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THEY WENT TO BAT FOR UNCLE SAM

Ballplayers and entertainers put their careers on hold during World War II.

PAIN: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HURT 10 Stopping the pain before it gets to the brain. By Steve Salerno IB

OUT-RUSHING RUSH

Black talk show hosts tell it tike it is and how it ought to be. By Robert McGarvey 21

JURIES ON TRIAL 18

Why we 've lostfaith in ourjustice system. 24

RUSSIA'S NEW SPY NETWORK

America 's most sensitive secrets are still not safe. By Martin Ebon 26

IT'S TIME TO PROTECT OUR FLAG

Andfor Legionnaires to come to the aid oftheir nation 's mostprecious symbol. By DanielS. Wheeler 28

THE FACES INSIDE A FLAG FACTORY

A peek between the seams ofOld Glory. 31

FLAG ETIQUETTE

It's ourjob to know the rules and teach others. 32 DEPARTME NTS

BIG ISSUES Should Congress endfundingfor public broadcasting? 16

VETVOICE 4 VETERANS UPDATE 34 VETS 44

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 LEGION NEWS 36 PARTING SHOTS 68

WASHINGTON WATCH 12 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 40

COVER Ifyou 're one ofthe more than 40 million Americans with chronic pain, turn to Page 18 and read about new treatments. Photograph by Tony Stone Images/Ayres

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COLLECTOR'S EDITION - NOT AVAILABLE IN STORES i City State -Zip. Enola Gay gration altogether have made some I'm proud that THE AMERICAN good points, but it begs the point LEGION MAGAZINE brought this sub- After World War II, I visited Japan ("What Price Imigration?" annually for 30 years and spent many April). For ject to us. Keep it up. example, a breeder a night with former officers of the of race horses does Richard H. Griesser not go out looking for a scrawny Japanese military. Now friends, we mare Appleton, Wis. for his stud. Not if he wants to create a often discussed World War II. None good race horse. ever criticized us for using the atomic Washington Watched can't be on the right track bombs to hasten the end of the war. We when Since your March 1995 issue hit you see what has been happening in Because they had been indoctrinated the streets, I have received many calls Southern Florida and Los Angeles. to die for their emperor, they realized from the membership of J. Edgar they would not have survived World Virgil Colombo Hoover Memorial Post 56 expressing Portland, Ore. War II if the United States had invad- their displeasure with Cliff Kincaid's ed the "sacred homeland." Every man, article, "Caustic Agents" (Washington woman and child would have become More On Morals Watch, March). On behalf of Post 56, I continue to be impressed with the a guerrilla fighter. which is one of the largest in the Dis- quality of articles appearing in our These Japanese officers say the trict of Columbia Department, I want Legion magazine. atomic bombs gave the emperor an "Today's Moral to say that Louis J. Freeh has been a Deregulation" by Charles opportunity to "terminate the misun- Krauthammer supporter of the Post since he became derstanding without losing face," (March) candidly portrays one of the FBI director almost two years ago. He major problems now facing America. which is all-important in the Orient. participates in the FBI Memorial Day The fact that deviancy is con- They also said, "In war you use every now ceremony that is sponsored by Post sidered normal and what genera- weapon you have to win." They my 56. Not only did Director Freeh speak tion considered normal is now deviant admitted that if Japan had atomic at the ceremony, but he posed for pho- bombs, they would have used them poses a real problem for me and my tographs and attended the reception country. I these against the United States. am saddened by following the event. changes and pray that we can halt this The Japanese I discussed World Kincaid asserts that Freeh has exer- moral deregulation. War II with also appreciated that we cised "the indiscriminate swinging of kept the Soviets out of Japan, gener- the budget ax," but the facts should be ously aided their postwar recovery and taken into account. As you well know, installed democracy, which made their WE WANT YOUR the government is mandated by Con- remarkable postwar prosperity possi- OPINIONS gress to cut hundreds of millions of ble. dollars from the budget. Director Warren Slater The American legion Freeh is doing the best at what he has Perkasie, Pa. Magazine welcomes letters to been told to do by the officials to carry the editor concerning articles out this congressional mandate. Thank God we had The American that appear in the publication. Be It is true that Director Freeh is a Legion to stand up to the people at the sure to include hometown and a very tough director. He is even Smithsonian Institution who do not daytime phone number for tougher on himself. Perhaps if we had know history ("Smithsonian Cancels verification. Short letters are more strong leaders like Freeh who Enola Gay Exhibit," March, Legion more likely to be published, and lead by example, we wouldn't have News). all letters are subject to editing half the problems we have today. Q Harold Connelley for clarity and brevity. Instead of writing negatives, do some Middletown, NJ. We now offer readers three research before you write and be more ways to send us letters to the positive about one of our great leaders Immigration editor: in government. When my dad immigrated to this You can send e-mail to: Marcus A. Earp country in 1910, he had no job, [email protected] Post 56 Commander couldn't speak English, had, at best, a You can leave a recorded letter Washington, D.C. third-grade education, no family and to the editor by calling: no home. His first lighting job was (314) 474-7474 As a WWII veteran, Legionnaire street lamps in downtown Portland. Callers' opinions are considered and retired journalist, I was appalled He met and married my mother in for publication and receive a Q to read February's Washington Watch 1916, but before the marriage he had symbol when used. item, "Military Women," by Cliff Kin- purchased a small business— a janitor Or you can write to: caid. This was discrimination and and window cleaning service. My par- The American Legion magazine should not be part of THE AMERICAN ents worked to survive. No handouts, P.O. Box 1055 LEGION MAGAZINE or America. social no programs, no freebies. Indianapolis, IN 46206 The item states that Lt. Kara Hult- Those who would shut off immi- Please turn page

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Legionnaires cast aside discrimination William Eli Honor the Flag, don't burn it. and march together toward a greater Glenfield, NJD. Edgar H. Haynes America. Plattsmouth, Neb. Cletus Hohn All veterans should declare war on Cushing, Minn. any politician who votes to reduce or Left Behind eliminate veterans' benefits. What I was furious after reading the Santo Tomds adds insult to injury is the fact that interview with Bill Bell ("True Lies: "Freeing Camp Santo Tomas," by most of these representatives and sen- Inside The POW/MIA Cover-up," Bill Underwood, caught my eye ators who vote to decrease benefits March). I had no idea that so many immediately when the March issue never went to war and never fought. veterans have been abandoned by arrived. But after reading it, I cannot Richard S. Willis Washington. It is just plain criminal. understand how you could publish an Brockton, Mass. Raymond H. Rushton article on this subject without men- Berwyn, III. tioning the 67 U.S. Army nurses who All For The Flag were also liberated from that camp I believe the Legion should contin- Thank You after being held there for nearly three ue every effort to bring about pressure I would like to thank all who sent years. These women were shuffled on those in authority to make it a me cards, letters and called while I from Manila where their hospitals had major crime to, in any way, desecrate was hospitalized from the auto acci- been heavily bombed to Bataan where the Stars and Stripes ("Banner Victo- dent that took the life of my wife, two hospitals were set up under tents. ries For Flag Campaign," April, National Historian LaReine Maxey. Conditions worsened as casualties Legion News). We do not worship a Also, I would like to thank those who increased. Eventually, each hospital piece of cloth. We pay homage to the donated directly to the Children and housed 3,000 patients. most respected symbol of freedom and Youth Foundation in her name. Any Reinforcements had been promised justice in the world. money sent to me was donated to the by the administration but help was To those who show disrespect of Children and Youth Foundation. never sent. From there, they were any kind, shame! There is nothing any Clyde W. "Bud" Maxey evacuated to Corregidor where they lower than this. Such creeps are on the Big River, Calif. set up medical facilities in a large tun- same level with rapists and child nel. With the Japanese constantly molesters. Brush Strokes bombing, it was a nightmare. Corregi- Arthur F. Ward I thought the article, "The Artist dor fell and the nurses became Japan- Salisbury, Md. From No-Man's Land: The Triumph ese prisoners of war. Seven weeks of Horace Pippin" (March), was inter- later, they were sent to the Santo Flags should only be burned when esting and informative. I'm proud to Tomas Camp until it was liberated damaged or old. We have a ceremony know that THE AMERICAN LEGION Feb. 3, 1945. for this, but a new Flag is never MAGAZINE did not overlook this great Mrs. Annette Powell burned. Our Senator, Bill Bradley, African-American veteran and artist. Chicago says a constitutional amendment to Thank you for sharing this part of his- protect the Flag would take away our tory. The photographs with the article, freedom of speech. Our Flag cannot Lee S. Johnson Jr. "Freeing Camp Santo Tomas," speak. The only ones who can speak Philadelphia

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S A World War II prison- NASM curators attempted to show er of war, Legionnaire Jim the aircraft that dropped the atomic Rodgers of Post 32 in bomb on Hiroshima in a very anti- Holdenville, Okla., sewed American context. They ignored the pieces of cloth together to American and Japanese lives that were make a U.S. Flag, risking saved because of the bomb and how the

severe punishment at the weapon ended World War II. They also hands of his German cap- portrayed America as the aggressor and tors. did not accurately show the brutal and "It was something to live by day to unprovoked militarism of Imperial day," says Rodgers, Oklahoma chair- Japan. man for the Citizens Flag Alliance, Inc. While pressure from Congress and (CFA). The American Legion rolled back these That flag gave him a sense of plans, current trends leave little assur- national identity and pride. And so it ance that the lack of respect for our should for all Americans. Today, country is a NASM phenomenon. Rodgers is one of the leaders in the According to The Washington CFA's campaign to amend the U.S. Times, the Clinton administration was Constitution to allow Congress and the preparing to refer to V-J (Victory over states to pass laws that protect the U.S. Japan) Day in terms that would be less Flag from physical desecration. offensive to the Japanese. Now they CFA was formed in June 1994 in Nat'l. Cmdr. William M. Detweiler want to call it "End of the War in the response to the 1989 Supreme Court Pacific" Day. Once again Congress and ruling that flag burning is a protected community. Take a stand for our flag. The American Legion made it clear this form of free speech under the First (For more about the CFA campaign, type of revisionism is unacceptable. Amendment. Since then, the alliance see Page 29) There will be other battles. has built an impressive groundswell of Protecting our flag is more impor- The attempts to rewrite history in support: tant than most Americans realize. "A any way that degrades the contribution • CFA is a coalition of 97 national lack of respect for our flag has caused a of America's veterans must not suc- organizations representing more than lack of respect for the other things that ceed. In the hearts and minds of ordi- 28 million people who support protect- make good citizens, such as family," nary Americans, respect for our flag ing our flag. says Kit Gleason of American Legion and our country remains strong and • Through a CFA lobbying effort, Auxiliary Unit 2, Tempe, Ariz., the unyielding. bills were introduced in the House and Arizona CFA co-chairman. I have seen it in my travels across

Senate calling for a flag-protection Gleason's 16-year-old daughter, the country. I have been convinced of it amendment. There are 254 cosponsors Christina McGhee, took her mother's by the letters I receive. I know this to of the bill in the House and 52 in the dedication to the U.S. Flag to heart. She be true by the signatures and support Senate as of April 15. carried petitions to her high school and that have joined the CFA and its cam- • More than 2 million Americans got nearly 200 signatures from students paign to protect our flag. have signed CFA petitions in support and teachers in support of an amend- The battle to regain America's self- of a flag-protection amendment. ment to protect our flag. respect and to preserve its proud history • Forty-nine state legislatures— all Not everyone shares this view of our does not end with flag protection, it except Vermont— have passed memori- flag and what it represents. A lack of begins there. alizing resolutions asking Congress for respect for our flag seems to have It has been said there are no extraor- an amendment. caused some to have a lack of respect dinary men or women. There are only

Today, the Citizens Flag Alliance for those who fought under it in times extraordinary times in which ordinary needs your support to keep this cam- of war. men and women rise to greatness. Now paign on track. There is so much at One example of this attitude was the is such a time. stake that I urge all of you to decide on Smithsonian Institution's unacceptable Most Americans still respect our one way you can help protect our flag. handling of the Enola Gay exhibit at its flag. Lets make sure this majority's Volunteer your time or your money. National Air and Space Museum voice can be heard. I think our children Enlist the support of your Post and your (NASM) in Washington, DC. and our country need to hear it, now.

