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This month we ran into our first SNAFU. As deadline approached for this issue, I couldn’t fig-ure out why on Earth the Department of Veterans Affairs in Seattle had not got-ten back to me or any of the reporters work-ing on stories for this issue. We were look-

ing to build articles in response to veterans who have asked for more basic information on veterans benefits, including how to go about getting those benefits.

We reached out to the local clinic in Bremerton as well, offices over at Restil and made multiple calls to the folks in Seattle. In each case we were turned away by VA employees with the actual information we needed. They could not answer questions as simple as “When did the Seattle Women’s Clinic open?” or “What services exactly could a veteran get at the Bremerton clinic?” Instead of hearing from those who actually know the answers, we were to get our information from the official source in the regional office, Jeri Rowe director of public affairs – the same place that had not responded to questions or returned phone calls all along.

It turns out that Rowe’s staff was too busy order-ing flowers, refreshments and fingerfood in prepa-ration for her going away party. Rowe’s transfer to the City of Redmond was more important than getting out information to the veterans commu-nity. As long as VA employees take entitled stances that they are more important than those they serve, or believe that they deserve to somehow not do their jobs, veterans will always be second to the urges of bureaucrats. When people wonder how it’s possible that compensation and pension claims are way overdue for nearly 1 million veterans, the actions of Rowe and her staff are a glowing example of an agency with problems.

SNAFU aside, the monthly veterans profile is back with a great story on a great old Marine from the generation that made America great. The puz-zle this month explores the VA backlog problems. A member of the local veteran leadership takes a crack at “The Bond” this month with a story on how he came to care. The long march of Bataan is remembered 70 years later and reporter Brett Cihon explains something about PTSD.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs this month released a draft report on key issues facing female veteran’s issues for public comment. The plan outlines steps for improvements to care and services for women Veterans that are sustainable, accountable and a part of the department’s culture and operations. “Expanding care and services to women Veterans is too important to limit ourselves solely to the views within the department, so we are seeking feedback from all stakeholders, most importantly women Veterans themselves,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “The VA must be visionary and agile enough to anticipate and adjust not only to the coming increase in women Veterans, but also to the complexity and longevity of treatment needs.” Shinseki formed a task force to develop an action plan to address women Veterans’ issues. Since then, the group has conducted a broad survey of department experts to identify those issues and organize them by priority. The draft report is an interim step prior to VA finalizing its

overall plan. The report comes at an important juncture in VA’s history that demands a review of the quality, quantity, and types of services and programs it provides to women Veterans. The number of women Veterans using VA has increased 83 percent in the past decade, from about 160,000 to over 292,000 between fiscal years 2000 and 2009, compared with a 50 percent increase in men. Women are now the fastest growing cohort within the Veteran community. In 2011, about 1.8 million or 8 percent of the 22.2 million Veterans were women. The male Veteran population is projected to decrease from 20.2 million men in 2010 to 16.7 million by 2020. In contrast, the number of women Veterans will increase from 1.8 million in 2011 to 2 million in 2020, at which time women will make up 10.7 percent of the total Veteran population. VA is training providers in basic and advanced topics in women’s health through mini-residencies, and over 1,200 providers have received training. Comprehensive women’s care can be provided

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Saturday, May 26 – The Unforgotten, Run to Tahoma III, at 10:45 a.m.

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Monday, May 28 - The Bainbridge Island Memorial Day Service, sponsored by the American Legion Colin Hyde Post 172 at the Bainbridge High School Veterans Memorial. The time is still to be determined. A longer ser-vice will follow at the Legion Hall Flags will be placed on the graves of Bainbridge veterans on Saturday by the legionnaires and scouts.

Monday, May 28 - The annual Memorial Day Service at Forest Lawn Cemetery is hosted by the Fleet Reserve Association Bremerton Branch 29. The service starts at 11 a.m. at 5409 Kitsap Way in Bremerton.

Monday, May 28 – Ivy Green Cemetery at 1401 Naval Avenue in Bremerton will host a Memorial Day obser-vance with Veteran’s of Foreign War District No. 4 and local VFW Post 239 at 1 p.m. in the large military section where all services are represented. Ivy Green Cemetery is the site of the “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” honoring those fallen military men and women. John H. Nibbe, Civil War hero is also buried here, as well as Wesley Harris, the Marine for which the Navy gun range near Seabeck is named after.

Monday, May 28 – American Legion Post 245 and VFW Post 2463, Kingston, are hosting thier annual Memorial Day Ceremony at Waterfront Park in downtown Poulsbo. The proceedings start at noon.

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With a name like “Brothers in Arms,” it comes as no surprise that Dudley McNutt, a four-year member of the motorcycle club, says the group’s motto can be summed up in one word: family.

“The national organiza-tion has been in existence about 10 years, and our local chapter, Brothers in Arms North Puget Sound, has been around for nearly six,” said McNutt. Composed of active duty and retired veter-ans from all branches of the military and reserves, club members devote their energy

and talents to both armed service members and their families, and the community at large.

The founders of Brothers in Arms sought to join two concepts: dedication to the armed forces who protect the United States and a camara-derie born of a shared love

of motorcycle riding. So far, it’s proven to be a winning combination.

