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Our Valley May 24, 2012

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Greatest Generation The fighting spirit that helped win World War II also built the U.S. into the modern superpower it is today

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Marine, WAVE Find Love During War......................4 German POWs Change Minds..................................5 Okinawa A Test For Valley Sailor.............................6 Mother’s Scrapbook Kept Tabs On War..................7 Women’s Roles Change Dramatically.......................8 Pacifists Find Alternatives To Aid Nation At War....9 Alumna Pays Tribute Madison Sacrifice................16 Combat Pilot Veteran Of Two Wars......................19

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Timberville Cannery A War Winner.......................20 D-Day Emblematic Of WWII Generation...............24 The Greatest Generation: In Their Words.............25 Going To War With Gen. Patton.............................29 Life Aboard A B-29 Provides Perspective..............30 Soldier’s ‘Great Escape’ A National Sensation.....31 Best Of The Valley.................................................32-42

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We All Owe A Debt To Greatest Generation FROM THE EDITOR:

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HARRISONBURG was born in 1966, which makes me (so I’m told) a member of Generation X. I’m not exactly sure what that means — appropriate given that the “X” represents our supposed lack of identity and vagueness of purpose. Another “lost” generation with far less ambition and a whole lot more apathy than our predecessors. That’s the idea, anyway. Such a broad generalization, of course, leaves a lot to be desired. Just as plenty of Baby Boomers eschewed the pot-smoking, warprotesting, Grateful Dead-writhing stereotype of their generation, more than a few Gen-Xers entered adulthood with a clear sense of self and purpose, knowing where they wanted to go in life and how they were going to get there. As a rule, though, Gen-Xers entered adulthood more or less adrift, cynical to the core and indifferent to a rapidly changing world.

Our sense of entitlement and shouldershrugging indifference grew out of a

world of convenience. We wanted for nothing, growing up coddled, however unintentionally, by unprecedented peace, prosperity, and a self-indulgent culture that taught us, in the immortal words of “Wall Street”’s Gordon Gekko, “greed is good.” Wars were things our grandparents and great-grandparents fought, hard times were a chapter in a history book.

Sacrifice was a play in a baseball game.

We were, in short, the polar opposite of the Greatest Generation. The generation born between 1914 and 1927 grew up in a very different world than I did. They saw their parents struggle to put food on the table. They wore thread-bare clothes that were patched, not thrown away, when they began to fray. Working to help meet ends meet was a necessity, not an option, for many children growing up in the 1930s. Luxuries for most were non-existent. Even the modern conveniences that we now take for granted — appliances, television, DVD players, computers — were either too expensive for most people or didn’t yet exist. The Great Depression

taught them to be frugal, to save, to not spend foolishly, to be thankful for what you have and to take nothing for granted.

And then, of course, there was the war. A generation of young men, and many women, too, served in the nation’s military during World War II. Those on the front lines came face to face with evil on a global scale, with images of the death, destruction and cruelty burned forever into their minds. They fought with courage, with grit, with a sense of purpose and clearly defined goals that became increasingly rare in future generations. And when the fighting was over, they showed a compassion and selflessness that was limitless. The Greatest Generation came home with a confidence, optimism and ambition forged by victory over both war and economic hardship, determined to do what they could to ensure their children and grandchildren wouldn’t have to go through the heartache of poverty or the horrors of war. And they made the most of their opportunities, leading the United States into a period of prosperity and sci-

entific innovation that transformed the nation throughout the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st. They worked hard, raised families, bought homes, started businesses and contributed to their communities. And in so doing, they taught future generations what was truly important in life. We owe the Greatest Generation — from those who died on the beaches of Normandy and Salerno, to those who worked hard their whole lives and are now enjoying a well-deserved retirement — a debt of gratitude that can’t ever really be paid back. Some feel the generations born after World War II have squandered much of what the Greatest Generation gave us.

And to an extent, that’s probably true.

Let’s hope it doesn’t take another Great Depression or another World War to spur us to action. The Greatest Generation did that for us. The least we can do is honor their memory and service by passing on the lessons they taught us.

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Couple Shares Pride In Each Other’s Service He A Marine, She A WAVE, Waltons Both Wore A Uniform During WWII

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Jessie (left) and Francis Walton, both 91 and veterans of World War II, talk about their experiences during the war. A courtship that began in mid-1941 was interrupted by Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the conflict. Francis joined the Marines and fought in the South Pacific, where some of the most brutal fighting of the war occurred. Jessie, meanwhile, joined the Navy’s WAVES.

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HARRISONBURG — Francis Walton and Jessie Meade attended high school in Flint during the eastern Michigan town’s halcyon days of dances and $1 concerts.

The Flint Walton and Meade knew was on its way up.

The creation of General Motors in 1908, which had its headquarters and manufacturing plants in Flint, was turning the city into a major auto-manufacturing hub, as prominent in the business as its southeastern neighbor, Detroit.

The Flint of 1940s was the Flint of Walton and Meade’s heyday.

Despite going to high school in the same city — he at a parochial school; she at a public high school — the two didn’t cross paths until September 1941, when Walton asked Meade to dance at the popular gathering spot, Knickerbockers.

“They had a dance every Friday night that singles went to,” said Walton.

The very next night, the two shared their first date at the six-story Industrial Mutual Auditorium, where $1 bought a ticket to sets by horn-heavy big-band leaders like Benny Goodman, along with other swing and jazz artists like Nat King Cole.

Others acts that graced the 6,800-person IMA stage in the 1940s included Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Dorsey and Ella Fitzgerald.

“It was really a blessing for us; a cheap good date,” said Meade, who had a slew of new dresses to wear to the dances in the fall of 1941. “All the kids went.”

It was a romantic time for the two 20-year-olds. The young couple had their whole lives in front of them and nothing, it seemed, would stand in their way of a life together.

All that changed, of course, on Dec. 7, 1941. Meade and Walton had been dating for only four months when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into war with Japan and, soon after, Germany and Italy.

It would be four years before Meade and Walton would see each other again.

“That was shocking,” said Meade. “We had just met See WALTONS, Page 13

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At Timberville POW Camp, Stereotypes Dashed German Prisoners Turned Out To Be ‘Pretty Neat Fellows’

By DOUG MANNERS Daily News-Record

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Timberville historian Beverly Garber walks past a cement hole at the former prisoner-of-war camp west of the town. The prisoners were treated better than most American POWs in Germany and far better than those held by the Japanese. “I still think they were lucky to be captured, to tell you the truth,” Garber said. “They were safe here.”

TIMBERVILLE — From behind the wheel of a 1942 Studebaker, a young William Good hauled dozens of workers daily from a farm west of Timberville to the Zigler Cannery.

A heavy canvas tarp was draped over the truck to conceal the occupants riding in the back.

Guards in weapons carriers tailgated the vehicle as it wound around the hills for a few miles on trips into town.

Good’s passengers? German prisoners of war housed just outside of Timberville near the end of World War II.

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A teenager at the time, Good by Gregory Owen, a historian recalls how the soldiers — la- who lives in Harrisonburg. beled by some as “dangerous” and The POWs cut peaches at the “monsters” prior to their arrival cannery, picked apples in the orin late summer chards and 1944 — blended He said, ‘I’m over here helped harvest almost innocudodging bullets and corn on the farms ously into everyyou’re dancing with at a time when day life in the them.’ That didn’t much of the naValley despite the make me feel very tion’s labor force beefed-up securiwas fighting good. ty presence. overseas.

Eleanor Garber “They weren’t Ben May, then on her fiancee’s reaction to 7, peered into the a threat. They after she wrote to him that camp weren’t going to with harm anybody,” she and her friends would g barbed-wire fencsaid Good, now to social dances held for ing and wooden 85. “We had very towers local Gemman POWs guard little trouble.” from his family’s About 200 German soldiers nearby farm. May and his brothlived in tents on Herman Hollar’s er earnestly watched the Gerfarm three miles west of Tim- mans marching along the sloping berville during separate stints in hillside daily. the summer and fall of 1944 and 1945, according to newspaper reSee POW CAMP, Page 26 ports from the time and research

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‘You Kill Or Be Killed’ The Bloodiest Battle Of The Pacific Was Junior Smith’s Entrée Into War stopped me.”

Smith was born in Staunton, the third child HARRISONBURG — The of 10 — seven boys and gold and silver miniature three girls. He often visitplastic trophies Junior ed Harrisonburg on weekSmith has accumulated on ends because he had noththe table near the foot of his ing to do in Staunton. bed mark his dominance in Once Smith turned 18, poker the last 10 years at that didn’t matter. He Avante of Harrisonburg on joined the Navy on Sept.

South Avenue. The card 14, 1944. game requires Smith’s first the skill of blufftrip, aboard the ing — lying and “I wasn’t scared USS Dade as a of nothing. leading someone third-class petty else to believe Nothing officer, began on you are in a betApril 1, 1945, stopped me.” ter position to when the ship — JUNIOR SMITH sailed from Caliwin than you acWORLD WAR II VETERAN fornia. For secutually are.

“One guy was rity reasons, the best poker player in most of the crew was not here,” said Smith, 86. “I told the ship’s ultimate stopped him cold.” destination.

Poker is an intriguing It was the tail-end of detour for the World War II the war — fighting was all veteran. Smith has spent but over in Europe — but his life hiding nothing, in- in April of 1945 fighting cluding his fearlessness still raged in the Pacific. serving his country during Nowhere was that more the Battle of Okinawa. true than on a small island chain? that turned Entree Into War out to be the Dade’s secret “I wasn’t scared of noth- destination: Okinwa. ing,” he said. “Nothing Smith found himself in

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Junior Smith, 85, of Harrisonburg, talks about his service during World War II. Smith, a Staunton native, took part in the Battle of Okinawa, the largest and last major battle of the war’s Pacific theater.

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the thick of war when the Dade arrived as the Battle of Okinawa — where over 12,000 Americans died in what would be the bloodiest battle of the Pacific theater.

“You kill or be killed,” Smith said of the battle.

“That was that. Them [Japanese] had suicide bombers.”

Smith spent nine days at sea at Okinawa, primarily relegated to the role of

handing out ammunition to other soldiers on the Dade since he did not have enough experience firing a weapon. Smith said he was nosy, though, and ran on deck to see “everything” one day.

A gun blast blew him off his feet.

“I never told anyone,” Smith said. “It made me See SMITH, Page 11

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Mom’s WWII Scrapbook Details Locals’ Sacrifice DN-R, Other Clippings A Potential Boon For Genealogical Sleuths

By EMILY SHARRER Daily News-Record

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Laura Adams, archivist at the Heritage Museum in Dayton, looks through the pages of the Ruby Kiser Layman collection, a scrapbook assembled by Ethel Layman while her sons were off fighting in World War II. The scrapbook contains numerous newspaper clippings and other keepsakes featuring news about the war, including information on the fate of military personnel from the area.

HARRISONBURG — When the United States joined the Allied Forces of World War II in December 1941, all three of Keezletown resident Ethel Layman’s sons joined the service.

After Lawrence, Cecil and Russell Layman departed, Ethel Layman took on her own wartime project, which local archivist Laura Adams believes may have helped her cope with the worry and stress over her sons’ fate.

