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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, November 8, 2018

Live Free Or Die:

Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.

— General John Stark

VOLUME 27, NO. 45

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2018

COMPLIMENTARY

Water For The Troops: Evacuation Hospitals And Airfields

by Dolores Beal Stephens Contributing Writer

As I read through the surviving letters, two journals and many official papers, I wanted the people of our country and beyond to understand how vital water was to the troops in WWII. There being no bottled water industry then, the minds of the upper brass were tasked to figure out how our soldiers would survive, while fighting and living in the arid lands of North Africa, and where fresh water supplies had been destroyed by enemy bombs, as in Sicily. WATER

FOR THE TROOPS, Evacuation Hospitals and Air Fields explains these facts. Soon after the Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, like most boys and men, my father felt the urge and responsibility and patriotism to serve his country in some way. Because he had been a sailor in the Navy during World War I, he went to the office of the Navy in the Pentagon in Washington. He was quickly sent to someone in the office of the Army. See STEPHENS on 22

Wright Museum Open For Veterans Day

The museum is located at 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, NH, on Route 28. For more information about the museum go to www.WrightMuseum. org, via Facebook, or go to the museum’s website at www.WrightMuseum. org. C h is

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Captain Wm. Ross Beal, 401st Engineers (Water Battalion) receiving a silver dagger from the Sultan Of Morocco and being declared a Sheik in gratitude for drilling a well, providing fresh water for the palace as well as for all the wells that will be left for his people. Beal was forty-five when he left his wife of twenty-three years and his four children to volunteer for the Army during WWII. His story is told in “Water For The Troops: Evacuation Hospitals and Air Fields 1942-1944”, written by his daughter Dolores Beal Stephens.

The Wright Museum Of World War II in Wolfeboro will be hosting their annual Veterans Day Ceremony on Sunday, November 11, from 11am to Noon. Sponsored by the Wolfeboro American Legion Harriman-Hale Post and Unit #18, the ceremony will be held in the Wright Museum’s Military Gallery. Museum doors will open at 10am. After the ceremony, the Museum will remain open to the public until 4pm.

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NOVEMBER Thursday 1

Yin/Yang Restorative Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Frates Dance Studio,171 Fair Street, Laconia. 10:30am. This class is for persons of all levels of experience. The sequence guides us through the most gentle movement and then settles us into deep stillness or propped asana. Just the right combination to rejuvenate and realign! Classes are $15pp. Join the YOurGA Facebook page to sign in to class ahead of time for a $5 discount!

Duane Hammond Opening Reception

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VynnArt, 30 Main Street, Meredith. 4pm-7pm. VynnArt hosts a 2 month exhibit of Alton, NH Artist Duane Hammond’s “Pigs in a Poke”. See H a m m o n d ’s h u m o r o u s p a s t e l paintings of pigs engaged in humanlike activities and situations. 279-0557

Revolutionary Story Time

Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, Exeter. 2-4pm. Designed for children ages 3 to 5. Reser vations are accepted but not required. www. IndependenceMuseum.org/

Fri. 2nd – Sun. 4th Winter Faire

First Church Congregational, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. Doors open Fri. at 3pm with a Beef Stew Supper served from 4:30-6:30pm, doors close at 7pm. Sat. 8am-1pm and Sun. 10am-12pm. Hundreds of unique gift baskets, handcrafted items, baker y, countr y pantr y, Christmas books and much more. Bring a non-perishable food item and receive a free raffle ticket. 332-1121

Saturday 3rd John Hiatt Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra Concert feat. Pianist Penny Brant Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. 7:30pm. LRSO is honored to feature the winner of the 2018 Student Concerto and Scholarship Competition, pianist Penny Brant. Penny will be performing the first movement of Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor”. Tickets are $20 adults, $10 students and are available on line at www.LRSO.org/

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David Roth – Live Performance to Benefit Lakes Region Mental Health

Gilford Community Church, 19 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 7pm. David’s songs have found their way to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books, the Kennedy Center and more! Tickets are $15/ advance, $20/door. For more details call the church office at 524-6057

St. Gabriel Holiday “Angel Fair”

Parish Center, 15 Elkins Street, Franklin. 8am-3pm. Crafts, jewelry, theme baskets, baked goods and more!

Sat & Sun 3rd & 4th NH Open Doors

League of NH Galler y, 23 Main Street, Center Harbor. Saturday 10-5, Sunday Noon to 5. Artists, craftsmen and business owners host special activities. www.squamlakesartisans. com

Sunday 4th Harvest Jazz Concert – Tom Robinson Trio with Soloist Fred Haas Unitarian Universalist Society of Laconia, 172 Pleasant Street, Laconia. 7pm. During intermission, enjoy a variety of pies, crisps, and cobblers. Whole pies to take home will also be on sale. Tickets are $12/advance, $15/door. Tickets are available at Greenlaw’s Music in Laconia or on line at www.NHISOM.

