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Inside Marine, WAVE Find Love During War......................4

German POWs Change Minds..................................5

Okinawa A Test For Valley Sailor.............................6

Mother’s Scrapbook Kept Tabs On War..................7

Women’s Roles Change Dramatically.......................8

Pacifists Find Alternatives To Aid Nation At War....9

Alumna Pays Tribute Madison Sacrifice................16

Combat Pilot Veteran Of Two Wars......................19

Timberville Cannery A War Winner.......................20

D-Day Emblematic Of WWII Generation...............24

The Greatest Generation: In Their Words.............25

Going To War With Gen. Patton.............................29

Life Aboard A B-29 Provides Perspective..............30

Soldier’s ‘Great Escape’ A National Sensation.....31

Best Of The Valley.................................................32-42

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3Harrisonburg, Va. OUR VALLEY Thursday, May 24, 2012

FROM THE EDITOR:

HARRISONBURGIwas born in 1966, which makes me(so I’m told) a member of GenerationX. I’m not exactly sure what that

means — appropriate given that the “X”represents our supposed lack of identityand vagueness of purpose. Another “lost”generation with far less ambition and awhole lot more apathy than our predeces-sors. That’s the idea, anyway. Such abroad generalization, of course, leaves alot to be desired. Just as plenty of BabyBoomers eschewed the pot-smoking, war-protesting, Grateful Dead-writhingstereotype of their generation, more thana few Gen-Xers entered adulthood with aclear sense of self and purpose, knowingwhere they wanted to go in life and howthey were going to get there. As a rule,though, Gen-Xers entered adulthoodmore or less adrift, cynical to the core andindifferent to a rapidly changing world.Our sense of entitlement and shoulder-shrugging indifference grew out of a

world of convenience. We wanted fornothing, growing up coddled, however un-intentionally, by unprecedented peace,prosperity, and a self-indulgent culturethat taught us, in the immortal words of“Wall Street”’s Gordon Gekko, “greed isgood.” Wars were things our grandpar-ents and great-grandparents fought, hardtimes were a chapter in a history book.Sacrifice was a play in a baseball game.We were, in short, the polar opposite ofthe Greatest Generation. The generationborn between 1914 and 1927 grew up in avery different world than I did. They sawtheir parents struggle to put food on thetable. They wore thread-bare clothes thatwere patched, not thrown away, whenthey began to fray. Working to help meetends meet was a necessity, not an option,for many children growing up in the1930s. Luxuries for most were non-exis-tent. Even the modern conveniences thatwe now take for granted — appliances,television, DVD players, computers —were either too expensive for most peopleor didn’t yet exist. The Great Depression

taught them to be frugal, to save, to notspend foolishly, to be thankful for whatyou have and to take nothing for granted.And then, of course, there was the war. Ageneration of young men, and manywomen, too, served in the nation’s mili-tary during World War II. Those on thefront lines came face to face with evil on aglobal scale, with images of the death, de-struction and cruelty burned forever intotheir minds. They fought with courage,with grit, with a sense of purpose andclearly defined goals that became increas-ingly rare in future generations. Andwhen the fighting was over, they showeda compassion and selflessness that waslimitless. The Greatest Generation camehome with a confidence, optimism andambition forged by victory over both warand economic hardship, determined to dowhat they could to ensure their childrenand grandchildren wouldn’t have to gothrough the heartache of poverty or thehorrors of war. And they made the most oftheir opportunities, leading the UnitedStates into a period of prosperity and sci-

entific innovation that transformed thenation throughout the latter half of the20th century and into the 21st. Theyworked hard, raised families, boughthomes, started businesses and con-tributed to their communities. And in sodoing, they taught future generationswhat was truly important in life. We owethe Greatest Generation — from thosewho died on the beaches of Normandyand Salerno, to those who worked hardtheir whole lives and are now enjoying awell-deserved retirement — a debt ofgratitude that can’t ever really be paidback. Some feel the generations born af-ter World War II have squandered muchof what the Greatest Generation gave us.And to an extent, that’s probably true.Let’s hope it doesn’t take another GreatDepression or another World War to spurus to action. The Greatest Generation didthat for us. The least we can do is honortheir memory and service by passing onthe lessons they taught us.

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HARRISONBURG — Francis Walton and Jessie Meadeattended high school in Flint during the eastern Michi-gan town’s halcyon days of dances and $1 concerts.

The Flint Walton and Meade knew was on its way up.The creation of General Motors in 1908, which had itsheadquarters and manufacturing plants in Flint, wasturning the city into a major auto-manufacturing hub, asprominent in the business as its southeastern neighbor,Detroit.

The Flint of 1940s was the Flint of Walton andMeade’s heyday.

Despite going to high school in the same city — he ata parochial school; she at a public high school — the twodidn’t cross paths until September 1941, when Waltonasked Meade to dance at the popular gathering spot,Knickerbockers.

“They had a dance every Friday night that singleswent to,” said Walton.

The very next night, the two shared their first date atthe six-story Industrial Mutual Auditorium, where $1bought a ticket to sets by horn-heavy big-band leaderslike Benny Goodman, along with other swing and jazzartists like Nat King Cole.

Others acts that graced the 6,800-person IMA stage inthe 1940s included Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Jim-my Dorsey and Ella Fitzgerald.

“It was really a blessing for us; a cheap good date,”said Meade, who had a slew of new dresses to wear to thedances in the fall of 1941. “All the kids went.”

It was a romantic time for the two 20-year-olds. Theyoung couple had their whole lives in front of them andnothing, it seemed, would stand in their way of a life to-gether.

All that changed, of course, on Dec. 7, 1941. Meadeand Walton had been dating for only four months whenthe Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the UnitedStates into war with Japan and, soon after, Germany andItaly.

It would be four years before Meade and Walton wouldsee each other again.

“That was shocking,” said Meade. “We had just met

Couple SharesPride In EachOther’s ServiceHe A Marine, She A WAVE, WaltonsBoth Wore A Uniform During WWII

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Jessie (left) and Francis Walton, both 91 and veterans of World War II, talk about their experiences during the war. A courtship thatbegan in mid-1941 was interrupted by Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the conflict. Francis joined the Marines and fought in the South Pacific, where some of the most brutal fighting of the war occurred. Jessie, meanwhile, joined the Navy’s WAVES.

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TIMBERVILLE — From behindthe wheel of a 1942 Studebaker, ayoung William Good hauleddozens of workers daily from afarm west of Timberville to theZigler Cannery.

A heavy canvas tarp wasdraped over the truck to concealthe occupants riding in the back.Guards in weapons carriers tail-gated the vehicle as it woundaround the hills for a few mileson trips into town.

Good’s passengers? Germanprisoners of war housed just out-side of Timberville near the endof World War II.

A teenager at the time, Goodrecalls how the soldiers — la-beled by some as “dangerous” and“monsters” prior to their arrivalin late summer1944 — blendedalmost innocu-ously into every-day life in theValley despite thebeefed-up securi-ty presence.

“They weren’ta threat. Theyweren’t going toharm anybody,”said Good, now85. “We had verylittle trouble.”

About 200 German soldierslived in tents on Herman Hollar’sfarm three miles west of Tim-berville during separate stints inthe summer and fall of 1944 and1945, according to newspaper re-ports from the time and research

by Gregory Owen, a historianwho lives in Harrisonburg.

The POWs cut peaches at thecannery, picked apples in the or-

chards andhelped harvestcorn on the farmsat a time whenmuch of the na-tion’s labor forcewas fightingoverseas.

Ben May, then7, peered into thecamp withbarbed-wire fenc-ing and woodenguard towersfrom his family’s

nearby farm. May and his broth-er earnestly watched the Ger-mans marching along the slopinghillside daily.

At Timberville POW Camp, Stereotypes Dashed

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Timberville historian Beverly Garber walks past a cement hole at the former prisoner-of-war camp west of the town. The prisoners were treatedbetter than most American POWs in Germany and far better than thoseheld by the Japanese. “I still think they were lucky to be captured, to tellyou the truth,” Garber said. “They were safe here.” See POW CAMP, Page 26

German PrisonersTurned Out To Be ‘Pretty Neat Fellows’

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HARRISONBURG — Thegold and silver miniatureplastic trophies JuniorSmith has accumulated onthe table near the foot of hisbed mark his dominance inpoker the last 10 years atAvante of Harrisonburg onSouth Avenue. The cardgame requiresthe skill of bluff-ing — lying andleading someoneelse to believeyou are in a bet-ter position towin than you ac-tually are.

“One guy wasthe best poker player inhere,” said Smith, 86. “Istopped him cold.”

Poker is an intriguingdetour for the World War IIveteran. Smith has spenthis life hiding nothing, in-cluding his fearlessnessserving his country duringthe Battle of Okinawa.

Entree Into War“I wasn’t scared of noth-

ing,” he said. “Nothing

stopped me.”Smith was born in

Staunton, the third childof 10 — seven boys andthree girls. He often visit-ed Harrisonburg on week-ends because he had noth-ing to do in Staunton.

Once Smith turned 18,that didn’t matter. Hejoined the Navy on Sept.14, 1944.

Smith’s firsttrip, aboard theUSS Dade as athird-class pettyofficer, began onApril 1, 1945,when the shipsailed from Cali-fornia. For secu-rity reasons,

most of the crew was nottold the ship’s ultimatedestination.

It was the tail-end ofthe war — fighting was allbut over in Europe — butin April of 1945 fightingstill raged in the Pacific.

Nowhere was that moretrue than on a small is-land chain? that turnedout to be the Dade’s secretdestination: Okinwa.

Smith found himself in

the thick of war when theDade arrived as the Battleof Okinawa — where over12,000 Americans died inwhat would be the bloodi-est battle of the Pacifictheater.

“You kill or be killed,”Smith said of the battle.“That was that. Them[Japanese] had suicidebombers.”

Smith spent nine daysat sea at Okinawa, prima-rily relegated to the role of

handing out ammunitionto other soldiers on theDade since he did not haveenough experience firing aweapon. Smith said he wasnosy, though, and ran ondeck to see “everything”one day.

A gun blast blew him offhis feet.

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HARRISONBURG — When theUnited States joined the AlliedForces of World War II in December1941, all three of Keezletown resi-dent Ethel Layman’s sons joined theservice.

After Lawrence, Cecil and RussellLayman departed, Ethel Laymantook on her own wartime project,which local archivist Laura Adamsbelieves may have helped her copewith the worry and stress over hersons’ fate.

The product of her work — a 73-page oversized scrapbook with WWIIclippings about events of local and in-ternational importance — can still beviewed up a narrow staircase at theHarrisonburg-Rockingham HistoricalSociety Heritage Museum in Dayton.

“It really is one person’s attemptto share and preserve a memory ofwhat was going on not only locally,but internationally,” said Adams,archivist at the museum.

