. That loan mother. I'm past 80 (4th Division, the overwhelming 3-to-l Soviet tank was repaid, even though it meant WWI) and I could be her closest liv- superiority. sacrifices. Harold A. Stillwell ing descendant. If we do not provide neutron Roswell, NM F. B. Elliott bombs, it would be an invitation to Sir: My compliments to The Ameri- Jacksonville, TX the Soviets to attack our allies in can Legion on its defense of veteran's Sir: Thank you for using my poem Western Europe, which would imme- preference and its opposition to Civil "Arlington" in your May issue, but diately drag us into war. Service Commission attempts to you misspelled my name! Hamilton Fish weaken it. How can commission Samuel E. Sproul New York, NY members fairly and without bias ad- Seattle, WA Editor's Note—The writer was a minister present laws when they are U.S. Representative from New York, on record opposing them? Editor's Note: We apologize, Mr. 1921-1945, and is a pioneer of The Thomas G. Bulman Sproul. But by any name, it was a American Legion. Elmhurst, NY fine poem.

Legion Again Will Play Key Role in Education Week For the 58th consecutive year, The cess of their future greatly depends education to all our people. The Na- American Legion will play a key on the amount of education they are tional Education Association, the role in the observance of American able to obtain, and second, it is a U.S. Office of Education and the Na- Education Week Nov. 12 to 18. reminder to all that education is tional Congress of Parents and The theme of the observance this necessary for a better understanding Teachers since have joined the Le- year is "Education Can Turn Things of ourselves, others and the world gion as cosponsors of American Edu- Around." Legion post commanders around us. cation Week. are urged to take an active role in The history of American Educa- National Headquarters has pre- assuring the success of the observance tion Week began following World pared and sent to department adju- within their respective communities. War I when Legionnaires declared tants packets containing useful mate- The theme itself has a two-fold war on illiteracy and lack of physical rials that posts may want to use in purpose. First, it is a message to fitness. Across America, Legion posts promoting National Education Week young people in school that the suc- became part of a great effort to take locally.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 John R. was one of those throw- all night, praying. She remained backs to the Western heroes of motionless until the morning when, yore—a strong, silent type who incredibly, she began to stir. When prided himself on his physical condi- Dr. Delaney examined her later, he tioning and would never admit to shook his head in wonderment: "As a pain. When he began to feel rum- doctor, I can scarcely believe this, blings in his chest while at his job in but it looks like she's going to live." a defense plant, he dismissed it as Now a strange situation existed on "just a little indigestion." He went Guadalcanal. There were thousands to the plant nurse, apologized for of American fighting men—and one taking her time over a little matter little girl. The Marines and Seabees like indigestion and asked for some who visited her in the Padre's tent antacid tablets. The nurse, however, called her a Thanksgiving gift be- pressed him closely about his symp- cause she had come to them a little toms, concluded they were a sign of before Thanksgiving. But she was a something more serious and insisted strange child who never smiled and on his being examined by a doctor. uttered hardly a sound. She showed In a short time, John R. was on his no emotion except during aerial and way to the hospital. The "indiges- artillery bombardments when she tion" was actually the onset of a went into uncontrollable hysterics. heart attack. The prompt emergency When shells landed close by, they treatment insured his survival and, protected her with their bodies. To eventually, complete recovery. calm her, they would sing, dance and As far as the nurse was con- clown for her. Her entertainers in- cerned, the case was routine. But the cluded Barney Ross, the former box- employe—having learned in the hos- ing champion turned Marine war al's Miracle Girl

pital of the many cases of coronary hero, Buddy Brennan of Guy Lom- attacks which prove fatal—felt it was bardo's orchestra, and two Holly- something of a miracle. Had he wood personalities in Navy uniform, known the background of the nurse, actor Robert Montgomery and pro- he would have placed even more ducer Gene Markey (now a retired stress on that word "miracle." Rear Admiral). Patsy Li Fasano, a soft-spoken The Marines insisted this orphan and self-effacing professional nurse of war had to have a name. All sorts who never talks about her past, was of names were thrown up for grabs the central figure of a true-life ad- and discarded. Then Father Gehring venture so astounding that it too has decided to call her "Patsy Li". "Pat- been characterized a miracle. sy" was the closest first name he The first chapter unfolded on could think of for "Pao-Pei," which Guadalcanal 36 years ago. Japanese meant "Little Pet" in the Mandarin troops suspected that residents of a dialect he had learned as a pre-war native village were feeding informa- missionary to China. "Li" was his tion to the Americans and they own Chinese nickname. The Chinese massacred the entire village. Only couldn't pronounce Gehring. Since one person survived—a girl between he wore a Lee hat they gave him four and five years old who had that name, spelled Chinese-style. been brutally beaten around the The child remained with her head, stabbed with a bayonet and American friends through the most left for dead in a ditch. Three Me- crucial weeks of the fighting. When lanese natives from another village the Marines and Army units gained found her and brought her to Rev. firm control of most of the island, a Frederic P. Gehring, Catholic chap- plane was provided so the Padre lain to U.S. naval forces on the jun- could take the waif out of the war gle island and popularly known as zone. He flew her to an island in the the "Padre of Guadalcanal." New Hebrides where French Marist "She was burning up with fever nuns ran a crude little orphanage. and appeared to be in a deep coma," They agreed to rear the child. Father Gehring recalls. "I sent out a "She cried so pitifully when I Top photo shows Father Frederic P. hurry call to Dr. James Delaney, our handed her over to Pere Jean, the Gehring, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, Marist mission, I almost with Patsy Li during her graduation at Navy medico, and he confirmed my head of the Walsingham Academy, Williamsburg, VA. worst fears. He told me, "I can't see couldn't bear to leave her," says Bottom photo shows a reunion between any hope for her but you can always Father Gehring. "But she had to Father Gehring and Patsy Li with Mrs. try praying to the Great Physician!" have a home somewhere." Frank S. Wright (the former Eleanor (Continued on page 32) Bumgardner) at left The Padre stayed with the child

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 7 feline Washington . LATEST THREAT: ROBBERY BY COMPUTER! MORE U.S. FUNDS; LESS STATES RIGHTS. VETO POWERS BECOME A TUG-OF-WAR.

munities cut their local taxes and services, they may seek more help from, There's been a flurry of activity on and thus make themselves more dependent Capitol Hill about taking steps to meet on, the federal bureaucracy. the latest threat to the nation's and citizen's purses: robbery by computer. Since the Vietnam War era, Congress The computer, with its capability to has been increasingly limiting the store, retrieve and process information authority of the White House, not only at split-second speed, has ushered in in the conduct of foreign affairs but a new era of ingenious crime, says Sen. also in domestic matters. Three Presi- Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT) dents—Johnson, Nixon and Ford—often He tells of one case in which a felon, complained about the restraints on their while in prison, defraud ed the Internal freedom of action, but only President Revenue Service of" $25,000 in tax refunds Carter has gone so far as to say he through computer fraud. Worst example of plans to do something about it—maybe. swindling by computer occurred in the Over the past four years, Congress has $2 billion Equ i ty Funding Corp. scandal attached a "legislative veto" to some a few years ago. More than 64,000 dummy 50 newly-enacted laws. life insurance policies were written on nonexistent individuals .PEOPLE & QUOTES- and skillfully programmed into the CARTER POLICY company computer before the rip- "It seems bent on proving to off was dis co vered. the world that it is possible to lose friends without influencing Senator Ribicoff s Governmental one's enemies." Editor Theo Affairs Committee has been investi- Sommer, DIE ZEIT, West Ger- gating the bizarre and imaginative many. techniques of the thieves who FACING FACTS steal by computer, and is calling "We have to face up to the for a tough law aimed at harshly fact that the automobile is no punishing this new breed of crooks. longer a good means of urban transportation—at least not in the one-on-one way we like to use it." Transportation Secretary About 25 cents out of every Brock Adams. dollar revenue collected annually by the state and local governments LUCKY PROGRESS ". today comes f rom the U.S. Treasury . . if we had not already developed the technology of as grants, gifts and similar aid. electric power generation, trans- In 10 years, the federal portion mission, distribution and utiliza- of state- loc al income has doubled, tion, we would find it difficult and some Washington observers feel to bring it about in today's climate." Industrialist Gordon that the trend is further cen- Corey. tralizing authority in Washington "And then the pale-faces took this to the weakening of local controls. country away from us and got it 500 SOVIET CHOICES billion dollars in debt!" The flow of power to the Nation's "The Soviet Union can choose THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE either confrontation or coopera- Capital began in the 1950 's with the SYSTEM CLOGGED tion. The United States is ade- rise of the New Deal. The movement has "Fairness and honesty are quately prepared to meet either steadily accelerated as states and com- finding it increasingly hard to choice." President Carter. prevail in a judicial system mun i ties competed for federal largess clogged with frivolous lawsuits." NO PRICE TAG to help underwrite their mass transit American Bar President William "The public should not feel systems, public housing projects, B. Spann, Jr. there is a price tag on its Bep- welfare and educational programs, etc. resentatives." U.S. District Court DISCOVERING AFRICA Judge John Cannella. Recent passage of Proposition 15 in "There seem to be a number C alifornia, where taxpayers rebelled of Christopher Columbuses set- POLITICAL THOUGHT against rising costs of local govern- ting out from the United States "Business leaders are going to ment, is already winning popular support to discover Africa for the first have to learn to think politically time. It's been there a long in a politicized economy." Gen- in other regions. What concerns some time." Britain's Prime Minister eral Electric Chairman Regi- Washington observers is that as com- James Callaghan. nald H. Jones.

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Maps of Asia and Africa look versational gambit in diplomatic par- provinces of Iran and Pakistan; the pretty much the same, whether lors, but a pattern is emerging in a warm and tanker-choked waters of they hang in the Kremlin, on the nervous Persian Gulf and a strife- the Persian Gulf; the mysterious, walls of Central Intelligence Agency torn Africa that may well revive the sparsely-populated but enormously offices in Langley, VA or in the Of- term. rich state of the United Arab Re- fice of Naval Intelligence in the It is a pattern of ever-increasing public and Oman—often called the Pentagon. violence. And suspicions are mount- "California" of the Arab world; And it wouldn't be surprising in ing that it may be violence approved, North and South Yemen; Somalia; this summer of 1978 if the same if not engineered, in Moscow. Ethiopia; Kenya; Tanzania, and sweeping arrow or claw or sickle was From Afghanistan's cloud-hidden Zambia. superimposed on the maps in all peaks on the Soviet Asian frontier, Not one could be called a house- three offices. southwestward a pattern curves in an hold word in the United States. Even The American humiliation in arc that ends on the Atlantic shores in our world-shrinking jet age only a Southeast Asia five years ago spiked of Cuban-garrisoned Angola. In be- tiny percentage of Americans have "the domino theory" as a chic con- tween lie the rebellious Baluchistan ever set foot in any of the nations

10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 that could comprise the "left hook" opia as the bellwether of Moscow's creasingly vulnerable despite its or one part of a giant pincers aimed African strategy. Russia has probed close bond to Britain. Its trade ties at the industrialized West. for influence in the ancient country, with its neighbors have all but dis- But with increasing regularity, once known as Abyssinia, for more appeared amid political tension, and each of these countries pushes its than two centuries. It was first sin- an aging government sits in Nairobi. way onto evening television news gled out by the czars who conjured Kenya's port of Mombasa, paired shows and the front pages of our up a kinship to Abyssinia's Coptic with Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania and newspapers. And almost without ex- Christianity. Beira in Mozambique, could literally ception, the news is bad. Tanzania has been in the leftist give the Russian Navy control over It hasn't happened overnight. camp for more than a decade, despite the African littoral of the Indian It's been more than two years Western blandishments to President Ocean, a prospect that turns U.S. since a Vietnam-weary Congress re- Julius Nyerere, a man who has admirals gray. jected pleas from President Ford and courted Moscow, Peking, London and Leaping across the Arabian Gulf Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Washington. the picture does not improve. Aden to thwart the Soviet-backed, Cuban- ' Nestled between Ethiopia, Tan- has been a Russian redoubt since the manned victory of pro- Communist zania and the Hitler-like Uganda of British withdrawal in the 1960's. This forces in mineral-rich Angola. the despot Idi Amin, Kenya is in- spring a pro-Soviet military faction, Last April the other end of the "hook" took shape as pro-Soviet military forces seized power in Afghan- istan after a thundering barrage from Russian-supplied tanks and artillery demolished the palace and much of the downtown area of the capital city of Kabul. According to knowledgeable Wash- ington observers and commentators like Foreign Policy Magazine, the Afghanistan coup took President Carter and his national security ad- viser Zbigniew Brzezinski by sur- prise. The coup, coupled with Soviet agitation against the neutron bomb (warhead) in Europe—the path of Russia's traditional right hook—is credited with major policy reapprais- als within the White House vis-a-vis the Soviet Union, particularly in southern Asia and black Africa. American determination stiffened in May when Cuban-trained rebels, operating from bases in Angola, sought to grab Zaire's copper-rich Shaba province in a blood bath that saw scores of whites killed. European technicians fled the region that used to be called Katanga. American planes flew in French and Belgian paratroops to restore order and push out the rebels, but the future of Zaire now hinges on its ability to UNLESS YOU DON'T HEAR IT revive its copper industry. There also have been signals that Today, there is a good chance that you can hear better. Possibly with a Washington is warning Moscow Beltone hearing aid so tiny it may very well escape notice. Yet it's meticulously against any escalation of the civil crafted to provide the best possible hearability . . . war which threatens Rhodesia on the . . . with gold, silver and platinum components that resist the eve of its October elections. corrosive effects of rain, snow and perspiration. also Concern stretches northward . . . with solid-state circuitry which increases efficiency and along what appears to be a Russian reduces the overall size of every Beltone aid. arc. . . . with computer-monitored quality control and printed Earlier this year Cuban "volun- proof-of-performance to back up performance claims. teers" played a decisive role in Ethi- . . . with continuing service by trained Beltone hearing aid opia's military victory over Somalia specialists to keep hearability at its best. on the "horn" of Africa. They have If you don't want to miss any of the wonderful sounds in your life, find since turned their attention to the out if a hearing aid can help. Remember Etritrean rebels who are fighting the the Beltone difference. See your independ- leftist Ethiopian army leaders who ent authorized Beltone Hearing Aid deposed the late Emperor Haile Dealer for a free hearing test. Or, write Selassie. Dept. 4754, Beltone Electronics, Many veteran diplomats view Ethi- 4201 W. Victoria St., Chicago, II. 60646.

