Broad Run Lifestyle Magazine March 2015

March 2015

Molly Michael & Laurie Enright

THE LONG RIDE HOME

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inside features

06 Vintage Hill

Out with the new, in with the old

10 Fauquier Health

New Support Groups

12 The Long Ride Home 20 Furry Friends

- Danica Low

- Charlotte Wagner

Setting your pre-loved dog up for success in the home

22 New Park for Chapman-Beverly’s Mill Turn the mill around campaign shares master plan

24 Cougar Pride

- Harrison Premen

Musical Melodies

26 Cold War Museum Commemorates the Era’s Last Casualty Major Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr. Remembered

COVER: Molly Michael & Laurie Enright are embarking on The Long Ride Home - see page 12 for the full story.

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In a newly thriving area like Vint Hill, with the Old Bust Head Brewery, Cold War Museum, and Vint Hill Craft Winery, another unique addition is guaranteed to bring customers from near and far.

Vintage Hill is the newest store to make its home in the quaint little place that is quickly starting to feel like a tiny town. This locally run marketplace is a showcase of quality handmade goods, including beautifully repainted furniture from multiple vendors.

Kathy Knight, owner of Vintage Hill, dreamed of being a store owner ever since childhood, when she spent time in her grandfather’s plumbing and hardware store in Pennsylvania, At home, she would “hang upside down on the couch and imagine new ways to decorate each room in the house.” Her imagination turned into a furniture painting hobby that began to Broad Run Lifestyle

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Living in Vint Hill for 10 years now, she developed a love for the historic buildings and barns on the property.

Her dream of owning a store, still in the back of her mind, began to take shape as she saw new businesses beginning to grow at Vint Hill. She says “with the help and support of the owners at Vint Hill,” she was able to make that dream a reality and Vintage Hill was born.

Knight wanted the store to be a “space that would showcase art, antiques, furniture, and home decor items.” She considers herself very fortunate to be able to bring together “a group of unique and creative craftspeople” who share her love of vintage goods. Knight opened the store in early November and has quickly seen it grow into a place where visitors come back again and again to see new items brought in for sale.

Vintage Hill makes its home inside two conjoined buildings across from the Covert Cafe, built by the Army in 1942 for storage to support the

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listening facilities in the Barns nearby.

The second part of the building was once converted into a “Man Cave” where officers and their guests could be seen relaxing and socializing while playing at the pool tables. Knowing a little bit about the past uses of these historic buildings only add to the charm of the location.

This new store comes at a perfect time for decorators in the area. It’s a new era of out with the new; in with the old. The trend these days for furniture design means that the older the piece, the better. Furniture pieces with character are often brought to life with a coat of chalk or milk paint. Out here in Haymarket, with such close proximity to historic towns such as Middleburg, Leesburg, and Warrenton, it makes sense for home design to take a historic approach. Pieces available at Vintage Hill are sure to be showpieces in homes near and far.

In addition to furniture, many other handcrafted decor pieces are displayed around the store. Visitors may find wall art made from old window panes or pillows, lamps, and vases that are unlike what could be

found in department stores. Picture frames, wreaths made from wine corks, jewelry, vintage mirrors and art, china sets, and handpainted signs adorn the many areas to peruse. The store captures visitors from the moment they open the door to enter, with its rustic charm and hidden treasures that can be discovered throughout the store.

Knight says: “Just as every item has a different story, I hope that every visit to Vintage Hill gives customers an opportunity to explore the past, to share stories, to find new ideas and to love where you live.”

Vintage Hill is located on Lineweaver Road across from the Covert Cafe, which is at 7168 Lineweaver Road. The store is open every Friday from 12 to 6 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, and Sundays from 10 am to 6 pm. Find Vintage Hill on Facebook or go to vintage-hill.com to see pictures of some of the inventory in the store. Kathy can be contacted at kat@vintage-hill.com or by calling 571-242-1119.

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Oncology nurse navigator Richard Shrout works alongside cancer patients to ease the treatment journey.

Support When You Need it Most A diagnosis of breast cancer is devastating for a hundred reasons, but Richard Shrout, Oncology Nurse Navigator, can help patients as they try to sort through the confusion, anger and fear. This newest member of the oncology team is an expert in guiding patients as they enter what is perhaps the most challenging time of their lives.