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Tuesday 6th Mindful Energy Flow Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Frates Dance Studio,171 Fair Street, Laconia. 10:30am. This class is for persons of all levels of experience. Yoga Practice is considered a moving meditation; sequenced to cleanse and rebalance our Energy Bodies; Amplified with guided Energy Medicine techniques throughout and a Nidra Savasana. This is a powerful cleanse and realignment of each energy system. Classes are $15pp. Join the YOurGA Facebook page to sign in to class ahead of time for a $5 discount!

Fritz Wetherbee – Talk & Book Signing

Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. 7pm. Fritz Wetherbee will tell stories, answer questions, sign books, and talk about his life growing up in New Hampshire.

Wednesday 7th The Railroads That Though Lee 1874-1934

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Safety complex, George Bennett Rd, Lee. 7pm.Randy Stevens is an expert on the railroads that passed through New Hampshire and Lee. Free and open to the public.

Thursday 8th Yin/Yang Restorative Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Jesse Colin Young Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

The Capitol Steps Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Reserve tickets on line at www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call the box office at 335-1992

Lakes Region ‘Uncorked’ – Charity Gala feat. Craft Beverages, Fine Food and More! Church Landing at Mill Falls, DW Highway, Meredith. 5pm-8pm. Join Lakes region Uncorked and support Lakes Region Community Services. Taste delicious foods, beverages and listen to live music! Tickets are $100/ admits 2 (or $60 single) in advance at

www.LakesRegionUncorked.com or call 581-1526

Friday 9th Dweezil Zappa Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

Fri. 9th & Sat. 10th Spirit of Christmas Fair

Holy Trinity Church, 404 High Street, Somersworth. Fri. 10am-7pm, Sat. 9am-3pm. Parish artisans, penny sale, cookie carousel, baked goods, Christmas decorations and much more! There will also be homemade lunch or dinner. Free admission and parking.

Fri. 9th – Sun. 11th Peter Pan & Wendy, A Musical Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. Fri. & Sat. 7:30pm, Sun. 2pm. This musical adventure will delight youngsters and adults alike! www. JeansPlayhouse.com or 745-2141

Fri. 9th – Sun. 18th “A Steady Performance

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Rochester Performance & Arts Center, 32 North Main Street, Rochester. RPAC presents an all-new dramatic play called A Steady Rain, which tells the story of Joey and Denny who have been friends since kindergarten and worked several years together as policemen in Chicago. When a domestic disturbance call takes a turn for the worse, their friendship is put on the line. The result is a difficult journey into a moral gray area where trust and loyalty struggle for survival against a sobering backdrop of pimps, prostitutes, and criminal lowlives. Tickets start at $15pp. To reserve seats, call 948-1099 or visit www.

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Saturday 10th Stephen Marley Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

The Stompers & The Fools Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Reserve tickets on line at www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call the box office at 335-1992

The Marine Corps Ball

Laconia Countr y Club, 607 Elm Street, Laconia. This year’s special guest of honor will be General Peter Pace (retired), who served as the 16 th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2005-2007, prior to becoming Chairman, he served as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

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Hiking Historical New Hampshire On Tuesday, November 13th at 7pm at the Gordon_Nash Library, Main St, New Hampton, the New Hampton Historical Society presents Gordon DuBois, local hiker and journalist for the Laconia Daily Sun, will take you on five virtual hikes to places that have played a predominant part in the history of our state. Most hiking destinations have a story to tell. Some in particular have an unusual and fascinating tale and a few tell of significant aspects of New Hampshire’s past. In fact they convey the unique character of the Granite State. In some respects this history has been lost with demographic and economic changes over the past hundred years. This program will bring you in touch with New Hampshire’s history, through the photographs and stories from the trails that lead to the New Hampshire of yesterday. Featured destinations are Mt. Whittier, Waternomee Mountain, Redstone Quarry, Livermore Village and Lime Kilns of Black Mountain. NHHS programs are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served along with fundraising items for sale.

Remembering World War I at Canterbury Shaker Village In commemoration of the end of World War I on Armistice Day, 1918, a free public program on the War as it affected Canterbury will be offered on Sunday, November 11 at 1 pm at Canterbury Shaker Village. Presented at the Village’s Hubbard Education Center in partnership with the Canterbury Historical Society, the two historical lectures will be complemented by a pop-up exhibit of related World War I artifacts “Although the Shakers were pacifists, they supported the efforts of the country during World War I, just as their Canterbury neighbors did,” said Susan Bennett, executive director of Canterbury Shaker Village. “This Veterans’ Day program commemorating the end of the Great War will provide vivid detail of the activities of the Shakers and the townspeople during this crucial period in American history.’Kathryn Grover, author of Staying Small in a Century of Growth: Canterbury, NH 19002000, is a writer and historian who lives in Vermont. To write this history, she took part in a town-wide effort to gather stories that reflect the unusual sense of community that Canterbury is known for. Her remarks will focus on the World War I era in town. Sue Maynard, Shaker scholar and author of A Shaker Life: The Diaries of Brother Irving Greenwood, will describe the Canterbury Shakers’ connection with the war. Canterbury Shaker is located at 288 Shaker Road in Canterbury, New Hampshire, just south of Laconia and north of Concord, NH. For more information, visit www.shakers.org or see Facebook.

