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July 2013

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Keith Ciancio By JESSICA GINET

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“If you don’t like the game, then change the rules.” Not content to sit back and wait for things to happen, retired Army Sergeant First Class Keith Ciancio lives and abides by those words. His decision to take action resulted in a legislative measure that takes effect July 28. Ciancio makes things happen. His hard work and dedication resulted in Substitute House Bill 1537 being signed by Governor Jay Inslee on April 25. Ciancio decided something needed to happen when he retired from the Army and pursued a career in law enforcement. Veterans who have honorably served abroad in combat zones may claim veteran preference - a factor that would have made Ciancio a competitive contender - but since Ciancio wasn’t considered a veteran until his official release date, that meant Ciancio was technically still in the Army. Despite his 20 years of service, he was unable to claim veteran preference status. Ciancio strongly supports any effort for transitioning military personnel to successfully find employment while still drawing a military paycheck. Ciancio fthinks it serves two purposes: one, it eliminates the potential for unemployment. Two, he sees it as a small way to thank those for their dedication and service to their country. “It’s an incredible feeling seeing two years of hard work turn into this,” he said. “I’m giving others an advantage I didn’t have.” His work is not done, however. Because HB 1537 was passed as a substitute house bill, he sees other opportunities to help veterans. Ciancio has submitted ideas to the Veteran Advisory Board. Until these ideas come into fruition, however, Ciancio is hesitant to discuss the details. “The ideas are still in the development stages,” he said. Ciancio has a 20 year career with the Army. At 41, he’s working on his second career and his master’s degree simultaneously. Ciancio’s life has been a series of adventures and successes: Not bad for a fellow who enlisted in the Army at the age of 17 after dropping out of high school. “I always felt that serving in the military was my life’s cause,” Ciancio said. “I knew that from when I was a little kid.” Both of Ciancio’s paternal grandparents served in the Navy during WWII and his maternal grandfather was a soldier in WWII. When Ciancio enlisted, he was at a personal crossroad. He was living with his mother in Los Angeles. After an argument, Ciancio went to live with his father in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He enlisted in Albuquerque as a light wheeled vehicle mechanic. “When I enlisted the Soviet Union was still considered a huge threat to us,” Ciancio said. Ciancio was told that one of his enlistment requirements was that he get his GED. He received his GED after 11 months in the Army and then finished the requirements for his high school diploma.

Ciancio was deployed in Bosnia when he took a single college course to earn promotion points to become a staff sergeant. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think that would be the first step in continuing my education,” Ciancio recalled. “It was a good distraction. There wasn’t a lot to do with free time so I made constructive use of it. It was after taking that one college class that I realized that this college stuff wasn’t so hard.” Since that first course, Ciancio has earned three associate’s degrees, one bachelor degree, a graduate certificate and is currently three classes shy of his master’s degree. Ciancio has been stationed in Panama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, Germany, Korea and Bosnia. He spent 27 months deployed in Iraq. On December 26, 1995, Ciancio was sent to Bosnia. Ciancio spent 11 months in Bosnia during his first tour as part of an implementation force and another nine months during his second tour as part of the implementation security force. “The most I remember from both of my tours there (in Bosnia) was how very, very cold it gets in the wintertime. The challenges heavy snowfall create when conducting patrols was new. I had never been in that kind of weather before.” Ciancio looks back at the missions he served on in Bosnia: “A decade of people not killing each other is a good thing.” Ciancio spent 16 years as a Calvary Scout, doing recognizance and surveillance for infantry and armored brigades. His least favorite duty station was at Fort Polk, Louisiana. “Let’s just say I volunteered to go to Korea to get out of there,” he said with a laugh. “A lot of army posts exist in small towns that in turn exist because of the army’s presence. My favorite duty station was at Fort Lewis. It’s a beautiful location with gorgeous geology and nice moderate weather.” After retiring from the Army, Ciancio went to work for the defense contractor DHS Systems, LLC. After that, he moved to Bremerton for a job with DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) as an equipment and supply specialist. A year ago Ciancio went from working with the Army to working with the Navy. He’s currently in logistic management with the Naval Acquisitions Program at Keyport. “I continue to serve the nation but in a different capacity,” Ciancio said. “Going from Army to Navy . . . well, they speak completely different languages. But I’m learning.” Ciancio is a member of the Bremerton VFW Post 239 and was installed as the Post Surgeon on June 11. He is also an active member of the American Legion and TREA (The Enlisted Association). With a full time job, four kids and intense community involvement, hobbies are merely a thought. “Of course I would like to have hobbies,” he said. “But I’ve been so busy with work, school and trying to get the bill passed that those things have taken center stage - and I always make my kids a priority. My goal is to retire (again) in another 22 years.”

