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Port taxes are not included, and are an additional charge of $35 per person. 'Prices are per person, based on double Price: Annual subscription, $12; Postsponsored gift subscriptions, $4; Single copy, $2. To subscribe, send $12 ($18 in foreign countries) to Membership Processing Dept., P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Change ADDRESS CITY Jr., Copyright 1989 by The American Legion I : Brown Toledo, OH; Donald Conn, South Bend, IN; James W. Conway, Charlestown, MA; Lincoln Cox, Kirby, WV; Orval E. Faubus, Conway, AR; Halbert G. Horton, Topeka, KS; W.B. (Brad) Jorgens, Beardsly, MN; Eugene J. Kelley, Savannah, GA; Russell H. Laird, Des Moines, IA; Larry G. Lewis, Bensenville, IL; Nathaniel J. McKee, Princeton, NJ; J. Fred Mitchell, Brewton, AL; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, LA; George G. Sinopoli, Fresno, CA; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, CT; PaulT. Woodard, Lacey, WA; Neal L. 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Attach old address label, provide old and new addresses and current membership card number. Allow 8 weeks change of address to for take effect. Also notify your local post adjutant directly at local post's address. To request microfilm copies, please write to: University Microfilms, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE The Magazine Vol. 126, No. DO WE HAVE THE WILL TO PREVAIL? No nation is wise enough to lead the free world, rlClo for a Strong America ARTICLES 4 but the United States Raj Ejffvool h wio^txAf T ofoisov VV. l^tjKsUVr Dy uttrl UtibllfWU U) ULLiZpl LiUlL uUrCWfl. 12 THE DRUG WAR TURNS GLODAL "God help us, 16 if we lost this battle. THE CUDAN DRUG CONNECTION Castro is serving with distinction in the Soviet drug WUY (IgUlrlbl trie UC 18 IU Rl! lPLt\tlJlC 7fllilAOV riyUlo ZsUWriKf £>y 20 ByJayStuller 22 Dy I VIuX l UrllttXl OUll£o. SALARIES IN AMERICA OW IZ/jUb. JDt&l-puyiflg jUuo UJ r IrrUJr MAN'S ASSAULT ON NATURE The acid rain debate provokes "regional trench warfare" in Congress. BATTLE REPORT: HEROES OF THE HIGH SEAS Marked men in thankless jobs, WWII merchant seamen IS Sites 24 By John Hanly Adams 26 By James N. measured up each time they shipped out. OUR TAX SYSTEM FAIR? "The just man will pay more and the unjust less. LEGION FIRES BACK AT CRITICS OF VIETNAM VETERANS' STUDY The Centersfor Disease Control has a vested interest in disproving the Legior Study, says Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke. 30 RECRUITING THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY Top Legion recruiters reveal how they get new members. 40 VETS CALL IT HOME 42 Pennsylvania Legionnaires provide a new beginningfor homeless veterans. DEPARTME NTS BIG ISSUES 10 Should Congress Repeal The Catastrophic Coverage Act? LETTERS 4 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 14 VETERANS ALERT 36 COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 VETERANS UPDATE PARTING SHOTS 64 DATELINE 8 COVER Castro's drug connection. Illustration by William V. The American Legion Magazine. 35 Cigliano created exclusively for American Legion Magazine, a leader among national general-interest publications, is published monthly by The American Legion for its 2.9 million members. These military-service veterans, working through 16,000 community-level posts, dedicate themselves to God and country and traditional American values; strong national security; adequate and compassionate care for veterans, their widows and orphans; community service; and the wholesome development of our nation's youths. The APRIL 1989 3 LETTERS REVOLUTIONARY NEW TRIMMER/ MOWER Rolls and Soviet Beachhead Col. Lawrence L. Tracy's article on Nicaragua and Central America. Guaranteeing a Soviet Beachhead (January), smooth EASY BIG highly commended. When Lt. Col. Oliver North tried to divert funds in the Iran-Contra affair, he was only trying to WHEELS! do what Congress refused is on two to do- appropriate funds for the beleaguered Contras. The huge volume of mail received by this great patriot left no doubt how the American people feel about him. Now Congress is trying to punish North in court for his efforts to halt the spread of communism in Nicaragua and Central America. It looks like we have already guaranteed a Soviet beachhead in Central America. N. G. Nyerges Santa Monica, Calif. The EASY WAY! TRIMS better, more held trimmers. Plus, thing from far easier, precisely than hand- MOWS Killed By A Pound every- enjoyed your article Greenhouse Are We Poisoning Ourselves? (December). But the sidebar "Nuclear Energy: Clean and Safe, " reads like an advertisement from the power utilities. Nuclear power has consistently proven to be more expensive than almost any other energy source, and more danger- whole lawns (even WET!) I Effect: to tough waist-high growth with incredible ease! Rocks, roots, no harm because stumps, etc. do the DR has NO STEEL BLADES to it bend or dull. 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In the Washington Post of Jan. 12, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen was quoted as saying that complaints are heard from only a few of the wealthy retired people. We are not wealthy just because we retired after working longer than 30 years to finance a college education for our children and to put aside more for our family's future instead of spending it all. Now we face a penalty in higher taxes than our contemporaries who made the opposite choice. We must pay the additional tax for catastrophic care whether or not we want it or need it. unprecedented that a federal program requires financing by only the segment of the population affected. It is Farm subsidies, student loans, AIDS research, food stamps and disaster relief are all paid for out of general funds, but benefit only certain segments of the population. This is not fair to those of us who fought for our country in World War II and supported it financially throughout our working lives. Clay J. Ritter Fairfax, Va. School Violence Certainly a nexus exists between the lack of moral education and the alarming crime, violence and disorder in the schools as described in Violence In Our Schools, (February). Consequently, if our schools are to achieve true progress —that is, moral and spiritual as well as — our families, intellectual progress churches, schools, the business community and social organizations (e.g., Scouts, Girl Scouts, YWCA), once again must emphasize the teaching and learning of moral values, such as cour- and kindness, honesty and decency, harmony, integrity, moral courage, The Congress and the administration need to change the way they set priorities on taxpayer funds. We are told that tesy of the Congress and highlevel government employees need a 50 percent pay raise to maintain purchasing power. On the other hand, retirees, with only a fraction of the income of those people, need only 4 percent. 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Signature OFFER EXPIRES MAY make exactly what you're entitled to receive. 25, 1989 C7284 Commander's message FOUR GOLDEN LINKS BIND OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN AND YOUTHS WE celebrate The S American Legion's Children and Youth Month, I am reminded of a telling of sound body, incident that happened years ago, which illustrates the value of our programs. America was still pulling itself together from the aftermath of World War I, when Sam Carson, succumbed to tuberculosis. widow and three children. Carson owned a small frame house left service officer. He presented her case to the department child welfare chairman, who forwarded Division at it to the Child Welfare National Headquarters. Then things began to happen. First she received a check. In emergencies such as this, the Child Welfare Division wasted no time. Once the case had been referred to the division by the local post, the division took immediate action even as the investigation proceeded. Both the post and the Child Welfare Division thought Sam's illness was war service, so the division forwarded the case to the Legion's National Rehabilitation Committee in Washington, DC, a pipeline to the VA. In the meantime, the Child Welfare Division didn't ask Mrs. Carson and her linked to his 6 Since the days of the Carson family, a he bought after the war. For several years after her husband's death, Mrs. Carson earned a living for herself and the children by taking in washing and ironing, hiring herself out for house cleaning, and by renting a room to a relative. It was a happy home with enough of everything if she didn't look more than a day ahead. Then hard times hit. She lost her washing, ironing and cleaning jobs and the relative moved. Mrs. Carson and her children were in dire straits. Sam had been a loyal Legionnaire, and she knew the post helped people in distress, not as charity, but as friend helping friend, so she saw the post character. community members. a veteran, He mind and Their chances for development have markedly improved through programs such as President Bush's "thousand points of light"— a grass-roots revival of citizen concern for the future of young people; and through our own points of light— 3 million Legionnaires at 16,000 posts passing on to youths the values and ideals that contribute directly to their growth as productive The American Legion and its Auxiliary has invested more than $586 million in programs designed to develop our youths into productive citizens. These Nat' I. Cmdr. H. F. "Sparky" Gierke children to exist on hope after the first check was gone. It granted financial assistance for four mouths. It sent a fifth check, too, but it was returned. Sam's compensation claim had been allowed the VA said his death was — service-connected. Mrs. Carson received a check and notice that she would receive a monthly compensation. As suddenly as they had lost it, the Carsons regained their prospects for a decent future. Four golden links of fellowship pulled Mrs. Carson and her three chil- dren from the brink of destitution: the post, the department, the National Headquarters and its Washington office. This was an early and successful example of the impressive machinery the Legion used to ensure the health and welfare of the widows and orphans of our nation's veterans. Today, we need only to look at this example and our own neighborhoods to grasp the basis of our founders' decision that America's young people must have every reasonable chance to develop through normal, healthy years into good, all around American citizens programs have been expanded and refined continually to meet the demands of changing times. For example, to help youths fight the twin temptations of drugs and alcohol, the Legion is encouraging high schools to participate in the TARGET Interactive Project. Using computer science, TIP has been introduced in classrooms to help students combat peer pressures and make their own responsible choices. Another key program is Boys State/ where annually in 50 states and the District of Columbia more than 28,000 youths participate in hands-on training in the structure, ideals and objectives of American government. For many, this is followed by Boys Girls State, Nation/Girls Nation, a graduate school of citizenship held in the nation's capital. Then ball. there American Legion Basesaid about a each year grooms 76,000 is What more can be program that youths in such qualities as self-discipline, fair play and the will to succeed? More than half of major-league base- ball players got their start in this vital program. 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One deadly outfit cited in the 131-page Terrorist Group Hezbollah of the Islamic jihad, which is intent on establishing a Shiite Islamic state in Lebanon. The group specializes in suicide truck bombings and kidnapping. Sponsored by Iran, Hezbollah is blamed for the death of 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French soldiers in 1983. Led by Abu Nidal, with headquarters in Libya, the band of 500 followers is considered by some military intelligence experts to be the most lethal of all. A splinter group from the PLO, Hezbollah strikes out not only against Israelis, but also against citizens of other countries in indiscriminate machinegun attacks, bombings and highjackings, according to the Department of Defense report. In addition to Libya and Iran, the guide identifies Syria, Afghanistan, Cuba, South Yemen, North Korea and Nicaragua as patrons of the terrorists. Profiles is Dropping Our Guard The House Committee on Intelligence gives good marks to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies for electronic coun- termeasures, surveillance and physical security. However, committee finds personnel and information-security programs suffer at the working level and there is a lack of the commitment at the management level. The report, prepared by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Evaluation, noted that the 985 "Year of the Spy" —when a rash of espionage cases were uncovered — spurred initial improvements in U.S. counterintelligence. But the momentum has been lost in the area of personnel security. "This is especially bothersome," the report said, "inas- The Paper Chase There's no end to the argument about the quality of our nation's educational system, but the fact is that more stu- dents today are graduating from both high school and college than ever before. The Census Bureau recently reported that 76 percent of Americans 25 or older had completed four years of high school in 1987, the highest level in our history. The survey also revealed that 20 percent of the same adult age group had completed at least four years of college, doubling the figure of one generation ago. Gene Counting U.S. scientists already have initiated the first steps in counting and identifying more than 100,000 genes that control and direct all functions of the human body, but it will take an estimated 15 years of dedicated research at a cost of some $3 billion. About 1 ,500 genes have been identified to date, and many scientists believe that unfolding the mysteries of genes will provide us with new weapons to prevent and cure disease. Congress has been asked to approve $ 100 million more for the next stage of the Human Genome Initiative, as the project 1 much as virtually all known espionage losses in the United States in recent years have been a result of human weak- is called. Non-nuclear Threat The American media have shed considerable light on the spread of toxic chemical manufacturing in smaller countries nesses and not as a result of technical or physical penetra- of the world, but tions of sensitive facilities." peril of Withdrawing From Europe For more than a decade the status of U.S. troops in Europe has been a recurring issue in Congress. The subject has surfaced again, as Congress desperately seeks ways to trim the budget. Proponents of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Europe point to the thaw in the cold war between the United States and the USSR as justification for bringing troops home. The United States currently funds more than 65 percent of NATO's annual budget of $450 billion, and many members of Congress are seeking other NATO countries to assume their fair share of the burden. Opponents of the American withdrawal move are concerned that breakup of NATO, which has held 40 years. They argue that such action might force European nations to seek an the will lead to the the line against the Soviets for the past 8 little attention has been given to the potent non-nuclear missiles until the recent flap in Libya. These conventional weapons, considered obsolete by the superpowers, have become increasingly sophisticated, longer-ranged and easier to purchase or make, according to a State Department estimate. were used by both and Saudi Arabia is known to have acquired Chinese missiles with a potential range of 1,500 miles. Other countries are building ballistic armories. "The worst nightmare of all," said former Secretary of State George P. Schulz, "would be the eventual combination of ballistic missiles and chemical warheads in the hands of governments with terrorist histories." Soviet-built surface-to-surface missiles sides in the Iran-Iraq War, Quote of the Month "/ am a firm believer that Americans are proud to pay taxes, but I think they'd be just as proud for lialfthe money. Sen. William V. Roth, Delaware AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Wanted: Men's OldWatches Your unwanted man's wristwatch could be worth hundreds of dollars! Now that most new watches have quartz movements, a market has developed for the older collector's mechanical ones. We're one of the country's leading buyers of these older wristwatches. it If you have one, why not consider selling to us. Of course, the amount we can pay for your watch depend on the many factors mentioned below including age, rarity, maker and condition. will — Three Patek Phillipe watches c. 1940 depicting standard, long and unusual rectangles. 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During his illness she worked as a financing works. sales clerk to pay the bills. About 80 percent of seniors who already are covered for the new benefits ft through private and employer-provided retirement health insurance, or Medicaid, say they believe that the greatest need is not for expanded acute-care insurance, but for protection against the devastating costs of long- term custodial nursing-home care. Such insurance is virtually non existent, inaccessible for most American families and unavailable under Medicare. Under CAT. a new tax surcharge is placed on those seniors who pay income taxes to underwrite about two-thirds of the additional costs. Many seniors wonder why this mandatory insurance program cannot provide benefits they need. They are correct in pointing out that who it is not just their expansion of Medicare. Indeed, the law also hurts the middle-income seniors who have planned and saved for their "golden years" to avoid sole reliance on Social Security. Almost half of all seniors will pay the surtax. For example, consider the cases of two senior couples: One has a taxable joint income of $10,500, and the other has $25,000 hardly "wealthy" couples by any definition. In 1993, the first couple will pay about $441 in extra taxes, while their friends will pay about $1 ,030. Each couple will also pay about $1 ,050 in Medicare premiums, in addition to private supplemental insurance premiums, for which there will always be a need. Financing the new benefits with a tax on taxes guarantees "wealthy" peers will pay for this — Then in 1982, at the age of 64, she had quadruple by-pass operation that cost $26,000. The illness drained her savings and kept her from working. The Social Security she now subsists on cannot pay her bills. She says her children sometimes help, but she often has to cut back on food and other necessities. This woman has worked hard her whole life and planned for her retirement. Then, a medical catastrophe destroyed her plans and her dreams. Hers is not an isolated story. Many older Americans have faced catastrophic illnesses that financially ruined them and their families. Many more fear they may be next. Recognizing that fear. Congress approved the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act last year to protect older or disabled American Medicare beneficiaries from this risk of financial a devastation. The Catastrophic Coverage Act sets a ceiling on the out-ofpocket expenses for physician services, requires that only one hospital deductible be paid per year— compared to six deductibles a year under the old Medicare and covers the entire costs of a hospital stay, no matter how long. In addition, the act pays for twice as many days of home health services, and a program to pay for 80 percent of prescription drug costs will be phased in by 1993. Both the former President and Congress said those who benefit from the coverage should pay for most of it. The premiums are structured so those with higher incomes pay more. However, more than 60 percent of all participants will pay only $4 per month in 1989. The Congressional Budget Office said that 7 percent of those covered by the new catastrophic insurance will face a potentially catastrophic illness each year. We're grateful that figure is not higher, but it is still a high insurance risk. Less than half of 1 percent of the homes in this country will catch fire each year, yet we all carry fire insurance because either — for these taxpayers whenever tax This violates every promise Congress made in passing the 1986 Tax Reform Act, when many tax deductions were exchanged for lower tax rates and pledges not to undo the effect of reform by increasing the rates. If Congress hopes to provide governmental assistance with custodial long-term care costs, the first step is to repeal CAT and establish a non-partisan commission to offer suggesOPINION COUNTS, tions for reforming the MediSenators and congressmen are interested in constituent viewcare program and providing points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable (name), long-term care. These are U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, or The Honorable (name), the central components of U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. my bill, H.R. 169. a permanent double-hit liability increases. YOUR 10 Not long ago, I received a letter from a Fort Worth woman whose husband TOO we are prudent or the mort- gage company requires it. The Catastrophic Care Act corrects a longstanding flaw in Medicare. It protects older Americans from the financial ruin of a prolonged illness. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE fimdfa matotk w>deAt with Bofr LeeAcu/A: TtA THESE LOW VITAMIN PRICES! 