“Simply put, it com-bines outreach to veterans with our love for riding,” McNutt said. “Our priority is addressing the needs of vet-erans, yet quite often in the process of doing that, we’ll find ourselves reaching out to the community right here in Oak Harbor.”

A good example of that is January’s Interfaith Coalition of Whidbey Island-sponsored “Feed the Need” food drive to benefit the North Whidbey Help House. Several members of Brothers in Arms were on hand to help collect nearly 6,000 pounds of food dona-tions. It marked the fourth year the organization has participated in the food

drive, said McNutt.“Our members do events

for the Oak Harbor Boys and Girls club, which, in turn, does a lot for local military families here,” he said.

“We’re also the only motorcycle club that’s cur-rently involved in Relay for Life,” said McNutt, referring to the Whidbey Island’s larg-est cancer fundraiser, usually slated for June.

One special type of out-reach that gives them prob-ably as much fulfillment as the recipients, are the motorcycle runs they make to Seattle VA, to visit hospi-talized veterans.

“Often, these are folks who also share our inter-est in motorcycles,” said McNutt. “We end up chat-ting with them about the lat-est innovations. Before you know it, we’ve all had our moods boosted by talking about a pastime that’s mutu-ally enjoyable to everyone.”

Local parades, such as Coupeville’s Memorial Day parade and Oak Harbor’s Holland Happening parade have featured Brothers in Arms riders for a number of years. Several members participate in Patriot Guard Rider events as well, said McNutt. The group will also

participate in Oak Harbor’s first Veterans Day parade in November.

Right now, Brothers in Arms North Puget Sound doesn’t have a set meeting location, he said.

“We move the times and locations of our meetings around to fit the needs of our members,” said McNutt.

And while some of the projects they’ve undertaken are becoming yearly events, the group is mobile enough to act quickly, once new opportunities arise.

“At times, it’s very impromptu,” said McNutt. “Someone hears about an upcoming event, and says, ‘Hey, let’s try to get in on this,’” he said. “In fact, that’s how we heard about a brand new organization called ‘Pets for Vets,’ that seeks to match companion animals with veterans.”

McNutt says their June fundraiser “Pets for Vets Poker Run,” will raise funds for that group. The effort is similar to one they par-ticipated in to raise funds for service dogs for police officers.

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The events that took place in the Philippines during World War II are like a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece tells a different part of the story, but without all the connecting pieces, the overall pic-ture is impossible to see.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Bataan Death March, Stanwood resident Scott Slater, a former officer in the U.S. Air Force, shared a presentation with the Association of Naval Aviation at the Officers’ Club on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in April.

The 30-minute documentary was created both as a tribute to his father-in-law and as a tutorial.

“I wanted to create something that was easy to follow,” Slater said.

He fears the story will be lost over time, or worse, changed somehow, so the atrocities that were suffered by American and Filipino soldiers will be forgotten.

“I don’t want it to be lost to history and I don’t want the story to become a victim of revisionist history,” he said.

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Philippine Islands,” reads Slater’s presentation. “Gen. Douglas MacArthur … is faced with overwhelming Japanese forces. MacArthur orders the evacuation of Manila and declares it an ’Open City’ to halt further bombing by Japanese war planes. MacArthur moves his headquarters to Corregidor [Island].”

Troops evacuating Manila are sent to Bataan, according to Slater. But supplies are low and President Roosevelt’s joint Army-Navy Board adopts a plan to concentrate on the Allied offensive in Europe, doom-ing the men of Bataan.

Troops on Corregidor Island, meanwhile, are embroiled in heavy fighting. (Today the bombed-out remains of the barracks and Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters are evi-dence of the battle.) Having little choice, personnel retreat to Malinta Tunnel, an east-west passage 836-feet long and 24-feet wide.

On March 11, 1942, MacArthur is ordered to leave Corregidor, but he vows to return. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright is put in command of the Philippines. The final battle for Bataan draws nearer.

“The troops have been surviving on little more than a half cup of rations a day,” Slater’s presentation reads. “Typhoid, malaria, malnutri-tion and dysentery are exacting a heavy toll.”

Japan launches its final battle for Bataan on April 3, 1942. Headlines on newspapers in the U.S. scream 36,000 men are feared lost in the Fall of Bataan. On April 9, 1942, Maj. Gen. Edward King, the senior U.S. commander on Bataan, sur-rendered to Maj. Gen. Kameichiro Nagano, forcing more than 75,000 Filipino and American troops to become prisoners of war.

“Japan never expected that many prisoners,” Slater said. “They weren’t equipped to handle them.”

Death MaRch BeginsBecause the Japanese were

unprepared for the number of prisoners, there was no organized plan for how to handle them. Even though Japanese officers had assured Gen. King his men would be well treated, many were beaten at best and executed at worst. Prisoners were given no food for days at a time.

Because the Japanese military had no means of transporting their prisoners, they were forced to march approximately 80 miles, from Mariveles and Bagac to Balanga, Bataan’s capital.