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If you ask any person who has ever served in the military, they’ll tell you that the very best time of any deployment was mail call. A letter or package from home meant a connection to normal life, something that wasn’t often present in their daily lives. That’s why we decided to take a look at communication between military members and their families and friends for the theme of this month’s Veterans Life. In an article by contributor Luciano Marano, you’ll learn about how communication has changed throughout the years from Civil War times to now. First there were letters, then V-Mail and now email. We share with you the letters written back and forth between Gerry and Bill Sprague during World War II. The Port Orchard couple’s correspondences are on file at the Kitsap County Historical Museum in a notebook donated by their daughter Susan Hamilton. Their love is apparent in the poetic nature of the letters and through the letters we see just how hard it was for the young couple to be apart during war times. Inside, there is a story about Raymond Lafond who also served in the Navy in World War II. Although he has passed, his sister, Diane Marler of Silverdale, shares with us a letter he wrote to her prior to his death that recounts his memories of service. After his death, she donated his war memorabilia to the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis and we take you there to see his uniform and photos and to learn about the museum itself. Also in this edition, we pay tribute to a young Bremerton woman who has taken on the call to remember veterans and first responders by creating the Freedom Heroes USA Foundation. Allysa Lynhart has designed and created flags in honor of heroes and first responders and has plans for a center to allow them to get the much-deserved care they need after serving. And we share with you to the recent Bainbridge High School graduation where Veteran John “Sonny” Oligario, Jr. finally received his high school diploma after he left high school unfinished in the winter of 1972 to join the U.S. Air Force and go to Vietnam. As always, we would love to hear from you with ideas for Veterans Life. We issue any veteran an invitation to write for The Bond column with any story about your time in service to our country. Finally, this month we celebrate Independence Day. As you share the day with your family, take time to think about the freedoms that we have in this county and those who have sacrificed so much to keep our nation free.

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Mail Call: A history of how we stay in touch As impossible as it may seem to children today, there used to be this stuff called mail. Mail, if you can believe it, was actually written by hand on paper and then physically moved through a complex delivery system from one person to another. You needed envelopes. You needed stamps. Weird, right? While it’s true that the average person does less letter writing in the digital age, there are still times when an e-mail just won’t due. Anybody who has been away from home for any real length of time can attest to the fact that an actual letter can be something very important. Especially in the military, which has never been on the cutting-edge when it comes to creature comforts like personal correspondence, we see both the advantages of new digital methods of communication and the benefits of the tried and true classics like the letter.

Nimitz is currently deployed in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts, and Sailors on board are experiencing the satisfaction of mail call pretty regularly.

Mail has been an important consideration in every major military engagement in our country’s history. Especially in the modern wars, the subject of personal mail both as an informational device and morale booster has been critical. Even in the Civil War, arguably the first modern war, mail was a critical factor in the conflict. In fact, according to the National Postal Museum public website, the movement of mail became one of the most important factors of the war. “As tensions in the United States rose to a fever pitch and the Civil War broke out in 1861, Union leaders began to develop ways to isolate the mutinous southern states. In addition to erecting a blockade meant to keep supplies from reaching the South, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair cut off mail service to states that had seceded. Confederate stamps were valueless in the North and mail addressed to the Confederate states was taken to the Dead

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According to the Postal Museum, “As important as regular mail was to the morale of American troops, military supply ships were often swamped with bags and bags of letters needing to be delivered. Cargo space taken up by the mail was desperately needed for war materials.”

From the Postal Museum: “As American soldiers began to pour across the Atlantic to help the Allied cause, letter writing provided a crucial connection between these men and their families back in the states. Letters passing between soldiers and those left behind included everything from passionate declarations of love to parental support to the simple daily news of home and the front lines.”

“In May we received 302 pounds of letter mail and 24,780 pounds of parcels,” said Lt.j.g. Lee J. Adams of the ship’s post office. “On average, it takes three to four weeks for an item departing Everett to arrive on the Nimitz.”

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A broken mail system made already sporadic communication even more difficult for soldiers at the time. According to the National Postal Museum, “Soldiers in the Civil War also had a difficult time sending mail to and receiving mail from their loved ones at home. While it was relatively easy for the Army post to find soldiers when they were encamped for several weeks, periods of intense action saw both armies in perpetual motion. This continued shifting of locations made delivering the mail a very real challenge.” The art of deployment correspondence really came into it’s own during the first World War. With the improvement of organization and technology, deployed troops were able to send and receive letters.

“Everyone still loves mail call,” said Lt. Cmdr. Karin Burzynski, USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Public Affairs Officer. “Email and Facebook can not compete with the satisfaction a Sailor gets from a personal card, letter or care package.”

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The lengthy combat timeline of the second World War, in stark contrast to the comparatively brief conflict of World War I, brought with it entirely new operational and organizational concerns. Not the least of which proved to be delivering mail. Being the sole means of communication with deployed friends and family, and considering the sheer number of deployed troops during WWII, the handling of mail deliv-

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To solve this problem the military devised a mail delivery system known as “V-Mail”, short for Victory Mail. Letters were photographed and reduced to the size of a film strip before being shipped, thus saving on space. Then, according to a United News video broadcast circa 1944, “automated machines near the front enlarge the images on the film to a 4X5 inch print.” The military claimed the new service would get letters to their destination “in just a few days.” The development machines were kept in laboratories near American outposts and each lab was capable of processing 300,000 letters a day, which having been enlarged and printed were then put into envelopes and delivered to soldiers. Though truly cutting-edge for its time, V-Mail was not without it’s problems. Tales of heavy censorship of personal letters are common, and a scratched piece of film meant an unprintable letter. As revolutionary as it was, V-Mail would not endure as a consistent means of communication. The tales coming home in personal mail told an entirely different story than either the official press releases or the news coverage, which only helped to further polarize the country during the war in Vietnam. For the first time ever in the history of American combat, media statements and personal letters were arriving home on similar timelines, and those left behind were not as dependent on official news sources for their information. The letters gave first hand accounts of the events unfolding on the front lines. This would prove to be a new kind of war in many ways, and the frank personal nature of the mail returning home must surely be counted as a reason why. Although phone calls home were not yet a possibility, the technology was in place for deployed troops to record voice messages to be mailed home. Electronic personal communication worked its way into the military system gradually as better and better supporting technology became available. Today, it is commonplace, and it is not unusual for deployed service members to check their e-mail daily. Messages and photos reach around the world in minutes rather than days, or even weeks, as was once the norm. Additionally, the military has had to cope with the rise of social media. Most commands and ships have official websites and Facebook pages, to keep family and friends informed, and all have now had to address the potential safety risks that come with such widely available personal communication. “Sailors are allowed to access social media sites, however, they are reminded to be cautious of what information they are posting,” said Lt. Thomas LeVier, USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Combat Systems Department Information Assurance Division Officer. Skype, and other forms of video chat, remain largely unavailable to deployed troops primarily due to bandwidth limitations.

