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By TAMARA HILMES MIDDLEBURY — Foster MacEdward, or “Mac� as friends and family call him, turned 90 on Oct. 22. And though many years have passed, he still vividly recalls being just 22 years old and seeing other young men his age lying in the mud, arms shot off and with little white maggots !!"#$%&'()"#*)$$*+"&,--.$/()% 0"!1102345 beginning to wriggle and swarm. WiFi while you wait! “It was so wet and so humid that just

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By ANDREA SUOZZO LEICESTER — Of the 40 women who entered basic training with Rosie Spahn at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas in August of 1964, just 17 graduated. “It was hard,â€? said Spahn, a Leicester resident. “They’d tear everything out of you, then turn you into a soldier.â€? Spahn didn’t actually go into active duty — women at that point didn’t enter the Air Force with the hope of being posted overseas. The 18-year-old who had never been on a plane instead headed to Texas, Alabama DQG ÂżQDOO\ &DOLIRUQLD WR VHUYH RXW KHU IRXU year term in Air Force hospitals, while the 9LHWQDP FRQĂ€LFW UDJHG RQ RYHUVHDV (See Rosie Spahn, Page 2)

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overnight, the white maggots would start working on you,� MacEdward said. “And I’d say to them, ‘How’re you doing?’ and they’d say, ‘Geez, Mac, if you’d just get me out of here I’d be all right.’� “Here� was the mountainous terrain between Chabua, India, and Kun-ming, China, known as “The Hump� by the other men in the air force who, like MacEdward, were responsible for transporting supplies

from one base to another during World War II. MacEdward joined the U.S. Army Air Force after Pearl Harbor, and following ZHHNV RI ÀLJKW WUDLQLQJ LQ &DOLIRUQLD DQG Memphis, Tenn., MacEdward was shipped down to Boca Raton, Fla., on June 6, 1943, to begin the journey to the China-IndiaBurma Theater. (See Foster MacEdward, Page 4)

Bristol native looks back on three wars By TAMARA HILMES BRISTOL — Bruce Emmons, 85, took a display case with a wooden frame off of his wall and laid it on the kitchen table. Inside, lay military badges in all shapes and colors — stripes, code of conduct medals for the Army and the Air Force, a Purple Heart, and medals for each war he served in. There was one for Korea, one for Vietnam, and one for World War II. A blue(See Emmons, Page 6)

