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A R T 1 C Ln En RECOURSE FOR THE FLAG The will ofmainstreamAmerica can prevail. By Herman Belz 14 TWELVE YEARS AND OUT! Why congressmen should call it quits after six terms. By IrvingKristol 16 SAVE ENERGY 37 WAYS TO on Common-sense tips that can saveyou money. By LesterDavid 20 SKY SEARCH Man's quest in thefinalfrontier continues. By Gurney Williams III 21

GANGLAND U.S.A. Big city gangs are now in small-town America. By Robert McGarvey 25 CURBING CADLEPORN X marks the spot onyour television dm. By Robin Musiol

A CHAPLAIN IS CALLED HOME One ofthe Four Chaplains was also a Legionnairefaithful. ByWyattFox 30

A CANDLE IN THE DARK The Legion helps in thefight against eye diseases. By Edward Edelson 32 CASUALTY OFWAR He survived combat, butnotaVAbureaucracy. ByJoy Powell 34 THE LEGION REMEMBERS MANUEL PEREZ A combat hero's deeds are recalled. By Rubin Torres 36

BROTHERS IN ARMS Brothers who served the nation and the Legion. 40 OPERATION MAIL CALL Legion delivery ofletters sparkspen-pal relationships. 42

RELIEF LACKED TEAM WORK Legion studyfindsproblems with FEMA's disaster assistance. 46 DEPARTMENTS

BIG ISSUES Should Congress Establish a National Health-Care Systemm? 12

LETTERS 4 VETERANS UPDATE 38 LEGIONNAIRES INACTION 52

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 LEGION NEWS 44 PARTING SHOTS 68

OPINIONS 8 VETERANS ALERT 50

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Her last 12- By consenting to the Constitution ("S&L Crisis," November 1990), a dis- day hospital stay cost $37,412.82, not and the Bill of Rights, the people turbing problem facing all Americans. counting the doctor bill. directed the new government to We are disappointed, though, that the "secure This country is en route to one of two the blessings of liberty to ourselves writer, Miles Epstein, chose to lead the and destinations: Health care disaster or a our posterity." Democratic story with inaccurate information self-govern- British system of health care. I wonder ment is a regarding our bank. mechanism, not a freedom. who will complain the most: the doc- Freedoms do not come from San Diego Trust and Savings Bank, a govern- tors, the insurance organizations, or the ment. Indeed, governments have all too California chartered banking institu- BMW dealerships? often become a threat to our freedoms. tion since 1889, is a third generation John R. Myers family-owned company. We were John McClaughry Monroe, Ga. Concord, Vt. recently recognized as being one of the 50 strongest banks in the United States. No Justice This was based upon our cash liquidity, Tax Attacks How long will the Agent Orange equity ratio, deposit stability and loan It's time to raise hell with Congress. hoax continue? My husband died Jan. portfolio. Egypt and Israel receive almost $6 26, 1984, 21 days after he was diag- billion in aid Mr. Epstein's reference to our institu- annually from the United nosed with cancer in every body organ. tion came from a tragic robbery com- States. Congress has voted to increase VA said it was not service connected. aid mitted by Robert Harris, now on death to both countries in fiscal year We received the maximum family 1991. At the time, row— a robbery and murder which still same Congress has benefit of $3,000 from the Agent evokes outrage from the citizens of San voted to cut veterans' and military Orange class-action lawsuit. Diego County. retirees' benefits. Those governments I find it strange that residents of Ful- don't Please inform your readers that there pay one dime in U.S. taxes, nor lerton, Calif., sued the city for a toxic are banking institutions that have taken have they shed one drop of blood in waste dump without proof of harm and their financial responsibilities seriously defense of this country. It is beyond my the families received $30,000 each. and can be counted on in these troubled comprehension how Congress could Meanwhile, I'm raising two kids on an this times of financial distress. allow inequitable treatment of our income below the poverty level. and Julie M. Walke men women who served in the Where's the justice? We don't need San Diego Trust and Savings Bank armed forces. Let your Congressmen more biased studies. need help now. We know how you feel about this slap in the Brenda Iwasyk face to veterans. Hughson, Apology Calif. James Sherrill Because of an oversight, the name St. Pauls, N.C. of Sylvester R. Woodfork Jr. of Nothing's Certain Read lips. With a huge deficit, Washington, DC, was not supplied to Congress can allow the squandering my our hired help in Washington decided the magazine for inclusion in the pub- of billions of dollars in the savings and we could afford: lished list of contributors who donated loan scandal, but really look for the • $28.5 million for congressional $50 or more to the 1988 Child Welfare small things when they deny a veteran and staff salary increases. Foundation campaign. We apologize an $80 tombstone. What a disgrace. In • $1 million for a study of bicycling for the oversight and any embarrass- fighting the deficit, they saw fit to hurt and walking. ment it might have caused. veterans again. Write your Con- • $500,000 for a tribute to Lawrence The Editors gressman on this one. Remain silent, Welk. and they will keep whittling away your • benefits. $100,000 for a study of soybean- Heel Thyself based inks. George Caffery In response to the letter written • $100,000 for a study of Waikiki Meriden, Conn. by Dr. Roger R. Tobias (Letters, Beach sand. December 1 990) I certainly agree that a Freedom's • $3.8 million on an urban gar- rural hospital is a vital part of the com- dening program. munity. Dr. Tobias mentioned, "More Source However, they could not afford a and more workers can't find it in them- Judge Robert Bork ("The Tempting headstone allowance for veterans not selves to properly save for health care of American Courts," December 1990) buried in a national cemetery, plus they expenses." said, "The most important freedom the denied disabled veterans a 5.4 percent There is a huge and growing number Constitution gives us is the freedom to cost-of-living increase. 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HEN a Mississippi Mideast with the help of units from man's National Guard nearby Fort Carson. unit was recently At Post 3, Greenville, S.C., Legion- called up for Opera- naires set up a Military Affiliated Radio tion Desert Shield, he Station at the Post. Legionnaires helped expected there would put stateside families and our troops in be financial problems touch with one another over the holi- caused by his deploy- days. According to many in that Depart- ment. He just didn't ment, it was, as the slogan goes, the expect that his military pay records next best thing to being there. would list him as "unmarried"— a bit of Frank Johnston, alternate National information that came as quite a shock Executive Committeeman from to his wife and two children. Illinois, told me that Legionnaires in Through the help of a Guard veteran, central Illinois launched the "We Care" Command Sgt. Maj. Robert S. Smith of program, providing packages to service Jackson, Miss., the trooper's wife was personnel from the area who had been able to defer payment on outstanding sent to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. bills until the error was corrected. But Even in my own travels as National she and her children still had other Commander, I've personally witnessed needs that had to be met. the outpouring of your concern for Smith, a member of Legion Post 106 Nat'I Cmdr. Roberts. Turner Operation Desert Shield troops and in Mississippi, knew about The Amer- their families. Shortly before the ican Legion Family Support Network, to explain that her son, who was Christmas holidays, Legionnaires of so he contacted the Department of Mis- stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., was sent Indiana's Edinburgh Post 233 provided sissippi. After verifying the family's to Saudi Arabia. After his deployment, gifts and a meal to members of the needs, the Department immediately his automobile, which was parked off 1438th Transportation Company, a sent the woman a $300 check to pay for base, was impounded because author- National Guard unit from nearby Camp food. ities believed it was abandoned. New Atterbury, which had been activated. This is just one of the many success York Department officials had the I had the privilege of presenting the stories that have happened since the vehicle picked up and it will be stored Guardsmen with U.S. Flag shoulder creation of the Family Support Network until it can be returned to the mother. patches. Many of you no doubt are late in 1990. At this writing, nearly Taking care of those left behind has aware of the recent controversy over 5,000 calls to the network's toll-free taken on many dimensions in the last American troops in Saudi Arabia who number- 1 -(800) 786-090 1 -have several weeks. For example, Michigan were told to remove the patches. As you been placed by families and others Legionnaires and members of the can guess, the Legion spoke up when it affected by Operation Desert Shield. Auxiliary collected scarves, mittens learned of that problem (see Veterans As you know, the network was estab- and hats for the young children of those Update, page 38). lished to help families of active duty, in the Michigan National Guard. The network is a stellar success for National Guard and Reserve people Legionnaires across the nation have very simple reasons. We know the ob- deployed to the Persian Gulf. found other creative ways to help troops stacles and hardships faced by families More often than not, the network taking part in Operation Desert Shield, whose loved ones have been called to puts callers in touch with agencies and and their efforts were never more vis- duty. We know because many of us have groups that can help them. In a letter ible than during the holidays. Colorado been in similar situations. And so have to National Guard headquarters, Department Commander Thomas our own families. Michigan Department Adjutant Hubert Green told me that Lakewood Post 178 That's what The American Legion

B. Hess said his office has directed collected and assembled gift packages Family Support Network is all about. It many service personnel to the Army for American troops in "Project Santa." is an outreach to those who now Emergency Relief for grants or loans. In "Project Love," more than 21 ,000 shoulder the weight of loneliness and The network has worked in other cookies were baked and collected. service to America. The American diver? and interesting ways. A mother Shortly before the holidays, the seven- Legion family will be there until the in'Icnn .see called the toll-free number ton shipment was airlifted to the crisis is resolved.

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I respond to the question, "Should the United States continue its strong Because of corporate raiders, the UWUMUnB™ " economic ties with Japan? Eighty-four percent of the respondents stated average American's purchasing ability that the United States should discontinue those ties. is slowly evaporating.

Many in the majority said economic ties with Japan have led the United States to Japan has always been, and always

become a debtor nation. Others in the majority were also leery about economic ties with will be, a war-oriented country. Those Japan because of numerous Japanese purchases of U.S. businesses and property. who rule Japan now want revenge for Because ofJapanese control ofmany U.S. businesses, some respondents said they believe their defeat and will use every tactic to the U.S. stockmarkets are controlled by Japan. However, both those against and in favor gain that revenge. They are well on their ofeconomic ties blamed America 's credit-card lifestyle, andpolitical and corporate greed way now. They are slowly gaining con- for U.S. dependence on economic ties with Japan. trol of our work force and our money. Ofthe 16 percent whofavor strong economic ties, many said such ties are unavoidable; It's no wonder Washington bows to some respondents in the minority believe the United States is already too dependent on them. Evidently, we need their money Japanese money to do without. Also, some in the minority believe America has to continue to exist. They are calling the shots, its ties with Japan because the United States would be a loser in an economic war with aren't they?

Japan. Others claimed that because the standard of living in the United States is better To me it is just a matter of time before than in Japan, the current ties should be preserved. we are in a war with Japan again. Do Respondents' opinions are excerpted below. they control us enough now that we couldn't win? I think the President and ••••••••••••• Congress had better wake up and smell the greenbacks while we still have some. If the interests of the American The standard of living in Japan is prosper and the gross national product people don't come first over the increasing in direct proportion to the of the two largest economies in the Japanese, we deserve to become a decreasing U.S. standard of living. We world can grow to make today's num- second-rate power. Let's hope we don't are not competing with the Japanese; bers look like peanuts. Americans who become the servants of a country that are we simply giving away our heritage express views like mine are sometimes would gladly destroy us. and our ability to produce. I want my called Japan lovers. Indeed, Japan is James R. Korner grandchildren to have the same oppor- my second favorite country, but I favor Michigan City, Ind. tunities I had, but it is becoming strong U.S. -Japan relations for a very obvious those opportunities will not be selfish reason: the benefit to the United available. If something is not done in States of America. Japan has become a financial power the very near future to stop the destruc- James E. Auer with the direct and indirect help of just tion of our industries and the selling of Nashville, Tenn. about everyone in the United States. American properties, the United States Today they dominate our markets will not survive. because of this help. It is going to take Thomas H. Peeler As much as I dislike Japan, you can't the same people to break the strangle Houston blame them for taking advantage of hold Japan has on us. American political and corporate greed The United States will have to and just plain stupidity. At one time, the impose the same trade and import The futures of the United States and world sought American goods and restrictions on Japan as they have on the Japan are interdependent. However, it know-how. But corporate America United States. This practice will be is possible the two countries could fight became greedy and wanted it all for extremely difficult because of the a trade war, and Japan would suffer themselves and offered nothing for the greedy politicians and bureaucrats in more. But the United States would be workers. Consequently, the work went Washington. Remember, Japan is hurl as well. If Japan and the United overseas for a fraction of the cost to be pouring hundreds of millions of dollars Stales stay together, both countries can shipped back and sold at our prices for Please turn page

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SHOULD CONGRESS ESTABLISH A NATIONAL HEALTH- CARE SYSTEM?

Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, D-Ohio Rep. Philip M. Crane, R-lll.

Our nation's health-care Criticism resounds from system is failing. Hospi- our lawmakers and citizens tals and emergency rooms YES NO about the shortfalls and across the nation are closing; insurance inefficiencies in the system of health rates are skyrocketing; health costs in the care in the United States. Many of these United States are rapidly out-pacing naysayers favor federally provided inflation; workers and retirees are fight- medicine instead of our current system ing to preserve their health-care cover- which is, for the most part, privatized. age; our aging population faces financial What the proponents of socialized health ruin with the prospect of having to enter a nursing home. care do not seem to realize is that socialized medicine is not

I have introduced legislation (H.R. 4253) that will insure the panacea they believe it to be. every American man, woman and child from the cradle to Both Great Britain and Canada have experimented with the the grave. The structural centerpiece of my legislation is a concept of socialized health care. Great Britain, after state, federal and private sector partnership, modeled on the experiencing the dismal effects of such a system, has started Canadian health-care program. to move toward privatization. Canada, on the other hand, Another component of H.R. 4253 deals with long-term offers us a perfect example of what not to do. care. Eligibility requirements for both the home-based and The quality and delivery of necessary health-care serv- community-based care as well as nursing home benefits are ices, under a federally subsidized system, is pathetic. I to be disability-based and will be decided by a case manage- remember a story of a woman in England who, when the ment team. socialized system was still intact, was put on a nine-month Home-based and community-based care benefits include waiting list to have a heart operation performed. The day of home nursing care; homemaker services; home health serv- the scheduled operation, the hospital did not have proper ices; dietary aid services; mental health services suitable for staffing for the operation, and the operation had to be post- home delivery; physical, occupational and speech therapy; poned another three months. On the day of the rescheduled and drugs, biologicals and supplies for use at home. appointment, there was again a problem; this time there was • The benefits package, which includes mammograms, no surgeon, and she was moved back another six weeks. The Pap smears, child vaccinations, pre-natal care and well-child day before that appointment was to take place, the hospital care through age 22. this time had the courtesy to call, regretting that once again • Increased research and development up to $1 billion for the operation would have to be rescheduled. The next day the the prevention and cure of diseases which create long-term woman died, not able to hold on after more than a year's needs. delay in necessary surgery. • State-administered public health measures designed to The economies of these nations suffer as well. In Canada, prevent and alter unhealthy behavior. for instance, taxes have more than doubled since the adop- The world looks to the United States as a leader. In the tion of socialized medicine, and the annual deficit has done case of health care and long-term care, we have not provided the same and so has the per capita federal indebtedness. The that leadership. The most recent figures available show that government on numerous occasions has reneged on con- the United States spends almost 12 percent of its gross tracts with doctors. national product (GNP) on health care. By contrast, Canada What this suggests to me is that socialized medicine is the spends 8.6 percent of its GNP on health care; West Germany last thing that Americans need. Would anyone prefer spends X. 1 percent; and Japan spends 6.7 percent. These increased taxes and increased federal indebtedness, and at nations manage to provide access to all of their citizens. the same time, decreased availability and quality of medical

Americans already pay far care? I wouldn't, and I am more than the cost of such convinced that if the dis- CALL IN YOUR OPINION, 1-900-321-0101 a plan through insurance turbing facts are known, premiums, out-of-pocket Do you believe Congress should create a national health system? Call your the American people will opinion to 1-900-321-0101. You can vote, receive a vote tally, record your costs and tax revenues. It's not support a federally pro- opinion for possible publication, and hear the opinions of others. Calls are time we got our money's vided system of health $1 per minute, and proceeds are used for American Legion programs. worth. care, either.