The scrapbook’s 19½ inch-by-24¾inch-by-1½ inch yellowing pages con-tain a partially complete record ofWWII news about local soldiers,through newspaper clippings. Manyof the headlines staring up from thepages provide updates on local sol-diers from areas like Luray, Keezle-town, Harrisonburg and Broadway:

Mom’s WWII ScrapbookDetails Locals’ Sacrifice

Wartime RecordFor more information or tomake an appointment to see the scrapbook of World War IInewspaper clippings compiledby Ethel Layman, call the Rockingham Historical SocietyHeritage Museum at 879-2616.

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Laura Adams, archivist at the Heritage Museum in Dayton, looks through the pages of the Ruby KiserLayman collection, a scrapbook assembled by Ethel Layman while her sons were off fighting in World WarII. The scrapbook contains numerous newspaper clippings and other keepsakes featuring news about thewar, including information on the fate of military personnel from the area.

With Their Men Away, Wives SteppedUp To Keep America Working, ForeverChanging The Role Of Women In Society


HARRISONBURG — Confessing to a crime, particular-ly a harmless misdemeanor, is a lot easier more than 60years after the fact.

As a girl growing up in Dayton, Amy Karicofe now ad-mits that she would steal a tablespoon of her mother’ssugar at a time during the rationed days of World War II.Virtually every commodity — liquor, gas, meats and eventires, referred to as “baloney skins” for being skinny andcheap — was in short supply.

At least Karicofe, her age undisclosed, has an honor-able excuse for her sweet thievery. She wanted to ensurethat, come Christmastime, her family had sugar leftover

to bake cookies tosend to relativesfighting overseas.

“I stole my moth-er’s sugar,” Karicofesaid, “but I didn’ttake it very far.”

Life obviouslywent on in the U.S.while much of therest of the world wasbeing ravaged by war.But reminders of theconflict, as if anywere needed, were allaround, even in the

peaceful enclaves of the Shenandoah Valley. It was atime of survival, with necessities hard to come by.

And for women at home, it also meant advancementwhile their men were away and, they hoped, alive.

“They had to do everything,” said Karicofe, a volun-teer at the Heritage Museum in Dayton. “They went tothe farm and worked. They did whatever had to bedone.”

Getting Self-FulfilledKara Vuic, a history professor at Bridgewater College,

said about 19 million women were working outside of thehome during the war, with about 5 million being newemployees. The notable difference from the prewar fe-male workforce is that married women exceeded thenumber of single women for the first time, she said.

The line of work open to women changed, too, as

many entered the defense industry. Vuic said they stillwere not paid as well as the men they replaced, but itwas a boost from the incomes they had working in retail.

“You got paid much better to work in a shipyard inNorfolk,” she said. “It was a big shift in how they sawthemselves. The work, it was a challenge, but they got alot of self-fulfillment out of it. It was a profound changefor a lot of women on a personal level.”

African-American women, especially, saw a “profoundshift” in labor opportunity, Vuic said. A popular quotefrom a woman shipbuilder at the time was that AdolfHitler got black women out of white people’s kitchens,she said.

It was true, Vuic added, although the jobs were some-times dangerous, such as working at an ammunition fac-tory.

More than fives times as many women worked in non-industrial jobs, however, such as drug store clerks, movietheater ushers, meter readers and cab drivers.

Nursing And WatchingAt Rockingham Memorial Hospital, sisters Libby

Custer and Margaret Strate worked as nurses, trainedby the Red Cross. A third sister, Ruth Clark, also was anurse.

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This iconic image of “Rosie the Riveter” — a composite of sortsof working women everywhere during World War II — was usedby the U.S. government on posters and in ad campaigns urgingwomen to fill in at the workplace for American men off fightingthe war. The role reversal indirectly helped spark the women’smovement a generation later.

“It was a big shift in how[women] saw themselves.

The work, it was achallenge, but they got a lotof self-fulfillment out of it.It was a profound changefor a lot of women on a

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Mennonites, Brethren Proved Their Patriotism Playing Vital — AndOften Dangerous — Roles At Home


HARRISONBURG — Insults sometimes flew at JamesBrunk like the bullets his harassers wish the man weredodging.

“Yellow-belly,” a derogatory term referencing one’ssupposed cowardice, was the most popular name. DuringWorld War II, some thought it applied to Brunk and oth-er conscientious objectors bound by their religious beliefsto a life of nonviolence.

A Harrisonburg native and Mennonite, Brunk wasone of thousands of men who stuck to their religious con-victions as conscientious objectors and received exemp-tions from military service during World War II. But thatdoesn’t mean Brunk didn’t serve his country. His contri-bution took place not on some foreign sore but on Amer-ican soil for the Civilian Public Service, not overseaswith a branch of the U.S. military.

Specifically, Brunk fought forest fires, parachuting

2,000 feet more than 14 times from a Ford Tri-Motorplane in the Northwest.

“There really was no way I could kill folks,” saidBrunk, who turns 86 on Friday. “I wasn’t put here forthat.”

Grottoes The FirstThe CPS was created through the Selective Service

and Training Act of 1940 for those who were exempt frommilitary service based on religious views.

About 38 percent, or 4,665, of the 12,600 men drafted

into the program were Mennonites, the largest of any de-nomination, according to the Global Anabaptist Men-nonite Encyclopedia Online.

Mennonites are strongly opposed to violence and war,and believe peaceful means should be used to resolve dis-putes.

The first CPS camp opened three miles east of Grot-toes in May 1941 at a former Civilian ConservationCorps site. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created theCCC during the Great Depression to provide employ-ment for young men. They developed Shenandoah Na-tional Park, among other infrastructure projects.

The CPS camps offered labor in soil conservation orforestry projects, based on location. Grottoes was the for-mer, partnering with the Soil Conservation Service, a di-vision of the Department of Agriculture.

Grottoes campers cleared pasture lands, stabilizedgullied banks and performed other work to prevent soilerosion. Herman Ropp, 92, of Harrisonburg took lessonsto be a cook at several camps, including Grottoes.

“I did that because I thought I could learn some-thing,” he said. “I didn’t want to do common, ordinary re-pairing fences.”

There was no pay in the CPS, and as part of the lawestablishing the program, the men could not be sent to acamp within several hundred miles of home. Ropp, forexample, went 500 miles from his home in Iowa to hisfirst camp in Fort Collins, Colo.

No limits were set on the number of hours a servicemember worked a day or week. Among the rules at theGrottoes camp was one that sounds straight from a mil-itary guide: “Hazing and rowdyism belong to motivesand attitude other than Christian ones.”

The men also had to be ready at all times to fight for-est fires, according to the camp’s manual. The forestryunits built and maintained firebreaks, roads and trails.

A select few were smokejumpers and parachuted tobattle blazes.

‘Hardest Work’According to the National Smokejumpers Association,

Clarence Quay of Bridgewater is the only other Valleysmokejumper still alive.

Quay, 95, was born in Chester County, Pa., and joinedthree others from his Brethren church in the CPS.Meanwhile, 16 church members went to war.

“I found my beliefs [were] Jesus taught us a way oflove and not hate,” said Quay, who moved to the Bridge-water Retirement Community 15 years ago. “I went inwith the idea of wanting to help the country, but nothelping them do work that was harmful to others.”

When someone claimed religious beliefs as a reason tonot serve in the military, they went before a local draftboard. Some men were rejected and sent off to war, how-ever.

For Brunk and Quay, their “war stories” involve bat-tles of a different sort. A thunderstorm in the Northwest

For Some, A Time To Fight — Just Not To Kill

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“I never heard [yellow-belly] after I went to smokejumping. With

smokejumping, I could prove Iwasn’t ‘yellow’

after all. It was the hardestwork, physically, in my life.”

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Some of the clippings provide updates tofamily and friends about those serving: “Pvt.L.L. Layman of Keezletown who is stationedin North Africa has written to his mother,Mrs. Jacob Layman and his brother RussellLayman that he likes Africa fine. He wouldlike to hear from his friends and they mayget his address from his mother and broth-er.”

“It would help someone try to understandthe events, because they were getting newsso much slower,” said Adams about the clip-ping collage.

Although the book is primarily a person-al collection of stories with more personalvalue than anything else, Adams said it

could have importance for local familieslooking to learn more about their ancestorswho served.

“Part of what I think is very useful aboutthe collection is the surname file,” saidAdams, referring to a 416-name long indexthat provides pages about where each soldieris mentioned. “Anybody doing family re-search; that’s definitely where it would be in-teresting.”

In between the large colored photo clip-pings and dulling newsprint, Layman keptsmall affirmations — “Mother Prayer,” and“I, a Woman in War Time Promise” — sup-porting Adams’ theory of the powerful per-sonal meaning the scrapbook had for Lay-man.

“It is kind of a precious memory,” she said.

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Book Could Help Local Genealogists Scrapbook FROM PAGE 7

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In addition to newspaper articles, the Layman scrapbook includes photographs anddrawings, including this caricature of Axis leaders.

deaf for two hours. It was awhole lot of noise when thegun went off.”

None of the roughly 500crew members aboard theDade died at Okinawa, amiracle considering thenear-constant attack byJapanese kamikaze pilotson the nearly 3,000 U.S.ships involved in the bat-tle. Smith recalls seeingone of them escape a directhit by a falling plane byabout 15 feet.

“The [Dade] stayed darkall the time,” he said. “Youcouldn’t tell day fromnight, night from day. Weslept with one eye open and

one shut.”Smith and his ship-

mates would eventuallytake part in the first phaseof the U.S. occupation ofJapan.

No Poker FaceFighting the Japanese

was necessary after theirbombing of Pearl Harbor in1941, Smith said. He at-tempted to go to war at 16,but was rejected for beingtoo young.

“In 1942,” he said, “wedidn’t care.”

Japan’s surrender onAug. 14, 1945, marked theend of the war. Smith wasdischarged in 1950, but notbefore traveling to Cuba,

China and other countries.He lived in Roanoke and

then spent 40 years work-ing on a farm in AugustaCounty before coming toAvante. Card-game tro-phies may mask Smith’sopen character, but hedoesn’t have a poker facewhen talking about hiscommitment to Americaduring World War II.

“I don’t forget nothing.It took a whole lot of painand a whole lot of doing,”he said matter-of-factly.“I’ve never been in a plane,but if they told me to get on— they would have had atime — but I would havegotten on.”

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Junior Smith of Harrisonburg fought in the tail end of WorldWar II, taking part in the Pacific’s largest and bloodiest battleof the conflict, the Battle of Okinawa.

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and over the radio[we heard] the news[about Pearl Har-bor]. Of course weknew we would bedoing somethingabout it.”

Walton EnlistsFor the United

States, that some-thing was a decla-ration of war onJapan a day afterthe attack onHawaii, and forWalton, it meantenlisting in the Marines. He would notwait to be drafted. He drove 40 miles toDetroit with his brother a little more thana week after Pearl Harbor to sign up forthe service.

