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MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 2010 ASBURY PARK PRESS NATION www.app.com page as IwSSag gives deaf a neer to te nmrid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLADEGA, Ala. Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people. Gone are the days of a deaf person driving to house just to see if they are home. Wives text their deaf husbands in basement, just as a hearing wife might yell down the stairs.

Deaf teens blend in with the mall crowd because they're constantly texting, like everyone else in high school. Visit the Alabama School for the Deaf, and it's impossible to miss the signs of a revolution that many hearing people simply never noticed. Most everyone at the school in Talladega has at least one hand-held texting device, and some have two. At pen and paper," said Kochie, 29, a teacher at the school. "We'd have to write back and forth to communicate." Without his handheld, Walter Ripley said he would be back to relying on others for even basic communication.

And texting is less work, said Ripley, 54. "I don't have to depend on hearing people. It makes me a lot more inde pendent. I don't have to ask people to call for me. Asking for people to call can be very frustrating," said Ripley, the school's athletic director.

Kochie and Ripley both used sign language and interpreters during interviews, and deaf people still generally favor signing when talking face to face. It's faster and more expressive than pecking out letters on a tiny keyboard. "We'd have to go back to pen and paper." Matt Kochie, a teacher at Alabama School for the Deaf lunch, deaf diners order burgers and fries by text: Punch in the order and show it at the counter. For the first time, a generation of deaf people can communicate with the world on its terms, using cell phones, BlackBerrys or iPhones, of which some 260 million are in use in the United States. Matt Kochie, who is deaf, has been texting his entire adult life and has a hard time imagining a day without it.

"We'd have to go back to Obituaries House to vote on medal for Japanese-American veterans I was a former member of the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Irvington and presently was a member of St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Church in Jackson. He was an active member of ODUM, the Ukrainian Youth League in New York. Anatoli served in the Army in World War II in the European Theater. Born and raised in Ludzk, Poland, he lived in Maplewood before moving to Toms River in 1994.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 60 years, Barbara Volodin Szczerbinin; two sons, Anthony and Victor Szczerbinin; two daughters, Tamara Szczerbinin, and Ludmila Tolmachova, and his loving granddaughter, Kristina Marie. Visitation will be held Tuesday from 6 9 pm at Kedz Funeral Home, 1123 Hooper Toms River. Friends are invited to meet the family for the funeral mass at St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Church, 316 Cassville Road, (Route 571) Jackson on Wednesday at 11:00 am. Letters of condolence may be sent to the Additional obituarieSyA8 nie Steele.

He is survived by his loving wife, Pauline Lis-cio Verone; two sons, Anthony L. Jr. and his wife Donna of Bayville, Phillip and his wife Patricia of Bar-negat; two daughters, Deborah A. Gianatiempo of Toms River, Barbara and her husband Harold "Biff' Swenson of Bayville and two sisters, Stella Maltese of Perth Amboy, Antoinette Polito of Toms River. Also surviving are 8 grandchildren, Anthony, Frankie Rocco, Melissa, Lil'Deb, Bif-fy, P.J., Amanda, and Nicky G.

and 4 great grandchildren, Dominick, Abby, Little Frankie and Bella. Visitation will be Tuesday 2-4 7-9 PM with a religious service at 8:30 PM at Carmona-Bolen Home For Funerals, 412 Main St. Toms River, N.J. 08753. Condolences can be sent to: www.carmonabolenfh.com ANATOLI SZCZERBININ AGE: 83 TOMS RIVER Anatoli Szczerbinin, 83, of Toms River, passed away on Friday, September 17, 2010 at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune.

Anatoli worked as an Aviation Electronics Technician for the Electroid in Springfield, NJ for 20 years, He THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU Ronald Oba grew up saluting the U.S. flag and saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school, like millions of other American boys. But he was labeled an "enemy alien" after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, because his ancestors came from the same land as the attacking planes. To prove his loyalty, Oba joined the Army as soon as President Franklin D.

Roosevelt allowed Japanese-Americans to enlist. His segregated unit the 442nd Regimental Combat Team soon became the most highly decorated military unit in U.S. history for its size and length of service. This month, Congress is expected to award its highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, to Oba and others who fought, even as their countrymen viewed them with suspicion and distrust. Many wore the uniform while their families spent the war in detention camps back home.

The honorees would include some 6,000 Japanese-Americans who served as translators and interpreters against Japan, often on the front lines with Marines and soldiers fighting from island to island across the Pacific. The elite medal has been given selectively since 1776, when George Washington was awarded the first. Other honorees include the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Rosa Parks and the Dalai Lama. Congress awarded the medal to the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of black fighter pilots, in 2006. Oba is grateful, saying the medal would spread awareness about the veterans.

"We appreciate our legacy being carried on," Oba, now 87, said in an interview at the Honolulu clubhouse for 442nd veterans. "Finally, they're recognizing our contribution during World War II." Just outside the clubhouse is a memorial listing the names of nearly 800 Japanese-American soldiers killed in action. A plaque spells out the unit's motto "Go for broke" a Pidgin, or Hawaii Creole English, expression meaning "give it your all." A large granite map shows where the 442nd, which absorbed the previously established Japanese-American unit, the 100th Infantry Battalion, during the war, pushed its way through Italy and France. The area covers the Vosges Mountains, where the unit suffered 800 casualties maneuvering through fog and dense forest against hidden German machine guns to rescue the trapped "Lost Battalion" of the nearly all-Texan 36th Division. Sen.

Daniel Inouye, who took a break from college to enlist and lost his right arm fighting in Italy, said he didn't help draft the bill because he would be honored by it. But the Hawaii Democrat said the medal would give the veterans "a jolt of joy." "Keep in mind, there were some who volunteered from behind barbed wires. We in Hawaii volunteered knowing that we were 'enemy And that's not easy," Inouye said. The senator hopes the award will come soon because the youngest unit members are in the their mid-80s, and only about a third are still alive. if ANTHONY L.

"TONY" VERONE, SR. AGE: 78 TOMS RIVER Anthony L. "Tony" Verone 78, of Toms River, passed away Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 at Community Medical Center in Toms River. Born in Newark, he lived in Wanaque, N.J.

before moving to Toms River in 1965. Tony was a self employed Truck Driver who loved playing golf. He was a 100 disabled U.S. Army Veteran who served during the Korean War, Tony was predeceased by his brothers, Joseph and James Verona, and his sis-, ters, Angie Berardi, and An- ISS About rt 1 More about ll the CD3GSCBI) LTLP To submit an In Remembrance, please fill out the family by visiting www.kedzfuneralhome.com hip devices, as well as devices ui puns unu puiu. form and return it with payment 6 days prior to the day you would like the In Remembrance to appear in the newspaper.

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Pat O'Hagan, a widow and grandmother of nine, was reported missing from her home Sept. 11, just days after the Sheffield event, when a friend arrived to pick her up for a rug-hooking meeting and she wasn't there. Police believe she was abducted from her home. Authorities say she's mentally alert and there's no reason to believe she wandered off. Detectives continued following up leads over the weekend.

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