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Many who believe Justice Brennan is RECOURSE wrong support the effort of The Amer- ican Legion to secure the adoption of memorial resolutions by state legislatures urging a constitutional amend- FOR THE FLAG ment prohibiting desecration of the flag. For it is now reasonable to con- clude that the question must be discussed at the constitutional level, and State legislatures can take the that if the United States Flag is to be accorded legal protection against lead and call for a flag amend- destruction by symbolic speech acts, ment through memorial resolutions. that protection can only come from an amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In thinking about a constitutional amendment to protect the flag, several points should be kept in mind. First and

foremost is the fact that it is politically By Herman Belz and constitutionally legitimate for the people to deal with flag burning WO years ago, in Texas through a constitutional amendment. It

v. Johnson, the Supreme may seem strange to insist on this

Court decided that burn- point, which appears so obvious that it ing the American flag is hard to imagine anyone questioning was an act of symbolic it. Yet the 1989 congressional debate on

speech protected by the flag burning suggests that it is likely to First Amendment. Two become an issue if Congress discusses courses of action were the matter again, as it almost certainly T open to reverse what was will. widely regarded as an unwise or Opponents of a constitutional erroneous decision. Congress proposed amendment to protect the flag did not a bill punishing anyone who "know- openly contend that such a measure ingly mutilates, defaces, physically would be unconstitutional, but they defiles, burns, ... or tramples upon came close to it. They said, for exam- any flag of the United States." Some ple, that an amendment protecting the

thoughtful members favored a constitu- flag "would clutter, trivialize, and . . . tional amendment giving Congress and denigrate the Constitution," and would the states authority "to prohibit the be directly contrary to the history of the physical desecration of the flag of the amendment process. One critic averred BURNING DEBATE — /f is politically United eventually that to recommend a constitutional States." Congress legitimate for Americans to decide if enacted legislation in the belief that the an amendment is needed. amendment would be to appeal to a Supreme Court decision left a loophole momentary political passion and for what sponsors of the bill described respond to the flag as an emotional as a "content-neutral" ban on flag burn- mistreatment of the flag without regard symbol that "obscures and over- ing. to a person's motive or intended mes- shadows the rational appeal of the Past American Legion National sage, Congress really intended to pre- Constitution itself." Commander H.F. "Sparky" Gierke and vent only flag burning that conveyed a Some legal experts testified that a others who testified during the congres- message hostile to certain national flag amendment would undermine the sional debate argued that, under the ideals associated with the flag. This First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. circumstances, a constitutional amend- could be seen in the provision, added to They reasoned, for example, that if the ment was the only effective way to pro- the statute on the advice of veterans' states were given power to prohibit flag tect the flag. The Supreme Court proved organizations, making an exception for desecration, they might punish alleged

them right when it subsequently de- destroying worn or soiled flags. But the violators without allowing them a jury clared the flag protection act uncon- court was not content simply to protect trial in violation of the Sixth Amend-

stitutional. In Eichman v. U.S. (1990), flag burning as a form of political com- ment. Members of Congress opposed Justice William Brennan said that munication. Justice Brennan went on to to a flag protection amendment were although the act purported to punish assert, without providing any sup- quick to translate these imaginary con- porting evidence, that "the mere cerns into a firm resolve "not to touch Herman Belt is a professor of constitu- destruction or disfigurement of a par- the Bill of Rights." Regarding the Bill tional history at the University of Mary- ticular physical manifestation of the of Rights and especially the First

land in College I'ark. symbol . . . does not diminish or Please turn to page 62

14 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE The Songs America Sang! 44 Wacky Htts Mairzy Doats Plus*' 43 More Wacky Hits from the Fun 40's

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that the (a) list would consist of more Kristol By Irving influential congressmen than the

others. Perhaps so— but is it not the HE opinion polls suggest case that their influence derives from that the majority of the being clever and experienced enough to American public looks satisfy the views and appetites of the favorably on the idea of (b), (c) and (d) lists? If this is the case,

limiting the terms of con- as I suspect it is, then their presence is gressmen to a total of not nearly so crucial to good govern- 12 years— two terms for ment as one might think. senators, six terms for As for the time needed to achieve a T members of the House. mastery of complex legislative issues Congressmen, obviously, are much less the question arises: Why are they so enthusiastic about the idea. So, interest- complex? Need they be so complex? Is ingly enough, are most independent it not possible that veteran con- political scientists who can claim some gressmen, addressing such issues term expertise on the subject of Congress. after term, have an interest in making I myself have deferred to the opinion them so complex? Does their "mas- of these knowledgeable political tery" then not add to their prestige and scientists. But more recently I have assist in their electability? become uneasy. Can it be that the It would be perfectly natural if some popular intuition, regardless of the such process were at work. And it GOODBYE, H\LL- Limiting con- simplemindedness with which it is would be naive to deny that it is at gressmen to 12 years might result in a expressed, is the superior wisdom? more responsive body. work. To be "master" of a complex There are basically two arguments in issue is to be in a very strong position favor of the status quo. The first is that vis-a-vis lobbyists of all kinds, poten- it makes no sense to deprive ourselves force, which is why so many intelligent tial financial contributors, and those of the services of congressmen who, and disinterested people are persuaded "public interest" groups that have to over a period of time, demonstrate by them. But I have to say that, after learn to negotiate with you. It gives you great ability, achieve the respect of their spending the past three years in power and prominence, whether at peers as well as of the media, and reveal Washington and observing Congress at national or regional or local level, that exceptional skills at making the legisla- close hand, I no longer find them all help ensure your re-election. tive process work effectively. that persuasive. It is my impression that the Amer- The second argument hangs upon the ican people sense all this and are more ever increasing complexity of congres- than a little disgusted with it. They BEGIN with, there is the fact that sional work, and the long period it takes would like a Congress which, if more TOa limitation on years in office for a member to acquire a proper exper- "amateurish," nevertheless had less of a would deprive us of the services not tise with regard, say, to the budget, stake in the existing system. Above all, only of many good congressmen but military expenditures, or social secu- they would like a Congress that is in also of many who are less than good, as rity Even a first-class social scientist, "closer touch" with the people— and well as some who are positively awful. with far more leisure than a con- nothing can guarantee that more firmly The ability to be re-elected again and gressman has, cannot hope to master than the certainty that after 12 years, a again is not always— alas! — an endorse- the intricacies of these matters in less congressman would return to the "real ment of congressional merit. than three or four years. Does it make world." If that's the world he is going to If one were to make four lists of long- sense to entrust such programs to con- inhabit, he is likely to regard it more are (a) good, gressional committees dominated by serving congressmen who respectfully and be less manipulative in (b) nondescript, (c) poor, and (d) awful, newly elected novices? his relations with it.

the lie? I really do Both arguments have considerable where would balance Congress, today, is not in good not know enough about all our con- repute with the American public. A 12- to compile such lists, but my Irving Kristol is the John M. Olin Distin- gressmen year limitation may be the price we is that the (a) list guished Fellow at the American Enterprise strong impression have to pay for reviving its reputation. would be very much in the minority. Institute in Washington, D.C. This article is And, all in all, it may not be much of a reprinted hy permission of the institute. It may be said, by way of rejoinder, price.

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20 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE siy sum ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

HE SEARCH for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is like looking for a single grain

of gold in sand piled 10 stories high on a space the size of a football field. Each bit of

sand is a star in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The gold fleck is E.T.

Since 1960, scientists have engineered about 60 searches for it— or him— covering

maybe a pinch or two of the sand. Beginning in 1992, the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) expects to launch its biggest search ever. Within the first minute,

NASA scientists say, they'll cover more of the sky than all the previous searches combined.

According to NASA's Kent Cullers, author of the sand analogy, "If there's one intelligent

civilization per million stars, we'll find something." By GurneyWilliams III

FEBRUARY 1991 21 Some skeptics argue that trillion miles. But for both searches, it will scan for intelligence far faster than there's no gold, and that the any human TV watcher could switch through his channels. all-sky survey, whole quest is a child's sandbox The using NASA's Deep Space Network of radio tele-

scopes, each 1 12 feet in diameter, will dream. Others say the venture is listen to 10 million radio channels at a time in one frequency range. The pur- dangerous. There might be grem- suit will continue through 30 more scans — each with 10 million chan- lins out there instead of friendly nels—through a wide band of radio frequencies. All this work will cover E.T.s, they warn, and our search will just one section of sky. Then, like the anger them. Some say that if we don't obsessive TV watcher, the searchers find life elsewhere in space, it could will move to another sky area, running mean technological societies like ours laboriously through the same frequency don't last very long. Supporters con- range, 10 million channels at a time. tend that some day information from an The search will continue for five to advanced civilization could cure many seven years until the system has sam- of Earth's problems. pled every part of the canopy of space. No matter how you approach the At the same time, the second SETI football field, the game looks interest-

ing, and it may be the last of its kind. After another decade or so, the interfer- ence from space satellites and ground equipment means we'll have to dream up a new way to look for aliens. Even in the absence of signals, humans have long suspected that we are not alone. "It goes against nature, in a large field to grow only one shaft of wheat, and in an infinite universe to have only one living world," wrote the Greek philosopher Metrodorus in 400 B.C. But in the intervening centuries, no one has had a better chance than NASA to find something in the field. The new search will begin Columbus Day, 1992, 500 years after the navigator from Genoa discovered America. The strat-

egy of today's explorers is quite differ-

ent from Columbus' quest for the new TUNING Ibl — Radiotelescope antennas world. Today's operation is more akin with diameters larger than football fields to a man's quest for a good television are set to "listen" to radio signals 1,000 program. light years away. If you wanted to find something interesting, you could start at one end of

the dial and canvass every channel. If project will focus on 800 to l ,000 stars, you were a fanatic, you could then sam- stellar clusters and nearby galaxies. For ple all the channels in another city, until this pinpoint search in a narrower fre- you had checked every urban telecom- quency range, the space agency will use munications hub in the country. Or you some of the largest radio telescopes

could narrow the search to a few of the available, such as the l , 000-foot diame- largest cities closest to home. ter dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Even

NASA will do both. It will search the though this second search is selective,

entire sky, area by area. And it also will the equipment will scan about 15 mil-

investigate a comparatively small lion channels at once. And it will be number of nearby stellar sources — sensitive enough to pick up pulses- within a mere 80 light-years, or 470 like a lighthouse beacon — or continu- ous radio carrier frequencies. The gear Curney Williams III is a New York-based could even snag wobbling signals that journalist who writes on a variety oftopics. change frequency because of a source

22 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZI STELLAR IDEA — The Spiral Galaxy (above) and Horsehead Nebula might contain clues to how life began on our planet.

planet's spin. The second survey will go on six to seven years. The sky searches will cost $115 million during 10 years. By the time NASA's new hunt ends, "We will have searched maybe a large thimbleful" of the stellar sand, according to NASA's Kent Cullers. "For the first time, we will have looked at a fair sample of stars— millions of times more than ever before."

THERE will be many false alarms, Cullers said, for a variety of reasons. The space signals will be weak, so random noise will sometimes look like an intelligent signal, "just like a million monkeys on a million type- writers could write a line of Shakes- peare once in a while," Cullers said. Second, Earth-based signals will scat- ter into the telescopes, in effect fooling computers into thinking E.T. is phon- ing us. The actual source often will be consumer electronics devices. "Even radio-controlled garage doors can be a big pain," said NASA's Jill Tarter. Fifteen years from now, this interfer- ence will become so intense that NASA scientists say we'll have to move the search somewhere else, like the dark side of the moon, one of the few quiet places in our space neighborhood that can't pick up our TV programs. No one knows whether NASA will strike gold, but SETI scientists already know what they will do if they detect Please turn to page 58

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Robert McGarvey is a Los Angeles-based By Robert McGarvey free-lance journalist.

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GANGLAND going international, into Canada and selling drugs, and they were in busi- Europe." ness." If anybody knows the migration pat- Today the locals no longer think they terns of Los Angeles gangsters it's Sgt. need the guiding hand of Los Angeles Wes McBride of the Los Angeles gangsters and want to take over control Sheriffs Department. McBride is in for themselves, but that's "just bred charge of a computer which houses more violence," shrugged Steele, who proper names plus aliases and criminal NCETHE said caches of Uzis and other weapons biographies of nearly 80,000 local are regularly uncovered and drive-by gangsters. When out-of-town police LA. gangs hit a city, shootings and homicides are becoming want to know if they've stumbled on a common occurrences. "Once the Los pretender or the real McCoy, they call it's very hard to Angeles gangs hit a city, it is very hard McBride. "I'm getting three, four calls to remove them." daily," he reported. Are there matches? remove them. Police in Denver also know about "Absolutely. Every day." drive-by shootings and crack dealing, Mean streets may be expected in Los and one Denver patrolman was shot and Angeles where gang-related homicides homicides," said Sacramento Police wounded by a transplanted Los Angeles number about 600 annually, but this Officer Jewett Steele. "We were a Crip toting a .22 rifle. In Kansas City, migration of battle-hardened Los virgin market for drug sales and, basi- drive-bys and killings are increasingly Angeles gangsters is bringing mean cally, the Los Angeles gangs came and frequent and, according to Max Dia- streets to places where many thought it forced their will upon the people. They mond of the local FBI office, "we know could never happen. Like Sacramento, were far more advanced than our gangs Los Angeles Crips and Bloods are California's capital and a town of and the locals looked up to them. Plus, involved. They're bringing the narco- about 300,000. Sacramento is a nine- the Los Angeles gangsters had the dope tics here." In Phoenix, "there's been a hour drive from Los Angeles, but in and, in the drug business, that's the key dramatic increase in gang activity and 1986 the Los Angeles gangs arrived to power. They recruited locals, violence," said police Sgt. Kevin Robin- and "in '87, we had 16 gang-related showing them how to make money son, who said locals play a part in the problem "but we know we also have gang members coming here from Los Angeles." In Portland, Ore., traveling IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Los Angeles gangsters set up a chain of five crack houses. In Akron, Ohio, a few years ago the arrival gangster who's looking to get out," JUST police recently arrested 1 1 Los Angeles of gangs in most towns was easy said Pope, who's effective enough in Crips on narcotics and weapons to spot. "They wore the same clothes his work that Shreveport's gangs charges. And, while Crip Michael Ray —certain sneakers his and caps and col- have posted a $10,000 bounty on Ector never made it out of town, he was ors. They stood out," said Shreve- head. "Show these kids a better way found by authorities in a South Los port, La., Deputy Sheriff Talben and they just may take it." Angeles house with 132 pounds of Pope. No Longer. "Gang-type looks Valdiva' s Community Youth Gang cocaine and a next-day plane ticket to and music, even the way gang mem- Services (CYGS) aims to get kids Memphis, Tenn. bers walk, are popular among so even younger, before they join a "There's intense competition for many kids today. By themselves, gang. "If we're going to solve the drug sales here and that's driving gangs these signs don't necessarily mean gang problem it will be through pre- out of town," said Los Angeles Police much," said Steve Valdiva of Los vention." So CYGS mounts a pro- Sgt. Robert Jackson. "It's the law of Angeles' Community Youth Gang gram that emphasizes early interven- supply and demand. They're looking Services. tion, offering classes to grammar for higher profits and easier pickings. A better sign of gangs, said Val- school kids, even publishing a comic When they leave Los Angeles, they can diva, is graffiti. Adults may ignore book, Star Kids, that re-emphasizes get three to five times more for their this wall writing or curse it as a nui- the anti-gang message. crack. Sometimes they hit a town, make sance, but "to gangs, graffiti is a way Despite that focus, CYGS doesn't a few quick drug sales and leave. In of marking territory. It shows who write off current gang members. other cases, they're putting down roots."

claims an area and, if it's crossed "Some people say we should, that "The motive is opportunism," added out, that says the territory is in dis- the kids are hopeless, but I don't buy McBride. "Gangs aren't moving out by pute. And that may mean a war." it," said Valdiva, who claims his job the bus load; individual members are. A But probably the best indicator of placement program— which assists gangster may be visiting relatives. gang presence is "a certain attitude gangsters ready to take a step back Sometimes it's because his parents —hostility coupled with vandalism into society— has already recorded have tired of him being involved with a and fighting," said Valdiva. "When substantial successes. "At most 8 gang so they send him out of town. kids start expressing that attitude, percent of gang members are hard- There are many reasons why he'll get you have trouble." core. There are plenty of kids who out of town. Once there he looks Is hope lost when a kid joins a can be saved but they don't know around and sees opportunities. He may gang? Absolutely not, say Pope and how to do it themselves. And that's not be educated, but he is street smart. Valdiva. "I never say 'no' to a where a program like ours enters." He calls his home-boys and asks for dope to sell. It's rarely better thought

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out than that, and usually it happens daughter came to visit and invited her place so the arrival of the "Cali boys," very fast." boyfriend, Benjamin West of Los as the locals dubbed them, was no Exactly how fast is shown by a Crip Angeles, to visit her. When West came, secret but nobody suspected the scale invasion of York, Pa., a picturesque he liked what he saw. He contacted of drug dealing until two young men town of 50,000 nestled in Pennsylvania friends back home, reported his find- were arrested with $50,000 in crack. By Dutch Country. When a Los Angeles ings, and, eventually he and his fellow the time police and prosecutors moved teen-age girl's parents divorced, the Crips were selling more than $40,000 in on the operation, it took an 80- mother moved home to York. Her of crack weekly. York is a small enough officer joint federal, state and local sweep to arrest 123 people, including at least 15 Los Angeles gang members. "Their goal," added Sgt. Jackson, "is money. That's the most important thing in the mind of a gang member. He wants power, prestige, a chance to get out of the ghetto — and this all revolves around money. For him, that means selling drugs." While the Bloods and Crips and their 30,000 members are primarily black, Los Angeles has another 50,000 or so Hispanic gang members, most of whom remain "turf" oriented, according to Jackson. There are no signs Hispanic gangs are migrating and their involvement in narcotics is tangible but bush-league, compared to the black gangs who have come to dominate street- level drug selling since Los Angeles emerged as a major distribution point for OUR GANG LA. sheriff's deputy Sgt. Wes McBride scans the names and rap sheets of 80,000 known gang members in the local area. cocaine in 1984. Please turn to page 60