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Today, two world empires, two ways of organizing society, are vying for CON JOB — Many Westerners seem eager to accept Gorbachev's promises, but words must never be con- ascendancy. One is the Soviet empire, which, despite the reforms promised by Mikhail Gorbachev, is still a rigid, ruthless, one-party power that denies full fused with actions. tors. Further, human and Soviet troops by 500,000, to withdraw self-determination to the captive states from Eastern Europe, to deploy his forces defensively, and to of chemical destroy stockpiles weapons. its own citizens Eastern Europe. The other empire in is the free-world coalition led by the United States. Americans enjoy the full range of liberty and our government does not seek mastery over other peoples. Many Europeans and some Americans have been unduly impressed by Gorbachev's peace moves. True, as we went to press, he began to pull his stalemated troops out of Afghanistan, he facilitated the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola, and perhaps most remarkable, he is destroying SS-20 missiles in the presence of U.S. inspec- Dr. Ernest W. Lefever is the founding president of the Washington, D.C. -based Ethics and Public Policy Center and the co-editor of Perestroika: How New Is Gorbachev's New Thinking? published by 12 the center. West to pursue peace through NATO feel obligated to make lopsided concessions to accommodate the new Soviet stance? only a few of our political, intellectual, business and religious leaders fully rights to too eager to trade with the strength? Will the country or the larger world. But today, this nation it What about Gorbachev's motives? Is he engaged in a peace offensive designed to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies? Will his more-benign posture weaken the will of are provincial, and often occupied with gossip, short-range issues and petty crises that are of little consequence to the rest of entire free world all where some Americans totalitarians. the real sense, available by he has promised to reduce six tank divisions democratic, permissive prevail against a determined, disciplined superpower? The jury is still out on this fundamental question, but consider some of our weaknesses. • Americans have not yet shaken off the self-doubt and confusion that followed the Vietnam War. This lack of clarity and confidence is evident in our unwillingness to develop adequate nuclear and conventional military strength to deter the USSR on every level. • Americans are reluctant to recog- nize the vital need for gathering intelli- gence and carrying out covert activities abroad, and for maintaining secrecy in sensitive security operations. we should not confuse words BUT with deeds, or accept the rhetoric of peace for the disciplines of peace and freedom. We should recognize that what the Soviets promise may not be fulfilled. And we do not know how long Gorbachev will last. We should maintain a healthy skepticism. if all Gorbachev's unilateral moves were carried out. Soviet conventional forces would still enjoy a substantial superiority over U.S. and Even military NATO forces in Europe. Soviet propaganda apparatus seeks to divide Americans. Moscow is buying Midwestern corn and wheat at bargain prices, and buying While the • These problems are compounded by persistent irresponsibility in the U.S. Congress, aided and abetted by a press that is more free than responsible. To a disquieting extent, the mass media reflect a sickness that Jeane Kirkpatrick referred to as the "blame-Americafirst" mentality. • Finally, on the deepest level, our coming to grips with the deficiencies in totalitarian challenge reflect a profound mainstream religious leadership in America. This is a great irony. The people of any country should be failure in able to look to their spiritual leaders as the custodians and renewers of funda- Please turn to page 57 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE FAMOUS NATIONALLY ADVERTISED Only to those who respond before midnight May Those high fashion Designer Sunglasses look great — but aren't those $100 price tags ridiculous? Look at this incredible offer! 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"It definitely played a role in my subsequent political life and I'm proud to have been associated with it." ticipating in the oratorical contest way more than $1 .4 arship amounts into college scholar- TOP SPEAKER— Last year's motes understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Like many Legion programs champion, national Dilip Paliath, was sponsored by Parkville (Md.) Post 183. the Constitution." Participants in the contest such as Bennett, have gone on to find success both in their personal and professional lives. Said the Rev. David Marth, a Lutheran minister and 1964 national champion: "The contest gave me the opportunity to grow. My skills were 14 I was able to travel and meet other people. I'm thankful to God and for the Legion's resources to have stretched and provided attend college. my education paid for me scholarship sity of more this opportunity." my parents," said William L. Kephart, 1982 national champion, who used his money to attend the Univer- allowed me to feel ease while I pursued my educa- Illinois. "It at tion." COMPETITION positive results Americanism Commission, which oversees the contest. "Foremost, young men and women learn and experience their rights and responsibilities under and the scholbeen for winners have alleviated the financial strain on origin of the oratorical contest emanate from this unique program," said Gary W. Sammons, chairman of the million, ond; $14,000, third; and $12,000, fourth. Regional winners who are unsuccessful at the sectional level each receive a $3,000 scholarship, in addition to a $1,000 scholarship for winning their department contest. For many students, the financial aid has made the difference in being able to "Having that have flourished over the years, the "Many the increased to keep pace with tuition fees. Currently, national winners receive $18,000 for first place; $16,000, sec- ships through the program, which pro- began at post level. In 1934, Legionnaire William Kitchen of Kansas City, Mo., developed the competition for local high-school students. By 1938, The American Legion adopted it as a national program, with more than 4,000 students competing the first year. is college scholarships. Since its inception, the national contest has awarded For more than a half century, thousands of other students like Bennett have spoken out for democracy and "talked" their — and it must be delivered without notes. Finally, the participant is given a topic and five minutes to organize his or her thoughts before facing the judges again with a three- to five-minute extemporaneous response. The most tangible reward of parminutes on the hundreds of public speeches he level begins at the local and winners advance to regional and sectional showdowns. The final competition is held each April during the Legion's designated Children and Youth month. At press time, contestants were preparing for the April 14 finals at Lincoln, Neb. Topics of the speeches are selected by the participants, but must address some Yet, while the oratorical contest con- tinues to grow and has become a signifimany Legion posts, cant activity for there are still many students who are "The American Legion has an excellent program going," said 1988 champion Dilip Paliath. "The only problem is there are some people who don't know about it. I hope this unaware of changes it. in the future." issue tied to the Constitution. In recent years, for example, students' speeches have dealt with the constitutional aspects of the Iran-Contra issue. A contestant's oration cannot be less than eight minutes nor can it exceed 10 For more information on the High School Oratorical Contest and its rules, contact the Americanism Division, The American Legion, P.O. 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No._ (Enclose $2.50 for mailing and handling per item) Name Address City State. © Good Music Record Co. , Inc. . Zip_ -J TWENTY-SIX NATIONS JOIN FRAY Mankind is witnessing a groundswell of internctionol support to eradicate production of coca, heroin opium poppies and marijuana, and eliminate the global scourges of drug trafficking and addiction. RITICS of U.S. is as culpable as drug-producing nations for the worldwide drug efforts able war on drugs claim strategy in the the United States crisis. They say U.S. should be directed at eliminating the demand within our borders. insati- John Lawn, the nation's chief drug law enforcement officer disagrees, contending that cutting off the supply is the best attack. still Lawn, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, agrees, however, that must share the blame. "If we want to point the we should do it when we're shaving in the morning, " he the United States finger, says, in this exclusive interview. American Legion Magazine: Law enforcement efforts appear inadequate to stop the vast quantities of drugs that flow across our borders. What more can we do to win this war? John Lawn: I don't believe we can say that law enforce- ment resources are inadequate. Our resources have increased by 60 percent over the past seven years, our own budget by 140 percent. However, we are inadequate in establishing a national-defense mechanism, in mobilizing all citizens and making them feel that they are part of the solution to this problem. Law enforcement alone cannot deal with this drug problem. Also, if we look at solving the problem within our own borders, we are looking at the problem after it becomes serious. That's too late. We prefer to take action at the producing end. Q- What can we do in A In 1980, only duction marijuana. 16 that regard? two countries were eradicating proof coca, heroin, opium poppies and Now 26 nations are doing so. We can continue AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE to support those countries because they see now, where they didn't five years ago, that the drug problem their prob- is lem, too. In a drug conference in Vienna in 1987, 133 countries made drugs a single issue. A U.N. conference was called solely on the issue of drugs and international drug trafficking. So there is a groundswell of international support to do something about this problem. 0. Will this lead to real action by countries such as Bolivia and Colombia? Yes. Several years ago A Bolivia asked sister countries in Latin America to They help. couldn't, so asked the United States to provide logistical Bolivia support. We sent our military helicopters to Bolivia for a limited operation to show them how they could work effectively. We left six helicop- with them, and our agents continue to work with Bolivian troops in destroying ters refineries in that country. Q a We hear a lot about Col- ombian drug lords virtually dictating terms to their government. Is that accurate? A Yes. I was in Bogota recently and was shocked to learn that several who had heard a drug case were warned by drug traf- jurors fickers that if they rendered a would be judge on another case was approached by a major trafficker and told that if she sentenced the trafficker, she and her whole family would be killed. The problem we see in Colombia is that good citizens must choose between what they call "silver or the lead" — either accept money or death. Colombia is trying to deal with the problem, and is still working very closely with us. It recently seized and destroyed 500,000 opium poppy plants north of Bogota, yet the government is taking heavy losses. Drug traffickers have killed Colombia's minister of justice, attorney general, 12 supreme court judges, 25 other judges and 250 law enforcement officers. guilty verdict, they killed. Qa A there any truth to charges that some of our key have been bribed? We have seen many cases where police officers, attora neys and judges have been found to be involved with drug traffickers in accepting payoffs. Many have been Is officials A APRIL 1989 LAWN: — "We manufacture enough drugs from chemicals clandestine laboratories entire drug population." identified in and prosecuted, but the problem long as there is so in the United States to satisfy our much money will continue as involved in drug trafficking. Q. Why can't military forces be thrown into this battle? are in the battle. Our military has flown thousands of hours using radar aircraft in support of law enforcement. The prohibition called "posse comitatus" prohibits the military from making direct arrests, and I think that is a good A They decision. But as far as logistical support is concerned, of all of the thousands of requests for equipment that we asked the military for last year, 96 percent of those requests were honored. In one recent initiative where we worked with 30 Please turn to page 52 17 THE CUBAN Last July, a federal court in Miami convicted five drug traffickers. The conviction produced striking evidence linking Cuba to the shadowy underworld of international drug smuggling. The conviction itself involved only $10 million worth of cocaine, a tiny sum in the lucrative narcotics business esti- mated at between $60 The billion and $100 howand recorded telephone conversations explicitly billion annually. real coup, ever, lies in videotapes detailing, step by step, the drug route beginning from dirt airstrips in Colombia to military bases in Cuba and United States. finally to the According to officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the tapes revealed that airplanes fly from secret Colombia airstrips in Cuban to Varadero, a where tons of cocaine are unloaded, repackaged and transferred onto boats destined for Florida. U.S. intelligence agents had named Varadero as a "let-down" stop for smugglers in 1984. Cuban-piloted Soviet MiGs escort the Colombian planes to the base where Cuban officials supervise the transfers. Feeder boats are escorted out to sea by the Cuban Coast Guard and alerted on the whereabouts of U.S. drug-interceptor military airbase vessels. of the smugglers shown on a ONE videotape bragging, "The money is went to Cuban into Fidel's drawer," referring dictator Fidel Castro. Ruben Ruiz, a leader of the drug gang, alleged that Cuban officials "at the top chanHavana" aid and abet the nels in SELF-DESTRUCT— America's drug-abuse epidemic is a gratuitous weapon for the Cubans in their support of the Soviets' battle against the West. cocaine traffickers. The information coming out of the underscores the mounting evidence pointing to undeniable Cuban trials complicity By Max Primorac AN N election year void of salient issues, the candidates were eager to pounce on the provocative topic of international drug trafficking and its impact on American society. Because no quick-fix answers exist to stem this rise of drug abuse in this country, solutions are focusing, instead, on the supply side notably in Latin America. The 18 U.S. — government is applying pressure on the drugsource countries to implement immediate anti-drug measures. During the fall presidential race, Gov. Michael Dukakis even suggested cutting off aid to drug-producing countries such as Colombia, Mexico and other Latin suit, following American countries. Often missing from the list of culprits are Cuba, Nicaragua, and until recently, Panama. While most of the drug-producing countries recognize the necessity to control and curtail the growth and power of the illicit drug industry, Cuba, Panama and Nicaragua have, on the contrary, exploited it to earn much-needed foreign exchange. in, and lucrative gain from, American drug business. The funds generated from these operations finance Cuban-sponsored guerrilla movements throughout the hemisphere. In March, defector Maj. Florentino the Latin Aspillaga, a career officer with Cuban intelligence, revealed to the Washington Times how the Cuban government runs an island resort for narcotics dealers with Castro's direct knowledge and approval. The island, Cayo Largo, is also used as a transit point for narcotics Max Primorac is a research fellow at the Council for Inter-American Security, a foreign-policy research group based in Washington, D.C. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE shipments from Colombia to the United States. Aspillaga said the chief of Cuban Intelligence Service personally briefed him about powerful drug syndicates that operate out of Cuban territory and receive protection from Cuban Special Troops. The ment origin of Cuba's drug involve- is difficult to pinpoint. less, WE MUST Neverthe- corroborative evi- dence from defectors, informants and captured traffickers all point to the pivotal role played by flood the Cuban intelligence. More disturbing is that the Soviet Union wields heavy influence over Cuban intelligence and would be fully aware of its drug participation. According to a highranking Czechoslovakian United States with drugs to hasten the social defector who was chief of cabinet of the Ministry of Defense, the Soviets developed and initiated the Cuban drug network as part of an overall Soviet strategy to use drugs as a political weapon against the West. The defector attended a Warsaw Pact meeting in 1956 in which then Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev formulated the strategy. The defector said that Khrushchev explained how the drug business would cripple the democratic societies while simultaneously generating needed foreign exchange much- for intelli- gence operations. Following the Cuban Revolution, Raul Castro, Fidel's younger brother and Cuban Defense Minister, traveled to Czechoslovakia and accepted a Czechoslovakian intelligence station in Cuba in return for military aid. The Czechs were gradually replaced with Soviet KGB officers. Castro, it must be noted, held no moral or ideological scruples opposing the strategy. On the contrary, drug pro- was ideologically compatible. defector once heard him say, "We must flood the United States with fiteering A Cuban drugs to hasten the social decay in the citadel of capitalism." The Soviet drug strategy was probably only one of many conceived strategies intended to battle the West. But to then blame them for our drugPlease turn to page 56 By Phyllis Zauner HAT convinces us to poke our toes out from the bedcovers at dawn? What pumps us up with enough adrenalin to "face the tiger" yet another day? Not that many of us don't enjoy our jobs, but when you boil working it all is all down, money is what about. Salaries AMERICA & A 1987 poll by Louis Harris Associates found that 63 percent of the 1 ,274 respondents rated a good salary the most important job factor, even above job security and a chance to use one's mind and abilities. Still, a nagging uncertainty lingers: Are we making what we're really worth? Information on colleagues' salaries is one of the last closely guarded secrets in America. Yet without accurate information about one's standing on the scale, winning the pay game presents a strategic dilemma of the first order. To appear overly greedy can hamper a career. To be underpaid is degrading. For the employer, the balance is equally delicate. His goal is to set salaries high enough to keep employees and the best out of commotivated petitors' hands — without breaking the bank. In gauging a fair salary, companies use published studies, conduct HOW GREEN IS THE OTHER SIDE? Service industries are expected to offer the best-paying jobs in the 1 990s, but job location also will make a difference. — own surveys or hire consultants. But if you know where to look, you, too, can find many sources of detailed salary data. One of the most comprehensive publications is the "1988 Jobs Rated Almanac" compiled by Les Krontz, which ranks 250 jobs by salary, income outlook, on-the-job environ- their ment, stress and security. Others include the "American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries 1987-88" by John Wright; the Bureau of Labor Statistics annual survey; and annual surveys published by the Administrative Management PROMISING CAREERS-Ten of the 15 fastest-growing occupations during the next decade will be in the health-care field. THE TEN HOTTEST JOBS Society. How generously an organization rewards its people is based on its own rule-of-thumb. But that doesn't mean salary is beyond negotiation. Compensation experts say fear of rejection should never get in the way of asking for a raise. Some of their tips; Phyllis Zauner, a Sacramento-based author of more than 400 articles, writes on social conditions in America. 20 Data processing equipment Paralegal personnel Medical assistant repairer Physical therapist Podiatrist Physical and corrective therapy • Computer systems analyst assistant • Medical records technician Home • Employment health aide interviewer Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE •Don't apologize for asking for more. •Talk in terms of your merit, not your personal needs. •Don't be vague; mention a specific amount, you'll get more. •After the interview leave a memo your request. Salary strategy is particularly cogent for those just starting a career path and restating reasons for those looking for a career change. They want something that's going to be hot, where chances of promotion and pay increases are good. So what fields are about to boom? "Health care and computers," said George Silvestri, co-author of a federal report titled "A Look at Occupational Employment Trends " 2000, particularly health care. The study shows 10 of the 15 fastest-growing occupations will be in health fields. Leading the way is medical assistant. Demand is also expected to skyrocket for physical therapists and home-health aides, X-ray technicians, dental to the Year hygienists and podiatrists. o o o o PAYOFF Starting salaries for 1988 graduates with a bachelor's degree averaged $22,609; a master's degree earned $27,712; an MBA, $31,265; and a Ph.D., $31,479. Behind the boom in health care is the aging of America's population. Secondary pressure comes from the federal government's attempt to clamp down on health-care expenses, which translates to shifting duties from highly paid doctors to medical assistants. The same trend applies to health-care marketers and managers, also in great demand. AVERAGE STARTING SALARIES FOR COLLEGE GRADS, 1988 Civil $24,882 24,279 22,838 engineering Physics Accounting Marketing/Sales ANOTHER trend spawning prodigious opportunity is the computer revolution. While technology is automating a lot of jobs into oblivion, it also creates thousands of openings for programmers, analysts and repairers. in fact, Another hot profession — topping Silvestri's list — is paralegal, a be gobbled up by budget-minded law firms. But while these emerging, fastgrowing occupations are changing the Personnel administration Advertising 19,319 18,983 Education 18,850 mgmt. 18,693 21,472 Hotel/Restaurant Mathematics 21,246 Telecommunications 18,515 Financial administration 20,778 18,120 General business admin. 