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twitter.com/shoppernewsnow Kaily Huffman and Bethany Long sing a duet for the seniors at the Maynardville Senior Center. Photos by S. Carey

‘Found, featured, then forgotten’ looks at coverage of Vietnam Veterans Against the war.

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Bonnie Peters takes a look back in time with Russell Burnett See page A-6

Nathaniel Kadron tells another knee-slapper as the jokester of the day at the Maynardville Senior Center.

Growing up together

Tennis time!

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Can the Patriots top last season?

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ONLINE Rebekah Kadron delivers a dramatic recitation of Shel Silverstein’s poem “Sick.”

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It’s a fact that contact between the generations is an allaround good thing. Youngsters can learn a lot from their elders, and having kids around can help bring cheer to a senior’s life.

The Smoky Mountain 4-H Club of home-schoolers has been reaching out to the seniors at the Maynardville Senior Center for years. The kids and their families pay a visit, perform music and skits for the seniors, then enjoy lunch and fellowship together.

Says home schooling mom Debby Morgan, “We’ve been doing this for half a dozen years now, so (the seniors) have kind of grown up with the kids.”

The club visited the senior center again March 21 and provided a fine afternoon of entertainment. Martin Dickey announced every act, and Nathaniel Kadron lightened everyone’s mood with a few good jokes.

Nationally recognized dulcimer player Sarah Morgan got some seniors singing along with

her rendition of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and got toes tapping with “Peg O’ My Heart.”

Several club members performed musical numbers, recited poems or otherwise performed for the seniors. Mary Morgan gave a presentation about the history of guide dogs and demonstrated how she is training Labrador retriever Gideon to be a guide dog for the blind.

It was a special afternoon, bringing together the young and the young-at-heart.

School system preps for budget time Citizen input meetings ongoing

By Shannon Carey The Union County school system has been conducting meetings with several focus groups with the stated purpose of planning for the upcoming budget year.

Parents, business people, local government leaders and others were asked to give input on the school system’s performance.

“We’re gathering information to get everybody’s concept of what we’re doing well, what we’re not doing well and how we can spend our money more efficiently,” said Director of Schools Wayne Goforth.

“We value your opinion.”

Business people were invited to the central office March 17. Attending were Julie Graham of the Union County Chamber of Commerce, lo-

cal leader and motivational speaker Tom Heemstra, P-16 chair and Leadership Union County board member Ron Erikson and this reporter.

Attending from the school system were Goforth, Jimmy Carter, Eddie Graham and Glenn Coppock.

The group was asked for their comments on six points, rating the strengths and weaknesses of the school system as a whole, physical plant and maintenance, academics, and facilities.

■ Erikson praised the school system for making AYP in most schools.

■ When the group identified small elementary school populations as a positive, Goforth said the school system is committed to keeping the elementary schools at 300 students or fewer. He added

that a new bus route policy is in place. Students go where the bus routes run, but they can go to a different school with their own transportation as space is available.

Principals will keep waiting lists.

■ Graham said dual enrollment for college credit at the high school is a plus, but the program needs to be expanded. Goforth said the school system’s master plan calls for a certain percentage of seniors to be in dual enrollment classes.

■ The high school career and technical program was also identified as a positive note for the school system. Goforth said they are planning on expanding that program.

■ The group agreed that graduating seniors are still poorly prepared for college, and a high percentage drop out of college. Graham suggested expanding the advanced placement class offerings at the

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high school so students can test out of some college courses.

■ Graham said students need a focus on real-world job skills, like responsibility, showing up for work on time, cell phone etiquette and professionalism.

■ Several group members reported seeing poor writing skills in students, even the highest-level graduating seniors.

■ Erikson and Heemstra asked for more opportunities for outside volunteers and parents to help in the school system. Erikson said some he has known to volunteer stopped volunteering because they felt unwelcome in the schools.

■ The group also asked for expanded arts opportunities in all the schools.

Goforth said the meetings will continue with different interest groups.

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A-2 • MARCH 26, 2011 • UNION COUNTY SHOPPER-NEWS

Ten days in Belize

Prevent home falls

UT senior takes medical mission trip

Chiropractic Outlook

By Jake Mabe

By Dr. Darrell Johnson, DC

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ore than a million American seniors are treated in hospital emergency rooms after falling, either at home or outside. Hundreds of thousands of them end up being admitted for further treatment. It’s just a fact that as we age, the systems that help us keep our balance start to break down. Nerves, for instance, that send instructions from the brain to muscles, may start to malfunction.

According to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), about a third of all falls result from a tripping hazard in the home. Here are some tips to help prevent falls: Check your home for tripping hazards like curled or unstable rugs and electrical cords. Put night lights in hallways and nonslip strips and grips in your tub or shower. Have your eyes examined and your eyeglasses upgraded if needed. Periodically review with your general physician the types and dosages of any prescription medicine you’re taking. Some can cause dizziness and lightheadedness. Maintain or start an exercise program that will help keep you flexible, strong and coordinated. Talk with your family physician and your chiropractor about ways to keep safe as you age.

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Cancer support group to meet The Union County Cancer Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. every third Thursday at Fellowship Christian Church. Info: Debbie, 659-1052.

Contact Humane Society for lost pets The Union County Humane Society asks that pet owners contact them immediately if a pet becomes lost. Pets without identification and rabies tags are only required to be held for 72 hours by Tennessee state law. The Humane Society makes every effort to place animals in “forever homes�

Alicia (right) checks the blood pressure and glucose levels of an unidentified woman in the marketplace at San Ignacio, Belize.

as soon as possible. Timely contact will ensure that your lost pet is not adopted by new owners. Remember, identification and rabies tags are your pet’s protection. Info: 992-7969.