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c u I N G CABLEPORN

(FCC), was told, in essence, "Tough By Robin Musiol 'Me, I'm into luck." Orthodox broadcasting isn't immune IOLENT sex scenes, per- either. The industry openly admits that verted programming, its networks are leaning more toward sickening shows. Who is sexually oriented programming responsible for regulating and debauched because of cable. "I still think most cable television? It seems Americans are not pornographic like everyone is passing excess, and so minded," said Robert Peters, attorney the buck. at Morality in Media (MIM), a non- Seven-year-old Johnny are a lot of profit, interfaith organization in New V and his brother, Charlie, York. "If networks offered right-minded can hardly wait until Mom and Dad go programs, broadcast television could to bed. Many of their schoolmates have other people . . win the audience rather than going been whispering about Midnight Blue, a down the gutter with cable." weekly program available to all who We'll be in your On the other hand, Al Goldstein, pay the basic cable fee in New York owner of the controversial series Mid- City. community.' night Blue, said his cableporn show Driving, rhythmic music amplifies "should be rated 'B' for brilliant." He the logo of a giant phallus that intro- chortled when told that some Florida duces the show. Eyes wide, the boys Television Association, said, "Cur- legislators were trying to restrict what giggle into couch pillows so they don't rently cable is deregulated, which can be shown on cable television. In an wake their parents. allows programmers more latitude." interview with the Tampa Tribune, he But some parents do wake up, and The problem is that this latitude, which warned, "We are coming. No commu- they refuse to believe that nothing can reflects few programming'guidelines, is nity will stop us. We will be in your be done to remove pornographic pro- attracting entrepreneurs from the $10 community." gramming from their living rooms. "I billion per year pornography industry But a growing number of citizens, need the 24-hour cable news for my to cable television. organizations and politicians are saying profession as a journalist," said one "Enough is enough." They are fighting parent, "and when I found out that I had SINCE the U.S. Department of Jus- back— first by enforcing old laws and to accept that smut as part of a package tice has decided that cablecasting is then by enacting new ones to set stan-

deal, I faced a serious dilemma." different from broadcasting because dards for what constitutes obscenity Some people subscribe to basic cable it is transmitted through wires rather and indecency on cable television. for clearer reception of their regular than airwaves, cable operators claim "It's a crime to distribute obscene broadcast stations. Others want the all- that federal laws prohibiting obscenity, matter on cable television, whether it's sports channel, reruns of classic profanity and indecency that govern on public access or pay channels," said movies, or the variety of entertainment radio and television don't pertain to Peters. The Cable Communications cable stations offer them and their them. They believe this gives them the Policy Act of 1984 states "whoever families. Although the cable industry is right to present programs on national transmits over any cable system any still in its youth, more than half of the cable networks, pay-per-view, and even matter that is obscene or otherwise homes in the United States with televis- basic cable that are regulated by nothing unprotected by the Constitution of the ion subscribe to cable. more than their own editorial discre- United States shall be fined not more Carol Vernon, director of program- tion. As a matter of fact, last February, than $10,000, imprisoned not more ming publicity at the National Cable when Forbidden Passions, a soap opera than two years, or both." about gay men and lesbian women But, according to Joe Riley, president

Robin Musiol is a free-lance writer who debuted, one father who called the of MIM, not one U.S. attorney has been resides in New Carrollton, Md. Federal Communications Commission willing to prosecute in the six years this

28 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE STANDING UP- Barbara Hattemer of the Florida Coalition for Clean Cable led the fight against Playboy programming. SHOW AND TELL AL GOLDSTEIN, owner of the comes into the community, the chil- Blue, dren will be exposed to it." law has been in effect. "There is an adult show Midnight 45 organizations that repre- emergency. People are receiving terri- laughed at Florida legislators' and About 2 million people ble programs in their homes, like les- citizens' attempts to restrict what sent more than bians dancing naked, and excrement could be shown on cable television. belong to the coalition, including plopping on someone's head." He said Goldstein threatened to provide Citizens Against Pornography, the his show's Concerned for America, the the Justice Department is cracking every community with Women American Coalition for Traditional down on all areas of pornography, sexually graphic programming. Values Florida, the Florida Catho- except cable. Riley said he believes the But leading the line of resistance of in Florida is the Florida Coalition for lic Conference and several other department's oath of office is in ques- Clean Cable, established in 1984 to religious groups. tion and that its inaction is "enough to destroy one's confidence in the U.S. stop obscene cable TV programming. "The people of our community government." The National Obscenity By lobbying for anti-pornography caused the demise of the Playboy "I've Enforcement Unit has refused to com- legislation, pressuring Florida cable channel here," Hattemer said. ment. companies, and supporting the crea- seen encouraging signs. The demise As the "guardian of the airwaves," tion of anti-pornography community of some obscene channels has been groups, the coalition has succeeded. the direct result of citizens voicing the FCC is obliged to give more than lip their to get rid of that pro- service to banning perverted programs "Cable TV programming should opinions on cable. Actually, cable signals are be regulated the same as broadcast gramming." transmitted through airwaves and only because it uses air waves like broad- For information about fighting via the on your cable net- come into the home through the wires cast and comes into the home pornography said Barbara works, write to the Florida Coalition at the last moment. The 1986 Attorney same instrument," General's Commission on Pornography Hattemer, founder and coordinator for Clean Cable, Barbara Hattemer, for 424 Spinnaker Dr., Naples, FL stated that "the time is too long overdue of the Florida Coalition Clean 33940. for the FCC to take an active role in Cable. "If obscene programming Please turn to page 54

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his gas mask, placing it on a wounded He answered the call and left New ByWyattR.Fox American officer and carrying him out York City for Chicago and Moody Bible of battle on his back, a scene he Institute for training as a missionary. HE sun shone brightly repeated in recovering a French offi- There, Dad met Isadore Hurlbut, his as we looked out of the cer a little later. For Dad's act, French future wife. She was from Vermont and train windows that Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, at a had visions of missionary work for early June day in 1942. division review, presented him with the herself. They were married in Indiana My friend and I, along Croix de Guerre with Palm. and then traveled to Vermont for a visit. with our parents, had The day before the Armistice, Dad Dad liked the "North Country" so well just driven from Gil- was buried under a shelled building. A he asked for and received several pas- "Jack toral assignments there. man, Vt. , to Albany, 200mm artillery shell, called a N. Y. Our parents waved Johnson" by the doughboys, had made Dad wanted to attend a school of goodbye from the train platform as we a direct hit. Dad described the event as theology, so he transferred to Boston, left for Marine boot camp at Parris follows: and made arrangements to complete his Island, S.C. The last visual memory I / wasfixing up a roomfor operating and Illinois Wesleyan requirements through have of Dad was his farewell wave and dressing in this stonefarm house. I hadjust the School of Religious Education, his broad smile. What we didn't know secured some sheeting to cover the win- graduating in absentia in 1932. He com- was that he soon would be Lt. George dows and all other openings so the candle pleted the ordination program in the L. Fox, an Army chaplain heading for light wouldn'tpenetrate the darkness. I was Boston University School of Theology, war again. reaching up to hammer another tack when graduating in June 1934. Dad was then The war clouds hung heavy over immediately assigned to three churches America that spring morning. Nazi in Vermont. He held several appoint- submarines were rampaging virtually ments there throughout the next eight unopposed along our eastern seaboard years. sinking ships at will; U.S. forces in the While in Gilman and East Concord, Philippines and Corregidor had just Vermont churches, Dad joined Moore surrendered to the Japanese. Post 41 ofThe American Legion, where Twenty-five years earlier, similar war he wore two white hats— Department of clouds had hovered over the United Witnesses of that Vermont Historian and Department Chaplain. States on a spring morning in 1 9 1 7 . The terrible night recoil German submarines had nearly strang- In spite of the Depression, he was led Great Britain, and the French were heoring the four active and attended Department con- calling for reinforcements every day. ventions and marched in the Memorial Congress had declared war on the Cen- men offer proyers Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day parades. What Dad liked best about the tral Powers that April. for the dying. Dad has just turned 17, but he had Legion was helping veterans get their "advanced" his age to 18, and had deserved benefits. He was no stranger enlisted in the Army on May 12. He had in dealing the the Veterans Administra- been sent to El Paso, Texas, and there was a roar and a crash. When I came tion; his back had completely healed, assigned to Ambulance Co. 1 for train- to, I was in the hospital with spinal injuries. but his lungs had not recovered from the ing in first aid treatment, ambulance When he regained consciousness mustard gas. driving and courier motorcycle opera- three days later, Dad learned that the After Pearl Harbor was attacked, tion. Armistice had been signed. He then Dad wanted to serve again if his disabil- His unit shipped to France in spent several weeks in the hospital and ity didn't stop him. He told us he knew November, joining the 2nd Inf. Div. several months on light duty in the how hard the war would be on many where the 4th Marine Brigade was Army of Occupation while he recov- young men and he felt that he could attached for training and combat. Dad ered. help them. was proud of the 2nd (The Indian Head Returning to the United States in After acceptance by the Army, Dad and Star Division) and its war record. It August 1919, Dad got a job with the entered the first class of the new Chap- took the most territory, captured the Title Guarantee and Trust Co. in Brook- lains School at Harvard University.

most Germans, and suffered the most lyn, N. Y. , where he rose to the position There he met Chaplain Rabbi Alexan- casualties as a result. Dad told me he of auditor. The call to the ministry, der D. Goode and they became close carried wounded during each battle, which began in the battlefields in friends. Upon completion of the and for three to four days afterward had France, continued to haunt him. He school, Dad was assigned to the 41 1th helped comb the "no-man's land" for told me that to hear dying men in com- Coast Artillery Bn. at Camp Davis, wounded and the KIAs. bat calling on a higher power for com- N.C., where he immediately volun- Dad was wounded several times him- fort and relief was a prime factor in teered for overseas duty. He got his wish self. His first two Purple Hearts were hastening his decision for the ministry. and was transferred to Camp Myles earned in mustard gas attacks. He won Even when he was in his teens in Standish in Taunton, Mass., in 1942. a Silver Star in one attack for taking off France, the other fellows called him His old friend, Goode, joined him. It "the minister" because he was the point Please turn to page 53 of arbitration for many of their argu- MAN OF FAITH— George Fox, a Vermont of Wyatt Legionnaire, will be remembered forever ments and disagreements on matters R. Fox ofNew Hampshire is the son as one of the Four Chaplains. religion. of Chaplain George Fox.

FEBRUARY 1991 31 CANDLE IN THEDARK

NARROW - Tunnel products, with the corporate sponsor vision is one of the donating money to The American common problems for Legion Child Welfare Foundation, those with RP. which will hold the funds to be used only for grant requests relating to childhood blindness prevention and educa- runners to the finish tion. A four-state test program will line. begin in February 1991 , and if success- "He finished sec- ful, will become a national project in ond and third in a lot August 1991. of races he could "Posts should reach out to their com- have won," said his munities and inform them about RP,"

father, Paul Schenatzki Sr. , a member About 100,000 said National Commander Robert S. of Post 1941 of LaGrange, 111. Turner. "We should help those suffering

Americans Paul Jr. , nicknamed "Butch" by his each from RP like Butch and Sandra who family, completely lost his sight to reti- year are afflict- have also endured years of misunder- nitis pigmentosa (RP) by the time he standing. Legionnaires should support was 20. With the help of his father, ed with retinitis the national coupon project by volun- mother Leona, and his own determina- pigmentosa, the teering just a little of their time." tion, Butch, now 5 1 , has worked for 30 name for a group years at Grayhill Inc. , a switch-making LEGION support for finding a treat- company in LaGrange, and has been ment or cure for RP is not new. of more than 50 lauded as a valuable employee. During the May 1989 Spring Meet- The Schenatzki family began coping ing, the National Executive Committee genetic diseases with RP in the 1950s when the disease passed Res. 43, which encourages of the eye. was still a mystery and frequently mis- Posts and Departments to inform their diagnosed to overcome the obstacles communities about RP. RP posed. The Schenatzkis learned as About 100,000 Americans like Butch much as they could about the disease and Sandra are afflicted with RP, which By Edward Edelson and urged Butch and their daughter, is the name for a group of 45 to 50 Sandra, who also developed RP, to be genetically caused diseases. RP is usu- as independent as possible. ally diagnosed in children or young "I HE world of darkness Recognizing the need to promote adults when symptoms of night blind- began creeping into Paul awareness and find a cure for RP, ness first occur. Side vision is I Schenatzki Jr. 's vision in the Legion National Executive Com- diminished slowly until there is no I the late 1950s, when the mittee passed a resolution at the 1990 more than a small, central portion of I athletic teen-ager ran for Fall Meeting, which establishes a sight. For some, that pinhole of sight I the track team and began project in conjunction with the RP will remain. I learning to drive. Although Foundation and private industry that Gordon Gund, chairman of the RP I he could only focus on will make money for RP research. The Foundation, was not that fortunate. mmHm close objects, he still ran resolution authorizes Legionnaires to track. However, because of his deteri- participate by distributing "cents off Edward Edelson specializes in writing orating vision, he had to follow other coupons in grocery stores for certain about health-related topics.

32 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Diagnosed with RP while in his early the world in search of a miracle cure. LIFE GOES ON — The Schenatzki family 20s, the physician's prognosis was There was none. has not allowed the veil of RP to darken their zest for life. earth shattering— total blindness by his "I didn't want to consume any more 60s or 70s. Reality was more cruel, energy hoping for a cure for myself," he though. Only five years later, Gund was recalled. "I felt like I should at least said. There are also many forms of RP blind. Gund, the owner of the Cleve- make the experience positive and help associated with other conditions. Usher land Cavaliers basketball team, traveled others." syndrome children, for example, are Gund and the RP Foundation have born with varying degrees of deafness, promoted RP research. The RP Founda- and RP begins in childhood. "Even tion allocated 73 cents of every dollar 'typical' forms of RP have some differ- received for research, and since its ences," said Lewis, a leader in the creation, has helped obtain more than genetic research field. $36 million for worldwide research. The common bond in all forms of RP That research is getting results, too. is a genetic cause, but a bewildering Because of rapid progress in genetic number and variety of genetic muta- research during the past two years, tions may cause RP. In some cases, a major breakthroughs have been made, single mutated gene may cause RP. In according to Dr. Jeanette Felix, the RP others, two genes, one from the mother Foundation's director of science. For and one from the father, cause the dis- example, scientists have recently identi- ease. Some forms only affect boys and fied and isolated genes responsible for tend to be more severe, causing total RP and related diseases. blindness by early adulthood. Other U ONCERN "These discoveries are crucial to types cause only mild visual impair- understanding the disease patterns, and ment. about RP victims that understanding continually brings In all cases, RP causes the degenera- led the Legion us closer to finding a cure and treatment tion of the retina, the cells that line the for RP," Felix said. back of the eye. Some of these cells, to join a project One major obstacle facing scientists, called rods, are responsible for night vision, and they contain a light-sensi- to raise money according to Dr. Richard Lewis of the RP research center at Baylor College of tive molecule called rhodopsin. for research. Medicine in Texas, is that RP is not one Researchers at Ireland's Trinity Col- disease. lege, who studied a large family with ••••••••••••••• "Retinitis pigmentosa is an umbrella many cases of RP, made an exciting term for a group of diseases," Lewis Please turn to page 62