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$272 million look puny by comparison. the alphabet. I guarantee it wasn't from MTV.

But CPB may not be managing its money efficiently. In Public broadcasting doesn't just entertain, it educates and one case, PBS provided an independent producer with $38 provides positive reinforcement for the moral values that we million in funding. In return, it received four hours of pro- parents try to instill in our children. When television today gramming—a cost of more than $9 million an hour. is filled with such violence, how can we even think of CPB has also failed to maximize returns on its program- destroying the one bright star that lights an otherwise bleak ming. While CPB provided $2.5 million to subsidize the medium? production costs of the popular children's show, Barney, it Ironically, destroying public broadcasting won't save the received very little of the $500 million in licensing rev- government much money or provide much relief to the tax- enues generated by the show. In fact, just 16 percent of the payers. If the CPB is eliminated, each American would licensing revenues from Barney, Sesame Street and Shining receive a big fat tax rebate of $1 .09. Ask your grandchildren Time Station would be equivalent to the $272 million fed- if they would rather have the one comic book their $1.09 eral subsidy. Clearly, if CPB instituted a more uniform pol- would buy or a year's worth of Kermit the Frog and the icy for licensing fees and received a reasonable return on its ABCs. investments, it would not need to be on the federal dole. Some critics of public broadcasting say that the CPB is

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Wilson of California, or Christine Would you watch Covert Warriors, Whitman of Jersey— social con- New a show about America's elite military servatives will bolt the GOP for a third units? Or Dumbing Down America, on party: likely the U.S. Taxpayers Party. misguided educational reform? What The Taxpayers Party the bal- was on about such classic, uplifting war flicks lots of 21 states in 1992 and expects to as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo! The be on 35 state ballots in 1996. Its America National Network (ANN), a leader, Howard Phillips, has been trying proposed basic cable channel touting to convince Pat to the Buchanan go patriotism, is betting you will. third-party route if he fails to get the Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, a board presidential nod. GOP Supporters of member of the fledgling network, tells Buchanan, a pro-life Catholic, are THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE miffed that wealthy and influential he expects to be on-air by early 1996. Catholics like former Treasury Secre- ANN's mission statement says to: tary William Simon and Lew Lehrman r "fulfill the yearnings of American citi- are backing Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. zens to once again enjoy the stability Popular religious broadcaster James ATCH and peace of mind reflected by a soci- Dobson and former Reagan aide Gary ety rooted in the traditional values and Bauer could join the third-party effort if By CliffKincaid standards... upon which our nation was the GOP waters down its 1996 pro-life founded and has flourished." The net- platform. work hopes to raise millions by selling Meanwhile, on the Democratic side: ting off all foreign aid — because of shares to the public at $1 each. About Although Robert Casey, the former Colombia's failure to cooperate with $1 million has been raised so far. Pennsylvania governor barred from giv- the United States in fighting drugs. ing a pro-life speech at the 1992 con- The political fallout, some analysts vention, now denies any plans to chal- Frankly Speaking say, is that hearings into Colombia's lenge President Clinton for the top slot When you've spent years as the lone status as a "narco-democracy" will on the Democratic ticket, he has not openly homosexual member of Con- implicate Mexico as a transit point for ruled out a third-party effort. gress, it can be disconcerting to know Colombian cocaine. That also could that the gay community's foremost lob- focus attention on the role the NAFTA bying group is run by an admitted trade agreement plays in facilitating the Oil + Dope=Mess Marxist who, in her last civic post, was flow of drugs into the United States. Waves continue to be made within accused of racial and ethnic insensitivi- the walls of Sen. Jesse Helms' Foreign ty as well as mismanaging public funds. Relations Committee. In the latest flap, House Divided But that is exactly the dilemma faced former energy czar Donald Hodel Having overwhelmed Democratic by Rep. 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CAN always EBBRAfeel a migraine coming on. All the cues are there: The so-called "aura"—that sense of mild disorientation and slight blurriness in her peripheral vision. The hot, pulsing sensation above her left eyebrow. The queasi- ness that accompanies each pulse, building to a violent nausea once the headache is full-blown. When this happened three years ago, Debra would have to call in sick and load her system with narcotics. The drugs provided some relief, but they didn't work if the headache came on quickly. These days, instead of reaching for a pill, Debra reaches for a blind- fold. Bor 15 minutes she sits quietly with her eyes covered, calling to mind the characteristic sensations she feels when her headaches are about to subside. (Just as migraine sufferers know when a headache's coming, they can also usually tell

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feel a gnawing ache in his stomach, alerting him that his pain medication is wearing off. He reaches for a button

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Ted recently had an operation to correct Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, a painful condition caused by repetitive wrist and hand movements. Unfortunately, the operation itself left him with a nagging burning sensation in his forearm that

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The names may be fictitious, but the aforementioned individuals represent thousands of Americans benefiting from a quiet revolution involving one of mankind's oldest nemeses: Pain. Put simply, medical science has come to see pain as a system instead of a symptom. Although slow in coming, this revolu-

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Americans. Considering that:hat are unable to identify any dis- only 2 percent of these cernible medical problem. "We're sufferers can be expect- seeing that there are many people ed to resume their full where we've apparently fixed the work schedules with- underlying condition but they still out effective treatment, have the pain," says San Diego pain costs the American economy pain specialist Dr. Kenneth Shan- perhaps $90 billion a year. dell.

Historically, doctors viewed "The likely explanation is that pain as an inevitable nuisance that the body's pain system has been goes away once the underlying turned on and does not know how problem is dealt with. This per- to turn itself off," Dr. Patrick Wall, ception was based on the familiar a British anatomist and one of the "hot stove" model: You touch the world's leading pain experts, said stove, and an instant later you feel in a recent interview. the pain. Thus pain was merely an Such occurrences are all the alarm bell going off— an unpleas- more sobering from a medical ant sensory "report" originating at standpoint because unrelieved pain the site of injury then traveling can set in motion a snowballing along a special pathway up the series of other problems. It can: spinal cord to the brain. • interfere with your ability to That simplistic view of pain has YEEOUCH Chronic pain, defined as that which eat or sleep, thus further compli- always begged several questions: lasts longer than six months, has been a mys- cating recovery. This can lead to tery. Some doctors now believe it occurs Why does the site of pain anxiety or depression. because of "pain memories" which do not allow sometimes differ from the site of • activate the fight-or-flight the body's pain system to turn off. injury— often the case with heart mechanism. For cardiac patients, patients? the elevated pulse rate can be dis- Why would people feel intense pain were injected with a prostaglandin. astrous. despite the apparent lack of an associat- "Clearly pain is not an isolated, • impede recuperation by prevent- ed medical condition? fleeting sensation, but the product of a ing people from getting up and walking How could a soldier wounded in fantastic, integrated system every bit as around. In elderly patients, this increas- combat fail to notice his injury until complex as those that govern digestion es the likelihood of pneumonia, blood after the battle? or heart rate," says NIH neurologist and clots and other serious secondary con- Why would a patient undergoing chief pain expert Dr. Ronald Dubner. ditions. dental work require no anesthetic if • impair the workings of the im- he's listening to a stereo headset? LAS, the medical establishment as mune system. Patients in pain are more And what about so-called "phantom a whole seems to be just awaken- susceptible to infection. pains" felt in limbs long ago lost? A:I ing to the fact that pain can be a New findings from NIH also suggest The answer to these riddles is that major component of disease— or even a that severe pain makes the central ner- pain is much more than the "one-way" disease in its own right. "Pain [is] vous system hypersensitive, causing the event envisioned in the hot stove sce- undertreated, underrecognized, mishan- afflicted individual to feel subsequent nario. The processing of pain signals dled and misdiagnosed," declares Dr. pains even more strongly. Of equal note has just recently been found to occur at Kenneth Casey, professor of physiolo- is current research on phantom pain. various sites throughout the brain. Such gy at the University of Michigan Med- Scientists now believe that although factors as mood, overall physical condi- ical School. shock or blackout may prevent some- tion, background circumstances, past Studies show that post-operatively, one from feeling the excruciating pain experience and the like are thrown into when doctors administer painkillers at of the limb's loss, that pain is recorded the mix. Scientists also have found a certain intervals— for example, every in the brain nonetheless. Thus, phantom pathway from the central nervous sys- four hours— most patients endure sig- pains are really "pain flashbacks" to an tem back to the site of injury. Along nificant pain between doses. Similarly, experience which failed to register at this pathway, a variety of neurological chronic pain is a constant companion to the conscious level. or chemical events clarify, modify or about half of all cancer patients. And it For pain experts, the upshot of all entirely blot out pain messages. Chief wasn't until March 1992 that the vener- this is that severe pain impulses must among the chemicals are endorphins, able U.S. Public Health Service be intercepted before they reach the the body's own potent painkillers. released its first formal guidelines that brain. NIH's Dubner regards it as Also involved is another group of decreed every patient has an absolute essential to "eliminate pain as soon as body right to pain relief. possible so that the [pain memories] substances, prostaglandins , believed to heighten both inflammation But how do you relieve it, especially don't become permanent." and the perception of pain. This was chronic pain — pain that lasts longer Pain control, however, has always demonstrated in a study in which peo- than six months? Often there is no sat- been hampered by the stigma attached ple who had never experienced mi- isfactory explanation for it, as in the to street drugs. This climate began to graine headaches suddenly developed case of millions who suffer from low- change after a landmark 1990 North all the classic symptoms when they back pain, despite batteries of tests that Please turn to page 55

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION 'Out-Rushing Rush'

A new generation of black talk-radio hosts is challenging the assumptions of the

welfare state with a fervor that would make Limbaugh himself blush.

