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Remembering the Fighting 69th during St. Paddy’s Day celebrations By Patrick McCallister For Veteran Voice

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Photo by Patrick McCallister Henry Good is buried at the St. Augustine National Cemetery. He was born in Clara, King’s County, Ireland. Today King’s County is named County Offaly, and sits in the middle of the Emerald Isle. Good, who died in 1877 at age 33, was a member of Battalion K 5th Artillery. Good is among the uncounted number of Irish immigrants and their children who served in the U.S. Armed Forces through the years. His compatriots obviously thought highly of him, and respected his national origin. So much so, they erected this tombstone for him.

ST. LUCIE WEST — With the number of World War II veterans diminishing at an alarming rate, the city of Port St. Lucie is working just as swiftly to ensure the remaining heroes get to visit the Washington, D.C., monument erected in their honor. As the Mets faced off against the Miami Marlins on March 2 — a game that ended in an 8-8 tie — city employees feverishly worked the third base line concession stand, serving up fresh hotdogs, piping hot french fries, nachos and other condiments. Fifteen percent of the sales went to benefit Honor Flight, Mayor JoAnn Faiella said. In total, the city raised more than $1,000, a city staff member said. According to honorflight.org, the latest statistics show WWII veterans are dying at a rate of approximately 800 per day. The organization, which has hubs across the country, aims to transport veterans free of charge to see

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MARTIN COUNTY -- None said it so elegantly as Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson: “Here comes those (expletive) green flags again.” ‘Tis time for a seisiún to brush up on the lyrics to “The Fighting 69th.” The tune’s easy enough, same as for “Star of the County Down.” Grab shillelaghs, the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America is hosting its second annual Stuart St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival. “The Irish culture has tremendously contributed to America today,” said Dennis McKenna, president of the Father Mychael Francis Judge chapter. “America is extremely proud of having Irish people here. It’s important to secure the Irish culture for my daughter and grandchildren.” The family-friendly festival will be at the Roosevelt Bridge, Flagler Park, 201 S.W. Flagler Ave. Events kick off on Friday, March 15 at 4 p.m. and continue until 10 p.m. Admission that day is $3 or a non-perishable food item for local charity Building Bridges to Youth. Fighting against hunger and poverty is deeply rooted in Irish-American culture. Thousands of Irish arrived in America during an Gorta Mór – the Great Hunger or Potato Famine – in the late 1840s and early 1850s. That was far from the end of the Irish Diaspora. By the turn of the 20th century, about 5 million Irish had headed to America to escape crushing poverty.

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of them out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. “There is no organization set up for the (Operation Iraqi Freedom/ Operation Enduring Freedom) guys,” Zickert said. “They come through our (post-traumatic stress disorder) classes, and don’t even speak the same language we do. They have a totally different language than we do. Things we talk about, they don’t talk about.” Folks from the Military Officers Association of America recently met with the council to help it start a Points of Light Institute’s Community Blueprint. The council is working with the program

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See BLUEPRINT page 3 Faiella said the extra support from game attendees made the event a success. “They’re dropping $20 in tips and commending us for doing this for our veterans,” Faiella said. Mets fan and New York resident Annie Leavitt was ecstatic she was having fun and helping a good cause. Leavitt said her donation was the perfect way to honor her late father, a retired U.S. Air Force captain, who died 33 years ago. “I can’t even say how important it is (to honor our WWII veterans),” Leavitt said. “It’s terrific.” John Gifford, of New York, said his donation also had a special meaning. “I love it. I think it’s awesome,” said Gifford, who added his 90-year-old father is a WWII veteran. “They’ve given up so much of their lives for us, for our freedom and for being able to come to a ballpark like this and enjoy this kind of thing. They’re really heroes.”

