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Happy Independence Day!

Take time to reflect on what freedom really means

Thursday is the Fourth of July, the 237th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the document that clearly and eloquently stated the reasons of the 13 colonies to separate from Great Britain and form a new nation, the United States of America. The day will be celebrated around the country where U.S. Citizens recall the farmers and the lawyers, the scientists and the scholars who pledged their lives to one another with oaths and prayers, who vowed to cast off the shackles burdening them and their families, who spoke out boldly in pursuit of a nation like none other. Thanks to our founding fathers and the men and women who have guarded their vision of a democratic society, we can gather freely, speak openly, worship as we please, and go within these United States with no fear that tyrants will oppress us. However, these days it seems that the United States of America has become a paradox of freedom and tyranny. We claim that we have tremendous freedom (a term that many people today do not really understand the meaning of) because of the philosophical basis upon which this country was founded. It is assumed that individuals have rights, e.g., free speech, the right to bear arms, the right of a jury trial before our peers should the government try to imprison us, seize our property, or deprive us of our lives. Also, we have a Constitution that limits the powers of a central government to intrude into our lives and that our rights have been enshrined in the First 10 Amendments to our Constitution. We are blessed, many other countries, like England and Canada, also have a Bill of Rights, but those rights are at the pleasure of the government. It states such right in their laws. Making theirs not so “unalienable” as our rights. Only the United States of America, in all of history, was founded on the assumption that the individual has rights that exist apart from the government (endowed by our creator) and not at the government’s pleasure. Then, in 1868, the Constitution was amended to say that even the individual states couldn’t violate our unalienable rights. These things form the basis of our freedom and are the reasons why the United States is the freest country on earth. But we as citizens have grown complacent, and allowed the government bureaucracy and select entrenched politicians to expand government under the premise that we can’t take care of ourselves. More and more agencies regulate us without juries - the IRS, Zachary traffic ticket cameras operators, OSHA, EPA, and the Nation Security Agency (NSA) wire tapping surveillance programs that target every single person living in the United States. In violation of the founders of our country’s wishes, none of these allow trial by jury or our peers. Whatever you do on Independence Day, don’t overlook the significance of what this holiday stands for. Get involved, get educated, work for freedom and liberty.

Daniel C. Duggan, Publisher

Zachary Post Associate Publisher Named LaneRMC Foundation Director Theresa Dold Payment has been named Director of the Lane Regional Medical Center Foundation. She is responsible for the implementation and achievement of Foundation goals and objectives and working closely with foundation committees to manage and support their activities, projects and programs. Payment has more than 21 years of sales, marketing, writing and fundraising experience. Prior to this position she was associate publisher for the Zachary Post/Feliciana Explorer. As a volunteer, she coordinated fundraising activities for Regional Arts Council of Zachary, Rotary International of Zachary, Cinderella Project of Baton Rouge, Cortana Kiwanis and St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. Payment is currently a volunteer for the annual Zachary/Baker Relay for Life, Regional Arts Council of Zachary and is an Ambassador for the Zachary Chamber of Commerce. She received the Baton Rouge Women in Media 2011 Award of Excellence, and the Parenting Publications of America Gold Award for feature and monthly column writing. Theresa grew up in Zachary and lives there with her husband, Mark, and their four children, Landon, April, Emily and Dru. They are members of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. “Lane is very special to me”, says Theresa. “Three of my children were born here, making the hospital a part of some very special moments in my life. The mission of the hospital focuses on excellence integrity, compassion, respect and commitment; all of which I feel are essential is providing the best care for my family and the families of my community. I am honored to be a member of the Lane family.”

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Local WWII, Pearl Harbor Veteran Still Going Strong at 91 years of Age By James Ronald Skains

“In 1939, I joined the Louisiana National Guard Bogalusa unit,’’ 91 year old Emmitt Clyde “Mr. E.C.” Howard told the Post. “It was a Calvary unit, and it didn’t take long for me to decide that I didn’t like riding horses that much.’’ “By 1940, everybody pretty well knew that we were fixing to go to war,’’ Howard continued. “I knew that I didn’t want to fight no war from the back of a horse so I hitchhiked down to New Orleans and joined the Navy.’’ “The first thing the Navy did was put a bunch of us on a train to San Diego for basic training,’’ Howard recalled. “It was a very long train ride for a country boy.’’ Howard trained in San Diego for several months and then the Navy assigned him to temporary duty at Pearl Harbor. Howard was bunking