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allegedly supported again by Cuban ing to convert its Cuban-supported more uncertain as a puritan military volunteers, overthrew a "moderate" base in Ethiopia into a southern men- government talks of executing for- leftist regime, executed its president ace to Middle East oil fields. mer President Ali Bhutto on corrup- and clamped a vise on the Arizona- The menace is felt from the north, tion charges, and Marxist and so- size country. Rep. Paul Findley (R- too. Desolate, gas-rich, earthquake- cialist factions jockey for position. IL) one of the few members of Con- ripped Baluchistan stretches from A glance at the maps is not com- gress who has studied the situations southern Iran into Pakistan. Both forting to Washington. The Soviet in North Yemen and South Yemen governments have tried for decades to pattern—if it is a pattern—could closely, calls the Soviet victory in tame the fierce nomadic tribesmen. have devastating consequences to the South Yemen "a strategic disaster" Their rebellious spirit is blamed with United States and the Western in- for the United States. South Yemen infecting other elements in Iran and dustrial world. It bridges the Persian has sensitive borders with Nebraska- Pakistan. Gulf and the Arabian Sea and gives sized North Yemen, Saudi Arabia This spring dissidents in Iran, for the Soviet navy pre-eminence in the and Oman. North Yemen has been the first time in a decade, dared to western Indian Ocean, the route influenced strongly by the conserva- take to the streets of Tehran and through which much of the Free tive, pro-West government of Saudi battle the Shah's police and soldiers. World's oil and liquefied natural gas Arabia. Disclosures of Soviet espionage ac- (LNG) must travel. It threatens Newspapers in Kuwait have spec- tivities in Iran did not help. In Paki- intolerable pressures on a whole col- ulated openly that Moscow is try- stan, the political situation is even lection of mineral-rich but unsophis- ticated black African states, most of which are ruled by unpredictable military dictatorships. It intensifies the potential threat of outside military action again Rhodesia and thus automatically increases the prospect of military counteraction by South Africa, a nation whose government feels increasingly isolated and increasingly responsible only to itself In Just 5 Minutes! for its security. & In North Africa, too, the situation It's pouring rain and your warm, dry home is is not reassuring. invaded by a slow drip, drip, drip of water leak- Although American public atten- ing through your roof. You call your local tion has been concentrated on the roofer and are shocked to learn how much roofing repairs cost these days. Israeli-Egyptian "peace" minuet, While you wait for the next rain to come, nervous Egyptian leaders have pri- the wife is worried about the new sofa being vately warned U.S. diplomats and

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Bob and Winnie Castory will celebrate their 10th wedding anni- The Legacy versary in a few weeks so they decided to go see "Coming Home," mostly because it was billed as "a love story." Winnie loves love stories. A funny thing happened while they watched the picture: Bob cried. Af- terwards they had a beer and, for the first time, Bob talked openly about some of his experiences in Vietnam and how the picture had suddenly brought back those memories. Bob had never really been bothered by his tour in Vietnam: yet he could sense that there were still many unanswered questions. Clara and John Thompson were married one week after John came back from Vietnam and one day after he was released from active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. This was back in April 1968. Ten years later John has a good job as an assistant manager at one of the larger supermarkets in their community. He enjoys his work very much. Clara works part-time as a legal secretary for two attorneys in town. The Thompsons' have two beautiful daughters, Sarah and Linda. John belongs to the local Lion's Club and Jaycees, and is active in various civic A helicopter unloads American troops for a strike at the enemy during the Vietnam and community projects. conflict. Helicopters played a key role in the movement of troops, rescue missions The Thompsons are not very religious but everyone that knows them in the community views them as that he was not "qualified" as a promulgated. Chuck quickly found good, honest people. Other than in- trucker. His wish was to be a long- that his habit of rich heroin made frequent blowouts and a few hours hauler; to drive a semi on long trips from the opium poppies of Southeast of pouting, John and Clara have a and to be free from foremen and su- Asia that hooked him in Vietnam strong, loving marriage. For the most pervisors looking over his shoulder. was impossible to sustain stateside. job. part the Thompsons have a great life, Now he wishes that he had any It was a lower grade of smack and except for only one hitch: John has He has a wife and four kids to sup- it cost many times more a day; and recently contemplated killing him- port. He used some of his GI Bill to each day the quality went down and jail self. He is apparently willing to give go to trucker's school near Chicago. the price went up. Chuck was in up all he has with a 45 caliber round He is bitter, disillusioned and angry. within 10 months after he got home, through the brain. For the last year Most of the guys that are getting jobs busted for armed robbery. He has John has been plagued with night- are younger, less experienced and been in and out of prison ever since. mares and violent daydreams of his know little about the tough, cruel He will probably be back in jail experiences in Vietnam. They started world, as he knows it. They were within two months. during a camping trip he took by still in grade school or high school Each of these four Vietnam veter- himself following word that he would when he was sweating land mines ans and their respective families suf- not be promoted to store manager. and snipers in the "Nam." A little fer in varying ways from the residue Jack and Tracy Malher are in bump in the road that could blow of the Vietnam War: occasional bad trouble too, but in a different way. 25 gallons of diesel fuel 200 meters. memories, frightening nightmares Jack was discharged from the Army That was a long time ago. The un- and day dreams, unemployment and in 1973 and has been in and out of employment checks won't be coming drug abuse. There are more prob- work ever since, mostly out. He drove after next week. What will they do lems; there are more veterans. a truck for the 101st Airborne in then? The Numbers Game Vietnam. As a civilian he was told Chuck Reed looks 10 years older than a guy who just celebrated his Everybody is full of statistics these 31st birthday. He is hooked on drugs, days regarding the Vietnam veteran. Editor's Note: Doctor Figley is all kinds of drugs. He was 19 when We know, for example, that 8.5 mil- director of the Consortium on Viet- he got hooked on heroin in Vietnam lion served in the military during nam studies and associate pro- and he came home hooked, well be- those 10 years of the Vietnam War. fessor at Purdue University. fore the drug screening program was Among them are 2.8 million who

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Unemployment of Vietnam Jack Malher and Chuck Reed are unemployed. Despite some govern- served in Southeast Asia, a little un- ings of John Wilson of Cleveland ment reports to the contrary, the der half of that number were actually State University it appears that most Vietnam veteran has an employment exposed to combat or some other life- combatants have the potential for re- problem. A recent study in the San threatening situation. We know that experiencing the stress of war at this Francisco Bay Area found a high over 56,000 lost their lives there and level. John Thompson's reactions rate of prejudice among potential em- 300,000 were wounded there. Recent- were dramatic; they were brought on ployers of Vietnam vets. So the Viet- ly the President's Commission on by his current life stress (concern nam vet is faced with two problems: Mental Health "conservatively" esti- about not being promoted) combined First, there are not many jobs to go mated that when all the Vietnam with being alone in a Vietnam-like around. Second, employers are often veterans are totaled along with mem- environment (camping trip). reluctant to hire him because of all bers of their families over 25 million In my book, "Stress Disorders the bad things they have heard about Americans could be accurately la- Among Vietnam Veterans" it is esti- those sick, weird, drug-crazed and beled the Vietnam veteran family. mated that approximately one mil- violence-prone Vietnam veterans. Ev- Who are they, really? How are they lion combatants are in need of some ery recent survey of Vietnam vets coping today? How bright is the fu- type of readjustment counseling to confirms that they have an extremely ture for these veterans and their help deal with the kinds of prob- high unemployment rate. It is very families? lems being experienced by Bob and difficult to establish the major causes Recently several large-scale stud- John. I will talk about ways of help- of this problem. The myth about ies of the Vietnam veteran and his ing these guys a little later. him as a walking time bomb is at family have been conducted to see, My most recent research project least one contributing factor. among other things, how well they included a study of 681 Legion- Another factor is when the vet got have been able to readjust to civilian naires randomly selected from a list out of the service and tried to find life following military service. The of members who recently joined The work. Based on interviews with 906 findings so far seem to say that, for American Legion. With regard to Vietnam vets in the Greater East-St. the most part, the Vietnam vet on the psychological adjustment, we found, Louis region it was clear that the vet average has coped quite well. More- among other things, that although who entered and left the military over, when non-vets of the same age these veterans felt for the most part later and who is younger had signifi- and life situation as Vietnam vets they had their "head straight" when cantly more trouble finding and keep- are compared we find very little dif- they left the service, most have had ing a job than those guys, for exam- ference in terms of, for example, some type of sleeping problem since ple, who got out before 1969. Without mental health, employment and job that time. Moreover, this appears to a doubt the most important factor, satisfaction, drug and alcohol use and be true, not only for the Vietnam however, was race. In every study, abuse, violent or anti-social behavior, vet Legionnaires, but for the Legion- including The American Legion and marital and family adjustment. naires of all wars, especially among study, we have found that compared It makes sense. Over two-thirds of the combatants. to whites, non-whites have signifi- the Vietnam veterans served in the military in places other than Viet- nam. My research at Purdue Univer- sity was the first to focus primarily on those who went to Vietnam in general and those in particular who experienced the stress of war. From this vantage point we find that those who went to Vietnam, the combatants, are not only significantly different from non-vets, they also are a world apart from non-combatants those who didn't go to Southeast Asia. What about when we pay attention to the combatants as a group? Psychosocial Adjustment Bob Castory and John Thompson both have emotional scars from their experiences in Vietnam. Bob's residue of war is a few bad memories brought on by a movie, the climate or environment, an emotion similar to what he experienced in war or at other highly stressful times, or from other events that touched a memory. American soldiers advance in war-torn area of Vietnam. They slogged through From my own research and the find- jungles, rivers, swamps and in the highlands to get at the enemy during conflict

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 17 cantly higher rates of unemploy- Vietnam veteran is the victim of that the blame for the war and its ment in every age category. circumstance: He goes to war when outcome be shifted from the individ- and because his country calls him, ual soldier to the political and mili- Substance Abuse rather than going to prison or leav- tary structure that resulted in the ing the country. When he returns he tragedy in This is perhaps one of the most Vietnam. We must insist expects the nation overrated problems of the Vietnam to at least recog- that the media stop perpetuating the nize his sacrifices to grateful. veteran. Although there was a signifi- and be image of the sick vet. Instead, he is loser, cant drug problem in Vietnam and called a a baby What may be more important, killer, a puppet in thousands of men like Chuck Reed an immoral war however, is what we need to do at machine. insult to injury, were bringing their problems home Adding we the personal and emotional levels. As find with them, somehow, someway, they that the Vietnam vet is sub- a Vietnam veteran you must come to jected to gross misrepresentation were able to kick their habit—most in grips with your experiences in the the news of them. A significant number of and entertainment media. military in general and in Vietnam in Vietnam veterans are drunks and ad- He is portrayed in novels, films, tele- particular. The best way to do that vision and the press as troubled. dicts. Recent estimates by the federal is to talk about it with a fellow com- Early hunches about the identity government suggest that among all batant, particularly a fellow Vietnam of York City's in- the Vietnam vets, up to 1,500,000 New Son of Sam vet. As a friend or relative of a Viet- need some kind of substance abuse cluded the prediction that he was a nam veteran encourage him to talk treatment. The Veterans Administra- Vietnam veteran. He was. But he about his experiences, feelings, hopes never saw Vietnam or war and his tion has begun to deal with these and fears—but only if you are willing service little problems, treating 107,000 in-patients Army had or nothing and able to listen. I have found that and 95,000 ambulatory patients, in to do with his mental state. most Vietnam vet combatants want addition to other government pro- to talk about their residue of war, grams which have treated over What Can We Do? but have found it quite unproductive 100,000 Vietnam vets in all in 1976 There is not enough space here to because the listener "couldn't handle alone. Somehow we must recognize adequately discuss either the prob- it." What may be even more impor- that substance abuse is a problem and lems or their possible solutions. I tant, however, is to somehow let must be solved soon, but that a large have tried to at least touch upon the our Vietnam veterans know that they majority of these vets are fine and major problems experienced by many are appreciated, that we care about resent being mixed up with those Vietnam vets. What can we briefly them and that they have gotten a who do suffer such problems. say about some of the solutions? raw deal. There is much that all of us can do It is time to put the war behind us Stigma and Resentment both individually and collectively. and the warrior beside us. We as a In general, Bob, John, Jack and At the social and political levels we nation have never really welcomed Chuck are the victims of another must be more aggressive in our in- the Vietnam veteran home. Let us residue of war, the notoriety of both sistence that Vietnam vets get a fair recognize their sacrifices, their cour- the war and its warriors. The attitude deal: both in terms of the benefits age, their patriotism, their spirit and we find among many employers sim- they rightly deserve as veterans and their honor. Let us, finally, celebrate ply represents the nation's attitude the respect and admiration they de- their homecoming and give them the toward the Vietnam veteran. The serve as combatants. We must insist respect they need and deserve.

Santa Anna Met His Waterloo at San Jacinto

San jacinto. It's a proud name in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Launched in 1912, the Texas es- Texas history. Here, on April 21, Oklahoma. It could be said that the corted President Woodrow Wilson to 1836, some 800 Texans led by Gen. Battle of San Jacinto brought the France after World War I. In 1919, Sam Houston broke the back of Mex- United States some one million the battleship became the first ican power in the United States. In square miles or almost one-third of American flagship to carry aircraft, a pitched battle which lasted only 18 its total area. and from 1927 to 1941 she was flag- minutes, the Texans overran 1,200 San Jacinto State Park is crowned ship for the Atlantic Fleet. World Mexicans commanded by Gen. An- with a 570-foot memorial tower atop War II sent her around the world. tonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Some which sits a 220-ton Lone Star of The Texas battled German U- 630 Mexicans were killed, 208 Texas. The base of the monument boats, supported the invasion of wounded and the rest, including is a museum which traces the de- North Africa, was on hand for D- Santa Anna, taken prisoner. Nine velopment of Texas and the U.S. Day and provided shore bombard- Texans died and 30 were wounded. Southwest. Atop the tower is an ob- ment in the south of France. During Today, San Jacinto is a Texas servation deck which provides a a duel with shore batteries at Cher- State Park. It lies just five miles panoramic view of the park's 460 bourg, the Texas was hit for the first south of Interstate 10 on Texas 134, acres and surrounding area. The time when a 288-mm projectile some 25 miles east of Houston, monument is open throughout the smashed her navigation system and alongside the Houston Ship Channel. year except Christmas Eve and another (a dud now on display in the San Jacinto was one of the most Christmas Day and Mondays from ship) penetrated her hull just above important battles in American his- September through May. the waterline. After repairs in Eng- tory. It led to Texas freedom, the San Jacinto also houses mementoes land, she moved on to the South Texas annexation and the Mexican of other wars. Moored here is the Pacific where she supported the in- War. It led to U.S. acquisition of USS Texas, the battleship which saw vasions of Tinian and Iwo Jima. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Ne- action in World War I and World —Warren H. Spencer vada, California, Utah and parts of War II.

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From humble origins to fame and success is the classic pattern of the American dream. Gilbert Stuart's dream began in a snuff mill in rural Rhode Island. For all of us who know Stuart only by his portraits of George Washington, it's fascinating to visit the mill and catch a glimpse of his childhood environment. Stuart was born there in 1755. Four years earlier, his Scottish father had observed the site and found it ideal, for it is at the head of a stream that tumbles down between rocks as it rushes toward the Narrow River. Here, some 30 miles south of Providence near Saunderstown, he erected New England's first snuff mill. A huge water wheel outside his Yankee gambrel- ridge house drove the wooden and iron machinery in the cellar that ground tobacco into "sniffable" powder. The creaking, clanking process was unpre- This is the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart and Snuff Mill at tentious and as timeless as the flowing water outdoors, Saunderstown, Rl. The structure was built in 1751. Stuart, who was born here in was America's foremost but the Stuarts prospered. In those days, 90 percent 1755, painters of portraits of George Washington (Inset) of all the tobacco raised in England's American colony was made into snuff. The house upstairs became Father." But the prolific Stuart produced 110 addi- a comfortable homestead. tional George Washington portraits. In all, Amer- Young Gilbert lived here until he was ten. Later, ica's first six presidents and each of their wives ex- he went to London, where he became a protege of cept Jefferson's posed for Stuart. American painter Benjamin West who was in England. The Gilbert Stuart birthplace was restored in the He won great acclaim there as an artist in his own 1930's and today a water wheel turns just as it did in right. Fame came so quickly, in fact, that the son of the 18th century. Replica machinery brought from a country snuff grinder quickly turned into a free- England grinds tobacco for visitors to see—a signifi- spending dandy who plunged into heavy debt. In cant re-enactment, because in a very real sense in- 1787, he moved to Dublin, then returned to America, dustrialization began in this Rhode Island snuff mill. first to Philadelphia and finally to Boston. The old gambrel-ridge is a treasure house of Early Back on his native soil, Stuart made his mark as Americana with its corner fireplaces, handblown glass the most celebrated portrait painter of his day—and windowpanes, pine paneling, massive ceiling beams certainly our best known Presidential portraitist. and period furnishings and implements. The unfinished painting of our first president, com- Only prints of Stuart's work adorn the walls. The missioned by Martha Washington in 1796, became priceless oils are in their rightful places of honor the essential schoolbook image of the "Founding in the great art museums of America. —Tom Bross

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"Snapping the Whip" by Winslow Homer

the early 1800's, a frontiers- just how illiterate the pioneers of William and his brothers and sis- In man wrote the following threaten- Pennsylvania, Ohio and other parts ters, like all pioneer children, toiled ing letter to a certain Squire Haw- of the Midwest were in the early from dawn till dark, but William kins: 1800's. Of course, it is understand- managed to get a smattering of edu- This it to Lett you no beter be able. They were overburdened with cation from his mother and a sub- Keerful hoo yoo and yore family endless hard work: cutting down scription school. A bright boy with tacks cides with fer peepl wont forests, building log cabins, tilling a craving for learning, he often Stand it to hev the Man wat's the soil, not to mention warding off walked miles through the woods to sporting wuns wat's robin us, Indian attacks. Little time was left borrow a book from a minister or sported by yore Fokes kepin to educate their children. Schools schoolmaster, then returned home Kumpne with em, u bin a ossifer were rare; in fact, there were no and, like Abe Lincoln, stretched out ov the Lau, yore Ha will bern as common schools—only a few sub- on the floor before the fireplace and quik as to an yor Barn tu. So scription or pay schools with itiner- read. Too poor to buy a slate but Take kere. No mor ad prsnt. ant schoolmasters who rode on horse- gifted with a remarkable memory, At about the same time Daniel back through the wilderness from he memorized just about everything Boone, the famous trail blazer and one log cabin to another soliciting he read. In his teens as he plowed Indian fighter, wrote, in part: pupils. the fields he often repeated word for Dear Sir:—This Instant I Start Except for the Bible, there were word different books of the Bible. Down the River. My Two sunes no books. The settlers on the frontier Later he attended Greerburg Acad- Returned ameadetely from Phila- communicated with one another in a emy in Darlington and still later delphia and Daniel Went Down garbled mixture of English, Irish, worked his way through Washington with Sum goods in order to Take German and Scottish. College (now Washington and Jeffer- in gensgn at Lim Stone. I hope Into this bookless world was born son College in Washington, PA) you Will Wright me By the Bear William Holmes McGuffey, a man After graduating near the top of his Mr. goe how you Com on with my destined to become a major influence class, he went into teaching, which horsis—I Here the Indians have in American education, morals and he loved. killed Sum people Near Lim Stone culture. Born in Washington County, A solidly built redhead of medium and Stole a Number of horsis Pennsylvania, in 1800, he was the height, with a high forehead and These letters give us some idea of second of 11 children. long nose, he could be seen each day