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Mike Monroe is an operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm veteran, and vice president of Military Initiatives at the institute. He said the Community Blueprint was born in the Sunshine State and officially launched on Nov. 9 last year. “About three years ago there was an off-site retreat (at the White Oak Plantation near Yulee) he said in a previous interview. “Fifty-five groups got together to discuss community needs and action plans. One of the findings out there is, anything to help communities help veterans would help the communities.” He said 12 of the participating organizations at the retreat decided to explore issues facing recently discharged military members, and to form plans communities could implement to help them. The organizations identified eight areas that needed attention and crafted the Blueprint Toolbox — specific things communities could do to address them. Those eight areas are: employment, volunteerism, behavioral health, edu-

Today about 50 million Americans claim Irish as their primary heritage. The festival continues on Saturday, March 16, at 10 a.m. The fun will continue to 10 p.m. “We will start off with the Green Fiddlers from Jupiter,” McKenna said. Followed by acts such as MacTalla Mor, The Rowdy Micks, Tom Davis, and… “We’ll have Andy Murphy walking around solo with Irish tunes,” McKenna said. Music is another important feature of Irish-American culture. As many Irish arrived in New York in the 1860s, they were immediately signed into the Union Army. Other Irish found their ways into the Confederate Army. Many of the Irish musical instruments were easily portable and went with them, such as pennywhistles and makeshift bodhráns, an Irish drum. The Irish songs played during long lulls between battles influenced American music ever since. Indeed, the American classic “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” by Patrick Gilmore, was an Irish rebel song, “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye,” with new lyrics. On Sunday, March 17, the festival gets going again at 10 a.m.

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with more music and fun. At 2 p.m., the St. Patrick Day Parade will crank up with Congressman Patrick Murphy as the grand marshal. Politics is another important part of the Irish-American culture. Like other immigrants, the Irish immigrants and their children met much prejudice and often worked difficult and dangerous jobs to eke out a menial living. Groups such as the controversial Molly Maguires and often-corrupt Tammany Hall, the late-1700s New York City political machine, helped organize Irish voters who became important to gaining workers’ rights and ending practices such as child labor. To climb out of poverty, education became important to Irish-Americans, which will be on display at the parade. “Our deputy grand marshal is Laurie Gaylord,” McKenna said. She’s the superintendent of the Martin County Schools. True to the strong influence of Catholicism on Irish-Americans: “At the end of the parade, we’ll have a prayer on our grand stand to show our respect to St. Patrick,” McKenna said. Sunday’s festivities will continue until 9 p.m. In addition to music, there’ll be traditional Irish dancing at the festival. The Tir Na Greine School

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t was 4 o’clock in the morning. There was a tremendous noise coming from our front door. I jumped out of bed and saw a dark shadowed figure smashing my stained glass front door with the 2-by-4 wooden post from my neighbor’s mailbox. I immediately told my wife to call 911, and I took a flashlight and my legally owned pistol and cautiously approached this wild individual. I shined the flashlight in his face and shouted, ‘’You better get out of here or I’ll kill you.” Upon having that and seeing my pistol, he dropped the 2-by-4 and ran away. I am 84 years old and I believe if I was not armed, my wife and I would have been seriously injured or most likely be killed. The pistol saving us is the positive part of the story. The tragic part of this story is the criminal justice and mentalsystem breakdown. The police, upon arriving at my house, had this wild individual in the back of their police cruiser. They had picked up this barefoot and bare-chested individual running through our gated community. I identified this individual and pressed charges. The front stained glass door was destroyed. My wife was so devastated, it took over a year of special counseling to return to what may be called normal. The story does not end here.

Instead of simply attaching the gun and yell for more gun control laws, we should put everything on the table. The mental health system, the criminal justice system, entertainment media and the guns.

Domenick Scarlato We waited for five months to be notified as to the dispositionor trial of this individual. We contacted the assistant districtattorney and, to spare you the details of what transpired, we were told this individual was bi-polar schizophrenic who, at the time of this horrendous crime, was off his medication. Criminal charges were changed to a mental problem and he was assigned to a special court and a special judge who handles individuals with mental problems. This takes the jurisdiction out of the hands of the assistant district attorney. We also found the individual was now walking the streets free. He was out free and on probation as long as he took his medication. We were shocked at this an-

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swer. We then wrote directly to the district attorney complaining we were completely out of the loop. We, the victims, never had our day in court. We received the same answer as was given to us by the assistant district attorney. Out of frustration, we wrote to the state attorney and the reply received was that the state doesn’t get involved with local issues. As a last resort, we wrote to then-Governor Crist with a detailed report, and his reply was for us to contact the state attorney. As it would appear, we were given the run-around. How many other deranged individuals are free as long as they take their medication? What if they don’t take their medication? What would happen if one attacks an unarmed person, a woman or the elderly? I dread to think of the outcome. It appears that both the criminal justice and mental health systems are broken. This brings up the issue of the guns being the culprit. Instead of simply attaching the gun and yell for more gun control laws, we should put everything on the table. The mental health system, the criminal justice system, entertainment media and the guns.