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Rosie Spahn (Continued from Page 1) She joined, in part, for her father. He had been stationed in Africa serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and the onset of polio forced him to return to the United States before his term of service was up. “He always wanted his kids to go in and VRUW RI ÂżQLVK IRU KLP ZKDW KH ZDVQÂśW DEOH WR ÂżQLVK ´ VDLG 6SDKQ Âł$QG , ZDV WKH RQH WKDW ZHQW LQ ´ A sister considered service, then decided not to. A brother left the armed forces on a medical release. So Spahn was the one to spend her four years serving in the Air Force. Her decision, she said, was unusual. “I think women in the military receive PRUH UHVSHFW QRZ WKDQ WKH\ GLG WKHQ ´ VKH VDLG Âł,W ZDVQÂśW YLHZHG DV D SODFH WR JR ´ But faced with the choices, Spahn opted for the military. Her other choices were to go to college, to get married or to get a job in a factory near her hometown of Rochester, N.Y. So just after graduation, she headed for Lackland for basic, which was an overhaul of every aspect of their lives, from the LEICESTER RESIDENT ROSIE Spahn was stationed in California and worked as a surgical scrub technician for the Air Force way they made their beds to the way they polished their shoes. It was, Spahn during the Vietnam War. Independent photo/Trent Campbell remembered, overwhelming. Âł:H GLG D ORW RI PDUFKLQJ <RXÂśG PDUFK to the mess hall, walk in, get your food, processing, the Air Force needed people in ZKDW ZDV JRLQJ RQ RXWVLGH ZDV VORZ WR ÂżOWHU 20 miles north. in. Then, after her term of duty ended, she \RXÂśG VWDQG E\ WKH WDEOH ZLWK \RXU KDQG the hospitals. Âł,W ZDV NLQG RI D EXEEOH $QG , GLGQÂśW KDYH got an apartment in San Francisco and a job raised until every table had all four people. ‘YOU DID WHAT WAS NEEDED’ Âł,W GLGQÂśW UHDOO\ PDWWHU ZKDW P\ VNLOO VHW D FDU VR , ZDV RQ WKH EDVH TXLWH D ORW ´ VKH DW 0DF\ÂśV 2Q WKH ZHHNHQGV WKH PDQ VKH 7KHQ \RXÂśG VLW GRZQ HDW \RXU IRRG DQG ZDV ´ VKH VDLG Âł%DFN WKHQ LW ZDV ZKDW WKH\ said. “The Vietnam war was going on, but it would later marry, who was still working \RX ZRXOG QRW WDON ´ ZDVQÂśW D ZDU LW ZDV D FRQĂ€LFW , GLGQÂśW JHW in the hospital on the base, came to the Then there were the inspections. QHHGHG WKDWÂśV ZKDW \RX GLG ´ So she was sent to Alabama for operating LW , GLGQÂśW NQRZ ZKDW LW ZDV WKLV 9LHWQDP city to visit her — which she said was still Uniforms had to be just-so, starched, with WKLQJ , ZDV ZRUNLQJ LQ D KRVSLWDO 7KDWÂśV considered outrageous, even in 1960s San perfectly polished shoes and clean gloves. room specialist school. “I said, ‘OK, nothing with blood. A lab, ZKDW , ZDV GRLQJ DOO GD\ ´ Francisco. Floors had to be polished, and beds had to In her duties as a surgical scrub technician, Once he got out of the service, the two be perfectly made, with the sheets rolled UHFRUGV IURQW GHVN ² ÂżQH ϫ VDLG 6SDKQ $QG KHU DVVLJQPHQW" Âł%ORRG EORRG EORRG ´ Spahn helped out in one of the two operating got married. down a certain number of inches. Alabama at the time was a center in the rooms in the hospital on Hamilton Air Force “We lived in San Francisco and protested During one inspection, one of the four VWUDSV RI 6SDKQÂśV ODXQGU\ EDJ KDQJLQJ civil rights movement, and heading there Base in Novato, Calif. The hospital was just WKH ZDU ´ VKH VDLG ZLWK D VPLOH EHGV DQG VHUYHG WKH RIÂżFHUV DQG WKHLU Eventually Spahn went back to work over the bedpost, was slightly above the meant heading into turmoil. “Riots were happening, the Ku Klux families. in hospitals, and after a divorce she took rest. For that, she received a demerit. The women lived in three barracks on advantage of the G.I. Bill and enrolled in In this orderly environment, women were Klan was there, the Montgomery Four had not allowed to mingle with the men — it RFFXUUHG ´ VKH VDLG ² UHIHUULQJ WR WKH IRXU WAF (Women in the Air Force) Hill, above college. That done, she moved back home to was only near the end of basic training that black girls who died as a result a Ku Klux the base, each with her own room. They still Rochester, where she worked with software. had rules — their curfew was earlier than A new job brought her to New Hampshire, they were offered the privilege to have a Klan bombing in 1963. But regardless of what went on off the that of the men, and their hats still had to where she met Mike Korkuc, a Vermont cup of coffee with someone of the opposite base, during her time in the Air Force Spahn be at the proper angle, the skirts the right native who would become her domestic gender. partner. After graduation Spahn headed to VDLG YHU\ OLWWOH QHZV ÂżOWHUHG RQWR WKH EDVH length, and their shoes polished. But as time passed, Spahn and her friends These days Spahn lives in Leicester Alabama, where she was enrolled in Even after being posted to California and medical specialist school. Though her entry gaining the right — and the free time — to ventured off of the base, attending concerts and works for the information technology testing had revealed an aptitude for data leave the base, she said the awareness of and talks in San Francisco, which was about (See Spahn, Page 3)

