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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer U.S. Army veteran Sal Conti of Hobe Sound was a cook in the Army while stationed at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Since then Conti has had a life-long host of medical conditions that mimic the illnesses of animals that were found dead in the area of chemical testing in the late 1960s. Haddox was a county veterans service officer in Martin from 1999 to 2012. That’s how he met Conti and learned about his story. Haddox filed claims, appeals and more of both to the Department of Veterans Affairs for Con-
ti. They all hit brick walls. Conti said he gets nothing from the VA. Nothing. Not medical care. Nothing. Especially, Conti said, he doesn’t get answers. Not from the VA or anyone else. Haddox left the service office to
run for and serve on the Martin County Commission, but he keeps up on Conti’s case. Haddox is a steady man — not at all
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Editor’s note: Veteran Voice will have additional stories about Silverio “Sal” Conti. The Department of Veterans Affairs is aware that this story is running and is researching information about its experiences with and policies regarding veterans who served at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, in the middle 1950s. Silverio “Sal” Conti was in his early 20s when he showed up at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, a facility where chemical and biological weapons testing was conducted in the 1950s. That was in March 1955. Conti wasn’t particularly idealistic, or cynical. He was just a New York City boy there to cook his way through an Army draft enlistment as he looked forward to heading back home. Today, at age 79, he sounds downright cynical and angry at the government. The more his story unfolds, the easier it is to understand why. Conti said that if he knew he’d walked off Dugway with the life he has, he’d have refused to step foot on the post. “I told John (Haddox), ‘Those sons of (expletive) should have told us,” he said. “They should have told us that these things coming out of our bodies were not natural.”
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Vietnam veterans shoot benefits many For Veteran voice
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Draw a bead on the third Vietnam Veterans Sporting Clays Fun Shoot. It’ll be on March 1, at South Florida Shooting Club, 500 S.W. Long Drive, Palm City. Among other things, proceeds will help the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041 give three Martin County High School Junior ROTC students scholarships. Monies raised will also help local veterans with needs ranging from food to car repairs, along with helping some find jobs. “We raised, netted, $15, 000 for the shoot last year,” George Tidikis, chapter treasurer, said. “We also did a raffle of a helmet, a military diver’s helmet. One of our members was an Army diver. He donated the helmet. Raffling that off, we raised $2,500. We were able to give (Martin County Veterans Service Office supervisor) Tony Reese a check for $17,500.” Last year the Vietnam Veterans of America’s Chapter 1041 had an idea. What if the Martin County Veterans Service Office supervisor, Reese, had a pot of money to help cash-strapped
veterans? Normally Reese fills his days helping veterans file claims and appeals to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But, a few times a month he gets veterans who need things the VA doesn’t offer. Used to be that Reese would pull out his Rolodex and start calling veterans organizations for donations to those folks. The guys at VVA 1041 just didn’t like the thought of hungry veterans waiting for Reese to get a hold of people for help. So, they told him about their idea: a rapid-response fund that he could tap immediately. Reese thought the upstart chapter meant $500, $1,000. After all, it had maybe 70 some members, right? He said getting a $17,500 rapid-response account bowled him over. “It makes my job 10 times easier,” he said. “I don’t have to think how to get (a veteran in need) help. I can focus on what help (he or she) needs.” In November, only one veteran tapped the rapid-response fund. By the end of that month, the fund had $12,346.40. “In December, we (helped) six guys,” Reese said. “It varied from rent and gas money to auto repairs.” Those six veterans got a com-
Staff photo by Patrick McCallister Ed Maxwell, vice president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041, assesses the scene at Veteran Connection. The chapter helped organize the veterans job fair at Indian River State College in October, last year, along with the United Way of Martin County. The job fair attracted almost 40 employers wanting to hire veterans with around 80 jobs to offer. bined $1,900 from the rapid-response fund. The now 78-members chapter gave three Junior ROTC students $1,000 each back in May. It aims to give scholarships to three more this school year. The chapter is
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Thunderbirds, Blue Angels 2014 show schedule packed Mary Kemper For Veteran voice
