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2nd Lt. Luther E. McIlwain - Tuskegee Airman
officers facing him, two from the Army, two
from the Navy and a Marine. When he
asked for the paperwork, they laughed at
him. “Did you hear that?” one of them said,
“the nigger wants to fly a plane!”
McIlwain still visits schools to teach these
important messages to young people for
them to use in their own lives. The subtle
hint of optimism in all he says is pleasantly
refreshing.
Luther McIlwain ran out of there as fast
as he could, tears streaming down his
cheeks, and that night went to his
girlfriend’s house looking for answers. It
turned out that his girlfriend’s mother was
Luther was born on September 23, 1921
the head cook and good friend of C.C.
in Lugoff, a small rural town in South
Richardson, the state’s Chief Game
Carolina.He was born to Simon and
Warden, who was white and a powerful
Katherine McIlwain in an era when racism
local politician. Luther’s girlfriend, Lillian,
and segregation were a way of life in the
– and later his wife - said she would see
Deep South and the lynching of Negroes
what she could do and told Luther to come
who got out of line was still practiced.
Luther McIlwain of Methuen (right) with Methuen
back the next day. What happened could
At-Large Councilor Kathleen Corey Rahme and
In spite of all this prejudice, Simon
not have been better. Richardson offered
McIlwain worked hard and took advantage
to send his car and chauffeur J.J. White to
Veterans Services Coordinator Ed "Hoppy" Curran
of nearby educational opportunities. In
pick up Luther and drive him the 14 miles
1914 he graduated from the all-Negro Claflin
to nearby Ft. Jackson where he could get
College in Orangeburg and studied new and improved
Luther graduated in 1939 and the next year was off to the paperwork without a hassle. Luther will never forget
methods of farming.
the all-Negro Allen University in Columbia, S.C. to study that day when the guards at the fort recognized the warden’s
pre-law. It was here on December 7, 1941 where he heard car as it approached and smartly stepped aside as J.J. drove
About this time, the federal government instituted a
others yelling out a window that Pearl Harbor had just right through the gate entrance.
program to bring more scientific methods of agriculture to
been bombed by the Japanese.
rural farmers. Simon McIlwain was subsequently hired as
Ten days after filling out the papers, Luther got a letter
a Farm Extension Agent to help teach local farmers the
Like everyone else, he didn’t know where Pearl Harbor from Washington telling him to report to Ft. Jackson on
benefits of new technology. Unfortunately, the white was but he knew it meant war. He had already been October 10th, 1943, for tests and a physical. He passed with
farmers didn’t take well to being told what to do by a Negro designated as 1A by the draft board back in Methuen and flying colors and was sworn in the next day. He was then
and a group of white “crackers” gave him “24 hours to get was resigned to wait for the Army induction notice to put on a train to Ft. Bragg, N.C. where he was assigned to
out of town.” The McIlwains knew immediately what would show up in the mail. But he missed the first wave of the a Negro barracks. After a brief stint at KP, Luther’s main job
happen if Simon stayed.
draft because of his age and in the spring returned to became teaching the other 32 soldiers in the barracks how
Methuen for the summer months where he worked in the to properly sign their names on the payroll cards so that
So Simon McIlwain traveled to Pittsburgh where he had
mills and played baseball. This was also the summer he the Army could pay them. He also assumed the task of
heard the steel mills were looking for help. He found a job
played ball with his old friend, Mike Buglione, a Valley
as a steel/iron worker, and in his spare time played second
base for the Homestead Grays baseball club. The Grays
were an independent Negro team formed in 1912 that played
other regional ball clubs. Years later, the Homestead Grays
would become part of the Negro National League and win
a number of league championships and the Negro League
World Series.
Luther McIlwain’s story cannot be
justifiably told without delving into his
extraordinary family history.
