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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Private Stephan Gabriel accepts congratulations for his service and a hand-carved cane created by members of the Indian River Woodcarvers from General Wayne Jackson at the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Friday, March 22. Each cane had the receiving veteran’s name and rank affixed to the cane with an American Eagle handle. on Vaughn, a member of Navy SEAL Team 6, who died when the helicopter in which he was riding was shot down over Afghanistan,
accepted the cane on her brother’s behalf. She said that Camp 300, the camp for boys who have lost fathers while on active duty, will have its first session April 12-14 with nine campers. The camp is a way of celebrating the life of Aaron Vaughn as well as helping kids who’ve lost their dads. St. Lucie County commissioners Chris Dzadovsky and Paula Lewis were on hand for the ceremony, as were Jeff Luther of the Indian
River Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Ken Mascara of St. Lucie County. “It’s an honor to be here for this event,” Lewis said. “They have done so much.” Retired Army General Wayne Jackson spoke about the price soldiers and their loved ones pay. “Veterans answer the call when our way of life is threatened,” he said. “When we wake up in a free land, it’s because people
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FORT PIERCE — There was pride and there were tears in equal measure as the National Navy SEAL Museum hosted the presentation of hand-carved canes to 14 distinguished veterans. The March 22 ceremony paid tribute to survivors of WWII, Korea, Vietnam and more recent conflicts. The canes were the work of the Indian River Woodcarvers. Lloyd Lasenby, representing the organization, presented the canes to each veteran with a word about his accomplishments. Each cane contained a representation of the medals awarded each recipient and was topped by a carved eagle. One of the honorees, Rudy Warshawsky, of Delray Beach, is believed to be the only surviving member of Company E, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, known as “Easy Company” and immortalized in the HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers.” Warshawsky saw action in Normandy and Korea. His spine was shattered and he sits in a wheelchair. Everyone came to pay their respects. When asked if he had seen the series based on Easy Company’s experiences, he shook his head. “I didn’t see the movie, I could write it,” he said. Tara Baldwin, sister of Aar-
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Master Sergeant Rudy Warshawsky accepts a hand-carved cane created by members of the Indian River Woodcarvers and a handshake from St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara at the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Friday, March 22. Each cane had the receiving veteran’s name and rank affixed to the cane with an American Eagle handle. Warshawsky fought with the elite Easy Company 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne whose tale was told in the HBO mini-series ’Band of Brothers’ and was injured on D-Day in 1944.
Donna Sweitzer kisses her dad, R.L. Sweitzer, both of Vero Beach before being recognized for his service by General Wayne Jackson, US Army retired at the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Friday, March 22. Sweitzer served with the 3rd Division of the 7th US Army and was wounded in action during the Battle of the Bulge Oct. 16, 1945.
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Tara Vaughn Baldwin accepts a hand-carved cane created by members of the Indian River Woodcarvers organization in honor of her brother, Aaron Vaughn, at the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum Friday, March 22. Each cane had the receiving veteran’s name and rank affixed to the cane with an American Eagle handle.
answered the call. The families left behind carry a heavy burden. They might not carry a rucksack, but they carry the heaviest burden of all.” Most of the men receiving canes were decorated enlisted men, although retired Major Richard Chapman of Port St. Lucie, a helicopter pilot who was shot down over Laos, was also honored. He was the recipient of two Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Ed Salsbury, served in Vietnam in 19681969, was wounded on Friday the 13th in June 1969. Among his many medals are a Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars. When asked to talk about his accomplishments and what this ceremony meant to him, he teared up and shook his head. “I’m proud,” he whispered. “It’s nice. I’m not a show off.” Bill Arcuri, a past cane recipient, was also a quiet hero. Someone else had to mention that Arcuri spent time as a POW in the infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton.” Andy Brady, director of community outreach at the Museum, said that it was a special honor for the facility to host the event, which was standing room only. “We witnessed things (today) that you’d see on The History Channel,” he said. “It’s right here in the Museum in St. Lucie County.” General Jackson reminded the audience that there are those still in harm’s way and that many pay a price after service. “All wounds are not visible,” he said.” For those in attendance, it was a small way to say ‘thanks.’