Kids’ writing contest East Tennessee PBS has launched this year’s PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. All entries must be original, illustrated stories and should be received by Thursday, March 31. First place winners will receive a certificate, prizes and the opportunity to read their story on-air. Info: Frank Miller, 595-0240.

Go ahead and mark this down. Alicia McClintock will never take the United States for granted.

Not after what she’s seen on vacations to the Caribbean. Not after she’s seen health conditions from which no human being should suffer.

And especially not after a 10-day medical mission trip to Belize last December.

Alicia, a UT senior and 2007 Gibbs High School graduate, made what she calls a spur-of-the-moment decision to go to Belize with 10 other undergraduates from around the country through International Service Learning. She wanted to learn more about international medicine firsthand.

They walked house to house at first, assessing the living conditions, predicting the needs. The clinics were held the following day. Another day was spent at a hospital in San Ignacio. “The fathers are mostly farmers. The wives stay home with the kids. It’s not that they can’t afford health care (it’s free), but they don’t have access to it. One community we went to was 30 minutes away from the main road.

And by main road I mean the most terrible road we’d have here.�

Alicia says that some families use rain as a water source without boiling it. None of the houses look the same. One might have part of a wall or part of a roof. “You make it from what you have.�

Doors are left open at night to cool the household. Alicia says that some families had wall air conditioning units.

None had central heat and air.

She also saw a lot of homeless dogs.

The medical needs were unexpected. “Many just wanted vitamins for their kids. They’d make up symptoms in order to have medicine for later. A doctor gets up there maybe once a year.�

A language barrier was also unexpected. “We’d heard that Belize is 90 percent English (speaking). So I thought, ‘Oh, great!

No problem!’ They took us to the Spanish (speaking) part of the country and none of us knew Spanish.�

She got to meet the Garifuna tribe and see them dance.

She handed out toothbrushes and toothpaste donated by Fountain City dentist Dr. Allen Hunley to children at St. Joseph Roman Catholic School. “The kids were so kind, patient and gentle, not gabby, greedy or mean. All of the Belizean people were very welcoming, passionate and happy. It obviously starts with the kids.�

And she learned how to administer three kinds of sutures and injections, how to treat snakebites, how to take blood pressure and check glucose levels, and how to listen

to heart and lung sounds.

Alicia has always known she could become a doctor.

She knows she has what it takes. The deciding factor came on a bus ride in Honduras during a cruise vacation. A child on the bus was singing, dancing, having a big ol’ time.

He lives in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. “His dream was to become a rap star and move to Hollywood. His motivation inspired me ‌ to become all I can be.

He’s going to be all he can be. I have all the resources. There’s no excuse for me not to become a doctor.�

She wants to be a military physician. She heard a pitch by the Army a few years ago.

They offer a scholarship program that pays for medical school. “But I wanted to do it for the right reasons, not just for the money. So I did some research.�

She went on a Navy-funded trip to Portsmouth, Va. She learned that the Navy offers positions in a hospital, on a ship or at a base.

Alicia likes the idea of being able to travel with her job, “getting out there and seeing

different cultures. “I don’t want to stay in the U.S., but I don’t want to be gone long, either. A doctor’s assignment usually lasts six months. A couple of those every once in awhile would be cool.�

She will earn a biological sciences degree in May and has applied to or interviewed with several medical schools.

She’s waiting to hear back from Florida State and Virginia Tech. She’s ultimately trying to decide between the Navy and the Air Force.

Asked what she’ll carry with her from Belize, Alicia exhales. “I have an appreciation for the way we live. And I think it’s given me some ‘oomph’ to make others realize that you’ve got it good here in America. Don’t complain.

The people down there are so happy. And they never complained.�

Here’s something else to mark down. Alicia McClintock will become a medical doctor. That boy on the bus and 10 days in Belize have seen to that.

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UNION COUNTY SHOPPER-NEWS • MARCH 26, 2011 • A-3

Vandalism continues in Luttrell Luttrell Mayor Johnny Merritt plans to fight vandalism with a few good cameras.

During Luttrell City Council’s March 21 meeting, Merritt reported that vandalism at Luttrell City Park and vandalism and breakins at the city’s sewer plant continue to be a problem.

Along with painting graffiti on park buildings, vandals have set fire to park trash cans, busted out lights and harmed picnic tables at the park.

Vandals tried to break into the sewer plant “in broad daylight,” said Merritt, while a city worker was on duty. The city worker caught the trespassers in the act and sent them scurrying back to their vehicle.

“He said it was like the

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The mayor said he would start pricing surveillance cameras in May for placement at the park and around the library and community center building.

“It’s just a matter of time until they hit the library,” he said.

The city has set the date of the Luttrell Easter Egg Hunt for Saturday, April 23, at Luttrell City Park. The event will begin at 11 a.m., and everyone is invited to participate.

Scholarship dinner and auction upcoming Leadership Union County will host a fundraising chicken and dumplings dinner and auction to support the Youth Leadership Union County college scholarships. Dolly June Merritt will make her famous chicken and dumplings. Tickets are $20 per person and cover a heaping helping of chicken and dumplings with all the fi xings and admission to the auction. The dinner is 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 26, at Horace Maynard Middle School.

All proceeds go to college scholarships for Union County High School students. Tickets are available from any Leadership Union County class member. Info: Brandi Williams Davis, 992-7375.

Taylor’s Grove Cemetery meeting upcoming

Law Dogs Crime beat The Union County Sheriff’s Department answered 334 calls between March 8 and March 21. These are some of their stories.

■ March 12: Deputies responded to the Luttrell area, where the female victim said she asked the male offender to pay back $200 as she was picking up her child. She and the man began to argue, and he pushed her as she placed her child in the car, causing her to drop the child. A physical confrontation ensued. The victim says she was hit, pushed and bitten.

