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HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan tackles health-care issues. 99

HOLLYWOOD'S WAR AGAINSTVIETNAM VETERANS OA Many in Tinseltown go out ofthe way to distort truth. By Rick Eilert

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1990 SPRING MEETING

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Estate." Journalists are at the bottom of Fourth Estate fail to find what they don't want to find. the barrel because of their ethical stan- In "Inside the Fourth Estate" (April), This is known as purposeful research. dards. Joseph Farah provides some evidence Is it possible to prove scientifically Who holds the news media respon- that many journalists may be more lib- and positively that a cancer was caused sible for their subject matter? They print eral than mainstream America. What directly by a substance or condition? Of personal opinions, slanted stories and about the rest of the story? Doesn't the course not. No scrupulous scientist in even lies and are accountable to no one. conservative editor have a great deal of the medical industry, the fund-raising Alex M. Pappin editing control about what ideas get associations, the universities and the South Gate, Calif. researched and into print? Doesn't the government knows for sure how and conservative publisher play the piper's why cancers are initiated in people. It would role in calling the tune? Correction have been more sensible and R.C Dunagan honorable if the government had In "Uncivil Defense" (April), you Beloit, Wis. quietly and faithfully given the veterans mention The Journal Civil Defense as a of the benefit of the doubt 20 years ago. monthly magazine for $18. Our Let's do it now. For further reading concerning the magazine is actually a bimonthly liberal bias of today's journalists Stuart Clmmberlin magazine. We have received several Satellite Beach, beyond "Inside the Fourth Estate," pick Fla. subscriptions from the article, but some up a copy of Free Speech or Propaganda? new subscribers are under the impres- How the Media Distorts the Truth by sion that they receive 12 issues a year, Marlin Maddoux. It is an eye opener. instead of six issues. Act Now As for our family, have given I think it's sad when the administra- we up Brenda Reynolds on the three major television networks tion and Congress will send millions Starke, Fla. because their bias is so blatant. upon millions of our taxpayers' dollars Degnan K. Walker to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Irvington, N.Y. Panama and other countries yet refuse CDC Fiasco to fund the VA, as pointed out in the I resent in ways I cannot adequately The Centers for Disease Control article "Down To The Bone" (April). describe the simple-minded, short- (CDC) has reported that it has found As long as our congressmen are re- sighted, condescending and contemp- "no evidence" linking Agent Orange elected 90 percent of the time, they can tuous description of journalists in the with cancer and other health disorders care less about the veterans who kept

April issue. It is the dumb kind of story among Vietnam veterans. This is not our country a democracy. content over which some people would surprising. The only way this will change is for resign their membership in protest. The United States is on record before every veteran to take 15 minutes and

There have been times when we have the world as stating it is absolutely write his congressman and advise them used stories from The American opposed to use of poison chemicals as that we are tired of waste, fraud and Legion Magazine (with permission) instruments of war. Agent Orange con- giveaways by the government. as good statements and good reading, tains dioxin, a toxic (poison) chemical, Fred C. Langguth but my own judgment will be affected which was sprayed indiscriminately on Doylestown, Ohio by your perverse selection of material the fields and forests of Vietnam, popu- that supports a pre-concocted view of lated by hostile forces, friendly forces the world that is quite misshapen. and civilians. It would be awkward Field Of Blue You owe an apology to all journalists, indeed for the U.S. government to admit That field of blue beginning promptly with all journalists it engaged in chemical warfare, espe- with bright stars who are Legion members. cially against its own personnel; con- and stripes of red and white, Myron J. Schoher cealment, deception and lying come that symbol of freedom Rushford, Minn. much easier. These tactics are taught in and bravery the military academies as principles of and, above all, The establishment-controlled media warfare and are practiced routinely in of hope and promise for the future. is the most insidious and pernicious the armed forces and elsewhere in the That flag waving in the brisk wind community in our country. Lenin really government. brings tears to my eyes said it all when he called them "useful One must ask how hard and skillfully and makes my heart sing. idiots." the CDC tried to find acceptable evi-

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Nicaragua, democracy won, and I think SHOULD GERMANY democracy and free enterprise will win with the one Germany, too. Joseph J. McBride Bridgeport, Conn. REUNIFY? After World War II ended, I stayed in the Army and served in Berlin. I was an interpreter and interrogator, and

N THE April issue of The American Legion Magazine, we asked you through my jobs I was able to learn the to respond to the question: Would it benefit the United States and world extreme difficulty many people experi-

interests if Germany became one country again? A majority of those who enced behind the Iron Curtain. Based responded wrote that the United States and the world would economically on the recent articles in The Amer- and politically benefitfrom the reunification of Germany. ican Legion Magazine and my Many of the 71 percent majority stated that because ofthe democratic reforms in East experiences, I believe that a united Germany, a reunited Geimany would not return to a dictatorship or military rule. Several Germany would definitely be a boon to respondents also wrote tliat the artificial division imposed on Germany only served to the European Community and the split families and divide the German people, instead of keep peace. Many wrote that world. Germany 's past will be well remembered, and the Germany ofthe 1990s will become an William Hohensee economic, not military, world competitor. Munith, Mich. The 29 percent minority cited global security, including the possible threat ofGerman It isn't a matter of how many Ger- dominance of Europe, as a reason why the reunification would not benefit the United manys are in Europe. The main concern States and world interests. should be how well the rest of the world Some ofyour views are excerpted below. polices it. For a nation responsible for two major wars in one century, they do bear watching. Too many lives have been lost and too many people enslaved Today we have too many disabled tension. One Germany, integrated with for too long under communist rule American veterans because of a unified most of its neighbors through the Euro- because the world chose to look the Germany under Adolf Hitler. We still pean Community, will be a source of other way. May God forbid that my have some disabled veterans who can regional security. Combining the excel- children or grandchildren will have to tell you about the Kaiser Wilhelm and a lent universities and research institutes participate in another fiasco started by unified Germany 75 years ago. The of East and West Germany will lead to a Germany, such as my father did in British and French will quickly tell you new German state that will be able to World War I, and I in World War II. about "blood and iron" Bismarck and contribute much to world economic Fred W. Stine an arrogant, unified Prussian Germany development and technology. Stroudsburg, Pa.

1 30 years ago. Many people fear a renewed German Because the German people gave the The Berlin Wall is now down and not military threat. But a unified nation world the most beautiful music ever one U.S. serviceman or woman had to will strive for economic and technical composed and the most lethal devices forfeit his or her life when it happened. leadership, not the conquering of of death, we should, indeed, not let For once, I hope we can learn some- Europe. The chance for war was far such brilliance go to waste. Common thing from history instead of blindly greater when there was the possibility sense would rule out any aggression on ignoring it. If not, we will continue to of Soviet aggression and the Germanys the part of Germany, because thinking make the same dumb mistakes over and were divided. A strong Germany, with people today know what aggression can over again. all its people together and integrated lead to. Little Tinker-Toy nations with Jim D. Mooney into Europe, will be a source of peace, nuclear devices are the ones the world New Braunfels, Texas not war. should keep an eye on. Mathematics David E. Kromm and related technology are the cor- I believe that reunification will be Manhattan, Kan. nerstones of space research, and who good for everyone because it will help better to continue to develop it than the create a strong and secure Europe and The Germany that my father and people who gave mankind such beauty will make Germany an even more uncles knew when they were fighting in in the first place — a united Germany. important contributor to the global World War II does not exist anymore. Paul M. Thomas economy. Nazism and Hitler are dead, thank God. Tulsa, Okla. Europe can only be stable if all coun- A new generation of Germans has tries are independent, their peoples reached maturity, and these Germans The United States should strongly together, and their economies freely are better educated with radio and support this reunification which, over involved with each other. The division television, and democracy has been time, will benefit the world because of

of Germany was artificial and eventu- made a reality there. But I think the German productivity. The new Ger- ally became a source of international people must choose for themselves. In Please turn page

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mmm \ 0 a special day. celebration of our national The celebration birthday. Americans know I silently begins exactly when our heritage of HB after sunrise, as freedom began. A simple, HB Old Glory is un- eloquent declaration in I furled and raised Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, in small towns and cities across announced the birth of a new the nation, in your neigh- nation: "When, in the course of ." borhood and mine in Point human events . . Pleasant, W. Va. For 214 years, America's Soon, the scenes from this love of freedom has been the mid-summer day we all know so standard for liberty-lovers well will be replayed through- everywhere. Today, we see the out the land. The nearby dream that our forefathers baseball diamond rings with dreamt, alive and on the march familiar voices and the occa- throughout the world. sional crack of a wooden bat. It wasn't benevolent change The smell of barbecue hangs in of heart by the communists that the air, and the erratic, mind- tore down the Berlin Wall, jolting pops from firecrackers which had separated the Ger- echo throughout the neighbor- man people for almost three hood. decades. It wasn't charity that Later in the day, Main Street enabled the people of Romania, is sealed off to traffic and trans- Poland and Czechoslovakia to formed into a parade route. boot out iron-fisted bosses and Local high-school marching National Commander Miles S. Epling then begin to write constitu- bands play rousing, patriotic tions and plan free elections. tunes such as "Stars and Stripes And it wasn't the Sandinistas' Forever" and "Yankee Doodle," fol- 'I'm not ashamed to sense of political fair play that lowed by floats and marching Legion- catapulted Violeta Chammoro to vic- naires. say that I love tory in the Nicaraguan presidential For many, Independence Day is a election. all time for family reunions and loosely America and that The desire for freedom fueled those planned get-togethers with friends and and other like events over the past year, it represents . . .We neighborhoods. It's a day of rest from and it burned with the same intensity as the daily routine of the workaday have one common it did for Americans on July 4, 1776. world. heritage and future/ But in some nations, the dream is far Not long after sunset, blankets are from becoming a reality. spread on the ground and spectators The cry for freedom reverberates in eagerly await the colorful, noisy display the Baltic states of Lithuania and Lat-

<>t fireworks. Children write their via, whose people have issued their names in the dark with si/./ling own declarations of independence from sparklers, while others chase lightning the Soviet Union's crumbling empire. bugs to put in Mason jars that have We witnessed the limits to glasnost last holes punched in the lids. spring when Soviet troops cracked

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U.S. Flag from desecration is 50 states, especially in those through a narrowly drawn con- nations that hate and revile stitutional amendment that simply ment will only intensify. In 1989, 91 freedom and fundamental human outlaws the physical desecration of percent of the American people sur- rights. President Woodrow Wilson put it the U.S. Flag. Nothing more and veyed in a nationwide Gallup Poll best when he said: "America lives in the nothing less. wanted protection for Old Glory. They heart of every man everywhere who One of the "unalienable" freedoms still demand that protection today. wishes to find a region where he will be that our forefathers fought for was the Undoubtedly, we face a long and free to work out his destiny as he right to free speech. Some charge that a arduous battle for passage of a constitu- chooses." flag-protection amendment would tional amendment. But the main battles As we gather together for this Fourth weaken that right. Nothing could be for this bold measure will not take place of July holiday, let's reflect on our past further from the truth, but there are a "inside the Beltway" and power circles and what America means to each one of great many who have been misled. of Washington, D.C. The decisive cam- us. Let's remember the awesome respon- Some argue that to afford the U.S. paign will be waged at the local level — sibilities that come with the tremendous Flag special status would somehow in your community and mine. amount of rights that we enjoy. On this weaken our nation and threaten our As I write this, all of the 435 offices special day, the Fourth of July, the heart rights. Granting such special status for in the U.S. House of Representatives of America beats loud and strong — the flag is no novel experiment. Con- are up for election, and incumbent con- and it beats with pride.

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SHOULD CONGRESS SUPPORT MANNED SPACE EXPLORATION?

Rep. Robert A. Roe, D-New Jersey Rep. Bill Green, R-New York

Exploration is a search In August, Voyager II for knowledge. There is skirted Neptune and trans- a legitimate question YES NO mitted to Earth a treasure whether men or machines should be used of stunning pictures and scientific infor- for exploration. Clearly in cases of our mation. Now another U.S. space probe is distant space science probes to Jupiter, on its way to Venus to learn why a body Venus, Uranus and Neptune, we had so near and similar in size to Earth suf- no choice but to use unmanned fers 900 degree temperatures and a veil mechanisms. of sulfur rain. No one is aboard either In the particular cases where either manned or unmanned spacecraft; no one is needed. vehicles could be utilized, we must base our decision on During the Apollo "moon shots" two decades ago, the idea whether we are only searching for data or whether our of a man on the moon was exciting. Today such "go-man-go" objective is also to gain experience for an expanded mission. gestures as placing men on the moon and Mars should be set If we had been searching only for samples of moon dust or aside for more valuable and less costly earth and planetary had been interested only in photographs of the moon's sciences. geographical features, then an unmanned vehicle would We can't afford great manned missions; there is a huge have substituted well for the whole Apollo Program. But federal-budget deficit. NASA's planned manned space sta- our goals were political and developmental, as well as tion will cost at least $30 billion. Manned missions to the exploratory. moon and Mars would raise NASA's budget to more than We were not racing against the Russians to scoop moon that each year. rocks but rather to prove the supremacy of our science and Further, when NASA pushes manned space operations, technology over theirs. That supremacy was defined by more valuable scientific work tends to take a back door. solving the myriad scientific and technological challenges of Apollo is recognized now as a costly jaunt. Subsequently, the keeping a human being alive and safe in going to the moon shuttle ate up most of the agency budget. By contrast, since and back. 1977, the cheap, unmanned Voyager II spacecraft has been The inevitable tide of progress is moving contemporary teaching us about our solar system with flybys of Jupiter, civilization into space. All of the world's major industrial Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. nations are headed there. If America is lulled into believing Closer to home, most scientific work planned for the that unmanned space exploration missions are a reasonable manned station could be done by a smaller, less-expensive and budget-conscious substitute for a manned space station, platform merely visited by man while experiments are mea- a space transportation system and an eventual moon base, sured or altered. then we are effectively cutting ourselves off from the pri- NASA has funding for small, specialized missions to study mary frontier of the 2 1 st century. Our space science program the complex chemistry of the stratosphere and mesosphere. was not intended to replace our manned space program. It The House Appropriations subcommittee on which I serve was designed to be a companion to manned space efforts. will propose a Tropical Rain Measuring Mission to study Together the two form the exploration and development tropical zone precipitation, an important element in under- balance needed for continous space expansion. standing weather systems and evaluating the greenhouse With only unmanned missions, we will be space informa- effect. A major earth science satellite is slated for launch in tion gatherers in an age of space infrastructure builders. We 1997. will be space explorers in an age of space settlers. After 30 Such missions depend on the support of Congress and the years of spectacular space achievements, some of them White House, and restraint on manned projects. Currently, surely in space science, we Congress is split between are poised at a crossroads. YOUR OPINION COUNTS, TOO science and "go-man-go." We can continue to lead and It is hoped that the number Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- let others follow in of man-in-space boosters can our foot- points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), steps or we can step aside and U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), U.S. be restrained until needed and watch them build along House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. earth and space science the path vc have blazed. projects are secured. D

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N) KARL SAXON SPARK(S) WHITE LEFEIBJVRE MAITLAND MERRITT OLNEY PRIOR RIDDICK SWOPE KAVANAIUIGH LEFEVOUR SAXTON SPARROW WHITIE1F0RD MAJOR MERRY ORCHARD PRIITICHARO RIDOLE SYKES KAYIEI LEFTWICH MALCOLM ORDWAY SAYERIS) SPAIUILDING SYLVESTER WHITEHEAD MESSENGER PRITCHETT RIDER SAYLES KEANE LEGGIE) MALLETITME) ORMEIS) SPEARIS) SYM(M)ES WHITIEIMAN MESSER PROBST RIDGELIE1Y SAYRE KEARNEY LEGGETT MALLORY MESSINGER ORMSBY PROCTER SPEED SYM0NID1S WHITESIDE tions and even an occasional net- work affiliate are now within reach of program-length advertisers. In most markets, the Lifetime cable channel showcases the ads nightly between

1 a.m. and dawn. USA and TBS run them sporadically on selected eve- nings, and some of the genre show up now and then on Financial News Net- work and Nickelodeon as well. Welcome to the world of 'tolkertisements.' Titles most familiar to insomniacs nationwide are The Healthy Diet, Sec- They look ond sound like tolk shows, but rets of Cash Flow, The Keys To Success, they're well-crofted soles pitches. Secrets of Success, Success!, Defeating Cellulite, Facts About Hair Loss, Building Blocks to Fortunes, Can You Beat Baldness?, Can You Be Thinner? and Is There Love After Marriage? The typical talkertisement consists of interviews with the principals of the sponsor company interspersed with testimonials from allegedly satisfied users. While the testimonials might be legitimate, the interviews are seldom spontaneous. On the contrary, they are carefully scripted to feed the sponsor- cum-guest the perfect openings to gush

about the product . . . "Tell us, could this new skin cream of yours really be

as wonderful as it sounds?"

I N CHOOSING a host, advertisers I try to tap the broad appeal of popular I TV stars. Dick Clark, Robert Vaughan and Meredith MacRae have done stints as talkertisement hosts on the theory that such recognizable faces will lend a measure of credibility to a product. Talkertisements have all the ear- NEXT GUEST- Talkertisements have all the elements of a television talk show, including a cozy set, theme music and banter between the host and audience. marks of a TV talk show, from the cozy set, studio audience, opening and closing themes, to the production cred-

its. Indeed, most of the shows incorpo- rate regular "commercial breaks" in advertising was pioneered in the mid- which the product is pitched through a By Steve Salerno 80s by real estate gurus pitching get- more straightforward, traditional ad. rich-quick schemes or scams, as the "The combination of the soft sell of the case may be. Today, talkertisements show and the harder sell of the commer- HEY look like TV talk hawk a burgeoning array of products, cial spot can make for powerful persua- shows, they sound like TV including diet plans, hair restorers, skin sion," said sales trainer Danielle Ken- talk shows, but they are creams and assorted medical innova- nedy. actually feature-length tions of uncertain worth. Then there is the cliche banter. For commercials. "They came in about the same time example, the host of George Hamil- They are "talkertise- as the cheaper cable stations," recalled ton's skin cream ad prefaces a question

ments," and according to Dale Sekovich of the Federal Trade by saying, "You know, George, when I some media watchdogs, Commission (FTC), who has been heard you were going to be on the ," T they are the hottest and tracking the phenomenon since its show . . . as though there would the most devilish trend in TV advertis- inception. "The advertisers of these have been a show without him. ing. products couldn't afford network time, Likewise, the host of one real estate The concept of program-length so they went to cable." talkertisement introduces a question- These days, on late-night television, and-answer segment by telling his

Steve Salerno is a frequent contributor to the novel format is almost ubiquitous- guest, "We're going to put you on the this magazine and writes about social and much to the dismay of Sekovich and hot seat." The implication is that the technological trends. others. The largest independent sta- Please turn page

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By the end ceeded in chilling the talkertisement would think he's of the show, he or she has been "con- trend by citing the more outrageous verted" by the outpouring of testimo- offenders with official warnings known wotching The nials. "All right everybody, you've as NALs, Notices of Apparent Liability. Johnny Corson done it, I'm convinced!" shouts the But Blumberg concedes that, as long as hostess towards the end of a talkertise- the talkertisement runs some token Show, f ment. As she says this, she throws out disclaimer, the advertiser in most cases her hands in a gesture of surrender. has met his legal responsibility. Shirley "The viewer tends to internalize this Goldinger of the Los Angeles Depart- kind of stuff," said Kennedy. 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"We used to have a ban on program- resist the argument that their shows are Advertisers have been flocking to length ads," said Ralph Blumberg of inherently fraudulent. this gimmick for a number of reasons. the Federal Communications Commis- "Sure it's scripted," said a marketing First of all, there are enormous mass sion (FCC). "But no more. Now almost specialist who has produced program- psychology benefits. The enthusiasm of anything goes." length ads for several clients in the a roomful of people is far more infec- A while back, Blumberg was financial planning field. "It is advertis- tious than that of a single screaming involved with the FCC's investigation ing, after all. Clients are paying top spokesperson. of a TV marketing campaign for one of dollar for a certain time-block, and they In addition, the give-and-take talk the many sunglass firms offering "blue- need to touch all the bases." One pro- show format allows the advertiser to blocking" lenses. In the ads, so-called ducer argues that, like a docudrama, use his host and his audience to make researchers demonstrated a series of the show merely depicts what would his pitch for him. The selling is thus experiments that supposedly verified probably occur during a trip around the more subtle than in a standard TV com- the phenomenal visual properties of the lecture circuit. It may be scripted, he mercial; the persuasion tends to slip by insisted, but it's not really fiction. the viewer's guard. Claims that would The stations do little, however, to never go unquestioned within the ascertain the validity of talkertisement framework of traditional advertising claims. are taken at face value. "As far as substantiating claims," The studio audience is another subtle KTLA's Young said, "we require that selling ploy. Viewers know that on most the advertisers provide affidavits from talk shows the host has little control people doing testimonials." However, over the composition of the audience. data supporting the affidavits is not Accordingly, there is a tendency to required. Young admitted, "If a person assume that talkertisement audi- signs an affidavit that he made $1 mil- ences are also randomly selected lion in 1 1 months using such-and-such individuals who are speaking freely. a system, we're not going to ask for A dangerous assumption, noted financial records unless we have some Sekovich, because such audiences evidence that the person might be may actually be laden with plants. lying." Added Brenda Young, director of busi- Nevertheless, Young insists that stan- ness affairs and legal counsel to major dards for the new ads are as exacting as Los Angeles independent KTLA, "The those governing traditional commer- advertisers invite people who will tell cials. She said that to be accepted for everyone about the wonderful things broadcast, a talkertisement must sur- the product has done for them." vive a test similar in spirit to the one There's no underestimating the employed in separating art from por- cumulative effect of such claims on the nography. As she put it, "The shows TRUST ME-Testimonials, of viewer. Consider the woman in the many must have an entertainment or informa- which are emotional, are a tremen- audience of The Healthy Diet who tional content beside the fact that dous tool in helping to sell goods to chokes back tears as she thanks the viewers. they're selling something — in other entrepreneur for giving her a new lease Please turn to page 61

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Americans spend more than $600 billion each year for health-care services, far more than citizens of other nations. Yet we lag behind in life expectancy and we are a leader in infant mortality.