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(Continued from Page 7) years to work on C-47s — “the workhorse of the Air Force,â€? he chimed. He lived in Ukodo, just outside of Tokyo. As he was stationed in Japan for three years, he had time to explore the country a bit before returning to the United States. “I went to the top of Mount Fuji once,â€? he said. “They’ve got good trails up there. They have a restaurant halfway up that you can stop at — this was back in 1955.â€? COMBAT MISSIONS IN VIETNAM In the 10 years following his return and before he left for Vietnam, Emmons lived and worked in Westover, Mass., where he continued to do maintenance on C-47s. After another stint of training at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Florida, he was sent to Vietnam in January of 1965, ZKHUH KH Ă€HZ LQ & FDUJR SODQHV ZKDW WKH\ FDOOHG ÂłWUHH WRS Ă€\HUV ´ “I was in the 19th Air Commandos,â€? he VDLG Âł, OLNHG LW ² WUHH WRS OHYHO Ă€\LQJ dropping in supplies to military bases, hauling out wounded and dead.â€? Along with delivering supplies, the FRPPDQGRV ZRXOG GURS Ă€DUHV DURXQG army posts that were under attack at night. “One night, I remember, the number one engine on the plane, which was the left engine, started messing up, so we had WR ODQG LQ DQ DEDQGRQHG DLUÂżHOG RXW LQ WKH jungle,â€? he said. Emmons repaired the broken engine by Ă€DVKOLJKW DQG WKH FUHZPHPEHUV PDGH LW

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WKHLU ULĂ€HV :H MXVW KHUGHG WKHP EDFN WR rear echelon.â€? Emmons remained in Europe until September, when he was shipped back across the Atlantic on the Aquitania, a fourdeck ship that carried an entire combat division. He landed in New York on Sept. DQG FDPH EDFN WR %ULVWRO IRU D GD\ leave. BACK TO BRISTOL, ON TO KOREA He eventually returned to Bristol High 6FKRRO WR ÂżQLVK KLV VHQLRU \HDU $IWHU WKH war, Emmons laughed, school seemed “real HDV\ ´ 7KH * , %LOO SDLG IRU KLV ERRNV DQG DOVR IRU Ă€LJKW OHVVRQV +H ZDQWHG WR EH DQ Air Force pilot. While at home, he dated *OHQQD 2EHU ZKR RYHU \HDUV ODWHU would become his wife. But life as a pilot, it seems, was just not meant to be. When Emmons tried to enlist, he was told that he was six months over the age limit. Instead, he was sent to 7H[DV IRU ZHHNV RI DLUFUDIW PDLQWHQDQFH training. By that time, the Korean War had EURNHQ RXW DQG LQ (PPRQV ZDV VHQW overseas. BRISTOL RESIDENT BRUCE Emmons “I was over there for a year,â€? he said. “I served with the military between 1943 GLGQÂśW VHH DQ\ ÂżJKWLQJ RYHU WKHUH EHFDXVH and 1968 and saw action in World War II, I was in an aircraft maintenance camp. Korea and Vietnam. 6LFKXDQ ² . LV ZKDW ZH FDOOHG LW ´ Independent photo/Trent Campbell Emmons worked in what they called Âł:H VWLOO KDG ÂżUH SRZHU IURP WKH *HUPDQV ÂłEDVH Ă€LJKW ´ UHSDLULQJ FDUJR DQG VXSSO\ after that for the next couple of days,â€? he planes that were used to haul ammunition VDLG Âł7KHQ WKH\ VWDUWHG FRPLQJ RXW RI WKH and other supplies to the front lines. From Korea, he went to Japan for three woods like ants — what was left of them. (See Germans, Page 9) When they got out in the open they’d drop COUPON