■ March 13: A Luttrell resident says someone took a sharp object and carved a profane word on the victim’s car.

■ March 13: Deputies responded to the Plainview area, where the victim stated that someone entered his home while he and his wife were gone and took $300 in cash from behind a picture frame in his bedroom. Several valuable items were in plain sight and were not touched. A bedroom window had been broken, and the front door was unlocked.

■ March 14: The Paulette area victim claimed that on Feb. 25, she placed her diamond ring and pendant in a ring box nested in two shoeboxes in her closet for safekeeping while she was out of town. She returned March 9, but didn’t check the boxes until March 14, when she noticed that the shoeboxes had been tampered with. The box with the jewelry was missing. Upon investigation, a side door looked to have been pried open.

■ March 15: Deputies responded to the Luttrell area, where the victim said she was visiting another apartment and returned to her apartment around 11:55 p.m. She noticed that her bedroom window had been broken. There was blood on the floor and bed. Her television was missing.

■ March 19: A woman in the Sharps Chapel area said someone stopped by her house to take her to the Shack, and the person saw money laying on her coffee table. The next morning, she saw a curtain rod on her floor and the screen missing from one of her windows. The money was also missing.

■ March 19: A man in the Paulette area claimed his neighbor’s dog came onto his property and killed eight chickens and wounded one more. The man shot the dog, killing it, then went to the neighbor’s house to tell them. No one was home, so he called the Sheriff ’s Department. He also reported more chickens missing.

■ March 19: A woman in the Sharps Chapel area reported a tan safe missing from her car, which was parked in her driveway. Three doors were locked, and one was unlocked.

■ March 20: A woman reported that someone had keyed her car door while it was parked at her workplace in the Maynardville area.

■ March 20: Deputies responded to the Big Ridge area, where a man said he received a bill for $400 from Victoria’s Secret.

The man said he had not had an account with Victoria’s Secret in the past eight years and had not given anyone permission to open an account in his name.

The annual Taylor’s Grove Cemetery meeting will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, April 4, at Taylor’s Grove Baptist Church. Everyone who has loved ones buried in the cemetery is encouraged to attend.

■ March 21: A man in the Luttrell area said he was walking along Clinch Valley Road when a brown boxer-type dog came into the roadway and bit his right leg. The victim went to the hospital, and the dog owner was instructed to place the dog in confinement for 10 days.

GED test dates set

■ March 21: A woman in the Maynardville area reported a heat and air unit removed from her property without her permission. The home from which it was removed had burned the night before.

The Union County Adult Education Center will be giving the GED exam April 25 and 26, May 23 and 24, and June 20 and 21. The test will begin each day at 4 p.m. and will be paid for by the center. The state requires each individual be given a pretest before the official GED. The pretest takes approximately two hours and should be taken two weeks prior to taking the GED. Appointments can be made for the pretest by calling Melissa Carter at 992-0805.

The office also has a representative, Vickie Thal from UT, who will help fill out the financial aid forms and offer career advice. Thal is at the center on Tuesdays and is available by appointment by calling the number above.

Luttrell seeks scholarship applicants The city of Luttrell is accepting scholarship applications for a graduating senior residing within the Luttrell city limits. Applications are available at Luttrell City Hall during regular business hours, and applications will be accepted until April 15. Info: 992-0870.

TENNderCare available for children The TENNderCare program wants babies, children, teens and young adults to get the health care they need.

Good health begins at birth, so it’s important to “Check In, Check Up and Check Back” with your doctor every year. The program continues to increase the rate of children receiving health care services every year. Call today to set up a TENNderCare visit with your doctor or go to the Union County Health Department. Your health plan will help. Info: 1-866-311-4287 or www.tennessee.gov/ tenncare/tenndercare.

County seeks telecommunications proposals Union County will be accepting proposals for telecommunications until noon Monday, April 4.

Proposals should be turned in to the Union County Mayor’s Office, 901 Main St., Suite 124, Maynardville, TN 37807. Info: 992-3061.

The end for NCLB The end is near for the George W. Bush education reform called No Child Left Behind, or as some at the University called it, “no child’s left behind.”

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last week that 82 percent of the country’s schools soon could be considered failing if the law is not changed. “The law has created dozens of ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed,” Duncan said. “We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a new law that is fair and flexible and focused on the schools and students most at risk.”

Congressional Quarterly continues, “It sounds at first like an unrealistically ambitious goal: writing in just 21 weeks a new law guiding federal influence over elementary and secondary education.

But if there’s any top-shelf domestic goal that could bring the parties together by this summer, it’s overhauling No Child Left Behind.”

CQ says mainstream Republicans (the ones who don’t want to shutter the Department of Education) and Democrats will come together “given the profoundly weak political position that public-employee unions are in these days,” predicting that they will “brush back the teachers’ unions at the margins” and have a new law enacted before school starts this fall.

The president’s plan calls for shifting the federal emphasis from proficiency testing in math and reading to measures that gauge gains in student achievement. It would expand formula funding but also boost spending on competitive grants such as the Race to the Top program. It would increase local control by providing greater flexibility for teachers and principals, support the nation’s better teacher-prep-

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aration programs and offer incentives for the best teachers to serve in the neediest districts, the CQ article concluded.

Our efforts last week to reach Jessica Holman, president of the Knox County Education Association, were unsuccessful. Guess she was either protesting in Nashville or on spring break.

Meanwhile, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has created a group called SCORE which studies and reports and pontificates on education reform.

Recently, he wrote: “Every child deserves a great teacher. … Unfortunately, Tennessee has done a poor job of rewarding great teachers and identifying which ones need improvement.