The skies will resound to the roar of the Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels in a packed schedule for 2014, the Department of Defense has announced. Once again, Florida will host several of the shows, including appearances at Vero Beach and Melbourne. The two teams’ schedules in 2013 were curtailed after the government shutdown following dissension over raising the national debt ceiling. For the Thunderbirds — officially known as the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron — the first appearance in 2014, slated for New Year’s Day, will take place in Pasadena, Calif., at the opening of the Tournament of Roses Parade, according to a release by the demonstration team. The Thunderbirds’ season will finish up Nov. 8 and 9 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The Blue Angels won’t begin their season until March 15, with a show at Naval Air Facility, El Centro, Calif., according to a team release. They, too, will conclude their season in November, with appearances Nov. 7 and 8 at
the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. The following are upcoming Florida shows:
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April 5 and 6: Lakeland May 10 and 11: Vero Beach July 12: Pensacola Beach Oct. 25 and 26: Jacksonville Beach The remainder of the Thunderbirds’ schedule is as follows: March 9: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas March 15 and 16: Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. April 5 and 6: Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. April 12 and 13: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. April 26 and 27: Barksdale Air Force Base, La. May 3 and 4: Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
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Photos courtesy of U.S. Air Force Air Force Thunderbird pilots conduct practice maneuvers before an air show in Upland, Calif., in 2012. May 10 and 11: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. May 17 and 18: Youngstown Air Reserve Base, Ohio May 24 and 25: Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. May 28: U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. May 31 and June 1: Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. June 7 and 8: Rockford, Ill. June 14 and 15: Ocean City, Md. June 21 and 22: Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. June 28 and 29: Hill Air Force Base, Utah July 5 and 6: Battle Creek,
Mich. July 12 and 13: Fair Oaks, In. July 15: Target Field, Minneapolis July 23: Cheyenne, Wyo. July 26 and 27: JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Aug. 2 and 3: Oshkosh, Wis. Aug. 9 and 10: Ypsilanti, Mich. Aug. 13: Atlantic City, N.J. Aug. 16 and 17: Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 23 and 24: Waterloo, Iowa
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Martin vet played tennis with legends (Second of two parts)
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Shelley Koppel Staff writer when Chris Evert was playing. He called a foot fault on her at an important point. “She pursed her lips,” Oughterson said. “Her parents were seated above and behind me and I knew them, although not well. They smiled.” It was Bud Collins, dean of the tennis commentators, who had the last word. “I called a foot fault on Chris Evert and Bud Collins looked up my name and said, ‘He’s from Florida. Doesn’t he know you don’t call a foot fault on Chris Evert in Florida?’” Oughterson said he got several calls from, people he knew aroused the country who heard the broadcast.” Oughterson also played with former heavy weight champion Gene Tunney and Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, who oversaw the Manhattan Project that developed the bomb during World War II. It was heady stuff, but Oughterson remains humble about his accomplishments and acquaintances. Many who know him are unaware of them. He will talk about them when asked, but he is not trying to impress. He has no need for that. Today, when you call Bill Oughterson, his wife, Leila, is likely to tell you he’s out doing his exercises. He is living his life as he always has, and it’s a life well-lived. It has been my privilege to get to know him, if only a little bit. Shelley Koppel is a staff writer for Your Voice News & Views.
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1931, Joseph Verner Reed and his wife, Permelia Pryor Reed, founded the Jupiter Island Club. The tennis courts at the select club were a popular place for visiting celebrities to let off steam. One of their sons, Nathaniel Reed, is still active in local and statewide environmental issues. Bill Oughterson was a young man, still in high school, when he began playing there. “Joseph and dad became good friends,” Oughterson said. “When people came down who were not real tennis players, they called us.” The younger Oughterson, who played tennis at Stuart High School, would go on to captain the University of Florida tennis team in 1949 and become a professional tennis umpire. More about that later. Last week, I wrote about Bill Oughterson’s professional and private accomplishments. For the second part of the series, he opened up about two legends whose paths he crossed in very different ways. Oughterson and his father, T.T., went to the Jupiter Island Club to play tennis with a pretty fair amateur player, Katharine Hepburn. He played her twice and one time, she brought her sister, Peg, for doubles. “Kate and Bill had 6 and Dad and Sis had 4,” Oughterson recalled. “She and I beat my father and her sister.” Oughterson, still a teen, was a little star-struck about being with Hepburn, and he left his autograph book behind. Soon after, he and the rest of the high school were at an assembly. “Somebody came to the door, Oughterson said. “I was in the front row as a senior. They said, ‘Billy, a lady wants to see you.’” I opened the door. Everybody recognized her. She handed me my book and I apologized profusely. She was just fun. I was very impressed. She was a friendly and normal lady.” The young man’s status in school jumped quite a bit after that episode. Oughterson’s activities as an umpire garnered him some national notoriety. At a match in South Florida, he was umpiring