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In order to help people who are going through difficult times, Fauquier Hospital is hosting two new support groups.

The Cancer Support Group will meet the second Monday of every month, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., in Fauquier Hospital’s Sycamore Room.

Oncology nurses, licensed social workers, and spiritual care providers will offer cancer education, hope and support to patients, family members and caregivers who share similar experiences. This professional support, provided by Heartland Hospice, will help guide patients and families through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Heartland Hospice of Warrenton provides end-of-

life care for the mind and spirit as well as the body. To learn more, contact Mary Kelly, nurse liaison at 540-349-3970.

The Bereavement Support Group has been formed to help those who are experiencing a loss because of the death of a loved one. The group, for those 18 and older, will meet the third Monday of every month at 1 p.m., in Fauquier Hospital’s Chestnut Room and is sponsored by Capital Caring.

To register, or for more information, contact Roxanne Woodward, bereavement counselor, at 703-957-1800.

Participants should feel free to drop on at any meeting, without having to notify a counselor in advance.

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The Long Ride Home Mother-daughter teaM rides to bring healing to veterans

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Heroes Among Us

Across Fauquier, and within Warrenton town limits, there are heroes among us. Many look and act the part of everyday citizens, but have unsung, remarkable stories to tell – stories that astonish us all. A common chord is always courage, bravery, compassion, and action that goes above-and-beyond. An awareness of others and thinking outside of oneself is part of a hero’s story.

One of these heroes is someone we all know as a local small business owner, who owns and operates a very popular restaurant in town – Molly’s Irish Pub – with co-owner Casey Ward. Laurie Enright has been running this business, initially with her sister Kitty, since her daughter Molly was nine years old. The single mom, with family roots in Arizona, fell in love with the Town of Warrenton while stationed at the Pentagon with the Air National Guard, of which she has completed twelve combat deployments.

Laurie recalls the day the world stood still – September 11, 2001.

With construction underway for the restaurant, and her young daughter in tow, Laurie received a phone call with military orders. She would leave for deployment in the days to come. “I asked my sister to oversee the construction of the building (Molly’s Irish Pub) and to care for my daughter. I could not say where I was going, when I’d return, or communicate with them while I was gone.” But, with bravery, she went.

The deployments also had an effect on Molly, now 22. She inherited her mom’s fearlessness, sense of adventure, commitment to duty, and hunger for a challenge. No plans to join the military have

Above right: Laurie and Molly at the gates of the Heroes Garden.

Below right: Directional sign at Boulder Crest Retreat Below: Main entrance welcomes combat veterans.

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been shared, but Molly suggests that travel has been the thing to quench her thirst for discovery and ambition. “I am most happy with my backpack, camera and journal exploring and learning about our world,” she says. Before she turned 18, she had traveled to six continents. As an anthropology student, she spent months studying abroad in Ethiopia living in a small, poor village, living in a hut and walking for water. Molly too, exudes that love for other cultures and humanity – a desire to help her fellow brethren.

Adventure at Every Turn

It shouldn’t be surprising then, that both Laurie and Molly are motorcycle enthusiasts, sharing a similar sense of adventure and seize the day approach to life. When time allows, they like to ride together to visit new places and meet new people on short day trips on the bikes.

“Molly had been asking for a motorcycle since she was about 12 years old,” says Laurie. “I initially said, ‘after you get your driver’s license,’ to which she saved up all of her tip money for a long time (from working at Molly’s Irish Pub) to purchase a dirt bike.” In October 2013, while Laurie was deployed to Afghanistan, Molly pitched her mother by phone on the idea of a cross-country motorcycle ride when Laurie returned.

“It was something we spoke of for a while after that,” says Laurie. “We had to find the right time.”

Molly had been looking at bikes for a year and a half before she propositioned her mother; she was clearly determined to make it happen. After much discussion, the self-described risk manager and safety conscious business owner and her daughter explored, planned and examined

this notion for a cross-country adventure. Once the timing seemed right, they began putting the pieces in place.