The product of her work — a 73page oversized scrapbook with WWII clippings about events of local and international importance — can still be viewed up a narrow staircase at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society Heritage Museum in Dayton.

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by Ethel Layman, call the Rockingham Historical Society Heritage Museum at 879-2616.

“It really is one person’s attempt to share and preserve a memory of what was going on not only locally, but internationally,” said Adams, archivist at the museum.

The scrapbook’s 19½ inch-by-24¾ inch-by-1½ inch yellowing pages contain a partially complete record of WWII news about local soldiers, through newspaper clippings. Many of the headlines staring up from the pages provide updates on local soldiers from areas like Luray, Keezletown, Harrisonburg and Broadway: See SCRAPBOOK, Page 10

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Wonder Women With Their Men Away, Wives Stepped Up To Keep America Working, Forever Changing The Role Of Women In Society

By PRESTON KNIGHT Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Confessing to a crime, particularly a harmless misdemeanor, is a lot easier more than 60 years after the fact.

As a girl growing up in Dayton, Amy Karicofe now admits that she would steal a tablespoon of her mother’s sugar at a time during the rationed days of World War II. Virtually every commodity — liquor, gas, meats and even tires, referred to as “baloney skins” for being skinny and cheap — was in short supply.

At least Karicofe, her age undisclosed, has an honorable excuse for her sweet thievery. She wanted to ensure that, come Christmastime, her family had sugar leftover to bake cookies to send to relatives “It was a big shift in how fighting overseas. [women] saw themselves.

“I stole my mother’s sugar,” Karicofe The work, it was a challenge, but they got a lot said, “but I didn’t take it very far.” of self-fulfillment out of it.

Life obviously It was a profound change went on in the U.S. for a lot of women on a while much of the rest of the world was personal level.” being ravaged by war.

— KARA VUIC But reminders of the BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE HISTORY conflict, as if any PROFESSOR, were needed, were all around, even in the peaceful enclaves of the Shenandoah Valley. It was a time of survival, with necessities hard to come by.

And for women at home, it also meant advancement while their men were away and, they hoped, alive.

“They had to do everything,” said Karicofe, a volunteer at the Heritage Museum in Dayton. “They went to the farm and worked. They did whatever had to be done.”

Getting Self-Fulfilled Kara Vuic, a history professor at Bridgewater College, said about 19 million women were working outside of the home during the war, with about 5 million being new employees. The notable difference from the prewar female workforce is that married women exceeded the number of single women for the first time, she said.

The line of work open to women changed, too, as

many entered the defense industry. Vuic said they still were not paid as well as the men they replaced, but it was a boost from the incomes they had working in retail.

“You got paid much better to work in a shipyard in Norfolk,” she said. “It was a big shift in how they saw themselves. The work, it was a challenge, but they got a lot of self-fulfillment out of it. It was a profound change for a lot of women on a personal level.”

African-American women, especially, saw a “profound shift” in labor opportunity, Vuic said. A popular quote from a woman shipbuilder at the time was that Adolf Hitler got black women out of white people’s kitchens, she said.

It was true, Vuic added, although the jobs were sometimes dangerous, such as working at an ammunition factory.

More than fives times as many women worked in nonindustrial jobs, however, such as drug store clerks, movie theater ushers, meter readers and cab drivers.

Nursing And Watching At Rockingham Memorial Hospital, sisters Libby Custer and Margaret Strate worked as nurses, trained by the Red Cross. A third sister, Ruth Clark, also was a nurse.

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This iconic image of “Rosie the Riveter” — a composite of sorts of working women everywhere during World War II — was used by the U.S. government on posters and in ad campaigns urging women to fill in at the workplace for American men off fighting the war. The role reversal indirectly helped spark the women’s See WOMEN, Page 22 movement a generation later.

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For Some, A Time To Fight — Just Not To Kill Mennonites, Brethren Proved Their Patriotism Playing Vital — And Often Dangerous — Roles At Home

“I never heard [yellowbelly] after I went to smokejumping. With smokejumping, I could prove I wasn’t ‘yellow’ after all. It was the hardest work, physically, in my life.”

By PRESTON KNIGHT Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Insults sometimes flew at James Brunk like the bullets his harassers wish the man were dodging.

“Yellow-belly,” a derogatory term referencing one’s supposed cowardice, was the most popular name. During World War II, some thought it applied to Brunk and other conscientious objectors bound by their religious beliefs to a life of nonviolence.

A Harrisonburg native and Mennonite, Brunk was one of thousands of men who stuck to their religious convictions as conscientious objectors and received exemptions from military service during World War II. But that doesn’t mean Brunk didn’t serve his country. His contribution took place not on some foreign sore but on American soil for the Civilian Public Service, not overseas with a branch of the U.S. military.

Specifically, Brunk fought forest fires, parachuting

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2,000 feet more than 14 times from a Ford Tri-Motor plane in the Northwest.

“There really was no way I could kill folks,” said Brunk, who turns 86 on Friday. “I wasn’t put here for that.”

Grottoes The First The CPS was created through the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940 for those who were exempt from military service based on religious views.

About 38 percent, or 4,665, of the 12,600 men drafted

into the program were Mennonites, the largest of any denomination, according to the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.

Mennonites are strongly opposed to violence and war, and believe peaceful means should be used to resolve disputes.

The first CPS camp opened three miles east of Grottoes in May 1941 at a former Civilian Conservation Corps site. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the CCC during the Great Depression to provide employment for young men. They developed Shenandoah National Park, among other infrastructure projects.

The CPS camps offered labor in soil conservation or forestry projects, based on location. Grottoes was the former, partnering with the Soil Conservation Service, a division of the Department of Agriculture.

Grottoes campers cleared pasture lands, stabilized gullied banks and performed other work to prevent soil erosion. Herman Ropp, 92, of Harrisonburg took lessons to be a cook at several camps, including Grottoes.

“I did that because I thought I could learn something,” he said. “I didn’t want to do common, ordinary repairing fences.”

There was no pay in the CPS, and as part of the law establishing the program, the men could not be sent to a camp within several hundred miles of home. Ropp, for example, went 500 miles from his home in Iowa to his first camp in Fort Collins, Colo.

No limits were set on the number of hours a service member worked a day or week. Among the rules at the Grottoes camp was one that sounds straight from a military guide: “Hazing and rowdyism belong to motives and attitude other than Christian ones.”

The men also had to be ready at all times to fight forest fires, according to the camp’s manual. The forestry units built and maintained firebreaks, roads and trails.

A select few were smokejumpers and parachuted to battle blazes.

‘Hardest Work’ According to the National Smokejumpers Association, Clarence Quay of Bridgewater is the only other Valley smokejumper still alive.

Quay, 95, was born in Chester County, Pa., and joined three others from his Brethren church in the CPS. Meanwhile, 16 church members went to war.

“I found my beliefs [were] Jesus taught us a way of love and not hate,” said Quay, who moved to the Bridgewater Retirement Community 15 years ago. “I went in with the idea of wanting to help the country, but not helping them do work that was harmful to others.”

When someone claimed religious beliefs as a reason to not serve in the military, they went before a local draft board. Some men were rejected and sent off to war, however.

For Brunk and Quay, their “war stories” involve battles of a different sort. A thunderstorm in the Northwest See OBJECTORS, Page 23

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Book Could Help Local Genealogists Scrapbook

Justin Falls / DN-R

In addition to newspaper articles, the Layman scrapbook includes photographs and drawings, including this caricature of Axis leaders.

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“Page Man Missing,” “Elkton Gunshot Victims Resting Well,” “Two Local Men Are Wounded.”

Some of the clippings provide updates to family and friends about those serving: “Pvt. L.L. Layman of Keezletown who is stationed in North Africa has written to his mother, Mrs. Jacob Layman and his brother Russell Layman that he likes Africa fine. He would like to hear from his friends and they may get his address from his mother and brother.”

“It would help someone try to understand the events, because they were getting news so much slower,” said Adams about the clipping collage.

Although the book is primarily a personal collection of stories with more personal value than anything else, Adams said it

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could have importance for local families looking to learn more about their ancestors who served.

“Part of what I think is very useful about the collection is the surname file,” said Adams, referring to a 416-name long index that provides pages about where each soldier is mentioned. “Anybody doing family research; that’s definitely where it would be interesting.”

In between the large colored photo clippings and dulling newsprint, Layman kept small affirmations — “Mother Prayer,” and “I, a Woman in War Time Promise” — supporting Adams’ theory of the powerful personal meaning the scrapbook had for Layman.

“It is kind of a precious memory,” she said.

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Smith Tried To Serve At 16, But Was Rejected Due To His Age “The [Dade] stayed dark all the time. ... We slept with one eye open and one shut.”

— JUNIOR SMITH WWII VETERAN WHO SERVED ON BOARD THE USS DADE IN THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA

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Junior Smith of Harrisonburg fought in the tail end of World War II, taking part in the Pacific’s largest and bloodiest battle of the conflict, the Battle of Okinawa.

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deaf for two hours. It was a whole lot of noise when the gun went off.”

None of the roughly 500 crew members aboard the Dade died at Okinawa, a miracle considering the near-constant attack by Japanese kamikaze pilots on the nearly 3,000 U.S. ships involved in the battle. Smith recalls seeing one of them escape a direct hit by a falling plane by about 15 feet.

“The [Dade] stayed dark all the time,” he said. “You couldn’t tell day from night, night from day. We slept with one eye open and

one shut.”

Smith and his shipmates would eventually take part in the first phase of the U.S. occupation of Japan.

No Poker Face Fighting the Japanese was necessary after their bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Smith said. He attempted to go to war at 16, but was rejected for being too young.

“In 1942,” he said, “we didn’t care.”

Japan’s surrender on Aug. 14, 1945, marked the end of the war. Smith was discharged in 1950, but not before traveling to Cuba,

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He lived in Roanoke and then spent 40 years working on a farm in Augusta County before coming to Avante. Card-game trophies may mask Smith’s open character, but he doesn’t have a poker face when talking about his commitment to America during World War II.

“I don’t forget nothing.

It took a whole lot of pain and a whole lot of doing,” he said matter-of-factly.

“I’ve never been in a plane, but if they told me to get on — they would have had a time — but I would have gotten on.”

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Diego, Walton volunteered for the 2nd Marine Raiders Batand over the radio talion, or Carlson’s [we heard] the news Raiders, named for [about Pearl Harleader Lt. Col. Evans bor]. Of course we Carlson. The Marine knew we would be Battalions were elite doing something squads of specially about it.” trained men; the Walton Enlists first-ever ground For the United ready combat teams States, that someand the first Special thing was a declaForces units ever Justin Falls / DN-R created by the U.S. ration of war on Japan a day after The 2nd Battalion Jessie (left) and Francis Walton of Harrisonburg the attack on was specially trained discuss their World War II military service.

Hawaii, and for in guerilla tactics.

Walton, it meant “The Marine enlisting in the Marines. He would not Corps didn’t like us; they called us a baswait to be drafted. He drove 40 miles to tard unit,” said Walton.

Detroit with his brother a little more than On Mother’s Day 1942, Walton left for a week after Pearl Harbor to sign up for Hawaii and later, Midway, but he did not the service. see any fighting in the Battle of Midway, “It was so quick,” he said. “The war which was waged in early June of 1942. broke out Sunday and we decided to go down and join the Marines.”

