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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Sumter, South Carolina)
For Immediate Release
March 17, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT COMMUNITY WELCOME FOR RETURNING TROOPS
Sumter Memorial Stadium
Sumter, South Carolina
4:32 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you
all very, very much. Thank you, Governor Campbell, thank you 30 very
much. And thank you all for that warm welcome. Mayor Creech, thank
you, sir. The City Council Chairman Gray, I thank you. To Senator
Hollings and the distinguished members of the House of
Representatives who are with us today. Hy thanks to Nancy Thurmond,
whose husband is away overseas, but one of the strongest supporters
the military ever had -- Senator Strom Thurmond, my thanks to him.
(Applause.) And, General Olsen, to you, sir, my respects, just back
from superb service overseas. I'm delighted to be on this platform
with you.
But most of all, thank you, Sumter. What a fantastic
welcome. (Applause.) Thank you for your courage. Thank you for
your sacrifice. Thank you for your example. Ano thank you for
showing all what a great land this is. And thank you for letting me
come and share in this, my first, but this wonderful reunion. I
couldn't be happier to be here. Thank you. (Applause.)
What is it -- what is it about Sumter and Sumter County
that breeds war heroes? In this century alone, you have supplied
some of our greatest warrier-citizens. General George Mabrey, who
died just last year, was the second-most decorated soldier in the
history of the United States. And as many of you know, he helped
train a young Lieutenant Colonel in Vietnam, and that Colonel was
General Norman Schwarzkopf. (Applause.)
And, of course, the coalition victory in Kuwait would not
have been possible without General Chuck Horner. Mary Jo, we are
delighted that you here with us today. Now stand up --
(applause.) You see, for those of you who didn't follow it - and
that not many -- General Horner merged people and plane, from 30
bases here in the United States, six Navy carriers, the Marines and
nine allied nations into a seamless theater Air Force. And he mapped
out the most intense, most successful air assault in history. And we
are very grateful to him. (Applause.) You see, it was that
powerful, precise air assault that helped coalition forces crush
Saddam's war machine -- (applause) -- while sparing innocent Iragi
citizens and while saving allied lives. Can you think of a better
way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Shaw Air Force Base than
this? I can't. It is fantastic. (Applause.)
You don't have to wear a star to be a hero. We're
surrounded by such people today. Let's start with the mother of all
units at Shaw, the headquarters. (Laughter and applause.) The 9th
Air Force and the U.S. Central Command Air Forces. And let's thank
the 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing. (Applause.) Look at these guys.
And let's thank the 507th Tactical Air Control Wing. (Applause.)
And all the other units and tenant units here. And let's not forget
other South Carolinians. The McIntyre Air National Guard Unit --
(applause) -- and the forces from all across this great state.
For those of you who are a little groggy from last
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night's flight home, welcome home. We're delighted to have you all
back. (Applause.) I can't tell you how proud we are of each and
every one of you. And to all our servicemen all across this country,
we say thank you. And to the veterans of every conflict, we say
thank you. And let this new spirit in our country give proper
recognition to the Vietnam veterans. Their time has come.
(Applause.)
And to all of those who have returned from overseas, God
bless you. Please stand up so we can see each and every one of you.
There they are. (Applause.) And to those who toil still over there,
God bless them, too. (Applause.) You know, you all not only helped
liberate Kuwait, you helped this country liberate itself from old
ghosts and doubts. And when you left, it was still fashionable to
question America's decency, America's courage, America's resolve. No
one -- no one in the whole world doubts us anymore.
What you did, you helped us revive the America of our old
hopes and dreams. And this nation learned something else during
Desert Storm: You don't have to wear a uniform to be a war hero.
Here, crowded on the bleachers and out there in the field are heroes
and heroines of all ages -- mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers,
children, neighbors, friends. And while you in the service were
overseas -- I've never seen anything like it -- the loved ones and
even strangers, all across our great country hung out yellow ribbons,
unfurled flags, sent letters and gifts to those of you overseas. And
while you servicemen and women fought on distant sands, those you
left behind talked and prayed. And I know that every little thought,
every good wish, every whispered prayer, somehow echoed in the hearts
of the fighters far away. No one understands this magic, but it is
the kind of blessing that enables good people to accomplish great
deeds.
But there is something very, very special about Sumter's
sacrifice and its triumph -- and you all know it. I had the pleasure
of visiting here in 1988. And since then, Hurricane Hugo ripped
through 12,000 homes in this area, destroyed nearly $700-million
worth of property in its high winds and pouring rains; shredded your
homes and your neighborhoods, turned trees into tinder. Sumter
gathered its strength after the storm and began literally to pick up
the pieces.
But just as things seemed to be turning around, the war
erupted. And you did something extraordinary. You sent many of your
finest men and women to serve. Troops departed. Reservists left
their workplaces. And some people, newly married, were separated by
war. Mothers bore children to fathers who looked across the horizon
at an unseen foe.
Captain Dale Cormier died fighting for his country. And
Captain Spike Thomas had to be plucked behind enemy lines. And,
Captain Thomas, it's great to see you here today, sir. Where is he?
(Applause.) And while you're all standing, let me also salute
Lieutenant Neck Dodson, who led your rescue. We're glad he's here,
too. (Applause.)
And as the war loomed, you in Sumter did not give into
despair or fear. You recruited new businesses and new jobs, and
while the troops were away, you continued to build a new city -- a
better city. A city that is more like a large family. And you
planted the seeds of prosperity among hardship's ruin. And I've
talked in recent weeks about America's renewal, and today you feel
it. You see it all around us here today.
And I'm amazed, but never surprised at the incredible
things our people do. Our success in the war showed that we take a
backseat to no one when it comes to courage, ingenuity, dedication to
principle. But it also showed that we do great things when we trust
our people. We would not have enjoyed such success if someone had
tried to micromanage the war from Washington, D.C. (Applause.) We
entrusted the operations to Sumter's products and heirs -- and look
where we are today. (Applause.)
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And I'm proud to say that we did it without arrogance
around the world. We led without gloating or arrogance. And I think
that's an American tradition as well.
You know -- let me just say this in finale -- look around
you. Here is today's triumph, but also tomorrow's hope. Here's what
we fight for -- family, friends. Here is what we love.
Thank you again for letting me be a part of this
emotional homecoming. I'll never forget it as long as I live. God
bless each and every one of you. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
END
4:44 P.M. EST
(Snow, Cawley)
March 15, 1991
Draft 2
SUMTER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SUMTER WELCOME TO U.S. TROOPS
March 17, 1991
Thank you so much, Governor Campbell.
Mayor Creech, thank you. City Council Chairman Gray, thank
you. General Olsen, thank you. But most of all, thank you,
Sumter. /// Thank you for your courage -- your sacrifice --
your example. Thank you for showing just what a great land this
is. Thank you for letting me share in your reunion. //
This is wonderful. ///
What is it about Sumter and Sumter County that breeds war
heroes? // In this century alone, you have supplied some of our
greatest warrior-citizens. General George Mabry, who died just
last year, was the second most decorated soldier in U.S. history.
// As many of you know, he helped train a young Lieutenant
Colonel in Vietnam. That colonel was Norman Schwarzkopf. ///
And of course the coalition victory in Kuwait would not have been
possible without General Chuck Horner. General Horner merged
people and planes from 30 bases here in the United States, six
navy carriers, the Marines and nine allied nations into a
seamless theater air force. /// He mapped out the most intense,
most successful air assault in history. That powerful, precise
air assault helped coalition forces crush Saddam's war-machine
while sparing innocent Iraqi citizens and saving Allied lives.
/// Can you think of a better way to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Shaw Air Force Base? //
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No one doubts us any more. // You helped revive the
our hopes and dreams.
This nation learned something else during Desert Storm: You
don't have to wear a uniform to be a war hero. Here, crowded on
the bleachers at Sumter Memorial Stadium are heroes and heroines
of all ages: mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children,
neighbors, friends. While you in the service were overseas,
loved ones and even strangers hung yellow ribbons, unfurled
flags, sent letters and gifts.
While you servicemen and women fought on distant sands,
those you left behind talked and prayed. I have fought far from
3
home and I know: Every little thought, every good wish, every
whispered prayer somehow echoes in the hearts of fighters far
away. No one understands this magic, but it is the kind of
blessing that enables good people to accomplish great deeds. ///
But there is something very special about Sumter's sacrifice
and its triumph, and you all know it.
I had the pleasure of visiting you in 1988. Since then,
Hurricane Hugo has ripped through 12,000 homes in this area, and
destroyed nearly $700 million worth of property. Its high winds
and pouring rains shredded your homes and neighborhoods, turned
trees into tinder.
Sumter gathered its strength after the storm and began
literally to pick up the pieces. But just as things seemed to be
turning around, the war erupted. And you did something
extraordinary: You sent many of your finest men and women to
serve. Troops departed. Reservists left their workplaces, even
as factories were closing their doors, and 2,000 people were
losing their jobs.
Some people, newly married, were separated by war. Mothers
bore children to fathers who looked across the horizon at an
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CORE:MEAIR]
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unseen foe. Captain Dale-Cormier died fighting for his country,
and Captain "Spike" Thomas had to be plucked from behind enemy
lines. Captain Thomas, it's great to see you today. // And it's
good to see Lieutenant "Neck" Dodson, who led your rescue. ///
As war loomed, you in Sumter did not give in to despair or
fear. You recruited new business and new jobs. While the troops
4
were away, you continued to build a new city, a better city, a
city that is more like a large family. You planted the seeds of
prosperity among hardship's ruins. I have talked in recent weeks
about an American renewal. Today I see it all around me. //
I am amazed, but never surprised at the incredible things
our people do. Our success in the war showed that we take a back
seat to no one when it comes to courage, ingenuity and dedication
to principle. /// It also showed that we do great things when we
trust our people.
We would not have enjoyed such success if someone had tried
to run the war from Washington. We entrusted operations to
Sumter's products and heirs -- and look where we are today! ///
We should use that same approach at home. Why should
someone in Washington tell you the best way to heal old wounds
and create new hopes in Sumter? You didn't wait for instructions
when misfortune slapped you. Why should this nation be shackled
to the limited wisdom of a small political class? You have made
spectacular progress without lectures from the capital. It's
time Washington told the rest of this country: We believe in you.
Not: Prove yourselves to us. ///
We know the challenges we face. So, let's just do it.///
Each year we become a more diverse and exciting society. We
pioneer new paths in industry and culture. Our diversity opens
up fresh ideas, new ways, unexpected opportunities.
We have stepped into the bracing air of a new age -- an age
in which America is not afraid to demonstrate its ability. An
5
age in which this nation takes on the challenges and
opportunities that an international marketplace offers. An age
in which the government doesn't demand virtue of its people --
but assumes it. A government that encourages Americans to do
what they. do naturally -- help each other, compete against each
other, enrich each other with our ideas, inspirations, cultures.
I ask you to join me today in rejecting the tiring politics
of division and derision. Let the spirit of brotherhood and
cooperation shove aside the stale fog of class and racial
conflict. That is the path Sumter has chosen. You tell me: Does
it work?/ /
Americans don't need to be protected from anyone. /// We
ought to feel good about ourselves and our fellow citizens. We
need to reach out and join the new world awakening over the
horizon. ///
Look around you: Here is today's triumph and tomorrow's
hope. // Here is what we fight for. // Here is what we love. ///
Thank you again for letting me share in your reunion. ///
And God bless the United States of America.
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OUNDED OCTOBER 15, 1894
SATURDAY JULY 14, 1990
Sumter, S
Mabry dies at 72
War hero remembered as great American
Wreath for shaw AFB
is
there.
this earth.
By JEFF OWENS
"A great man and a great
ITEM Staff Writer
American has fallen and he will
be sadly missed by everyone,
etired Maj. Gen
P
said retired Marine Rudy Single-
George
Lafayette
ton, who engineered the estable
Mabry
Jr.,
a
lishment of the Gen. George L.
Stateburg native and
Mabry Jr. Veterans Memorial
one of the nation's most decorat-
Park that was recently dedicated
ed war heroes, died Friday in
near Shaw Air Force Base.
Columbia after an illness. He
Singleton said the memorial
was 72.
park committee named the park
Mabry, a veteran of the June
after Mabry because "we wanted
6, 1944. Allied D-Day landing,
to make sure it was named after
was a recipient of the Medal of
a great American."
Honor for his bravery during
At the park's dedication cere-
World War II.
mony, fellow Medal of Honor re-
He became the nation's sec-
cipient retired Sgt. 1st Class
ond most decorated soldier, re
Webster Anderson of Winnsboro
aceiving every
said, "This memorial has been
military hon-
named in honor of a man who is
or awarded
much greater than any of us."
by the United
Singleton said that though he
States to a
met Mabry only a few months
combat sol-
ago, "I'll always remember him
dier as well
as a very humble and a very ap-
as several
preciative man who was very
decorations
dedicated-to the survival-of this
from foreign
nation:*
governments.
He cared about young peo-
Mabry ro-
ple and how they would grow up
celved
the
if patriotism was not carried on.
Medal of Hon-
MABRY
He was very concerned about
or for his bravery Nov. 20, 1944,
patriotism in this country," be
in the Huertgen Forest near
said.
Schevenhutte, Germany, where
Mabry was deeply honored
he singlehandedly cleared a
that the park was named after
path through a minefield, cap
him, according to his brother, re-
tured three enemy bunkers,
tired Sumter educator Buford
killed three enemy soldiers, put
Mabry, who said Mabry's great-
another out of action and cap-
est regret was that his illness
tured nine more.
prevented him from attending
Mabry also served three tours
the July dedication ccremony.
in Panama, where be became
close acquaintance of Gen. Ma- Friends remember Mabry
nuel Noriega, While there, he Two of Mabry's
Army photo
ideveloped an invasion plan si- friends, retired Chief Warrant closest
MAJ. GEN. GEORGE MA-
milar to the one the United
Officer Harold "Speed" Wilson
States used in December 1989
BRY, above right, delivers
and retired Col. Charles Murray,
when It invaded Panama and
who were.also recipients of the
a speech at his retirement
captured Noriega.
Medal of Honor, said Mabry was
ceremonies in September
a war hero all veterans admired
A South Carolina patriot
1975. At right, Mabry talks
and looked up to.
Mabry's family and. friends
"And not only his contempo-
with Gen. William C. West-
described him Friday as a com-
raries. but people under him
moreland (right) in late May
passionate man who was dedi-
and his seniers." Murray said.
cated to God, his family and his
"He was a great friend and a
of this year after rains
country. He was described by
real down-to-earth person who
forced the cancellation of
state and national officials as a
was liked by almost everybody.
the dedication of the Veter-
man South Carolina can be
He was always going out of his
proud of.
way to be a friend to his country
ans Memorial Park near
One of his closest friends. Col.
and everyone be met"
Shaw Air Force Base off
William Alston of Sumter. fought
"He was an outstanding sol-
back tears Friday as be de-
dier and an outstanding gentle-
U.S. 78/378. Above, Mabry,
cribed Mabry as "one of the
in battle dress, checks a
treatest men who ever walked
See MABRY, page 3A
map while in the field.
MAR-14-1991
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U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE
TO
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by Thurmond,
Opera, hd
FROM PAGE-1A
other lawmakers
McDaniel said the Opera H
easter" when the douncil pur
in late September 1989.
What roof was left after H
FROM PAGE 1A
Vietnam's National Order 5th
through the county on Sept
Class and Gallantry Cross with
second floor was soaked with
man," Wilson said.
Palm.
windows were blocked up; an
Mabry was also a close friend of
His service medale included
Main Street facade had been
U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond.
the World War II Victory Medal,
McDaniel said the arts
In a statement issued through
the Distinguished Unit Badge, the
back and not modernize it, by
his Washington office Friday,
European-African-Middie East
Opera House, located in the
Thurmond said Mabry "served this
Campaign Medal with four bronze
was built in the 1890s and is II
country with great dedication and
stars, the Vietnam Campaign Med-
Register of Historic Places.
distinction and he deserves the
al and the Vietnamese Service
McDaniel predicted that th
highest plaudits of his fellow man
Medal with three bronze stars.
tion will have a large econom
"South Carolina has loat an out-
Before college and the Army,
on Bishopville, possibly. spar
standing citizen and our country
Mabry developed many lifelong
town revitalization
has lost $ brave and valiant act.
friends while growing up in
He also said be hopes a
dier. he said.
Stateburg and playing football and
House will?unite the commun
U.S. Rep. John Spratt said, "I
baseball at Hillcrest High. He also
tertainment for people from
have the greatest admiration for
played baseball for the local
Noting that the arts have
General Mabry. He was a genuine
American Legion team and at
of being elitist andionly for
good person as well as a genuine
Presbyterian College.
"That's just not the case anyn
hero. He was well respected for
Alston, B classmate and team-
in reaching out to the grassroo
his humanity as well as his mill-
mate of Mabry's, remembers him
munity."
tary service.
as an outstanding athlete. He de-
When completed, he said,
scribed him as R slick flelding
solicit performers for 3 wide re
Early days
shortstop and the leading hitter on
Mabry was born in Stateburg on
his high school and American Le
(Sept 14. 1917, 2 son of George L
gion baseball teams.
and Alberta Stuckey Mabry. He
"He was one of the greatest ath-
graduated from Hillcrest High
letes Hillcrest ever had back in
Main Stree
School In 1935 and from Presbyte.
the old days," he said.
rian College in 1940.
FROM PAGE 1A
He was commissioned a second
A tran of honor
lleutenant in the U.S. Army Re-
Alston also described Mabry as
for the fire, but would no
serve and began his active duty
military career on July 5, 1940.
a "very compassionate" and "very
call it arson. He said the fir
kind" person with strong religious
started
He married his high school
beliefs.
"around the gas stoves OF
sweetheart, Eulena Myers, in 1941
before he went to war. The wed-
"He could always make up his
the bottom floor? but de
ding was In Hagood, where she
mind about what he wanted to do,'
lives today.
Alston said. "He was Just a line
Their daughter, Abigall Mabry
person all around. 1 can't say any-
Ferrick. and younger son. Benja-
thing but the highest about him
Hugo lessor
min Myers Mabry, live in Colum-
and don't think anyone who knew
him could."
bla, while their older son, Lt Col.
Clarence McLaughlin, who also.
FROM PAGE 1A
George L. Mabry III, is stationed
in Stuttgart. Germany, with the
went to high school with Mabry,
U.S. Army. The family also in-
said he remembered him as a
where improvement could be
cludes five grandebildren.
"very conscientions and very dedi-
made." said George Bomar,
cated" person.
member of the Governor's
The Mabrys lived at military
bases around the world during his
"Whenever he went after some-
Emergency Management Re-
thing he went after it with all his
view Panel and chairman of the
Army career, including the south-
eastern U.S., Korea, the Canal
ability." he said. "He was highly
Greenville County Council.
motivated."
The committed created by
Zone and the Pentagon in Wash
McLaughlin said be was not
Gov. Carroll Campbell exam-
ington, D.C.
surprised when he learned that
Ined problems in the way. gov-
Carolyn
During his second tour In the
Mabry had been awarded the Med-
ernment responded to the killer
Canal Zone, Mabry was promoted
at of Honor.
storm. The lessons learned
to brigadler general and assigned
from Hugo will help guide
Note
Gen
"It didn't surprise me at all," he
in 1963 as director of operations
said. "He was always the type of
emergency responses in the fit
for Southern Command headquar-
guy who would do something like
ture, panel members said.