I KJiiiiuiaiio By Robert McGarvey a city!" Vintage Rush "They don't to Limbaugh? Gordon Liddy? want CHALLENGE you, sir, to No, the audacious chal- name one major American lenge comes from one liberate their people. city that has prospered Ken Hamblin, the self- socially and economically proclaimed "Black D under black liberal leader- Avenger" of talk radio. They want to maintain ship. Name just one," says In syndication just a few the booming male voice on months, Hamblin already their constituencies." the radio. He lets the air fill is heard on 60 stations with pregnant silence for a nationwide, from Winchester, moment, then explodes: "You cannot Va., to San Francisco. He's not alone, erating on American air waves. Their do it because there are none! I know. either. Today a new and heretofore likes include Alan Keyes, host of I've been asking that question on the unrecognized phenomenon— the black America's Wake-Up Call on WCBM in air for three years and no one can name conservative talk show host— is prolif- Owings Mills, Md., who has entered

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the race for the Republican nomination Out west in Los Angeles, THE BLACK COMMUNITY'S for President. And their verbal venom Larry Elder anchors the 8 to 1 LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT is enough to make the Limbaughs and night shift on KABC-AM with Liddys seem tame by comparison. his own special brand of incen- FOR DECADES HAS More Hamblin: "Whites have done diary patter. In one of America's all they can for blacks. We have been most bitterly competitive mar- FOCUSED ON ONLY ONE given the opportunity to stand and fall kets, Elder has slugged his way as real men and women. If we don't to the top 10 in ratings in less THING — WHITE RACISM. take the lead now, it won't be the fault than a year: "When Susan Smith of white people." falsely blamed her children's WHERE HAS THAT LED US? Listen to the spiel of Armstrong murder on blacks, I said that Williams, who is heard on Washington, was reprehensible. But I added: THE GHETTOIZED BLACK D.C.'s WAVA-FM and 20 other sta- Why was she readily believed? tions across America: "The black com- Is it because America is racist? URBAN SUBCULTURE IS munity's liberal establishment for Half of all street crime is com- decades has focused on only one mitted by blacks. And that, not GROWING AND IT IS FUELED thing — white racism. Where has that racism, is why she was believed. led us? The ghettoized black urban sub- When I see a group of Japanese BY GOVERNMENT GRATUITY"

culture is growing and it is fueled by teenagers walking down the government gratuity. Drugs are a prob- street, I am not concerned. If I see ago and listened to him today," says lem of epidemic proportion. Black-on- black teenagers, I am concerned. What Green, "you couldn't help but agree black violence has left neighborhoods does that make me? A racist?" with me." That doesn't stop Green in a state of fear. Let me tell you: A This much is sure: It makes him from printing Hamblin's opinions for preoccupation with white racism fos- controversial— him, and Hamblin and purely bottom-line reasons. "He's in ters black racism. Far too many blacks Williams, and the other imitators now the top three in terms of reader mail," now are content to blame racism for popping up in smaller markets coast to says Green, who guesses that, despite their problems." coast. Even Chuck Green, editorial Hamblin's acid tongue, such feedback page editor of the Denver Post, which runs "50-50 pro and con." Robert McGarvey's most recent publishes a newspaper column by Ken Indeed, part of the reason why black article for this magazine was "Office Hamblin twice weekly, voices concern hosts are filling the airwaves is because Etiquette For The 90s" in the January about Hamblin's "increasingly acerbic" they mirror the restive mood of a nation 1995 issue. tone. "If you listened to him three years that's fed up with street crime, bureau-

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on the nation's affirmative action laws: "That's just a different shade of Jim cratic waste and so-called "flexible" Crow. It is contrary to all the rhetoric moral standards. A 1993 Times Mirror CARRY ELDER ON about equality its proponents Company poll found that among adore. If you are willing to be treated as a regular talk show listeners, people second-class citizen, you want to who identify themselves as "conser- affirmative action in vative" outnumber those who iden- keep place. Affirmative action says that minori- tify themselves as "liberal" by a 2-to- ties cannot get to where they are on 1 margin. Thus more conservative welfare their own merits. They need a leg hosts, regardless of color, are win- up to climb the ladder. that ning radio time slots. And IT. "LET'S ELIMINATE NOT is not the case for or for In addition, the notion that blacks me many others who are willing to work and conservatism don't mix has _ _ been revealed as fallacy. "There HtrOnM IT. WELFARE IS hard." have always been black conserva- If the black hosts seem even Please turn to page 56 tives," says Raynard Jackson, Wash- A DISASTER WE SHOULD ington bureau chief for Nation- al Minority Politics. "Look at the public opinion polls. SET A DATE AND, AFTER- Many, many blacks are church-going people with very WARDS. IF Y<5lJARE conservative views on moral issues." Adds Emanuel McLit- n ABLE-BODIED Y^U GET tle, publisher of Destiny, a magazine for black conserva- ,,r* tives, "Listen to these hosts DIDDLYSQUAT FfcQM THE and to Justice Clarence Thom- as and what you are hearing is GOVERNMENT." I old-fashioned common sense." Still, there may be particular reasons why Hamblin and company suddenly are surfac- ing on radio. "As more black Americans are 'making it,' they are no longer interested in the same old media, and the new black talk shows definitely appeal to them," says Brent Baker, editor of Washington, DC-based Media Watch. McLittle adds, "There's a yearning for a different voice in the black community." Different is an understate- ment. Many of the hosts come out with remarks that make Newt Gingrich sound like a Marxist. Consider Hamblin's denun- ciation of liberals as "egg- sucking dogs." Or Larry Elder's take on welfare: "Let's

eliminate it, not reform it. We should set a date, and after- wards, if you are able-bodied, you get diddlysquat from the government." He adds, "If a boy and girl lay down with each other and have a kid, that is their responsibility and the responsibility of their families.

That's the way it used to be. Which is why we didn't have that much of it." Williams is no less direct

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INTERVIEW STEPHEN J. ADLER iHH ON TRIAli

They come up with wild verdicts, ignore laws and

sometimes are plainly incompetent. Still, the jury is the cornerstone of the American justice system.

And, there's always hope. . .

flffll S IT time to put an end to trial by jury? all saw the videotape, but the first jury nonetheless voted to Although the right to such a trial is specified acquit the police officers. Verdicts like that have left the H| mm in the Constitution, juries lately are rendering public cynical about the system. Many verdicts are shoddy. I some incomprehensible verdicts— from the $2.9 Some are patently stupid. And the public has a visceral I million awarded to a woman who sued McDon- sense that the process has been corrupted. | aid's after she injured herself by spilling coffee The fact is, juries often are far removed from the ideal I she claimed was too hot, to the contradictory of putting 12 people together— a cross-section of the com- Hjl verdicts reached by a pair of different Los munity—and letting them battle it out. Jury composition is UH Angeles panels in the Rodney King police-bru- skillfully manipulated today and that's a big reason for tality trials. This kind of legal disarray is not surprising, some of the verdicts we see. given a 1989 American Bar Association study, which portrayed the typical juror as confused, bored and frustrated. Q. What do you mean when you say juries are manip- "The jury system is in trouble," concedes Stephen J. ulated? Adler, legal editor for The Wall Street Journal and author A Jury selection often purposely eliminates the most of The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom. qualified jurors. In covering the Imelda Marcos trial In only one of a number of trials covered in his book did [wherein the onetime First Lady of the Philippines was the jury's verdict make clear sense, says Adler. And yet, he tried in U.S. federal court for looting her nation's treasury], regards the jury system as a cornerstone of American I saw many prospective jurors who might have understood democracy. "No matter how badly the jury system is work- the issues in this complex case removed from the jury pool. ing—and it is working badly — it is better than the alterna- The jurors who were allowed to serve didn't comprehend tives," he says. the complicated financial issues and they let their verdict In a recent interview with THE AMERICAN LEGION be driven by misplaced sympathy for the defendant. And MAGAZINE, Adler identifies the flaws in the jury system she was acquitted, despite a strong prosecution case. and offers fixes that could help make it what our forefa- thers envisioned. Q. How do attorneys eliminate the more capable jurors from the pool? American Legion Magazine: Why do you A Through skillful use of peremptory challenges that believe Americans have lost faith in the jury system? allow an attorney to dismiss a potential juror without having a legitimate reason. Each side in a case is given a

Stephen Adler : We've had several highly publicized number of these free challenges — usually four to eight, but cases where the public feels it knows the facts, but the jury the number can go much higher. In the O. J. Simpson trial rules differently. The Rodney King case, for instance. We each side had 20.

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Peremptory challenges were intended to allow lawyers to exercise hunches about jurors who couldn't be fair. In HIGHLIGHT practice, they often are used to remove the very people who are fair-minded and to weight the jury with people who can be manipulated or already are likely to favor the Sfaplm, J. /\d!&i Ovl. . side that's exercising the challenge. Trial lawyers with weak cases won't win if the jury is Jury duty: "The jury system isn't worth having conscientious, but they may win if the jury consists of those who are easily confused and readily swayed by their unless the whole community is required feelings. to serve. Jury duty ought to be the Juries tilted in that direction are far removed from our equivalent of military service in wartime. ideal of 12 impartial people meting out justice. That's why I believe a first step in jury reform is to ban peremptory Power of juries: "Juries also are a check challenges. against big government. Government

can pass a law, but if the jury doesn't like Q. Is that feasible? it it doesn't have to enforce it. A The British Parliament did it in 1988. However, we're much less likely to do it legislatively because lawyers Quality of juries: "Trial lawyers with weak have much more influence in our country — and trial cases... may win if the jury consists of lawyers are dead set against it. Take away peremptories and you're taking away a significant weapon in their arse- those who are easily confused and nal. So I think the best chance we have is for the Supreme readily swayed by their feelings. Court to ban them. And there are signs the court is moving in this direction. The Simpson case: "Trials don't have to be It has barred race as a factor in making peremptory chal- this long. The judge can tell the lawyers lenges and lately has barred gender. The court seems to be they have one day to examine a witness, moving category by category, telling lawyers they cannot not nine." discriminate. I think the court eventually will recognize Please turn to page 58

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ODIFFERENT NAME The KGB Is now called the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, but its director, Yevgeny Primakov (left), has strong ties to the old espionage regime. OSAME GAME— Espionage remains an important part of Russia's plan to continue using spies, like Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, in their aggressive information- gathering efforts.

The Cold War may be over, but Russia remains determined as ever to learn America's most sensitive secrets.

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pie, the vandalizing of buildings and

By Martin Ebon the plundering of archives, it was decided that the [Committee of State ^^^•B N a sunny spring day in Security] would be quickly disbanded I | 1 April 1994, Aldrich H. and split into independent depart- 1 Ames stood in front of a ments."