HE best prescription for Americans to lead health- problems. The other part of this plan includes efforts to ier and longer lives is to practice preventive control costs by such measures as effectiveness research. medicine, says Health and Human Services Secre- Doctors now do a number of things to patients without data

tary Dr. Louis Sullivan. "People can 't simply come showing that one procedure is better than another or that a to a doctor to correct problems they create, " he specific procedure has an overall positive outcome. There is says. "We need to have people working with us to evidence that perhaps as much as 25 percent of what we pay prevent problems. out of a health-care budget of $500 billion to $600 billion In the following interview, Sullivan discusses may be wasted because we don't buy needed care or have an T issues such as AIDS treattnent and research, and increase in quality. So, there are a number of ways of rear- the problems of the welfare system, which are among the many ranging our priorities so we can do a better job with the programsfunded and administered by HHS. dollars that we have.

American Legion Magazine: What do you consider Q. It's ironic that the United States is the No. 1 nation in the toughest health-care challenge, and what can we do terms of health-care spending, yet we lag far behind others in vital life infant mortality. about it? such areas as expectancy and What's wrong? Secretary Sullivan: Without question, the toughest A We have relied too much on the "medical model" for challenge is to restrain the escalating costs of health care, a health care. That is, we emphasize curative medicine

major problem for all segments of our society. At the same rather than preventive medicine— strategies and programs to time, we must promote better access because a significant treat disease rather than to promote health. I maintain that percentage of our population, for several reasons, doesn't new efforts to promote health will not only save dollars but have access to adequate health service. keep people active and out of the health-care system. And in emphasizing prevention, that also includes its linchpin, that Q. Wouldn't making more health care available increase of having individuals take more responsibility for maintaining overall costs? and protecting their own health. People can't simply come to a doctor to correct problems they help create. We need to have A Well, if that were done alone, yes, it would have that effect. But what we propose to do is to reorder our people working with us to prevent problems. priorities and try to promote better prevention practices through a host of health education and other activities so that Q. You have pointed out that no amount of health care we can prevent health ailments before they get started or get will save people who drink too much, smoke, take drugs, people services before minor problems become major have poor diets, don't exercise or practice proper hygiene.

22 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE health and how to maintain their health. Everyone needs to know that this is

something that applies to me, that I need to change for my own health as well as be a role model for my family, my children, my co-workers, my patients. Of course, the smoking problem is one I've tried to bring special attention to, as part of our broader message on

health promotion. Smoking is the No. 1 preventable cause of death in our coun-

try. More than 1 ,000 people a day die

from smoking-related causes, and it costs us more than $52 billion a year. We desperately need to help our young people reject smoking and nicotine addiction, and we need to be sure smokers understand that stopping is a step that can truly improve their health

and their chances for longer life. This is just one very conspicuous area where our own decisions are actually more important for our health than what our medical system can do.

Qa Isn't the medical profession in danger of losing the public's confi- dence because of exorbitant charges and the practices you've mentioned? What can be done to get doctors to participate more in preventive medicine? A One thing that will help is to look at shifting our reimbursement pat- terns toward paying for effective pre- vention services. My advisory council on prevention points out that, indeed, there are many prevention services that are helpful and should be done, but there's often no mechanism to reim-

burse people for their time, whether it is a physician or a dietician or others. This maintain that new efforts plan calls for rearranging our incentives so that health professionals will be encouraged not only by what we say, but to promote health will save also by appropriate reimbursement practices. dollars and keep people out Q a This gets to Medicare and Medicaid, which consume of the health-care system. / about one-fourth of HHS' $425 billion budget and are probably the fastest-rising spending areas in government. How do you bring these runaway cost escalations under control? But how do you get a whole nation to change habits that now A We have several initiatives under way, but perhaps the appear so deeply ingrained? a most significant is the plan to reform physician pay- A First of all, this position at HHS is a bully pulpit, and I ments. Physician payments under part B of Medicare have intend to exercise that vigorously and to encourage risen at an annual rate of 15 percent during the past decade — other members of our department, such as the surgeon and our projections are that, if unchecked, by 2000, this general and assistant secretary for health, to do the same. In would be the largest entitlement program in the federal

addition, we're planning to engage the leaders of our com- government. It is clearly out of control. We cannot afford that

munities to promote prevention and to have our businesses diversion of resources, particularly when it is not buying us promote healthier work places— such as our drug-free and improved care. The second initiative to help control costs, as

smoke-free campaigns — and building more awareness of I mentioned, is effectiveness research. This has not only the safety to prevent accidents on the job, or at home. So, what advantage of helping to control costs but, even more impor-

we're talking about is shifting the way people think about Please turn to page 60

JULY 1990 23 ftOl^WOOD'S AGAINST VIETNAM VETERANS

by some of the most hideously wounded ByRickEilert people the war produced: single and double amputees, the blinded, the paralyzed, some without testicles- mmmsmm ORN on the Fourth of July, America's finest, now broken-hearted Oliver Stone's latest offer- from the loss of friends in Vietnam and ft w& I ing, is another box office sweethearts at home. A visitor once

P bonanza that was nomi- commented that it was a miracle many

"^B nated for several Oscars. of us survived. I replied that the real I Stone has shown again miracle was that so many even wanted I that, like the divas of yes- to survive. Up to my crotch and armpits teryear, if you play to the in plaster, trying desperately to prevent WKBKKKSKm critics in the "Golden doctors from amputating my legs, shot

Horseshoe" instead of the people in the also through the face, I kept a cynical cheap seats, success is just around the sign over my bed: "All The Way With

corner. Stone has talent as a director, LBJ/Made Me What I Am Today." particularly in his ability to bring to the But there was a camaraderie and screen the subtle sights and sounds that acceptance of responsibility in that inflame the memory of those who were hospital— and even today among those there and stir the imagination of those who have known heavy combat— that who were not. curiously seems to have evaded both "Born on the Fourth" and "Platoon" CRUISE CONTROL-Actor Tom Stone and Kovic. Men fight wars for share common characteristics. Both are Cruise portrayed Marine Ron Kovic in each other. Most commendations for

laced with enough fact to make the the controversial "Born On The heroism I observed were to men who stories difficult to refute, while at the Fourth of July." came to the aid of wounded friends. In same time they are saturated with so Vietnam simple decisions, such as much hateful negativism that in the end which trail intersection to follow or the proper term to describe them is pick with both Stone and Ron Kovic, who had the "watch," had enormous

probably "propaganda" or "disinforma- the paraplegic Marine Corps veteran consequences. We walked point when it tion." In the end, both films seem to whose "true story of innocence lost and was our turn because if we did not, our

work most effectively on the guilt of courage found" comprises "Born on the friend would have to do it for us. And so

those who did not serve in Vietnam, Fourth. "There is an inherent dishonesty we learned about interdependence and while at their kindest they disappoint in Stone's depiction of those who accountability for our actions. the honest expectations of those who served. And there is an overwhelming These concepts are not a part of did. self-pity in Kovic that seems even to either Stone's or Kovic's makeup. In all

I, like many who were seriously have shaped his politics. of Stone's films, his characters are

wounded in Vietnam, have a bone to It was not easy for any of us. During unlikeable. They are humorless, friend-

the time I was hospitalized at the Great less. They make acquaintances but

Reprinted in permission "/ The Washington Post Lakes Naval Hospital, I was surrounded never confide in or rely on others. And

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE they are patronizing and arrogant about parents, his God, his country those around them. and the Marine Corps for having Near the opening of "Platoon," as created his original circumstances. Stone takes us on an ambush, the main What is hard to swallow for character is voicing over those who know a letter to his grand- the Marine Corps mother. The character well is that Kovic describes his fellow sol- was on his second diers by saying, "They MOVIE MAKERS tour when he was come from the end of distort and wounded. He the line. They're the seems to be telling bottom of the barrel and fabricate tales us that the killing they know it." He then and maiming of others that portray reassures Grandma, — including fellow who no doubt is sitting Vietnam veterans Marines— was accept- BARBARIANS— 0//Ver Stone's "Platoon" on the veranda back in able during his first tour, depicted GIs in one small group as being the Hamptons, that in the worst and became reprehen- dope-addicted, racist murderers. That sible only when he bogus image is believed by many. they're the best he's possible light. seen. Come on— if this himself was disabled. In was true, why did he Truth doesn't the film, Kovic remains neyed through many hospital wards in trash them in the film? the quintessential the process of undergoing 47 opera- sell in There may be an even Marine, until after his tions (and counting) as a result of my deeper hatred here. In Tinseltown. release from the VA hos- Vietnam wounds. I have met hundreds "Platoon" Americans pital, when he finds him- of veterans whose lives were changed killed each other and self alone. No one is with a terrible finality by their service in innocent civilians. In around to reaffirm his our nation's wars. When I think about

"Born on the Fourth'" sacrifice, to show him all the dignified, courageous people I this theme intensifies. love or compassion. He have met in those hospital stays, some-

At the same time Kovic emerges hold- searches for acceptance and finds it times I feel so proud of them that I ing himself blameless for the actions he among those who want to use him for honestly could cry. And after seeing the has taken, because he has purged him- their own ends. disservice that this lauded Hollywood self of these sins by denouncing his Over the past 22 years, I have jour- lie does to them, I wanted to.

JULY 1990 25 HAT is the value of a Hedonic damage experts use a formula human life? How much is it worth to to place a monetary value on the loss you to watch a sun- set, slurp an ice of life's pleasures and potential. But not cream cone on a all agree that the price is right summer day, play with your children, bite into a sun- warmed tomato, feel the air on your face as you ride a bicycle or just read a book? Economist Stan V. Smith thinks he has a formula to place a dollar value on

life's joys and promises. With it, he has earned a page in the history books, or at least a footnote in the annals of Amer- ican jurisprudence. Smith, a University of Chicago- trained economist, doctorate candidate and entrepreneur, has coined the legal term, hedonic damages. How can a jury put a price on human life in cases of wrongful death or disability? The ques- tion is gaining attention in the legal press and mainstream news media such as Tlie Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, and on CNN. Traditionally, juries have evaluated the amount of money the injured By Bryan Miller parties would likely have earned in their lifetimes. Yet is determining mere wage-earning capacity enough? "Would you value George Washing- Smith won't detail the data that take his planned retirement; plus an ton's life only on the basis of his gen- shape his estimates for the value of a economic loss to Sherrod's estate of eral's salary?" asks Smith. "He wasn't human life, but he said age based on life $598,000; and a hedonic loss of $1 .5 highly paid as a general. The lost pay- expectancy is very important. And million to $15 million. The jury check is only part of it." according to the hedonics theory, awarded the estate $850,000 for the Hence, hedonics takes into account there's no direct evidence that a sign value of the pleasure of Ronald Sher- the age and prospects— emotional and painter's life is worth any more or less rod's life, a judgment which has been intellectual as well as financial— of the than Picasso's life. But his formula is upheld on appeal although a new trial wrongfully injured or dead individual. proprietary, particularly when it comes was ordered on other grounds. And "There are dozens of studies on how to other U.S. economists who have more cases using the concept have been people value lives: what we pay as con- called Smith seeking information about working their way through the legal sumers to buy life-saving devices- his estimates. What does he tell the pipeline. smoke detectors, seat belts — what is other economists? "IBM does not send spent, how many lives are saved. We trade secrets to Compaq Computer," ANOTHER case, a retired office build fences around swimming pools. If Smith said. INworker was treated for a confirmed The formula was born because a somebody takes a risky job, there's cancer of the vagina in 1 982 and later Joliet, 111., policeman shot and killed extra pay to take extra risk," said Smith. was diagnosed by her gynecologist as 19-year-old-Ronald Sherrod. "Sherrod "The government has set standards that having cancer of the uterus in 1986, was a civil rights case," said attorney range from $3 million to $10 million as when she was 63 years old. He pre- Douglas Rallo, who was co-counsel for the amount appropriate to spend to scribed radiation treatments, which Ronald's father, Lucien Sherrod. "It's ensure the safety of a single life. How shrank her bladder and left her unable not a typical wrongful death case: It much extra will we pay for fixing an to urinate normally Later tests revealed represents alleged misconduct by airliner with government safety recom- that there was no cancer. agents of the state. You want to compen- mendations, or for ambulance service Despite the alleged malpractice on sate the family; want to keep it from with a good record on heart attacks? you the part of her gynecologist and happening in the future. Hedonic dam- The value cluster is in the several-mil- radiologist, the traditional basis of lion-dollar range." ages can be a deterrent." using lost earnings to determine dam- Rallo recruited Smith to test the con- ages would have brought her little Bryan Miller, a free-lance writer residing cept of hedonic damages. Smith came recompense — if you're not working, in Oak Park, III., writes on a variety of up with a loss to Sherrod's father of you can have no lost wages. Her attor- legal anil economic topics. $513,000 because he was unable to ney. Merle C. Bassett, called Stan

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE FAMILY TIES — Simple pleasures, such as playing with children, have a definite dollar value, according to hedonic proponents.

Smith for his estimates. testimony, "speculative." "He talks tern; the system could not operate upon The jury awarded more money than about the amount of money we'll spend those principles," Barry said. Smith suggested; the plaintiff asked for for safety," Schmieder said. "Well, the Smith said that the system already $130,000 for past disablement and dis- amount of money spent on safety in a operates on those principles, "but now figurement, but the jury settled on coal mine is exorbitant, compared with the victim is paying by not getting $200,000. what we spend on safety enough compensation, How much would the injured office in an office. And, as far and the wrongdoer is worker's problems have been worth as the hedonic pleasure getting off lightly." without the testimony of Smith? "That of life, what pleases you INSURANCE He maintains — and a is the subject of a great amount of may not please me." thick sheaf of letters speculation," Bassett responded, The insurance companies are from happy plaintiffs' pointing out that the plaintiff is now industry is cool to the lawyers tends to back over 65 years old — an age that miti- hedonic concept. "Ob- cool to the him up — that his tes- gates against high damage awards. "I viously, it's not looked hedonic concept. timony helps to settle had a problem there, because she upon favorably," said cases more quickly, looked nice, like nothing's wrong with Rick Barry, a claims If the courts often before they go to her. But with her condition, she needed legal research manager trial. medical treatment every three weeks to of Kemper Insurance. ultimately "It's only when one

keep her bladder functioning. But she "If the courts impose it, side expects to win the impose it, con- doesn't look injured. It would be a lot the insurance industry lottery that you go to

easier if I could bring clients like her in will ultimately have to sumers will court. If this testimony on a wheelchair or a backboard. In pass the costs on to con- produces more predict- pay the costs. general, getting the proper award is sumers. How do you put able results, it lowers difficult." a monetary value on litigation costs, which Bassett plans to use Smith's tes- George Washington? should lower insurance timony again. "The defense lawyers are What's the value of your costs," Smith said. rather upset, because they see the possi- life or mine? There's no Why should Ronald bility that using the formula may unlock amount of money in the Sherrod's father get the door to higher verdicts." world that could pay for them. It's money for the value of the pleasure of Bob Schmieder, the defense attorney much too costly a principle to adopt. his dead son's life? How can Smith for the gynecologist, called Smith's There's not enough money in the sys- Please turn to page 57

JULY 1990 27 mum a a** tinin

I

By Edward Oxford

LLIS Island, a patch of honors those who passed this way. land barely rising above Visitors can walk in the footsteps of the waters of New York the immigrants and sense the dramatic, Harbor, has a special even desperate, experience of Ellis claim on the hearts of Island. The long-ago newcomers still Americans. Four of every seem present. "At night," says a 10 of us can trace our National Park Service ranger, "you can roots to an ancestor who almost see them." WELCOME — Ninety-eight percent of came through here. More It was to this landing place, between those who entered through Ellis than 100 million of today's American 1892 and 1954, that 12 million immi- Island's main gate stayed. citizens have a forebear who, tagged grant men, women and children made like a piece of baggage, stepped off the their determined way. Most were flee- gangway at the arrival ramp. As the Statue of Liberty is the Ellis Island was symbol of the country, so Ellis Island- just a thousand yards to the north— is portal the a symbol of the nation's growth. through which Together, they form the Statue of Lib- erty National Monument. 12 million Ellis Island, which processed its last immigrants immigrant nearly four decades ago, is entered America, scheduled to reopen in September— not as a reception center for immigrants, Soon, the but as the site of the magnificient Ellis historic site Island Immigration Museum, which will reopen as a museum.

28 ing the wars, poverty, revolutions, famine and persecutions of the Old World in quest of a better life in the New World. They had heard promise-filled stories of the land called America, of farms to be worked, of coal to be dug, of cities to be built. And they had learned of something else. A way of life that made real the vision of "Life, Lib- erty and the Pursuit of Happiness." "People worked for 20 cents a day in the Old Country," said an immigrant from Sicily. "Then you hear that you get a dollar a day in America. For a dollar a day, you know, you're gonna try your very best to come to America. Those days that's all everybody talked about. America! America!" By the tens of thousands they came — peasants, bootmakers, shop- keepers, farmers, artisans— leaving the villages and the friends and the lives they had known. Carrying the last of PRESERVED - The Ellis Island Immigra- their possessions, they boarded ships in tion Museum, which comprises all of the ports such as Bremen, Antwerp, Cork, main building, is scheduled to open to Le Havre, Glasgow, Southampton, the public in September. Naples, Hamburg and Trieste. They were dreamward bound. took four weeks. A lot of the people got Most headed for New York, where sick. They were vomiting." Ellis Island, America's foremost Dominick Piccolo, then a 9 year old, immigration station, waited to receive never forgot his voyage: "We had a them. storm at sea. A woman, her husband Their voyage was often disease-rid- was sick. During the night, he died. den, dispiriting and dangerous. Most They gave him the prayers. Then they sailed "steerage," quartered near the threw him overboard." bottom of the ship, close to the steering mechanism. Josephine Reale recalled: IMMIGRANT ships came to be "It was horrible. Very sad. Sleeping was known as "coffin ships." In the peak ing, some were crying. It was the one over the other. Very terrible." years of immigration, an estimated feeling of coming to a land of freedom, Lice infested their hair. For those one in 10 immigrants fell victim to fatal a land of love." who could stomach it, there was food— disease. Come storm or sickness, how- "When we arrived, it was like a thin barley soup, rotting beef, soggy rye ever, the immigrants were not to be dream," a man said. "I tell you the bread. Almost every immigrant got deterred. One mother said: "I would God's truth, it felt like a dream." seasick. "I couldn't lift my head for rather cross the Atlantic 10 times over "I looked at at the Statue of Liberty," days," a Czech immigrant recalled. "I than to hear my child cry once." a woman remembered. "If I could reach thought I would never see the United For each and all, the first sighting of her, I would kiss her." States." Moshe Ludsky recalled: "It the Statue of Liberty, torch raised near As many as 30 ships at a time, the "golden door" to America, marked jammed with more than 10,000 immi- an unforgettable moment. grants, anchored in New York Harbor. "We saw the Statue of Liberty," said The ships docked at piers in lower Man- Stephanie Okunewitch, an immigrant hattan, and small, wooden ferries car- from Poland. "The first thing some ried the immigrants to Ellis Island. people did was they got down on their A New York newspaper reporter, knees. And, in their languages, they writing in the summer of 1896, told of

thanked God." "rugged, sun-browned faces lit up with A man remembered crying out: "Free hope and fear, joy and sorrow. Hope for at last!" "Free at last!" One woman success in the new land to which they recalled that "the people were scream- are voluntary exiles; fear of an unknown future; joy that the long, dif- ficult voyage is over; and sorrow at the memories tugging at their heart- strings..." Please turn to page 56 Should taxpayers' money fund the?Arts? The Notional Endowment for the Arts has been under fire for awarding grants to controversial art exhibits. Not many blocks from the White House, this monu- ment now is simply In Newport, Ore., latch-key children called "the Wall." stay out of trouble after school at a local Americans of all arts center funded by the NEA. In Ten- ages and races come nessee, hospitalized veterans at a VA by the thousands to medical center have benefited from the this remarkable spot use of music as therapy because of a each and every day, NEA grant. In Mississippi, folks in Pat Williams no matter rain or Tupelo, Hattiesburg and Biloxi enjoy snow, mindful of the patriotism and and learn from art exhibits brought to personal sacrifice revealed here. their towns through an endowment- The Wall, the Vietnam War Memo- sponsored satellite museum project. In rial, was controversial in the beginning. New York City, because of support from

Now it is one of our nation's most treas- the NEA, the acclaimed Boys Choir of ured places, but few Americans proba- Harlem is keeping inner-city youngsters

bly recall that it was the National off the streets and away from drugs. In

Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that Elko, Nev. , the annual Cowboy Poetry took a vital role in the memorial's con- Gathering was started with help from struction by funding the design com- the NEA and is keeping our western petition. heritage alive. In Kansas, senior citi- That's been the case with the Arts zens are working with visually Tragically, however, a handful of Endowment for most of its 25 years. impaired children in a mural painting critics have mounted a campaign to This little noticed and tiny endowment program at health care centers because destroy the endowment. Their aim is to rarely receives fanfare or recognition, of the NEA. portray the NEA as either a deliberate

but it has steadfastly promoted excel- This year Congress is considering the promoter of pornography or a wasteful lence in the arts and enriched the lives reauthorization legislation necessary to agency for the elite. Both charges rely of Americans young and old from our keep the NEA operating. President on distortions, exaggerations and some largest cities to our smallest towns. Bush has strongly endorsed the NEA outright falsehoods. It's easy to stir up

and has asked Congress to continue it. I the press and public with sensational Rep. Pat Williams represents the 1st District agree with the President. The NEA is claims, but it's no help at all for writing in Montana. well worth keeping. Please turn to page 63

30 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ART ATTACK— A few artists receiving public money have been accused of offending society, such as the above work. More conventional art, music, dance and literature also receive a share of NEA funds.

ects that are obscene, indecent or sacrilegious. This debate is not about artistic nudes. Besides Robert Mapplethorpe's photos of graphic homosexual sex acts and naked children, which may have charge are being infringed upon would been prosecutable under child pornog- be appalled at some of the material raphy laws, the National Endowment supported by the NEA. for the Arts has directly or indirectly The National Endowment for the funded: Arts may well be evolving into • $15,000 for an art show at Illinois Congress is in America's Ministry of Culture, with all State University that included drawings the process of con- the elitism and unaccountability that of Jesus Christ shooting heroin, draw- sidering whether to that designation implies. Contrary to Please turn to page 62 renew funding for their protests, NEA peer review panels the National Endow- already make content-based decisions, ment for the Arts often excluding entire classes of art and (NEA). This agency at times channeling our tax dollars to gives $175 million projects that offend our moral and in subsidies to artists religious values. Why is government and arts organiza- directly involved in art decisions at all? Dana Rohrabacher tions around the If there is a role for gov- country. There have been many works ernment in the arts, it of so-called art which are sacrilegious should be to provide tax or so sexually graphic they belong in a incentives so that Amer- porno bookstore instead of a museum icans will be encouraged funded by the NEA. Yet, attempts to set to support art of their own some standards for the way the NEA choosing. However, if spends our tax dollars have been met Congress can't keep from with cries of censorship by artists taxing dollars out of our around the nation. Those who have pockets in order to make made the ultimate sacrifice to protect art decisions for us, at the the very freedoms that these artists very least guidelines should be established to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher represents the prevent our tax dollars 42nd District in California. from being spent on proj-

JULY 1990 Investigating THE ARMY economic crime isn't the most glamorous duty in CD. It's FRA tedious, frustrating work. But agents stay on the trail of defense fraud. UAD

By Donna Miles

ITTING in a Phoenix, Ariz., courtroom, special agent Bob Keller looked on with anticipation as U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll prepared to rule on a scheme that threatened

the Army ' s AH-64 Apache helicopter program. For two years, Keller, an agent of the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CIDC) assigned to the Laguna Niguel, Calif., fraud team, had been piecing together a case against several subcontractors who supplied electrical parts to the McDonnell- Douglas Helicopter Co., which builds the Apache. Taking advantage of a 20-year busi- ness relationship with McDonnell- Douglas, Martin A. Walk master- minded a plan that involved seven people and three companies. A California-based corporation produced electrical connectors that fell short of tough military specifications and potentially could have caused the Apache's electrical system to fail. The company stamped the counterfeit con- nectors with an "M"— the trademark of an East Coast company not involved in the scam — to throw quality control inspectors off its trail. Then the California company sold the parts to Walk, president of Inter-Conn Elec- tronics Inc. /Connectors Unlimited.