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clad in a long black coat and stove- them effective, sales skyrocketed. mandments, a catechism and a list pipe hat as he rode his horse to The First Primer selling at 12Y2 0 a of books of the Bible. Dubbed the school, saddle bags packed with copy, the Second at 250, the Third Little New England Bible, it scared books, reading on the way. Although and Fourth at 500 and the Fifth and the daylights out of the kids with he was a stern disciplinarian and Sixth at 750, rapidly became the best passages such as "Upon the wicked very demanding, his pupils loved the sellers in publishing history. Used by God shall rain a horrible tempest" rugged Scot for his sense of humor, four out of five American schoolchil- and "Children who do not seek God rich fund of knowledge and fondness dren, they were read by generation shall go to hell." for children. Paid $600 a year, he after generation. Often a pupil would The success of McGuffey's Read- taught school in an abandoned learn that his parents, grandparents ers was due also to the fact that in smokehouse. Within a few years his and indeed his great-grandparents his own way he was a psychologist rare ability as a teacher was recog- had learned to read with McGuffeys. who understood pioneer children. nized by his colleagues. Missionaries took the books along His First Reader consisted of He was appointed professor of to Japan, Puerto Rico, China, the words of one or two syllables used Latin, Greek and Hebrew at Miami Philippines and Africa to teach Eng- in short sentences. The Second and University in Oxford, Ohio; then in lish. Third also contained lessons in spell- 1836 president of Cincinnati Univer- The publisher reaped bonanzas. ing and reading but were more ad- sity, and nine years later president McGuffey reaped a mere pittance. vanced and included stories about the of Ohio University. His last years His contract with Truman and Smith land, sea, animals, history and were spent as professor of philoso- games. In the Fourth Reader Mc- phy at the University of Virginia, Guffey introduced the children to until his death in 1873. good literature, 40 percent of which By the 1830's, common schools was culled from American sources, were beginning to spring up in many including some of his own writing. parts of the Midwest. The void of His Fifth and Sixth Readers, the the bookless frontier cried out to be most advanced, were adapted to chil- filled. Truman and Smith, an enter- dren 14 to 16 years of age. prising publishing house in Cincin- Thanks to the McGuffey Readers, nati, saw a great opportunity and set the education of millions of children out to find the man best qualified to in the Midwest took a giant step for- write books for schoolchildren of the ward. frontier. They found William Holmes It must be emphasized that Mc- McGuffey. Guffey did not write his remarkably nourish and With the help of his brother Alex- successful books only to ander, McGuffey wrote a Primer and develop the minds of pioneer chil- in six Eclectic Readers, so-called be- dren. He had another goal mind teaching. cause the material in them was care- moral of McGuffey's fully selected from many sources. Here are a few lessons: McGuffey's Primer, which later be- stories and moral came the First Reader, and the Sec- Respect for the Sabbath small held the ond Reader were published in 1836, A barber in a town the Sabbath in high respect. Under no Third and Fourth in 1837, the William Holmes McGuffey, who became a circumstances would he keep his shop Fifth in 1841 and the Sixth in 1851. major influence in American education open on Sunday. Since a good num- They were not graded as they are to- into town day as the First, Second and Third provided that he would receive a 10 ber of his customers came shaves and Grade readers. They were arranged in percent royalty on each copy sold on Sunday and wanted lost business to competi- order of difficulty because in those until his total income from the sales haircuts, he poorer, poorer and days the classes were held in one- reached $1,000, after which the copy- tors. He became not af- room schoolhouses with children right became the sole property of still poorer. Indeed, he could ford to for kerosene for his lamp ranging from six to 16 years of age. the publisher! To salve their con- pay to work by candlelight. No child was allowed to go on to the science perhaps, every Christmas so he had tatters most next reader until he had mastered the they sent McGuffey a barrel of His clothes were in and hungry. one preceding one. Often a child would smoked hams. of the time he was But shaving get through the sixth grade without The fantastic success of McGuf- Saturday night as he was candlelight, the customer saw his mastering the Fifth or Sixth Reader. fey's Readers was no accident. In the by face and recognized him as an heir Over the years the series was re- first place there was little competi- to a great fortune. vised and expanded by McGuffey, his tion, and the competition there was, Obedience brother, the editors of Truman and was unfit for pioneer children. The rides his horse against his Smith, and five subsequent pub- few available books were written for A boy mother's wish. falls off and is lishers who acquired the rights to gifted children of well-to-do families He seriously hurt and crippled for life. the series. and written by English or American A modest man, McGuffey never authors who never came near the Honesty dreamt that his books would revo- frontier. The leading textbook of the A bookkeeper embezzled some lutionize education in the United time was the New England Primer. money from a bank by making en- States and affect educational meth- Puritanical and evangelical in its tries as he said, "Once two is one." the accumulated a lot ods and morals the world over. How- tone, it reeked with dreadful warn- Over years he ever, thanks to the skill and aggres- ings of fire and brimstone for chil- of money. But the fear and suspense sive promotion of the publisher, and dren who sinned. It consisted of a of being caught intensified little by to the fact that the children liked few pages of the alphabet, but mostly little until finally he went out of his the books and the teachers found of the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Com- ( Continued on page 44

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hardships it has caused. Depart- As a Legionnaire in good stand- INCONTESTABILITY ment of Labor statistics say infla- ing, under age 70 and able to Your insurance coverage is incon-

tion has stripped away the buying meet the underwriting require- testable after it has been in force power of your dollar by over two ments of the Insurance Company, during your lifetime for two years thirds in the past ten years! And you can take advantage of this in- from its effective date. though you might not have flation-fighting insurance. When EXCLUSIONS thought about it, the exact same you buy American Legion Life No benefit is payable for death as a

thing has happened to your exist- Insurance, you can help bring result of war or an act of war, if ing life insurance. So if your insurance estate back up to death occurs while serving, or something happened to you, your par. So why sit back and let infla- within six months after termination family probably wouldn't have tion endanger your family's of service, in the military, naval or enough money to get by. How security when it's so easy to do air force of any country or combina- can you "put back" the value in something about it! tion of countries.

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I authorize any physician or other person who has attended or examined me, or who may attend or examine me, to surance, or to which a claim is disclose or to testify to any knowledge th-us acquired. submitted. Signature of Upon receipt of a request from Dated , 19 Applicant you, the M.I.B. will arrange dis- The American Legion offers this Insurance through Occidental Life Insurance Company of California, B978 closure of any information it Home Office: Los Angeles, California may have in your file. Medical GMA-300-19 10-70 (Univ.) Printed in U.S.A. information will only be dis- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION closed to your attending physi- I have received and read the Notice of Disclosure of Information at left. Further, I authorize any cian. If you question the ac- physician, medical practitioner, hospital, clinic, or other medical or medically related facility, in- curacy of information in the surance company, the Medical Information Bureau or other organization, institution or person having Bureau's file you may seek cor-

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It All Began with Thomas Alva Edison

It's just over 100 years since Thom- The story of the phonograph and as Alva Edison dashed off a sketch hi-fi is a typical American story, of a crude cylindrical device con- beginning with Edison's instructions taining a crank and a stylus. to his assistant, and continuing "Krueski—Make this," he scrib- through the development of the bled across the bottom of the draw- techniques that put four separate ing. Within 30 hours, John Krueski channels of sound on a single record had made the first working phono- 100 years later. graph, and Thomas Edison had re- While Edison demonstrated the corded the immortal words "Mary practicality of storing sound me- Thomas Alva Edison's early phonograph ..." had a little lamb on a sheet of chanically, it was an immigrant from opened a whole new world of recorded tinfoil. Hi-fi—at least "fi"—was born. Germany, Emile Berliner, who de- sound, giving pleasure to millions. From the beginning, people mar- veloped the flat phonograph record veled at the lifelike recorded sound. we know today; and Eldridge John- gained momentum with the develop- Edison, recalling the occasion of son, a machinist in Camden, NJ, ment of the stereo record in 1958 hearing his own voice played back who converted a painting by an ob- and stereo FM broadcasting three for the first time, commented, "I scure British artist into a trade- years later. Actually, stereo had was never so taken aback in my mark known by millions around the been around since the early 1930's, life." When the Edison Speaking world. The Gramophone Company when Leopold Stokowski experi- Phonograph Company began to put in England actually owned the mented with it with the Philadelphia on road shows in 1878, the company painting titled "His Master's Voice," Orchestra. Two ex-GIs, Emory Cook claimed that its machines would re- but it was Johnson who adopted it as and Ched Smiley, actually produced produce the barking of a dog so the trademark for his phonographs a two-channel record in the early realistically that any cat within ear- and records. 1950's, but because it had separate shot would be terrified; that re- Until the early 1920's, recording grooves for right and left channels, corded coughs and sneezes were "so artists like Enrico Caruso, the Origi- it was almost impossible to play believable that physicians in the au- nal Dixieland Jass (sic.) Band and properly. Westrex Corporation, a dience would instinctively begin to Harry Lauder were forced to sing subsidiary of AT&T, invented the write prescriptions." or play into acoustic horns. The re- stereo process in use today—a pro- A quarter of a century later, the cordings usually sounded tinny or cess involving a single groove with Victor Talking Machine Company nasal. Researchers at Bell Telephone left and right channels electronically staged a concert in Wilkes-Barre, Laboratories, under the direction of mixed. PA, in which the stage was occu- Joseph Maxfield, developed a tech- Today, it's possible to put four pied by a military band and a bat- nique for recording electrically, re- separate channels of sound into a tery of handwound phonographs. A placing the horn with a microphone. single record groove, all the result of local critic proclaimed that the only It was the greatest development American research and development. way he could tell the difference be- since Berliner's flat record, and re- Peter Scheiber, a youthful inventor, tween the music produced by the mained the standard process for re- found a technique for matrixing live musicians and from the Vic- cording for the next half-century. front and rear channels during the trolas was when the musicians began In 1948, another development recording process at just about the to put down their instruments. came from a Hungarian immigrant time that Goldmark's successor at The hi-fi era dawned in the late named Peter Goldmark, who was CBS Laboratories, Dr. Benjamin 1940's. A British sound engineer, working in Columbia Broadcasting Bauer, was working on a similar Gilbert A. Briggs, engaged Carnegie System's research laboratories. Gold- idea. Hall in New York City to produce mark's long-playing record not only What's ahead in the next century yet another demonstration of live vs managed to cram the contents of of sound recording? Digital record- recorded sound. Again the critics re- five or six old-style records onto a ing, for one thing, a product of ported difficulty in telling the two single plastic disc, it improved the computer technology. Dr. Thomas apart. And only a few months ago, sound and eliminated breakability Stockham of the University of Utah hi-fi manufacturers were still at it, while doing it. It was Goldmark's and Dr. Amar Bose of Massachusetts presenting live vs recorded concerts LP which launched the hi-fi era in Institute of Technology are two of to invited audiences around the the United States—an era marked the eminent scientists working on country. by little companies founded by ex- this development. It substitutes elec- It's remarkable to us that anybody GIs—companies with names like tronic impulses for the familiar wig- could mistake the scratchy, nasal Marantz and Harmon-Kardon and gles in a record groove or magnetic sounds from those early cylinders Orradio Industries which made parts patterns on tape. It greatly expands for the real thing, yet each advance for complete hi-fi systems. Compared the dynamic range of recorded music in sound reproduction has been to the electronics giants of the day while virtually eliminating back- greeted with the claim that we had General Electric, RCA, Stromberg- ground noise. now reached a state of the art where Carlson and Philco, among others Even at its 100th birthday in 1977, there were no discernible differences they were small potatoes. the invention Thomas Alva Edison between the reproduction and the But they grew. Some became in- called "my favorite" hadn't stopped real thing. ternational conglomerates. They growing. Robert Angus

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COURIERS: Today's Pony Express International messengers deliver night and day, rain or shine

usually a dark, damp 5:15 in growing swiftly. Some estimates are ers who air-speed vital vaccines to the It's the morning when the clanging that courier customers will spend medical authorities there to prevent alarm clock jars Sidney Judd awake more than $300 million this year pay- the epidemic from becoming nation- in London. He showers, dons gray ing firms like Loomis, Purolator, wide. Wherever or whenever "timed flannel slacks, an impeccably-tailored Brinks, Federal Express, Emery Air media"—the couriers' term for vital blue blazer with a crest on his breast or REA—and employees like Judd cargo—needs delivering, there's a pocket and picks up a well-worn as much as $43 per lb., to ensure courier who, like Al Capp's "Avail- flight bag, carefully packed the night swift, personalized, door-to-door de- able Jones" will deliver it—for a before. By 8:30, the 6-foot-tall, ath- livery of negotiable securities, bank price. letic-looking, moustachioed Judd is documents, legal papers and some- Couriers are a relatively new breed at London's bustling Heathrow Air- times cash, gems, rare stamps and of pigeon in today's supersonic age, port. He is almost always the last fine art. Couriers even transport bull spending 100 hours a month in the person to climb aboard the Pan Am semen, which decays in 36 hours. air, more than the busiest jet pilot. jet headed for Frankfurt. Kodak film, fast-processed in 24- Early in the postwar era, the U.S. Early that afternoon, Judd is busi- hours by drugstores, often moves by Government employed a network of ly engaged in a frantic round of ap- courier. former military personnel who trav- pointments in West Germany's major Couriers wing daily across the At- eled from embassy to embassy, con- commercial city, spends the night in lantic, speeding bank checks from tinent to continent, with top-secret town and by 2:30 p.m. the following Europe to clearing houses in the documents carried in locked brief- day is on his way, first back to Lon- cases manacled to their wrists. don and then on to New York's JFK "There aren't very many govern- on the evening trans-Atlantic jet. ment people wearing cuffs any more," Around midnight in New York, an- explains Ray Gray, European Man- other swift round of appointments has ager for Loomis, "because most class- been completed, and promptly at 8 ified information these days the gov- the following evening Judd is wing- ernment can transmit office-to-office ing his way back to London, sitting in in code, electronically, by bouncing his usual seat well aft in the economy the data off satellites or whatever. section, a relaxing drink in front of But private business has taken up him. The stewardesses call him "Sid," where the governments have left off. for they see him more often than al- Alert management executives realize most anyone else—including his wife. that a company can lose thousands of Sidney Judd is not a rock star, dollars an hour waiting for a replace- nor a globe-trotting multinational cor- ment drill for an oil rig, a vital com- porate executive. He is the closest puter tape or some advertising re- thing to the grizzled, hard-driving production copy, which might take pony express riders of yesteryear who several days to arrive if sent air pioneered swift, coast-to-coast com- freight and maybe a week or more if munication in America's early days. mailed." Most couriers guarantee Judd is a courier. swift delivery—and forego the fee if The next time you climb aboard a they foul up. Strikes, bad weather, domestic or international jet, look mechanical breakdowns are the hur- around. One or more couriers may dles they zigzag around, over and well be riding with you; indeed one through. could be in the next seat. If he works "Loomis blossomed in Europe, Global couriers spend more than 100 for Sid Judd's employer, Loomis hours a month in the air going from thanks mostly to a British postal Courier Service, he will be easy to continent to continent on their jobs. strike back in the early 1970's," Gray recognize. Look for two intertwined continues. "Traditionally, banks in "L's" in a red, white and blue motif States; a check cashed in London's the UK had airmailed their can- on his blazer jacket over his heart. Aldwych branch of the First National celled checks and other time-sensitive "Our company feels that blazers give City Bank at noon is almost always documents back to the U.S. When the our personnel a uniform and distinc- in the hands of night-shift tellers in GPO strike hit, they quickly had to tive look," Judd explains, "and it is Manhattan by 10 p.m. the same day, organize an alternate delivery system also useful to have the Loomis seal thanks to Judd's door-to-door trans- and their solution was to have our quite visible when a client is meeting atlantic efforts. Lengthy computer firm carry sacks of their material us at the airport to pick up the docu- printouts of drilling activity in the across the Atlantic for them. When ments we're carrying to him." Persian Gulf can be reviewed by oil the postal strike ended, they decided Purolator, a giant U.S. courier company technicians in Houston the door-to-door, 12-hour delivery firm, with a staff of 10,000, calls at within 24 hours because couriers have system we had developed was much 30,000 destinations daily. "We stop rushed the confidential figures 10,000 better than the previous postal tech- at all the major cities," says the miles at top speed with maximum nique, and we've had their business firm's VP, William Candee. The security. ever since. They look on us today worldwide courier business is big and When plague hits Egypt it is couri- as just another tool, like the copier