I federal judge in Alexan- Kremlin leaders appointed a known I dria, Va., and was sen- KGB antagonist, Vadim Bakatin, to

tenced to prison for the rest either liquidate the agency or purge it I of his life. "Rick" Ames of its notorious traditions. While 1 M had pleaded guilty to spy- Bakatin demanded that the KGB aban- I^mkBI ing on the CIA — first for don its domestic secret police opera- the KGB (the Soviet Committee of tions, he stopped well short of disman- State Security), and then for its succes- tling the agency's worldwide espionage sor agency, the Russian Foreign Intelli- network. gence Service. According to the FBI, According to Prof. Amy Knight, Ames' activities caused the execution Russian specialist at the Library of of at least 10 Russians who had been Congress, Moscow's foreign-espionage working as American agents. machine is now "leaner but actually Much of the U.S. public and some its leadership reacted

with shock when it heard that Moscow had paid Ames more than $2.5 million for his treach- ery. Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas reflected the nationwide outrage when he said, "The American people don't understand why we give aid on the one hand, and allow this to happen on the other. They felt we had a new relationship [with the Soviets]." But the fact is, that new relationship between the Unit- BLOOD MONEY ed States and Russia, which Ames bought this began with enthusiastic recep- house with the $2.5 million tions for former Soviet Presi- Russia gave him dent Mikhail Gorbachev and meaner" than before. Sim- for information continued with Russia's Presi- that led to the ilarly, a Heritage Founda- dent Boris Yeltsin, never did deaths of 10 U.S. tion position paper, "Forg- result in an end to Moscow's agents. ing a U.S. -Russian traditional spying operations. Partnership," concludes As U.S. Secretary of State Warren that, despite superficial reorganizations Christopher told the Senate Foreign and the KGB's new "facade," the Relations Committee, "We don't have agency's structure and personnel are illusions about the Russians. We under- "drawn primarily from that of its Soviet stand that the intelligence service may predecessor." have changed its name — but it has A particular case in point is long- probably not changed its method of time KGB foreign espionage director operation." Leonid Shebarshin, now a chief consul- For a time following the abortive tant. Shebarshin represents the Cold coup against Gorbachev in August War view of intelligence gathering,

1991, it looked as if the much-feared which holds that clandestine activities KGB might become a thing of the past. must continue if Russia is to maintain Anti-KGB feelings ran high. One KGB its status as a superpower. In his public relations officer, Andrei Oligov, rhetoric there are ominous overtones of said later that "to soothe public unrest a return to the belligerent nationalism and prevent the lynching of KGB peo- of days gone by. Shebarshin told the newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta, "the day Martin Ebon, a New York-based will come when Russia will be strong, freelance writer, is author of the book when it will be in a position to carry KGB: Death and Rebirth, published by out a genuinely dynamic and indepen- Praeger in April 1994. Please turn to page 60

27 How do you explain what's right and wrong?

Yesterday she was chosen to hold the flag while her class said the Pledge of Allegiance. Her teacher told her she had earned that privilege.

She was proud to tell her parents.

Today she saw a person burn a flag to attract attention.

She asked her teacher if burning a flag was right or wrong.

The teacher had to tell her

that it used to be a bad thing, but some important people in Washington

said now it's okay.

She went home confused. Her parents decided that

it was time to get involved.

They know that

flag burning is wrong.

Join the Citizens Flag Alliance today! Call 1-800-424-FLAG.

Citizens lag

Alliance, Inc.

an 80 member organizations of Citizens Flag Alliance, Inc., including:

elation • Air Force Sergeants Associarion * Alliance of Women Vetetans • Amerian GI Forum of the US, Founding Chapter erican Merchant Marine Veterans • American War Mothers • Ancient Order of Hibernians * Association of the U.S. Army ective Order of the Elks • Congressional Medal ol Honot Society of the USA • Croatian American Association • Croatian Catholic Union

k'choslovak Christian Democracy in the U.S.A • F.nlisred Association National Guard U.S. • Fleet Reserve Association • Fox Associates, Inc. Forty St Eight • Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. • Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police • Grand Lodge of Masons of Oklahoma • Hungarian Association Reformed Federation ofAmerica • Italian Sons and Daughters of America • Knights of Columbus • Korean American Association of Greater Washington • Laborers' International Union of NA ca • Marine Corps League • Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association • Military Order of the Purple Heart of the USA • Moose International • National Alliance of Families ational Association for Uniformed Services • National Cosmetology Associarion • National Center for Public Policy Research • National Federation of Hungarian-Americans National Federation of State High School Associations • National Flag Foundation • National Grange • National Guard Association o! the U.S. National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia • National Officers Association • National Organization of World War Nurses • National Service Star Legion - National Vietnam Veterans Coalition • Native Daughters of the Golden West • Native Sons of the Golden West • Navy League of the U.S. • Navy Seabec Veterans of America Auxiliary

• • • • . Navy Scabec Vcierans of America Non-Commissioncd Officers Association PAC Pennsylvania Eastern Division Polish American Congress Polish Army Veterans Association

Polish Falcons ofAmerica • Polish Falcons of America-District II • Polish Home Army • Polish National Alliance • Polish National Union • Polish Roman Catholic Union of North America ^» Polish Scouting Organization • Polish Western Association • Polish Women's Alliance • RR Donnelley & Sons, Company • Scottish Rite of Freemasonry-Southern Jurisdiction Scottish Rite of Freemasonry- Northern Masonic Jurisdiction • Sons of The American Legion • The Orchard Lakes Schools • The Retired Enlisted Association he Travelers Protective Association • The Uniformed Services Association • U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce • U.S. Marine Corp Combat Correspondents Association Ukianian Gold Cross • Wotnerft Army Corps Veterans Association • Women's Overseas Service League • Woodmen of the World It's Time To PROTECT OUR FLAG

take the time to educate, train and S. By Daniel Wheeler encourage others to become active in Citizens this campaign. VERYONE talks about the lag weather, but no one does Why? Alliance, Inc. anything about it," Mark Everywhere we go, people say Twain once said. The same they're with us — and they want to see a may be true for the Citizens constitutional amendment passed. Flag Alliance (CFA)— So why don't we already have every Every Legionnaire everyone talks about it, but member of Congress on the record? too few actually do any- Why don't we have the phones ring- thing. ing off the hook in every congressional needs to get involved The heart of the CFA is the good district office? people who support our goal of getting Why isn't the Capitol Hill mail a constitutional amendment to protect room flooded with letters from people in the campaign to our flag from physical desecration. who want their members of Congress But the lifeblood of the CFA is to pass a flag-protection amendment? win a constitutional those dedicated individuals— such as Why isn't the money to finance this you — who not only talk about protect-

ing our flag, but also work at it, sign Daniel S. Wheeler is publisher and amendment to protect up new members, regularly gather sig- editor-in-chief of THE AMERICAN natures on CFA petitions, call and Legion Magazine on temporary write their members of Congress about assignment as president The Citizens our country's flag. of this issue, donate their money, and Flag Alliance, Inc., in Indianapolis.

JUNE 1995 29 "

JIM RODGERS KIT GLEASON GEORGE SINOPOLI Okla. CFA chairman Ariz. CFA co-chairman Calif. CFA chairman

"As World War II POWs, "A lack of respect for "The flag is a symbol we would put pieces of our flag has caused a of honor and country

cloth together to make lack of respect for the and it deserves our our own flags. It was other things that make respect. Men and women something to live by day good citizens, such as died for our flag and

to day. We must respect family. I'm proud to be now it's our duty to

and protect our flag." part of the CFA." defend and protect it.

campaign pouring into the CFA head- personally responsible for the outcome ters of general importance: good men quarters offices? of a matter of general importance. and women doing nothing. There are probably a lot of reasons But we are. Aren't we all citizens of the United that sound good. And some of them By our decision to get involved— States? Doesn't our flag stand for are fairly plausible. Our opponents or not get involved — we each help everything that is good and moral would claim the primary reason was determine the outcome of every matter about our country? And in our hearts, tied directly to lack of concern about of general importance. don't we all care about our flag and the issue. Edmund Burke want to see it protected from those I'm not buying that. ^PftJkir115 described the phe- who would violently dishonor it? I submit that the real reason has nomenon so well: Of course we do. fJ^^"^ x,Inc absolutely nothing to do with any indi- So, how can we honestly say we vidual's personal belief in the impor- care about this matter of general tance of this issue. It has absolutely ONE MORE TO GOl importance, and at the same time just nothing to do with any individual's OREGON, WASHINGTON and HAWAII sit on the sideline? dedication, or intensity of feeling, or have become the 47th, 48th and 49th "The hottest places in hell," wrote states, respectively, to pass concern, or lack of good intentions, or Dante, "are reserved for those, who in memorializing resolutions to protect any other excuses I've heard. time of moral crisis, maintain their the flag from physical desecration. I submit that— more than anything neutrality." Vermont is the only state not to do so. else— it has to do with the belief that, Remember Pogo? "We have met somehow, this job will get done with- the enemy, and he is us." out their help. And that's a belief that "The only thing necessary for the tri- In our efforts to gain passage of the saps the heart out of more good ideas, umph of evil is for good men to do flag-protection amendment, the oppo- and destroys more worthwhile initia- nothing." nents are not our enemy — their num- tives, than any other supposition When we look at society today and bers are too few. The enemy is indi- known to man. we see so many things that are con- vidual, personal apathy. We call it "apathy" — individual, trary to our sense of decency and personal apathy. morality, are we witnessing the result Responsibility of people not caring? And the only way we can conquer Apathy Surely not. We all care. What we apathy is by accepting personal Apathy, in its simplest form, is the are witnessing is the result of people responsibility to get a job done. Unfor- belief that we are not individually and not getting personally involved in mat- Please turn to page 62

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The traces INSIDE A FLAG FACTORY

HUM of sewing machines THEfills the air inside the Colonial Flag Company in Coshocton, Ohio. The 60 workers at the factory, 80 miles east of Columbus, feel they do more than just punch a time clock to earn a living. Their hands create the most rec- ognizable symbol of freedom anywhere in the world: the U.S. Flag. "I feel that when I'm making flags that I'm serving our country," says Cheryl Butler, who has worked at the flag factory for almost nine years. Many at Colonial share Butler's feelings. "I'm very proud of my job," says Kelly Pugh, an eight-year employee.

"There's a sense of pride in what I AMERICAN PRIDE When workers at the Colonial Flag Company in Coshoc- do. When I work on flags, I think ton, Ohio, sew together a U.S. Flag, they know they're assembling more than about those who have served." just a piece of cloth. During the Gulf War, the flag took on even more meaning for her. American Legion with flags, was to see a "made in Taiwan" label on a In 1991, as Pugh cut the long strips founded in 1820 and is the world's U.S. Flag. of white and red, she would think oldest and largest flag manufacturer. "We've got other countries mak- about her brother, Gary Poth, who Its headquarters are located in Rose- ing our flag and people in this coun- was serving in the Navy on the sub- land, N.J. Annin donated the flag try burning it," says Darr. "Our flag marine USS Alaska. "When I'd look poles that have stood outside the needs to be protected." at the flag, my thoughts were on him Legion's National Headquarters in Others at Colonial ardently agree: and the others over there." Indianapolis since 1965. "It should be against the law for The factory frequently worked someone to burn the flag," says overtime during Desert Storm to fill IORKERS at its Colonial facto- Pugh. "Too many people died for a deluge of orders. Pugh and others ry also feel pride in their prod- the flag and this country." say that was one of the proudest uct whenever they walk down Nancy Lawson fully supports the

times at the factory . The flag-makers a street and see Old Glory snapping Citizens Flag Alliance's goal to at Colonial are equally proud of the in the wind. amend the Constitution to protect quality they put into their product— The company's flags are every- the flag from physical desecration. double hems, and more time and where: the U.S. Capitol, state hous- "It's terrible that people would want effort than foreign manufacturers of es, post offices, stadiums and out- to burn the flag," says Lawson. flags. side of hundreds of thousands of With three brothers who have The flags start as huge bolts of American homes. served in the military, Sue Mc- red, white and blue cloth. The red "My son's real proud of my job," Combs thinks about the Pledge of and white cloths are sliced into indi- says Butler. "He doesn't think twice Allegiance and what it means as she vidual strips and sewn together. about telling people where his mom sews the blue field to the long and Fields of blue are then cut, and stars works. He's like me. When he sees a short red and white stripes. are sewn on and pieced onto the flag, he wonders if it's one I made." "Makes me feel sad, depressed, stripes. After the edging and label Says employee Julie Darr: "Every that people would do that to a flag," are attached, the flags are folded and time I hear the Star-Spangled Ban- says McCombs. "The flag represents packed. Colonial, a subsidiary of ner, I get goose bumps. I never tire our country, children and our past." Annin & Co., produces thousands of of seeing the flag." Pugh says what so many think: "It flags each week. Like other Colonial employees, takes a real ass to burn the flag."