“It was so quick,” he said. “The warbroke out Sunday and we decided to godown and join the Marines.”

After completing boot camp in San

Diego, Walton volun-teered for the 2ndMarine Raiders Bat-talion, or Carlson’sRaiders, named forleader Lt. Col. EvansCarlson. The MarineBattalions were elitesquads of speciallytrained men; thefirst-ever groundready combat teamsand the first SpecialForces units evercreated by the U.S.The 2nd Battalionwas specially trainedin guerilla tactics.

“The MarineCorps didn’t like us; they called us a bas-tard unit,” said Walton.

On Mother’s Day 1942, Walton left forHawaii and later, Midway, but he did notsee any fighting in the Battle of Midway,which was waged in early June of 1942.

U.S. Declared War Day After AttackWaltons FROM PAGE 4

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Jessie (left) and Francis Walton of Harrisonburgdiscuss their World War II military service.


Instead his group tookwinter gear with them towhat they thought wastheir next assignment inAlaska, but his battalionwas redirected to the hu-mid, jungle-like terrain ofthe Pacific Theater.

There, he was part ofthe Guadalcanal Cam-paign in the Solomon Is-lands. He performed hit-and-run style attacks be-hind enemy lines for amonth. He rememberscatching the Japanese dur-ing bath time in one ofmany ambushes he tookpart in. During the mis-sion, 1,000 men went be-hind enemy lines and onlyabout 300 came out —largely due to illness, saidWalton. Planes droppedrice and chocolate bars tothe men, who had nosteady food source.

“Big chunks of choco-late we’d pick off and put itin with the rice and cook itin [our] helmets,” saidWalton.

The mission was almosthis last.

“[The] next to the lastday, a point [unit] was hitby Japanese fire,” saidWalton. “And then who didthey put on the point the

next morning? My firegroup; me and my twoguys that were under me.”

Walton led the way pastwhat he later found outwere 2,000 Japanese sol-diers.

“Not a shot was fired atus, we were fortunate; theguys before us the day be-fore, two of them werekilled,” he said.

For Walton’s children,Julie Haushalter and JimWalton, their father’s timebehind enemy lines is amemorable story.

“I think that the storythat always stands out forme would be my fatherspeaking about being be-hind [enemy] lines for 30days and the incredible-ness about coming across apineapple and how that ac-tually kept him fromstarving,” said Haushalter.

Added Jim Walton: “[A]

three-man team getting towalk out, that’s just amaz-ing. I think it had a big in-fluence on him. I think hesaw, really, the rougherside of life, the horrors ofwar and I think it madehim a more sensitive per-son … he experienced somepretty awful things and hedidn’t let that influencehim [negatively] in hislife.”

Pioneer WAVEBack home, Meade was

growing increasingly rest-less. Flint, valuable duringthe war because of its ex-tensive manufacturing fa-cilities, was emerging as amajor tank and war ma-chine manufacturing site.But Meade wanted to trav-el.

“It was boring,” saidMeade, who was a pioneeramong her friends for de-

ciding to serve in theArmed Forces, at least asmuch as women couldserve in those days. “Iwent in first and I brokethe ice [among myfriends].”

Meade served in theNavy’s Women Acceptedfor Volunteer EmergencyService, better known asthe WAVES. It had been 23years since females hadserved in the Navy andMeade was one of 27,000women who donned aWAVES uniform within ayear of the organization’sfounding.

“She was into enter-taining troops and beingkind an advertisement forthe Navy,” said Jim Wal-ton, who said his motherwas part of a WAVESchoir.


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Francis Walton Took Part In Guadalcanal CampaignWaltons FROM PAGE 13


By the end of the war, women accounted for about 2½percent of the entire Navy. They worked in such variedfields as secretarial and clerical, medical, communica-tions and intelligence.

As a pharmacist’s mate, Meade dispensed medicinefor troops in upstate New York, Long Beach, Calif., andBoston.

“It was an adventure,” she said. “We would get to-gether and go out in New York and go out to all thenightclubs.”

Malaria Takes Its TollThe rest of Walton’s service, meanwhile, was spent in

Bougainville, an island in the South Pacific that theJapanese had taken control of in early 1942. Walton’sbattalion advanced on Bougainville on Nov. 1, 1943, withWalton riding an old destroyer to the “D-Day onBougainville.” He was part of the first Allied forces to at-tack the island.

“They bombed us and shot artillery at us and we didthe same to them,” Walton said. “I carried my best bud-dy out … down to the beach line. He got shot in the stom-ach and I carried him down to the beach and sent himout on the hospital ship and I heard he died after that.”

The war took a toll on Walton. He contracted malariafive times and was under “duress” toward the end of hisservice.

“Now I think they would call it some kind of post trau-matic stress disorder, but then they just called it nerves,”he said.

Two years, seven months and 10 days after entering

the Pacific, he was discharged from a hospital in early1944, and from the service on July 26 of that year. He re-turned to Flint in August.

“For my dad, it took a lot longer for him to open up,”said Jim Walton. “It really wasn’t until decades laterthat he would even begin sharing some of his stories. Forhim it was very emotional and a very trying time.”

After the war, Walton attended Michigan State Nor-mal College, now Eastern Michigan University, in Ypsi-lanti, Mich.

Getting To Know You … AgainA little more than a year after Walton came home

from the war, Meade did the same, returning to Flint in1945, two years, two months and two days after shejoined the WAVES.

“He came over and knocked on my door,” said Meade.“We said, oh we’ll just go out and get to know each otheragain. A week later, we were married.”

The Waltons’ friends had similar shotgun weddingsupon returning from the war.

“I never thought I’d ever be back; it was a war,” said Wal-ton. “You didn’t plan on much life after that.” As part of their90th birthday celebration — they celebrate their birthdaysless than two months apart — their names and record ofservice were read into the Congressional Record in 2011.

The official transcript hangs at the Waltons’ home atEmeritus Assisted Living center in Harrisonburg.

Their pride in their service and war experiencesshaped the rest of their lives, their children say.

“They were very, very sensitive to understanding thepower of nations and how important it was for us to usethe power in good ways to help around the world,” saidHaushalter.

“I think they’re proud of the fact that as a couple theyboth served,” said Jim Walton. “My guess is that thereare very few couples left in the United States that bothserved in World War II. … They have always been veryproud. And they’ve always cared about our country, fordemocracy and for what they fought for.”

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Summer days, writesthe James Madison Uni-versity alumna, werespent wading in the creekand each Christmasbrought a new doll andstockings filled with candy,fruit and nuts. Lee, now90, remembers reciting“Twas The Night BeforeChristmas” with imagi-nary friends and helpingto build houses, gathereggs and shell beans onthe farm.

But before she turneddouble digits, many of thecreature comforts Lee hadknown were gone.

The stock market crashof 1929, when Lee was 7,was her first “world-turned-upside-down mo-ment,” and by the time Leeturned 20, she would expe-rience another life-alteringevent: the Dec. 7, 1941, at-tack by Japanese forces onPearl Harbor, Hawaii.

By that time, Lee wasin the fall of her junioryear at Madison College,studying home economics.Few experiences weremore definitive for Leethan her time at Madisonand her later service inWorld War II as a dieti-tian.

Outside James MadisonUniversity’s LeeolouAlumni Center, a memori-

al started with a $50,000donation from Lee, of Co-lumbia, S.C., pays tributeto both.

The light-colored stonesof the Veterans of WorldWar II Garden Patio me-morial stretch out from thebuilding, adorned withbenches and flowers. In-side, a plaque engravedwith 110 names helps visi-tors remember the sacri-fice and patriotism ofJames Madison Universityfaculty and students whowere part of “The Great-est Generation.”

“I wanted the peoplethat I knew there to appre-ciate what had been doneby those who served dur-ing that time,” Lee said. “Ican’t think of anythingthat was so special as justsurviving.”

College YearsLee’s long history with

James Madison Universitybegan in 1939 when shebecame a freshman. Shehad finished within thetop 5 percent of her highschool class and her par-ents insisted on college.

When the war broke outin 1941, Lee once againsaw her circumstanceschange.

“Life carried on withgas and sugar rationing;no nylon hose; blackoutsalong the coast and anx-ious days as news from thefront told of victories bythe enemy,” Lee writes inher essay. “Edward R.Morrow’s radio broadcastfrom England along withGlen Miller’s Big Bandmusic gave hope.”

A James Madison Uni-versity website detailingthe college during the war

describes what unfoldedon the campus after the1941 attack on Pearl Har-bor. Then-presidentSamuel Duke announcedleave for faculty and staff


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who were joining the serv-ice. Eight faculty chose toserve and “were staunchlysupported by students whobought defense stamps,knit wool squares, and col-lected tin foil and tincans.”

“Back in those days wedidn’t have much enter-tainment and so forth,”said Lee, who played onthe field hockey team tokeep herself occupied atthe all-female college, andwas one of the first mem-bers of Madison’s Sigma,Sigma, Sigma sororitychapter. “I guess we wereall doing what we could.You couldn’t buy a lot ofthings that you were usedto having, but you didn’tcomplain too much be-cause you were glad tohelp. That was the spirit ofpatriotism that seems tohave gone by the waysidethrough the years.”

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to Madison who served inWorld War II were the Rev.William Mengebier, biolo-gy department head, whoreceived Silver and Bronzestars for his service in Eu-

rope, and an English pro-fessor who came to Madi-son after serving in thewar as a Hawker Hurri-cane fighter pilot in theBritish Royal Air Force.

“Some students quitschool to marry Europe-bound sweethearts andothers joined service them-selves,” the James Madi-son University site reads.

Upon graduation, Leefell into the latter group.

“It wasn’t like they re-cruited you especially butthey encourage you [toserve],” said Lee. “I want-ed to do it because mybrother was not able to gointo the service.”

After a six-month in-ternship at Johns HopkinsHospital and six-months ofservice at Halloran ArmyHospital on Staten Island,Lee was commissioned in1944 to serve as the secondlieutenant dietitian in theU.S. Army Medical Corps.

“The fact that she wasfortunate enough to get aneducation before she enlist-ed was huge for that day,”said her son, Gary Lee. “Inthat economic time of the

Some Quit School To Marry ‘Europe-Bound Sweethearts’Lee FROM PAGE 16

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ABOVE: Bill McAnulty, director of development for science, technology and engineering and math for the office of development at James Madison University, sits on the bench atthe World War II garden patio behind the Leeolou Alumni Center at JMU. BELOW: A close-up of the plaque recognizingEmily Lewis Lee for her contribution to the memorial.

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Depression, to be able to affordto go to college was huge. Thatalso enabled her success whenshe got out of the military.”