After 29 years of active military service, Laurie retired from duty last October. Molly graduated from Arizona State University last May. The recently retired military veteran and her daughter decided to embark upon this challenging and rewarding cross-country motorcycle journey together, which will begin Memorial Day, 2015.

“We are looking forward to our time together as mother and daughter, but we also want this journey to be about others,” says Laurie.

Giving, and Giving Some More

Philanthropy and charitable giving has become as much a part of Molly’s Irish Pub as its renowned beer battered onion rings. The business has raised more than $500,000 for numerous charitable organizations and families in need over the last thirteen years. Most wellknown, is its annual 5K race held in March, Wearing of the Green, and involvement with the local charity golf tournament, Philapalooza, coming this July, which raised $22,500 in 2014 to provide music scholarships to local children.

In recent years, Laurie has dedicated the Wearing of the Green 5K to veteran-supporting organizations, “…in light of the thousands of injured service men and women returning home in great need of our support,” she says.

“We want to support these war heroes as much as we can,” says Laurie. “We recognize that since 2001, more than 118,000 veterans have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and more than 52,000 have been wounded

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Left: Molly and Laurie stand with Boulder Crest Executive Director, Jennifer Marino, outside the activity lodge. Right: The interior of one of the well-appointed cabins suitable for men and women of all abilities.

in action. These men and women and their families need – deserve – our help.”

During her military career, Laurie served as an Intelligence Operations Specialist and then Combat Systems Officer on the EC130J, serving the Air Force Special Operations Command. She volunteered in a military hospital in Baghdad, and has seen much warfare and the effects of war on soldiers, both physically and emotionally.

“With anything in life, you’ve got to believe it in your heart what you’re doing it for,” says Laurie of her philanthropic work. In the spirit of everything Laurie and Molly put their minds to, and as the true humanitarians that they are, they weren’t going to experience this cross-country motorcycle adventure for the sole purpose of enjoyment and recreation. If they were going to do it, it was going to be for others. “I want to give back to my military brothers and sisters,” she says.

Biking for Wellness

For these reasons, the motherdaughter cross-country motorcycle journey will serve to bring awareness and attention to the Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness, www.bouldercrestretreat. org, in Bluemont, Virginia. Their motorcycle ride has turned into a 16

fundraiser for Boulder Crest, and has been named “The Long Ride Home.”

Laurie explains that, metaphorically, this name reflects the long and often painful journeys our veterans face from deployment, reintegration, physical and mental therapies and difficulty readapting to civilian life.

Boulder Crest is a retreat and wellness center, hosting four logcabin styled homes, an activity lodge, water sports, outdoor amenities for recreation and therapy, a sanctuary garden and 37 acres of rolling Virginia hills and forestry to be explored.

The mother-daughter team is accepting upfront in-kind donations to support their trip, such as gas cards, food cards, camping supplies, batteries and rain suits – visit www. thelongridehome.org/wish-list-anddonations for a complete list – but one hundred percent of monetary donations in support of this cause go to Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness.

And in true fashion, Laurie and Molly have set some astonishing goals.

They are rallying the community and regions as far and wide as will hear their call, to help them raise $292,000.

This will cover the costs required for Boulder Crest to operate four cabin facilities for military and veteran families every day for a year ($125 a day for 365 days). Boulder Crest is a non-profit organization that survives on donations. Recreational therapy adds approximately $75/day to Boulder Crest’s expenses.

Laurie and Molly tell us that they have also set a goal of riding 10,000 miles over four months to raise awareness for “our beloved veterans.” They are working with a public relations specialist who will help them get the word out to a national audience. But, they recognize most of their support will come from their home of Fauquier. “We are a most generous community, people just need to know.”

After twenty months of planning, Laurie and Molly will fly to Tempe, Arizona, where Laurie was raised and where their family still resides.

