The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • Page 16

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1969 KENTUCKY ADVOCATE. tUlNVULE, KENTUCKY PAGE SIXTEEN c3(icaiiDini( GDfiGB liilM EM? confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers since Iraq claimed the estuary as Its terrU tory Saturday. Iranian por. thorltles advised foreign ships to anchor outside the troubled waters. The vessel, carrying a cargo of steel beams, was escorted by two Iranian navy ships- and a squadron of F4 Phantom fight-er-bombers, received from the United States last year.

The Shatt al Arab separates oil regions and ports of Iran and Iraq. Both countries have artlU lery drawn up on banks, and an Iranian government spokesman sail Monday "fire will be answered by fire." IRANIAN SHIP CHALLENGES IRAQ ESTUARY TEHRAN(AP) The Iranian freighter Ebnt Slna was reported sailing through the Shatt al Arab estuary today with navy scorti and an umbrella of Jet fighters, challenging Iraq's claim to the waterway. of Iraqi troops were reported massed along the estuary but no Incidents were reported during the early part of the freighter's 80-mlle Journey, expected to take stx hours. The Ebne Slna was the first Iranian freighter to sail from the Persian Gulf up the RAINBOW'S 3 DAYS ONLY: At counter or pickup and delivery WHEN THE LITTLE CHILDREN came PLAIN SCXDBTTS 72(L)5GB5 SWEATEES 5ILA3LTS over from classes in Lee Hall with teachers, Governor Louie B. Nunn left at luncheon seat in the school dining room immediately along with Mayor Henson to go out and meet them.

Here Gov. Nunn is making a new friend, he had never while Miss Mary Ann Royster, teacher is next to Henson. In A Man's World WaJ VT'cK For MIX OR CALL RAINBOW NOW FOR OF WINTER GARMENTS ark, 5 MATCH A BOX Sanitone cleaning pressing TOOMBS Pit. 236-4274 for her fit of If T4 I ONLY Plus Regular Cleaning Charges When Picked Up Next Fall PRICE INCLUDES UP TO $250 INSURANCE ii i wzm Same quality 0. and I children slnginR somewhere.

August. Hills near Xhe Sanh: Am Assigned a Marine escort for 'he long, tough patrol near the DM Z. Never did I. walk so or get so hot, dirty and fired. I want to admit that maybe I am too wek for all that climbing, but the captain can't stand me, I knew, and I am determined to stick it out.

Then, they tell me that my big, burly sergeant escort has il- lapsed at the base of the hill and is to be evacuated. He was nervous, apologetic, embarrassed. "Can you Imagine, she's tough-er than a Marine," someone whispers loud. I don't feel par-tlculirly proud. September.

3algon: How good to look like a woman again! There Is a package from home same frilly slips, more rib. 1 bons, even mascara. I 0 to the press briefings and discovered Kto'my dismay that 1 am taller than General Westmoreland. My Vietnamese family tells me that I shouldn't go Into the jungles again. "Why don't you look for a husband maybs," the lady' of the house says.

October, near Chu Lai: Had enough of the fat life In Saigon. i Back on patrol with the 1st Cav. Walk through rice paddles and villages where the women bring me their sick children, probably thinking that I'm a nurse. I pointed to my cameras and try to explain why I am there. I don't like the way the old Viet-namese men stare at me.

November, Dak To: Bad, bru-tal battles for namaless, hills. Two dead GIs, like young, tired boys sleeping agal.ist a tree. Can't write of the horror. Don't want to take pictures anymore so I try to help bandage shat. tered arm, try to be of some use.

December. BuDop. I've got to leave. Can't please everybody. Goodness, I need a moral boost too.

Afraid to looklia mirror at that messy hair and unwashed skin. Sneak behind a tree to put on some lipstick and a ribbon in 1 (SBLGANGDS JASPER is 1122 N. Second Ky. Henson is behind the Governor Woman EDITOR'S NOTE Miss ju-rate Xazlckas "Sam" to her friends in the Marines was a freelance writer in Vietnam for more than a year. Now working The Associate! Press, she recalls her experiences and wounds in the thick of the fighting, where she was a worn-an In a man's world of war.

By JURATS. KAZICKAS Associated Press Writer War, A woman In a man's world. War. No matter how hard you try, you never really In. You never escape your feminity.

Nor do you want to lose II. Always that question, "Ma'am, what are you doing here?" from a diary hastily jrlbbled during a year reporting the war In Vietnam: April, 1967. Plelku: They tell me I can go on a bombing mis-slon but at lhe last minute, the colonel decides ho doesn't like the Idea of a woman flying where It might be dangerous. So we go, Instead, on a parachute drop of supplies to a Spe-clal Fones camp In the Delta. Open canopy and the sun Is, shining.

The countryside is i beautiful patchwork of pattern; rice paddles. The spn sirikes; the thin sliver of the Mekong, I see a fireball In the river. The plane jes Into a low dive feels like a roller coaster and I Iry writing In my notebook while upside down. Back at the officer's club I lis-. LESSNY6E3 KUSIC DIUCTOR YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE met before.