5ch
ter# at Quarry Heights, a key U.S.
that"
"An Important motivation for
installation during the 1989 Inve-
Former Sen. Henry B. Richard-
correcting deficiencies discov-
sion
son said he first met Mabry when
eted in Hugo is the realistic ex-
He returned to the Canal Zone
they played baseball together as
pectation that another harti-
to lead the Southern Command
from 1970 to 1975.
youngstere? and became reac-
case could visit South Carolina
Mabry went to Vietnam twice
quainted with him after World
during the next hurricans sea-
Was # when they both became
during that conflict. In 1966 he led
under
a 100-member team to evaluate
charter members of the Society of
U.S. Army combat operations in
the High Mills of Santee, a group
served
Vietnam. He returned to the battle
of Stateburg natives and their de-
acendants:
David N. Newman
three years later as chief of staff
and assistant deputy commanding
"George was a man of real prin-
David Nell Newman, 20. di
ciple and a pleasant, attractive
10, 1990, at Medical Univer
general at the Army's Vietnam
and articulate gentleman," he
Charleston from injuries rece
headquarters.
said. "We were all mighty proud of
mobile accident.
him. We were all proud of having
Survivors Include his fathe
dilitary honors
the distinction of knowing such a
man Jr of Sumter: bis mothe
Katherine H Newman Have
Mabry retired from the Army in
brave men. He really helped put
Hayes of Rembert; a son Ryan
injust 1975 with 35 years' service
Stateburg on the map."
Sumter: a brother, Robbie D.
nd decorations Including the
Spratt added. "Sumter County
ter. three stepbrothers, Alien
ledal of Honor. Distinguished
should all be proud of him as a no-
Hayes of Rembert: his materi
ervice Cross, Distinguished Ser-
tive son"
Agries C. Holland of Sumter: hi
lee Medal, Legion of Merit, the
parents. Mr. and Mrs: T Boyd
liver Star and the Bronze Star,
Sumter: and his step-grandm
8 Purple Heart and the Presi-
Hayes of Rembert
intial Unit Citation.
Mabry will be remembered at a
Services were held at 3 b.s
Several of his decorations had
funeral service with full military
chapel of Elmore-Hill Funeral
ditions signifying multiple
Rev. Eddie Richardson official
honors at 5 p.m. Sunday at the
vards or valor in addition to ser-
in Sumter Cemetery.
Church of the Holy Cross In
ce He also received awards
Stateburg.
m
VISITORS
Pallbearers were (mm)
foreign
THE FORT JACKSON LEADER
JULY 19, 199
Post news
Fort Jackson mourns old friend
By Leslle J. Dunson
Leader staff
MAR-14-1991
Fort Jackson lost a friend Friday
'If we lose our free-
when Maj. Gen. (Ret.) George L Mabry
dom we lose every-
Jr. died at age 72.
Mabry, a Medal of Honor recipient,
thing.'
died of cancer at about 10:30 a.m. at
Richland Memorial Hospital in Colum-
bia.
Central American geopolitical issues,
Known for his dry wit and penchant
conducted a military professional-
FROM
for story-telling, Mabry spent much of
development seminar, during which
his retirement years entertaining sol-
he outlined his part in the creation of
diers and civilian audiences alike with
the original operations plan for the
his memories of the Army since he
December 1989 U.S. invasion of Pan-
began active service in 1940 with an
ama and planned military strategies
assignment to the 4th Infantry Divi-
in response to political turmoil in the
sion at Fort Benning, Ga.
Central American region.
A veteran of the June 6, 1944, D.
A native of Stateburg, S.C., Mabry
Day landing on Utah Beach at Nor-
rose quickly through the ranks during
Photo by Dave Altridge
mandy, Mabry received his Medal of
the World War II years, thanks to an
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) George L. Mabry Jr. greets 120th Army Reserve Command
Honor for his conduct during a Ger-
almost innate understanding of sound
Chief of Staff Col. Thomas Húcks in the receiving line of a 120th ARCOM
man attack on his unit in the Huertgen
leadership principles, according to
U.S. OFFICE
official function.
Forest near Schevenhutte, Germany.
many who served with him. Mabry
Then a major, Mabry singlehandedly
himself believed the Army was his
In a 1988 interview, Mabry ex-
an athletic scholarship to Presbyte-
prepared a path through a German
greatest teacher.
plained the significance of receiving
rian College in Clinton, S.C., in 1936.
minefield, captured three enemy bun-
"The military is a hands-on learn-
the nation's highest military decora-
He played semi-pro ball with the
kers and killed three German soldiers,
ing experience, whereas college uses
tion.
Syracuse Chiefs, but never made it to
shooting two of them and bayoneting
books as learning tools. Both are good,
"When Medal of Honer recipients
the big leagues. Instead, he graduated
but it takes a while to refine what
another who was attempting to shoot
wear the medal, they try to represent
after serving in the college's ROTC
TO
you've learned in college. In life you
him with 4 pistol
all veterans, living or dead, of all wara
and received a comming
must develop the knowledge to detect
With his rifle butt, he injured an-
That's a big responsibility.
in the Atmy Reserves in 1940, The
subordinates who are doing things
other German soldier and capturenine
"We didn't twin the medal; we earned
During his 35-year Army career, he
wrong In the inititary; you may be
others. The United Kingdom also rec-
it. Many people who deserved the honor
played & major role in establishing the
called upon to put your leadership
ognized him for his bravery by award-
didn't receive it because they, as well
U.S. Army Jongle Warfare Training
abilities to the test by requir-
ing him the Distinguished Service
as the witnesses who could. confirm
Center at Fort Sherman, Panama
ing your les to put their lives
Order He eventually earned every
their actions, died in action.
Canal Zone During que of his last
on the limes
decoration the U.S. government awards
Mahry, who once aspired to become
lisitate March, Mabry,
n-individual during combat
professional baseball player, earned
consider an expert on ribbean and
See 'Friend' on hage BANK
Briefs
Chief of staff to retire
a.m. and no later than 8:50 am. Attendees are
mation, Tour and Travel office. Fees collected will
94566218
encouraged to bring their spouses. and those who
support the installation's Morale. Welfare and
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THE FORT JACKSON LEADER
JULY 19,
'Friend'
from page 2A
His golden rule, repeated time and
bia resident strayed from a life of lei-
health troubles. It was my understand-
time again at various Fort Jackson
Ferrick of Columbia; and a brot
sure by maintaining abusy schedule of
ing that the government would take
functions: "Never ask anyone to do
Buford Mabry of Sumter.
MAR-14-1991
speaking engagements for active-duty
care of medical needs, but those bene-
anything you would not willingly de
and reserve members, ROTC students
fits are being eroded," said Mabry, who
Services were held Sunday
yourself." He adopted that philosophy
and local civic groups. He was also
many area retirees considered a cham-
Church of the Holy Cross in Statebu
as a commander and was visibly proud
frequently interviewed by young school
pion of former-servicemember rights.
burial, with full military honors, 1
of the impact he made on the soldiers
children about his war experiences for
A classic story-teller, he was often
at the Church of the Holy Cross Car
he led. "I still get calls from former
class projects. "I'll talk to anybody about
asked to speak at Fort Jackson dedica-
tery. Memorials may be made to
65:80
servicemen with whom I served as a
the Army and what the armed forces
tions and social events, and usually
George L Mabry Jr. Scholarship Fu
second lieutenant through general
mean to the United States," he said.
peppered his war-time tales with
at Presbyterian College or the Ame
officer. [ feel good hearing from out-
Mabry was also an active supporter
amusing anecdotes.
can Cancer Society.
standing soldiers and citizens with
of the Association of the U.S. Army, an
Mabry is survived by his widow,
whom I have had the privilege of serv-
"I have no qualins about the Arm
organization which actively lobbies
Mrs. Eulena Myers Mabry; sons, Lt.
ing in our great Army."
Mabry once said. "If I had it to de 01
Congress on issues affecting soldiers,
Col. George L. Mabry III of Stuttgart,
Although he retired from military
again, rd join tomorrow. The arm
retirees and their families.
Germany, and Benjamin M. Mabry of
service in 1975, the longtime Colum-
forces are important; if we lose
U.S.
"When one retires, he often has
Columbia; a daughter, Mrs. Abigail M.
freedom, we lose everything."
6
ACS'
from page 7A
lation Volunteer Coordinator and Family Advocacy
Program.
lending closet program had always had a booming
As of the third quarter of this fiscal year, the
CUPYRIGHT
business for incoming families awaiting their
Wise said the organization puts volunteers at its
installation Debt Management Program has
heart. "Volunteers must constantly assist the
household goods. "But we've finally gained recogni-
enrolled 61 families with a total indebtedness of
needs of military families," she said "They must
tion as being a helping agency," Wise said.
more than $908,000.
empathize with families to change their attitudes
In recognition of its growing importance on the
As ACS continues to progress, the Relocation
installation, it was moved from World War II
about seeking or receiving help from outside
and Outreach Program will move into the new
OFFICE
barracks off the beaten path to a renovated facility
sources.
Soldier Service Center, and the Family Advocacy
on Jackson Boulevard.
Program will expand.
"We're committed to enthusiasm, dedication and
customer service."
In fiscal year 1989, ACS programs helped more
ACS has come a long way to get to its silver
In its infancy, ACS was generally known as the
than 17,000 soldiers. The Army Emergency Relief
anniversary, and it still has a solid-goid future
fund assisted soldiers at a cost of more than
thanks to the volunteers who uphold the ACS
TO
Army's "pots and pans organization" because its
$186,000 for food, shelter and utilities,
motto: "self-help, service and stability.
United
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P.06
RACE RELATIONS IN SUMTER, S.C.
-- Somewhat of a sensitive issue. Sumter has had major
problems in the past, most notably the incident three
years ago when a white sheriff's deputy shot a black
youth in the back at point blank range, even though the
boy was cuffed and his hands on the top of his head. The
deputy was tried and found innocent -- the black community
was outraged and marches were held, led by a local black
minister.
I'm told that today, though, race relations relative to the
past are better than they have ever been, and
that the President would not be mistaken in praising the
community for working together.
-- Sumter's mayor, Steve Creech, has set up a race relations
committee administered through the Chamber of Commerce. It
has been highly praised for addressing issues before they
become big problems. The program has reached the point
where, if a minority feels he or she has a problem, they
know they can take it to the committee and work it out --
rather than taking to the streets in march, etc.
:
I'm told that the establishment of Shaw AFB was larglely
responsible for the integration of Sumter.
For one, because the military is integrated and the effect
spilled over. For two: because the base holds ex oficio
positions on community boards, etc. and often sent black
servicepeople to serve on them; white Sumterites then worked
with blacks for the first time and discovered they aren't so
bad. In the following years, whites began to appoint blacks
to community positions on their own accord.
The mayor's office was hesitant to list evidence of
black-white cooperation. The idea, they say, is to
quit framing it in those terms and instead to concentrate
on the community working together.
I was given one example, however, it is a bit dated. Back
in the mid-70's, Morris College (all black) was on the
verge of bankruptcy and was preparing to close its doors.
White businessmen in Sumter raised enough $ to keep it
running -- and it's still in session today.
Visit of THE PRESIDENT to Sumter, South Carolina
Sunday, March 17, 1991
Conversation with Bob Cates, Governor's Authorization
Representative, Office of the Governor of South Carolina
regarding Hurricane Hugo.
The eye of Hurricane Hugo passed directly to the
west of the City of Sumter. The city was hit head-on.
Sumter County one the first of seven (and eventually
twenty-four counties) declared as Federal Disaster
Areas. Sumter was declared such an area the day
after the storm.
Most costly natural disaster that has ever struck
the State of South Carolina and thus, Sumter County
with total damage for Sumter estimated at $700
million. According to Mr. Cates, it looked as if a war
had been fought and lost in Sumter.
Example of effort to clean up after hurricane: there
were 21 dump sites established throughout the county.
Local citizens delivered enough trash to fill 61,251
truck loads of debris (1,225,000 cubic yards of trash).
Conversation with Phil Ballenger, Executive Director,
Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce regarding Sumter's
economy.
In August of 1990, Sumter's economy was just starting
to rebound after the long-ranging impacts of Hurricane
Hugo. The millions of dollars in repairs had
contributed plenty of money to the local economy.
The advent of Operation Desert Shield crippled many
segments of the local economy once again: housing, car
dealerships, etc. Just a month after many of the troops
shipping off to Saudi Arabia, the Campbell Soup Company
Plant closed its door (1200 jobs). A few weeks later,
the Interlake Plant (150 jobs) and Scholler Textile
Plant (220 jobs) also closed.
Luckily, Sumter is not a one industry town. There are
presently 10 Fortune 500 companies operating plants in
the area which have contributed greatly to the economy
while other segments were not as active.
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O
Examples of notable/innovative companies located in
Sumter area:
-
*
Gold Kist, a chicken processing plant, is
replacing the Campbell Soup Company in its
old plant with just over 600 employees.
*
Becton-Dickinson, world's largest manufacturer of
Vacu-tators (surgical suction devices). Opened
their Sumter operation in 1970 with only 100,000
feet of office space. They now have over 500,000
feet of space and an investment of over $100
million in Sumter.
**
-
The Bendix Automotive Plant of Allied Signal now
has 2 plants in the Sumter area. These are
referred to as their model plants.
is
-
Union Camp will soon a new plant in the area
adding just over 100 jobs to the economy with an
investment of $30 million. Diebold, a safe
company, opened their plant last October,
contributing 80 jobs to the local market and $15
million to the economy.
UUUU
The
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Connector
NEWSLETTER OF THE GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ACCREDITED
FEBRUARY 1991
VOL. 3, NO. 1
No need to sing economic blues in Sumter County
Doubles as State Commerce Board
Development Board Announces "Banner Year"
Do you read and hear the bleak
in the expansion and upgrading of
bring 320 jobs at start-up, with
economic picture being painted by
other facilities already in operation
exceptional promise for the creation
the news media across the nation?
in Sumter County.
of approximately 460 more jobs
Do you hear other towns which
within the following three years.
house military bases singing the
"All of this indicates that
blues about their economic woes
Legislative Tour
Sumter County is undergoing an
now that so many troops have been
Scheduled
exceptional growth period.
deployed to the Persian Gulf?
"When you add the expansion
Well, you can be grateful you
for Feb. 26
and equipment upgrades to our
live in Sumter County, where the
local industries, we will have added
economic base is more diversified.
Cancelled
another 90 new jobs and an esti-
As a matter of fact, meeting with
mated $327,000 in school and spe-
State Development staff members a
The second annual
cial-purpose taxes with the county
few days ago, the Sumter County
tour of the State Capitol
getting approximately $200,500.
Development Board reviewed
sponsored by the Govern
"City and County staff coopera-
recent successful recruitment and
Amental Affairs Committee
tion and the City-County Planning
expansion, and announced its
( Seth. Chairman) has
Commission's efforts have been
intentions "not to participate in the
sbeen cancelled.
key to our success. Mr. Eddie New-
nationally-forecast recession" - cit-
ing the diversified economy, which
The Chamber appreci
man's County Public Works Depart-
ates-all the work the com
ment and Al Harris' City Engineer's
is getting better every day, for the
optimistic statement.
Amittee did in the prepara-
Department have responded excep-
The following review of the past
of this scheduled
tionally well to requests for informa-
tion by prospects and to new and
year is offered by Leon McDonald
sevent
local industrial expansion needs.
(SCNB), Chairman of the Sumter
"We foresee the same increased
County Development Board:
level of activity for 1991-92 that we
"Phil Ballinger and Jim Alexan-
"When in full operation, these
have had this year."
der have done an exceptional job
new industries will provide close to
So if you have been fearing the
this past year in recruiting new
$950,000 in school and special-
worst economically, or if you hear
industries into the area. Included
purpose taxes, along with an addi-
anyone else voice those concerns,
are Union Camp's Fine Paper Divi-
tional $664,000 a year to the coun-
help spread the word: The econom-
sion; Diebold, Inc.; Metal Leve, Inc.;
ty coffers after their five-year
ic picture here is far brighter than in
Kaydon Corporation; and Universal
exemption ends.
most communities which can give
Industries. They have also assisted
"These new industries also
us all something to smile about.
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Duke Power, N
Eastman Kodak, N
Closings made big headlines,
Family Dollar, N
Federal Mogul, N
Fieldcrest Mills, N
but there was good news on
First Fed. of S.C., OTC
First Union, OTC
First Wachovia, N
the business front this year too
Food Lion A, OTC
GTE, N
Gold Kist won't be able to keep
General Electric, N
By BILLY QUARLES
all of the approximately 1,100 em-
Giant Corp., N
ITEM Staff Writer
ployees now working at the Camp-
IBM, N
bell plant, but the company plans to
Interlake, N
Phil Ballinger has seen a lot of
hire as many as possible.
International Paper, N
businesses and industries come and
"The Gold Kist project needs to
go since he began working with the
be kept in focus as a tremendous
Greater Sumter Chamber of Com-
project," Ballinger said. "From all
merce in 1970.
of the indications we have, they are
But the chamber's president and
going to greatly expand the poultry-
CEO says 1990 beat everything.
growing operation.
"It was unusual," said Ballinger,
"We've had trouble in our local
CASH, page 3D
Sumter County's head industrial re-
agricultural sector in the past -
cruiter. "The Campbell Soup event
(Hurricane) Hugo was a direct hit
h tougher than they
was the big news, but we also
and then we had the (October)
remise that many U.S.
scored some big hits that are going
flooding. So that could mean a big
th. They base this out-
to: be tremendously good for our
boost."
-1Jed e uo embbark 01 in
area."
Sources have said that Gold Kist
r and argue that the
Campbell Soup officials an-
could eventually process up to four
have dismissed reces-
nounced in June that they would
times the poultry now being pro-
ald be hit hardest
close the Sumter pouitry-processing
cessed at the local plant.
Northeast and Middle
plant, which employed about 1,266
Gold Kist will use the plant to
recession. : III 11AM
when the year began. Campbell
eviscerate chickens and sell the
panies in the Pacific
Soup is the largest private employ-
whole or cut-up birds to institu-
mau jo Penerators UIE
er in the tri-county area.
tions. retail supermarkets and res-
for small and mid-sized
That surprise move was the first
taurants.
y the American Express
in a rash of plant closings in Sumter
Prior to news of the layoffs at
land's key industries.
and Clarendon counties that
Campbell Soup, economic develop-
imponent manufacturer
claimed about 1,900 jobs this year.
ment in the area was rolling.
aton Corp., an electrical
In addition to the Campbell an-
The Union Camp Corp. an-
ne a way of life," said
nouncement, children's clothing
nounced in February that it would
1 and mean, running
manufacturer Elkay Industries Inc.
build a $25 million-plus paper-con-
I the 1980s.
closed plants in Turbeville and
verting plant in the county's indus-
automation and smaller
Sumter, while Schoeller Inc. shut
trial park on U.S. 15 South.
earned the hard way to
down a Sumter textile plant and the
And in April Ohio-based
American model e .MOU p
Interlake Corp. closed one of its two
Diebold Inc. purchased a $1.1 mil-
8 acce
Sumter facilities.
lion speculative building in the
cers.
Coupled with a number of layoffs
Black River Industrial Park.
suojeu am Jo euo MOL
that affected a cross-section of the
Diebold has already put about 120
e retooled with modern
local economy, the closings boosted
people to work manufacturing au-
1, is thriving because fac-
Sumter's unemployment rate from 5
tomated banking equipment.
acturing jobs during the
percent in January 1990 to 6.6 per-
The economy got another boost
AQ develsited exemple, I'
cent in October.
in November when the Metal Leve
resurgence.
"I'd say it was somewhat of a
Corp. of Brazil unveiled plans to
ie catalyst for the next na-
transitional year," said Leon
build a piston-manufacturing facili-
the Great Lakes. which
McDonald, chairman of the Sumter
ty here. The plant will employ
ast parts of the Midwest,
County Development Board.
about 130 people in 1992 and could
and an export boom is
"Some of the closings were
eventually employ as many as 800.
= West Coast remains rela-
caused by severe economic pres-
Ballinger said 1990 will probably
Texas and its neighbors are
sure, but we were fortunate to re-
never be forgotten by those who fol-
omy is slowest.
cruit some quality industries to
low Sumter's economy, but he be-
news on the East Coast,
make up for the ones we lost."
lieves most people will look back at
been skewed by heavy re-
Four major industries an-
the year favorably.
mists suggest the national
nounced in 1990 plans to open facil-
"Manufacturing Jobs in general
turn.