Vice President Biden with his “Gun Control Committee” toldthe president that in a month he will give him a report. How can such a complex issue be given only a month’s consideration? This is an extremely complex issue of not only gun control, but more important, it is an issue of individual control. There are over 1,100 gun control laws, state and federal, throughout the United States, but the individual control is very limited. The mental health system, the criminal justice system and the entertainment media, along with guns, should be our primary concern and needs a thorough reviewing. This takes time, which I believe Vice President Biden is not addressing thoroughly. The vice president is putting together a report, which I believe will reflect his own biased agenda on gun control. To think that this will be an unbiased report when the committee is called “Gun Control Committee” is naive. The issue is a very complex problem in our society and should not be rushed into simply putting more gun laws on the books without addressing and hopefully correcting our mental health, entertainment and crimi-

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great job with that in Indian River County.” To become Blueprint Community, one or more organizations have to complete a needs assessment to the institute, complete a survey and submit an agreement to implement solutions to at least two of the eight items within a year. When done, the institute can provide help from the Veterans Leaders Corps, which operates through AmeriCorps, a network of national service organizations. Zickert said he’s getting local younger veterans involved with the local Community Blueprint is the only way it’ll be successful. “One of our jobs is to put together an organization that they can run,” he said. “We’re trying to create a program for us to mentor them, and for them to run it.” Additionally, he said the council is seeking volunteer help. To learn more, call Zickert at (772) 569-9533.

cation, housing, family strength, financial and legal help, along with reintegration. “These are eight different areas — you can’t do them all at one time,” Zickert said. “You pick the areas where there’s the least support.” Zickert said the local veterans council selected behavioral health and reintegration because those were the two areas least addressed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and others in Indian River County. For example, the VA has about 300 Vet Centers with resources to help returning service members with reintegration problems, but the closest to Indian River County are in Jupiter and Melbourne. “We don’t have to go out and invent how to handle homeless people,” Zickert said. “There are several organizations that do a

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GUNS from page 4 nal justice system. First a committee should be formed with a non-biased title and have within its members psychiatrists, medical doctors, entertainment producers and directors, business leaders, gun groups and the law enforcement community. All should carefully and hopefully, without emotion, give their objective opinions toward producing a carefully laid-out report. This takes time to be effective. Let SAU us not allow our emotions

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U.S. Highway 1 traffic to be detoured for brief a period during Tico Warbird AirShow For Veteran Voice The 36th annual Tico Warbird Air Show is proud to have the famous USAF Thunderbirds performing for the first time in our 36th years of holding AirShows in our community. Unfortunately, because of the extended aerobatic box required for their high-speed performance and maneuvers, we will be required to detour traffic around a section U.S. Highway 1, for about a 40-minute period, during the Thunderbird performance. This detour will be from approximately 3:25 p.m. until about 4:05 p.m. each day of the AirShow. All traffic will be diverted, near the Space Coast Regional Airport, southbound at Highway 405 and northbound at Kings Highway. Access to other road networks can be made from these detours. The Valiant Air Command and Tico Warbird AirShow apologizes for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you have any additional questions please contact the museum (321) 268-1941 or email us at vacwards@bellsouth.net. Visit our website at www.vacwarbirds.org to purchase advance tickets online and for more AirShow information.