Letters tell of war years struggles and hopes By Leslie Kelly Gerry Howe Sprague’s first handwritten letter to her husband, Bill, was five pages. It spoke about how she missed him already. He’d just left Bremerton on the USS New Orleans in November of 1941, heading toward Pearl Harbor. “Darling, can you smell the paint on my hands? If you can, it’s from the painting I have been doing every night since you left, to keep me busy and my mind off of you, which I find quite impossible.” Her letter told of her tears and how “every song reminds me of you.” “Do you feel sea sick yet,” she asked her husband. His first letter to her was dated Nov. 15, 1941, from aboard the ship. “We are almost in Pearl Harbor,” Bill wrote. “The sun has just gone down behind the island of Oahu, leaving a beautiful sunset. Appearances aboard the ship certainly have changed since yesterday. The reason being that today we changed to white uniforms. It will be good to put our feet on dry land tomorrow. It seems like such a long time since we pulled out of Bremerton. And yes, I saw you standing at the Narrows.” These are just the first two letters in a large notebook filled with the wartime correspondences between husband and wife from November 1941 to September 1945, Pearl Harbor to D-Day, and Bill’s arrival back in the United States. The letters are on file at the Kitsap County Historical Society Museum and are a classic example of wartime military mail. Susan Howe Hamilton, Bill and Gerry’s daughter, gave the volume of letters to the museum as a tribute to her parents. Included are some photographs of her parents, when they were married and a few of her father in his Navy uniform. Hamilton, who lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, recently was in Bremerton and spoke about the letters. “They were kept in a secret cupboard in my grandma’s house,” she said. “When I was probably about 9 years old, I found them. My cousins

and I would dress up in my mother’s wedding dress and read the letters to each other, acting like we were grownups.” Reading the letters is a trip back in history. On Dec. 4, her father writes to her mother that he has just received four letters at once. “Your precious letters arrived today,” he writes. “I’ve found that by being away from you, I know that the only way I can ever be happy is to be with you all the rest of my life. After all, that was why we were married, wasn’t it dear? He thanks her for sending him some photographs and tells her to keep him advised as to her chances of coming to see him in Hawaii for Christmas. She was part of the family that owned the Mosquito Fleet (local ferry boats) and therefore had connections to be able to sail to Hawaii. The next letter is written on Dec. 7, Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. “Dear Bill: All day long I have been by the radio hearing nothing but the most terrible news I have ever had to take. Please honey...,” She continues the next day at 8 a.m. “I meant to finish but I listened to the news. They are saying 3,000 casualties and 1,500 dead. I can’t believe it. One of the reasons I wanted you to go to Honolulu and not to Ireland, was that I thought you would be safer there. The radio has made it remarkably easy to bring everyone to realize that we are at war. Seattle, Bremerton and all up and down the coast, we’re preparing for the same kind of attacks.” As she writes on, she wonders about whether her letter will ever reach him, and when she will ever see him again. See speaks about blackouts from San Pedro, Calif, all the way up to coast to Alaska. War time is at hand and soon Gerry receives a letter from the Matson Line dated Dec. 10, letting her know that “all sailings of the Matson Line have been cancelled.” She knows then that she will not be going to Hawaii for Christmas to see her husband.

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Susan Howell Hamilton smiles as she reads the notebook of letters her mother and father wrote to each other during World War II. Hamilton donated the letters to the Kitsap County Historical Society Museum in Bremerton. Hamilton said she recalls that her mother learned that her father was safe through a phone call from family friends who lived in Hawaii. But it was not until Christmas Day that Bill wrote a letter to his wife, to tell her of the events of Dec. 7 and where he was. “We were at the Beresfords (a family he knew in Honolulu) getting ready for breakfast when we turned on the radio,” he wrote. “They were saying ‘Keep off the streets. Stay calm. The island is under attack. This is not a drill.’”