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Francis Walton Took Part In Guadalcanal Campaign Waltons

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Jessie (left) and Francis Walton both served in the military during World War II. Francis Walton joined the Marines shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, while Jessie Walton — then Jessie Meade — joined the Navy’s WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) program. The young couple, who had been dating for only a few months when war broke out in 1941, were married shortly after they reunited in 1945.

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Instead his group took winter gear with them to what they thought was their next assignment in Alaska, but his battalion was redirected to the humid, jungle-like terrain of the Pacific Theater.

There, he was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Solomon Islands. He performed hitand-run style attacks behind enemy lines for a month. He remembers catching the Japanese during bath time in one of many ambushes he took part in. During the mission, 1,000 men went behind enemy lines and only about 300 came out — largely due to illness, said Walton. Planes dropped rice and chocolate bars to the men, who had no steady food source.

“Big chunks of chocolate we’d pick off and put it in with the rice and cook it in [our] helmets,” said Walton.

The mission was almost his last. “[The] next to the last day, a point [unit] was hit

by Japanese fire,” said Walton. “And then who did they put on the point the

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next morning? My fire group; me and my two guys that were under me.”

Walton led the way past what he later found out were 2,000 Japanese soldiers.

“Not a shot was fired at us, we were fortunate; the guys before us the day before, two of them were killed,” he said.

For Walton’s children, Julie Haushalter and Jim Walton, their father’s time behind enemy lines is a memorable story.

“I think that the story that always stands out for me would be my father speaking about being behind [enemy] lines for 30 days and the incredibleness about coming across a pineapple and how that actually kept him from starving,” said Haushalter.

Added Jim Walton: “[A]

three-man team getting to walk out, that’s just amazing. I think it had a big influence on him. I think he saw, really, the rougher side of life, the horrors of war and I think it made him a more sensitive person …he experienced some pretty awful things and he didn’t let that influence him [negatively] in his life.”

Pioneer WAVE Back home, Meade was growing increasingly restless. Flint, valuable during the war because of its extensive manufacturing facilities, was emerging as a major tank and war machine manufacturing site.

But Meade wanted to travel.

“It was boring,” said Meade, who was a pioneer among her friends for de-

ciding to serve in the Armed Forces, at least as much as women could serve in those days. “I went in first and I broke the ice [among my friends].”

Meade served in the Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, better known as the WAVES. It had been 23 years since females had served in the Navy and Meade was one of 27,000 women who donned a WAVES uniform within a year of the organization’s founding.

“She was into entertaining troops and being kind an advertisement for the Navy,” said Jim Walton, who said his mother was part of a WAVES choir.

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Waltons’ Son: ‘They’re Proud Of The Fact That As A Couple They Both Served’ Waltons

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By the end of the war, women accounted for about 2½ percent of the entire Navy. They worked in such varied fields as secretarial and clerical, medical, communications and intelligence.

As a pharmacist’s mate, Meade dispensed medicine for troops in upstate New York, Long Beach, Calif., and Boston.

“It was an adventure,” she said. “We would get together and go out in New York and go out to all the nightclubs.”

Malaria Takes Its Toll The rest of Walton’s service, meanwhile, was spent in Bougainville, an island in the South Pacific that the Japanese had taken control of in early 1942. Walton’s battalion advanced on Bougainville on Nov. 1, 1943, with Walton riding an old destroyer to the “D-Day on Bougainville.” He was part of the first Allied forces to attack the island.

“They bombed us and shot artillery at us and we did the same to them,” Walton said. “I carried my best buddy out … down to the beach line. He got shot in the stomach and I carried him down to the beach and sent him out on the hospital ship and I heard he died after that.”

The war took a toll on Walton. He contracted malaria five times and was under “duress” toward the end of his service.

“Now I think they would call it some kind of post traumatic stress disorder, but then they just called it nerves,” he said.

Two years, seven months and 10 days after entering

the Pacific, he was discharged from a hospital in early 1944, and from the service on July 26 of that year. He returned to Flint in August.

“For my dad, it took a lot longer for him to open up,” said Jim Walton. “It really wasn’t until decades later that he would even begin sharing some of his stories. For him it was very emotional and a very trying time.”

After the war, Walton attended Michigan State Normal College, now Eastern Michigan University, in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Getting To Know You … Again A little more than a year after Walton came home from the war, Meade did the same, returning to Flint in 1945, two years, two months and two days after she joined the WAVES. “He came over and knocked on my door,” said Meade.

“We said, oh we’ll just go out and get to know each other again. A week later, we were married.”

The Waltons’ friends had similar shotgun weddings upon returning from the war.

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“I never thought I’d ever be back; it was a war,” said Walton. “You didn’t plan on much life after that.” As part of their 90th birthday celebration — they celebrate their birthdays less than two months apart — their names and record of service were read into the Congressional Record in 2011.

The official transcript hangs at the Waltons’ home at Emeritus Assisted Living center in Harrisonburg.

Their pride in their service and war experiences shaped the rest of their lives, their children say.

“They were very, very sensitive to understanding the power of nations and how important it was for us to use the power in good ways to help around the world,” said Haushalter.

“I think they’re proud of the fact that as a couple they both served,” said Jim Walton. “My guess is that there are very few couples left in the United States that both served in World War II. … They have always been very proud. And they’ve always cared about our country, for democracy and for what they fought for.”

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NOW AND THEN: Emily Lewis Lee, 90, of Columbia, S.C., gave $50,000 to help fund a World War II memorial at JMU. The Madison College alumna served in the war as a dietitian.

Emily Lewis Lee’s $50K Honored Sacrifice Of Students, Staff

By EMILY SHARRER Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Her personal essays is where Emily Lewis Lee stores her childhood memories of growing up on a farm in Brunswick County in the 1920s, attending old-time revival meetings and playing kick the can with cousins.

Summer days, writes the James Madison University alumna, were spent wading in the creek and each Christmas brought a new doll and stockings filled with candy, fruit and nuts. Lee, now 90, remembers reciting “Twas The Night Before Christmas” with imaginary friends and helping to build houses, gather eggs and shell beans on the farm.

But before she turned double digits, many of the creature comforts Lee had known were gone.

The stock market crash of 1929, when Lee was 7, was her first “worldturned-upside-down moment,” and by the time Lee turned 20, she would experience another life-altering event: the Dec. 7, 1941, attack by Japanese forces on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

By that time, Lee was in the fall of her junior year at Madison College, studying home economics.

Few experiences were more definitive for Lee than her time at Madison and her later service in World War II as a dietitian.

Outside James Madison University’s Leeolou Alumni Center, a memori-

al started with a $50,000 donation from Lee, of Columbia, S.C., pays tribute to both.

The light-colored stones of the Veterans of World War II Garden Patio memorial stretch out from the building, adorned with benches and flowers. Inside, a plaque engraved with 110 names helps visitors remember the sacrifice and patriotism of James Madison University faculty and students who were part of “The Greatest Generation.”

“I wanted the people that I knew there to appreciate what had been done by those who served during that time,” Lee said. “I can’t think of anything that was so special as just surviving.”

College Years Lee’s long history with James Madison University began in 1939 when she became a freshman. She had finished within the top 5 percent of her high school class and her parents insisted on college.

When the war broke out in 1941, Lee once again saw her circumstances change.

“Life carried on with gas and sugar rationing; no nylon hose; blackouts along the coast and anxious days as news from the front told of victories by the enemy,” Lee writes in her essay. “Edward R. Morrow’s radio broadcast from England along with Glen Miller’s Big Band music gave hope.”

A James Madison University website detailing the college during the war

describes what unfolded on the campus after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Then-president Samuel Duke announced leave for faculty and staff

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who were joining the service. Eight faculty chose to serve and “were staunchly supported by students who bought defense stamps, knit wool squares, and collected tin foil and tin cans.”

“Back in those days we didn’t have much entertainment and so forth,” said Lee, who played on the field hockey team to keep herself occupied at the all-female college, and was one of the first members of Madison’s Sigma, Sigma, Sigma sorority chapter. “I guess we were all doing what we could.

You couldn’t buy a lot of things that you were used to having, but you didn’t complain too much because you were glad to help. That was the spirit of patriotism that seems to have gone by the wayside through the years.”

Among those with ties

Photos by Justin Falls / DN-R

ABOVE: Bill McAnulty, director of development for science, technology and engineering and math for the office of development at James Madison University, sits on the bench at the World War II garden patio behind the Leeolou Alumni Center at JMU. BELOW: A close-up of the plaque recognizing Emily Lewis Lee for her contribution to the memorial. to Madison who served in World War II were the Rev. William Mengebier, biology department head, who received Silver and Bronze stars for his service in Eu-

rope, and an English professor who came to Madison after serving in the war as a Hawker Hurricane fighter pilot in the British Royal Air Force.

“Some students quit school to marry Europebound sweethearts and others joined service themselves,” the James Madison University site reads.

Upon graduation, Lee fell into the latter group.

“It wasn’t like they recruited you especially but they encourage you [to serve],” said Lee. “I wanted to do it because my brother was not able to go into the service.”

After a six-month internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and six-months of service at Halloran Army Hospital on Staten Island, Lee was commissioned in 1944 to serve as the second lieutenant dietitian in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

“The fact that she was fortunate enough to get an education before she enlisted was huge for that day,” said her son, Gary Lee. “In that economic time of the See LEE, Page 18

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JMU alumna Emily Lewis Lee and her husband, Luther Lee. She recalls with a laugh how she outranked him when they first met in the mess hall at Fort Bragg. The couple, who were married for 49 years, dated for six weeks before tying the knot.

FROM PAGE 17

Depression, to be able to afford to go to college was huge. That also enabled her success when she got out of the military.”

After boot camp in Atlantic City, Lee organized meals, first at Camp Rucker in Alabama where she was the only dietitian on hand to serve meals to up to 500 patients, and then at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Unfortunately, Lee’s requests for overseas duties were ignored, but she still found some of the adventure she sought serving throughout the states.

“It gave you a certain amount of freedom and experience that you were sort of on your own and you had to be sure that you didn’t over budget or overspend what you were allotted,” she said.

Staying stateside turned out to benefit Lee in another way.

She met her husband, the late Luther Lee, while stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in the mess hall. She proudly remembers, with a

laugh, how she outranked him when they first met; by that time she was a first lieutenant.

The two dated for six short weeks before getting married on March 30, 1946. They were married 49 years when Luther died in 2005.

Sixty-five years after her service and 69 years after graduating from Madison, Lee remains strongly linked to both.

In the 1990s, Lee, who had a successful decades-long career as a dietician in South Carolina, traveled to the women’s WWII memorial dedication in Washington, D.C., to receive a medal of recognition, and has traveled overseas to see memorials along the Normandy coast and in other parts of France.

She served on James Madison University’s board of visitors in the early 1980s, chairing the alumni relations committee and education and student life committee, and was its first out-of-state member, according to her son, Gary Lee. She also served as the secretary of the JMU Alumni As-

sociation board of directors.

“There’s not so many of our 1943 alumnas who have been as dedicated as she has,” said Bill McAnulty, a director of development in JMU’s Office of Development, who has gotten to know Lee personally and professionally through his work with JMU. “She is one of those folks that if you’ve been around Madison, you know who Emily Lee is and it’s a pleasure to get the chance to meet her.”