20,335 Communications Home economics Journalism 19,843 Natural resources 17,271 Social science 19,672 Retailing 17,035 Agriculture 19,401 Source: Society for the 17,398 Advancement of Education. classification expected to look of the job market, they may not yet necessarily account for the bulk of high-earning jobs. A 1988 survey by the Society for Advancement of Education revealed that highest starting salaries for new college graduates went to chemical engineers, $30,200; electrical engineers earned $29,900; mechanical engineers, $29,500; and computer science majors, $28,000. Extra degrees helped boost pay. While graduates with bachelor's degree averaged $22,609, a master's degree brought $27,712, an MBA, $31,265, and a Ph.D., $31,479. APRIL 1989 The central message for job seekers 1990s is that service industries, not manufacturers of goods, will offer the most growth in both pay levels and in the career opportunities. Today, the highinnovation enterprises that provide much U.S. job growth need specialized, creative employees, and a potpourri of specialists such as printers, art direc- Francisco; Washington D.C.; Atlanta; and Phoenix. It's a trend that has changed the demographics of job hunting. "Go where the money flows," is today's credo, and it applies at all levels. A survey by Roth Young Personnel Services revealed a surprising willingness among the nation's 4.6 million sec- lawyers and accountants. David Birch, a leading authority on how jobs are created, predicts that most of the job action for the 1990s will occur in the suburbs of cities with popu- retaries to relocate. 1 million. He lists six where job growth promises to be to tors, lations exceeding brightest: Los Angeles; New York; San Geographic variations in salary can indeed be diverse. A teacher in South Dakota can expect an annual income of $19,758, in Indiana, $27,067. Moving Alaska would boost income to $40,500. Please turn to page 58 21 For years, acid has been polluting our rivers, streams and lakes. The cure for some Americans may rain I be more painful than the disease. other scientists recognized the problem and persuaded their governments to begin funding comprehensive studies of the phenomenon in the late 1970s. studies continue even today, and acid rain still washes the Earth with its than a century ago, British chemist Robert Angus Smith lamented that industrial emissions mixed with precipitation was wreaking havoc on the English midlands. He called this environmental nightmare acid It 22 rain. was decades, however, before said that acid rain is man-made contamination. spawning grounds Caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants, factories and cars, the rain can intensify the acid content in lakes and streams, making the waters uninhabitable for fisheries." aquatic life. Indeed, in the northeastern Atlantic coastal plain appear in jeopardy. ORE from coal-burning utility plants in the U.S. Midwest produces much of the acid rain that falls in eastern Canada. The United States, fully a quarter of the freshwater lakes and ponds in the Adirondack Mountains region have become too acidic to support fish. About 50 percent of the streams on the mid- ByJay Stuller ANNOYED ALLY — Sulfur dioxide Meanwhile, roughly 14,000 Canadian lakes are fishless because of acid rain, and the country's Department of the Environment claims that at least 150,000 more are endangered. A report by the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund contends that acid rain is also harming marine life in Atlantic estuaries and bays. Atmospheric physicist Michael Oppenheimer, who helped write the report, "destroying the for East Coast Acid rain also plays a large role in destroying trees. Some of the earliest and most notable damage has been among at least 1 1 species in West Germany's Black Forest. According to researchers at Auburn University, acid rain and other atmospheric pollutants are menacing forests in the southern United States, where timber worth $63 billion is expected to yield up to 53 percent of America's lumber harvest in decades— if it survives. Although industrial and auto emissions have been subjected to a degree of regulation in the United States and four Western Europe, uncontrolled emissions have devastated forests in Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Jay Stuller, a San Francisco-based jourfrequently on social and nalist, writes environmental conditions in America. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Allan Gotleib, Canada's ambassador to the United States, said: "Roughly half the acid rain falling in eastern abnormally acidic rainfall. Automobile emissions are the likely culprit. At least 10 percent of all samples taken by Audubon Network volunteers Canada originates in the U.S. Midwest" from the sulfur dioxide pouring out of coal-burning utility plants. Although Canada has reduced sulfur dioxide emissions there by 35 percent since 1980 through a variety of controls and are tested at random by the University of California's Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory. In the society's monthly report last April, it noted that Vermont, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts had a rain pH averaging 4.1, which is about the border Delaware and York checked in at 4.3, while Maryland's and Michigan's rain had a gains 4.4 voluntary measures, he said he "The flow of U.S. acid that, worried is rain across may begin even to negate the made in our own program." Acid rain, in fact, is a major point of contention between the United States and Canada, and one cannot blame Canada for its aggravation. Fishless ponds there menace a $200 million-ayear tourism business that employs 600,000 people. Gotleib said that half of eastern Canada's forests, which contribute $14 million annually to the Canadian economy, are getting "more acid deposits than we believe is healthy." The great movement of tainted as acidic as a cola drink. New pH For level. all this, it's still difficult to tell whether the acid rain problem is growing worse or getting better. The Clean Air Act of 1 970 led to some reductions in American output of several chemicals, including a 27 percent drop in sulfur dioxide since the peak year of 1973. Under 1977 amendments to the Clean Air Act, scrubbers have been installed in 146 units, new power-generating while older plants started burning air is low-sulfur coal. Power companies pro- increasingly obvious. As Canadian sciD.W. Schindler wrote in the Jan. duce about two-thirds of the sulfur entist dioxide emission, but scrubbers, although expensive, go a long way toward removing sulfur from coal smoke. 1988, issue of Science: "Polluted air masses have been convincingly tracked 8, across the Atlantic and over the North Pole from Eurasia to North America, by using the unique, trace-metal content of polluted air masses." National Audubon Society's Citizen Acid Rain Monitoring Network, a group of volunteers who measure of precipitation in 49 CONGRESS, however, has dragged heels in passing its new clean-air legislation that requires further Nor does acid rain form only downwind of power generation plants. The the acidity and between 25 states Mexico, have found that and 30 states are chronically hit 25 PERCENT with reductions from utilities and industry. Allied against environmental groups are coal producers, manufacturers and utilities, who would bear the greatest costs of tougher regulations. While New England congressmen see acid rain as a threat to their constituents' pleasure fishing, tourism income and maple syrup businesses, Midwestern lawmakers represent folks whose livelihoods depend on industry. New Hampshire Rep. Judd Gregg has called the congressional acid rain debate "regional trench warfare." of the lakes and ponds in the Adirondacks have become too acidic New clean-air legislation almost through the 100th Congress. National Audubon President Peter Berle said that it was a good bill, and pointed out that it was passed by the made it Senate Environment Committee. He contended that it stalled at the last moment because of former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who dug a big trench to help his native West Virginia's high-sulfur, coal-mining industry. asking that he bring the for debate bill to the floor and a vote," Berle said, "he Please turn to page 54 APRIL 1989 ByJayStuller WITHIN the past decade, sea- food has been recognized as one of the most healthy "flesh" foods that humans can eat. Low in fat and high in protein, fish and by physicians and dieticians as a nutritious alternative to beef, chicken and pork. Americans apparently have heeded the experts advice. In 1987 we consumed a record 15.4 pounds of seafood per person, and shellfish are touted last year's total was likely higher. Moreover, while plates of broiled snapper, tasty pink salmon and a dozen delectably raw oysters are ostensibly good for you, there's no denying that such fare good. is just plain The trouble is, some of the fish coming into United States' supermarkets and restaurants also can be hazardous to your health, if not deadly. Seafood can cary harmful bacteria, viruses, natural toxins and parasites. Residues from untreated sewage, industrial waste and pesticides flow into lakes, and oceans, and accumulate and shellfish. Many of the parasite and microbal menaces are destroyed by freezing or by the heat of cooking, rivers in fish which is likewise true with pork, poultry and beef. Yet, as the smell of a fish left out of the refrigerator too long indicates, microbiological contaminants swiftly multiply when seafood is not properly transported, packaged or stored. Apparently, not all fish busines- ses take the proper care. An article The Wall Street Journal last year described one seafood packing plant as having a "100-foot-long pile of crab shells crawling with Please turn to page 50 in "Although 46 senators signed a letter to support fish. THE POISONS IN OUR 23 YOUTHFUL VALOR— After the gun crew was wiped out, 18-year-old cadet Edwin J. O'Hara single-handedly returned the fire. HEROES OE IHE HIGH SEOS By James N. Sites Danger and hardship AILING westbound alone South Atlantic in 1942, the American Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins sighted what appeared to in the be two cargo vessels. One, however, suddenly stripped away its disguise and hoisted the swastika. The ship was the German raider Stier, armed with six 5.9-inch guns and numerous other weapons, plus two torpedo tubes. She was with her supply ship, the Tctnnenfels. They demanded the Hopkins to sur- render. In reply, the Liberty's skipper, 24 were regular shipmates of U.S. merchant seamen who kept the war supplies flowing. ••••••••••••• everything on deck. At the same time, shell after shell from the Hopkins hit the Stier at the waterline. Suddenly, the Hopkins, after-gun crew was wiped out and the Stier closed in for the kill. It wasn't to be that easy. An 18-yearold cadet of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Edwin J. O'Hara, ran through the chaos on the Hopkins' deck and found five unused shells at the battered but still usable gun. He opened up on the raider once more, and soon began to burn and list badly. Both ships sank shortly afterthe Stier also Paul Buck, raised the American flag and turned his ship with its one 4-inch gun toward the raiders. He and his Navy Armed Guard crew would fight it out, despite the odds. For 20 harrowing minutes the Stier' s guns pounded the Hopkins mercilessly and set fire to ward. James N. Sites, author, editor and public relations specialist, served nearly four years in the Merchant Marine during World War II. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Buck O'Hara, the Armed Guard commander, all deck officers and many others died in that action, but a boat- load of survivors escaped. After four weeks in an open lifeboat, they finally reached Brazil and safety. There are endless examples of how American merchant mariners made uncommon valor a common virtue during World War II. Their numbers were small just 55,000 at the beginning of that war but swelling to 250,000 by war's end, as ship-launch- — — ings ballooned under the wartime building boom. By VJ Day, according to the War Shipping Administration, 73 1 American merchant ships had been sunk, 5,638 merchant seamen were dead or missing in action, thousands more were wounded or permanently crippled, and 581 taken as prisoners. For the entire war period, 2.8 per cent of the merchant seamen who were registered with the U.S. Maritime Service died. This casualty rate was second only to that of the U.S. Marine Corps, which suffered a slightly higher rate of 2.9 percent. Merchant seamen fought side by side with American servicemen during World War II and were indispensable to the Axis Powers' defeat. They participated in the great invasions of Normandy. North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, the Philippines and Okinawa, and in every beachhead assault from Guadacanal to Iwo Jima. They helped turn the oceans into logistical bridges to victory. But it took 43 years for the U.S. gov- ernment to accord certain merchant seamen the status of veterans, making them eligible, as of last year, for veterans' benefits. The veteran status came a bit too late for most merchant seamen to take advantage of the GI education benefits and guaranteed home loans, but it did make wartime merchant seamen who are still living eligible for burial benefits. The merchant seamen's epic of hardship and heroism began right after Pearl Harbor, with the wholesle sinking by German U-boats of ships in America's Atlantic coastal waters. From mid-January mid-March of 1942, 145 merchant ships were torto pedoed right outside our capital cities. During May alone, 41 ships were sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. How did these merchant seamen react to being a "Into the seaports came exhausted, unnerved men, oil-smeared and halfnaked. Many wore dirty bandages over horrible burns. All showed the strain of a wretched experience. But old men with a lifetime of sea service, together with teen-age boys on their first trips, showed common defiance Their answer to the stock reporter's question was, 'Hell yes, I'm shipping a out again!' . forget his awful experiences of the icy, wartime run to Russia's Murmansk, or of convoy PQ 17? This group of 33 ships left Iceland in June of 1942; only 1 1 made it through the swarms of German aerial bombs, torpedoes and seven never made it. Unimaginable suffering alternated with heroism on these merchant ships. U.S. Liberty ship Henry Bacon, carrying 35 Norwegian refugees out of Russia in early 1 945 developed engine trouble and was forced to drop out of convoy. It was attacked by 23 German airplanes. Many were shot down, but two torpedoes finally found their mark. As the Bacon sank, it managed to launch two lifeboats and save all the refugees. Chief Engineer Donald Haviland made it, too temporarily. Looking up, his eyes met those of a young Navy gunner still on deck. "Let that kid have my place," he ordered, climbing back on deck. "It won't matter so much if I don't get back." As the boats pulled away, the survivors saw Captain Alfred Carini waving farewell from the bridge. He, Haviland and 20 others went down with The , — the ship. 43 YEARS, When another convoy straggler, the Puerto Rican, was torpedoed in a violent storm in 1943, its crew was unable to lower the lifeboats because the gears MANY MERCHANT SEAMEN HAVE BEEN GRANTED U.S. were encased in reached a small when OF WORLD WAR VETERANS. ice. raft. Only eight men Two days later rescuers found the raft, just one — was still alive and his feet were so badly frozen that both had to be ampu- THE STATUS tated. Reaching Murmansk didn't II guarantee a safe harbor, either. The crew of the Yaka sweated out 156 air raids while unloading cargo in the •••••••••••• Soviet port. One merchant seaman, Raymond Holubowicz, survived a torpedoed ship going into Murmansk, mines and the fury of the elements. British Prime Minister Churchill only to be torpedoed again on a described it as "one of the most melan- choly episodes of the war." PQ 17 started out well-protected with four cruisers and a host of other naval vessels under British command. However, word came that the German battleship Tirpitz and battlecruiser left their bases in occupied Norway to intercept the convoy, which, by then, was undergoing devastating attack by planes and submarines. Shockingly, the four Allied cruisers Scheer had were withdrawn and the merchant ships ordered to scatter. Easy prey, most were picked off one by one. Ironically, the that question best in his Murmansk APRIL 1989 . " German battleships never left port. More than 800 ships set out War": . And what merchant seaman can favorite target of the menacing Uboats? Perhaps F. Fiesenberg answered book, "Sea . beleaguered Soviet forces. Ninety- for during a desperate Allied effort to keep supplies flowing to the westbound ship. He later sailed for Murmansk on another ship, which was so weakened by fierce attacks that she had to be abandoned in a storm. He was awarded a medal by the Soviet government in a rare official acknowledgment of the services rendered by U.S. ships and seamen in this grueling supply operation. The Mediterranean, with its bloody North African and Italian campaigns, proved equally harrowing to merchant seamen. In the narrow straits of this inland sea, 413 ships were lost to enemy action, with the Paul Hamilton life of any Liberty ship. Loaded with troops and high explosives, she was hit by an aerial torpedo in 1944 and disintegrated in suffering the largest loss of Please turn to page 59 25 which have never been Then came Korean War, more Washington-born tional taxes, o u repealed, for the most part. the and Vietnam spendof it was financed by inflation and debt rather than taxes. By the late 1970s, voters' opposition to spending and taxes at all levels of government began to build. It erupted in California's Proposition 13 tax revolt against state property taxes, followed by similar reactions in other states, and the election of Ronald Reagan on the social initiatives, ing; TAX SYSTEM much national front. The taxpayers' revolts produced tax pauses, even rollbacks in some states. Congress cut income tax rates substantially for both individuals and corporations in 1981, but one year later Congress took back most of the corporate cuts and tightened rules for individuals that for families. taxes in the United States apparently only was temporarily slowed. The trend in overall tax burdens of Americans, some but not others, and that quietly slips offset the rate reductions The steady march toward ever-higher Overburdened taxpayers are becaming Increasingly hostile to a system that taxes more than many persons and measured as a percentage of total national output, once again dozens of hidden tax The reason increases into law. societal needs, resulting neglect, ByJohn Hanly Adams S THE April 17 deadline your federal tax return on 1988 income draws near, the dream of a tax system accepted as fair and simple seems as for filing A away as ever. The 1980s began with far loud cries for tax reform and a new President riding out of the west on promises of reducing government burdens and taxes. A sweeping Tax Reform Act of 1981 was approved. Four more "reform" measures were passed in the next seven years — it was is coming from on to consumers in their goods and services. Within the tax-paying population, most attention and grumbling is their tax costs prices for focused end of the 1980s, demands for tax changes still fill the air. Taxes, it seems, are the hair shirt of American politics and no one has figured out how to make the people who have to wear is that shirt enjoy the feel of The it. latest outburst of tax resentment national affairs since 1940. 26 One reason government in at the federal level. that the central Washington, D.C., collects twice as much tax — states and local governments. $1 trillion in 1987 be the other way around. It — as used to In 1930, for land and A — defense dividend reduction in the growth of military expenditures stemming from a new era of detente with the Soviet Union and its client states around the world may help meet some of these needs. But the money saved will be far less than planners believe is required to modernize U.S. public works and ease some of the worst welfare dilemmas. — ADDING to the financial tensions afflicting all governments now is the clamor from various pressure groups for improved medical care to all, more and better education opporhousing for the homeless and lower-income families who can't find tunities, affordable living places. The upshot is a groundswell of demand for more government revenues. Politicians of New Deal expanded fedand activities to record highs. Financing World War II required addi- air, water. to find 1930s when from years of including unprecedented immigration, and rising pollution of twice as great as federal levies. in the upward. runaway population growth example, state and local taxes were The change began John Hanly Adams is a Washington, D.C.based journalist who has been covering Americans who charge they have been unfairly singled out for a special tax increase, tied in with Medicare. But everybody pays something into government coffers in one way or another. Those who are so poor that they are exempt from income and property taxes still pay hefty sales taxes and payroll taxes for Social Security and unemployment insurance when and if they work. The bulk of taxes, however, is paid by middle class and wealthy Americans, and corporations that pass the greatest tax turmoil on record. Yet, at the elderly is most often for this turnaround is that American society is facing a mounting backlog of unmet cited all stripes are scrambling ways of meeting that demand, preferably without admitting they are some the Roosevelt raising taxes. That eral aid unusual gyrations that are repulsive to the people caught up in them, such as is leading to AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE i INCREASING THE TAX BITE-Before the New Deal welfare programs introduced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s, Americans paid twice as much state and local taxes as they did federal taxes. HIGH TAXES MATCH Population served Armed forces on active duty Federal civilian workers State/local government workers DEMAND FOR SERVICES 1930 LATEST 123 million 246 million Recreation visitors 2.2 million Public airports 260,000 601,000 2.6 million 3 million 13.7 million 1930 LATEST 3.2 million 281 million 1,782 4,924 8 Public water supply (gallons per day) billion None Social Security (covered) Govt, assets (land, buildings, etc.) $1,006 $3,952 145,000 760,000 Arrests None Medicare for elderly (enrolled) 320,000 10.4 million 73,000 317,000 Medicaid for needy (payments) Teachers 1.3 million 4 Federal food, nutrition aid None Low-income public housing None Veterans in civilian life Veterans' benefits Veterans' life insurance policies million 754,000 28 148 4.7 million million 648,000 32 million 23 million $23.3 units $4.2 billion billion 1.3 million Unemployment pay None $16.6 billion 27.7 million Farm None $25.3 billion $28.9 National debt (federal obligations) billion 16.5 million Federal-aided highway miles 193,650 833,000 National parks system 99 areas 338 areas APRIL 1989 None Medicaid for needy (recipients) 340,000 $676 billion $76 billion Medicare for elderly (payments) Firemen Postal workers 37.6 million billion Police Mail handled (billions of pieces) billion $209 Social Security (benefits) billion 39 price supports $25 billion $2.6trillion million $136 Net interest on national debt (int. paid less int. received) Source: Statistical Abstract of U.S.; Tax Foundation Facts $300 & billion Figures on Government Finance. 