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Hanford THE FIRST FLIGHTS AT KITTY HAWK— 1903 14 BY PAUL DITZEL Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson The tale of Wilbur and Orville Wright, and how they flew the Indianapolis, Ind. first airplane on a strip of beach in North Carolina 66 years ago. Advertising Sales Representatives New York—Chicago Robert Redden Associates, Inc. Ill West 57 Street SHOULD PRESIDENTIAL POWER BE LIMITED New York, N.Y. 10019 IN SELECTING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES? 20 California TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION JE Publishers Representive Co. pro: SEN. STROM THURMOND (R-S.C.) 8380 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, California 90069 con: SEN. QUENTIN N. BURDICK (D-N.D.) 420 Market Street San Francisco, California 94111 The American Legion A WILD RIDE FROM GEORGIA Publications Commission: (Chairman); How the First Gl Bill Was Written (Part II) 22 James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn. (Vice Second of a two-part series on R. 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VETERAN'S NEWSLETTER 32 PARTING SHORTS 58 NONMEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS 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 • FEBRUARY 1969 Office will issue a 50th Anniversary American Legion commemorative postage EDITOR'S stamp. Each donor to the Legion's Gift to the CORNER Nation before March 15 will receive an acknowledgment bearing a First Day of Issue cancellation of the Legion commem- TWO GUYS FROM DAYTON orative stamp as a keepsake. In addition, was 65 years and ten days from each donor as of that date will have his It Dec. 17, 1903 to Dec. 27, 1968. That was name permanently entered—as one who just time for a man to be born, grow up, helped light the Tomb—in a Golden An- and have his application in to receive his niversary Roster of Honor in the Legion's first full retirement benefit under Social National Archives in Indianapolis. Security. The Legion deliberately elected to in- vite small gifts or more) to under- On the first date, Orville Wright took ($1 the lighting its 12 seconds to travel 120 feet (at the pace write of the Tomb and permanent maintenance, so that as many of a human sprinter) in what is recog- as possible could personally nized as the first successful powered flight members of a vehicle carrying a man. share in the honor and the sentiment and the sense of achievement. It was a way to On the second date Apollo 8 returned let each member be a part of the Legion's safely to earth from carrying three men Golden Anniversary celebration on the in orbit around the moon, reentering the national level, and a way to let each mem- atmosphere at something over 24,000 ber be able to say that he, personally, had miles an hour. been instrumental in giving further na- From Kitty Hawk to Apollo 8 in 65 tional honor to those unnamed and un- years and ten days is perhaps the most known servicemen who lie in Arlington, dramatic representation of the swiftness and who symbolize all of our comrades of change in our century. Archaeologists, in three great wars who are still listed as digging in ancient caves, have shown that "missing in action and presumed dead." it took tens of thousands of years for an- While many members have responded cient goat herders to make substantial with enthusiasm, there are still many who improvements in their pottery, stone axes have not.