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and the computer, designed to speed and tough to fly the half-million for gun-toting couriers has dramat- up work and improve profits." miles a year which many of them ically lessened. The courier companies don't like amass. As Judd explains it, "You Couriers are usually the first pas- to be publicly quoted criticizing the quickly learn it is very important to sengers off the jet, very often being efficiency of any country's postal eat sensibly and to get plenty of on such good terms with the stew- delivery system. "We would hate to sleep; you have to be in top shape to ardesses that they are moved up have any of them crack down on us handle the job." Couriers are in the close to the door just before the pas- for operating what is, in effect, a air even on Christmas Day. "We de- sengers begin to deplane. After clear- system, which in some measure im- liver while you sleep" is the profes- ing immigration, the courier trots pinges on their monopoly," Gray ex- sion's credo. over to the cargo area where he takes plains. But quite pointedly, one cour- Not long ago a commercial jet charge of shepherding sometimes as ier-firm executive has over his desk crash-landed and two couriers had many as several hundred pounds of a cartoon showing an obvious post to dive out the emergency door and documents, packed mostly in 10-lb. office building which has emblazoned jump off the wing to get to safety. units, swiftly through Customs. But over it a motto belittling the U.S. In the early days of the courier that's only the beginning. Most ma- post office credo. The parody reads: business some of the personnel went jor courier services guarantee door-to- "Neither lethargy, indifference nor aboard planes armed, to protect the door delivery, with the courier get- the general collapse of standards will valuables they carried. This era end- ting an authorized signature for each prevent these couriers from eventu- ed when a Brinks courier got in a parcel he drops off, sometimes exam- ally delivering some of your mail." gunfight with a would-be hijacker, ining the recipient quite closely and Most couriers employed to rush in- the Brinks deadeye dick dropping the double- or even triple-checking iden- dustry's vital information around the terrorist after a shoot-out in econ- tifications before turning the mer- world are in their early 30's, and they omy class. While the airline was chandise over. The couriers do their have been screened almost as care- grateful that the Brinks man had deliveries in every possible type of fully as the starting backfield for the saved their jet, the nation's airline vehicle, from taxi to trishaw, motor- Minnesota Vikings. All have passed pilots voiced some protest at having bike to armored car, depending upon intelligence tests and stiff physical unnecessary guns aboard commercial destination and time of night. examinations; those over 40 take flights, and regulations were tight- a That couriers have become an in- going rigid physical every year. Each is ened to prevent couriers from tegral part of the national banking for at least with bulges under their jack- bonded $100,000. Most aboard system is revealed by the eye-pop- jets fly with are ex-police or military service per- ets. Now that most U.S. ping fact that Purolator couriers now sonnel and they have to be both quick armed sky marshals aboard, the need move $6 billion in checks nightly for 10,000 different banking offices in YOU'VE SEEN THIS FAMOUS CAR FOR all 12 Federal Reserve districts. While the couriers have ALMOST THREE TIMES THE PRICE! refined much of their worldwide business down to a fairly steady routine—so The Radio Control Porsche much so, for instance, that Loomis (WIRELESS) regularly reserves a seat on one jet A RACING MARVEL out of Brussels, 365 days a year ...AUTHENTIC IN EVERY DETAIL! some of their special handling assign- • Unbelievable offbeat Low Price ments are and amusing. Not • Forward, Re- long ago, Purolator had to carry a verse. Left & valuable piece of moon rock from a Right Turns, Veers, All From NASA laboratory in California to Remote Dis- Long Island, it tance NY where was to go • Completely on public display. The lunar souve- Wireless. nir was so valuable that a Purolator Radio Con- trolled courier was assigned to transport it • Large7'/2"Long, in a box locked to his wrist. The con- 3" wide tainer rode on a reserved seat next • Rubber Tires, Full Color In- to him, and the company purchased signia and Rac- two economy tickets for the trans- ing Stripes • Sturdily continental flight. Crafted Body Sidney Judd recalls Loomis being involved in the logistics of a marital An exact replica of the racing car that has graced the tracks of the world's most glamor- ^Hanover House, Dept. HZ-3767 tiff between Beatle John Lennon and ous speedways can now be yours 340 Poplar St., Hanover.PA 17331 al the low- 1 his wife, Yoko Ono. The couple split YES 1 Kindly est price ever! The racer responds to a tiny rush Radio Controlled Racecar(s) (Z449991) lor the unbelievably low price of $19.95 plus $2 00 shipping and Loomis was asked to move their transmitted radio signal and instantly obeys I and handling on full money back guarantee if not completely delighted all your commands. Goes marital effects from one end of the forward ..re- 1 SAVE MORE Order TWO lor just $38.00 plus $4.00 shipping and

verses ... turns . . veers, .without cords, I handling on same money back guarantee. U.S. to the other. Just as the deliv- strings, or wires' There's nothing to as- CHARGE IT! ery was completed the battling Len- semble. Just install batteries and you're ID American Express Diners Club VISA/BankAmericard ready to go. Colorful lithographed sturdy Master Charge nons turned into love birds again Carle Blanche Interbank No body measures 7'/ " 3'/:" 2 long, wide and ID and, at no small expense, Enclosed is Loomis was comes complete $ (Pa. residents add sales tax.) with authentic racing stripes rehired I Acc't No. Exp to reunite their goods in re- and resilient rubber tires. Terrific way to de- Date . liver bliss. interoffice memos. Comes assorted: PRINT NAME wedded J Porsche or Mercedes racecars. (No choice.) I ADDRESS Arnold Palmer mislaid his most Hurry, order today while our supplies last. At trusty this low, putter on the eve of an impor- low price, they're sure to go last. | CITY Hanover House. tant West Coast tournament and a

INSTATE ZIP . 340 Poplar St., Hanover.PA 17331 Purolator courier had to be laid on

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to bring the club at top speed and All NEW from NRI! maximum safety back to its rightful place in the star's golf bag. Sad to learn professional appliance say, Arnie did not win that tourna repairing ment. at home for extra income Even foreign governments turn to the U.S. owned courier services from or new career. time to time. When Golda Meier was ruling Israel and visiting the U.S. some important documents in Jeru salem needed her immediate signa ture. Israel's solution: to lay on a Learn to service microwave ovens, Purolator courier to carry the paper food processors, washers and dryers, to her while she was on a high-level refrigerators and freezers, blenders, visit to the U.S. West Coast and vacuum cleaners, ranges, power tools, then to rush the documents back to solid-state controls, air conditioning Jerusalem for government action. units and more. It's the newest, most During President Ford's tenure at up-to-date home study course available. You the White House, a Chicago political learn to service and repair crony decided to send the Chief modern appliances the professional Executive 12 dozen English muffins way. Learn to diagnose problems, use instruments and tools, —the President's favorite—to serve get appliances working at an important 9 a.m. meeting. En in a hurry. And NRI's all-new Professional glish muffins are not the world's Appliance Servicing Course gives you the training sturdiest long-distance travelers, so a you need, right in your own home in your Purolator courier was called in to small and major appliances... even an indus- spare time. make a swift Chicago-to-Washing- trial maintenance and appliance multimeter ton with special LED continuity probe, AC leakage delivery. Quite naturally, the Includes the Tools You Need White House gate guards were more probe, and thermistor temperature probe. Your training includes quality tools and than a little suspicious of a man with instruments, the ones you'll use to do actual Choice of Three Courses 12 dozen muffins, insisting on per- servicing work. Depending on your course, You can choose from sonally delivering the three courses goods to the they include a clamp-on ammeter with AC . .the Specialist . Course, which concentrates on President's Office. It took almost as voltmeter. . .two sets of hand tools for both portable appliances and house wiring. . . long to get the baked goods through the Professional Course, which includes major the White House gate as it had to "white line" appliances such as washers, move them from the Windy City to dryers, and ranges... or the Master Course, the nation's capital. But in true cour- which has it all, including refrigerators and ier tradition, the delivery was fi- freezers, air conditioning nally made. units, microwave ovens, even heat pumps. On occasion, couriers have almost certainly saved people's lives. A little Free Catalog... over three years ago, Uruguayan No Salesman Will Call guerrillas kidnapped an executive of Mail the coupon for free catalog describ- Brooke Bond Foods and demanded ing the courses, tools, and lessons in detail. See a ransom of $2 million in used, small how you can earn extra income, get a new job, denomination, U.S. banknotes to be even start your own business. There's a grow- delivered within 48 hours. Four U.S.- ing shortage of qualified appliance service based Purolator couriers picked up technicians, and NRI can help you take ad- suitcases containing the $2 million vantage of the opportunity. If coupon has and rushed the 5's, 10's and 20's to been removed, write to NRI SCHOOLS, 3939 Latin America, narrowly beating the Wisconsin Ave., Washington, DC. 20016. kidnappers' deadline and ransoming the terrified manager, all for a MAIL COUPON FOR FREE CATALOG $10,000 fee. The kidnappers were later apprehended and the money lib- erated, NRI but the small bills never came SCHOOLS Check for one free catalog only. back to the U.S. A Ford McGraw-Hill Continuing NO SALESMAN WILL CALL Motors ex- Education Center ecutive was subsequently kidnapped 3939 Wisconsin Ave. PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCE SER- in the same area P Washington, D.C. 20016 VICING and Brooke Bond Auto Repair and Servicing sold the ransom currency to Ford. All career courses Small Engine Repair

approved under Bill. Ingrid Jacobson of Loomis recalls m GI Air Ctonditioning/Refrigeration/Heating Check another job involving Amnesty Inter- for details. with Solar Technology Color national, the TV, Audio, Video Systems, Comput- human rights organiza- ers, and CB/Communications Servicing tion in London which defends political prisoners. "We were called in Name. to transport legal documents to a (Please print) country I'd rather not name," she Street, explains, "and these depositions and City/State/Zip testimony were enough to change the Accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the National Home Study Council 759-098 (Continued on page 61

THE AMERICAN • LEGION MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1978 29 Opposing Views on a Question of Increasing Importance Should Women Be

The two objections most often heard to using women duty as men—including YES" in combat are 1) concern for the women's safety time taken for pregnancy. and 2) doubts that women can carry out combat duties. The discrimination Concern for women's safety, while well-intentioned, against women by our is misplaced. Women today are inner city police offi- armed services is an affront cers, skydivers, race car drivers and firefighters. If a to the American sense of qualified woman wants to volunteer for dangerous duty, fair play and the ideal of she should be free to do so. It's her decision to make, not equal opportunity, which the government's, which makes far too many of our de- our government professes to cisions for us. The establishment of the all-volunteer follow. Until recently wom- force makes military service today a matter of choice, en were excluded from such and women are waiting in line to serve. "combat" jobs as missile No one wants to send women into combat, but as one launch crews in the Mid- Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI) woman testified before my subcommittee, "I find it western United States. doubtful that mothers or fathers weep more for their Combat duty is the traditional route upward in all daughters than for their sons." military services, but women now in the service cannot Certain types of combat duty require a level of follow that route. Limiting the woman's role is also un- strength which many women may not possess, and those fair to the men, who must shoulder all unpleasant duty women should be deployed elsewhere, just like weak including very long stretches at sea. Moreover, it is only men. But if some women are strong enough and quali- fair that women be called upon to defend the freedoms fied in every other way, there is no reason to exclude they enjoy as U.S. citizens. them. We must spare no effort to maintain a strong, lean, Women who now serve in combat-support positions efficient and well prepared fighting force. By closing have been trained in defensive combat techniques, for many combat or combat-related positions to women, their units could well come under enemy attack. Of- however, the armed services are weakening our defense fensive combat is but one step further. The Army now effort by refusing to let qualified personnel serve where gives the same seven-week basic training to men and they are needed. women, including grenade throwing and use of a variety No less than the Commander of the Marine Training of arms. Base at Parris Island, SC has declared that, "there is The performance of women in past wars proves that no reason the female can't fight just like the male." women can make a tremendous contribution to our war I agree. effort. Women's Air Force Service pilots have trained male pilots in strafing, bombing, tracking and anti- aircraft fire, and during WW II a Russian all-woman fighter unit shot down 38 German aircraft. Interestingly, the General Accounting Office reports that women lose about one-half as much time from

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30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 Used In Military Combat? "NO" The primary mission of mechanics. All require the muscle structure and exertion the United States Army normally associated with a defensive tackle on the Den- is to preserve the peace by ver Broncos' football team. Most physiologists agree being instantly ready to en- that for the foreseeable future far more men than women gage in combat operations will be capable of meeting the physical demands of these any place in the world. The situations. With women in combat units, the male sol- ability to fight and win bat- diers would be required to carry an increased share of tles is too important to the these critical physical requirements, thereby limiting security of this nation to the units' responsiveness to crisis situations. Wj permit the Army to be used In my experience, women in combat have an adverse as an instrument for socio- impact on the male soldiers in the area. Men tend to logical experimentation. be protective of women. Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub Until such time as there During the tree-trimming crisis in Korea in August USA (Ret.) is some evidence that wom- 1976, many good soldiers were so concerned about their en can withstand the extreme physical, mental and psy- soldier wives or girlfriends or their subordinate women

chological stresses of battle, it is foolhardy, if not that they left their duty stations to see to their welfare dangerous, to run the risk of reducing the combat capa- or evacuation to the rear areas. In fact, most of the bility of our Army by including women in units whose women soldiers expressed the desire, if not the expecta- primary mission is to engage in actual combat operations. tion, to be removed from the potential battle areas. This does not mean that there is no place for women Another factor which suggests we should not permit in the Army. There are many jobs in the Army that our women soldiers to be used in combat units is the

can be performed better by women. The nation can ill image that this would project in the minds of our po- afford to ignore or under-utilize the great reservoir of tential enemies. brainpower and skills represented in the women of our At one time Russia and Israel used women in com- nation. There are, however, several important reasons bat roles in their military forces, but both have now why these highly motivated and patriotic female mem- made it a matter of national policy that women will not be used in combat again. God forbid that we must go to bers of the Army should continue to be excluded from war to learn the lesson. combat units. same First of all, the battlefield is a very physical place. The infantryman, cannoneer and tanker are routinely called upon during battle crises to demonstrate great feats of upper body strength to preserve lives and equipment. The tasks of digging for shelter, moving ammunition and changing tank tracks are shared by all members of the unit, including the clerks, cooks and n

I have read in the American Legion Magazine for September the arguments in PRO & CON: Should Women Be Used in Military Combat?