27 APPLE PEDDLERS-Government grams to create pro- work during the Depres- sion sharply increased federal taxes. those affected by the federal income tax surtax on Medicare enrollees, artfully labelled a "supplemental premium" by architects on Capitol Hill. Three significant shifts in tax and tax-related policies are showing up in Washington as the revenue scramble moves into higher gear. One is the "mandated benefits" ploy, its — a way for Congress to have its cake enlarging social benefit programs to without pacify activist groups paying for it. The tactic is to mandate by federal law broader health benefits for — employees of businesses, for instance, without mentioning how to pay for them. The assumption is that employers will have to foot the bills. In fact, employers usually try to pass along some or all of the costs to their employees in one way or another. And the providers of last resort, state and local governments, will often find that their obligations, as employers, are expanded without notice. One estimate is that mandated benefits now cost state and local governments about $100 billion a year. There is no reliable figure, because benefits involved may be open-ended as to extent and time in force. Some powerful members of Congress have been quoted as seeing mandated benefits as the wave of the future. Probably the most effective opposi- tion to mandated benefits will come from state and local governments, which can fight like tigers when the feds threaten their financial turfs. Business groups also are becoming alarmed. One branch of a Washington, The Heritage D.C. -based think tank — Foundation's Institute for Economic reported last October Policy Studies that more than 10 employee mandated- — benefit laws are in sight, with "a potential price tag to businesses of $120 $40 billion a year." to A second trend is the "hidden tax" gambit, another strategem increasingly adopted by Congress to hide a tax increase under some other name. The major example to date is the surtax on federal income tax that was labelled an insurance premium. It applies to everyone who accepts a Social Security old-age benefit and is thereby automatically eligible for hospital insurance under Medicare, the federal health insurance system for the elderly. This new surtax became effective 1989 and will be due for full payment with federal returns filed in April 1990. Those making estimated 1989 income tax payments will have to Jan. AMERICANS RATE THEIR TAXES Q. What is the worst or least fair tax? None of the above Don't know Federal income tax Local property tax 26 24 Social Security tax 17 State sales tax income tax Don't know; no answer State 15 9 9 more revenue is needed to improve public works services, Q. If which would you prefer? 35 Special taxes earmarked for specific services 37 General, non-earmarked Q. What would make taxes more fair? Raise taxes on higher incomes Cut taxes on lower incomes Raise taxes on businesses Leave the system alone 28 taxes None of the above 12 7 Don't know; other 49 13 6 16 comments quarter payment, due in April; or they can wait and pay the whole amount with their final return for 1989, due in April 1990. People whose federal income tax User fees or other charges for specific services . reflect the additional tax in the first- Percent Of Respondents 1 9 Source: "Changing Public Attitudes on Governments and Taxes" report by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, reflecting a 1988 Gallup Opinion Survey. less than is $150 are exempted. Those with higher tax liability will owe a surtax of 15 percent on the amount of tax over $150, up to a limit of $800 surtax, per person, in 1989 ($1 ,600 for a married couple in Medicare). The surtax increases each year until 1993 when it tops out at $1,050 per person ($2,100 for a married couple). After 1 993 it is scheduled to go up annually at the official rate of inflation. As is new tax, Medicare usually the case with a many people liable for the AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE AN INCOME TAX, THE JUST MAN WILL PAY MORE AND THE UNJUST LESS.' 'WHEN THERE IS surtax were unaware of its requirements, at first. Those who are aware, have started loudly protesting the whole thing as unfair and an attack on the elderly. Some are outraged by the way Congress slipped the tax into law, confusing its nature with the label of "supplemental premium" and understating its cost by citing only the singleperson tax amount in most of the original explanatory press releases. At press time, rumblings were starting on Capitol Hill about possible changes. One backer of the tax was quoted as saying "Maybe we went too far." Another backer told a TV newsman, "We're going to find the senior citizens in a near revolt over that package." Other examples of hidden taxes are too numerous to mention. Dozens of tax increases have been slipped into law in the past few years in the form of higher user fees and license fees; IRS regulations that boost the take from selected groups; and ending deductions from taxable income permitted under longstanding law, such as the deduction for interest on auto and other consumer loans, now being phased out. Invariably those who feel the bites complain they are being unfairly singled out for taxing punishment. • Potentially the most significant trend on the tax policy horizon is a gradual shift away from the income tax to so-called "consumption" taxes. That is a high-brow term for sales taxes and their first cousins, the federal excises of and duties on selected products and services. In 1989, Congress may go on a salestax binge, marking up the federal take on gasoline, now nine cents a gallon, and a bevy of other levies. One hit list circulating on Capitol Hill identified about $50 billion worth of such tax fees the rewards of dodging the tax outweigh more and more people start dodging. Congress' holding the line on tax increases this year will depend mostly on whether the business boom continues, generating enough revenue to meet the most pressing federal needs. Nevertheless, state and local governments are going to squeeze harder, seeking more ways to pump additional the risks of getting caught, dollars from their taxpayers. Will new hot tax ideas all the and actions produce a History says no. invented, taxes to support it became necessary. Then the griping began. Plato, the Greek philosopher, wrote in "Republic" in the 400 B.C.: "When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more system that's fair? When government was PEOPLE'S GUARDIANS— The ranks of public servants continue to rise to meet population demands. and the unjust less on the same amount of income." Plato knew how the system would work. TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS THE first "Taxpayer Bill IN Rights," passed last October as period before the IRS can seize a bank account; amounts of wages and part of a law correcting errors in the property exempted from collection 1986 Tax Reform Act, Congress jerked its leash on the IRS, despite IRS cries of indignation. The message was: Cool off hot-headed IRS agents and obey your own rules. • The new law codifies many IRS practices and regulations that were sometimes ignored by field offices and agents. Those practices will now action are increased. • The IRS is prohibited of be enforceable through the courts. • A written outline of your rights and the IRS's obligations must accompany IRS notices to you about an audit of your return, requested refunds from you and collection from employees by income-produced quotas and goals. rating its • The IRS is expressly authorized to let taxpayers pay tax debts in installments. • tive The IRS Taxpayer Representa(Ombudsman) can issue orders releasing property levels and stopping collection action. The represent- unpredictable. But • The IRS must deduct any tax amounts or penalties resulting from the general concept of mining the tax- errors in written advice provided to ative can be overruled by higher-ups, however. • The U.S. Tax Court can intercede if the IRS tries to seize property after a taxpayer's petition has been filed with the court. • Taxpayers get the right to sue the IRS in U.S. District Court if an payers through new channels, rather than returning to higher income tax rates, has political appeal. Part of that appeal stems from aware- you by the IRS. employee knowingly or negligently boosts. actions against you. What Congress anything, in 1989 actually will do, is ness that the income tax ficient" — less and becomes "inef- less collectible after rates pass a certain point. APRIL 1989 if — • A taxpayer can be accompanied by his accountant or lawyer at audits and other confrontations with IRS officials. • Taxpayers get a 30-day grace property lien or recklessly or intentionally disregards a taxpayer's claims. Litigation costs will not be reimbursed if the taxpayer loses. fails to release a When 29 AT CRITICS OF VIETNAM VETERANS' STUDY A government panel's critical review of The American Legion and Columbia University Study on Vietnam Veterans comes as no surprise to Natl Cmdr Gierke. "To accept our study is to admit CDC was wrong all along" he says. HE American Legion and a federal science Injury Control. panel have locked horns over the findings of T The American Legion and Columbia University Study of Vietnam Veterans. The A Journal of Environmental Medicine and the Environmental Sciences latest in a series of charges and counter-charges is a Feb. 1 letter from Nat'l. Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke to Rep. G.V "Sonny" Montgomery, chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. The letter was in response to a report sent to Congress in January, stating that data in the Legion study "do not support conclusions drawn by the authors." Gierke told Montgomery that the Legion stands behind the study, which concluded that some Vietnam veterans suffer health, social and psychological problems because of exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange and high levels of combat. The Legion study was reviewed for Congress by the science panel of the Domestic Policy Council's Agent Orange Working Group. Released last November, the study contradicted a previous study by the Centers for Disease Control. Panel chairman Dr. Vernon N. Houk 30 Environmental Research Editor-in-Chief Philip Senior Consulting Editor Irving J. Selikoff Managing Editor Jose" E. Baker P. Omenn R. Lilis D. W. Clarkson D. Hoel B. Holmberg C. Maltoni E. K. Silbergeld M. A. Mehlman H. Needleman Y. Suzuki This Rail K. Tsuchiya INC. Number Completes Volume 47. Number 2, December Volume 47 1988 CONFLICT— CDC's the Legion study criticism came after was published in the Environmental Research journal. memo that the Legion study flawed due to major problems in study design and execution." Houk is also director of the CDC's Center for Environmental Health and wrote in a "is seriously CDC conducted a pilot study and concluded that not enough Last Veterans Day, Gierke held a S. D. V. Bates ACADEMIC PRESS, along." In 1987, study disputes. A. Valciukas Associate Editors R. Lauwerys G. T. all Vietnam veterans were exposed to Agent Orange to conduct a scientifically valid study, which the Legion Landrigan J. "We believe that the CDC has a vested interest in seeing the Legion study disproved," Gierke said. "What other choice does it have? To accept our study is to admit CDC was wrong press conference in Washington, and unveiled the findings of the DC, five- Legion-Columbia study. December the study was published In the Environmental Research journal. As year in customary, the study was subjected to rigorous peer review before publication. The author of an editorial that accompanied the study in Environmental Research is Dr. Michael Gochfeld of the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, N.J. Gochfeld described the study as "a landmark in veterans health research and occupational epidemiology. The health effects data actually confirm some veterans' fears and show relationships to herbicide exposure that have not AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE appeared so clearly in other studies . . "The analysis of the VA's inadequate role in this story will not surprise veterans, but who have may many stimulate legislators oversight responsibility for agency with its great potential to do good," Gochfeld said. The Legion's differences with federal agencies over Agent Orange date to November 1979, when Congress passed PL 96-151, mandating that the VA conduct an epidemiologic study of the long-term health effects of dioxin exposure on Vietnam veterans. The Legion was encouraged by the action, but wanted Congress to turn the study over to an independent scientific agency to avoid any possible charges of conflict of interest that could be this directed later at the As VA. turned out, the Legion's concern proved valid. In early 1983, after little or no progress, the VA and the Department of Health and Human Services agreed to hand the study over to the CDC. By then, the Legion had tired of the government's foot-dragging and proceeded on its own. Dr. Jeanne Stellman, an associate professor at Columbia University, and her husband, Steven, then assistant vice president of the American Cancer Society, joined with the Legion to carry out The American Legion and Columbia University Study it of Vietnam Veterans. The Stellmans examined the records of the Defense Department's HERBS computer tapes, which document 9,495 Agent Orange spray missions, including the dates, chemical agents, amounts, locations and purposes of the missions, as well as the U.S. Army and Joint Services Environmental Support Group's records of spray missions, which supplement the HERBS tapes. Based on that data and the responses of 6,810 randomly selected Legionnaires who served during the Vietnam War, the Stellmans concluded that exposure to Agent Orange can be adequately matched by comparing troop movements with spray missions. Their finding contradicts the CDC's claims that Agent Orange exposure cannot be adequately documented. In the editorial preceding the report of the Legion study in Environmental Research, Dr. Gochfeld wrote: "Such a position (the CDC's) is unduly narrow. If accessibility of higher-quality exposure data were the gold standard, virtu- no occupational epidemiology would ever be performed. Previous ally . . . studies that calculated morbidity, repro- APRIL 1989 LINGERING AFTEREFFECTS— The Legion study showed that Vietnam veterans with high levels of combat experience suffered more physical, mental and social problems. The effects of combat were essentially ignored in the CDC's Vietnam Experience Study. ductive and mortality outcomes for Vietnam veterans as a group are subject to misinterpretation. The present papers (Legion study) explain how to avoid the pitfalls. ..." Following publication of the study, to Dr. Philip J. Land- Houk complained rigan, Environmental Research editor in chief. In a followup file, Landrigan wrote that Houk "expressed his extreme displeasure about these articles" and charged that the journal's failure to include a report of the CDC's validation study "came close to fraud in sci- CDC study said that such a ence." (The study as the Legion's could not be done.) Environmental Research offered Houk the opportunity to write a rebuttal article, but according to Landrigan, Houk declined. Learning of Houk's bias against the Legion study, Gierke wrote Dr. Otis R. Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, urging Houk's removal from any government review of the Legion study. "If the science panel is to objectively analyze and report our study," Gierke wrote, "its members must be free of any influence wielded by an acting chairman with preconceived opinions. ..." The Legion was told that Houk would not be involved in any review and that the Legion would be provided copies of reports to Congress that concerned the Legion study. Neither happened. The Legion soon learned that a study had been sent to the chairman and ranking minority members of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees. Accompanying the review was a cover memo by Houk and other memos by the reviewers, some of whom were CDC employees and fiot members of the highly critical review of its science panel. 31 Following are the criticisms lodged against The American Legion and Columbia University Study of Vietnam Veterans by the Domestic Policy Council's Agent Orange Working Group committee. The criticisms were drawn from the cover memo written by committee chairman, Dr. Vernon N. Houk, to Rep. G.V "Sonny" Montgomery. The American Legion has responded to each criticism. CRITICISM: "The data presented in The American Legion report of the Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans ( Environmental Research 7988; 47:109-209) do not support the conclusions drawn by the authors. The study is seriously flawed due to major problems in study design RESPONSE.We used random CRITICISM: "Second, RESPONSE: This sampling as described on pages 114-115 in Environmental Research. The study was restricted to men on The American Legion membership rolls in there rejection of the fundamental principles of practically all survey research contradicts the basis of even the study. and execution. questionnaire distributed to a random sample of Vietnam veterans selected from the membership roster. Because the Legion lacked accurate records First, there is potential selection bias due to non- random sampling and low response rates. potential information bias due to poor is questionnaire design and the analysis only of self reported data without external validation. Colorado, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Minnesota. Analysis was based on a mailed, self-administered indiscriminate CDC Houk's memorandum incorrectly states that the CDC study found that "objective evidence" from medical exams did not corroborate the self-reports from the veterans. However, CDC's report, published in the May '88 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, states: "Within each cohort, the prevalence of reported medical problems among those examined was similar to the prevalence in the total telephone interview. Odds ratios based on showing which war members served in, researchers had to separate Vietnam veterans from other veterans. A tape was made that contained the names and addresses of American Legion members in the six states as of October 1983, excluding those with 20 or more years of continuous member- examination results were similar to those based on results of the telephone interview." ship because nearly all such persons served in previous wars and were therefore ineligible for this study. The tape was passed and one-seventh of the records was randomly extracted. A returnable postcard was mailed members requesting them check off whether they to the to served during the Vietnam war or a prior war. For each postcard returned, an entry was made in the computerized file. The names of the members who returned their postcards were removed from the file and the remainder of the file was sent to each post adjutant to identify Vietnam veterans. This identification was designed to eliminate non-Vietnam veterans. was not a process where a veteran himself selected into the study by filling out a It postcard. Our response able to CDC's rate is compar- so-called "vali- dation study" in which serum samples were obtained from 66 percent of Vietnam veterans and from 48 percent of non- Vietnam veterans. CRITICISM: "Probably of greatest concern, any observed association between combat or herbicide exposure is confounded by the investigators' use of subjective measures of combat and herbicide exposure. Combat exposure was not validated by comparison with military records. The herbicide exposure index used by the authors has not been validated by comparison with military records. The herbicide exposure index used by the authors has not been validated, and based on the Agent Orange Validation Study and the Ranch Hand Study, does not accurately predict exposure. Because of these problems, the results of The American Legion report are of little or no value in further understanding the Agent Orange tive issue. The collec- decision of the gov- RESPONSE: According to this government believes there is only one way to determine whether a veteran was exposed to herbicides: a blood test for dioxin. The statement, the reviewers feel that because they have not been able to validate between expo- the comparison sures and military records at a 100 percent concordance level, they may dismiss all studies, including The American Legion's, that use any other method of assessing veteran exposures in Vietnam. The clinical criteria of retrospective blood tests, in lieu of using the vast amount of herbicide spraying and troop movement information available for study, are merely an attempt to mislead the public and the independent scientific community. It amounts to a scientific sham. Our exposure measure is reasonable and produces reasonable results. Yet, CDC criticizes Please turn to page 46 - 32 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE The Infantry Rifle. when counted for the American Fighting Man. Performance The Browning Automatic Rifle. stood the test of time and battle. 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Unit 1 $24 per yr. yr. $69,000 $46,000 $23,000 $11,500 92,000 73,600 55,200 36,800 18,400 9,200 51,750 41,400 31,050 20,700 10,350 5,175 30,360 25,300 20,240 15,180 10,120 5,060 2,530 19,320 16,560 13,800 11,040 8,280 5,520 2,760 1,380 60-64 12,880 11,040 9,200 7,360 5,520 3,680 1,840 920 65-69 8,050 6,900 5,750 4,600 3,450 2,300 1,150 575 70-74* 5,313 4,554 3,795 3,036 2,277 1,518 759 379.50 75-Over* 4,025 3,450 2,875 2,300 1,725 1,150 575 287.50 $224 $192 $160 $128 $96 thru Annual Premium ANNUAL PREMIUM TO SEND WITH YOUR ENROLLMENT. The premiums shown above yr. $92,000 year. satisfied Benefit Bonus. BENEFITS—Yearly Renewable Term Insurance (Policy Form GPC-5700-781) Benefits determined by age at death and include 15% SPECIAL INCREASE for deaths occurring during 1989. 