Donna Miles is a free-lance journalist FRIGHT FLIGHT-Shortouts taken on Apache helicopter's electrical components coultii whose work has appeared in Soldier's have caused the craft's electrical system to fail. CID agents spent two years on the case.' Magazine.

32 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE GUMSHOE- Army CID special agent Bob BUILDING A CASE-Prosecution of unscrupulous defense contractors is the goal of Keller builds a strong case against fraud. every CID economic investigator, but not all cases make it to court.

Inter-Conn, in turn, supplied them to Gunter, a civilian agent on the Laguna are just too low. It's a real heart McDonnell-Douglas. Niguel fraud team. "Usually, it's a one- breaker to spend years on a case, then But Walk and his co-conspirators shot deal. You have 30 minutes to an have the prosecutor not accept it," said hadn't planned that McDonnell- hour to present the facts and convince Wirtz. Douglas would launch an investigation them that you have a winable case- Rejection of a case doesn't neces- and call in the feds. lock, stock and barrel. sarily mean it's over. "Our first priority In September 1986, Keller, an "It's a real balancing act," he said. is to go for criminal prosecution," Wirtz economic crime specialist for six of his "You can't saturate them explained. "But if we eight years as an Army investigator, with so much informa- can't go for criminal, we attacked the Inter-Conn case. "It tion that a case sounds go for a civil judgment infuriates me that someone, through too complex to present IT'S A or some type of adminis- pure greed, would provide defective to a jury. On the other trative sanction." equipment that could cause a loss of hand, you'd better have real heart Keller's Inter-Conn life," he said. your stuff together and case was so convincing breaker to That fury fueled Keller through a know what you're talking that Assistant U.S. grueling two-year investigation involv- about. Go in half-armed spend years Attorney Rosalynn ing hundreds of interviews and tele- and they'll laugh you Moore-Silver accepted phone calls, frustrating legal delays, out of the office." on a case it for criminal prosecu- and mountains of company documents Once the U.S. Attor- then have tion. and federal procurement regulations. ney's office accepts a The long-awaited "Investigating economic crime cer- case, a CIDC agent's the prosecutor light at the end of the tainly isn't a glamorous job. It's time job begins anew. tunnel came months reject it. consuming and usually pretty boring," "That's when a case later as Keller watched

Keller said. "What keeps us going is becomes our No. 1 Judge Carroll castigate that light at the end of the tunnel — the priority," said special Walk for actions "con- hope that we're going to help put the agent Robin Wirtz. "We trary to the best interest bad ones in jail where they belong." track down witnesses of our country, of the That goal isn't always as clear-cut as and reinterview them people who undertake might be expected. Economic crime and get all the documents— and I mean the protection of our country in the agents find one of their greatest chal- filing cabinets full of documents- military service." Walk received a lenges is getting their case to court. ready to present in court. We maintain three-year prison term and $243,000 in Economic crimes are usually com- constant contact with the prosecutor. fines and restitution. His two com- mitted by civilians, not soldiers, and the It's an all-consuming effort, right up panies and his co-conspirators were only way to prosecute is through the until the case goes to court." slapped with additional fines, restitu- heavily overburdened civilian courts. But no matter how convincing a tion and administrative sanctions. "You may work on a case for over a case may be, sometimes an Assistant "There's personal satisfaction that year, but unless you can 'sell' it to the U.S. Attorney rejects it. "Sometimes comes from matching wits against the Assistant U.S. Attorney, you're out of they're just too backed up to accept contractors," Keller said. "The people luck," explained special agent Bill another case, or maybe the dollar losses Please turn to page 58

JULY 1990 33 Veterans update

Departments, Posts and Legionnaires program in Vietnam. The purpose of the tests was to measure who deal with the government regularly, or who occasionally the level of dioxin, a known cancer-causing agent found in need to find the right person in government to solve a Agent Orange. problem or explain a policy or program should consider Also, CDC contracted with the Institute of Medicine of the purchasing The Federal-State-Local Government Directory, National Academy of Sciences to review CDC's Vietnam published by Braddock Communications. Veterans study, but the institute has refused to release the The hardbound book provides names, titles, addresses and independent reports. The reports allegedly were critical of telephone numbers for every office in government from the CDC's study protocol. White House to your local mayor, as well as the phone "The bottom line is that we don't have the answers (from numbers of numerous political committees, statistical the government) to what Agent Orange did to our veterans," sources, public policy organizations, and branches of the Stellman said. "We cannot continue with the kind of red news media. It costs $59.95 and shipping charges are waived herring studies that CDC has conducted." on orders from Legionnaires. Epstein praised the Legion study and urged the organiza-

For a list of publications or to order The Federal-State-Local tion to continue to pressure the government to own up to its Government Directory, send your request or check to: responsibility to Vietnam veterans and their families who are

Braddock Communications, 1001 Connecticut Ave. , N.W., suffering from problems relating to Agent Orange exposure. Suite 216, Washington, DC 20036, or call (202) 296-1317. Meanwhile, John Sommer Jr., director of the Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Division, left the Spring Meeting early to testify before the House Veterans' Affairs subcom- mittee on Compensation and Pensions on legislation to compensate Vietnam veterans for disabilities linked to Agent ased on the work CDC has done in its Agent Orange exposure. Orange research, one might say that dioxin is good for you," said Dr. Samuel S. Epstein in his remarks before the National Executive Committee at the 1990 Spring Meeting in Indian- apolis. Epstein, a public-health professor at the University of t's the third leading cause of death for men over

Illinois, and Dr. Jeanne Stellman, associate professor at the the age of 55 , yet it remains one of the most ignored diseases. School of Public Health at Columbia University, blasted the Each year, 30,000 American males will die because of findings of the Centers for Disease Control Selected Cancers prostate cancer. Many would be alive today if they had

Study and its never-completed Agent Orange study. Epstein received a digital-rectal examination by their physician. said CDC ignored credible, previous studies about the health In a recent survey conducted by the National Cancer Care effects of dioxin and relied on two reports from chemical Foundation, three out of four surveyed said they weren't manufacturers of Agent Orange. worried about getting cancer of the prostate gland. "The first In 1989, the CDC announced that its ongoing study of step in raising awareness of prostate cancer is to convince Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange could men that they are vulnerable and that regular medical not be done because there was not enough information checkups often can detect the disease during its early, curable available to compare troop deployments with Agent Orange states," said Diane Blum, executive director of the founda- spray records. tion.

'As a taxpayer, I think I would like to know what CDC did Studies on cancer of the prostate, a walnut-size gland at with the $70 million it had to conduct a study that was never the base of the bladder, show that early stage prostate cancer completed," Epstein said. is curable in 85 percent of the cases. Using the information available to CDC, Stellman con- For more information about prostate cancer, a free ducted The American Legion and Columbia University Study brochure is available by sending your name and address to: of Vietnam Veterans, which used military locations and spray Prostate Cancer Education Council, JAF Box 888, New records. Many of the nearly 7,000 Vietnam veterans inter- York, NY 101 16; or by calling NCI's toll-free hotline, (800) viewed in the five-year Legion study who served in areas 4-CANCER. where Agent Orange was used showed a pattern of health problems, ranging from skin conditions to high rates of miscarriages among their spouses. In P the wake of the Agent Orange study, CDC also was nearing the conclusion of its Selected Cancers Study, which CORRECTION: An item appearing in the May showed that Vietnam veterans are 50 percent more likely to issue erroneously stated that veterans rated 30 percent contract non-Hodgkins lymphoma than non-veterans, but disabled and greater were eligible for increased dependency CDC denied there was any link between Agent Orange allowance. The amounts shown were for veterans rated 100 exposure and the cancer. percent disabled. The dependency allowance payable to

Stellman said the CDC stated it was impossible to study veterans rated 30 percent to 90 percent is proportionate to the Agent Orange after examining samples of only 36 men who percent of their disabilities. We apologize for any inconveni- served in operation "Ranch Hand," the Air Force spray ence the error might have caused.

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Veterans of Lebanon, Grenada and Panama eras may soon become the newest generation ofAmericans to join the Legion. Organization continues its fight for the U.S. Flag and Agent Orange veterans.

N a historic move, The them come forward to the National 1 American Legion National Convention." I Executive Committee has In another significant action, the I recommended expansion NEC enabled The American Legion, I of membership eligibility through the approval of Res. 44, to file I to include those who a lawsuit against the agencies that have I served on active duty dur- failed to produce the congressionally I ing the U.S. military in- mandated Agent Orange epidemiologi- HhI I volvement in Lebanon, cal study. After more than 10 years, and Grenada and Panama. despite the Centers for Disease Control However, the NEC's unanimous (CDC) spending more than $60 million approval of Res. 28 during its May 2-3 on research, a government Agent Spring Meeting does not immediately Orange study has not been made. At open membership. The proposal must press time, drafting of the complaint be forwarded to the Legion's Constitu- and planning for the lawsuit were in tion Amendments Committee, which progress. According to the resolution, will make a recommendation to the the lawsuit would seek to compel those delegates at the 72nd National Conven- agencies responsible for the study, tion in Indianapolis next month. The including the CDC and VA, to complete National Convention will vote on the the study and account for the money MY FLAG-Danny O'Connor, chairman change, which, if approved by two- emeritus of the Americanism Commis- spent on research. thirds of the delegates, would allow sion, gave an emotional speech about During his special report to the NEC, those who served in the U.S. armed his love of the U.S. Flag. Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, author of The forces between Aug. 24, 1 982, and July Politics of Cancer and a professor at the 31, 1984, and between Dec. 20, 1989, School of Public Health, West Univer- and Jan. 3 1 , 1990, to join the Legion. must petition Congress to change the sity of Illinois, lauded the Legion's The proposed eligibility dates coin- Legion's charter. Related to eligibility efforts to assist Vietnam veterans cide with American troop occupation expansion, the NEC also approved Res. exposed to Agent Orange. of Lebanon, where 244 Marines were 47, which asks Congress to specifically "The time for being polite has killed in a terrorist attack; the U.S. define the dales of wars. passed," Epstein said. "We've seen the military intervention in Grenada, and "This is a highly important matter," stubborn refusal of VA to accept the the liberation of Panama. PNC E. Roy Stone Jr. told fellow NEC- evidence and give Vietnam veterans the [f the measure to expand eligibility is men. "Take this resolution to your benefit of the doubt and compensate approved by (he convention, the Legion own Department conventions and let them. I'm used to fighting battles like

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE this, and I've known who the enemy

is— greed. But what I can't get used to

is our government sticking it to us." (See Veterans Update, page 34.) Dr. Jeanne Stellman, an associate professor at Columbia University who conducted The American Legion and Columbia University Study of Vietnam Veterans, agreed with Epstein that VA and the CDC have been scientifically dishonest about their Agent Orange research. "We know from the whole history of asbestos that companies have been moving data around for a long, long time," Stellman said. "But the level of data manipulation and the level of lying to the American people by the CDC is VOODOO RESEARCH - CDC's Agent Orange and selected cancers studies contained really something that's profoundly dis- numerous flaws and clouded the truth, Dr. Jeanne Stellman told the NEC. turbing." In addition to seeking competent Agent Orange research, the NEC also

continued the Legion's battle to main- we do not win this effort, then it simply presented Epling with a check for tain and enhance veterans' benefits by means that the American flag is less $14,000 from the Department of New approving Res. 6, which opposes any than a rag and can be trampled upon as York, bringing the Department's con-

curtailment of VA benefits. Nat'l Cmdr. well as burned. I am appalled beyond tributions to $67,000. After receiving

Miles S. Epling said all Legionnaires expression and shocked that I am living the donation, Epling vowed that the have to continue to pressure Congress in the decade of wanton destruction of fund's goal of $1 million will be for an adequate veterans' budget next our flag. These acts are sanctioned by a attained. year. U.S. Supreme Court decision that I In its two-day session, the NEC "In the 1991 budget, there's only a believe is wrong." approved 47 resolutions, including slight increase in funding," Epling said. Also during the Spring Meeting, the these policy resolutions:

"Without proper funding, Category B NEC approved Res. 5, which authorizes Res. 1 commends Operation Just Cause and and C veterans will be forced out of the cooperation between American Legion the liberation of Panama by U.S. military forces. VA medical -care system. Another threat Posts and Departments, and local and Res. 2 urges Congress, the Secretary of the to these veterans, of cannot regional offices Kelly Inc. many whom of Services Interior and Bureau of Land Management to afford private medical insurance, would to provide job opportunities to Legion- conduct public hearings to evaluate the assur- require them to make co-payments each naires. Kelly Services of Troy, Mich., ance of public lands and wilderness areas for time they're treated." places part-time and temporary em- further diversification. Res. 3 encourages Legion Departments to Depending on veterans' income, they ployees, older workers in jobs and organize Merchant Marine committees. may be required to pay part of their VA through a specialty recruitment program. Res. 4 urges the Secretary of Defense and the medical care. However, many, if not Secretary of Transportation to provide certified service and medical records to those most, of those in Categories B and C ANOTHER agreement, the NEC copies of released from active duty. who would have to make co-payments INapproved Res. 36, that supports The Res. 5 authorizes cooperation between have already been forced out of the VA American Association of Retired Per- Legion Posts and Departments with offices of medical system. sons (AARP) 55 Alive/Mature Driving Kelly Services Inc. to provide job opportunities Epling also told the NECmen about a program, which is a driver-education to Legionnaires. Res. 6 opposes any legislation to dilute or renewed petition drive and legislative program to help older motorists prevent eliminate any provision of the disability com- campaign for a constitutional amend- traffic accidents. Res. 36 also urges pensation program or other benefits currently ment to protect the U.S. Flag from Posts to provide free meeting space for paid to veterans. desecration. 55 Alive/Mature Driving classes. Res. 7 supports legislation to amend titles 10 and 38, USC, to place veterans who are on the He urged Legionnaires to sponsor During committee reports, Herman Temporary Disability List on active duty status legislative of the forums to question lawmak- G. Harrington, chairman while traveling on military orders. ers' stances on the flag amendment. National Emergency Fund Committee, Res. 8 supports legislation to provide the "They believe that when election time announced that the fund has received authority for all VA medical centers to retain all of processing third-party reimbursement rolls around, we will forget how they more than $410,000 and $90,000 in costs claims. voted. We won't. And it's up to us to let grants had been disbursed. In addition Res. 9 opposes the conduct of secret studies our voices be heard at the ballot box," to assisting victims of Hurricane Hugo of benefit eligibility reform by VA. Epling said (See story, page 48). and the California earthquake, the Res. 12 authorizes the Legion to offer its In an emotionally charged address, National Emergency Fund Committee members and their families the opportunity to financially support the effort to protect the U.S. Daniel J. O'Connor, chairman emeritus reported giving grants to the Depart- Flag from desecration. of the Americanism Commission, urged ment of Alabama after tornados touched Res. 13 authorizes the Legion to enter into an NECmen to continue the campaign for down in 25 counties. At the meeting, agreement with USAir, or other airlines, to an amendment to protect the flag. "If Vance E. Ketcham, New York NECman, Please turn to page 64

JULY 1990 37 compensation they have earned. In the years since Vietnam, evidence has continued to mount to prove that AGENT ORANGE Agent Orange has severely damaged the health of thousands of soldiers. Vietnam veterans suffer from various forms of cancer and their children are born with birth defects. ETERANS NEED A number of private and state organi- zations have used methods to detect dioxin exposure and provide answers for veterans. For example, a study com- pleted for The American Legion by Drs. HELP NOW Steven and Jeanne Stellman of Columbia University found that Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange have a higher incidence of problems linked to dioxin. The American Legion believes the evidence is so strong that veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange should be contacted, checked for health effects and warned of possi- ble future problems. In addition, the New Jersey Agent Orange Commission has developed a method that scientifically detects levels of dioxin in the blood and fatty tissues. In contrast, government studies of Agent Orange exposure have been a woeful tale of foot-dragging and inac- tion. More than 10 years ago, Congress mandated the Veterans Administration to study the effects of Agent Orange. Years of mismanagement proved that the VA could not properly conduct the study. In 1983, Congress assigned the study to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). After spending more than $63 million, the CDC determined in 1987

that it could not conduct a valid study. The CDC completed a blood valida- tion study in 1988. However, the study criteria left out many veterans who could have been heavily exposed. In the meantime, the VA released a mortality study of Vietnam veterans which found that those veterans have a significantly higher risk of contracting certain cancers associated with dioxin exposure. Marine ground troops who Victims have paid By Rep. Lane Evans served in Vietnam had a 1 10 percent a staggering price higher death rate from non-Hodgkin's ARS do not end when lymphoma and a 58 percent higher for their service the shooting stops. death rate from lung cancer than They live on for the Marines who served elsewhere. and sacrifices. veterans of those wars. In March, the CDC released its Now it's time to This is especially Selected Cancers Study, which looked true for those men at the relationship between service in compensate them who fought in Vietnam Vietnam and adverse health effects of for diseases linked and were exposed to Please turn page Agent Orange. The with exposure to war continues to affect their lives. The Rep. Lane Evans is a member ofthe House

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Edward Derwinski recently decided to in Congress, I have introduced legisla- compensate Vietnam veterans who suf- tion to compensate veterans for dis- fer from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. eases associated with Agent Orange. On May 18, Derwinski ruled that VA The legislation, H.R. 3004, which would recognize soft-tissue sarcomas has more than 160 co-sponsors, would for disability compensation payments. provide permanent disability benefits It is time to end the debate over for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, soft- methodology and give veterans the tissue sarcoma, melanoma and basal benefit of the doubt. More than 255,000 cell carcinoma to veterans or their veterans and family members filed survivors. A hearing before the House claims with a settlement fund estab- Veterans' Affairs subcommittee on America's First Silver Dollar lished because of the lawsuit against the Compensation, Pension and Insurance Only $49 Reg. $75 chemical companies that produced on H.R. 3004 was scheduled for May 2.

We're slashing the price on a bestseller to get Agent Orange. An analysis of the first At the time of this writing, I am hopeful you to try us —and we'll even pay the postage! 150,099 showed 8, 144 reported cancers, that H.R. 3004 will be brought before Struck in New Spain from 1772 to these 1825, 49,778 reported birth defects and the House floor this session. Similar magnificent silver dollars were the most 25,851 reported miscarriages. legislation, S. 1 153, introduced by popular in the 1 3 Colonies and remained legal and tender in the USA until 1857. Some were Here are some tragic examples of Sens. Alan Cranston, John Kerry carried by clipper ships to China, where our what has happened to veterans: Thomas Daschle has already passed in supply was found, bearing authentic "chop- • Bruce Craddock of Macomb, 111., the Senate by an overwhelming vote. marks" of Chinese merchants. Hach big 39mm the head football coach of Western Twelve years have passed and more coin contains 27 grams of .903 silver. Certifi- Illinois University, served as a than $63 million has been spent on cate, I-'ine quality. While supplies last, our Marine reduced price for new customers is just $49 captain for more than three years in VA and CDC studies. The fight over postpaid (limit 5). Order #7144A.To order Vietnam. Doctors said his exposure to methodology has gone on long enough.

by credit card, call I -800-451-4463 toll-free Agent Orange caused the cancer that Veterans who suffer from problems anytime. Or send a check or money order to: took his life last February. because of exposure need help now. International Coins & Currency, Inc., 1 1 E. • action to fulfill the State St., Box 218, Dept. 1528, Montpclier, Wayne Barton of Danville, Iowa, We must take now Vermont 05601. Money-back guarantee — served in Vietnam. Wayne was diag- promise our country has made. 30-day home examination.

40 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Remember When You Learned The TruthAbout Leadership? Veterans have never been shy about sharing opinions with their leaders. We learned the hard way that there is a time to lead and a time to listen ... a time to speak and a time to act; that there are times when doing nothing is not an option. Most people don't understand that. So it's not surprising that more members of The American Legion vote (89%) than almost any group in America. As you renew your membership, think about our fellow veterans in need, and their widows and orphans. Who will help them? Think about our friends who died in defense of our great nation. Who will be their voice? Think about America's youth. They learn about leadership

from us through programs like American Legion Boys State . . . and how to avoid life's pitfalls like drug abuse, through children and youth activities. Who will teach them if we fail? It's time to take action to insure America's future. It's time to lead.