After boot camp in AtlanticCity, Lee organized meals,first at Camp Rucker in Ala-bama where she was the onlydietitian on hand to servemeals to up to 500 patients,and then at Fort Bragg inNorth Carolina. Unfortunate-ly, Lee’s requests for overseasduties were ignored, but shestill found some of the adven-ture she sought servingthroughout the states.

“It gave you a certainamount of freedom and experi-ence that you were sort of onyour own and you had to besure that you didn’t over budg-et or overspend what you wereallotted,” she said.

Staying stateside turned outto benefit Lee in another way.

She met her husband, thelate Luther Lee, while sta-tioned at Fort Bragg in NorthCarolina in the mess hall. Sheproudly remembers, with a

laugh, how she outranked himwhen they first met; by thattime she was a first lieutenant.

The two dated for six shortweeks before getting marriedon March 30, 1946. They weremarried 49 years when Lutherdied in 2005.

Sixty-five years after herservice and 69 years after grad-uating from Madison, Lee re-mains strongly linked to both.

In the 1990s, Lee, who hada successful decades-long ca-reer as a dietician in SouthCarolina, traveled to thewomen’s WWII memorial dedi-cation in Washington, D.C., toreceive a medal of recognition,and has traveled overseas tosee memorials along the Nor-mandy coast and in otherparts of France.

She served on James Madi-son University’s board of visi-tors in the early 1980s, chair-ing the alumni relations com-mittee and education and stu-dent life committee, and wasits first out-of-state member,according to her son, Gary Lee.

She also served as the sec-retary of the JMU Alumni As-

sociation board of directors. “There’s not so many of

our 1943 alumnas who havebeen as dedicated as shehas,” said Bill McAnulty, adirector of development inJMU’s Office of Develop-ment, who has gotten toknow Lee personally andprofessionally through hiswork with JMU. “She is oneof those folks that if you’vebeen around Madison, youknow who Emily Lee is andit’s a pleasure to get thechance to meet her.”

McAnulty hopes to live bythe example he has seen Lee set.

“Those memories are rightthere fresh for her and sheloves the opportunity not onlyto tell her story but also tohear where Madison is today,”he said. “JMU is vastly differ-ent in 2012 compared to whereit was in the 1940s, [but] shestill maintains that love of theuniversity. I hope my love formy alma mater stays as strongas hers has over these years.”

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McAnulty: Lee Among Most Dedicated AlumniLee FROM PAGE 17

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Sunnyside Resident Flew Combat Missions In Two Wars 25 Years ApartBy PETE DeLEADaily News-Record

HARRISONBURGSitting inside his home office, retired Maj. Gen.Bill Pattillo looked up and admired the dozensof photos of military planes that adorn his walls.

Many of those planes depicted on the walls of his homeat the Sunnyside retirement community Pattillo flew dur-ing combat missions in World War II and the Vietnam War.

“I loved what I was doing,”said the 86-year-old, whose wife,Joyce, lives in a nursing home atSunnyside, just minutes awayfrom his home. “I loved to fly. Iloved the military. There are a lotof memories in here.”

Journey To WarPattillo was born in 1924,

along with his twin brother,Charles, in Atlanta.

In 1942, he graduated fromAtlanta Technical High School.

Almost immediately after grad-uation, the brothers enlisted in theArmy Air Corps as aviation cadets.

He said he learned quicklythat you just don’t jump into a plane and take off.

“There’s a lot of groundwork before you start flying,”he said.

He trained with a few planes, including a P-40 Warhawk,


Flying Proud

Justin Falls / DN-R

Retired Maj. Gen. Bill Pattillo, a resident of the Sunnyside retirement community in Harrisonburg, flew combat missions in both World War II and the Vietnam War. In the photos above and below he holds a model of a P-51 fighter, the type of plane he crash-landed after being hit on a mission over Europe in 1945. He was captured by the Germans and spent the remainder of thewar in a POW camp. Pattillo retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1980.

Bill Pattillo in 1944.

See PATTILLO, Page 46

By JEREMY HUNTDaily News-Record

TIMBERVILLE — The Zigler Canneryearned accolades from the U.S. govern-ment as a major source of food for troopsfighting overseas during World War II.

But the now long-shuttered factorynourished those back at home as well byproviding a source of jobs and keepingpeople busy as their loved ones risked lifeand limb for their country.

The late Howard S. Zigler, a prominentbusinessman in Timberville and nearbyBroadway, saw a need for both year-roundemployment in Timberville and to saveproduce that otherwise would’ve gone tospoil, according to his son and former em-ployees.

The Zigler Canning Co. became one ofthe largest canning plants on the EastCoast and shipped nonperishables as faras New York. National Fruit took theplant over in 1949, and the plant closed in1996.

During World War II, it was one of thelargest suppliers of food to the U.S. gov-ernment.

The Zigler family owned many or-chards in the Plains area of RockinghamCounty, among other business endeavors.

“Father was, you might say, a pioneer,”said his son, Charles David Zigler, 88, of

Timberville.Fruit would often spoil in a saturated

market, and Timberville’s produceripened later than at orchards in Crozeton the other side of the Blue Ridge, Ziglersaid.

Canning provided the opportunity tosave food for up to five years.

“I was just a kid but I was all gung-hofor a cannery,” Charles Zigler recalls.

It was up and running by 1940 and em-ployed hundreds of people, though Ziglerisn’t sure exactly how many.

The plant canned peaches, apples,peanut butter, tomatoes, chicken andturkey.

By the time the U.S. entered WorldWar II in December 1941, Zigler Cannerywas in a position to serve its country.

Charles Zigler said his father was con-cerned with providing full-time, year-round work to people in the area.

People like the Laymans.Mitchell Layman, 90, believes he was

about 14 when he first started working ona Zigler orchard in the Plains area.

“When we didn’t have anything to doon the [Layman family] farm … my broth-er and I went out and got a job,” he said.“And we didn’t have any trouble findingone either.”


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Cannery Aided War Effort — At Home And Abroad

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A mountain of apples wait to be processed at the Zigler Cannery in Timberville during World WarII. The cannery was a major supplier of food to the troops oversease — and of jobs for folks hereat home.

CharlesDavid Zigler,88, talksabout histime workingat the canneryowned byhis father,prominentbusinessmanHowardZigler, in Timberville.

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“Father was, youmight say,

a pioneer. ... Iwas just a kidbut I was allgung-ho for a

cannery.”

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Harrisonburg. Both of their husbands served in the war.Strate’s husband, Orlin Kersh, died in combat with theArmy.

Custer said nursing kept her busy, on top of takingcare of a family, home and victory garden. AlthoughCuster had worked before the war, Vuic said the warmarked the first time the nation had to warm to the ideaof married women and mothers also working.

“Even if they had worked before war, they never hadsole responsibility [at home],” she said.

Strate recalls being asked to stand watch for enemyplanes on a tower in Harrisonburg. This occurred forabout three hours after work once a week.

Nothing ever caught her eye.“It was kind of ridiculous, but they asked us to do it,”

Strate said.

Wonder WomenThe nation’s image of powerful women, such as Won-

der Woman and the depiction of Rosie the Riveter — theepitome of the working woman during World War II —grew out of the conflict, Vuic said. Women who balancedhome and work life through the war created a new mod-el for future women.

“It’s not a straight line from the factories to the femi-

nist movement, but there’s a connection,” Vuic said.Karicofe said Valley women were likely better pre-

pared to survive during the war because they were apt atpreserving food by canning. They also kept their nylonstockings in glass jars because they were of such limitedavailability.

“You didn’t know when you were going to get anotherpair,” Karicofe said.

Christina Moyers, 89, of Bridgewater remembers hav-ing that same concern. War prevented her from makingmore newlywed memories with her husband, Harold, ofonly 10 months.

He served in the Army in the South Pacific and fre-quently wrote his wife, who keeps the letters in a box.Moyers’ husband died 30 years ago, but his memory liveson in his written word and one keepsake he and hisArmy buddies made in their free time in New Guinea —an airplane ashtray out of bullets.

With their men a world away, Valley women had to in-crease their roles while trying not to let the stress oftheir loved one’s fate get the better of them.

For Moyers, the speed at which news travels — in-cluding news of casualties — is the biggest difference be-tween the war-era women and today’s military wives.

“News is instant now, almost,” she said. “We just did-n’t have [today’s advanced] communications.”

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‘Wonder Woman’, Other Female Icons, Grew Out Of WarWomen FROM PAGE 8

Women becamean essential partof the workforceduring WorldWar II. As theirhusbands, sonsand brotherswent off to war,women pickedup the slack inthe nation’sstores, factoriesand other businesses.

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could trigger 200 forest fires, Quay said,far more than the roughly 250 CPS menused to fight them could contain.

Brunk smacked against a rock on hissecond to last jump.

“I had to ride a horse for 18 miles,” hesaid. “I could hardly sit down or stand upfor two weeks.”

On another occasion, Brunk carried afellow smokejumper several miles afterthat man hit a rock and broke his back.Brunk crafted a stretcher out of jumpjackets and poles.

Quay’s closest call with severe injurywas on his first try. He parachuted into adead tree.

Its limbs started falling. Quay, fortu-nately, did not.

“I was scared,” he said. “Some of thethings we were doing were maybe moredangerous than you realize when youwere doing it.”

Yet it was worthy work for their coun-try, even without pay, the local smoke-jumpers say.

“I never heard [yellow belly] after I wentto smokejumping,” said Brunk, who nowlives at Virginia Mennonite RetirementCommunity. “With smokejumping, I couldprove I wasn’t ‘yellow’ after all. It was thehardest work, physically, in my life.”

Some CPS campers worked in mental

hospitals and prompted systematicchange by unearthing widespread patientabuse, said Lois Bowman, librarian atEastern Mennonite University’s MennoSimons Historical Library.

That’s still not to say they were alwayscelebrated. Like Brunk, Quay said he wascalled “yellow-belly” and “coward.”

“Even in your own community,” Quaysaid, “you never knew who was going tobe against you.”

Said Bowman: “Sentiment was strongagainst these guys, and the Mennonitesin general. I can’t really blame anyonewho actually saw action for resentingthose who didn’t.”

But any hard feelings seemed to dissi-pate over time, especially for smoke-jumpers, as soldiers returned to the Unit-ed States.

Larry Longley, the second vice presi-dent and historian for the smokejumpersassociation, said the two groups were ableto co-exist because veterans realized theobjectors were basing their actions on re-ligious beliefs.

“They were opposed to shooting some-one, but they didn’t mind risking theirown lives fighting fires,” Longley said.“They did their part for the community,that’s for sure.”

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ABOVE: James Brunk, 86, ofHarrisonburg, goes througha scrapbook of photos from

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during World War II. RIGHT: Smokejumpers, who

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Battleships cluttered the ocean andstretched out across the horizon.

Those floating behemoths surroundedhis landing ship off the coast of Normandy,France, as he awaited orders.