The week prior, they will ship their matching 865cc parallel twin-engine, 68 horsepower Triumph Bonneville bikes to Tempe, along with their gear and supplies – much of which has been donated and continues to come in from the Warrenton community. They are preparing for their journey to begin on May 25th, Memorial Day. Their route takes them to Bellingham, Washington, across to Anchorage, Alaska by ferry, and by bike up to Yukon, Canada. They will then head south to Yellowstone National Park, and east to Michigan, Quebec, Boston and down the East Coast right into Warrenton by way of Main Street. After visiting fifteen national parks, multiple military and public safety memorials, numerous Veterans centers and hospitals including Walter Reed Memorial, they plan to arrive in Warrenton on September 30, four months after their adventure began.

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Left: The music room at the Activities Lodge. Right: Guestroom

Heart of Community

As Laurie and Molly finalize the packing and details of their trip over the next six months, they encourage the community to know how it can help. Donations may be made directly through the Long Ride Home Website (cited previously) and Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ thelongridehome), and donors will immediately receive a tax exempt receipt from Boulder Crest. Checks may be made out and sent directly to Boulder Crest (mention The Long Ride Home in the memo).

In-kind gifts are accepted and are making a big difference thus far in the mother-daughter team’s preparations.

Wolfman Motorcycle Luggage donated duffel bags, saddle bags and tank bags, Happy-Trail contributed the motorcycle side racks and SiteWhirks designed The Long Ride Home Website at no cost. Pledges may also be made by the mile; as Tippy’s Taco House recently pledged .05 cents per mile of motorcycle travel to Boulder Crest.

Molly says, “By liking our Facebook page you can help us build awareness locally and show support as we try to grow this awareness to a larger scale.”

Plans for a welcome home celebration on Main Street is in the works to be held on September 30, when the duo completes their crosscountry ride.

Laurie adds, “What amazes me as an adult reflecting back on my life, was the constant and continuous giving of my parents. They define volunteerism. Even with our small income they always were donating 18

every spare penny to others in need.

They taught me that if you have the capacity to help others, that it is your responsibility to do so. That is as much of my DNA as their Irish blue eyes and Cherokee thick, dark hair.”

Healing Begins Here

“Boulder Crest is the first privately funded facility of its kind – a military and veteran wellness retreat – in the country, and it’s here in Virginia,” says Ken Falke, founder and chairman, and 21-year combat veteran of the U.S. Navy and retired Master Chief Petty Officer.

The retreat center offers nonclinical therapies such as art, music, hiking, culinary, equine, yoga, canoeing, knitting, song writing and archery. Special programs such as those for caregivers, outdoor recreation for children of the fallen, communication for couples and multiday retreat options are also offered.

The retreat accommodates families as well as individuals, and strives to provide an atmosphere where healing and peace can begin. A typical stay is a week, although day or weekend events are sometimes offered. “We use the acronym ‘R&R’ here frequently, but we have coined the term to mean ‘rest and reconnection,’” says Mr. Falke.

Many of the staff and volunteers at Boulder Crest have served in the US military as well. Executive director, Jennifer Marino, United States Naval Academy graduate, retired Marine Second Lieutenant, and CH-46E helicopter pilot, deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Of the retreat, she says, “We want to offer our guests a high-impact special

experience when they come to Boulder Crest, but we also want to send them home with new tools they can integrate into the lives.”

She adds, “Our hope is that we can become a model that others can replicate in other parts of the country because the need is obviously greater than we can serve.”

Mr. Falke agrees. “What we’ve built here is beautiful. We’ve been working hard for several years now, and we have an evidence based program that has measurable benefit.

We’ve built curriculum around it to help participants and therapists alike that can be shared with like-minded people. We’d like to see our program scaled out to another ten locations around the country. Other people can model this, and we’d like them to.

People call us daily to come and see what we’ve done here.”

“Thirteen years of combat (since 9/11) has put people in some situations,” says Mr. Falke.

He and Laurie met through a mutual friend in recent years. “The first time I saw Boulder Crest,” says Laurie, “I knew this was where the 5K funds (and subsequent fundraisers) should go.”

Molly adds, “There is only so much you can learn about the world and about others by going to school.”

While she supports education in an academic setting, she says her mom taught her to see the world around her as her classroom, with infinite possibilities.

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The honeymoon period. Many rescued animals require a period of 6-8 weeks to fully adapt to their new environment. It is after this time that their full disposition and quirks are often revealed. The key to preventing bad habits is early identification and redirection of unwanted behavior. Ensure you are aware of your dog’s development over the first couple of months in order to reward and encourage a confident, social, and mannered canine.