FEBRUARY 1991 33 ByJoy Powell

OREAN War veteran Jack Stone believed his country would care for him when he was down and sick. The day after the ailing ex- Marine learned the VA cut his outpatient benefits, he killed himself. His widow Carolyn and his physician say VA's decision that he would no longer receive medicine costing about $200 a month was the final straw for Jack, who suffered from numerous diseases. The 57-year-old Waterloo, Iowa, man was one of thousands who have been dropped from VA outpatient care as a result of federal underfunding. More than 6,000 veterans have been affected by cutbacks in care at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, where Jack was treated. Like other VA hospitals around the When VA budget nation, the Iowa City VAMC has been forced to shut a ward and make tough cuts slashed decisions between closing more or Jack Stone's dropping patients. Hardest hit are vet- He struggled to keep his left leg, but lost

erans with non-service-connected con- outpatient it to the diabetes in 1986. He walked ditions, but even veterans with service- benefits, with a cane and sometimes used a wheel- connected disabilities are being denied the Korean chair. In 1988, his kidneys began failing, outpatient care for other ailments. At and he started dialysis in Iowa City last the Iowa City facility alone, 3,000 vet- War veteran year. Arthritis crippled his spine and erans have been completely discharged had nowhere hands so badly he could barely hold a from the outpatient rolls since October fork. Jack had other afflictions, includ- 1989, said hospital spokeswoman Annie else to ing hardening of the arteries, loss of Tuttle. seek help. feeling in his one leg and "phantom Years of VA underfunding forced the pains" stemming from his amputation. nation's largest health-care provider to In January 1990, Jack was under- take a painstaking look at cost effi- going dialysis at a Waterloo hospital, ciency. Veterans say they are being where the VA had transferred him for denied care they were promised. "We've got to get the word out that renal treatment, when he called the Iowa "It's getting to the point where it providing for our veterans is not waste- City VAMC 90 miles away to ask why seems the government doesn't want to ful spending," Evans told veterans dur- his medicine had not arrived in the mail. recognize its veterans," said Bob ing the hearing. "It's taking care of the He was told he had been dropped from Pay ton, Department Service Officer of people who have taken care of us." the outpatient rolls. the American Legion Department of He said veterans should push for Iowa. "I assure you that there is more health-care improvements through kidney specialist, Dr. Carl than one Jack Stone out there. There are organizations and petition drives like HISRichards, recalls Jack's emotional many veterans who are in that same the one begun after Stone's death. upset that day. "No one had given predicament." Other testimony at the hearing in- him any warning or prepared him in any Carolyn Stone was the key witness at cluded a nurse who said she and other way," Richards said angrily. The physi- a congressional hearing last July in Iowa members of her staff are disheartened cian told the Stones they could prob- City. U.S. Rep. Lane Evans of Illinois, and drained by seeing patients return ably receive help with medicine from chairman of the Veterans Affairs sub- critically ill because they could not the Iowa Renal Disease Commission, committee on Oversight and Investiga- afford to buy their own medicine. Hos- but the couple worried about cuts to tion, told the widow, "We don't know pital officials expressed the frustration that program, too. Richards told Jack how many suicides we've seen perhaps of operating "in a survival mode," with he would help find alternate funds. Jack

as a result of the shabby treatment that I a mission of cost reduction instead of implored Richards to cut back on his

think veterans have received. patient care. medicine, but the physician said all of it Diabetes forced Stone into retirement was needed. Stone's savings disquali- Joy Powell is o reporterfor the Waterloo eight years before he died, and he fought fied he and his wife from receiving (Iowa) Courier. for his Social Security disability rating. medical care for the needy. Jack had

'A AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ALONE — Stone's widow, Carolyn, believes other veterans face similar problems such as her late husband did.

life was worthless, and that

the VA considered it worthless." Jack's outpatient benefits, including 16 different medications, had been stopped by the Iowa City VAMC during an 18- month review of patient eligibility. The hospital, like many others, was forced into workload reduc- tions because of limited money, said Annie Tuttle, of the Iowa City VA Med- ical Center. The review has been completed, but veterans continue to be dropped as checkups lead to determinations that conditions are "chronic and stable." A utilization nurse made the decision to cut Jack on that basis after looking at his chart, hospital officials said. "There was nothing stable about Jack Stone from the standpoint of his health," said Richards, who formerly directed the Iowa City renal clinic. "He had numerous complica- tions of his diseases and had been hospitalized

|| twice shortly before his death." Those stays totaled 21 days, including one in which Jack was rushed by e was tired ambulance to the hospital made sure there was some money for in diabetic insulin shock. Richards and of fighting. I think Carolyn, who had suffered a heart some VA physicians question the defini- attack years earlier and, like him, had he felt he was tion of "chronic and stable" and insist no health insurance. becoming a burden that physicians — not only nurses- Though he had been depressed about should have input into decisions to cut his poor health for some time, Jack to his family. He outpatient benefits, as in the Jack Stone grew more despondent that evening and felt his life I case. didn't sleep that night, Carolyn Stone Fellow veterans in northeast Iowa was worthless. / said. She was up watching television in were saddened by the circumstances of the living room when Jack got out of Stone's death and angered by the gov- bed at 12:30 a.m. "He came out in his ernment action that apparently pushed wheelchair and rolled up to the recliner The next day, while his wife of 33 years him over the edge. In response, Water- where he usually sat and just laid his was away, Jack shot himself twice in the loo Legionnaire Bill Deeds, a WWII head on the back of it," she recalled. abdomen and died on the floor of his Army veteran, started a "Veteran's "What's the matter, honey?" she asked. neat white bungalow. Alert" petition drive to oppose benefit He said he was upset and depressed "He was tired of fighting," said Mrs. cuts to veterans and the elderly. about what VA had done. She told him Stone. "I think he felt he was becoming "It just gripes me that they send hun- not to worry, but he brooded all night. a burden to his family. He felt that his Please turn to page 56

FEBRUARY 1991 35 MERICAN troops landed in the Philippines in October of 1944, roused by Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur's vow to return after the dismaying defeats of our outmanned forces at Bataan and Corregidor in 1942. By the time of the landing, rumors of Japanese atrocities, highlighted by the Bataan Death March, had taken root in American minds, and MacArthur's propitious landing on Leyte seemed to augur the beginning of the end for the Japanese war effort. The war's momentum had shifted sides by the autumn of 1944, and the Philippine landing caused new optimism. Avenging the Philippine loss and freeing the people of MacArthur's adopted homeland from Japanese occupation had become a rallying cause among Filipinos and Americans. Underground Philippine radio broad- casts entreated the general's return, The hard-charging Chicago native's and magazines, cigarettes, and match- courage and faith in the face of battle book covers distributed on the islands showed a picture of a determined won him America's highest honor for MacArthur uttering the familiar slogan, "I shall return." By October, Japan had gallantry on the battlefield. been forced into a defensive posture, and the time was ripe for bringing By Rubin Torres MacArthur's dream to fruition. One of the primary ambitions of the Philippine invasion was to regain con- Bay. Three days later, the 511th stuck with him when he left his job at a trol of Luzon, the fall of which had been Parachute Regiment would drop in the food warehouse to answer the call to followed by the infamous Death March vicinity of Tagaytay Ridge and attempt war in January 1943. of American prisoners driven up the to join the rest of the 1 1th Airborne and On the morning of Feb. 4, 1945, peninsula into wretched prisoner of war move northward to Manila, knocking Perez reached into his pack and held the camps. More than 600 Americans and, out the deeply entrenched Japanese Catholic medal he carried for safekeep- perhaps, 10,000 Filipinos died during along the way. ing. When Sgt. Max Polick had earlier the march. The survivors were reduced The 51 1th Parachute RCT was com- asked what it was for, Perez had posed to a pathetic condition. Americans felt of many adventurous young men answered that he would never be killed of varying ambitions that the recapture of Luzon would be and backgrounds. as long as he carried it. For a moment, more than a tactical victory. Parachute training had helped to bring he held the medal up for reassurance, out a After completing the Leyte takeover, brand of daring in the men, and in then he returned it to his pack. MacArthur turned his attention to clearing the mountains of Leyte, they had become seasoned soldiers. Among Luzon. His primary goal was to drive to PEREZ thought also of his fiancee, Manila and seize control from the them was Pfc. Manuel Perez. a young, beautiful woman named Japanese. His plan called for landing Before Perez's induction, he had led Mary Torres. After basic training, the Sixth Army at Lingayen Gulf, mid- a completely ordinary life. In some he had gotten approval to send her a way up the west coast of Luzon. From ways, he had been a model youth grow- parachute. The couple wanted to be there the Sixth would push south about ing up in Chicago's west side. He was married as soon as the war was over, always polite and deferential, 1 10 miles into Manila. particu- and she would make her wedding gown MacArthur planned to cut off any larly to the grandmother who raised from the parachute material. Japanese flight south out of Manila him. His Mexican-born parents lived in The action stalled as heavy fire from with a parallel invasion of Gen. Eichel- Oklahoma, where Manuel had been the big concrete pillboxes at the rear of berger's Eighth Army. On Jan. 31, born. the enemy position commenced. For a Perez had always been restless. It 1945, the 1 1th Airborne Div. landed a moment, the attack appeared to be regimental combat team at Nasugbu was a trait he had exhibited since child- stifled, but Perez was soon dancing and hood, and by late adolescence, he had weaving through the heavy fire again. Rubin Torres is a member of Manuel Perez already been tagged with the nickname He killed four Japanese in his advance, Post 1017, Chicago, III. "Bullet" for his behavior. The moniker then halted when he reached the blind

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE found his body, BATTLE CRY-Pvf. Perez's grenades toon's retreat from Santo Tomas. Four wiped out Japanese machine-gun nests days later, his body was recovered. The and pillboxes near Luzon. the religious Catholic medal he always carried for safekeeping was not on him. It had been side of the last fortification. It was the left in his pack. "Strange as it may final obstacle before Co. A's advance to medal he carried seem," wrote Sgt. Polick in a letter to a Fort McKinley. friend and historian, "when we went on Twenty yards away, Perez lobbed a the attack again, we left our packs into the pillbox and wiped out behind, and that's when he was killed." grenade for safekeeping the twin-mount .50-caliber machine Four years later, when the casket guns. Scrambling to the top of the carrying his body arrived in Chicago, bunker, he dropped several more phos- there were few words offered about phorous grenades down the vent. was gone. destiny, character or courage. The Perez had killed 18 Japanese single- neighborhood crowd that had gathered handedly during the assault— perhaps to pay its last respects knew little about counting those who had this quiet, restless more than 75 , young man. been killed by his hand grenades. For Honor in July 1945. Today, Perez Plaza stands at 26th and "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity Sgt. Polick called Perez's actions Kolin streets in Chicago, and in 1989 at the risk of life above and beyond the simply "the damndest thing" he had the Manuel Perez Jr. Elementary call of duty," Pfc. Manuel Perez Jr. , was ever seen. School was built at 1241 West 19th St. posthumously awarded his country's On March 20 , 1 945 , Perez was killed These are fitting memorials to one of highest military award, the Medal of by sniper fire while covering his pla- our heroes.

FEBRUARY 1991 37 .

Veterans update

Tie U.S. military command in Saudi Arabia obtained as diagnostic or preventive health-care measures. has authorized troops to wear U.S. Flag patches on their • Certified marriage and family therapists are now uniforms, thanks in large part to the efforts of The American authorized as independent providers of care under Legion. CHAMPUS when they agree to accept the CHAMPUS In early December it was reported that an unspecified allowable charge as the full fee for their services. This change number of U.S. Army Central Command (USARCENTCOM) is now in effect. units participating in Operation Desert Shield were told to • Transitional health care now is offered to some service remove the patches from their sleeves and not to display the families. Service members who are involuntarily separated flag at certain sites. The Legion responded immediately to from active duty during a five-year period after Oct. 1 , 1990, the controversy. and their dependents, will be eligible for CHAMPUS bene- Wrote National Commander Robert S. Turner in a letter to fits under certain conditions. President Bush: "Our own inquiry to the Department of A CHAMPUS spokesman said the daily rate for diagnosis Defense brought a response that USARCENTCOM policy related groups also increased to $262 from $235, effective authorizes wear or display of the flag only by units below the Jan. 1. corps level. DoD also stated the question of host nation sensitivities played no part in the formulation of the policy, contrary to some media reports." D The American Legion received numerous inquiries from its members after the reports were broadcast on national tele- Uenefits of The American Legion Life vision newscasts. Insurance Plan (ALLIP) have steadily increased during the Turner, who led a Legion contingent to Saudi Arabia in past decade, and the current 16-unit level shows a 100 percent October to gauge the readiness and morale of U.S. troops, increase. said DoD reported that U.S. military units may be authorized According to the administrator of ALLIP, increased to wear the flag if they're participating in joint or multi- benefits help Legionnaires keep pace with the high cost of national operations to distinguish troops. The United States living. Life insurance policies purchased only a few years ago is one of about 26 nations actively participating in Operation may have less value in today's economy, leaving many Desert Shield. Legionnaires underinsured. As a result, their survivors and "Given these facts," Turner wrote, "we find the policy of beneficiaries may have to face unnecessary financial not wearing or displaying the U.S. Flag simply outrageous. hardship, the administrator said. This ambiguous policy flies in the face of historical prece- ALLIP growth has been steady. For example, in 1980, a dent and can only cause demoralization, confusion and Legionnaire could buy a maximum of eight units; 16 units are dissension. available now, or $40,480 of coverage at age 54. Benefit "For more than 200 years, Americans have followed our levels may vary slightly in some states. flag into harm's way. Are we now to believe we are no longer ALLIP provides an affordable way for Legionnaires to

permitted to do so? We are there to deter an aggressor, to supplement their existing life insurance coverage. This is protect the rights of nations to exist. That is as important decreasing term life insurance protection. Term insurance is today as it was during our own fight for freedom against pure protection without savings and investment features, so tyranny, when we took seriously the flag-borne injunction, pricing is straightforward. " 'Don't Tread on Me.' Premium rates for the Legion program have not changed At press time, it was reported that Gen. Norman for more than 30 years. Each unit of coverage is $24 per year. Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. forces in Operation Desert Shield, ordered units to wear the flag patch.

Time is running out to apply for grants from the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, according into effect for those participating in the Civilian Health and to National Executive Committeeman U.S. "Udie" Grant, Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). who also serves as president of the foundation's board of Under the Defense Authorization Act passed late last year, directors. some CHAMPUS provisions include: Applications must be received before Feb. 28, Grant said. • The annual outpatient deductible will increase for all Those groups seeking grants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt CHAMPUS-eligible families, except for those members in institutions with programs that benefit American children. which the military sponsor is in pay grade E-4 or below. The "Generally, the goals are to add to adults' knowledge about deductible will increase to $150 per person, and $300 for the children and youths through grants in a number of fields,"

whole family, ef fective for care provided after or on April 1 Grant said. • Annual limits on inpatient mental health care will Application forms and regulations are available by writing change beginning Feb. 15, to the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, P.O. Box • Routine mammograms and Pap smears may now be 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

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H.D.I. -1991 1 crashed in New Guinea after a bombing run, but he somehow managed to survive. Bernie was in the Aleutians and Alaska with the Army. Alex served in the Army in Europe and Leon's Army tour took him from Africa to England. Bill island-hopped across the Pacific with the Army and Herman was in the Army in Germany. Franklin started out with the Merchant Marine, then joined the Army. James was part of the Army's German occupation and Mike was on Okinawa with the Air Force. Stanley served in the Army, then in the Guard. The Ripkowskis' time of service includes World War II through the Korean War. Altogether, there were 16 Ripkowski kids— 12 brothers and four sisters. According to Bernie, Stash Ripkowski

DUTY DOZEN-The Ripkowski brothers, from left: Herman, Felix, Mike, Bill, was a tough, hard-working Polish Stanley, Bernie, August, Leon, Alex, Franklin and John. Another brother, Raymond, immigrant who instilled the same sense is deceased. of responsibility and duty in his children that he and his wife, Mattie, possessed, enabling them to earn a living from the soil and support their family. According to one of the Ripkowski sisters, Mattie Ripkowski took time each day to write to at least one of her sons. BROTHERS The Ripkowski brothers were recently honored by the Dayton com- When duty munity for their sacrifice and service to their country. One of the speakers called was a dozen Rep. Charles Wilson of Texas. He spoke brothers in IN of values, like the ones possessed by the ARMS Ripkowski family. "From the time we Texas an- were little children," he said, "We were swered. told the truth. Not only have we been Today, they field, a Pentagon spokesman. taught the right values, but through 45 Unlike the Sullivans, who tragically years of peace, we have been willing belong to died when their ship was torpedoed in and able to pay the price. None of this Dayton the Pacific during World War II, the would have been possible without the Ripkowskis somehow managed to sur- Ripkowskis and others like them. They Post 51 2. vive the wars. Today, 1 1 brothers live were always willing to answer the call. near the 200-acre farm their parents When the trumpet sounded, they were worked as sharecroppers during the the first to answer." Wilson has entered 0EGINNING with World Great Depression in Dayton, Texas. the Ripkowski brothers' story into the War II, Mattie and Stash "The Ripkowski boys make up Congressional Record. Ripkowski watched their almost half the Post," said Dr. S.M. "To this day," said Frank Ripkowski, 12 sons leave home to join "Doc" Elliott, Commander of Post 512, speaking for his brothers, "it makes us the Armed Forces. This Dayton, Texas. feel proud to be Americans when we patriotic exodus spanned see the beautiful Stars and Stripes flut- two wars and more than a THE 12 brothers, only Raymond tering in the breeze." decade. One by one, the OFis dead and another brother's peace- Each brother, and Raymond's brothers— Bernie, Felix, time service does not qualify him to widow, Freda, received a copy of the Alex, August, Leon, Bill, Herman, be a member of the Legion. The remain- Congressional Record and a flag that had Franklin, John, Mike, Stanley and ing 10 brothers are active Legionnaires flown over the Capitol from Congress- Raymond — raised their hands and and most, at one time or another, have man Wilson as a tribute to the Rip- promised to defend this nation against held Post-level offices. kowski family's service to the country. all enemies. Their service records read something Said Wilson, "We in east Texas "To my knowledge, there has never like a history of the military. Felix did not go to Canada. And we don't been another family with that many fought in Africa, Italy, Sicily and burn the flag in Dayton, Texas." People sons from the same parents join the France. August served aboard the USS like the Ripkowskis wouldn't stand for service," said Lt. Cmdr. Ken Satter- Reno in the Pacific. Raymond's plane it.