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The Navy SEAL Museum, Moorings Club present first Navy SEAL Golf Tournament April 21 For Veteran Voice To our friends, colleagues and sponsors: The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in conjunction with The Moorings Club will host the first-ever Navy SEAL golf fundraiser. This event is to commemorate and honor the sacrifices of the Navy SEAL community. The funds raised by the event will benefit the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum and the families of our fallen SEALS. The National Navy Seal Museum Trident House is a waterfront residence located along the Indian River in Sebastian. This home is dedicated to those families of U.S. Navy SEALS who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. It also serves those U.S. Navy Seals and their families who are injured and battle-fatigued. The Trident House provides a

peaceful and a restful setting for families during their stay. The National Navy SEAL Museum is the only museum in the world cledicatecl exclusively to the U.S. Navy Seals and the elite warriors of Navy Special Warfare. Our continuing mission is to preserve the history of the U.S. Navy SEALS and their predecessors, including the Underwater Demolition Teams, the Naval Combat Demolition Units and Amphibious Scouts and Raiders. Located in Fort Pierce, the birthplace of the Navy Frogmen, the museum promotes public education by providing the opportunity to explore the history of the U.S. Navy SEALS while honoring our fallen at the SEAL Memorial and caring for those warrior families through the Trident House. We have a dynamic new wing of

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Something curved in shape 4. Tattoo (slang) 7. Therapeutic resort 10. His ark 12. Organized crime heads 14. Actor Connery 15. Free from danger 16. Honey badger 17. Part of a deck 18. Cause to run off the tracks 20. Classical music form 22. Defensive nuclear weapon 23. Volt-ampere 24. “Socrate” composer Erik 26. Keep up 29. Foot raced 30. The 44th President 35. Aboriginal (abbr.) 36. Wedding vow 37. 21st Hebrew letter 38. “Little Man Tate” director 44. Teletype (Computers) 45. Discovered alternating current 46. Tears down (alt. sp.) 48. Resinlike substance in shellac 49. Military mailbox 50. Smoothed wood 53. Old Testament book 56. Japanese lake with marimo 57. Card, dining or coffee 59. Checks 61. Telephone exchange (abbr.) 62. Greek covered walks or colonnades 63. Pigmented eye membrane 64. No. French river 65. Airborne (abbr.) 66. Shock therapy

CLUES DOWN 1. Autonomic nervous system 2. Highway 3. Eating house 4. Afrikaans 5. Likely 6. Foot digits 7. Place to sit 8. For in Spanish 9. Also or including 11. N W Afghan city 12. Black Sea peninsula 13. Language of Slovakia 14. Divine Egyptian beetle 19. What a baby wears to eat 21. River of NE Ecuador & N Peru 24. European wooden shoe 25. Positive pole 27. Hereditary social class (Hindu)

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Harbor Place holding St. Paddy’s Day event for vets For Veteran Voice Harbor Place is having a fundraiser for the Southeast Florida Honor Flight with a St. Patrick’s Day

world class exhibits at the museum that will tell the story of our U.S. Navy SEALS in the global war on terror. The exhibits will fully open in 2013 with the help of fundraisers such as this one.

The golf tournament, luncheon and auction:

“Dine or Dash” on Sunday, March 17 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Harbor Place is located at 3700 S.W. Jennings Road in Port St. Lucie. Call (772) 337-4330 to RSVP.

The Moorings Club is uniquely tucked away on Vero Beach’s barrier island and offers a truly remarkable golfing experience. The course meanders along the Indian River unveiling beautiful scenery, abundant wildlife and dramatic waterfront panorama. The day begins with a continental breakfast, registration and a viewing of Navy SEAL vehicles, boats and other artifacts. Former Navy SEALS will mingle, play golf with the participants and prove that most of our elite warriors spend little time on the Golf course. The conclusion of the day includes a lunch banquet, awarding of prizes, and bidding on silent and one-of-a-kind live auction items. There will be plenty of time to meet and talk with former U.S. SEALS and other special guests. Most important of all, we will be supporting our Navy Special Warfare community at a time when they need our support the most. Breakfast and registration will be from 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Scramble (best ball) format and shotgun start at 9 a.m.; luncheon starts at 1 p.m. with prizes and an auction to follow. ‘The point of contact for the tournament regarding Entry Registration is Tom Juliano. He can he reached by email at tjuli@bellsouth.net or by phone at (772) 696-2009.

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The point of contact for the tournament regarding sponsorship inquiries is Mike Bell. He can be reached by email at michaelybell@aol.com or by phone at (772) 231-3522.

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