McAnulty hopes to live by the example he has seen Lee set.

“Those memories are right there fresh for her and she loves the opportunity not only to tell her story but also to hear where Madison is today,” he said. “JMU is vastly different in 2012 compared to where it was in the 1940s, [but] she still maintains that love of the university. I hope my love for my alma mater stays as strong as hers has over these years.”

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Flying Proud Sunnyside Resident Flew Combat Missions In Two Wars 25 Years Apart

By PETE DeLEA Daily News-Record

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itting inside his home office, retired Maj. Gen. Bill Pattillo looked up and admired the dozens of photos of military planes that adorn his walls.

Many of those planes depicted on the walls of his home at the Sunnyside retirement community Pattillo flew during combat missions in World War II and the Vietnam War. “I loved what I was doing,” said the 86-year-old, whose wife, Joyce, lives in a nursing home at Sunnyside, just minutes away from his home. “I loved to fly. I loved the military. There are a lot of memories in here.”

Journey To War Pattillo was born in 1924, along with his twin brother, Charles, in Atlanta.

In 1942, he graduated from Atlanta Technical High School.

Almost immediately after graduation, the brothers enlisted in the Bill Pattillo in 1944. Army Air Corps as aviation cadets.

He said he learned quickly that you just don’t jump into a plane and take off.

“There’s a lot of groundwork before you start flying,” he said.

He trained with a few planes, including a P-40 Warhawk, See PATTILLO, Page 46

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Retired Maj. Gen. Bill Pattillo, a resident of the Sunnyside retirement community in Harrisonburg, flew combat missions in both World War II and the Vietnam War. In the photos above and below he holds a model of a P-51 fighter, the type of plane he crash-landed after being hit on a mission over Europe in 1945. He was captured by the Germans and spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp. Pattillo retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1980.

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Cannery Aided War Effort — At Home And Abroad

By JEREMY HUNT Daily News-Record

TIMBERVILLE — The Zigler Cannery earned accolades from the U.S. government as a major source of food for troops fighting overseas during World War II. But the now long-shuttered factory nourished those back at home as well by providing a source of jobs and keeping people busy as their loved ones risked life and limb for their country.

The late Howard S. Zigler, a prominent businessman in Timberville and nearby Broadway, saw a need for both year-round employment in Timberville and to save produce that otherwise would’ve gone to spoil, according to his son and former employees.

The Zigler Canning Co. became one of the largest canning plants on the East Coast and shipped nonperishables as far as New York. National Fruit took the plant over in 1949, and the plant closed in 1996.

During World War II, it was one of the largest suppliers of food to the U.S. government.

The Zigler family owned many orchards in the Plains area of Rockingham County, among other business endeavors.

“Father was, you might say, a pioneer,” said his son, Charles David Zigler, 88, of

Timberville.

Fruit would often spoil in a saturated market, and Timberville’s produce ripened later than at orchards in Crozet on the other side of the Blue Ridge, Zigler said.

Canning provided the opportunity to save food for up to five years.

“I was just a kid but I was all gung-ho for a cannery,” Charles Zigler recalls.

It was up and running by 1940 and employed hundreds of people, though Zigler isn’t sure exactly how many.

The plant canned peaches, apples, peanut butter, tomatoes, chicken and turkey.

By the time the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, Zigler Cannery was in a position to serve its country.

Charles Zigler said his father was concerned with providing full-time, yearround work to people in the area.

People like the Laymans.

Mitchell Layman, 90, believes he was about 14 when he first started working on a Zigler orchard in the Plains area.

“When we didn’t have anything to do on the [Layman family] farm … my brother and I went out and got a job,” he said.

“And we didn’t have any trouble finding one either.”

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A mountain of apples wait to be processed at the Zigler Cannery in Timberville during World War II. The cannery was a major supplier of food to the troops oversease — and of jobs for folks here at home.

“Father was, you might say, a pioneer. ... I was just a kid but I was all gung-ho for a cannery.”

— CHARLES DAVID ZIGLER, ON HIS FATHER, CANNERY OWNER HOWARD ZIGLER, AND ON HIS OWN ENTHUSIASM FOR THE BUSINESS

Charles David Zigler, 88, talks about his time working at the cannery owned by his father, prominent businessman Howard Zigler, in Timberville.

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‘Wonder Woman’, Other Female Icons, Grew Out Of War Women

FROM PAGE 8

Harrisonburg. Both of their husbands served in the war.

Strate’s husband, Orlin Kersh, died in combat with the Army.

Custer said nursing kept her busy, on top of taking care of a family, home and victory garden. Although Custer had worked before the war, Vuic said the war marked the first time the nation had to warm to the idea of married women and mothers also working.

“Even if they had worked before war, they never had sole responsibility [at home],” she said.

Strate recalls being asked to stand watch for enemy planes on a tower in Harrisonburg. This occurred for about three hours after work once a week.

Nothing ever caught her eye.

“It was kind of ridiculous, but they asked us to do it,” Strate said.

Wonder Women The nation’s image of powerful women, such as Wonder Woman and the depiction of Rosie the Riveter — the epitome of the working woman during World War II — grew out of the conflict, Vuic said. Women who balanced home and work life through the war created a new model for future women.

“It’s not a straight line from the factories to the femi-

Women became an essential part of the workforce during World War II. As their husbands, sons and brothers went off to war, women picked up the slack in the nation’s stores, factories and other businesses.

Courtesy of The National World War II Museum

nist movement, but there’s a connection,” Vuic said.

Karicofe said Valley women were likely better prepared to survive during the war because they were apt at preserving food by canning. They also kept their nylon stockings in glass jars because they were of such limited availability.

“You didn’t know when you were going to get another pair,” Karicofe said.

Christina Moyers, 89, of Bridgewater remembers having that same concern. War prevented her from making more newlywed memories with her husband, Harold, of only 10 months.

He served in the Army in the South Pacific and frequently wrote his wife, who keeps the letters in a box.

Moyers’ husband died 30 years ago, but his memory lives on in his written word and one keepsake he and his Army buddies made in their free time in New Guinea — an airplane ashtray out of bullets.

With their men a world away, Valley women had to increase their roles while trying not to let the stress of their loved one’s fate get the better of them.

For Moyers, the speed at which news travels — including news of casualties — is the biggest difference between the war-era women and today’s military wives.

“News is instant now, almost,” she said. “We just didn’t have [today’s advanced] communications.”

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could trigger 200 forest fires, Quay said, far more than the roughly 250 CPS men used to fight them could contain.

Brunk smacked against a rock on his second to last jump.

“I had to ride a horse for 18 miles,” he said. “I could hardly sit down or stand up for two weeks.”

On another occasion, Brunk carried a fellow smokejumper several miles after that man hit a rock and broke his back.

Brunk crafted a stretcher out of jump jackets and poles.

Quay’s closest call with severe injury was on his first try. He parachuted into a dead tree.

Its limbs started falling. Quay, fortunately, did not.

“I was scared,” he said. “Some of the things we were doing were maybe more dangerous than you realize when you were doing it.”

Yet it was worthy work for their country, even without pay, the local smokejumpers say.

“I never heard [yellow belly] after I went to smokejumping,” said Brunk, who now lives at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. “With smokejumping, I could prove I wasn’t ‘yellow’ after all. It was the hardest work, physically, in my life.”

Some CPS campers worked in mental

hospitals and prompted systematic change by unearthing widespread patient abuse, said Lois Bowman, librarian at Eastern Mennonite University’s Menno Simons Historical Library.

That’s still not to say they were always celebrated. Like Brunk, Quay said he was called “yellow-belly” and “coward.”

“Even in your own community,” Quay said, “you never knew who was going to be against you.”

Said Bowman: “Sentiment was strong against these guys, and the Mennonites in general. I can’t really blame anyone who actually saw action for resenting those who didn’t.”

But any hard feelings seemed to dissipate over time, especially for smokejumpers, as soldiers returned to the United States.

Larry Longley, the second vice president and historian for the smokejumpers association, said the two groups were able to co-exist because veterans realized the objectors were basing their actions on religious beliefs.

“They were opposed to shooting someone, but they didn’t mind risking their own lives fighting fires,” Longley said.

“They did their part for the community, that’s for sure.”

ABOVE: James Brunk, 86, of Harrisonburg, goes through a scrapbook of photos from his time as a “smokejumper” in the Civilian Public Service during World War II. RIGHT: Smokejumpers, who parachuted into remote areas to fight forest fires, on a practice jump.

FAR RIGHT: Brunk during smokejumping training in the early 1940s.

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tion,” he returned home with a strong sense of purpose and discipline, byproducts of growing up during the Great Depression and experiencing the hardship of war.

HARRISONBURG aywood France woke up the morning of June 6, 1944, to a Landing At Normandy sky blackened with planes.

France, now 87, lives at the Sunnyside Battleships cluttered the ocean and retirement community, on the other side of stretched out across the horizon. the Blue Ridge Mountains from where he Those floating behemoths surrounded spent much of his youth. his landing ship off the coast of Normandy, He was born in Raleigh, N.C., the son of France, as he awaited orders. a World War I veteran who worked as a While in England, most of lawyer for the FBI before startthe men in his unit had bets ing his own practice. When his “You saw stacks of going on for weeks as to when family lost their house during they would finally go ashore. bodies and parts and the Depression, they moved to The time to collect on those stuff that had been the Charlottesville area, where bets had arrived. his mother grew up. collected and being “This time when we loaded After graduating high school identified and so we had strip mats and everyin 1942, France attended thing else,” France said. “We forth. A lot of blown VMI in Lexington up stuff ... that I don’t and enrolled in knew this was it.”

One day later, the 19-yearlike to remember.” the Enlisted Reold Virginia Military Instiserve Corps — HAYWOOD FRANCE tute student was on the with his parWORLD WAR II VETERAN, ON HIS beach along the Normandy ARRIVAL ON OMAHA BEACH ON ents’ consent. coast, a part of the largest inJUNE 7, 1944 His call to revasion force in history and port to duty “scared to death,” he recalls. came in December.

France was one of more than 850,000 In July 1943, he stood Allied men to storm the beaches of Nor- on the blacktop waiting to mandy in June 1944. The invasion turned board the Queen Mary for the tide of World War II in Europe and Europe, where he joined marked the beginning of the end of Adolf the 190th Field Artillery in Hitler’s regime.

Scotland as a replacement.

Like many from the “Greatest GeneraFrance remained in Great Britain until preparations for the D-Day invasion RIGHT: Haywood France of Harrisonburg were under way nearly a holds photos depicting him and other soldiers in the days after D-Day invasion See D-DAY, Page 45 that marked the beginning of the liberation of Europe. France landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day+1, June 7, 1944.

TOP RIGHT: That same day, The New York Times heralded the success of the invasion’s launch.

FAR RIGHT: This iconic image from World War II shows American troops exiting a landing craft at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Many died before they even reached the beach, cut down by German machine gun fire.