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Diane Lafond Marler spent many hours trying to convince her brother, Raymond Lafond, to write down some of his memories of fighting in Europe in World War II. He was reluctant, she said, because he sometimes felt guilty that he lived through the war when so many of the men who fought along side him died. “He joined the paratroopers when he was 17,” she said. “He was just a kid.” Eventually in 2006, just two years before his death, Marler got her brother to write a letter with his memories of his time at war. And now she wants to share it with others because, as a Navy nurse herself, she knows it tells what trying to survive in Europe in 1943 to 1946 was like. Marler and her brother were just three years apart. He was her only sibling and as the older sibling in the household that had no father, she looked up to him. They grew up just outside Denver and their father died when she was just 18 months old, after getting lung disease from being gassed during his service in World War I in France. “My mother couldn’t support both of us, so my brother went to Clayton College for Boys,” she said. “My mother did anything and everything she could to get by. She was a waitress, an elevator operator, and she got a $40 a month war widows

He became trained as a paratrooper, in one of the first paratrooper units that the Army had. He was with the 517th that eventually became the 101st Airborne. By May of 1943, he was sent to Naples, Italy. “After a week camped in the foothills outside Naples, we loaded our landing craft and were sent to the coast,” his letter reads. “From there we climbed the mountains and attacked mountaintop villages to fight the Germans and we captured some of them. “The weather was very warm and we had to be careful of our water supply. Every farm we came across, we looked for chickens, fruit and apples. It seemed we were always hungry or thirsty.” At that time at home, Marler was in seventh grade and was working after school at a local hospital learning how to make beds and bring fresh water to patients. “I was trying not to worry about my brother,” she said. “We hardly ever heard from him. We would see the stars in people’s windows. Some were blue and some were gold,” she said referring to stars hung to show that a family member was serving or had been killed in the war. Everything at home was

being rationed, she said. She had just one pair of shoes. Her mother went to work in a factory making bullets for the war. “The young people were very patriotic,” she said. “Everyone pitched in and did something. We planted Victory Gardens because all the food was rationed and there was not much meat. When my shoes wore out, I had to take them to the store and get new soles put on them.” Her brother had been moved on to Rome to train for the invasion of France. “It was Aug. 7, 1943, … and it was a four hour (airplane) ride over rough sea. We finally jumped at about 3 a.m. the morning of Aug. 18. After my parachute opened up all I could see was blocked by the mist coming up in my face. I thought ‘My God, they have dropped us over the ocean.’ I was so scared. I threw out my rifle, helmet, rations and was trying to get my boots off when I hit the ground.” His letter goes on to

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Raymond Lafond in his dress uniform in Germany. one was awake.” “The Battle of the Bulge had very high casualties. After one month our company of 200 men was down to 25. I was blown off my feet twice by mortar rounds and shot at many times, but never hit. My buddy and I were captured twice but we were lucky to escape at night.” After a month, Lafond’s regiment was relieved and sent back to France for rest and recuperation. Back in the states, Marler still worried about her brother. “We would go six weeks and not hear from him,” she said. “There was once when he was trapped in a cave with nothing to eat.”

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were killed or wounded, his letter tells. He spent his last six months in Germany on guard duty, sometimes standing outside the room where Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was working. He returned home to Fort McArthur in California in January 1946. Marler and her mother relocated to California. Marler studied to be a nurse at Cal State in Long Beach and became a Navy nurse. She married a Marine and eventually they were sent to Bremerton where they raised three children. They were married 60 years and her husband, Lawrence, just died about 18 months ago. After the war, her brother was depressed, she said. “He would just sit and stare,” she said. “My mother and I told him he had to get a job. So he went to work in the shipyard at Long Beach.” Through her, he met a young woman who was a librarian and they began to date. Raymond and Ruth were married almost 50 years and she died

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Recollections from Raymond Lafond who served in World War II from 1943 to 1946 I left Clayton College for Boys the fall of 1942. I dropped out of high school in October 1942. All the young men were joining the Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Air Force or waiting to get drafted. I volunteered two weeks ahead of time and was inducted into the Army in Denver, Colorado and sent to Ft. Logan (south of Denver) in April 1942. After a week they sent us to basic training at Toca, Georgia. After basic training they sent us to Fort Benning, Georgia, for one month of parachute training. It was August 1943 and very hot and humid. After making five parachute jumps we were sent to Camp McCall in North Carolina. We received more training until May of 1943. They sent our outfit of 4,000 men to Naples, Italy on troop ships. The ocean trip was very smooth going over. We camped a week in the foothills outside of Naples and then loaded out landing craft and were sent to the coast. We climbed the mountains and attacked the mountain top villages to fight the Germans. We captures some of them. The weather was very warm and we had to be careful with our water supply. At every farm we came to we looked for chickens, fruit, etc. It seemed we were always hungry or thirsty. Our outfit was relieved in July 1943 and we camped outside of Rome in the foothills. We received more training

in preparation for the invasion of Southern France. On August 7, 1943, our outfit was moved to airports north of Rome to the island of Corsica. It was a four hour ride and it was rough and a lot of the guys were sick to their stomachs. We finally jumped about 3 a.m. on the 18th of August, 1943. After my parachute opened up all I could see was mist coming up in my face. I thought, “My God, they have dropped us over the ocean.” I was so scared, I threw away my rifle, helmet, rations and was trying to get my boots off when I hit the ground. I stood up and threw up my supper from the previous night of steak, beer and ice cream. We crossed the wheat field and gathered up for attacking the French villages. We cut telephone lines, power lines and blew up bridges. A lot of the paratroopers fell in trees, on housetops, rivers, etc. They [the paratroopers] broke a lot of legs and arms. An entire regiment was spread across 15 miles of countryside. It took two weeks to get our regiment of 4,000 troops back together. A lot of guys were killed and more were wounded. We spent a couple of months in the mountains of Southern France attacking villages and looking for Germans. Then they pulled us out and sent us to a camp 90 miles south of Paris for rest and recuperation. We rested up, ate well, drank a lot of wine and looked for French girls. The average age