She is Violet Asherof my hair. A GI walks by and shakes his head. "Where do you think you are, lady? Fifth Ave-nue?" My fatigues are sweat-stained and I itch everywhere. The al-dler In my bunker looks at me and laughs. "Ma'am, I don't know how you do It but you STILL smell better than we do." "March, 1968.

Khe Sanh: Nev-er, never will I forget this day. Interviewed a young lieutenant from New York. There Is a shrill whistle and then a loud crash. We start running for a bunker but the rocket gets In the way. I'm crawling on the ground.

Only a concussion I say to myself but when I touch my face there are pieces of shrap- Bel In my cheek. Sting in my legs. Blood on my fingers. Why did It happen to me? I'm not a soldier. Four Marines are wounded with me.

We at to Charley Med no one Is quite sure what to do with me. My wounds aren't so serious, so I wait my ram. There Is a piece of shrapnel In that place where I sit and the doctors wonder how to be proper about It all. I am lying on my stomach. Have to say some, thing.

"Will the scar be below my bikini nark, doctor?" I asked. He glances down and smiles. "Most affirmative, ma'am." May. The Delta: I'm afraid of combat now. Thought I was so tough but no I can't fall asleep on the hard ground knowing that there might be a rocket attack.

Working out here as a girl was difficult enough when I was unafraid. Now, with nerve falling there 1.5 only one course left go home. DEARBORN, Mich. (AP)-Ford Motor Co. produced Its 75 millionth U.S.-bullt vehicle Thursday a blue Mustang con- vertlble driven off the assembly plant line by entertainer Jimmy Durante.

Of the 75 million vehicles do-! mestlcally produced since the first Ford In 1903, 61,900,000 were cars and 13,100,000 were trucks. VILLE Si Supply Co. II jten to their war stories, then some pilot comes 1 1 and tells us Bud has been shot down over North Vietnam. I remember his showing me pictures of his children. I t'llnk he was supposed to go home soon.

411 of a sadden, I feeldepressedand lonely. Go to sleep In a big ugly bant and wake up' In the middle of the night with the rain. May. Bong Son Plain: A pa-jtrolwlth the 1st Cavalry. How I hate these baggy fatigues and clunky igle boots.

They promised me lots of action many Viet Cong In this area but ev- erytlme things looked as if they'd start to happen, the colo. nel's helicopter arrived to bring me to another company. I am furious. They wouldn't even let me put my foot on a landing zone named after me (LZ Ka-zlckasf). A lady shoudn't be out there where she might get hurt, the colonel explains.

Was I supposed to say, "I'm no lady 7 June. The Oasis, near Plelku: It had to happen. My first bad ftreflght. Strange to explain I am not afraid. I guess I am too stupid or there Is just too much happening.

Noise of guns, explosions, shouting, the cries of the wounded. It seems as If It lasts all afternoon, but when the shooting stops I see only an hour had gone by. Sun still shining. Hot, muggy day. Feel so helpless with the "wounded.

One blond, smooth, faced boy: a bloody bandaje across his chest. He keeps squeezing my hand and tries to smile. Just don't know what to say. "does It hurt very much?" He probably thought, what a dumb dame, but Instead says "Oh no, ma'am, only when I breathe." June. Dragon Mountain: Lade-da.

Dinner with the general. He Is magnificent. Tall, with gleaming hoots and starched uniform. Me: blood stalls on my Great roast beef, cucumbers In oil, even red wine. Candles that keep flickering with the wind coming through the tent.

Must remember what he said. "Real proud of my men. Why they were just boys from the streets and era In Vietnam they become men." Talks about ratios, miles of opened roads, pacified villages. He loesnt like the Ice cream and orders It taken away. Keeps dropping bits of Spam into his dog's mouth.

July. Que Soi Valley: Qulat times of war. Out o.i patrol we come to a grove of cocon it palms, pineapples and oranges. I discover that by mixing Kool. Aid with coconu1 milk and pouring It Into a pineapple we get a super drink.

Someone calls It Airborne Ambrosia. We dig In for the night. Two hvsky, handsome GIs share my trench. They are from New York. In the dark we smo'ce and talk about their girls, nightspots t.xey used to visit, the future.

During the night It begins to rain but I stay. dry. Those two strong backs shelter me. Expect lots of teasing '-')e next mornlig. Silting on a bunker watching the sun go down.

The sky over the village Is a svlrl of pastels while off In the distance a jet plane drops Its bombs and l'ie horizon becomes a white, tree-shaped cloud. I'm tired but oot unhappyThe men are kind anl frtendly and the war to have stopped for a few day j'. Cool evening wind. Sound II i II 1 I mmmuMk i 1 AT FDLISlT BAPTIST CHURCH BROADWAY TODAY TOdD C3AY 4 EACH NIGHT AT 7:30 P. f.l All New Colors Just Arrived.

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