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Friday, November 10. 1995
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ROTC students honor KU soldiers
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
ROTC students are conducting a 24-hour vigil at the KU Vietnam Memorial in honor of former students who fought and sometimes died for the United States.
Students like Pfc. Paul E. West, who died Mar. 2, 1968; Lt. Samuel A. Few, killed Aug. 20, 1968; or Pfc. Harry I. Fuqua, killed Feb. 29, 1968. Their names, along with 52 other former KU students who died in Vietnam, are carved in black on the memorial's stone face. Nine of the names have black stars next to them, signifying that they remain listed as missing in action or prisoners of war.
The vigil, coordinated by the Air Force ROTC's Arnold Air Society, includes students from the Army and Navy ROTC programs. It began at noon yesterday and will continue through noon today. A guard detail, composed of two uniformed students, will stand silently at the memorial. The Air Force, Army and Navy ROTC programs will change the guard detail every hour, day and night.
The detail stands next to a wooden table. A lighted oil lamp sits on the table. The lamp signifies the ongoing sacrifice of America's military, said Russell Stutz, Kearney, Neb., sophomore.
Years past
The purpose of the vigil is to heighten the awareness of veterans on campus. Stutz said.
"When they see some soldiers
Americans dead in war
■ Civil War — 624,511
■ World War I — 118,516
■ World War II — 405,399
■ Korean War — 33,746*
■ Vietnam War — 58,152
■ Persian Gulf War — 760
* Battle deaths only
Paul Kotz / KANSAM
standing guard, it really does hold something significant," said Mark Winton, Leavenworth senior and an Army ROTC guard detail member.
Navy ROTC members James Fightmaster, Raytown, Mo., senior, and Ron Mihordin, Sacramento, Calif., freshman, stand guard at a 24-hour vigil at the KU Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The vigil will run through noon today.
Some who have stopped at past vigils have shown they still carry the pain of their memories with them.
Instead of stopping at the memorial, most students kept walking past, occasionally glancing over at the silent detail.
At one point in last year's vigil, one man wearing a faded leather flight jacket came up to the memorial, stopped for a few silent moments and quickly became overwhelmed, Winton said. After composing himself, the man then quietly walked away, Winton said.
One who paused was Dan Rolf, Olate sophomore.
"I think it makes people nervous," said Mark Wohlschlaiger, Olathe sophomore and Air Force ROTC guard detail member.
"I kind of wondered what they were doing," he said. After learning about the vigil's purpose, Rolf
said that the military did a lot for our country.
"Today we don't give our military and our veterans enough credit," Rolf said.
Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, began in 1919 and was designated to remember Americans who died in World War I. Its date, Nov. 11, marks the day and time the fighting stopped — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. In 1954, the name was changed to Veterans
Day.
The vigil started yesterday morning with a ceremony in front of Strong Hall. Chaplain David Fulton gave the invocation. Fulton is a preacher at Trinity Lutheran Church in Topeka, and he also serves with the Air Force reserve's 442nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Nost, Mo.
Air Force Col. Gordon Summers, a veteran of B-17 missions over Germany and a two-year POW in World War II, also was present.
Police link separate attacks to same group
Teens are accused of thefts involving beating, hit-and-run
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
Two Lawrence men and two Lawrence juveniles who were arrested in September for allegedly running over a KU student with a car in an apparent robbery attempt have been linked to the attack of another KU
student that night, Lawrence police reported yesterday.
Police said Daniel Higgins, 19,
Sheldon Flowers, 18, Jeremy
Kriner, 17, and a 17-year-old boy
hit and kicked a 21-year-old Mission
Hills junior repeatedly and stole his cellular telephone, valued at $400.
The student reported to police that at about 1:15 a.m. Sept. 19, he was walking in the 1500 block of Tennessee Street when he was struck from behind by one of the men, and then by the others, before his phone was removed from his pocket.
Police said they were the same men who intentionally hit with a car a St. Louis freshman who was riding his bike around 11:15 p.m. that night in the 1600 block of New Hampshire Street. He was thrown on an adjacent lawn and knocked unconscious. The student was later taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he received stitches in his head, nose and mouth.
The car struck a lamp post, and the suspects ran away, police said. The suspects were arrested later that night.
"In the course of investigating
that crime, they found out about this other crime," said Sgt. Rick Nickell of the Lawrence police.
Kriner, Higgins and Flowers have been scheduled to appear Nov. 22 on charges of aggravated battery and attempted robbery in connection with the previous incident. They could face additional charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated battery in the latest incident.
Kriner will be tried as an adult because he has a previous felony conviction.
Police said it had not been determined if the suspects would be charged in the other incident.
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