University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 12, 1986
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Ceremony honors war dead
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
At exactly 11 a.m., as the Memorial Campanile bells started their slow count, military personnel and veterans standing near KU's Vietnam Memorial snapped to attention.
The crack of a 21 gun salute ripped through the cold, sunny air, followed by the mournful sound of a single trumpeter playing taps.
About 100 spectators and participants watched with somber eyes yesterday as representatives from KU ROTC, Post 852 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Post 14 of the American Legion placed three wreaths at the white, V-shaped monument.
With that, local veterans officials, KU ROTC students and civilians honored Americans who fought and died for their country.
Col. Michael D. Wyly, professor of naval science and the ranking officer in KU's ROTC, recalled at the ceremony how in 1918, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an end to World War I was declared.
"We know, three wars later, that war won't end," he said. "This is the time to honor the soldier."
Pointing to the memorial, he added, "And there's no place more appropriate than this, with its closeness to the ground and the mud — the things that veterans have gone through."
Pointing to the empty boots engraved on the monument's wall, he said people should ask themselves why veterans had put on those boots.
"For one thing," he answered.
"For their fellow man or woman."
Tom Berger, a Vietnam veteran and the chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, also spoke at the ceremony. He said he remembered the confusion, horror and bitterness he felt while in Vietnam, but also the devotion to duty and courage of his fellow soldiers.
"Such courage is a moral quality," he said. "This is a special time to commemorate those who have that courage."
courage. Berger said after the ceremony that he hoped the Veterans' Day ceremony would be conducted at the
Vietnam Memorial annually
"I think you saw today that it's not just the military elements and veterans, but regular citizens who support this memorial," he said. "That makes me, as a veteran, feel very proud."
The KU Vietnam Memorial was dedicated last Memorial Day.
dedicated last semester. After the ceremony yesterday, Jill Dalzell, San Diego junior, whose father served as a naval pilot in the Vietnam War for 10 years, stood looking at the memorial.
She was 7 when her father returned from the war, she said.
"I come here to remember everything he's done for me," she said.
Dalzell said her father had seen the national Vietnam Veterans' memorial in Washington, D.C., for the first time last summer.
"He had said he didn't want to see it, but when he got there, he cried," she said.
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Indicating the memorial, she said,
"I told him about this, and he was
pleased that people wanted to
remember."
Finnigan returns to help vets
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
lunchtime crowd gathered yesterday on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union to watch the return of Mike Finnigan.
Finnigan, a KU alumnus and former drummer for the rock group, Crosby, Stills and Nash, played a few blues tunes on a piano for about 80 spectators.
"It feels like I cut class," Finnigan said.
However, Finnigan came back to the University of Kansas for more than just a few songs. He was trying to draw attention to a Vietnam veterans benefit concert last night
The concert featured Finnigan,
Stephen Stills, Georg Thorogood
and David Bromberg.
and both Paget.
Profits will go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national, nonprofit group, to set up a scholarship
fund for the children of Vietnam veterans killed, disabled or listed as missing in action.
missing him. A jar sat on Finnigan's piano, and he brought it to the attention of the crowd before he played his last song.
crowd before he pulls.
"For those of you who are coming,
this is what we 'gonna do.' he said.
"Those of you who can't make it, put
a buck in the jar here for a good
cause."
cause.
Originally, the concert was scheduled to take place in Allen Field House, but organizers moved it to Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., because ticket sales were too low and staging costs were too high in Lawrence.
"A lot of things aren't good causes," Finnigan said. "This is. They've been given the short end of the stick, and it's a national shame. That's why it's a good cause."
Mike Delaney, associate director
of development for the Paralyzed Veterans of America, said the concert's organizers had arranged the session at KU because they wanted to have something for KU students.
"We wish it could have been here," he said, "but we couldn't have made any money.
"It's an opportunity to get part of the concert to KU students who might not have had transportation to Kansas City."
Daleyen also said Kansas City area residents had supported the concert. A radiothon, sponsored by Kansas City-area station KYYS-FM, raised about $7,600 Monday, he said.
100 Runyan, a Lawrence resident and 1980 KU graduate, said he and two other friends had come to the Union to hear Finnigan, who Runyan had seen in concert several times in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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