In 1923 the Grays traveled to Lawrence for a game and
Simon saw a “Help Wanted” sign for one of the mills. He
jumped the team and got a job at the Champion
International Paper Mill – later to become Oxford Paper –
and sent for his pregnant wife, Katherine, and two-yearold Luther to join him. Shortly afterwards, Luther’s sister
Glendora was born.
The family lived in a five-story walk-up on the site that
is now Manzi Dodge. During this time in Lawrence, Simon
McIlwain was accepted to Suffolk Law School and a
young Luther began his education at the Saunders
grammar school. In 1928, Simon was awarded a law degree
from Suffolk and the family moved to a relative’s farmhouse
in the Pleasant Valley section of Methuen. Luther McIlwain
still lives in that house today, where he once spent the
early days of his youth.
Soon the Depression came and making a living was
tough. Simon McIlwain used the farm to raise 400-600 hogs
a year, which he sold to local mill workers for income. He
was so good at hog farming that he later became a lobbyist
and spokesman for the Hog Growers Association.
In the latter half of the 1930s, Luther attended the old
Methuen High School – now City Hall – where he was
captain of the track team and elected three years in a row
to class vice president and a member of the Student
Council.
477th Bombardment Group, February 1945 - Tuskegee AAF. Lt. Luther McIlwain is fourth
from left, front row. All others in photo are deceased. Courtesy Smithsonian Institution.
Patriot of the Month highlighted in the April 2005 edition
of this paper.
reading letters from home to these mostly uneducated farm
boys and writing out their own letters to their families.
Another year of school passed and in the fall of 1943
he went back to Allen, knowing Uncle Sam would soon
come looking for him. The services were still segregated
then and he didn’t relish being assigned a menial role in
the war effort. In the early 1940s, the Marines didn’t accept
Negroes at all, the Navy accepted Negroes for minor
positions like cooks and kitchen help, and although the
Army allowed you to fight, assignment was to all-Negro
units under white command.
This went on for four months until January of 1944 when
Tuskegee finally called.
Then, that September, fate intervened. On a Sunday
afternoon, 2nd Lt. Willie Ashley came to the campus to
visit his girlfriend. He looked sharp in his uniform with
the Air Corps Eagle on his officer’s cap, impressive bronze
bars on the sleeve indicating his rank and pilot wings
pinned to his chest. He was a Tuskegee Airman. He
quickly drew a crowd and when Luther saw him, he
immediately said to himself, “That’s what I want to be.”
Ashley told Luther that he had to apply to Washington
to become part of the Tuskegee program, but that he could
get the paperwork at the local recruiting office. The very
next day Luther went down to the office to start the
process. As he entered, there were five imposing white
The orders were brought to Luther by a white major and
a white captain and included a train ticket to Keasler Army
Air Field in Biloxi, Miss. where he would undergo preaviation basic training. To his astonishment, the white
officers picked up his two large duffel bags and threw them
into the Jeep. This was the first time Luther had been shown
any respect by the white Army establishment.
The officers drove him to the train station and put his
bags on the train. But when Luther tried to board the
Pullman car with his first-class ticket, a ruby-faced white
conductor refused to let him on because he was a Negro.
The Army major and captain took the conductor aside and
after discussions with the depot agent, Luther was allowed
onto the Pullman. From there on, a helpful Negro porter
took good care of Luther for the two-day train trip.
Part 2 in the May issue will detail Luther McIlwain’s
continuing story on how difficult it was for a Negro to
become an airman in a white-dominated Army culture.
Seniors and Veterans
The Valley Patriot
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Senior Moments with Jim Cassidy
Cassidy
Protect
Protect Our Flag
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Congressional Amendment Within Reach
Freedom of Speech should never be
used as an excuse for the United
States’ flag to be burned or otherwise
desecrated by radical protesters in the
United States of America.
Flag burning was once considered a
criminal offense, but since the liberal
courts have sided with the vocal few
and not the majority of Americans,
desecration of our most precious
symbol is now considered “an
expression of Freedom of Speech.”