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THE GREATEST GENERATION: IN THEIR OWN WORDS

By Richard Young

By Charles C. Cowsert

‘Spirit Of Optimism’

A Cherished Legacy

Fueled By Victory And A Can-Do Determiniation, Postwar America Entered A Period Of Unprecedented Progress

The World War II Generation’s Grit And Gallantry Set An Example That Will Live On Far Into The Future

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E WERE FULL OF ENERGY. Dreams. Good feelings.

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was changing.

People who had long been lethargic High hopes. Determina- and accepting of the depression and tion. Self-confidence. Enthusiasm. We poverty were now awakening and takhad just defeated the strongest and ing part in this sweeping movement. most aggressive enemies the world Farmers were leaving small, unprohad ever known, but what were we to ductive farms and moving to better do now? work in the towns and cities, and their Our government provided the an- farms were being absorbed into huge swer for many: the GI Bill. Most of us cooperative farms with modern mahad wanted to go on to college after chinery. Factories were buzzing; goods high school, but the Great Depression could not be produced fast enough. hung over us like a cloud.

People were buying Our ambitions had rethings they had formerly It was not as ceived little encourageonly dreamed about. And ment. But now the world though only a few more than anything else, was before us with unlimof the colleges were bursting at ited opportunity, and we veterans shared in the seams with veterans. were ready to take advanVeterans captured this the hopes and tage of it. new spirit of optimism by After graduation from dreams of a better the thousands and hunhigh school in 1939, I had dreds of thousands. Of all future. This new no resources and soon enAmericans, they were enthusiasm was listed in the Navy. The war among the most motivatcontagious. All began for me on Dec. 7, ed, and most open to new 1941, with the surprise atideas and new ways. They America was tack on Pearl Harbor, did not need nor want the changing. which launched us into government to take over World War II. Our ship their lives; all they wanted went on to encounter the Japanese at was the opportunity to fulfill their Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal be- dreams. Collectively and individually fore I was transferred to the Atlantic to they brought a new spirit and determitake part in the invasion of Sicily. nation to the American scene.

I was discharged before the war endIt would be remiss not to mention ed, due to a medical condition, but this what the women veterans had left beearly discharge enabled me to witness hind when they entered the service — the huge influx of returning veterans their sisters, girl friends, fiancés and after the war and to participate in the wives. The war had allowed these growing excitement in America from its young women to show their real metal. beginning.

The war was fought as much on the It was not as though only a few of home front as on the battlefield and it the veterans shared in the hopes and dreams of a better future. This new enSee YOUNG, Page 26 thusiasm was contagious. All America

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T ALL HAPPENED IN JANUARY dustries, new jobs, new products, a new 1944 — married on the 5th and economy — America prospered.

Many veterans remained in and commissioned as a U.S. Army made their contribution through AmerChaplain on the 29th.

My wife and I were together for ica’s military forces. They conducted eight months before parting for my 2½ the Berlin Airlift, fought the Korean years overseas with the 84th Infantry War, and served the government and Division in the European theatre. At country in numerous other endeavors.

Religion flourished in postwar Amerthe war’s close I had three battle stars, ica.

Church services were crowded and a bronze star and a purple heart.

I spent eight more months in the new churches were started. World War German Occupation before rejoining II veterans were there. For 11 years I was pastor of a congregamy wife and meeting my tion in Alexandria, four 14-month-old daughter for ‘The Greatest miles south of the Pentathe first time. I was discharged in mid-summer of Generation’ would gon. A fourth of the membership was military per1946. Millions of other return home sonnel.

Americans had their own with a far different A full Colonel and unique but similar story World War II veteran perspective to tell as America was alheaded the Ushers Guild, ready undergoing rapid than that with noted for its “Spit and Polchange — a change WWII which they had ish.” Approximately a veterans would hasten departed. That dozen GIs who had reguand help to shape. larly attended my reliDuring the war Ameriwould impact gious services in the 84th cans had traveled widely the nation.

Division became ordained — at home and abroad — ministers in various deand witnessed and particnominations. Others beipated in vast geographical devastation came Sunday school teachers or church while at the same time alleviating and causing much human suffering. Conse- officers.

One such Pennsylvania gentleman quently “The Greatest Generation” would return home with a far different at an 84th Division annual postwar perspective than that with which they convention tapped me on the shoulder had departed. That would impact the and said, “I want you to meet my ‘something better’ — my wife for 50 years!” nation.

Education took center stage. In a He then reminded me that in service, short period eight million veterans at- when he had just received a “Dear tended college under the GI Bill. High- John” letter telling of his hometown ly qualified, they assumed leadership sweetheart’s marriage to someone else, roles in every aspect of life. Education I had paid him a visit saying, “The itself, medicine, science, law, farming, woman who did that to you is good ridinventions, exploration and technology See COWSERT, Page 26 — you name it. The result was new in-

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Young

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was largely these wonderful daughters of America who fought it. They, no less than the veterans they married, were the real heroes of the war, and it was by their sharing in the dream that America was raised from its doldrums to new heights.

Calling this generation of America the greatest generation might be an overstatement; one cannot help but think of the founding fathers and mothers of America.

But certainly no other generation brought to America a new spirit of optimism on such a large scale as these returning veterans, together with the ones with whom they chose to share their lives. This undoubtedly was the greatest gift of that generation to America.

Mr. Young lives in Rockingham County.

We Must Acknowledge War Is Not The Solution

At first, they were scared of the uniformed men, whom their father warned them to stay away from.

“We thought they’d be 10-feet tall and bulletproof … but they were young boys, not much older than we were,” May said.

Most of the German prisoners were in their late teens or early 20s.

Soon, May grew friendly with them as they helped picked crops on his father’s farm. He drove a tractor and the Germans loaded it up with loose corn.

May, now 73, said the POWs quickly reveled in

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Vets brought changes in too many other areas to mention here, but it should be said that while the number of living veterans is diminishing, their legacies will long continue. While praise and thanks for their service are appropriated, we must acknowledge that wars do not solve problems and are never substitutes for peace. Only obedience to the Prince of Peace can fulfill nations’ deepest needs.

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the abundant supply of fresh food from the fertile ground of the Valley. They went from eating lard sandwiches on hard bread to enjoying fresh-picked apples and hearty baked goods from May’s mom, whom he said “took pity on them.”

While the Germans didn’t speak much English, they picked up on some phrases, and showed the May brothers how to

make slingshots.

The prisoners never were guarded on the May farm, he said, nor did they need to be. Occassionally stealing food was about the only trouble they ever caused, May added.

“We got real close to them,” he said. “At first we were scared of them, but then we found out they were pretty neat fellows.”

The POWs didn’t leave

the fenced-in camp just for work. They regularly made trips into town for social dances at Gordon’s Garage.

Eleanor Garber, now 89, remembers about a dozen or so German prisoners mingling with young women as music played and refreshments were served.

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POWs Engraving: ‘Ehre Sei Gott In Der Hoehe’ — ‘Glory To God In The Highest’ Breathing

FROM PAGE XX

made conversing with the foreign men difficult.

“You couldn’t really talk to them or carry on much of a conversation,” she said.

Garber’s fiancé was fighting overseas at the time and she once described the dances to him in a letter.

“He wasn’t very happy. He said, ‘I’m over here dodging bullets and you’re dancing with them,’” Garber recalled with a laugh. “That didn’t make me feel very good.”

‘Lucky To Be Captured’ Most Virginians got along well with prisoners based in the Old Dominion during World War II. Timberville was no exception.

“I still think they were lucky to be captured, to tell you the truth,” said Beverly Garber, 71, Timberville’s town historian. “They were safe here.”

A 1977 article from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography notes that, in Virginia, “There were few protests against coddling of POWs such as were voiced in other parts of America.”

Southern hospitality doesn’t get all of the credit. One likely reason for the comparatively friendly treatment, according to the article, is that “Virginians, unlike many Americans, were accustomed to having military and naval bases in or near their communities.”

Plus, the POWs provided an invaluable service to farmers and industrialists in desperate need of workers.

“You could use them for almost anything,” May said.

“They were good tradesmen.”

They left a reminder of their skills at the St. John’s Lutheran Chapel in Timberville. Engraved in a wooden altar made by the men are the words “Ehre sei Gott in der hoehe,” which translates into “Glory to God in the highest.”

Knee-high grass in the field not far from May’s current home mostly hides the only other remnants of the POW camp: Concrete slabs that once held the prisoners’ tents, piping that jut out from the ground, and the remains of latrines.

But for those who worked — or danced — alongside the German soldiers during World War II, the memories of those encounters remain strong nearly 70 years later.

“It was a long time ago,” May said, “but it seems like yesterday.”

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Only 5 Percent Of Suppliers Earned ‘E’ Award From Military FROM PAGE 20

Layman and his brother, Carroll worked at the cannery at various times in the 1940s, as did Charles Zigler.

Mitchell Layman ran the machine that canned apple juice and also oversaw canning of chicken noodle soup and peach preserves.

The Layman family has a long history working with Howard Zigler.

Mitchell’s father, Paul, built Zigler’s first storage building in 1929.

Then, 16 years later, Carroll Layman helped build a second storage facility.

Paul Layman made sure his sons had a strong work ethic, they say.

“My daddy had a rule: If you’re too sick to work you’re too sick to play ball,” Mitchell Layman said.

The cannery played a simple and vital role during World War II: providing sustenance for the

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Mitchell Layman, 88, talks about his work at the Zigler Cannery and his service in the Navy during World War II. troops fighting overseas, the fathers, sons and brothers of those who stayed behind.

Like many young men of their generation, Mitchell Layman and Charles David Zigler went off to fight when they became old enough.

“I couldn’t wait to get into the service because [the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor] was a personal in-

sult to me,” Zigler said.

Zigler signed up in the Army Reserve and served in the South Pacific.

Layman joined the Navy in 1942 and served on supply ships.

For nearly a year he shuttled supplies throughout the Pacific.

When his ship was torpedoed in New Guinea, Layman took a shot of shrapnel to the forehead

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While noted for its contribution to the war effort abroad, the cannery also provided much-needed employment back home and, like most tasks, served as a distraction for those worrying about loved ones overseas, Mitchell Layman said.

“It kept ’em from sitting at home,” he said. “They don’t want to know what I was doing.”

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just above his right eye, earning him a Purple Heart.

When doctors asked him what the object that struck his head looked like, Layman says with a chuckle, “If I’d seen it coming it wouldn’t have hit me.”

Carroll Layman, who turns 83 on May 31, worked at the cannery as a clerk at 16 in 1946.

In 1941, the business produced 53,000 cases of peaches and apples, Layman said.

The next year, it produced 133,000 cases of the two fruits and 33,000 cases of tomatoes, he said.

In 1944 and 1945, the cannery was awarded the Army-Navy “E” Award, which was given for excellence in the production of war equipment, Layman said.

Only 5 percent of suppliers in the U.S. received an “E” award, according to the Navy Department Library.

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From Battling The Mud To The Battle Of The Bulge Under Patton, Ted Scott Was In Thick Of European Combat

he also had something else in mind.

“There was some true incentive to graduate because we would be commissioned as an officer, which rumor said, was advantageous,” he said. “If we did not graduate, we would be draft bait.”

After graduating from college, where he was an All-American marksman, Scott bounced from one base to another for roughly two years before shipping off to war.

By PETE DeLEA Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — On Sept, 11, 1944, about an hour before Ted Scott shipped off to Europe to fight in World War II, he received a telegram through the American Red Cross informing him he just became a father for the first time.

