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C2 The Sheridan Press, Friday, November 11, 2005 Fort Campbell seeks to come to grips with soldier deaths FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — For Amy Kost-Hawk, attending a ceremony honoring slain soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division came with a bit of trepidation. ‘‘This is our first one,’’ Kost- Hawk said, ‘‘and we will have many more.’’ Kost-Hawk, whose husband, Sgt. 1st Class Ed Hawk, is awaiting deployment to Iraq, was one of about 500 people at the Eagle Remembrance Ceremony at Fort Campbell on Wednesday. The ceremony, held outside the 101st headquarters, honored soldiers who have died in Iraq, but the focus was on the deaths of nine recently deployed soldiers in one week. One of them was Pfc. Tyler R. MacKenzie, 20, of Evans, Colo., who died with two other soldiers from the post on Nov. 2 when a roadside bomb detonated near their Humvee. The gathering, the first of what is to be a monthly event to honor soldiers deployed to Iraq and those who have died, wasn’t specifically planned because of the most recent deaths but gave the Fort Campbell community a chance to gather and grieve, chaplain Col. Ronald Crews said. ‘‘Those who have fallen are our family, our comrades, our buddies,’’ Crews said. ‘‘It is emotional, every loss is special because every soldier is special.’’ The ceremony held at dusk included a bugler playing retreat as the American flag was lowered to half-staff, a bagpiper playing ‘‘Amazing Grace,’’ the firing of a cannon and taps. The families of two soldiers, Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Tessar and Sgt. 1st Class James Hayes, approached a memorial with flowers and photographs for a moment of silence and were escorted away by soldiers. As the memorial went on, helicopters could be heard flying elsewhere on the post, a reminder that soldiers are still preparing for war. HERE’S WHAT WE NEED: Throughout the event, mothers with children, wives and family members exchanged hugs and wiped away tears as chaplains and Lt. Col. Jacquelyn Russell, rear commander of the 101st Airborne Division, paid tribute to the fallen soldiers. ‘‘Each and every one of the soldiers died a hero,’’ Russell said. ‘‘The loss of these great soldiers is almost incomprehensible.’’ Lauren Loomis, whose husband, Lt. Col. Ed Loomis, deployed about seven weeks ago, held her 9-weekold daughter throughout the ceremony. Loomis said the fallen soldiers, along with those currently deployed, need to be honored for their sacrifice and to help the community heal. She said she stayed close to Fort Campbell while her husband is away for those reasons. ‘‘We chose to stay because we are part of a family,’’ she said. Coming to grips with the sheer number of soldiers killed in such a short period of time is proving difficult for some, said Sandra Cooper, whose husband, Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Cooper, has been to Iraq four times. ‘‘I think it did take us by surprise, the number of them,’’ Cooper said. Four Fort Campbell soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing south of Baghdad on Oct. 31. Two days later, MacKenzie, Spc. Joshua J. Munger, 22, of Maysville, Mo., and Spc. Benjamin A. Smith, 21, of Hudson, Wis. died following the roadside bombing. MacKenzie, who played football for Greeley West High School, joined the Army in January, following in the military footsteps of his father and two grandfathers. Another Fort Campbell soldier died near Taji Sunday when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb while on patrol and another on Friday during combat operations in Baghdad. That death is being investigated as a possible friendly fire incident. Santa Needs Our Help… Santa has asked the Sheridan Press to ask all Moms and Dads of Sheridan County to tell us whether your child should be on Santa’s nice list. In return, Santa will publish his nice list in the Sheridan Press on Monday November 21, 2005 CHILD’S FULL NAME__________________________________ CHILD’S AGE________________________________________ CHILD’S TOY________________________________________ For more details ask for Aimee P.O. BOX 2006 SHERIDAN, WY 82801 672-2431 circulation@thesheridanpress.com Last day to receive submission 11/17/05 Controversial Iraqi begins D.C. visit with meeting with Rice WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi launched his quest for political rehabilitation Wednesday with a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a polite welcome from the White House. For Rice, it was an opportunity mostly to go over energy and finance issues, which Chalabi oversees in Baghdad, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said The Bush administration has an interest in meeting with a wide range of Iraqi officials, of which Chalabi is only one, Ereli said. ‘‘It was a good meeting. They had a wide-ranging discussion,’’ the spokesman said after the half-hour session in Rice’s office. Chalabi said the meeting went ‘‘very well.’’ He brushed aside questions by reporters on whether he had given misleading information to the Bush administration before the war with Iraq. ‘‘It’s more important to look to the future than to the past,’’ Chalabi said. At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan, announcing Chalabi also would be given a chance to see Vice President Dick WASHINGTON (AP) — Marine Corps hero ‘‘Chesty’’ Puller would have been proud to be honored with a postage stamp, but he would have wanted to include the face of every Marine he served with, his daughter said Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Puller and three other Marines — Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, Sgt. Maj. Daniel J. Daly and Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune — are on a set of four 37-cent stamps being unveiled Thursday in ceremonies at the Marine Corps Barracks in Washington and Camp Pendleton, Calif. The stamps go on sale nationwide the same day. The Postal Service gets thousands of proposals for stamps every year and selects only about 30 for production. ‘‘Father would like those odds, and he beat them,’’ said Martha Puller Downs of Alexandria, Va., the general’s daughter. Indeed, during the Korean War, when surrounded by more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers Cheney and national security adviser Stephen Hadley, said ‘‘he’s seen as an elected leader of the Iraqi government and one of a number that we have met with in recent months.’’ ‘‘The Iraqi people are deciding their future, and they have a representative government that was elected by the Iraqi people,’’ McClellan said. ‘‘We are very supportive of helping the Iraqi people move forward and build a democratic future.’’ On Capitol Hill, Democrats greeted Chalabi’s arrival by calling on Congress’ Republican-run intelligence committees to subpoena him to testify about his role in providing prewar information about Iraq that turned out to be false, and allegations that he may be linked to the leaking of sensitive U.S. secrets to Iran. In a letter to the intelligence panels, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., wrote that rather than meeting with top administration officials, testimony to those committees ‘‘would be a more appropriate venue for an official meeting for Mr. Chalabi.’’ Standing in a State Department doorway earlier, Chalabi defended his call for closer Iraqi relations with Iran. The two countries have a long border and ‘‘we are neighbors,’’ he said. Chalabi also called for improved relations with Syria, which he said could give Iraq an opportunity to try to persuade Damascus ‘‘to stop supporting terrorist incursions’’ into his country. The talks at the State Department were declared off-limits to reporters and photographers, which is unusual since cameras are regularly permitted to record the start of Rice’s meetings with prominent foreign visitors. But without explanation the cameras were excluded, as they were when Rice met with Chalabi two years ago when she was President Bush’s national security adviser. Condoleezza Rice U.S. Secretary of State at the Chosin Reservoir, Puller is reported to have said: ‘‘They’re on our right, they’re on our left, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us; they can’t get away from us this time.’’ Marines still leave mementoes at Puller’s grave. ‘‘They knew he took care of them,’’ Downs said. Yet growing up, she said, ‘‘I really didn’t know him as a legend or hero. I knew him as a magnificent father ... he was fun.’’ A native of West Point, Va., Puller was a battalion commander and regimental commander with the 1st Marine Division during World War II and the Korean War. During his 37-year career, he was awarded 14 personal decorations in combat, five Navy Crosses, one Army Distinguished Service Cross plus a long list of campaign medals, unit citation ribbons and other awards. Being honored on the other three stamps in the set are: Miss Your Paper? The State Department’s deputy spokesman, Adam Ereli, defended the face-to-face meeting with Rice. ‘‘He is an official and a representative of the government of Iraq,’’ Ereli said Tuesday. The spokesman also noted that Chalabi was deeply involved in redeveloping Iraq’s energy sector, a high U.S. priority. Before the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Chalabi, then living in exile, was a favorite of the Defense Department and the U.S. Congress. He was seen as a possible leader in a post-Saddam era, but fell from favor after his claims that Saddam possessed doomsday weapons were discredited. Chalabi, on an eight-day visit, is scheduled to meet Monday with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and with other members of Bush’s Cabinet. A former banker and MIT graduate, Chalabi has been a controversial figure on several fronts, accused sometimes of being an Iranian. Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, dismissed the allegation last week. Four Marine Corps heroes honored on postage stamps —Basilone, who won the Medal of Honor in World War II. Basilone was cited for holding 3,000 Japanese soldiers at bay for 72 hours during the battle of Guadalcanal with only 15 men, 12 of whom died in the fight. Sent home to promote the sale of war bonds, Basilone requested to return to combat and again distinguished himself in the battle for Iwo Jima, where he was killed. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart. —Daly, who received the Medal of Honor twice for separate acts during combat in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and in Haiti protecting American lives during an uprising in 1915. —Lejeune, who is remembered as a wartime commander and the first Marine to command at Army division in combat. Lejeune led the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division in World War I. He is credited with establishing Marine Corps institutions and traditions and the Marine base located near Jacksonville, N.C. bears his name. 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Comics THE SHERIDAN Press Friday, FOR BETTER or FOR WORSE® by Lynn Johnston MARY WORTH by Karen Moy and Joe Giella BORN LOSER® by Art and Chip Sansom GARFIELD by Jim Davis FRANK & ERNEST® by Bob Thaves REX MORGAN, M.D. by Woody Wilson and Tony DiPreta ZITS® by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman DILBERT by S. Adams ALLEY OOP® by Dave Graue and Jack Bender Dr. Gott Dr. Peter Gott DEAR DR. GOTT: A young man in my grandson's dorm has extraordinary energy and stamina. He is also a very excellent student and is truly a very nice person. When I asked him how he maintains such energy and good health, he replied that his bedtime routine has never varied since he was 8 years old and is as follows: He showers and drinks his urine while it is fresh and warm and then brushes his teeth with peroxide and baking soda and never sleeps more than four hours a night. He was very serious and his roommates all verified that they