IN MY OPINION THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS: YES NO

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 31 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6) highly cultured family. She found a difficult situation, he arranged to Guadalcanal's Miracle Girl sullen, awkward girl who had none bring Patsy to America. Correspondent Foster Hailey of of these graces. The savage beating With time and care, Patsy blos- the New York Times was intrigued inflicted on her by Japanese soldiers, somed. She won a degree in nursing by the Padre's account of how the the terror bombings on Guadalcanal science at Catholic University in child had been saved, and how much and the trauma of being suddenly Washington, DC and spent several he regretted leaving her. "You may separated from those who had saved years as a nurse in Washington and have lost your little orphan, chap- and protected her had combined to Baltimore hospitals, health-care fa- lain, but I have found a very good block out any memory of her early cilities and defense plants. Today, feature story," Hailey remarked. years. Her conscious life had begun she is married to Angelo Fasano. The Hailey's story about the rescue of in the orphanage. Despite its bare couple now lives in a town house in Patsy Li, illustrated by a picture furnishings and its poverty, it repre- Albuquerque, NM and Patsy has taken by a Navy photographer, had sented the only security she knew. joined the nursing staff of Sandia repercussions thousands of miles She had been told who this woman Laboratories, a research facility away. When World War II ended, was and what she was looking for but which designs and develops nuclear the Padre of Guadalcanal received a she didn't know her and she resented weapons for the government. strange letter from a Chinese woman her. The grown-up "Miracle Girl of living in Singapore. She had just re- Hurt and confused, Mrs. Li was World War II" is now a little past ceived a clipping of that old story prepared to go home but an island 40 and thoroughly Americanized. from a relative living in America. official convinced her to stay a few ("There is no country in the world Her name was Ruth Li. She told this days. She began carefully observing that has the greatness and the free- story: the girl. She checked for tiny, telltale dom of America," she says simply.) She, her husband and their little scars around the eyelids that her The Padre, now associated with daughter, Patsy, had been on the child had been born with. The scars the Vincentian Missions and head- last evacuation ship out of Singa- were there! quartered in Philadelphia, remains pore, fleeing the Japanese advance. The girl was then given a crucial an integral part of Patsy's life. The The ship had been bombed and sunk handwriting test. When Mrs. Li's two visit and correspond often. At a a few miles from the harbor, and al- daughter was first learning English, party that Barney Ross hosted for though she and her husband were she wrote her words in block letters Patsy at Grossinger's resort in New rescued, their child was not. She had and always inverted her "E's." Mrs. York State—not long before the ex- last been seen floating out to open Li had brought along a postcard her champion's death—Father Gehring sea on a piece of wreckage. child had once written. Under the and Eleanor Bumgardner, the person Mrs. Li refused to accept the ob- scrutiny of island officials, she dic- who had served as Patsy's American vious conclusion—that her child had tated it to the girl in the orphanage guardian, urged Patsy to initiate a drowned—and for more than three letter by letter. The girl did not know full reconciliation with her mother. years had searched false leads trying what the post-card message meant That reconciliation has come to pass. to locate her. Her husband had ridi- because the only language she knew Ruth Li now lives in Albuquerque, too, culed her "obsession" and bitter was the French taught her by the a short distance from the Fasanos. quarrels led to their divorce. Now nuns. The nuns had also instructed How did the "Miracle Girl" make she was sure this "obsession" had her to write in Continental script. that incredible trip across the Pacific been vindicated. She saw a resem- Yet when she wrote down the words in 1942? Patsy's memory of what blance in the published picture to as dictated to her, she instinctively happened to her has never returned her child, although admittedly the wrote not in her usual Continental (she can only recall "floating around child's head was bandaged and her script but in block letters. And she and around in water"). But Father face contorted with sobs. More im- inverted her "E's" exactly as it had Gehring learned of two British sea- portant, the child had been identified been done on the postcard Mrs. Li men who plucked a child out of the in the newspaper as "Patsy Li." was holding! water near the burning evacuation As gently as he could, the Padre The impossible, the unbelievable, ship. The seamen said they placed wrote back that the child who had had come to pass. The two Patsy Lis the child on a small float. Father survived the Guadalcanal massacre were actually one. (A comparison of Gehring believes that child was Pat- could not possibly be hers. He told dental charts after Patsy returned to sy, that a Japanese vessel taking sup- the Singapore mother that he had Singapore gave further confirma- plies to Guadalcanal picked her up made up the name of "Patsy Li" out tion. ) and dumped her off on that island of his head, or more properly, his Miracles, however, can founder on with a native family. hat. He could just as easily have the rocks of human frailty. Back in "I never forget to give thanks to called her "Patsy Stetson." Besides, Singapore, the still-troubled girl had God for choosing me to play a key Guadalcanal was 4,000 miles away difficulty adjusting to a new environ- role in Patsy's life," says Father from Singapore harbor. He could ment. Living in a broken home dis- Gehring. "Her story proves once see no conceivable way the child turbed her. Her mother was so anx- again that there is no power in the could have gotten from the one place ious that she make up for the years world greater than the power of to the other. lost from top-grade schools that she Faith." But what is 4,000 miles to a moth- pushed her hard. The relations be- —Martin Abramson er? After exchanging a few more let- came frigid. ters with the Padre, she insisted on Ever since Father Gehring had following her instincts and making been informed of the miracle of dis- Martin Abramson is a magazine the long trip to the New Hebrides covery, he had kept up a correspon- writer, former war correspondent and to see for herself. dence with both Ruth Li and Patsy the author of "The Barney Ross At first, Mrs. Li experienced cruel Li. He felt a responsibility for Pat- Story (Monkey on My Back)"; "The disappointment. She had lost a pret- sy's well-being and when Mrs. Li Padre of Guadalcanal Story", and ty little child born to a well-to-do, asked if he could help resolve this other books.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 33 Sgt York: Rookie to Legend

.' 'The greatest civilian soldier of the war . . Gen. John J. Pershing

ON Nov. 16, 1917, a shy young taineer. He carried out any assign- France and was quickly moved up to Tennessean named Alvin York ment his superiors handed out with the Front. Then the action began. In joined the U.S. Army, bewildered at seeming ease. And above all he was the fall of 1918, the division re- the thought of leaving his mountain a dead shot who could hit any target mained on the line of battle for 26 home and troubled that he might no matter how elusive. days and nights without relief. have to fire his gun in anger. Eleven York was deeply religious and his York went through it all, a quiet, months later, York single-handedly conscience was bothered by the fact composed figure, giving encourage- killed 25 Germans and captured 132, that he was setting out on a mission ment to his comrades and often becoming in a few action-packed to kill his fellow man. But something kneeling beside a wounded soldier hours America's most famous dough- and quoting from the Scriptures. boy. It was in the St. Mihiel salient An idea of the impact York's feat that York was made a corporal, a caused is shown in this conversation promotion he would have received in October 1918 between the lanky much sooner if there had not been soldier and Brig. Gen. James R. apprehension whether he might turn Lindsay of his division. out to be a conscientious objector "Well, corporal," said General because of his religious beliefs. He Lindsay with a broad grin, "I under- did not make sergeant, the rank by stand we don't have to do any more which he is known today, until after fighting." his historic feat. "How's that, sir?" asked York. Meanwhile, the fateful day drew Lindsay's grin grew broader. "Be- near. On the eve of the historic bat- cause your company commander tells tle, York wrote in his diary: "On the me you just captured the whole 7th of October, we lay in some little blasted Hun army." holes on the roadside all day. That York looked uncomfortable. "I night we went out and stayed a little guess it wasn't the whole army, sir. while and came back to our holes. Just 132 of 'em." The shells were bursting around us. "Just 132." The general burst out I saw men just blown up by the big laughing. "Single-handed?" German shells bursting all around "More or less, sir." us. General Lindsay shook his head in Sgt. York "So the order came for us to take amazement. Hill 223 and 24 on the 8th. So the The transformation of Alvin York in him made York refuse to seek morning of the 8th just before day- from rookie to legend began on Feb. exemption from combat service on light, we started for the hill at Chatel 1, 1918, when he joined the 82nd grounds that the doctrine of his faith, Chehery." Division after three months of clean- the Church of Christ in Christian A gray mist blanketed the country- ing details and close order drill at Union, opposed war. But York's side as the men of the All America Camp Gordon near Atlanta, GA. pastor back home had no such swarmed over the crest of Hill 223 This was the famed "All America" qualms, and knowing how the moun- in the Argonne Forest straight into division. Men from Georgia, Alabama taineer's mother felt about war, he the gun sites of an elite German out- and Tennessee formed the backbone sent a letter to the soldier's regimen- fit known as the Prussian Guard who of this hard-fighting unit, but it also tal commander asking exemption for were staked out on a ridge across included selected soldiers from ev- the mountain youth. the valley. As the fog began to lift, ery state in the Union. In its ranks Finally, York's company com- the Americans plunged down the were descendants of men who had mander, Capt. E. C. B. Danford, wooded slope and encountered Ger- come from each nation that made up sent for the soldier and together they man fire from three directions. Ar- the Allies. read the Bible for guidance. Finally tillery pounded the hillside and ma- It was a big step for this raw-boned Danford showed York a passage chine guns raked the trees under lad who had spent his youth in which said "If my kingdom were of which the Americans were moving. the obscure Tennessee village of Pall this world, then would my servants The men of the 82nd sprayed the Mall, adjoining the "Valley of the fight for it." hilltop with fire, but the Germans Three Forks o' the Wolf." He came York pondered several long mo- were well dug in. with an education equal to that of ments, then said. "All right. I'm The sun had now burned through a child of eight and with little knowl- satisfied." the mist and from their foxholes the edge of what went on beyond the It did not take the army long to Germans could easily see the Amer- summit of the Blue Ridge. discover York's abilities as a soldier. icans working their way through the But Alvin York had something He quickly qualified as a sharpshoot- woods. Finally, York and 15 other going for him from the start that er, both in skirmishes and over the men followed Sgt. Bernard Early in placed him apart from his comrades. rim of a trench. a foray against the machine-gun bat- He stood six feet tall, a commanding Finally, judged combat-ready, the talion. Crawling Indian fashion, the figure with the muscles of a moun- "All America" Division sailed for 16 men managed to inch their way

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 35 : .

How One WWI Vet Is Remembered

The rocks appeared in the river the warmth engulfed me. Even when river was a dangerous place. again. For the first time since Harry's arms didn't embrace me, his On a Saturday afternoon in Sep- the June floods, dark brown basalt eyes did. In his hands there was tember we drove to the white brick rocks jutted up above the water's strength. The same hands that Spokane Veterans Hospital. surface. Except for water swirling skipped the rocks had fought in I waited outside with my brother around the rocks, the Columbia River World War I, had once pitched a 24- while my mother went inside. She flooded calmly past the old pumping inning baseball game. They had re- returned with someone. He sat in a house. Why didn't it rush down- placed the hands of my dead father. wheelchair wearing a rumpled white stream like the logs in June? My Harry had taken care of me since bathrobe. First I saw only the robe, four-year-old mind didn't understand. my father's death two years before. then the white hair, then the smile. It was late July. Harry and I were While mom was off teaching school He reached out to me, his long spending another morning throwing to keep us well fed and clothed, arms touching with my arms and I rocks into the river. Harry handed Harry gave me love that only a man climbed onto his lap. He embraced me a green rock chosen from the could give. He was my babysitter, me and I squeezed hard too. "How ya thousands beside the river. "Let's see my substitute father, my friend. doing, Howdy?" he asked. you throw this one," he said. Harry's When he stepped out of the white The visit ended too soon and he large wrinkled hands had carefully stone house next door it meant an- disappeared through the double examined the stone. They could draw other adventure. doors. Two months later, we received a lot of information out of the rocks Harry greeted me each day with a phone call on a chilly November he touched. the same question, "What do you evening. "Yes, I see," my mother

My small hand grabbed the rock; want to do today, Howard?" With said. "That's too bad . . . I'm sorry." slowly I moved my fingers into the Harry around, I had lots of choices. Then she walked over to me and said, proper place as Harry had suggested We could throw rocks into the river, "Howard, Harry died tonight. His thumb on top, index finger extended stare straight down the two-hundred- heart stopped beating." to the rock's corner, and the three re- foot spillway of Chief Joseph Dam I didn't cry. Death was a long way maining fingers underneath. I threw two miles from Bridgeport, look for from a four-year-old's comprehen- the rock as hard as I could, snapping Indian arrowheads on the sand bar sion. My father had died before I my wrist to make it spin just as I across the river, visit Harry's son in could remember him, now Harry let go. My rock sailed out across the the town of Brewster, slide on the Roger Lily, 68, had died. All I water, bouncing once, twice, three slides at Berryman Park, play base- understood v/as that I wouldn't see times before disappearing into the ball, explore the local apple orchards him again. But nearly 20 years later green Columbia. or just talk. I still see Harry. I often visit his "That's good, Howard," Harry At age four it was a summer of grave in the cemetery next to the said, while squeezing my shoulder. blissful days. He answered all my apple orchard where we looked for With his other hand he tossed his questions. He talked about World rattlesnakes. Sometimes, I see Harry own rock into the river. The rock War I, about his brother, about in his wheelchair, sometimes he's leaped out of his right hand, skipping President Eisenhower. I thought he waiting to catch me at the bottom across the water six, eight, at least held all the world's knowledge in his of a slide, sometimes he's beside me ten times before it was done. A series head. at the river throwing rocks. When- of concentric circles radiated out Then one morning Harry didn't ever I throw a rock into the Columbia from each spot where the rock had come out of his white stone house. River, I hold it the way he taught touched the water of the Columbia. He was ill, my mother said. They had me. Snapping my wrist just before A look of astonishment covered my taken him to a hospital in Spokane, letting go, I watch the spinning stone young face. 100 miles away. Now there were no skip gracefully across the green "Just lucky, Howdy," he chuckled. more trips to the dam, to the sand water, creating first one circle, then

Harry looked at me through his dark bar, or even down to the river to two, then three. . . green eyes with a gaze so compelling throw rocks. Without Harry, the —Howard Morris

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35) concealed grenade, and York dropped in the back with his service revolver, Sgt. York: him in his tracks. Meekly, the rest the German major kept calling on of the prisoners fell into line. York his fellow soldiers to surrender. York A German major who had been called on the remainder of the Amer- disarmed each new group and pushed lying on his stomach watching York's ican platoon, who had been trapped ahead. performance with awe, now got up in a thicket unable to take part in Finally, the group reached Amer- and walked over to the soldier. "En- the firefight, to bring up the rear ican lines and York reported to Lt. glish?" he asked. with the German prisoners. Then he Ralph Woods, telling him he had a "No," replied York, "American." set out in search of the American few of the enemy to turn over. "Good Lord," said the major in lines. "How many are there, corporal?" a shaken voice, "if you'll just stop The German major tried to point Woods asked. shooting, I will make the rest give out a path for the group to follow, "I kind of lost track, sir." up." but York, suspecting a trap, led his In addition to the 25 Germans he Silently, York signaled the Ger- party in the opposite direction. had killed and the 132 captured, the mans—there were about 90 of them As they trudged on, the Americans hillbilly who didn't want to be a sol- —to come forward with their hands encountered more German machine- dier had silenced 35 machine guns. in the air. One German carried a half- gun nests. With York prodding him Next came the task of document-

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ing York's deed for the records. His ply to Prince Max that the allied comrades on the patrol who survived military leaders would set the armi- the ordeal all made out affidavits stice terms for the Germans. He add- that accounted for all who were not ed that there was no other way to killed or wounded and showed the deal with a foe who resorted to such part each man played. These records barbaric practices. gave clear proof that at the height Decorations were heaped on York of the fight, no American fired a for his historic action. Gen. John J. shot except York. Pershing, commander of the Amer- In fact, York's exploit even had ican Expeditionary Force, pinned the an indirect effect on Woodrow Wil- Congressional Medal of Honor, the son. He had been negotiating with nation's highest military award, on the Germans through an amateur York and called him the greatest diplomat named Prince Max of Ba- civilian soldier of the war. den over the famed Fourteen Points, France's Marshal Foch, supreme the President's blueprint for peace commander of Allied Forces on the that Allied leaders had been trying Western Front, awarded York the to circumvent. Croix de Guerre with Palm and Then came Oct. 8 and news that termed his feat the most remarkable the 82nd's platoon had taken the individual achievement of the war. surrender of a number of Germans In Paris he was received and honored only to be butchered by machine by the President of France and other gunners lurking in the background. It government officials. was an act of perfidy brought into Then there were glittering offers Sgt. York takes his turn for food during prominence by the heroism of York. beyond his wildest dreams. One WWI break behind the lines But for his dramatic feat, the atro- would have paid York $75,000 to cious conduct of the enemy might play himself in a film portraying his them down. The theater was frowned have escaped general attention. But life. Another called for vaudeville upon by his church, and York would this news, plus the sinking of a appearances at $1,000 a week. It was not go against its principles. passenger ship off the Irish coast a lot of money for those days and an York returned to his little village with the loss of 300 lives, sent a wave unbelievable amount for a mountain and settled down to a life of farming of rage through the Allies that fi- youth who had made $25 a month on 400 acres bestowed upon him by nally reached Wilson himself. On working on a farm before the war. the people of Tennessee. Oct. 14, the President fired off a re- But, without hesitation, York turned —Thomas A. Hoge VETERANS!** Buy your lifetime of Florida which means no cash down, no closing costs vacations now with and low monthly payments. No need to dip into your savings. NO CASH DOWN* With 7 plans to choose from we have a NO CLOSING COSTS! home to suit you. (One especially designed for disabled veterans.) For less than $262* a month, you can own Beat inflation and cold weather. You de- your own 2 or 3 bedroom home on a land- serve your share of the warm Florida lifestyle scaped lot plus Florida's year-round sun- now. Send coupon today for your FREE Inde- shine. Prices start at $27,990. Act now before pendence Village information kit. inflation drives prices up! AW homes at Independence Village ji are eligible for a VA INDEPENDE guaranteed mortgage, ------VILLAG Independence Village Inc. 511 E. Coliseum Blvd. Port Charlotte, FL 33953 Please send my free Independence Village Kit.