“Most of the men on the death march were nearly dead when they surrendered,” said Slater. “It is atro-cious what they went through.”

Following the death march, prisoners were loaded into train box cars and shipped like cattle to Camp O’Donnell, a former Philippine Army training center converted into a POW camp by the Japanese. Many of the prisoners fell victim to heat stroke or suffocation, dying before arrival.

While there are no exact casu-alty figures for the death march — thousands of captives were able to escape, and the number of troops killed in the fighting is unknown — estimates are than 5,000 to 10,000 Filipino and as many as 650 American prisoners of war died before they reached Camp O’Donnell.

After arriving at Camp O’Donnell, a number of pris-oners were shipped to other prison camps. Many ended up at

Cabanatuan prison camp, one of the deadliest POW camps in the Philippines. From 1942 to 1945, more than 9,000 American POWs passed through Cabanatuan on their way to other camps, accord-ing to Slater.

LiBeRation at LastIn October, 1944, U.S. and

Filipino guerilla forces, under the command of Gen. MacArthur, began an assault to win back con-trol of the Philippines. The Battle of Leyte, which lasted until Dec. 31, 1944, was the first and most deci-sive win in the reconquest of the Philippines.

Less than a month after the Battle of Leyte, a group of U.S. Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas liberated the Cabanatuan POW camp, traveling 30 miles behind Japanese lines to reach the camp. The nighttime raid took the Japanese troops by sur-prise; hundreds of Japanese were killed during a 30-minute attack.

“It was the greatest rescue of all time,” said Slater, whose program is featured at the prison.

“My documentary plays on a loop at the Cabanatuan POW camp so visitors can see the history,” he said.

The liberation of Cabanatuan was the first in a series of prison camp rescues. As the tide of the war turned, the island of Corrigedor was liberated and the U.S. and Filipino stronghold was regained.

The Philippines were liberated on July 5, 1945. The Japanese sur-rendered on Sept. 5, 1945. Japanese General Masaharu Homma was indicted for war crimes and arrest-ed. During his trial, he claimed he

didn’t know about the excessive casualties until two months after the death march. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by firing squad.

For his part, Slater is happy to get this bit of history recorded. The documentary, just 30 minutes in length, is a powerful collection of facts, photographs and interviews containing a great deal of detail. The greatest pleasure of working on the presentation, said Slater, was

the opportunity to talk to people who lived it. He is also planning more projects in the future.

“I want to tell the story of the Filipino guerrillas,” said Slater. “And the Vietnam POW experi-ence — there isn’t much in the way of individual accounts.”

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Two men wait in a foxhole during the Vietnam War. They pass a cigarette between grubby fingers. They talk of the ladies back home.

The men are great friends. Partners in war, John Weatherill, the Post Commander of VFW Post 2669 said.

But then a mortar shell lands in their foxhole. One of the men survives untouched and the other is killed.

“He has to live with that all of his life,” Weatherill, a veteran of the Vietnam War, says of the surviving man. “And he asks, ‘Why did he die and not me?’”

Stories like these come out at the VFW Hall in Port Orchard. The man whose friend died in the foxhole is one of 7.6 million living Vietnam Veterans and one of 22 million military veterans overall.

The veteran, a man who regularly attends the VFW says Weatherill, is also one of an unknown number of veterans who have suffered for decades with post trau-matic stress disorder. And though many older veterans are starting to seek counseling and open up about their experiences, Weatherhill says, a stigma of long ago laid in place still persists.

“Real men don’t discuss what is bothering them, that was the attitude,” Weatherill says. “That’s bogus, they do cry.”

Old PrOblemPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety

disorder that can arise after any person has experienced a traumatic life event such as a rape, a car crash, child-hood abandonment or the occurrences of war.

The causes and symptoms of the disorder are vast.“Symptoms of PTSD can be terrifying,” reads the

Department of Veterans Affairs’ website on the overview of the disorder. “They may disrupt your life and make it hard to continue with your daily activities. It may be hard just to get through the day.”

Basic symptoms often fall into three main categories. First, reliving, a symptom which includes flashbacks and nightmares. Second, detachment, which encompasses feeling detached and disinterested. Finally, arousal, caus-ing sufferers difficulty concentrating and outbursts of anger.

Of course, the anxiety disorder has been around as long as traumatic experiences have occurred. But it wasn’t until the late 1970’s when scientists began studying the thousands of men who returned from the Vietnam War that the disorder first entered public con-sciousness. And now, with the VA reporting PTSD as the fourth most common service-related disability for service members receiving benefits, PTSD is a widely recognized disability. Active duty military members are screened and tested for PTSD when returning from Afghanistan or Iraq. The disorder is routinely talked about in the media and just as routinely used incorrectly when talking about veterans.

And while many veterans, both of Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the Vietnam War and prior wars, are seeking help, Weatherill says, there are still millions of living veterans who came back in a different time. A time where PTSD wasn’t screened for and tested upon returning home.

“The government didn’t understand combat stress at the time,” he said. “They never even thought about it. In the three years I was in Vietnam and in the (National Gaurd) afterwards, it never came up.”

