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F E AT U R E SALL ABOUTONE MOMENT, ONE MARINE | 36Wounded in Vietnam, Ed Hark didn’t let his injuries ruin his life

GET TING TO KNOWPASSIONATE PATRIOTISM | 44Georgetown’s DAR chapters prove that patriotism takes many forms

D E PA R T M E N T SLIVE AND LEARNPOSTMARK: MIDDLE EAST | 11Sun City resident recalls her twelve-year adventure in Saudi Arabia

A CLOSER LOOKOUR TOWN, THEN AND NOW | 16Page through Georgetown history in Donna Josey’s new book

CREATEFUNKY RUSTIC | 21Sound is more than background noise for one Georgetown business

HISTORIC VIEWBEN SNOWDEN: BROTHER, FRIEND, SOLDIER | 26Remembering a Georgetown soldier who didn’t get to come home

HOW’S THAT WORK?KEEPING UP WITH THE LIGHTS | 32What goes into getting all those twinkly holiday lights on the Square?

RISING STARSCOMPETITION SPURS SIBLINGS’ SUCCESS | 52Trio’s switch to English riding leads to awards

GIVINGBLESSINGS FROM TRAGEDY | 56SU’s Jameson 5K helps fund a scholarship in memory of an alumnus

A STONE’S THROWHALL OF HEROES | 66Patriotic museum worth the drive to Veterans Home in Temple

MUSINGS FOR MOMSPARENTING FROM THE BIRDS | 70Feathered friends can teach us a thing or two about being parents

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The spacious dining room at the William R. Courtney Texas State Veterans Home in Temple was packed with residents the day my son and his fellow Webelos (the final rank in Cub Scouts) set up a makeshift stage and performed skits celebrating Veterans Day. Each boy took on the character of a soldier from American history—the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam—and even though some of them rushed through their lines and others forgot theirs, they got tremendous applause from the audience.

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for two years before he died, and I visited him there often. My visits were a few years too early, though, to catch the amazing exhibit Rachel Brownlow writes about in “Hall of Heroes.” Like those skits the Webelos performed, the exhibit created by Vietnam veteran J. C. Fischer shows how Americans have long served their country with sacrifice and honor. Tiffany White’s articles on Ed Hark, a Marine wounded in Vietnam, and on Ben Snowden, posthumous recipient of the Silver Star, remind all of us just how extreme some of those sacrifices are. In her article on the Daughters of the American Revolution, Christine Bolaños delves into the many ways the modern DAR makes sure Americans never forget our heritage or those who’ve forged it and preserved it for us.

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Mention the words “Middle East” to Sun City resident Sandra Biles, and a quiet smile plays

on her face. What could this mean? Recent news tickers rac-ing across the television screen offer little help. Words like “bombing,” “war,” and “nuclear weapons” define and shape per-ceptions of the region. So why does Sandra smile?

She knows a different Middle East: not picture-perfect, but more welcoming than the dangerous place suggested by the headlines. Her journey to this far-off corner of the world began many years ago with a desire to explore.

READY, SET, GOSandra’s love for traveling

began in childhood. Fueled by her father’s Navy stories, her imagina-tion navigated China’s Yangtze River in her father’s naval gun boat and followed his adventures in South America. His military career moved the family from state to state, but never across the seas. Then, when she was thirty-one years old, Sandra set off on

her own adventure. In 1965 Sandra’s husband,

Arnold, took a position with the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). The job meant a new life in Saudi Arabia for the whole family, living in a company camp next to the oil production facili-ties. Arnold left four months be-fore a then-pregnant Sandra and their three young children.

Sandra couldn’t wait to cast off the ties of her suburban Illinois life. She sold the house and cars, packed up their belongings, and looked ahead to the adventure of living in a foreign land. “I don’t re-call finding it [the move] difficult, as the excitement prodded me on,” says Sandra.

She and the children boarded the plane and set off on a trans-Atlantic journey. Flying while seven months pregnant and with three small children was challeng-ing, but not overly difficult. The airlines “treated you like royalty and your children the same way,” Sandra remembers. “The kids got to go up in the cockpit, and they got a little travel log and wings.”