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The imposing ruin of ChapmanBeverley’s Mill, a haunting landmark for travelers traversing Thoroughfare Gap, will soon be nestled in an elegant park complete with trails and dedicated parking for visitors.

The site, owned and managed by the Turn The Mill Around Campaign, which took over the mill after a fire in 1998 devastated the historic 1742 structure, will begin its transformation in the spring of 2015. Straddling the Fauquier and Prince William County lines, the mill ruins and site sit at the base of the Bull Run Mountain Natural Area, a favorite hiking spot for locals and tourists alike. In December, the TTMAC unveiled its master plan, designed by landscape architect Barry Starke of Earth Designs Inc. The six-acre park will feature a handsome entryway flanked by pillars constructed of indigenous stone to match the mill, a winding, all-purpose trail, historic and archeological information, active archeology sites, restroom facilities, bus and car parking and ADA accessibility to the mill. The design also calls for an amphitheater. The site will be landscaped using trees and shrubs in the pallette of Journey Through Hallowed Ground’s Legacy Project. Chapman’s Mill is part of the Journey. TTMAC’s goal is to have the mill open to the public every day; currently it is open only on weekends. The mill will be closed during the construction of the park.

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A devastating arson fire in 1998 left the mill in ruins.

winter. These efforts will be publicized in local mainstream media and also on social media – Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. Progress will be tracked on the Chapman’s Mill website, chapmansmill.org.

“After so many delays and changes to our design to conform with local ordinances and meet grant requirements,” TTMAC chairman Charlie Seiltheimer said, “It sure is going to be exciting seeing those bulldozers arrive in the spring. This is a whole new era for the mill. It will be a

great public benefit.”

Despite an eight-foot fence, donated by Prince William County, that surrounds the site, vandalism continues to be a problem at the mill, which now most of the time is closed to the public. TTMAC anticipates that the completion of a beautiful park and more frequent visitor traffic will curtail this problem. Additionally, security measures will be installed as part of this and all ongoing efforts at the mill.

Built in 1742, the seven-story mill, the tallest stacked stone building in North America, required a massive stabilization after the fire gutted the building, destroying the heavy chestnut timbers that supported its six floors and kept the walls stable. The ruins have been stabilized and will be maintained as ruins. TTMAC hopes to restore the mill race and activate the wheel, which can be viewed inside the structure.

With the completion of the currently planned improvements, the site and the structure will become more than just a landmark for speeding motorists along I66. It will attract history buffs, and researchers, buses of school children as well as tourists. Chapman’s Mill has proven to be a particularly interesting site for painters and photographers, its image indelible to all visitors.

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In a previous edition, Kettle Run’s six-time superior rated marching band was featured. Now it’s time for the limelight to fall on Kettle Run’s concert bands.

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Run band program will receive the title of being a Virginia Honor Band. A high school band program becomes an honor band if both its marching band and its top concert band achieve a top rating The band program has received this title five consecutive times since its opening in 2008. Mr. Yonkey, the band director at Kettle Run hopes that both of his bands will achieve a top rating.

The Symphonic Band will play

Harrison Browning Premen is a Junior at Kettle Run High School (KRHS) and plays trumpet in both the KRHS Marching Band and Wind Ensemble. He is a member of the National Honor Society, Young Americans for Liberty, and the Model U.N. His interests include politics and international relations.

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Cold War Museum Commemorates the Era’s Last Casualty Major Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr. Remembered

by Ed Loomis

“Sir, we thought you were dead.”

That was how I was greeted when I returned to my Berlin Brigade infantry company headquarters on March 25, 1985. The Soldiers there had been hearing reports through the day that an American officer had been killed in East Germany. That day, I was coincidently returning along the 100-mile, East German highway that connected West Berlin with West Germany.

Unaware of the incident in an era before instant awareness from the Internet and e-mail, cell phones and text messages, a group of sergeants from my platoon and I had been training with the brigade’s F Company, 40th Armored Regiment at a West German training area at Bergen-Hohne. We boarded a bus to travel back through “The Corridor,” our nickname for the single authorized autobahn we could use to travel 100 miles east of the U.S. and Soviet Union checkpoints at Helmstedt from the East/ West German border to West Berlin.

