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Wednesday, November 12; 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Country salutes its veterans
United Press International
The United States saluted its service men and women as "the heroes among us" with parades and memorials on Veterans Day 1986. The sound of taps drifted across graveyards as warriors who survived the guns of battle gathered to remember.
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking Washington, D.C., where legions of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen are buried.
About 100 women, mostly World War II veterans, were the special honorees of Atlanta's annual Veterans Day parade. Some women felt the honor was overdue.
"I am an ex-Marine and the daughter of a World War II woman veteran," said spectator Susan Hendrickson. "I wish my mother could be here today. I guess it was a long time coming, but I feel terrific."
"It's about time they showed themselves to society," said Lily Adams, chairwoman of the Women Veterans Committee of the Georgia
Veterans Day Parade Association.
Veterans Day Parade Association.
In Augusta, Ga., soldiers from Fort Gordon joined through downtown.
Gordon pinned the Survival World War I dugboys in Seattle, and at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, veterans made a U.S. flag of 58,132 flowers representing each American lost in the conflict in Southeast Asia.
lost in the Maryland broke ground for its own Vietnam memorial, which will overlook Baltimore harbor, and a flag carried aboard Challenger was presented to North Carolina by the wife of astronaut Mike Smith, pilot of the doomed space shuttle.
The Veterans Day tradition — once known as Armistice Day — began Nov. 11, 1918, with the armistice ending World War I.
other. But the years matter nothing in Battle Creek, Mich., where an unknown black Civil War veteran, whose remains have lain in an untended grave for more than a century, was buried at Fort Custer National Cemetery with full military honors.
"Our veterans . . . are the heroes among us." President Reagan said in a holiday message. "On this Veterans Day, let us pay them
tribute. And let us resolve to live up to their example."
In the drizzle at Arlington, Weinberger summoned the lessons of past wars to criticize "apostes of appeasement" and said their short-sightedness endangers military preparedness in favor of spending on domestic programs.
Wemberge-sur-Seine A steady rain and a temperature of 41 degrees forced veterans into cars for their parade through downtown Charleston, W.Va. Police squad cars led the procession.
"Today is a day for resolve to stay so well-prepared in peace that the folly of war will be forever behind us." Weinberger said.
led the parade.
A small Veterans Day parade went down Fifth Avenue in New York in a cold, driving rain.
Hundreds of veterans, including members of the American Legion and gay veterans, marched with the wife of the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
"This parade is much too small. Many thousands should be marching," Mayor Edward Koch said. "I never understand why there isn't more support for veterans."
Veterans of WWI toast one another
United Press International
SEATTLT — Five of the 11 surviving members of the Last Man's Club of World War I toasted each other's health to commemorate the armistice and their survival of the war that bound them together.
The men and their wives regaled Seattle's exclusive Rainier Club with popular battlefront songs of the World War I era and remembered comrades who fell then and since.
The club was formed by 15 World War I veterans, who then expanded the membership to 83 in the late 1930s, said club secretary Don Douglas. He is the only one of the original 15 still living.
The first 15 drew up bylaws stating that the last survivor would unork a 60-year-old bottle of French cognac and drink a toast to "those who have moved up to the Last Front." Douglas said.
Last month, the last man by "If, of course, the last man by then will be able to lift the glass to his lips, let alone propose and drink the toast," added William J. Wilkins, 89, a retired Washington state Superior Court judge and surviving member.
Arthur Lee, 91, the club's "skipper" for the 1986 gathering, noted. "The brandy is bootleg brandy that we got during Prohibition."
The bottle, wrapped in foil and festooned with ribbons of the French tricolor, once was kept in a bank vault by a bank chairman
who was a member of the club and displayed at all club meetings. After the banker died and the bank was torn down, the task of guarding the brandy fell to the "skipper," who is elected every year at the annual meeting.
"Pretty soon we won't be able to remember where we put the bottle, let alone drink it," joshed Wilkins, who won the silver star as an infantryman in World War I and went back to serve as a judge advocate in the Air Force in World War II.
Wikkins also is the last surviving judge to have served on the bench during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and wrote a book about his experiences in both wars.
The Last Man's Club met anually at a black-tie dinner banquet "until some of us decided it was safer for us to drive in the daylight," Wilkins said. The posh luncheons have replaced the banquet for the last couple of years.
R. C. "Torchy" Torrance recalled that he tried to enlist in Spokane when the United States entered the Great War in 1916. "They booted me out because I wasn't 18." he said. "So I came over to Seattle and signed up again.
Floral flag presented to veterans
Torrance made it into the Army too late to see action in World War I, but he joined up again in World War II.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Vietnam veterans and the more than 58,000 dead and missing were remembered yesterday at the Vietnam national memorial with the completion of a huge floral flag with one blossom for each life lost.
The hourlong Veterans Day ceremony, amid a driving and cold November rain, included speeches by Sens. John Warner, R-Va., John Kerry, D-Mass., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
"For a long time, Americans did not distinguish the war from the warrior," said Kerry, a Navy veteran and organizer of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. But, he said, healing has taken place since the war ended.
ended
And referring to the flag, Warner — who was Navy secretary during the Vietnam War — said, "This nation was stripped of the flower of a generation. Those who survived have a tight grip on the destiny of our nation."
The 15-by-25 foot floral flag was the idea of Burke, Va., housewife Victoria Richards, who wanted to see that a flower was provided for each of the 58,132 names on the black granite V-shaped memorial, particularly for families who live far from Washington.
The final flower, a red rose, was pushed into the third red stripe from the bottom by Brig. Gen. Patrick Brady, chief of staff of the 1st Army
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