Renew your membership today ... because doing nothing is not an option. Your American legion CHARTING LEGION COURSE

m^mh EMBERS of Post 449 Stone and other expert resolution

1 1 of Elm Grove, Wis., writers also suggest writing the re-

I I and The American solving clause before writing the pream- J I I Legion Walworth ble, because the resolving section can 111 !|County Council often provide guidance for preparing I I I believed that flag cere- the preamble. I III monies before sporting Even though your Post may have fol- events deserve televi- I lowed the resolution-writing guide- ^BH sion coverage, so they lines, the final product may be different wrote a resolution. from your original version, or your Post

"We thought it was important," said may be asked to rewrite a portion of the Post 449 Adjutant Carl Below. "Several resolution. For example, the Depart- Posts nationwide honor the flag before ment of Wisconsin asked Post 449 to sporting events, and their efforts should rewrite its original resolution, which be shared with the country." only applied to National Football Eventually, after the Department League games, to include all nationally and National Convention resolution- televised sports events. approval process, Res. 137, based on "Think big," Stone said. "Don't limit Post 449 and Walworth County Coun- the scope of the resolution to local cil's original resolution, became an events or concerns." RESOLVED-PA/C E. Roy Stone Jr., American Legion mandate at the 71st Post 449 altered the resolution to who heads the NEC Resolutions sub- National Convention at Baltimore. include all televised sports events, and committee, says that Legion man- Understanding how to write a resolu- dates address critical national needs. during the Department of Wisconsin tion and the approval process may Convention, the resolution was enable your Post to contribute resolu- approved, after being combined with a tions too. Like Res. 137, most resolu- similar resolution from The American WHEREAS, The Flag of the United States tions begin at the Post level. "Resolu- Legion Walworth County Council. of America is the symbol of our country; and tions are how the Legion speaks," said Once the resolution's wording was WHEREAS, The Flag of our country is

PNC E. Roy Stone Jr. , chairman of the normally presented and/or raised at most final, the Department of Wisconsin National Executive Committee Resolu- major sporting events; and completed the proper forms and sub- WHEREAS. The only time such presenta- tions Subcommittee. "This voice often mitted the Post 449 and Walworth tions and/or Flag raising is televised is at the comes from our grassroots, our Posts. County Council resolution to National Super Bowl, the World Series, and at certain

Through resolutions, Posts have the sporting events; now, therefore, be it Headquarters. Resolutions adopted by ability to chart the course of the Legion RESOLVED, By The American Legion in Department conventions for considera- National Convention assembled in Baltimore, and influence the nation and the tion at the National Convention are sent Maryland, September 5, 6, 7, 1989 that The world." to the National Adjutant to be logged, American Legion call upon the local and Your Post may have several ideas national television networks covering the numbered and forwarded to the Resolu- for resolutions, and the following regular season baseball, football and basket- tions Assignment Committee. This guidelines may help your resolutions ball games to include the pre-game Flag cere- committee determines which commis- mony as a part of their normal sports game become national Legion mandates. sion or committee will make recom- programming, and the network officials be First, there's no limitation on resolu- urged to refrain from running local program- mendations to the National Convention tion topics, except they must be "ger- ming or commercials during the ceremony. on the fate of resolutions. mane," that is, pertain to the purpose of The preamble, or the clauses that For example, Post 449's resolution, the Legion's creation, and each resolu- begin with the word whereas, establish which was numbered Res. 137, was tion should address only one, specific the reasons for the resolution, and the assigned to the Convention Committee subject. resolving section explains what action on Americanism, which recommended The basic format for resolutions the Legion will take. approval at the 71st National Conven- consists of two parts — a preamble "There shouldn't be too much ver- tion. Thus, from the idea of a few and a resolving section. For biage in the preamble clauses," Stone Legionnaires, Res. 137 became a example, here's the final version of advised. "Don't try to cover too much Legion mandate with the strength of

Res. 137: in one resolution." 3 million Legionnaires behind it.

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Legionnaire Alex Kapitanski has rallied round the U.S. Flag for more than 50 years. He has made the national banner a lifetime avocation.

has displayed his many flags at cere- His face still gleams as he recalls his joy ByJohn Shotwell monies throughout southern California at leading a procession of veterans to and other parts of the country. The the three cemeteries to honor their detailed — if somewhat disheveled — fallen comrades. He was so thrilled and HE American flag is a records filed, piled and scattered inspired by the experience that he col- potent symbol. It has throughout his home document more lected and displayed flags throughout rallied men in battle. It than 19,000 ceremonies his flags have his youth. By the time he had graduated has decorated American enhanced. He charges nothing for pro- from high school, he had acquired the Legion halls and political viding the standards, which he trans- nickname The Flag Man. conventions. Its public ports and sets up himself. The son of Polish immigrants, Kapi- desecration has created a Kapitanski estimates that he has tanski served as a combat photographer call for a constitutional spent about $300,000 of his own money during World War II and covered the T amendment that some say buying, maintaining and displaying the brutal fighting during the Normandy would erode the First Amendment right flags. He now has more than 1,300 invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and of free expression. banners of all types stored in his home other battles throughout Europe. Before An ardent supporter of the amend- and garage. Flags are stored, stacked or war's end he had earned the Silver Star, ment is a former Legion Post Com- stashed in nearly every room of his Bronze Star and a host of campaign mander who resides in Oceanside, Calif. Oceanside home. The walls are deco- awards. "It would protect and preserve the rated from floor to ceiling with plaques, After leaving the service, Kapitanski greatest symbol of the greatest living letters and awards recognizing his com- joined The American Legion, and has country on earth," said Alex Kapitanski, munity service. been a member for 44 years, serving a member of Oceanside Post 146, who He can trace his passion for flags to two terms as Post 146 Commander and

is known as The Flag Man. an exact moment in his youth. At 1 1, five terms as 22nd District Americanism For more than 50 years, Kapitanski the young Alex was watching an Ameri- chairman. can Legion Memorial Day ceremony in At age 67, when many other retired John Shotwell is a free-lance writer who Rutland, Vt., when the Post Commander businessmen are devoted to golf or resides in Carlsbad, Calif. asked for volunteers to carry the colors. fishing, Kapitanski describes his patri- otic hobby as "more than a full-time job." From the Boy Scouts of America are certificates lauding his 47 years of leadership in the organization, includ- ing the prestigious Order of Merit Serv- ice to Boyhood presented to him by the San Diego Council. One of Kapitanski's former fellow scoutmasters, U.S. Rep. Ron Packard of California, said, "Alex is one of the

most patriotic men I know. He has dedi- cated his life to instilling in the hearts of everyone he meets a love for America and pride in Old Glory." Kapitanski eventually intends to house his flags and other memorabilia in a flag museum and cultural center he hopes to build in Vermont. "There'll be

a lot of obstacles to overcome to do it WALKING TALL — Kapitanski"s home in Oceanside, Calif., houses more than 1,300 right," says the has been U.S. Flags. man who doing the right things for a long time.D

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After Oratorical Victory

HEN Joshua received a $14,000 scholar- ment winners who compete Boyd enters ship; and Johnny Goff of at the national regional level David Lip- Stantonsburg, N.C., was earn $1,000 scholarships, scomb Univer- awarded a $12,000 scholar- and $3,000 scholarships are sity in Nash- ship for fourth place. awarded to the regional win- ville, Tenn., this fall, he Students competing in the ners who are eliminated at won't have the financial annual event gave an eight- the sectional level. More worries of many college stu- to 10-minute speech on the than $1.5 million has been dents. Constitution and then were awarded to oratorical win- Boyd, of Ft. Thomas, Ky. required to speak extem- ners at the three levels of is The American Legion's poraneously on a constitu- national competition. About Oratorical champion of 1990, tional-related topic. 30,000 high school students Joshua Bovd and as such, received an The national competition participate in the annual $18,000 scholarship. begins at the Post level, and competition. Mathew Malone of Mash- winners advance through Any Post can sponsor a develop a better understand- pee, Mass., won the second- several Department and High School Oratorical Con- ing of the Constitution and place scholarship of $16,000; National levels. In addition test by working with local Americanism. The 1991 third-place winner Arthur to the four national finalist school officials. The contest National Finals Contest will Chu of Albuquerque, N.M., scholarship awards, Depart- helps high school students be held in Boise, Idaho.

Emergency fund Passes $410,0011 BETTER TIMES HE American At the 1989 Fall Meeting, intended to become a perma- Legion National the National Executive Com- nent endowment fund to REFUND Emergency mittee approved Res. 30 to provide short-term financial Fund has al- establish a relief fund for assistance whenever disaster FULL refunds are avail- T victims strikes, as when 25 counties ready given of Hurricane Hugo, able to Legionnaires $90,000 to Legionnaires and which had spread death and in Alabama suffered severe and American Legion their families who suffered devastation through the Vir- storm damage earlier this Auxiliary members who losses in the 1989 disasters gin Islands, Puerto Rico and year. The grants are limited subscribed to the defunct of Hurricane Hugo and Cali- the Carolinas in September. to $ 1 ,500 per individual, and Better Times magazine in fornia's Loma Prieta earth- No sooner was the ink dry on $5,000 per Post. 1985. quake. Res. 30 than an earthquake Harrington said every Subscribers who have

At press time, $410,000 measuring 7. 1 on the Richter application for assistance sub- not already filed for had been collected for the scale struck the San Fran- mitted by Departments has claims should write to: National Emergency Fund cisco Bay area in October. In been approved at the national National Judge Advocate, and 343 grants were approved the two disasters, more than level, a tribute to the screen- The American Legion, by Legion officials. "We 100 were killed, hundreds ing talents of Legionnaires in P.O. Box 1055, Indianap- realize that we are short of injured and 75,000 were left the Carolinas, California, olis, IN 46206. Please our goal of raising $1 mil- homeless. Alabama and Puerto Rico. enclose a copy of the can- lion, but I am confident that The resolution earmarked Applications for disaster celed check (front and we will reach it without too $50,000 in seed money to relief assistance are available back) and a copy of any much trouble," said Herman establish the National Emer- by writing Membership other correspondence or Cj. Harrington, chairman of gency Fund. The fund was Services, The American documentation of the the National Emergency created to respond to an Legion, P.O. Box 1055, Indi- subscription. ( f und 'ommittce. immediate need, but is also anapolis, IN 46206.

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The survey clearly showed that the participants had Majority 01 Americans Demand formed definite opinions on the issue of flag burning: 50 percent said they would donate money to a group that Flag Amendment, Poll Shows supported their position; 83 percent said they would sign a petition reflecting their

HREE out of poll. In a similar poll con- and 1 percent didn't respond. views; 64 percent said they four Americans ducted by The Gallup Do you believe that a con- would write a letter to an want a constitu- Organization, Inc. in July stitutional amendment out- elected official stating their tional amend- 1989, just days after the lawing flag burning would position on the issue; and 82 T that Court ruled in Texas freedom of speech percent indicated that they ment would Supreme place your

outlaw the burning of the v. Johnson that flag burning in jeopardy? 24 percent, yes; had made up their minds or U.S. Flag, according to a was protected as free speech, 73 percent, no; 3 percent, no very nearly decided where nationwide Gallup Poll com- 64 percent said they favored opinion. they stand on the issue. missioned by The American an amendment that would Another significant find- Gallup Poll officials are Legion. ban flag burning. ing of the poll showed that continuing to poll Americans Participants in the survey, Other questions and re- 55 percent would vote for or in order to get a regional which has a maximum stand- sponses to the most recent against an elected official breakdown. ard-error rate of 2.3 percent, Gallup Poll were: based solely on his position "We're not surprised by were asked if they would Do you agree that burning on flag burning. "The the results of this poll," favor or oppose a constitu- the American flag should be response to this question Epling said. "The American tional amendment that would protected under the free should concern lawmakers in Legion is convinced that allow the federal and state speech guarantee of the First Washington who think their protection of the U.S. Flag governments to make flag Amendment, or do you dis- vote on a constitutional through a constitutional burning illegal if the Su- agree that burning the flag amendment doesn't matter amendment is a mandate preme Court rules the Flag should be protected under to the folks back home. from the American people to Protection Act of 1989 uncon- the free speech guarantee of Fifty-five percent of Amer- Congress, and we expect stitutional. Seventy-one per- the First Amendment? 26 per- icans view flag protection as Congress to act in accord- cent said they would support cent, agreed; 71 percent, dis- a pivotal issue in the coming ance with the will of the the amendment; 25 percent agreed; 2 percent, didn't know; election," said Epling. people."

would oppose it, 3 percent did not have an opinion, and

1 percent didn't respond. At press time, the Supreme Court was hearing final argu- ments on the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which was ruled Connecticut Legionnaires Poised unconstitutional by two fed- eral courts. The court was expected to uphold the lower courts' decisions. For Annual V-J and MIA Parade "What's significant about this survey is that it clearly OOSUP is a most of the year preparing 1961. Since then, Legion- shows the public has not town of 4,000 for the parade. naires have conducted various forgotten this issue," Nat'l people in east- This year's parade will be fundraisers during the year to Cmdr. Miles S. Epling said. ern Connecti- held Aug. 12. "The real date help finance the two-mile "Americans want their flag M cut that lays is Aug. 14, but we always patriotic march through protected and they believe an claim to having the nation's schedule it for the closest town. Recent parades have amendment is the only way only annual parade com- weekend," said Legionnaire included more than 1 50 units to do it." memorating V-J Day—Vic- Bill Poprosky, chairman of and 24 floats, and the whole The survey, which was tory over Japan in World War the 29th annual parade. town turns out to watch. conducted in May, showed II. And the sponsors of the Post members were con- The 1990 parade is dedi- growing support for the celebration are the members cerned that V-J Day was fad- cated to the POW/MIAs and amendment when compared of Godreau-McMahon Post ing from public view so they honors the contributions of to the results of a previous 91 of Moosup, who spend staged the first parade in all Vietnam veterans.

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"Members and officers of Russellville, S.C. Post #247, Department officers, along with state and local officials attend the ground breaking ceremony for their new Post Home. Post 247 applied for and received a significant grant from the National Emergency Fund to replace the old structure which was severely damaged by Hurricane Hugo."

When Hurricane Hugo devastated Puerto Rico and the Caro- linas, The American Legion was there lending support to the community. Now, The American Legion National Emergency Fund is here to support the Legion Family.

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32nd Evac. Hospital (Sept-Lexington, KY) Donald 102nd Inf. Div. (The Ozarks) (Oct-Tucson, AZ) Frank Hixson, 1 1 1 Hereford Dr., Pickerington, OH 43147 Alfiero, 21 1 Reynard Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807 (201 OUTFIT REUNIONS (614)837-5981 526-8948 33rd Arm'd Engr. Bn., 7th Arm'd Div., A Co. (Aug- 104th/249th F.A. Bns. (Oct-New York) R.H. von Has- Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices are published Garden Grove, CA) Dan Harbison, 4811 Fairmont seln, 29 W. Kingsbridge Rd.. Bronx, NY 10468 (212) for Legionnaires only and must be submitted on offi- Ave., Pascagoula, MS 39567 (601) 762-6366 960-4858 cial forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, 37th Signal Co. (WWII) (Sept-Columbus, OH) Joseph 105th Inf., 27th Div., E Co. (WWII) (Sept-Lancaster, PA) stamped envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion Toner, Edgewater Manor A3, Beverly, NJ 08010 (609) Roy Knight, 235 Twin Ln. E., Wautagh, NY 11 793 Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices 871-4007 106th F.A. Vets Assn. (Oct-Buffalo, NY) Don Barnes, 19 must be received at least seven months before reunions 38th Inf. Div./184th A.G.F. Bands (WWII) (Oct-Panama Deborah Ln., Cheektowaga, NY 1 4225 (716) 684-31 58 are scheduled and will be published only on a first-come, City Beach, FL) William Lilleston, 648 Lagoon Oaks 109th Evac. Veterans (Sept-Minneapolis) Howard first-served basis. No notices are published in Cir., Panama City Beach, FL 32408 (904) 234-2300 Klitgaard, 9073 N. Silver Brook Ln., Brown Deer, Wl November, the Convention issue. 40th Inf. Div. (Korea) (Sept-Kerhonkson, NY) Ed Lown, 53223 (414) 354-4857 305 Highland Ave., Maybrook, NY 12543 (914) 427- 110th Inf., 28th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Washington, PA) 2320 John Chernitsky, 18 Country Club Blvd., Uniontown, 40th Station Hospital (Oct-Portland, OR) Arthur PA 15401 (412)438-9119 Army Sawyer, 402 Herrick Park, Tecumseh, Ml 49286 (517) 111th Tact. Recon. Sq. (WWII) (Oct-Dallas) Garland 423-2695 Hendricks. 7201 Claybrook Dr., Dallas, TX 75231 43rd Engrs. Rgt. (WWII) (Sept-St. Louis) Robert Pine, (214)348-2779 2nd Bn., 2nd Inf., 38th Div., HQ (Sept-Anderson, IN) 1149MarshAve.,Ellisville, MO 63011 (314)227-3113 115th Cav. Assn. (Powder River Rgt.) (Sept-Carson Harold Fowler, 3709 Maple Ln., Muncie, IN 47302 43rd Inf. Div. (Sept-Augusta, ME) Howard Brown, 150 City. NV) George Welch, 1320 Suntree Dr. S.E., Salem. (317)282-9659 Lakedell Dr., East Greenwich, Rl 02818 (401) 884- OR 97302 (503) 588-2341 2nd Bn., 161st/209th F.A. Bns., HQ Btrys (Oct- 7052 121st QM Car Co. (Oct- York, PA) Harold Casper, 633

Humboldt, KS) Paul Cook, Rt. I, Box 1 1 5, Quapaw, OK 47th General Hospital (WWII) (Oct-Modesto. CA) John State St., Hamburg, PA 19526 (215) 562-7881 74363 Harrison, Rt. 7, Box 317, Easley, SC 29642 (803) 269- 121st Station Hospital (WWII) (Sept-St. Joseph, MO)

2nd Inf., 5th Div., I Co. (Sept-Battle Creek, Ml) Leon 3060 Kenneth Schank, 805 N. 13th St., St. Joseph, MO Belardinelli, 1351 Windsor Ct., Elgin, IL 60120 (708) 52nd Medical Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Lockport, NY) William 64501 (816)279-6697 931-0847 Smith, 75 Willett St., Albany. NY 1 2210 (51 8) 465-0755 124th Cav. Rgt. (Oct-Brownsville, TX) Robert Blanken-

2nd Signal Corp (radio) (1953-54) (Sept-Detroit Lakes, 55th General Hospital (July-Toledo, OH) Pat Van Etten, ship, 771 1 Morley, Houston, TX 77061 (71 3) 644-4533 MN) Donald Martin, 5691 Mapleton Dr, Utica, NY 4833 Brott Rd., Toledo, OH 43613 (419) 475-7214 124th F.A. Ord., HM Co. (Oct) Ronald Brown, Box 14,

13502 (315) 733-1386 58th Ord. Ammo Co. (Sept-Covington, KY) Robert Lewis, NY 1 2950 (518) 873- 2110 3rd Engr. Spec. Brigade, HQ&HQ Co. (Sept-Kansas Lambert, 1605 N. Marshall Rd., Middletown, OH 126th Inf. Rgt. (Oct-Grand Rapids, Ml) David Britten, City, MO) Norman Lauber, 229 Thorp St., Kansas City, 45042(513)423-5690 1200 44th St. S.W., Wyoming, Ml 49509 (616) 538- KS 66102 (913) 342-0858 60th General Hospital (WWII) (Sept-Boston) Mimi 2560 3rd Sq., 107th Arm'd Cav., 3640th M.A.M Co., OHNG Seppala, 92 Granite St., Rockport, MA 01966 (508) 128th F.A. Bn. (Arm'd) (Oct-Albany, MO) Gordon (Oct-Toledo, OH) James Lucas, 6054 Westacre, 546-2617 Manring, Rt. 2, Box 200, Albany, MO 64402 (81 6) 726- Toledo, OH 4361 5 (41 9) 841 -7939 64th General Hospital (Sept-Chicago) John Di 3435 3rd/6th Army HQ (Oct-Shepherdsville, KY) Moon Domenico, 2303 N. Clybourn Ave., Apt 6-H, Chicago, 1 31 st Tank Bn., A Co. (1 950-53) (Sept-Piedmont, AL) Mullens, Rt. 8, Box 887, Huntsville, TX 77340 (409) IL60614 (312) 525-2899 Luther Erwin, 1810 Dailey St., Piedmont, AL 36272 295-7489 65th Inf. Div. Assn. (WWII) (Sept-San Diego) Maurice (205) 447-6970 4th Signal Bn., X Corps (Korea) (July-Boston) Don Neil. 8409 Brook Pk. Dr., #112, Canton, Ml 48187 132nd Combat Engr. Bn. (Sept-Duluth, MN) Carl Raina, 36 East St., Bennington, VT 05201 (802) 442- (313)459-6591 Loftesness, 97 Parnassus Rd., Berkley, CA 94706 5064 67th AA Gun Bn., C Btry. (Oct-New Philadelphia, OH) (415) 548-4646 6th Div. Arty., HQ&HQ Btry. (Sept-Cincinnati) Robert Elmer Cook, Rt. 3, Box 97, Dover, OH 44622 (216) 364- 133rd Inf., 34th Div., E Co. (Sept-Webster City, IA) Havener, Box 164, Westminster, MA 01473 (508)874- 2907 Arthur Philbrook, 1045 Elm St., Webster City, IA 50595 5782 68th QM Refrig. Co. (WWII) (Oct-San Diego) Harold (515)832-3321

6th Engrs., C Co. (WWII) (Oct-Des Moines, IA) Dickey Harvey, 1 1 75 LaMoree Rd., San Marcos, CA 92069 135th, 136th Rgts., 47th Div./1953-54 (3rd Div., Ft. Martin, Box 458, Redfield, IA 50233 (619) 743-2930 Benning/1 954-55) (Oct- Newport, TN) Robert Crowe, 7th Engr. (C) Bn., 5th Div. (Aug-Fort Wayne, IN) Charles 69th Signal Bn. (WWII) (Aug-Columbus, OH) James Box 394, Ball Ground, GA 30107 (404) 735-2893 Marks, 8234 Parkridge, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (219) Rae, 10459 Tillburg St., Spring Hill, FL 34608 137th Ord. Co. (HMFA) (Oct-Huntsville, AL) Ben 489-4265 71st CA AAA, Btry. B (Sept-Gaithersburg, MD) H.C. Heaton, 221 Evelyn St., Marietta GA 30060 (404) 427- 8th A.I. Bn., 20th Arm'd Div., B Co. (Sept-Minneapolis) Hall, 116 Giffordtown Ln., Tuckerton, NJ 08087 (609) 1939 Maury Stromswold, 540 E. Robertson, Appleton, MN 296-4956 137th Signal Radio Intell. Co. (Sept-Avon Lake. OH) 56208 (612) 289-1513 73rd AAA Bn. (SP) (Sept-Detroit) Stephen Cybulski, 33 Carmine Lancellotti, 5541 Sequoia Dr., Parma, OH 8th Bn., 6th Arty., C Btry. (1965-66) (Aug-Cincinnati) Eagles Nest Way, Manchester, NH 03103 (603) 623- 44134(216)845-2672 Dale Wolf, 712 Christie St., Ottawa, IL 61350 (815) 4635 138th/198th/452nd F.A. Bns. Assn. (Aug-Louisville, 433-3879 75th Rangers (Vietnam) (July-Colorado Springs, CO) KY) James Bates, 6512 Upper Hunters Trace, Louis- 8th F.A., 25th Div. (1950-53) (Aug-Chicago) Allen Smith, Jim Savage, 39 Purity Springs Rd., Burlington, MA ville, KY 40216 (502)448-4501 3338 Dupont No., Minneapolis, MN 55412 (612) 529- 01803(617)272-4790 139th OBAM Bn., 3014 OBAM Co. (Oct-Raleigh, NC) 4567 77th Evac. Hospital (Oct-Columbus, OH) Robert Peggy Williams, 6201 Lake Wheeler Rd., Raleigh, NC 9th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Kissimmee, FL) Bernie Menker, 9075 Gerlach. 3851 Kingswood Dr., Dayton, OH 45429 27603 (919) 272-6577 Pemberton St., Spring Hill, FL 34608 (904) 683-6603 (513) 299-3897 140th AAA AW Bn. (SP), 40th Inf. Div. (Korea) (Sept- 9th Inf., 2nd Div., A/C Cos. (1940-45) (Sept-Memphis, 78th QM Co. (WWII) (Oct-San Diego) H.F. Reynolds, San Diego) Don Donnelly, 391 Aldwych Rd., El Cajon, Alan Trail 440-4244 TN) Clough, 397 Doe Cove N., Cordova, TN 850 Lalania Ave , Redlands, CA 92374 (714) 793-8503 CA 92020 (61 9) 38018(901)753-0106 78th Signal Co. (Sept-Lexington, KY) Paul Stokely, Rt. 141st Ord. Base Auto Bn. (Oct-Atlantic City, NJ) T.R.