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The end of Vietnam: 40 years ago By Patrick McCallister For Veteran Voice It’s been 40 years. On March 29, 1973, the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, was deactivated. That officially ended America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Like so much with the Vietnam War, when America’s involvement started and ended are debated points to this day. Depending on how military involvement is counted, America spent upwards of about 25 years embroiled in a war aimed at stemming the rise of communism in Asia and the world. Vietnam veterans Marty Zickert, Jerry Smith and Ed Maxwell spoke to Veteran Voice on the deactivation’s anniversary, and the day after. Their lingering frustration about how the war was fought, their homecomings, and America’s collective response to it then and now is palpable. “I guess I could say, what happened (On March 29) is kind of a pretty sound statement about what the war was,” Maxwell said. “Yesterday you didn’t see any parade. You didn’t see a statement
from the Oval Office. You didn’t see it in the papers.” He continued, “The country wants to forget that war, and we shouldn’t. There were a lot of lessons to learn, and I don’t know if we learned them.” Maxwell is first vice president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1041, Stuart. The organization is open to veterans who served on active duty in the Republic of Vietnam between Feb. 28, 1961, and May 7, 1975, or any location from Aug. 5, 1964, to May 7, 1975. Smith is the charter president. “I don’t know that we learned anything from Vietnam,” he said. “We shouldn’t be in wars where we don’t go in to win and get our point across,” he said. “I think we should have been there. I think it helped stopped the aggression of communism in the world.” Zickert is more skeptical about whether American service members should have fought in Vietnam. He’s the president of the VVA’s Chapter 1038, Vero Beach, and chair of the Veterans Council of Indian River County “Why were we there in the first
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Photo courtesy of Patrick McCallister The Florida Capital Building as reflected on the Florida Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, across Monroe Street from the Old Capital, Tallahassee. Governor Bob Graham dedicated the $500,000 memorial on Nov. 11, 1985. The memorial bears the names of Florida residents who died in the Vietnam War. place?” he said. “It’s much like the current war we’re in. What are we doing there?” He continued, “There were a lot of excuses at the time that it would stem the tide of communism and the domino effect. We weren’t trying to win. We never dropped a bomb on an airfield.” The roots of the Vietnam War go back to 1949 with the signing of the Elysee Agreement, in which France recognized Vietnam as a single state within the French Union. A year later, China recognized the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, North Vietnam, and provided military assistance to a former American ally against the Japanese in World War II, the League for the Independence of Vietnam, better remembered as the Viet Minh. After numerous convoluted twists and turns, most agree that the Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when President Duong Van Minh announced the unconditional surrender of the Republic of Vietnam. By then, more than 530,000 American military members had spent time in Vietnam. More than 58,000 died. By 1990, worldwide communism had started unraveling in dramat-
ic and quiet revolutions. Today Vietnam, like other communist nations, has largely embraced a progressively capitalist economic system and seems to be inching toward broader political freedoms, although it remains a single-party state headed by the Communist Party of Vietnam. Zickert, a former Air Force pilot, is an avid model airplane collector. He said it surprised him when he realized that his latest model of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was made in Vietnam. The Phantoms were used by the Air Force and Navy during the Vietnam War. Nevertheless, models of the planes are being made in Vietnam and sold in the United States. The three Vietnam veterans said the war has cast a shadow to today. They all noted that Vietnam veterans seem to have a below-average life expectancy. “In a lot of cases (being a Vietnam veteran) was detrimental to getting work and to career development,” Smith said. “Vietnam veterans often had to go that extra mile, do a little more, just to succeed.” Indeed, 40 years on, no Vietnam
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Andrea Coy District. Part of the decline of veterans in elected office has to do with a general reduction in their population. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are about 22.7 million military veterans living in the U.S. As military equipment improved and accompanying jobs become more specialized, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard and National Guard needed fewer members. By 2035, the number of veterans is expected to drop to 14 million. From 2000 to 2010, there was about a 15 percent decrease in veterans, as older veterans died, but weren’t being replaced with as many younger ones. Florida lost somewhere between 11 to 19 percent of its veterans even as the state’s general population swelled from about 16 million to 19 million. However, Florida remains one of only four states with more than a million veterans, according to the state Department
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Elected office is full of sacrifices. It’s a calendar crammed with long, dry meetings that serve up a mind-numbing alphabet soup of government acronyms, along with a constant waterfall of constituent calls, letters and emails to answer, learning everything there is about esoteric sciences such as traffic-study methodologies, and living by specific state ethics rules about who to talk to about what, when and where. Then there are the reporters who think elected officials’ personal cell numbers are theirs to call at all hours for impromptu interviews. In other words, elected office is a busy, stressful job full of difficult decisions that veterans are welltrained to do. “I believe a military career would serve you better than anything to become an elected official,” John Haddox, new Martin County Commissioner and Navy veteran, said. Veteran Sebastian City Councilwoman and former Mayor Andrea Coy agreed, but offered a caveat. “I think military experience provides a great foundation for anyone who wants to enter politics, but it’s not the ‘be all and end all,’” she said. “It’s what the person does when they’re elected.” Coy served in the Army from 1976 to 1997. She retired at the rank of master sergeant. According to the Veterans Campaign, the number of veterans serving in federal elected offices has declined for the last 40 years. That’s likely true for state, county and municipal offices, too. Veterans Campaign is a non-partisan organization based at George Washington University that
urges veterans to run by offering lessons about running for and functioning in elected offices. It started in 2009. The campaign reports that from the late ‘60s to ‘70s, about three quarters of U.S. senators and representatives were veterans. In 2013, less than 20 percent of the 535 members of Congress are veterans. About 22 percent of the 112th Congress had been active-duty military. With John Kerry’s move to Secretary of State, there are now 102 veterans in Congress. Of those, 16 are veterans of operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom, Iraq and Afghanistan, including Florida Representative Ron DeSantis, 6th
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Bebsole and more than 100 fellow letter carriers, postal advocates and members of the public gathered last Sunday to protest U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s request before Congress to cut Saturday delivery starting in August. If Donahoe has his way, only packages, also known as parcels, would be delivered on Saturdays. Donahoe said the slash would keep the system operational. Bebsole called the move “irresponsible.” “The postmaster general was irresponsible for coming on TV and making an announcement that nobody knew anything about,” she said. “He has contracts with unions and mailers and all of us.” “And now Congress seems like they’re trying to stop him,” Bebsole said. “He (Donahoe) would have to dismantle the whole post-
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VETERAN VOICE • THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE • APRIL 5, 2013 • 7 The U.S. Postal Service is the largest civilian employer of veterans and currently employs about 130,000 former service members. “What’s most disturbing to me is we have returning veterans who are trying to feed families and pay mortgages,” said Scholpp, who has been delivering mail for 31 years. “The job market is bad enough. This would block the labor opportunities for our returning veterans.”