Ities in Sumter, and perhaps none
are declining across the country,
Brown MOIS Jo pointo B Sup:
made area residents happier than
and to keep bringing in quality jobs
ovember that said the Unit-
the news about Gold Kist Inc., an
is a real accomplishment," he said.
prisingly optimistic assess-
Atlanta-based firm that paid about
"And we've still got the vacant
ation and Development re-
$40 million for the Campbell plant.
CP&L speculative building (on U.S.
based Organization of Eco-
Gold Kist. also in the poultry-
15 South) and the vacant building
'166T
processing business, plans to start
(left behind by Interlake), and those
inq 0661 jo buarder leuij the
processing chickens In Sumter
will get buyers.
shortly after Campbell vacates the
"Things look good for 1991, and
plant on Jan. 27.
we'll keep slugging."
be bright
BUSINESS ITEMS
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THE
Hugo's one night tab: $700 mill' 01
By MARGE BARBER
ITEM Staff Writer
urricane
Hugo
H
turned one of Sum-
ter's assets - trees,
in great number
and variety - into a liability.
During that black night, trees
became instruments of destruc-
tion. They stabbed into houses
and crashed across roads, drag-
ging power and telephone lines
down with them as they fell.
At last count. more than
To: Fred Sainz
From: Graham Osteen
12,000 homes in the greater
Sumter area were victims of the
The Item,
hurricane - 6,777 with minor
damage. 3,417 with major dam-
age and at least 1,933 destroyed.
Falling trees caused much of
that damage
And a county official estimat-
ed that when the storm ended.
as, much tree debris lay on the
ground in Sumter County as
would normaily fall in 25 years.
The size of the cleanup task was
mind-boggling.
So was the cost Latest dam-
age estimates put Hugo's tab at
$694,256,800 - and that includes
only property damage.
Civil Defense Director Vic
Jones says he could add millions
to that figure to cover lost earn-
ings and business productivity,
personal property. cars. boats,
fences. outbuildings and swim-
ming pools.
"And the impact in terms of
homeless people will rise."
Jones says. "We know there are
homeless people. who have not
come in. needing shelter. We
know there's a house with 26
people living in it. We know peo
pic are staying with friends and
relatives. We don't know how
!ong that can last."
Family homes account for
more than half the total damage,
standing at $395,762,700 as of
Wednesday.
Residents
of
The next largest amount -
Lynam
a: $150 million almost one quar-
Road, above, cut their
ter of the total - represents
way out of the debris that
damage to trees and crops.
littered their neighbor-
Approximate damages to
public utilities are $32.2 mil-
hood after Hugo hit Sum-
lion.
ter. The cost of repairing
Soil conservation damage -
downed power lines in
soil crosion. blocked streams
Sumter County was tied
and drainage systems - is $20
million.
directly to the 1,000
Damage to county business-
workers sent to the
es IS $5.84 million.
Damage to city businesses is
county by out-of-state
$18.9 million.
electric
companies,
Vision Cable damage is $5
right.
million.
Debris removal will cost $3
And American Red Cross offi-
million.
Damage to industry is $20
cials say the Sumter area is part
million.
of "the largest-ever storm-relief
Schools and public property
operation" in the organization's
damage is at least $3 million.
history. Hugo's victims statewide
Shaw Air Force Base esti-
will get at least $38 million in
mates damage at $40 million.
Red Cross aid.
Not everyone expressed
Power and water are back in
Hugo's devastation in numbers.
most areas. Many homes even
Some used superlatives. Soon af-
have cable TV again. Houses are
ter the storm, Gov. Carroll Camp-
being repaired. Debris is being
bell estimated the damage to his
hauled away and burned. But
state at "hundreds and hun-
something Is missing from the
dreds and hundreds of millions
Sumter skyline, and that loss
of dollars."
won't be repaired for years to
Campbell said after a flight
come.
over the hurricane's path. "It's
There's a lot of daylight
hevend your worst nightmare."
where the trees used to be.
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Despite the grim
warnings, local
retailers say
business is good
By BILLY QUARLES
ITEM Staff Witter
Like many merchants around the
country, Sumter's Halsell Roberts is a
little worried this holiday shopping
season.
But while a slowed economy, high
energy prices and the threat of war in
the Middle East have many retailers
braced for a blue Christmas, Roberts'
worries are of a different sort.
"I think this weather is having more
of an effect on us than the economy,"
said Roberts. who owns the University
Shop on Bultman Drive.
"The weather's just been $0 warm
that we aren't selling much cuterwear."
Other than that, Roberts is having a
HALSELL ROBERTS, owner of the University Shop, help
merry Christmas season, and many oth-
er local merchants are reporting brisk
Roberts said the season has been a good one for area ret
sales, even with thousands of troops
from Shaw Air Force Base deployed in
the Middle East and 2,000 announced
"
industrial layoffs coming from Sumter
area-plants over the past six months.
M
"Business overall has actually been
aybe the economy is not so bad everywhe
pretty good," Roberts said. "I wouldn't
alize that thousands of people are gone, bu
say this is our best year, but it's been
good."
body's at home doing their Christmas shop
Other retailers are reporting similar
success during the annual Christmas-
them. And Santa Claus is still going to see t
shopping season, the period in which
We're not canceling Christmas.
many of them complete 50 percent of
their annual sales.
GRIER BLACKWELDER
"This is better than any other
Chamber official
Christmas we've had," said Lucy Byrd,
who with her husband has owned
Byrd's Country Store for nine years.
"
"I can't say how much business is up
from last year. but we're delighted."
Commerce said he's heard similar sto-
it's been a good season.
So are Patsy Blanding and Eddie
ries all over town.
economy is not so bad ever
Lathan Blanding said sales at her
"If you listen to the news, it's sur-
"I realize that thousan
women's apparel store on Bultman
prising," he said. "If you believe that
are gone," Blackwelder
Drive are 10 percent ahead of last
we're in a recession or about to go into
somebody's at home doing
year's, and 1990 will be the best ever
one like the experts say, it's very sur-
mas shopping for them.
for Lathan's 8-year-old computer busi-
prising.
Claus is still going to St
ness on North Guignard Drive.
"But the people I'm seeing in the re-
We're not canceling Christ
Grier Blackwelder, the general man-
tail sector who depend heavily on
Maybe not, but some na
ager of the Greater Sumter Chamber of
Christmas shopping are telling me that
ers, including Sears. Roe
aring Paul et
1
Deaths
328
Injuries
Amount
Damage
Homes (with personal property)
395,762,700
150,000,000
Forest/Agriculture
20,000,000
Soil Conserv.
250,000
Sewer
13,000,000
CP&L
8,000,000
Black River
10,000,000
GTE
Farmers Telephone
1,500,000
Vision Cable
5,000,000
Debris Removal
4,000,000
Public Buildings (schools)
3,000,000
3,000,000
Industry
Shaw Air Force Base
39,000,000
Commercial Damage to County
5,844,100
Commercial Damage to City
18,900,000
Total:
677,256,800
#
Industry
23 MM
Drassborg PE22
QUOTES
America
o
"It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged
freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it
is the values upon which our system was built. These
values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual
freedom, but also to international peace, law and order,
and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these
values, we do so at our peril.'
-- Senator J. William Fulbright, 6/29/61
"We in this country, in this generation, are -- by destiny
rather than choice -- the watchmen on the walls of world
freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our
power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength
with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our
time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on
earth, goodwill toward men. " That must always be our goal,
and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie
our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the
Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
-- JFK, remarks prepared but not delivered
in Dallas on 11/22/63
Patriots/Soldiers
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights,
makes the most reliable solider on earth."
-- Attributed to Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
"Honor to the soldier, and sailor everywhere, who bravely
bears his country's cause. Honor also to he citizen who
cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as best
he can, the same cause -- to honor him, only less than to
him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven
and the storms of battle."
-- President Lincoln, letter, 12/1863
"
the highest merit, then, is due to the solider."
-- President Lincoln, 3/18/1864
"These endured all and gave all that justice among nations
might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and
inherit peace. "
-- Author unknown. Inscription at Normandy
Chapel. Similar to WWI inscription at
Oise-Aisne cemetery
After the War
"In War: Resolution
In Defeat: Defiance
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will"
-- Winston Churchill, The Second World War
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
-- Walt Whitman, 1867
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land.' "
-- President Lincoln, First Inaugural
"The greatest Glory of a free born people
Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children."
-- William Harvard, "Regulus: A Tragedy"
Regulus is speaking
Kuwait Now
"A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical
injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right
and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest
purpose by their free choice, -- is often the means of their
regeneration."
-- John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and
Discussions, 1862
The Peace
"The peace we seek is nothing less than the fulfillment
of our whole faith among ourselves and in our dealings
with others. This signifies more than the stilling of
guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than an escape
from death, it is a way of life. More than a have for
the weary, it is a hope for the brave."
-- Eisenhower, First Inaugural
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace,
and not of war. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
"We should do all in our power to hasten the day
when there shall be peace among nations -- a peace
based upon justice and not upon cowardly submission
to wrong. "
-- TR, 6th msg. to Congress, 12/4/06
The Argument of Some US Soldiers that they deployed so that
their children will not have to
"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my
child may have peace. "
-- Thomas Paine, article, 12/19/1776
The Scenes Troops Proudly Saluting the Flag Before Battle
"There is the National flag. He must be cold, indeed,
who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without
pride of country. If in a foreign land, the flag is
companionship, and country itself, with all its endearments." "
-- Charles Sumner, 11/19/1867
"Thank God. I -- I also -- am an American!"
-- Daniel Webster, upon completion of
the Bunker Hill Monument, 6/17/1843
Post War Domestic Agenda
"America means opportunity, freedom, power. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his
country is good enough to be given a square deal
afterwards
"
-- TR, 6/4/03
"For what avail the plough or sail,
or land or life, if freedom fail?"
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inscribed on a plaque in the pedestal of
the Statue of Liberty
"For we put the power in the people. "
-- William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
1797
Desert storm
SUN FEB 2 4 1991
Shaw pilot rescued
by U.S. helicopter
SAUDI ARABIA A Shaw Air
members of the 33rd Squadron of
Force Base pilot parachuted to
the 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing.
safety earlier this week in the Mid-
After landing, Thomas told re-
dle East before being rescued by a
porters that with a thunderstorm
U.S. helicopter, which was under
approaching, he made a shelter
:attack by enemy fire.
using two bushes and a life raft.
Capt. Scott "Spike" Thomas, an
Both items were part of his surviv-
F-16 pilot from Shaw, landed
al kit. As he waited to be rescued,
about 50 miles north of Saudi Ara-
he picked up stones for souvenirs,
bia in a spot where there was no
reports said.
enemy fire, reports said. Thomas,
27, had just finished bombing
The helicopter passed over him
troops in Iraq before having to flee
after about two agonizing hours.
his plane when its engine caught
After another three minutes, it
fire, the reports said.
landed in front of Thomas and
Thomas's wing man and friend,
someone was sent out to get him.
Lt. Eric "Neck" Dodson, coordi-
nated the search and rescue mis-
Iraqi soldiers fired shots at the
sion, reports said. Both men are
helicopter as it lifted, reports said.
En
(ShawAF
flying home this week
loved ones as soon as possible,"
Fitzwater said.
"Sumter is the kind of celebra-
tion he will participate in, where
the community and the county gets
together to celebrate all the re-
turning troops.
"I noticed the event at Norfolk
over the weekend when the digni-
taries started making speeches
and the crowd started yelling, 'Let
them go, let them go'," Fitzwater
"I think the right tone for these
returning events is to let these
troops get off the plane and into
the arms of those they want to be
in the arms of."
The Associated Press contributed
Pilots from Shaw
said.
to this report.
spokesman
FROM PAGE 1A
Presidential
Marlin Fitzwater said the Sum-
ter celebration will be a gener-
al one, put on by the community
and the county. Fitzwater said
Bush would make the stop on
his return from Bermuda,
where he was to meet with Brit-
ish Prime Minister John Major
on Saturday.
He said Bush had decided
he did not want his presence in
greeting returning troops to in-
terfere with the actual home-
"The president believes that
comings.
these homecomings should be
just that: for the families, pri-
marily, and get them with their
Bush to attend rally here
President George Bush will come to Sumter
pretty difficult for me," Creech said.
Shaw spokesman Dave McMahon said the
roll Campbell, said the governor invited Bush
Sunday to welcome Shaw Air Force Base
"We're going to have a rally Sunday - prob-
president's plane will likely land at Shaw, but
to Sumter after learning that an event had
troops home from the Persian Gulf War.
ably at 4 p.m. at Memorial Stadium," the may-
could not provide details of the visit.
been planned for the returning troops. He said
Sumter Mayor Steve Creech said this morn-
or said. "I'm sure the governor will be here,
Creech also confirmed that Shaw pilots will
Campbell spoke to Bush about coming to South
ing that the president will appear at a 4 p.m.
and members of the congressional delegation
be returning home Wednesday and Thursday.
Carolina in January after the President spoke
celebration for the returning troops. It was an
and other dignitaries."
Reports from fliers' wives have said the 17th
in North Carolina.
announcement he'd waited four days to make.
Final choice of the location will be up to
Tactical Fighter Squadron will fly in at 3 or 4
Bush campaigned in Sumter in 1988, speak-
"I'm more excited today than I was Thurs-
the Secret Service, Creech said.
p.m. Wednesday, followed by F-16s from the
ing at a rally at Swan Lake park.
day when I was told that he might be coming
The White House confirmed the visit to
33rd TFS on Thursday.
1
and I should keep my mouth shut - which was
Sumter this morning.
Tucker Eskew, a spokesman for Gov. Car-
See PILOTS, page 12A
(John Frits
(fatalities
Crash kills Shaw pilot
By JOHN FRITZ
crash," a Shaw press release said. "This was a non-
hostile death."
ITEM Staff Writer
Department of Defense spokesman Howard Hicks
said that Cormier crashed "while performing an in-
An F-16C fighter pilot became Shaw Air Force
strument landing." He could provide no more details.
Base's first casualty of the Gulf War when his
Cormier was assigned to the 17th Tactical Fighter
plane crashed in Saudi Arabia Friday while re-
Squadron of Shaw's 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing.
turning to base after a mission.
Nancy Diehl, whose husband is the squadron com-
Capt. Dale Thomas Cormier, 30, died in a
mander, was at the Cormier's Sumter home Saturday
crash on the Saudi Arabian peninsula about
night, but said the family would have no comment.
12:50 p.m. EST or 8:50 p.m. Saudi time, the Air
Cormier is survived by a wife, Shelley, other rela-
Force announced Saturday.
tives said.
"His aircraft was returning to base from an
"Everyone here is saddened that the accident oc-
operational mission, but did not sustain any bat-
tle damage. Capt. Cormier died as a result of the
See CRASH, page 12A
Crash investigation
planned, official says
FROM PAGE 1A
Robert, was a retired American
Airlines pilot.
curred," Shaw spokesman Dave
His father, mother and step-
McMahon said. "All our
mother all are deceased,
thoughts and wishes are with
Speechley said. Cormier also has a
the family."
brother, Scott, who lives in Phoe-
The Air Force will investi-
nix, Ariz, he said.
gate the crash, according to the
Friday's crash resulted in the
press release.
first loss of life for Shaw forces in
Air Force Capt. Ralph Scott,
the Gulf area and the second loss
a spokesman for the Central
of a Shaw aircraft there.
Command Joint Information
A Shaw pilot ejected safely
Bureau in Riyadh, Saudi Ara-
Sept. 3, 1990, before his plane
bia, said that the investigation
crashed during a training exercise
could take weeks or months, de-
over the southern Arabian penin-
pending on the circumstances
sula.
of the crash.
Lt. Richard F. Sester of the
Scott could provide no fur-
33rd Tactical Fighter Wing was
ther details about what hap-
treated at a local hospital and re-
pened.
leased after the crash, which oc-
Cormier's uncle, William
curred at 7:51 a.m. EST, or 3:51
Cormier of Lansing, III., said he
p.m. in Saudi Arabia.
was shocked to hear that his
Cormier, who graduated in 1982
nephew had been killed, but
from Auburn University with a
said that Dale Cormier died do-
bachelor's degree in aviation man-
ing something that he loved -
agement, entered the service in
flying.
April 1983 and was stationed at
"His father was a pilot, and
Shaw last March.
he followed in his footsteps as
His military awards and deco-
far as flying," he said.
rations include the Air Force Com-
Cormier's
stepbrother,
mendation Medal, Achievement
Thomas Speechley of Crystal
Medal, Longevity Service Award
Lake, III., said Cormier's father,
Ribbon and Training Ribbon.
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Telephone - (803) 773-3371
Fax - (803) 778-2025
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Date:
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Enjoyed talking with ym- thanks so
much for einderstanding the "big "picture
of our area - So many guardsmen
and women and reservists from here are
serving
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Sumter County Museum
P. O. Box 1456
122 N. Washington St.
Sumter, SC 29151
(803) 775-0908
INFORMATION FOR PRESIDENT BUSH'S MARCH 17 VISIT TO SUMTER. SC
Contact: Kay S. Teer. Director 773-9144
In addition to Thomas Sumter. another important South Carolina
Revolutionary War General was Francis Marion. "The Swamp Fox" for whom
the S.C. Air National Guard's famed F-16 Fighting Falcons are nicknamed.
These modern-day "Swamp Foxes" won the Air Force's Top Gun competition in
1989.
The original "Swamp Fox" organized an irregular force of raiders who came
and went as the need arose and they could be armed and in the saddle at a
moment's notice. They provided their own horses and food, and numbered
among them some of the best marksmen and riders in the state. Marion's
brigade was only half equipped and often hungry, but to the British
regulars they seemed everywhere at once. The British sent their best
cavalry officer. Banastre Tarleton. to destroy Marion. but Tarleton could
not find Marion in the swamps of S.C.'s mid-lands and lowcountry.
Marion's men attacked often, took many Drisoners and made communications
impossible for the British troops in the Caolinas--not unlike the members
of South Carolina's current "Swamp Foxes" and their support groups.
The modern day "Swamp Foxes" " were one of the primary units in flying
thousands of sorties against Saddam's forces. Based in Central Saudi
Arabia at "Camellot" these men and women of the 157th Tactical Fighter
Group and the 169th Services Flight. along with the 240th Combat
Communications Squadron played a key Dart in the War.
Over 800 men and women. many from the Sumter and mid-lands area of South
Carolina make up these Air National Guard units. Only a few of the
Fighting Falcons have returned. None of the 169th or 240th members have
been able to come home--in fact the 240th unit will remain until the very
end, for their motto is "First in-Last Out". (They will not be
returning until mid to late May.)
Lt. Col. John Marshall, Commander of the Fighting Falcons, and Lt. Col
Stewart Teer, Commander of the 240th CC SQ, are both from Sumter.
As the only communications squadron serving the base of 5000 people,
members of the 240th made short work of the massive communications
requirements, stringing wire, installing telephones, the "giant voice"
(satelites), as well as providing the air traffic control for the
thousands of sorties flown.
If I can provide further information. please call. Thank you, for
including whatever of this information seems applicable.
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County sveuseum
P. O. 'Box 1456
122 N. Washington St.
Sumter, SC 29151
(803) 775-0908
For: President Bush's March 17th visit to Sumter
Contact: Kay Teer (803) 773-9144
Aged 30, Thomas Sumter came to South Carolina -- scene of his
future greatness -- as an escapee from a debtors' prison and as a
young man with only basic schooling. But behind him lay an
adventurous youth. He had been a frontier boy and Indian fighter.
He had met the King of England in his palace while serving as a
intrepretor for an Indian chief. He had captured a French Canadian
and enemy of his country single-handedly in a remote region and
transported him, unaided, to imprisonment. He came to this state
unknown, without friends. Today he is enshrined in the hearts of
South Carolinians as a hero and as a real man, with a city, a
county and a fort in Charleston harbor named in his honor.