40 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Remember When You Learned "You Get What You Pay For"?

Every veteran remembers that first day in the military. As we waited in line for our "free" haircut, the recruit in front of us invariably

joked about getting a trim . . . but the barber never laughed. From there, we got in line for "free" clothes. We jokingly told the supply clerk our uniform size. He didn't laugh either. He just threw us whatever he pulled off the shelf and yelled "move out." Bald and loosely uniformed, we followed the line outside to look for the "free" bus that brought us. It was gone. In its place was a drill sergeant screaming "fall in." Fortunately, as we double-timed to the mess hall for that first meal, there was something besides a free haircut pushing us on. We were taking our first steps toward defending this Nation. Some went on to pay for our freedom with lives or limbs. That's why we get mad when people say veterans benefits are just welfare programs. They aren't. They are hard earned and badly needed.

As you renew your membership this year, think about this . . . who will remind this nation that war is not free, if we do not?

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Students at West Newton Elementary O P E R A T I O School and Valley Mills Elementary School also sent letters and received responses. The students asked questions about the Saudi climate, told the troops about stateside news and sports events, and also sent packages of Kool Aid and hot chocolate. Several of the troops responded by MAIL CALL answering the students' questions and sending Middle East souvenirs such as When Legion leaders delivered moil sand and Iraqi money depicting Saddam Hussein's face, according to to troops in little SaudiArabia, did Linwood Elementary School third they know what would take place. grade teacher Becky Pulliam. The Legion trip was the first private visit to Saudi Arabia sanctioned by the White House, the Department of Defense and the State Department. Legion officials scheduled the trip to observe the condition of military equipment, troop readiness and morale and to discuss with U.S. diplomats and military commanders other Legion con- cerns about Operation Desert Shield.

"The troops appreciated the letters from the center residents and students, just as they appreciate all the cards and letters sent overseas to them," said National Adjutant Robert W. Spanogle. "They were really touched by the concern of the children and nursing center residents. They kept asking for more mail." Another mission of the Legion officials' tour of Saudi Arabia was to assure U.S. troops that the Legion and the country stood behind them and appreciated their sacrifices. PEN PALS Indianapolis' Linwood Elementary third graders who wrote Operation "Like everyone, they're worried Desert Shield soldiers search for Saudi Arabia. about their spouses and children in case of emergency," Turner said. "It was a great comfort and morale booster to HE boys are in good what everything was like— a good, old them when they found out about the spirits," said 77-year-old home-style letter." Family Support Network of The Amer- Lydia Boskill, a resident of Residents of the nursing center also ican Legion." the Decatur Nursing and sent a care package containing Christ- While Legion officials were in the Rehabilitation Center in mas ornaments and everyday items such Middle East supporting the troops, Indiana, who sent a letter as toothpaste, shampoo and treats of back home the Family Support Network to U.S. soldiers in the hard candy. They also sent a letter and continued to give aid to their families. Middle East. picture of themselves. The network was created to provide T Legion officials, led by "We had a lot of fun making the orna- assistance to families of U.S. troops National Commander Robert S. Turner, ments and putting together the care called to duty in the Middle East. By delivered the woman's letter and more package," said Phyllis Whittaker, calling toll free (800) 786-0901, more than 400 others during their week-long Decatur's assistant activity director. than 1,900 families have received fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia in "We found out what the troops needed assistance from Legionnaires since the October. and tried to pack as much as possible." network was initiated in October. "The troops arc just a little home- Legion officials also delivered letters The number can be called 24 hours a sick," Boskill said, talking about the from Indianapolis-area elementary day, and to receive assistance, families three-page letter she received from a school students. Linwood Elementary must leave their zip codes and complete sergeant on duty in Saudi Arabia. "He School third-grader Adam Wells was telephone number. Requests for help wrote about (he beautiful Saudi sun- one of the many students who wrote a are routed to Legion Departments and sets, and about how everything was, letter and later received a response. Posts.

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Kraja Retires; Sommer, Hanson

Promoted At Washington Office

OHN F. Sommer retired in December after quarters staff with William Jr. has been nine years in that position. D. Jackson, executive direc- appointed exec- Kraja, 70, is a member of tor of the Indianapolis Head- utive director of Post 15 of Youngstown, quarters office. The American Ohio, and has served as Post John T. Hanson, 40, was Legion Washington office, Commander, District Com- appointed the Director of replacing S. Kraja, Mylio who mander, and was Depart- VA&R effective Jan. 1, ment of Ohio Commander in 1991. Hanson joined The 1959. American Legion Washing- In 1974, Kraja, a WWII ton office staff in December veteran, became aide to 1983 as a public relations then-National Commander representative. He was named John T. Hanson James M. Wagonseller. deputy director for public In 1975, he became the relations in the Washington Legion's principal legisla- office in 1986. Texas, Guam and Thailand. tive spokesman as director of Hanson served in the U.S. Hanson is a member of Post the National Legislative Air Force from 197 1-74 with 34 in his hometown of Tus- Division. assignments in Colorado, caloosa, Ala. Sommer, who has served as the director of the Vet- erans Affairs and Rehabilita- tion (VA&R) Division since 1988, began working for the Legion in 1971 when he became the Department of Ohio director of rehabilita- Call In Your Opinions tion and service. A member John F. Sommer EADERS of Two questions are asked of Post 164 of Grove City, The American each month. One question Ohio, Sommer has worked at Legion Maga- appears on the Big Issues the Washington office since zine may now page this month, (see page 1974 when he became a R voice their opin- 1 2) and the other is printed in claims representative for ions on current issues and conjunction with a feature VA&R. Sommer, 43, has hear the opinions of other article (see page 62). served in other positions in Legionnaires by calling The The percentage of votes the Washington office, American Legion Opinion and selected responses will including appeals represen- Lines, 1-900-321-0101 and be published in The Amer- tative for the Board of 1-900-872-4843. ican Legion Magazine Appeals; acting chief of The lines allow readers to Opinions section. claims and chief of claims vote "yes" or "no" on issues If you want your opinion service; assistant director for and record their opinions, to be considered for publica- program management; and while supporting Legion tion, be sure to leave your deputy director of VA&R. programs. Since December, name and hometown when A Vietnam medic, War the opinion lines have asked you call. served in an infan- Sommer questions such as, "Should Calls cost $1 per minute, try company and later became Congress give the President and money raised from The non-commissioned officer in the line-item veto?" and "Do American Legion Opinion charge of the battalion aid you believe the United States Lines is used for Legion pro- station. should have done more to grams. To use the opinion Sommer shares the No. 2 reduce its dependence on lines, you must have a touch- Mylio S. Kraja executive position of head- foreign oil?" tone telephone.

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a Legion member of Post 1 "I was proud to serve my Wendy's Backs Legion country," said Thomas, who frequently stars in Wendy's TV commercials delivering Family Support Network his deadpan sales pitch. "America is the greatest DAVID Thom- rants. country in the world, and as, founder of The Legion's Family Sup- we've got to keep it that Wendy's restau- port Network is an assist- way." rant chain, ance-referral service for After Thomas was awarded mixed his recipe families of U.S. troops par- the life membership, Na- for old-fashioned hamburgers ticipating in Operation tional Commander Robert S. with some old-fashioned Desert Shield. Families of Turner temporarily stepped neighborly help when he U.S. troops who need assist- away from his duties at the cooked up a campaign to ance, from answering ques- Fall National Executive Com- praise our nation's veterans tions about home loan pay- mittee Meeting to congratu- and help families of U.S. ments to fixing leaky pipes, late the Wendy's founder. troops in the Middle East. can call toll-free 1-800-786- Turner and Thomas then, on On Veterans Day, Wendy's 0901. Calls are then referred FOR VETERANS- Wendy's the spur of the moment, owner R. David Thomas (c) restaurant readerboards dis- to Legion Departments, arranged for Wendy's restau- joins other Post 411 mem- played messages such as which contact Legionnaires rants to publicize the Family bers on Veterans Day. "America is No. 1 thanks to at Posts nearest to those who Support Network. our veterans." In addition, need help. After his conversation with Thomas pledged to publicize In a Veterans Day cere- Thomas, Turner returned to The American Legion Family mony, Post 41 1 of Dublin, ican Legion. During the the NEC room and announced Support Network through Ohio, awarded Thomas a Korean War, Thomas served Thomas' cooperation to the readerboards and other media Department of Ohio life as a mess sergeant in Frank- cheers and applause of NEC- available to Wendy's restau- membership in The Amer- fort, Germany, where he was men.

tice or team tryouts. and $122 per team for med- renewal would require dis- Don't Forget The American Legion Na- ical insurance. The insur- closure of a potential claim, tional Headquarters offers ance covers all operations at which results in its elimina- a comprehensive insurance the ballpark such as conces- tion from future policies," Insurance package that meets the insur- sion stands, maintenance Phifer said. ance requirements for base- and spectators, as well as For more information about EFORE the hot ball teams established by the players, coaches, managers, the insurance requirements days of another National Executive Com- Post commander, Post ath- of American Legion Base- baseball sum- mittee, which includes $1 letic officers, bat persons ball, consult the baseball mer arrive again, million per occurrence of and all volunteers associated insurance brochures distri- the proper equip- comprehensive general lia- with the team. buted with the rule books or ment and uniforms are bility insurance as the pri- Teams should not try to call S.A. Van Dyk at 1-800- needed for American Legion mary coverage, and $100,000 save money by purchasing 323-7326, or write to the Baseball teams, and liability per occurrence of accident "claims-made" policies be- Americanism Commission, insurance is critical, too. insurance in excess of the cause they are a very limited P.O. Box 1055, Indianapo- Without proper insur- primary insurance. policies covering only claims lis, IN 46206. ance, Post officers, coaches, "A personal injury lawsuit made during the season, Posts that purchase other players and fans could be in could devastate your Post's warned Paul B. Phifer Jr. policies meeting the require- jeopardy. For American Legion Baseball program," chairman of the Baseball and ments of the NEC must have Legion Baseball, insurance is said National Judge Advo- Recreation subcommittee of the National Headquarters as important as hiring a good cate Philip B. Onderdonk Jr. the National Americanism named as an additional coach; it's also mandatory. The insurance recom- Commission. "It becomes a insured, and these policies Legion Baseball rules re- mended by National Head- trap if a claim does not come must be reviewed and quire that all teams be insured quarters and provided by in during the year in which it approved by National Head- with an occurrence policy S.A. Van Dyk Inc. costs occurred since the policy is quarters before a team will before the first day of prac- $141 per team for liability, only for claims made. Any be allowed to participate.

FEBRUARY 1991 Security Commission, who headed the study group. "I feel disaster relief is the most important area FEMA can be involved in," Munson said. "Since the end of the Cold War there is less emphasis on civil defense, not that civil defense is less important, but the overall mission should be shifted in emphasis from civil TEAM WORK defense to disaster relief." Recent changes in eligibility for fed- In the wake of Hurricane Hugo, a eral disaster relief caused confusion and delays, the study group found. Legion task force found shortcomings Legion officials noted: "There was confusion and misunderstanding about in federal disaster management. what was eligible for assistance and what was not. For example, federal financial aid covers the regular hours put in by fire- fighters and police officers; before, local officials only were reimbursed for overtime hours. Aside from confusing new guidelines, state officials com- plained the FEMA relief teams were understaffed for the task they faced in processing the complicated forms hurricane victims had to complete to receive financial help. Legion relief workers confirmed that application forms for assistance were a "monu- mental nightmare," the report stated. Debris removal efforts in the hurricane's wake under guidance by National Guard units received high marks. The work was less effective, however, when the U.S. Corps of Engineers sub-contracted debris removal tasks with commercial operators, who did not have the equipment to AFTERMATH— Charleston County Commander Thomas R. Meteraud Sr. and Folly Beach (S.C.) Mayor Bob Linville, a member of James Island Post 147, inspect deal with such widespread devastation. ocean front property that was damaged in Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Since ihen, the "Not all these problems were with Legion's National Emergency Fund has raised more than $430,000. FEMA," said Munson. "What we've tried to do is offer some positive sugges- tions to prevent these problems in the disaster relief erty damage. The Legion study group, future. People in need of help deserve FEDERALefforts in the wake of Hur- however, targeted relief work after the no less." ricane Hugo's destructive hurricane because of the extent of Among the group's findings: swath through the Caro- damage in South Carolina. • Determine FEMA's priority mis- linas should have focused The Legion's study group report sion, civil defense or disaster relief, and on teamwork with state examined response to the disaster by ensure adequate staffing of top leader- and local officials and less the Federal Emergency Management ship positions and field staffs. on turf battles and red Agency (FEMA) and issued its recom- • Increase the role of the military in tape, according to an mendations to improve the agency's disaster relief. American Legion study. future performance when natural disas- • Improve disaster relief training and

An American Legion study group ters strike. The tone of the 1 5-page streamline registration and application dispatched to examine the federal gov- report is less scolding than it is con- practices to speed assistance to disaster ernment's response to the 1 989 cerned with making positive sugges- victims and their families, including disasters of Hurricane Hugo and the tions for improving teamwork between improved cooperation between federal Loma Prieta Earthquake in California local, state and federal relief agencies. and state officials. reached that conclusion in a final report Improving FEMA's administrative • The American Legion should con- submitted to the National Executive priorities is a key first step in improving tinue its National Emergency Fund Committee at the Pall Meeting in its ability to handle natural disaster drive and review Posts' abilities to con- Indianapolis last October. Both disas- assistance, according to Roger A. Mun- duct disaster relief partnerships with ters caused deaths and massive prop- son, former chairman of the National the American Red Cross.