POSTAL from page 6 al service to do what he says he wants to do. That doesn’t happen overnight.” The protest, which was held outside of the Midway Road post office in Fort Pierce, was one of 100 of its kind that day around the country. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Dist. 18 joined a Palm Beach rally. In an emailed statement, Murphy said “Since 1775, the United States Postal Service has been an important part of our nation, impacting the way we communicate and our economy.” “… But the USPS is currently facing grave economic difficulty,” Murphy continued. “This is in part due to a decline in revenues due to an increase in digital communications, but is also to a larger extent due to a flawed formula used to calculate the USPS’ contributions to their retirement system, and a requirement that the USPS must pre-fund 75 years of future retiree health benefits in just 10 years. This is something that no other agency or company is required to do.” Murphy went on to say there are better solutions to consolidate debt. “I also believe that, instead of reducing service, we need to find a comprehensive way to address the underlying financial hardships facing the USPS.” “I am proud to cosponsor the Postal Service Protection Act, which would end the pre-funding mandate, allow the USPS to recover pension overpayments, protect sixday delivery, re-establish overnight delivery, preserve rural post offices, allow the USPS to
provide new products and services to generate revenue, provide the USPS flexibility in setting postal rates and recalculate the USPS’ pension contributions,” Murphy said. Kevin Byrne, a Port St. Lucie resident and letter carrier since 1978, agrees with Murphy’s proposal. Byrne, whose route is in Stuart, is also the Congressional district Liason for the National Association of Letter Carriers for the 18th Congressional District. “The real reason the postal service is losing money is because in 2006, we were mandated to pay for 75 years’ worth of health benefits for future retirees within a 10 year period,” Byrne said. “That accounts for 80 percent of the money the postal service has lost in recent years…” “… There is $45 billion we’ve put into that account. Just compounding interest alone would likely cover. We’ve got enough to cover many, many years into the future already.” Byrne said the move would undoubtedly translate into job loss. “The elimination of Saturday delivery would mean about 25,000 city letter carrier jobs would be lost,” Byrne said. “And overall, there would be closer to 80,000 postal jobs lost nationally. That would slow down the whole mail system. It would slow the way you pay your bills and have an impact on everybody.”
Carrier Brian Johnson, who lives in Port St. Lucie and delivers in St. Lucie West, said he can’t afford to be jobless. “It seems that the first cut is the drastic cut,” Johnson said. “This is my means right here. My wife has opened her own business, but the majority is taken care of from my income. I have kids in college and things are getting crazy with prices.” Other sectors that will suffer greatly from the cut are veterans and seniors, said six-year Army veteran Doug Scholpp, of Port St. Lucie, who works out of the Stuart office. The U.S. Postal Service is the largest civilian employer of veterans and currently employs about 130,000 former service members. “What’s most disturbing to me is we have returning veterans who are trying to feed families and pay mortgages,” said Scholpp, who has been delivering mail for 31 years. “The job market is bad enough. This would block the labor opportunities for our returning veterans.” Scholpp said the ripple effects will be widespread. “Seniors are expecting their medications and letters from the grandkids on a daily basis,” he said. “People are expecting their Netflix on a daily basis. This is vital. So many people don’t have computers or smartphones.”