New TreaTmeNT As recognition of PTSD and the number of veter-

ans affected by the disorder gains media attention, the variety of treatment options increases. Jerry E. Butler, MEd, is a coun-selor at private practice in Bremerton who treats PTSD and other anxiety dis-orders. Butler previously worked at the Bremerton VA Clinic and at the Seattle VA from 1993 to 2009. When asked what options are available for the treatment of PTSD, he can rattle off a bevy of options without much hesita-tion. Cognitive processing therapy, pro-longed exposure therapy, medication, group therapy, family therapy, and oth-ers are all part of the mix.

“What treatment we use goes in to what rewards them personally,” he says. “We shape it to the individual.”

Butler mentions that relaxation methods, like yoga and meditation, have shown evidence of helping PTSD sufferers. He says a 10 week program at the Seattle VA focus-ing on meditation and mindfulness has shown a lot of recent success. Participants practice meditation techniques, as well as study meditation literature.

“It has had really good results, both here and nation-wide,” Butler said.

Ron Pero, a Tacoma based certified instructor of Transcendental Meditation, works with active duty military through the Warrior Transition Battalion, a group providing medical care, advocacy and leadership to soldiers who are wounded or otherwise injured, at Joint Base Lewis McChord. Pero teaches the meditation technique that is meant to directly dissolve accumulated stress with deep, coherent rest to veterans suffering from PTSD. While hesitant to say too much without the army’s prior approval to speak with a reporter, he did say many of the activite military he treats are seeing the enormous, positive affects of meditation. He imagines that the meditation would help older veterans as well.

“Among the soldiers I’ve taught, some have had imme-diate, amazing benefits,” he said.

Another therapy gaining recognition among counsel-ors treating PTSD over the last decade or so is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. A form of therapy created to treat distressing life experiences, EMDR is an eight-phase treatment process that begins by targeting the disturbing event. The trained EMDR therapist then asks a patient to focus on an image and, while remembering the negative event, the patient fol-lows that image as therapist moves it side to side. After this process, the client is asked to report on what the movements and the negative event caused the patient to think of. Eye-movements are repeated, along with differ-ent, involved phases of the therapy.

Eve King-Hill, a counselor in Bremerton, said she has learned about EMDR from Sandra Paulsen, PhD, who is an EMDR facilitator at the Bainbridge Institue for Integrative Psychology on Bainbridge Island. King-Hill said EMDR, or reprocessing therapy, is accepted for treating old trauma and new trauma. She said the treat-ment is so effective, she is told to instructs veterans that EMDR can so rapidly cure PTSD, that they may no lon-ger be eligible for disability for the disorder from the VA.

“EMDR is the best treatment for post trauma prob-lems,” she said. “After successful EMDR series session,

the symptoms are gone.” King-Hill says as new forms of therapy are accepted

by veterans and others suffering from PTSD, the old norms, such as exposure therapy that attempts to reas-sert the patient with the event that spurred the PTSD, such as a car for a car crash, are disappearing.

“There is a lot of data out there that show that expo-sure therapy isn’t there,” she said. “It helps the same per-centage of people that get better on their own.”

GeTTING PaTIeNTS IN But while new forms of treatments are having an

affect, to what degree they are helping the majority of sufferers is still unkown. Dr. Jessy A Ang, MD, is a psychiatrist working at a private practice in Tacoma. He does not offer his patients classes in transcenden-tal meditation, and he says while many people believe EMDR works, the long term outcomes of the treatment are undetermined.

Ang says it is hard to imagine what older veterans suf-fering with PTSD are going through. Vietnam Veterans, who helped open the doors for studying the disorder, had to deal with the stresses of coming back into a soci-ety that didn’t accept them above and beyond what they saw at war, Ang says.

“Vietnam veterans were rejected from our society when they returned,” says Ang. “For many years they couldn’t even acknowledge they were veterans, much less talk about the things they saw.”

Increased media attention and acknowledgment of PTSD has helped many long-retired veterans seek out help, Ang says. Treatment can differ for older genera-tion veterans, only because they come to treatment with a different set of experiences, a different set of years, than younger veterans. Ang says treatment is typically a combination of the correct medicine and a counseling options that melds with the veteran’s personality.

As far as success in treating older veterans, Ang says a good family support system is key.

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“If you’re a Vietnam era

veteran you have differ-ent experiences,” he says. “Some of our veterans come in and haven’t talked about their trauma for forty years.”

Swaim says older veter-ans have started to come in for different reasons. First, recognition of PTSD in society helps brings people in. Also, he says as veterans’ lives slows down and veterans age, they have more time to think about things.

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Jacobson was in the Marine Corps for Vietnam. While he saw some things, he says, he has never suffered from PTSD.

“All I do is get out of bed in the morning and make sure my feet are on the ground and I’m OK,” he says.

Jacobson is split on the idea of the disor-der. Jacobson speaks of friends from Vietnam who came back “pretty shell-shocked.” But while

there are definitely people with problems, he wonders if individuals are taking advantage of the increased awareness.

“You’ve got more people like Dr. Phil saying ‘You’ve got problems,’ so they think they have it,” he says.