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Enrollment Subject to Underwriter's Approval has been in force dur- two years from its effec- ENROLLMENT CARD FOR YEARLY RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION NOTICE OF DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION LIFE i The American Legion The American Legion Life Insurance Plan 4870 Street Road • Trevose, PA 19049 may maintained in force by payment of premiums when Premiums accompanying non- to: Insurance Plan and mail Information regarding your in- i Name Full Birth Date surability will be treated as con- Day i i i i & Accident Insurance Com- pany may make City Name .Relationship of Beneficiary Example: Print "Helen Louise Jones." Not "Mrs. H. L (M.I.B.) a non-profit Jones" organization Membership Card No Year_ . Post No.. State_ apply for the I number i i 1. No Company's approval or rejection of this enrollment. in its actively working? members. Upon request by another member insurance com- pany now a claim is submitted, the M.I.B. will supply such No a hospital within the last year? which you have applied to for life or health insurance, or to which no, give reason If insurance Yes If yes, give date, with the information it company may have length of stay and cause I l for the Insurance _Are you Have you been confined i form a basis Present occupation?. Yes i shall of | | The following representations Answer all questions. membership life information exchange on behalf of units indicated: i of companies which operates an i i a brief report to the Medical Information Bureau i i Provident fidential except that Life Permanent Residence in 3. l During the last five years, have you had heart disease, circulatory disease, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease, diabetes, or cancer, or have you had or received treatment or medication for high blood pressure or alcoholism? information in No surers Yes If I represent that to the best of my statements and answers recorded on this enrollment card are true and complete. agree upon it under the policy. authorize any physician or other person who has attend or examine me, to disclose or to testify to any knowledge thus acquired. Signature of knowledge, all that this enrollment card shall be a part of any insurance granted i attended or examined me, or i Dated The American Legion i I Applicant 19 offers this insurance through Provident Life ply for life or health insurance, or to which a claim Upon is submitted. receipt of a request from you, the M.I.B. will arrange disclosure of any information & Accident Insurance Company. Home Office: Chattanooga, Tennessee ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION i to its rein- I i who may also release its file and to other life insurance companies to which you may ap- yes, give details I I its files. The Company may EA49UN your attending physician. i I have received and read the Notice of Disclosure of Information at right. Further, i tioner, hospital, clinic, or i or other organization, institution or person having any records or knowledge of other medical or medically related i & Accident Insurance Company any such i A facility, I authorize any physician, medical practi- insurance company, the Medical Information Bureau me or of my health to give Provident Life information. apply GMA-300-19 I for additional (Univ.) Legion tion in the Bureau's My present certificate number you file you may seek correction in accordance The address of the Bureau's information office Signature of Applicant Life Insurance. If question the accuracy of informa- Act. 19_ may with the procedures set forth in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting photographic copy of this authorization shall be as valid as the original. Dated it have in your file. Medical information will only be disclosed to is P.O. Box 105, Essex Station, Boston, Mass. 02112; is ED 1/88 Printed in U.S.A. Phone (617) 426-3660. Veterans update p %Jorrection: The list of diseases presumed to be serviceconnected under the Atomic Veterans Compensation Act of 1988 include 13 cancer-related conditions, instead of the 10 that were listed in Veterans Update in February. The diseases are all forms of leukemia except chronic lymphatic leukemia, thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and cancers of the pharynx, esophagus, stomach and small intestines, bile ducts, gall bladder, primary liver cancer, multiple myeloma and lymphomas, except Hodgkin's disease. A veteran suffering from leukemia had to contract the disease within 30 years of exposure and be rated at least 10 percent disabled as a result. The other forms of cancer must have developed within 40 years and also render the veteran at least 10 percent disabled. The VA is required to pay benefits to veterans who were exposed to radiation on active duty during nuclear testing from 1945 to 1962, or during the U.S. military occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, between Aug. 6, 1945 and July 1 1946, and who have incurred one of the diseases listed above within the stated time frames. A provision that would require the VA to establish a pilot program for training assistive monkeys and dogs was not included in the Veterans' Judicial Review Act/Veterans' Benefit Improvement Act of 1988, as reported in February. The provision was deleted before passage of the legislation. However, Sen. Alan Cranston of California, chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, has included a similar proposal in S. 13, the Veterans' Benefits and Health Care Act of 1989, which he introduced in the Senate. , number of slices in a pie. The Legion will continue to support the VA as the sole agency responsible for the administration of benefits, service programs and medical care to this nation's veterans." Gierke said the Legion would oppose any consolidation attempts "just to satisfy Congress' veterans than the needs to find false savings." Gierke's statement echoed Legion Res. 250, passed at the 1988 National Convention, which opposes transferring any veterans' benefits and service programs from the The hoax concerning GI dends for veterans is back and Legion Magazine as Each year VA. insurance falsely citing divi- The American a source of the information. 26 years, phony news stories posted on company bulletin boards and published in newsletters, magazines and other publications have informed veterans that they are entitled to GI insurance dividends of hundreds of dollars from the VA. Recent examples of the phony news story are now stating that it was published in this magazine. The claim is false. In fact, this magazine regularly publishes articles denouncing for the past the notice as a hoax. The phony notice usually begins this way: "A bill recently passed in Congress gives veterans a dividend of 55 cents per $1,000 of their GI insurance for each month they were in service. This is regardless of whether or not the veteran still carries this insurance." The notice says the dividend is not automatically sent to VA. Center in Philadelphia receives about 15,000 applications per week from veterans seeking information veterans, so they need to apply to the in I Wat'l Cmdr. H. F. "Sparky" Gierke has voiced the Legion's opposition to a recent proposal to merge VA and military hospitals. While noting that the Legion supports certain individual cases of resource sharing, Gierke said that "military medical facilities and VA medical centers have divergent constituencies with medical needs best addressed by a continued separation of operation." He said that military hospitals and clinics must treat family medical problems afflicting a younger generation, while the VA medical mission includes pioneering research in geriatrics and VA about the nonexistent dividends. A VA official said veterans should be suspect of any notice telling them to write the VA to get their dividends, since all GI insurance dividends are mailed automatically to policy holders. The VA also does not pay dividends on policies no longer in force. A Legion spokesman warned all editors of post and department publications to verify the source before printing news stories concerning insurance dividends awarded by the VA. rehabilitation, as well as training the nation's future doctors and nurses. Gierke's statement to the press came in response to a Feb. 14 newspaper article in the Washington Post that reported the Disabled American Veterans organization was in favor of consolidating 172 VA medical centers with the DoD's 130 hospitals and 330 outpatient clinics. The Post article also quoted former VA Deputy Administrator Thomas Harvey as an apparent supporter of the DAV proposal. Harvey was quoted as saying that the current working agreement between the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center "makes a lot of sense." Harvey added, "What they have found is that when they were done, instead of having smaller pieces of the pie, it made the pie larger." Gierke labeled the idea as "nonsense," and noted that "The American Legion is more concerned with care for APRIL 1989 The A mm national conference on veterans' employment "Workforce 2001 A Veterans' Odyssey, will be held April 19 through April 21 in Spokane, Wash. Sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training, the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies and several national veterans' organizations, the conference will conduct workshops on developing employment opportunities for veterans, including women veterans and severely disabled veterans. Jim Hubbard, director of the Economic Division in Washington, D.C., will represent the Legion at the confer- and training, : ence. For registration information, contact Charlie (406) 728-7060. Brown at 35 Veterans alert OUTFIT REUNIONS Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices must be submitted on official forms only. To obtain forms, send a sell-addressed, stamped envelope to: O R. Form, The American Legion Magazine, P.O Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be received at least five months before reunions are scheduled and will be published only on a first-come, first-served basis Notices are published only one time per unit per year. Army 45th General Hospital (WWII) (May-Williamsburg, VA) Frank Zahemski, 244 Maryland Ave., Paterson, NJ 07503(201)278-4543 46th/501st Chem. Smoke Generator Cos. (JuneWashington) George Farrell. 10124 Dolby Ave., Glenn Dale, MD 20769 (301 464-5535 52nd Chemical Co. (Sept-Harrodsburg, KY) William Kerest, 102 Dunwoodie St.. Yonkers, NY 10704 (914) ) 969-1341 58th Gen. Hospital (June-Indianapolis) William Gudgel, HC65, Box 33. Ainsworth, NE 69210 (402) 387-1199 62nd Arm'd F.A. Bn. (Sept-Amarillo, TX) Jerry Eades, 2312 Skylark St., Arlington, TX 76010 (817) 275-1556 65th Inf. Div. (Sept-Baltimore) Maurice Neil, 8409 Brook Pk. Dr,, #112. Canton, Ml 48187 66th Inf. Div. (Sept-Europe) Robert Hesse, 26 E. Curtis St., Linden, NJ 07036 (201 925-0192 68th AAA Gun Bn. (1950-52) (Aug-Elmwood, Wl) Leslie Long, Rt, 1, Box 173, Elmwood. Wl 54740 (715) 639-6288 69th Inf. Div. (Aug-Denver) Clarence Marshall. 101 Stephen St New Kensington. PA 15068 (412) 335-3224 70th Div. QM Co. (Aug-Salem, OR) E L Dunton, 675 W. Hills Way, N.W Salen. OR 97304 (503) 364-1616 71st Inf., 44th Div., Co. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) L.W. Allen, 3001 Manor Rd,, Charlotte, NC 28209 (704) 333) 1st F.A. Obsn. 3238 Rogers NC) Vernon Beavers, NC 28303 (919) 867-6214 (Oct-Fayetteville, Dr. , Fayetteville, 25th Inf., B Trp. (1967) (June-Harrison, AR) George Galler, 6391 Goodwood Ave Baton Rouge, LA 70806(504)926-7337 2/1 Cav., 4th Inf. Div., C Trp. (Vietnam) (July-Emporia, KS) Tom Schluchter, 3932 N Center, Saginaw, Ml 48603 1 st Pit., 3/4 Cav., , 790-0195 2nd Inf., 5th Div., Co. (WWII) (Sept-Battle Creek, Ml) Leon Belardinelh, 1351 Windsor Ct.. Elgin, IL 60120 (312) 931-0847 3rd Bn., 197th FA (1968-69) (Sept) 3rd Bn. 197th FA Vietnam Committee, 133 Walnut Ave., No. Hampton, NH 03862 (603) 964-6546 4th Arm'd Assn. (July-Stamford. CT) Samuel Schenker Sr, 1823 Shady Dr., Farrell, PA 16121 (412) 342-6058 4th Cav. Assn. (Sept-Council Bluffs, IA) Mike Loberg. Box 416, Annandale, MN 55 3 02 612 274-54 22 4th Inf. Div. Assn. (May-Europe) Greg McDonnell. 1 Crestview Dr., Dover. NH 03820 (603) 742-8090 5th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Sept-Boston) Will Cook, 13344 Luthman Rd., Minster, OH 45865 (419) 628-4032 6th Signal Co., 6th Div. (Sept-Nashville, TN) Bernal Hanna, 111 2nd St., Bemis, TN 38314 (901 423-0727 10th Arm'd Div. Assn. (WWII) Aug-MMwaukee. Wl) Jessie Everett, 2845 Broadway, #307, Boulder, CO 80302 (303)442-1829 10th Inf., 5th Inf. Div., A Co. (June-Columbus, OH) S Highsmith, 9Tween Waters Ct.Tavares, FL 32778 (904) 343-8766 11th Amr'd Div. (Aug-Rapid City, SD) Alfred Pfeiffer, 2328 Admiral St Aliquippa, PA 15001 (412) 375-6295 1 5/1 7th Cav. Recon. Sqs. (Sept-Trenton, NJ) Joseph Suosso, 417 Newkirk Ave Trenton, NJ 08610 (609) 586(517) I ( ) ) ( . , 6703 15th Inf. Rgt. (July-Waukee. IA) George Pilkington, Rt. 1, Cuba, IL 61427 (309) 785-2863 17th Base Post Office (Sept-Hagerstown, MD) Warren Cook. 169 Heritage Rd Chambersburg, PA 17201 (717) 264-5852 17th F.A. (Sept-Carlisle, PA) George Hackelt, Box 404, Post Rd., Canton, NY 13617 (315) 386-2070 17th Major Port, TC (Attach. Units/WWII) (Apr-San Antonio. TX) Ralph Rinn, 1001 E. Gonzales, Yoakum, TX 77995(512)223-5528 18th Combat Engrs. (Oct-Willow Street, PA) Henry Hess, 15 Batt Ave Willow Street, PA 17584 (717) 464-3698 20th Arm'd F.A. Assn. (Sept-Indianapolis) L B Vinson, 2102 Ardmore Ave., #123, Ft. Wayne, IN 46802 (219) Box 26, , , 432-0119 22nd/227th/229th Signal Op. Cos. (Sept-Johnstown, PA) John Sobditch, 169 Jacob St.. Johnstown, PA 15902 (814) 288-5373 24th Inf. Div, 5th RCT, 555th FA, 6th Tank Bn. (WWII/ Korea) (Sept-Ft. Worth, TX) Kenwood Ross, 120 Maple St., Springfield, MA 01103 (413)733-3194 28th Ord. MM Co. (May-Knoxville, TN) James Wheeler, Box 3548, Knoxville, TN 37927 (615) 525-1694 29th Div. Assn. (Sept-Arlington, VA) Harvey Folks, 1504 Merrimac Dr., Adelphi, MD 20783 Div. Red Arrow Club (Great Western) (AprPhoenix, AZ) L.E. Abel, Rt. 4, Box 93A 81, Woodland. CA 95695 (916) 662-9489 33rd Inf. Div. (Sept-Indianapolis) Bill Endicott, Box 532, Kirkland, WA 98083 (206) 822-4000 34th Inf. Rgt., 24th Div. L Co. (Sept-Hershey. TN) Frank Reimel, 59 High St., Montrose. PA 18801 (717) 278-2356 38th Div. Band (WWII) (June-Rushville, IN) Joe Alexander, Rt. 5, Box 248. Rushville, IN 46173 (317) 932-4904 38th Engr. Rgt. (C) (Sept-Canton. OH) Dwight Netzly, 1237 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, OH 44646 (216) 832- 32nd 9744 , . I 1951 72nd . 5220 88th Div. (So. Eastern Chapter) (Apr-St Petersburg, FL) George Spino, Box 2561. Largo, FL 34649 94th Signal Bn. (Aug-Wichita, KS) H. M. Boyer. 910 N Mt Carmel St., Wichita, KS 67203 (316) 942-6604 95th Evac. Hospital (Sept-Charleston, WV) Arley Basham. 2290 Blackwell Dr., Charleston, WV 25312 (304 744-8211 Inf. Div. (Aug-Ft. Worth, TX) Lester Wolf. 8032 S. ) 95th Ct., Justice, IL 60458 (312) 458-3047 99th Inf. Div. Assn. (June-Dallas) James Mcllroy, Box 98, Celma, TX 75009 (214) 382-2371 101st CA AA Bn. (WWII) (July-Savannah. GA) Lee Johnson, 1444 Baracoa Ave Coral Gables, FL 33146 (305) 666-3025 103rd Combat Engrs., 28th Div. (WWII) (June-Charleston. WV) Lewis Kelso, Rt, 1, Box 458-E-1, Fountaintown, IN 46130 (317) 861 -4821 103rd Med. Bn. & Rgt. Assn., 28th Div. (Sept-Monroeville, PA) Penrose Milham. 1725 Wilson Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 393-3318 110th Engr. (C) Bn., A,B,C,H&S Cos. (WWII) (JuneKnoxville, TN) William Hunt. 909 21 st St., Knoxville, TN 37916(615)524-0140 110th QM Bakery (Aug-Kansas City. MO) Harry Tucker, 510 Burton St., Raleigh, NC 27608 (919) 834-8639 112th Inf., 28th Div., A Co. (July-Corry, PA) James Roden, 222 Smith St., Corry, PA 16407 (814) 6647449 114th Inf. Rgt., B Co. (June-Kansas City, MO) George Price, Box 517, Levelland, TX 79336 (806) 894-3577 120th Med. Rgt., 45th Div., A Co. (WWII) (July-Cushing. OK) Fred Cannon, 702 E. Main, Cushmg, OK 74023 123rd General Hospital (1944-45) (Sept-Cleveland) Dr. T.J. Glennon, 82 Arlington Rd Woburn, MA 01801 124th FA, 33rd Div., A Btry. (WWII) (June-Wisconsin Dells, Wl) Bruno Steponkus, 2996 15th Ave., Wisconsin 86th . W , Wl 53965 AAA Gun Bn. (Oct-EI Paso, TX) R Fiske, 9321 Lait TX 79925 Vets Assn., 32nd Div. (Sept-Marinette, Wl) David Connaher, 4307 11th St., Menominee, Ml 49858 (906) 863-3565 129th Inf., 37th Div., B Co. (June-Springfield, MO) Varlan Vancil, 305 W, Main, Sparta, IL 62286 (618) 443-2283 Dr., El Paso, Inf. Rgt. Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Oak Brook, IL) Ed IL 60650 (312) 825-6367 Assn. (Aug-Grand Island, NE) Robert Fowler, 134th Inf. 1619 W. 50th St., Omaha, NE 68104 (402) 553-6448 139th O.B.A.M. Bn., 3037 Co. (Apr-Williamsburg, VA) Hampton Stump, 14 Dimmock Ave., Newport News, VA Inf. Ozzie, Box 50832, Cicero, 23601 (804) 599-6540 143rd AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (July-Lancaster, OH) Harry Lane, 7291 Alspach Rd,, Lancaster, OH 43130 (614) 8379128 148th Engr. Combat Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Washington. PA) Leroy Sten. 1396 Beech St. Ext., Washington, PA 15301 (412) 225-9452 149th Inf., 38th Div., Co. (July-Marion, KY) Robert McMican. 212 W. Elm St., Marion, KY 42064 (502) 9654683 150th Combat Engr. Bn. (WWII) (May-Lowell. MA) Philip Dobruck. 873 Windsor Ave Windsor, CT 06095 151st Inf., E Co. (June-Darlington, IN) Donald Weliever, Rt. 1, Darlington, IN 47940 (317) 794-4525 157th Inf. Rgt., 158th FA Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Willlamsburg, VA) Felix Sparks, 7900 W. 23rd Ave., Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 233-2369 161st Inf. Rgt., 41st Div., G Co. (July-Prosser. WA) Howard Madson, 2317 Umpqua Rd., Woodburn, OR 97071 (503)981-6562 166th Gun Bn., D Btry. (Sept-Des Moines, IA) Edward Bunker, Box 12, Sac City, IA 50583 (712) 662-7631 168th CA. Bn. (Anti-Aircraft) Apr-Emporia, KS) Lawrence Ringler, Rt, 5, Box 61, Emporia, KS 66801 (316) 279-4218 172/941 st FA, 774th TD (Aug-Manchester, NH) Joseph Proulx, 300 Candia Rd., Manchester, NH 03103 (603) 625-6789 177th F.A., C Btry. (July-Owosso, Ml) Alvin Honke. 113 N. State Rd., Owosso, Ml 48867 (517) 743-4148 185th Inf. Rgt., 40th Div. D Co. (WWII) (Oct-Visalia, CA) Jack Moffett, 16314 Candlelight Dr., Whittier. CA 90604 (213) 943-3148 185th Signal Bn., B Co. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) Junior Pittman, 2711 Hwy. 11, Landrum, SC 29356 (803) 895I . ( ( 127th 36 NC) John 34602 Brooksville, FL 866-4215 78th Ord. Depot (June-Cincinnati) Stanley Strand, Rt. 2. Box 66B, Erskine, MN 56535 (218) 687-4095 78th Signal Co. (Sept-Canton. OH) Paul Stokely, Rt. 1, Box 628. Center Point. TX 78010 (512) 634-2469 80th Gen. Hospital (WWII) (Oct-Raleigh. NC) George Allred, Box 235. Bonlee, NC 27213 (919) 837-5883 83rd Infantry Div. Aug-Cincinnafi) Robert Derickson. 3749 Slahlheber Rd., Hamilton, OH 45013 (513) 8632199 83rd Ord. HM Co. (FA) (Sept-Minneapolis. MN) Bob Hall. 1504 Oak Ridge Dr., Hastings, MN 55033 (612) 4375932 86th Blackhawk Div. Assn. (Sept-Tarpon Springs, FL) Alyn Dull. 1226 Kilian Blvd St Cloud. MN 56301 (612) 252-9579 88th Chemical Mtr. Bn., C Co. (July-Nashville. TN) Fred White, Rt 5, Box 160. Livingston. TN 38570 (615) 823- 428-1352 44th Engr. (C) Bn. (Aug-Gatlinburg, TN) Albert Cline, Box 501, Gaffney, SC 29342 45th AAA HQ Bde. (Aug-Nashville, TN) Francis Heroux. 1106 5th Ave, Grafton, Wl 53024 (414) 377-0496 , , 766-8745 74th CA AA (All Units) (May-Ft. Monroe, VA) Fred Brooks. 2000 Wilhem Ave.. Baltimore. MD 21237 (301) 127th (216) Wildlife Ln (904) 799-0197 Dells, AAA 28404 74th AA Gun Bn., C Btry. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Rudolph Matvey, 1331 Geyer Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (412) Grp., HQ Btry. (July-Madison, OH) Joe Derubertis, 6534 Derubertis Dr., Madison. OH 44057 39th F.A. Bn. (All Units) (June-Troutman, Petrovich, 132nd 2645 187th Parachute Inf., 11th A/B Div., E Co. (JuneSeattle, WA) Pat Kenny, 213 Myrtle St., Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 (803) 448-5560 194th F.A. Bn., Grp., 185th/740th FA (WWII) (Sept-Little Amana, IA) Hugo Potratz, 1510 Williams Dr., Ft. Dodge, IA 50501 (515) 576-3740 AAA Bn. (Sept-No. Chicago. 198th IL) Emil Custer, W5274 Faro Springs, Hilbert, Wl 54129 (414) 989-1584 202nd CA. (AA)/202nd AAA Qrp. (Sept-San Diego) Roger McCabe. 7400 Edgemere Blvd., El Paso, TX 79925 (915) 778-0632 202nd Combat Engr. Bn., C Co. (WWII) (July-Niles, OH) John Hyre, 1360 Niles Cortland Rd. S.E.. Warren, OH 44484(216)856-2070 203rd Gen. Hospital (WWII) (Oct-San Antonio, TX) Edward Vogel, 10918 Grand Haven, San Antonio, TX 78239 204th AAA Bn. (July-Canton, OH) George Sefton, 788 Saxonburg Blvd., Saxonburg, PA 16056 (412) 352-1219 208th CA AA Vets (June-Middlebury. CT) Harry MacNeil Jr., 26 Mountain Rd., Torrington, CT 06790 (203) 4898882 210th Gen. Hospital (July-Boiling Springs, PA) Lowell Dean. 185 Central Ave Westerville. OH 43081 214th AAA CA, C Btry. (Aug-Wellington, OH) Andrew Nye, 430 E Spring St., Zelienople, PA 16063 (412) 452, 7169 226th MP Co. (May-Laughlin, NV) Leslie Simmons, 1444 N Recker Rd, #108, Mesa, AZ 85205 (602) 981-7265 233rd Engr. (C) Bn. (Sept-Boise, ID) Gene Skogerson, 3623 Sycamore Dr., Boise, ID 83703 (208) 342-1206 238th Engr. (c) Bn. Assn. (July-Moncks Corner, SC) Jesse Miller, 756 Greendale Rd,, York, PA 17403 (717) 854-5169 240th Engr. Bn (Aug-Dayton, OH) Donald Musser, 1658 8th St. N.W Cedar Rapids, IA 52405 (319) 362-1091 242nd F.A. Bn. (Aug-Kearney, NE) Katherine L'Heureux, Box 158, Campbell, NE 68932 (402) 756-8727 243rd Port Co. (Oct-Williamsburg, VA) Nelson Shearer, 202 2nd St.. Towanda, PA 18848 (717) 265-5445 264th F.A. Bn. (June-Florence, KY) Lawrence Gresham. 