As a military man, a product of his environment, a leader of
mounted Irregulars and backwoods militia, his followers adored him.
His "finest hour" came in 1780 when he was 46. It came following
in the fall of Charles Town to the British; following the flight to
N.C. by Governor Rutledge; during the absence from S.C. of all
civil authority; and after the total defeat and rout of all
military resistance in the state. This hour of glory came to
Sumter wile he was a fugitive from a gutted home. His fellow
backwoodsmen rallied to his banner, elected him "General", and from
that point onward, the flame of resistance burned brightly and
eventually, his adopted state -- our state -- became free.
The rank of General was confirmed by Gov. Rutledge from his
capitol in N.C. when he wrote Sumter issuing him the commission of
Brig. Gen. and directing him to embody as soon as possible "all the
militia of S.C. "; to hold them ready to cooperate with the
Continental forces; and until then to employ his men in the
interest of the state as seemed best to his judgement, with no
limitations except that "your own prudence will restrain you from
entering upon too hazardous enterprises."
Sumter's was a "hit and run" warfare, his men frequently
"fading away" to their homes where they were needed if their
families were to live and be safe from the Tories. He had no
commissary, nor could he have used one as a rule. The state of
S.C. through its General Assembly, afterwards did that which
Sumter aided it in doing -- it reimburses those from he had take
that his loyal to their cause might survive (provided they had been
loyal to their state, and not Tories).
Probably the most accurate measure of esteem in which Sumter
was held by his fellow citizens, both those from whom he took that
his men might live and win and those less affected by his
patriotism, is the constancy with which he was elected to public
office by their votes. He was elected a delegate from the district
eastward of the Wateree to the First and Second Provincial
Congresses which met in Charles Town in 1775 and 1776. There he
was made a member of the Council of Safety; and immediately after
the Skirmish at Lexington was made a captain of Rangers, and then
Lt. Col. Commandant of a rifle regiment. He was also present and
took part in the adoption of the second American State Constitution
by the terms of which S.C. became an independent sovereignty.
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In 1778 he was elected by his people to the first General
Assembly under the new Constitution, and after his "War Days" was
elected to the State Senate which met in Jacksonborough, S.C., in
1782. Meanwhile, after having moved to Stateburg in what was them
Camden District, from his former home on the Santee River, he was
elected to the Assembly which met in Charleston in 1785. He was
re-elected and was a member of the Assembly when, in 1788, the
proposed Federal Constitution which had been fashioned by the
Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, was received. He was again
a member of the legislature which met in 1789, this being his last
session in the State General Assembly, he thereafter refusing other
nominations.
He was elected to the First Congress which met in N.Y. in
1789. He was elected the Second Congress but suffered his only
defeat in the election of 1793. He remained out of politics for
three years but in 1796 he again offered and was elected as a
member of Congress and in the fall of 1800 at the first session of
Congress held in the new capitol in Washington, D.C., he was the
only member from S.C. who voted for Jefferson instead of Burr when
the election of President was thrown into Congress.
In December, 1801, the General Assembly of South Carolina
elected Congressman Sumter over John Rutledge to fill Charles
Pinckney's unexpired term as Senator when the latter was sent to
the Court of Spain. At the expiration of the term he was re-
elected in December 1810. But Sumter, them 76 years old, was
beginning to be weary of public service and harassed by
complications in his vast private enterprises to which he had been
able to give less attention during his absences in Washington.
Moreover, a wound he had received in the Revolution had abscessed,
SO, he resigned and retired to end his days among the High Hills of
Stateburg, some 20 years thereafter.
In the last year of his life he took a stand on a principle of
government closest to his heart--that of local self determination
of local matters, that principle then, and now referred to as
"States Rights." It was them (1832) that Calhoun's doctrine of the
right of "nullification" by a state, in the event its reserved
powers had been transgressed upon by the Federal government, was
being insisted upon by South Carolina. The dispute was at its
height when Sumter died at the ripe old age of 98.
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(Snow, Cawley)
March 14, 1991
Draft 1
SUMTER
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SUMTER WELCOME TO U.S. TROOPS
March 17, 1991
Thank you so much, Governor Campbell.
SC cong'! delegation (except Thurmond
General Olsen
wife will DC there.) Not on stage thou
Mayor Creech, thank you. Col. Huot [Hewitt] thank you. But
City Council Chairman Rubin Gray
most of all, thank you, Sumter. /// Thank you for your courage
-- your sacrifice -- your example. Thank you for showing just
what a great land this is. Thank you for letting me share in
your reunion. // /
This is wonderful. ///
What is it about Sumter and Sumter COU that breeds war
heroes? // In this century alone, you have supplied some of our
The
Jine
greatest warrior-citizens. General George Mabry, who died just
to
last year, was the second most decorated soldier in U.S. history.
we col in Office Aide 5300 //
As many of you know, he helped train a young Lieutenant Major
LFC
LTC
major/affreract
[N=COS,USF-VN] S=X0 xo
Colonele in Vietnam. That colonele LTC was Norman Schwarzkopf.
But Sumter's contribution doesn't end there. The coalition
victory in Kuwait would not have been possible without General
Chuck Horner, the commander of the 9th Air Force Headquarters
+
15 Central
command
Air Forces
/// General Horner mapped out the largest, most successful air
assault in history. He helped the coalition forces crush Saddam
Hussein without subjecting our troops or innocent Iraqi citizens
to the horrors of total war. /// Can you think of a better way to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of Shaw Air Force Base? //
But you don't have to wear a star to be a hero. We are
surrounded by such people today. // Let's all thank the 363d
2
Tactical Fighter Wing // Including the 17th Tactical Fighter
33
Squadron. // The 19th Tactical Fighter Squadron. // The 363d
Combat Support Group. // And the 363d Medical Group // Let's
thank the 507th Tactical Air Control Wing. // And the 9th Air
all come unde:
Force.
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20 + 2'
For those of you who are a little groggy from last night's
flight, welcome home. // For the rest of you, welcome home. I
cannot tell you how proud we are of all you have risked and all
you have done. // And to all our servicemen everywhere, the
veterans of this and every conflict: Those of you who have
returned, God bless you. Those who toil still: Bless you. ///
You not only helped liberate Kuwait, you helped this country
liberate itself from old ghosts and doubts. When you left, it
was still fashionable to question American decency, courage and
resolve. No one doubts us any more. // You helped revive the
America of our hopes and dreams.
This nation learned something else during Desert Storm: You
don't have to wear a uniform to be a war hero. Here, crowded on
Tim simonsenthe
bleachers at Sumter Memorial Stadium are heroes and heroines
Lead Advance
of all ages: mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children,
neighbors, friends. While you in the service were overseas,
your loved ones hung yellow ribbons, unfurled flags, sent letters
and gifts. And here's a sign of this nation's special spirit: So
did strangers from every hamlet and town, city and suburb across
our country.
3
While you servicemen and women huddled on distant sands,
those back home talked and prayed. I have fought far from home
and I know: Every little thought, every good wish, every
whispered prayer somehow echoes in the hearts of fighters far
away. No one understands this magic, but it is the kind of
blessing that enables good people to accomplish great deeds. ///
But there is something very special about Sumter's sacrifice
and its triumph, and you all know it.
The THEN 3-11-
al
I had the pleasure of visiting you in 1988. Since then,
Itam FOX
Hurricane Hugo has ripped through 12,000 homes in this area, and
destroyed nearly $700 million worth of property. Its high winds
and rains shredded your homes and neighborhoods, turned trees
into tinder.
Sumter gathered its strength and began literally to pick up
the pieces. But just as things seemed to be turning around a war
erupted far away. And you did something extraordinary: You sent
many of your finest men and women to serve. Reservists left
sax
Item
their workplaces. Factories closed. 2,000 people lost their
The
jobs.
Some people, newly married, were separated by war. Mothers
bore children to fathers who looked across the horizon at an
The 21-a/ Ttem
unseen foe. Captain Dale Cormier died fighting for his country,
in
2-24-91
and Captain Spike Thomas was plucked up from behind enemy lines.
Yet Sumter did not give in to despair or fear. You
recruited new business and new jobs. While the troops were away,
4
you began to build a new city, a better city, a city that is more
like a large family.
Nexis-8
In 18 months you retraced American history: You planted the
89
sept.
seeds of prosperity among hardship's ruins. Hugo's winds and
Saddam Hussein's Scuds could not stop you. /// They snarled.
You straightened before them. They made noise. You won. //
I have talked in recent weeks about an American renewal.
Here it is. // I am amazed, but never surprised at the incredible
things our people do. Our success on and above the desert
battlefields demonstrated that we take a back seat to no one when
it comes to courage, ingenuity and dedication to principle. ///
It also showed that we do great things when we trust our people.
We would not have enjoyed such success if someone had tried
to run the war from Washington. We entrusted operations to
Sumter's products and heirs -- and look where we are today! ///
We should use that same approach at home. Why should
someone in Washington tell you the best way to heal old wounds
and create new hopes in Sumter? You didn't wait for instructions
when misfortune slapped you. Why should this nation be shackled
to the limited wisdom of a small political class? You have made
spectacular progress without lectures from the capital. It's
time Washington told the rest of this country: We believe in you.
Not: Prove yourselves to us. 111
We know the challenges we face. So, let's just do it.///
5
Each year we become a more diverse and exciting society. We
pioneer new paths in industry and culture. Our diversity opens
up fresh ideas, new ways, unexpected opportunities.
We have stepped into the bracing air of a new age -- an age
in which America is not afraid to demonstrate its ability. An
age in which this nation takes on the challenges and
opportunities that an international marketplace offers. An age
in which the government doesn't demand virtue of its people --
but assumes it. A government that encourages Americans to do
what they do naturally -- help each other, compete against each
other, enrich each other with our ideas, inspirations, cultures.
I ask you to join me today in rejecting the tiring politics
of division and derision. Let the spirit of brotherhood and
cooperation shove aside the stale fog of class and racial
conflict. That is the path Sumter has chosen. You tell me: Does
it work?
Americans don't need to be protected from anyone, especially
themselves. /// We need to have the courage to feel good about
ourselves and our fellow citizens. We need to reach out and join
the new world awakening over the horizon. ///
Look around you: Here is today's triumph and tomorrow's
hope. // Here is what we fight for. // Here is what we love. ///
Thank you again for letting me share in your reunion. ///
And God bless the United States of America.
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March 13, 1991
MEMORANDUM
TO:
TONY SNOW
FROM:
CAROLYN CAWLEY
RE:
REMARKS -- SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA
Contacts:
Steve Creech, Mayor of Sumter
803/773-3371 or 773-1398
Capt. Carol Grimmig, Shaw AFB PAO
803/668-3621
Event:
Sumter's Troop Welcome
Date:
March 17, 1991
Sunday
Place:
Sumter Memorial Stadium
(a high school football stadium)
Time:
4:10 - 4:40 p.m.
Attendees:
10,000 +
Intro of
POTUS:
Governor Carroll Campbell
Acknowledgements:
* Sumter Mayor Steve Creech
* Colonel Raymond Huot (hewitt)
Shaw AFB Wing Commander
* A special acknowledgement, in absentia,
for General Charles "Chuck" Horner --
the 3-star commander of the 9th Air Force
Headquarters, located at Shaw AFB. He is
known as the "architect of the air war"
under General Schwarzkopf and is very
well known in the community. His wife
Mary Jo will be there as a greeter.
SPECIAL EVENT NOTES
The primary sponsor of this event will be held the city of
Sumter, though Shaw Air Force Base will also be participating.
It should be stressed that this is the only troop welcome in
which the President will be participating until July 4th. This is
not a POTUS event -- for the remarks, you may want to explicitly
thank the town of Sumter for their hospitality and hosting of this
event.
The event will be held in the city of Sumter, then, with
troops from Shaw as their primary honorees. You should note,
however, that South Carolina is home to several military bases and
thousands more troops. Governor Campbell's office is coordinating
the buses for them.
The President will speak on a stage set up on one side of the
football, on the fifty yard line. The bleachers behind him will
serve as the back drop -- this area will be reserved for newly
returned troops and their families with flags and signs.
Most of the troops from the area will have been returning the
whole week before POTUS visits. The largest single group (of
pilots) returned today, March 13, and an immense crowd turned out,
even in the rain.
Trees Damaged by
Hurricane Hugo. (see Hugo item in memo.)
Bleachers
POTUS
Returned troops families
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 14, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR CAROLYN CAWLEY
FROM:
BOB SIMON Rd
SUBJECT:
AIR FORCE UNITS DEPLOYED FROM SHAW AFB
According to Master Sgt. Rivnak (668-3957), the following units
deployed to Southwest Asia from Shaw AFB:
9th Air Force, including Gen. Horner, who was the commander of
Air Forces for the Central Command. With them was the 9th
Tactical Intelligence Squadron.
363rd Tactical Fighter Wing, which is made up of the 17th Tac
Fighter Sqn. and the 33rd Tac Fighter Sqn.
3
63rd Medical Group, which deployed an Air Transportable Hospital
(ATH).
2020th Communications Squadron, which set up an air traffic
control system.
20th and 21st Tactical Air Control Squadron, whose pilots went
with Army ground units to provide forward air control.
SUMTER HISTORY/COLOR/
I. HISTORY -- Fort Sumter
NOTE: Sumter, the event site, and Sumter, the fort, are
not the same place. Fort Sumter is quite a distance
away, located on the water -- but it is holds an
extremely prominent spot in the state's history and
a reference to it would not be considered odd.
Just prior to the Civil War, most Southern federal
installations had already capitulated to the Confederate
states. Shortly after S.C.'s secession, the commander in
Charleston withdrew his garrison to the formidable Fort
Sumter. What to do about Sumter thus became the first test
of the Lincoln administration, and the new President appeared
determined to hold on to it. He dispatched a relief
expedition but the South Carolinians chose not to wait and
demanded the commander's immediate surrender.
When he refused, shore batteries opened at 4:30 on the
morning of April 12, 1861 -- the opening shots of the
Civil War.
The Civil War was the first in American history to suggest
the awful possibilities of "total war". It also saw the
first application to warfare of some new 19th century
technologies: the railroad
the telegraph
the repeating rifle and the Gatling gun
and iron-clad warships.
(( If you choose to take a historical bent in writing
these remarks, the paragraph above would make an
excellent segue to modern technologies, America is
#1, the Patriot missiles, smart bombs, etc. etc. ))
Fort Sumter has never again fired a shot in anger or been
forced to defend itself. Today, as long ago, it is accessible
only by boat. "Though the technology of warfare has long
since passed it by, it still stands its vigil at the mouth
of Charleston Harbor, a moving memorial to a war begun in a
contentious South Carolina that left the state a permanent
and important part of the American nation."
II. TOWN OF SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA
Named for Thomas Sumter ("the Carolina Gamecock"), one of the
most celebrated leaders in the Revolutionary War. He is
buried here.
Residents refer to themselves as Sumterites.
POTUS campaigned here in '88, speaking at Swan Lake Park.
City wide support for the troops can be seen everywhere.
Like most cities and towns across America, Sumter has
wrapped itself in ribbons -- though of the red, white and
blue variety. They stretch as far as the eye can see,
on every street, door, church, and lamp post.
Jo Anne Morris has organized a Sumter-Shaw support
network called "Keep the Home Fires Burning" --
they have woven more than 2,800 yards of ribbon into
5,000 bows that dot the Sumter street signs.
The "Volunteer Sumter" organization has galvanized
support, from billboards to videos. Virtually every
business billboard, sign, and marquis carries a ribbon
or words supporting the troops. The Taco Bell sign
reads: "Saddam Hussein, Run For the Border"!
The Item, Sumter's newspaper. Copies were mailed to the
troops everyday.
WIBZ Radio (Z 99) recorded call-in's and dedications
and then sent tapes to the troops. Later, they
participated in a media trip to the U.A.E., where
they recorded messages from the troops to bring home.
In Columbia, S.C., a radio station played the national
anthem at noon each day and asked drivers to flick on
their headlights during the song.
At Tuomey Regional Medical Center, workers created
the "Coming Home Tree" -- ribbons were placed on it
bearing the names of deployed troops and will remain
until the soldiers come home and personally remove
them.
Airplanes from Shaw AFB are bear the tail designation
"SW". This is common knowledge, so Sumter's
television viewers watched closely for those initials.
The Elks Lodge held a Day Out Celebration recently
for children with deployed parents -- a day of fun,
games, contests, and clowns to relieve stress and worry
in the kids.
Residents rang bells to hail the cease fire --
at all the fire houses, churches, the
Opera House, and private citizens brought
bells to parks to ring together.
Flag stores can't keep them in supply.
Relationships
Several marriages by phone.
Births:
Many Sumter/Shaw women gave birth gave birth while their
husbands were deployed -- though the figures
are not exact. It's such a touching sight on the nightly
news, though, to see returning fathers presented with
their newborns -- we could speak nationally, saying that
the Red Cross has delivered the good news to over 6,000
men. figure to como tomorrow e That covers those
births reported by the Red cross. For all births, the figure is over 14,000.
Hurricane Hugo
Sumter was one of the towns hardest hit by Hurricane Hugo
the mayor told me that 3,000 homes were destroyed. They have
done a quite a bit of reconstruction, but many buildings and sewage
drainers are in the repair process. The city is still awaiting
FEMA funds.
One side of the Sumter Memorial Stadium is sparsely lined with
tall trees, with homes on the other side visible. The broken tree
tops were very apparent and I was told that before the hurricane,
the grove was extremely dense and one couldn't see the houses.
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE: HISTORY/COLOR/SOLDIER STORIES
Shaw AFB is located 7 miles south of Sumter.
1991 marks the 50th Anniversary of Shaw Air Force Base and
a year long celebration has already begun. It was designated
as Shaw Field on August 7, 1941 in honor of 1st Lieutenant
Ervin David Shaw -- the Sumter native who was shot down
while flying a recon mission over France during WWI.
It began as a tiny flying school and has grown to a
premier USAF installation -- its squadrons have racked
up many honors, in WWII and other conflicts like
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Shaw is currently the home of:
363rd Tactical Fighter Wing
507th Tactical Air Control Wing
9th Air Force Headquarters
(headed by General Chuck Horner)
:
POW's from Shaw:
None
KIA's from Shaw:
Captain Dale Cormier died in his F-16,
in a "hostile loss". South Carolina's
first F-16 pilot to die in the war;
Shaw's first loss. A newly-wed. A base
memorial service was held two weeks ago.
Shaw pilot rescued by helicopter
Capt. Scott "Spike" Thomas, an F-16 pilot, parachuted
to safety in an enemy zone and was rescued by a US
chopper. He'd made himself a shelter using two
bushes and his liferaft. Iraqi soldiers fired shots
as the chopper lifted
Southwest Asia Service Medal
On Tuesday, March 12, 1991, POTUS signed an Executive
Order designating the "Southwest Asia Service Medal". All
deployed troops should be receiving one. I will get a copy
of the order and the specifics from the Clerk's office.
*
GENERAL GEORGE MABRY
Retired Major General George L. Mabry died last July -- he was
a Sumter native and is a very BIG deal local hero in the town.
Mabry was the 2nd most decorated soldier ever and was also a
Medal of Honor recipient. In fact, JFK pulled him from the Medal
of Honor crowd at his Inauguration and had the then-junior officer
stand with him.
Despite this fact, he was Republican through and through --
offered the VA Secretary post under Reagan, but turned it down to
live in Columbia, SC with his wife and family.
The General was a close personal friend of Senator Thurmond
-- the Senator attended his funeral and, in fact, had the notice
of his passing included in the Congressional Record.
A park and statue were created in Sumter in his honor -- a few
weeks ago, wreaths were placed there in memory of Captain Cormier,
the Shaw AFB F-16 pilot who died in Operation Desert Storm.
Sumterites love this man. A. reference to him would no doubt
be warmly received.
SOUTH CAROLINA -- THE STATE
--
State Mottoes:
"Prepared in mind and in resources. "
"While I breathe I hope."