Swaim said getting veterans of any age to become aware there might be an issue is the hard-est part of treating PTSD. He says then and still, the prevailing attitutde in the military is like Weatherill spoke of: Real Men Don’t Cry.

“The buck-up mental-ity is still in the military,” Swaim says. “It hasn’t gone

away. It’s still a stigma in mental health.”

Changing the name of PTSD, perhaps getting rid of the word ‘Disorder’, could go a long way in changing both old and new attitutdes about seek-ing help.

“Words matter,” he says. “If they didn’t matter, we wouldn’t be talking.

Getting someone in the door, Swaim says, is the highest priority when treating someone with PTSD. Past that point, whatever treatment works for them is what should be given.

As attitudes slowly change, and older veter-

ans begin to think about incidents that seem long past, it’s imporant to keep an open ear and an open mind, says Weatherill. Whether it’s a friend in a foxhole, a IED in a truck in front, or a wounded civilian crying out, war can affect. War is hard and brutal. And should be talked about.

“Every individual is dif-ferent,” Weatherill says. “Whether it will affect me, it might not affect my brother. You’ve got 50,000 men lined up, you will get a different reaction out of every one.”

Jesse Carillo sees another man walking through the front door at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.

It’s his though that this veteran might be suffering from one of the myriad affects, such as a variety of cancers, which have been linked through numerous studies to the millions of gallons of Agent Orange poured onto Vietnam during the war.

Carillo, 47, who served in the Navy from 1985-95, has a computer set up at the VFW to assists veterans with getting the claims process started to receive treatment. Access often takes one year or longer. Other times, Carillo said the veterans that come to see him want to reactive old claims or simply do not know what to do about what ails them or the concerns they might have

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It is not just Agent Orange, but the exposure to it that has caused many health problems. According to an Associated Press study through the Freedom of Information Act, about 270,000 of the 1 million Vietnam veterans receiving disability checks are being compensated for diabetes, which is more than any other medical condition. Some have questioned those claims‚ and others, such as erectile dysfunction‚ are receiving

disability checks because of a possible link to Agent Orange. Among them are Jonathan M. Samet, who serves as director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California.

“There needs to be a discussion about the costs, about how to avoid false positives while also trying to be sure the system bends over backwards to be fair to the veterans,” he told the Associated Press.

Another disease that where veterans do not have to prove a connection to Agent Orange to receive benefits is Parkinson‚Äôs Disease. According to a study by The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy, there is suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange

and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing Parkinson’s disease.

Leif Bentsen, who works with the Kitsap County Veterans Assistance Program, said the biggest problem he sees among veterans is oral health care. That lack of care was the impetus behind bringing the Oral Health Program to the Stand Down event, which was put together by the Kitsap Area Veterans Alliance in early May. Bentsen said not all veterans have VA health care benefits or health care coverage, in general. And even though with coverage do not receive a lot of assistance with dental care, he said. In addition to oral health care, the Stand Down event featured other free services, such

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Bentsen and Carillo are part of what is perhaps the biggest trend in healthcare for veterans, helping to better assist veterans with their needs.

Congressman Jeff Miller, chairman of the House committee with jurisdiction over veterans‚ issues, criticized the plan to add staffing during an oversight hearing.

“If VA doesn’t even have a complete picture of the problem, how confident can we be that access will be increased and care enhanced by the VA’s knee-jerk reaction,” he said. “This is not the first time we have been here.”

Port Orchard’s Jim McFarland, who served from 1969-77 and was in Vietnam, agreed.

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Approaching the nondescript grey house in Bremerton, one would not assume that an American Marine — a hero at that, and a Pearl Harbor survivor to boot — lives inside.

Pushing a walker but looking quite fit and spry, Major Maynard “Rocky” Hoffmann appears far younger than his 94 years. “I can’t hear well,” he said, pointing at his right ear. “But that’s what three years of firing ammunition does.”

Born in Seattle in 1918, Maj. Hoffmann enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve while a student at Roosevelt High School in Seattle. He applied for active duty in 1940.

“I looked forward to going to boot camp. I didn’t want to be drafted into the Army and that’s what they were doing at the time.”

Hoffmann was a 23-year-old sergeant when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Hoffmann was stationed at the Ewa Marine Corps Air Station which is now known as Barbers Point Naval Air Station. Three miles from Pearl Harbor, Ewa Marine Corps Air Station was completed in early 1941. When the attack at Pearl Harbor occurred, four runways had been construct-ed, in addition to buildings and hangars.

Ewa was the first American installa-tion hit during the Pearl Harbor attack. Hoffmann closed his eyes, recalling the moment.

“It took us all by total surprise. It took sev-eral minutes for people to determine what happened and what to do. One guy said, ‘I have never heard of an engine that sounds like that.’ A simple statement but that’s when we realized what was happening.”

It still required a visual confirmation to fully comprehend the situation in its entirety. “It really tipped us all off when we saw the big red meatball on the wing of the plane.”

How do the Marines train its men to react to enemy fire?

