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Sunday Post Crescent C14 Miry of taking advantage of April 11,1 97 them. Still the participation rate is below World War II and Ko gust 1970 when his jeep hit a Blank Return No Bands Play, No Crowds Ch eer Vietnam Vets Return rean WTar levels. mine mat nppea ou doui ms 11 1X1 IV Home-fo What? Another of the VA's newer feet( broke his left leg in two UnaCCeDtable oroerams is aimed at the dime io and snrawd shraDnd problem which has spurted at into his jaw. Today he's still in R5 GllS WOlTICin an alarming rate, particularly 'After our outfit got hit, guvs are' eoine to adapt backiplovment benefits. Officials say groups "because they BY JOHN WHEELER AP Newsfeatures Writer the nospitai, waning wr uuviuis to decide whether still another into the mainstream of life and many not only have used this feel there isn't much else." spent 14 months in the hospital, WASHINGTON (AP) Kellems faces a new skir- ti and started thmlrinir ahrait thA in the use of heroin and other hard drugs.

But, indications are that the VA drug program, benefit but have exhausted it operation must be performed. Vet They trickle home every davJbecm use citizens," a I unc ui uic icasuiia uicy icci and have had to resort to wel How does it go with the in her 25-year battle with source it I tr i.m I I mull! ln. nrdwnii unheralded. They are the which handles only men seeking said, was a case like that of Wil-tBated guys coming in, like a fare. They often live with fami abled, how do they feel about the Internal Revenue Service.

help in curing themselves, is lie Williams, 22, who went to frag oatting every the war now, those who next to lies, friends or in crash pads IRS Commissioner Randolph falling far behind actual need. Vietnam twice, the second time day. w- Tnen I wanted the dead gave as much for their nam veterans, the nation's smd- young returned from yet anoth- Associated Press nation- er war wide survey of veterans found No bands tiav no crowds its swcv generally support-Jl. TrUJ A'. otj ed the VA's optimism.

The sur- W. Thrower told the Haddam, Pete, a likeable ex-infantry and abandoned buildings. Large numbers of vets are so little interested in dealing with the establishment they have not even as a volunteer "so people might think I was worth doing some- "The Cambodian invasion and thing for when I got out. But I the shootings at Kent State real- country as a man can? "Generally the disabled have high hopes," Wyman said. "A man, is one of those drug statis- TTi i-i uics.

ms prooiem: neroin. vey also indicated mat tears voiced by Johnson and other ex Me, i began on drugs in couple of GIs gave up in Boston. filed for jobless benefits. guess not, not even with my ly did it, though. I became "a honorable discharge," says Wil- real militant and we got a peti- Vietnam," he" said.

"I was on apathy, except within the close circle of family and friends. And even here the debate sometimes rages across living rooms perts were well founded that The problem," one Washing woman Thursday the agency will investigate the blank, signed 1970 income tax return she filed. "This form does not constitute a tax return as required by law," Thrower told Miss Kellems, 75, in a letter. Miss Kellems told Thrower in liams. The young Negro vet has tion up in the hospital by more from a small minority there That decided me to push on.

You give up and you might as well be dead. Twenty years old ton officials said, "is that a wife and 3-year-old daughter, than 200 GIs to Nixon saying we may come serious problems and over whether the conflict and two years of a high school edu- deplored the thing because it is kind of too early to give up." even dangers for society. pot first and then I started mainlining opium. Man, it's like a thousand needles when that scuff goes off in your body. I started because I was scared, and when I was on the stuff I the sacrifices were worth it, or cation and no job for the past just sucked in another country "Unfortunate" Events Negroes are too often poorly educated and still run into job discrimination." But another factor e'nters the picture, too, according to the Concerned Veter even moral.

Was It Worth It? And the war, was it worth it? Dave Shwartz. a University of six months, "what kind of sys- and now it would be more cam-tern is it that treats me like bodians along with more Ameri- as xne vexerans leu it among California student who served a Wvman: "Nah. wo should an open letter pubiisnea in a this? I go fight for my country cans and more Vietnamese get- themselves, few in the United didn't care what was happening 'year in Vietnam, spoke for and nobody helps me. Public aid ting killed Seven of the eight men in my ans from Vietnam, a national vet self-help organization funded by the Office of Economic pays my food and rent, but I ha- Soares and many with similar squad were using opium. We vent even got cartare lerc over views don't rule out eventual needed it.

It just sort of blotted Mates care tnat tney of the new vets when he and passed through a hell where 1 53, "Vietnam and the Army the dying and pain and terrorwere unfortunate things that and disgust were as real as in happened on the way to my 25th any war anytime. ibirthdav. Opportunity and headquartered in Chicago. It claims 28,000 things out. Sure, the officers to go look for work.

large scale home front violence "I don't want handouts, I to stop the war. But he repeat-want work. But if something edly emphasized fighting the knew we were using stuff, members from 29 states. A As pleased as they are with But the' apathy is best, they they re not stupid. But they never did anything." spokesman said the organization had been told by the De don't happen, then there may be system from the inside to make violence.