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on a supply ship in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese Naval Air Force came calling. “I was sound asleep that morning when the bomb explosions woke me up,’’ Howard admitted. “By the time I got dressed and on deck the main attack was over but I did see a lot of

Japanese planes flying around.’’ “There were fires and smoke everywhere you looked, it was horrible,” Howard added. “Since I wasn’t assigned to that ship, I didn’t have anything to do but watch; but the watching didn’t last long because I was quickly assigned to a burial detail.” “Now that is a duty you don’t ever want to have. It didn’t take long before we had used up all the caskets in Hawaii and they started flying caskets in from the states. Fortunately, I didn’t have to pull any dead sailors out of the water, another naval detail did that. They took dozers and dug big trenches. We put up strings lines to mark each grave with the right names so that if their family wanted to move their casket back to the states, the right grave could be found. We put all that on a map.” Total casualties at Pearl Harbor were 2,402 with 1177 on the battleship USS Arizona that still lies on the bottom of Pearl Harbor bay. The battleship USS Oklahoma was sec-

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ond with 429 deaths followed by two other battleships, the USS California with 105 killed and the USS West Virginia with 106 deaths. Approximately 355 sailors survived the attack on the USS Arizona. Two years ago, only about 4% of those were still alive. It’s not known how many total military personnel survived the attack on Pearl Harbor which occurred at 11:55 AM Central Standard Time just as many people were leaving church, but that number has to be small in 2013. “After I finished up on the burial detail I was assigned to the fuel supply ship the USS Neches named after the Neches River in Texas. They sent the Neches out to supply high octane fuel to some carriers around Midway but we were picked off by a Japanese submarine.’’ “I’ll never forget that night,’’ Clyde Howard said. “I was sleeping on deck when we heard a loud noise, which turned out to be a dud Japanese torpedo that didn’t explode. But the next torpedo about ten minutes later hit around the engine room and caused a big explosion.” “One of my buddies sleeping

right next to me was killed in that blast. It seemed like everything was on fire. I kept wondering how come the high-octane fuel we were carrying didn’t explode. It wasn’t but a little while before all of us had to get in the water in life jackets or on life rafts.” The official naval time line on the sinking of the Neches says that the dud torpedo hit the ship at 0310 hours, the second torpedo from the Japanese Submarine I-72 hit at 0319 hours. The Neches slowly settled forward and the list to the starboard side increased. The Neches sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 120 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor at 0437 hours with the loss of fifty-seven men. “After the Neches sank, I was assigned to another ship and the rest of the war was pretty routine navy life for me,” Clyde Howard recalled. “But I tell you, the last place anyone wants to be is in a life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.” “When Paw Paw was at Pearl Harbor, he was waiting to be sent back to the states to a diesel mechanic school,’’ Carrick Joe Howard,

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Clyde’s grandson and biggest fan, interjected. “I always say that if Paw Paw had gone to diesel mechanic school, all us Howards would have been diesel mechanics instead of motor re-winders.” When Joe Howard got back from the war, he attended the Vo-Tech School in Bogalusa on the GI Bill where he learned electric motor rewinding. After graduating, Joe Howard moved to Baton Rouge where he worked as an electrician out of the IBEW Union. In 1959, Clyde Howard opened up his first rewinding shop in a garage size building off Hank Drive. He used an attic fan motor for his first rewinding machine and a stove oven in a sheet metal box as his first baking machine. Today, the Howard electrical motor rewind operation that

started in 1959 employs 65 people in a 71,000 square foot facility. The name of the company is Red Stick Armature. “I remember a re-wind motor and machine shop that was located downtown where the Baton Rouge RiverCenter is now. I did a lot of work for the owner on tugboats that were his customers. When he retired, I sort of absorbed his customers because they needed someone to keep them going, and they knew me,” Howard continued. Looking around his modern day 71,000 square foot facility on Highway 61 near St. Francisville, Clyde Howard shook his head, “Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined the business growing this big.’’