of our soldiers was 19 years old. The officers were in their late 20’s. These were all young guys. In December, the Germans broke through into Belgium on a 50 mile front. They shipped our entire regiment on a 300 mile nighttime truck convoy into Belgium to help stop the Germans. On the second day the weather turned very cold. The third day it snowed and at night it was freezing. They let the truck engines run all night so that they would not freeze up. We always looked for a warm basement or a farmhouse. We heard that two of our guys froze to death at night in the forest. We couldn’t build a fire at night. From then on every fifth man had to check at night to make sure everyone was awake. The Battle of the Bulge had very high casualties. After one month our company of 200 men was down to 25 men. I was extremely lucky. I was blown off my feet twice by mortar rounds and shot at many times but never hit. My buddy and I were about captured twice, but we were lucky and escaped at night. After a month of fighting they relieved our regiment and sent us back to France for rest and recuperation. On the third day of rest and recuperation it was warm in our area and I got up in the morning and had trouble getting my boots on because my feet were swollen. I ended up in an Army hospital for one month and returned to my own outfit.

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about five years ago. “After that, he had nobody,” she said. “He came to live near me.” And it was that day in 2008, when she didn’t get her 7 p.m. phone call from her brother, that Marler knew something was wrong. “He’d call and say ‘This is your brother…’ like I didn’t know that already,” she said. When the call didn’t come she went to check on him. She found that he’d

“It was the 23rd Psalm,” she said. “He’d written it from memory. And I knew that it was his way of telling me he knew it was his time to go.” Diane Marler took the letter her brother had written to her and the scrapbook of his war memorabilia that she’d made for him and donated it to the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis. His paratrooper jumpsuit and dress uni-

In that display is a framed photograph of Lafond with the survivors from his unit that jumped into southern France. Today, as a resident of a Silverdale area retirement center, Marler hopes that thinking back to what her brother and others who fought in World War II endured, will help young people become more patriotic. “They sacrificed so much,” she said. “And they were just kids.”

There was a lot of frostbite and trench foot due to the freezing weather. Out of our company of 200 men, only five were not killed or wounded. I was one of the five who had no Purple Heart medal. I was very lucky; I must have had a guardian angel watching over me. I spent the next six months in Berlin, Germany. We had a lot of guard duty. We stayed in apartment

buildings in Berlin and spent a lot of time in beer gardens in our off hours. Finally they shipped us back to the U.S. A. I was discharged on Jan. 11, 1946, at Fort McArthur. I returned home to Long Beach, California. I was home at last after three years of Army service. I went in at 18 years old and was out when I was 21 years old. The regiment I was in was the 517th combat team. We

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“When I learned that police and sheriff’s deputies, fire and rescue can’t be recognized under a military flag, I knew I had to create a flag of their own,” she said. It took her more than a year to come up with the design. As a nonprofit, she does what she can with the donations she receives. One of the things she made sure of was that all her flags are completely manufactured in the USA. “It may mean we spend a

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June 7: Troops are apparently getting along alright and dispatches received say everything had advanced on schedule. July 4: We are underway to an undisclosed part of the Mediterranean Sea. We are picking up troops in Africa. Sept. 14: We arrived in New York Harbor at 1300. New York sure looks wonderful after some of the places I have been. Following this, his letters tell that he is assigned to Norfolk, but then gets orders to stay in New York. His wife and daughter join him and they have an apartment in Brooklyn, until the time comes that they move back to Washington state. The envelopes for each letter are included in the notebook and all of Bill’s are stamped “Passed by Navy Censor.” One letter dated May 3, 1944, and written on special V-Mail, which stood for Victory Mail, was written in what Hamilton called her father’s poetic romantic style. He wrote: My Dear Wife … Is that the proper salutation for after one one’s third anniversary? It seems needless to say that you have been on my mind constantly and my greatest wish is that this be the last wedding anniversary that will find us apart.” “From reading the letters, I could tell that my parents really loved each other,” she said. “I knew that, but not in the way that these letters say.” There are many stories that Hamilton remembers of her parents and it is hard of her to speak of some of them. Her parents ended up getting divorced, something which she thinks

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Photographs show Bill and Gerry during their early days. stemmed from her father’s post war traumas. “Back then, they didn’t call it Post Traumatic Stress,” she said. “But there was always something there. He didn’t talk about the war. I remember a time when I had to do a report for school about World War II and I asked him about it and he became very agitated.” Despite that, she recalls her father and mother talking about how they met at the University of Washington, got married, he went off to war, and ultimately came back to Port Orchard to work in the family hardware store. He also served as mayor in Port Orchard from 1949 to 1953. “After he was in Europe, my dad was assigned to shore duty in New York,” she said. “My mother went there to live with him and they had a small apartment. And when the war was

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VFW members, volunteers repair memorial By DANNIE OLIVEAUX Normally, Mark Traylor would spend Father’s Day with his family relaxing. But this year, he was busy repairing damage from a senseless act. More than a year ago, Veterans of Foreign Wars Fred Needham Post 2669 broke ground on the Veterans Memorial Wall at the Port of Bremerton Waterfront Marina Park in Port Orchard. But on Friday night, June 14, the 28-foot-long, 6-foot-high brick wall with room for nearly 1,200 veteran’s names was tagged with graffiti, along with lighting displays around the wall. Not only was the memorial wall tagged with spray paint, but the new chalk wall, playground equipment and parking signs associated with the park were also targeted by vandals. Two days later on Fathers’ Day, local VFW members and volunteers spent several hours cleaning up the wall and repairing the light fixtures. The phrase “Make love not babys” (sic) was sprayed across the brick

honoring local and area servicemen and women. “This is a disgrace for someone to have done this,” said Traylor, who is the senior vice commander at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2669. Damage on the wall and lights was estimated at about $1,500. The graffiti was blasted off the wall with a high-powered hose and solvent cleaner. Black paint, used to fill in the etched names in the bricks was removed and then volunteers used thin brushes and paint to etch names back into the bricks that were