I definitely would like it change, "not by running otf to Lost Both Legs Pete lost both legs to a mine. the over-all record of veterans so far, psychiatrists, social workers and VA officials say the seeds of danger have been to take part in it to show people Canada or Sweden. What does Now 21, he returned to the have gotten it over with long two-page newspaper advertise-ago one way or the other. Proud i ment in the Washington Post of my service? No, not March 17 she is refusing to pay but I'm not ashamed either, like federal income' taxes because, some guys are, I want to be a she claims, single persons are photographer, you know, travel required to pay 20 per cent around a lot and see the world, more than married persons. A Hell, these won't stop me," he case against her is now pending said pointing to where his feet in U.S.

Tax Court should have been. But bitterness does crop up of- Woman Refuses to ten, particularly among the dis- a nomet abled, a VA hospital chief said: Dear Arms' DCOme "It is not like World War II for U.S. Citizen Anyway these kids. There aren't any pa- ATLANTA Ga (AP) Dr rades. Society sometimes for-Wiebke a German gets what they have given.

So born psychiatrist, became a they wonder, 'Is tins all I get for dUen Tuesd ite hep XrfJJI UK refusal to swear bear arms all that, most are proud they ft mt i served their country. Very few wish thev had to Canada." Dr. Thomsen, 48, applied for we got to have help and re- that accomplish?" spect." i Gave Up Medals implanted in a minority which United States with his drug problem and spent more than a is made up largely of blacks. So far, at least, law enforce-! Ike other unhappy veta at ment officials say fears have! the Detroit meeting, Soares left year-and-a-half hospitals. It Johnson said: "The draft calls brought in significant propor proved unfounded that young, his Vietnam medals, including say.

Because at the other extreme are the charges by those who stayed home and some who went that the vets were bloody accomplices of the? nation in what they call its most shameful hour. Many of the new veterans too many, the experts say are bringing home terrible burdens of guilt, anxiety and frustration, drug addiction and a hatred or denial of American society and its institutions which they say used them so harshly during veterans would turn their guer two Purple Hearts, in what was called by the men a coffin of rilla warfare savvy against so was here he" switched to heroin when they stopped shooting him with morphine and other pain-killing drugs. "We were buying fense Department that 80 per cent of "bad paper," or less than honorable discharges, now are being handed out to Negroes who make up only about 12 per cent of the military. "Look at it tins way," an official said. "A guy goes looking for a job and he's black, not too well educated and carrying bad paper.

Now what kind of chance does he have?" The answer appears to be not too much. Willie, a 21-year-old with an undesirable discharge after going AWOL in the Army, says things just can't go on the way ciety either for radical groups f6hame. The strains of anger, bitter- on the right or left or in small tions of less educated men and men for the less advantaged families. Unless they now are properly motivated when they come back into the mainstream (of U.S. society), they will be the stuff from pushers right in angry bands.

"Which is not to'ness, frustration and a sence of the hospital." personal deteat which run through some veterans leads VA Pete eventually turned him say they won one lawman added quickly. Few Vets problems for society, real prob- self in and now is hopefully on administrator Johnson to say No one rea knows what ciuzensmp more man iwo years their service careers. ilems that not only could they turn to At the University of California in Bergeley, cradle of the stu- Anr WkTTAl 1 if int ram ar Want to Forget Dr. Charles A. Stener, head Most simply want to forget of the VA's Vietnam Era Com- violence but "their frustrations and anxieties could lead to serious mental health problems we his way to a cure' in an East Coast nospitai.

"I'll never turn back," Pete says. The Petes who turn themselves in are only the small visible portion of an iceberg that part the apathy or hostility that ago but refused to take the oath greets manv vets at home plays to bear arms. Officials held up in their present mood. But her naturalization because her many suspect it to be significant refusal did not stem from reli-and voice criticism of old-line gious grounds. She has de-veterans groups such as the le-; scribed herself as an agnostic.

the war. Many want to drop outjmittee and chief of psycholoy they are for him. his wife andthe oresident of'flle student of society, often with harder three children. "I got no 10b, do not now see. may in a drugs, in hippie communes or can't get no benefits or into no couple of years.

body and a spokesman for the most powerful antiwar group said veterans were notable for of the' medical, surgical and neurologic hospitals, says: "I am very surprised there is so little acting out (violence) by that ultimate dropout, suicide. But so far overall serious school. If it goes on like this, ii have to start rippin' off people. Now ain't that a hell of a life their absence. gionandVFW and the business; U.S.

Dist. Court Judge community. Charles A. Moye Jr. however, Johnson, himself a past Com-Vnlpd rwpntlv that heoanse a The suicide rate for veterans apparently is soaring along with that of other youth in the same blacks.