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We pulled in front of the company headquarters, and I was tired from the training and the travels back to our home base, but I was very much alive.

Tragically, Maj. Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr., a member of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission in Potsdam, East Germany, a husband, and father, had been killed in an incident mostly long forgotten except by members of his unit at the time and the dedicated volunteer staff members of Vint Hill’s Cold War Museum. The museum is located at the former military listening post near Lee Highway between Warrenton and Gainesville, Va. The Cold War is often thought by people today to have been a decadeslong era of bloodless confrontations and deterrence. In reality, individuals like Arthur Nicholson in the U.S. armed forces and intelligence services lost lives performing missions intended to determine America’s adversaries’ intentions and capabilities, and to contain perceived threats away from our shores.

The Incident Thirty years ago this March, the United States suffered its last casualty in the Cold War, and the Cold War Museum at Vint Hill, Va. remembers the anniversary of Maj. Nicholson’s death with an exhibit focused on Nicholson and his unit, the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM).

The shooting on March 24, 1985 came nine days after Mikhail Gorbachev became the final leader of the Soviet Union and four years before the official end of the Cold War. The incident hindered discussions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. government about the first presidential summit between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev ultimately held late in 1985.

USMLM’s mission was to serve as liaison between the American Commander of U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) and the Soviet Commander of Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

Nicholson and his driver, Staff Sgt. Jesse Schatz, were on a routine visit performed by all six military liaison missions. Outside a largely empty, unfenced Soviet Union military site near Ludwigslust, East Germany, Nicholson dismounted from the U.S. team’s olive 28

US Army pallbearers place the casket of Major (MAJ) Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. inside a C-141B Starlifter aircraft during a departure ceremony on the flight line.

Nicholson was shot and killed while on duty in East Berlin, 03/29/1985.

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A Red Army soldier stepped out of a tree line and fired at least twice without warning.

“As the U. S. Army’s Intelligence School has indicated, and as we say in our exhibit on Major Nicholson at the museum, he is considered to be the last military casualty of the Cold War,” Cold War Museum Executive Director Jason Hall said. “He’s an example of how the Soviets and the Western allies led by the US continued to face off in Europe with nuclear weapons, while the actual fighting tended to go on elsewhere via proxies.”

In a 1988 USAREUR report compiled by a historian from several classified and open source documents, one bullet just missed Schatz in the vehicle while the second struck Nicholson, causing him to call out to Schatz and fall to the ground.

Schatz could see Nicholson was wounded, so he found the vehicle’s first aid kit and attempted to dismount, but the soldier who fired and threefellow Soviet soldiers who arrived moments later prevented the American noncommissioned officer from treating the wounded Nicholson. No one on site rendered aid, and though more soldiers continued to arrive, it was not until over an hour later that an unidentified man checked Nicholson’s pulse, which by then had stopped.

A subsequent autopsy by USAREUR

medical staff found that Nicholson bled to death.

Background and Aftermath A transfer case with Nicholson’s remains covered by a U.S. flag was loaded at Tempelhof Air Base in West Berlin late on March 25. Nicholson’s remains and his family flew to Frankfurt, then proceeded onward to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. where then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, his wife Barbara, and other senior officials met them. Nicholson’s funeral and interment with full military honors was held at Arlington National Cemetery on March 30.

The incident that claimed Nicholson’s life had its roots in events that preceded and followed the establishment of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission and its allied and Soviet equivalents.

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Under the 1946-1947 agreements establishing the missions, members on both sides in official vehicles and in uniform were allowed to visit sites that were not inside a marked permanent or temporary restricted area. The different missions’ liaison roles brought them into contact with the other country’s armed forces. To prevent incidents, USAREUR had very clear guidance that Soviet mission members were never to be harmed and the correct steps to take when encountering them, something the Soviet soldiers did not have when the incident occurred.

The USAREUR investigation following Nicholson’s death determined that he and his driver were not in a restricted area, contributing to the protests expressed by the highest levels of the U.S. government and protests delivered to Soviet military and diplomatic officials.