--
S.C. is one of the original states -- #8.
--
A couple of state legislators are reservists who were
called up:
O
Sumter Senator Phil Leventis
Pilot and Operations Planning Officer at
McEntire Air Force Base
O
Columbia Representative Jim Harris
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363d Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC) Public Affairs Office
Shaw AFB, S.C. 29152 (803) 668-3621 AV 965-3621
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C.
Shaw Air Force Base is located seven miles west of Sumter, S.C., and is
situated on more than 3,569 acres. The base also has custodial responsibility
for 8,038 leased acres at Poinsett Range, southwest of Sumter, and for 23.5
leased acres at Wateree Recreational Area, northwest of Sumter.
Originally established as a small basic flying school, it was designated
Shaw Field Aug. 7, 1941, in honor of 1st Lt. Ervin David Shaw. The Sumter
County native was shot down while flying a long-range reconnaissance mission
over France during World War I. The first aircraft assigned to the base was the
single-engine BT-13.
Shaw is currently the home of the 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing, formerly the
363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. The unit is a descendant of the 363rd
Fighter Group, later reconnaissance group, of World War II fame. The 363rd TRW
flew its first reconnaissance mission Sept. 12, 1944.
The base was assigned to 9th Air Force Dec 1, 1950, and the 363rd arrived
here April 14, 1951, equipped with RF-80 and RB-26 aircraft. Other recon-
naissance aircraft since assigned to the wing include the RB-84, RF-101, RB-57
and EB-66.
During the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis, the 363rd TRW deployed to Florida and
flew reconnaissance missions over Cuba.
In 1965, Shaw received its first RF-4C Phantom IIs from McDonnell Douglas,
and the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron became the first combat-ready
RF-4C squadron in the Air Force. The 363rd TRW became the largest wing in
Tactical Air Command with a mission of maintaining operationally-ready recon-
naissance aircrews.
On Oct. 1, 1981, the 363rd TRW was redesignated the 363rd Tactical Fighter
Wing with the arrival of the first F-16 Fighting Falcon. The wing had a com-
posite fighter-recounaissance mission until the deactivation of the 16th TRS in
December 1989. It is the first operational wing to fly the C and D model F-16
aircraft. It has the responsibility of employing tactical aircraft capable of
meeting all operational requirements worldwide; to maintain a state of combat
readiness; and to operate Shaw by providing facilities, personnel and material.
One of the major tenant units assigned to the base is the 507th Tactical Air
Control Wing. It was organized and activated as the 507th Tactical Control
Group at Pope AFB, N.C., Sept. 2, 1950, and moved to Shaw July 1, 1954. On Jan.
Command. 1, 1963, the unit was reassigned from 9th Air Force to Headquarters Tactical Air
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In addition, Shaw is the home of the 9th Air Force Headquarters, one of two numbered Air
Forces in TAC. Ninth Air Force moved its headquarters here in July 1954. It is an organiza-
tion engaged in daily training activities which keeps its combat ready units ready for fast
deployment abroad and high intensity combat. Located principally in the Southeastern U.S.,
9th Air Force units comprise roughly 40 percent of TAC's resources.
The commander of 9th Air Force also serves as the Air Force component commander, U.S.
Central Command. In this capacity, he and his staff are responsible for preparing detailed
plans for deploying and employing Air Force forces in combat.
In addition, there are several other TAC units based here, including the 9th Tactical
Intelligence Squadron; 4507th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron; 682nd Air Support
Operations Center Squadron; 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron; and the 507th Tactical Air
Control Center Squadron.
Non-TAC tenant units include the Army and Air Force Exchange Service; Air Force Audit
Agency; Air Force Commissary Services; Det. 9, Tactical Information Systems; Det. 2101,
District 21, Air Force Office of Special Investigation; 3537th U.S. Air Force Recruiting
Squadron; Field Training Detachment 307; Det. 1, 3rd Weather Squadron; 2020th
Communication Squadron; Det. 16, 4400th Management Engineering Squadron; and the
Defense Investigative Service.
here. There are approximately 6,000 active duty members and 1,000 civilians assigned to units
Assigned aircraft include the F-16C and D and the OV-10A.
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United States Air Force
363d Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC) Public Affairs Office
Shaw AFS, S.C. 29152 (803) 668-3621 AV 965-3621
507TH TACTICAL AIR CONTROL WING
The 507th Tactical Air Control Wing (507 TAIRCW), Headquarters, Shaw Air
Force Base, S.C., is only one of five active-duty United States Air Force units
that administer and maintain the complex network of organizations, equipment,
and personnel that comprise a. Tactical Air Control System. By maintaining
deployable redar and communications equipment and by training the airborne and
ground-based forward air controllers who guide tactical aircraft in the
accomplishment of their missions, the 507th provides a tactical air forces com-
mand with the capability to plan, direct, and control the employment of the tac-
tical air forces so essential to success in modern warfare. Since its inception
as the 507th Tacticl Air Control Group in 1950, the 507th has earned seven Air
Force Outstanding Unit Awards and supported over 100 overseas deployments and
contingencies, including such historic events as the Korean Conflict, the
Lebanon and Taiwan crises of 1958, the American intervention in the Dominican
Republic in 1965, the Vietnam Conflict, the rescue mission to Grenada in 1983,
and the invasion of Panama in 1989.
The 507th received the first of its Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards for
supporting six Composite Air Strike Force deployments to world trouble spots
between Aug- 1, 1961, and Aug. 1, 1963. During the period of Feb. 10 - 15, 1973,
its personnel rendered humanitarian assistance to the civilian populace of
Sumter County and surrounding areas during the worst recorded blizzard in South
Carolina history. For this service, it received the second of its Outstanding
Unit Awards. In September 1989, the 507th again rendered assistance to Sumter
County residents after Hurricane Hugo caused water shortages and power outages.
From 1974 through 1989, the 507th earned seven additional Outstanding Unit
Awards by displaying exceptional proficiency and esprit de corps as it par-
ticipated in numerous Tactical Air Command, and Joint Chiefs of Staff - directed
exercises and deployments throughout the world.
The importance cf the Tactical Air Control System within modern warfare
gained new visibility in 1986, which was designated the "Year of the TACS" by
General Robert D. Russ, the TAC commander. This action accelerated ongoing
efforts to modernize the radar and communications equipment which comprise the
heart of the Tactical Air Control System. Since then, the wing has fielded
important new equipment in the areas of satellite communications, tactical
intelligence, and ground forward air control, while attaining the highest combat
capability ratings in its history. During 1986, the wing converted from the 0-2
to the T-37 aircraft. The wing officially welcomed its first T-37 during a
ceremony on April 11, 1986; its last 0-2 departed Shaw Air Force Base on July
31, 1986. Headquarters, Tactical Air Command declared all aspects of the con-
version program completed as of Dec. 31, 1986; thus, the wing successfully
completed in eight months a program normally scheduled to take twenty-four
months. During late 1988, the wing successfully converted from the T-37
aircraft to the OV-10 while maintaining the highest combat capability.
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The 507th remains committed to maintaining a degree of readiness and opera-
tional capability sufficient to protect the vital interests of the United States
as illustrated by its current role in enhancing the air defense capabilities of
the Honduran and Saudi Arabian governments. The wing mission, its proud record
of accomplishment, and its essential role in guaranteeing national security are
aptly expressed by its official motto, "Coelis Imperamus" (We Command the Skies").
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United States Air Force
363d Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC) Public Affairs Office
Shaw AFB, S.C. 29152 (803) 668-3621 AV 965-3621
363RD TACTICAL FIGHTER WING
The 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing is a successor of the 363rd Fighter Group,
later tactical reconnaissance group, of World War II fame. The 363rd Tactical
Reconnaissance Group flew its first reconnaissance mission September 13, 1944.
They also began flying the F-5 and P-38 at that time. The 363rd Tactical
Reconnaissance Wing came into being in August 1947, six years after Shaw Field
was named.
In April 1951, the 363rd TRW, equipped with Rf-80 and RB-26 aircraft, was
assigned to Shaw. Other reconnaissance aircraft assigned since that time
include the RF-84, RF-101, RB-57, EB-66, and the RF-4C.
A highlight of the wing's history came during the 1961 Cuban missile crisis,
when pilots from the 363rd deployed to Florida and flew reconnaissance missions
over Cuba. In awarding the wing the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for this
mission, President John F. Kennedy said, "You gentlemen have contributed as much
to the security of the United States as any group of men in our history."
In 1966, the wing became the largest in the Tactical Air Command with a
mission of maintaining operationally ready reconnaissance crews.
The 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing began a new era on Oct. 1, 1981, as
it assumed the designation of Tactical Fighter Wing and accepted the first of.
its F-16 Fighting Falcon multiple role fighters.
This designation ended a long and colorful history as a reconnaissance wing
tasked with training of reconnaissance aircrew for worldwide deployment.
As a fighter wing the 363rd operates the 17th, 19th, and 33rd Tactical
Fighter Squadrons.
In December 1985 the wing completed a transition into the F-16C model
becoming the first operational wing to receive the newer version.
The wing was presented with its second outstanding unit award for the excep-
tionally outstanding service it rendered to the military civilian communities
during the February 1973 snowstorms experienced in South Carolina.
The wing received its third such award for the outstanding performance in
fulfilling its NATO requirements, aerial photography request and joint exercise
requirements from July 1, 1974 to July 1, 1976.
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The fourth Air Force Outstanding Unit Award was earned during the period of
July 1976 through June 1978 for exceptional meritorious service. The fifth and
most recent of this coveted award was garnered by the 363rd for the period
October 1981 through June 1983 during the F-16 conversion and transition to a
Tactical Fighter Wing.
Other awards the 363rd has received include the Belgian Fourragere, and the
following battle credits: Air Offensive Europe, Normandy, Northern France,
Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe, and the Rhineland.
The wing's primary aircraft today is the F-16 Fighting Falcon, both C and D
models.
The wing's mission is to employ tactical fighter forces capable of meeting
all operational requirements worldwide, to maintain a state of combat readiness
and to operate Shaw by providing facilities, personnel, and material.
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363d Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC) Public Affairs Office
Shaw AFB, S.C. 29152 (803) 668-3621 AV 965-3621
33D TACTICAL FIGHTER SQUADRON
The 33d Tactical Fighter Squadron, located at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., is
part of the 363d Tactical Fighter Wing. It is the first operational squadron in
the Air Force that flies the F-16C aircraft. The F-16C is the first fighter
aircraft in the Air Force inventory to come equipped with a wide angle heads up
display (HUD).
The mission of the 33d Tactical Fighter Squadron is to support the world-
wide deployment with air-to-air and air-to-ground operations with the F-16C
aircraft.
The 33d Tactical Fighter Squadron was first activated as the 33d
Provisional Aero Squadron on May 17, 1917. It was redesignated the 33d Aero
Squadron during World War I and was split into four elements, training in
England and France.
The unit reassembled at Issoudun, France, in December 1917 where it func-
tioned 2$ a service squadron, assembling aircraft.
The squadron returned to Mitchell Field, N.Y., and was demobilized on April
14, 1919.
The squadron was reactivated as the 33d Pursuit Squadron at Langley Field,
Va., on June 25, 1932. Until 1940, the 33d participated in training exercises
throughout the United States, flying the P6, P-12, PB-2A and P36A.
In 1941, equipped with P-40s and PT-17s, the 33d was ordered to Reykjavik,
Iceland to defend the island against enemy air attack. This was the first Army
Air Corps unit stationed there. The squadron patrolled the seas, provided
aerial reconnaissance, photographic support and air cover for convoys, and
handled the flow of air traffic between the United States and Europe.
A 33d pilot engaged a German Focke-Wolf 200K aircraft on Aug. 15, 1942, and
was credited with the first enemy aircraft destroyed by an American pilot in the
European Theatre during World War II.
At the end of the war, the unit was moved to Camp Kilmer, N.J., where it
was deactivated on June 22, 1945.
The Squadron was reactivated on April 8, 1953 as the 33d Fighter-Bomber
Squadron at Clovis Air Force Base, N.M. Its mission was to assist the 50th
Fighter-Bomber Wing prepare for shipment to Europe. Upon completion it was
deactivated on June 22, 1945.
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On Oct. 15, 1969, the 4415th Combat Crew Training Squadron at Shaw Air Force
Base, S.C., was redes ignated the 33d Tactical Reconnaissance Training Squadron.
The unit mission was to train crews to fly and support operations of the RF-4C.
In 1982 the squadron was disassembled and parts of the unit were integrated
into the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Training Squadron, with the flying
training portion transferring to the 62nd Tactical Reconnaissance Training
Squadron at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas.
In January 1985 the 33d was reactivated at Shaw Air Force Base as the 33d
Tactical Fighter Squadron, flying the F-16C, the newest and most advanced
fighter in the Air Force inventory.
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363d Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC) Public Affairs Office
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17TH TACTICAL FIGHTER SQUADRON
The 17th Tactical Fighter Squadron was first activated as- the 29th Aero
Squadron, a flying training unit.
The 29th was redesignated the 17th Aero Squadron during World War I, and
was sent to France where its pilots flew pursuit missions, with such planes as
Jn-4s, F-1 and Spod 8s.
After the war, the 17th returned to Garden City, New York joining another
squadron, the 147th Aero. In 1919 the 17th was demobilized.
In 1936, the 17th Aero Squadron was reactivated and consolidated with the
147th Aero Squadron. Adopting the name of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, the unit
stayed in Michigan until 1940, when it was ordered to the Philippines. During
this time the unit flew P-6s, P-35s, C-40s, P-26s, P-35s and P-40s.
The squadron was stationed near Manila when the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor. After losing most of its aircraft during the early weeks of the war,
the unit's remaining pilots and planes were sent to Java, where they organized
the 17th Provisional Squadron, a unit credited with shooting down 65 enemy
planes.
Members of the 17th ground echelon stayed at Bataau in the Philippines,
serving as an infantry unit. This unit received the Distinguished Unit Citation
Unit for their heroic actions during the siege of Bataan.
In 1946 the 17th was inactivated and on Oct. 1, 1982 redesignated the 17th
Tactical Fighter Squadron, flying F-16s, located at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.
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HEADQUARTERS NINTH AIR FORCE/U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AIR FORCES -
(803) 668-3975 DSN: 965-3975
SHAW AFB, SC 29152-5002/6001
HEADQUARTERS NINTH AIR FORCE/U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AIR FORCES
Ninth Air Force, Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), S.C., officially began its
operational history on Nov. 12, 1942 at the height of the defense of Egypt and
the Suez Canal from the rapidly advancing forces of Erwin Rcmmel's Afrika Korps.
Actually, the most crucial period in the battle for Egypt had come the previous
May, when the Germans broke through the British lines and every available Allied
unit was pressed into service to meet this challenge. Among these was a small
group of American B-24Ds, under the command of Col. Harry A. Alverson. Although
the group had secret orders to bomb Japanese positions in China, the defense of
Egypt took precedence, and (following a highly publicized raid on the oil refi-
neries at Ploesti, Romania) Halverson's group was thrown fully into battle.
On June 28, Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Brereton, who had contranded MacArthur's Far
East Air Force during the ill-fated defense of the Philippines, arrived in Cairo
to consolidate Halverson's bombers and all other aircraft in Egypt into a new
Middle East Air Force. It was this unit which became Ninth Air Force on
Nov. 12. Brereton remained in command.
It should be noted that another Ninth Air Force had existed for some time
prior to Nov. 12, and it traced its origin to the Fifth Air Support Command,
initially activated on Sept.. 1, 1941. Following a series of transfers and rede-
signations, this unit, without personnel or equipment, moved to Egypt. The con-
fusion in designating Ninth could be attributed to the hectic pace of the early
years, and since 1942, the operational date normally had been used.
Under Brereton's command, Ninth Air Force, now equipped with P-40s and
B-17s (in addition to B-24s), supported Allied operations in North Africa,
Sicily, and Italy before relocating to England in the fall of 1943.
Reactivating in England on Oct. 16, Ninth took over medium bomber units from
Eighth Air Force, added additional P-38 and P-47 fighter aircraft and troop
carrier groups. On D-day, June 6, 1944, it provided tactical air support
for the Normandy landing, which included some 3,500 aircraft.
Ninth continued to grow in size and to provide air cover for the rapid
advance of Patton's Third Anny through France and into Genrany. One of its key
missions was the defense of Allied ground forces during the German Bastogne
offensive at the end of 1944. From Dec. 23-27 alone, Ninth flew 5,291 sorties
and blunted the German attack.
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With the collapse of Germany, American air units began returning to the
United States; and on Dec. 2, 1945, Ninth Air Force, the largest tactical air
force in history, deactivated: It reactivated March 28, 1946, at Biggs Field,
Texas, absorbing the assets of the Nineteenth Tactical Air Comand, which
included only one combat Fighter unit. Six months later, on Oct. 31, Ninth
goved to Greenville Army Air Base, S.C., where it absorbed Third Air Force's
assets. Another move took place on Aug. 27, 1948, this time to Tangley AFB,
Va., where it came under Continental Air Command and essentially became an admi-
nistrative headquarters. The Korean War breathed new life into the command.
Redesignated as Ninth Air Force (Tactical), it moved to Pope AFB, N.C., and was
reassigned to Feadquarters Tactical Air Command. Ninth's final move came on
Sept. I, 1954, when it transferred to Shaw AFB and assumed basically its present
role of training combat units to meet a broad range of contingencies.
In 1979, following the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Tranian
militants and the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, the United States
established the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF). Ninth Air Force became the air arm
for the RDF and assumed responsibility for all air operations in Southwest Asia,
a role which has continued to expand since the redesignation of the RDF as U.S.
Central Command (USCENTCOM) and Ninth as U.S. Central Command Air Forces
(USCENTAF). Thus, since 1979, Headquarters Ninth Air Force/USCENTAF has per-
formed a unique dual mission in the defense of the United States.
In order to further understand USCENTAF as the Air Force component to
USCENICOM, it is important to briefly explain USCENTCOM's principal mission -
deterrence in its area of responsibility which includes 18 countries in
Southwest Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa. This is accomplished
by providing help to nations in the area in the form of security assistance and
training programs, combined exercises, encouraging regional cooperation and
political and economic support.
If, in spite of these efforts, a friendly nation is threatened,
USCENTCOM is prepared - when tasked by the Joint Chiefs of Staff - to
provide a carefully tailored package of non-combatant support. This
package would consist of Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)
aircraft, tankers, reconnaissance aircraft, logistical support and advisors
or any combination thereof. If this clear signal of U.S. determination and
support does not deter actual aggression, USCENTAF must prepare to deploy
with other USCENTCOM combat forces when the National Command Authority
decides it is necessary.
To prepare for this mission, USCENTAF active and reserve forces
train regularly with Army, Navy and Marine Corps units in realistic joint
training exercises. These exercises often call for rapid deployment of
combat forces and immediate employment upon arrival in austere locations.
Today, in its role as Headquarters Ninth Air Force, it has 10 active duty
wings flying F-15C/D/E, F-16A/B/C/D, F-4E, A-10, OV-10, EC-135P, OV-10A, and
UH-1P aircraft, located primarily in the Southeastern U.S. The mission of these
Ninth Air Force units encompasses every aspect of tactical air power; destroying
enemy air forces, interdicting the movement of enemy forces, and providing air
support for friendly ground forces.
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Other Ninth missions include one wing that is dedicated to training
aircrews and support personnel for these roles, and one tactical air control
wing that provides tactical ground radar support, area air defense and air space
control in battlefield conditions. There also is a rapidly deployable civil
engineering squadron in Ninth Air Force that provides a highly mobile, self suf-
Ficient, civil engineering capability in support of contingencies.
Approximately 40,213 people and 750 aircraft comprise these forces to make up
about 40 percent of Tactical Air Camend's active forces. These units are
designated and trained for rapid deployment and immediate combat operations upon
arrival in hot spots worldwide.