He sat on his bunk in Camp Shanks, N.Y. and wrote his wife, Carolyn Scott, a letter before he got on a train and began his journey to war.

“I couldn’t tell her where I was … that I was shipping out,” said Scott, a 93-yearold Massanetta resident. “It was a very empty feeling to write that. I wished her well, was glad the baby was fine and I loved her.”

Joining The 3rd Army

Preparing To Be A Soldier

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After graduating high school in 1937, the Orange native spent a year working at a steel mill in Pennsylvania before enrolling at Lehigh University.

In 1942, Scott would meet his future wife, Carolyn, a student at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., as part of a blind date.

World War II veteran Ted Scott, 93, and his wife Carolyn, 90, talk about his experiences fighting in Europe under Gen. George S. Patton.

“My roommate was a friend of Ted’s roommate,” said Carolyn, 90. “He wasn’t going to come but we had tickets to the ball game.”

“The Harvard-Dartmouth game,” Scott

chimed in during a recent interview with the couple.

While studying metallurgical engineering, he also enrolled in the ROTC program. Besides working for a diploma,

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On Sept. 23, 1944, the ship carrying Scott and his fellow soldiers landed in Cherbourg, France. After hours of waiting to dock, troops unloaded from the ship and settled down for the night.

“Pup tents were pitched, kitchen stoves were going and latrines dug,” said Scott. “Officers were one to a tent, while enlisted personnel were two to a tent. It wasn’t heaven ... and then the rains came, and we waded in mud for the rest of the time we were in Normandy.”

In early November, Scott’s division was assigned to Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army. Scott then moved out of Normandy and joined Patton’s army in eastern France.

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Taking Nothing For Granted

Superfortress Gunner Said The War Helped Him Appreciate Nation, Family

By JEREMY HUNT Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Before he went off to fight in the Pacific during World War II, Dick Hedrick and his future wife went on dates whenever there was a full moon.

“That’s always a good day to get together,” Betty Hedrick said of their lunar tradition.

Like their commitment to each other, the young lovers didn’t let Dick’s involvement in the war interrupt their special date night.

They continued to have full moon “dates” while he was deployed by writing each other letters whenever the stars, or in this case, the moon, aligned.

The letters served as a comfort to Betty while Dick was training and later off fighting the Japanese.

“It was like having a date, but we weren’t together,” Betty Hedrick, 87, said.

The couple married in 1948, and six decades later, the letters Betty saved serve as a reminder of both their romance and the times. Dick Hedrick worked as a dentist in Harrisonburg for decades before retiring about 20 years ago.

Call To Service George R.D. “Dick” Hedrick and Betty Myers started dating during their junior year at Harrisonburg High School. He asked her to the junior/senior prom.

While Betty attended Madison College, the precursor to James Madison University, Dick studied at Virginia Tech in See HEDRICK, Page 44 Richard and Betty Hedrick continued their “full moon dates” while he was away at war by writing to one another whenever there was a full moon.

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Richard Hedrick with a model of a B-29 Superfortress like the one he served on as a waist gunner in missions over Japan during World War II. Hedrick says the rigors of war and being away from the U.S. for so long made him realize how important it was not to take anything for granted.

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A Great Escape ‘I Didn’t Like It So I Left,’ POW Says Of Prison Train

By PETE DeLEA Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Faced with a desperate situation as a prisoner of war in World War II, 1st Lt. Julian Quarles knew he had to make a daring move.

One night, Quarles, now 95, and another American POW, decided to jump from a moving train as they were being transported to Germany.

Born in 1917 in Staunton, Quarles attended Augusta Military Academy, where he played football and boxed. During his junior year, he became the South Atlantic prep school boxing champion.

In 1935, Quarles graduated from the academy and spent six weeks in Fort Washington, Md., training with college junior ROTC cadets.

After the training, he went to Miami where his parents had moved, and enrolled in classes at the University of Miami.

In 1939, he graduated with a business administration degree and began looking for work as the Great Depression continued to grip the nation.

But thanks to a friend, he landed a job at the CIT Corp. in Nashville, Tenn.

“There weren’t a lot of jobs in 1939, but I was fortunate to have a friend whose dad knew people,” said Quarles, who now lives in Harrisonburg.

On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II broke out with Germany invading Poland. A little more than two years later, the United States declared war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor and, just a few days later, Germany and Italy.

Quarles was quickly put into action.

“I was called into duty the very next day after war was declared,” said Quarles.

After training in Camp Blanding in Florida, the infantryman headed first to North Africa.

“We didn’t see any active duty there, but we saw a lot of the results of it,” said Quarles.

In September 1943, Quarles and his fellow troops landed in Salerno, Italy.

Within a few days, American and German troops were locked in battle. Twenty-two men in Quarles’ unit were killed.

“The Germans overran us,” he said.

“And I was captured.”

Quarles was later put onto a Nazi prisoner train headed for Germany.

During the trip, Quarles saw an opportunity to escape. He asked the other POWs if they wanted to jump off the train with him. His captain, Carl Bayne of Yoakum, Texas, was the only one to volunteer.

The soldiers made the jump.

“I didn’t like it so I left,” he joked. “We tumbled a bit when we landed and the rock was a little rough, but we lived.”

After 33 days behind enemy lines, evading German troops and dodging Allied artillery and bombers, Quarles made it back to his unit and returned to combat.

He and his fellow escapee were later featured in a segment from Look magazine’s “American Heroes” series. The story, with the headline, “Escape From A Prison Train”, ran in the March 31, 1944, edition of the periodical.

Quarles later received two Silver Stars, a Purple Heart and other medals for his actions during the war but the memories and friendships is what he cherishes the most.

“I got some good memories, and some bad memories,” said Quarles, a father of four. “I made a lot of good friends, but most of them are gone now.”

After the war ended, Quarles attended the University of Virginia law school before transferring to Miami, where he graduated in 1951.

He practiced law for 44 years in the Miami area, mostly working on probate and real estate cases, before retiring and moving back to Virginia.

Quarles said the war helped shape how he lived life and how he ran his law practice.

He said it’s about trust.

The bonds — and split-second decisions — he was forced to make during the life-and-death struggle of war helped Quarles hone his instincts when it came to weighing the integrity of clients and others back home.

“If I met them and I didn’t like them, I didn’t represent them,” he said.

The consequences of misjudging a potential client might not have been as dire as a similar misstep in war, but the concept was the same.

Said Quarles: “I had to know who I could trust and who I couldn’t.”

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Michael Reilly / DN-R

World War II veteran Julian Quarles escaped from a German prisoner of war transport train on its way from Italy to Germany. After 33 days evading the enemy, Quarles made it back to his unit in Italy. He earned a slew of medals during the war, including two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. BELOW: Quarles’ escape earned him a feature profile in Look magazine.

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Clementine Café won big this year, taking Best Atmosphere, Best Entertainment Value, Best Live Music, Best Place To Be Seen and Best Mixed Drinks awards.

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local stores and unique community Daily News-Record gathering places. My parents remember me frequently asking on these occaJudging by the 2012 Best of the Val- sions, ‘Why can’t Harrisonburg be like ley poll responses, the Friendly City is this?’ ” also a city of lovers. People are excited But, within the last 10 to 12 years, about the art their neighbors are mak- residents of Harrisonburg have begun ing; they’re enthusiastic about the re- to witness the metamorphosis of their birth of their downtown; downtown. Martorana is hopethey’re eager to support local “New uses ful that Harrisonburg is parendeavors of all types, from ticipating in a national shift of historic food to music to preservation. structures and away from malls and suburbia And where there is love, there the renovation toward local business, preseris life, and hope, for a town. vation and mixed-use properof those ties.

The Downtown buildings have “I could not be more excited Best of the Valley respon- revitalized life about the changes that have dents lauded Harrisonburg’s happened in downtown Hardowntown.” downtown, but noted that it risonburg — the many amazwas not always that way.

— DR. SCOTT ing downtown businesses and “Growing up in HarrisonH. SUTER entrepreneurs, events and enburg, I didn’t often venture “IMAGES OF gaged community members downtown as there did not AMERICA” who are making this a better seem to be much to see or do,” CO-AUTHOR place to live — and to have the says longtime resident and opportunity to work with Harrisonburg Downtown Renthem and be a part of these aissance promotions manager Nicole changes,” Martorana says.

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Tacos El Primo Sweeps New BOV Category Named Best Food Truck In Shenandoah Valley

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Dustin Corkery pays for his food at the Tacos El Primo food truck on Reservoir Street. As more of the mobile eateries zoom into the Valley, the turquoise landmark is staying on top.

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Around the Valley, food trucks raced to take the title of new category “Best Food Truck.”

Port Republic Road’s boxy turquoise landmark, Tacos El Primo, sped off with nearly half the votes.

When owner Veronica Paniagua moved to Harrisonburg from California in 2005, she and husband Jose craved the authentic tastes they left behind.

While a common sight in their home state, the food truck scene was sparse upon arrival in the Valley.

Theirs was a groundbreaker.

“At first, we were scared,” remembers Paniagua. “What would be the reaction?”

Combining her Mexican heritage with Jose’s 15 years of experience in the restaurant industry, they

serve a straight-forward menu of tacos, burritos, quesadillas and tortas; in its early stages, the truck instantly appealed to with the local Latino community.

But, today, their authentic style is appealing to the masses. They were surprised to find a customer base crossing all ethnic lines. “As long as it tastes good, there’s no boundaries,” said Paniagua.

Now that the trucktrend is taking off locally, she says they’ve fed hungry ambitions as well. Other truck owners have come to them in assessing the market for mobile cuisine. “It feels good to have them come to us,” she said. “That makes us proud.”

Winning “Best Food Truck” is one more reason for Tacos El Primo to be proud. To the voters, they say, “We are who we are because of them.”

Paniagua believes that with passion and drive,

“There’s no limitation to what you can do.”

Here, the Daily NewsRecord flagged down several other area food trucks to find out what drives them.

The Cupcake Company: Renee Brown Truck launched: 7 weeks ago Location: Events; stationary at Sleepys Mattress once every other week What sets it apart: Brown says the concept of cupcakes on the move makes her truck unique.

Why the wheels? “I didn’t want to be tied to a store. I wanted to be able to do it on my own time.”

Mama’s Caboose: Diane Roll Truck launched: August 2011 Location: Artisan’s Courtyard in Dayton on Thursdays, Fridays and most Saturdays at lunchtime, 10:30-til.

What sets it apart: “The ‘mom’ idea; that it’s not specific to one type of food or person ... . Being inclusive, because that’s how moms are.”

Why the wheels? “The opportunity presented itself, and you’ve gotta get when the gettin’s good.”

The Coffee Truck: Evan Butterfield Truck launched: July 2011 Location: For the last 11 months, the truck has been stationed in various locations near downtown.

They’re hitting the brakes on business for the summer, See FOOD TRUCK, Page 42

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book on Harrisonburg from Arcadia Publishing’s valuable “Images of America” series. For a downtown that has seen such sweeping and frequently demolition-fueled changes over its history, “revitalization” and “recovery” may not be the right words, but he says something promising and generative is indeed afoot.