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Veterans alert

State Park, IN) Bud Uncapher, 7313 Shelley Rd., Louisville, KY 4021 5 (502) 363-1 651 OUTFIT REUNIONS Mendon, OH 45862 557th AAA AW Bn. (May-Mechanicsburg, PA) James 95th Evac. Hospital (Sept-Riverton, WY) Wesley Nealon, 6304 Crafton St., Philadelphia, PA 19149 Tanner, 29 Lost Wells Cir., Riverton, WY 82501 (307) (215)288-1157 Outfit Reunion notices should be submitted on official 856-7286 574th/565th Signal AW Bns. (Aug-Boston) Lewis forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped 97th Signal Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Warsaw, IN) Dean Ford, Stafford, Box 882, E. Dennis, MA 02641 (508) 386- envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion Rt. 2, Box 2A, Claypool, IN 4651 0 (21 9) 566-2774 3038 Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. 100th Inf. Div. (FL Chapter) (May-Deland, FL) Hugh 581 st AAA AW Bn., C Btry. (WWII) (Oct-Savannah, GA) Because of printing schedules, notices should be Creveling, 92 Ventura Dr., Dunedin, FL 34698 (813) Milo Kronsich, 17601 Matthews, Riverview, Ml 48192 received at least five months before reunions are held. 733-3089 (313)281-4112 Notices are published only one time per unit per year. No 102nd Inf., 43rd Div., L Co. (Korea) (May-Meriden, CT) 608th O.B.M.B. (WWII) (Aug-Moline, IL) Elmer Gustaf- notices are published in November, the Convention John Wynne, 441 Lakev.iew Dr., Southington, CT son, 520 28th Ave., Moline, IL 61 265 (309) 764-2578 issue. 06489 (203) 628-9107 692nd F.A. Bn., B Btry. & HQ (Sept-Lawton, OK) Warren 115th Inf. Rgt., Div., 29th G Co. (June-Cumberland, Knudsen, Rt. 1 , Box 1 89, Willard, Wl 54493 (71 5) 267- MD) H. Frank Hinze, 800 Bedford St., Cumberland, 6710 MD21502 (301)722-2325 707th AAA Gun Bn. (1950-52) (Apr-Branson, MO) John 118th Inf., (Apr-Greenville, Army G Co. SC) James Hobson, Johnson, 742 Oak Ridge Dr., Neosho, MO 64850 (41 7) 1 209 Hobby Ln., Anderson, SC 29621 (803) 224-1764 451-4821 137th Signal Radio Intell. Co. (July-Ellenville, NY) C.J. 710th Tank Bn. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Ernest Ciani, 41 1/46th Inf., 198th LIB., Americal Div., A Co. (June-San Lancellotti, 5541 Sequoia Dr., Parma, OH 441 34 (21 6) Gansevoort Blvd., Staten Island, NY 1031 4 (718) 494- Francisco) Frederick Cowburn, 102 Thornton Cir. N., 845-2672 5719 Camillus, NY 13031 (315)432-2048 142nd Inf., 36th Div., D Co. (May-Stephenville, TX) Carl 726th MP Bn. (May-Lancaster, PA) Wilson David, 9415 3rd Inf. Div. (Western Region) (May-San Diego) Davis, Box 6059, Bethlehem, NC 28603 Cal Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70809 (504) 293-9779

Leonard Sidock, 5709 Dugan Ave., La Mesa, CA92042 161st Avn Co., 14th Avn Bn. (Vietnam/1966-67) (Oct- 738th Tank Bn. (May-Carthage, TN) Harris Kemp, Rt. 1 (619)463-4633 Rome, GA) Harvey York, 303 Walnut St., Cedartown, Box 251 A, Carthage, TN 37030 (61 5) 774-3473 7th Inf. Rgt. (Ozark area) (May-Ft. Smith, AR) Marion GA30125 (404) 748-1510 782nd Tank Bn. (WWII) (June-Pine Bluff, AR) William Throne, Rt. 1, Box 147A, Hume, MO 64752 (816) 643- 164th Engr. Combat Bn. (Aug-Williamsburg, VA) Mario Coker, 4401 Union Ave., Pine Bluff, AR 71603 (501) 7849 Piciacchio, 934Wallis Ave., Farrell, PA 16121 (412) 879-2660 8th CA Rgt., D Btry. (Aug-Bath, ME) Walter Webb, 250 E. 342-5928 785th MP Bn., B Co. (June-Daytona Beach, FL) John Hartford St., Hernando, FL 32642 (904) 746-9833 168th Chemical Co. (June-Niagara Falls, NY) Louis Venema, 116 Brown Pelican Dr., Daytona Beach, FL 13th Airborne Div. (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) C.E. DeLeo, 579 Sylvan Ave., Waterbury, CT 06706 (203) 32119 Beckman, 420 S. Ashe St., Southern Pines, NC 28387 754-7712 791 st AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Worchester, MA) Stephen (919) 692-7574 185th Signal Bn., B Co. (Oct-Branson, MO) Fred Ford, Savitsky, 31-72 36th St., Long Island City. NY 11106 13th Inf. Rgt., 8th Inf. Div. (WWII) (May-New Orleans) 17Whitewood Ct., Beech Grove, IN 46107 (317) 783- (718) 545-8836 George Krist, 28643 Spruce Dr., N. Olmsted, OH 3511 843rd AAA AWBn. (June-Flushing, NY) Paul Herzich, 5

196th (Sept-Pierre, SD) Lavern Cordell, Rt. John St. Montvale, ) 44070(216)235-9862 RCT 1, Box , NJ 07645 (201 391 -7239 13th Inf., L Co. (Sept-Smoketown, PA) Crawford 189, Watertown, SD 57201 (605)886-7779 860th Engr. Avn Bn. (June-Owensboro, KY) James Mackley, #18, Mt. Ver. Terr., Waynesboro, PA 17268 204th AAA Bn. (July-Canton, OH) Harry Wheeler, #3 Millay, 602 Crittenden St., Owensboro, KY 42301 (502) (717)762-4710 Oliver Heights, Uniontown, PA 15401 (412)437-0282 683-3839 16th Field Hospital (May-St. Paul, MN) Herman 215th CA (AA) (July-Mankato, MN) Paul Meyer, 118 864th Engr. Avn. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Indianapolis) Bob Thompson, Rt. 2, Box 185, Ottumwa, IA 52501 (515) Moreland Ave., Mankato, MN 56001 (507)388-4139 George, 1723 Beechwood Blvd., Marion, IN 46952 938-2874 222nd Inf., 42nd Div., M Co. (July-Houston, TX) Ernest (317) 664-1086 17th Engr. Bn., A Co. (May-St. Louis) Fred Smith, 1531 Giles, 5425 Omaha Ave., Baltimore, MD 21206 (301) 869th AAA AW Bn., HQ Btry. (Hawaii) (Sept-St. Louis) Cordova Rd., Germantown, TN 381 38 488-6296 Samuel Bennett, Rt. 1, Box 22, Minford, OH 45653 20th Arm'd Div./412th/413th/414th FA Bns. (Sept- 228th F.A. Grp., HQ Btry. (WWII) (May-Newark, DE) (614)820-2451 Rapid City, SD) D C. Pinckney, 211 East Oak St., Tyler, Joseph Coren, 146 Gull Aire Blvd., Oldsmar, FL 34677 876th Engr. Avn Bn. (May-St. Augustine, FL) Patrick MN 561 78 (507) 247-51 64 (813)784-8641 Tucci, 1100 N. Dixie Freeway, Box 4, New Smyrna 23rd QM Rgt. (Truck), B Co. (Boston/Iceland) (Sept- 277th Port Co. (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN) James Beemiller, Beach, FL 32069 (904) 423-8641 Sturbridge, MA) George Marchant, Box 704, Hamilton, Rt. 5, Box 488, Bedford, PA 15522 (814) 623-5063 893rd Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Uniontown, PA) Harry MT 59840 (406) 363-2006 299th Engr. Bn. (CA) (Sept-Kokomo, IN) Neil Reed, 909 Sinclair, 684 Md Rt. 3 No., Gambrills, MD21054 (301) 24th Tank Bn., 13th Arm'd Div. (WWII) (Sept-Omaha, S. 9th St., Lafayette, IN 47905 (317) 742-5251 923-3190 NE) Galen Krieg, 110 S.W. 4th St., Newton, KS 67114 304-610th Ord. Bn. (Sept-Dearborn, Ml) Hank Lusch, 961 st FA Bn. (May-Oklahoma City) Melvin Coffin, Rt. 2, 1 257-3852 Box (316) 283-3986 Box 1 , Long Lake, Ml 48743 (51 7) 200, Waukomis, OK 73773 (405) 758-3552 26th Yankee Div., 1 01 st Inf. (WWI/WWII) (Mar-Dorches- 311th FA, 79th Div., A Btry. (June-Hudson Falls, NY) 1255th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Cherry Hill, NJ) 1 ter, MA) Frank Mclnnis, 70 Victory Rd., Boston, MA Jerry Yole, 0 Kvale Ln. , Hudson Falls, NY 1 2839 (51 8) Alfred Babecki, 1405 Colony Rd., Oxon Hill, MD 20745 02122(617)825-2626 747-6939 (301) 839-5032 29th Div. Assn. (Aug-Hagerstown, MD) Samuel Krauss, 315th Inf. Rgt. Assn. (WWII) (Aug-Fayetteville, NC) 1906th Engr. Avn. Bn., HQ/A/B/C Cos. (WWII) (July- 5928 Robindale Rd., Baltimore, MD 21228 (301) 744- Francis Oczko, 144 N. 6th St., New Hyde Park, NY Sioux City, IA) Lawrence Ellyson, 1 12 Whitcher, Sioux 3047 11040 (516) 352-7554 City, IA 51 109 (71 2) 233-1 793 32nd Inf. Div., MP Pltn. (South Pacific/1942-45) (Sept- 325th AA S/L Bn., HQ/A/B/C Btrys. (June-Paducah, 3342nd QM Truck Co. (H) (England/Europe) (Sept- Brazil, IN) Robert Kester, Rt. 12, Box 108, Brazil, IN KY) J.D. Patterson, 7000 E. Pine Grove Rd., Sturbridge, MA) George Marchant, Box 704, Hamilton, 47834 (812) 446-8041 Bloomington, IN 47401 (812) 837-9334 MT 59840 (406) 363-2006 33rd Signal Co., 33rd Div. (WWII) (June-Park Ridge, IL) 337th/1338th Combat Engrs. (Aug-Ashland, KY) Carl 3657th Ord. MM Co. (Aug-Cedar Rapids, IA) P.M. Lawrence Glines, 6944 W. Cleveland St., Niles, IL Sergent, 2717 Hilton Ave., Ashland, KY 41101 (606) Driscoll, Box 272, Lake Alfred, FL 33850 (813) 956- 60648 (708) 966-9065 324-5407 4216 35th Inf., 25th Div., L Co. (Korea) (May-Red Wing, MN) 338th Inf. RCT Assn. (May-Columbus, GA) William All Coast Artillerymen (Hawaii/1932-42) (Sept- W.B. Woodruff Jr., Box 515, Decatur, TX 76234 (817) Gerrish, Rt. 1, Box 184, Patoka, IL 62875 (618) 432- Hampton, VA) D.M. Cooper, Box 142, Glen Dale, WV 627-3745 5229 26038 (304) 845-0880 45th Inf. Div. Assn. (Aug-Oklahoma City) Raul Trevino, 351st Searchlight Bn. (June-Omaha, NE) Bob AOC Class 8, Ft. Riley, KS (1949) (June-Junction City, 2145 N.E, 36th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73111 (405) Johnson, 514 Brown St., Jackson, MN 56143 (507) KS) Elvin Burger, 5310 Castle Way, San Antonio, TX 424-5393 847-2907 (512) 655-2871 47th Div. MP Co. (1947-59) (Sept- Minneapolis, MN) 359th Engrs., E Co. (July-Indianapolis) Robert Huey, G-3-11/A 3rd 155 How Bn. (1941-45) (Aug-San Diego) Vic Peterson, 6220 Balder Lane, Edina, MN 55439 7146 Halden PI., Indianapolis, IN 46214 (317) 244- Sam Plott, 6804 Carroll Way, Upper Marlboro, MD (612) 944-1731 9297 20772 (301) 627-0379 56th General Hospital (June-Denver) RoseOtt, 1141 S. 374th F.A. Bn., 100th Div. (May-Deland, FL) Eli LRP, 51st Inf. (Abn), F Co. (June-Austin, TX) LRP/ Dover St., Lakewood, CO 80226 (303) 985-2042 Fishpaw, 1 104 E. University Ave., Deland, FL 32724 RANGER, Box 14303, Austin, TX 78761 (512) 926- 66th/67th Inf.Trng. Bns., Camp Wolters, TX (1941-43) (904) 734-6934 LRRP

(Sept-Chicago) Sidney McCray, 631 E. 84th St., 386th Inf., 97th Div., I Co. (May-San Antonio) Robert OCS Classes Fort Riley (1947-53) (June-Junction City, Chicago, IL 60619 (312) 723-8533 McKinley, 953 Simoron Dr., Ogden, UT 84404 (801) KS) Jerome Repsher, 1214 Bay Side Circle W., 66th Signal Bn., B Co. (June-Collinsville, IL) Harold 621-2965 Wilmington, NC 28405 (91 9) 256-9466 Hogue, 1419 Biscay Dr., Edwardsville, IL 427th Arm'd FA Bn., B Btry. (Aug-St. Louis) Larry Ryll, 62025 (618) Parachute FA Test Btry. (1942) (Apr-Ft, Benning, GA) 656-7417 3709 S. Spring Ave., St. Louis, 63116 772- MO (314) Joe Stolmeier, 1573 Indian Summer Rd., San Marcos, 71st Inf., 44th Div., G Co. (June-Tulsa, OK) L.M. 0765 CA 92069 (619) 480-4874 Gasperino, 4616 S. Winston, Tulsa, OK 74135 (918) 501st Parachute Bn. (Original) (Oct-Ft. Benning, GA) Ranger Inf. Cos. (Airborne) (Korean War) (Aug- 622-3191 Gordon Smith, 12113 Chester Dr., Baton Rouge, LA Fayetteville, NC) Ed Therens, 3204 Oykey Trail, 73rd AAA AW Bn. (SP) (Sept-Linesville, PA) Steve 70810 (504) 766-3848 ' Wealherford, TX 76087 (800) 628-2540 Krem, Rt. 2, Box 284, Linesville, PA 16424 (814) 683- 508th RCT (1951-52) (May-San Antonio) Bert Jaeger, Society of the First Div. (July-San Jose, 5534 805 Durden St., Brenham, TX 77833 (409) 836-6390 CA) Arthur 74th CA (AA) Rgt. (May-Hagerstown, MD) Fred Brooks, 513th Engr. (LP) Co. (Aug-Sikeslon, MO) George Chaitt, 5 Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, PA 191 18 (215)836-4841 2000 Wilhelm Ave,, MD21237 (301 ) 866-421 Springs, 212 Moore Ave., Sikeston, MO 63801 (314) 78th Ord. Depot (Sept-Chicago) Stanley Strand, Rt. 2, 471-1595 Staff Bn., HSC, GHQ, FEC Tokyo, C Co. (June-Cincin- Box66B, Erskme, MN 56535(218) 687-4095 526th Arm'd Inf. Bn. (WWII) (May-Normandy/Belgium) nati) Randy Coon, 3634 Merwin Ten Mile Rd., Cincin- 85th QM Depot Supply Co., 5th Army (1941-45) (Apr- Richard Stone, Box 115, Ferndale, WA 98248 (206) nati, OH 45245 (513) 752-3592 Kokomo, IN) Thomas Stewart, Box 237, Galveston, IN 384-1974 Stark General Hospital (Apr-Charleston, SC) Joseph 46932(219)699-6286 533rd E.B. & S.R., A Co. & HQ Co. Shore Bn. (Apr-Cave South, Rt. 2, Box 102, Lavonia, GA 30553 (404) 356- 94th Bn., OB Baking B Co. (1941-45) (Sept-Turkey Run City, KY) James Cooksey, 1 1 20 Brook line Ave., 2521

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Robertson, 5819 N. Andrews Way, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1 59 E. Amber PI., San Antonio, TX 78221 33309 (800) 526-8550 6th Bomb Grp. (VH) (Tinian) (May-Newton, MA) Newell USS Suffolk AKA-69 (Sept-Nashville, TN) Charles Penniman Jr., 6 Porter Lane, S. Hamilton, MA 01982 LET'S GETT0GETHER Dujic. 10503 La Placida Dr., Coral Springs, FL 33065 (508) 468-2806 (305) 341-0668 20th Air Depot Supply Sq. (WWII) (Oct-Ocala, FL) This column is for notices of proposed reunions. USS Swenning DE-394 (May-Williamsburg, VA) George Senge, 219 E. Gleneagles Rd., Ocala, FL Notices should be submitted on official forms that can be Thomas Laxton, 3 Ontario Rd., Bellerose, NY 1 1001 32672(904)624-0902 obtained by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope (516) 488-7121 27th Air Dpt. Grp., 5th AF (May-Dayton, OH) Lou to Let's Get Together, The American Legion Magazine, USS Talladega APA-208 (Aug) Albert Verrette, Valentine Kaczmarek, 314 Harpwood Dr., Franklin, OH 45005 P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices are Rd , Box 141, Pomfret Ctr., CT 06259 (203) 774-9077 (513)746-7693 published only one time per unit per year. No notices are USS Taussig DD-746 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Vincent 33rd Fighter Gp., 33rd Tac. Wing (Apr-Fort Walton published in November, the Convention issue. Esposito, 7 Astronomy Ln., Levittown, NY 1 1756 (516) Beach, FL) Ibrie Beatty, 18 Sherwood Rd. N.W., Fort 579-4449 Walton Beach, FL 32547 (904) 862-8891 USS Taylor DD/DDE-468 (Sept-Bahamas cruise) John 51st F.I.W., Korea, Japan, Okinawa (1951-56) (July- Robertson, 5819 N. Andrews Way, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Dayton, OH) Donald Porter, 4924 Johanne Dr., Army 33309 (800) 526-8550 Groveport, OH 431 25 (614) 836-9836 USS Thomason OE-203 (May-Lenoir, NC) George 53rd Ftr. Grp. (WWII/post war) (May-Tampa, FL) Elmer

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California VAMC gets bus . . . "Screaming Eagle'

tragedy memorialized at Gander . . Legion- LEGIONNAIRE

naire devotes 20,000 hours of caring . . . final OF THE MONTH

tribute bugler . Just the Tax" from Michigan.

I he Long Beach, Calif. VA Hospital includes 256 beds, a museum dedicated needed a bus for wheelchair-bound to the 101st Airborne and a plaque and semi-ambulatory patients to go on depicting the Great Seal of the United fishing trips, sports events and other States overlaying a bed of maple leaves, activities. To fulfill the patients need, the Canadian national symbol. For Post of 790 West Covina, Calif. , formed more information, contact Gander- a committee to raise $53,000 for a bus. Masonic Memorial Complex, 183-185 Chaired by Joseph Chilelli, the commit- LaMarchant Road, P.O. Box 7002, St. tee began raising funds by selling pins, John's, Newfoundland, A1E 3Y3. and the Post even conducted an all-male beauty revue.