Approximately 45 percent of Ninth Air Force's total combat capability resi-
des in 55 units in the reserve components. If a national emergency or conflict
required mobilization of these forces, the Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve would provide more than 35,000 people and 550 aircraft for the defense
of our nation. The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units gained by
Ninth Air Force fly the A-7, A-10, A-16, F-4, F-15, F-16, OA-37, and RF-4 aircraft.
In addition to the flying units, the Air National Guard provides Ninth Air Force
with units specializing in tactical air control and civil engineering, as well
as field training sites used for the deployment and training of both active and
reserve units. Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units compete with and
are inspected by the active Air Force. They have proven themselves to be
combat-ready, on a par with the active force, and are an integral part of plans pro-
viding for our national defense.
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Shaw pilot rescued
by U.S. helicopter
SAUDI ARABIA - A Shaw Air
members of the 33rd Squadron of
Force Base pilot parachuted to
the 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing.
safety earlier this week in the Mid-
After landing, Thomas told re-
die East before being rescued by a
porters that with a thunderstorm
U.S. helicopter, which was under
approaching, he made a shelter
attack by enemy fire.
using two bushes and a life raft
Capt. Scott "Spike" Thomas, an
Both items were part of his surviv-
F-16 pilot from Shaw, landed
al kit As he waited to be rescued,
about 50 miles north of Saudi Ara-
he picked up stones for souvenirs,
bia in a spot where there was no
reports said.
enemy fire, reports said. Thomas;
27, had just finished bombing
The helicopter passed over him
troops in Iraq before having to flee
after about two agonizing hours.
his plane when its engine caught
After another three minutes, it
fire, the reports said.
landed in front of Thomas and
Thomas's wing man and friend,
someone was sent out to get him-
Lt Eric "Neck" Dodson, coordi-
nated the search and rescue mis-
Iraqi soldiers fired shots at the
sion, reports said. Both men are
helicopter as it lifted, reports said.
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OPERATION DESERT STORM
Pilots report
major success
in Kuwait, Iraq
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
AN AIR BASE IN CENTRAL SAU-
DI ARABIA - Allied tanks meeting
light resistance tore through miles of
Iraqi and Kuwaiti desert Sunday in
the early hours of the ground war,
fighter pilots said after missions over
the battlefield.
One awed pilot said the vast
ground invasion dwarfed the allied
air assault that dominated the first
month of the Persian Gulf War.
U.S. F-16A fighter-bombers -
some from South Carolina - pounded
Iraqi artillery positions in western
Iraq. which had been firing at the ad-
vancing allied force, the pilots said,
In one case, five of six Iraqi artillery
batteries were left in flames, the pi-
lots said.
"You can see occasional flashes
from the ground fire that was going
on - and it was happening both east
and west of us," said Capt. Randy
Garrett, 37, of Rome, Ga., an F-15E
fighter-bomber pilot who attacked
mobile rocket launchers in north-cen-
tral Kuwait in a predawn raid. "The
lights of Kuwait City are still on."
The advance stretched across R
front estimated at 300 miles, from the
Persian Guif to western Iraq. It ap-
peared to follow pre-battle scenarios
for an air-land campaign to breach
Saddam Hussein's wall of bunkers in
AP photo
Knwait and flank his army from the
west in the Iraqi descrt
F-16 PILOT SCOT Thomas, left, who is stationed at Shaw Air
Unlike in Kuwait, where Iraqi
Force Base in Sumter, is pictured with his wing man, Lt. Eric
forces are heavily concentrated, the
battlefield in western Iraq was thinly
Dodson, after he was rescued by a special forces mission in
defended, according to Col. David
Iraq. Thomas' plane crashed during a bombing mission.
Hamlin, 47, an F-16A pilot from East
Bloomfield, N.Y.
(land) operation. I can't grasp it. It's
Practically every pilot interviewed
Lt. CoL Randy Bigum, 41, of
enormous," Bigum said after. return-
at this base in the first hours of the
Springfield, Va, described flying over
ing to the largest U.S. air base in Sau-
ground war said he had used extreme
a broad front of allied tanks and ar-
di Arabia. "You have heard people
caution to positively identify Iraqi
mored units moving more than 12
talk about the enormity of this air
targets so as not to hit allied forces.
power. This (air power) pales in
"We anticipate a real fluid situa-
miles north into the vast, open desert
comparison."
tion in the next couple of days. and
of western Iraq.
"We got spectacular results," said
lines of battle are going to change
"They were in groups. I had ex-
pected to see a continuous line, you
Hamlin, a farmer and Vietnam veter-
constantiy," said Lt CoL George Pat-
know. kind of like a kickoff return,
an who commands a squadron of F-
rick. 39_
but it wasn't like that at all," said the
16s from the 138th Tactical Fighter
Patrick is a South Carolina Air Na-
F-15C fighter pilot, who is the com-
Squadron, an Air National Guard unit
tional Guardsman who flew an F-16
mander of the 53rd Tactical Fighter
based in Syracuse N.Y.
mission Sunday-
Hamlin zeroed in with two other
"The desert battlefield is going to
Squadron, based in Bitburg, Ger-
F-16s on six artillery batteries that
get a lot tougher. There will be a lot
many.
"I can't fathom the size of this
had been shelling the U.S. soldiers.
of smoke and dust," said Patrick.
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Sumter remembers Shaw pilot
Captain's death
first loss of war
for shaken base
By JAN TUTEN and
DEBRA-LYNN B. HOOK
Staff Whiers
Two red, white and blue ribbons
that Jc Age Morris made to show
support for Shaw Air Force Base
trops became symbols of grief
Wednesday.
Representatives of Summer's city
and county governments attached the
ribbons to a fiagpole at a veterans
memorial just outside the Sumter
base They also lowered the flag there
to half-staff in memory of Capt. Date
Thomas Cormier.
The Stateburg resident was South
Carolina's first F-16 pilot to die la the
war and was the Sumter base's First
loss to the Persian Guff conflict
The 30-year-old pilot's jest crashed
Friday returning from a mission The
jet had received no hattle damage.
& private memorial service
Wednesday marked Commier's death,
with about 200 base leaders. person-
nei. family and friends attending the
WORLD
35-minute ceremony at the Isuse's
brown brick chapel, spokeswoman
Capt Carol Grimmig and
A four-jet formation flew over the
VIETNAM
base as the congregation left the
church, one jet arcing away from the
others over the chape) as a symbol of
the base's lost airman.
Througbout Sumter, civilian and
military residents also mourned the
pilot, saying his death brings the se
verity of war claser to home."
"I can't imagine how those men
must feel over there," sald Summer
resident Shella Stetson. who WES
swinging her 5-year-old SUC, Daniel
at a park.
"it's really getting close to home."
she said.
Every night, she said, Daniel
prays for "Mr. Christian," 3 deployed
Share pilo: who lives near the Stet-
NOTE
"Everybody's connected to the
base somehow." said Julie Traban,
whose Hair Force styling shop sits
ácross S.C. 441 from Shaw and serves
the families of deployed troops,
"The wives have not been discress-
ing IL It's in the back of their minds
that something like this could happen,
but they don't want to talk about it,
the said.
Morris, who coordinates the Som-
ter-Shaw support network called
Keep the Home Fires Burding, has
weaved more than 2,800 yards of rib-
bon into 5,000 bows that dot Sumter
street signs.
Two of the Four remaining bows
went to the memorial park Wednes-
day. "We'll be writing = letter to tis
wife to let her know we did this for
him." she said
Shelley and Date Carmier were
married about vix months ago and
moved Into a wooden home in the
quiet Stateburg section of Summer
County, a neighbor, Jim Jones, said
Doing General The State
he and his wife realized their new
Joe Davis, left, and Willie Singleton honor the late Capt. Date T. Cormier at memorial outside Shaw AFB
neighbor was the fallen pilot when
cars of relatives began liming the
driveway. be said
"You can't 20 Around with the atti-
"Before, you tert had for them.
An on-base bulletin board an-
tude like, 'My husband is going to get
bad for all our families. Now it's
television footage of F-16 fighter jers
them. it's part of GITT family. Shaw'sa
nouncing Wednesday's memorial ser-
killed," or they'd have to pnt you
for signs of SW, the military designa-
family, To have lost one of our own;
somebody you could have seen or
vice has reminded base personnel of
away." said Allison Bowlin, the wife
tion for Shaw, on the jet's tail, Few
talked to On base, It kind of gives you
it's something I can't explain. IA
their loss. Sgt Mark Battle said.
of deplayed radar technician Sgt
signs of the jets, however, have been
a chill just to think about iL"
brings the fighting aspect so much
seen.
"They" re hanging in there preity
Mark Bowlin
closer.
The pilot's death has not made
good.' he stid of Shaw's military men
"When everybody left from this
That led some spouses to believe
Reicker any more afraid for her hus-
"We've heard from the have that
and women who have not been de-
base, I just thought everybody frong
Show's icts might not have been fre-
hand, who continues to all to assure
our Itelbands are in a safe location,
ployed "We're constantly training for
this base would be coming back. It's
quent flyers in the air campaigns
her he is in a once place But the pilot's
but obviously our pflots area't I know
something like this to happen Pro not
just terrible this happened, and I feel
Cormier's death changed their minds.
death has made her concerned for his
my husband's safe, but I want every-
crazy about it happening. but it's al-
so bad for his family." she mid.
"We didn't know for sure, but we
emotional well-being,
ONE to come home I don't want jtry
ways in the back of your mind," the
"Before, it was just names and
pretty much knew our pilots were in
aircraft electrician said
"My hurdred was so proud every
James to come home I want every
people you don't know, Now it's some-
the air campaign. New we know
time they Cluse back from a mission.
pilot I want every technician, I want
For Shaw spouses who've strived
body from our base. The base is pretty
they're there. It brings the danger
Now that one of them's been killed, I
everynne to come home, and in one
to be optimiatic about the war and
close. When due family gets it. every-
closer to us," mid Terri Kenney, also
know he's probably feeling bad right
piece
hopeful that all loved ones will come
body does," added Ellen Reisker, wife
the wife of = deployed radar jammer.
now, I know all the men are really
Kenney said base officials are re-
home, Cormier's death hit especially
of Sgt. Dan Reisker, a radar jamming
"This has bronght the war aspects
feeling worse over there." she said
leasing little information about Cor-
hard.
technician in the golf
and the dangers and the death closer
Shaw Spouses had been scarring
micr's death, possibly out of respect
to us. Even though we don't know
for the family.
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Letter writer marries once-deployed Shaw airman
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) -
terview from the couple's home at
depressed before writing the let-
Katina King sent a letter to
gultar, and they shared a love of
Shaw Air Force Base. "It's a fairy
ter,
"Any Soldier" in Saudi Arabia
country music, some pop and old-
tale. It's still hard to believe."
"After those first two letters, my
les tunes. They wrote almost every
and wound up marrying the one
Mrs. Heskett, 19, saw the ad-
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whole life changed," said the
who opened it.
day and had exchanged photos.
dress for Operation Desert Shield
mother of 4. and 1-year-old daugh-
On Christmas Eve, after Heskett
King and Thomas Heskett
soldiers in a Danville newspaper.
ters. Heskett has a 4-year-old son.
was already back in the United
were married Jan. 23, not quite*
Heskett, 25, returned to the
In addition to both being single
States, Mrs. Heskett received the
a month after arthritis forced
United States before Christmas. A
parents, the Hesketts discovered
letter saying he was going home.
him to return to the United
blcycle wreck a couple of years
that they had much in common af-
They finally met Jan. 18 when
States and four months after
ago left him with arthritis in his
ter they started writing at the be-
Heskett traveled to Danville, and
she first sent her letter.
back, and he was sent home be-
ginning of September. They both
he proposed the next day.
cause it is difficult for him to lift
like going to the beach and on pic-
After eloping to South Carolina,
"Us getting together is just
heavy objects.
nics and watching animated mov-
they returned to Danville for a
one of God's miracles," Mrs.
Mrs. Heskett said she had been
les and comedies. Heskett plays
ceremony at her sister's home.
Heskett said in a telephone In-
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MICHELINE PHELAN/The ITEM
SUMTER MAYOR STEVE CREECH, left, and former mayor Bubba McElveen tie a ribbon on the sign at
Purdy and Calhoun streets Tuesday, kicking off a Valentine's Day project to support local troops de-
ployed in Operation Desert Storm. Volunteer Sumter has the bows and is urging residents to place them
on every street sign in the area before Feb. 14.
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50th anniversary
for Shaw slated
cause of it has an impact that is
By BILLY QUARLES
immeasurable."
ITEM Staff Writer
The celebration, which is slat-
ed to run through August, is be-
Shaw Air Force Base has
ing kicked off by the sale of
grown in the past 50 years
prints done specifically for the
from a tiny flying school to a
occasion by renowned Sumter
premier U.S. Air Force instal-
aerospace artist Bill Reynolds.
lation that last year claimed a
The prints, depicting an F-16
$350 million impact on the Io-
Eagle fighter jet and a BT-13
cal economy
fighter training plane and an
For the next eight months,
aerial view of the base, are
Sumter plans to say, "Thank
available to the public. Reynolds
you."
has 2 limited edition of 300
The Shaw Air Force Base
signed prints for sale at several
50th Anniversary Committee,
area businesses.
made up of Shaw and Sumter
An F-16 tactical fighter wing
leaders, is kicking off the
is now based at the Sumter in-
base's golden anniversary this
stallation, and the BT-13 was the
week, according to the com-
first aircraft to land and be sta-
mittee's co-chairmen, Orby
tioned at Shaw when the base
Ferguson and Cliff Goodwin
opened in the early 1940s to
III.
train fighter pilots.
Events planned for Shaw's
Ferguson, the Sumter city ex-
50th anniversary include spe-
ecutive for South Carolina Na-
cial editions of Shawfest and
tional Bank, said Sumter's annu-
Sumter's Iris Festival in May,
al Iris Festival will also pay trib-
a music festival in May, and a
ute to Shaw this year, and he
reunion of former Shaw mili-
said the committee is trying to
tary personnel stationed at
get country music recording art-
Shaw, a golf tournament, a
ist Lee Greenwood to come to
tour of Sumter and the base
Sumter for à patriotic music fes-
and the Shaw 50th Anniversa-
tival in May.
ry Ball in August
Ferguson said more than 75
Goodwin said the famous
people from Shaw and Sumter
Air Force aerial display team,
are working on plans for the an-
the Thunderbirds, is set to
niversary.
perform at -this year's
Shawfest, and he said the F-
"It is a special occasion, and
117 Stealth fighter-bomber
we are trying to involve as many
may also be featured.
people in the community as pos-
sible," he said. "With the variety
"We want to recognize the
of events that we have planned.
economic and cultural impact
we should be able to do that."
that Shaw has on Sumter,"
said Goodwin, general manag-
For information on Shaw's 50th
er of Goodwin Buick-Jeep-Ea-
anniversary or the limited edi-
gle. "It's obvious that they in-
tion Bill Reynolds prints, call
ject a Iot of money into the
the Greater Sumter Chamber of
community, but their cultural
Commerce at 775-1231. The
influence is enormous.
chamber can also provide infor-
"The diversification of its
mation on tickets to the Shaw
people and the retirement
50th Anniversary Ball slated for
community that's here be-
August
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THURSDAY, 17 JANUARY 1991
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Sumterite, soldier marry via telephone lines
to say, "I do."
By TONYIA MCGIRT
Meanwhile, her co-workers at
ITEM Staff Writer
Gay & Taylor Insurance Adjusters
anxiously awaited her return from
Just hours before Operation De-
the base. They had planned a sur-
sert Shield became Operation De-
prise reception for her, complete
sert Storm, wedding bells drowned
with a cake, champagne and con-
out the drumming sounds of immi-
fetti. "We've been so excited here
nent war for at least one Sumter
this morning." co-worker Margie
County resident.
Zelano said Wednesday.
On Wednesday morning,
Marburger and her husband de-
Leandra Roth married Capt Timo-
cided about two months ago to get
thy Marburger, a member of the
married by phone, the idea of an-
9th Tactical Intelligence Squadron
other deployed officer who is mar-
who deployed in August from
ried to one of her co-workers, she
Shaw Air Force Base to the Mid-
said
dle East
"I never thought of getting mar-
The ceremony took place over
ried over the phone," Marburger
transatlantic telephone lines.
said, remembering that her first
"Tm very glad we did it," the
reaction to the suggestion was,
new Mrs. Marburger said this
"You boys have nothing to do but
morning "We waited a long time
dream up all these ideas.'
It's just peace of mind we got mar-
But "this was so easy,"
ried."
Marburger said All the couple had
Their original wedding plans
to do was fill out an application,
had to be postponed when he was
get a notarized affidavit and set up
deployed, she said.
a time, she said.
Marburger said she was at a
"Our forms kept getting lost,"
neighbor's when Desert Shield
she said - but the groom finally
was upgraded to Desert Storm "It
got the forms by mail and returned
really caught me off guard," she
them by express mail They ar-
said. "Of course it scared me"
rived in Sumter on Monday.
But she said she is confident
The couple couldn't exchange
her husband will be home soon
wedding bands by phone, but they
and will be all right. "I have a
have their engagement rings for
TOHYIA MCGIRT/The
really good feeling that now it's
the time being, Marburger said,
started, they'll be home real soon.
explaining that she had given her
LEANDRA ROTH was married Wednesday by phone to
"Now 1 know why we got mar-
fiancee a ring for his birthday be-
ried when we did," she said.
cause he'd complained that only
Capt Timothy Marburger, of the 9th Tactical Intelli-
The bride was in an office at
women got to wear engagement
gence Squadron which was deployed from Shaw Air
Shaw for the 10 a.m. phone cere-
rings.
mony. "All I had to do was go in
Force Base in August. The marriage took place just
there and they did everything."
"We're going to have a real
hours before the United States initiated Operation De-
she said
wedding when he comes back,"
sert Storm in the Middle East. Above, Roth holds a pic-
The call was interrupted sever-
Marburger said. But for now. "it
al times, she said - including
means 50 much to both of us to just
ture of her new husband at a reception following their
once just before she was supposed
be married."
wedding.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1991
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Sumter
cheers
triumph
Rally marks
cease-fire
in Persian Gulf
By JOHN FRITZ
and AMANDA STURGILL
ITEM Staff Writers
Mary Jo Horner, whose husband led the U.S.
air war against Iraq, raised her hands into the
air Friday and echoed the words on the lips of
hundreds of relatives and friends of Shaw Air
Force Base troops.
"They're coming home," she shouted jubilant-
ly to the cheering crowd gathered at Sumter's
Volunteer Park for a bell-ringing, Clag-waving
celebration of the cease-fire
in the Persian Gulf war.
As many as 200 people
took part in the noon rally,
Sumter's first official cele-
bration of the cease-fire. All
over the city, fire trucks
blew their sirens and
schools and churches rang
their bells. The ear-numbing
din of the celebration at the
park lasted for two minutes.
Women, some with tears
welling up in their eyes, bub-
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time since the cease-fire was an-
all over town," she said.
all excited in case I would just
nounced. When noon rolled
And Creech, who briefly ad-
have to be disappointed again."
bled over with glee, and chil-
around, she cheered with the
dressed the crowd, said the par-
But with some help, the women
drea waved flags. Red. white
other wives and rang a large bell
ty is not over. A homecoming cel-
began to believe the war was
and blue were in style
she had borrowed from a neigh-
ebration is in the works for
over.
"I'm very excited," said Deb-
bor. It was the loudest one she
whenever Shaw's men and wom-
Bonds said she started to be-
bie Kamps. whose husband, Maj.
could find, she said.
