New museum to honor military medal winners
NATION AND WORLD
NEW YORK — Medals awarded to Rodger Young, Audie Murphy and Jimmy Doolittle in World War II and to a 15-year-old bagler in the Civil War are among the displays at a new honoring winners of the Medal of Honor.
By United Press International
The museum also includes tributes to many of the 3,110 other Americans awarded the nation's highest citation for valor. One letter from a Marine in Korea to his mother said, "It is important I may die in this next assault."
Paul W. Bucha, a Katonah, N.Y., businessman and one of the organizers of the museum known as the Hall of Honor, said yesterday that the idea was not to portray those who won the Medal of Honor "as winners or to glorify heroes."
"WE WANTED to show how ordinary people, when called upon, sometimes by chance, can and do perform in an extraordinary manner," said Bucha, who was awarded the Medal of Honor with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam.
"These people have come from every walk of life," Bucca said. "There have been pacifists, those who entered the war with Iraq, when the time came, they did the job."
The museum, which will open Dec. 14, is located in the aircraft carrier Intrepid, moored permanently on the seabed off the coast as the site of an air and space museum.
Visitors to the museum will see uniforms, artifacts and other memorabilia of the Medal of Honor winners. The exhibit features a presentation by actor Martin Sheen.
The opening coincides with the annual convention of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, which President Reagan will address on Dec. 12.
Among items on display is the sheet music to "The Ballad of Rodger Young" composed by Frank Loeser when Young's heroism against the Japanese inspired Americans early in World War II.
OFFICES of the Medal of Honor Society, a charitable organization of the 259 living medal winners — one of them 92 — will be upstairs over the museum.
Young, of Tiffin, Ohio, received the medal for destroying a Japanese machine gun emplacement with hand grenades as he crawled relentlessly forward to gain gunfire that took his on New Georgia island in the Solomons in 1943.
Murphy, a Texan who commanded a unit in France, leaped at a burning army vehicle and singlehandedly killed 50 advancing German troops with a machine gun despite six German tanks firing at him from three sides.
JOHN COOK, a 15-year-old Union army bugler from Hamilton County, Ohio, volunteered for duty as a thunderstorm terrific enemy at AntieTam.
The letter on display is from a Marine in Korea who died in action and was killed.
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British novelist Llewellyn dies of cardiac arrest at 76
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LONDON — Richard Llewelyn,
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Llewellyn, who had lived in Ireland for several years, had entered the hospital for tests when he suffered a cardiac arrest Wednesday, said a spokeswoman for Michael Joseph, his British publish-
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Search begins for stolen ambulance
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HOUSTON — Police yesterday were looking for an ambulance stolen during the brief moments two attendants were picking up an injured elderly woman.
Attendants Jim Georges and David Holloway had just arrived at Irene Moberly's house to take her to a hospital. They gingerly carried her to the curb on a stretcher only to find no ambulance.
They went back inside and called another ambulance, their supervisors at the scene. They were all safe.
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said they cannot afford Wednesday's theft of the heavily equipped $55,000 ambulance.
It was bought with donations in 1980 to add to their 10-ambulance fleet.
A daughter said Moberly, a department store worker in her 60s, fell in a parking lot Wednesday and was taken home by friends who then called an ambulance. She underwent back surgery later Wednesday.
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