Veterans organizations and
Americans everywhere are irate over
this situation and want Congress to
correct it now.
The American Legion National
Commander, Thomas L. Rock, sends
us the following message on this
pressing subject: “From the grassroots
level, the American Legion has made
the flag a campaign issue for our
politicians and a moral issue for America
since 1989. It’s a moral issue on which
most Americans stand with us.
Scientific polls sponsored by the
American Legion and The Citizens Flag
Alliance prove an overwhelming
majority of Americans want the
nation’s most revered symbol
protected.”
“Despite that, some of your
senators and representatives have
failed to reflect the views of their
constituents on this issue. An
Amendment giving Congress the
power to protect the flag
overwhelmingly has passed in the
House of Representatives six times
since 1995; and the two times since
then that the measure has gone before
the Senate, it’s come within four votes
of passage. When the Amendment
hasn’t gone to a vote, it’s typically
been because of stalling on the part of
its opponents. But with the support
the Amendment currently has in the
Senate, we have never been closer to
passage then we are right now.”
have. Thank those who support the
Amendment, S.J. Res. 12, and ask
them for their continued support. If
your senators are opposed, ask them
why, and ask them to reconsider.”
A small group of senators believes a
statute will be enough to protect the
flag, but that route has been tried in
the past. It failed.
The Supreme Court decision has left
no other option by which the people
can pass laws protecting their flag from
physical desecration. Congress tried
the Flag Protection Act of 1989, and it
was ruled unconstitutional. Scholars
agree that a constitutional
amendment is necessary before a
statute will stand.
with Jim Cassidy
Some recent changes in the Senate
have given Americans hope for
passage of this much wanted flag
protection Amendment. Commander
Rock continues to say, “We believe we
will have the vote again in the Senate,
leaving us one vote short. The
opportunity to pick up that vote has
never been better.”
“It’s critical for Legion family
members and all Veterans
Organizations to contact their senators
no matter what stance they may
The U.S. flag is more than red, white
and blue, more than stars and stripes
sewn together. It was the symbol
hoisted at Iwo Jima and at Ground
Zero. It’s the symbol that reminds our
service members why they are putting
their lives in peril, and it’s the symbol
draped over the caskets of those
service members who have paid the
ultimate price defending America’s
freedoms. A symbol that has meant
so many things to so many people for
so long — one that stands for the
American values we all treasure —
deserves to be treated with the utmost
respect. We can make that happen
this year.
God Bless our Troops and their
families who are now fighting to protect
our freedoms and liberties, and God
Bless America.
We need to rally support for the flag.
It is important to secure Senate
backing to assure that the flag
amendment has the supermajority
needed to pass. Please call Senator
Edward M. Kennedy’s office in Boston
at 617-565-3170 and Senator John
Kerry’s Boston’s office at 617-5658519 and urge them to support S.J.
Res. 12. The senators may also be
reached
by
e-mail
at
[email protected] and
http://kerry.senate.gov/low/contact
email.html. Remind them that time is
of the essence in getting this bill
passed.
Jim is Vice-Commander of American
Legion Post #219. He served as a
combat infantryman in WWII, fighting
in France and Germany with the 70th
Infantry Division. Jim Cassidy was
awarded the Bronze Star for his service
in World War II. You can email him with
questions or comments at:
[email protected]
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National
The Islamic Threat is Greater Than
German & Soviet Threats Were
No Child Left
Behind
Dennis Prager
Continued from Page 3
The Valley Patriot
Only four types of individuals
can deny the threat to civilization
posed by the violence-supporting
segment of Islam: the willfully
naive, America-haters, Jew-haters
and those afraid to confront evil.
Anyone else sees the
contemporary reality — the
genocidal Islamic regime in Sudan;
the
widespread
Muslim
theological and emotional support
for the killing of a Muslim who converts to another religion;
the absence of freedom in Muslim-majority countries; the
widespread support for Palestinians who randomly murder
Israelis; the primitive state in which women are kept in many
Muslim countries; the celebration of death; the “honor
killings” of daughters; and so much else that is terrible in
significant parts of the Muslim world — knows that civilized
humanity has a new evil to fight.