CH in the desert finally return
lieve it. really was over when
Skip Kamps, is a Shaw F-16 pi-
The end of the war also
home, he said
"my husband called and told me
lot "We have been waiting a
marked the end of a silence be-
"We just think it's a great ex-
not to write any more letters,"
long time for this to happen. I
tween Horner and his wife that
ample of the great support Sum-
she said.
can say I'm proud of every one of
started when the first bombs
ter has been giving us the whole
Theresa Kesterson, whose
them over there"
dropped on Kuwait and Iraq.
time," said Staff Sgt Mary
husband, Bob, is also an F-16 pi-
Mrs. Kamps wore a silver
On Monday, during a town
McHale, who works at Shaw's
lot. said, "I didn't believe it until
bracelet around her wrist en-
meeting at the base, Horner
public affairs office.
he called me today.
graved with her husband's name
made his first call home since
But while Friday was a day of
The feelings of relief that
and deployment date, Aug. 9.
the start of the fighting. For
celebration, some of the Shaw
loved ones are out of danger
1990. She said she is looking for-
about 35 minutes, he talked to
wives said they had trouble al-
have been complicated by not
ward to the day she adds his Te-
spouses, whom he recognized by
lowing themselves to believe the
knowing when the troops from
turn date to the bracelet
name, and answered questions,
war is over.
Shaw will be returning.
Mrs. Horner, trife of it Gen-
Mrs. Horner said.
Sherri Perkins, wife of 33rd
Perkins said her emotions are
Charles Horner, said her hus-
But while others are calling
Tactical Fighter Squadron Com-
still mixed. "I feel as much in
band told her Shaw troops could
Horner. the architect of the al-
mander Lt CoL Ron Perkins,
turmoil as I did on the first day
be home in six to eight weeks, al-
lied air attack, a hero, his wife
said she was talking to her hus-
of the war," she said.
though nothing is sure. "They're
says, "He's just Chuckie to me."
band on the phone when Presi-
"It won't be over until they
going to try to get out of there as
"Every one of them is a hero
dent Bush announced the cease-
get back here." Kesterson said.
fast as they can," she said.
over there,' she said. "I don't
fire
But one thing was obvious -
Mrs. Horner said she greeted
think my husband is any more of
"It was almost hard to have a
these wives are proud of their
the end of the war with mixed
a hero than any of them"
reaction left after all the ups
fighting men.
emotions. "I was very cautious,"
Jo Anne Morris of Volunteer
and downs, she said. Her mood
"It's not very often that you
she said. "It was almost too good
Sumter, who helped organize the
is now "cautiously optimistic,"
get to experience this kind of
to be true."
celebration with Sumter Mayor
she added
pride," Perkins said. The pride
But she threw caution to the
Steve Creech, declared the rally
Leslie Bonds, whose husband,
comes from knowing her hus-
wind Friday and celebrated the
a success. "I was happy because
Jim. is an F-16 pilot with the
band did at good job and saved
end of the fighting for the first
I know people were ringing bells
33rd, said, "I didn't want to get
lives, she said.
City/State: Sumter SC
Event: Stadium Raly
Date: 3-13-91
OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVANCE
CONTACT SHEET
Name
Office
Phone Number
Presidential Advance Office
202/456-7565
Presidential Advance Fax Number
202/456-2820
PLeoTomeu / way Muckeman/ Pathconvad WH Adv, 202.456.785
Carolyn Cawley
WH Speechwriting
202-456-7750
Jack McDougle
WH Advance
(202-447-8388). will ayong be
Jacey Del Grosso
WH Intergovernmental
202 456 6597
VAKERIE Murgeove
WH HMX-1 Political Affairs
202-456-4573
MAJOR TOM SUDBECK
MARINE-1 ADVANCE
(703) 640 - 2364
this Blackweldw
Seemter Chamber
(803) 775-1231
Joe Davis
Sunha Coo.
Sumder County Council Administable 803 775-6361 773-1581
LARRY Griffin
U.S. SECRET Service
(803)765-5446
Wills Johnson
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Harol Johnour
Chif of Police, Sunter
803-773-0272
Cast Michele Thompson
Chief Protocol Shaw AFB
805 668-2156
Capt Edward Cornell
Asst. POC Base
803 668-3102
DAVID PISTILLI
WH COMMUNICATIONS 202-395-2000
GoRdon Koch
WH Commications
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P.
LARRY FEAST
White House Communications Agency 202-395-4040
JIM ALEXANDER
SUMTER CHAMBER
803 775-1231
Ruben L. Gray
Sumter COUNTY Council
803-773-1414
JIM SLOAN
US SECRET SERVICE PPD 202-395-5473
202-395-4011
JEB BRUNDAGE
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Phil Ballinger
Sumter chamber
775-123
Chip Felkel
loor CAmphell's office
734-9818
City/State:
Event:
Date:
OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVANCE
CONTACT SHEET
Name
Office
Phone Number
Presidential Advance Office
202/456-7565
Presidential Advance Fax Number
202/456-2820
Tommy R.M.MS Sheriff 773-1561, Beern 778-3458
TALMADGE TOBIAS CITY MANAGER 773-3371
GREATUR SUMTER
ROBERT N. BOYKIN JR. CHAMBER OF Commerce 778-8237
STEVE CREECH
MAYOR
773-3371
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Two updates on the Sumter research:
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I spoke with Mr. Phillip Ballenger (803-775-1231),
Executive Director of the SUmter Chamber of Commerce.
You will meet him tomorrow on the site survey.
While he did not have any of the information
accessible, he will prepare a packet for you containing
the following: history on the city and area, biography
of Charles Sumter, effects of operation on area,
actions taken by businesses, and some human interest
stories.
You may be interested to know that Charles Sumter was a
Revolutionary War hero. He stood at over 6 feet and
lived until he was 98 years of age, two characteristics
not common to people of his time. The following speech
line came to mind: "We stand in the city named after a
man who fought for freedom over two hundred and ten
years ago
" Or something like that.
I would be remiss if I did not point out that the waek
mayor/manager form of government originated in Sumter.
Look for Mr. Ballenger. I gave him your name.
*
Shaw Air Force Base is in close proximity to the city.
The PAO at Shaw is Captain Carol Grimmig
(803-668-3621) She was out of the office when I
called. The base operator's phone number is 668-8110.
MWR: 2822
show Heights
Elem. School
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666-2335
Hospital: 3726
PAO: 3621
Graham Osteen
Managing Editor
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local Red cross : 803/775 2363
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BRIEF INFO POINTS ON KEY UNITS DEPLOYED FROM SHAW
-- 9TH AIR FORCE/U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AIR FORCES (USCENTAF)
-- Began deployment in August 90
-- Provided Joint Forces Air Component Commander (Horner)
-- Provided core & cadre of operations and planning staffs
for coalition and allied operations for Desert Shield and
Desert Storm (augmented by liaison forces from Navy,
Marines and Army and allied officials)
-- Responsible for the air campaign -- air campaign consisted
of classic air support, counter-air, reconnaissance,
close air support, enemy interdiction and intelligence and
combat assets (equipment and supplies)
-- Focal point for extremely successful "Air Tasking Order,"
which served as the document to execute the air war for
all U.S. and allied/coalition air forces
-- From the get-go, responsible for the deployment of all
Air Force fighters, tankers, bombers, reconnaissance, cargo
and transport aircraft; personnel; and equipment/supplies
363D TACTICAL FIGHTER WING/COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP/HOSPITAL
-- Fighters began deployment August 10, 1990
-- First combat air-to-ground, F-16 fighter unit to deploy
to Desert Shield (Persian Gulf region)
-- Two squadrons deployed (33rd/17th Tactical Fighter
squadrons) and associated maintenance units
-- F-16 FIGHTERS RESPONSIBLE PRIMARILY FOR:
- air-to-ground combat operations
- interdiction
- close air support
-- COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR: (examples)
- (Civil Engineers) laying out and setting up compound
- (Services) dining facilities and laundry
- (Morale, Welfare and Recreation) movies, game rooms,
setting up officer/NCO clubs, arranging for
bands and other entertainment and activities
- personnel actions, legal services (powers of attorney,
wills and court actions), security and overall safety
-- HOSPITAL RESPONSIBLE FOR: (examples)
- first Air Transportable Hospital to be operational
- 90-bed casualty receiving hospital mission at Shaw
- activated a critically needed blood donar center at Shaw
-- 507TH TACTICAL AIR CONTROL WING
-- Detachments and units under this wing deployed from Shaw
and other locations in the United States. Provided for:
- Command and control for close air support
- the nerve cell: the Tactical Air Control Center
- "Air Task Order" production
- radar control, communication modes at virtually all
locations in theater, tactical radars for airspace,
tactical intelligence gathering, air liaison function to
virtually all Army/U.S./Allied forces, and numerous
augmentees from translators to postal clerks
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-- 14 Units from the 507 TAIRCW began deploying on 8 Aug 90
from locations throughout the eastern U.S. - 1935 personnel
deployed.
-- Tactical Air Control Center - Produced Air tasking order
(the daily "Game Plan"). Ran the ongoing air campaign.
-- Tactical Air Support Squadron - Performed liaison duties
and provided close air support control on the battlefield
for U.S. Army and Allied Forces.
-- Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) - Provided direct
command and control of close air support sorties for the
18th Airborne Corps-
-- Tactical Intelligence - Collected, analyzed and presented
current intelligence summaries for execution of the air
war-
-- Control and Reporting Centers - Correlated and distributed
offersive/defensive air situation information to command
centers.
-- Combat Communications - Provided long haul communications
between operations center and CENTAF Beadquarters.
Furnished mobile control tower, air traffic controllers,
and liaison to integrate allied forces.
Ref.
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The Harper Book of
AMERICAN
QUOTATIONS
Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich
A Hudson Group Book
1817
Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco
London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney
12. AMERICA
48
49
27 America is woven of many strands; I would
35 Who stole America?
44 The onl
recognize them and let it so remain.
Our fate
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, Starting from San
enemies at h
is to become one, and yet many-This is not proph-
Francisco, 1961.
tion and inc
ecy, but description.
36 France was a land, England was a people, but
ELBER
RALPH ELLISON, Invisible Man, 1952.
publish
America, having about it still that quality of the
28 I esteem it a chief felicity of this country that it
idea, was harder to utter-it was the graves at
45 An Ame
excels in women.
Shiloh, and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its
bathe, study
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Manners," Essays,
great men, and the country boys dying in the
ELBERT
Second Series, 1844.
Argonne for a phrase that was empty before
Book 0
29 In America the geography is sublime, but the
their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the
heart.
46 O, yes,
men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the
I say it P
inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
F. ScoTT FITZGERALD, The Crack-Up, 1945.
America
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Considerations by the
37 We go forth all to seek America. And in the
And yet
Way," The Conduct of Life, 1860.
seeking we create her. In the quality of our search
America
30 The office of America is to liberate, to abolish
shall be the nature of the America that we created.
LANGS
kingcraft, priestcraft, caste, monopoly, to pull
WALDO FRANK, Our America, 1919.
Again,'
down the gallows, to burn up the bloody statute-
book, to take in the immigrant, to open the doors
38 There is much cant in American moralism and
47 We are 1
not a little inconsistency.
authentic It
of the sea and the fields of the earth.
against tyrai
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, entry written in 1867,
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, in a speech in the U.S.
sured by our
Journals, 1909-1914.
Senate, March 25, 1964.
try, or by ou
31 America is the country of young men, and too
39 Our country has liberty without license, and
not for the
full of work hitherto for leisure and tranquility; yet
authority without despotism.
power of ou
we have had robust centenarians, and examples of
JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, in a speech in Rome,
welfare.
dignity and wisdom.
Italy, March 25, 1887.
HUBER
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Old Age," Society
Manki
40 America will tolerate the taking of human life
and Solitude, 1870.
without giving it a second thought. But don't mis-
48 The unio
32 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to
use a household pet.
ANDRE
get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on
DICK GREGORY, The Shadow that Scares Me,
Buren,
midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind
1968.
by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery
49 America
without apprenticeship.
41 Thou, O my country, hast thy foolish ways,
HENRY
Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Success," Society and
1870.
Solitude, 1870.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., "An
50 One lov
After-Dinner Poem," 1843.
33 America means opportunity, freedom, power.
youth, her
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Public and Private
42 America is the only place where man is full-
good intenti
Education," Uncollected Lectures, 1932.
grown!
WILLI
34 We're not a political people. We've just been
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Professor
Whitm
at the Breakfast-Table, 1860.
preaching the issues. We're trying to be the moral
51 It is part
conscience of the nation. I don't equate America
43 One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
nothing as c
with Christianity. I don't wrap the cross in a flag.
One Nation, evermore!
by resolution
JERRY FALWELL, at a news conference in
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.; "Voyage of the
THOM
Washington, D.C., January 27, 1981.
Good Ship Union," 1862.
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12. AMERICA
54
55
WALT WHITMAN, "When Lilacs Last in the
118 America is not a mere body of traders; it is a
the fiends."
Dooryard Bloom'd," 1865-1866.
body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our
upon oursel
113 I hear America singing, the varied carols I
freedom-is moral, not material. We have a great
An uni
hear.
ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the
her hon
rights of man.
quoted
WALT WHITMAN, "I Hear America Singing,"
1973.
1867.
WOODROW WILSON, in a speech in New York
City, December 6, 1911.
2 An Indian
114 I say, the true nationality of the States, the
119 Just what is it that America stands for? If she
not live in ou
genuine union, when we come to a mortal crisis, is,
and is to be, after all, neither the written law, nor,
stands for one thing more than another, it is for the
eat up by t
schoolmaster
(as is generally supposed) either self-interest, or
sovereignty of self-governing people.
false actions
common pecuniary or material objects-but the
WOODROW WILSON, in a speech in Pittsburgh,
Indian to ch
fervid and tremendous Idea, melting everything
Pennsylvania, January 29, 1916.
else with resistless heat, and solving all lesser and
to gain their
120 America is not anything if it consists of each of
deceive them
definite distinctions in vast, indefinite, spiritual,
emotional power.
us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
let us alone,
Ibid.
lowed on, a
WALT WHITMAN, Democratic Vistas, 1871.
themselves a
121 America cannot be an ostrich with its head in
115 I say we had best look our times and lands
soned us by
the sand.
searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing
BLACK
some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more
WOODROW WILSON, in a speech at Des Moines,
Wiscons
hollowness of heart than at present, and here in the
Iowa, February 1, 1916.
3 This count
United States. Genuine belief seems to have left us.
122 Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well,
The underlying principles of the States are not
ans were run
that is the way I know I am an American.
honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and
America is the only idealist Nation in the world.
VINE D
these melodramatic screamings) nor is humanity
Magazi
itself believ'd in. What penetrating eye does not
WOODROW WILSON, in a speech in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, September 8, 1919.
4 And it is
everywhere see through the mask?
done without
Ibid.
123 Ours is become a nation too great to offend the
inconsistent
least, too mighty to be unjust to the weakest, too
116 Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
that it is high
lofty and noble to be ungenerous to the poorest and
Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present
its function a
lowliest.
only,
the Indians.
The Past is also stored in thee,
STEPHEN WISE, in a speech, July 4, 1905.
scribe them. ]
Thou holdest not the venture of thyself
culture, and y
alone, not of the Western continent
their civilizat
alone,
Treat them h
Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O
13. AMERICAN INDIANS
to treating wi
ship, is steadied by thy spars,
by corrupting
With thee Time voyages in trust, the
which a treat
antecedent nations sink or swim with
1 The Indians have not been without excuse for
ANDREW
thee.
their evil deeds. Our own people have given them
Calhoun,
WALT WHITMAN, "Thou Mother with Thy
intoxicating drinks. taught them to swear, violated
Equal Brood," 1872.
the rights of womanhood among them, robbed
5 [The India
them of their dues, and then insulted them! What
nor more imp
117 There exists in the world today a gigantic res-
more would be necessary to cause one nation to rise
reduced to th
ervoir of good will toward us, the American people.
against another? What more, I ask. Yet there are
THOMAS
WENDELL WILLKIE, One World, 1943.
many who curse this people. and cry "Exterminate
Virginia,
180. PATRIOTISM
423
25 Patriotism is a centrifugal emotion intensifying
33 There are not wanting men so weak as to sup-
at the outskirts.
pose that their approbation of warlike measures is
ALICE JAMES, in a letter to her sister-in-law, Mrs.
a proof of personal gallantry, and that opposition to
William James, December 10, 1888.
them indicates a want of that spirit which becomes
a friend of his country; as if it required more cour-
26 My affections were first for my own country,
age and patriotism to join in the acclamation of the
and then, generally, for all mankind.
day, than steadily to oppose one's self to the mad
THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Thomas Law,
infatuation to which every people and all govern-
January 15, 1811.
ments have, at some time or other, given way.
27 I look upon the whole world as my fatherland.
JOHN RANDOLPH, opposing war with England, in
I look upon true patriotism as the brotherhood
an open letter, published in Virginia newspapers,
of man and the service of all to all.
dated May 30, 1812.
HELEN KELLER, in the New York Call,
34 A man who is good enough to shed his blood for
December 20, 1915.
his country is good enough to be given a square deal
afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to,
28 The mystic chords of memory, stretching from
and less than that no man shall have.
every battlefield and patriot grave to every living
heart and hearthstone all over this broad land.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a speech in Springfield,
Illinois, June 4, 1903.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in his first inaugural address,
March 4, 1861.
35 The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country
29 There is something magnificent in having a
and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
country to love. It is almost like what one feels for
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a speech in Pittsburgh,
a woman. Not so tender, perhaps, but to the full as
July 27, 1917.
self-forgetful.
36 There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, in a letter to Charles
country. There is room here for only 100% Ameri-
Eliot Norton, April 13, 1865.
canism, only for those who are Americans and
30 Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should
nothing else.
be as nice about his country as about his sweetheart.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a speech at the State
Yet it would hardly be wise to hold every one
Republican Party Convention, Saratoga, New
an enemy who could not see her with our own
York, July 19, 1918.
enchanted eyes. It seems to be the common opinion
37 The man who loves other countries as much as
of foreigners that Americans are too tender upon
his own stands on a level with the man who loves
this point.
other women as much as he loves his own wife.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, "On a Certain
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in an address in New
Condescension in Foreigners," 1869.
York City, on the anniversary of the first Battle
31 Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for
of the Marne, September 6, 1918.
his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for
38 Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people,
it.
families.
H.L. MENCKEN, "Sententiae," in The Vintage
ROBERT SANTOS, quoted in Al Santoli,
Mencken, 1955.
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the
32 Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of
Victnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers
real estate above principles.
Who Fought It, 1981.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN, Testament of a Critic,
39 Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be
1931.
kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
180. PATRIOTISM
424
425
CARL SCHURZ, in a speech in the U.S. Senate,
47 There would never be a moment, in war or in
January 17, 1872.
3 W:
peace, when I wouldn't trade all the patriots in the
huma
40 I feel that this do-or-die, my-country-right-or-
country for one tolerant man. Or when I wouldn't
wrong kind of patriotism is not merely out of place
swap the vitamins in a child's lunchbox for a jelly
in a nuclear armed world, it is criminal egotism on
glass of magnanimity.
4 Go
a monstrous scale. The world won't be safe until
E.B. WHITE, "Coon Hunt," One Man's Meat,
States
people in all countries recognize it for what it is
1944.
it.
and, instead of cheering the leader who talks that
way, impeach him.
48 I hold that it would be improper for any com-
mittee or any employer to examine my conscience.
BENJAMIN SPOCK, Decent and Indecent, 1968.
5 Mai
They wouldn't know how to get into it, they
men u
41 I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short
wouldn't know what to do when they got in there,
While
and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil
and I wouldn't let them in anyway. Like other
potent
and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Americans, my acts and my words are open to
potent
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, in a speech at the
inspection-not my thoughts or my political affili-
American Legion Convention, August 27, 1952.
ation.
42 There is the National flag. He must be cold,
E.B. WHITE, in a letter to the New York Herald
6 A p
Tribune, dated November 29, 1947.
are tol
indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the
breeze without pride of country. If in a foreign
49 The principle of demanding an expression of
I
land, the flag is companionship, and country itself,
political conformity as the price of a job is the
7 You
with all its endearments.
principle of hundred percentism. It is not new and
must t:
CHARLES SUMNER, in an address entitled "Are
it is blood brother of witch burning.
the ver
We a Nation?" delivered at the Cooper Institute,
E.B. WHITE, in a letter to the New York Herald
sary ar
New York City, November 19, 1867.
