University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 12. 1986
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Claflin
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"It was really weird growing up having your grandpa fill in wherever he could for your father," Brad said. "I've suffered probably way less than a lot of people who have had the same thing happen to them."
Plagued by politics
While they said they supported the cause, the Claffins avoided all of yesterday's Veterans' Day activities.
None attended last night's concert featuring David Crosby, Stephen Stills, John Fogerty and George Thorogood at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan. Proceeds will go toward a scholarship fund for children of Vietnam veterans administered by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national, non-rofit organization.
None saw musician Mike Finnigan's appearance yesterday at the Kansas Union to show his support for the cause or watched the 21-gun salute at the KU Vietnam Memorial.
"The memorial with his name on it just says it — somebody cared." Brad said.
And this summer the brothers avoided the crowd at the dedication of the memorial, which lists their father as one of nine KU students who either were POWs or MIAs.
"It's embarrassing to stand there in front of people and cry," David said. "Brad and I went a week later at dusk and it was nice."
The controversy of whether U.S. servicemen still are being held in Vietnam has soured Lynda Crow, their mother. She never doubted that her husband died in the accident, and she remarried.
"I feel like it's kind of worn out," she said. "I always wanted to play it down. I have had friends who have lost husbands, and it's just life. You have to deal with it and just go on."
Dealing with it publicly never has been easy.
She said she didn't want people to think the family was trying to live on sympathy.
"We don't feel sorry for ourselves." she said.
David said he ignored both the "fanatics" who were sure that Americans still were being held and those who flatly depicted it.
"I don't want to abandon my
The family members admitted they never talked much about the accident, but when someone had a conversation, the question was answered
father's cause," he said. "Maybe that's why I straddle the fence on this."
"I can't remember ever really sitting around and talking about it," Brad said. "It was pretty much just understood. We just kind of had to go on."
Kristen said she rarely talked about her father, even among friends.
"You don't talk about it very much," she said. "A lot of people don't even ask. That's just not the way I want to deal with it. I kind of let it slide by."
They called him Rocky
During his KU days, Richard Claflin, a slender, 6-foot-2 blond with a crew cut, needed a physical education credit. He enrolled in a boxing class filled with athletes much bigger than he, took a beating, and was nicknamed "Rocky."
"I may have given him his name," said Norman Schwartzzkopf, Overland Park, an old
roommate and Sigma Chi plede brother of Claflin's. "He had a great sense of humor. He realized he was in over his head. There were nothing but football players and jocks in there."
Claflin majored in psychology while in the Air Force ROTC, but an education was not his first priority, Schwartzkopf said. He went to college so he could fulfill his dream.
"He loved flying. That's really all he ever cared about," Schwartz-kopf said.
Attending Claflin's funeral would have been too tough, said Schwartzkopf, who was stationed on a Navy helicopter carrier in Vietnam from 1964 to 1966.
But after the two friends graduated in 1961, they lost touch.
"I had lost a lot of friends over there and I guess I wasn't mentally ready to go there and see his wife and kids," he said. "It's a very, very strange psychic scar."
And the war in Vietnam reached those at home as well.
Brad still can remember the tears at his father's funeral, but at that time, all of the emotions simply struck him as odd.
Von Ende
On March 7, von Ende filed suit against the Kansas Department of Revenue's driver control bureau to appeal the suspension of his driver's license.
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According to court records, Lawrence police officers stopped von Ende on Nov. 28, 1985, for a traffic violation. Police took him into custody after he refused to submit to a drug and alcohol test.
In January, the court issued an order suspending von Ende's license for a period of six months, to begin March 1.
In his suit, von Ende contended that the stop was illegal because he had violated no traffic regulations, the records said.
Smoot was later charged and pleaded guilty to obtaining about one hundred pounds of cocaine.
On April 30, Bradley J. Smoot, von Ende's first attorney, filed a motion to withdraw as the attorney in the case.
In a letter to District Judge James W. Paddock dated Oct. 20, Brian Cox, attorney for the state Department of Revenue, said he had tried to contact Berman but discovered that Berman had moved to California.
The suit was dismissed because von Ende did not notify the court of the name of his new attorney by the court-set day of Nov. 3.
Aggieville wants riot prevention
United Press International
MANHATTAN — Merchants from Manhattan's tavern-packed Aggieville district met yesterday to discuss ways to prevent a postgame riot next fall when the KU arrives to play Kansas State.
Twenty-two people were arrested during the violent demonstration October 14 in Agua Dulce, where an unidentified State's 29-12 win over Kansas.
Riley County authorities said they were reviewing photographs and videotape of the riot and planned to make additional arrests.
About 6,000 students, residents and visitors got out of hand Oct.18 and shattered 40 windows and burned one car. The riot caused thousands of dollars of damage.
Suggestions offered at the meeting of the Aggieville Merchants Association included changing the game date to late in the season, moving the game to another city, closing off the Aggieville district and requesting that law enforcement officers beef up patrols on game day.
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