Annin, which supplies The Darr says it "makes her blood boil" — By Doug Donaldson

31 Citizens lag FLAG ETIQUETTE Alliance, Inc.

Here are some simple rules to observe in paying U.S. possession, can order the display proper to Old Glory. homage of flags at half staff. Also, heads of departments and agencies of the government may direct the flag to be half- EEPLY WOVEN through unconstitutional by the 1989 Texas v. staffed. the nearly eight decades of Johnson Supreme Court decision. Now, Night flying. While the Flag Code

The American Legion's physical desecration of the flag is pro- states that it is customary to display the existence is the belief that tected under the freedom of speech pro- flag only from sunrise to sunset, flags the U.S. Flag should be vision of the U.S. Constitution. may be displayed 24 hours if they are duly respected and appro- That's why the Legion and Auxil- properly lighted. Often nearby street priately displayed. iary last year created the Citizens Flag lights will provide fitting illumination. "The flag is always in Alliance. In addition to joining the Folding. There are no official provi- the hearts of Legionnaires," CFA, you can promote flag education sions for folding a flag, but the tradi- says National Commander William M. by flying your flag, adhering to the tional method is: Detweiler. "We know, understand and Flag Code and teaching others, too. 1. Straighten the flag to full length practice proper flag respect. And it's Following is a list of guidelines for and fold lengthwise once. our job to teach others." proper handling and display of the flag: 2. Fold it lengthwise a second time to meet the open edge, making sure the blue field remains outward in full view. 3. A triangular fold is then started by bringing the striped corner of the folded edge to the open edge. 4. The outer point is then turned inward parallel with the open edge to form a second triangle. 5. This triangle folding continues toward the blue field until only the blue field and stars will show in the remaining triangle. FLAG 101—Many Legion Posts Disposal. When a flag is conduct worn or weathered beyond programs in use, it should be destroyed schools to teach in a dignified way. In this children respect context, burning a flag is the U.S. Flag. permissible provided it is done discreetly so the act of

destruction is not perceived as a protest or desecration. As a dignified and solemn occasion for the retirement of The commitment to teach began in The blue field. The proper way to unusable flags, many Legion Posts con- 1923 just four years after the Legion display a flag against a wall is with the duct flag disposal ceremonies each year itself was founded. That year, The blue field at the observer's left; this is on Flag Day, June 14. American Legion spearheaded the true whether the flag is being displayed Use in advertising. The flag should National Flag Conference, which draft- horizontally or vertically. When a flag not be used in advertising, except in ads ed the nation's guidelines for flag eti- is displayed over the middle of a street, by companies that manufacture flags or quette—the U.S. Flag Code. While it it should be suspended vertically. On a flag pins. does not carry the weight of law, the north-south street, the blue field should Bad weather. The flag should not

Flag Code is a detailed set of guidelines be to the east. On an east-west street, it be displayed on days of inclement to ensure the flag is treated with should be to the north. weather, unless the flag is made of respect. Half staff. The flag should be flown nylon or other non-absorbent, all- Over the years, Legionnaires across at half staff only on Memorial Day, weather material. America have regularly gone into from sunrise until noon; from noon Positioning. When used as a back- schools to teach students about the Flag until dusk, the flag should be at full drop to a speaker's platform, the flag Code and the penalties for flag desecra- staff. On other occasions, the U.S. Pres- displayed flat on a wall should be tion. But those penalties were ruled ident, and any governor of a territory or Please turn to page 61

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I join the military and risk ers and veterans' advocates feared that House Veterans Affairs Committee, getting shot at in some remote corner the program would further dilute the Assistant Secretary of Defense Freder- of the world, for which a grateful benefits of the already inadequate ick Pang wrote, "Sergeant Major Over- nation will pay me a little less than half Montgomery GI Bill. Now it seems street's testimony did not contain all what it typically costs to go to col- there is evidence this is taking place. the salient facts about national service lege.... Or, I can get about the same During testimony before Congress from the survey. When asked if they money for school if I volunteer to plant on the status of Marine recruiting and were aware of national service, only 1 flowers in the city park. quality-of-life issues, Sergeant Major percent of respondents said yes." Tough choice, huh? Maybe the gov- of the Marine Corps Harold G. Over- Pang's argument was that if no one ernment should commence a million- street told lawmakers the results of a told potential recruits about Ameri- dollar study to see if this could affect recent DoD survey: "After hearing Corps, they would probably join the military recruiting. about the AmeriCorps concept, 47 per- service. He said the DoD maintains Or maybe they should just ask the cent of [recruit] prospects said they that military recruiting is in no danger

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jECAUSE of The Soldiers and help the Legion. Now we Sailors Monument [major differ- just have to face the chal- is the centerpiece ences between lenge of putting all the of downtown The American pieces B Indianapolis. together for the con- I Legion and The vention." Portland/Oregon Visitors other time in the 76- The first time a conven- Association, the 77th Na- year history of the tion was held in the Circle tional Convention scheduled Legion. In 1963, the City was in 1990. In com- for Portland this year has 45th National Con- memorating the end of been moved to Indianapolis, vention was moved World War II, this year's home of the Legion's Na- from New Orleans, convention will include a tional Headquarters. La., to Miami Beach, WWII film festival and The convention dates Fla. other events that pay tribute have changed, too. The Na- As with the pre- to the men and women who tional Convention will begin vious move, Legion served. Aug. 31 and end Sept. 6. leaders acted quick- Legionnaires and their National Commander ly to ensure a high- families will also be able to William M. Detweiler said quality convention. tour the Legion's National the move became necessary Within two weeks Headquarters, which is when some Portland hotels of Detweiler' s deci- located in the heart of the reneged on commitments sion, the American Circle City. involving room reservations Legion National "Just the location has and prices. Detweiler said Convention Corpo- changed," said Bob Radke, the hotels sold more than ration of Indiana the Legion's National Con- 400 prime rooms that were Inc. was formed vention Director. "We will promised to the Legion by with Gib Sheeks, still do everything that was the Portland/Oregon Visi- the Indiana National planned for Portland." tors Association. Executive Commit- For more information According to Detweiler, teeman, serving as about this year's National other areas of disagreement corporation presi- Convention in Indianapolis, included use of the Oregon dent. The corpora- see the July issue of THE Convention Center, room tion also speedily AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- rate increases and a lack of set up the commit- ZINE. financial support promised tees needed to run a by the visitors association in convention. providing local transporta- An estimated tion for Legionnaires from 15,000 Legionnaires CALLING ALL their hotels to the conven- and their families KOREAN WAR VETS tion site. are expected to at- KOREAN WAR veterans, "The visitors association tend the week-long share your stories with was advised these prob- event, of pumping $15 the nation. The National Pub- lems repeatedly over the million into the lic Relations Division of The past year to no avail," said The Legion has held con- local economy. American Legion is compil- Detweiler. "This decision ventions in Portland in "It's a big gain for the ing a list of Korean War vet- was taken very reluctantly. 1932, 1965 and 1970. "Each city," said Bob Desautels, erans and their wartime It only came after a diligent was a good experience and convention services and memories for a media data effort on the part of the The we deeply regret we will not community relations man- bank. American Legion National return this year," Detweiler ager for the Indianapolis The Public Relations Convention Corporation of said. Convention & Visitors As- Division will use the data Oregon to reach a satisfac- Changing convention sociation. "We're very bank to put news media in tory agreement." sites has occurred only one excited about being able to

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LEGION URGES CONGRESSIONAL LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION ACTION ON VA BUDGET SHORTFALL Post 113 of Granite City, III., was inducted into ITING a VA Discretionary category vet- the Granite City Sports Hall form letter that the Legion erans—those with non-ser- of Fame for its sponsorship vice problems- of American Legion Base- denies medical IN CONGRESS connected C care to many may be treated at VA ball and for assisting more veterans, a facilities if resources than 50 student athletes win Legion spokesman has are available. scholarships in the past 20 urged the Senate to A TALE OF TWO BUDGETS To meet the de- years. correct the shortfall mands of sick veter- Post 783 of Maspeth, following is a comparison which has plagued the THE ans, the Legion has N.Y., conducted an awards of what the administration and VA budget for years. urged a wide-sweeping ceremony to honor many the Legion propose, respectively, "The Legion ques- reorganization of the community leaders, includ- for the FY96 VA budget. tions how VA will be LEGION VA's Veterans Health ing WWI veterans. In addi- ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS able to provide care to Administration to in- tion, Post 783 presented 1 N M I L LIONS all fiscal eligible veterans Medical Care $16,960.0 $19,600.0 clude eligibility, Law and Order and Fire- expected to apply for and system reform. fighter awards. Medical Research 257.0 290.0 care in 1996, if they are Legion testimony As a Veterans Day pro- Construction 788.0 750.0 disallowing care for on other areas of the ject, Post 159 of Venice, State Home Grants many veterans today," program 43.0 75.0 VA's FY96 budget Fla., sponsored the Venice

Carroll L. Williams, National Cemetery included: High School Band's presen- Director of the Le- System 75.3 78.0 Veterans Benefits tation of music for veterans, gion's Veterans Affairs Veterans Benefits Administration including the original song, and Rehabilitation Administration 694.0 785.0 The Legion has the "Korea Veterans" Division, told the Sen- long supported the march, written by Legion- ate Subcommittee on annual adjustment in naire Charles Gabriele. VA, HUD and Independent their obligations in provid- benefits to maintain the wel- Post 122 of Warren- Agencies. ing care to all veterans in fare of disabled veterans town, Mo., participated in "Today, numerous VA the 'Mandatory' category," and their families. However, WWII Day for about 2,500 facilities send a standard Williams said. the COLA should apply to area students. The Post form letter to veterans seek- By law, VA must pro- all beneficiaries equally. helped set up and man ing care, stating that due to vide care for Mandatory cat- Medical and Prosthetic booths that showed uni- budgetary and workload egory veterans — those with Research forms, medals, photographs constraints, they cannot pro- service connected ailments The Legion recommend- and weapons from World vide medical services to and those whose incomes ed that VA Secretary Jesse War II. 'Discretionary' category fall below the VA's means Brown establish a Health Post 1424 of Forest veterans so they can meet test threshold of $20,470. Research Advisory Council Hills, N.Y., has made a that would oversee VA's habit of giving during the research programs. holidays. Each November, touch with Korean War vet- war," says Lew Wood, Claims Backlog the Post donates turkeys to erans who are willing to be National Public Relations The Legion commended local churches for needy interviewed about their Director. initiatives to reduce the families. And in early wartime experiences. The Responses should be in amount of time it takes for December, they lead a St. data bank is similar to one writing — no phone calls, the Board of Veterans Nick's Day parade, which of WWII veterans already in please. And Korean War Appeals to respond to veter- includes decorating a tree use by the division. veterans should include ans' claims. However, this and passing out treats to "As the nation prepares their full name, address, process still consumes more children. In addition, the for the dedication of the telephone number and a than 700 days. The Legion Post conducts a Christmas Korean War Veterans brief description of their urges the board to continue party at the VA hospital in Memorial in Washington, war experiences. Send in- to work toward reducing the St. Albans. D.C., next month, there will formation to National Public time of appeals and a more Post 150 of Franken- be much media interest in Relations Division, P.O. comprehensive accounting muth, Mich., donated locating veterans who Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN of the numbers and nature $2,500 to the patio/nature fought and served in that 46206. of appeals pending in the trail at the VA Medical Cen- court. ter in Saginaw.