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Keith Winchell, 50, of The Villages was the first participant to cross the finish line in the hand cycle division of the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies Race for Research Saturday, March 23 in Tradition. both legs, Keith Winchell, 50, of The Villages near Ocala, finished first in 38:37.790. The U.S. Air Force veteran, who served for 24 years, was involved in a motorcycle crash as a New York City police officer in 2007. Winchell’s rehab therapist put him on a hand cycle while he was still confined in a chest cast. And the rest is history.
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“It’s something that makes us so happy to give back.” Marine Vietnam veteran Cletis Mays, 62, of Sunrise, lost his legs in combat. He finished in 56:58.090. “Feel better about yourself, get up and get going,” Mays said. Fellow veterans, Michael Fidler, 46, and Fabiola Munoz, 37, both of Miami, finished 01:13:35.753 and 00:52:46.420 respectively. Fidler, a Gulf War Army veteran, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, said listening to reggae artist Bob Marley helped fuel him through the race. “It’s really fun to get out and get that feeling again of competition,” he said with an infectious smile. Munoz, a Navy veteran who became a paraplegic after a “freak accident” while in the service, said time heals all wounds. “I went to a dark place. It was hard. It took a lot of years to figure my body out again and see what I could do,” Munoz said. “Give it time, it gets better. I promise.”
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VETERAN VOICE • THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE • APRIL 5, 2013 • 11 However, President Barak Obama’s cabinet now has three famous Vietnam veterans: John Kerry is Secretary of State, Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, and Eric Shinseki has been Secretary of Veterans Affairs since 2009. “I think we’re making progress,” Maxwell said. “If I had my druthers about having a Vietnam veteran as president, or two or three in cabinet level, I prefer in the cabinet level. More can be done there. It would be nice to have a Vietnam veteran as president.” Governor Rick Scott, a Vietnam-era Navy veteran, proclaimed March 30 as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day in Florida. There are about 450,000 Vietnam-era veterans in the Sunshine State. For information about the VVA chapters, visit vva1038.org and vva1041.org.
combat veteran has ever served as president, although George W. Bush was a Vietnam-era Texas Air National Guard veteran. He never went to Vietnam. This contrasts sharply with other wars, except for Korea. Five American presidents were veterans of the War of 1812. Seven were in the Civil War. Theodore Roosevelt famously served in the Spanish-American War. Harry Truman was a combat veteran in World War I who’d go on to the White House. Dwight Eisenhower was in the Army during that war, but he never saw combat in it. Six presidents were in World War II, including Eisenhower. In all, 24 of the 43 presidents were combat veterans.
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through all the enlisted ranks and finished his military career as a lieutenant. He said making the switch from a county veterans service officer to commissioner was natural, although he hesitated. “I was always interested in politics,” he said. “I’d listen to the news and read the paper. In Martin County, our major issue was rapid growth, or slow growth. I was fascinated with how the pendulum swung both ways.” Coy ran for office because she felt there were problems in Sebastian that weren’t getting fixed. “People don’t just say, ‘Oh, I’d like to get on city council,’ she said. “They really don’t. They get on it because they have an issue. I wouldn’t be on the city council if I hadn’t had an issue I wanted resolved and was getting nowhere fast.” Haddox said there are great similarities between his military career and work on the commission. “I think they’re very similar,” he said. “In the Navy, every day you analyze problems and make decisions. To me, they’re very similar. We have to listen to (county) staff and the public, analyze it and make a decision.” Coy, too, said her 21 years in the military and eight in public service are quite similar. “Because of my diverse military background and moving around, I’m very adaptable to changes,” she said. “I left the military understanding change is good. It can be good. It also taught me accountability – learning how to play on a team and how to win and lose graciously.” Coy said some veterans seem poor at translating their military experience to elected office. “I can think one veteran that is not a good example of a veteran and I’m happy he didn’t get re-elected,” she said. “And that’s Allen West.” Coy said that she felt West became caught up with being an ideologue celebrity at the expense of constituent representation. Much of what congressional representatives spend their time doing is the mundane work of helping their states and districts get fair apportionment of federal funds, such as the Community Block Development Grant and Department of Veterans Affairs programs. She said West’s performance as a Congressman seemed com-
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pletely counter to what service members learn about leadership in the military. “Allen West, to me he’s an example of a political leader for whom power went to his head,” she said. “I found him to be obnoxious. He forgot where he came from. He forgot the people who elected him. He got caught up with the glitz and glamour of Fox News, and forgot the job he was supposed to be doing.” Coy doesn’t live in West’s former district. She declined to say whether she’s a Democrat or Republican, noting that the Sebastian City Commission is a non-partisan political body and its members don’t care which party others belong to. Patrick Murphy narrowly defeated West in a contentious bid for the state’s 18th Congressional District. Murphy is not a veteran. Governor Rick Scott is among Florida’s most prominent veterans holding office. He served in the Navy from 1971 to 1974. The governor’s office did not respond to requests for information about how Scott’s Navy service affects his governorship.
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