While in England, most ofthe men in his unit had betsgoing on for weeks as to whenthey would finally go ashore.The time to collect on thosebets had arrived.

“This time when we loadedwe had strip mats and every-thing else,” France said. “Weknew this was it.”

One day later, the 19-year-old Virginia Military Insti-tute student was on thebeach along the Normandycoast, a part of the largest in-vasion force in history and“scared to death,” he recalls.

France was one of more than 850,000Allied men to storm the beaches of Nor-mandy in June 1944. The invasion turnedthe tide of World War II in Europe andmarked the beginning of the end of AdolfHitler’s regime.

Like many from the “Greatest Genera-

tion,” he returned home with a strong senseof purpose and discipline, byproducts ofgrowing up during the Great Depressionand experiencing the hardship of war.

Landing At NormandyFrance, now 87, lives at the Sunnyside

retirement community, on the other side ofthe Blue Ridge Mountains from where hespent much of his youth.

He was born in Raleigh, N.C., the son ofa World War I veteran who worked as a

lawyer for the FBI before start-ing his own practice. When hisfamily lost their house duringthe Depression, they moved tothe Charlottesville area, wherehis mother grew up.

After graduating high schoolin 1942, France attendedVMI in Lexingtonand enrolled inthe Enlisted Re-serve Corpswith his par-ents’ consent.His call to re-port to duty

came in December.In July 1943, he stood

on the blacktop waiting toboard the Queen Mary forEurope, where he joinedthe 190th Field Artillery inScotland as a replacement.

France remained inGreat Britain until prepara-tions for the D-Day invasionwere under way nearly a

D-Day: The GreatestGreatest Invasion

“You saw stacks ofbodies and parts andstuff that had beencollected and being

identified and soforth. A lot of blown

up stuff ... that I don’tlike to remember.”

— HAYWOOD FRANCEWORLD WAR II VETERAN, ON HIS

ARRIVAL ON OMAHA BEACH ON

JUNE 7, 1944

Operation Overlord Epitomized The Sacrifice And Determination That Became A Hallmark Of The WWII Generation

RIGHT: Haywood France of Harrisonburgholds photos depicting him and other

soldiers in the days after D-Day invasionthat marked the beginning of the

liberation of Europe. France landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy on

D-Day+1, June 7, 1944. TOP RIGHT: That same day, The New

York Times heralded the success of the invasion’s launch.

FAR RIGHT: This iconic image from WorldWar II shows American troops exiting a

landing craft at Omaha Beach on June 6,1944. Many died before they even

reached the beach, cut down by Germanmachine gun fire.

Right: Michael Reilly / DN-R; Top right: The New

York Times; Far right: Associated Press

See D-DAY, Page 45

WE WERE FULL OF ENERGY.Dreams. Good feelings.High hopes. Determina-

tion. Self-confidence. Enthusiasm. Wehad just defeated the strongest andmost aggressive enemies the worldhad ever known, but what were we todo now?

Our government provided the an-swer for many: the GI Bill. Most of ushad wanted to go on to college afterhigh school, but the Great Depressionhung over us like a cloud.Our ambitions had re-ceived little encourage-ment. But now the worldwas before us with unlim-ited opportunity, and wewere ready to take advan-tage of it.

After graduation fromhigh school in 1939, I hadno resources and soon en-listed in the Navy. The warbegan for me on Dec. 7,1941, with the surprise at-tack on Pearl Harbor,which launched us intoWorld War II. Our shipwent on to encounter the Japanese atCoral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal be-fore I was transferred to the Atlantic totake part in the invasion of Sicily.

I was discharged before the war end-ed, due to a medical condition, but thisearly discharge enabled me to witnessthe huge influx of returning veteransafter the war and to participate in thegrowing excitement in America from itsbeginning.

It was not as though only a few ofthe veterans shared in the hopes anddreams of a better future. This new en-thusiasm was contagious. All America

was changing. People who had long been lethargic

and accepting of the depression andpoverty were now awakening and tak-ing part in this sweeping movement.Farmers were leaving small, unpro-ductive farms and moving to betterwork in the towns and cities, and theirfarms were being absorbed into hugecooperative farms with modern ma-chinery. Factories were buzzing; goodscould not be produced fast enough.

People were buyingthings they had formerlyonly dreamed about. Andmore than anything else,colleges were bursting atthe seams with veterans.

Veterans captured thisnew spirit of optimism bythe thousands and hun-dreds of thousands. Of allAmericans, they wereamong the most motivat-ed, and most open to newideas and new ways. Theydid not need nor want thegovernment to take overtheir lives; all they wanted

was the opportunity to fulfill theirdreams. Collectively and individuallythey brought a new spirit and determi-nation to the American scene.

It would be remiss not to mentionwhat the women veterans had left be-hind when they entered the service —their sisters, girl friends, fiancés andwives. The war had allowed theseyoung women to show their real metal.The war was fought as much on thehome front as on the battlefield and it


THE GREATEST GENERATION: IN THEIR OWN WORDS

By Richard Young

Fueled By Victory And A Can-Do Determiniation, PostwarAmerica Entered A Period Of Unprecedented Progress

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I T ALL HAPPENED IN JANUARY1944 — married on the 5th andcommissioned as a U.S. Army

Chaplain on the 29th.My wife and I were together for

eight months before parting for my 2½years overseas with the 84th InfantryDivision in the European theatre. Atthe war’s close I had three battle stars,a bronze star and a purple heart.

I spent eight more months in theGerman Occupation before rejoiningmy wife and meeting my14-month-old daughter forthe first time. I was dis-charged in mid-summer of1946. Millions of otherAmericans had their ownunique but similar storyto tell as America was al-ready undergoing rapidchange — a change WWIIveterans would hastenand help to shape.

During the war Ameri-cans had traveled widely— at home and abroad —and witnessed and partic-ipated in vast geographical devastationwhile at the same time alleviating andcausing much human suffering. Conse-quently “The Greatest Generation”would return home with a far differentperspective than that with which theyhad departed. That would impact thenation.

Education took center stage. In ashort period eight million veterans at-tended college under the GI Bill. High-ly qualified, they assumed leadershiproles in every aspect of life. Educationitself, medicine, science, law, farming,inventions, exploration and technology— you name it. The result was new in-

dustries, new jobs, new products, a neweconomy — America prospered.

Many veterans remained in andmade their contribution through Amer-ica’s military forces. They conductedthe Berlin Airlift, fought the KoreanWar, and served the government andcountry in numerous other endeavors.

Religion flourished in postwar Amer-ica. Church services were crowded andnew churches were started. World WarII veterans were there. For 11 years I

was pastor of a congrega-tion in Alexandria, fourmiles south of the Penta-gon. A fourth of the mem-bership was military per-sonnel.

A full Colonel andWorld War II veteranheaded the Ushers Guild,noted for its “Spit and Pol-ish.” Approximately adozen GIs who had regu-larly attended my reli-gious services in the 84thDivision became ordainedministers in various de-nominations. Others be-

came Sunday school teachers or churchofficers.

One such Pennsylvania gentlemanat an 84th Division annual postwarconvention tapped me on the shoulderand said, “I want you to meet my ‘some-thing better’ — my wife for 50 years!”He then reminded me that in service,when he had just received a “DearJohn” letter telling of his hometownsweetheart’s marriage to someone else,I had paid him a visit saying, “Thewoman who did that to you is good rid-

By Charles C. Cowsert

The World War II Generation’s Grit And Gallantry SetAn Example That Will Live On Far Into The Future

HARRISONBURG

A Cherished Legacy

It was not asthough only a few

of the veterans shared in

the hopes anddreams of a betterfuture. This newenthusiasm was contagious. All America was

changing.

‘The Greatest Generation’ would

return home with a far different

perspective than that withwhich they had departed. Thatwould impact

the nation.

See YOUNG, Page 26 See COWSERT, Page 26

At first, they werescared of the uniformedmen, whom their fatherwarned them to stay awayfrom.

“We thought they’d be10-feet tall and bullet-proof … but they wereyoung boys, not much old-er than we were,” Maysaid.

Most of the Germanprisoners were in theirlate teens or early 20s.

Soon, May grew friend-ly with them as theyhelped picked crops on hisfather’s farm. He drove atractor and the Germansloaded it up with loosecorn.

May, now 73, said thePOWs quickly reveled in

the abundant supply offresh food from the fertileground of the Valley. Theywent from eating lardsandwiches on hard breadto enjoying fresh-pickedapples and hearty bakedgoods from May’s mom,whom he said “took pityon them.”

While the Germansdidn’t speak much Eng-lish, they picked up onsome phrases, and showedthe May brothers how to

make slingshots.The prisoners never

were guarded on the Mayfarm, he said, nor did theyneed to be. Occassionallystealing food was aboutthe only trouble they evercaused, May added.

“We got real close tothem,” he said. “At firstwe were scared of them,but then we found outthey were pretty neat fel-lows.”

The POWs didn’t leave

the fenced-in camp just forwork. They regularlymade trips into town forsocial dances at Gordon’sGarage.

Eleanor Garber, now89, remembers about adozen or so German pris-oners mingling withyoung women as musicplayed and refreshmentswere served.

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dance, something better will turn up for you.” Apparent-ly it had.

Vets brought changes in too many other areas to men-tion here, but it should be said that while the number ofliving veterans is diminishing, their legacies will longcontinue. While praise and thanks for their service areappropriated, we must acknowledge that wars do notsolve problems and are never substitutes for peace. Onlyobedience to the Prince of Peace can fulfill nations’ deep-est needs.

Mr. Cowsert lives in Rockingham County.

was largely these wonderful daughters of America whofought it. They, no less than the veterans they married,were the real heroes of the war, and it was by their shar-ing in the dream that America was raised from its dol-drums to new heights.

Calling this generation of America the greatest gener-ation might be an overstatement; one cannot help butthink of the founding fathers and mothers of America.But certainly no other generation brought to America anew spirit of optimism on such a large scale as these re-turning veterans, together with the ones with whom theychose to share their lives. This undoubtedly was thegreatest gift of that generation to America.

Mr. Young lives in Rockingham County.

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made conversing with the foreign men difficult.“You couldn’t really talk to them or carry on much of a

conversation,” she said.Garber’s fiancé was fighting overseas at the time and

she once described the dances to him in a letter.“He wasn’t very happy. He said, ‘I’m over here dodging

bullets and you’re dancing with them,’” Garber recalledwith a laugh. “That didn’t make me feel very good.”

‘Lucky To Be Captured’Most Virginians got along well with prisoners based in

the Old Dominion during World War II. Timberville wasno exception.

“I still think they were lucky to be captured, to tell youthe truth,” said Beverly Garber, 71, Timberville’s townhistorian. “They were safe here.”