“Tennessee’s students have fallen behind the rest of the nation, yet 99 percent of teachers received a “satisfactory” rating on their evaluations and 90 percent go on to receive tenure. Of the 65,000 teachers who work in Tennessee, only 50 tenured teachers are removed from their jobs each year, or 0.07 percent. It’s no surprise that 57 percent of teachers say there is a tenured teacher in their school who is performing poorly.”

Frist continues: “It’s time for Tennessee to ditch its ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to granting tenure and move to a system that rewards excellence in the classroom.”

Looks like Gov. Bill Haslam (Mr. Nice) and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (Mr. Mean) are busily attacking this issue. After all, in a year of budget crunch, it sure beats upping the funding.

Paulette sewer meeting upcoming A pre-construction meeting for the Paulette sewer line will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, April 4, at Maynardville City Hall. The public is invited to attend.

Mayor plans town hall meetings Union County Mayor Mike Williams will host a series of town hall meetings in various areas of the county. The meeting schedule is: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at the Big Ridge State Park Tea Room; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the Plainview Community Center. All are invited to attend.

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A-4 • MARCH 26, 2011 • UNION COUNTY SHOPPER-NEWS

‘Found, featured, then forgotten’ New book critiques media coverage of Vietnam Veterans Against the War PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe PU

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hey came home changed, many in pieces, leaving limbs, lives, hearts, minds, buddies, youth and innocence back there somewhere, in a place called Vietnam.

They came home to hostility, maybe, to indifference, definitely.

Fifty-eight thousand, two hundred and sixty-seven of them didn’t come home at all.

Some of them came home disgruntled, disillusioned, determined. Some of them joined a group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).

Other than for a few minutes in the spring of 1971, they, too, were ignored.

UT journalism professor Dr. Mark Harmon’s new book, “Found, Featured, then Forgotten,” isn’t a history of the VVAW. Those stories, he says, have been told well by others.

Harmon sifts through primary sources – government documents, hearing transcripts, poll data, telev ision newscasts Mark Harmon collected in the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University. He has interviewed the four main leaders of the VVAW. His book shares their collective experience as it relates to American network television news coverage and examines why their protests largely went untold.

It debunks myths. And, if you look for it, it teaches a few lessons, about mistakes that hopefully will not be made again.

“I wanted to tell the story of the media – because that’s what I do.”

Harmon debunks historical revisionist notions that the American press led the opposition to the war.

“In fact, they were a trailing indicator of the opposition and were never consistent,” Harmon says.

ABC News anchor Howard K. Smith, for example, was an unapologetic hawk, as was NBC News co-anchor Chet Huntley. Even after the January 1968 Tet Offensive, which many consider the war’s watershed, anti-war news coverage, particularly about the VVAW, remained spotty and skeptical.

He debunks the notion that the opposition was led by upper income intellectuals. Polling data from the period reveals it began among “working class families who were doing the fighting and dying,” Harmon says.

Based on the Vanderbilt archive, Harmon writes that U.S. TV networks aired 44 stories involving the Vietnam Veterans against the War. Early coverage was all but nonexistent. Even news organizations were not at first convinced that VVAW members were actually veterans. (Some began carrying their discharge papers as proof.)

The VVAW began holding major protests in 1970. The little TV coverage given to their activities was mainly done by local media at the particular protest site. In Detroit in early 1971, the VVAW held the so-called Winter Soldier “hearings” into war atrocities. These, too, were largely ignored.

All that changed in April 1971 with Dewey Canyon III, VVAW protests held in the Washington, D.C., area.

Named for the last major U.S. Marine offensive of the Vietnam War (a connection largely missed by reporters at the time), the protests included vets throwing their medals and ribbons over a wire fence at the U.S. Capi-

The medals toss included plastic toy weapons as well.

Photos courtesy of VVAW

“Found, Featured, then Forgotten” by Mark A. Harmon can be downloaded for free through Newfound Press at http://www.newfoundpress. utk.edu/pubs/harmon/. It includes links to related audio and video clips and other material of interest. As of March 16, 77 people had downloaded the entire book and 71-89 had downloaded individual chapters.

Dewey Canyon III, aftermath of the medals toss. tol toward a statue of Chief Justice John Marshall, a march to the Pentagon and a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee highlighted by the testimony of a Navy veteran named John Forbes Kerry.

“Now we are told,” Kerry testified to applause, “that the men who fought there must watch quietly while American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese.”

In the well-spoken, wellcoiffed Kerry, the TV reporters finally found a comfortable face to represent the VVAW. “Most (of the others) were more typical of the GIs,” Harmon says, “draftees, working class, who weren’t necessarily counterculture but did wear their hair long and dress in fatigues (and) may not have presented an image that resonated in American homes.

Kerry was an approachable person, a well-spoken patrician with an upper class manner … who was saying the same thing the guys on the street were saying.

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Although Chief Justice Warren Burger ruled that the veterans had to leave the Washington Mall by a certain point, President Richard Nixon, who had closely monitored the VVAW’s activities and whose aides worked to discredit them as actual veterans, decided not to have them forcibly removed.

“Just let them raise hell,” Nixon told his counsel, John W. Dean III. (Harmon reveals in the book that Nixon’s Watergate “bag man” Tony Ulasewicz testified during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings that he understood presidential aide Charles Colson wanted to find records tying the Democratic Party to the VVAW during the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in order to strip the VVAW of its taxexempt status.)

Harmon writes that, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution told a Vietnam vet during Dewey Canyon III, “Son, I don’t think what you’re doing is good for the troops.”

“Lady,” the vet replied, “we are the troops.”

Twenty-six of the 44 news stories on the VVAW aired during Dewey Canyon III. But, just more than a year later, the major news organizations missed the VVAW’s most powerful protest, 12,000 vets marching in virtual silence, in what Harmon describes as “platoon-like neat rows of four,” with guys in wheelchairs leading the way, toward the Hotel Fontainebleau, the site of the 1972 Republican National Convention, “a chance to tell their commander-in-chief that his Vietnam War policy was wrong.”