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Calendar of Events

Galilee Baptist Church invites the public to their Vacation Bible School - Colossal Coaster World -July 8 – 12 from 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. each day. Children ages 4 years – 6th grade are invited. They will be learning about facing fear and trusting God! Anyone can register their children on their website www.galileebc.com or on their Facebook page. Call the church if there are any questions 225-654-5633 ext. 2. Attention all youth baseball players ages 9-11 interested in playing tournament baseball: The Louisiana Legacy Baseball organization is hosting an open tryoutfor potential team members Tryout Information: Saturday, July 20th 8:0010:00 a.m. Slaughter Baseball Field. What to wear and bring: Wear baseball gear. Bring baseball bat, glove, helmet, and hat. For more information, please contact Bianca W. Brown at (225) 2887686. 6 week course. Call 570-8323 to register. First Baptist Zachary would like to invite you to “Mondays for the Master” this summer! We’re moving our Sunday night worship services to Monday nights at 7pm from July 8 through August 5 this

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year. Come for solid Biblical teaching and Spirit-filled Worship 7pm each night in the FBCZ Worship Center (4200 Main Street, Zachary, LA). July 8 Rev. Philip Robertson, Senior Pastor of Philadelphia Baptist Church in Deville, LA July 15 Dr. Fred Wolfe, Senior Pastor of Luke 4:18 Fellowship in Mobile, AL July 22 Dr. Ronald Meeks, Professor of Bible & Director of Church Relations at Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain, MS July 29 Dr. Steve Horn, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Lafayette, LA August 5 Pastor Fred Luter, Jr., Senior Pastor of Franklin Ave. Baptist in New Orleans, LA and President of the SBC These teaching and worship events are free to the public (no reservations required). Childcare will be provided for children birth to age 4. For more info call the church office at 225.654.2755 If you have an event you would like the public to know about, send and email to info@zacharypost.com. Space allowing, your event will be included for free in the Event Calendar section.

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New Triathlon Group Invites People to Join them Across the Bridge

There is a new triathlon club, False River Tri-Club, in the area founded with a mission of leading children and families to healthy, active lifestyles. Tri us. is a New Roads triathlon club with both a youth and adult component. The Youth Triathlon Training Program is currently in their third week of camp with 15 kids enrolled. Aimee Moreau, along with a group of dedicated parents, started the group this year with a goal of preparing students to participate in the RocketKidz Triathlon at LSU later in the summer. “I thought, let’s put together a camp that teaches the fundamentals of the swim, bike, run, while adding components to build self-esteem, friendships, and education about healthy, active lifestyles,” she explained. In addition to physical training, the

program includes a curriculum with lessons on the essentials of proper nutrition, stretching, strength-training, and flexibility as well as emphasizing the importance of teamwork and confidence. The group is coached by Moreau, Mark. Morrison, Mary Beth Guerin and Tim Garrett. “When trying to make responsible choices about the foods we eat and the types and amount of physical activity we engage, it can sometimes be confusing. You simply can’t rely on product advertisements, and nutrition labels can be confusing to both adults and children. One of our primary goals is to work with families to help them make responsible, healthy choices,” explained Coach Morrison. The Tri us. Youth Triathlon Training Program recently joined the Rock-

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etkidz Foundation organization as a program partner which provides support for area programs like Girls on the Run, Wheels to Succeed, BREC Summer Camps Scholarships, BREC First Tee, Fitbird Youth Paratriathlete Program, Crawfish Aquatics Inner City Swim Program among others. This foundation sponsors numerous races in the area with an organizational mission of creating and sustaining active, fit and healthy children, families and communities through programming, advocacy and education. Adults interested in training for an event can also find support through the Tri us. False River Tri-Club which is currently accepting members of all fitness levels. The group is a relatively new one, but is rapidly growing in membership throughout the area.

Members meet on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. at Satterfield’s in New Roads to train in either swimming, biking, or running. The group is designed to provide support for athletes at all levels. “We give people an opportunity to share what they have learned. We’re trying to get people to connect with others with the same interests and abilities,” Moreau explained. Although enrollment for this season’s youth program is complete, there will be program opportunities throughout the year and adults looking for training opportunities are encouraged to come out to the weekly meetings year-round. More information about the youth and adult programs, as well as the False River Tri-Club schedule, can be found at www.triusnewroads. com.

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Zachary Stampede Track Squad Qualifies for Junior Olympics On June 14 Stampede Track & Field competed In New Orleans at the Junior Olympic National Qualifier. 14 athletes qualified for the Junior Olympic Championships in Detroit Michigan in July. Qualifiers included Ambria Langley, Thai Alex, Tara Reid, Vernon Langley, Dylan Hall, Sierra Johnson, Darin Langley, Kyre Langley, Kedrick Hayes, Darryl Anderson, LaQuea Schiele, ShaQuea Schiele Dominique Dorsey, and Destiny Morris.

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