JUNE 1995 37 LEGION NEWS

CFA YIELDS DIVIDENDS: MORE STATES SIGN ON |IKE A good Elks, Moose, Masons and

I investment, the the United Veterans Groups EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT; MORE VOTES ARE NEEDED Citizens Flag of Oregon. SUPPORT for amending the Con- free speech. Alliance (CFA) "As the vote got closer, stitution to protect the flag has There are 52 cosponsors of the

I is paying off. we flooded legislators with increased in Congress, too, but Senate's version of the bill, SJR

Oregon, Washington and phone calls," says Scott. more votes are still needed, 31 , 15 shy of the votes needed for according to Daniel S. Wheeler, passage. Hawaii have become the Persistence also paid off president of the Citizens Flag Contact your representatives 47th, 48th and 49th states to in Washington, according to Alliance, Inc. and senators and express your pass memorializing resolu- Derald Robertson, the state's The House flag amendment bill, support for these bills. The tions to protect the U.S. Flag CFA coordinator. To get HJR 79, has 254 cosponsors, but addresses and phone numbers are: from physical desecration. Washington's memorializ- 290 votes are needed for the bill to The Honorable (name) pass. At press time in late April, U.S. Senate At press time, only Vermont ing resolution passed, it the number of House cosponsors Washington, DC 20510 had yet to pass a measure meant hours canvassing the of the bill was as many as the 254 Phone: (202) 224-3121 through its legislature. state capitol, Roberston said. representatives who voted for the and amending of the Constitution The The 49 state legislatures He cited Doris Gross, the U.S. Honorable (name) in the wake of the 1989 Supreme U.S. House of Representatives that have adopted memorial- Legion's Department leg- Court decision ruling that burning Washington, DC 20515 izing resolutions represent islative chairman, as a major the flag was an expression of Phone:(202) 225-3121. more than 99 percent of the force in getting the resolu- American public. tion passed. Bob Scott, head of the "For years we've worked Robertson says the Wash- As the time came closer for Oregon CFA, credited the to get this through," said ington CFA's efforts will not a vote, CFA members orga- state's Legionnaires, Auxil- Robertson. "When it finally end with the passage of the nized a rally at the state iary and Sons of the Ameri- passed, the only feeling we resolution. The group is now capitol in Honolulu that was can Legion for getting the had was elation." circulating petitions and covered on three major tele- resolution passed. They con- Robertson said the most have enlisted other groups, vision networks. tinually pressured legislators difficult part of the fight was including the Free Masons, "If we hadn't shown up and stayed on top of the getting media attention. to push for an amendment to in force, I'm not so sure it issue by tracking the resolu- Although members of the protect the flag. would have passed," says tion as it was debated in sub- Washington CFA distributed In Hawaii, CFA members Fred Ballard, executive committees and committees. information to media, little packed legislative commit- director of Branch 46, Fleet Contributing to the Ore- about the campaign was tee rooms and waved flags Reserve Association, a CFA gon CFA efforts were the published or broadcast. in support of a resolution. member. WE NEED V FAIR

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(WWII) #10301 #19245 Write Finders/Seekers, P.O. Box 10088, Columbia, MO 28th Inf. Div., 728th Ord. Maint. Co. 81st Inf. Div, 322nd Rgt, C Co. "Wildcat #20824 Div." WWII #10925 65205-4000; or call (800) 449-VETS. Mastercard/VISA 81st Ord. Tank Co. #15492 29th Civil Affairs Co. #19133 HM 82nd A/B Div.: 508th Parachute Inf. Rgt. accepted. 29th Inf. Div. Assn. #16230 Assn (WWII) #16697 31st Inf "Dixie" Div, 167/1 24/1 55th Rgt 83rd Inf. Div. Assn. "Thunderbolt" (WWII) (WWII) #10606 #16231 32nd Inf. Div., 114th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) 85th Evac Hosp SMBL (Qui Nhon, S Viet- #18555 nam 65/66) #12560 OUTFIT REUNIONS 32nd Inf. Div., Red Arrow Club of FL 85th Inf Div, 310th Med Bn, B Co (WWII, #21786 Italy) #21660 32nd Signal Btln. (WWII) #19339 85th Inf. Div., 337th Rgt. (All Compo- Reunion coordinators can enroll their units 3rd Arm'd Div. Assn. #20072 33rd Inf. Div. Assn. All Groups (WWI & nents, WWII) #13902 in VETS by sending a self-addressed, 3rd Arm'd FA Bn. 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(WWII, ETO) 609th Ord. Base Arm. Maint. Bn. #12107 Army Ranger Assn Inc. (USARA) #28405 98th Inf. Dlv., 390th Reg., D Co. #19151 #15218 611th OBAM Bn. (WWII ETO), 611th ORD. ASA: 60th Sig. Radio Intl. Co. (1943/51) 99th Chem. Mortar Bn., 442nd AA #15752 287th Sig Co, 2nd Eng Spec Bgde (ESB) Base Armament Maint. BN. #10257 #10452 99th Evac. Hospital (WWII) #19735 #23116 612th/613th FA Bn. (pk), "Mars Task ASA: 8605th AAU (1950-56) #13836 99th Inf. Bn. (SEP) #20031 293rd Engr. (C) Bn., C Co. (WWII) #10234 Force" (WWII) #16006 ASA: Field Station CHITOSE #10240 100th Hwy. Trans. Serv. (Philippines) 294th JASCO (Omaha Beach WWII, Incl 618th Slg. Bn. #19622 CAG-12 (WWII) #19521 #10794 Navy) #11406 625th Engr., L.E. Co. (WWII) #11060 Coast Artillery Corps. (Prior to July 1950) 100th Inf Div, 399th Rgt, Anti-Tank Co. 297th Engr. Avn. Bn. (Korean War) 629th TD Bn., Co. A (WWII, 1941/45) #16415 (Indiana Chapter) #12217 #19628 #12764 Combat Infantrymen's Assn., Purple 100th Inf. Div. 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(WWII) #16282 3rd NCB Spec #13790 #10079 478th AAA Aw (C) Bn (Pacific Theater, 815th Tank Destroyer Bn., HQ Co. (WWII) 3rd NCB (WWII) #10711 149th WAC Hdq. Co. #19361 WWII) #19637 #13313 4th NCB Spec. #22903 151st Med. Bn., B Co. (WWII) #19486 478th Amph. Truck Co. (WWII) #20714 821st T.D. Bn. (WWII) #13039 6th NCB Spec. (WWII) #19666 153rd Engr. Const. Bn. #15496 479th Med. Amb. Co. (WWII) #13752 826th Eng. Avn. Bn., A Co. #19248 9th NCB Spec. (WWII) #10853 159th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) #10330 482nd AAA AW Bn. (SP) Assn #10670 836th Engr. Avn. Bn. #10973 10th Special Seabees #19083 160th General Hosp. (WWII, 44/46) 488th Engr, LP Co WWII #13860 839th Engr Avn Bn, HQ & HQ Co: SCAR- 11th NCB Spec. #17555 #11103 492nd Port Bn., Co.'s 230-233 (Guadal- WAF (All Years) #14083 18th NCB Spec. #15944 163rd Engr. Combat Bn. WWII #15330 canal, Cebu City, PI) WWII #10313 850th Avn. Engrs., A Co. (WWII) #20968 23rd NCB (WWII) #18345 164th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) #16517 495th AAA Bn., Bty. 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Carolina case in which a terminally ill cancer patient was taken off narcotics simply because his nursing home felt he was "getting too much medication." The patient was in agony before death, and his heirs sued the facility. The jury awarded $15 million in damages. Partly because of such precedent-setting verdicts, medical science is finally acknowledging that arbitrary standards of pain control don't apply in the real world. As pharmacologist Linda Bressler wrote in a recent issue of the trade magazine, Drug Topics, "The right dose is the one that relieves pain." New Painkillers Pain experts insist narcotics pre- dawning acceptance of In another promising approach, scribed for severe pain almost never TODAY'S pain control is producing a num- Prozac and related antidepressants create a junkie. "A person who was tak- ber of user-friendly approaches. Fen- are being used to manage chronic ing an opioid for back pain isn't going tanyl, a super-opioid, is now avail- pain. to go out on the street to get more of it," able in transdermal patches and even Here, another naturally occuring says Kathleen Foley, director of pain lollipops for kids. In the works is a substance, serotonin, comes into play. management for New York's Sloan- bracelet-type system that injects a Clinicians working with migraine Kettering Cancer Center. Studies cor- metered dose of painkiller directly patients noted that serotonin levels roborate that when even the most potent into the skin upon demand. dropped abnormally low just prior to narcotics are used, the addiction risk is Still, as medical diagnostics an attack. Knowing that antidepres- smaller than one in 1 ,000. becomes increasingly sophisticated, sants stabilize levels of the substance Not all the news on the pain front is narcotics and other drugs designed in the brain, researchers recommend- good, though. primarily to mask symptoms are giv- ed Prozac therapy. Sixty percent of The approval process for new drugs ing way to therapies that address the patients responded favorably. can be slow, because basic research root causes. Ulcers, managed for While Dr. Kenneth Shandell of must be conducted on laboratory ani- decades with antacids and pain- San Diego believes that medication mals, who are obviously unable to killers, are now being treated with "obviously has its place," he and report their subjective reactions. And antibiotics, which slow the bacterial other pain experts are exploring unscrupulous opportunists are all too process that causes degeneration of alternative therapies which may have eager to capitalize on the demand for stomach linings. Migraine sufferers fewer troublesome side effects. pain therapy, now a $3 billion industry. are grateful for a new generation of Shandell 's regimen relies heavily on Dubious pain control clinics are pop- vasoconstrictors drugs that calm acupuncture, biofeedback and vari- ping up across the nation, as are com- the underlying blood vessel spasms. ous means of electrical stimulation plaints of fraud and abuse. Because at least some arthritic designed to block pain stimuli or gal- Also creating roadblocks are Medi- conditions seem to begin when the vanize the body's painkilling arsenal. care and many large insurance compa- body's immune system attacks its The transcutaneous electronic nerve nies that take a dim view of narcotics or own cartilage, sufferers are now ben- stimulation (TENS) noted in Ted's won't sanction alternative pain thera- efiting from a welter of cartilage- case (see Page 19) shows particular pies like biofeedback and acupuncture. strengthening agents. Other drugs, promise. Even so, change is clearly in the like Capsaicin, target the vicious Imagery, in which patients dis- wind. Medical boards nationwide are cycle of prostaglandin activity that tract themselves from pain through urging a more open-minded attitude accompanies arthritic inflammation. serene mental pictures, has been toward pain control. State regulatory The latest arthritis research focus- stunningly effective for some indi- bodies are learning to allow increased es on oxygen ions and other so- viduals. As have the use of heat and leeway in the use of potent painkillers. called free radicals — shortlived, cold. Hospitals are becoming more respon- super-powered byproducts of white There are even reports from sive to the patient, recognizing that blood cell activity. Though these migraine sufferers of relief obtained their guidelines and practices pale sub-atomic agents survive only frac- by sticking one's head inside the before the comfort of the individual. tions of a second, their destructive freezer at the first sign of a headache. "A physician has a medical ethic to ability compares to radiation, accord- That painkilling effort, however, be responsible to the patient," says ing to David Mason, medical direc- has drawn a lukewarm response from Shandell. "Whatever the patient needs, tor of Lederle Laboratories. many experts. — SJS. that's what the doctor should do."