A 1977 article from the Virginia Magazine of Historyand Biography notes that, in Virginia, “There were fewprotests against coddling of POWs such as were voiced inother parts of America.”

Southern hospitality doesn’t get all of the credit. Onelikely reason for the comparatively friendly treatment,according to the article, is that “Virginians, unlike manyAmericans, were accustomed to having military andnaval bases in or near their communities.”

Plus, the POWs provided an invaluable service tofarmers and industrialists in desperate need of workers.

“You could use them for almost anything,” May said.“They were good tradesmen.”

They left a reminder of their skills at the St. John’sLutheran Chapel in Timberville. Engraved in a woodenaltar made by the men are the words “Ehre sei Gott inder hoehe,” which translates into “Glory to God in thehighest.”

Knee-high grass in the field not far from May’s currenthome mostly hides the only other remnants of the POWcamp: Concrete slabs that once held the prisoners’ tents,piping that jut out from the ground, and the remains oflatrines.

But for those who worked — or danced — alongsidethe German soldiers during World War II, the memoriesof those encounters remain strong nearly 70 years later.

“It was a long time ago,” May said, “but it seems likeyesterday.”

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Mitchell Layman ranthe machine that cannedapple juice and also over-saw canning of chickennoodle soup and peach pre-serves.

The Layman family hasa long history workingwith Howard Zigler.

Mitchell’s father, Paul,built Zigler’s first storagebuilding in 1929.

Then, 16 years later,Carroll Layman helpedbuild a second storage fa-cility.

Paul Layman madesure his sons had a strongwork ethic, they say.

“My daddy had a rule: Ifyou’re too sick to workyou’re too sick to playball,” Mitchell Laymansaid.

The cannery played asimple and vital role dur-ing World War II: provid-ing sustenance for the

troops fighting overseas,the fathers, sons andbrothers of those whostayed behind.

Like many young menof their generation,Mitchell Layman andCharles David Zigler wentoff to fight when they be-came old enough.

“I couldn’t wait to getinto the service because [theJapanese attack on PearlHarbor] was a personal in-

sult to me,” Zigler said.Zigler signed up in the

Army Reserve and servedin the South Pacific.

Layman joined theNavy in 1942 and servedon supply ships.

For nearly a year heshuttled supplies through-out the Pacific.

When his ship was tor-pedoed in New Guinea,Layman took a shot ofshrapnel to the forehead

just above his right eye,earning him a PurpleHeart.

When doctors askedhim what the object thatstruck his head lookedlike, Layman says with achuckle, “If I’d seen it com-ing it wouldn’t have hitme.”

Carroll Layman, whoturns 83 on May 31,worked at the cannery as aclerk at 16 in 1946.

In 1941, the businessproduced 53,000 cases ofpeaches and apples, Lay-man said.

The next year, it pro-duced 133,000 cases of thetwo fruits and 33,000 cas-es of tomatoes, he said.

In 1944 and 1945, thecannery was awarded theArmy-Navy “E” Award,which was given for excel-lence in the production ofwar equipment, Laymansaid.

Only 5 percent of sup-pliers in the U.S. receivedan “E” award, according tothe Navy Department Li-brary.

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While noted for its con-tribution to the war effortabroad, the cannery alsoprovided much-needed em-ployment back home and,like most tasks, served as adistraction for those worry-ing about loved ones over-seas, Mitchell Laymansaid.

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Under Patton, Ted Scott Was InThick Of European Combat

By PETE DeLEADaily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — On Sept, 11, 1944,about an hour before Ted Scott shipped offto Europe to fight in World War II, he re-ceived a telegram through the AmericanRed Cross informing him he just becamea father for the first time.

He sat on his bunk in Camp Shanks,N.Y. and wrote his wife, Carolyn Scott, aletter before he got on a train and beganhis journey to war.

“I couldn’t tell her where I was … thatI was shipping out,” said Scott, a 93-year-old Massanetta resident. “It was a veryempty feeling to write that. I wished herwell, was glad the baby was fine and Iloved her.”

Preparing To Be A SoldierAfter graduating high school in 1937,

the Orange native spent a year workingat a steel mill in Pennsylvania before en-rolling at Lehigh University.

In 1942, Scott would meet his futurewife, Carolyn, a student at MountHolyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.,as part of a blind date.

“My roommate was a friend of Ted’sroommate,” said Carolyn, 90. “He wasn’tgoing to come but we had tickets to theball game.”

“The Harvard-Dartmouth game,” Scott

chimed in during a recent interview withthe couple.

While studying metallurgical engi-neering, he also enrolled in the ROTCprogram. Besides working for a diploma,

he also had something else in mind.“There was some true incentive to

graduate because we would be commis-sioned as an officer, which rumor said,was advantageous,” he said. “If we did notgraduate, we would be draft bait.”

After graduating from college, wherehe was an All-American marksman, Scottbounced from one base to another forroughly two years before shipping off towar.

Joining The 3rd ArmyOn Sept. 23, 1944, the ship carrying

Scott and his fellow soldiers landed inCherbourg, France. After hours of waitingto dock, troops unloaded from the shipand settled down for the night.

“Pup tents were pitched, kitchenstoves were going and latrines dug,” saidScott. “Officers were one to a tent, whileenlisted personnel were two to a tent. Itwasn’t heaven ... and then the rains came,and we waded in mud for the rest of thetime we were in Normandy.”

In early November, Scott’s divisionwas assigned to Gen. George Patton’s 3rdArmy. Scott then moved out of Normandyand joined Patton’s army in easternFrance.

From Battling The Mud To The Battle Of The Bulge

Michael Reilly / DN-R

World War II veteran Ted Scott, 93, and his wife Carolyn, 90, talk about his experiences fightingin Europe under Gen. George S. Patton.

See SCOTT, Page 43

By JEREMY HUNTDaily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Before he went off to fight in thePacific during World War II, Dick Hedrick and his futurewife went on dates whenever there was a full moon.

“That’s always a good day to get together,” BettyHedrick said of their lunar tradition.

Like their commitment to each other, the young loversdidn’t let Dick’s involvement in the war interrupt theirspecial date night.

They continued to have full moon “dates” while he wasdeployed by writing each other letters whenever thestars, or in this case, the moon, aligned.

The letters served as a comfort to Betty while Dickwas training and later off fighting the Japanese.

“It was like having a date, but we weren’t together,”Betty Hedrick, 87, said.

The couple married in 1948, and six decades later, theletters Betty saved serve as a reminder of both their ro-mance and the times. Dick Hedrick worked as a dentistin Harrisonburg for decades before retiring about 20years ago.

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‘I Didn’t Like It So I Left,’POW Says Of Prison TrainBy PETE DeLEADaily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — Faced with a des-perate situation as a prisoner of war inWorld War II, 1st Lt. Julian Quarlesknew he had to make a daring move.

One night, Quarles, now 95, and an-other American POW, decided to jumpfrom a moving train as they were beingtransported to Germany.

Born in 1917 in Staunton, Quarles at-tended Augusta Military Academy, wherehe played football and boxed. During hisjunior year, he became the South Atlanticprep school boxing champion.

In 1935, Quarles graduated from theacademy and spent six weeks in FortWashington, Md., training with collegejunior ROTC cadets.

After the training, he went to Miamiwhere his parents had moved, and enrolledin classes at the University of Miami.

In 1939, he graduated with a businessadministration degree and began lookingfor work as the Great Depression contin-ued to grip the nation.

But thanks to a friend, he landed a jobat the CIT Corp. in Nashville, Tenn.

“There weren’t a lot of jobs in 1939,but I was fortunate to have a friendwhose dad knew people,” said Quarles,who now lives in Harrisonburg.

On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II brokeout with Germany invading Poland. A lit-tle more than two years later, the UnitedStates declared war on Japan after theattack on Pearl Harbor and, just a fewdays later, Germany and Italy.

Quarles was quickly put into action.“I was called into duty the very next

day after war was declared,” said Quarles.After training in Camp Blanding in

Florida, the infantryman headed first toNorth Africa.

“We didn’t see any active duty there,but we saw a lot of the results of it,” saidQuarles.

In September 1943, Quarles and hisfellow troops landed in Salerno, Italy.

Within a few days, American and Ger-man troops were locked in battle. Twen-ty-two men in Quarles’ unit were killed.

“The Germans overran us,” he said.“And I was captured.”

Quarles was later put onto a Naziprisoner train headed for Germany.

During the trip, Quarles saw an oppor-tunity to escape. He asked the other POWsif they wanted to jump off the train withhim. His captain, Carl Bayne of Yoakum,Texas, was the only one to volunteer.

The soldiers made the jump.“I didn’t like it so I left,” he joked. “We

tumbled a bit when we landed and therock was a little rough, but we lived.”

After 33 days behind enemy lines,evading German troops and dodging Al-lied artillery and bombers, Quarles madeit back to his unit and returned to combat.

He and his fellow escapee were laterfeatured in a segment from Look maga-zine’s “American Heroes” series. The sto-ry, with the headline, “Escape From APrison Train”, ran in the March 31, 1944,edition of the periodical.

Quarles later received two SilverStars, a Purple Heart and other medalsfor his actions during the war but thememories and friendships is what hecherishes the most.

“I got some good memories, and somebad memories,” said Quarles, a father offour. “I made a lot of good friends, butmost of them are gone now.”

After the war ended, Quarles attendedthe University of Virginia law school be-fore transferring to Miami, where hegraduated in 1951.

He practiced law for 44 years in theMiami area, mostly working on probateand real estate cases, before retiring andmoving back to Virginia.

Quarles said the war helped shape howhe lived life and how he ran his law practice.

He said it’s about trust.The bonds — and split-second deci-

sions — he was forced to make during thelife-and-death struggle of war helpedQuarles hone his instincts when it cameto weighing the integrity of clients andothers back home.

“If I met them and I didn’t like them, Ididn’t represent them,” he said.

The consequences of misjudging a po-tential client might not have been as direas a similar misstep in war, but the con-cept was the same.

Said Quarles: “I had to know who Icould trust and who I couldn’t.”

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A Great Escape


World War II veteran Julian Quarles escaped from a German prisoner of war transport train on itsway from Italy to Germany. After 33 days evading the enemy, Quarles made it back to his unit inItaly. He earned a slew of medals during the war, including two Silver Stars, two Bronze Starsand a Purple Heart. BELOW: Quarles’ escape earned him a feature profile in Look magazine.


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Judging by the 2012 Best of the Val-ley poll responses, the Friendly City isalso a city of lovers. People are excitedabout the art their neighbors are mak-ing; they’re enthusiastic about the re-birth of their downtown;they’re eager to support localendeavors of all types, fromfood to music to preservation.And where there is love, thereis life, and hope, for a town.

The DowntownBest of the Valley respon-

dents lauded Harrisonburg’sdowntown, but noted that itwas not always that way.