It became known as the Last Patrol.

“It had all the natural drama that the news should have picked up on,” Harmon says.

But, by then, American involvement in the war was winding down. Street protests had begun to shrink.

The news media took the position that they’d “already done the anti-war vet stories,” Harmon says. Plus, to be blunt, war protestors remained unpopular.

Longtime CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb told Harmon that by August 1972, the VVAW had “lost much of their earlier luster – and relevance. Nixon was pulling troops out of South Vietnam. … The VVAW was a kind of sideshow by then.

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The VVAW began to split as members disagreed on tactics, ideology and mission. Some chose to focus on veteran’s benefits and the plight of those exposed to Agent Orange. The organization is still active today.

The media, and the nation, wanted to move on, to put Vietnam in the past.

It wasn’t that easy for the vets. Harmon interviewed VVAW leaders Barry Romo, Bill Davis, John Lindquist and Peter Zastrow while researching the book.

“This influenced the course of the rest of their lives. Barry Romo is still showing up at Iraq Vets Against the War meetings.

Most of them began to doubt the war while they were still fighting it. (Their opposition) grew with their homefront experience, when they realized many Americans were living in a fantasy world.”

Harmon says that one lesson from the media’s “coverage” of the VVAW is “don’t drop stories so quickly. Take a breath. Pause when you have to move on, but return to the story. News is done as if it and the public have attention-deficit disorder,” he says, echoing Walter Lippmann’s words that journalism is like a spotlight, “endlessly moving about.”

The other lesson is more ominous.

“The entire era is being stereotyped in such a way that it’s a falsehood,” Harmon says. “I’m afraid future generations will be ill informed.”

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Pringles for breakfast I try to keep meals healthy at Stately Carey Manor, I really do. But, with a milk-intolerant toddler in the house, good nutrition is often wishful thinking.

My boy has inherited his father’s sweet tooth. Zac has been known to hide Hostess cupcakes in spare closets throughout the house. Despite my insistence that Little Debbies are not snacks, Zac maintains that they are indeed snack cakes.

Zac complains that when I buy cereal I always buy something with “bran” in the name and no sugar. I say I just care about his colon health.

Daniel, our son, isn’t all about the chocolate, though.

He loves sweets, in descending order Popsicles, gummy treats and jellybeans. He’s also developed a fondness for potato chips. He’ll ask for these junk foods over and over, culminating in the Cute-pocalypse, a big-eyed “Please,” with hands clasped under his chin.

Whoever taught him to do that, I want you to know that I will find you, and when I do it won’t be pretty.

The junk food requests start first thing in the morning when Daniel strolls into the kitchen asking for a “pop.” Since Zac’s work has him out at the crack of dawn, I handle Daniel’s breakfast most of the time.

“It’s too early for a pop, Buddy,” I reply. “You can have a (soy) yogurt or (whole wheat) toast with (sugar free) jelly.”

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“It’s too early for chips,” I repeat. “But you can have an apple or a banana or raisins.”

Cue Cute-pocalypse or toddler meltdown, and I stand strong against both, refusing to let junk food enter the realm of breakfast.

That is until last weekend, when I got out of the shower to find Daniel and Zac munching Pringles at 8 a.m. Did you ever hear Bill Cosby’s story about chocolate cake for breakfast?

Remember when his wife found out? That was me.

Zac’s reply? “He finished his yogurt, and then he asked for chips, so I thought it was OK.” “He asks for chips every morning after his yogurt, but I don’t give them to him,” I seethed. “What’s next? Three-martini lunches? A nice cup of coffee before bed? Way to undermine my parental authority!”

Meanwhile, sensing the party’s end, Daniel munched down the remaining Pringles. Zac looked contrite, and I grumbled some more.

Big surprise, Dad’s the fun one. In 15 years, I’ll be pressing Daniel to take a sweater on prom night, and Zac will be telling him where to find the best bail bondsmen.

Hopefully, Daniel will end up somewhere in the middle.

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Sharps Chapel Elementary student Trey Moyers crafted this A typical Cherokee dwelling designed by Sharps Chapel 4th Mohawk dwelling display. Photos by C. Taylor grader Aimee LeFevers.

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By Cindy Taylor Walking by the Director’s Wall at the Board of Education central office is similar to a stroll through a mini art gallery, but it is often educational as well.

The 4th grade students at Sharps Chapel Elementary created 3-D models and wrote research papers on various Native American tribes to demonstrate how the tribes lived. The activity was a culmination of a unit study in Native American history in January.

Students created displays show-

SCHOOL NOTES The Union County School Board has approved the following calendar for the remainder of the school year: ■ Good Friday, April 22, will be an instructional day for students.

■ TCAPS will be April 11- 22.

■ May 26 and 27, will be instructional days for students.

■ Saturday, May 28, will be an abbreviated instructional day for students.

■ Memorial Day, May 30, will be an administrative day with no students.

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Students wrote papers on the Mohawk Indians, listing their agricul-

be held at each elementary school 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 5. Registration for Paulette Elementary School will be held during the same time at Milan Baptist Church.

Children who are 5 years old on or before Sept. 30, 2011, should enter kindergarten during the 2011-2012 school year. Parents must provide a copy of the child’s birth certificate, proof of a physical within the last six months or date of next scheduled physical, immunization records, copy of the child’s Social Security card and proof of residency like a utility bill. The principals of each school will have bus route information. Info: Jimmy Carter, 992-5466 ext. 110.

ture and type of dwelling. Many ancient tribes were cave dwellers or cliff dwellers, but others were more transient and lived in moveable houses.