But the committee knew it would be In most companies, 20,000 hours of hard-pressed to raise all the money, and service equals about 10 years of 40- the Department of California 18th Dis- hour weeks. That's how long Harold O. Ken Estep trict agreed to help. Donations then Nelson of Post 292, Philadelphia, has Estep of Post 16, Mans- rolled in from all of California and other worked as an American Legion volun- field, Ohio, has helped change states. Eventually, the Post and District teer at the Philadelphia VA Medical KENa lot of lives for the better. He's raised $53,340.75, and the bus was Center. To recognize this feat, Nelson even managed to save a couple presented, road-ready with the fuel was awarded the James H. Parke while he was at it. Legion- tanks topped, to the hospital. Achievement Award by medical center A naire the past 15 years, Estep director Robert F. Stott at a banquet in has worked tirelessly for his Nelson's honor at the Philadelphia John Cardoulis of Ft. Pepperrell Post Navy Yard. and community. Post 9, St. John's, Newfoundland, Estep, 42, helps change the lives of remembers that tragic morning in handicapped youngsters by coor- December, 1985, when a chartered dinating Special Olympics activities for airliner kip service means crashed after takeoff from Post 16, including arrangements for a something special Gander International killing 248 mem- dinner and dance which are part of the to Melvin "Jake" bers of the 101st Airborne Division Special Olympics annual bunquet. Lewison of Post headquartered at Fort Campbell, Ky, Estep has enriched the lives of hundreds 138, Viroqua, Wis. and eight crew members. He and his of Richland County youngsters through He's been playing fellow Legionnaires and other groups the volunteer hours he invests in the taps at veterans' are spearheading a drive to create a country's United Way Toy Time pro- funerals since he living tribute to the servicemen killed gram, helping to distribute toys at played the first time on that day. Christmas to needy children. The pro- for a Civil War vet- Cardoulis' committee built a monu- gram's chairman, Ken Cole, said Estep eran in 1929. ment at the crash site called "Silent characterizes his idea of volunteerism. Witness," and is in the process of estab- And Estep has saved lives. In Sep- lishing a health-care facility for senior tember 1984 he revived a fellow citizens near the site. The facility I he Wyoming, Mich., police depart- Legionnaire who suffered a heart attack

ment is better off now that it has the during a golf outing. In July 1989 he fax. Post 154 of Wyoming raised helped administer cardio-pulmonary $3,000 from steak fries and weekly resuscitation to another stricken breakfasts to buy a portable fax Legionnaire. Ken has served as Post machine and printer to aid local law 16 Commander, District 5 VA&R enforcement officials in their war on Chairman; and has served as a mem- drugs. The fax will speed up issuance of ber of his Post Executive Board and warrants and enable officers to remain Canteen, Home Building and Picnic on the scene while a judge signs search committees. He and his wife, Kay, are and arrest warrants. The fax was the parents of a son, Patrick; and a donated after the courts ruled that fac- daughter, Carrie. similes of warrants were enforceable.

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CHAPLAIN SAVE HUNDREDS OF Continuedfrom page 31 $$$ Finally a NEW and IMPROVED IS didn't take long before they made SEPTIC TANK CLEANER HERE friends with two other chaplains, Clark PREVENT & STOP ALL TANK & DRAIN LINE PROBLEMS V. Poling and Father John P. Washing- ton. ACT NOW! AVOID: The miracle answer has been Christmas 1942 arrived and Dad got Costly expenses discovered... a short pass to see my mother and sister. That was the last they were to see each Clogged drains other. Wet spots SEPTIC HELPER Camp Myles Standish was a holding Re-doing drain facility where soldiers were restricted THE Problem Solver! to base, awaiting overseas assignments. fields SEPTIC HELPER saves money and In one of his last letters, Dad said he outs Pump inconvenience by doing away with pumping wanted to go to North Africa since the Offensive odors out septic tanks periodically. A small big invasion had just taken place. After amount of SEPTIC HELPER converts all several levies passed with no call for the wastes into liquid. It will help clean the lines chaplains, Dad and his three friends Septic Tank leading to the septic tank. It goes to work began to wonder if they were ever going Before immediately, digests the solids, cleans the to the war's front. All of the men volun- walls and then travels to the drain fields. It teered to go where they felt they were opens the earth and lets the earth percolate. needed most. In the middle of January 1943, the call came and the four chap- Keep Your Septic Tank and lains left their New York embarkation Cesspool In Great Shape point with a contingent of soldiers to board the USS Dorchester. Use SEPTIC HELPER Feb. father and his friends On 3 , my Septic Tank were at sea in the waters off Greenland. After For more information Less than an hour past midnight, the CALL — 24 hrs. Dorchester sailed into crosshair sights of German Submarine U-456. A torpedo TOLL FREE ripped into the troopship and it began to sink. 1-800-544-4074 Dad and his fellow chaplains removed their life jackets and gave them to GIs. Witnesses of that terrible Drain lines OR Mail in Coupon to: Krane Products, Inc. hearing the four men 521 • Larchmont, NY 10538 night remember Before P.O. Box offer prayers for the dying and encour- I am interested in more information on agement for those who would live. SEPTIC HELPER Others remember seeing Dad and the o o Name . other three, arms linked and singing as A

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Utah law prohibiting indecent programming on cable, the Supreme Court ruled CABLEP0RN that the state could not seek to ban Continuedfrom page 29 sexually explicit material and nudity from cable. When trying to sort out is Hundreds ol FOUY-BaSAW trained who have succeeded in this fascinating responsible for regulating the content of and highly profitable Held... enforcing the laws regulations cable programs, there is a difference You Can Do It Too! ...BE A and ( against obscene cable programming." between the terms obscene and indecent. The FCC could pull a cable operator's According to the U.S. Supreme Court, license or impose a fine. But again, in for something to be found legally Never before have money-making opportunities been so this area, no action has been taken. obscene, it must meet the following HHgreat for qualified Locksmiths. Now lucrative regular lock and key business has multiplied a thousandfold as "To my knowledge, no one has com- criteria: (1) It must appeal to a prurient millions seek more protection against zooming crime. Yet there's only one Locksmith for every 17,000 peo- plained to us about obscenity on cable," interest in sex; (2) it must depict or ple! Train FAST at Home — Collect CASH PROFITS Right Away. You're in business ready to earn up to said Barrett Brick, attorney and adviser describe sexual conduct in a patently 126.00 an hour a few days after you begin Foley- Belsaw's shortcut training Take advantage of today's for the cable television branch of the offensive manner; and (3) taken as a unprecedented opportunities in Locksmithing for year- round EXTRA INCOME in spare time — or full time in a FCC. "And if they did, we would tell whole, it must lack serious literary, high-profit business of your own. Hundreds we've trained have done it. So can YOU! All tools plus profes- them to contact their local district attor- artistic, political or scientific value. sional Key Machine given you with course. These plus practice matenals and equipment, plus simple, illus- ney, ask their cable company for a lock The cable industry, supported by the trated lessons, plus expert supervision, plus business- building guidance will enable you to KEEP THE MONEY box, or switch it off." Brick said after American Civil Liberties Union, also COMING IN ! Ideal for retirement — good jobs, too. SEND FOR EXCITING FACTS — NO OBLIGATION! the Cable Communication Policy Act of contends that viewers have the right to PRO KEY MACHINE YOURS TO KEEP rEE ALL SPECIAL TOOLS f AND EQUIPMENT 1984 made it a federal offense to pre- decide what they want to watch in their Tilts machine can add up to INCLUDED $200 a month to your in- sent obscene matter on cable, the FCC own homes. If the indecent or obscene come. . . it won't cost you a penny extra with your \VHH:l"r/ eliminated its ruling against cable programs are offensive training. to them or their FOLEY-BELSAW INSTITUTE FIND OUT ABOUT rT obscenities from the FCC Code of Fed- families, they should simply switch the 6301 EQUITABLE BD . DEPT 1 1 932 TODAY KANSAS CITY, MO. 64120 RUSH COUPON eral Regulations because such a ruling channel. But as the U.S. Supreme Court There is NO OBLIGATION* NO SALESMAN Will Call -ever! "would be redundant." ruled in F.C.C. vs. Pocifica, because the FOLEY-BELSAW INSTITUTE 6301 EQUITABLE R0 . DEPT. 11932 When it seemed that no one wanted audience is constantly changing the KANSAS CITY, MO. 64120 PLEASE RUSH FREE BOOK "Keys lb Your Future' to take responsibility, some states or channel, prior warnings cannot com- municipalities attempted to pass bills pletely protect the listener or viewer NAME . banning indecent programs on cable in from unexpected program content. ADDRESS their jurisdictions. But in March 1987, Also, once cableporn is released into

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"I have treated more than 270 sex offenders or individuals with sexual illnesses," said Dr. Victor B. Cline, Foot Pain Is No psychology professor at the University of Utah, and author of Where Do You Draw the Line? "With very few excep- Laughing Matter tions, pornography has been a con- tributor to the acquisition of their devia- that persons tion." He observed ! exposed to pornography usually become addicted, no matter what the I f 1 consequences in their lives, and need more explicit and deviant sexual mate- Corns, rial to be stimulated. Also those who Callusc view pornography begin to think, Bunion "Everyone does it," which leads to an Toe era increasing tendency to act out behaviors viewed in pornography. "This creates problems," said Cline. "When they act out their fantasies, en or many times it is against the law, and it sore arches has a very negative effect on their families. Laws need to be enforced. In a sense, our drinking water has been At Last-Instant Relief! contaminated, and we are getting a lot of casualties— both children and adults. If work shoes, even boots. You won't Our people and our country are too you suffer from foot pain you know better than anyone it's no even realize you're wearing them. See precious for us to look the other way, laughing matter! Especially when you for yourself: Test "FOOT CRADLE" in ignore it, or pretend not to know what is have corns, calluses, pain in the balls your shoes entirely at our risk. happening." of your feet, burning nerve endings, How It's Guaranteed To MIM suggests that concerned citizens painful ankles, old injuries, backaches, Work For You. who view offensive programs on cable or just plain sore, aching feet. television should tape the program, and Now with SwissCo "FOOT CRA- Like all great inventions it was

quite simple it send copies to their U. S. attorney and to DLES" you will look back on suffering once he figured out! The needlessly, laugh secret of the "FOOT CRADLE" is in the the FCC at 1919 "M" St, N.W., and at having put up with foot pain when you really didn't unique, contoured design. Just as your Washington, D.C. 20554-0001 . have to. body weight shifts naturally with each step, so does the CRADLE. It's de- Doctor's Scientific signed to apply the natural laws of foot Discovery Ends Foot Pain. motion to pain-racked feet. "FOOT A Swiss doctor who specialized CRADLES", handmade from genuine in foot therapy knew that painful feet European leather, easily COMRADES IN DISTRESS needed to be properly supported and /.* . | slips into any pair of cushioned in any pair of shoes. No one "-.*,* \ shoes you own. Once Readers who can help these veterans are urged to knew better than he as he watched you start walking or write a witness letter, including the CID number. Send the letters to CID, The American Legion Magazine, Box his patients try one remedy after 'running, you'll feel the 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. another. Anything his patients difference immediately. Notices are published only at the requests of American tried never provided long- Suddenly, you no longer Legion Service Officers representing claimants, using Search for Witness Forms available from Department lasting relief from pain. wince when you walk. The Legion Service Officers. Finally, he set out to pain from your corns and

80th Inf., 317th Rgt., E Co. Dale W. Anderson needs solve the problem himself. calluses will disappear. WE witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed at Jena, After testing dozens of spe- GUARANTEE IT. Try "Foot Cra- Germany,. April 10, 1945, he was captured along with cial shoes and insole sup- dles" for 30 days at our risk. If you 13 others and became a POW. Contact CID 1289. 164th Combat Engrs. Oliver D. Balsley needs witnes- ports, he invented the ama are not completely free of foot pain, ses to verify that he was hospitalized from Jan. to Apr. zingly successful "FOOT CRADLE". return them for a full refund. 1945 in the 65th Gen. Hospital, England, for frozen feet, pleurisy and kidney condition. Contact CID 1 290. The "Foot Cradle" Insert 30-Day Risk-Free Trial 25th Div., 35th Rgt., 1st Bn., C Co. William Y. Stone r'SwissCo International, A triumph of Swiss inventive Dept. YAL021 needs witnesses to verify that while stationed at Kmam 712 No. 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103-8881

in 1 , he suffered ear Kwa Valley, Korea, September 951 genius! "FOOT CRADLE" weighs less YES! Rush my "FOOT CRADLE" on the concussion from mortar shells. Contact CID 1291 I RISK FREE 30- DAY GUARANTEE. than one ounce, yet its Naval Signal Station, Line 1 Glenn M. Bale needs witnesses to verify that while stationed at Segond unique, contoured design I 1 pair for $1 9.95 plus $1 .50 postage/handling. 2 pair for $37.90 (Save $5) postage/handling FREE. Channel Bay, Esprito Sentos, New Hebrides Islands in enables it to help support Septemeber 1943, he was an outpatient for a sinus I your full body weight Enclosed is nnyJZ] Check Money Order condition. Contact CID 1292. or Charge my Visa MasterCard USS Karin AF-33 Thomas William Burke needs witnes- while unshackling your J WA residents add 8.2^o sales tax. ses to verify that while stationed at Sasebo, Japan, in feet from their I late October 1945, he was injured while unloading misery. Card # Exp. date cargo. Contact CID 1 293. H Btry., 3rd Bn., 12th Mar., 3rd MarDiv. Ronald Strack Works in any | Women's shoe size - Men's shoe size needs witnesses to verify that in September or October shoes-sandals, Print Name he was among an advance party to LZ Russell. I 1968, high heels, sport Contact CID 1294. I Address L Co., 32nd Inf., 7th Div. Eugene (Jim) Winterfeldt shoes, sneakers, needs witnesses to verify that while stationed at Kang ^Cjty State .Zip. nung, Korea, in May/June 1 946, he was pinned under

a jeep that went off a bridge. Contact CID 1 295.

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The "OFF-LAWN" Mower JACK STONE Continuedfrom page 35 AtLASTL.M machine that makesyour entireproperty more useable, accessible dreds of billions of dollars to foreign and beautiful! countries, but cut the benefits and the few dollars for medicine for someone If have over an acre of land, the you like i ; Jack Stone," said Deeds. So far he Sickle TROY-BILT TRAIL BLAZER® has gathered more than 5,000 signatures Bar is the perfect "off-lawn" mower to from northeast Iowans and through vet- cut grass, weeds, even light brush of eran organizations in other states. He any height in all types of terrain. said he hopes the petition drive will grab the attention of Post Commanders • Amazingly fast! TROY-BILT. nationwide. "We have to keep fighting cuts 1,500 sq. ft. of overgrown this," Deeds insisted. "Just don't let it weeds in under 5 minutes! rest." 38" wide "scissor- • Blaze nature trails for action" blade Post 138, of which Deeds is a mem- walking, hunting, skiing, snowmobiling. ber, was gutted by fire last April and has

• Enhance the beauty of Troy-Bilt Mfg. Co. Dept A3165 been closed for repairs. The fire burned your place by clearing unsightly suckers, 102nd St. and 9th Ave., Troy, N.Y. 12180 petition forms and hurt chances of help vines and bushes. YES! Please send me your FREE Catalog on how from that Post. But other area Post the TROY-BILT TRAIL BLAZER Sickle Bar can the peti- 0 Have a safer place, too! Commanders have helped with help me unlock the full beauty and enjoyment of my ...without fire tion drive. hazards, driveway blind property...plus details on prices, models and savings spots and poison ivies, oaks or sumacs. now in effect! 317 "You figure they can save the world, but they can't do anything for our own NAME : veterans," fumed Vernon Wermerskir- For Your FREE Catalog ADDRESS. 1-800-532-3737 Dept. 3165 chen, former Commander of Post 714 Call CITY in nearby Gilbertville. Wermerskirchen, or Mail This Coupon TODAY! j STATE. _ZIP_ a WWII Army veteran, was outgoing Also A vailable in Canada! commander during the petition drive and helped gather many signatures. "We've got some veterans around town who are in pretty bad shape and aren't getting what they ought to," he said. WIN A FREE RASCAL SCOOTER! "How about the other veterans' organizations? Are they getting behind this? I would think that if they all got together, Shop, garden, fish or visit independently they'd have enough clout to scare some- on one amazing scooter! A transportable, body." take-apart frame and built-in battery charger Jim Johannes, a Legionnaire who for convenient refueling make it the ideal began the Gilbertville Post in 1949, is travel companion. Go wherever you'd like- upset over the benefit cuts that stopped this rugged 3-wheeler offers sturdy protec- his appointments in Iowa City. Johannes,

tion you can trust over hills, grass, and 71 , is a WWII Army veteran who needs gravel. biannual checkups with a cardiologist The Rascal's great for getting around at to see when his heart valve needs re- home, too. Enjoy meals in the kitchen, join placement. He does not have a service- your family in the living room, or read on the connected disability. patio-the swivel seat lets you get up close to In neighboring La Porte City, Navy veteran Don Barber, 57, does have a tables or appliances and its thick padding is service-connected disability: He devel- comfortable even after hours of sitting. oped cancer at age 22. More than two feet of surgical scars stripe his torso. He Rush my free catalog, sweepstakes entry, now suffers from high blood pressure and contact me to arrange a free test-ride. and a disintegrating spine. The Iowa City VAMC stopped his pain and blood- Name pressure medications because those conditions are not service-connected. Address Barber, who owns a small bakery on