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40 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 carrier fleet. These were the new cap- liament, the word "carrier" was By 1968, the first of five planned ital ships that replaced the battle- abandoned in favor of "through-deck missile subs was complete but when wagons of the past. In the 1953 Coro- cruisers." a Labor government took office, nation review, six of them sailed by For seven years the Royal Navy's the fifth boat was stricken from with names like Implacable, Indom- aviators battled for their compromise. the construction program. itable and Illustrious. Finally, in 1973, the go-ahead was About the time Kennedy and Mac- So long as Britain had a carrier given for the keel-laying of the first, millan signed the pact under which force, there seemed little point in the Invincible. the British also got the A.3 Polaris developing missiles. But getting Harrier "jump jet" missile bodies minus warheads, de- By junking plans for a new car- fighters for the new ships proved an velopment began on a tactical mis- rier in 1966 the British Government even tougher battle. The Royal Air sile for British nuclear powered at- deprived the Royal Navy of its prin- Force did not view kindly any re- tack subs. One, the Dreadnaught, had cipal offensive weapon and by the vival of naval fixed-wing flying been commissioned in 1963, powered time the existing carriers were de- which would, it feared, mean a loss with a U.S. manufactured reactor. commissioned in the late 1970's, the of funds for its own programs. Five years later, after he shunned most powerful non-nuclear weapon Elsewhere in the Royal Navy it- new carriers, Defense Minister Hea- left would be a few six-inch guns on self, there was opposition. It was ley described the attack subs as "the three cruisers, all leftovers from believed that if budgetary approval capital ships of the future." World War II programs. were given for the aircraft and the A new missile project was revived Yet worse was to come for the ships, there would be compensating by the Heath government in 1970, Royal Navy. Early in 1968, follow- cuts in other areas of the Defense only to be scuttled again in 1975 by ing the devaluation of the pound, Ministry's construction program. the succeeding Labor administration. Defense Minister Healey ordered a In 1975, the government sanc- Substitute U.S. missiles probably speedup of plans to scuttle the car- tioned an order for 24 Harriers for won't be ready for operational service riers. The retreat from Singapore the Invincible. A year later the In- until 1980; meanwhile, the nine Brit- and the Persian Gulf was also speed- vincible^ sister ship Illustrious was ish nuclear attack submarines now in ed so that by 1972 nothing but the approved. A third ship, to be named commission carry torpedoes designed Hong Kong garrison would require Indomitable, is planned. in the mid-1930's. British forces outside Europe. Underwater, Britain's fleet was In 1976, more defense budget cuts A General Election in 1970 and given a boost in 1962 with the sign- forced the mothballing of Britain's the victory of a Conservative gov- ing of a pact by President Kennedy last two helicopter assault ships and ernment gave the Navy a brief re- and Prime Minister Harold Macmil- one of the two dock landing ships. spite. The attack carrier Ark Royal lan to aid a British ballistic missile When British Marines and Army was reprieved and the government submarine program. troops went to Norway for NATO's ordered 25-mile French Exocet surface-to-surface missiles for fitting in business the Navy's destroyers and escorts. Startyourown money-making sharpening in your spare time. There's no selling or canvassing. But the cutting back of the carrier TURN No experience needed. program had shaken Her Majesty's Navy. A complete new generation of Earn Up To $8 An Hour destroyers and escorts was required SPARE Many people, like yourself, are making $50 to to screen the carrier force. Optimis- $100 a week in their spare time. "I work when I want tic conservatives feel that by 1978 to and average about $400 a month!' says Herman Aschauer. they should have three new carriers TIME the size of the U.S. Navy's Midway class, plus two modernized carriers, No Experience Necessary the Ark Royal and Eagle. You can operate any Foley sharpening equipment INTO by following the easy-to-read operating instruc- But to get the new destroyers and tions. Minimum investment needed! Foley will escorts to sea on schedule, it was help finance you. There's no franchise fee. You can possible only to make minor design MONEY operate from your garage, basement or spare room. changes; thus eight new "cans" have no big punch against surface ships. FREE BOOKLET

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 41 tioning operation there were so many completion in 1979-80 will be Soviet fishing boats in the area that equipped with Sea Wolf. they interrupted radio links and near- The Sea Dart missile, currently in ly collided with service craft around service in a missile cruiser and two the rig. destroyers (a further six destroyers Aside from its seven new patrol still in the shipyards will also have ships, the Royal Navy also relies on it) has been shown in tests at sea its mine countermeasures ships, both aboard the cruiser to be able to hit sweepers and mine hunters, to help a target about the size of a foil protect fishing grounds against for- coated weather balloon at a height eign vessels. These small 360-ton of, say, five miles, while the second warships, most of which were built missile on the launcher has hit an- in the late 1950's, and are already other target simultaneously at a few overaged, also help patrol the coast hundred feet. of Northern Ireland to stop arms On the personnel side, the British smuggling to terrorists. Navy today has some 10,000 officers Currently, the British Navy has and about 52,000 enlisted men. The 58 warships equipped with helicop- Royal Marines have about 8,000 of- ters. They also operate from four ficers and enlisted men. Queen Elizabeth meets the crew of the survey ships and an ammunition and About a third of the officers are British warship HMS Bronington. stores ship. former enlisted men and the major- The helicopter carrier, Hermes, has ity of all officers have joined the exercise "Team Work" in the fall of been converted to carry 16 Sea King Navy as a career. During fiscal 1975, 1976, they had to cross the North 'copters and it may take aboard a more than 7,000 male officers and Sea in chartered Norwegian car fer- Harrier fighter squadron in 1978. enlisted men joined the Navy. Most ries and landing ships manned by One British missile cruiser and of the enlisted men serve for a min- hired merchant seamen. Four of the seven frigates are fitted with the imum period of nine years. landing ships had Hong Kong Chi- Australian-designed Ikara anti-sub- In the past 25 years, Britain's nese crews! It must have been the marine missile. After flight of up to Navy has shrunk, but it remains a first time Chinese "invaded" Nor- 10 miles, the missile body sheds its highly professional service. So long way! torpedo on the end of a parachute. as parliament allows, it will also Outside of NATO exercises and In the water the torpedo homes on remain the most powerful and ca- its permanent contributions to the noise from a submarine's pro- pable navy in Western Europe. SACLANT's Standing Naval Force pellers. —Desmond Wettern and NATO Channel Command's An eighth frigate, scheduled to be Mine Countermeasures Standing modernized with the Ikara, is cur- Force, the British Navy still keeps rently testing the Sea Wolf missile. one or two destroyers or frigates in This lightweight weapon is designed Editor's Note: The author is the the Mediterranean. They are based at for fitting in small warships and is naval correspondent of the London Gibraltar. Its task at the Rock is to the only Western naval weapon cur- Sunday Telegraph. stop illegal contravention of terri- rently being tested which is capable The British Foreign Affairs Re- torial waters by Spanish Navy ships, of destroying a shell in flight as well search Institute has issued a release the since Spain has laid claim to Gibral- as aircraft and missiles. on Wettern's analysis of growing tar for many years. Two new missile destroyers now offensive capability of the Soviet In Belize, in the Caribbean, one under construction and scheduled for submarine fleet. frigate helps Army and RAF units guard the semi-independent British colony from any ambitions of neighboring Guatemala. In Antarctica, a British Navy survey ship spends six months every year charting the coasts and supporting scientific groups ashore. A hydrographic survey ship has recently been charting deep water tanker routes in the Persian Gulf. Perhaps the biggest and most con- troversial sea task the British now face is patrolling the 200-mile Euro- pean Economic Communitv fishing zone drawn around northern Euro- pean waters. The area includes many off-shore oil rigs and production platforms for Britain's rapidly expanding oil industry. Several of the oil corpora- tions have protested that Soviet trawlers are ignoring undersea pipe- As the British Navy declines, there are a few ships still afloat such as the nuclear lines and are damaging them with submarine HMS Sovereign (top left), the carrier HMS Ark Royal (bottom left) and their trawl wires. During one rig posi- the frigate HMS Amazon (right)

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60 MILLION AMERICANS NEED THIS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23) DIABETICS (known and unknown) . . REGULAR USE OF THIS TESTING INSTRUMENT COULD McGuffey's Readers

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Veterans Newsletter

VETERAN S OF WW II CHINA THEATRE SERVICE RESPONSE FROM VETS EXPOSED TO A-TESTING

ELIGIBLE FOR CHINA WAR MEMORIAL MEDAL . . NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS . . .Recently the The Republic of China has issued the Defense Nuclear Agency announced a study China War Memorial Medal, and Americans, to evaluate the long-term effects of military or civilian, who served in the low-level radiation such as that experienced China Theatre for at least 30 days be- by almost 300,000 service personnel who tween September, 1939 and September, 1945 participated in nuclear tests from 1945 to

are eligible. . .Those who hold the China 1962... A toll-free telephone line was Service Medal may not be eligible as it installed by the Department of Defense... was awarded for service after 1945... As of June first, some 22,000 veterans and The China Theatre is defined as: servicemen have called, but that is less

Mainland China, Formosa (Taiwan) , the than 10 per cent of those who were exposed waters of the Yellow Sea, East and South to low-level radiation under DOD auspices

China Seas... Also included are those who during those years. . .Anyone who participated participated in the Philippine Defense, in any sort of nuclear testing above ground and the liberation and occupation of while in uniform is urged to call toll-free Okinawa. . .Write The Ambassador of the area code 800-368-8300. Republic of China, Embassy of the Republic of China, 2311 Massachusetts Avenue,

Washington, D.C. 20008. . .Remember to include documentation of service in those areas during the period of eligibility.

VA GETS NEW DEPUTY FOR MANPOWER . . . VA Chief Max Cleland announced the appointment of Richard S. Sweet, 49, as Assistant Deputy Administrator for Manpower . . Sweet, a native of Cran- ston, RI, was a career Army officer, retiring as a BGen . . . His newly created position will put him in charge of coordinating all manpower programs and systems in the third largest federal agency.

MASSACHUSETTS CITY HONORS VIETNAM VETS

. . . In recent ceremonies at the Memorial Square in the Village of Medway, MA, town officials dedicated a new memorial to the Vietnam era veteran . . . Citing past indifference toward these vets, Medway citizens decided to honor them in gratitude for their contribution to the US during the trying years of conflict in Southeast Asia . . . The ceremonies were highlighted by the presence of 3 Medal of Honor recipients as honored guests.

A member of the Honor Guard renders a salute to the 101st 12-YEAR-OLD HERO REGAINS VA RIGHT S... Airborne Division Monument in the Arlington National Cemetery. Calvin Graham's 36-year battle with the The monument to the "Screaming Eagles" was dedicated re- U.S. Navy is finally over. .. If you recall, cently. It stands along the entrance drive to the National Cemetery Calvin was thrown out of the Navy during WWII because it was discovered that he lied GROUND BROKEN FOR NURSING CARE WING AT about his age when he enlisted in 1942.... PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME . . He was 12 years old at the time. .. .Graham Ground was officially broken recently for a had to return his medals, awarded for $1.8 million, 75-bed nursing care wing at the heroism at Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal in the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home in

Pacific, and lost all veterans entitlements. Erie, PA. . .Construction is expected to take

...Recently, Navy officials relented and 18 months. . .Funds came from the Veterans granted Graham his honorable discharge, Administration and Pennsylvania. . .Opened in making him, at 48, the youngest WWII veteran 1886, the Erie Home currently cares for 175 in the nation. veterans, 75 of those under nursing care.

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Boys, Girls Elect New Presidents 200 Youths See Capital In Operation Michael A. Lopez of Denver, CO was elected president of the 1978 Boys Nation during the annual gathering of The American Legion-sponsored program in Washington. A junior at J. K. Mullen High School, President Lopez is a member of Au- rora Youth Commission, Denver Commission on Youth, and Alumnus of Presidential Classrooms. He advanced to Eagle Scout in 1976 and served as class president that same year. Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lopez of Denver. Girls Nation, a program of The American Legion Auxiliary, elected Barbara Neligan of Chattanooga, TN as president. A student at Notre Dame High School, the new Girls Nation Chief Executive is president of her school Drama Club, is active in sports, and works on the school newspaper. President Neligan is also a member of the Society of Distin- guished American High School Stu- dents. The new Boys Nation vice president is Stephen J. Pfleger, a senior at Cherry Hill High School, Cherry

Dr. Charles Figley, left, of Purdue University presents his new book "Stress Disor- Hill, NJ. ders Among Vietnam Veterans" to VA Administrator Max Cleland, seated, to whom Girls Nation participants elected is Internal Affairs Robert Spanogle, who the volume dedicated. Legion Director Sarah Duckers as vice president. worked closely with Figley in preparation of the book is at right Sarah is from Salina, KS where she is a student at Salina High School Author Dedicates Vietnam Book ( Continued on page 50)

To VA Administrator Cleland Joseph Keeley Succeeds Dr. Charles R. Figley who au- In accepting, Cleland marked the Editor thored the article "The Legacy of occasion as the "true beginning of Ray McHugh as 16 real Vietnam" which appears on Page and professional analysis of what Raymond J. McHugh has left made a formal presentation of his the war meant to those who came The American Legion Magazine new book "Stress Disorders Among back." as editor. Vietnam Veterans" to Veterans Ad- Present at the ceremony were Dr. Joseph C. Keeley, editor of ministrator Max Cleland in Washing- Figley's family and many VA offi- the magazine from 1949 until ton, D.C. cials as well as Sen. Birch Bayh CO- 1963, will take charge of the The book, first of three scholarly IN) and Rep. Floyd Fithian (D-IN) magazine on an interim basis. works dealing with the psychological who represents Dr. Figley's home consider it privilege to readjustment problems of Vietnam district. "I a have edited the magazine of the era vets, is dedicated to Cleland, not American Legion Internal Af- world's largest veterans organiza- as VA Administrator according to fairs Director Robert Spanogle was tion for the last three years," Figley, but as a man who is "typical on hand to represent the Legion of the guts and determination of the which had assisted in the studies McHugh said. Vietnam veteran." leading to publication of the book.

48 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 . : .

The Sweetest

Music Ever . . From Luzon By LEE JONES

IT was a hot, muggy night Aug. 10, 9 1945 when the Kay Kyser band was entertaining more than 10,000 GFs on northern Luzon in The Phil- ippines. U.S. I Corps troops were just mop- ping up the remnants of Japanese forces in the area. National Commander Robert Charles Smith discusses the future of veterans' pref- Kyser's USO troupe was playing erence provisions under the administration's Civil Service reorganization with U.S. all the popular tunes in its inimitable Rep. James M. Hanley (D-NY) during a visit to Capitol Hill recently style to the appreciation of stripped down GI's with perspiration glisten- ing from their bare upper bodies «r w *Agr when I received a piece of paper P% W% W% PI from a private from Corps headquarters. BEAT SPIRALING INFLATION WITHOUT Headquarters thought that Kyser TOUCHING YOUR SAVINGS would like to make an announcement to the GI's. The noise of battle almost drowned out the music. NO CASH DOWN. During a break, I handed the pa- NO CLOSING COSTS. per to Kyser and told him I would like to make a wire recording of the LOW MAINTENANCE. announcement. Interrupting the show, Kyser VA APPROVED PLANS grabbed the microphone to announce

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 48) Boys, Girls Nations Elect New Officers, Visit Capital

Central. Active in church and civic Soldier at the Arlington National affairs, Sarah is president of the Na- Cemetery just across the Potomac tional Forensics League. River from Washington. The usual steamy summer weather There were also stops at the head- in the nation's Capitol did nothing quarters of the many federal depart- to dampen the spirits of the 100 ments and agencies for meetings with young people in each group. 1978 top officials and briefings on each marked the 33rd year for Boys Na- operation. tion conclaves and the 32nd for Girls Girls Nation advisors were able to Nation. The programs were designed avert the disappointment of having to allow high school students with no place to take the Girls Nation outstanding scholastic records and group one evening when a fire in The demonstrated leadership potential to National Theater forced cancellation participate in a comprehensive exer- of a scheduled performance of the hit cise in the operations of the federal Broadway musical "Annie". Quick- government covering executive, legis- thinking staffers, with very little no- lative and judicial functions. tice and 100 young women ready to During a whirlwind week of meet- see a show, were able to get tickets ings, briefings and seminars, the for Gilbert and Sullivan's "The young men and women were also Gondolier" at the renowned Wolf able to visit many historic and cultur- Trap Farm Park in rural Virginia, al sites in and around Washington saving the day ... or night. including the White House, Congress By week's end, everyone concerned and the many monuments and me- had learned much about their govern- morials. In a special ceremony, the ment, made many new friends, and Boys and Girls Nations representa- had impressed the people of the city tives, accompanied by National Cdr. of Washington with their spirit, Robert Charles Smith, placed a courtesy and eagerness to know more wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown about the U.S. government.