According to media reports from 1985 to 1988, Reagan and Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger continued to bring up need for an apology and compensation with Soviet leaders. Finally, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov gave an oral apology to Weinberger’s successor, Frank Carlucci.

The Cold War Museum at Vint Hill Founders of the Cold War Museum include Francis Gary Powers, Jr., son of a CIA U-2 reconnaissance aircraft pilot who the Soviet Union shot down in 1960 while flying over that country, leading to the cancellation of a summit that year between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nikita Khruschev. Khrushev’s son Sergei is an honorary board member of the museum.

The Cold War Museum’s collection of period artifacts, equipment, uniforms and documents is located in a modestsized, two-story building with adjacent secure storage at Vint Hill, located just off Lee Highway/U.S. Route 29 between Gainesville and Warrenton, less than 30

miles southwest of Washington Dulles International Airport.

Vint Hill Farms served as an Army intelligence center and depot through World War II and the Cold War. The non-profit museum’s mission is to educate, preserve, and support research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations between East and West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It has chapters in several U.S. and overseas locations: California; Florida; Wisconsin; Puerto Rico; Berlin, Germany; and Russia.

The museum’s current home opened in 2011 after several years of planning and fundraising. Prior to the opening, museum staff assembled mobile exhibits that traveled around the country teaching Americans about the Cold War. Ultimately, the Museum plans to construct or acquire a larger facility to house its growing collection of artifacts, a reference library, an education center and museum staff operations. The museum is also playing a leading role in plans for a National Cold War Memorial to be located near Arlington National Cemetery.

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The museum is open Saturdays 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sundays 1 - 4 p.m., and other hours by appointment. The museum building is adjacent to the Old Bust Head Brewing Company and Vint Hill Craft Winery, and near the Inn at Vint Hill.

Personal postscript After learning about Nicholson’s death on March 25, our platoon returned training equipment to the company’s supply and arms rooms. When I asked my company commander if I should stay in the company area until things settled down, he told me to go home.

A ringing, landline phone greeted me as I walked into my apartment. The caller

told me to return immediately with the dress uniform all of us kept ready in our closets.

A few hours later, the platoon stood in dress greens and bloused jump boots on the concrete ramp at what was then the U.S. Air Force’s Tempelhof Air Base in West Berlin, rendering honors during a solemn ceremony as Major Nicholson’s remains began their long journey to a final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery and into Cold War history.

The Cold War Museum® is a 501(c) (3) charitable organization dedicated to education, preservation, and research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations between East and West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The Museum is located at Vint Hill, in one of the former Vint Hill Farms Station buildings used during the Cold War for signals intelligence by the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the US Army to safeguard the United States against a surprise nuclear attack. Vint Hill is part of The Journey through Hallowed Ground national heritage area and in close proximity to the Manassas National Battlefield Park, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and the historic towns of Leesburg, Manassas and Warrenton, Virginia. The Museum shares a campus with The Inn at Vint Hill, the Vint Hill Craft Winery, the Covert Café, and Old Busthead Brewing Company.

The Museum’s physical address is 7142 Lineweaver Road, Warrenton, VA 20187.

Ed Loomis retired from the U.S. Army in 2007 after 24 years. He served as a rifle platoon leader in C Company, 4th Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, May 1984-July 1985, during a three-year assignment to the Berlin Brigade. He and his family live in Haymarket, Va. 30

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Be Your Own BREAST FRIEND

SCHEDULE YOUR 3D MAMMOGRAPHY TODAY 3D mammography is an advanced, clinically proven technology designed for early breast cancer detection. During the 3D mammogram, multiple projections create a 3D image of your breast tissue. Your radiologist can see breast abnormalities in a way never before possible.

Fauquier Hospital is the only facility in the region to have the new low-dose technology available for 3D mammography; using the same radiation dose as a 2D mammogram. Research studies show that 3D mammography reduces callbacks for additional imaging by up to 16% and increases cancer detection by up to 40%.

Talk to your doctor about whether 3D mammography is right for you.

Once you have a physician’s order, please call (540) 316-5800 to schedule your mammogram appointment.