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Photo courtesy of Tara BaldwinCampers and mentors pose for an end-of-camp photo after the first session of Operation 300. The special camp, started in order to honor the memory of fallen SEAL Aaron Vaughn, is for boys whose fathers have been killed while on active duty. The first session ran from April 12-14.

STUART — For one weekend, they were just kids. The nine boys and mentors who gathered

from April 12-14 at Angel Fire Ranch in Martin County went horseback riding, sailed, had an archery competition and sat around a campfire. These were special kids at a

special camp. The camp, set

up by the nonprofit Operation 300, is for boys whose fathers in the military who have been killed while on active duty. It is the brainchild of Tara Vaughn Baldwin, sister of former Stuart resident Special Warfare Opera-tor Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Vaughn, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six. He was killed in 2011 when the helicopter in which he was riding was shot down over Afghanistan.Baldwin wanted to have a camp

where boys and mentors could have fun and form long-term relationships. This first camp

had nine boys who ranged in age from 7-15. While this first camp was a “dry run,” it didn’t start out that way.“The only hiccup was on Friday

night,” Baldwin said. “It was a monsoon, but we adjusted. The boys loved it. They played in the mud.”On Saturday, after a breakfast

supplied by Chick-Fil-A, the boys went sailing, courtesy of the U.S. Sailing Center in Jensen Beach. In the afternoon, they had archery lessons from The

Camp in SEAL’s honor has first sessionBy Shelley KoppelStaff [email protected]

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Bow Shop in Stuart. Later, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department set up a firing range. The boys had target practice and watched demonstrations by snipers and the K-9 Unit. “(Former Rep.) Allen West came

out on Saturday and shot with the boys,” Baldwin said. “On Saturday night, Pastor Tom Mullins of Christ Fellowship Church came out and we had a campfire. It was pretty laid back. Everyone was tired. It was a pretty packed day.”On Sunday, the group went to

church. When they returned, one of the volunteer mentors gave instructions in using a com-pass and set up a course for the boys to navigate. Then they had more practice in archery and an archery competition. After closing ceremonies, each

boy received a gift, an auto-graphed copy of Steven Press-field’s book, “Gates of Fire,” about the Spartans and the Bat-tle of Thermopylae. It was one of Aaron Vaughn’s favorite books. The name of the nonprofit,

Operation 300, is taken from the story of how 300 Spartans held off the much larger Persian army for several days at that famous battle.

As a special token, Mr. Press-field personalized each of the books with a message to the camper about his dad.“Giving the books got to me,”

Baldwin said. “’Gates of Fire’ was my brother’s favorite book. He gave it to me 10 years ago and I still have it.”Campers, mentors and moms

all agreed that the weekend was a success.“Several of the moms couldn’t

imagine it going better,” Baldwin said. “They said it was exactly what (their kids) needed. They wished it could have been longer and all said they’d be back next

Baldwin is not resting on her laurels. She hopes to have

another camp in the fall, but it is expensive to feed campers, provide accommodations for moms and pay the other ex-

penses. In addition, she hopes to raise money to get at least

one building of their own.“We all said it would be eas-ier to get one building with air-conditioning to put bunk beds. It would be nice to ac-commodate 10-12 bunk beds. We’d love to have materials

and construction donated. It’s a work in progress.”

CAMP from page 1

See CAMP page 4 1,000 turn out to welcome vets home from D.C. Operation Homecoming orga-

nizer Vanessa Smolen had no idea how far it would go. “We had about 1,000 people at

the event,” she said. “It was phe-nomenal.” Among them, a Hobe Sound

man with an unusual rope with hundreds of American flags gath-ered from the roadsides since

the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — Tom Fucigna. The hundreds showed up at the

West Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday, April 27, to welcome home World War II vet-erans arriving from that latest Honor Flight of Southeast Flori-da trip. Operation Homecoming is a new part of local hub’s efforts to honor the veterans.

Carolyn Davi, president of the Palm City Chamber of Commerce escorts United States Army veteran Francis James through the Palm BeachInternational Airport following the return home from Washington DC as part of the Honor Flight program. The program flies World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the monuments commemorating the battles they fought.

Photo courtesyof Michael & Josephine – Photography and Artistic Films

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year.”Baldwin is not resting on her laurels. She hopes to have another

camp in the fall, but it is expensive to feed campers, provide accom-modations for moms and pay the other expenses. In addition, she hopes to raise money to get at least one building of their own.“We all said it would be easier to get one building with air-condi-

tioning to put bunk beds. It would be nice to accommodate 10-12 bunk beds. We’d love to have materials and construction donated. It’s a work-in-progress.”Also on the wish-list is a four-wheel-drive all-terrain vehicle. “Someone lent one to us for the weekend and it was a godsend,”

Baldwin said. In the long term, Baldwin hopes the camp will have its own land,

preferably in Martin County. “We would love to have 50 acres, but we could do it on 25,” she

said. Donations are welcome for this project as well as for the next camp. “Donations let us do everything we needed to do,” Baldwin said.