“Growing up in Harrison-burg, I didn’t often venturedowntown as there did notseem to be much to see or do,”says longtime resident andHarrisonburg Downtown Ren-aissance promotions manager NicoleMartorana.

“I remember going to other townsand cities on family trips or withfriends and marveling at their beauti-ful downtown districts, abundance of

local stores and unique communitygathering places. My parents remem-ber me frequently asking on these occa-sions, ‘Why can’t Harrisonburg be likethis?’ ”

But, within the last 10 to 12 years,residents of Harrisonburg have begunto witness the metamorphosis of their

downtown. Martorana is hope-ful that Harrisonburg is par-ticipating in a national shiftaway from malls and suburbiatoward local business, preser-vation and mixed-use proper-ties.

“I could not be more excitedabout the changes that havehappened in downtown Har-risonburg — the many amaz-ing downtown businesses andentrepreneurs, events and en-gaged community memberswho are making this a betterplace to live — and to have theopportunity to work withthem and be a part of these

changes,” Martorana says.Taking the long view, Dr. Scott H.

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Ready, set, eat!Around the Valley, food

trucks raced to take the titleof new category “Best FoodTruck.”

Port Republic Road’sboxy turquoise landmark,Tacos El Primo, sped offwith nearly half the votes.

When owner VeronicaPaniagua moved to Har-risonburg from California in2005, she and husband Josecraved the authentic tastesthey left behind.

While a common sight intheir home state, the foodtruck scene was sparseupon arrival in the Valley.Theirs was a groundbreak-er.

“At first, we werescared,” remembers Pani-agua. “What would be thereaction?”

Combining her Mexicanheritage with Jose’s 15years of experience in therestaurant industry, they

serve a straight-forwardmenu of tacos, burritos,quesadillas and tortas; inits early stages, the truckinstantly appealed to withthe local Latino community.

But, today, their authen-tic style is appealing to themasses. They were sur-prised to find a customerbase crossing all ethniclines. “As long as it tastesgood, there’s no bound-aries,” said Paniagua.

Now that the truck-trend is taking off locally,she says they’ve fed hungryambitions as well. Othertruck owners have come tothem in assessing the mar-ket for mobile cuisine. “Itfeels good to have themcome to us,” she said. “Thatmakes us proud.”

Winning “Best FoodTruck” is one more reasonfor Tacos El Primo to beproud. To the voters, theysay, “We are who we are be-cause of them.”

Paniagua believes thatwith passion and drive,

“There’s no limitation towhat you can do.”

Here, the Daily News-Record flagged down sever-al other area food trucks tofind out what drives them.

The Cupcake Company:Renee Brown

Truck launched: 7weeks ago

Location: Events; sta-tionary at Sleepys Mattressonce every other week

What sets it apart:Brown says the concept ofcupcakes on the movemakes her truck unique.

Why the wheels? “Ididn’t want to be tied to astore. I wanted to be able todo it on my own time.”

Mama’s Caboose: DianeRoll

Truck launched: Au-gust 2011

Location: Artisan’sCourtyard in Dayton onThursdays, Fridays andmost Saturdays atlunchtime, 10:30-til.

What sets it apart:“The ‘mom’ idea; that it’s notspecific to one type of food orperson ... . Being inclusive,because that’s how momsare.”

Why the wheels? “Theopportunity presented it-self, and you’ve gotta getwhen the gettin’s good.”

The Coffee Truck: EvanButterfield

Truck launched: July2011

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book on Harrisonburg from Ar-cadia Publishing’s valuable“Images of America” series. Fora downtown that has seen suchsweeping and frequently demo-lition-fueled changes over itshistory, “revitalization” and“recovery” may not be the rightwords, but he says somethingpromising and generative is in-deed afoot.

“Of course, once buildingsare razed and spaces are per-manently altered, recovery isimpossible. That said, I thinkthe things that are happeningin downtown Harrisonburg aregiant steps in a favorable direc-tion. New uses of historic struc-tures and the renovation ofthose buildings have revital-ized life downtown,” said Suter.

Downtown’s numerousrestaurants, shops, CourtSquare Theater, the library, theFarmers Market, and the

Friendly City Food Co-Op,among others, have been bea-cons for downtown.

Suter added, “I’d argue thatthose who support downtownHarrisonburg in any way aredoing this region a favor. Whynot forget the old story of ‘if it’sold tear it down in the name ofprogress,’ and make Harrison-burg’s new story one ofprogress through preservation?It seems to me those support-ing downtown are achieving acommendable success.”

The PeopleDenizens of the ’Burg are

also heaping praise on eachother; everyone seems to agreethere is something specialabout the people here.

Harrisonburg Farmers Mar-ket manager, Josie Showalter,has a unique perspective as shewatches relationships amongcommunity members and ven-dors bloom into real bonds.

“Part of what makes Har-risonburg unique is that every-one is looking for a connection,”she explains. “I think our ruralbackground gives us a great re-spect for each other and for theEarth and our place.”

For several months, photog-rapher Brandy Somers and hercollaborator Katie Mitchellhave been celebrating Har-risonburg by documenting theirexperiences with businessesand events around the city.

“It seems like there are a lotof young entrepreneurs andbusinesses making things rele-vant,” Somers says. “A lot ofthese people are in their late 20sand early 30s. There’s just some-thing that makes people want tobe a part of this growth.”

The Sense Of CommunityMore and more, Harrison-

burg residents are excited to bea part of something that is oftheir own making. They’re sup-

porting local music and art invenues all across town, they’rerelishing the food at home-grown restaurants and they’retaking advantage of the area’smyriad outdoor activities.

“What we’re doing right islooking at the big picture in alocal way,” said Showalter.“Preserving who we are as acommunity is critical – ourbeauty, our history, our diversi-ty. We’ve got this strong agri-culture wedding with the cul-ture of the colleges and down-town, so we’ve got our fieldsand mountains, but we’ve alsogot more.”

John Harouff, of local rockduo The Cinnamon Band,praises the support of Har-risonburg’s venues and concert-goers.

“This is a great place to be ina band. Maybe it’s because ofthe influence of MACRoCk allthese years, but there’s some-thing special about this place.We’re lucky to have places likeBlue Nile and Clementine that

let bands keep what they makeat the door.”

By looking inward as a com-munity, turning to each otherfor collaboration and coopera-tion, and truly caring for thislittle corner of the world,things will only keep gettingbetter for the ’Burg.

“To me, a vibrant Harrison-burg is one that continues towelcome and support localbusinesses and entrepreneurs,creative artists and thinkers, aconscious use of space, culturaldiversity and new ideas for howwe can grow together as a com-munity,” says Martorana.

Somers summed it up thisway: “Watching Harrisonburggrow, one by one, has beengreat. With most places, it’sthe opposite, where you watchthings disappear. There’s asense of pride now to havebeen here when there wasvery little. It’s great and youcan be a part.”

Contact Ryan Hodgen [email protected].

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“We really want to do things forour own selfish pleasures becausea lot of us are really into food andwine,” says Jeff Hill, managingpartner of the restaurant.

That enthusiasm may be whatput the eatery over the top thisyear in the Daily News-Record’s2012 Best of the Valley polling.The restaurant took the title ofBest Downtown Restaurant, an

honor previously held by Clemen-tine. Other restaurants that tookawards from longtime titleholderswere Pennybackers (Best Place toTake Your Family) and Hank’sSmokehouse (Best Barbecue).

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ularly Ryan and Amanda Zale,” hesaid. “They’ve really made the[restaurant’s] concept come tolife.”

Hill suspects voters also appre-ciated the restaurant’s emphasison locally produced foods and itsunique atmosphere.

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What sets it apart: “Itis the only quality coffeetruck in the area; we’vegone after the coffee culturecrowd … bringing it to thestreet scene.”

Why the wheels? But-terfield says that foodtrucks “bring something ex-ceptional, fast.” It allowedhim to “test market areasbefore we built a fixed loca-tion,” he says.

Baker’s Dozen: JulieWestfall

Truck launched: Mid-dle of last summer

Location: In Harrison-burg Wed.-Fri., across fromHarmony Square or on PortRoad at Campus Corner. InBroadway on Saturdays, atthe Francesco’s parking loton Main Street.

What sets it apart:Westfall says their Fea-tured Flavor of the Week isa hit: “Everything frommaple bacon to freshsqueezed lemonade or or-ange creamsicle. … It’s thereal deal.”

Why the wheels? “It’sfun, and it’s a differentdraw ... people love to comeand see the process.”

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Truck launched: No-vember 2011

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What sets it apart:Friedman says it’s the foodand the customers. Their of-ferings include pita pocketsandwiches, fresh-cutFrench fries, four-cheesemac and cheese, and chili.“We target 100 percentJMU students, whereassome of the other trucksdon’t … we feel we have thebest customers.”

Why the wheels? “Theidea sort of just came to me.The more I developed abusiness plan, the more itseemed more feasible tohave a food truck. ... Com-ing right out of college, itwas the most logical choice.”

Strite’s Donuts: Carl andMiriam Strite

Truck launched: 7years ago, with a second lo-cation coming this summer

Location: Thursdays 7a.m.-6 p.m. on U.S. 33, nearUrban Exchange, and inBroadway on Friday after-noons and Saturday morn-ings.

What sets it apart: Tothe Strites, the customer isalways right.

“They ask us to do a dif-ferent flavor of donut andwe’ll do it; cinnamon, blue-berry, everything from startto finish is done right thereon site,” says Carl. “We arethe original donut vendor inthe Valley,” Miriam says,still holding tight to theirsecret recipe.

Why the wheels? “Amobile unit allows you theflexibility of different loca-tions, different groups ofpeople,” says Miriam.

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Location: Late nightsbehind Clementine Café,and they’re currently seek-ing a lunch spot.

What sets it apart:Waston, who himself ishalf-Japanese, says “tan-gi” is Japanese for“tongue justice.” He’s hop-ing Tangi will be the firstnoodle-based cuisinetruck of its kind in Har-risonburg, serving “sim-

ple, fresh, delicious foodfor cheap.”

Why the wheels? “Af-ter looking into it, it couldbe a lot more fun” thanbuilding a storefront, saysWatson.

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nod for Best Place To TakeYour Family because of itspricing, atmosphere andproximity to the children’smuseum.

And because it doesn’tsell alcohol, the restaurantdoesn’t attract the partycrowd.

“I think that’s a bigthing and we’re really closeto the children’s museum,so it can make an afternoondate for these families tocome in,” said Humphrey.

Hank’s SmokehouseGeneral Manager ShawnSlowinski believes hisrestaurant came out on topin the Best Barbecue catego-ry thanks to years of effort.

“I think [the win]shows the hard workwe’ve been putting intoour food and service overthe last few years,” hesaid. “We’ve redone ourrestaurant. We’ve remod-eled. We did the bar and

the front entranceway.”Other improvements in-

clude a few improvedrecipes and better qualitymeats, he said. “We’re justalways looking for betterways to serve the people.”