Lecture on Henri Chapelle American Cemetery On Wednesday, November 14th at Taylor Community in Laconia. Seven years ago, Aimee Fogg traveled to Belgium to learn about her great-uncle’s death in World War II. Today she has a new appreciation for life – and a growing collection of adopted relatives. The men and women she now considers family share one thing in common: a loved one buried at Henri Chapelle American Cemetery in Hamburg, Belgium. By the end of the war, it was the largest temporary American cemetery in Europe. Many of the 17,000 soldiers have been returned to the United States for burial, but nearly 8,000 remain. Fogg, who lives in Gilford, has collected stories and photos about the 40 New Hampshire men and the 24 from Vermont buried at Henri-Chapelle and published them in a pair of books. She’s now documenting the accounts of 54 soldiers from Maine. Come here her story in a lecture scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. This free event is open to the public.

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agreement was to cease all hostilities and it was not until June of 1919 before the treaty was signed that officially ended the war, so it took time for the soldiers to be returned to the states. It was in December of 1918 that Laconia formed a “Bureau for Returning Soldiers and Sailors.” A See SMITH` on 30

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of the Red Cross while contributing $935,000 to the same organization. The Memorial Bridge across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth and Kittery Maine was constructed as a reminder of their service, and the New Hampshire Legislature in 1919 ordered the creation of a plaque to be placed in the State House with 697 names of those who gave their lives in the military, naval, and auxiliary forces during the war. There are probably many plaques or monuments in New Hampshire towns with names of those who served in World War I from the State,but I have been surprised to see little in the media about that conflict as we approach the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice. New Hampshire Nurses were among those contributing their services during the war and the New Hampshire Hospital School of Nursing presented the hospital with a plaque around the year 1920 with 26 names of alumni from the school who served in the war. The signing of the Armistice didn’t mean that all of the action associated with the war was over as the

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In the eleventh month, on the eleventh day, at the eleventh hour, churches around the world are being asked to ring their bells eleven times to remember the signing of the armistice in France to put an end to the great war, now known as World War I. Armistice Day has given way to Veterans Day, but maybe as we approach the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the armistice on November 11, 2018, which is a Sunday, some churches in New Hampshire which still have bells and other bell owners, will ring them eleven times at eleven a.m. on that day to commemorate the end of the great war and honor our veterans and active military persons. Some organizations are asking for bells to be rung 21 times. Another way to remember the war that was declared to be the one to end all wars, but didn’t, is to follow a past custom of two minutes of silence, one in memory of those who gave their lives, and one for their family members and friends who shared in the loss. Red poppies are also used as a symbol of remembrance. According to Cow Hampshire, New Hampshire’s History Blog, on the internet, the state provided more than 20,000 men for military service in World War I, invested nearly 75 and ½ million dollars in the first four Liberty Loans, and supplied 150,000 members

