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The American Legion Magazine [Volume 85, No. 1 (July 1968)] • 1 THE AM E R I C A N 20c J U LY 96 8 MAGAZINE HANOI'S CAPTIVE AMERICANS A review of North Vietnam's respect and disrespect for agreements on treatment ^ of war prisoners. SP THE STORY BEHIND THE ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF GROWING OLDER WHAT JIM LUCAS TOLD CONGRESS ABOUT VIETNAM m . Designed for the man who wants to unpack and find his clothes looking like they just came back from the cleaners. FIRST PERFECT WAY to PACK ALL YOUR CLOTHING Say good-by forever to wrinkled clothes . bulging suitcases . complicated packing instructions... heavy luggage... NEW EXECUTIVE SUIT CARRIER. Just hang your suits as you normally do on the newly-designed special hangers. Because of the unique construction of the hangers, the swivel locking unit, and the design of the carrier itself . your suits come out 100% wrinkle free and ready to wear. NEW WATER- PROOF ZIPPERED COMPARTMENT. 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Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office Form 3578. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses with ZIP Code number and current membership card number. LEGION Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices Magazine 720 Fifth Avenue New Yorlc, New York 10019 Publisher, lames F. O'Neil Editor Contents for July 1968 Robert B. Pitkin Art Editor Al Marshall Assistant Editor WHAT JIM LUCAS TOLD CONGRESS ABOUT VIETNAM 6 John Andreola The famed Scripps-Howard war correspondent, returning after Associate Editors Roy Miller forthright nearly four years in Vietnam, presents a James S. Swartz report that turbulent country. from Assistant Art Editor Walter H. Boll A FRONTIER RELIC 11 Production Manager FORT LARNED, KAN.— Art Bretzfield STEVENS BY ALDEN Copy Editor A travel article for today's motorists on century-old Fort Lamed, Grail S. Hanford a completely preserved frontier post on the old Santa Fe Trail. Circulation Manager Forty-seventh in the series "Seeing Historic America." Dean B. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. Advertising Director HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF GROWING OLDER 12 Robert P. Redden BY JAMES WARNER BELLAH Chicago Sales Office David Gellcr Associates, Inc. Life may begin at 65, if you manage it correctly. 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago, 111. 50601 312 CEntral 6-2401 SHOULD THE U.S. FINANCE A SUPERSONIC Advertising Sales Representatives TRANSPORT SYSTEM? 16 JE Publishers Representive Co. TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION 8380 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, California 90069 pro: rep. THOMAS M. PELLY (R-WASH.) con: sen. WILLIAM PROXMIRE (D-WIS.) 420 Market Street San Francisco, California 94111 The American Legion HANOI'S CAPTIVE AMERICANS 18 Publications Commission: BY THOMAS A. HOGE James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. (Chairman); Howard E. Lohman, Moorhead, Minn. (Vice We do not know how many American POW's are held by North Chairman) ; Bob Whittemore, Watertown, S.D. Vietnam, hut we do know that with some of them Hanoi (National Commander's Representative); has broken every law governing humane treatment of Lang Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Bootli, Huntington. W. Va.; Adolph F. out. prisoners, as the author, a POW veteran, points Bremer, Winona, Minn.; John Cicero, Swoyer- lille. Pa.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.: Raymond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; Chris Her- NEGOTIATING WITH COMMUNISTS: nandez, Savannah, Ga.; Mylio S. Kraja. Youngstoiin, Ohio; George D. Levy, Sumter, THE GLOOMY LESSON OF KOREA 24 S.C.; Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, loiva; Syracuse, N.Y.; Morris Meyer, Events at the Paris peace talks and on the battlefields in Frank C. Love, Starkvillc, Miss.; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, Vietnam begin to resemble the Communist strategy La.; Harry H. Schaffer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; in Korea 15 years ago. Will we again submit to Bradley J. Stephens, Los Altos, Calif.; Wayne L. Talbert, Delphi, Ind.; J. Cornelius Tromp, the trickery of Red "negotiations"? Manhattan, 111.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bris- tol. Conn.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadcville, Ala.; E. Meade Wilson, Mulberry, Fla.; Edward THE STORY BEHIND THE ADOPTION OF McSweency, Neui York. N.Y., (Consultant) THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 28 The American Legion Magazine is published BY LESTER DAVID monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 40201 by The American Legion, Copyright The Declaration had to be unanimous, but for two crucial days 1968 by The American Legion. Second-class in July 1776 it wasn't. postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single copy, 20 cents; yearly subscription, J2.00. Order nonmember subscriptions from the Cir- culation Department of The American Legion, Departments P.O. Box 1954. Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. Editorial and advertising offices: 720 5th Ave., LEHERS TO THE EDITOR 2 NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 35 New York, N.Y. 10019. Wholly owned by The .American Legion, with National Head, EDITOR'S CORNER 4 LIFE IN THE OUTDOORS 44 quarters at Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. William BOOKS 23 PERSONAL 48 E. Galbraith, National Commander. DATELINE WASHINGTON 33 LEGION SHOPPER 55 NONMEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS VETERANS NEWSLETTER 34 PARTING SHOTS 56 Send name and address, including ZIP num- ber, with $2 check or money order to Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Indian- stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. apolis, Ind. 46206. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1968 The last time I landed there was in March 1919. My CO., Col. R. S. Hartz, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR instructed me to land a Jenny in the Polo Grounds . and, for heaven's sake, have a well pressed, clean imiform on. I landed Letters published do not necessarily ex- with the traditional sideslip, and there versed. If an odd number of pairs is ]3ress the policy oj The American Legion. was quite a delegation awaiting Keep letters short. Name and address must reversed at the start the puzzle is un- my be jurnished. landing. I didn't know it Expressions oj opinion and solvable. If an even number of pairs has what was all requests /or personal services are appreci- about. I taxied up to the crowd, cut the ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or been reversed, it is solvable. answered, to lack gun and climbed out. I was introduced due of magazine staff jor Joseph J. Hasson these purposes. Requests jor personal serv- to Secretary of the Treasury Carter ices which may be legitimately asked oj New York, N.Y. Glass, The American Legion should be made to a pleasant chap whom everybody your Post Service Officer or your state SIR: Please rush solutions to problems called Mr. Secretary. (Department) American Legion Hq. Send in May article on puzzles. letters to the editor to: Letters, The Some attendants fastened a long cloth American Legion Magazine, 720 5tli Ave- GOING sign reading "VICTORY LOAN" to the nue. New York, N.Y. 10019. O U T O F side of my Jenny and Mr.
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