“Of course, once buildings are razed and spaces are permanently altered, recovery is impossible. That said, I think the things that are happening in downtown Harrisonburg are giant steps in a favorable direction. New uses of historic structures and the renovation of those buildings have revitalized life downtown,” said Suter.

Downtown’s numerous restaurants, shops, Court Square Theater, the library, the Farmers Market, and the

Friendly City Food Co-Op, among others, have been beacons for downtown.

Suter added, “I’d argue that those who support downtown Harrisonburg in any way are doing this region a favor. Why not forget the old story of ‘if it’s old tear it down in the name of progress,’ and make Harrisonburg’s new story one of progress through preservation?

It seems to me those supporting downtown are achieving a commendable success.”

The People Denizens of the ’Burg are also heaping praise on each other; everyone seems to agree there is something special about the people here.

Harrisonburg Farmers Market manager, Josie Showalter, has a unique perspective as she watches relationships among community members and vendors bloom into real bonds.

“Part of what makes Harrisonburg unique is that everyone is looking for a connection,” she explains. “I think our rural background gives us a great respect for each other and for the Earth and our place.”

For several months, photographer Brandy Somers and her collaborator Katie Mitchell have been celebrating Harrisonburg by documenting their experiences with businesses and events around the city.

“It seems like there are a lot of young entrepreneurs and businesses making things relevant,” Somers says. “A lot of these people are in their late 20s and early 30s. There’s just something that makes people want to be a part of this growth.”

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porting local music and art in venues all across town, they’re relishing the food at homegrown restaurants and they’re taking advantage of the area’s myriad outdoor activities.

“What we’re doing right is looking at the big picture in a local way,” said Showalter.

“Preserving who we are as a community is critical – our beauty, our history, our diversity. We’ve got this strong agriculture wedding with the culture of the colleges and downtown, so we’ve got our fields and mountains, but we’ve also got more.”

John Harouff, of local rock duo The Cinnamon Band, praises the support of Harrisonburg’s venues and concertgoers.

“This is a great place to be in a band. Maybe it’s because of the influence of MACRoCk all these years, but there’s something special about this place.

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By looking inward as a community, turning to each other for collaboration and cooperation, and truly caring for this little corner of the world, things will only keep getting better for the ’Burg.

“To me, a vibrant Harrisonburg is one that continues to welcome and support local businesses and entrepreneurs, creative artists and thinkers, a conscious use of space, cultural diversity and new ideas for how we can grow together as a community,” says Martorana.

Somers summed it up this way: “Watching Harrisonburg grow, one by one, has been great. With most places, it’s the opposite, where you watch things disappear. There’s a sense of pride now to have been here when there was very little. It’s great and you can be a part.”

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HARRISONBURG — The employees of Local Chop and Grill House have a secret.

“We really want to do things for our own selfish pleasures because a lot of us are really into food and wine,” says Jeff Hill, managing partner of the restaurant.

That enthusiasm may be what put the eatery over the top this year in the Daily News-Record’s 2012 Best of the Valley polling.

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honor previously held by Clementine. Other restaurants that took awards from longtime titleholders were Pennybackers (Best Place to Take Your Family) and Hank’s Smokehouse (Best Barbecue).

Reasons For A Win? Hill said there may be a few factors that contributed to the Chop House win. One of the biggest was the restaurant’s people.

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ularly Ryan and Amanda Zale,” he said. “They’ve really made the [restaurant’s] concept come to life.”

Hill suspects voters also appreciated the restaurant’s emphasis on locally produced foods and its unique atmosphere.

“I like to think of it not as a restaurant, but as a dining experience,” said Hill.

Pennybackers General Manager Annie Humphrey said her restaurant may have received the See NEW CHAMPS, Page 42

Local Chop & Grill House Executive Chef Ryan Zale prepares a dish. Among other awards, the restaurant took Clementine Café’s (inset) designation as Best Downtown Restaurant in 2012 Best of the Valley voting.

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but hope to return in the fall.

What sets it apart: “It is the only quality coffee truck in the area; we’ve gone after the coffee culture crowd … bringing it to the street scene.”

Why the wheels? Butterfield says that food trucks “bring something exceptional, fast.” It allowed him to “test market areas before we built a fixed location,” he says.

Baker’s Dozen: Julie Westfall Truck launched: Middle of last summer Location: In Harrisonburg Wed.-Fri., across from Harmony Square or on Port Road at Campus Corner. In Broadway on Saturdays, at the Francesco’s parking lot on Main Street.

What sets it apart: Westfall says their Featured Flavor of the Week is a hit: “Everything from maple bacon to fresh squeezed lemonade or orange creamsicle. … It’s the real deal.”

Why the wheels? “It’s fun, and it’s a different draw ... people love to come and see the process.”

Dank-U Truck: CJ Friedman Truck launched: November 2011 Location: University Outpost on Port Republic; check @TheDankUTruck What sets it apart: Friedman says it’s the food and the customers. Their offerings include pita pocket sandwiches, fresh-cut French fries, four-cheese mac and cheese, and chili.

“We target 100 percent JMU students, whereas some of the other trucks don’t … we feel we have the best customers.”

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Why the wheels? “The idea sort of just came to me.

The more I developed a business plan, the more it seemed more feasible to have a food truck. ... Coming right out of college, it was the most logical choice.”

Strite’s Donuts: Carl and Miriam Strite Truck launched: 7 years ago, with a second location coming this summer Location: Thursdays 7 a.m.-6 p.m. on U.S. 33, near Urban Exchange, and in Broadway on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings.

What sets it apart: To the Strites, the customer is always right.

“They ask us to do a different flavor of donut and we’ll do it; cinnamon, blueberry, everything from start to finish is done right there on site,” says Carl. “We are the original donut vendor in the Valley,” Miriam says, still holding tight to their secret recipe.

Why the wheels? “A mobile unit allows you the flexibility of different locations, different groups of people,” says Miriam.

Tangi: Luke Watson Truck launched: Coming in the next few months

Location: Late nights behind Clementine Café, and they’re currently seeking a lunch spot.

What sets it apart: Waston, who himself is half-Japanese, says “tangi” is Japanese for “tongue justice.” He’s hoping Tangi will be the first noodle-based cuisine truck of its kind in Harrisonburg, serving “sim-

ple, fresh, delicious food for cheap.”

Why the wheels? “After looking into it, it could be a lot more fun” than building a storefront, says Watson.

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Customer Opinion Valued New Champs FROM PAGE 39 nod for Best Place To Take Your Family because of its pricing, atmosphere and proximity to the children’s museum.

And because it doesn’t sell alcohol, the restaurant doesn’t attract the party crowd.

“I think that’s a big thing and we’re really close to the children’s museum, so it can make an afternoon date for these families to come in,” said Humphrey.

Hank’s Smokehouse General Manager Shawn Slowinski believes his restaurant came out on top in the Best Barbecue category thanks to years of effort.

“I think [the win] shows the hard work we’ve been putting into our food and service over the last few years,” he said. “We’ve redone our restaurant. We’ve remodeled. We did the bar and

the front entranceway.”

Other improvements include a few improved recipes and better quality meats, he said. “We’re just always looking for better ways to serve the people.”

The fact that voters chose Hank’s despite their location, he said, is a big honor.

“People voted us best in the Valley — and we’re not in the middle of Harrisonburg, we’re just outside it — so it’s a nice compliment for us to win the award,” he said.

More than anything, the win is a ringing endorsement from clientele, Humphrey said.

“It’s the locals that are voting in it, so it’s them telling us who they appreciate and who they like to go to,” she said. “It’s an honor.”

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Scott: Extra Blanket Just One Example Of General Patton’s Care Of Servicemen Scott

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Scott recalled Patton’s treatment of his troops.

“He took care of his soldiers,” said Scott, whose role was to make sure infantrymen had everything they needed for battle. “We were the first army in

France to receive an extra blanket in the fall.”

In late December, Scott and the 3rd Army relieved the 101st Airborne in the Siege of Bastogne, a seven-day fight in the Belgian town.

The most famous line from the battle came from Brig. Gen. An-

thony McAuliffe of the 101st Airborne, who replied “nuts” after Germany demanded the Army surrender in the Battle of Bastogne. The Americans later won the siege.

In February 1946, Scott’s days as a soldier were over.

He returned to Cleveland,

where his wife was living with her parents.

The two stayed in Ohio for 14 years while Scott worked as a research metallurgist.

The couple, who ended up having four children, then lived in Sharon, Mass., for 18 years before retiring to the Old Domin-

ion. The couple lived in Orange for nearly 20 years before moving to Sunnyside in 1996.

Looking at his wife, Scott said: “I went back to Virginia and I took her with me.”

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Tinian Played Historic Role In Pacific Hedrick

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Blacksburg for two years before deciding to enlist in the military and avoid the risky nature of the draft.

He joined the Army Air Corps and trained as a gunner in Fort Myers, Fla.

From The Gunnery Hedrick, 86, said he could have stayed and served as an instructor but opted instead to go fight overseas.

“I didn’t want to be a slacker,” he said.

Hedrick flew missions in a B-29 Superfortress bomber in the offensive against the Japanese. In June 1945, he was sent to a base on Tinian, a tiny island in the Northern Marianas that had been captured by U.S. forces 11 months earlier.

Recalling the runs he made during the war, Hedrick says he can still remember how the B-29s shot upwards after dropping its 800-pound bombs.

“You could feel it just lift up,” he said.

Despite his time in the sky, Hedrick says he was too scared to take a flight back to the States after the war.

“I elected to come back

on a boat,” he said.

He was discharged in April 1946 as a sergeant.

Historic Ties The island Hedrick was based on holds a significant place in the war’s history.

U.S. forces took control of Tinian from the Japanese in July 1944 and it soon became the busiest air base in the Pacific, sporting two airfields with six runways, all long enough to accommodate the enormous B-29.

Tinian’s biggest claim to fame, though, is its role in the atomic bomb raids on Hiroshima and Nakasaki.

The bombers that dropped “Fat Man” and “Little Boy”, as the bombs were codenamed, took off on their historic missions from Tinian.

It was also the last port of call for the USS Indianapolis, which delivered the weapons to Tinian in preparation for the atomic attacks. The Indianapolis was torpedoed July 30 after leaving Tinian and sunk, killing 300 men. The remaining 900 men were stranded for five days in shark-infested waters waiting to be rescued.

Only 317 sailors survived the horrific ordeal, the sto-

ry of which was later incorporated in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller “Jaws.”

Hedrick says he had no knowledge of the atomic bomb, but he supports the decision to use it in an effort to bring a close to the war.

Lessons Learned After his service, Hedrick attended the University of Virginia and then studied dentistry at the former Medical School of Virginia in Richmond.

Betty worked as a teacher during that time.

They moved back to Harrisonburg, where they raised four children.

Hedrick ran his dental practice in the city for Courtesy Photo more than 40 years before retiring in 1992.

The couple now lives at Richard Hedrick, a waist gunner on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific during World War II, poses the Sunnyside Retirement with his crewmates in front of their plane, “Ole Tex.” Hedrick, a longtime Harrisonburg dentist who retired in 1992, is standing third from left.

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Hedrick, a frequent writer of letters to the editor of the Daily NewsRecord, said fighting in the war gave him a strong appreciation for his country.