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On November 1, 2018 I made the decision to go and confront Rich for leaving me so early and going home. It actually was a pattern of his, leaving me and going home (earth bound one) way back in the 60’s, so I decided to head home (Celestial) and have a “chat” with him. I was the daughter of Virginia “Jake” Adams and John Henry Mitchell, born in Stamford, CT., but was later adopted by her last husband John C. Adams, at age 12. I bounced around New England like a football as a kid, living in Ct, MA, Ct again, MA again and finally put the brakes on in NH where I stayed put, for a while that is, Ct and back again for good. I graduated, just barely I might add, from Dover-Sherborn Regional High School, in Dover, MA, and then was sent to The American School in Lugano, Switzerland......it actually wasn’t to further my education as my parents tried to convince me, it was really to keep me away from Rich. I followed in my mothers footsteps so to speak. Married to William Becker, for about ten minutes, and then gave birth to the best thing that ever happened to me, my soul and son, Andreas B. (Hardy) Wischlburger, III, of East Hebron, NH, via my next marriage to his dad, Andreas “Andy” Wischlburger. Then in 1986 married the love of my life and object of the parental units scrutiny all that time ago, Rich Leavitt. I lost one of my sisters, and a big piece of my heart, Carolyn “Cacky” Gilchrist in 1995, to pancreatic cancer but still have 3 wonderful sisters, Anne Adams Buono and her husband Sal Buono, of The Villages, FL (um... he’s not a sister tho). Oh and by the way how’s this for predestination, Anne and I were best of friends before our parents got married; Sara Adams Sumner of Newport Beach, CA. and Barbara Mitchell of way off in Bermuda. I had a wonderful niece (she was my heart) Missy Englehart and her husband (nope, I know, he’s not a niece ) Commander Tom Englehart, a wonderful, caring and loving man; and the greatest great niece I could ever have, Emmy Englehart, bound for the White House as I keep telling her, all of Houston, TX. No worries I’ll be beside you on the bulkhead, vodka in hand and watching those gorgeous sunsets over Lake Houston !However it’s breaking my heart to leave my best girl and granddaughter, Jaelyn Rae Wischlburger, of Alexandria, NH. I won’t be here to watch her grow up, go to her prom, get married, and hold a great grandchild, but the best part is I’ll know what she’s up to and going to be up to before she does so I can run interference if need be. I leave all my friends, there is so much I could say about them all and how awesome and caring they all are, especially when I needed them, there are no words, but you all were loved, ALL of you. I had many jobs, too freaking many and not enough room to list but here’s a few: Harts, of course, didn’t everyone start there?, anyway, HoJo’s/Gandy Dancer, B. Mae Denny’s, Preferred Vacation Rentals, Silver Sands Marina, Jeremiah’s,Lakes Region Hospital, the American Legion, and when Rich booked it out of here I went back to Ct (again) to heal and while there worked as the assistant to the CEO of the Ct. Chiropractic Assn, and ended my work career at Trustworthy Hardware, which broke my heart to leave, I wasn’t ready to retire, but you can’t fight ALS, trust me. You all know I held stools at The Broken Antler, JT’s Steakhouse, Crossroads and a few more, where I watched my beloved NE Patriots, NASCAR (Rich’s favorite) but to me a lot of cars going fast and turning left, ho hum, but I did love the crashes. Golf, yeah watching paint dry, but I did love Goofy Golf, boy was that a blast and a bit, well, we did enjoy a libation or two during the game. Tubing, what can I say, I was told I had a blast! That booze barge was awesome. Loved the sled dogs, learning Reiki, and studying with the psychics in Ct. Wish I could have been another James Van Praagh,, but now I guess I’ll be the real deal. I loved to travel but I hated to fly, yeah I know, made getting to Texas and around the country kinda tough; hated trains too. I would love to say in lieu of flowers please give to the ALS association, but I’m not going to. PLEASE, near and dear to my heart is the NH Humane society located on Meredith Center Road in Laconia, NH. There will be no calling hours, I chose to be cremated by Wilkinson-Beane and have my ashes scattered, but since I did love a good party, there will be a celebration of life, yours, mine and ours at the 405 Pub and Grill in Laconia on Sunday November 11th beginning at 5pm. So even tho I’m gone, every time a smart ass remark sneaks out, think of me!

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This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

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Halloween Tales

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

We don’t get a lot of Halloween Trick or Treaters on the street where we live. Still, the potential is there for more than we might expect, so it is always good to be prepared. I’ve seen kids around our neighborhood, I know that they are out there, so I’m really not sure why the lack of participation. There are only seven houses on our street, so maybe it’s just not one of the places savvy trick or treaters decide on when they are scoping out their plan of attack for the evening. After all, city and town ordinances do restrict trick or treating to just a couple of hours now, Some even have it on a day other than Halloween. So, planning must be done to take advantage of the best routes with the best treats in the least possible amount of time. At least that’s my thinking, having grown up trick or treating in the 1960s in a highly populated suburban neighborhood on Long Island, New York. I was never too concerned about my costume, it was merely a prop to accomplish the goal at hand -acquiring candy. I was usually dressed as a hobo. Some ratty clothes, a pillow case for goodies and the ash from a burnt cork covering my face to give it that hobo look. (Of course, this primitive costume is no longer allowed; now considered offensive to hobos.) There was no time limits on Trick or Treating back

then, just the stamina to hold up as long as you could, ringing as many doorbells as possible and collecting as much stash as one was able. You didn’t even look to see what you were given, you just took it, no questions asked, ad went to the next house. If it was a weekday, you’d start right after school and go to as late as seven or eight at night, even longer if you were one of the older kids and had the courage. Amazingly enough, most people still answered the door that late and were more than happy to provide. If it was a weekend, all bets were off. As long as you gave people at least enough time to eat a decent breakfast and have their coffee, you could hit the trick or treating road before lunchtime and keep at it past the dinner hour. There were many kids in our immediate neighborhood as well as in the outlying community, which was probably close to a mile square, and all territory within was fair game. My three older brothers and I would hit the road, fill up our bags and then come home to empty our sweets in time for our mom to have enough to reload her emptying goodie basket so she could deal with the hundreds of kids that were knocking on our door. (Two younger sister followed but they never came close to matching our hauls.) I can’t remember any mothers and fathers following their younger kids when they went trick or treating, that responsibility was mostly left to older siblings (who after two blocks would bring them home, feeling as they did their duty, so they could go out a little further on the grid in their own Trick or Treating adventures.) Today, understandably, parents are much more hands on as their kids hit the Halloween trail. Some