1 , Gordon Ave Totowaboro, NJ 07512 13th F.A. Obsn. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Louisville, KY) Box 628, Center Point, TX 7801 0(512) 634-2469 Massaro, 200 , Joseph Meagher, Box 17472, Louisville. KY 40217 82nd Arm'd Ren. Bn., 2nd Arm'd Div. (Oct-Cleveland, 144th Inf., D Co. (Sept-Garrison, TX) Alfred Hudgins. Rt. (502) 636-161 TN) Russell Cunningham, 13155 Walters Rd., Mar- 1, Box 126B, Daingerfield.TX 75638 (214) 656-2278 16th Evac. Hospital (WWII) (Aug-lndianapolis) Mrs. H. tinsville, IN 461 51 (317)528-2420 147th Combat Engr. Bn. (Oct-Cleveland) James Moore, Church, 52 Leitch Ave., Skaneateles, NY 13152 (315) 85th Chem. Mtr. Bn. Assn. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) 6 Delaney PI.. Dowington, PA 19335 (215) 873-0174 685-6603 George Kercell, 321 Fernledge Dr., New Kensington, 148th Inf., 37th Div., A Co. (Oct-Antwerp, OH) Robert

16th Inf. Rgt., 1st Inf. Div. (Sept-Pasco, WA) Bob PA 15068 (412) 335-7007 Greek, Box 1 07, Montpelier, OH 43543 (419) 485-4751 Walker, 112S. 4th, Pasco, WA 99301 (509) 547-6201 87th Div. Assn./735th/748th/607th Tank Bns. (Sept- 148th Ord. M.V.A. Co. (WWII) (Oct-Charleston, WV) 17th Arm'd Engrs., E Co. (WWII) (Sept-Clearwater, FL) Charlesto,,, A'V) Gladwin Pascuzzo, 2374 N. Dundee Jerome Paulson, R.R. E. Shores High Lake, Wal- J E Sammons, 2431 Grove Ridge Dr., Palm Harbor, FL Ct., Highlana, Ml 48031 (313) 997-9005 lingford, IA51365 (712) 867-4432 34683 (313) 787-4147 89th Cav. Recon. Sq., 9th Arm'd Div. (Sept-Nashville, 148th Station Hospital (WWII) (Oct-Dayton, OH) Herb 17th Base Post Office, 20th Postal Regulation Sect. TN) Bill Bauer, 2831 Gaywinds Ct., Nashiville, TN Simpson, 19 Citation Cir., Harrison, OH 45030 (513)

(Sept-Asheville, NC) Merritt Johnson, 1 1 River Bend 37214(615)883-2541 367-2610

Rolling 369- 149th Inf., I (July-Marion, KY) B.C. Rd , Acres #5, Franklin, NC 28734 (704) 89th Chem. Mortar Bn. (Sept-Kansas City, MO) R.G. 38th Div., Co.

7965 McLennand, 24 Kenwood Dr., Coraoplis, PA 15108 McNeely, Rt. 1 , Box 168, Marion, KY 42064 (502) 965- 17th Inf. Medical Det., 7th Div. (Sept-Canton, OH) (412)331-3802 4683 Louis Kolb. 1 1082 Sagebrush Ave. N.E., Unionlown, 93rd AAA Gun Bn., A Btry. (Sept-Milwaukee) Ralph 150th F.A. (Sept-Ft. Wayne. IN) Richard i^iese, 1917 OH 44685 (216) 877-3909 Schulte, Rl. 3, Box 447, Monlello, Wl 53949 (608) 296- Eileen, Ft, Wayne, IN 46819 (219) 747-4430 17th Inf. Rgt. (Midwest) (Sept-Bellevue, NE) Jerome 3258 151st Inf., 38th Div., Cannon Co. (Sept-Oldenburg, IN)

Lowrey, 1860 Robertson Dr., Omaha, NE 681 14 (402) 93rd Cav., 1 3th Arm'd Div.,Trp. B (Oct-FI. Myers, FL) Al Wilbur Flodder, Oldenburg, IN 47036 (812) 934-31 60 393-7426 Heindel, 2001 Roosevelt Ave., York, PA 17404 (717) 153rd Engrs. (C) Bn. (Aug-Horsham, PA) John Mantini 20th F.A. Bn. Assn. (Oct-Nashville, TN) Dewey Augens- 764-1725 Sr., Rl. 3, Box 214, Holsopple, PA 15935 (814) 479-

287- ( lem, 9281 Ellen Ct , Thornton, CO 80229 (303) 94th Gas Treatment Bn. Aug- Ashville. NC) James 4406 4672 Anderson, 552 Conner Creek Dr., Fishers, IN 46038 157th Inf. Rgt. /158th F.A. Bn., 45th Div. (Sept-San 20th Tank Bn., D Co. (Sept-Springfield, IL) J.L Gilles, (317) 842-4882 Diego) Felix Sparks. 7900 W. 23rd Ave., Lakewood, CO 628 Oakland, Rapid City. SD 57701 (605) 348-3206 102nd CA AA AW Bn. (Sepl-Dayton, OH) Bill Veronica, 80215 (303) 233-2369 24th Inf. Dlv./5th RCT/6th Tank/26th AAA/555th AAA 19 0ehman Blvd., Cheektowaga. NY 14225 (716) 834- 159th Engr. Combat Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Nashville, TN)

Bns. (Sept-Buffalo, NY) Kenwood Ross, 120 Maple

25th Inf. Div. (WWII) (Sept-Nashville, TN) Robert Muzzy, The reunion notices published in this issue were 161st Inf., 25th Div., E Co. (WWII) (Aug-Pullman, WA) 809 Forston Dr., Takoma Pk., MD 20912 (301) 434- received prior to April 18, 1990. Lester Bishop, Rt. 3, Box 535, Pullman, WA 99163 0192 (509)334-4426

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165th Inf., 27th Div., K Co. (WWII) (Aug-Elkhart, IN) 303rd Inf., 97th Div., M Co. (Sept-Washington) Robert Robert Haugen, 1331 Nelson Ave,, Vineland, NJ Chet Magnusen, 54157 Pine Ridge Ct., Elkhart, IN Kintner, 5105 Kieffer Ave. S.W., Canton, OH 44706 08360 (609) 691-3755 46514(219)262-0405 (216)484-4451 560th Ord. H.M. Co. (WWII) (Sept-New Haven, CT) 166th AAA Gun Bn., C Btry. (July-Wichita, KS) Gerald 307th Inf. & 77th Div. (Oct-Washington) J.J. Hanifin, Donald Knowlton, 512 Anderson Ave., Milford. CT Fager, 1423 N. Baltimore, Derby, KS 67037 (316) 788- 2048 Wesbitt Ave., Spring Hill, FL 34608 (904) 688- 06460 (203) 878-1224 0289 7670 562nd SAW Bn., A Co. (WWII) (Aug-Middlesboro. KY) 166th Gun Bn., D Btry. (Sept-Des Moines, IA) Ivan 307th Rplacement Dpt. Assn. (Oct-New London, CT) Hubert Turner, 608 I/2 Balmoral Rd.. Middlesboro, KY OTool, 602 Circle Dr., Ida Grove, IA 51445 (712) 364- Leonard Polikoff, 12 Adams St., E. Rockaway, NY 40965 (606) 248-5794 2884 11518 (516)599-2503 566th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Tilghman Island, MD) Phil 169th AAA AW Bn. (SP), 43rd Inf. Div., D Btry. (Korea) 332nd Engr. Topo Co. (1950-53) (Oct-Allentown, PA) Haddaway, 1105 Mulberry Hill Apts., Easton, MD (Nov-Orlando, FL)T. G. Douglas, 140 Spring CoveTrl., Thomas Bucchin, 1420 Monocacy St., Bethelem. PA 21601 (301) 822-2918 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 862-1 234 18018 (215) 691-3999 574th AAA AW Bn. (S.P.) (Nov-Myrtle Beach, SC) 175th/151st F.A. Bns., 34th Inf. Div. (Sept-Min- 337th Inf. Rgt., 85th Div. (Oct-Louisville, KY) Walter William Diehl, 146 Vernon Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704 neapolis) Leon Spittle, 4511 Russell Ave. N., Min- Lewandoski, 323 Little Texas Rd., Travelers Rest, SC (914) 237-7445 neapolis, MN 55412 (612) 521-7190 29690 (803) 834-3625 593rd JASCO Assn. (Oct-Kansas City, MO) John 179th FA Bn., B Btry. (WWII) (Sept-Ft. Bragg, NC) 353rd/369th/1305th Gen. Serv. Rgts., 353rd Engr. Crosby, 1929 E. Glencove St., Mesa, AZ 85203 (602) James McCabe, 244 Burbank St., Columbia, SC Constr. Bn. (Sept-Rosemont, IL) Reunion Committee, 834-8175 29210 (803) 772-1827 Box 46-429, Lincolnwood, IL 60646 (312) 545-5540 593rd/594th/595th Ambulance Cos. (Sept-Port 179th Inf. Rgt. Assn. (Aug-Edmond, OK) Robert Bryan, 357th Rgt., 90th Div., D Co. (Aug-Waukesha, Wl) Emil Washington) Wl 53074 Art Sherbarth, 3162 N. 44th 3020 Dogwood Dr., Edmond, OK 73013 (405) 341- Zakovich, 2813 E. Layton Ave., Cudahy, Wl 531 10 St., Milwaukee, Wl 53210 (414) 444-2646 4983 (414) 483-6993 609th F.A., A Btry. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Carl

188th F.A. Bn., 47th Div., C Btry. (Sept-Jamestown, ND) 368th C.A. AA, A Btry. (Sept-Narragansett Beach, Rl) Hammer, 6305 Wicklow Cir. , Colorado Springs, CO Bill Guthmiller, 1221 4th Ave. N.W., Jamestown, ND Ed Jarentowitz, 59-67 60th PL, Flushing, L.I., NY 80907 (719) 598-7959 58401 (701) 252-3034 11378(718)326-2253 622nd Base Engr. Equip. Co. (Sept-Pittsburgh) Nilah 193rd FA Bn. (1st Bn., 108th FA Bn.) (Sept-Bushkill, 383rd Inf., 96th Inf. Div., E Co. (WWII) (Sept-Bismarck. Berry. 5207 W. Millmgton Rd., Millington, Ml 48746 PA) Clarence Lopatta, 6686 Appleridge Rd., ND) Ray Williams, 2 Glenhaven Dr., Versailles, KY (517)871-2530 Youngstown, OH 44512 (216) 758-2554 40383 (606) 873-2288 628th T.D. Bn. (Sept-West Middlesex, PA) George 194th Engr. Combat Bn. (Aug-Oak Ridge, TN) Luther 386th AAA AW Bn. (Oct-Johnstown, NY) Don Yeates, Howell, 138 Quaker Church Rd., Randolph, NJ 07869 Ager, 128 Newhaven Rd., Oak Ridge, TN 37830 (615) 166 5th Ave., Gloversville, NY 12078 (518) 725-3890 (201) 366-7631 483-7344 389th F.A. Bn., C Btry. (Oct-New Castle, PA) John 656th T.D. Bn. (Sept-Pittsburgh) Raymond Wolter, 2674 198th C.A. Assn. (Sept-Wilmington, DE) Casimir Boc, Nimmo, Rt. 6, Box 280, New Castle. PA 16103 (412) Akron Wads Rd., Norton, OH 44203 (216) 825-5484 Box 5145, Wilmington, DE 19808 (302)778-5313 924-2421 671st Engr. Co. (Topo) (July-Botkins, OH) Bill Korn,

1 Inf. Bde., Bn., Inf., (July-Reno, 389th Inf., 98th Div., H (Oct-Orlando, FL) Kenneth 1 Rd.. Rt. 1 596- 99th 2nd 3rd Co. A NV) Co. 7577 Montra , Anna, OH 45302 (513) Larry McCann, 210 S. Garfield, Ransom, IL 60470 Messamore, 260 S. School, Colby, KS 67701 (913) 6786 (815) 586-4694 462-3589 687th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Oklahoma City) Nels Block Jr., 204th F.A. Bn. (Sept-San Antonio) Fred Lingner, 3633 400th A. F.A. Bn. (Aug-Louisville, KY) Doug Keach, 2922 2306 9th St., Harlan, IA51537 (712) 755-5510 Fox Run, Cibolo.TX 78108 (512) 629-2140 Small House Rd., Bowling Green, KY 42101 691stT.C. Bn. (Sept-Beaver Falls, PA) George Tita, Box 206th Coast Arty. AA Assn. (Sept-Little Rock. AR) 410th Inf., 103rd Rgt., D Co. (Nov-Natchez, MS) 111, Koppel, PA 16136 (412) 535-4988

Robert Proffitt, 715 Pascagoula St., Pascagoula. MS Goffrey Wolfe. G-5105 Van Slyke Rd., Flint, Ml 48507 701st MP Bn. DCo. (Oct.-Oelwein, I A) Herbert Albrecht, 39567(601)762-3554 (313) 238-4074 Rt. 2, Box 22, Fairbank, IA 50629 (319) 635-2624 210th CA. AA (Aleutian Island/Adak) (Sept-Philadel- 411th Inf., 103rd Div., L Co. (Sept-Portland, OR) 701st MP Bn., B Co. (WWII) (Aug-Moline, IL) L.S. phia) Michael Morelli, 7124 Vandike St., Philadelphia, William Hughes, 2205 S.W. Cedar Hills Blvd., Port- Shahan. 713 N. Main, Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641 PA 19135 (215) 333-3830 land, OR 97225 (503) 646-2928 (319)385-4778 214th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Ellenville, NY) Ralph 417th Inf., 76th Div., G Co. (Oct-San Antonio, TX) 705th T.D. Bn. (Sept-Sarasota, FL) Frank Brooks. 5229

Snyder, Box 81 , N. Centre Ave., Leesport, PA 1 9533 Leonard McNamara, 3432 Robinwood Spur, Hopkins, Ravensworth Rd. Springfield, VA 221 51 (703) 256- (215)373-5572 MN 55343 (612) 935-6133 0868 214th CA (AA) GA NG (Nov-Ft. Stewart, GA) Gene 435th AAA AW Bn. /473rd Inf. Rgt. Assn. (Aug- 707th Tank Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Kansas City, MO) John

Hodges, 2549 Emerald Dr., Jonesboro, GA 30236 Springfield, IL) Morris Clements, Rt. 2. Box 54B, Bickers, Box 481 , Gulf Breeze, FL 32562 (904) 932- (404)471-2084 Spring Grove, VA 23881 (804) 834-3732 2931 218th FA Bn., 41st Div., C Btry. (WWII) (Sept-Portland, 445th Ord.(HAM) Co. (Sept-Slaughterville, OK) Leroy 712th Railroad Oper. Bn. (WWII & Korea) (Oct-Wichita,

OR) Virgil Lauzon, 6636 S.E. Carlton St., Portland, OR Law, Rt. 3, Box 175, Lexington, OK 73051 (405) 872- KS) Frank Blodgett, 1 109 North Poplar, Wellington, KS 97206 (503) 771-6816 3052 67152 (316) 326-3516 229th Searchlight Bn. (WWII) (Sept-St. Louis) Travis 449th AAA AW Bn., B Btry. (Oct-Rocky Hill, CT) John 712th Tank Bn. (Sept-Corpus Christi, TX) Ray Griffin,

Shrum, 121 Reading, Maryland Hts., MO 63043 (314) Markoya. 1 083 Capitol Ave., Bridgeport. CT 06606 Box 22, Aurora. NE 68818 (402) 694-2890 739-2547 (203) 336-2000 713th Railway Operating Bn. (Aug-Albuquerque, NM) 246th C.A. Assn. (Sept-Virginia Beach, VA) Ray Cross, 460th Engr. Dpt. Co. (Oct) M.B. Furr, 624 Hamilton St., Victor Schaefer. 3305 S. 16th St., Lincoln, NE 68502 1209 Kerns Ave. S.W., Roanoke, VA 2401 5 (703) 343- Newton, NC 28658 (704) 464-0308 724th T.R.O.B. (Korea) (Oct-Brandywine, DE) Lynn 4085 463rd AAA AW Bn., 79th Div. (Sept-San Jose, CA) Jack Moore, 491 Conarroe St., Philadelphia, PA 19128 247th Combat Engr. Bn. (Aug-Nashville, IN) Lawrence Nelson, 1320 White Oak Ave., Campbell, CA 95008 (215) 482-1795 Brown, 221 N. Walnut St.. Ladoga, IN 47954 (31 7) 942- (408) 371-8272 725th/791st MP Bns. (WWII) (Oct-Charleston. SC) 2653 464th Engr. Dpt. Co. SWPA (WWII) (Sept-Johnstown, Dwight Netzly, 1237 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, OH 248th Eng. Cbt. Bn. (Sept. -Cleveland) Fred Mone, PA) Samuel Mock, Rt. 2, Box 249D, Windber, PA 1 5963 44646(216)832-9744 16200 Erndale Ave., Cleveland, OH 41111 (216) 252- (814)487-4384 745th R.O.B. (Sept-Birmingham, AL) Cliff Estes. 1807 1603 468th F.A. Bn. (Oct-Huntington, WV) Herbert Davis, 31 Montclaire Dr., Birmingham, AL 3521 6 (205) 823-091 251 st Graduates Natambua, Fiji OCS (Dec-San Diego) Highland Ct., Huntington, WV 25705 (304) 522-1448 748th Railroad Oper. Bn. (Sept-Chattanooga, TN) Herman Garcia, 20316 Burch St., Perris, CA 92370 471 st AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Park City, KY) Orville Avery, Homer Cantrell, 5818 New Nashville Highway, Mur- (714)683-0891 Box 187, Forney, TX 75126 (214) 552-3682 freesboro, TN 371 29 (61 5) 893-501 254th AAA S/L Bn. (604th CAAA) (Sept-Belleville, NJ) 472nd QM Rgt. (CBI) (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) John 749th Tank Bn. Assn. (Nat'l) (Sept-Rochester, NY) Thomas Keefe, 123 3rd Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98104 McAlpine, 637 Oakbrook West., Rochester, Ml 48063 James Lee, Rt. 6, Box 44B. Kingston, NY 12401 (914) (206)447-6921 (313) 652-7873 382-1093 256th Engr. Combat Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Memphis, TN) 481st AAA AW Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Ft Mitchell, KY) Everett 751st Tank Bn. (Sept-Baltimore) Arthur Bosley, 1812

Jr.. PI., Sewickley, 15143 ) John McRee. 181 S. Mendenhall Rd., Memphis, TN Rich 618 Locust PA (412) Roland Ave , Towson, MD 21 204 (301 823-01 09 38117(901)683-1933 741-6623 753rd Tank Bn. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Norm Linhart,