They are very bitter in the sense they feel the need to That does not mean there are no veterans radical about the goal? But what can I do?" Rip has trapped thousands of veterans. Most will never try to turn themselves in. Many will lose the courage to take the cure by the time hospital space is open to them. Many, very many, will die one day of the habit. mander of the American SimrpmA Pnnrf niii tipid mental disorders among GIs run at about one half the rate for World War vets, thanks, VA medical experts say, to a better medical understanding of combat and other stresses age bracket.

gion, said: "I'd like to see the established veterans organiza war and other social issues. Take Chris Soares. 25, an ex-Marine from New York who is one of the most vocal members strike back. Black veterans ask themselves if they really count as a person in our society. They served and sacrificed and were more likely to see combat (pro Donald Johnson, a decorated World War II combat sergeant who now heads the Veterans Administration, said: "The veter ping off is a catch-all street term for holdups, muggings and the like.

Bitterly' Angry Willie spoke in a rap session with four other young men all a person could be a conscientious objector to military service based on moral and ethical beliefs, Dr. Thomsen could become a citizen by taking a modified oath. The VA hospitals, where Pete among men. Yet, suicides among veterans! and more than 800,000 veterans of the Vietnam Veterans tions do more (especially) in the metropolitan areas. They could do a lot more." In scores of interviews, the vets generally appeared indif and others in flieir same 20-to- ans are not only a tremendous natural resource, they are an portionately) than whites.

And then they came back to the Against the War. Soares spoke eloquently for an immediate end are expected to be treated this fiscal year, are a cornerstone of annual VA program. with "bad paper." They all were bitterly angry with society and their voices rose with their to the war during the recent De 29-year-old age group indicate a startling increase of about 50 per cent over what one expert could be expected based on past ghetto just when they believe things will be different because important and significant force in America if for no other reason than because of their The VA says that while the troit "inquiry" by the organiza indignation. Alan said, "Eventu they have done their bit for ferent as often as angry about those against the war and who will continue to return for refuse to be drafted. "Evervone years.

The indications are that has to do his own thing. If "they even with a major upswing in think they're right, then so 'e economy some of the darker tion which claims upwards of average case load is expected to rise steadily, modern treatment patterns. The trend continues their country. ally they re going to push me into a corner. I know they will.

5.000 members. Soares souvenirs from the war include a high upward. methods make for a faster turn- VA officials says jobs are the More than 2.5 million men were sent to Vietnam, where' How much can they tack on a over and that waiting lists are what," was a view often voiced. trends now being noticed wm single biggest issue with today's ly visible nervousness and constant pain from a leg wound 45,000 died and 296.000 were veterans. Labor Department down to 3,000 men annually 'But so.

too. were slogans like accelerate. guy? I not inclined to rip on people, but I'll I haven't To combat the problem, the VA for the first time has abandoned its policy of waiting for the veteran to seek out his bene from 11,826 in 1966 "Love it or leave it." An ex-par-! "The problems we see now that permanently crippled him. wounded, borne 200,000 will be statistics show unemployment partially or wholly disabled for1 among young veterans is nearly made up my mind yet. Not atrooper said, "I violently disa- are often disturbing," a VA offi- I joined the Marines because William C.

Wyman. 20, of Boston, can testify that fits. Now half a dozen programs an uncle said they had the best yet." Concerned Veterans, a pre the rest of their lives. I double the national figure. For 1 it i ah i At are under way, including coun speedier turnover can be a rela training and so it was the best: "About per cent oi mese Negroes, the rate is 16.2 per dominately Negro organization, bet if I wanted to survive.

En gree with the protestors. But I cial said. "And there is room to admire their courage. It's no lit- talk about potential dangers to tie thing to go to jail for an ideal our society. In coming years we and screw up a whole life." may have to drop the word po-Those who did go to Vietnam tential." cent, about triple the national seling in Vietnam to impress on the veterans what their rights tive term.

Wyman was serving on a voluntarily extended tour with the 101st Airborne in Au list, sure. I was patriotic and the national VA and others want somehow to channel Willie, Alan and thousands of others in the loved my country and still do. i and benefits are and the desira- figure. Varied Attack The job crisis has led to a multifront attack headed by the 1 White House and involving the same situation into productive and socially useful lives. The competition, says Browning, in mm Pentagon, private business and cludes the Black Battery, the Open Monday and Friday Black Army in Readiness and other "ghetto guerrilla" organi Wonderful Reductions! zations which need and seek the ex-GI's military expertise.

the Labor Department. Although officials claim some successes with the programs, they have yet to blunt, let alone reverse, soaring unemployment trends. Under the GI Bill, veterans Browning said many jobless ve 9. terans with less than honorable discharges including those with are entitled to maximum unem- combat experience are joining 133 W. Wis.

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