“So many things we take for granted,” he said.

“You don’t appreciate this country until you leave it.”

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year later.

He landed on Omaha beach on June 7, 1944, the second day of the invasion.

“We had it very easy,” France said.

“There was very little fire at the time we landed. There was artillery coming in still, but no small arms fire to speak of.”

But reminders of the bloody day that preceded his landing were evident on the beaches. About 5,000 Americans were killed at Omaha on D-Day, most in the first few hours.

France’s voice lowers as he recalls the sights.

“A lot that you didn’t want to see,” he said. “You saw stacks of bodies and parts and stuff that had been collected and being identified and so forth. A lot of blown up stuff … that I don’t like to remember.”

He rarely talks about what he experienced at Normandy.

“He would tell us things about being in England before the Normandy landing and stories about being in Germany [after], but he’s never really told us about where he was during the battle,” said his oldest son, Gordon.

From the shores of France, he pressed eastward through France, Belgium and eventually into Germany and Czechoslovakia before returning home at the end of the war in 1945.

The trip back on the Santa Maria — a Liberty cargo ship damaged during the war and repaired — took 15 days, or three times as long as France’s ride to Europe two years prior.

France said he didn’t try to think much about the war when he arrived home.

He continued his studies at VMI and went on to get his graduate degree in chemistry at the University of Virginia and then moved to South Charleston, W.Va., where he worked as a research chemist with Union Carbide for 35 years.

France and his wife Kendall, who passed away last year, raised two sons before retiring to Wintergreen and moving to Sunnyside about 3½ years ago.

The Great Depression and war undoubtedly shaped his life, France admits, but he said it’s tough to tell to what degree.

His children offer some insights, pointing out his value-conscious attitude and ability to fix almost anything with his own hands.

“He certainly was not any kind of a spendthrift and most people [from his generation] had a certain austerity,” said Gordon France, 58, a gastroenterologist from Spartanburg, S.C. “He was willing to put off gratification until he could afford it, as opposed to how most of us live these days.”

True wealth, his sons said their father taught them, is having a family and the love that goes along with it.

“Out of the war and the Depression years my father, and indeed both our folks, seemed to develop a sense of what is valuable in life,” said John France, 55, director of operations regulation for the West Virginia Division of Financial Institutions. “The chemical industry brought my parents to the Kanawha Valley … [but] we spent our vacations traveling to see our relatives in Virginia many times a year.”

France, who has seven grandchildren, stays active with his favorite pastime — golf — a passion he shared with his wife and passed on to his sons.

When his kids were growing up France was active as a leader with the Boy Scouts, his oldest son said. But he never went on any outings with the troops.

One day, he recalls asking his father why he didn’t go on hiking or camping trips.

“He said the few years he had camping in the ’40s was all he needed,” Gordon France said.

France lost touch with the men he served alongside in World War II. Most were from around Allentown, Pa., he said. In recent years he tried to find some of his fellow veterans by searching on the Internet but wasn’t able to track any of them down.

All he’s kept from the war are some photos and the images still fresh in his own mind.

“It gave you certain ways of doing things and thinking about things, but nothing that I realized,” France said of the lasting impact the war had on him. “I don’t know what would’ve happened if I hadn’t been over there [so] I can’t tell how much it’s shaped me.”

Contact Doug Manners at 574-6293 or dmanners@dnronline.com

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Haywood France of Harrisonburg looks through photos and other memorabilia from World War II. France landed on Omaha Beach on the second day of the invasion, but his children say he doesn’t talk much about his experiences at Normandy.

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for about two years.

In 1944, he received his pilot’s wings, was commissioned as a second lieutenant and was assigned to the European Theater as part of the 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group.

It didn’t take long for Pattillo to see action.

On one mission during the waning days of the war, on April 10, 1945, he hit the skies flying a P51D Mustang.

His plane was among roughly 75 aircraft assigned to escort and protect about 800 B-17 and B24 bombers.

“All of sudden, out of the clear, this German jet came down through,” he said. “It knocked out two of our bombers right away.”

Pattillo and the rest of his fellow pilots were having difficulty taking the jet out, until the German fighter made a crucial misstep.

“He made a big mistake and started turning,” said Pattillo. “I got in close enough to him to knock him down. The plane went

down and blew up.”

A week later, he destroyed six enemy planes on the ground.

During his tour in Europe, Pattillo flew 35 combat missions. All were successful except one.

Pattillo was on a mission protecting bombers when his plane was struck by enemy fire.

“I knew I was in trouble,” he said, adding that he tried to find a safe place to land after being hit. “I tried to nurse it as much as I could, but she wasn’t going to make it.”

He crash-landed in a freshly plowed field. He had survived, but he couldn’t escape capture.

“The minute I hit the ground I started running, because I knew it was going to blow up,” he said.

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Photos, plaques and other mementoes cover a wall in the Harrisonburg home of World War II veteran Bill Pattillo.

“Then, the Germans had me covered with guns.”

Pattillo was taken prisoner. He recalled spending most of his short stint as a POW — the war was all but over at that point — in a small room with a wooden bunk. He was treated

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“They called it soup, but it was nothing more than weeds squeezed up,” he said. “They didn’t feed me much to eat, but they didn’t have much to eat either.”

After his discharge in

December of 1945, Pattillo, along with his brother, enrolled at Georgia Tech.

While taking classes, Pattillo flew the P-47 Thunderbolt with the 54th Fighter Wing of the Georgia National Guard.

Three years later, he was called back to active duty as a P-51 pilot in postwar Germany.

Pattillo and his brother later helped organize the Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s aerial demonstration team.

In 1968, nearly quartercentury after he first flew in combat he was called again to serve in the Vietnam War. During the campaign, he flew 230 combat missions.

During his career, he received numerous accolades, including the Silver Star and Prisoner of

War Medal.

He retired from the military in 1980 and he and Joyce, who raised four children, lived in Tampa for the first 26 years of their retirement before moving to Sunnyside in 2006.

After seeing combat in two wars, flying hundreds of missions and serving decades in the military, Pattillo was ready for some well-deserved relaxation.

His favorite activity in retirement was decidedly less stressful than being shot at in the skies above Europe and Vietnam, though it still gave him a chance to flex his competitive edge.

“I played golf,” he said.

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INDEX All Things Virginia...........................................41 Ameriprise Financial.......................................46 Aroma Buffet & Grill........................................16 Artful Dodger Inc............................................41 Augusta Expoland............................................3 Autodealz, LLC...............................................39 Awnings By Zirkles, Inc..................................26 B&J Coins.......................................................15 Barberitaville.....................................................7 Blue Ribbon Nursery & Landscaping, LLC.....30 Blue Ridge Florist & Gift Shop........................41 Blue Sky Radiator & Electrical Shop..............26 Bridgewater Inn & Cottage LLC.....................15 Bridgewater Retirement Community..............43 Broadway Automotive & Tire Center, Inc........29 C&F Mortgage, Inc.........................................44 Christine’s Gold & Diamonds...........................6 Classic Cleaners............................................38 Clementine.....................................................40 Cooks Creek Presbyterian Church.................27 Cornerstone Christian School........................20 Cornerstone Church.......................................27 Country Treasures..........................................29 Country Village Bake Shop..............................4 CrossRoads Heritage Center.........................27 Dayton Farmers Market....................................4 DePaul Community Resources........................3 Doug’s Discount Store....................................23 Doug’s Stupid Store.......................................46 Downtown Wine & Gourmet...........................41 Dr. Jen’s Gentle Dentistry...............................29 Dutch Way, LLC..............................................26 Early Cycle Center, Inc...................................28 Eastern Mennonite Schools...........................21 Edith J. Carrier Arboretum..............................34 El Charro........................................................18 Evergrowin’ Greenhouses..............................46 Fort Harrison..................................................18 Golden China Restaurant...............................17 Greenberry’s Coffee Co.................................34 Greenthumb Nursery......................................10 Griffith Bag.....................................................45 Hair Fashions By Michael...............................41 Hank’s Smokehouse......................................40

Harrisonburg Auto Detailers...........................29 Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance...........40 Harrisonburg Baptist Church..........................27 Harrisonburg Farmers Market........................34 Hart’s Automotive...........................................23 Hess Furniture................................................41 Hess Greenhouse............................................6 Hburg Rham Historical Society........................9 Heartland Outfitters & Feed............................44 Harrisonburg Electric Commission.................22 Helmuth Builders Supply, Inc..........................11 Heritage Oaks Golf Course............................38 HIS Insurance & Service Inc............................6 Home Instead Senior Care.............................28 Indian American Cafe.....................................40 JJ’s Soft Serve...............................................15 Jo Anne Sabas Professional Writing Services. . .22 Joe Bowman Auto Plaza................................48 Keener Window & Door..................................10 Keith’s Auto Sales West.................................28 Kim’s Greenhouse..........................................15 Kline’s Dairy Bar.............................................34 L & O Fence LLC............................................11 Laughing Dog.................................................41 Lawrence Transportation System.....................7 Layman Diener Borntrager.............................39 Local Chop & Grill House...............................40 Lone Pine Lighting............................................4 Luray Caverns..................................................5 Luray Homes....................................................7 Mane Street Salon..........................................23 Martin’s Foods................................................37 Martins Native Lumber...................................15 Massanetta Springs Bible Conference...........42 McMullen Funeral Home................................11 Merle Norman.................................................40 Minnick Termite & Pest Control, Inc...............10 Montezuma Church of the Brethren...............27 Moyers Exterminating Co., Inc.......................11 Michael D. Beckler, Attorney............................4 Miracle Car Wash...........................................10 Mr. J’s Bagels & Deli......................................17 Mt. Olivet Christian Church............................27 N2Hair............................................................10

New 2 Me Consignments...............................18 Page Valley Tobacco II...................................14 Premier Vinyl, LLC.........................................10 Price’s Electric Motor Repair, Inc...................18 Quota International of Harrisonburg.................9 Ragtime Fabrics.............................................40 Randy’s Do It Best Hardware.........................18 Rion Bowman VFW Post 632...........................9 Rockingham Rent-All, Inc.........................19, 22 Rockydale Quarries Corporation....................26 S. L. Hess & Sons Inc....................................22 Shank Wholesalers, Inc..................................15 Shenandoah Caverns.....................................13 Shenandoah Heritage Market........................19 Shenandoah Valley Textile Guild....................14 Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. . . . . . .27 Showalter Orchards & Greenhouse...............45 SPCA................................................................8 Staunton School of Cosmetology...................22 Sue’s Greenhouse..........................................15 Sunnyside Communities.................................13 Ten Thousand Villages...................................41 The Little Grill.................................................35 The Shenandoah Valley Choral Society...........8 The Wishing Well...........................................34 Thomas House Restaurant............................16 Timberville Drug Store....................................15 Timberville Electronics...................................23 Traditions Family Restaurant.........................16 Trans Tech......................................................28 Valley Avon.....................................................23 Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center...30 Valley Pride Compost.....................................18 Valley Structures............................................19 Virginia Hearing Group...................................12 Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community....36 Wayside Produce...........................................23 White Birch Communities...............................36 White Oak Lavender.......................................30 Wine on Water................................................41 Wood Grill Buffet............................................35 Yarn Mountain................................................41 Zola’s................................................................4

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