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WKHLU ULĂ€HV :H MXVW KHUGHG WKHP EDFN WR rear echelon.â€? Emmons remained in Europe until September, when he was shipped back across the Atlantic on the Aquitania, a fourdeck ship that carried an entire combat division. He landed in New York on Sept. DQG FDPH EDFN WR %ULVWRO IRU D GD\ leave. BACK TO BRISTOL, ON TO KOREA He eventually returned to Bristol High 6FKRRO WR ÂżQLVK KLV VHQLRU \HDU $IWHU WKH war, Emmons laughed, school seemed “real HDV\ ´ 7KH * , %LOO SDLG IRU KLV ERRNV DQG DOVR IRU Ă€LJKW OHVVRQV +H ZDQWHG WR EH DQ Air Force pilot. While at home, he dated *OHQQD 2EHU ZKR RYHU \HDUV ODWHU would become his wife. But life as a pilot, it seems, was just not meant to be. When Emmons tried to enlist, he was told that he was six months over the age limit. Instead, he was sent to 7H[DV IRU ZHHNV RI DLUFUDIW PDLQWHQDQFH training. By that time, the Korean War had EURNHQ RXW DQG LQ (PPRQV ZDV VHQW overseas. BRISTOL RESIDENT BRUCE Emmons “I was over there for a year,â€? he said. “I served with the military between 1943 GLGQÂśW VHH DQ\ ÂżJKWLQJ RYHU WKHUH EHFDXVH and 1968 and saw action in World War II, I was in an aircraft maintenance camp. Korea and Vietnam. 6LFKXDQ ² . LV ZKDW ZH FDOOHG LW ´ Independent photo/Trent Campbell Emmons worked in what they called Âł:H VWLOO KDG ÂżUH SRZHU IURP WKH *HUPDQV ÂłEDVH Ă€LJKW ´ UHSDLULQJ FDUJR DQG VXSSO\ after that for the next couple of days,â€? he planes that were used to haul ammunition VDLG Âł7KHQ WKH\ VWDUWHG FRPLQJ RXW RI WKH and other supplies to the front lines. From Korea, he went to Japan for three woods like ants — what was left of them. (See Germans, Page 9) When they got out in the open they’d drop COUPON

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VPT to air veterans programs STATEWIDE — Vermont Public Television will honor and help veterans with two specials airing on Nov. 11 and 12. VPT’s monthly “Public Square� special, broadcast and webcast live on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m., will look at services available in Vermont for veterans of all ages. Host Kristin Carlson and panelists will invite viewers to call 1-866-424-LIVE with questions during the show. Questions and comments are also welcome in advance to connect@vpt.org. The program will be broadcast statewide

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We salute all U.S. Veterans who have served and those who are presently serving. We offer our sincere gratitude for all that you have given.

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(Continued from Page 7) years to work on C-47s — “the workhorse of the Air Force,â€? he chimed. He lived in Ukodo, just outside of Tokyo. As he was stationed in Japan for three years, he had time to explore the country a bit before returning to the United States. “I went to the top of Mount Fuji once,â€? he said. “They’ve got good trails up there. They have a restaurant halfway up that you can stop at — this was back in 1955.â€? COMBAT MISSIONS IN VIETNAM In the 10 years following his return and before he left for Vietnam, Emmons lived and worked in Westover, Mass., where he continued to do maintenance on C-47s. After another stint of training at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Florida, he was sent to Vietnam in January of 1965, ZKHUH KH Ă€HZ LQ & FDUJR SODQHV ZKDW WKH\ FDOOHG ÂłWUHH WRS Ă€\HUV ´ “I was in the 19th Air Commandos,â€? he VDLG Âł, OLNHG LW ² WUHH WRS OHYHO Ă€\LQJ dropping in supplies to military bases, hauling out wounded and dead.â€? Along with delivering supplies, the FRPPDQGRV ZRXOG GURS Ă€DUHV DURXQG army posts that were under attack at night. “One night, I remember, the number one engine on the plane, which was the left engine, started messing up, so we had WR ODQG LQ DQ DEDQGRQHG DLUÂżHOG RXW LQ WKH jungle,â€? he said. Emmons repaired the broken engine by Ă€DVKOLJKW DQG WKH FUHZPHPEHUV PDGH LW