even driving their kids from house to house, watching with eagle eyes as each transaction between costumed trick or treater and provider of the cherished sweets takes place. As per usual this year, we didn’t have many kids at our house for Halloween. We did have five, which is a record for us. One was a group of four kids (parents watching carefully from the street) the other was a single trick or treater, a young boy of about nine, with a stethoscope around his neck, so I assumed he was dressed as a doctor (or possibly a Nurse Practitioner). I heard a knock on the door and as I opened it I saw the good doctor was already getting into the car which provided his Halloween transportation. He saw me at the door and begrudgingly got back out of the car and made his way back. “I almost left you know,” he said in a less than happy tone as he marched across the lawn as though trying to instill some guilt in me. He climbed the two steps back up the front porch and held open his bag. “What do you say?” I asked playing the game. “Trick or treat?” he said as if under interrogation. Satisfied, I grabbed a couple of the peanut butter cups I had purchased and went to put them in his bag. “Ummm, I don’t like peanut butter,” he said looking at me as if this were a negotiation. “Well, that’s all I have,” I said with no sense of sympathy. “Okay, give them to me,” he said with resignation. “I’ll let my parents have them.” And then he was gone, back in the car to travel to his next disappointment. Maybe I’m just old, but Halloween certainly has changed.

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Yes, Unvetted Illegal Caravans Threaten Public Health We live in bizarro times. Suddenly, it is controversial to state obvious, neonbright truths. This week, it has become newsworthy to by Michelle Malkin observe that Syndicated Columnist illegal border-crossers who circumvent required medical screenings are a threat to America’s public health and safety. Just look at these hyperventilating headlines and tweets. From Newsweek, which is supposed to, you know, report actual news of the week: “’We don’t know what people have’: Laura Ingraham calls migrant caravan a health issue.” And from The Daily Beast: “Fox & Friends Host Brian Kilmeade Fears ‘Diseases’ Brought By Migrant Caravan.” This is not “news.” It’s propaganda recycled and regurgitated by lazy political operatives masquerading as journalists. At least the Newsweek writer gave credit to his zealous hitmen sources: “Ingraham’s comments,” he dutifully wrote, “were first highlighted by Media Matters for America.” MMfA is a militant left-wing oppo research outfit funded by progressive billionaire George Soros. Somehow, not-really-Newsweek forgot to mention this fact. (Alas, mentioning Soros subsidies has also become a forbidden act this week, but that’s another story.) The determined intent of these “news” pieces is not to inform readers but to inflame them with the dog-whistle assumption that conservatives, Fox personalities and ordinary Americans who worry about diseases from immigration are de facto racists. On cue, tennis star and celebrity leftist Martina Navratilova barked

at Fox News’ Kilmeade on Twitter: “YOU ARE THE DISEASE! the migrants are not the problem, trump and his sycophants, like you, are the problem. Stop spewing fear and prejudice.” Comedian John Henson tweeted: “Brian Kilmeade is spreading the disease of intolerance every single day...” And former Clinton press flackturned CNN hack Joe Lockhart wrote: “This is the disease Fox News spreads every day. They are complicit with Trump in trying to change the character of our country.” Newsflash, fake newsers: It’s neither racist nor xenophobic nor hateful to discuss the impact of unfettered mass immigration and unvetted caravans of illegal bordercrossers on our public health. My parents, legal immigrants from the Philippines, were screened for a panoply of communicable and infectious diseases. My husband’s great-great grandparents and their relatives from Ukraine underwent thorough medical and physical exams at Ellis Island immediately after disembarking from their arduous transatlantic journeys. A team of doctors checked for everything from eye disease and muscle weakness to heart conditions, ringworm and mental deficiencies. Those who failed were rejected and ejected. No appeals, no apologies, no amnesty. I find it especially bizarre that some of the same outspoken, big government advocates for vaccinating every American citizen, young or old, against every possible condition, from the flu to chickenpox to HPV, are the same types now howling over the commonsense idea that we should protect ourselves from foreign diseases. It wasn’t Trump’s idea to build a wall against microscopic invaders. The Immigration and National-

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When We Broaden The Definition Of Incitement, Freedom Suffers Over the past week, we’ve heard the media pitching one particular narrative nonstop: the story that President Donald Trump’s rhetoby Ben Shapiro ric has resultSyndicated Columnist ed in increased violence. We heard it in the aftermath of a spate of attempted bombing attacks against Democratic targets by a Floridian nut job, and we heard it in the aftermath of a shooting attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue by an outspokenly anti-Trump white supremacist. Is there truth to the charge? To determine whether there is, we’ve first got to consider the question more broadly: When is speech related to violence? It’s obvious that speech is often related to action. We change how we think and see the world based on what other people say

to us. We change our opinions. Our emotions can be soothed or our anger provoked. The entire purpose of political speech is to motivate people to believe and act in certain ways. It would be foolish and shortsighted to suggest, then, that over-the-top rhetoric and violent metaphor have no impact on the public discourse. But we cannot equate all speech with incitement, obviously. To do so would be to destroy the entire rationale for free speech. If we can attribute the violence of a few to the speech of public figures, the only available solution would be to curtail speech. And we cannot base our standard for protected speech on those with eggshell skulls. If the craziest and most easily provoked among us become the standard, then free speech dies. Thus, our legal system generally relies on a “reasonable person” standard when determining whether speech incites