“For what we were able to accomplish with what we had, I was very, very pleased.” So, it seems, were nine boys who just got to be kids.

For more information about Operation 300, visit the website www.operation300.com. Donations can be sent to Operation 300, Inc., P.O. Box 3, Port Saler-

no, Florida 34992. To contact Tara Baldwin, send an email to [email protected].

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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographerSharon Sherman of Stuart comforts her husband, Mel, who served in Vietnam from 1966-68 with the U.S. Marines while remembering those he fought beside who are named on the traveling Vietnam Memorial wall during the 26th Annual Vietnam and All Veterans Reunion at Wickham Park in Melbourne Saturday, April 27. “That’s my panel” said Mel Sherman when asked if he saw names of those he knew.

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Smolen’s husband, Keith, was on the flight with the veterans. Af-ter volunteering on three flights, Keith thought he’d grown accus-tomed to the emotions the Hon-or Flight generates. But, he said when the veterans realized that they’d end their day by walking through a 500-foot aisle about 10 people deep of well-wishers, emo-tions went off the chart. “It was totally overwhelming,” he

said. “Tears of joy. They were sob-bing from happiness. It was total-ly overwhelming. I could tell you I was sobbing with joy. I did not expect that at all. I knew it would be big because Vanessa has been busting her butt getting (Oper-ation Homecoming) going, but I didn’t expect it to be that big.” A recent local screening of “Hon-

or Flight” inspired the local Project Homecoming. Smolen was instru-mental in getting four January showings of the documentary at Carmike Cinema 14, 1900 N.W. Courtyard Circle, Port St. Lucie. She said the documentary showed thousands of Wisconsinites turn-ing out to greet their returning veterans. “It was so huge, we thought it

was Photoshopped or something,

or they put a call out and said, ‘We’re making this movie,’” Va-nessa said in a previous inter-view. “But, no. That’s how many always turn out for the veterans in Wisconsin. It was overwhelming to see the amount of people who came out.” So she got to work getting as

many out to greet the returning Florida veterans as she could. Va-nessa said after a Veteran Voice article ran about Operation Home-coming, things got busy. She said other media contacted her for stories, along with dozens of im-promptu volunteers. Come the day of Operation Home-

coming, Vanessa was feeling over-whelmed with organizing tasks. But she got a surprise.“Someone came to me, and said

‘Someone has flags,’” she said. “Honestly, at that point I was like, ‘Ugh.’” Nevertheless, she met with Fucig-

na. “He starts to show me a duffle bag

of flags,” Vanessa said. “They were all on this rope. He said, ‘These flags are flags I’ve been picking up from roadways since 9/11.’” In an e-mail, Fucigna explained

how he got started collecting flags from roadways.

Photo courtesy of Michael & Josephine – Photography and Artistic FilmsLouis Thompson, Word War II veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is greeted by active members of the U.S. Navy at Palm Beach International Airport following the return home from Washington, D.C., as part of the Honor Flight program. The program flies World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the monuments commemorating the battles they fought.

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“During the months after Sept. 11, 2001, in the wake of a wave of patriotism that resulted in many people flying the flag, I retrieved from the roadside over 600 Amer-ican flags that had fallen from cars. Most were small ‘car flags,’ but I also found a handful of full-sized flags. I picked them up be-cause I didn’t think it was right for them to be laying in the gutter, and because I consider them to be memorials to the victims of 9/11, including friends and relatives of our family lost at the Twin Tow-ers.” He went on to say, “Many of the

flags were in tatters, and I proper-ly disposed of them, but over 200 were in good shape, so I cleaned them up and strung them togeth-er. Those 250 feet of flags have been displayed along our main street in Hobe Sound from dawn to dusk every Sept. 11 since then. They also surround our Civic Cen-ter every year for our local Fourth of July gathering, where we also display memorial flags from my great uncle and father-in-law, who served in the Navy and Ma-rine Corps in World War II.” Fucigna wasn’t available for an

interview by press time. The Honor Flight Network is a

national program that takes World War II veterans to see the memo-

rial dedicated to them on the Na-tional Mall in Washington, D.C. It was erected in 2004. The honor flights began, almost by accident, a year later.

For additional information about the movie, visit honorflightthemov-ie.com. For more about the na-tional Honor Flight Network, visit honorflight.org. For more about the Washington, D.C., World War II monument, visit wwiimemorial.com. The local Honor Flight program,

called a “hub,” is online at honor-flightsefl.org. Plans are under way for a flight and Operation Home-coming on Saturday, May 25. The flight will arrive at the West Palm Beach International Airport at 7:50 p.m. For information about partic-ipating in Operation Homecoming, call Vanessa at (772) 834-9340.

HONOR from page 5 “Many of the flags were in tatters, and I properly disposed of them, but over 200 were in good shape, so I cleaned them up and strung them together. Those 250 feet of flags have

been displayed along our main street in Hobe Sound from

dawn to dusk every Sept. 11 since then.”