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Above: The Veterans Memorial Wall in Port Orchard stands in Marina Park and was dedicated last year on July 4. Right: The wall was vandalized on June 14 with spray-painted graffiti, and veterans and volunteers spend the next weekend cleaning off the taggings.

defaced. Traylor’s 17-year-old son, Aaron Thomas, was among the volunteers. “They don’t deserve to have their names

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on July 4, 2012, coinciding with Port Orchard’s popular summer festival, Fathoms O’ Fun. Bricks are available for $30 from the VFW, and serve as a way to recognize and honor veterans from all walks of the armed services; from over-seas military deployment to at-home reserves. Within a mile of the memorial wall are three other memorial sites found within the City of Port Orchard.

dedicated to those who have served. On the city courthouse foyer wall, there is a memorial with plaques honoring individual Kitsap County citizens who died during World War II. The Veterans Living History Museum, which houses collections of all prior wars and conflicts including a display honoring many Kitsap County’s Medal of Honor recipients, is located nearby at 825 Bay St.

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Navy veteran becomes state’s unofficial “Flagman” By Michelle Beahm Every Fourth of July, anyone can go to Port Ludlow and see more than a hundred American flags decorating a single yard. That yard belongs to LaMoyne Jevne and his wife Agnes. Jevne, who is retired from the Navy, is known around Kitsap County as the Flagman. During Flag Week, he puts up a few large flags in his yard. On Flag Day, he displays 10 3-foot by 5-foot flags lining the front of his property. He also has a flag pole in his yard, with an American flag that he flies every day of the year, as well as throughout the night. Jevne has had a passion for flags since his days in the military. “In the military, seeing

the different countries … you know how good you got it in your own country,” he said. “I’ve always appreciated the flags and the patriotic system. And we do have to show some respect.”

6 a.m. and takes them down at about 8 p.m. As a member of the National Flag Foundation, Jevne is a follower of flag etiquette, and said the most important thing about it is respect.

One of his favorite times to display his flags is Independence Day. “I put up about 150 to 200 flags in my yard,” said Jevne. “Also, I have a big banner saying ‘Happy Birthday America.’” This year, he hopes to have an Abraham Lincoln and an Uncle Sam impersonator out to his house to celebrate the holiday. Jevne takes it upon himself to hand out flags to his neighbors and to children, with the permission of their parents. “I do that every day of the year,” he said. “When I go to a restau-

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Jevne, an amateur vexillologist (a studier of flags) said that he thanks people when they refer to him as the Flagman of Washington State.

Flagman of Washington State,” he said. His truck is also decorated with military and early American flags.

As the State House and Senate worked into a second special session in June, Rep. Jan Angel (R-Port Orchard) and Sen. Nathan Schlicher (D-Gig Harbor) said they were working on issues pertaining to veterans. Angel, who is the ranking representative for Veterans Affairs, was particularly pleased that Senate Bill 5072 passed . It creates a sales tax exemption for Disabled Veterans and members of the military for prescribed additional automotive equipment that would enable someone with physical challenges to safely operate a motor vehicle. While she said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs often would subsidize the cost of a wheelchair, which costs $10,000 to $15,000, she said the sales tax on that equipment was not covered. “They have to pay the sales tax and that’s a huge burden for them,” she said. Angel also co-spon-

sponsored House Bill 1537 that moves up the timeframe that military personnel can apply for — and be considered — for civilian jobs.

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“Any flags, other than the hand flag, should be taken down at sundown, unless you have light(s) on them,” said Jevne.

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“You burn it, but you burn it respectfully, not as an anti-American thing,” he said. “When you have young children with you, you have to explain to them that burning the flag shows respect. It’s served it’s purpose.”

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Another aspect of respect for the flag is proper disposal of worn, tattered flags, according to Jevne.

LaMoyne Jevne, left, offers a flag to a friend as they celebrate last Independence Day. rant, and there’s two (or) three kids sitting with their mom and dad, and they’re good kids, I go up and ask their parents if I can give them a flag, just a little hand flag. They’re good flags too, not the cheap ones stapled to a stick.”

“Just show some respect,” he said. “Treat it like you would your wife. You wouldn’t leave her out in the rain, you wouldn’t leave her out in the dark without a light on. Just respect (the flag).”