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Burma Rights Crisis Continues in Face of Foreign Pressures UNITED NATIONS - Burma’s

human rights situation is deteriorating despite consistent pressures by the United States by John J. Metzler and the wider Syndicated Columnist international community to stem the humanitarian crisis. In a rare address before the Security Council, Marzuki Darusman, human rights Rapporteur for Burma, aka Myanmar, presented a report which details “massive human rights violations in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States.” Presenting evidence from the UN Fact Finding Mission highlights international efforts to focus on the ongoing abuses against almost a million Rohingya Muslims forced from their homes in Rakhine as well as other persecuted ethnic minorities from Kachin and Shan states. The report states bluntly, “The mission established consistent patterns of serious human rights violations and abuses in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in addition to serious violations of international humanitarian law. These are principally committed by the Myanmar security forces.” The document adds, “senior generals of the Myanmar military should be investigated and prosecuted in an international criminal tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.” Though an overwhelmingly Bud-

dhist country of 54 million, Myanmar, has a six percent Christian and four percent Muslim minority. The Myanmar military, the feared Tatmadaw, has been seriously harassing the Rohingya since 2012; the terrible ethnic cleansing and forcible relocation began in earnest in 2017. Nearly one million Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh, itself a poor country, to escape the violence which was according to the UN “the realization of a disaster long in the making. It was the result of the systemic oppression of the Rohingya.” As the report advises, “The process of “othering” the Rohingya and their discriminatory treatment began long before 2012. The extreme vulnerability of the Rohingya is a consequence of State policies and practices implemented over decades, steadily marginalizing them. The result is a continuing situation of severe, systemic and institutionalized oppression.” Rohingya are impoverished and don’t have citizenship rights in the otherwise slowly democratizing Myanmar society. Sadly the longtime and once lauded human rights advocate Aung San Suu Kyi while standing up to the Burmese military for her fellow Buddhists, has politely averted her eyes from the plight of the embattled Rohingya minority. Moreover despite protestations from Britain, the former colonial power, and the U.S. and UN,Myanmar’s regime has acted with near political impunity shielded in the Security Council by its allies in Beijing and Moscow.

Regarding the current report, UK Ambassador Karen Pierce stated, “It makes a specific recommendation to the Security Council to “ensure accountability for crimes under international law committed in Myanmar. Ensuring the pre-

vention of such crimes, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is one of the reasons that the United Nations and the Security Council were established in the first place.”

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A Bridge To Sell You “Libertarians believe that you should be as conservative or as liberal as you want to be as long as you don’t want to force yourself on others,” by John Stossel says Larry Syndicated Columnist Sharpe, Libertarian candidate for governor of New York. Sharpe is an unusual Libertarian candidate because he’s doing well in some polls. One found Sharpe getting 13 percent, and after people heard his campaign pitch, 25 percent. That would put him in second place, ahead of the Republican. So of course the establishment shuts him out -- he and other third-party candidates weren’t allowed in the one gubernatorial debate. Sharpe wins fans by arguing that it would be good if individuals make their own decisions without government spending constantly getting in the way. “What we understand as libertarians is at the end of every single law is a guy or gal with a gun who’s going to put you in a cage; if you don’t want to go in that cage, they’re going to shoot you. What that means is you should only use the law when there is loss of life, health, limb, property, or liberty... Not because I don’t like what you’re doing.” That’s refreshing to hear from a politician. No new government programs under a Sharpe administration, then? “No, no, no, no, no, no,” he assures me. At least one candidate doesn’t want to make government bigger. New York faces a $4.4 billion deficit. Current New York Gov-

ernor Andrew Cuomo proposed raising taxes. Sharpe has other ideas. “Lease naming rights on our infrastructure,” he says in my latest internet video. “The Triborough Bridge could be called the Staples Bridge, or the Apple Bridge.” My staff asked some New Yorkers what they thought about leasing naming rights to bridges and tunnels. “Bad idea!” said one woman. “It’s commercializing!” Most people were opposed. I said that to Sharpe. “You know what she should do?” he responded. “Start a nonprofit, raise $30 million, she can name it whatever she wants.” One man said he didn’t “want to rename something after some sort of corporation!” “Shake your fist and say, ‘This doesn’t sound good,’” replied Sharpe. “You’re going to wind up in a place where the tax burden is insanely high.” Under our current system, many bridges and other public structures advertise anyway -but they promote politicians. Gov. Cuomo just named a bridge after his father. “An imperial bridge named after our royal family!” said Sharpe with a laugh. “I’m embarrassed.” We libertarians don’t think politicians deserve monuments just because they got elected. “Tell you what I’ll do,” said Sharpe. “(Governor Cuomo’s) got $30 million a year? He can keep his name on that bridge and take care of the maintenance.” Sharpe applies similar thinking to New York’s decrepit subway system. “We have lines on the MTA right now not being used at night. Home Depot or Google or Amazon or whomever -- they can use these lines... move their freight... They’ll pay. Win-win.”