Just as previous generations had to fight Nazism,
communism and fascism, our generation has to confront
militant Islam.
And whereas there were unique aspects to those evils,
there are two unique aspects to the evil emanating from the
Islamic world that render this latest threat to humanity
particularly difficult to overcome.
One is the number of people who believe in it. This is a
new phenomenon among organized evils. Far fewer people
believed in Nazism or in communism than believe in Islam
generally or in authoritarian Islam specifically. There are
one billion Muslims in the world.
If just 10 percent believe in the Islam of Hamas, the
Taliban, the Sudanese regime, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism,
bin Ladin, Islamic Jihad, the Finley Park Mosque in London
or Hizbollah — and it is inconceivable that only one of 10
Muslims supports any of these groups’ ideologies — that
means a true believing enemy of at least 100 million people.
Outside of Germany, how many people believed in Nazism?
Outside of Japan, who believed in Japanese imperialism
and militarism? And outside of universities, the arts world
or Hollywood, how many people believed in Soviet-style
totalitarianism?
A far larger number of people believe in Islamic
authoritarianism than ever believed in Marxism.
Virtually no one living in Marxist countries believed in
Marxism or communism. Likewise, far fewer people believed
in Nazism, an ideology confined largely to one country for
less than one generation. This is one enormous difference
between the radical Islamic threat to our civilization and the
two previous ones.
But there is yet a second difference that is at least as
significant and at least as frightening: Nazis and Communists
wanted to live and feared death; Islamic authoritarians love
death and loathe life.
That is why MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
worked with the Soviet Union. Communist leaders love life
— they loved their money, their power, their dachas, their
mistresses, their fine wines — and were hardly prepared to
give all that up for Marx. But Iran’s current leaders celebrate
dying, and MAD may not work, because from our
perspective, they are indeed mad. MAD only works with
the sane.
There is much less you can do against people who value
dying more than living.
The existence of an unprecedentedly large number of
people wishing to destroy decent civilization as we know it
— and who celebrate their own deaths — poses a threat
the likes of which no civilization in history has had to
confront.
The evils committed by Nazism and Communism were, of
course, greater than those committed by radical Islam. There
has been no Muslim Gulag and no Muslim Auschwitz.
But the threat is far more serious.
Dennis Prager is a radio talk show host,
author, and contributing columnist for The
Valley Patriot. Copyright © 2006 Creators
Syndicate, Inc.
Book Keepers Corner
Continued from page 21
scrap of either shoes or stockings to my feet or legs, and in
this condition to endure a siege in such a place as that, was
appalling in the highest degree.” These conditions were
not temporary. They were endured nearly constantly for
much of Martin’s seven-year tour of duty.
One of the pleasures of reading this narrative is the way
in which Martin relates his experiences as a participant in
battles that are now considered to be highlights of the war.
The lead-up to the Battle of Monmouth – the last major
battle in the North – is told as if were just another typical
day.
After engaging the British and going through the usual
sequence of advance, engage, retreat, advance and then
retreating again, Martin sees Washington pass and relates
Washington's consternation at General Lee’s inexplicable
order to retreat. Of course this was the moment just before
Washington relieved General Lee of Command and ordered
the troops to re-engage the British and save the day for the
Revolutionary Army.
Martin also claims to have been an eyewitness to the
famous incident involving Molly Pitcher and the British
cannonball that passed between her legs. While this may
be the case, his retelling of legs severed by cannonballs
and limbs being amputated in a nearby meetinghouse were
more sobering.
Martin’s service as a Continental Soldier in the
Revolutionary Army included Kip’s Bay, Germantown,
Monmouth, the brutal suffering and near mutiny at
Morristown, and the capitulation of Cornwallis at Yorktown
and continued for two more years until peace was officially
declared. His soldier’s-view of our war for independence
provides an indispensable perspective that is lacking in
the view-from-the-top.