804 Anaconda Ave., Charleston, WV 25302 (304) 3425067 264th Ord. MM Co. (Sept-No, Little Rock, AR) J.B. Reynolds, 905 E, 53rd PI., No. Little Rock, AR 72116 (501)758-1863 300th AFA Bn., C Btry. (Aug-Worland, WY) Ralph Pickett, 604 Obie Sue, Worland, WY 82401 (307) 347-6567 317th FA, 81st Div., HQ Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Reedsburg. Wl) Frank Divita, E 2044 County Hwy. G., LaValle, Wl 53941 (608) 985-7172 329th Inf., 83rd Div., Rgt. HQ Co. (June-St Marys. OH) Frank Fauver, 403 Edgewood Dr., Wauseon, OH 43567 (419) 335-9363 337th/1338th Combat Engrs. (Aug-Parkersburg. WV) . , AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Veterans alert Fred Varner, 318 Woodland Ave., Parkersburg, WV 26104 (304)422-1500 343rd Ord. Dpt. Co. (Apr-Branson, MO) Reinie Wiederrich, 3161 N.E. 79th, Portland. OR 97213 (503) 253-2968 346th Engr. Rgt. (July-Racine, Wl) Thomas McMahon, 1527 Ellis Ave., Racine, Wl 53402 (414) 639-3118 368th Engrs. (Aug-Milwaukee, Wl) Alex Andreski, 460 Bostwick Ave. Janesville, Wl 53545 (608) 754-9321 369th E.A. & S.R. (June-LaCrosse, Wl) Bob Reed. Box 503. Sullivan, Wl 53178 (414) 593-2422 374th F.A. Bn., 100th Div. (WWII) (May-Deland, FL) Eli Fishpaw, 1104 E. University Ave., Deland, FL 32724 (904) 734-6934 389th F.A. Bn., 97th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Cincinnati) Joe Newbauer, Rt. 3, Box 3668F Grayling, Ml 49738 (517) 939-8938 391st/392nd Med. Coll. Cos., 61st Med. Bn. (WWII) (July-Elkins, WV) Virgil Hart, Rt. 1, Box 229. Elkins, WV 26241 (304) 636-1958 396th ASF Band (June-Seattle, WA) Victor Dahlberg, 13715 N.E. 71st PI., Redmond, WA 98052 (206) 885, 3927 397th AAA AW Bn., 40 M/M Bn. (Sept-Hershey, PA) Edward Rowe, 11201 Towood Rd., Kingsville, MD 21087 (301 ) 592-6471 400th AA AW Bn., C Btry. (Aug-Grand Island, NE) Walter Anson, 642 N. Broadwell, Grand Island, NE 68803 (308) 382-7400 411th Inf., 103rd Div., M Co. (WWII) (Jun-Hazel Green, Wl) Vernon Silha, 514 Nelson, Coon Valley, Wl 54623 (608) 452-3418 417th Inf. Rgt., 76th Div., G Co. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Albert Benik, 726 Reynolds Ave., McKeesport, PA 15132 (412)673-6556 441st Med. Coll. Co. (June-Indianapolis) Lloyd Tindall, 905 N. Downey Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46219 (317) 3562652 456th AAA AW Bn. (June-Sheffield, AL) Bruce Berryman, Rt. 1, Box 156, Town Creek, AL 35672 476th AAA AW Bn. (Aug-Chattanooga, TN) George Cox. 50 E. Lake, Box 5927, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 (205) 5536745 483rd AAA AW Aycock, Rt. 4, Bn. (June-Chapel Hill, TN) Clifford Box 57, Tuscumbia, AL 35674 (205) 383- 7246 492nd Port Bn., 230/231/232/233 Cos. (Sept-MilOH) Frank Danicki, 1060 Plaza Dr., Amherst, 44001 (216) 988-2465 494th AA Bn. (Sept-Estes Park, CO) G.F. Dickinson, 3007 W. 12th St. Rd., Greeley, CO 80631 (303) 352-5570 501st AAA Gun Bn., C Btry. (Sept-Greensburg, PA) Adam Coback, 404 Lee Dr., Baltimore, MD 21228 (301) 747-4604 506th AAA Gun Bn. (Sept-Marietta. OH) Dean Olin, 2413 Center Rd., Rt. 4, Ashtabula, OH 44004 (216) 969-1339 513th Engr. (LP) Co. (1942-45) (Aug-Madison, Wl) Edwin Henke, N8452 Cty. F, Portage, Wl 53901 (608) 742-6492 551st Engrs. HP Bn. (WWII) (June-Williamsport, PA) William Brink, Box 123, Picture Rock, PA 17762 555th Railhead Co. (WWII) (Apr-Scottsdale, AZ) R.B. Spiekerman, 7930 E. Camelback Rd., #208, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (602)947-5308 556th Ord. HM (tk) Co. (WWII) (Aug-Ripley, WV) Pat Deever, 3614 Cyress St., Parkersburg, WV 26101 (304) 485-5730 558th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Allentown, PA) John Juretus, 1453 Lehigh Pky. So., Allentown, PA 18103 (215) 797lersburg, OH 6352 591st Engr. Boat Rgt. (July) Everett Mills, Box 71, Sublette, KS 67877 (316) 675-8261 608th Tank Destroyer Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Harry Rapp, 317 W. King St., Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 394-7942 619th Engr. Base Equip. Co. (Sept-Washburn, ND) Kenneth Secrest, Rt. 1, Box 72, Unadilla, NY 13849 (607) 563-3132 622nd Assn. OH) Mrs. Guiles Berry, 5207 W. Millington Rd., Millington, Ml 48746 (517) 871-2530 Div., C Btry. (Sept-Denver) Medford Pettit, 1316 S. 9th St., Deming, NM 88030 (505) 546- 8582 627th T.D. Bn. (May-Painted Post, NY) Harry Sturdevant, 65-414 Estates, Beaver Dam, NY 14812 (607) 936-3143 631st Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-York, PA) Charles Slenker, 12 S. Clinton St., West York, PA 17404 (717) 8547256 644th Tank Destroyer Bn. (June-Las Vegas, NV) Frank Arieta, 129 E. Garibaloi Ave., Nesquehoning, PA 18240 (717) 669-9341 Tr. Bn. (Aug-Milwaukee, Wl) Elmer Hallen, Kewaskum, Wl 53040 (414) 626-2253 661st Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-Denver) William Beswick, Box 576, West Point, VA 23181 (703) 843-2696 692nd F.A. Bn., B Btry. (Sept-Brandon, MO) Warren Knudsen, Rt. 1, Box 189. Willard, Wl 54493 (715) 2671161 Stark St., 6710 704th Tank Destroyer Bn., 4th A.D. (July-Stamford, CT) APRIL 1989 Schenker, 1823 Shady Dr., Farrell, PA 16121 Ord. Maint. Co./Bn (Oct-Columbus, GA) James Hembree, 20 Binks Dr., Clarksville, TN 37042 ABN (615) 552-7761 Bn. (June-Laurel, MD) Joseph Selovich, 1909 Kenosha, Wl 53140 (414) 654-0517 728th Railway Oper. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN) Fred Stucy, 307 S. Webster Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46219 (317) 359-0215 733rd Engr. Dpt. Co. (WWII) (Sept-Branson, MO) 35th St., Thomas Stockdill, 331 Bost Dr., West Mifflin, MP Bn., Co. C (Sept-Milwaukee, Wl) Elmer Vopal, 2961 S. 44th St., Milwaukee, Wl 53219 (414) 545-1421 739th Heavy Shop Engrs. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) Arnold Frye, Rt. 5, Box 1359, Hickory, NC 28603 (704) 327-2222 746th AAA Gun Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Nashville, TN) George Stewart, Box 495, Tonganoxie, KS 66086 (913) 845-2582 751 St Tank Bn. (Oct-Cleveland) William Barota, 15520 Greenway Rd. Cleveland, OH 44111 (216) 941 -7842 793rd AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Burlington, VT) Conrad Peterson, 95 Colrain Rd., Shelburne, MA 01370 (413) 625-9414 793rd MP Bn. (1943-53) (Sept-Evansville, IN) Art Sherokow, Rt. 1, Box 196C, Parsons, TN 38363 (901) 847-6230 808th Army Engrs. (Aug-Denver) Robert Hansen, 266 Thorndale Ave., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 (312) 4370872 815th AVN Engrs. (WWII) (Sept-Kansas City, MO) John Murphy, 3803 N.W. 62nd Terr., Kansas City, MO 64151 (816) 587-8387 817th AVN Engr. Bn. (Sept-Valley Forge, PA) Harry Ellis, 232 Auburn Ave. Atco, NJ 08004 (609) 767-3858 820th AVN Engr. Bn. (Aug-Scotts Bluff, NE) Joe Acker, 722 W. 25th St., Scotts Bluff, NE 69334 (308) 635-7479 872nd A/B AVN Engr. Bn. (May-Chicopee, MA) Joseph Walker Jr.. 42 Royal Palm Cir., Largo, FL 34648 (813) 585-0465 885th Ord. Co. (Sept-Chicago) Reynolds Adducci. 10601 S.Homan, Chicago, IL 60655 (312) 238-5554 899th T.D. Bn., B/C/Recon?HQ (Sept-St. Louis) Stan Horton, 218 Wooster Dr., St. Louis, MO 63135 906th FA Bn., 81st Div., A Btry. (Sept-Branson, MO) Ervin Wassman, Rt. 1, Box 231. Ormsby, MN 56162 (507) 375-4659 989TH F.A. Bn. (Sept-Madison, IN) M E. Glenn, Rt. 5, Box 1, Madison, IN 47250 (812) 273-1625 1000th Engr.Tdwy. Bridge Co. (Sept-Philadelphia) Louis Feraco, 502 Schoolhouse Ln., Willow Grove, PA 19090 (215) 657-2674 1021st Engr. Treadway Bridge Co. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Carville Link, 1260 Locust Ave., Baltimore, MD 21227 (301)242-5338 1061st Engr. CP&R (July-Greenville, SC) John McNeely, 9190 Augusta Rd., Pelzer, SC 29669 (803) 235-6486 , , 1289th Combat Engrs. (June-Jasper, Theising, Box 113, Schnellville, IN IN) Hilbert 47580 (812) 389-2523 1462nd Engr. Boat Maint. Co., 3rd E.S.B. (MayBradford, PA) Clayton Brown, box 280, Lodi, NY 14860 (607) 582 -6466 AVN Engr. Bn. (Elko Engrs) (June-South Bend, IN) Victor Lechowicz, 719 Taylor Ave Avalon, PA 15202 (412)761-7592 1905th Engr. AVN Bn. (Aug-Oklahoma City, OK) John Grapes, 704 S. Massachusetts, Cherokee, OK 73728 (405) 596-2444 2195th QM Trk. Ct. (1943-45) (May-Asheville, NC) Jess Jamison, 239 Porter St., Franklin, NC 28734 (704) 5241896th , 3509 3062nd QM Bakery (Aug-Des Moines, Johnston, 1103 Dodge St., IA) William Bedford, IA 50833 (712) 523- 2420 3469th Ord. (1942-45) (Aug-St. Paul, MN) Howard Logan St., West St. Paul, MN 55118 (612) 457-5304 3820th QM Gas Supply Co. (Aug-Mound City. MO) Norman Smith. Rt. 2, Box 15, Oregon, MO 64473 (816) 446-3457 QM Gas Supply Co. (Sept-Gatlinsburg, TN) Charles Smith, Box 287, Stockport, OH 43787 (614) 5592601 Ex-Elgin Field Wartime WACs (June-New Orleans, LA) Alice McConnell, 43387 Hwy. 621, Gonzales, LA 70737 3840th SC 29587 (803) 238-2411 Yokohama Engr. Dpt. Detach. C (July-Lawrenceville. PA) Walter Williams, Rt. 2, Box 154, Lawrenceville, PA 16929(717)827-2773 PA 15122 (412)466-2591 738th Beach, San Francisco Port of Embarkation V-Mail Sta. (JuneTulsa, OK) Max Doty, 5255 S. Irvington PL, Tulsa, OK 74135(918)622-5384 MP 720th Schletz, 165 W. (Sept. -Dayton, 625th FA Bn., 40th 658th Amph. Sam 711th (504) 647-1630 First Spec. Serv. Navy 6th Dist. Shore Patrol (WWII) (June-Columbia, SC) Harold Ross, 1136 Broadview Blvd., Brackenridge, PA 15014 (412) 224-2881 29th Seabee Bn. (Aug-Chicago) Jim Arcaro, 115 Majestic Dr., Lombard, IL 60148 (312) 932-8037 35th NCB (Sept-Columbia, SC) Phil Silver, 924 Stafford Ct., Westbury, NY 11590 (516) 334-3424 64th NCB (July-Charlotte/Fort Mill) Ernie Reynolds, 3403 Westmont Dr., Aiken, SC 29801 (803) 648-5759 76th NCB (Sept-Jacksboro, TX) C.C. Duncan, Box 174, Perrin, TX 76075 (817) 654- 1536 123rd NCB (Aug-Arlington, VA) Ed Widmayer, 13307 Fox Hall Dr., Silver Springs. MD 20906 (301 942-8988 135th NCB (WWII) (Apr-Nashville. TN) Jack Pilkington, Box 176, Riverside, AL 35135 (205) 884-4867 Acorn 34 (Aug-Danvers, MA) Nicholas Markos, 14 Cedar View Rd., Ipswich, MA 01938 (508) 356-5216 Battle of Ormoc Bay (USS Moale/Sumner/Cooper) (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Russ Catardi, 513 County Line Rd., Hatboro, PA 19040 (215) 675-0230 CBMU 568 (Sept-Salt Lake City, UT) Theodore Stahl, 18 W. Prairie Ave., Lombard, IL 60148 (312) 627-5805 CBMU 569 (Sept-Salt Lake City, UT) O.K. Larson, 711 Stanwich Ln., St. Paul, MN 55118 (612) 454-5943 Covered Wagon Assn. (Oct-San Jose, CA) Earl Dixon, 1075-275 Space Park Way, Mt. View, CA 94043 (415) 968-5172 NALF Crows Landing (May-Crows Landing. CA) Jim Lint, NALF Crows Landing, Crows Landing, CA 95313 (209) 837-4781 Naval Weather Serv. Assn. (June-Carmel, CA) NWSA 15th Reunion, Box 8662 NPS, Monterey, CA93943 (408) 649-0109 NMCB 9 (June-Port Hueneme, CA) Richard Casoli, Box 88, Hanson, MA 02341 (617)293-7212 P.T. Boats Inc. (Aug-Omaha, NE) Alyce Guthrie, Box 38070, Memphis, TN 38183 (901 755-8440 Piney Point Nav. Test Range (WWII) (July-Piney Point. MD) Marty Benson. 626 E. Crescent Dr., Vineland, NJ 08360 (609) 696-1977 Torpedo Sq. 24 (June-New Orleans, LA) Edward Dwyer. N10836 Rainbow Terr., Fox Lake, Wl 53933 (414) 9282731 U.S. LSTAssn. (Aug-Pittsburgh) U.S. LST Assn., Box ) ) OH 43623 A.B.S.D. 4 (Aug-San Antonio, TX) Box 1012, Cedar Hill, TX 75104 (214) 291 USS American Legion APA 17 (WWII) phia) John Zuella, 268 Scott Rd., #9, 06705 (203) 757-0478 8769, Toledo, USS USS Amsterdam CL (Sept-Philadel- Waterbury, CT 101 (Sept-King of Prussia, PA) Leon Stewart Sr., 124 Township Line Rd., Exton, PA 19341 (215)363-7927 USS Amycus ARL 2 (June-Reno, NV) Pablo Escobedo, 1556 W. 1st St., Mesa, AZ 85201 (602) 964-8422 USS Atlanta CL 51/Juneau CL 52 (Oct-Gloucester, MA) W.B. McKinney, 49 Newmarch St., Ipswich, MA 01938 (508) 356-3775 USS Bagley DD 386 (Sept-St. Louis) Walter Morley, Box 608, West Dennis, MA 02670 (508) 398-8553 USS Baham AG 71 (Sept-Charleston, SC) George Usher, Box 41, Springfield, GA 31329 (912) 754-6930 USS Bainbridge DD 246 (Aug-Mercer, PA) Ed Loreno, PA 16125 (412) 588-7355 E Div. (Sept-Kansas City, MO) Ray Radus, 4408 Gateway Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146 3888 S. Main St., USS Bairoko CVE Greenville, 115, (412)327-5251 USS Barnett APA 5 (June-Norfolk, VA) John Kolstad, 2213 Ming Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93304 (805) 831 -6038 USS Belet APD 109 (Sept-Indianapolis) FA. Weaver, Box 696, Galveston, IN 46932 (219) 699-6094 Belleau Wood CVL 24 & Air Diego) Robert Ross, 2732 South 48750(517) 739-2182 Force (Aug-Edmonton, Alberta, Can.) William Story, 11815 Quarter Horse Ct., Oakton, VA 22124(703) 620-5990 Ft. Kamehameha, HI (All Units/1932-42) (JuneLexington, KY) D M. Cooper, Box 142, Glen Dale, WV USS 26038 (304) 845-0880 HQ V Corps Vets Assn. (Sept-South Bend, IN) Harold Lomax, 16388 Jackson, Mishawaka, IN 46544 (219) USS Bridge 255-4621 Regt. Reserve Liaison Detach. -OSS, 1st ECAD (SeptMyrtle Beach, SC) Edward Field, Box 15404. Surfside Luis Malavear, -6555 Groups (Aug-San US 23, Oscoda, Ml USS Boston CA 69/CAG 1/SSN 703 (July-Nashua, NH) USS Boston Assn.. Box 816, Amherst, NH 03031 (Sept-Ouray, CO) Floyd Burkdoll, 1040 Howard St., Delta, CO 81416 (303) 874-9478 USS Brush DD 745 (Sept-Asheville, NC) Quenton Miller, 309 Fayette Davis Ave., Cleveland, MS 38732 (601 8435572 USS Canberra CA 70 (WWII) (Sept-Boston) P.J. ) 37 Veterans alert McLaughlin, 519 N. Adams St., Lincoln, IL 62656 (217) Carroll APA 28 (Sept-New Orleans, LA) Milton Smith Jr., 1818 Crescent Dr., St. Joseph, MO 64506(816)279-8728 Clay APA 39, Elizabeth C. Stanton PA 69 (SeptLaCrosse, Wl) John Brass, 403 E. 330th St., Willowick, OH 44094 (216) 943-2079 USS USS Coghlan DD 606 Tanquary, 147 N. (Sept-Portland, OR) Patrick Englewood, FL 34223 (813) Fiji Cir. , 475-6413 USS Dennis Buckley DD (R) 808 (Apr-Charleston, SC) Charles Black, Box 1301, Little Rock, AR 72203 (501 ) J. 663-6096 USS Detroit (Sept-San Francisco) John McGoran, 105 Dr., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 924-3604 USS Dobbin AD 3 (Dewey, MacDonough, Worden) (Sept-Dallas) Clarence Rudd, 1347 N.W. Hartford, Bend, OR 97701 (503)389-4919 USS Drayton DD 366 (WWII) (June-Pensacola, FL) Robert Foster. 619 N. Wheeler Ave., Inverness, FL Granada 32650 (904) 344-4464 City) Archie Pineda, 2117 N. Warren Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73107 (405) 948-6185 USS Eldorado (1944-72) (Sept-Baltimore) Frank Ducker, 3670 Clarenell Rd., Baltimore. MD 21229 Ellyson DD 54/DMS 19 (Oct-lndianapolis) James Galbreth, 8927 Carriage Ln., Indianapolis, IN 46256 USS (317) 849-3315 USS Enterprise CV-6 & Air Grps. Aug-Norfolk, VA) H.W. Childress, 4143 Ewell Pt. Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23455 (804)464-1970 USS Finch DE 328 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Robert Stevens, 409 Dellwood St., Tilton, IL 61833 (217) 4424602 USS Florence Nightingale AP 70 (Oct-Charleston. SC) Jack Schmude, 957 Woods Run Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212(412)766-8097 USS Gambier Bay CVE 73/VC 10 (Taffy III Included) (Sept-Milwaukee, Wl) Charles Heinl, 8329 St. Rt. 119. ( OH 45860 USS Gayety AM 239 (Sept-Louisville, Maria Stein, 5007 W. 63rd 3983 Terr., Prairie Village, KY) Bud Zeckser, (913) 432- KS 66208 USS Gemsbok IX 117 (Sept-Jackson, MS) A.J. Libbey, Oak Park Dr., Pearl, MS 39208 (601 939-1315 USS Gendreau DE 639 (Sept-Charleston, SC) W. Earl 116 ) 2006 Winter Haven Dr., Imperial, MO 63052 (314) 464-5251 USS Gherardi DD 637/DMS 30 (May-Clearwater, FL) Richard Herr. 10874 S.W. 87th Terr., Ocala, FL 32676 (904) 854-2059 USS Goshen APA 108 (Apr-Fredericksburg, TX) Ollie Schaetter, Box 489, Fredericksburg, TX 78624 (512) 997-2151 USS Gurnard SS 254 (Aug-Reno, NV) Tom Rittenhouse, 1252 Main St., No. Huntingdon, PA 15642 (412) 863- 6459 USS Hamilton DD141/DMS18 Bernard Naschauer. Rt.11, (Sept-Houston, TX) Box 333. Roanoke. VA 24019 (703) 977-2602 USS Hammann DD412/Gansevoort DD 608 Diego) Clyde Conner, Rt. 1, Box Grafton, 1, (Oct-San WV 26354 (304) 265-3933 USS Heermann DD 532 (May-Long Beach, CA) Jack Woolworth, 13291 Jasperson Way, Westminster, CA 92683 USS Helena, USS Benham FG9/CL50/CA75/SSN725/ DD397 (Aug-Helena, MT) Bill Bunker, 596A W. Huntington Dr., Arcadia, CA 91006 (818) 446-7361 USS Horace A. Bass APD 124 (June-San Diego) Charles Kunick, 2840 Bamboo Dr., Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 (602) 855-3563 USS Howard F. Clark DE 533 (Sept-Charleston, SC) George Neldon, 1508 N. Franklin, Litchfield, IL 62056 USS Hunt DD 674 (Sept-Lansing, Ml) Al Bailey, 85 Van Liew Ave., Milltown, NJ 08850 (201 828-0796 USS Hyperion AK 107 (May-Broken Bow, OK) Dick Nelson, HCR 61, Box 25B, Lemoyne, NE 69146 (308) 726-2297 USS Independence CVL 22 (Aug-Reno, NV) Charles Horth Jr., 200 W. San Bernardino Ave., Sp. 117, Rialto, CA 92 3 76 714 874-68 49 USS Indiana BB 58 Assn. (Marines Included) (Aug-Fall River, MA) Albert Vicarelli, Box 620, Cutchogue, NY 11935(516)734-5001 USS Ingersoll DD 652/990 (July-St. Louis) Charles Bass. 560 Cypress Ln., St. Marys, GA 31558 (912) 882-3589 USS Jeffers DD 621 /DMS 27 (Sept-Baltimore) Warren Hilton, 209 S. Hall St., Morrison, IL 61270 (815) 772-2422 USS John D. Henley DD 553 (May-Galveston, TX) Frank Pace, 713 Carriage Ln., Nederland, TX 77627 (409) 727) ( ) 7001 USS Kalmia ATO 23 (Sept-Portland, ME) John Branin, 947 Haverford Rd., Ramona, CA 92065 (619) 788-0958 USS Kanawha AO 1 (Sept-St. Louis)Thomas O'Neill, 504 Dennis Dr., Marshalltown, IA 50158 (515) 752-7231 38 331 (Aug-Nashville, TN) J.H. McCrabb, St., Reading, PA 19601 (215) 374-0489 USS Kretchmer DE 329 (Sept-St. Cloud, MN) Burton Hanauer, Box 54, Avon, MN 56310 USS Laffey DD 724 (Apr-Pleasant, SC) J.C. Phillips, 2521 S.E. 60th, Ocala, FL 32671 USS Lake Champlain CV 39 (June-Ellenville, NY) Francis Rozboril, 122 Greenridge St., Johnson City, NY 13790 (607) 797-9374 USS Lang DD 399 (Aug-New Orleans) A G. Weber, 826 Greenbelt St., Houston, TX 77079 (713) 493-1219 USS LCI (FF) 786 (Sept-Davenport. IA) Kenneth Bowen, 1921 N. Howell, Davenport, IA 52804 (319) 323-4527 USS LCI (G) 470 (July-Sewickley, PA) Bernard Ingram, 260 Camilla St., Baden, PA 15005 (412) 869-3440 USS LSM 107 (Aug-Minneapolis, MN) George Seifert. 801 N. Griffin St. Bismarck, ND 58501 (701 223-5075 USS LSM 333 (WWII) (Sept-Lebanon Jet., KY) K.C. Fehl, Airport Rd.. Rt. 1, Box 79, Lebanon Jet., KY 40150 (502) ) . 833-4958 USS LST 1029 Box USS Dunlap DD 384 (Sept-Oklahoma Price, USS Koiner DE 435 Greenwich 732-7573 USS Charles (Sept-LaCrosse, Wl) Sidney Quail, 145, Mindoro, USS LST 240 State Rd. 1. Wayne 46788 Spencerville, IN USS LST 388 Rt. 1, Wl 54644 (608) 857-3047 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Rosselot, 15925 (219) 627-6224 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Paul Roberts, 2907 Valley McKeesport, PA 15133 (412) 672-2272 (Aug-Las Vegas, NV) George Heard, Box MS 39327 (601 635-3227 USS LST 496 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Joe Sandor, Box 1926. Hobe Sound, FL 33475 (407) 546-3733 USS LST 574 (Sept-Evansville, IN) Stanley Wallace, 1649 Carolina Dr., Rantoul, IL 61866 (217) 893-1686 USS LST 584 (Aug-Pittsburgh, PA) Leo Hildebrand, 1461 N.W. 106th St., Des Moines, IA 50322 (515)226-0306 USS LST 651 (May-Akron, OH) Robert Frey, Rt. 3, Box 220, Cogan Station, PA 17728 (717) 494-0567 USS LST 699 (Aug-Pittsburgh) Oren Knapp, 77 Oneida St., Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 432-1392 USS LST 757 (June-Nashville, TN) John Stephens, 658 St.. USS LST 460 54, Decatur, ) Cumberland Hendersonville, Hills Dr., TN 37075 (615) 822-1675 USS McGowan DD 678 (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Don Rogers. 30 Hurd St., Lynn, MA 01905 (617) 595-1137 USS McNair DD 679 (Aug-Lexington, KY) Gene Mul7026 Steinmeier 255-7002 barger, (317) Dr. W., Indianapolis, IN 46220 USS Measure AM 263 (May-St. Louis) Warren Bergman, 621 Giffhorn, Columbia, IL 62236 (618) 281 -4587 USS Meredith DD 434 (June) Robert Robinson, 6804 Totem Beach Loop, Marysville, WA 98270 (206) 6593490 USS Monrovia APA 31 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Hilton Dana, 3799 S. Banana River Blvd. #507, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931 (407) 784-0619 Montpelier CL 57 (Sept-Myrtle Beach, SC) George Scully, 745 Thomas St.. Elizabeth. NJ 07202 (201 355- USS ) 0877 USS Mount Vernon AP 22 Ramos, 536 4th St., (Apr-Las Vegas, NV) A G Imperial Beach, CA 92032 (619) 424-7515 8619 Villa Crest Dr., St. (Sept-Pittsburgh) Louis. LeRoy Miller. MO 63126 (314) 842-1806 USS North Carolina Assn. (Oct-Wilmington, NC) Bill Box 654, Omalaska, TX 77360 (409) 646-3961 USS Northampton CA 26 (Oct-Orlando, FL) George Allen, 3213 Wiley Ave.. Melbourne, FL 32901 (407) 7278027 USS Octans AF 26 (July-Buffalo, NY) Mike Rosella. 71 Bentley Ave., Old Bridge, NJ 08857 (201 251 -5263 Taylor, ) USSPandemusARL18/LST650(Sept-Elkhart. IN) Ethel Noble, Rt. 2, Box 331, Pendleton, IN 46064 (317) 7783277 USS PC 793 (Sept-Portland. Lawrence Switch 422-5795 ME) Joseph Rd.. Rt. 4, Jackson, Wilkinson. 461 TN 38305 Jonesboro, IL 90638(714)521-1371 USS Rotanin AK 1119 Brookside 108 (Aug-Duluth, MN) Dale Bullock, Greensburg, PA 15601 (412) 836- Dr.. 4285 USS Saginaw SC) Earl Bay, CVE 82, VC 78/88 (Oct-Charleston, Homman, 4220 Old Mill Rd., Lancaster, OH 43130(614) 654-1651 Salute AM 294 (June-Tulsa. OK) James Johnston, Rt. 1, Box 183, Ainsworth, IA 52201 (319) 657-2263 USS Sanders DE 40 (June-Bremerton, WA) Lawrence Olson, 926 Dwight St., Port Orchard, WA 98366 (206) 895-3271 USS USS Santee CVE 29, AO 29, 24/26/29th Sqdns. (JulyKnoxville, TN) Bill Walsh, 205 S. 16th St., Denison, IA 51442 (712)263-2737 USS Sargo SSN 583 (Plankowners) (Sept-Vallejo, CA) M.D. Rolow, 15368 Landmark Ct.. Jacksonville, FL 32226(904)751-4636 USS SC 660 (June-Cincinnati) Harry Ernst, 1138 Cherevilla Ln., Cincinnati, OH 45238 (513) 471-5363 USS Shea DM 30 (Sept-St. Simon Island, GA) Ernest Dyal, 1100 William St., McRae, GA31055 (912) 868-6120 USS Sicard DM 21 (WWII) (Sept-Louisville, KY) Ovie Vernon, 2121 N. Greenwood St., Pueblo, CO 81003 (719) 544-1080 USS Soley DD 707 (May-Norfolk, VA) Jim Cowardin, 1407 Westbrook Ave., Richmond, VA 23227 (804) 266-4308 USS Somers DD 381 (May-Ft. Lauderdale, FL) R.H. Patterson, 1424 S.E. 15th St., #24, Ft. 