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CONTI from page 1 prone to hyperbole or emotional outbursts. “Worst case ever I’ve worked on,” he said. “The saddest one. It’s total (expletive) for the veteran.” That’s today. Let’s go back to the start of Conti’s tale. Dugway. When he walked into Haddox’s office, Conti told him that’s where he’d served until 1956. Haddox had 20 years in the Navy and a decade as a service officer. There weren’t many new base names for him to hear. “I told him I’d never heard of the place,” Haddox said. “I asked him, ‘What is Dugway?” Put simply, Dugway is the kind of place that crops up in spy novels and movies about man-made apocalypses. The base is still around. Even has a website. “They were doing all kinds of tests,” Conti said. “They never told us what they were testing.” As his stateside deployment rolled on, Conti got a growing unease about where he was. The cook was up early in the mornings and saw things. He saw worrisome things. “I’d go to throw out food in the morning, and I’d see dead animals with lumps,” he said. “Horses, big horses, dead with lumps.” Then, he started getting those
same lumps. “I said, ‘What are all these lumps on my body?’” Conti said. “They said don’t worry about it.’ They said, ‘Don’t worry about it; we’ll take care of it.’” Military doctors removed those lumps, but took Conti off cooking duty. He became a clerk until his deployment ended. Those lumps kept growing while Conti was at Dugway, and after he left. “I’ve had 50, 60 surgeries to remove all these lumps on my body,” he said. Then in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s, Conti had a tumor tree growing at the base of his spine. Surgeons removed it. The largest part weighed in at 5 pounds. Later he developed mouth cancer. “I’ve been trying to get some recognition of something that happened to me out there,” Conti said. “I told John (Haddox), I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, so it seems not right that I have cancer in my palate.” Lumps. Tumors. Cancer. All of it starting at Dugway, Conti said. “It started when he was in the service,” Haddox said. “(A claim) should have been a slam dunk.” But, it’s wasn’t. There are a couple reasons for that, Haddox and Conti said. One is the secrecy that surrounds Dugway. “(The VA) wanted him to tell
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer U.S. Army veteran Sal Conti of Hobe Sound uses a dinner roll to give perspective of the size of a tumor removed from the base of his spine over 40 years ago. Conti is seeking answers regarding his medical conditions since serving at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Conti’s time served corresponds with the Dugway Sheep Kill incident where several thousand sheep were killed by a nerve agent in 1968. them what chemicals he was exposed to,” Haddox said. “He doesn’t know that. This stuff was secret.” The other problem is the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis. The fire famously destroyed millions of service records — including
Conti’s Army medical records that he says would show his lumps started at Dugway. “I said, ‘Where is my record of that?’” he said. “No one can give me a record of that. They say all my records burned in the St.
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1041 from page 3 project with the United Way of Martin County. Veteran Connection included a series of employment-hunting and career-development classes that culminated in an October job fair at Indian River State College’s Chastain Campus, Stuart. “We had 38 employers with 80 job openings,” Tidikis said. “Unfortunately, we had 40 veterans show up. We went back to the drawing board: ‘OK, where did we go wrong promoting it.’” There’ll be another Veteran Connection job fair at the campus in April. All the chapter’s activity gets a bunch of attention around Florida. Ben Humphries — state president, VVA Florida State Council — said all of the state’s 27 chapters are wonderful, but there’s something about the Martin boys. “They are a brand-new chapter, but they hit the ground running,” he said. “They’ve been very involved in the community and
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Louis fire.” Without records, the Hobe Sound man doesn’t have much left for making claims, or seeking
always looking for a way to help veterans in need.” According to the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs, there are about 500,000 Vietnam veterans in the Sunshine State. They make up almost a third of the state’s veterans population. Martin County has about 14,700 veterans. It likely has almost 5,000 Vietnam-era veterans. George Mittler, 1041’s president, said that with fundraising success proving outreach tactics, VVA 1041 is turning more of its attention to getting those veterans signed up. “We try to dig them up out of the woodwork,” he said. Membership is open to all veterans who served in Vietnam from February 1961 to May 1975, and all veterans who served from August 1964 to May 1975. Meetings are on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. They’re held at Sewall’s Point Town Hall, 1 S. Sewall’s Point Road. To find out more about the fundraising shoot and chapter, visit vva1041.
answers. “My story is my scars, and the government doesn’t pay for scars,” Conti said. “That’s what someone told me: ‘Mr. Conti, the VA does not pay for scars.’”
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