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 49) toric document of surrender by the

The Sweetest Music . . . Japanese. Above top to bottom; Layton K. Hurst, "Holy mackerel," Kyser kept re- And I made the recording of Ky- Girls Nation Program Coordinator, intro- peating over the microphone. "God ser's historic announcement on duces speakers at a State Department briefing; Boys Nation VP Stephen Pfleger, bless all of you . . . Say, fellows, the northern Luzon for posterity. I'll left and Pres. Michael Lopez, second from bridge is still out, now don't anybody never forget it. left, meet the Republic of China's Am- get hurt as long as you have come Editor's Note: Lee Jones who was bassador to the U.S., His Excellency this far. . .Holy mackerel." attached to General MacArthur's James H. Shen, at the Chinese Embassy. Less than a month later, Gen. staff in Manila as a radio officer, Boys Nation Counselor for Foreign Af- fairs, Frank Manson is at right; Boys Na- Douglas MacArthur stepped aboard submitted taped copy of his record- a tion delegates gather to congratulate the USS Missouri to sign the his- ing for authentication. newly-elected officer

50 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 . .

CAPITAL SCENES

Girls Nation group takes a moment from touring the Capitol to pose for a portrait

Legion Salutes Senators Who Voted Against Canal Treaties

The 32 U.S. Senators who voted Pete Domenici (R-NM), Jake Garn against ratification of the two (R-UT), Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), treaties relinquishing American con- Robert Griffin (R-MI), Clifford trol over the Panama Canal have re- Hansen (R-WY), Orrin Hatch (R- ceived commemorative plaques from UT) and Jesse Helms (R-NC). The American Legion. Also Sens. Paul Laxalt (R-NV), Recipients include Senators James Richard Lugar (R-IN), James Mc- Allen CD-AL), Quentin Burdick (D- Clure (R-ID), William Roth (R- ND), Harry Byrd (I-VA), James DE), Harrison Schmitt (R-NM), Eastland (D-MS), Wendell Ford Richard Schweiker (R-PA), William (D-KY), Bennett Johnston (D-LA), Scott (R-VA), Ted Stevens (R- John Melcher (D-MT), Jennings AK), Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Randolph (D-WV), John Stennis John Tower (R-TX), Malcolm Wal-

(D-MS), Edward Zorinksy (D-NE), lop (R-WY) , Milton Young (R-ND) Dewey Bartlett (R-OK), Carl Cur- Sen. Maryon Allen accepted the tis (R-NE), Robert Dole (R-KS), plaque on behalf of her late husband.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 51 . ! — Planer Molder Saw Power TOOLS Auxiliary Scholarship - Solomon Islands Feed . tc Winners Are Named 3 u Gain Independence Winners of the 1978 American Le- gion Auxiliary National President's Thousands of American Marines, Scholarships have been announced. Seabees, sailors, soldiers and airmen The scholarships of $1,500 and $1,000 who ousted entrenched Japanese are given annually to high school forces from Guadalcanal in 1943 seniors in five geographical regions. after some of the bloodiest fighting Candidates must be children of vet- in World War II will be happy to erans. know that the Solomon Islands have In the New England area, a $1,500 become the world's newest nation. scholarship was awarded to William After 65 years of colonial rule, the E. Crowe of Salem, MA and Mary I. British Government handed over McGinnis of Litchfield, CT won the power to Prime Minister Peter Keni- $1,000 scholarship. Winners in the use this ONE power-feed shop to turn Now you can island- Mid-Atlantic area were Joseph J. rough lumber into moldings, trim, flooring, furniture lorea in front of thousands of sepa- —ALL popular patterns. RIP-PLANE-MOLD . . . waving green, blue and yellow Vari, Jr. of Wilmington, DE, $1,500, Cost ers rately or all at once with a single motor. Low tool for only $50 down. flags of independence. and Rosemary Stosnider, St. Albans, . . You can own this power Representing the United States at WV. Southern area winners were Jo 30-Da y FREE Trial! exciting™ acts the ceremony was Sen. John Glenn Ellen McLamb, Benson, NC and Vir- NO OBLIGATION—NO SALESMAN WILL CALL (D-OH), the first American astro- ginia K. Johnston of Blackwell, OK. RUSH COUPON Kl™ s C °' ™H X naut to circle the globe in space. Gerald P. Bowles of Crandon, WI Cit Mo 6411 TODAY! Kansas *' The Solomon Islands will become and John B. Sandage, Mason City, BELSAW POWER TOOLS the 150th member of the United Na- IA, took Midwestern area honors. Field Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 64111 tions and the 37th member of the Western area winners were Holly British Commonwealth. Lynn Ford, Laramie, WY and Frank r~\ VCC Please send me complete facts about 1-1 ICO pLANER-MOLDER-SAW and The Solomons were a bitter battle- E. Witt, Jr. of Augusta, MT. details about 30-day trial offer. ground, particularly at Guadalcanal 84 Million Checks Name where U.S. forces defeated the Japa- nese who left 24,000 dead on the The Veterans Administration pro- Address_ island. From Guadalcanal the Amer- cesses approximately 84 million City ican forces swept to victory in the compensation, pension and education State -Zip- Pacific. allowance checks annually. NEW RACES IN ALL TAKE 4 FORMATS ORDERS NEXT WEEKEND

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52 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 . Florida Post 'Vacations NOW! Get in on the For Vets' In 21st Year

Domenick Romeo of Rhode Island, service, Romeo was Rhode Island's saluted proudly and beamed a DAV Department Commander in flashing smile as he placed his state's 1958, and presently is the DAV Na- flag among the parade of banners tional Executive Committeeman SMALL honoring previous Disabled Veter- (Alt.) from that state. an's Week participants. "Dom" was Surrounded by colorful state flags representing previous honorees, Post ENGINE Commander Maria Spaziano opened the week's activities at the "wel- REPAIR! come" banquet by recruiting Romeo Work part time, full time — into the American Legion. He de- right at home — we help lighted the audience removing his by you every step of the way, NECman's cap and promptly don- No doubt about it... as a small engine pro. you can cash in ning the traditional head gear of en the huge demand for qualified men In one of America s "blue-cap Legionnaire" in North Mi- fastest growing industries. You'll be able to command top hourly rates of from $1000 to $15.00 per hour -and that's ami Beach Post # 257. just for labor. A simple tune-up earns as much as $17.50 for Guests for the special welcome less than an hours work, and parts, engines and accessories will add even more to the profits. party included North Miami Beach Plenty of business waiting for qualified men. Mayor Wally Peteszki, who read his Domenick Romeo, left, presents Rl state 46,000,000 Small Engines Are In Use Today! city's annual proclamation naming flag to Post 257 Cdr. Maria Spaziano, That's the official count from the Engine Service Assn., and second from right, as Dept. Cdr. George Romeo as this year's veteran. Also one-million new engines are being built each month. With fully Derrick, right, and Dept. Vice-Cdr. Robert taking part in the ceremonies were accredited Belsaw training, you can soon have the skill and McDonald look on knowledge to make top money servicing these engines. People Department of Florida Legion Com- will seek you out and pay you well to service their lawnmowers, the twenty-first disabled veteran to mander George Derrick, Department tillers, edgers, power rakes, garden tractors, chain saws, mini- bikes, snowmobiles, generators, go-carts, paint sprayers, snow- of Florida Jewish War Veterans be hosted by Skelly-McLeod Post blowers ..the list is almost endless. #257, North Miami Beach, Florida. Commander Norton Leff, Forty & Eight Cheminot Nationale (FL) Professional The post's extraordinary program Tools And began in 1957. Each succeeding year, Norman Deethardt and DAV NEC- Equipment the post has hosted a disabled veter- man Bernard Frank of Maryland. PLUS 4 HP Clinton his family for a week-long Vacation week activities range and . an Engine . vacation in sunny Miami Beach. from lazing in the sun to visits to The disabled veteran need not be a Miami's famed Seaquarium and Par- Legionnaire but is selected upon the rot Jungle, with evenings out on the his state's town. All the activities are compli- recommendation of VA ...All YOURS TO KEEP— Service Officer. The state to be hon- mentary for the vacationing veteran ...All At NoEntra Cost! ored during the succeeding year is and his family, including the use of chosen by lot drawn by the current a new car for independent jaunts. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! You don't need to be a born mechanic' or have any prior is The final event of the week is a vet. Florida not included in the experience. You can master this profitable trade right at home in drawing process and will automati- departure banquet sponsored by the your sparetime. Lessons are fully illustrated , so clear you can't go wrong, and with our famous 'learn-by-doing' method cally become the last state to be hon- American Legion Auxiliary Unit of you get practical hands-on' experience. We also show you ored in the year 2006. Post #257. how to get business, what to charge, where to get supplies Traditionally, the current veteran During the final festivities, Romeo wholesale... all the inside tricks of the trade you need to assure success right from the start brings with him his state flag. Post drew a slip of paper bearing the Send for FREE Facts -Do It TODAY! members carry the state banners, name of Massachusetts as next NO Obligation -NO Salesman Calls! twenty-one, in the year's honor state. now numbering You risk nothing by accepting this offer to see how annual November 11th Veteran's The Skelly-McLeod Post numbers easily you can learn the skills you need to increase Day Parade in Miami. less than 300 members annually and your income in a high-profit business of your own. Romeo, 69, saw service as a sub- a program of this magnitude would Just fill in and mail coupon below (or send postcard with name and address) to receive full information marine sailor during WWII aboard not be possible without the generous by return mail. the submarine U.S.S. Cavello. He cooperation and help of the business FREE suffered a permanent partial loss of community of North Miami Beach, RUSH COUPON TODAY BOOKLET! explosion of a which provides many vacation week BELSAW INSTITUTE hearing caused by the Send lor your 569S FIELD BUILDING five inch shell aboard the submarine services on a complimentary basis. copy today! KANSAS CITY, M0 64111 tender U.S.S. Gilmore, while in action in the Pacific. Tbelsaw INSTITUTE Accredited Lockblade Model K-35 . 569S FIELD BUILDING Member National Home An electrician's mate, Dom put his Knrte The falcon $4.95 Ea. KANSAS CITY, M0 64111 Study Council experience and know-how to work HAND CRAFTED Razor-Sharp + .55 Hndl. Vanadium Steel Rustproof Blade. YES, please send me the FREE booklet that gives _ upon his return to civilian life. He Non-Slip Handle With Nickle Silver full details about starting my own business in Small I Bolster and Hilt. The Blade Opens started an electrical contracting busi- \ Engine Repair. I understand there is No Obligation and | Smoothly and Locks firmly into position. that No Salesman will call on me. ness in Cranston, RI, and retired in Excellent for small game and general use. 1969. Since then, he and his wife Guaranteed! name. Return for re- Helen have made volunteer service fund if not fully

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 53 A bit of history returns home as former Marine GySgt. Ted Semick, center, presents the flag which flew over Guadalcanal Roger Lantagne, Commander of Post 1, Paris, France, right, and Peleliu during WW 2 to Col. James P. Kehoe, left, 4th accepts a check from Frank Corrigan, 1st Vice-Cdr and Marine Corps District Director in Philadelphia. At right is Department of France Chess Chairman as Mrs. Corrigan, left, Master GySgt Bob Green of Post 20, Philadelphia. The battle- looks on. The check represents the proceeds from this year's scarred banner will be forwarded to the Headquarters of the annual Open International Charities Chess Tournament orga- 11th Marine Regt, Camp Pendleton, CA. Semick fought with nized by the department. The funds are used in support of the 11th in the Pacific. many charitable activities

The leadership of Post 45 and Auxiliary Unit 45, Palatka, FL visited the Gainesville VA hospital to inspect equipment used in occupational therapy which the post and unit had purchased. Left to right: Legion Hospital representative James F. Drew; Eleanor Drew, Auxiliary Hospital Representative; Unit 45 President Mabel Clark; Gainesville Hospital's Chief of Occu- pational Therapy Leslie Samuelson; VA Chief of Voluntary Services at Gainesville Ralph Norman; and Post 45 Cdr Al McGuire, Commander of Post 10, Fred Clark Wilmington, NC, left, presents the U.S. Senator Honored ROTC Military Scholastic Award to Cadet Cpl. Curtis W. Herring, ninth- U.S. Senator Richard S. Schweiker grader at Williston Jr. High School. (R-PA) was honored at the 60th The young cadet is the son of Mr. Annual Pennsylvania Department and Mrs. Charles R. Herring of Convention. The citation was award- Wilmington. Mr. Herring is Post 10 ed Sen. Schweiker "for outstanding Historian and Department Sergeant- support of veterans' legislation" and

at-Arms. "courageous vote. . .on the Panama Canal Treaties." Schweiker voted in Citizen Of The Year opposition to the treaties. Joseph David Dufault, left, of Cape Carlyle J. Dennis, past commander May, NJ receives a medal for brav- of Post 193, Cape May, NJ and past ery from County Commander Tom county command- Behr. The 11-year-old was cited by er, was recently the members of Harry Snyder Post named as one of 193, Cape May for his bravery in Cape May's Citi- rescuing a woman swimmer being zens of the Year. pulled to sea by the undertow in The recogni- 1977. The youth could not overcome tion honors Den- the rushing tide, but stayed with the nis for his dedi- woman until other rescuers arrived. cation to veterans and civic activities since he has been a resident of Cape May. Retired from Col. Arthur C. Becker, Director of the Coast Guard in 1958, Dennis has Civil Defense for Southfield, MI and organized Cape May's Memorial member of Southfield Post 407, was Day observances for 31 years. Legion recently honored at the Annual Civil Members of Post 1038, Valhalla, NY activities include Boy's State, schol- Defense Director's Association of pay tribute to their deceased com- arship program, Oratorical and many Michigan Conference. The citation rades during Memorial Day obser- others. Until 1975, he was transpor- recognized Becker's 16 years of dedi- vances. Pictured left to right are Le- tation coordinator and attendance cated service to the community in gionnaires R. Rudowsky, R. O'Shell, officer with the Lower Cape May the field of Civil Defense. Becker is I. Keagle, J. Dandreano, D. Sfamur- Regional School District. Civil Defense Chairman for Post 407. ri, and H. Stuart.

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Matthew Boonstra, Aviator's Legionnaire of Month TAPS Post 46th Commander, New York, died The Taps Notice mentions, when- recently. Mr. Boonstra served in the Troop Carrier Command in the Asi- Dorothy L. Rowe Is ever possible, those Legionnaires who have held high National or Depart- atic Pacific Theater during WWII ment Office in the Legion, US Gov- and in Korea (1951-54). He flew a Selected for Honor ernment, or other forms of national total of 200 missions in Vietnam prominence. (1968-70) as the oldest combat pilot on active duty. North Tampa, FL, Post 334 John B. Barnard, Jr., 53, died in thought enough of their newly-in- J. Perry Cole, 88, died recently. He April. Mr. Barnard was Dept. Cdr. stalled Commander to include the served as National Executive Com- for the CO American Legion (1954- honor of being named Legionnaire mitteeman, Louisiana, (1943-45). 55). of the Year. Such recognition cannot go begging, and Dorothy L. Rowe Giles A. Reeve, former National Ex- Charles L. Wooley, 84, died recently has also been selected as "Legion- ecutive Committeeman (1975-77) in Providence, RI. Mr. Wooley was naire of the Month." A veteran of and Michigan Department Cdr. died the- former Nat'l Vice Cdr. of the Le- more than 20 years in the Navy in July. He was serving on the Na- gion (1933-34), Nat'l Exec. Commit- Nurse Corps, Dorothy has compiled tional Public Relations Commission teeman (1934-35) and Dept. Cdr. an impressive list of accomplishments at the time of his death. (1929-30). in Legion work, and with other veterans organizations as well. NEW POSTS G. H. Gilliland, died recently in Glen- General MacArthur Post No. 78, Kwanju, Cdr. Rowe first joined the Legion Korea, AK; Union Hills Post No. 106, Phoenix, of AZ; Phoenix Post No. 107, Phoenix, AZ; West- in dale, CA. Mr. Gilliland a veteran 1973. Since then she has served as side Post No. Kekaha, Kauai, HI; Makakilo drafted a resolution in 1954 to 51, Post Adjutant of Tampa Womens WWI Post No. 52, Makakilo, HI; Cotton Area Post No. add "GOD" to the Pledge of Alle- 425, Cotton, MN; Jackson Memorial Post No. 96; Jackson, MS; Mayon Post No. Ill, Legaspi

giance. City, Albay, P.I. ; Col. Herbert C. Page Post No.