260th AA Arty. Assn. (DCNG) (Oct-Andrews AFB) E. 482nd Med. Coll. Co. (Sep) (Oct-Columbus, OH) John 1 3375 Easton St., Alliance, OH 44601 (216) 821-3927 Brizendine, 4806Wyaconda Rd., Rockville, MD 20852 Sutula, 6200 Rockside Rd.. Cleveland, OH 44131 756th F.A. Assn. (Aug-Dayton, OH) Samuel Corrado, (301) 770-7876 (216) 328-8000 4345 E. Barlind Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15227 (412) 884- 264th Inf., 66th Div., E Co. (Sept-Dennis, MA) Al 486th Ord. Evac. Co. (July-Ithaca, NY) Robert Ruane. 9544 Frankunas, 5260 E. Lake Rd., Romulus, NY 14541 405 Willow Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850 761st F.A. Bn. (Aug-Washington, PA) Charles McCor- (315) 585-6335 501st AAA Bn., B Btry. (WWII) (Oct-Gettysburg, PA) mick, 600 Fayette St., Washington, PA 15301 (412)

279th Combat Engr. Bn. (WWII) ( Aug-Johnson City, TN) William Bremsteller, 421 Chalfonte Dr., Baltimore, MD 222-7870 Norman McGaha, 615 N. Hills Dr., Johnson City, TN 21228 (301)744-6895 762nd MP Bn. (WWII) (July-Ottawa, IL) Gust Grand- 37604 (615) 282-2806 505th Ord. H.M. Tank Co. (July-Black River Falls, Wl) george, 455 S. Depot St., Somonauk, IL 60552 (815)

279th Inf. Rgt., 45th Div. (Oct-Wagoner, OK) Lewis Roderick McKinney, Rt. 1 , Box 202B. Merrillan, Wl 498-2761 Maxwell, 4627 W. 84th St., Tulsa, OK 74132 (918) 445- 54754(715)333-5310 771 ST F.A. Bn., B Btry. (Sepl-Roanoke, VA) David Scott. 0670 513th AA Gun Bn. (Sept-Washington) Art Meussing, 661 N. Center, Braidwood. IL 60408 (815)458-2416 280th F.A. Bn. (WWII) (Sept) Howard Henricksen, 600 3131 Winchester Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19136 (215) 774th T.D. Assn. (Sept-Lake Placid, NY) Frank Kerzner, Leisure Dr., Kallispell, MT 59901 (406) 756-6660 338-0712 Box 352, Fisher Rd., Stamford, NY 12167 (607) 652- 283rd Engr. Combat Bn. (Sept-Huntsville, AL) James 518th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Orlando, FL) Noah 4292 Poole, 302 Calhoun Dr., Florence, AL 35630 (205) Cantrell, 2917 Meadowlark Dr., Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 778th TK Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) George 764-3697 (602)458-3864 Nicholson, 1321 E. Douglas St., Goshen. IN 46526 292nd JASCO (Oct-Cincinnati) Bill Keatting, 8507 Old 549th k A A A Bn., A/B/C/D/HQ Btrys. (WWII) (Sept-St (219)533-8576 Shep. Rd., Louisville, KY 40219 (502) 969-0345 Louis) R.L. Moran. 1411 Wooddell, Jackson, MS 780th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Florence, AL) George Ellis, 1020 298th General Hospital (Oct-Las Vegas) Jimmy 39212(601)372-9466 Wild Wood Park Rd., Florence, AL 35630 (205) 764- Donohoe, 3685 Newhaven Rd., Pasadena, CA91107 553rd Engr. HV. P. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Chicago) William 5938 (818) 351-9826 Fishman, 9331 Landing Ln., Des Plaines, IL 60016 786th Tank Bn., 99th Inf. Div. (WWII) (Oct-Niagara 300th Combat Engrs., C Co. (Sept-Tyler, TX) A -V Bice, (708)298-7690 Falls, Canada) Albert Wa Id ron, 111 Gibson St., Rt. 20, Tyler, TX 75708 (214) 592-4797 557th MP Guard Co. (1949-50) (Oct-Nashville, TN) Canandaigua, NY 14424 (716) 394-6124

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790th F.A. Bn. (Oct-Atlanta) James Brady, 121 Steam- HCA, Box 6253, Ft. Bliss, TX 79906 (91 5) 562-881 USS Betelgeuse AKA 28/AK11 (Sept-Reno, NV) Roy

boat Ln. Ballwin, 6301 1 (314) 227-6347 X Corps HQ (Including dets.) (Oct-Russell, KS) Paul Hoffman, Alliston Springfield, 1 #5, MO 253 Rd. , PA 9064 (215) 791st AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Minneapolis) Stephen Dietz, Rt. 2, Box 44, Russell, KS 67665 (913) 483- 543-5624 Savitsky, 31-72 36th St., Long Island City, NY 11106 4568 USS Blackhawk AO 9 (Including assigned DDs) (Sept- (718)545-8836 Boston) G.H. Mason, 2212 122nd Ave. E., Puyallup, 806th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Sept-Milwaukee) Charles WA 98371 (206)863-8666 Rich. 1704 N. Mohawk, Chicago, IL 60614 (312) 642- USS Boxer & Air Grps. (Marines included) (Oct- 5412 Navy Pensacola, FL) Paul Lane, 1116 Sherwood Forest Dr., 809th Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-Arlington, TX) Otis Birmingham, AL 35235 (205) 833-5054 Harris, 2502 Grafton, Dallas, TX 7521 1 (214) 339- USS Bridge (Sept-Wagoner, OK) Robert Elam, 2866 3934 2nd & 4th Beach Bns. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) Walter Unaweep Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81503 (303) 242- (Sept-Charlotte, Frank 813th TD Bn., C Co. (WWII) NC) Bryant, 7620 E. 50th St., Indianapolis, IN 46226 (317) 8024 Reese, 4201 Crestfield Rd., Knoxville, TN 37921 (61 5) 547-2319 USS Brooklyn CL 40 (Sept-New Orleans) Alford Wells, 588-8335 5th Amph. Corps Med. Bn., FMF, A/B/C Cos. (Marines 429 Appian Ave., Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (804) 340- 815th AVN Engrs. (Sept-No Hollywood, CA) Robert Included) (Oct-San Diego) Dom Miano, Box 711, 9018 Clasen, 3365 Coy Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA91423 (818) Encinitas, CA 92024 (619) 753-5602 USS Burleigh PA 95 (Oct. -Wilmington, NC) Carl Bell, 981-2267 9th Spec. NCB(Sept-Harrisburg, PA) Earl Jones, 71 9 W. 1470 Cranbrook Dr., Hermitage, PA 16148 (412) 342- Wilbur 825th T.D. Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Myrtle Beach, SC) 54th St.. Minneapolis. MN 55419 (612) 823-1585 7598 Hirsch, 5005 Highland Dr., McFarland, Wl 53558 (608) 25th NCB (WWII) (Oct-Portland, OR) Alfred Don, 6204 USS Caliente AO 53 (Fall) Ben Greenberg, 723 E. 1 8th 838-8679 Vicksburg Dr., Pensacola, FL 32503 (904) 476-4113 St., Brooklyn, NY 1 1230 (718) 859-3474 836th AVN Engrs. (Aug-Hays, KS) Roy Davis, HC 39, 25th Spec. Seabee Bn. (Aug-Towson, MD) Albert Gray, USS Canberra CA 70/CAG 2 (Oct-Baltimore) Paul Box 172, Hays, KS 67601 (913) 625-5349 131 Rt. 87, Columbia, CT 06237 (203) 228-3465 McManuels, 317 Somerset Dr., Shiremanstown, PA 840th E.A.B. (WWII) (Sept-Newport News, VA) Floyd 28th Spec. NCB (Oct-Tucson, AZ) Jimmy Hopkins, 17011 (717) 737-2516 Wells, 2906 Blossom St., Columbia, SC 29205 (803) 13776 Keno-Worden Rd., Klamath Falls, OR 97603 USS Capps DD 550 (WWII) (Sept-Seattle) Earl Beadle, 799-7616 (503)882-0897 1 203 West St., Pine Bluff, AR 71 602 (501 ) 247-3702 842nd Ord. Dpt. Co. (Sept-Moline, IL) Jess Weiberg, 45th Seabees (Sept-Mentor, OH) William Jamison, 3280 USS Carina AK 74 (Oct-Pittsburgh) William Zivic, 1407 279- 1206 W. William, Savannah, MO 64485 (816) S. Meyers Rd., Geneva, OH 44041 (216)466-3344 TealTrace, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (412)367-8835 9920 47th NCB (Sept-Austin, TX) Albert Buaas, Box 90355, USS Champlin DD 601 (Oct-Lincoln, NE) Carl Olson, Earl Craft, 845th Ord. Dpt. Co. (July-Richfield. OH) Austin. TX 78709 (51 2) 288- 6271 4520 1 8th Ave. , Rock Island, IL 61 201 (309) 788-5297 31499 Woodcrest Dr., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 57th Seabees (Oct-Wheeling, WV) Harry Burnett, Box USS Chickasaw ATF 83 (Sept-Springfield, MO) Floyd (Sept-Lexington, KY) Earle 858th Ord. H.A.M. Co. 285, 20 2nd St., Beech Bottom, WV 26030 (304) 394- Clark, Box 360, Silsbee, TX 77656 (409) 385-2534 Klenck, Rt. 1, Box 141, Tell City, IN 47586 (812) 547- 5042 USS Cockrill DE 398 (Oct-Nashville, TN) Harris Hofer, 4563 97th/108th Seabee Bns. (Aug-Tulsa, OK) Elmo Tanner, Box 21 7, Freeman, SD 57029 (605) 925-721 (Sept-Pittsburgh) Thomas Steele, 201 Bill 871st A/B Engrs. Rt. 5, Box 326, Claremore, OK 7401 7(918) 31 4-041 USS Columbia CL 56 (Sept-San Antonio) Bohne, 824-5343 Dunbar Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15235 (412) 123rd NCB (Aug-Wichita, KS) Leland Cox, 110 E. 248 Worrell Dr., Springfield, PA 1 9064 (21 5) 543-9073 H.A.M. (Sept-Springfield. MO) Glenn AR) Bill Roll, 884th Ord. Co. Silknitter, Rose Hill, KS 671 33 (31 6) 776-2806 USS Concord CL 10 (Oct-Eureka Springs, 1 672-21 69 858-331 Elson, Box 62, Ash Grove, MO 65604 (41 7) 126th Seabees (Aug-Sarasota, FL) Lenno Johnston, Rt. I, Box 1 705, Shell Knob, MO 65747 (417) 893rd AAA AW Bn., A Btry. (Aug-Lansing, Ml) Robert Star Route, Box 27, Pineville, MO 64856 (417) 223- USS Copahee CVE 12/VGS 12 (Sept-Pensacola, FL) Smith. 1001 Spruce Dr., Stanton, Ml 48888 (517) 831- 4666 John Pittsford, Rt. 2, Box 144. Farmland. IN 47340 4447 145th Seabees (WWII) (Sept-Ft. Walton Beach, FL) (317)468-6991 (Oct-Cincinnati) 924th Engr. Avn. Rgt., H&S Co. (WWII) William Hulsart, 717 N. Gladiolus Dr., Barefoot Bay, FL USS Crater AK 70 (Oct-Omaha, NE) Richard Baker, Box Jack Buchwald. 4125 Crestview Dr., Loveland, OH 32976 11204, Durham, NC 27703 45140 (513) 683-2548 Air Grp. 27 (Nov-Charleston, SC) Leo Ghastin, 510 USS Davis DD 395 (Oct-San Antonio) Francis Tormol- (Sept-San Diego) Robert 942nd Engr. Avn. Topo Bn. Dadson Dr., Lansing, Ml 48911 (517) 882-0035 lan, 5605 Caprice Dr., Austin, TX 78731 Cordillera, Diego, des Granges, 17886 Avenida San Banning, CA, Dirty Thirty (Sept-Metropolis, IL) Merle USS Day DE 225 (Sept-Sarasota, FL) Jim Larner, 7153 CA92128 (619) 487-6950 Darnell Ln., Greendale, Wl 531 29 (414) 421 -3504 Lewis, Rt. I, Box 705A, Springville, IN 47462 (812) 976th Engr. Maint. Co. (WWII) (Oct-Port St. Lucie, FL) 863-7701 USS E.F. Larson DD 830 (Aug-Fall River, MA) Domenick Ln., Port St. Lucie, FL Fred Truedson, 464 Seabreeze FASRON 118 (Okinawa) (Sept-Kansas City, MO) W.J. Scarlato, 10 Tallow Ln., Lake Grove, NY 11 755 (516) 879-0780 34983 (407) Kuhn, 3605 NE. 48th St., Kansas City, MO 64119 981-7187 1056th Engrs., PC&R Grp. (Oct-Richmond, VA) Clyde (816)454-8376 USS Eberle DD 430 (Sept-Petersburg, VA) Robert Voll, 108 Nantucket Cir.. Painesville, OH 44077 (216) Fleet Hospital 108/BEVE 56/MOB 8 (Oct-Nashville, TN) McKenzie, 309 Catawba Ave., Newfield, NJ 08344 354-2951 Chester Behning, 102 Hawley St., Grayslake, IL60030 (609) 697-1587 1256th (C) Engr. Bn. (July-East Liverpool, OH) Nick (708)223-4211 USS Edmonds DE 406 (Sept-Huntington, WV) Alva Yacovone, 1426 Jersy St., Lake Milton, OH 44429 MCB 12 Seabees (Sept-Portsmouth, NH) Robert Mays Jr., 174 Woodland Dr., Huntington, WV 25705 (216) 654-2552 Williams, Box 48, Ludlow, VT 051 49 (304) 525-9870 1258th Combat Engr. Bn., B Co. (WWII) (Sept-Char- NAMRU 2 (WWII) (Nov-Orlando, FL) Chuck Davison, USS Edwards DD 619 (Oct-Las Vegas) Richard Sarle, Dr., St. 783-741 lotte, NC) John Speece, 51295 Burrwood 11 22 Holmes Place. DeKalb, IL 601 15(815)756-2618 84 Washington St., Auburn, ME 0421 0 (207) Clairsville, OH 43950 (61 4) 695-4246 NAS Oceana Control Tower Crew (1951-56) (Aug- USS Emery DE 28 (Aug-Baltimore) George Nordeen, 1276th Combat Engrs. (Oct-Cincinnati) Dick Shultz, Omaha, NE) Troy Pate, 201 Spence Ave., Box 10769, 3825 Jackson St., Bellwood, IL 60104 (708) 544-0526 1515 Riverside Dr., Akron, OH 44310 (216) 923-2198 Goldsboro, NC 27532 (919) 734-2064 USS Ericsson DD 440/Halligan DD 584 (Sept- 1896th Engr. (AVN) Bn. (Oct-Baltimore) Victor NavSecGruAct, Kamiseya, Japan (Admin) (1962-69) Springfield, MA) H. Gebbie, 65 Porter Rd., East Lechowicz. 719 Taylor Ave.. Avalon, PA 15202 (412) (Aug-Myrtle Beach, SC) Gus Leinbohm, Box 4192, Longmeadow, MA01028 (413) 525-1213 761-7592 Fanning DD 385 (Sept-Las Vegas) Hubert Dobbs, Albany, NY 1 2204 (518) 869-8260 USS Antonio, Ct., Bakersfield, 323-921 3184th Signal Serv. Bn. (Sept-San TX) Navy Armed Guard, USED William T. Rossell 1079 6000 Poso CA 93309 (805) John Leonard Smith, 434 Pond St., Westwood, MA 02090 Dredge (Sept-Livingston, NJ) C.J. Will, 539 Cincinnati USS Fletcher DD/DDE 445 (Sept-Minneapolis) (617) 762-8641 Ave., Egg Harbor City, NJ 0821 5 (609) 965-2600 Jensen, 3918 Conlon Ave.. Covina, CA 91722 (818) 3405th Ord. Co. (formerly 67th QM) (WWII) (Sept- Navy Mats/NATWING PAC (VR3/6/7/8/22) (Nov-Reno, 337-2646 Hopewell. VA) Robert Seip, 342 Prospect St., Phil- NV) Monte Umphress, 1348 Hanchett Ave., San Jose, USS Gatling DD 671 (Sept-Nashville, TN) Kenneth IA 50322 hpsburg, NJ 08865 (201 ) 454-8321 CA 95126 (408) 295-0218 Melton, 5808 College Ave., Des Moines, 3467th Ord. Co. 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IV Corps HQ Assn. (Sept-Cape Cod, MA) Sam Dunn, USS ABSD 1 (Sept-Seattle) Ray Cox, 2796 N. 700 E., Ogden, 5049 36th Ave. S.W., Seattle, WA98126 (206) 937-8957 Box 749. Baxley, GA 31 51 3 (91 2) 367-4789 Provo. UT 84604 (801 ) 374- 61 26 V Corps HQ Vets Assn. (WWII) (Oct-Dubuque, IA) Irish USS Alnitah AK 127 (Oct-Tacoma, WA) Richard Baker, USS Halford DD 480 (Sept-Philadelphia) John Salis- Ct., Degnan, 100 Crestview Dr., Guttenberg, IA 52052 Box 1 1204, Durham, NC 27703 bury, 60 Cadwalader Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002 (319) 252-2018 USS Altamaha (Oct-San Antonio) Albert Germaine, 72 (215)641-0196 223- USS Hambleton DD 455/DMS 20 (Aug-Boston) John Nat l Counter Intell. Corps Assn. (Nov-Clearwater. FL) Narrumson Rd.. Manasquan, NJ 08736 (201) Romolo, 34 Hastings St., West Roxbury, MA 02132 Frank Kehrig, 2459 Columbia Dr #81 , Clearwater, FL 5073 34623(813) 799-3829 USS Badoeng Strait (Sept-Las Vegas) Henry Trotter, (617)323-1027 Taboguilla Island Vets (1940-43) (Sept-Milwaukee) B 106 Sage Dr., Universal City, TX 781 48 (51 2) 658-3447 USS Harding DD 625/DMS 28 (Sept-Fayetteville. TN) (Sept-Charleston, SC) Ray G.T. Watson, Box 13A, McDaniel, MD 21647 (301) Faulkner, 721 Billings Ave , Paulsboro, NJ 08066 (609) USS Balroko CVE 115, 423-2812 Radus, 4408 Gateway Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146 745-9725 U.S. Horse Cav. Assn. (Sept-Woodland Hills, CA) U.S. (412)327-5251 USS Hawkins DD/DDR 873 (Aug-Macon, GA) C.

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Butterworth, 4260 Jones Rd., Macon, GA31206 (912) Route, Box 160, Double Springs, AL 35553 (205) 489- USS Skirmish AM 303 (Aug-Reno, NV) Bruce Hyatt. 788-9339 5785 1084 Brush Hill Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (805) USS Henrico APA 45 (Sept-Wilmington, DE) Don Soper, USS LST 627 (WWII) (Sept-St. Louis) Jim Coyle, 18 Mt. 497-9684 15875 Interurban Rd., Platte City, MO 64079 (816) Ash Dr., Kingston, MA 02364 (617) 585-5522 USS Sproston DD 577 (Oct-Kissimmee, FL) Samuel 431-5411 USS LST 636 (WWII) (Nov-Sebring, FL) John Skipper Siegal, 9627 N.W. 26th PI., Sunrise, FL 32222 (305) (Oct-Charleston, Jr., Josephine Rd., Sebring, FL 33872 USS Henry A. Wiley DM 29 SC) Jerry 6901 W. (813) 741-5928 , Beall, Town Point, Cambridge, MD 21613 (301) 228- 385-8500 USS Stephen Potter DD 538 (Oct-Honolulu) Don 9173 USS LST 694 (Sept-Baton Rouge, LA) Robert Kirsch, Rt. Huston, 2148 N.W. 197th St., Seattle, WA 981 77 (206) USS Hilary P. Jones DD 427 (Oct-Ft. Meyers, FL) Cecil 4, Box 117, Evans City, PA 16033 (412) 538-8151 542-3495 Jackson, 15431 East 100 South, Columbus, IN 47203 USS LST 712 (Sept-St. Louis) Charles Hartley, 4912 USS Tisdale DE 33 (Oct-Savannah, GA) J.C. Harpe, Rt.