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Veterans Show Off Their Talent In Camp Resilience Fundraiser On Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11th, at 6pm a talent show unlike others you may have seen live or on television, will take place at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia when veterans and family members of veterans take the stage to compete in “Vets Got Talent” to benefit Camp Resilience. For those unfamiliar with Camp Resilience, a quick background. The idea for Camp Resilience started when Kurt Webber, a retired U.S. Army Officer was skiing at Gunstock in 2013 with Gregg Martin. Martin, a retired Two Star Major General, mentioned that he thought the Lakes Region would be a great place to run programs for wounded warriors. The idea was to use the Lakes Region of New Hampshire as the home base for this program and Camp Resilience was born. Since its inception, Camp Resilience has run about a dozen retreats a year which provide sports and life skills training for wounded warriors. Besides activities like downhill and cross country skiing, water skiing, Aerial Treetop adventures and more there are also life skills sessions including developing stronger family ties and community relationships, financial management, diet and cooking classes and job searching and interview skills, to name a few. The goal is to help participants succeed in life and to become leaders in their communities through their example of overcoming adversity. Today Weber is the president of the Patriot Resilient Leadership Institute (PRLI) which runs Camp Resilience. The rest of the board consists of veterans, spouses of veterans and medical professionals. Most importantly, Camp Resilience is strictly a volunteer run organization. The obvious need for a program like Camp Resilience has grown over the

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the class. There will be thank you notes to veterans inside and any veteran or anyone who knows a veteran to give one to can take one with them.” The Grappone Company in Concord has also given a very generous donation to help fund the prizes as well as rentals. Among the other sponsors are” Meredith Village Savings Bank, Belknap Landscaping, E. M. Heath,

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23 by before the folks at home received word from my father. The family members, nevertheless, had been writing to the APO address they had been given, not knowing where my father was or if he was safe. My father, while on the ship, became very homesick for the family he loved. He wrote a letter almost every day, because he felt closer to them as he wrote. The North African invasion took place at three locations on November 8, 1942; On November 9 Captain Beal was still on his ship, while the convoy cruised. Days went by be-

Capt. Beal at the site of a producing water well. A successful well with a large flow of water.

French Morocco, putting it in danger of being spotted by a Luftwaffe pilot looking for trouble. Fortunately, at least to my knowledge, this second convoy was not touched, and the ships were directed to land its forces at Casablanca, as the facilities had been sufficiently repaired. Two or three weeks went

Capt. Beal came upon these Italian soldiers, prisoners of war. STEPHENS from 22

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fore the family learned that Capt. Beal had landed on November 18, the start of the winter season in French Morocco. The descriptions ot the land, the people and the work ahead was being told in every letter received by the folks at home. As soon as all the necessary equipment was unloaded from the ships, work with his crew of 14 men began. But first having broken the bow of his eyeglasses, he went to a shop owned by a Frenchman. They immediately became friends. There were a few days between orders, when he could go into the shops in Casablanca and Rabat. He made friends with a wealthy Moorish rug maker who invited him to his home. That was an experience of a life time. But there were other experiences. The rug maker knew the French Consul General, who learned that the Sultan of Morocco had seen the drilling rigs in action, and word went out to General Patton that the sultan would like to

have water supplied to his palace. Captain Beal met with the Consul General and soon the work began. Fresh water was pumped into the palace and the Sultan was pleased. Captain Beal described this work and his invitation to the palace in letters home. Often a well would bring forth a large flow of water, whether it was for an army headquarters, for a newly constructed air field, or evacuation hospitals that were hastily built. The American and Brit-

ish troops needed fresh water, and flushed-out gasoline tanker trucks were used to transport the water to them. Captain Beal’s orders took him to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea awaiting further orders. Letters from home were delayed in catching up. He knew he would soon be on another ship headed for the invasion of Sicily, but he could not tell of it in his letters. His work continued shortly after the invasion, while the Germans were still bombing not far from his work. In North Africa he had been quite safe from injury, but in Sicily his experiences were quite different. WATER FOR THE TROOPS, Evacuation Hospitals and Air Fields was published by Trafford Publishing. It is available for sale at The Country Bookseller and The Wright Museum (both in Wolfeboro). It is also available at Ama- The author, Dolores Beal Stephens, in 1944, a senior in high zon.com. school (second from right in front) wearing her favorite dark