Tom Fucigna

Plaques commemorate nation’s 12 major military engagements and those lost in them

The 13 plaques are now there, but the Veterans Council of Martin County will ceremonially unveil them on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. “We feel that the younger gener-

ation today really knows nothing about all these wars we partici-pated in — this is the freedom we have here in the United States,” Morris Schtupak, commander the Jewish War Veterans Post 549, Stuart, said. Stuart’s Memorial Park, 300 S.E.

Ocean Blvd, underwent a $1.9 million complete redesign in 2011 with funding from its Commu-nity Redevelopment Agency and grants. Among the changes was the addition of a memorial wall honoring those who died in the nation’s wars. Bruce Millette, council chair, said an existing memorial at the park created a small conundrum. “There was one plaque in the

park previously, which was the Korean War,” he said. “We came up with this idea for a plaque for every war, every major conflict our country has been involved in.” The council hit on the idea of

adding commemorative plaques honoring the service of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in all the nation’s wars on arranged pedestals. The city of Stuart liked the idea and installed the pedes-tals to place the plaques upon. But, the council was on the hook for getting the other 12 plaques.That, it turned out, wasn’t going

to be cheap. “Each plaque was $1,000,”

Tony Reese, supervisor of Martin County’s veterans services office, said. “Plus, we had to pay for the donor plates, so $1,100 (each).”Or a bit more than $13,000. The

council was thinking it’d be a lot more than that, and started the fundraising about six months ago. “We were thinking it was prob-

ably a two-year project,” Reese said. “One thing led to another, and we got the right trophy shop to help us get them made.” That was Crown Trophy in Stu-

art. “When I heard the pricing they

got before, it was crazy,” owner Brian Funk said. “It was up-ward to $1,000 more a plaque. I thought it was crazy.”Funk discounted the council’s

way into affordability as a word-of-mouth campaign raised dol-lars. “I just felt it was important and

it’s a beautiful park; it’s a new park,” Funk said. “I worked with (Reese) on a few other projects and he’s great to work with. I still made money, don’t get me wrong.” Schtupak said the council iden-

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such as the Revolutionary War and World War II, to those that many question, such as the Indian Wars and Vietnam. But Schtupak said the Jewish War Vet-

erans felt something was missing — a mention of those captured by enemies and missing in action. “We did not see anything for the MIAs,

POWs,” he said. “We spoke to the council about doing something for the MIAs and POWs. This is what got them the idea. We pursued this by asking where are the POW/MIAs?” Thus, the 13th plaque noting POW/MIAs. The pedestals and plaques are arranged

in calendared sequence, starting with the Revolutionary War on the southwest and going counterclockwise in a rectangle to the Global War on Terrorism on the southeast. Millette said that arrangement was a mat-ter of park design and carries no particular meaning. The number of plaques, too, is a matter of history, not symbolism. The council’s annual Memorial

Day parade will start at 10 a.m. at High School Avenue, on East Ocean Boulevard. The parade will go to Memorial Park, where at 11 a.m. the plaques will be ceremo-nially unveiled and dedicated. For information, about the Veter-

ans Council of Martin County, visit vetcouncilmc.org, or call Reese at (772) 288-5448. For more on the parade, visit stuartparades.com, or contact Jim Riordan at (772) 220-4127.

Photos by Patrick McCallister Thirteen plaques commemorating the nation’s 12 ma-jor wars from the American Revolution to the current Global War on Terrorism along with one honoring those who remain missing in action were recently add-ed to Memorial Park in Stuart, 300 Southeast Ocean Blvd. We still commemorate the War of 1812 when singing ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’

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ReflectionJoe Moschella of Melbourne Beach takes a moment to remember the men and women he fought with in Vietnam who are memorialized in name on the traveling Vietnam Memorial wall during the 26th Annual Vietnam and All Veterans Reunion at Wickham Park in Melbourne Saturday, April 27.

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All vehicle images for illustration purposes only. All vehicles shown with optional equipment. 2.99 APR based on example A.P.R. with approved credit. $17.97/month per $1000 fi nanced for 60 months, $0 down. *All lease offers are for 24 months (2013 IS 250 18 months), 10K annual mi, $0 sec. dep, $4995 down payment/trade equivalent. $700 acquisition fee due at inception. ^ Lease cash bonus from Lexus: IS 250 $2000, RX 350 $1000, GS350 $1500. All offers plus tax, tag, title, registration, fi rst month’s payment, dealer fee excluded from price. Closed-end lease offers with automatic and select equipment, adding options increases lease payment. All offers require approved credit from Lexus Financial Services and a

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NEW 2013 TOYOTA COROLLA LE34

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deposit required. College Grad Rebate and Military Rebate are excluded in the Manufacturer/Factory rebates. $16.67 per $1000 borrowed. Not responsible for typographical errors. Sale ends 05/31/2013. 43106-TRTO

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