saw him go through this ritual many times. He said this is the time that the body has utilized all of the nutrients that it needs and the left over nutrients are present for "recycling" without being wasted. My question is: Can someone practice this without getting ill or doing harm to himself or herself? Have you ever heard of this practice before? DEAR READER: Your grandson's dorm-mate is doing potential harm to himself as well as indulging in an unattractive practice. The kidneys extract waste products and excrete them in the urine. This is not a question of nutrients. The waste need not be "recycled" any more than fecal waste needs to be eaten. Given his proclivity, I'd be surprised if the young man in question has an especially active social life. I cannot imagine a cute co-ed standing next to the man while he finishes off a 3-ounce shot of urine. "Hi, hon- DEAR READERS: Seven years ago, I told you about a new program called the Legacy Project that had been created to honor American veterans by preserving their wartime letters. I asked you to send a photocopy of a favorite war letter that you or a loved one had written. The response was overwhelming. Since its inception in 1998, the Legacy Project has received an estimated 75,000 never-before-seen letters from every conflict in our nation's history -- including e-mails from Iraq and Afghanistan. I thought you'd like to know that the Legacy Project has just announced that the entire collection will be donated to the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Institute in New York City, where the letters will be archived for posterity. In honor of Veterans Day, I will share with you one of the letters from the collection. It was handwritten by a young soldier named Justin Merhoff, who currently serves in the U.S. Army and will soon be deployed to Afghanistan. It was addressed to his grandfather, Hugh Merhoff: " D e a r Gramps: I want to write you and let you know what I am doing these days. I found out that my unit was responsible for manning five of the 22 funeral honors teams that represent the 10th Mountain Division. "Since I've never been to a funeral before, I did not know what C3 November 11, 2005 ey! Would you like some?" I expect she'd be out of there in the count of two. I also question his goal of four hours of sleep a night. Many scientific studies have linked behavioral and cognitive problems to sleep deprivation. Most adults need at least six (and preferably eight) hours of sleep per 24 hours. I suspect that your grandson's dorm-mate is a bright, inquisitive, competitive and charming young man, despite his bizarre practices. But I honestly believe that his behavioral aberrances will not stand him in good stead. Please follow up with me if he decides to run for President. DEAR DR. GOTT: I got head lice when I was working as a caregiver. I didn't find out about it for three months, because it was the first time I had ever had lice. I used shampoo, gel and powder. I washed everything with the products as well, and often. I can't get rid of them. Are there some pills I can take for it? After spending $1,000 for shampoo, gels, spray, powder, shaving my head, bagging mattresses and moving three times, nothing has worked. This has gone on for two years now. Can you please help? DEAR READER: Head lice are ordinarily destroyed by products, such as Nix. Continued infestation usually results from repeated exposure to the lice. If you have reached the end of your rope, I urge you to see a dermatologist for specific advice. Doctor Gott is a practicing physician and the author of the new book "Live Longer, Live Better: Taking Care of Your Health" (Quill Driver Books, www.quilldriverbooks.com). Dear Abby Pauline Phillips and Jeanne Phillips to expect. There were times that I had to try not to cry after seeing the family go through the turmoil that death brings. These emotions were new to me and were hard to take at first. What really got me was that there were guys who were not U.S. citizens but were fighting for our country. I might never have met these soldiers, but they are all my brothers and sisters in arms. We will forever, even in death, be bound to each other by our service to our country. "This whole experience has helped me better understand what happened during World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and the sacrifices made by those who served honorably -- and by their families. I know that you say you do not consider yourself a veteran because you were drafted and did not see action. You used the time you served to your advantage and became a doctor. You saved countless lives. You are the reason I am in the Army today. You instilled in me the values that you learned during your service, and it has made me a better soldier. Most important, it has made me a better person. -- Love, Justin" READERS: If you would like to read more letters like this one, and learn more about the Legacy Project, please visit its Web site at www.WarLetters.com. DEAR ABBY: A long time ago -- many years, for sure -- you had a definition of "maturity" that I kept and liked a lot. I can't find it. Can you dig it up, please? -- MOTHER IN OSCEOLA, ARK. DEAR MOTHER: Consider it dug. It was penned by my mother: This is maturity: To be able to stick with a job until it's finished; to do one's duty without being supervised; to be able to carry money without spending it; and to be able to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. To receive a collection of Abby's most memorable -- and most frequently requested -- poems and essays, send a business-sized, selfaddressed envelope, plus check or money order for $5 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Keepers Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054- 0447. (Postage is included in the price.) Miss Your Paper? Call 672-2431 Between 5:30-6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday or between 7:45-9 a.m. on Saturdays
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