“You are trained to take cover and the

important thing to do was to take cover - only

there was no cover. There was a clump of trees so I headed there. On the road outside the trees there was a group of Marines, standing in the middle of the road. They said, ‘Sergeant, we don’t know what to do,’ so I said, ‘Ok, follow me.’ I turned and headed through some brush to the trees. I got halfway there and looked back. They were still standing there. They hadn’t moved. “I shouted an old Marine phrase from 1918, ‘Follow me, you can’t live forever!’That worked. They followed me.”

[NOTE: the actual saying is, “Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live for-ever?” (Attributed to Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood, June 1918.)]

“I returned to my barracks and got my rifle, a 1917 Springfield. We had no auto-matic weapons,” Hoffmann said, knowing it was important to organize the Marines into a group. “There were seven of us and we formed a firing squad. We were firing at Zeros that were flying low. One of them crashed in a cane field just outside the sta-tion.” Hoffmann and his crew of Marines were credited with shooting the only enemy plane out of the sky at Ewa. According to Hoffmann, the Commandant of the Marine Corps wrote the base colonel wanting to find who shot the plane down. A board inquiry was held and it was determined through interviews and investigation that Rocky and his crew were the ones responsible. “Plus my comment, ‘Do you want to live forever?’ prompted a field promotion,” Hoffmann explained.

Hoffmann went to serve in the South Pacific for three years after leaving Pearl Harbor. His squadron was divided into three groups and they were sent to Midway, Wake Island and Palmyra. “I went to Palmyra. The ones that were sent to Wake Island - none of them came back.” When asked if he lost any friends on Wake Island, he paused and said quietly, “I was close to one Marine in par-ticular. I don’t want to go into that.”

While serving in the South Pacific, Hoffmann applied to Officer’s Training School. He was then sent back to Pearl

Harbor. “The Sergeant Major of the base greeted me and said, ‘Rocky, I want you to get cleaned up. Tomorrow morning you go into the colonel’s office. They’re gonna swear you in as a 2nd Lieutenant.’ I was sent back to the states to go to OTS. Years later, here in Bremerton, I noted a brief comment in a newspaper that the Sgt. Maj. was retiring. I took him to lunch, which I did several times. On one occasion I asked, ‘Why did you make me a 2nd Lt.?’ ” Hoffmann pauses and smiles. “He told me, ‘What you did on December 7 didn’t hurt you any.’” Hoffmann became an officer on January 1, 1942.

One little known detail is that Hoffmann attended night school for seven years - gain-ing proficiency in Gregg shorthand. “Once the Marines knew that, they made me a court reporter. I even got ready to take the test for Federal Court.” The Marines Corps remains the only U.S. armed forces service branch to employ court reporters.

Hoffmann frequently starts his sentences with, “This isn’t very interesting,” or, “I don’t know if you want to know this.” When asked to remember specifics, he pauses, puts his head down, and with his right hand raised and shaking, places it back down gently on the arm of his couch. Then a quiet stream of fascinating details burst forth.

Major Hoffmann married Marion Hollister in Montecito, California in 1943. “I thought I was stationed in Santa Barbara,” he explains. “I told my com-manding officer that I would just get engaged if I was

shipping out and married if I wasn’t. Well, I got married and two weeks later I had orders to leave,” Hoffmann remembered. “We had a large wedding in a beautiful church.” Rocky and Marion were married for 62 years. He pulls out some pictures in his wallet. One black and white photo shows two young adults kissing on the beach in Santa Barbara. “And here’s one of me and my girl getting acquainted . . . we got married one month later,” he says with a laugh. “I keep that one in my wallet. We don’t need to show anyone that picture.”

The Hoffmann family grew to include three children: two sons, Mark and Eric, born in 1944 and 1945, respectively, in Santa Barbara. A daughter, Denise, was born in Seattle a few years after that. Hoffman now has seven grandchildren and, “No great grandkids yet.” Mark currently resides in Bremerton and Eric in Iowa. Daughter Denise lives in Australia.

“I’m a strong believer in the military and the reserves,” he says. “It’s good to always maintain a state of readiness in case of an attack. I don’t know if you want to know this, but I am opposed to the troops sent over to Afghanistan. If anyone wants to have a civil war, then let ‘em.”

What are Hoffmann’s fondest memories as a Marine? “It’s hard to say,” he says qui-

etly. “When I was promoted to Major

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— actually, I was very pleased to learn I was one of the Marines who shot down a fighter plane. Once a Marine, always a Marine.”

Hoffmann doesn’t keep in touch with other Pearl Harbor survivors, saying, “No, there’s only a few left in the county.” He says that a good candidate for the military completes training and lives up to the oath to defend the country. “I spent a total of 45 years in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve.” Hoffmann retired in 1978. “Military is very important to me and my life. I was proud to be a Marine. I had a good background so I could retire as a Major. I have many fond memories of my travels.”

The origin of the nickname Rocky proves an interesting tale. Reluctant to give a direct quote, he thought a bit and then revealed that it involved an active duty Marine making disparaging remarks about Marine Reservists. After several requests by Hoffmann (at the time a Marine Reserve) to refrain from continuing with the cutting comments, and the failure of the active duty Marine to do so, Hoffmann earned the nickname Rocky after knocking the offender out

cold. His commander dragged him out-side and told him, “None of my Marines is gonna go around with the name Maynard. From now on you’re Rocky.” And it stuck with him from that day on.

Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Ewa was chosen because it had an ideal peacetime air training environment and was completed in early 1941. Upon the groundbreaking of the MCAS, plans were already in the works for an expansion of the naval aviation facilities at Barbers Point. According to Naval Air Museum Barbers Point, construc-tion of an airfield west of Ewa began in November 1941 but was suspended temporarily after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Construction crews were diverted to quickly complete Ewa.

Hoffmann is an eyewitness to the exact moment that the United States entered World War II. Although most of the attack was focused on Pearl Harbor, the MCAS sustained enormous damage. Ewa was the first installation hit during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The repairs, along with an extensive construc-tion project on Barbers Point, initially intended as an outlaying landing field

for Naval Air Station Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, was still unfinished when it was established as a naval air station on April 15, 1942. A substantial amount of avia-tion activity occurred here as the Navy gathered forces in Hawaii to fight across the South Pacific.

The advent of the Korean War meant that MCAS Ewa experienced another surge in activity. However, with the utilization of jet aircraft, the runways at MCAS Ewa proved unsuitable to their needs. The Marine Corps shifted its avi-ation assets to MCAS Kaneohe Bay. Ewa was officially closed on June 18, 1952 and its property assumed by Naval Air Station Barbers Point. Many of Ewa’s fortifications survive to this day. Parts of the old airfield are visible.

Naval Air Station Barbers Point - the Navy’s last naval air station in the Hawaiian Islands - ceased operations on July 1, 1999. Completing 57 years of service, NAS Barbers Point, known as the ‘Crossroads of the Pacific’ was returned to the state of Hawaii. NAS Barbers Point served as the largest naval air station in the Pacific the-ater.

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19’ WEST WIGHT Pot- t e r , 2 0 0 0 . W e l l equ ipped and cus to- mized pocket cru iser stores and sails easily. Mainsail, Lapper Jib, on boom jiffy reefing system. Fabric cockpit and cabin cushions. Nissan 5.0hp 4-stroke engine, Garges trailer, Lowrance LMS 332-C Mapp ing GPS. Custom Idasailor s tee l and compos i te kick-up rudder. $7,500. Bainbridge Island. 206- 910-6282

24’ BAYLINER Bucca- neer Sailboat and trailer. Fiberglass, has 2 sails and 2 outboard motors. Comes with life preserv- ers, cushions and port-a- potty. Has cockpit steering and can sleep 4-6 people. Great price at $2,800 OBO. Cal l for m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n , (360)373-5379

AutomobilesClassics & Collectibles

1930 FORD MODEL A. Rumble seat, Manual Synchro mesh Trans- m i s s i o n , H y d r a u l i c brakes, Overdrive, Turn s igna ls , Chrome ac - cents, Al l steel body, Mohair upholstery, 16” r ims and newer t i res, Vintage Cream/ Black. F u l l y r e s t o r e d f r o m ground up ! $18 ,000 . Please contact us by e- mail or by phone. Call 360-779-7866. E-mail: t s r e n o v a t i o n s @ c o - mcast.net

1979 JEEP CHEROKEE Chief. Automatic 4WD. C o m p l e t e l y R e bu i l t : Transmission, Engine, Eve r y th i ng ! O r i g i na l Lev i -St rauss In ter ior. Original owner. $4500 or best offer. Located in Friday Harbor. Call for appointment to see: 949- 637-6351, 949-494-7474

1981 MERCEDES 380 SL Convertible. Cream colored, tan leather interior, dark brown cloth top. Lovingly cared for, always garaged. Power windows, air conditioning. All service records available. BEAUTIFUL! $9,750. 206-842-5301 (Bainbridge Island)

AutomobilesChevrolet

1977 CHEVY NOVA, 2 door. 250 straight, 6 cy- l indar and 350 turbo auto transmission. Only 114,000 original miles. Lots of new parts including recent rims and tires! Runs and drives great! Nice Blue metallic color. Original interior; small driver seat tear, but otherwise excellent! $4,500. For details call 360-632- 3663. Coupeville, Whid- bey Isl.

AutomobilesChrysler

2 0 0 2 P T C RU I S E R Hatchback. Gold, moon roof, 83,000 miles. Lug- gage rack, folding seats, automatic. Has all the goodies! $4,200. 360- 675-4040 or 250-580- 6102 (Oak Harbor)

AutomobilesHonda

1981 HONDA Accord. Automatic transmission, 4 door, fami ly owned since new. Green. Low, low 97,000 mi les. No rust, no body damage. All records, well maintained. $4000 or best offer. Contact Janet, 360- 307-8295 (Bremerton)