(812) 579-5590 Sugarloaf Mt. Rd., Roanoke, VA 2401 8 (703) 774-0753 I, Box 21, Morgan, GA31766 (912) 849-3355 USS Hissem DE/DER 400 (Aug-Baltimore) Joseph USS LST 73 (Sept-St. Louis) Leslie Shanteau, 8617 W. USSTracy DM 19 (Aug-Reno, NV) L.A. Orsini, 828Terika Carinci, Rt. 4, Box 35, Canastota, NY 13032 (315) 363- St., Rt. 1 63, Oak Harbor, OH 43449 (41 9) 898-0730 Dr., Follansbee, WV 26037 (304) 527-0975 0435 USS LST 958 (Sept-St. Louis) Arthur Wegman, 6547 N. USS Trepang SS 412 (Sept-Kissimmee, FL) Al Davis,

USS Hoggatt Bay CVE 75 (Oct-Pensacola, FL) D. L. Pasadena Dr., Oak Harbor, OH 43449 (41 9) 898-1 1 88 2564 Bonneville Terr. Dr., Ogden, UT 84403 (801) 479- Canady, 5868 Argyle Way, Riverside, CA 92506 (714) USS Marblehead CL 12 (Sept-Fresno, CA) Fred Brown, 3680 787-8666 12 White Ave., St. Louis, MO 63135 (314) 524-1258 USS Tutuila ARG 4 (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Albert Toto, USS Hull DD 350 (Sept-Las Vegas) M.D. Hoffman, 1214 USS McCoy Reynolds DE 440 (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN) 1 5 Harris Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 924-3389 N. Kennedy, Enid, OK 73701 (405) 237-5593 Walt Goolsby, Hundred Oaks, Rt. 4, Box 303, Kingston, USS Utah AGO 16/ USS Oklahoma BB 37 salvage USS Hunt DD 674 (WWII) (Sept-NC) C.W. Cope, Box TN 37763 (615) 376-6094 crews (Sept-Macon, GA) C. Butterworth, 4260 Jones 550910, Orlando, FL 32855 (407) 423-2541 USS Monssen DD 798 (Oct-Bethlehem, PA) Alton Kies, Rd. Macon, GA31206 (-912) 788-9339 USS James C. Owens DD 776 (Oct) Lee Warren, Box 1955 Livingston St., Bethlehem, PA 18017 (215) 867- USS Van Valkenburgh DD 656 (Korea) (Oct-Fall River,

660, Leeds, UT 84746 (801 ) 879- 2428 6443 MA) Charles Brewer, 7 Francis St., Newport, Rl 02840 USS Jicarilla ATF 104 (Sept-Orlando, FL) Merritt USS Neunzer DE 150 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) (401)847-0342 Yorgey, 2352 Richlandtown Pike, Coopersburg, PA James Thompson, Box 308, 421 Broad St., Perryville, USS Waldron DD 699 (Aug-Baltimore) Richard 18036 (215) 346-8990 MD 21903 (301) 642-2547 Thibodeau, 677 Silver St., Bridgeport, CT06610 (203) USS Keokuk (Sept-Keokuk, IA) Tony Astorino, 147 USS Oriskany CVA 34 (Sept-Oriskany, NY) Vernon 374-7725 PennaAve., Bridgeville, PA 15017 (412) 221-6063 Williams, 3204 Greencastle Rd., Burtonsville, MD USS Waukesha AKA 84 (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Peter USS L.F. MASON DD 852 (Sept-Houston) Roy Powell, 20866 (301) 236-0815 Brandel, 19 Euston Rd. S., West Hempstead, NY 311 Windsor Square, Alvin.TX 77511 (713)585-2165 USS Osmond Ingram DD 255/AVD 9/APD 35 (Sept- 11552(516)481-1673 USS Lake Champlain CV/CVS 39 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Lexington, KY) Robert Hale, 7101 Pierce St., Arvada, USS Wilkes-Barre CL 103 (Oct-lndianapolis) Claude Phillip Nazak, 70 Hill Ave., Johnson City, NY 13790 CO 80003 (303) 422-2982 Roberts, Box 523, Hastings, FL 321 45 (904) 692-1 149 (607) 729-4783 USS Pandemus ARL 18/LST 650 (Oct-Charleston, WV) USS William P. Biddle AP 8 (Sept-Kansas City, MO) USS Lamar APA 47 (Sept-Fredericksburg, VA) Jean Jesse Noble, 7883 S. Broadway, Pendleton, IN 46064 Donald Skouse, Box 1638, Independence, MO 64055 Fisher, Rt. 2, Box 273, Tully, NY 1 31 59 (31 5) 696-5546 (317)778-3277 (816)478-3403 USS Lardner DD 487 (Sept-San Antonio) Jim Meadows, USS Pecos AO 65 (Sept-Columbus, OH) Walter Socha, USS YMS 111 (Sept-Syracuse, NY) E C. Mason, 111 12204 Eastridge Dr. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 871 12 17392 Kinsman Rd., Middlefield, OH 44062 (216)632- Lake Dr., Liverpool, NY 13088 (315) 457-6512 (505)298-9236 1320 USS YMS 398 (Aug-Reno, NV) Homer Lively, 5838 USS LCI (L) 537/Omaha Beach LCIs (Sept-Wilmington, USS Pittsburgh CA 72 (Sept-Corpus Christi, TX) Lee Sherman Ch. S.W., Canton, OH 44706 (21 6) 484-1 181

NC) Howard Clarkson, 73 Grange Rd.,Troy, NY 12180 Warren, Box 660, Leeds, UT (801 ) 879-2428 VA 163 (Vietnam) (July-Grapevine, TX) Larry Spear, (518)279-3846 USS Plunkett DD 431 (Oct-Philadelphia) George Fox, 1551 S.W. 119Ave., Pembroke Pines, FL 33025 (305) USS LCI (L) 652 (Sept-Flagstaff, AZ) Charles Master- 46 Silver Birch Rd., Turnersville, NJ 08012 (609) 227- 431-8171 son, 1350 Crestview, Springfield, IL 62702 (217) 546- 7401 VA 728 (Aug-Branson, MO) M. Sheets, 48 Sierra Dr., 9374 USS Pondera APA 191 (Aug-Rhode Island) Kenneth Salinas, CA 93901 (408)758-0221

USS LCI (L)/(R) 74 (Sept-Baton Rouge, LA) Robert Fine, Box 64, Braddyville, I A 51 631 VB/VPB 133 (WWII) (Sept-Pensacola, FL) Allen Hon-

Kirsch, Rt. 4, Box 1 1 7, Evans City, PA 1 6033 (41 2) 538- USS President Hayes APA 20 (Aug-St. Louis) John eycutt, 170 Glenwood St., Mobile, AL 366067070 8151 Spann, 4370 Maroon Ct., St. Louis, MO 63123 (314) (205) 473-9806 USS LCI 868 (Sept-Mystic, CT) Calvin Lane, 180 High 631-7449 VBF 10/VR 10 (Oct-Reno, NV) William Davis, Box 900, St., Mystic, CT 06355 (203) 572-7622 USS President Jackson (APA 18) Assn. (Unholy Four) Magalia, CA 95954 (916) 873-0401 USS LCS (L) 124 (1944-46) (Aug-Charleston, SC) (Aug-St. Louis) Mick Finnegan, 5413 Isabel Terr., VP 881/882/883 (Nov-Overland Park, KS) G. Thompson, Jimmy Farmer, Box 429, Bowling Green, VA 22427 Homosassa, FL 32646 (904) 628-9628 2907 Wroxton, San Antonio, TX 7821 7 (512) 655-3676 (804) 633-6805 USS Pride DE 323 (Sept-Columbus, OH) Tom Heinmil- VP/VPML 2/VPB 130 (1943-69) (Aug-NAS Widbey Is.) USS Leedstown APA 56 (Sept-Seekonk, MA) R E. ler, 3258 E. Fulton St., Columbus, OH 43227 Russ Horn, 4443 400th Ave. W., Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Larkan, Box 7823, Longview, TX 75607 (214) 643- USS Prince William CVE-31 Assn. (Oct-Seattle) John (206) 675-4033 7625 Love, 740 N. 165th St., Seattle, WA 98133 (206) 542- VPB 26 (WWII) (Sept-San Francisco) John Martocci, USS Lesuth AK 125 (Sept-Gulf Shores, AL) Gerry 1416 1448 Drake Ave., Burlingame, CA 94010 (415) 347- Ehmka, 27901 Chandler Ln., Loxley, AL 36551 (205) USS Rawlins APA 226 (Oct-San Antonio) Jack Cook, 6269 964-5716 Box 1 25, Stockdale, TX 781 60 (512) 996-351 VPB 74 (Oct-Bryan, OH) R.E. Schreder, Box 488, Bryan, USS Leyte CV 32 & Air Grps. (1946-59) (Oct- USS Richmond CL 9 (Sept-Reno, NV) Don Lindsey, HC OH 43506 (419) 636-3184

Scottsdale, AZ) Clarkson Farnsworth, 615 Sanders 64, Box 1 1 8, Lakeview, OR 97630 (503) 947-2987 VT 24 (1944-45) (Sept-Charleston, SC) Edward Dwyer, Ave., Scotia, NY 12302 (518) 346-5240 USS Robert Brazier DE 345 (Sept-Glen Burnie, MD) N10836 Rainbow Terr., Fox Lake, Wl 53933 (414) 928- USS Lindsey DM 32 (Oct-Orlando, FL) John Arrington, William Chew, 23 Annenessix Rd., Crissfield, MD 2731 315)457-6512 51 97 Suwannee Rd., Spring Hill, FL 34607 (904) 596- 21817 (301) 968-2605 0512 USS Rocky Mount AGC 3 (Army/Marines/wounded USS Lloyd Thomas DD 764 (Oct-Newport, Rl) A H. personnel included) (Oct-Long Beach, CA) John Liftman, 102Crabapple Rd., Trumbull, CT 06611 (203) Vreeland, 3710 Armstrong St., San Diego, CA 921 1 Army Air Forces 261-4808 (619)277-0689 USS Louisville (Sept-Norfolk, VA) James Hamill, 81 9 W. USS Rodman DD 456/DMS 21 (Sept-Annapolis, MD) Charles St., Piano, IL 60545 (708) 552-91 1 Ben Winegard, 27 Heritage Ct., Annapolis, MD 21401 8th Ftr. Cont. Sq., 5th AF (WWII) (Sept-Troy, OH) USS LSM 215 (Oct-Covington, KY) Roy Meyer, 2229 (301) 268-3744 George Dickson, 525 N. 16th E., Riverton, WY 82501 Dymond St., Burbank, CA91505 (818) 842-1930 USS Roe DD 418 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Wally Rouse, (307)856-5526 USS LSM 73 (Aug-New York) Walter Markowitz, 2534 2003 Charnes Ct., Lakeland, FL 33813 (813) 646- 17th Air Dpt. Grp. Repair Sq. (Sept-Cincinnati) Thomas Walters Ct., Bellmore, NY 1 1710 (516) 221-0230 0631 Haluscak, 324 Grove Dr., Lower Burrell, PA 15068 USS LST 1000 (Aug) Roy Harmeson, 2138 University USS Roy O. Hale DE 336 (Sept-Galveston, TX) Gene (412)337-6835 PI., Dayton, OH 45406 (51 3) 274-2878 Tapfer, 12827 N. 44th Ave., Glendale, AZ 85304 (602) 18th Air Dpt. Grp. (Oct-Tampa, FL) Wayne Lasinski, USS LST 1045 (Sept-St. Louis) William Moore, 759 938-6459 8000 W. Catherine Ave., Norwood ParkTwp., IL 60656 Dr. Marion, 43302 (61 389-2039 USS Salamaua CVE 96 (Radiomen & Signalmen only) 457-0749 Scenic , OH 4) (708) USS LST 227 (South Pacific) (Aug-LaPorte City, IA) (July) Max Pike, Box 392, 205 W. William St., Mon- 19th Troop Carrier Sq. (Sept-Reno, NV) J.E. McSwain, Grover Parks, 1009 Main St., LaPorte City, IA 50651 ticello, IL 61 856 (217) 762-5041 1012 N. Larrimore St., Arlington, VA 22205 (703) 533- (319)342-3272 USS Samuel B. Roberts DD 823/Mayo DD 422/Laub 1390 USS LST 240 (Sept-St. Louis) Wayne Rosselot, 15925 DD 613 (Sept-Rolling Meadows, IL) O.C. Ayers, 424 22nd Bomb Sq., 341st BG (M) (CBI) (Oct-Pittsburgh)

State Rd. 1 Spencerville, IN 46788 (21 627-6224 Ridgeland Ave., Elmhurst, IL 601 26 (708) 832-2387 John Johns, 4800 Glen Allen Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15236 , 9) USS LST 263 (Sept-St. Louis) B.J. Petrusek, 4209 USS SC 1 373 (Oct-Rapid City, SD) John Henry, Box 354, (412) 881-5461 James Dr., Metairie, LA 70003 (504) 887-1467 Arlington, SD 57212 (605) 983-5413 23rd Bomb. Sq. (Aug-Cocoa Beach, FL) George USS LST 325 (Oct-Springfield, IL) Emil Kolar, 2144 USS Scott DE 214 (Sept-Cincinnati) William Riley, 4055 Crippen, 160 E. Elm Dr., Orange City, FL 32763 (904) North Grand Ave. E., Springfield, IL 62702 (217) 527- McLean Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45255 (513) 528-5124 775-41 1 1153 USS Sevier APA 233 (Oct-Pigeon Forge, TN) Fred 27th Bomb Grp. (L) (Oct-Shreveport, LA) Charles Cook, USS LST 347-72 (Oct-Philadelphia) Fred Bucci, 9808 Hennessee, Rt. 12, Box 86, Morganton, NC 28655 194Wyndham Lakes Ct., Dallas, GA30132 (404) 445- Hardy Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115 (215) 677-0409 (704)437-7660 9711 USS LST 384 (Sept-Nashville, TN) Stan Neal. 950 S. USS Shelton DD 790 (Sept-Zion, IL) Dick Halterman, 27th Trp. Carrier Sq. (CBI) (Nov-Cocoa Beach, FL) Garcia, #1 72, Port Isabel. TX 78578 (512) 943-4603 1308 Ella Ave. N.W., Willmar, MN 56201 (612) 235- Lester Van Winkle, 126 Riojas Dr., Kerrville, TX 78028 USS LST453/Remus ARL 40 (Oct-Reno, NV) L.L. 0966 (512)995-2558 Wright, 5962 lllahee Rd., Bremerton, WA 98310 (206) USS Sibley APA 206 (Oct-Ft. Worth, TX) Dale Choate, 39th T.C. Sq., 317th T.C. Grp., 5th AF (WWII) (Sept- 479-4965 14 Sunset Cir. N., Keller, TX 76248 (817) 431-1841 Denver) Bruce Davidson, 221 Shavano Ave., Salida, USS LST 584 (Sept-St. Louis) Leo Hildebrand, 1461 USS Simon Bolivar SSBN 641 (Aug-Charleston, SC) CO81201 (719)539-3168 N.W. 106th St., Des Moines, IA 50322 (51 5) 226-0306 Ronnie Vandiver, Bldg. 646A, Naval Station, Charles- 43rd Service Sq., 5th AF (Sept-Pentwater, Ml) Howard USS LST 606 (Sept-Gulf Shores, AL) Hoyett Wolfe, Star ton, SC 29408 (803) 743-2896 Schrumpf, Box 740, 214 S. Wythe, Pentwater, Ml

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45th Air Dpt. Grp. ( Aug-Amarillo, TX) Charles 1220 E. 5th St., Pratt, KS 67124(316) 672-3617 3rd Bn. 9th Mar., I Co. (WWII) (Oct-San Antonio, TX) Guemelata, 119 Aigler Blvd., Bellevue, OH 4481 7th Photo Recon. Grp., Mt. Farm, England (Oct-Las Lowell Templin, Rt. 3, Box 678, Mabank. TX 75147 (419)483-4371 Vegas) George Lawson, 4390 14th St. N.E., St. (214)887-8341 51st Trp. Carrier Wing HQ (WWII) (Sepl-Fort Wayne. Petersburg, FL 33703 (81 3) 526-8480 4th Bn., 10th Marines (WWII) (Nov-Redding, CA) Carl IN) Bob Sauer. 3919 Wawonaissa Trail, Ft. Wayne, IN 15th F.I.S. (Sept-Tucson, AZ) George Clasey, 2140 N. Parks, P.O. drawer 247, Bieber, CA 96009 (916) 294- 46809 (219) 747-3739 58th, Lincoln, NE 68505 (402) 466-5034 5246 58th Bomb Wing (VH) Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Omaha, NE) 29-4 Weather Sq. (1 955-57/Azores) (Sept-Chicago) 4th Bn., L Btry./5th Bn., O Btry., 11th Marines (1942-

James Pattillo. 1 143 Glenview Rd., Santa Barbara, CA David Hanson, 5101 Williston Rd., Minnetonka, MN 44) (Oct-Kissimmee, FL) F.J. Sargent, 2265 Arch St., 93108 (805) 969-2796 55345 (612) 935-6834 Jensen Beach, FL 34957 (407) 334-4481 82nd Trp. Carrier Sq., 436 T.C. Grp. (Sept-Dayton, OH) 36th Fighter Grp. (Oct-Albuquerque, NM) John Light- 4th Marine Engr., 4th Div., B Co. (Aug-Jackson, Ml)

Robert Ourant, 4295 Stratton Rd., Columbus. OH wine, Box 1 103, Corrales, NM 87048 (505) 898-5023 Dick Nichols, 1594 Ford Blvd., Lincoln Park, Ml 48146 43220 (614) 451-5717 40th Bomb Grp. /28th Service Outfit (WWII) (Oct- (313)382-0751 85th Dtp. Rep. Sq. (Sept-Xenla, OH) Marion Poland, Tucson, AZ) Neil Wemple., 9717 East Shiloh, Tucson, 10th Defense Bn. (Sept-Jackson, MS) Lester

1 770 Stewart Rd., Xenia. OH 45385 (51 3) 372-4800 AZ 85748 (602) 296-8880 Auchmoody. Rt. 2, Box 625, Milton Grove Rd., Mt. Joy, 87th Airdrome Sq., 7th AF (WWII) (Sept-Myrtle Beach, 46th Serv. Grp. (Sept-Montpelier, OH) S.L. Clark, Rt. 3, PA 17552 (717) 653-6027 SC) Carl Cerino, Rt. 1, Box 1047, Bangor, PA 18013 Montpelier, OH 43543 (419) 485-4905 12th Marines, 3rd Mar. Div., HQ Btry. (1962-65) (Aug- (215) 588-1603 71st Tact. Recon. Grp. /HQ/1 7th/25th/82nd/1 1 0th Jamestown, NY) Robert Gormley, 6843 Horrock St.,

92nd Trp. Carrier Sq., 439th Trp. Carrier Grp. (Aug-San Sqs. /5th AF (Oct-Houston) J.C. Lott, 6302 Gulf Philadelphia, PA 1 91 49 (21 5) 342-7475 Antonio) William Schaefer, 240 Pineapple St., Satellite Freeway, Houston, TX 77023 (71 3) 641 -1 351 Marine Corps Transport Assn. (All VMR/VMGR sqs.) Beach. FL 32937 (407) 773-821 79th Fighter Grp./85th, 86th, 87th Sqs. (WWII) (Nov- (Oct-Cherry Point, NC) Marine Corps Transport Assn., 98th Bomb Grp. /Wing (Oct-Norfolk, VA) C.L. Montgom- New Orleans) Edwin Newbould, 1206 S.E. 27th Terr, Box 1114, Havelock, N C. 28532 ery, 18980 Burnt Leaf Way, Monument, CO 80132 Cape Coral. FL 33904 (813) 574-7098 Marine Det., Bermuda (1954-57) (Aug-San Francisco) (719)488-2183 93rd Ftr. Sq., 81st Ftr. Grp. (Oct-Dayton, OH) John Michael Capochiano, 35-41 80th St., #31, Jackson

31 2th Fighter Control Sq. (Sept-Dallas) George Forish, Dougherty, 201 Bartram Ln., Ocean City, NJ 08226 Heights, NY 1 1 372 (71 8) 639-51 82 Box 122, Main St., Blandford, MA 01008 (413) 568- (609)398-5375 Marine Engrs. (July-Nashville, TN) C.L. Guthrie Jr., 8624 303rd Bomb Wing (B-47) (Oct-S. Padre Island, TX) O R. 1000 Textile Rd., Spartanburg, SC 29301 (803) 574- 318th T.C. Sq., 343rd A.D. Sq. (Oct-Mobile, AL) Robert Smith, 1321 N. Via Ronda Oeste, Tucson, AZ 85715 4903 Thompson. 608 St. Andrews Way, Lompoc, CA 93436 (602) 722-9437 Marine Mustang Assn. (Oct-Atlantic Beach. NC) Bob