City . State_ Main Street, buys his blood-pressure Zip medicine at a monthly cost of $48 but Phone ( ) has given up his pain medicine because

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FEBRUARY 1991 57 own preference for what we should Return To Romance send: mathematics and music, prefera- With One Of The World's SKY SEARCH bly jazz. Continuedfrom page 23 It wouldn't take much of a message Most Beautiful Voices! from E.T to send SETI researchers into orbit. Stray signals have electrified sky watchers— and left at least one space something unusual. First, computers puzzle unsolved. analyzing the massive flow of data from Ohio State University researchers space will sound an alarm. It might be thought they had found something in a bell or an electronic beep; or, accord- 1977 with their radiotelescope in Dela- ing to NASA's Peter Backus, the com- ware, Ohio. Researcher Jerry Ehman puters might activate an automated was scanning output from a bulky, slow

telephone calling machine. It would line printer. Every 10 seconds, it deliv- rouse the scientist on duty with a mes- ered a new batch of data on what the sage, possibly recorded by deep-voiced telescope antenna, the size of three Bernard "Barney" M. Oliver, who leads football fields, had picked up in the Nana the NASA search. "Come down," previous 10 seconds. Suddenly, there Oliver would command. "We've found on the printed page, was the sign every Mouskouri something interesting." SETI searcher hopes for. Science-fiction movies depart from "It was unmistakably strong," said Now, for the first time in this the actual plot at this point, according Robert S. Dixon, director publication, we offer you one of the of the Ohio world's most famous and stirringly to Tarter. In real life, no one would State SETI project. "It had all the beautiful voices. Here are 22 of the phone the press or try to begin an characteristics of an extraterrestrial

most heart-touching songs of your life, interstellar conversation with the signal." The data revealed that it came sung by the international star who is source of the signal. For several days to from a source at least as far away as the so popular she's captivated audiences a week, Tarter said, the SETI research- moon. But it was not from the moon, or in 42 countries and received 130 gold ers would continue to analyze the wave. any planet, or even record awards worldwide. Over any known star or 300,000 TV viewers have already They would ask other facilities to look galaxy. Ehman wrote "Wow!" in the ordered Nana Mouskouri's remarkable for the same trace of life elsewhere. margin of the computer paper. treasury. Some of our customers Unless at least one other radiotelescope Dixon said the Ohio team sub- cannot pronounce her name but we outpost picked up the same glimmer, sequently looked hundreds of times at always know who they want because researchers would assume the source the area of the sky where the signal they ask for "the woman with the wasn't genuine. seemed to originate. "We never saw a beautiful voice." Send for yours today If the call from space was verified, thing," he said. His current theory is and see if you don't agree. Her Famous Album the announcement to the world could that the strange wave from space might come as soon as a week after first detec- have come from "a super-secret mili- Sweeping America On TV! tion, Tarter said. It would happen at tary satellite cruising around in the Song For Liberty (Verdi) • Roses Love three simultaneous press conferences. solar system." But it's also possible, he Sunshine • I Have A Dream • White Rose Of Athens • Till The Rivers All Run Dry By international agreement, she said, said, that "we might have received a • Amazing Grace • A Place In My Heart we wouldn't answer the call from signal from some other civilization." • • • Addio (Verdi) Love Me Tender I Never space, because scientists aren't sure So there is another civilization? "I Will Marry • There's A Time • Let It Be • Morning Has Broken • Danny Boy what to say or who should say it. don't have any question," Dixon said. • Yesterday • Loving Him Was Easier • Try Maybe they've been stung by criti- "I don't think we are alone." His argu- To Remember • The First Time Ever (I Saw cism of previous attempts to send aliens ment is that within the past few cen- Your Face) • Autumn Leaves • Habanera a message. Pioneer space De Carmen (Bizet) • And More! probes turies we have learned enough about launched in 1972 Money Back Guaranteed! and 1973 bore other celestial bodies to know that they plaques, designed by committee, show- all behave according to the same laws. You must love this album more than any you own or your money will be refunded ing a naked man and woman and a "Everywhere we look we see the same in full. No questions asked. Not sold in stores. picture suggesting how we could be physical elements, the same physical Order Today! tracked back to Earth. The Voyager laws of gravitation, motion, chemistry

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I Or charge to: DVisa MasterCard photo encoded aboard the Voyagers astronomer at Anne Arundel Commu- American Express Diner's Club Acct. Exp. shows Olympic runners. They race as nity College in Arnold, Md. If our No Date thousands of spectators watch. "If you planet was just 5 percent closer to the were an alien, you would that are, life have had I Name assume sun than we wouldn't there are two species on Earth," Tarter a chance against such heat. One percent Address I said. "There are big ones, and little ones farther away from the sun, Earth would City who watch them. And the big ones have have been ice-clad. The territory where |

developed anti-gravity. None of their life as we know it could survive is com- I State Zip feet are touching the ground." Tarter's paratively narrow.

'A AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "If intelligent life was common to the galaxy, we would have been visited by now, many times," Hart argued. "They would have explored and colonized as AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERS we will explore and colonize." Hart said we'll probably overrun the galaxy with our space program during the next Sail Costa's Caribbean 2 million years, a comparatively short time in the 4 billion year history of the galaxy. 7 DAYS FROM ONLY PER Whether we want to go to space or INCLUDING AIR FARE *859 PERSON not, we'll probably have to blast off, according to Robert T. Rood, an astronomer at the University of Vir- ginia. And that's the heart of his argument that we're alone. "Just assume that there are other civilizations," Rood said, "and that they're not extraterrestrial algae or dolphins. They've got a fairly high level of technology. What happens to technological societies over a long time?" They use energy, he said, and produce waste heat. The Earth or any planet like it becomes so hot that inhabitants head for the outer space. Sail the sundrenched Caribbean for 7 glorious days Don't sell the farm: It won't happen on one of four fabulous itineraries: for millions of years, Rood said. But disaster may have already struck many COSTA RIVIERA COSTA RIVIERA civilizations like ours. They may (Eastern Caribbean) (Western Caribbean) already have abandoned their planets. Fort Lauderdale, Ocho Rios, Fort Lauderdale, If they ever existed, they should have Grand Cayman, Cozumel, St. Thomas, St. John been on our doorstep by now, or we Playa del Carmen San Juan, Nassau should be able to spot their colonies between Mars and Jupiter, among the CARLA COSTA DAPHNE asteroids, Rood said. San Juan, Curacao, Caracas, San Juan, St. Marteen, Still, he fi gures the new NASA Grenada, Martinique, Martinique, St. Thomas, search is worth trying. The current cost St. Thomas Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua to taxpayers is about equal to the salaries of a typical pro basketball start- DEC 1991 ing lineup. Much of what we've learned SELECT DEPARTURE DATES APRIL THRU about planets in the past, he said, has Here's the opportunity to take the vacation of a lifetime, experience resulted from an otherwise fruitless the best in Caribbean cruising at prices available only to American hunt for a friend somewhere else in the Legion and their families. cosmos. If SETI ever pays off with Members actual contact, Kent Cullers said, we Sail on one of Costa's four fabulous 7-day itineraries in the might run into life — extending knowl- Caribbean for as little as $859 per person (including Air) and get edge. everything you'd expect on a far more expensive cruise: attentive Cullers wondered what would hap- service, fine continental cuisine, comfortable accommodations, pen if he spent a lifetime looking, and activities and entertainment day and night, plus intriguing found nothing, and he began calculat- itineraries with ports of call you'll love to explore. ing. Suppose you could focus on 1 mil- Space at these special rates is limited. lion sunlike stars— 1 ,000 times more than the 1990s search will scour. That For information and reservations call or write today: amounts to about one ten-thousandth of the galaxy, "a pretty good sample." HARXEORD->^<^c^ 800-828-4813 That's the equivalent of a few gallon cruise ^>i visi oN NATIONWIDE /TOLL FREE jars of the sand on the football field. If Shl Ps Italy & Llbena 1 Linden Place, Great Neck, NY 11021 there's still no gold flickering there, "then either we have to do a different kind of search, or we should give up and Please send me information on Costa's Caribbean program for Legionnaires. simply assume that we are one of the NAME: first civilizations." ADDRESS: It would be worth knowing, con-

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FEBRUARY 1991 59 District Attorney's Hardcore Gang Task turf battles. "They're becoming Force. "The GANGLAND peak age of gang members businessmen and their focus is on prof- now is 20; it used to be 16. The number its," said Steele. Consequently, older Continuedfrom page 27 of members in their early 30s is way members are forming "instrumental up," added Prof. Malcolm Klein, a gang gangs — an alliance that comes expert at the University of Southern together, frequently outside Los California. Klein said maturing gang Angeles, purely to make money dealing More fuel is provided by a crucial members used to "peel out" and drop drugs," said Sgt. Jackson. Members of change in Los Angeles' gang member- gang activities in favor of conventional old rival groups may even find them- ship. "Dope is keeping people in gangs employment, but "that's not happening selves joining forces in these instru- longer. Members are older and they're anymore." mental gangs. "If they can make money, staying involved because they are Aging gangsters are becoming more they'll put aside hostilities, particularly making money," said Michael Genelin, savvy, and their interests are shifting if they're not in the old neighborhood," who heads the Los Angeles County from traditional gang activities such as said Genelin. Genelin further noted that roving gangsters generally attempt to avoid conflicts with locals, at least initially. "They bring in their dope and

In May of 1990, I had the honor of do what we call 'doubling down' — Relive The leading the Joseph F. Hill Post #156 selling twice as much crack for the American Legion band on a historic same amount of money as local dealers peace mission to the Soviet are accustomed to paying. Profits go up Historic Union . . . and of sharing my for everybody." experiences with fellow Legionnaires at the National Convention. Sacramento's Steele offers an on- American the-scene view of the process: "The Los Your support of our trip was Angeles gangs don't alter their method tremendous. . .but, truthfully, so was Legion the cost. So, in response to numerous of operation when they move into a requests and to help defray our town. Their attitude is. what works in Band Trip expenses, we are offering a video tape Los Angeles will work elsewhere. They set of our performances. The three hit town, get a motel room, recruit tapes run two hours each and cover locals to handle street-level drug selling to the our entire Russian trip. and intimidate the rest with their fire- To share the excitement of this power, and they take over. It's that sim- memorable event, send $100.00 for Soviet ple." each set to me at the address below. Your tapes will be mailed to you, Solutions to the spreading gang prob- Union postage-paid, 4-6 weeks after receipt of lem, unfortunately, aren't so simple, your order. although significant successes have Thank you for your show of been achieved in Los Angeles. There,

enthusiasm in Indianapolis. . .and for federal, state and local agencies have your help on this project. pooled intelligence and resources in a Yours in comradeship, task force designed "to stop the gangs Dorothy S. Hill here, where they start," said DEA's P.C., Joseph F. Hill Post #156 Lochridge. Muscle is provided by the Send orders to: Dorothy S. Hill Los Angeles Police's Operation 4 Azalea Road Hammer— an occasional deployment Waltham, MA 02154 of massive law enforcement resources, Make checks payable to numbering hundreds of officers, in Joseph F. Hill Post #156 areas with severe gang activity. "Opera- The American Legion tion Hammer," said Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, "is intended to put Please detach here and return with your order. as much pressure as possible on gang r Yes, I want to show my support for members." Post #156. My check for $100.00 is It's working, too. "We're arresting enclosed. Please send my video tape more and more of them," Sgt. Jackson set to: said. PLEASE PRINT But Los Angeles' successes are a double-edged sword. "One of the major NAME reasons gang members leave town," said Sgt. McBride, "is because we're ADDRESS after them." Often, as gang members flee Los CITY Angeles and set up shop elsewhere, STATE ZIP they're met by local inaction. Certainly, some cities have taken early, preventa- Mail this coupon with your order to: tive steps. Phoenix, for instance, Dorothy S. Hill recently unveiled its Operation Safe 4 Azalea Road Streets, which commits 60 police offi- Waltham, MA 02154 cers to a program designed to ensure

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE that "we don't have a problem like Los Angeles'. We're not going to let that happen here," said Sgt. Robinson. More common, however, is that "police AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERS and politicians will deny there's a gang problem even in the face of evidence," Sail the World's Top Rated Ship said University of Chicago sociology professor Irv Spergel. "They tell you they have a good town, and why should to it have gangs? Gangs are an embarrassment to law enforcement and elected officials, so they keep denying it until there are enough killings and finally they have to admit it." According to USC professor Klein, "Fewer and fewer cities can honestly deny they have gang problems. In the '60s, perhaps nine cities had problems. Now that number is closer to 80." "Delaying any action against gangs is absolutely the worst response," said Sgt. McBride. "It gives these guys time to get so situated in the community that you can't blow them out with dyna- mite."

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FEBRUARY 1991 61 RP. Another more distant possibility is RP retinal transplant, but such an opera- FLAG AMENDMENT RESEARCH tion is many years away from reality. Continued page 33 Continued page 14 from Until a cure is found, scientists will from build on these discoveries when they continue research funding through the Legion-RP Foundation program. breakthrough. Through gene mapping, Amendment as superior in importance "The RP Foundation is proud to be these scientists located the position of a to the rest of the Constitution, oppo- associated with The American Legion gene that causes RP. Following their nents are sure to escalate this argument and Auxiliary in the national coupon report, researchers at Harvard Medical into the proposition that a constitu- project," said Robert Gray, executive School identified that gene as the tional amendment to prohibit flag director of the Baltimore-based RP rhodopsin gene, and mutations are desecration, while technically possible, Foundation. "The Legion's nationwide caused by a faulty protein on the gene. would in reality overthrow our liberties. volunteer network will ensure the suc- But scientists have approached these Against this argument it should be cess of the campaign and support addi- breakthroughs, including the identifica- recalled that memorial resolutions of tional research." tion of an Usher syndrome gene, with state legislatures urging a constitu- For more information about the cautious optimism. tional amendment are a legitimate and national coupon project, including how "Right now," Felix said, "there simply proper means of instructing Congress to get your Post involved, write to The is no effective treatment for RP." as to the state of national opinion on American Legion Child Welfare Foun- There is hope, however, from the this issue. In the original Constitution dation, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, discovery of an RP-related disease the state legislatures were intended to IN 46206. D called gyrate atrophy. Researchers filter and refine public opinion as the determined gyrate atrophy was caused basis for national policy. by elevated levels of an amino acid Criticism of flag burning as a form of called ornithine. "If we limit patients' symbolic speech, expressed in memo- intake of ornithine, we can dramatically TAPS rial resolutions and elsewhere, has too slow the progress of the disease," Lewis quickly been dismissed by opponents Taps Notices mention, whenever possible, those said. "We have one patient whose con- Legionnaires who have held high national or department of a constitutional amendment as emo- ." office in the Legion or the U.S. government, or who have dition has been stable since 1981 tional and irrational. However, it is attained other forms of national prominence. That discovery means that there may reasonable to argue, as supporters of an Frank A. Saniti Sr., OR Department Commander (1 981 -

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REWARD $3,000 FOR LEGIONNAIRES Do your A 1943 COPPER PENNY SURVIVAL heels ache? FOR CERTAIN COINS WE PAY UP TO. Certain Nickels Before 1969 $16,000.00 BOOT Half Dollars Before 1967 $ 5,800.00 Pennies Before 1979 $ 3,000.00 KNIFE Dimes Before 1966 $ 4,750.00 ONLY Quarters Before 1967 $ 5,000.00

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Inherent Inheritance Blessed are the incumbents, for they shall inherit their own mess.

Mouth Never-Rest "I'm on the Sir Edmund Hillary Diet," said the unsuccessful weight watcher. "I only eat something because

it's there."

Bye, George

Money talks, but these days, it usually says, "sayonara."

Nice Advice "I enjoy giving people advice," said

the consultant. "And if it works for

them, I sometimes even try it myself."

No Time Like Tomorrow Becoming a procrastinator doesn't happen overnight.

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