“A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Some of the
Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb
Martin” written by Joseph Plumb Martin and first published
in 1830 is now published by Signet Classic, a division of
Penguin Group, London, England.
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the mandates contained in the law would require almost
$600 more per student. A study of Indiana schools
concluded that per pupil spending would have to increase
by more than 31% in order to comply with the regulations.
Last year, 24 state governors joined with West Virginia
Governor Bob Wise in demanding more federal funding to
pay for NCLB requirements.
Gov. Wise and the governors commented, “We strongly
support accountability and high standards, but we cannot
accept unfunded mandates and broken promises.” In
addition, many states like Oregon are being forced to
eliminate foreign language and music classes in order to
spend money gathering and evaluating information on
standardized tests required by NCLB.
Section 9527 of the NCLB states, “Nothing in this Act
shall be construed to authorize an officer or employee of
the Federal Government to mandate, direct, or control a
State, local educational agency, or school’s curriculum,
program of instruction, or allocation of state and local
resources, or mandate a state or any subdivision thereof to
spend any funds or incur any costs not paid for under this
Act.” Well, surprise, surprise!
The Act seems to contradict itself. But Judge Friedman,
in his infinite wisdom, ruled that the plaintiffs to the suit
had failed to show that Congress “intended for these
[NCLB] requirements to be paid for solely by federal
appropriations.”
All of this begs the question, What role does the Federal
Government have in regulating public education or the
public schools? The answer is simple, NONE! Certainly,
the Founding Fathers did not intend such a role, the words
“education” or “schools” are not mentioned in the U.S.
Constitution. Article I, Section 8 lists the powers and
jurisdiction of Congress.
“Education” and “schools” are not to be found. The 10th
Amendment states that all of the powers and
responsibilities not afforded the Federal Government are
reserved to the states and to the people. Historically, when
the Federal Government overstepped its boundaries the
states rose up in defiance by invoking nullification.
Nullification refers to refusal by a state to recognize or
enforce a federal law within its boundaries.
This was first advocated by Thomas Jefferson (author of
the Declaration of Independence) and James Madison
(“Father of the U.S. Constitution”) in the Virginia and
Kentucky Resolutions.
Jefferson claimed that each individual state had the
“natural right” to impose its own authority to protect its
own rights and the rights of citizens. Madison maintained
that when a majority of individual states agreed that a federal
law had violated their 10th Amendment rights, they could
collectively overrule federal authority. Well, it’s time again
for the states to do just that, individually and collectively
invoke Nullification and disregard the No Child Left Behind
[NCLB] Act.
In addition, while we are at it, it’s time to abolish the U.S.
Department of Education completely. President Reagan
advocated doing this in 1980.
This will reduce the National deficit by over $45 billion
per year. Education and public schools are strictly state
and local concerns. Educational issues and public school
policy should be debated and decided strictly at the state
and local levels without interference from Washington D.C.
The cry by some liberals to fund NCLB is not the answer to
the problem. The Act itself is both poorly written and
Unconstitutional. Federal lawmakers need to return to their
proper and defined roles provided for in the U.S.
Constitution.
D.J. Deeb is an Adjunct Professor of History
and Government at Bunker Hill Community
College in Boston, Mass., and at Northern Essex
Community College in Haverhill, Mass. He holds
a Master of Science Degree in Political Science
from Suffolk University and a Master of
Education Degree in Curriculum and Instruction
from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
He also serves as an elected member of the
Greater Lowell Technical School Committee and
the Dracut School Committee in Dracut,
Massachusetts.
National
The Valley Patriot
April - 2006
25
More Teachers’ Union Myths
I hope the
teachers
in
America’s public
schools are more
candid than their
union officials
and some of the
public-education
advocates and
leftist smear
groups who are
John Stossel criticizing my TV
special “Stupid in America.”