(805) 733-2041 312th Dpt. Repair Sq. (Oct-Las Vegas) J.B. Monzella, Richter, Box 1 31 4, Delran, NJ 08075 (800) 321 -USMC 319th Bomb Grp. (Sept-King of Prussia, PA) Joseph 765 Belwood Cir, Fairfield, AL 35604 (205) 923-1790 VMB 423 (PBJ Sq.) (Sept-Charleston, SC) Michael Madrano. 8308 Sprmgtown, #9, Converse, TX 78109 319th FIS (Oct-Kokomo, IN) David Syphers, 134 E. 3rd Bowler, 7738 Allwood Ave.. Charleston. SC 29418 (512)659-4237 St., Peru, IN 46970 (31 7) 473-7629 (803)552-3818 345th Bomb Grp. (WWII) (Oct-Las Vegas) Julius Fisher, 324th Service Sq. (WWII) (Sept-Manitowoc, Wl) Hilmer 3131 Drahner Rd., Oxford, Ml 48051 (313)628-1287 Nelson, 5215 11th Ave., Moline, IL 61265 (309) 764- 367th Fighter Grp., 9th AF (WWII) (Nov-Orlando, FL) 6202 391st Bomb Grp. Assn. (B-26 Eng. & Frame) (Sept- A.J. Diefendorf, 25985 Holly Vista, San Bernardino, Coast Guard CA 92404 (714) 862-7954 Phoenix) Bob Vincent, Rt. 2, Box 16, Blossvale, NY 403rd T.C. Grp., HQ (WWII) (Oct-San Diego) Stanley 13308(315)337-2749 Wycoff, Larwin Ave., Cypress, CA 405th Fighter Bomber Grp. TAC (1953-56) (Sept- 4423 90630 (714) Short Beach Lifeboat Sta. (Sept-Freeport, NY) Robert 828-5352 Hampton, VA) RogerWarren, 7550 Palmer Rd., Moeller, 9 Corey Ln., Bennington, VT05201 (802) 447- Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 866-7756 447th/1909th/1910th Ord. Avn., 5th AF (Sept-Buffalo, 0032 452nd Bomb. Wing (L) (Korea) (Aug-Long Beach, CA) NY) Joseph Francescone, 355 Traverse Blvd., Ken- Chambers WDE 491 (Aug-Baltimore) Jack Beach, 90803 USCGC more, NY 1 4223 (716) 876-6892 Gene Hoffman, Box 3785, Long CA Ellis, 721 Main St., Shrewsbury, MA 01 545 (508) 842- (213)438-7138 451st Bomb. Grp. (H)/60th Service Sq. (Sept-Omaha. 2502 NE) Robert Karstensen, 1032 S. State St., Marengo, 459th Fighter Sq. (Oct-Fredericksburg, VA) Wayne USS Allentown PF 52 (Sept-Elkhart, IN) J.W. Bradley, IL 568-7766 Sneddon, Box 1 1 7, Pilot Hill, CA 95664 601 52 (81 5) 2323Kenilworth, Elkhart, IN 46514 (219) 264-7761 507th Bomb Sq., 333rd Grp., 8th AF (Dec-Hickory, NC) 453rd Bomb Sq. (B-26) (Oct-Myrtle Beach, SC) C.V USS Aquarius AKA 16 (Oct-New Orleans) Gloria Sochocki, 1314 N. Brookfield St., South Bend, IN 507th Bomb Sq., Box 5145, Hickory, NC 28503 (704) Nuccio, 2640 Bay Adams Dr., Marrero, LA 70072 (504) 256-6274 46628 (219) 233-6044 347-5118 (WWII) (Aug- 676th Radar Sq. (July-Antigo, Wl) Doug Sylfest, 505 454th Bomb Sq., 323rd Bomb Grp. USS Cepheus AKA 18 (WWII) (Oct-Orlando, FL) Grant Seattle) Joseph Havrilla, 1208 Margaret St., Munhall, Alpha Ct., Antigo, Wl 54409 (71 5) 623-3089 Smith, 540 Melrose Ave. S., Plainfield, NJ 07080 (201 901st Engr. 8th AF, HQ Co. (Wide Wing) (Oct-Cleve- PA 15120 (412) 461-6373 757-2403 455th Bomb Sq., 323rd Bomb Grp., 9th AF (WWII) land) Myron Metzel, 24601 Hazelmere Rd., Glendale PF 36 (Oct-Tampa, FL) I.J. Conkline, Beachwood, OH 44122 464-5825 USS (Sept-Mt. Pocono, PA) Erhard Reich, 347 Matthew St., (216) 548- 1 2875 Prowell St. . Leavenworth, WA 98826 (509) 928th Signal Bn. (Sept-Daytona Beach, FL) Henry Bristol, CT 06010 (203) 583-2449 7129 460th Grp. (Oct-Savannah, GA) Robert Cutler, Brancasio, 336 Yorktown Dr., Daytona Beach, FL Bomb USS LST 69 (Aug-New Bedford, MA) Charles Little, Box 1335 U.S. Hwy. 19 So., #A-16, Clearwater. FL 34624 32119(904)756-4168 401 93, New Bedford, MA 02744 (508) 992-5997 2584th ABG/31 9th FBW/445th TCW/91 9th/920th TCE/ (813) 536-1018 USS LST 762 (WWII) (Oct-Nashville, TN) Charles 493rd Bomb Grp., 8th AF (Oct-Las Vegas) John 701st/702nd TCS (Reserves) (Sept-Memphis, TN) Quilico, 61 1 1 May Ave., Boise, ID 83703 (208) 853- R.V Quick, 2068 Fire Fly Cove, Memphis, TN 38119 Conway, 58 College Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 2660 (901) 755-6219 (914)454-8074 USS Menges DE 320 (Aug-Baltimore) Toney Logan, 3500th Air Police Sq., Reese AFB (Oct-San Antonio) 509th Comp. Bomb Grp. (VH) ( Aug-Wendover, UT) 4915 Swegle Rd. N.E. #81. Salem, OR 97301 (503) Gary Jones. 1515 Periwinkle, San Antonio, TX 78232 Charles Levy, Box 24606, Philadelphia, PA 19111 362-8705 (512)496-5492 (215)342-3887 USS Peoria PF 67 (Oct-Louisville, KY) Philip Wright. 568th/580th Signal Bns., 7th AF (Nov-Las Vegas) 4397th Air Refueling Wing (Oct-Randolph AFB, TX) AW 1533 Greenfield Ct.. Fremont, OH 43420 (419) 332- Douglas Christmas, 602 E. Langley Blvd., Universal Edward Zoladz, 528 Shoreline Rd., Lake Barnngton, IL 3434 382-0889 City.TX 78148 (512) 658-1658 60010 (708) USS Pocatello PF 9 (Sept-Seattle) Joseph Pogan, Box Engr. Bn. (Sept-Aurora, IL) George Tarran, Air Commando Assn. (Oct-Ft. Walton Beach, FL) 832nd AVN 10121, Eugene, OR 97440 (503) 649-6310 Reunion Committee, ACA, Box 7, Mary Esther, FL 24 Greefield Rd.. Montgomery, IL 60538 (312) 896- USS Richey DE 385 (Aug-Baltimore) Henry Konrad, 32569 0052 18437 University Park., Livonia, Ml 48152 (313) 464- Berlin Airlift Assn. (Sept-Las Vegas) M. Burton, Box 878th Chem. Co. (WWII) (Aug-Colorado Springs, CO) 6537 234, Wayne, PA 1 9087 (21 5) 687-1 975 Edward Misener, 2100 E Oak St., Lot 621 , Arcadia, FL USS Samuel Chase APA 26 (Oct-San Diego) George 33821 (813) 494-9541 Pilot Class 50-E (Sept-San Antonio) H. Stengel, 903 Williams, 11319 Amboy St., Spring Hill, FL 34609 2072nd Truck. Co. (Sept-Indianapolis) Vernon Pickett Ln.. Newark, DE 1971 1 (302) 368-3860 QM (904) 686-5191 Carson, 108 Cayuga Cove, Lake Kiowa, TX 76240 USS Sterope/Enceladus/other C.G. vessels (Aug- (817) 665-8431 Grand Haven, Ml) Edgar Booth, 51 1 Danville Ave., Air (Sept- 12th Tact. Command, HQ&HQ Sq. (1945) Stanford, KY 40484 (606) 365-2326 Seattle) Mrs. Joseph Kranak, 2215 21st Ave. S., Marines Seattle, WA 981 44 (206) 322-1 1 39 Pilot's Class 42X (Aug-Colorado Springs, CO) Walter King, 1977 Sage Cir. Golden, CO 80401 (303) 278- 1st M.T. Bn., 1st MarDiv, C Co. (Oct-Wenatchee, WA) 98801 22'JO Galen Inks, 439 Inks Rd , Wenatchee, WA (509) Miscellaneous Pilot's Class 45-A, Enid AAFB (Oct-Enid, OK) Frank 662-8349

Therrell, 3303 Shady Cove. Tyler, TX 75707 (214) 566- 1st Marine Div. Assn. ( Aug-Minneapolis) George May, NJ) Stanton, 510 1 VA 221 91 (703) 295th JASCO (Oct-Cape Lee 2616 Meyer, 704 Florida Ave , Woodbridge, 550-7516 Robin Rd., Cape May Beach Villas, NJ 08251 (609) 886-4768 2nd Bn., 1 1th Marines, F Btry. (Vietnam) (Aug-Holland, Ml) Paul Scalf, Box 326, Fennville, Ml 49408 (616) Civilian Conservation Corps ( Aug-Daniels, WV) Air Force 561-2653 Robell Clark, 107 Lynn St., Daniels. WV 25832 (304) 2nd Bn., 18th Marines, E Co. (WWII) (Sept-Jackson, 252-3161 (Sept-Pigeon Forge, TN) MS) F.J. Lovering, 827 Mark Rd., Leesburg, FL 34748 Civilian Conservation Corps 1st Fighter Grp. (Sept-Las Vegas) Harry McConnell, (904) 728-8770 Cecil Flowers, Rt. 10, 2766Campbell St., Jackson, TN Sherry Dr (51 837-1 2nd Bn., 4th Rgt. (July-La Jolla, CA) Walter Gorsage, 38305(901)422-6475 600 N , Trotwood, OH 45426 3) 652 679-3177 Civilian Conservation Corps, Co. 1733 (Oct-Ava, MO) 1st/69th Pllotle88 Bomber Sqs. (Sept-Denver) Quint Rt. 1 , Box 679, Norton, VA 24273 (703)

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entertainer Al Jolson and comedian ELLIS ISLAND HOUSE OF MEMORIES Bob Hope. They produced great per- Continuedfrom page 29 sons. Their descendants were to sit in Ellis Island Immigration THE Congress and in state houses across the Museum, which opens in Sep- land. tember, tells the story of But the journey for most immigrants America's immigrant heritage. It was an anonymous venture— a per- comprises the island's vast The wayfarers streamed onto Ellis Main sonal epic recorded, if at all, in the Island like beleagured troops, men Building, a structure large enough pages of a family scrapbook. Only they to hefting suitcases lashed with rope; hold four Independence Halls. themselves, and their loved ones, really women carrying infants; boys and girls Scores of exhibits will allow vis- knew what they went through, and what itors to make their symbolic way bearing tattered bags of belongings. it was they found after they had made They lined up amid a babel of voices through the same processing steps their passage. of the immigrants. part in the Great Hall — a huge, vaulted- As of the There was no gold in the streets of ceiling chamber that looked big enough museum, the American Wall of America. But just about every new- Honor, a 950-foot seawall, bears to contain a village from the Old World. comer who made it to the shore, mus- the Many of the incoming Irish had never names of 200,000 Americans, tered the strength to earn his bread. And past and present. For more infor- seen an Italian or a Jew, anymore than the journey, grim though it had been, the Italian had seen a Russian or a Turk. mation about the Ellis Island could be cause for pride. As a young to The German could not make out what Immigration Museum, write Irishman, just ashore from Ellis Island, The Statue of Liberty National the Scot was saying, nor could the Pole put it: "A long swing of the shovel understand the Swede. Monument, Liberty Island, New makes me as good as any man!" The scene had the look of a human York, NY 10004 The immigrants had come to the land stockyard as immigrants underwent of the common man. They took what "six-second physicals." Medical offi- they found in the way of work and tried cers checked them for cholera, yellow most of them quietly weeping." It was to make the best of it. Many of them fever, typhoid, leprosy, ringworm, the end of a dream. would dig ditches, sew garments in scarlet fever and trachoma, a con- In its time, Ellis Island was the bit- sweatshops, cut timber, scrub floors, tagious eye disease. Unfortunates tersweet setting for births, sickness, dig in mines, do laundry, toil in mills, found to have a disease were sent back escapes, weddings, reunions, sad part- cut stone, labor in factories, wait on to their ports of embarkation. By 1917, ings, suicides and deaths. tables, dig tunnels, wash dishes, walk there were 33 reasons for keeping a Reviled as the "Isle ofTears" by those the high steel and till fields. Some person out. turned away, Ellis Island was revered as would live for a time in tenements or Inspectors, helped by interpreters, the "Island of Hope" by those who tarpaper shacks, getting by day to day, threw rapid-fire questions at the immi- passed muster there. Ninety-eight of hand to mouth. They would get kicked grants. "Have you ever been in jail?" every 100 immigrants were declared around. They would know hardship, "How will you make your living in "free to land." Waved onward, the new pain and setbacks. But they would keep

America?" "Is someone meeting you?" arrivals bore their boxes and bundles. at it. "How much money do you have with Many hurried onto the ferry that would They would survive, raise their you?" "Where are you going?" One carry them to Manhattan. Others families and keep dreaming their Polish girl, asked how she would wash bought railroad tickets to the far dream. And, if they did not realize the stairs— "From the top to bottom, or the reaches of the country. Railroad agents dream, there were the children or their bottom to top?" calmly answered, "I did their best to figure out destinations children's children. They surely would didn't come to America to wash stairs. scrawled on baggage tags: "De- find it. They would prevail. They would Sometimes names were changed trayamis" (Detroit), "Linkinbra" (Lin- be America. along the way from the Old World to the coln, Nebr.), "Deas Moyness Youa" new. An immigrant who came to Ellis (Des Moines, Iowa) or just "Main Island as Honannes Gardashian left as Street." Joe Arness. Half of one Ukranian For the greenhorns— the brave, the family became Hesker, the other half resolute, the hope-filled, the perse-

Gesker. A man named Mastroianni cuted, the beset, the poor— it was the

emerged as Mister Yanni. end of the beginning. It was not where Five thousand immigrants reached they had come from that mattered, but Ellis Island on a typical day. Eighty where they were bound. percent were cleared and on their way They would make their way into the

in three or four hours. tradition of our national life. They gave The law of the land banished those us scientists, warriors, artists, writers, deemed "likely to become a public- statesmen, philosophers, educators. charge." Two of every 100 immigrants They counted among their number such were so judged and had to make the notables as composer Irving Berlin, long, bitter voyage back to the Old Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfur- Country. About 250,000 returned to the ter, actor Edward G. Robinson, football fates they had hoped to flee. An great Knute Rockne, film mogul observer wrote of such deportees in Samuel Goldwyn, Father Edward 1923: "They trooped aboard the big Flanagan, founder of Boy's Town,

barges, carrying their heavy bundles, impresario Sol Hurok, labor leader "Well, let's hear it...." some waving little American flags, Philip Murray, director Frank Capra,

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basic theory is based on the cost of because of liability suits: It gets too LIFE WORTH death and avoiding death, but if you're expensive to continue, and the products Continuedfrom page 27 injured, you're not dead. You can pretty are simply withdrawn from the market. well guarantee that the judgment will "A second problem is that if we fully

be somewhere in excess of $ 1 million," compensate the loss from a given Olsen said. injury, we remove the incentive to avoid Chicago attorney Thomas M. injury. People take more care if they're justify giving survivors damages for the Crisham, president of the Defense not going to be compensated," Miller loss of the wrongfully dead individual's Research Institute, doesn't believe that said. "You're going to take a lot less right to smell the flowers? "That's a it's possible to put a dollar figure on the care stepping off the bus if you know legitimate question for society to ask," value of a single life or on life's plea- that if you break your leg you'll get Smith responded. "I think it's under- sures. "It's a question like, how much $100,000. Maybe you don't care so stood that there's been a loss. The state would I spend to educate my children? much about walking, but the money wants to punish wrongdoers." I might spend much more than the aver- looks pretty good. In some states where

Merle Bassett of Woods River, 111., age. Or I might be willing to spend less. they've increased workers' compensa- may like the idea of hedonic damages, And look at how much we spend on tion benefits, they've found that the but noted Chicago personal-injury tobacco, cigarettes, pipes and cigars. injury rate goes up at the same rate as lawyer Thomas Demetrio wants no part Does that indicate how little we value the increase in benefits." of it. He doesn't believe in suing for the life?" "We can't live in a risk-free world," loss of someone else's pleasure. The Dr. Ted Miller, a senior resident Smith said. "Nor should every accident rest of it, he said, is covered under associate of The Urban Institute, a have the economic consequence pinned disability, disfigurement, physical Washington, D.C., economic think on some third party. But if a court finds pain, mental suffering, medical tank, believes that within five years that someone else is responsible for an expenses and loss of income. "It's the hedonics will be a standard part of jury injury or the loss of a life, then the full jury's function to decide compensa- awards, and that it's not good. "I don't value of that injury or life should be tion, not some economist's. I don't think the system can afford hedonic compensated. We all place a value on believe a lawyer would ever want to be damages, and I don't want to pay the our lives, even though we may no bound to what some expert, looking in insurance costs for it. longer be earning a living. More and his or her crystal ball, thinks is right." "I think the legislatures will inter- more, courts and juries are agreeing the

"I can believe that, to the kind of vene and impose a cap on damages or value of a life is not trivial." attorney who's used to getting awards say it's not appropriate." Miller said In any case, the monetary value of in the several millions, hedonics may there are already problems for manufac- life or the loss of its pleasures will seem limiting," said Smith. For one turers of safety products and vaccines surely be debated for years to come. thing, because Smith limits the value of life to not more than a couple million dollars, mere personal injury could never exceed that. Because of that limi- The "OFF-LAWN" Mower tation, he asserted, "This concept can be used not only by plaintiff attorneys, A t LASTL.M machine that but also by defendants to mitigate against unreasonably high awards. For makesyourentinproperty, example, in the G.D. Searle Copper 7 mare useabie, accessible (IUD) case, a woman claimed she lost ana beautiful! her fertility because of the device, and she got an $8.5 million jury award. If you have over an acre of land, the That's an example in which the defense TROY-BILT TRAIL BLAZER® Sickle could have emphasized the value of life, Bar is the perfect "off-lawn" mower to which is in the several million dollar cut grass, weeds, even light brush of range, and found that the ability to any height in all types of terrain. conceive is maybe worth 20 to 30 per- cent of that amount. Smith said, "You • Amazingly fast! come up with damages of six, seven, cuts 1,500 sq. ft. of overgrown eight, nine hundred-thousand dollars, weeds in under 5 minutes! and that's a far cry from almost $9 mil- • Blaze nature trails for lion." walking, hunting, skiing, snowmobiling.

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is to train soldiers to use a weapons commander, Maj. Gen. Eugene R. system; ours is to make sure it's going Cromartie. FRAUD SQUAD to work." In the early 1970s, after a series of Continuedfrom page 33 The Army's CIDC continues to fight scandals, senior Army agents entered a the more traditional battles against new logistics criminal investigator spe- drugs, violent crime and other serious cialty program, later renamed the crime that directly affect the fighting economic crime investigator program. we deal with have put a lot of thought forces and their families. What U.S. After training in contracting and into a scheme to defraud the govern- Army commanders and the soldiers do acquisitions at the Army Logistics ment, so it's a real challenge for us to not see is the ongoing war on economic Management College at Fort Lee, Va. unravel those schemes." crime. agents were assigned to all CIDC reg- Beyond the personal gratification for Throughout the United States and ions worldwide to handle economic unravelling a scheme, Keller said, is the overseas commands, CIDC agents like crime cases. long-term satisfaction of knowing he's Keller are tackling ever-more ambitious Despite some success in the pro- making a difference to soldiers in the cases of contractor fraud. Economic gram, Cromartie recognized that con- field. crime investigation is not new to Army tractor fraud still was not a priority

"The way I look at it, we're right up CIDC agents, but its focus has inten- compared to the more-traditional crim- there with platoon sergeants. Their job sified since the 1983 arrival of a new inal cases. He changed this focus, giving contractor fraud command-wide emphasis and ordering all CIDC agents to receive fraud training. Advertisement Then the cases started to mount. In one out-of-court settlement, a major Are You Clever Enough helicopter manufacturer, suspected of overcharging for spare parts and inflating hours, calculations and salary costs, paid $69 million in cash, spare To Die Without A Trust? parts and withdrawn claims in restitu- tion. In another, a San Diego contractor Canton, OH (Special) You can spend been praised by estate planners and paid the government $7.25 million for money for a Will only to have a substan- reported in financial publications like falsifying test results concerning the tial part of your assets needlessly taken The Wall Street Journal, Business performance of mine detectors. And yet by lawyers, courts and executors through to few. Week, Money, name a You another corporation paid $403,000 in the probate process. simply transfer all your assets into a fines, restitution and prosecution costs should avoid probate? Living Trust and yourself or Why you name any- for doctoring payment vouchers and Simple. It costs too takes much and too one you want as trustees. time cards to include overhead costs. long. Probate also creates an "invasion Lawyers can charge an average of The CIDC maintained its assault on of your family's financial privacy!" for writing a Will ~ and then can get $60 economic crime, recovering close to Probate alone can slice to to for probate. It's smart set up 10% up 10% to $185 million during a five-year period an estate and take years Living Trust. from months or up a and helping bring about 1,106 indict- for settlement. Working with a team of legal ments and 3,052 convictions for pro- In fact, the only thing than scholars, Financial worse a DSA Publishing curement fraud. Will for the average wage earner is the Corp. of Canton, Ohio has prepared a Then, in late 1988, in what is being nightmare Will all. Living Kit created by no at Trust designed so you can heralded as the most progressive anti- then the decides easily set your Living Because State who gets up own Trust. fraud move yet, Cromartie created 26 everything you own. You'll get complete instructions written five-to-10 agent fraud teams, moving Now mere's a far better way to in easy-to understand, step-by-step the teams into metropolitan areas near protect your estate than having only a simple language. You'll also get com- the corporations they were assigned to Will. A new study reveals that a Living plete guidelines on how to custom tailor investigate and began replacing mili- Trust is a low-cost alternative to probat- your personal Living Trust so that any tary economic crime agents with civil- ing a will, even for an average sized special wishes you may have for your ian investigators. estate. estate are carried out. "The team approach allows agents to Today you can eliminate costly, It's easy to get your Living Trust learn from each other and to pass along time-consuming probate and legal fees Kit. All you have to do is send a check valuable experience," said special by using a simple legal paper called a or money order in the amount of $19.95 agent Charles Moss, chief of the pro- revocable Living Trust. It avoids pro- plus $2 postage and handling or charge curement fraud branch at CIDC head- bate attorney, managerial and court fees to your VTSA/Mastercard by including quarters in Falls Church, Va. "Just as because there is no Will to probate. account number and expiration date to: significant," he said, "was the decision Your family suffers no expense or set- DSA Financial Publishing Corp., to base the team where they can work Uement delays. And since a Living 708 - 12th Street N.W., Dept. W626, most effectively." Trust is revocable, you can change your Canton, Ohio 44703. For even faster For example, the 10-memberLaguna mind at any time about trustees and who service, VTSA/Mastercard only, call Niguel team is based near Los Angeles gcLs your assets. Unlike a Will the loll free 1-800-321-0888, Ext. W626. in the heart of the largest concentration estate goes at once to whomever you A 90 day money back guarantee is of defense contractors in the country. cases in southern name ~ in complete secrecy. naturally offered. Do it now . . . while The team works The many advantages of a Living there is still time to protect your loved California, Nevada and Arizona. entire Trust for the average-sized estate has OneS. e 1990 DSA DW32&4 "About 30 percent of the

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defense budget is spent in southern Niguel team's territory, an agent han- case doesn't involve at least the high California," said Doug Phillips, agent dles about five investigations, most hundreds of thousands of dollars, we

in charge of the team. "Of the top 100 referred by the Defense Contract Audit can't take it on." defense contractors nationwide, most Agency, contractor employees or former Agents hope that contractors are are represented here with a headquar- employees, or companies that admit getting the message that crime ters, a subsidiary, or at least a division. fraud through voluntary self-disclosure involving Army contracts doesn't pay. It keeps us pretty busy." before they are discovered. Among the "Some contractors out there cut cor- "Economic crime cases can run two cases handled by each agent, usually ners. Out job is to make sure they don't or three years or even longer. This two are designated "priority one," cut them too close," said special agent creates problems when you have a mili- meaning they have the greatest readi- Steve Zuilkoski of the Phoenix branch tary agent who is transferred in the ness or dollar impact on the Army. office.

middle of an investigation," explained "There's a degree of frustration "There's no doubt about it; contrac-

Michael J. Keith, agent in charge of the because we can't follow up on every tors know we're out there looking over Sixth Region procurement fraud divi- case," Phillips said. "That doesn't their shoulders. A big case comes along sion in San Francisco. mean the low-dollar cases aren't valid, and gets a lot of publicity, and they To help remedy this instability, CIDC but with our case loads and manpower, can't help but take notice," he said. is recruiting civilian agents, mostly we're approaching the point that if a "They know we mean business." among military agents who leave the Army and other Defense Department, federal and state investigative organiza-

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NEA money went to Andres Serrano artist's aborted baby. that I see and to which federal money who then gave us the now infamous • The NEA, again through a subgran- has gone, and some of the sacrilegious, "Piss Christ." tee, provided tax dollars to a mural in blasphemous depictions that are por- • The NEA funded a photographic New York that was dedicated to the trayed by some to be art." He added that this material "has no business of

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