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A great tribute to veterans in a little-known place By Leslie Kelly It’s home to two Congressional Medals of Honor, an early 1902 uniform from a World War I veteran, a Korean War chaplain’s kit, the lead from Vietnam Veteran Randy Ransom’s war dog Hasso, and a 40-foot by 60-foot American Flag that flew on the USS Lincoln during its mission to Iraq. But if you talk to any of the veterans who volunteer at the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis, they’ll tell you that the museum is home to something much more important. It’s home to the idea that veterans “shall not be forgotten.” “That’s the real reason we’re here,” said Chip Duncan, museum director. “We’re here to remember veterans and the service they gave.” The museum has 9,000 square feet of space in which

Chip Duncan is often asked, “Why is there a Veterans Memorial Museum out here in the middle of no where?” He tells them the story of Lee Grimes who founded the museum in Chehalis. “Visitors tell me they can’t believe that there is a museum of this quality in such a small town,” he said. “They say they haven’t seen a collection like this ever.” It takes a lot of dedication to keep the museum going, he said. But because of their successful fundraising, the building is paid for and any money that is made from admissions and rental of a meeting room on the second story of the museum, is used to pay for utilities and upkeep. there are 85 eight-foot tall display cases filled with important historical artifacts, all donated to the museum by veterans and their families. But its beginning was much more humble. According to Duncan, Lee Grimes, an area resident, began having a special event at his church each year for veterans. “It was just a way to say thank you to them,” Duncan said. “They’d

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play music and tell some stories.” After hearing the veterans tell their stories, Grimes decided that he’d better start writing things down. He began interviewing veterans and collecting artifacts. Soon he had so much that he wanted to begin a museum. So in 1997, he found an old electronic appliance store that had closed and “put the items out on display, plugged in a coffee pot, and opened the museum,” Duncan said. It was

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about a quarter of the space the museum has now. But it was a place that veterans felt safe coming to, to socialize and talk with other veterans. “Someone would bring in cookies and there was a card table and people would gather,” Duncan said. Over time the museum outgrew the storefront and in 2005, a successful fundraising campaign meant a new home for the museum. The museum has been at its current location since then. The new place allows for more displays and a larger “USO” or gath-

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Telegrams tell family of the death of their loved one. ering place for veterans to talk. There is a library where anything military can be researched and there is a small military vehicle display outside. And there is some space for storage of exhibits that can be rotated out to the museum floor. Everything in the

museum has been donated, Duncan said, who has been director since 2010 when Grimes retired. “We are a nonprofit, so we don’t have the money to buy anything,” he said. “And we don’t turn anything away.” That’s out of respect to veterans and their families who offer their mementos and artifacts to the museum, be they a uniform, a diary, a weapon, letters, photographs or medals. The museum is organized chronologically, beginning with the Revolutionary War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are displays that honor chaplains, women in the military, military war dogs and the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The first exhibit is a wooden cabinet that the shop teacher at Centralia High School made back in the 1940s. It houses a list of all the

local graduates who fought in World War II. Their names were written in calligraphy by the math teacher and each name has the year the student graduated and their branch and rank in the military. Some even bear Gold Stars, denoting that they were killed in action. Included is the name of Donald Rombalski, who joined the Navy at age 17 and was on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Rombalski also is remembered in the museum with a display of his Purple Heart and the telegrams sent home to tell his family of his death. The story of the wooden display case is a lot like the story of some veterans, Duncan said. It was forgotten and was set to be thrown out when the old school was torn down. But it was saved and given a place of honor in the museum. “This is our story,” he said. “We tend to forget our veterans.” Another exhibit is dedicated to Cpl. Henry Casey, who fought at the battle of Vicksburg in the Civil War and carried weapons and ammunition to Union troops on a make-shift raft across water while being shot at. For this he received the Congressional Medal of Honor and it was donated to the museum by his family. Toward the end of the walk through the museum, is a display dedicated to Jeff Shaver who died in Iraq in 2004. He was an Army National Guardsmen who was working as a medic when he was hit with an IED while delivering medical supplies to a women’s clinic. He was the only person who died when the vehicle was hit. His mother, who lives in Black Diamond, said he wanted to be a emergency medical technician since he was a Boy Scout. The exhibit includes his Boy Scout uniform along with his Army dress uniform and the memorial program from his funeral. Duncan said there

are about 30 veterans who volunteer at the museum. They take people on tours, help out at the gift shop and clean. Even Grimes, who started the museum, still volunteers. “He’ll come by and chat with whoever is here and then he’ll clean the floors or the bath-

rooms,” Duncan said. Visitors to the museum can tour themselves, or volunteers will take them through. There is also an audio tour for visitors with use on an MP3 player. “Each exhibit has it’s own story and each of us may tell the stories a bit differently,” Duncan

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in World War II and his dad was in the Infantry in World War I. But I had childhood asthma and couldn’t.” As for the museum, Duncan welcomes any artifact, letter, photograph, weapon, or uniform from any veteran. And there’s one thing he hopes to get.

“I’d love to have a Japanese uniform from Word War II,” he said. “We have rain gear that is made of palm leaves sewn together. And we have other (Japanese) things that veterans brought back from the war. But we’ve never gotten a uniform worn by a Japanese soldier.”

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You receive it on Graduation Day. But it’s never handed to you. Because when it’s a degree from Columbia College, it’s a degree that demands effort and rewards hard work. That’s a notion our students at 18 campuses on military bases truly understand.

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John “Sonny” Oligario, Jr. raises his diploma in celebration of graduating from high school.