JUNE 1995 55 th of a person's skin denotes something Catch 100 about their character or intellect," a OUT-RUSHING he says. "He told me just to judge people Continuedfrom page 23 Anniversary by their heart and their intellect." Williams adds that his father was also a BASEBALL conservative: "In fact, I'm a third-generation conservative. This thinking tougher on social issues than their goes way back in my family." white counterparts, it may be because This is one reason why Williams their race gives them a special license and the others laugh off criticism that to extend the bounds of radio commen- they are little more than opportunists tary. Explains Bernard Yoh, director of climbing aboard the Limbaugh band- communications with Washington, wagon. "It has taken me 13 years in D.C. -based Accuracy In Media, radio to become famous overnight,"

"[Black hosts] can say things a non- quips Hamblin. "The fact is, I didn't black would never say because the even know I was a conservative until white would immediately be called a listeners started telling me I sounded racist." like one." Besides, he adds, that charge Despite the unifying themes in their is insulting to his growing audience. radio patter, today's three most high- "Call me an opportunist and you are profile black hosts could not come saying the American people are so *FREE from more different circumstances. dumb they can't spot a fake." With your purchase of the OFFICIAL Elder, 42, bills himself as the "Sage Questions have been raised, howev- 100th Anniversary from Southcentral." He was born into a er, about who really listens to the lower middle-class family just a few shows. Critics allege that the audience BABE RUTH blocks from the flashpoint of the '92 consists primarily of white right- BRONZE PROOF L.A. riots. He excelled in school, won a wingers who derive a certain vicarious scholarship to Brown University and thrill out of hearing a black commenta- DOUBLE PLAY later graduated with a law degree from tor stick it to his "natural" constitutency. OFFER the University of Michigan. Such is the "I very frankly doubt if many background responsible for his unique, African-Americans even know who Horatio Alger outlook on America— an these people are," says Chuck Bremer, outlook that raises eyebrows almost executive director of the National every time Elder opens his mouth. Black Caucus of State Legislators. Nor "Yes," he'll say, "this nation has had a does Bremer think black listeners are long and depressing history of racial missing much by tuning out. Of Ham-

discrimination. But that era is over. I blin, Elder and company, Bremer says defy you to find discrimination in 1995. simply, "They're jerks." The Civil Rights movement has been Radio stations do little in the way of won." collecting demographic data on listen- Hamblin, on the other hand, is a ers, but some careful monitoring largely self-taught man whose formal reveals that the shows draw their share ^Baseball lovers would pay $19.95 for the schooling ended with high school. "I of black listeners. Further, of Bronze Collector Proof by itself. But now, many you can own them both for only $19.95 grew up on welfare in Bedford- those listeners clearly endorse the shrill (If purchased separately, the baseball is Stuyvesant," he says. He got his start in views expressed on the air. available at $1435). It's just like getting media as a photographer for the Detroit Hosts deny that this is because the valuable baseball as a bonus extra! Free Press. From there he gravitated callers are screened to ensure agree- Official Bronze Proof - Minted in the artist's into cable TV and then radio. The old- ment. Screening on all these shows is bronze used at the Baseball Hall of Fame; est of the hosts at 54, Hamblin says he minimal, they contend— designed only individually numbered on larger-than-life edge, a knows about racism firsthand. He to ascertain that a caller has something desktop monument to the Sultan of Swat! recalls being "chased by the Klan in to say. Whether that something is pro Babe Ruth Baseball - Features exact replica of Greensboro, N.C., when I was working or con doesn't matter, the hosts insist. Babe Ruth's signature; official size and weight- to register voters." course he started In fact, as Williams explains from comes complete with display stand. Of his political life as a liberal, he his base in heavily black Washington, Immediate sell-out is expected for this once-in- says—

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56 THE AMERICAN LEGION Articles or anecdotes that depict heroic dogs, cats or "a problem among blacks is that we The talk show hosts are unfazed by winged creatures who saved soldiers' lives during don't easily allow different points of such charges. "Some critics say I'm a wars since WWI. Contact: Basil F. Glaimo, 185-13 view. They want us to be a monolith." tool for whites who want to justify their Loudon Rd., Concord, NH 03301. Artifacts and memorabilia from 1 Operation Group Jed- just are they . Williams readi- racism," says Elder. "That is sim- And who own burgh and OSS personnel at Brockhall, England, ly ticks off the names of black leaders ply silly. Many of my callers are black who parachuted into France from Harrington Air Base, for museum. Contact: Tom McGuire, 4658 E. who are regulars on the TV public and many agree with me. Does that Edgewood Ave., Mesa, AZ 85206-2702. affairs show circuit. make them racists, too? That whole Copy of special orders #172 of Air Base Headquarters, Mitchell Field, L.I., N.Y., dated July 22, 1941, covering "If these 'leaders' were white, they charge is ridiculous." Task Force 4. Contact: Harry Prosper!, 1833 58th St., would have been laughed out of town As for the most frequent complaint Brooklyn, NY 11204-2032. ages ago," asserts Elizabeth Wright, leveled against Williams— that he is the Crew of the USS Courage, for historical research. Con- tact: Theodore P. DeCristofaro, 1000 Southern Artery editor of New York-based Issues & Uncle Tom of the airwaves— the host #3305, Quincy, MA 02169. Views, a conservative-leaning public- responds, "Some people tell me I'm not D-Day Invasion newspaper headline or Stars and Stripes invasion edition for June 6, 1994, In good affairs publication. "But the media black enough. You know what I say to condition, for WWII display. Will pay. Contact: John share liberal inclinations and will them? I tell them they are exactly Grindahl, 1837 16th St. S., Fargo, ND 58103. First-hand information about U.S. soldiers executed in invent 'leaders' if necessary. The real right— and that is because I am trying ETO during WWII, for a book. Contact: J. Robert Lilly, importance of people like Larry Elder to be human enough." School of Law, Northern Kentucky University, High- land Heights, KY 41099-6103; 572-5253. is that they give voice to another point (606) Former members of the 1943 football champion Ford of view." Islanders of NAS Pearl Harbor and others with As Hamblin puts it, "I tell people knowledge of the games, for research for a movie. IN SEARCH OF... Contact: Becky Garrison, 16 Faulkner St., #2, the truths the black leaders don't want Maiden, MA 02148. them to hear." This column is (or readers searching for groups of vet- Former members of the 552nd Airborne Early Warning erans for purposes other than forming a reunion (use and Control Wing, and 79th Airborne Early Warning A lot of people don't want such VETS column) or to find witnesses to verify VA health Control Sq., for information on Lockheed Constella- views heard, apparently. There is a for- claims (use COMRADES IN DISTRESS column). No tion aircraft EC-121D/EC-121T, S/N 53-548, on dis- mal backlash underway, with Bremer's notices seeking information about relatives or friends will play at Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Ariz. be published. Notices are published free, on a space- Contact: Del Mitchell, 1426 Gardenia Ave. Camarillo, group taking direct action against Ken available basis. If a notice does not appear within six CA 93010-1162. months of submission, please resubmit. Hamblin in particular. The National Former players of the 1950 O&R Rams, NAS Norfolk, Va., for an article. Contact: Richard W. Dickson, 2290 Black Caucus has indicated it will file a A WWII history of the 189th Signal Repair Co. Contact: NW Sunset Blvd., Jensen Beach, FL 34957. James E. Ferriero, 246 High St., N. Arlington, NJ the Federal Members of 610th Q.M. Graves Registration Co. complaint with Communi- 07031-5718. 1944-46, for unit history. Contact: Bill Stebert, P.O. cations Commission. Bremer has also Air Force veterans who transferred to an engineer fire Box 2651, Salina, KS 67402. fighting company after returning to the States, for urged the Denver Post to drop Ham- Members of companies attached to the 478th QM historical research. Contact: William L Case, 2544 Group on the Ledo Road, CBI Theater, 1943-45, for blin, whom he describes as "such a Glenn St., Bettendorf, IA 52722. Anyone interested in establishing a museum dedicated research project. Contact: William L. Edwards, 1755 knee-jerk reactionary you would almost to soldiers of WWII. Contact: Army Specialist Bradley Palm, Apt. 153, Las Vegas, NV 89104-4767. think he's a redneck white racist!" E. Owens, 1562 Goshen Rd., Augusta, GA 30906. Please turn to page 62 Discover Over 600 Amish Cooking Secrets

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58 THE AMERICAN LEGION pie along. He can tell the lawyers they slaves. In the South, it was later used jurors admitted they didn't compre- have one day to examine a witness, to acquit those charged with what we hend [financial] concepts that were not nine. He can rule that evidence is now would call hate crimes. Jury nul- key to the case. Despite their lack of duplicative and shouldn't be present- lification is a counterbalance to what understanding, the jurors were re- ed. the community — the people — view as quired to decide a multi-million dollar But judges nowadays play defense tyranny, and for that reason it's an case anyway. all the time, worrying about how they important democratic institution. That makes no sense; it would be will look to the appeals court, not wor- easy to let jurors request clarification. rying about the most productive ways Q. So, what would you do to fix When juries began in England cen- to run their courtroom. the jury system? turies ago, they took a very active A Shorter trials are a start. At the role. We need to restore elements of Q. Have you ever served on a same time, we should make jury that active jury. jury? duty as convenient as possible by A Ironically, I served on a jury employing the "one day, one trial" Q. What if the jury asks a question while I was writing the book. Of system in use in some courthouses. that's prejudicial? — course I was anxious to do it and Jurors show up on a designated day. If A The simple remedy is to let jurors bizarrely— the lawyers and judge per- they are picked for a trial, they serve provide the judge with written mitted me to serve. The case itself on the jury. If they are not picked, questions. Before asking the witness turned out not to be very interesting, a they go home and won't be called the jury's question, the judge would small personal-injury suit against New again for a specified period. review it and consult the lawyers to York City over a broken sidewalk. see if they think the question might be