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action. Courts of appeal have held that threats and incitement generally require that “a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted by those to whom the maker communicates the statement as a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily injury.” By this standard, none of President Trump’s statements has come close to inciting either attempted bombings or shootings. The media’s suggestions otherwise seem to equate speech with violence, making an argument for moral culpability that cannot be sustained. But that doesn’t mean that misuse of non-inciting free speech isn’t dam-

aging. It most certainly is. Rhetoric that equates political opposition with murderers, traitors or enemies of the people tears away at the social fabric, the base-line trust we have for one another. If our opponents are motivated by evil intent, then why bother conversing with them? If they’re deplorables on the one hand and globalists who intend to destroy the country on the other, how are we supposed to come together in civil ways? The answer is that we won’t. And every violent act merely tears us apart further as we seek to cast blame on those we think either inspired or supported the violent act. Lone evil actors can kill and maim. Only we, as a country, can tear our-

selves apart. And as we blame one another for the actions of non-reasonable actors, we’re doing just that. Ben Shapiro, 34, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is The New York Times bestselling author of “Bullies.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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ity Act mandates medical screening exams for legal immigrants and refugees from around the world. The tests are performed by authorized physicians in either the applicants’ countries of origin or in the United States. The process includes “a physical examination, mental health evaluation, syphilis serologic testing... and chest radiography followed by acid-fast bacillus smears and sputum cultures if the chest radiograph is consistent with tuberculosis (TB).” Legal immigrants and refugees must provide mandatory proof of vaccination for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, meningococcus, chicken pox, pneumonia and seasonal flu. Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control, not Fox News or the Trump White House or any other evil conservatives, reports that “most experts agree that testing for TB, hepatitis B, and HIV should be performed for most new arrivals to the United States. Clinicians should also make a habit of ensuring that this screening has been done for every new non-US-born patient they see, regardless of time since the person’s arrival.” Actual public health experts across the Southwest have reported rises in drugresistant TB and dengue fever. In June, Australian public health researchers reported that “scabies, long considered a disease of the

past in the developed world, is making its way back.” The scientists pointed to mass global migration as a leading factor, noting scabies outbreaks among refugees to the European Union and along America’s southern border. And in Germany, federal epidemiologists reported that since opening the floodgates to migrants in 2015, data show “increased incidences in Germany of adenoviral conjunctivitis, botulism, chicken pox, cholera, cryptosporidiosis, dengue fever, echinococcosis, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, giardiasis, haemophilus influenza, Hantavirus, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, HIV/AIDS, leprosy, louse-borne relapsing fever, malaria, measles, meningococcal disease, meningoencephalitis, mumps, paratyphoid, rubella, shigellosis, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhus and whooping cough.” It’s simply insane to argue we should turn a blind eye to the health status of lawbreaking aliens. And it’s treachery, yes, treachery, for so-called journalists to use their platforms to blithely smear those who dare to question open borders orthodoxy or report the highly inconvenient facts. Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin visit the Creators Syndicate at www.creators.com.

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Amb. Pierce added plaintively, “I never thought in my diplomatic career that I would hear a briefing to the Security Council, a briefing as compelling but detailing such awful treatment of a people as we have heard today.” Reports of widespread targeting of civilians, sexual violence and a culture of impunity among the perpetrators are part of a picture of state targeted persecution. The UN report states clearly, “The gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States are shocking for their horrifying nature and ubiquity. Many of these violations undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.” It adds, “Myanmar has a heavy responsibility to remedy the situation as a matter of the utmost urgency; otherwise, it risks destroying its democratic reform process.” Since Myanmar has allowed a cautious power sharing agreement between the long ruling military and civilian opposition, there’s been an investment surge into this resource rich Southeast Asian country. This somewhat counters China’s dominant role in the country. Now the European Union (EU) has threatened to end trade preferences for the garment industry, a major employer. Garment exports from Burma to the EU surged from $1.2 billion in 2013 to $2.7 bil-

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world and the nations will learn war no more.” The prediction of the trustee proved to be too optimistic and the U.S. War Department chose the University of New Hampshire as one of the campuses to host eight-week training courses in the Spring of 1918 to prepare young people to supply the need of special skills needed in World War I. Before the eight weeks were completed a request came asking for “Forty carpenters, fifteen gas engine men, and three heavy duty truck drivers for immediate overseas duty.” There was celebration on the campus on November 11th when word of the armistice was received including a bonfire and dancing followed by a parade to Dover where additional celebrating took place before the students walked back to Durham. Congress declared November 11 to be a national holiday called Armistice Day in the year 1938, with the day being dedicated to the pursuit of world peace. The armistice had been observed previously by declaration of the President and by action of state legislatures. Other nations also observe the end of World War I in different

ways, with the first official observance taking place at Buckingham Palace in London in 1919. In the United States the name was changed to Veterans Day in 1954 to include remembering those who fought in World War II. The observance of the end of World War I has also been commonly designated Remembrance Day. Hundreds of New Hampshire men and women lost their lives during the war with many dying in action or from their wounds, and many others dying from disease or in accidents. The people of the state contributed in other ways to help in the efforts from the United States that enabled the country to make the difference that ended the war, one that we were reluctant to enter, but apparently needed to finish. Will the bells of peace sound eleven times in the eleventh month on the eleventh day at the eleventh hour in remembrance of an agreement on the western front in Europe one hundred years ago to stop the killing and end a war?

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