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IA 50849 (515) 3437130 USS Y.D.G. 7 (Sept-Bristol, Rl) James Oliveira, 28 Anthony Ave., Bristol, Rl 02809 (401 253-8726 VB 18 (Oct-Portland, OR) Charles Draper, 2411 S. Waverly Dr., Albany, OR 97321 (503) 926-2064 VB-108 (Nov-Pensacola, FL) Robert Strong, 1308 Sunrise Dr., No. Ft. Myers, FL 33917 (813) 995-4336 VC 5 (Sept-NAS Moffett Field, CA) James Schnver, 2879 Barkley Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 296-5450 VMF 312 (1943-45) (Sept-Phoenix, AZ)T.L. Smith, 10621 E. Michigan Ave., Sun Lake, AZ 85248 (602) 895-6844 VP 11 (f), VP 54 (1936-42), VP 51/VB/VPB 101, PATSU 12, CASU (f) 56 (Sept- Charleston, SC) John Lemley, 340 Locust St.. Huntington, WV 25705 (304) 523-6208 VRF/VRS 1, ACU (Officers) (Oct-Pensacola, FL) J.L Thompson, 135 Erin Cir., Zephyrhills, FL 34248 (813) 788-6367 (901 Pennsylvania (July-Memphis. TN) Jess Dennis. Memphis, TN 38127 (901 357-0263 86 (Aug) Mel Ketchum, 3361 Fronda Dr., San Jose. CA 95148 (408) 238-0666 USS Porter DD 800 (Sept-Charleston, SC) Alan Jenkins, 340 Andover Blvd. N.E., Anoka. MN 55304 USS Princeton CVL 23 (WWII) (Sept-Denver) Sam Minervini, 251 Marlboro Rd.. Wood Ridge, NJ 07056 (201) 935-6125 USS Pringle DD 477 (Oct-San Diego) William Herman, 1427 Woodbridge Rd., Baltimore, MD 21228 (301) 7885829 USS Pyro AE 1/24 (Sept-Dubuque, IA) Paul Simon, 52 Bluff St., Dubuque, IA 52001 (319) 583-9985 USS R.A. Owens DDE 827 (July-Norfolk, VA) Jim Holden, 315 Margaret Ave., Baltimore, MD 21221 (301)687-9388 3053 Birchfield Dr., ) USS Ponaganset AO USS Ramapo AO son. Rt. 1, 12 (Aug-Minneapolis, MN) J.E. AnderMN 56117 (507) 376-4630 APA 226 (Oct-New Orleans, LA) Henry Box USS Rawlins 55, Bigelow, Brinkmann, 924 Rosa Ave., Metairie, LA 70005 (504) 833-4114 USS (Sept-Dallas) Don Fahlberg, Box 62952 (618) 833-7150 USS Ross DD 563/Tug Chickasaw ATF 83 (Oct-Las Vegas, NV) D.F. Cox, 14552 Florita Rd., LaMirada, CA 41, ) USS New Mexico BB 40 USS USS Robinson DD 562 Rinehart Cedar Dr., Rt. DE 196 3, (Sept-Charleston. SC) John Kirk, Piedmont, SC 29673 (803) 295-1203 Army Air Forces 1st Strat. Air Dpt. Assn., 8th A.F. (Honington.Eng/ WWII) (Sept-San Antonio, TX) Warren Stanley, 3207 Myles Ct. #3, San Jose, CA 95117 (408) 248-8627 3rd Strat. Air Dpt., 8th AF (Watton, Eng.) (July-Denver) W.S. Noble, 7266 Goodwood, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (504) 925-8454 Cont. Sq. (Oct-Hardin, KY) Franklin Bunnell, 25 Ft. Myers, FL 33912 (813) 481-2787 Grp. (WWII) (Sept-Minneapolis, MN) Alex Adair, 817 N.E. 91st St., Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 523- 8th Ftr. SalutCt., 12th Bomb 7954 12th Tact. Recon. Sq. (Sept-Charlotte, NC) Marshall Pratt, 1636 Lombardy Cir., Charlotte, NC 28203 (704) 334-0378 18th Dpt. Supply Sq./Air Supply Div. (Aug-Eufaula, AL) Thomas Jones, Rt. 2, Box 70E, Eufaula. AL 36027 (205) 687-6337 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Veterans alert 27th Air Dpt. Grp. (Attach. Units) (June-Amarillo, TX) Cleo Russell, Clarendon, TX 79266 (806) 874-5056 27th Recon. Sq. (L/R) (Borinquen Field/1939-42) (OctAtlantic City, NJ) John D'Andriole. 5604 Twin Ln., Ft. Worth, TX 76114 (817) 738-0910 33rd Photo Recon. Sq. (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Walter Olick, 613 Columbine St., Sterling, CO 80751 (303) 522-3924 45th Serv. Gp., 5th AF, HQ & HQ Sq. (WWII) (JulyCheboygan, Ml) Russell Abernathy, 205 North D St., Cheboygan, Ml 49721 (616) 627-5782 47th Bomb Grp., 12th AF (May-Sicily/Italy) Costa Chalas, 67Trapelo Rd., Belmont, MA 02178 (617) 484- 5620 50th Air Serv. Sq., 15th AF (WWII) (Sept-Cape Girar- MO) Vincent Miget Jr., Rt. 6, Box 127, Jackson, MO 63755 (314) 243-8201 58th Bomb Wing Assn. (B-29's-lndia/China/Tinian) (Aug-Norfolk, VA) John Roman Jr., 106 Cassidy Ct., Cary, NC 27511 (919) 469-3436 74th Trp. Carrier Sq. (Sept-Monterey, CA) Albert Todd, 3700 W. Barstow, #140, Fresno, CA 93711 (209) 2751950 79th Trp. Carrier Sq., 436th T.C. Grp., HQ, 806th M.A.E.S. (WWII) (June- Amherst, NY) Roger Airgood, 1635 N. 12th St., Lafayette, IN 47904 (317) 742-0357 80th Trp. Carrier Sq. (Oct-Omaha, NE) Gilbert Vogt, 6044 Oakcrest Plaza, Omaha, NE 68137 (402) 895-0440 89th Serv. Sq. (June-Mobile, AL) Gerald McDade, 383 Cabana Blvd. #103, Mobile, AL 36609 (205) 343-2752 115th Liaison Sq. (June-Jackson, Ml) Max Hitchkin, 8475 Luttenton, Concord, Ml 49237 (517) 524-8817 319th Bomb Grp. (Oct-Branson, MO) Joseph Madrano, 8308 Springtown, Converse, TX 78109 (512) 659-4237 deau, 320th A/B FA Bn., HQ & HQ Btry. (Camp Wood, Japan/ 1955-56) (Oct-Nashville. TN) Rodger Jacobson, 2205 Elm St., Box 14, Hazel Green, Wl 53811 (608) 854-2317 369th HQ Sq., 20th AF, (Guam) 369th, 2nd AF (US) (Sept-Gettysburg, PA) Landis Ickes, Box 252, Osterburg, PA 16667 (814) 276-3629 421st Night Ftr. Sq. (Sept-Niagara Falls, NY) Lawrence Neville, 8921 Champlain Ave., Niagara Falls, NY 14304 (716) 283-5789 485th Bomb Grp., 828/829/830/831 st Sqs. (Sept-San Antonio, TX) Robert Deeds, 4643 286th St., Toledo, OH 43611 (419)726-0650 490th Bomb Sq. (Burma Bridge Busters) (JuneSeattle, WA) H.H. Craven Jr., 1060 89th N.E., Bellevue, WA 89004 (206) 746-9789 507th Ftr. Grp. Assn (Sept-St. Louis) William Jenner, 307 Alma, O'Fallon, IL 62269 (618) 632-5459 Bomb. & Gunnery Range Sq. (Avon Park, FL) (OctOrlando, FL) Chester Kanach, Fruitville Rd., Rt. 3, Pottstown, PA 19464 (215) 287-8269 Burtonwood Assn. (Oct-Dayton, OH) Wally Baldwin, 6467 Locust Ln., Franklin, OH 45005 (513) 442-4973 Detach. 14, 909th QM Co. AVN Serv. (Aug-St. Louis) LF. Parsons, Box 5, Thornton, TX 76687 (817) 385-6452 Tow Target Detach., 72nd OBS Grp. (Panama CZ/194145) (Sept-Dayton, OH) Bus Bonucchi, 534 N. 10th St., Clinton, IN 47842 (317) 832-8514 Wheeler Field (Territory of HI, Circa/1941) (Nov-Ft. Myers, FL) Paul Bemis, 9693 Baycrest Terr., Lehigh Acres, FL 33936 (813) 369-9234 WWII Air Cmd. Assn., 2nd, 3rd Grps. (Oct-lndianapolis) W.R. Eason, Rt. 1. Box 28, Orange, VA 22960 (703) 6724074 Air Force 26th Service Sq. (Sept-Fairborn, OH) Robert Hunter, 820 Hilltop Ln., Logansport, IN 46947 (219) 753-9517 29th Bomb Gp., 6th Bomb Sq., 314th Bomb Wing, 20th AF, Armament (Guam) (Oct- Nashville, TN) William Stuart, 1535 Lascassas Hwy. E74, Murfreesboro, TN 37130 53rd Ftr. Grp. (WWII) (May-Tampa, Fl) Elmer Johnson, 1 81 5 S. E 6th Terr. Cape Coral FL 33990 (81 3) 574-4044 76th Military Airlift Sq. (May-Charleston, SC) Tom Powell, Box 61101, No. Charleston, SC 29419 97th Bomb Grp. (H) (Oct-Clearwater, FL) Harry Alsaker, 1308 Jackson St., Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 543-5388 107th TFG (ANG) (June-Niagara Falls, NY) Frank McKee, 107 FIG, Niagara Falls Int'l Airport, Niagara Falls, NY 14304 (716) 236-2424 112th Liaison Sq. (May-San Antonio, TX) Robert Pfaffenberger, 38702 W. Menlo #1, Hemet, CA 92343 (714) 929-4380 307th Bomb Wing, B47/KC97 Assn. (May-Lincoln, NE) Aulden Stewart, 3028 Cable Ave., Lincoln, NE 68502 (402) 483-1044 314th TCW/TAW (1950-Present) (May-Nashville, TN) Bart McCarthy, 361 Monaco Dr., Hermitage, TN 37076 (615) 885-3689 319th FIS (Bunker Hill), 5th FIS (Minot. ND) (Nov- Boone, NC) Joyce Kettenhoffen, 231 Sun Valley, 14530 N. Florida Ave., Tampa, FL 33613 (813) 962-1751 374th Food Sv. Sq. (Japan/1951-54) (June-St. Louis) Jim O'Loughlin, 5555 Heintz Rd. #10, Oakville, MO 63129 (314) 846-7070 459th Ftr. Sq. (June-San Jose, CA) Wayne Sneddon, Box 117, Pilot Hill, CA 95664 (916) 885-6028 820th Bomb Sq., 41 st Bomb Grp. (WWII) (May-Dayton, OH) William Childs, 3637 Patsy Ann Dr., Richmond, VA 23234 (804) 275-6012 6147th Tact. Cont. Grp. (Mosquitoes) (July-Albuquerque, NM) Ken Beckstrom, 4216 Penelope PI. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87109 (505) 881 -7649 A.F. Security Police Assn. (Aug-Orlando, FL) Jerry Bullock, 28 Willow Creek Cir., San Marcos, TX 78666 (512) 396-5444 AFLC/GEEIA-MDA (Aug-Oklahoma City, OK) Sophia Bronson, 13501 S.E. 29th St., Box 83, Choctaw, OK 73020 (405) 736-2511 Boiling B-25 Bunch (May-Kerrville, TX) Wyn Hammons, 2756 Nele Rd., Kissimmee, FL 32743 (407) 348-0289 Martin Provisional Grp. Assn. (Sept-San Francisco) William Heller, Box 3006, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 (415) 726-6686 RAF Croughton AS/England (June-Milwaukee, Wl) Richard Kao, 3777 S. 15th PI., Milwaukee, Wl 53221 USS Rhodes DE 384 (Sept-New Marines 381-2019 National Order of Battlefield Commissions (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) A.F. Warnecke, 1916 Catawba St., Fayet- AR 72501 (501)793-3633 1st Bn., 5th Mar., B Co. (Baker Bandits/Korea) (MayQuantico, VA) Emmett Shelton Jr., 808 Caravan Cir., Austin, TX 78746 (512) 327-1305 2nd & 3rd War Dog Pltns. (Oct-Orlando, FL) Ray Tomaszewski, 1620 W. 21st St., Lorain, OH 44052 (216) 245-6432 2nd Bn., 4th Mar., 3rd Div., Echo Co. (June-Williamsburg, VA) Warren Howe, Rt. 1, Box 324, Star Prairie, Wl 54026 (715) 248-3340 2nd Ptn., 2nd Bn., 5th Mar. Rgt., 1st Div. (JuneHarrisburg, PA) Bart Dauberman, 301 Clearwater Dr., Goose Creek, SC 29445 (803) 553-4677 4th Marine Div. (WWII) (June-Las Vegas, NV) Bernard Shaffman, Ocean Club #501, 4020 Gait Ocean Dr., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33066 (305) 566-7453 6th Amph. Tractor Bn., 1st Mar. Div. (Peleliu/1944) (Aug-Boston) J.I. Fitzgerald, 42 Irving St., Boston, MA 02114 12th Defense Bn. (July-Seattle, WA) Joseph Floberg, 2135 N. 52nd St., Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 633-2890 24th Marines, H&S Co. (WWII) (Sept-Burnsville, MN) Merlyn Sellers, 105 18th St. N.W., Austin, MN 55912 All Marines & Persons Attach, to Marine Units (Aug- Youngstown, OH) W.R. Simon, 2268 Innwood Dr., Youngstown, OH 44515 (216) 792-0003 Mar. Air Warn. Sq. 11 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Joseph Nowak, 5910 Warren Rd., Ann Arbor, Ml 48105 (313) 663-0274 Marine Barracks NTC (Great Lakes) (Sept-Chicago) Earl Shanahan, 37217 N. Capillo, Lake Villa, IL 60046 (312) 356-6809 Marine Barracks, Annapolis, MD (1966-72) (AugAnnapolis, MD) Chet Emrick, 1708A Shady Side Dr., Edgewater, MD 21037 (301 ) 956-5252 Marine Scout & Torp. Bomb Sqs. 232 & 143 (WWI) (Sept-Philadelphia) George France, 861 Old Lincoln Hwy., Langhorne, PA 19047 (215) 757-5352 VMB 611 Sq. (Oct-St. Louis) Gilbert DeBlois, 9904 Stoughton Rd., Fairfax, VA 22032 (703) 273-2197 VMF 124 (Sept-Colorado Springs, CO) Robert Erskine, 1624 Karen St., Lima, OH 45801 (419) 228-8951 VMF 311 (July-Strasburg, PA) Paul Goldberg, 627 Wayland Rd., Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 (215) 825- 2454 , APRIL 1989 Assn. of Aviation Ordnancemen (June-Reno, NV) Gerald Gannon, 1245 Cunningham Ave., St. Charles. MO 63301 Coast Guard Coast Guard (All WA 98011 (206) Wars/Grenada/Persian Gulf) (July- Baltimore) Baker Herbert, 6858 Lafayette Rd., Medina, OH 44256 (216) 725-6527 USS Cavalier APA 37 (WWII) DePompei, 3000 Marmore (June-Cleveland) Ulysses Ave., Parma, 946-0503 47712(812)425-6464 Bataan & Corregidor Survivors (Other Far East EXPows) (Aug-Fontana Dam, NC) Wayne Carringer, Box 46, Robbinsville. NC 28771 (704) 479-6205 Chosin Few (Mid-States) (July-Dearborn, Ml) Raeburn Davis, 4509 Pelham, Dearborn Hts., Ml 48125 (313) 5614011 Farragut Naval Trng. Sta. (Sept-Athol, ID) Marsden Warren, 2773 S. Dutton, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707) 546-7449 Forgotten Boys of Iceland (June-Monticello, NY) Marty Davidson, 33 Althea Rd., Randolph, MA 02368 (617) 963-1503 Korean War Vets (Nebraska) (Aug-Grand Island, NE) Lyle McMindes, Box 1346, Grand Island, NE 68802 (308) teville, NC 28303 (919) 484-2890 Navy Mail Serv. Vets Assn. (Sept-Sam Diego) Maynard Hamilton, 5501 Seminary Rd., #1109, Falls Church. VA 22041 (703) 845-5428 Pearl Harbor Survivors (FL Chapter) (Nov-Ft Myers, FL) Paul Bemis, 9693 Baycrest Terr., Lehigh Acres, FL 33936(813)369-9234 LIFE Life naires MEMBERSHIPS Membership notices are published for Legionwho have been awarded Life Memberships by their posts. Life Membership notices must be submitted on official forms which may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Life Memberships, The American Legion, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206 Lee W. Osborne (1988) Post 121, Watsonville, CA Thomas J. Clawson, Willard F. Gaefcke (1987) Post 326, Long Beach, CA Charles V. Scaramutz, George H. Wagner, Russell Yoder (1988) Post 426, Yucaipa, CA Lester R. Runion, B.C. Thomas (1988) Post 216, Atlanta, GA Sam Lane (1957) Post 243, Doerun, GA Norman F. Lea (1988) Post 716, Chicago, IL William W. Nelson (1988) Post 104, Litchfield, MN Lloyd Getman (1988) Post 588, Brownville, NY Guldo L. Bartolini, Robert F. Flick, Michael Machulsky (1988) Post 57, Saltsburg, PA Fred E. Giering Jr., Dale W. Hartzell, Forrest E. Laubach, Andrew Molchany, Robert L. Toth (1988) Post 426, Coplay, PA Valentine M. Baggot, Robert Wisconsin Dells, Wl COMRADES F. IN Field (1989) Post 187, DISTRESS Readers who can help these veterans are urged to Usually an eyewitness statement is needed in support of a VA claim. Notices are run only at the request of American Legion Service Officers representing claimants, using Search for do so. USS Warren APA Bering Sea Patrol Vets Assn. (Sept-Seattle, WA) Gene Brons, 7031 N.E. 175th, Sp. 53, Bothell, 487-1201 (314) Assn. of EX-POWs (Korea) (July-Evansville, IN) Fred Herrmann, 6925 Little Schaefer Rd., Evansville, IN Witness Forms available only from State Legion Service Officers. Please contact CID (number). The American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206 , . London, CT) Irvm 60648 (312) 967- St., Niles, IL Miscellaneous MM Ptn., HQ Co. (Apr1st Bn., 27th Mar., 5th Div., 81 Edmond, OK) Everette Ramsey, 1715 Hill St., Batesville, Monroe Blaszynski, 7060 8232 OH 44134 (216) 351-1391 USS Cor Caroli AK 91 (Sept-Denver) Lee Bergfeld, 609 S. Ridge Ave., Steeleville, IL 62288 USS LST 18 (Aug-Pittsburgh) L.R Clooney, 1174 Curtin Ln., Houston, TX 77018 (713) 686-6591 53 Albert Charles Warren needs witnesses to verify a claim that while aboard ship in 1944, he was treated for jungle rot Contact CID 1190 2998th Treadway Bridge Co. John Golden needs witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed at Korea in Sept/Oct 1953, he injured his back and head while under enemy fire. Contact CID 1191 1st/19th/24th Div. Dennis L. Moye is seeking witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed at Augsburg, Germany in April 1966, he injured his back while on maneuvers. Contact CID 1192 Co. C, 714th T.B.R.O. John Wesley Hunt needs witnesses to verify a claim that while stationed at Fort Eustis, VA on Nov. 6, 1956, he injured is back, left shoulder and head in a train accident. Contact CID 1193 39 Shoe Leather, Telephones & Doorbells RECRUITING THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY N AN age when the comI puter and other lightning-speed technologies bring about impressive HJHJP'VJHJ hhS HI Hj m many gj| HHJ bluecap Legionnaires BhB bers into The American HH HhhbHBJ soliciting results, are recruiting Legion by sticking to the years. It's also the approach that Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke hopes every Legionnaire will use during the current drive to reach 3 million members. "All Legionnaires, whether they blue, white or red cap, are key players," Gierke said. "I'm convinced when we march into Baltimore for the national convention, delegates there will be speaking on behalf of 3 million men and women of The American Legion. All it takes is the willingness to ask someone to join." wear a Another Legionnaire who knows is Donald D. Lindberg, about "asking" commander of Arizona's Peoria Post 29. Lindberg was the Legion's recruiter of the year for 1988. He signed up more than 200 new members by knocking on doors and asking the people he met if they were veterans and when they served. Legionnaires don't have to resort to 40 members, nothing Madison Avenue tactics to sign up new members, according to Randolph Hunley of Post 9, Wytheville, Va. who proved what a little common sense and , imagination will do. He signed up 100 in 1986 by setting up booths at shopping centers and near government offices where veterans were likely os effective os simply osking members someone to join. to be. is new mem- old-fashioned tools of the trade: shoe leather, telephones and doorbells. "You've just got to get out there and call on people personally, said Samuel Butler Jr. of Alice Post 186, Texas. Sound advice from a man who should know. Butler was The American Legion's top recruiter in 1986, signing up a whopping 342 members. "You have to let them know you care and want them to join," he said. Butler's approach is not unique; it's the same personal touch that has been the principal means of recruiting new members into the organization for 70 vice When it comes to recruiting new Hunley handed out Legion brochures and other publications, and created his own ripple effect by giving each new member a membership application to recruit a relative or friend. "I think every Legionnaire should always THE GOLD BRIGADE LEGIONNAIRES who recruit 50 or more new members during the 1989 membership year membership in the elite Gold Brigade. Gold Brigade members also will be eligible to win a new automobile qualify for 1989 National Convention at Baltimore said Douglas Henley, chairman of the Legion's Membership and Post Activities Committee. Members' names.are entered into a drawing for every 50 new at the members they sign up. All Gold Brigade members receive a special windbreaker, cap, pin and certificate for their achievements. In addition, the recruiters will be recognized in Legion publications and welcomed at the convention by Nat'l Cmdr. H.F. "Sparky" Gierke. for membership Gold Brigade is May 2. An application must be completed and certified by the recruiter's post and department adjutant, and forwarded to Mem- The cutoff date recruiting for the bership Services at national headquarters no later than May 16. carry a blank application form," he said. Another consistent top recruiter, according to Department of Nebraska officials, is Olaf "Olie" Ahlquist, a member of Lincoln Post 3. Ahlquist, a former post commander, has plenty of worn shoe leather to prove his dedica- new members. During one membership year, Ahlquist cantion to getting vassed much of his hometown by going door-to-door and introducing himself and the Legion to residents. Butler, Lindberg, Hunley and Ahlquist agree that no magical formulas or super sales pitches are needed to be a successful recruiter. All it takes is time and hustle. "Once you introduce yourself, most of the work is over," said many new members Butler. "In fact, recruited told me I that they never joined before because no one ever asked them. Isn't that a shame? They were never asked." SEND US YOUR IDEAS The American Legion Magazine is interested in your views on how to increase membership. Write and tell us what successful techniques you use to recruit new members. Send your letters to IDEAS, The American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE I NEED YOUR ^1 I HI* I I us care about ^" our fellow veterans, about our national security and the future of this country. That's why we joined The American Legion. But, just caring isn't enough any- more. The American Legion needs your help. Here is what you can do! Tell a veteran that he or she can make a difference by becoming a member of The American Then ask Legion. that person to join us. Maybe he or she is a friend... a neighbor...a relative... or someone at work. There are millions say yes who will we ask, if understand how because they powerless one lonely voice can be. As your National Commander I have set a goal of members this I know that there is no limit to what we can do... if we do it together. If you will sign up just one new member, I will send you our crossed American and American Legion flags lapel pin. Wear it with pride... because it proves you care a htde more than most. It means you care enough about your fellow veterans, three million year. Because about our national terrorist threats to quality of life in America to security, do something. r To help a new member complete the appli- join, cation below and mail and the local post. NOW! n Special offer for new members only .5 -a I 8* S U — -a C u E N as a V u .§ O I $ 17.00 check or Charge Account as <u I I I I I I VISA MasterCard I I I 1 I I I I 1 I Exp. Date PLEASE CHECK APPROPRIATE ELIGIBILITY DATES: C/5 Dec. 22, 1961-May c jj O £ jj c3 OJ 1 a # money order enclosed ^_ s^ i" I'll 3 0- as >-i help my fellow veterans by becoming a member of The Legion. I certify that I served at least one day of active military duty during the dates I have checked below and was honorably discharged or am still serving honorably. — YES, American O OS u G '=> S Q~ I) •a a s O C June i C a as 7, 1975 25, 1950-Jan. 31, 1955 NAME ^ Army Navy Dec.7, 1941-Dec.31, 1946 Air Force April6, 1917-Nov. 11, 1918 Marines c o - Q. o ' CITY. STATE, ZIP Coast Guard Mail to National Commander Gierke, c/o SOCIAL SECURITY NO. (OPTIONAL) Membership, The American Legion <u c o £ it with $17 new member dues to National Headquarters, or contact your National Headquarters, P.O. Box 7017, Indianapolis, Indiana 46207 or contact a local post. Post dues may vary. TELEPHONE NUMBER DATE OF SIC NATURE BIR'I H I VETS CALL ENNSYLVANIA gionnaires call Leit a "dream come true" and VA officials call it a "labor of love. " Veterans in Pittsburgh without a roof over their heads call it "home." Thanks to a unique partnership between the Pennsylvania Department of The American Legion and the Highland VA Medical Center in Pittsburgh, homeless veterans in that area are getting a new lease on life. Legionnaires formed a corporation to house the homeless, and purchased and renovated a four-unit home. The facility is operated by Highland, providing shelter to veterans who have no place to live after discharge from the hospital. Plans for the housing began at Christmas 1987, when Vinnie Malke, a social worker at Highland began her quest to find a backer for a shelter for the homeless. Several months later, she approached then-Department Cmdr. Ron Conley for Legion support. "I asked him to listen and he did," she said. "He Pennsylvania Legionnaires team up with the VA to provide shelter for Pittsburgh's homeless veterans. possible. Also, we want to focus public attention on the ever-growing problem of homelessness. We hope that concerned citizens will get involved and urge officials at all levels of government end the blight of homeAmerican society." live at the home come center, rehabilita- Some from other of the veterans are on When they find work and a place of their own they can move out and make room for other homeless veterans. Chuck Linder, 57, the current resident manager, screens veterans who apply to live at the home. Linder, a Korean War veteran used to own a grocery store business. "I feel that to the VA and this I owe my existence shelter," he said. Both Shipley and Linder expressed They said they were overwhelmed by the Legion- their gratitude to the Legion. naires' "material and emotional support." "The partnership that led to the crea- tion of this shelter for homeless vets is a shining example of what can be done in caring for our less-fortunate veterans," Cmdr. John Tipping of York, who was on hand for the dedication ceremonies. "I encourage other Legion departments to emulate the positive accomplishments of the Department of Pennsylvania." said Nat'l Vice New SELF-HELP— Resident handyman Art Shipley makes electrical repairs to one of the units. other two. Highland officials said that each resident is required to pay a small fee that is used to maintain the facility. Led by Department Cmdr. Alfred Pirolli, Pennsylvania Legionnaires are spearheading a drive to collect donated and building materials to com- plete the project. Pirolli described the 42 who VA medical public assistance. furniture renovate the units; two units are completed and work is under way on the Veterans agencies. lessness on There are six residents currently livhome, and they're helping to of vets helping vets." tion centers or are referrals to take action to ing at the has a wife and children, came to the home after suffering from serious bouts of depression. He had shuffled from one job to another as a carpenter's apprentice. "I hope this kind of program takes off and becomes a national project," he said. "It's a great example from the sponsored a resolution at the department convention and it was passed." Legionnaires in the Keystone State provided $20,000 for the purchase of the dwelling, a repossessed property. They also agreed to appropriate an additional $5,000 for renovation. At dedication ceremonies late last year, Conley said, "Our primary purpose is to assist veterans in every way IT home as "a dream come true." One of the residents who is living that dream is Art Shipley, 39, who was in the Navy in Vietnam. Shipley, who Pirolli said the Legion was able to buy the property cheap because of a law that allows the VA to reduce the price of a foreclosed property by as much as 35 sold to a non-profit organization. He said the property also must have been offered for commercial sale for at least a year and the buyer must agree to use the property to house percent if it is the homeless. "It doesn't solve the problem for all of Pittsburgh's homeless veterans, but it's a beginning," Pirolli said. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE *^ Men's Lined Fully WINDMASTER JACKETS Special Introductory Price! Only $^95 welcome the wind-stopping comfort and of these new Jackets from BLAIR. You'll cheery colors Now you're invited to try one for a week, free. The tightly woven nylon and snap closure will shell, warm flannel lining breezes. 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If CDC believes this, then it must retract birth defects study, its based on two such indices, and the Air Force should which is Ranch Hand Study, based upon a crude is amazing that the retract the which is index. It CDC has not tarred these studies with the findings of its validation study. We adopted the combat scale from well-established studies of whose work was cited in the papers. The statistical reliability of the leading investigators 0.98 (about as high as one can achieve), and the scale's ability to predict a wide variety of effects consistent with those accepted by the non-biased, independent scientific community, speaks for itself. A major scale is CRITICISM: "The American Legion report as well as the accompanying editorial imply erroneously that evaluating herbicide exposure in this study is not much different than in retro- spective studies of exposure to workers where individual exposures are not measured. The analogy is misleading because in well-conducted occupational studies, one knows from RESPONSE: The memorandum does not disprove our Agent Orange exposure measure. Consequently, we can only presume that this criticism is based upon CDC's position that military records cannot be used to deter- mine Agent Orange exposure, and its determination that there were not enough Vietnam veterans sufficiently exposed to Agent Orange to carry out a valid scientific study. Both of these statements are absurd. objective records that the employee was in an area of potential expo- sure and that workers are exposed during operations. In contrast, in The American Legion we do not know if veterans were within miles of a sprayed area, and we do not know if any dose, let alone a measurable one, was received. study, finding of other previous studies showed that combat is the prin- cipal determinant of a wide variety of physical, mental and social effects. Despite these well-known findings, combat was essentially ignored in CDC's Vietnam Experience Study. Perhaps CDC found it necessary to invalidate our use of the combat variable to hide its own failure to investigate what seems to be an obvious concomitant of the military "experience." We discussed concerns such as self-report instruments for assessing combat exposure, PTSD and other social and behavioral consequences; the time frame of the reported symptoms; and the uniqueness of PTSD symptoms during the stage of questionnaire design. Therefore, we used validated measures used extensively in other studies of veterans and general survey research. People who criticize that previously validated questionnaires are inferior to clinical interviews, ignore scientific reality because detailed questioning for the presence of traumatic events often does not occur. 46 CRITICISM: "Discussion RESPONSE: We of the findings of The cized for failing to cite the American Legion study is incomplete. Findings from the Vietnam Experience Study (VES), the Agent Orange Validation Study, and other important studies should have been addressed more thoroughly. For selfreported health outcomes, the results are similar to those obtained with the VES questionnaire. As with The American Legion study, almost all outcomes in the VES were reported more often by Vietnam vet- erans than by other Viet- nam-era veterans. Those Vietnam veterans who reported either handling herbicides or having more combat experience also reported higher are being criti- CDC Vietnam Experience Study published in May 1988. The socalled "validation" study, the blood analysis of only 643 veterans, was published in September 1988. Our papers were submitted in November 1987, except for the PTSD paper, which was submitted in January 1988. The reviewers and the author of the memorandum should have sufficient professional experience to know that by May 1988 our papers were virtually in galley form. 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Studies which can provide more precise measures of the effect on humans of TCDD are in progress in the small number of people with serum levels of TCDD's markedly above back- detailed objective data, clear and consistent conclusions emerge: 1. Many Vietnam veterans report psychological and physical symptoms. Psychological abnormalities have been demonstrated by objective evidence to be slightly more prevalent in Vietnam veterans. Combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has been shown to be a problem in several studies. Almost all physical abnormalities have not been confirmed. Many Vietnam veterans also were in and 2. around herbicide or pesticide applications in Vietnam, and they have subsequently been told about dioxin and its 'extreme' toxicity. 3. Many Vietnam veter- ans, therefore, attribute their current symptoms to past herbicide expo- sure. 4. Very few Vietnam veterans, unless occupa- tionally exposed (e.g., RESPONSE: This takes us back government's position, according to Houk, that: • Only one way exists to determine whether a veteran was exposed to herbicides: by a blood test for dioxin. • Military records cannot be used to establish an exposure to the • 2,3, 7,8-tetrachlorodi- benzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) (and therefore other harmful herbicide constituents). Because of the selected and limited exposure of soldiers in Vietnam, studies of adverse effects produced by herbicide exposure cannot be effi- 48 readings, misstatements and misinterpretations of the information contained in our papers. Reviewers charged with commenting on one of the few independent studies of Vietnam veterans available are expected to read and report the numbers correctly, and to seek assistance in understanding a simple random sampling method. They did not follow customary scientific practice or common courtesy by contacting one of the investigators if they had a question. The science panel conducted a closed-door review of our The author of the memoranimplies in some of his statements that effects observed in Agent Orange exposure must be study. The results became known to the researchers and The American Legion when due to either a flawed methodology or to misreporting by the newspapers. This country's veterans should not be shortchanged in this manner. they were published in the daily veteran. Throughout the review it is repeatedly asserted that the veterans, the researchers and The American Legion probably misrepresented data and may even have lied. This is not true. Our questionnaire is not withpointed out in the published papers, and the researchers are well aware, that limitations exist in generalizing out fault. It is from a cross-sectional survey. and outcomes, because they are based on self-reports, will contain inherent variability and sig- veterans. dum ben shown absorb Hand Study, the NIOSH Mortality and Morbidity studies, and the studies around the Seveso incident in Italy. Because of the documented absence of exposure in ground troops in Vietnam, even if these ongoing studies find exposure-related health effects, they cannot be applied directly to the vast-majority of Vietnam to carry out a scientifi- We to par- memorandum. They were replete with mis- cally valid study. sprayer or mixer), have nificant quantities of is by the pational) exposure. The major studies are the Air There were not enough Vietveterans exposed to Agent Orange The American Legion ticularly disappointed sloppiness of many of the reviews included in the Houk index. nam systematic errors that concern the reviewers. repetitive (usually occu- ground due to heavy and Force Ranch CRITICISM: "When one views the full range of the studies on Vietnam veterans, including those with levels of combat and herbicide exposure among those who served in Southeast Asia. Such design minimizes the possible also know that the exposures unreliability (as will, incidentally, That "objective" measures). is why the researchers care- fully constructed a study design depends largely on internal comparison groups: Southeast that As Gierke pointed out in his letter to Montgomery, the controversy here is not about scientific validity. 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Indeed, a study by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta suggested that nearly a quarter of all food-borne illness can be traced to contaminated fish. The actual number of people affected is difficult to assess, since 95 percent of food-poisonings go unreported and seafood cases are often misdiagnosed, with the symptoms attributed to the flu, an allergic reaction and even alcoholic intoxication. The New York State Health Department claims that seafood is a far riskier meal than either poultry or beef. Officials there have found it responsible for about 20 percent of the state's foodpoisoning outbreaks. By contrast, even though far more chicken and beef are eaten, each accounts for less than 10 • Don't consume raw oysters, clams, shrimp, lobster or fish from waters with biological or chemical contaminants. A local Public Health agency can advise. • Cook the fish thoroughly. It's done when the meat begins to flake and reaches an internal temperature of 145 degrees F. Also, pour off excess cooking oil, as it may contain While raw fish dishes such as and sashimi are excellent, be aware of a recent outbreak of some chemicals. anisakiasis, a serious intestinal inflammation caused by a fish- neither carried parasite. Skilled sushi chefs during storage. • sushi Address. City State 50 Zip. Keep "live" shellfish alive and cook nor eat lobsters, crabs, clams or oysters that have died • AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE existing inspection and enforcement policies were simply failing to protect consumers. So who watches our seafood? The Department of Commerce's National Marine Fisheries Service offers a volunprogram for domestic seafood processors. The businesses pay for and probably inevitable. Congress has considered a number of proposals over the past 20 years, but disagreements over agency jurisdictions and congressional inertia have stalled significant action. Public is In fact, tary inspection Voice for Food and Health Safety, along with nearly 20 other public and use the quality assurance as a marketing tool. However, less than interest groups, are calling for the service 10 percent of the nation's 1 ,900 seafood processors participate, and less than 15 percent of the catch is inspected. diate mandatory fish-inspection pro- gram for both domestic poultry and meat inspection. plants usually contain more federal inspectors than flies, the 1 ,900 seafood plants receive a sanitary inspection once a year at best, and sometimes as infrequently as every four years. "If it's important to have as many as 30 meat inspectors in a single plant, why don't we have at least one in a seafood plant," said Michael Windham, Louisiana's director of meat and seafood inspection. Some states consider fish quality a priority. Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, conduct yearly surveys of state marine life and warn consumers of potentially hazardous fish. Yet, there is no unified national program of fish inspection. Lee Weddig, executive vice president of the National Fisheries Institute and a spokesman for the processing industry, argued that: "Of the 13 billion seafood meals consumed annually in the United States, very few present a degree of risk more severe than foods of animal origin." Weddig correctly pointed out that many problems can arise after the fish have gone to market and moved into households or restaurants. When folks are eating dozens of different seafood species that come fresh, frozen, smoked and raw, he said, "One doesn't have to be a food service genious to recognize that all of these variations, species, product forms and preparations have a bearing on product safety." Still, the problem of contaminated seafood— if only because of the sad shape of lakes and seas— is becoming Weddig and the seafood industry agree that a coordinated inspection program is needed, increasingly apparent. 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Processors hope it demonstrates that adequate inspection is possible without needless regulations or a bureaucratic layer as deep as the ocean. Another industry concern is who will pay for inspection programs? Also, regulatory agencies fear Congress will charge them with inspecting seafood sippi, without authorizing sufficient funding. However, according to Diane Heiman, the director of government affairs for Public Voice, seafood inspec- would cost only a fraction of what it takes to maintain the meat and poultry system. She said, at roughly $75 million a year, a federal program would cost taxpayers only a penny per pound of fish. Based on that cost assessment and tion faced with the risk of food-poisoning every time they sit down to a plate of tuna, many Americans would agree that adequate inspection of the nation's seafood is not too much to expect in this health-conscious country of ours. 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This marked the first time that the United States has entered into a binding international agreement At the very least, the to limit this particular pollutant. Back in the trenches, the EPA last fall made a decision that seemed remarkably out of step with the Reagan admin- When a Wisconsin utility proposed a routine renovation to an older power plant, the EPA ordered the utility to make it comply with the strinistration. gent new air quality standards required of For years, utilities had kept old plants running with "life-cycle extension" projects, rather than investing in more expensive new plants. facilities. As one congressional source new interpretation of the mean that all life extensions explained, the rule could would henceforth be subjected to the tighter standards. "This may do more to stop acid rain, at least that which is caused by Midwestern power plants, than anything else that's been done." Another source likened the rule to "half a clean-air act." Tougher emission standards could well cost some industrial and coalmining jobs. Yet, the price of saving now could well come at the expense of many more fishery, tourism and forestry jobs later, not to mention those jobs the blight on nature. Given this, it's obvious that Americans must work harder to rid the air of acid rain. APRIL 1989 of Foot Pain... to aquatic sys- 6 ^\JLT e were in They ww Germany on the very first day of our vacation and my feet were already killing me. I thought a pair of more comfortable shoes might help and I fell in love with a pair in a shoe store in Wiesbaden, Germany. "But when I Calluses, Bunions, Sore Heels, Ankle and Foot Problems of all types. • Resilient, cushiony • Mold themselves to your feet • Long-wearing, genuine sheep leather too. • X explained my problem of sore aching feet to a friendly clerk and he pointed to a counter display and said, maybe I needed a pair of special I shoe, OTHERS AREN'T SUFFERING ANY MORE. WHY SHOULD YOU? 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Under the terms agreed upon at the meeting, Cuba would provide sanctuary for drug motherships in its waters as well as refueling and repair services at its ports, and furnish flag and gunboat escorts. In addition, the traffickers would provide communist guerrilla movements with guns and agree to pay up to $800,000 per vessel for passage rights. involvement in international narcotics smuggling were greeted with much Chronographs and stopwatches wanted: Patek Philippe $10,000 and up Rolex 14K $5,000 and up Rolex 18K $6,000 and up Rolex Steel $1,000 and up Universal 18K $1,000 Universal $500 Universal Steel $300 Movado 18K $1,500 LeCoultre18K $1,000 Cartier 18K $5,000 and up Breitlmg Steel $100-$700 UK for Chronographs only. Call for other watch prices. Top prices paid for Rolex, Patek, Vacheron, and Cartier watches of any kind. Exact price depends on style of case, dial, originality and condition. 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In 1982, Thomas Enders, assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs, delivered detailed testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism on Cuba's direct role in "using the Colombian narcotics ring to funnel arms as well as funds to Colombian M- 19 guerrillas" through Guillot's media- working relationship was last August when Colombia's Conservative Party leader Alvaro Gomez was kidnapped by M-19 tion. This again revealed in May and later released after Cuba's alleged discreet intervention. 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Clearly, one of the most challenging orders of business of the new U.S. administration is to dismantle the Latin American drug pipeline and thwart Cuban efforts in support of the Soviet drug strategy against the United States. To do this will require developing new techniques and scrapping old ideas. It does no good simply to provide more funds to increase U.S. interdiction the basement, capabilities when the Cubans faithfully drug smugglers to the U.S. Coast Guard's whereabouts. alert AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE WILL TO PREVAIL Continuedfrom page 12 mental values, as sources of wisdom and direction in troubled times. We are being immediately and severely tested in Nicaragua. America comprehend the depth of the crisis. And there is evidence that the American COMMANDER people are awakening to this challenge. Korea notwithstanding. We citizenship— all valued also possess the intellectual and presence there could expand and swallow El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica. The "correlation of forces," to use the Marxists' national will. be a military, political and territorial barrier between the United States and the Panama Canal. A formidable Soviet apt phrase, would move not against us. If this issue were fatally, significantly, if put honestly before the American people, they would no doubt support U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras and other measures necessary to prevent Central America from falling prey to Soviet ambitions. Fortunately, there are signs that leaders are beginning to some of our Abraham Lincoln once said, "No man good enough to be President, but someone has to be." No country is good is enough or wise enough to traits necessary America's future leaders. These and other important Legion programs too numerous to cover in this limited space, give our young people a tremendous sense of accomplishment at an age when the opportunity to learn by doing is so vital to character-buildfor moral resources to meet this test. Although our cherished values have been distorted and betrayed by many journalists, educators and church officials, the intellect and soul of Middle America are sound. Voices that have been crying in the wilderness for more than two decades are now being heard. Dozens of new think tanks and publicpolicy organizations have sprung up to clarify, challenge and galvanize the cannot permit the Soviets to establish a base on the North American continent. A Soviet-controlled Nicaragua would Continued from page 6 With our unmatched economic and technical assets, we can produce miracles when we set our minds to it, the economic challenges from Japan and be leader of the free world, but the United States has been destined to accept the burden. Only with renewed dedication and clarity of purpose, can the American ing. Also, they offer wholesome alteryoung natives that can help steer our people away from the heartbreaking tragedy of drug and alcohol addiction. Young people are our most precious legacy. They are the hope and the future of this country and we must teach them well. Through The American Legion, its posts, its people and its programs, and through the same support our founders gave to Sam Carson's widow and people and their leaders meet this chal- we will continue to ensure that our young people are wellprepared to assume their roles as parents, patriots and productive lenge. citizens. it it it it it "& NATIONAL her three children, EMBLEM SALES PRESENTS A it if it it it it Stylish Poplin Jackets emblazoned with your American Legion emblem to welcome spring. A emphasizes your shoulders and matches the and waistband trim. Jackets B & C offer a rugged weatherproof Royal Blue piping on jacket collar.cuffs, alternative in solid Navy or Oyster with fashionable button collar and cuffs. These jackets are made in the U.S.A. of easy care polyester/ cotton blend. 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