Even so, once I sat on the case, I Q. That still leaves the problem of prejudicial. Some judges already found it compelling and I also felt shoddy verdicts, doesn't it? employ this system and it works very proud that I had an opportunity to A Eliminating peremptory chal- well. One added benefit is that it serve the community. lenges and making jury duty makes jurors feel more central to the That's typical, by the way. Despite essentially mandatory will give us a process. how hard many of us try to avoid jury fairer, more impartial jury to start The system can be made to work service, when we do serve, most say with. Beyond that, we can provide better through relatively easy steps we have been enriched by the experi- juries with much more information so that can largely be taken at a judge's ence. that they can do their jobs better. We own initiative. Some judges already should encourage jurors to take notes have taken them, with excellent Q. Despite how troubled the jury and even to ask questions of witnesses results. system is, you say that the system during the trial. Do only that and we'll That's why I'm optimistic. can and should be saved. Why? get results that are more appropriate. A The "why" is that juries bring the community into the courtroom. Q. Don't most judges discourage We've already lost much of our civic- note-taking by jurors? mindedness, and if we lose juries, A There is a strong bias among we'll lose more of it. Ultimately, too, I judges against jurors taking believe that if juries in fact consist of notes, and we know that very few BATAAN-POW-PVT 12 people with different life experi- jurors in fact do take them. Judges ences, verdicts will be better and fairer have argued that when jurors take than any single person could have notes they're not listening to the testi- done. Juries also are a check against mony and therefore might miss impor- big government. Government can pass tant things. a law but if the jury doesn't like it, it Another argument is that if some doesn't have to enforce it. jurors take notes and others don't, in deliberations the jurors with notes will Q. You're saying juries can ignore gain power over the others. laws? Still, everybody else in the court- A Judges and prosecutors don't tell room is taking notes — the judge, the jurors that they have the long- lawyers — but the only people who standing right to ignore laws they dis- need to remember everything are the agree with, but they do. It's called jurors, and they're the only people not "jury nullification" and goes back to taking notes. 1995 - II 50th Anniversary Issue colonial times when New York printer WW John Peter Zenger was put on trial for Q. Why do you say jurors should DON T. SCHLOAT printing defamations about the colo- be given the right to question wit- nial governor. By law, printing any- nesses? The autobiographies of two U.S. Medical Corps privates, who were thing derogatory was illegal, but it In our current system, we're often A Japanese POWs in WWII. took the jury just minutes to come asking jurors to make decisions Soft cover shown above, 352 illus. back with an acquittal, law or no law. without the information they need to pp., $23.00 + $3.00 Shipping & Handling. Jury nullification has been used often make them. They may be confused by in our society. a witness's testimony, but they do not DON SCHLOAT In the pre-Civil War era, juries in get the opportunity to ask for clarifica- 29326 The Yellow Brick Road the North refused to convict those tion. I saw exactly this in an antitrust Valley Center, CA 92082. charged with harboring fugitive suit I covered. Afterward, many of the

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network will not deprive itself of any, TRIMMER or all, devices to carry out its world- RUSSIA'S SPIES wide operations. Continuedfrom page 27 Earlier that same year, Primakov USERS! had begun a series of intelligence- recruiting sessions at the Moscow Institute of International Relations, a dent foreign policy geared to its nation- Foreign Ministry affiliate. He told his ; al interest." To achieve that, he added, audience his agency was not only / Why do it the HARD Russia "will inevitably have to resort interested in young recruits who were WAY? not only to overt means of realizing its studying foreign affairs, but also in aims, but also to the assistance of men and women specializing in eco- covert friends and supporters. These nomics, physics, chemistry and engi- can only be found by the intelligence neering. service." As a result, Western technological, Herbert Romerstein, for 18 years on financial, commercial and industrial the staff of the House of Representa- institutions are openly acknowledged tives Intelligence Committee, affirms as major new high-priority targets of that Moscow's current "long-range dis- Russian spying. You'll LOVE information campaigns are designed to Exactly who is making these policy this totally kind of new TRIMMER encourage financial support for Russia decisions is a matter of some specula- ON WHEELS compared to the hassle and acceptance of Russian influence in tion. As has always been the case with of using a hand-held trimmer like the the newly independent nations that Russian espionage, there are questions one above! The DR® TRIMMER/ made up the former Soviet Union." about whether "the head knows what MOWER rolls "light as a feather" on If anything, the former KGB's the body is doing." two BIG WHEELS! TRIMS better, external intelligence apparatus appears far more precisely than hand-held to be intensifying its nationalist foreign YELTSIN himself has maintained policy. In that he was unaware the trimmers. Plus, MOWS everything November 1993, KGB for- of massive eign intelligence director, Yevgeny Ames operation. And it is certainly from whole lawns (even wet!) to tough Primakov, issued an unprecedented possible that Yeltsin— haunted by an waist-high growth with incredible warning against any kind of alliance aggressive opposition as well as fre- ease! Rocks, roots, stumps etc. do it between the former communist states quent bouts of depression — never no harm, because the DR® has no steel of Eastern Europe and NATO. specifically knew that his intelligence blade to bend, break or dull! An expansion of NATO along those apparatus was using Ames as a spy Perfect for use with riding lines would create "the biggest military inside the CIA. But there can be no takes the place mowers: grouping in the world, with its colossal doubt that Primakov, Yeltsin's hand- both your hand-held offensive potential directly at the bor- picked choice to run the agency, was trimmer & small-wheels ders of Russia," said Primakov. If this well briefed on Ames' role of exposing walk-behind mower happened, he warned, "the need would U.S. agents inside Russia and turning for finish-up trimming arise for a fundamental reappraisal of over volumes of secret documents to and mowing. A all defense concepts on our side, a his Moscow handlers. delight to use! redeployment of armed forces and A top Russian Army staffer told the changes in operational plans." Itar-Tass news agency, "[Ames] Please mail worked for us. He defended our inter- coupon below HIS all-consuming effort to stay a ests [and] exposed spies who were TODAY for INstep ahead of such contingencies, pumping Russian secrets to the United FREE DETAILS! Primakov employs spies in a variety States." of non-diplomatic professions: busi- Ames has admitted that "the KGB nessmen, tourists, reporters, acade- had set aside for me $2 million in grat- mics, students and others, suggesting itude for this information." This is an that he is casting as wide a net as pos- important point. Experts agree that, sible. facing a tightened budget, Primakov's yxjL In the summer of 1992, two staff spy agency could not hand over mil- members of the Russian news agency lions without top-level approval. Itar-Tass in Bonn, Germany, de- All of this suggests that we should em-mi nounced the appointment of a veteran not be misled by the mood of detente YES! Please rush complete FREE DETAILS of the KGB official as director of the news that has flourished over the past Revolutionary DR" TRIMMER/MOWER including | agency's services covering Germany decade; Russia will still seek to under- prices and specifications of Manual, Electric-Starting and Austria. mine U.S. policy when such provoca-

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Address Russia's supposed glasnost (openness) eign Intelligence Service to operate in policy. The correspondents asked Pri- a significantly less hostile environment City _State ZIP. makov to pledge that "a press pass than did its KGB predecessors," says To: COUNTRY HOME PRODUCTS*, Dept. 455 | should not be used as cover for a spy." Prof. Knight, who also teaches at Johns Ferry Road, Box 89, Charlotte, VT 05445 I He refused. Clearly, Russia's spy Hopkins University. She believes that

60 THE AMERICAN LEGION this situation "leaves us quite vulnera- ble" to Moscow's newly sophisticated intelligence tactics. FLAG ETIQUETTE Romerstein, who directed the U.S. Continued from page 32 Efrrk 01 ami Kie v M| Uh Information Agency's Office to wnnnprwnii Counter Soviet Active Measures and Disinformation, notes that Russia continues to regard the United States as a above and behind the speaker. In a "main enemy." church or public auditorium, the flag Now as in the past, adds Prof. Dou- should by prominently displayed facing glas Seay, deputy director for foreign the audience. The flag on a staff should policy at the Washington-based Her- always be at the speaker's right. itage Foundation, Moscow's spy net- With other flags. No flag should be work serves not only as a means of displayed more prominently than the gathering information, but "as an U.S. Flag. In a line of flags, the U.S. offensive instrument of Russian poli- Flag should either be on the marching cies." Indeed, Primakov negotiated right, or front and center, of the others. with Saddam Hussein on the eve of the When displayed on a wall crossed Gulf War, aiming to sidetrack U.S. against another flag, the U.S. Flag efforts to force Iraq out of Kuwait by should be on the observer's left. The military means. U.S. Flag's staff should be placed over Currently, the Primakov policy the other flag's staff. favors limiting sanctions against Hus- Don'ts. The flag should never be: 1-800-S44-3S3B or send in the following coupon.. sein, which would enable Russia to sell • dipped to any person or thing. arms to Iraq, thus heightening Russian • displayed with the blue field ' Professional Seruice influence there. And, despite a plea by down, except as a signal of distress. U.S. Defense Secretary William J. • carried flat or horizontally, but freedom E, Perry, Russia in early April refused to always free and aloft. Independence call off its deal to sell nuclear reactors • used as wearing apparel, a ceiling City to Iran. covering, or to carry or hold anything. Lark ofAmerica According to Paul A. Goble, former • festooned, drawn back or in folds. State Zip P.O. Box 1647 State Department specialist on Soviet • represented on anything designed Waukesha, Wl OPERATOR #3015 531X7-1647 affairs and presently senior associate of for temporary use that will be discard- the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- ed, such as napkins or boxes. tional Peace, "The Russian Army may The flag also should not touch any- Advertisement be falling apart, but Moscow's intelli- thing beneath it, such as the ground, gence services have expanded their floor, water or merchandise. It should Don't Blame activites — not only against its own not have any extraneous markings on people, but also against the Western it; and no part of the flag ever should Your Age For countries, prominently the United be used as a costume or athletic uni- States." form. Poor Hearing. The FBI has geared itself to counter Questions about flag etiquette Chicago, 111.—A free offer of special these Russian efforts. FBI Director should be sent to the Americanism interest to those who hear but do not Louis H. Freeh enphasizes that his Commission, The American Legion, understand words has been an- agency maintains a two-part National P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN nounced by Beltone. A nonoperating Security Threat List designed to guard 46206. The brochures, "Let's Be Right model of one of the smallest canal against security risks from nations On Flag Etiquette," for 30 cents a hearing aids in America today will be regarded as hostile toward the United copy, and "The U.S. Flag Code," for given absolutely free to anyone States and spy activities that might 10 cents a copy, can be purchased requesting it. originate with any country, whether from National Emblem Sales, The It's yours for the asking, so send "friend or foe." American Legion, P.O. Box 1050, it now. It is not a real hearing aid, Throughout the FBI's 56 field for Indianapolis , IN 46206 . but it will show you how tiny hearing offices, potential target individuals and help can be. companies are alerted to intelligence These models are free, so call or activities detrimental to the United now. 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Members of the Air Force flare plane crew operating achieve certain goals. This is not just a between Cho-Do Island and North Korea the night of Flag Team job, although that team cer- Nov. 19-20, 1952, for historical research. Contact: tainly plays a vital role. This is not a Ronald W. Harbison, 2273 Roebllng Dr., Saxonburg, that PA 16056. tunately, we cannot conquer someone job the Citizens Flag Alliance, else's apathy, so it's no use wasting Inc., can do, or any of our Members of the ASA 111th Signal Service Co., Tarlac, member

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WWII Coast Guard Beach/Horse Patrol personnel, talked with thought someone ought to that even I can do. especially Temporary Reservists and Auxlliarists. do something to make it illegal. And it's something most organiza- Seeking records, manuals, Insignia, photos etc. for Everyone we met cared and wished us tions and individuals are good at. In official USCG Auxiliary archives. Contact: G.W. May- cumber, USCG Aux Regional Historian, RD #3, Box success. 1989, The American Legion and 233, Fulton, NY 13069. It's a good start, but it's not Auxiliary got 1 .5 million signatures in WWII veterans who served with F Co., 38th Cav. enough. Believing, talking, caring and less than four months. The CFA has Reconn. Sq. at or near the Ludendorff Bridge on wishing that someone would do some- 97 member organizations, nearly all of March 7, 1945, for historical research. Contact: L.M. which have state local posts, Hose, 1969 Orchard Dr., Salt Lake City, IA 84106; thing to protect our flag is not going to and (801)278-2918. get the job done. lodges, units, etc. Let's get 1,000

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