Other tribes covered were the Cherokee, the Iroquois and the Inuit.

The students wrote about tribal government, handmade weapons and tools, and listed which animals were hunted and used for food and clothing. Most tribes used every part of any animal they killed.

The Director’s Wall changes every few months, and it is always worth a meander through the gallery.

■ Link your Food City Value Card with the school of your choice to earn money for that school. To link, ask your cashier at check-out. Even though the school isn’t built yet, you can already link your Value Card to Paulette Elementary School.

Pre-K ■ Union County Pre-K RoundUp will be held 4:30 to 7 p.m. every Tuesday in April, in the Union County High School commons area. This is for children who will reach 4 years of age by Sept. 1. Space is limited. Blank registration forms may be picked up and dropped off at Luttrell

Elementary, Maynardville Elementary, Sharps Chapel Elementary and central office.

Info: Jimmy Carter, 992-5466, ext. 110.

Horace Maynard ■ PTO meeting will be 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29.

Union County High ■ Union County High School cosmetology students will be offering free haircuts March 29 through May 20 to help train for their board exams. Call 992-0180 and ask for cosmetology to set up an appointment.

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■ Wilson Park will host the annual Union County Easter Egg Hunt for kids 11 a.m. Saturday, April 16, next to the Union County High School baseball field. There will be hunts for age groups 2 and under, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Rain date is April 23.

The event is sponsored by Union County Parks and Recreation, Union County Business and Professional Association, First Century Bank, Commercial Bank and FSG Bank.

■ The city of Luttrell will host an Easter egg hunt at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at Luttrell City Park. Everyone is welcome. There will be egg hunts for all ages.

■ Big Ridge State Park will host the 13th annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 23. Twelve thousand eggs filled with toys, candy or extra prizes will be hidden. There are prize eggs and a grand prize for each age group, including toys, bicycles and food coupons. Bring the whole family and make a day of it. Children ages 2 and under hunt at 10 a.m. with parents’ help. Ages 3-4 hunt at 10:30, followed by ages 5-7 at 1 p.m., and ages 8-10 at 1:30. Info: 992-5523.

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A visit with Russell Burnett TALES OF UNION COUNTY | Bonnie Peters

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ussell Burnett, son of George and Clara Russell Burnett and brother to Cila, Clinton and Bertha, grew up in Big Valley. Like so many other families, their 45-acre farm and home was purchased by TVA for $1,100 in 1934 for the Norris Dam project.

Russell is one of those people who holds no hard feelings against TVA. He says his dad was able to purchase a better farm between Maynardville and Luttrell, the Goldie Tharp farm, for $800 – and that TVA even paid his dad for the Sarvis (Serviceberry) trees on his farm.

Timber was a good source of income for the people living along the Clinch River. As was customary every spring when the water was up, the local men would float logs downriver to Chattanooga for sale there. Mules were used to snake the logs to the river. One time, Russell saw one of the mules eat all the persimmons on the ground and then go shake the tree so more persimmons would fall for him to eat.

When Russell’s father was just 9 years old, Russell’s grandfather

WORSHIP NOTES Community services ■ Graveston Baptist Church, 8319 Clapps Chapel Road, is enrolling children 11 months through Pre-K for Parent’s Day Out. The program has small classroom sizes. Info: 465-9655 or www.graveston.org.

■ Millers Chapel United Methodist Church, across from McDonald’s on Maynardville Highway in Maynardville, sponsors Food for Friends from 5-7 p.m. on the last Wednesday of every month. This is a free meal for anyone in Union County who could use “on the house” soup and sandwiches. All those in need are invited to come to the church for food and fellowship. Info: Beth, 857-6281.

Easter services ■ Cedar Ford Baptist Church, located

drowned trying to retrieve a log that had gotten loose while floating logs down river. George Burnett had to grow up much too fast!

Times were really tough during the Depression years, and it was no different for the Burnett family. Russell recalls that, at one time, his family had no money and no food. His dad had walked a fivemile radius of their home searching for even a day’s work.

He was as low as one can go when, with his hands behind his back and still walking, he called aloud to the Lord, saying, “Lord, what am I going to do?” He then walked a few steps more when, at his feet, he saw a $20 gold piece.

He picked it up, knowing it would feed his family the rest of the winter but thinking someone had lost it and he must return it.

Russell says his dad was a very honest man and asked around; however, no one ever made a claim. Russell strongly believes that God takes care of his own. He gave many other examples during our discussion.

Russell recalls going to the doctor only once before he went into the service during World War II.

at the intersection of Tazewell Pike and Highway 61 in Luttrell, will present “We Need His Love,” a portrayal of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16. All are welcome. The Rev. A.R. Baumgardner is pastor. Info: 992-0216.

Russell Burnett During his years at Horace Maynard High School, he was boxing with M.T. Booker and broke his shoulder. He went to see Dr. P.A. Palmer up at Palmer’s Junction.

He was pleased to learn that M.T.’s widow, Jessie Lynch Booker, is still living in Maynardville.

Russell served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He says he was a really good marksman and felt sure he would end up in the infantry, but as fate would have it he scored high in electronics and mechanics on the aptitude test, so they offered him his choice of electronics or mechanics, and he chose electronics.

He received lots of good training in the electronics field during his time in the service that served him well in later years. After serving in the military, he spent four years servicing electronics at a

Men’s programs ■ Revival Vision Church, 154 Durham Drive, in Maynardville, holds a men’s prayer breakfast at 7 a.m. each Wednesday. All are invited to join in praying and fasting for Union County. Info: Jim, 684-8916.

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■ Hines Creek Baptist Church, located on Hinds Creek Road in Maynardville, will host a rummage sale starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 2, in the parking area of the fellowship hall and pantry. Info: Sandra Dmitriev, 497-2495.