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Rosie Spahn (Continued from Page 1) She joined, in part, for her father. He had been stationed in Africa serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and the onset of polio forced him to return to the United States before his term of service was up. “He always wanted his kids to go in and VRUW RI ÂżQLVK IRU KLP ZKDW KH ZDVQÂśW DEOH WR ÂżQLVK ´ VDLG 6SDKQ Âł$QG , ZDV WKH RQH WKDW ZHQW LQ ´ A sister considered service, then decided not to. A brother left the armed forces on a medical release. So Spahn was the one to spend her four years serving in the Air Force. Her decision, she said, was unusual. “I think women in the military receive PRUH UHVSHFW QRZ WKDQ WKH\ GLG WKHQ ´ VKH VDLG Âł,W ZDVQÂśW YLHZHG DV D SODFH WR JR ´ But faced with the choices, Spahn opted for the military. Her other choices were to go to college, to get married or to get a job in a factory near her hometown of Rochester, N.Y. So just after graduation, she headed for Lackland for basic, which was an overhaul of every aspect of their lives, from the LEICESTER RESIDENT ROSIE Spahn was stationed in California and worked as a surgical scrub technician for the Air Force way they made their beds to the way they polished their shoes. It was, Spahn during the Vietnam War. Independent photo/Trent Campbell remembered, overwhelming. Âł:H GLG D ORW RI PDUFKLQJ <RXÂśG PDUFK to the mess hall, walk in, get your food, processing, the Air Force needed people in ZKDW ZDV JRLQJ RQ RXWVLGH ZDV VORZ WR ÂżOWHU 20 miles north. in. Then, after her term of duty ended, she \RXÂśG VWDQG E\ WKH WDEOH ZLWK \RXU KDQG the hospitals. 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The women lived in three barracks on advantage of the G.I. Bill and enrolled in In this orderly environment, women were Klan was there, the Montgomery Four had not allowed to mingle with the men — it RFFXUUHG ´ VKH VDLG ² UHIHUULQJ WR WKH IRXU WAF (Women in the Air Force) Hill, above college. That done, she moved back home to was only near the end of basic training that black girls who died as a result a Ku Klux the base, each with her own room. They still Rochester, where she worked with software. had rules — their curfew was earlier than A new job brought her to New Hampshire, they were offered the privilege to have a Klan bombing in 1963. But regardless of what went on off the that of the men, and their hats still had to where she met Mike Korkuc, a Vermont cup of coffee with someone of the opposite base, during her time in the Air Force Spahn be at the proper angle, the skirts the right native who would become her domestic gender. partner. 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By ANDREA SUOZZO LEICESTER — Of the 40 women who entered basic training with Rosie Spahn at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas in August of 1964, just 17 graduated. “It was hard,â€? said Spahn, a Leicester resident. “They’d tear everything out of you, then turn you into a soldier.â€? Spahn didn’t actually go into active duty — women at that point didn’t enter the Air Force with the hope of being posted overseas. The 18-year-old who had never been on a plane instead headed to Texas, Alabama DQG ÂżQDOO\ &DOLIRUQLD WR VHUYH RXW KHU IRXU year term in Air Force hospitals, while the 9LHWQDP FRQĂ€LFW UDJHG RQ RYHUVHDV (See Rosie Spahn, Page 2)

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overnight, the white maggots would start working on you,� MacEdward said. “And I’d say to them, ‘How’re you doing?’ and they’d say, ‘Geez, Mac, if you’d just get me out of here I’d be all right.’� “Here� was the mountainous terrain between Chabua, India, and Kun-ming, China, known as “The Hump� by the other men in the air force who, like MacEdward, were responsible for transporting supplies

from one base to another during World War II. MacEdward joined the U.S. Army Air Force after Pearl Harbor, and following ZHHNV RI ÀLJKW WUDLQLQJ LQ &DOLIRUQLD DQG Memphis, Tenn., MacEdward was shipped down to Boca Raton, Fla., on June 6, 1943, to begin the journey to the China-IndiaBurma Theater. (See Foster MacEdward, Page 4)

Bristol native looks back on three wars By TAMARA HILMES BRISTOL — Bruce Emmons, 85, took a display case with a wooden frame off of his wall and laid it on the kitchen table. Inside, lay military badges in all shapes and colors — stripes, code of conduct medals for the Army and the Air Force, a Purple Heart, and medals for each war he served in. There was one for Korea, one for Vietnam, and one for World War II. A blue(See Emmons, Page 6)

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