The fact that voterschose Hank’s despite theirlocation, he said, is a bighonor.

“People voted us best inthe Valley — and we’re notin the middle of Harrison-burg, we’re just outside it— so it’s a nice complimentfor us to win the award,” hesaid.

More than anything,the win is a ringing en-dorsement from clientele,Humphrey said.

“It’s the locals that arevoting in it, so it’s themtelling us who they appre-ciate and who they like togo to,” she said. “It’s anhonor.”

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Scott recalled Patton’s treat-ment of his troops.

“He took care of his soldiers,”said Scott, whose role was tomake sure infantrymen hadeverything they needed for bat-tle. “We were the first army in

France to receive an extra blan-ket in the fall.”

In late December, Scott andthe 3rd Army relieved the 101stAirborne in the Siege of Bas-togne, a seven-day fight in theBelgian town.

The most famous line from thebattle came from Brig. Gen. An-

thony McAuliffe of the 101st Air-borne, who replied “nuts” afterGermany demanded the Armysurrender in the Battle of Bas-togne. The Americans later wonthe siege.

In February 1946, Scott’sdays as a soldier were over.

He returned to Cleveland,

where his wife was living withher parents.

The two stayed in Ohio for 14years while Scott worked as a re-search metallurgist.

The couple, who ended uphaving four children, then livedin Sharon, Mass., for 18 yearsbefore retiring to the Old Domin-

ion. The couple lived in Orangefor nearly 20 years before mov-ing to Sunnyside in 1996.

Looking at his wife, Scottsaid: “I went back to Virginiaand I took her with me.”

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He joined the Army AirCorps and trained as agunner in Fort Myers, Fla.

From The GunneryHedrick, 86, said he

could have stayed andserved as an instructor butopted instead to go fightoverseas.

“I didn’t want to be aslacker,” he said.

Hedrick flew missionsin a B-29 Superfortressbomber in the offensiveagainst the Japanese. InJune 1945, he was sent toa base on Tinian, a tiny is-land in the Northern Mar-ianas that had been cap-tured by U.S. forces 11months earlier.

Recalling the runs hemade during the war,Hedrick says he can still re-member how the B-29sshot upwards after drop-ping its 800-pound bombs.

“You could feel it justlift up,” he said.

Despite his time in thesky, Hedrick says he was tooscared to take a flight backto the States after the war.

“I elected to come back

on a boat,” he said.He was discharged in

April 1946 as a sergeant.

Historic TiesThe island Hedrick was

based on holds a significantplace in the war’s history.

U.S. forces took controlof Tinian from the Japan-ese in July 1944 and itsoon became the busiestair base in the Pacific,sporting two airfields withsix runways, all longenough to accommodatethe enormous B-29.

Tinian’s biggest claim tofame, though, is its role inthe atomic bomb raids onHiroshima and Nakasaki.The bombers that dropped“Fat Man” and “Little Boy”,as the bombs were code-named, took off on their his-toric missions from Tinian.

It was also the last portof call for the USS Indi-anapolis, which deliveredthe weapons to Tinian inpreparation for the atomicattacks. The Indianapoliswas torpedoed July 30 af-ter leaving Tinian andsunk, killing 300 men. Theremaining 900 men werestranded for five days inshark-infested waterswaiting to be rescued.Only 317 sailors survivedthe horrific ordeal, the sto-

ry of which was later incor-porated in Steven Spiel-berg’s 1975 thriller “Jaws.”

Hedrick says he had noknowledge of the atomicbomb, but he supports thedecision to use it in an effortto bring a close to the war.

Lessons LearnedAfter his service,

Hedrick attended the Uni-versity of Virginia andthen studied dentistry atthe former Medical Schoolof Virginia in Richmond.Betty worked as a teacherduring that time.

They moved back toHarrisonburg, where theyraised four children.

Hedrick ran his dentalpractice in the city formore than 40 years beforeretiring in 1992.

The couple now lives atthe Sunnyside RetirementCommunity.

Hedrick, a frequentwriter of letters to the edi-tor of the Daily News-Record, said fighting in thewar gave him a strong ap-preciation for his country.

“So many things wetake for granted,” he said.“You don’t appreciate thiscountry until you leave it.”

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Tinian Played Historic Role In PacificHedrick FROM PAGE 30

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Richard Hedrick, a waist gunner on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific during World War II, poseswith his crewmates in front of their plane, “Ole Tex.” Hedrick, a longtime Harrisonburg dentistwho retired in 1992, is standing third from left.

year later.He landed on Omaha beach on June 7,

1944, the second day of the invasion.“We had it very easy,” France said.

“There was very little fire at the time welanded. There was artillery coming instill, but no small arms fire to speak of.”

But reminders of the bloody day thatpreceded his landing were evident on thebeaches. About 5,000 Americans werekilled at Omaha on D-Day, most in thefirst few hours.

France’s voice lowers as he recalls thesights.

“A lot that you didn’t want to see,” hesaid. “You saw stacks of bodies and partsand stuff that had been collected and be-ing identified and so forth. A lot of blownup stuff … that I don’t like to remember.”

He rarely talks about what he experi-enced at Normandy.

“He would tell us things about being inEngland before the Normandy landingand stories about being in Germany [af-ter], but he’s never really told us aboutwhere he was during the battle,” said hisoldest son, Gordon.

From the shores of France, he pressedeastward through France, Belgium andeventually into Germany and Czechoslova-kia before returning home at the end of thewar in 1945.

The trip back on the Santa Maria — aLiberty cargo ship damaged during thewar and repaired — took 15 days, orthree times as long as France’s ride toEurope two years prior.

France said he didn’t try to think muchabout the war when he arrived home.

He continued his studies at VMI andwent on to get his graduate degree inchemistry at the University of Virginiaand then moved to South Charleston,W.Va., where he worked as a researchchemist with Union Carbide for 35 years.

France and his wife Kendall, whopassed away last year, raised two sonsbefore retiring to Wintergreen and mov-ing to Sunnyside about 3½ years ago.

The Great Depression and war un-doubtedly shaped his life, France admits,but he said it’s tough to tell to what degree.

His children offer some insights,pointing out his value-conscious attitudeand ability to fix almost anything withhis own hands.

“He certainly was not any kind of aspendthrift and most people [from his gen-eration] had a certain austerity,” said Gor-don France, 58, a gastroenterologist fromSpartanburg, S.C. “He was willing to putoff gratification until he could afford it, asopposed to how most of us live these days.”

True wealth, his sons said their fathertaught them, is having a family and thelove that goes along with it.

“Out of the war and the Depressionyears my father, and indeed both ourfolks, seemed to develop a sense of what isvaluable in life,” said John France, 55, di-rector of operations regulation for theWest Virginia Division of Financial Insti-tutions. “The chemical industry broughtmy parents to the Kanawha Valley … [but]we spent our vacations traveling to see ourrelatives in Virginia many times a year.”

France, who has seven grandchildren,stays active with his favorite pastime —golf — a passion he shared with his wifeand passed on to his sons.

When his kids were growing up Francewas active as a leader with the BoyScouts, his oldest son said. But he neverwent on any outings with the troops.

One day, he recalls asking his father whyhe didn’t go on hiking or camping trips.

“He said the few years he had campingin the ’40s was all he needed,” GordonFrance said.

France lost touch with the men he servedalongside in World War II. Most were fromaround Allentown, Pa., he said. In recentyears he tried to find some of his fellow vet-erans by searching on the Internet but was-n’t able to track any of them down.

All he’s kept from the war are somephotos and the images still fresh in hisown mind.

“It gave you certain ways of doingthings and thinking about things, butnothing that I realized,” France said of thelasting impact the war had on him. “I don’tknow what would’ve happened if I hadn’tbeen over there [so] I can’t tell how muchit’s shaped me.”

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for about two years.In 1944, he received his

pilot’s wings, was commis-sioned as a second lieu-tenant and was assignedto the European Theateras part of the 487th Fight-er Squadron, 352nd Fight-er Group.

It didn’t take long forPattillo to see action.

On one mission duringthe waning days of thewar, on April 10, 1945, hehit the skies flying a P-51D Mustang.

His plane was amongroughly 75 aircraft as-signed to escort and pro-tect about 800 B-17 and B-24 bombers.

“All of sudden, out ofthe clear, this German jetcame down through,” hesaid. “It knocked out twoof our bombers rightaway.”

Pattillo and the rest ofhis fellow pilots were hav-ing difficulty taking the jetout, until the Germanfighter made a crucial mis-step.

“He made a big mistakeand started turning,” saidPattillo. “I got in closeenough to him to knockhim down. The plane went

down and blew up.”A week later, he de-

stroyed six enemy planeson the ground.

During his tour in Eu-rope, Pattillo flew 35 com-bat missions. All were suc-cessful except one.

Pattillo was on a mis-sion protecting bomberswhen his plane was struckby enemy fire.

“I knew I was in trou-ble,” he said, adding thathe tried to find a safe placeto land after being hit. “Itried to nurse it as muchas I could, but she wasn’tgoing to make it.”

He crash-landed in afreshly plowed field. Hehad survived, but hecouldn’t escape capture.

“The minute I hit theground I started running,because I knew it was go-ing to blow up,” he said.

“Then, the Germans hadme covered with guns.”

Pattillo was taken pris-oner. He recalled spendingmost of his short stint as aPOW — the war was allbut over at that point — ina small room with a wood-en bunk. He was treated

well, he said, but food wasscarce.

“They called it soup, butit was nothing more thanweeds squeezed up,” hesaid. “They didn’t feed memuch to eat, but they didn’thave much to eat either.”

After his discharge in

December of 1945, Pattil-lo, along with his brother,enrolled at Georgia Tech.

While taking classes,Pattillo flew the P-47Thunderbolt with the 54thFighter Wing of the Geor-gia National Guard.

Three years later, hewas called back to activeduty as a P-51 pilot inpostwar Germany.

Pattillo and his brotherlater helped organize theThunderbirds, the AirForce’s aerial demonstra-tion team.

In 1968, nearly quarter-century after he first flewin combat he was calledagain to serve in the Viet-nam War. During the cam-paign, he flew 230 combatmissions.

During his career, hereceived numerous acco-lades, including the Sil-ver Star and Prisoner of

War Medal.He retired from the mil-

itary in 1980 and he andJoyce, who raised fourchildren, lived in Tampafor the first 26 years oftheir retirement beforemoving to Sunnyside in2006.

After seeing combat intwo wars, flying hundredsof missions and servingdecades in the military,Pattillo was ready forsome well-deserved relax-ation.

His favorite activity inretirement was decidedlyless stressful than beingshot at in the skies aboveEurope and Vietnam,though it still gave him achance to flex his competi-tive edge.

“I played golf,” he said.

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