■ WMRD 94.5 FM hosts “Traditional Hymns Hour” with Kathy Chesney from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. every Sunday.

Call in your requests or dedications to 745-1467, and tune in to listen or sing along.

■ New Fellowship Church will have a rummage sale at the corner of Pine Drive and Highway 33, across from the new Paulette Elementary School, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 7 and 8. Two bags of clothing will be free with a $5 purchase. Info: the Rev. Willis Daugherty, 254-3447.

■ Free Fellowship Pentecostal Church, 1515 Maynardville Highway, will host the Washam Family musical group during the worship service at 11 a.m., Sunday, March 27. All are welcome.

■ New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, on Bull Run Road in Luttrell, will have its regular singing at 7 p.m.

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Lath sold it to him, and sure enough Ed could not get a picture at his home. He called Russell to come get his TV to work.

Russell asked him if he knew how far he was asking him to come to check out the TV. Ed said, “Russell, I’ve been to Knoxville a time or two, and I’ll pay you whatever you charge to come and work on this TV. Russell went over, and, although he says it was not the greatest picture, Ed was pleased with the TV. Russell also recalled what a wonderful sense of humor Lath Wyrick had. One time, Russell walked into Lath’s shop and there was a sign reading, “This is a Nonprofit Organization–Not Intended, IT JUST IS.” Russell courted and won the heart of Velma Booker of Luttrell.

They married Sept. 21, 1947. They large department store in Akron, raised two sons, Randy and MitchOhio, before coming back to Ten- ell. Velma has passed away, and nessee to work and attend UT on Russell, now 91 years young, lives the GI Bill. near his son Randy and daughHe was offered a job teaching ter-in-law Julie. It is evident that electronics at Central High School Russell’s two sons and their wives and taught there until his retire- are doing a good job looking in on ment in the l980s. him.

School days were different back then. Russell remembers telling a Possible identity boy there was going to be a doorfor mystery couple way in the wall right behind him We believe Mada Perry has if he didn’t behave. Some time identifi ed as her grandparents ago, students asked him to teach the Union County couple whose a 30-minute Bible class at school, historic pictures were featured in and he did. this column March 5. Their names After the war, Lath Wyrick was are Preston and Melvina Shoffner selling television sets in Union Russell. I plan to take the original County. Russell recalls that Ed pictures by for her to take another Stiner came in and wanted to buy look to make sure. Keep reading a TV. Lath told him it would not for more updates. work in Lead Mine Bend, but Ed Bonnie Peters is the Union County Historian and was determined to have a TV and the author of many books. Contact Bonnie at 687told Lath if he wouldn’t sell him 3842 or bhpeters@esper.com.

Saturday, April 9. All visitors and singers are welcome. The Rev. Doug Munsey is pastor.

Revivals ■ Community Baptist Church will hold revival services beginning 6 p.m. Sunday, March 27, and at 7 p.m.

Monday to Wednesday, March 28-30.

Evangelists will be the Rev. Mike Viles and the Rev. Tim Inklebarger. Special singers will be the Bethel Youth Choir, the Berry Family, Josh Collins, Haley Brooks and the Community Baptist Church Youth Choir.

Writing class at LMU Lincoln Memorial University writer-in-residence Darnell Arnoult will offer a six-session writing class on short fiction 7-9 p.m. each Tuesday beginning April 5 at LMU-Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, room 105.

Admission is free to anyone not currently enrolled at LMU. Info: 423-869-7074 or e-mail darnell. arnoult@lmunet.edu.

Women’s programs ■ Fairview Baptist Church , 7424 Fairview Road in Corryton, will host MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every third Monday for devotions, food and fellowship. Child care provided.

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f you will stay with me for a couple of minutes, I’ll take you places Tennessee basketball has never been and may never go.

The Final Four is the truly great spectacle in sports.

I’ve been there. It is much better than the Super Bowl, better than game 7 of the World Series, better than Sunday at the Masters or Wimbledon, better than the 100-yard dash at the Olympic Games. I’ve been there.

The last Saturday of the college basketball season is a genuine mountaintop, a sensational setting, packed to overflowing with drama and emotion. After months of preparation and a long, hard run, four coaches, four teams, four schools, four pep bands, four clusters of fanatical fans believe this is their time. For some strange reason, they all think they can win it all.

The Final Four is classic competition, nothing held back, lay it on the line, leave it all on the floor. The difference between success and failure is awful – and awesome. Losers go home. It is over. The end. There is the magic of Monday night for winners.

Alas and alas, the greatest sporting show on earth

Cheating hurts – worse if you get caught TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West Be advised that cheating is a matter of degrees.

The great Al McGuire once said Ray Mears was the most honest coach he knew, much too honest for his own good. Al admitted he was not. He winked and said he was sixth on his secret list of sinners. Al and Marquette won a title.

Two John Calipari teams, is not always spotlessly UMass and Memphis, were clean, freshly scrubbed, pure as driven snow. Not forced to vacate Final Four exactly. Because rewards accomplishments because of are so great in college bas- violations. Calipari somehow ketball and because one su- escaped and is now a Sunday per duck can take over the school teacher in Kentucky.

Michigan gave back 114 entire pond, some involved victories and earnings from take risks.

Recruiting is jungle war- two Final Fours because of fare. If legitimate rivals don’t four ineligible Wolverines. get you, Nike secret agents, Villanova, Ohio State, Minhungry relatives, sneaky nesota and UCLA are among street merchants and ambi- those smacked with painful tious AAU big brothers will. penalties at the championFighting for McDonald’s All- ship level. Getting caught reAmericans is expensive and ally hurts John Wooden’s immacudangerous and almost always leaves blood in dark corners. late reputation took a wicked

“Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing. I was sick and you took care of me.’”