They are promoting myths: The National
School Boards Association (NSBA)
accused me of making a “sweeping
generalization” about poor American
student performance from test results from
a few American and Belgian students. Nope.
I reported the results from the actual
International Student Assessment (PISA)
tests.
The little test ABC gave matched the PISA
results. MediaMatters, a liberal media
watchdog group, claimed we fudged perpupil spending numbers when we said perpupil spending, adjusting for inflation, has
doubled to “more than $10,000 per pupil per
year.”
They point to the “most recent” 2003 U.S.
Census figure of $8,019 per pupil as a
“gotcha.” In fact, the estimates for 2004-05
from the U.S. Department of Education are
well over $10,000 per pupil. Even using
MediaMatters’ own number, it is irrefutable
that per-pupil spending has doubled over
the last 30 years.
The NSBA claims “America’s public
schools outperform private schools when
variables ... are controlled.” This must refer
to the recent study done at the University
of Illinois, comparing fourth- and eighthgrade math scores.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) study found that “the
six countries that spend the most on
education as a percentage of GDP ... all score
well above the international mean on the
PISA.”
OK, some countries spend a lot of money
That study actually showed that public
school students performed worse, but after and do well. But that very same OECD study
the researchers used regression analysis to said that no fewer than 20 countries that
“control” for race/ethnicity, gender, spend less money than we do achieve better
disability, limited English proficiency, and scores, and that “Spending alone is not
sufficient to
s c h o o l
achieve high
location, they
The people who want to
levels
of
manage to
outcomes.”
conclude that
control
every
young
public school
The United
American’s education like to
students
States spends
outperform
talk about accountability,
$83,910 per
private and
but what they want is to
student from
c h a r t e r
ages 6 to 15. The
make schools accountable
s c h o o l
S l o v a k
students.
to anointed bureaucrats
Republic, which
outperforms the
W h e n
who think they know what’s
United States in
studying
best for all of us.
this
study,
education
spends
$17,612
performance,
per student.
it is far more accurate to compare schools
The
NEA
also
claimed
I’m
not objective
using random assignment — using kids
because
I
make
speeches
for
money. I do,
assigned schools by lottery so that those
but
I
donate
the
money
to
charities.
For
attending public and private schools come
example,
I
give
money
to
Student
Sponsor
from the same population. Eight such
random-assignment studies have been done. Partners, an organization that pays for poor
kids to go to private school. You might say
All eight find that private school students I put my money where my mouth is — unlike
did better. The American Federation of the teachers’ organizations, which often put
Teachers (AFT) objects that I their mouths where the money is.
“conveniently” failed to note that an
Perhaps the most fundamentally flawed
idea is this all-too-common one: “Public
schools were created to provide a ‘public
good’: education for all, regardless of a
family’s ability to pay ... By contrast, under
a voucher system that gives public dollars
to completely unmonitored private schools,
there is no such right to expect or demand
accountability for student performance or
how tax dollars are spent.”
They don’t get it. Competition brings
accountability. Private schools may be
“unmonitored” by bureaucrats, but they
face the most demanding kind of
supervision our society provides: a market
full of freely choosing individuals. Parents’
desire for a good education for their children
is a much more powerful check on schools
than any politician’s law or union rule.
The people who want to control every
young American’s education like to talk
about accountability, but what they want is
to make schools accountable to anointed
bureaucrats who think they know what’s
best for all of us. They evade real
accountability — the kind of accountability
where if a student or parent realizes a school
isn’t doing its job, he can find another one.
I could go on; there are plenty of myths.
But the most important point to remember is
quite simple: If public schools are good,
they have nothing to fear from school choice.
Students and parents will choose them.
Award-winning news correspondent John Stossel is co-anchor
of ABC News “20/20” and author
of “Give Me a Break.”Copyright ©
2006 creators.com
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appears in each row,
column and 3x3 box only
once.
EASY
Answers on page 26
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6
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7 6 8
5
5
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6
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