114, General Santos City, P.I. ; Bulacan Military Area (B.M.A.) Post 133, Quezon City, P.I.; Col. Vincent John Maxheim, 71, died in Russell Nelson Post No. 130, Kidapawan, North Cotabato, P.I.; Sgt. Leon Maralli Post No. 134, May in Clinton, IA. A life member Tuguegarao, Cagayan, P.I.; Molintas-Dangwa Post. No. 135, LaTrinidad, Benguet Prov. P.I.; of the Legion, Mr. Maxheim served The Tarlac Veterans Post No. 136, Tarlac, Tar- as Department of Iowa public rela- lac, P.I.; Lakandula Post No. 137, Pasay City, P.I.; Major Walter M. Cushing Post No. 138, tions director and editor of the Iowa Candon Ilocos Sur., P.I.; Kalayaan Command Post No. 139, Real, Quezon, P.I.; Gen. MacAr- 'Legionnaire'. thur West Pacific Area USSAFE-GRL Vets Assn. Post No. 140, San Augustin, Iriga City; Col. Ar- thur G. Grimes Post No. 141, Capape, Bohol, Thomas W. Barnett, 54, died recent- P.I.; Ampao Post No. 142, Tondo, Manila, P.I. Major Feliciano Avancena Post No. 143, San ly. Mr. Barnett was past commander Jose, Del Monte, Bulacan, P.I. ; Surigao City

Post No. Surigao City, P.I. ; Richmond of Post 14^ Department of France, 145, Memorial Post No. 108, Richmond, VA; Westport and was named 'Honorary Depart- Post No. 140, Westport, WA; Edward C. Krzy- sowski Post No. 2224, North Riverside, IL. ment Commander' during 1977 De- James Thurman Gibson Post No. 335, Vicco, partment of France convention. KY; Edwards Post No. 104, Edwards, MS; Swan-Seeley Post No. 63, Condon, MT.

James P. Bradley died recently in Los Angeles. He was alternate Na- tional Executive Committeeman (1968-70). Dorothy L. Rowe died Post 134, Commander of Sulphur Monsignor Patrick J. Ryan, 75, in in Washington, DC. Monsig- Springs Post 89, and Post 334 Adju- June the former chief of tant in addition to editing the North nor Ryan was Tampa 334 News. Chaplains for the Army and a noted Legionnaire. was appointed At the District level, Dorothy was He chief of chaplains in 1954 by then 15th Dist. Historian in 1975, Ser- JUST ONE HAND ! President Eisenhower after almost 30 geant-at-Arms in 1976, Commander A completely NEW concept in gardening ma- years in the Army. chines! amazing 2-in-1 TROY-BILT® is not in 1977, and Executive Committee- The only a wonderfully better roto tiller, it's also man in 1978. Her committee many a wonderful compost shredder-chopper! It turns appointments include the Oratorical. Hon. William A. Purtell, former US your whole garden, however large or small, into Presently, Cdr. Rowe is Central Senator (1952-58) from Connecticut a fabulously fertile "compost pile"! So easy to Area Membership Chairman, a post died in May. Purtell was a member handle, even for ladies and older folks, you guide it with JUST ONE HAND! For complete she also held last year. She served of Post 8, Hartford, CT and former details, prices, off-season savings, ask for free as well as Chairman of the Florida Dept. Chaplain (1936-37). In 1957, booklet. Write TROY-BILT Roto Tiller-Power Corn- Department's Women Legionnaire he was recipient of the Americanism posters, Dept. 80719, 102nd St. & 9th Ave., Troy, Activities, plus being a member of Award. New York 12180. ' the Honor Society of Women Le- BASEBALL gionnaires. With a record like that, Frank C. Moore, 82, died recently in ^ ^ the vote was no contest. Dorothy Kenmore, NY. Mr. Moore was a CARDS L. Rowe, Cdr., North Tampa Post charter and life member of Post 205, I AM PAYING EXCELLENT PRICES FOR CARDS 334 receives congratulations for her Kenmore and served the state of ISSUED WITH BUBBLE GUM, WIENERS, TOBACCO, CEREAL, AND OTHER PRODUCTS. IF YOU HAVE efforts and for being picked as "Le- New York as Comptroller and Lieu- CARDS TO SELL: WRITE — H.M. WAMSLEY — 605 ADAIR CIRCLE - HUTCHINSON, KS 67501 gionnaire of the Month." tenant Governor. or CALL - 316-662-6427.

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No female who has known and loved and outgrown 484th BIT, Sqd D, Topeka Fid, KS—Need to hear this Classic Favorite will be able to resist it! from anyone who remembers the hearing loss suffered by Robert J. Barr while at Topeka Field, Oct. or Nov., 1945. Contact CID 515. 2004th QM Trk Co (Aviation) —Need to hear from comrades recalling an incident in which Thomas E. Blaylock was run over by a jeep, Bunny (gSK Sleeper suffering a fractured skull and broken left leg while in Belgium. Contact CID 516. 57th NCB & MCMU 101—Need to hear from NOW . . . PERSONALIZED . . . with those who recall that Earlond S. Norton was treated for fungus in the Admiralty and New Hebrides Islands from 1943 to 1944 and was Embroidered 3-Letter Monogram hospitalized for a sinus condition in Korea, Jan., 1955. Contact CID 517. 8768tli QM Trk Co—Need to hear from com- No skimpy, cut-down, cut-rate imita- rades remembering that Bilialdo Sanchez had an injury to his left leg which was aggravated tion, but a full fashioned, shape flat- by hiking at Camp Barkley, Abilene, TX, Oct., 1942. Contact CID 518. tering, body-warming sleeper. 1ST 1015—Need to hear from comrades who recall Savino Morelli developed a nervous condi- This is original "wearable tion in Nov. 1944. Contact CID 508. \ the 521st Railhead Co—Need information from any- Blanket" the grown-up ver- one who remembers Ralph Anastasio's daily — visits to sick call for treatment of a nervous sion of a child's favorite, now condition, while stationed in Chauny, France, Dec 1944—Mar 1945. Contact CID 519. in a frankly sexy, shape flat- 3rd AAF, Flight Line 3, Tampa, FL—Need to hear from comrades concerning Thomas I. B#tering, body-warming sleeper. Bishop, who was run over by a carry-all, sustaining back and kidney injuries, while sta- d^HHr Styled in fuzzy, soft machine- tioned at McDill Field, Jan-May, 1945. Contact ^ washable and dryable acrylic (just CID 520. 63rd Div, Co M, 255th Reg—Need assistance like the crib-sets' still popular mod- from comrades who remember Eloi Eamirande being crushed at the hip by two jeeps back- / els), they zip a gal up in the coziest ing up to deliver ammunition in battle at Sar- requemines, Germany, Feb 17, 1945. Contact top-to-toe comfort she's known since she CID 521. USS St. Paul—In need of information from anyone was 6. Slippers are detachable—even with- recalling Roy Riddle suffering back inju- out blankets there's never a draft. So whether ries while firing 40mm anti-aircraft, starboard, due to sky control error in orders, in the Pa- she (or any bunny on anyone's "special" list) cific, 1944. Contact CID 522. LIFE MEMBERSHIP admits to 40 or proudly announces 14, our The award of a life membership to a Legion- Bunny Sleeper means deep-down luxury for naire by a Post is a testimonial by those who know best that such a member has served The lounging and dreaming. Perfect for ski ward- American Legion well. Below are listed some of the previously un- robes, dorms, holiday gifts . . . different and listed life membership Post awards that have been reported to the editors. They are arranged delightful to give or get. by States or Departments. Herman Curley (1978) Post 123, Santa Monica, Bunny Sleeper (Specify up to CA Monogrammed* Henry Calloway, Frank Gonsalves, Frank 3 Initials $21.95 each. Maggi, John Rodrignes, Joseph Zarcone (all 1978) 'Monogrammed Bunny Sleepers are not returnable. Post 419, Santa Clara, CA Robert Mead, Frank Ragusa (both 1978) Post Sleeper $16.95 each. 34, Milford, CT Bunny no monogram Elmer Bailey, Curt Schleimer (both 1978) Post 308, Hollywood, FL Choice of Favorite Colors Dan Collins. W. L. Evans, Frank Henry, J. C. White, Jr. (all 1978) Post 50, College Park, GA. Baby Royal Sun Fire August Hemmi (1978) Post 3, American Falls, Pink Blue ID Yellow Red Fred McColInm, Charles Laird, Jack K. Jones, CONSULT Bernard Stapenski (all 1978) Post 14, Flora, IL THIS CHART FOR Russell Neely, Sr. (1978) Post 14, Shreveport, CORRECT SIZE LA Order this Lawrence Butler, Jay Fendlason, John E. If Height is: Size Fendlason, Norman Magee, Price Magee (all 1978) Post 113, Franklinton, LA Up to 5'2" Small Alex Moline, George Paschke, Fred Porter, Rec- 5'2" 5'4" tor Putnam, Herbert Schwen, W. J. Shannon to Medium Earth, (all 1978) Post 89, Blue MN 5'4" to 5'6" Large Fred Hupp, H. Clark Nicolay (both 1978) Post 46, Butler, MO Over 5'6" Extra Large Freal Ames, Edwin Bardeen, Richard Emerson, Harold French, Robert French (all 1977) Post 173, Bath NY CREDIT CARD HOLDERS ONLY! Frank Steffen (1974), Owen Parmeter (1975), In a hurry and live outside N.Y. State? Milton Taft (1977) Post 814, Portville, NY Peter Jasenjak (1978) Post 1600, Pomona, NY CALL 800-833-2008 Dept. 1 3991 "i Harry Burkhart, Joseph Fondren (both 1976), TOLL IN NEW YORK STATE CALL 800-342-61 1 Finley Gordon, Matthew Mattes (both 1977), Wil- FREE: 24 hours, 7 days a week liam Willert (1978) Post 343, Euclid, OH Robert Schiele (1978) Post 473, Copley, OH Walter Parsons, Charles Smith, Freeman Smith, DELIVERY . . . Jay Young (all 1977) Post 502, Pen Argyl, PA PROMPT GUARANTEED MAIL COUPON TODAY Herbert Parker, Richard Sid Gusman, A. Dier- Please send Bunny Sleeper(s) as indicated here. Add $3.00 per gar- lam, Neal Cleveland (all Post Ih< 1977) 11, Bay ment for shipping and handling. (New York residents add appropriate City, TX ESGAUERY sales tax.) Charles Geisenberg, (1973), Howard Atkinson OF Km AMSTERDAM (1975), James Kerslake, Karl Kalstrom, Ernest Amsterdam, N.Y. 12010 Dept. 3991 Wilson (all 1977) Post 521, Pasadena, TX Robert Moran (1977), S. E. Fowlkes, S. H. Name 4477X Bunny Sleeper with Monogram $21.95 Meadows, Chris Schaffner (all 1978) Post 73, St. (Please Print) Albans, WV Quantity Color Size Initials Allan Shaw (1978) Post Bridge, Address- WV 129, Gauley Life Memberships are accepted for publication City _State_ -Z'P- only on an official form, which we provide. Re- Check or money order enclosed. ports received only from Commander, Adjutant or Finance Officer of Post which awarded the life Charge my Credit Card or Bank Card # indicated below: membership. They may get form by sending stamped, self- 4461X Bunny Sleeper NO Monogram $16.95 addressed return envelope to: BankAmericard Master Charge American Express "L. M. Form American Legion Magazine, 1608 Card Expiration Date Bank # K St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006." On a corner of the return envelope write the Signature number of names you wish to report. No written ® 1978 Amsterdam Printing and Litho Corp. Amsterdam, N.Y. letter necessary to get forms.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 59 BBSS FOR PERMANENT HUNTING ACCIDENT FUND RAISING m PREVENTION Easy way to raise money for your Organization because everyone has fun playing BINGO/ Thousands of Organizations are making up to According to statistics compiled by consciously influence his stability and $500.00 per week using BINGO KING" supplies the National Safety Council, hunt- cause a serious fall. The soles of boots and FREE Idea Bulletins. Write for FREE catalog ing accidents are relatively few, only must be slip-proof to prevent falls and details on raising money for your Organiza- tion. several hundred annually compared when climbing rocky ground or stone PLEASE GIVE NAME OF ORGANIZATION. to the thousands on highways caused walls, especially in damp weather or 'BI3VGO yrSLXJSrC^ 9 by automobiles, additional thousands when crossing brooks. Air tempera- Dept. 808-A, Box 2499, LITTLETON, COLO. 80161 in the house, at work, etc. But these ture usually drops in the evening accident statistics are misleading. when hunting stops, and then the Hunting accidents are classified as daytime clothing is insufficient to pro- Learn CUSTOM pWeFRAMING those involving the discharge of a tect his perspiring body. Therefore FOr Fun Or PrOfit! Let Professionals show firearm. Not taken into account are an extra garment, such as a sweater,

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60 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 (CONTINUED YOU Can Earn Up To FROM PAGE 29) Couriers: Today's Pony Express mm cnnn An legal decision. Had the men been convicted they were going to be be- Hour headed." "The one thing that's sure about this business," smiles Gray, "is that In no two days are ever the same. I remember being called at 4 one Fri- YOUR day afternoon in London and by 5 the next morning I was in Caracas FULL TIME OWN , with a packet to deliver to a bank there. But the address on the packet SHARPENING BUSINESS! was only a post office box, the post offices were closed as it was Satur- No Selling, No Inventory. . . Year Round day, and there was no way I could Cash Profits and YOU Set The Hours! call back to the client's London office to double-check on the identity Yes, there's a lot of business waiting of the addressee. I rode around the for the man who can sharpen saws, planer deserted banking district for a while, knives, jointer blades, wood chisels, scis- sors, axes and other garden, shop and trying to see a name I recognized. home tools. Finally, I ended up at the U.S. Em- Belsaw SHARP-ALL does all these jobs bassy, also closed tight. I But found quickly with precision and at a big profit a guard who woke up the duty offi- for YOU. You can become Sharpening Headquarters for carpenters, cer who called the commercial at- builders, lumber yards, factories, home workshop tache at home who had the phone hobbyists. And, you can start this Money- number of the addressee in his little Making business for less than $50. FREE BOOK tells how to start your own black book and we finally made the sparetime business while you are still delivery. This is why couriers get working at your regular job. People bring in their work and pay Cash over paid; if the packet had been air- — 90c of every dollar you take in is cash profit. freighted, it probably would have stayed at the airport until Monday at the earliest." Despite the ever-increasing efficiency of air freight, it appears quite JOIN obvious that air couriers are in the THESE SUCCESSFUL SHARP-ALL worldwide swift delivery business to OPERATORS- stay. "For pretty much the same *4,000 * Ifem reasons as sending men to the moon," • "Think the world of my Sharp-All. Am now Let Belsaw prove grossing about $4,000 a year part time, and hope says Ray Gray. "It would have been to expand shortly. Now doing: work for the State of New York, Carrier Corp., and General Motors." YOU can do it — On our quite possible to rocket a device to Lawrence Stevenson the moon which would have per- E. 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Our couriers are worth what how we help you grow, *5^6 €i* facet the client how we'll finance you. pays because they know "On Saturdays, my big day, I take in $45 to $55. Other days I average less, but I figure I make when to switch planes in order to BELSAW SHARP-ALL CO. between $5 to $6 per hour . . . and sometimes more. make a better connection at their I am presently enlarging my shop, and thank 609S Field Building Belsaw and their fine equipment for making it Kansas City, Mo. 64111 destination, how to charm their way possible. V. O. Miller through rigid Customs or Immigra- Hubert, North Carolina 28539 RUSH COUPON TODAY FOR FREE tion barriers, when to double-check BOOK on the identity of the individual No obligation ... No salesman will call "Bought my Sharp-All claiming to be an authorized recip- four years ago, and it has done everything (and more) than you said it would. belsaw sharp-all ient. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1978 61 M BIG OIL MONEY 1 PLUS TAX BENEFITS PERSONAL OTHERS 00 EVERY MONTH IN U.S. GOVERNMENT OIL LEASE DRAWINGS. IF YOU ARE 21 AND A CITIZEN YOU CAN PARTICIPATE EOUALLY WITH MAJOR Retirement Health Care Guide. A $25 OIL COMPANIES IN THIS LEGAL LOTTERY. TAX OEOUCTIRLE FILING FEE CAN RETURN SLR Cameras Worth A New Look. UP TO $75,000 AND MORE IMMEDIATELY Your Own Cost-of-Living Index. PLUS A POSSIBLE FORTUNE IN FUTURE INCOME WRITE DEPT. 3 FOR FREE INFORMATION. Even though you may not plan to retire for a while, give yourself ample

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FORTUNE COOKIE?

Wife, reading husband's fortune card, "You are intelligent, brave arid true;

Successful with the opposite sex . . It has your weight wrong, too!" Ruth M. Walsh

MEALS INCLUDED . . .

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