(Matthew 25: 34-36 NRSV)

had just spent two hours in a waiting room with nothing – NOTHING! – to read, except the sign on the reception window listing things that were not allowed there.

Hold who needs holdin’ CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton

Gonna hold who needs holdin’ Mend what needs mendin’ Walk what needs walkin’ Though it means an extra mile.

Pray what needs prayin’ Say what needs sayin’ Cause we’re only here for a little while. (“Only Here for a Little While,” Billy Dean)

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hit when former Bruins, hoping to sell books, told of gifts, grants and payoffs from deeply entrenched booster Sam Gilbert. He inspired recruiting and helped players get cars, stereos, clothes, airline tickets and double scalpers’ prices.

Jerry Tarkanian, NCAA poster boy for probation, tried to add up UCLA cash receipts and finally concluded: “The only team with a higher payroll was the Lakers.”

The NCAA eventually got UCLA and Gilbert. Wooden and his 10 national titles had been safely retired for six years.

Slick coaches who dabble in lesser offenses, such as exceeding contact limitations, have a proven formula for explaining them away. Is it a new rule? We must have lost count. An assistant did it.

Coaches who announce that they are disregarding

(The absence of books or magazines gave me a glimpse of what hell may be like!)

There were two women across the waiting room talking in low voices. I

wasn’t trying to eavesdrop, but it was hard not to in the silence, and it became apparent that one was reassuring the other. They were dressed in jeans, both of them tall and lean, and the reassuring one had a mane of long silvery gray hair.

They went out for a while to walk the grounds.

My daughter Eden had been taken back to another room to be interviewed.

She has suffered from bouts of depression all her life, but this one seemed scary.

These counselors had been recommended as the best care available.

As seconds crawled by, I wondered what was next, what tomorrow might look

recruiting rules invite disaster. Bruce Pearl did that.

He told prospects and parents they were welcome at his home cookout but their visits were illegal. Just don’t tell anybody. For such a smart cookie, betting on silence was a dumb gamble.

When investigators came calling, they already knew the correct answers to questions. It was really daring or dumb – dumb for Pearl to say he couldn’t identify the photo made at his house, that no, he did not recognize the wife of an assistant coach.

For him to ask others to help cover up made him immediately guilty of an NCAA felony. It is called unethical conduct.

For the athletic director and chancellor to announce, in front of God and everybody, that they were standing firm with their coach proved to be another serious error.

In the Bruce Pearl saga, there were enough minor violations, major mistakes and plain old stupid blunders to last a lifetime. It may take half that long to get past the firestorms and ashes.

It was a gaffe when Mike Hamilton adjusted his Pearl position and announced the

flip just before the tournament flop. It was a gaffe to fire the coach on the day women’s basketball was at home in the tournament, on the day Derek Dooley was trying to pump up the start of spring football practice. In the communications business, it is called stepping on good news while scattering bad. Some administrators understand.

Some have no clue.

College basketball is so beautiful, high energy, bright lights, enthusiasm over the top. The Final Four is the ultimate peak. Oh, that all components were honest.

Many, many years ago, my grandmother, almost always right, several times said that cheaters don’t win and winners don’t cheat.

It was a surprise and disappointment to find her wrong.

It was disappointing that Pearl and his people were found wading in mud puddles.

It was a shock that they wouldn’t admit it even with stuff all over their shoes.

When the Vols recover, please let it be without cheating. Getting caught really hurts.

like, how I would go back to work and be able to think.

And then, there she was, smiling a crooked smile and looking apologetic. I wrapped my arms around her and held her tightly for a long minute, gave her one more squeeze, then made the sign of the cross on her forehead, and kissed it.

She turned, and they took her through a door where I could not follow.

I was out the front door and into the sunshine when Silver Mane came out and opened her arms to me saying, “I want to give you a hug.”

“Are you a mama, too?” I asked as this perfect stranger held me in her arms.

“A big sister,” she smiled.

Then she looked in my eyes and said, “We’re going to get them back.”

“Yes, we are,” I agreed, and believed it, and thanked her for the reassuring hug. I walked toward the car, humming Billy Dean’s song, “Only Here for a Little While.”

My heart was lighter and my faith stronger because a woman I did not know – and probably will never see again – had the heart and the faith to see a need and meet it.

Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com.

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Tennis Pats look to ace season Union County High School’s tennis season is well underway, and coaches Kathy Cox and Lisa Marie Brown are hopeful for a good year.

Only two tennis Patriots return this year, and the team boasts 10 freshmen, so Cox called this a “rebuilding year.”

“Hopefully they will stick with us and grow and learn throughout the years,” she said.

After the high of their first district win last season, a rebuilding might be hard on the team, but Cox remains positive.

“We have a great group of kids, so we are looking forward to teaching and coaching them,” she said.

District foe Pigeon Forge is the team to beat this year, with all but one boy returning. Grace Academy has joined the district as well.

“We have a lot of competition this year,” said Cox. The Patriots have already faced Pigeon Forge, and they will square off against Fulton on March 29, and Gatlinburg-Pittman on March 31.

Kevin Bragg, Brandon Wilson and James Dyer represented Cody Kitts won his division Union County High School in the SkillsUSA Automotive Tech- in the SkillsUSA Construction nology Program. Photos submitted Technology category.

Union County wins at SkillsUSA The Union County High School Career and Technical Department sent their SkillsUSA chapter to the East Tennessee Regional SkillsUSA Competition on Feb. 22 in Athens, Tenn.

Three students represented Union County High School in the Automotive

Tennis senior Aaron Inklebarger gets ready to serve in practice earlier this year.

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Their instructor is Eddie Satterfield.

Cody Kitts competed in the Construction Technology category and won his division. He will also advance to the state competition. His instructor is Charles Tolliver.

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