Tribune, dated December 4, 1947.
scared
43 The name of American, which belongs to you
50 The lines of red are lines of blood, nobly and
J
in your national capacity, must always exalt the just
unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of
pride of patriotism more than any appellation
their fellowmen more than they loved their own
derived from local discriminations.
8 Unle
lives and fortunes.
behind
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in his Farewell Address,
WOODROW WILSON, in a speech on Flag Day,
September 17, 1796.
can hop
May 7, 1915.
A
44 Let our object be, our country, our whole coun-
M
try, and nothing but our country.
DANIEL WEBSTER, in his address delivered at the
9 I say
laying of the cornerstoné of the Bunker Hill
181. PEACE
to fight
Monument, June 17, 1825.
See also WAR
D
45 Thank God. I-I also-am an American!
F:
DANIEL WEBSTER, in his address upon the
10 The
completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17,
1 Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of
fillment
1843.
cheating between two periods of fighting.
our deal
46 I shall know but one country. The ends I aim
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary, 1906.
the stilli
at shall be my country's, my God's, and Truth's.
than an
2. Thank God for peace! Thank God for peace,
I was born an American; I will live an American;
than a I
when the great gray ships come in!
I shall die an American.
brave.
Guy WETMORE CARRYL, "When the Great Gray
DANIEL WEBSTER, in a speech, July 17, 1850.
D'
Ships Come In, dated August 20, 1898.
ad
425
181. PEACE
3 War is an invention of the human mind. The
11 Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
human mind can invent peace with justice.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of
NORMAN COUSINS, Who Speaks for Man? 1952.
principles.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Self-Reliance,"
4 God and the politicians willing, the United
Essays, First Series, 1841.
States can declare peace upon the world, and win
it.
12 The real and lasting victories are those of peace,
and not of war.
ELY CULBERTSON, Must We Fight Russia? 1946.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Worship," The
5 Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as
Conduct of Life, 1860.
men use their full resources only in tasks of war.
While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the
13 The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but
potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual
Peace gives victory to both sides.
potentialities, which we ususally reserve for war.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, entry written in 1867,
Journals, 1909-1914.
JOHN FOSTER DULLES, War or Peace, 1950.
6 A peaceful world is a world in which differences
14 Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
Ibid.
15 I have never known a peace made, even the most
7 You have to take chances for peace, just as you
advantageous, that was not censured as inadequate,
must take chances in war.
The ability to get to
and the makers condemned as injudicious or cor-
the verge without getting into the war is the neces-
rupt. "Blessed are the peacemakers" is, I suppose,
sary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are
to be understood in the other world; for in this they
are frequently cursed.
scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, in a letter to John Adams,
JOHN FOSTER DULLES, quoted by James Shepley
October 12, 1781.
in Life magazine, January 16, 1956.
8 Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers
16 May we never see another war! For in my opin-
behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly
ion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.
can hope to succeed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, in a letter to Josiah
Quincy, September 11, 1783.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, quoted in the Atlantic
Monthly, 1947.
17 Let us have peace.
9 I say we are going to have peace even if we have
ULYSSES S. GRANT, in his speech accepting the
to fight for it.
Republican presidential nomination, May 29,
1868.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, in a speech at
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, June 10, 1945.
18 [Peace:] An idea which seems to have originated
in Switzerland but has never caught hold in the
10 The peace we seek is nothing less than the ful-
United States. Supporters of this idea are fre-
fillment of our whole faith among ourselves and in
quently accused of being unpatriotic and trying to
our dealings with others. This signifies more than
create civil disorder.
the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More
than an escape from death, it is a way of life. More
DICK GREGORY, Dick Gregory's Political
Primer, 1972.
than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the
brave.
19 Peace: A monotonous interval between fights.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, in his first inaugural
ELBERT HUBBARD, The Roycroft Dictionary and
address, January 20, 1953.
Book of Epigrams, 1923.
181. PEACE
426
20 Peace and friendship with all mankind is our
26 Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to
wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to
du
pursue it.
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Charles
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, The Biglow Papers,
William Frederick Dumas, May 6, 1786.
Second Series, 1866.
21 In this age when there can be no losers in peace
27 Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Con-
and no victors in war, we must recognize the obliga-
tinued peace is possible only in a relatively free and
tion to match national strength with national re-
prosperous world.
straint.
Attributed to George C. Marshall.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, addressing a joint session
of Congress, November 27, 1963.
28. There is only one threat to world peace, the one
22 No man should think that peace comes easily.
that is presented by the internationalist communist
Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shout-
conspiracy.
ing for it, or marching down Main Street for it.
RICHARD M. NIXON, in a commencement address
Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stub-
at Whittier College, June 12, 1954.
born effort and the total energy and imagination of
29 Our goal will be peace. Our instrument for
able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living
faith that, in the end, man can and will master his
achieving peace will be law and justice. Our hope
own destiny.
will be that, under these conditions, the vast ener-
gies now devoted to weapons of war will instead be
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, The Vantage Point:
used to clothe, house, and feed the entire world.
Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969, 1971.
This is the only goal worthy of our aspirations.
23 Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial politi-
Competing in this way, nobody will lose, and man-
cal and moral questions of our time; the need for
kind will gain.
man to overcome oppression and violence without
RICHARD M. NIXON, in The Challenges We
resorting to oppression and violence. Man must
Face, 1960.
evolve for all human conflict a method which re-
jects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foun-
30 If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that
dation of such a method is love.
my child may have peace.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., in his speech
THOMAS PAINE, The American Crisis, No. 1,
accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Stockholm,
published in the Pennsylvania Journal, December
Sweden, December 11, 1964.
19, 1776.
24 Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals
31 It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must
The blast of War's great organ shakes the
believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it.
skies!
One must work at it.
But beautiful as songs of the immortals,
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, in a Voice of America
The holy melodies of love arise.
broadcast, November 11, 1951.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "The
Arsenal at Springfield," 1845.
32 More than an end to war, we want an end to the
beginnings of all wars.
25 Buried was the bloody hatchet,
Buried was the dreadful war-club,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, in a speech intended
Buried were all warlike weapons,
for broadcast on April 13, 1945. (Roosevelt died
And the war-cry was forgotten,
the day before.)
There was peace among the nations.
33 Peace is normally a great good, and normally it
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Song of
coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness
Hiawatha, 1855.
and not peace which should bind the conscience of
?6
427
181. PEACE
a nation as it should bind the conscience of an
40 Tiie Marshall Plan will go down in history as
individual; and neither a nation nor an individual
one of America's greatest contributions to the peace
can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
of the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in his sixth annual
HARRY S TRUMAN, "Years of Trial and Hope,"
message to Congress, December 4, 1906.
from Memoirs, 1955.
34 We should do all in our power to hasten the day
41 To discerning men, nothing can be more evi-
when there shall be peace among the nations-a
dent, than that a peace on the principles of depen-
peace based upon justice and not upon cowardly
dence, however limited
would be to the last
submission to wrong.
degree dishonorable and ruinous.
Ibid.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in a letter to John
Bannister, April 21, 1778.
35 For lo! the days are hastening on,
By prophet-bards foretold,
42 There is nothing so likely to produce peace as
When with the ever-circling years,
to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
Comes round the age of gold;
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in a letter to Elbridge
When Peace shall over all the earth
Gerry, January 29, 1780.
Its ancient splendors fling
43 Would to god, the harmony of nations was an
And the whole world send back the song
object that lay nearest to the hearts of Sovereigns;
Which now the angels sing.
and that the incentives to peace
might be daily
EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS, "It Came Upon the
encreased!
Midnight Clear," 1850.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in a letter to the Marquis
36 Peace is not the work of a single day, nor will
de Lafayette, January 10, 1788.
it be the consequence of a single act. Yet every
44 To be prepared for war is one of the most effec-
constructive act contributes to its growth; every
tual means of preserving peace.
omission impedes it. Peace will come, in the end,
if it comes at all, as a child grows to maturity
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in his first annual
-slowly, imperceptibly, until we realize one
message to Congress, January 8, 1790.
day in incredulous surprise that the child is almost
45 If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to
grown.
repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, in a speech at New
powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it
Orleans, December 4, 1954.
must be known that we are at all times ready for
37 Our first, our greatest, our most relentless pur-
war.
pose is peace. For without peace there is nothing.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in his fifth annual
message to Congress, December 3, 1793.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, in a speech at Chicago,
November 19, 1955.
46 Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I
38 Peace will never be entirely secure until men
am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it
everywhere have learned to conquer poverty with-
is the ardent desire of the government.
out sacrificing liberty or security.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, in a letter to the Rev.
Jonathan Boucher, August 15, 1798.
Attributed to Norman Thomas.
39 I want peace and I'm willing to fight for it.
47 Peace is always beautiful.
WALT WHITMAN, "The Sleepers," 1855.
HARRY S TRUMAN, in his diary, May 22, 1945,
quoted 1980. in Robert H. Ferrell, Off the Record,
48 Beautiful that war and all its deeds of
carnage must in time be utterly lost,
214. THE SOUTH
526
3 No hardier republicanism was generated in New
O
quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love!
England than in the slave states of the South, which
Good and evil! O all dear to me!
produced so many great statesmen of America.
WALT WHITMAN, "O Magnet-South," 1860.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE, "Kin Beyond the Sea,"
published in the North American Review,
September, 1878.
4 Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
215. SOUTH CAROLINA
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone with the Wind,
1936.
1 Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind
5 In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere;
and resources).
they date from it.
Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope).
MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi, 1883.
State mottoes.
6 O magnet-South! O glistening, perfumed
2 South Carolinians are among the rare folk in the
South! my South!
South who have no secret envy of Virginians.
Robert E. Lee: farewell to his army,
April 10, 1865
The surrender of General Robert E. Lee to Gen-
eral Ulysses S. Grant on the day before had been
marked by generosity. Grant allowed all soldiers to
keep their horses and the officers to keep their side-
arms as well. The Civil War was over.
After four years of arduous service, marked by
them to their countrymen.
unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army
By the terms of the agreement, officers and
of Northern Virginia has been compelled to
men can return to their homes and remain there
yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.
until exchanged. You will take with you the
I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-
satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness
fought battles, who have remained steadfast to
of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly
the last, that I have consented to this result
pray that a merciful God will extend to you His
from no distrust of them; but, feeling that
blessing and protection.
valor and devotion could accomplish nothing
With an increasing admiration of your con-
that could compensate for the loss that would
stancy and devotion to your country, and a grate-
have attended the continuation of the contest,
ful rememberance of your kind and generous
I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice
consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate
of those whose past services have endeared
farewell.
P5.
WH
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Our shelter and our shield is God. May our attackers' new weapons not deflect you
General DOUGLAS
from your thoughts which are dedicated to your defence of Ethiopia's freedom.
Congressional Record, \
Your King who speaks to you today will at that time be in your midst, prepared to
According to Th
shed his blood for the liberty of Ethiopia.
2298h, col. 2 (1964), this
hymn, "Kind Words Car
HAILE SELASSIE I, emperor of Ethiopia, address to the Ethiopian Parliament, July 18,
thur was graduated in 1
1935.-"My Life and Ethiopia's Progress," 1892-1937, trans. Edward Ullendorff, p. 220
Soldiers Never Die" is
(1976).
Frederick T. Nettleing
parody was English. T
1722 The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable
away." Several other V
soldier on earth.
away," Frank Richards,
Attributed to THOMAS J. (STONEWALL) JACKSON.-Hunter McGuire, Stonewall Jack-
fade away," James Rona
son: An Address, p. 16 (1897).
1728 The soldier, abo
teaching-sacrifice. In 1
1723 Oh, it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away';
attributes which his M
But it's Thank you, Mister Atkins', when the band begins to play-
courage and no brute i
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
Oh, it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins,' when the band begins to play.
uplift which will alone
General DOUGL
RUDYARD KIPLING, "Tommy," stanza 1, chorus, The Collected Works of Rudyard
Rainbow (42d) Infantry
Kipling: Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads, vol. 25, p. 168 (1941, reprinted
thur, A Soldier Speaks
1970).
1729 An atheist coul
1724 Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause.
Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can,
THOMAS H. MOC
the same cause-honor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the
Admiral Moore
storms of heaven and the storms of battle.
U.S. District Court su
academies.
President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to George Opdyke and others, December 2,
1863.-The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, p. 32 (1953).
1730 It is foolish an
that such men lived.
1725 This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of
people, but the most heavily upon the soldier. For it has been said, all that a man hath will
Attributed to
he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at
Boston Massachusetts
stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then, is due to the
New York Times, Jun
soldier.
1945, pp. 1, 16 (where
wordings.
President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, remarks at closing of sanitary fair, Washington, D.C.,
The speech W:
March 18, 1864.-The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, pp.
raphers of Patton hav
253-54 (1953).
tor of the 1965 David
"Let me not mourn fc
1726 I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in
heroes have lived."
modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires
Patton had ex
careful preparation. This means the furnishing of sufficient troops and sufficient material to
cemetery near Palerr
meet the known strength of a potential enemy. No general can make something out of
country. In my mind
nothing. My success or failure will depend primarily upon the resources which the respec-
to regret that they h:
tive governments place at my disposal. My faith in them is complete. In any event I shall do
my best. I shall keep the soldier's faith.
1731 Our God and
General DOUGLAS MACARTHUR; first public statement upon arriving in Australia,
Ev'n at the E
After deliver
March 1942.-A Soldier Speaks, Public Papers and Speeches of General of the Army
Our God's for
Douglas MacArthur, ed. Vorin E. Whan; Jr., p. 115 (1965).
1727 Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
325
324
Soldiers
FRANCIS QUARLES, "Of Common Devotion," The Complete Works in Prose and Verse
This e
of Francis Quarles, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, vol. 2, p. 205 (1880).
1917, and repi
President John F. Kennedy quoted this in remarks to members of the First Ar-
mored Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia, November 26, 1962: "Many years ago, according to
the story, there was found in a sentry box in Gibraltar a poem which said:
God and the soldier, all men adore
1737 The E
In time of danger and not before
NEIL A
When the danger is passed and all things righted,
20, 1969.-Th
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.
This country does not forget God or the soldier. Upon both we now depend. Thank you."-
1738 That's
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, p. 840. The
NEIL I
First Armored Division had been deployed during the Cuban crisis.
Washington 1
In the
1732 So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descen-
printed erron
dants.
American He
TACITUS, Agricola, an English Version of a Roman Tale, trans. G. J. Acheson,
chapter 4, paragraph 22, final sentence, p. 72 (1938).
1739 The e
for peaceful 1
1733 These endured all and gave all that justice among nations might prevail and that
focus for the
mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.
is urgent. An
the continent
Author unknown. Normandy Chapel, inscription on the exterior of the lintel of the
principle to a
chapel.-American Battle Monuments Commission, Normandy American Cemetery and
developed in
Memorial, p. 16 (1975, rev. 1984).
will ever be a
This World War II memorial inscription is very similar to the World War I memorial
inscription at Oise-Aisne Cemetery: These endured all and gave that honor and justice
Presi
might prevail and that the world might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.-American Battle
the United N
Monuments Commission, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, p. 9 (1978).
of the United
1734 Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.
1740 First,
this decade i
Author unknown. Incription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Na-
I believ
tional Cemetery.
that the Unit
to do the WOI
Solution
Presi
urgent nation
1735 And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omnis-
John F. Kenn
cient-that we are only 6 percent of the world's population-that we cannot impose our will
upon the other 94 percent of mankind-that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every
1741 Many
adversity-and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world prob-
lem.
Everest, was
there, and W
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, address at the University of Washington's 100th anni-
for knowledg
versary program, Seattle, Washington, November 16, 1961.-Public Papers of the Presi-
Presi
dents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 726.
Houston, Te:
John F. Ken
1736 There is always an easy solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and
Mall
wrong.
March 18, 19
H. L. MENCKEN, "The Divine Afflatus," A Mencken Chrestomathy, chapter 25, p. 443
(1949).
326
327
Unity
The quotation from the Greeks has been attributed to Aeschylus but has not been
found in his works.
1865 For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
RUDYARD KIPLING, "The Law of the Jungle," The Second Jungle Book, p. 29 (1899).
1866 And see the confluence of dreams
That clashed together in our night,
One river born of many streams
p.
Roll in one blaze of blinding light!
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL (AE), "Salutation," last stanza.-Kathleen Hoagland, 1000
is
Years of Irish Poetry, p. 617 (1947).
This was written for those who took part in the Irish rebellion against England,
1916.
1867 It manus in gyrum; paullatim singula vires
Deperdunt proprias; color est E pluribus unus.
a
Spins round the stirring hand; lose by degrees
Their separate powers the parts, and comes at last
From many several colors one that rules.
VIRGIL, "Moretum," lines 103-4, The Works of Virgil, trans. into English verse by
John Augustine Wilstach, vol. 1, p. 123 (1884).
Moretum literally means garden herbs. From Virgil's minor poems, this is a tribute
"to common things and plebian associations. The lines are laudatory of early habits and
rustic poverty. They close with a description of the ingredients and mode of preparation of a
S
salad composed of garlic, parsley, rue, and onions, seasoned with cheese, salt, coriander,
and vinegar, and finally sprinkled with oil.
"The poem is a brief one, of uncertain, but probably early date. But, brief as it is,
d
and insignificant as it seems to be, certain of its words formulate the talisman of our
National Government.
"So that we may say, with probable truth, that, in describing an Italian salad, a
frugal shepherd of the Roman Republic dictated that motto [E pluribus unum] which has
served as the symbol of union for States in a hemisphere then unknown, for a Republic
which uses, with enthusiasm, even the language of that illustrious government to which it is
indebted, under SO many forms, for safe precedents and wise examples" (p. 124).
Values
1868 It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the
imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values
imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international
peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values,
we do so at our peril.
Senator J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961, Congressional
Record, vol. 107, p. 11703.
Victory
1869 The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
351
War and peace
1957 An analysis of the history of mankind shows that from the year 1496 B.C. to the year
1861 of our era, that is, in a cycle of 3357 years, were but 227 years of peace and 3130 years
of war: in other words, were thirteen years of war for every year of peace. Considered thus,
the history of the lives of peoples presents a picture of uninterrupted struggle. War, it
would appear, is a normal attribute to human life.
JEAN DE BLOCH, The Future of War, trans. R. C. Long, p. lxv (1903).
1958 In War: Resolution
In Defeat: Defiance
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will
WINSTON CHURCHILL, The Second World War, p. viii (1948-1954). This motto, the
"moral of the work," appeared on p. viii of each of the six volumes in this work.
1959 War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with
justice.
NORMAN COUSINS, Who Speaks for Man?, p. 318 (1953).
1960 Such subtle Covenants shall be made,
Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
JOHN DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel, part 2, lines 268-69, p. 9 (1682, reprinted
1970).
A variant of the second part, "And Peace it self is War in Masquerade," appears
earlier in the poem, part 1, line 752, p. 23.
1961 Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too,
requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe,
achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the
blessings of liberty.
JOHN FOSTER DULLES, secretary of state, news conference statement, December 31,
1954.-Department of State Bulletin, January 10, 1955, p. 44.
1962
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
GEORGE ORWELL, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 5 (1949).
These three slogans of the Party were engraved on the Ministry of Truth building.
1963 You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is
that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to
destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for
suffering humanity.
LOUIS PASTEUR, speech at celebration honoring his seventieth birthday, the Sor-
bonne, Paris, France, December 27, 1892. Pasteur's son read the speech of thanks because
of the weakness of his father's voice.-René Vallery-Radot; The Life of Pasteur, trans. Mrs.
R. L. Devonshire, vol. 2; p. 297. (1902).
On his 1956 Christmas card, Adlai E. Stevenson used a version of this passage
which varies slightly from the arrangement and translation given above: "Not to destroy
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