Veteran Spartan graduates By RICHARD D. OXLEY More than 300 graduates walked out of Bainbridge Stadium on June 8. But for one, the diploma held special significance. John “Sonny” Oligario, Jr. was presented with a high school diploma from Bainbridge High School along with the class of 2013. Oligario, however, is a member of the class of 1973. Oligario left Bainbridge in the winter of 1972 to enlist in the U.S. Air Force. He served in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War for six years before returning to the states. He lived decades as a civilian and never

was able to complete his senior year. At this year’s Bainbridge High graduation ceremony, he was recognized, not only for his sacrifice, but as a Spartan graduate. “Sonny, congratulations and thank you very much for your service to your community and to the United States of America,” said Principal Brent Peterson as the crowd cheered. Oligario’s diploma came as part of Operation Recognition, a state program aimed at providing diplomas to citizens that fought for their country in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. They receive their diplomas based on their sacrifices to the country which, for some, included leaving high school before they graduated.

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A special something from my daughter By RETIRED MA2 MICHAEL ZUVER In today’s world there is hardly a person out there that doesn’t have a cell phone in their pocket. These awesome little devices give instant access to loved ones. But when you are serving your country and you are on deployment, you don’t always have that instant access. Access to devices that allow you to Skype or email isn’t always available. Sometimes, because of what is going on around you, they block all outgoing transmissions and you can’t use anything that puts out a signal. These options also weren’t always available to our service men and women either. In the recent past, I have been on deployments where phone calls home were as easy as picking up my office phone and calling my family and emailing back and forth every day. There are some units that even have the ability to Skype back and forth with their families. These abilities are all awesome and it is great that the Armed Forces are using these technologies to keep families connected.

But, there is just something special about getting letters and care packages from home. Once upon a time it was the only way to communicate. There was no email, no phones and no Skype to keep in touch with your loved ones on the homefront. As active service members, we would wait for mail call to see if there were letters from home. Depending on which coast you were stationed on, letters would go to a main shipping center for the Navy and then they would get sent to a base somewhere near where you were and then it would finally get put on a ship or on a plane or helicopter and then sent to your ship. Needless to say this took a little while. I remember on one of my deployments they would announce mail arriving as if it were an important dignitary arriving on board the ship. It was funny to hear the entire ship roaring with applause after the announcement. It was agonizing, waiting for the mail to get to the shop and praying that something from the person you loved was in the mail bag. Those letters were so important. They kept you going until the next time you got mail.

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• House Bill 1192: Allows veterans with disabilities from other states to qualify for reduced-price hunting and fishing license fees in Washington.

inate some issues military personnel run into when they transition into private-sector jobs. Here are some other laws pertaining to veterans that passed: • House Bill 1109: Requires higher education institutions that offer early course registration to provide the same for students who are eligible veterans or National Guard members. This became law April 25. • Senate Bill 5161: Authorizes certain family members of United States military veterans who died while in service to apply for Gold Star license plates. This includes widows, widowers, biological parents, an adoptive parent, and a stepparent or foster parent. Eligibility also was extended to children of

• House Bill 1806: Enables a county veterans assistance program to provide services to veterans who received a general discharge under honorable conditions or a medical discharge. This became law April 23.

The only thing I had to look forward to was being able to read the words that my wife actually put on that little piece of paper. On one deployment I got a package from home. My wife sent me a bunch of goodies. While my wife was packing the box, she had left it unattended for a little bit and my two-yearold daughter thought that daddy needed something from her, too. So she put the only thing that she had to give in the box... her pacifier. When I got the box and found it at the bottom of the box, I asked my wife why she sent me a pacifier and she told me that our daughter must have put it in there. We laughed about it for quite some time. It is truly unbelievable how getting those silly little boxes or letters meant so much. And it really did recharge my batteries and helped close the divide when I was so far away from home. To submit a story for The Bond column, email lkelly@ soundpublishing.com. Veterans are encouraged to share a memory of their service.

Trail” in honor of veterans who were wounded or killed in action. This has been filed with the Secretary of State. Angel also was the primary sponsor of House Bill 1615 that would have authorized a $2,500 business-and-occupation tax credit for companies that hire unemployed veterans. That bill died

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Michael Zuver holds his daughter Mikayla in October 2002 when she was about 3 years old. At age 2, she sent him her pacifier in the care package her mother, Jennifer, prepared.

in the House Finance Committee, but Angel said she is hopeful that bill and others can be revived for the biennium.

allow businesses jointly owned by a veteran and their spouse or domestic partner to be certified as a veteran-owned business.

Those include House Bill 1782/Senate Bill 5691, which would authorize the creation of a new veterans home in Walla Walla, and House Bill 1909 that would

There are 607,501 veterans in Washington and 123,377 live in Pierce and Kitsap counties. “We need to be thinking about our veterans,” Schlicher said following

a June 17 meeting with Port Orchard politicians. Specifically, Schlicher said the Senate has “been working on getting veteran-owned businesses some priority in contracting.” He said they are eyeing ways to create more transition programs to help military personnel adjust to civilian lives.

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• Senate Bill 5114: Provides AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and Job Corps, as well as military recruiters, equal access to high-school campuses that already are provided to other higher education institutions and occupational recruiters.

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Harrison HealthPartners Welcomes Kitsap Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Harrison HealthPartners is pleased to welcome Kitsap Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine (KPSM) to our growing network of physicians. For more than 30 years, KPSM has provided excellence in pulmonary and sleep medicine to residents of Kitsap County. It is our privilege to be entrusted with your care, and we look forward to serving you as Harrison HealthPartners Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine. We continue to provide a full range of therapeutic options for pulmonary diseases and sleep disorders. With seven specialists and two sleep centers to choose from, you can breathe easier knowing you have access to the latest treatments in pulmonary medicine — right here in your own community.

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