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University Daily Kansan, November 12, 1984
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Veterans, from World War I to the Vietnam War, bow their heads as "Taps" is played in the South Park Recreational Center
Local ceremony remembers veterans
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
Fred Roetz chitted his military cap to his chest as he led the pledge of allegiance at a local Veterans Day ceremony yesterday.
After the ceremony, Reetz's failing eyes looked around at the 75 people in front.
It was the last time he would represent the Jayhawk Chapter of the World War B Barracks. Reezt, 92, said the chapter would disband in December because of a long decline in membership.
"OUR ATTENDANCE HAS fallen down so that we only have four members left," he said. "We used to have 140."
The ceremony, at South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St., was one of hundreds of similar events across the country yesterday, including the dedication of a statue of "Three Soldiers" at the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
John Musgrave, a Marine veteran of Vietnam and featured speaker at the Lawrence ceremony, said veterans' groups should press the U.S. government for an accounting of 2,300 Americans still in Indochina.
Several hundred U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam probably are living and in prisons, he said.
"If you hear nothing else I say today, mark this. There are Americans living in those jungle hells," he said.
MUSGRAVE, WHO WAS seriously wounded in Vietnam in 1968, said that the unpopularity of that war led to an increase in in recognition for U.S. veterans of it.
"Regardless of the policies, those of us who served there served with the same patriotism and same bravery as those in other wars," he said. "Today we're finally seeing redress."
But Musgrave said the U.S. government never has challenged Vietnamese lies about prisoners of war strongly enough, as in 1973 when the United States did not even take its list of names to the Paris peace talks.
"Now we demand a full accounting from both governments," he said.
Local veterans' groups, he said, should have a POW coordinator to ensure that work to bring POWs home will continue Groups also in the chairs at their meetings as a reminder of the missing veterans.
MUSGRAVE SAID THE FACES in the room called to mind the bravery and loyalty of Americans who defended their country in both world wars, Korea, Vietnam, and recent episodes such as Grenada.
Reetz, the World War I veteran,
said that he had served in the 353rd
Kansas regiment of the 89th division
and that the barracks was organized
at Prum, Germany, during the occupation in 1919.
Harry Brunelle, a prisoner of him for almost 2½ years in Korea, said people often asked him for his opinion of the POW issue.
"I ask them: 'How often every day do you think of the people over there?' Every day they're thinking of people here," he said.
THE LAWRENCE CEREMONY was sponsored by local chapters and posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans and the World War I Barracks.
The VFW also set out its avenue of flags yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Park Cemetery, 1517 E. 15th St., said Larry Whitson, VFW post commander. The avenue of flags consisted of 68 memorial flags, he said.
"Every flag you see out there came from a deceased veteran," he said.
Liquor law subject of Wichita survey
By United Press International
WICHITA — A newspaper's poll says Kansans want to raise the state's legal drinking age to 21 and the opportunity to change a section of the Kansas Constitution that restricts the sale of liquor by the drink.
The poll, published yesterday in The Wichita Eagle-Enacon, said 68.3 percent of those surveyed support raising the legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer to 21. About 25 percent disapproved. 5.1 percent had no opinion and 1 percent would not answer.
The legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer in Kansas currently is 18.
THE POLL ALSO indicated 68.3 percent of the questions asked they would back a constitutional amendment allowing each county to limit liquor for itself whether liquor should be sold by the drink in that county
Slightly more than 25 percent of those polled disapproved of such results, with 5.3 percent said they had no opinion and 1 percent declined to answer.
The newspaper polled 1,230 registered voters last month
Results are accurate within 3 percent, the newspaper said.
MEANWHILE, THE REV.
Richard Taylor, head of the state's dry forces, last week he says he views Tuesday's election results as a mandate for maintaining the status quo. He said that a chief Senate President, by the drink, Senate President, loss Dr. Concordia, had been re-elected, despite intensified efforts to topple the veteran lawmaker.
Gov. John Carlin this fall announced his support of liquor by the drink One of his aides, Jerry Shelor, in September resigned as secretary of the Kansas Department of Human Resources to lead a group promoting liquor by the drink.
Before Kansans get a chance to vote on liquor by the drink though, two thirds of the Legislature must be placed to place the issue on the ballot.
The question of liquor by the drink and raising the state's legal drinking age almost certainly will come before the 1985 Legislature. President Reagan earlier this year signed into law a bill that calls for increasing the drinking age to 21 or else lose federal highway construction money.
ON THE RECORD
A STUDENT's purse and its contents, valued together at $175, were stolen between 10:30 p.m. and midnight Saturday from a car inside the Hills Shopling Center parking lot. Lawrence police said yesterday.
AN AM-FM cassette stereo valued at $100, and a purse and its contents, valued together at $75, were stolen between 9 p.m. and midnight Thursday, while 3 car parked in the 700 block of Cambridge Street, Lawrence police said.
A 120-POUND buck deer carcass valued at $175 was stolen about 6:30 p.m. Saturday from the back of a
pickup truck in a parking lot in the 2400 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said.
CHINA AND stoneware, valued together at $315, were stolen between 4 and 5:15 p.m. Thursday from the kitchen of a house in the 1200 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said.
A 55-YEAR-OLD Lawrence man was listed in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday after being stabbed Friday evening during an altercation at his Illinois Street. Lawrence police said No arrests had been made in the case of yesterday afternoon.
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