AutomobilesHonda

2006 Honda Element EX-P AWD. $17,300. Excellent Condition. Low mileage - 39900. Put in storage for 15 months. Automatic transmission, Air conditioning with air filtration system, Cruise con t ro l , F l ip up rear seats. Easy to clean interior. Privacy curtain included, Removable sky- light, Premium radio with steering wheel controls, AM/FM Radio, CD Player, Subwoofer, MP3 ca- pable, 12 Vol t power out le t , A l loy Wheels, Power M i r ro rs , Rear Wiper, Sunroof, Tinted G l a s s , C l o t h S e a t s , Cruise Control, Interval W ipe rs , Power Doo r Locks, Power Windows, Rear Window Defogger, Second Row Fo ld ing Seat, Second Row Re- movable Seat, Security System, Steering Wheel Mounted Controls, Ta- chometer, Tilt Steering C o l u m n , 4 W D / AW D, Cargo Area Tiedowns, C l a s s I I t o w h i t c h (703)424-1481

Sport Utility VehiclesSubaru

2008 SUBARU Forester X Spor t Utility. 65,000 miles, 4 door, AWD. Sil- ver with grey inter ior! Ver y good cond i t ion . One owner, regular ly maintained. Friday Har- bor. $14,200. 360-378- [email protected]

Utility Trailers

6’x12’ PACE American utility trailer. Perfect for spare room, storage, or travel ing! Customized with internal power, in- door window, ventilation, 2 internal fans. Insulated & heatable! Excel lent condition! Like new tires, only towed 3,000 high- w ay m i l e s ! $ 2 , 5 0 0 . Coupeville, Whidbey Isl. Call John 360-678-6741.

Campers/Canopies

8’ SIDEKICK Cab-Over Camper, 1984, fits long bed truck. Must see to appreciate! Great for camping, fishing, & sum- mer getaways. Self con- tained including bath- room, stove, sink and bed. Sleeps 2 to 3 people. Great condition! All records included. Only second owners. $1,300 obo. Port Orchard. 360- 895-4202.

Motorcycles

100TH ANNIVERSARY Ed i t i on 2003 Ha r l ey Dav idson Dyna Wide Glide in excellent condition with almost 23,000 miles. Screamin’ Eagle pipes, detachable wind- shield and after market oi l cooler plus lots of chrome. Always parked in the garage. $8500. Call 360-969-4097 (Oak Harbor)

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“The Marines are landing! The Marines are landing,” raced through my mind along with the question, “Where’s John Wayne?” It wasn’t some World War II movie with bobbing landing craft, ramps splashing sea foam, and screaming grunts charging into the surf.

It was the spring of 1965 and a couple hundred icono-clasts at an Army Security Agency base across Highway 1 from Phu Bai airport, about eight clicks south of Hue. The place had grown from a few tents in 1963 into the equiva-

lent of a minimum security prison planted in a sandy desert terrain, surrounded by rows of concertina wire, a killing field of anti-personnel mines, two seven foot fences with more concertina wire between them, an above ground serpentine trench (the water table was too high to dig in) that was connected to pill boxes and guard towers.

We lived and worked in air conditioned single-wides stitched together in military uniformity. We weren’t fight-ers, most of us were Morse interceptors working long shifts monitoring enemy communications. In our off

time, we dressed in civilian clothes, sucked beer, and waited for R&R and our rota-tion out.

I remember that spring day as being hot. Some of us were relaxing off-duty when we heard the unusual racket of helicopters approaching the airport. Wandering over to the trench line, we stood on the berm for a better view. Wave after wave of Marine Sikorsky CH-34s touched down at the nearest end of the air strip, dumped their Marines and went off to get more. An airborne infantry assault within the Phu Bai airport.

The Marines flopped on

the ground and immedi-ately set up firing positions as choppers kept ferrying in more grunts. Standing on the berm, we were somewhat bemused by this show of mili-tary might until we realized “Holy sh*@, they’re aiming at us.”

Seeing us decked out in shorts, flip-flops, and madras shirts, the Marines probably assumed we were harmless (and we were) as they formed into a column of fours and marched into our base. They eventually set up tents outside of our wire. Westmorland was worried about our puny little asses and sent in the Marines. They were ordered

to stick around the base for a couple of months, then started to poke the neighbor-hood with patrols. About ten months later a patrol of those Marines walked into an ambush. Several of them were killed while protecting us. There is a special place in this Army veteran’s heart for Marines.

Shortly thereafter I rotated out and Tet 1967 rolled in. With the all Marine activity, the base became the target of mortar attacks. I had left in time and spent my remain-ing two years of my four year enlistment in “Schönen, Deutschland.”

As a civilian during the four decades that followed, my military service was not much on my mind. In those years that filled the 1960s through the end of the last century, I never joined a post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars or American

Legion. However, what I call my survivor’s guilt and the ghosts of those marines that died outside the wire at Phu Bai airport, whoever they were, would prompt me to do something for veterans one day when I could. In the eighties, I briefly volunteered my time with the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program in Seattle. In 2004, I helped the Silverdale Sunrise Rotary, along with some wonderful veterans, plan the dedica-tion ceremony for the Kitsap County Veterans Memorial in Waterfront Park in Silverdale.

In 2006, my department director at Kitsap County, where I work, walked into my office and said, “We’re taking over the Veterans Assistance Program. You’re resident veteran, put the program together and run with it.”

It’s been my honor since then to balance the debt.

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