After a layover in Rome, Sandra touched down in Dhahran, Saudi

Arabia, in July of 1965. Her first breath of Saudi air nearly stag-gered her. Waves of intense heat blasted across the tarmac with the brutal—and soon to be familiar—force of a Middle Eastern summer. Sandra let the heat soak into her skin, accepting its embrace. She gently squeezed her children’s hands, encouraging them down the stairs toward Daddy, a new life, and what lay ahead.

SANDRA OF ARABIALife in the company camp, as

it turns out, wasn’t much differ-ent than life in America. Ar-amco families lived in mod-est houses with green front yards often sprinkled with children’s toys. Church, a movie theater, places to shop, a pool, and even a bowling alley were only a short walk or bus ride away inside the twelve-square-

Postmark: Middle EastTwelve years in Saudi Arabia, one fantastic adventure

Sandra Biles

A collection of gold treasures from Sandra’s life in the the Middle East.


block camp. But Sandra couldn’t wait to explore a country teeming with adven-ture outside their little oasis.

Dhahran, Al Khobar, Al Qaysumah, Hofuf—each city transformed from a point on the map to a collection of memories and faces. “The Saudi Arabi-an people are beautiful and generous. I never had a bad encounter while there,” says Sandra.

Strolling through the shopping district in Al Khobar, she met courteous and polite shop owners who spoke English for their American customers. Sandra marveled at the craftsmanship: hand-carved wedding chests, intricately-wrought jewelry, and countless other precious items waiting to become some family’s latest heirloom.

Shopping in Al Khobar and visiting the open-air markets in the oasis town of Hofuf weren’t Sandra’s only experi-ences in the kingdom. While camping in the desert outside of Al Qaysumah, in search of the famed quartz stones known as Qaysumah diamonds or desert diamonds, Sandra experienced

radar, and I paid attention to what was going on in that country. Soon, much of the world opened up to me,” Sandra explains. “I was able to see the person-ality of each country, study the history, culture, and politics, and have a broader knowledge of the world.”

Sandra stepped foot in nearly two dozen countries across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa during the twelve years she lived in Saudi Arabia. One day, Sandra hopes to return and visit the desert region she once called home. Today’s news paints a grim picture of the Middle East, but Sandra has seen the beauty behind the headlines and a shared humanity despite vast dif-ferences. “People are nice all over the world,” says Sandra. “They have the same smiles.”

her first great shamal. The fierce desert wind blew up a sandstorm that left Sandra, her family, and their friends huddled in tents. Though the storm obscured the desert treasure, Sandra managed to bring home two souve-nirs—another adventure for her collec-tion and at least a pound of Qaysumah sand stuck in quite a few nooks and crannies.

BEYOND THE KINGDOMBesides day trips and short weekend

trips within Saudi Arabia, Sandra got the chance for really big adventures. Each year, Aramco gave its employees a paid vacation—two weeks one year, two and a half months the next.

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(Left to right) Hofuf camel market. Sandra in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. Sandra’s parents bidding them good-bye on their return to Arabia.

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rare, vintage photos of George-town locales juxtaposed with current shots. Time travelers from Georgetown’s late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries might easily recognize some sites. Basic bones of many buildings around the Square remain intact. Grand old homes like the Leavell house on College Street or the Sansom house on South Main Street affirm Georgetown’s enduring sense of place. Southwestern’s Main Build-

ing still anchors the town’s eastern flank, and the San Ga-briel River still offers recreational fun. Old churches still stand, vital and welcoming.

These same travel-ers, however, might be mystified when

they look elsewhere. Where is the regal three-story Grammar School between Austin Avenue and Main? How can someone access “Ship-Rock’s” heights on the South Gabriel as cars speed past St. David’s Hospital on a big road called I-35? Where’s the polo practice field that used to be there? What happened to expanses of ranchland along the long, unimproved highway to Lampasas? Can that commercial mishmash called Williams Drive really be the same area? Today’s residents can let imagination drift back over the past century, knowing that answers are at their fingertips to explore.

Over two years ago, just after publication of her first book, Georgetown, in Arcadia’s Images of America series, Donna was al-ready at work on her latest book, spending hours with various photo collections and her ever-present magnifying glass, reading

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newspaper accounts from years ago on microfilm, and consulting old Sanborn maps. She repeatedly visited sites shown in old pictures, taking new pictures from multiple angles. When it came time to choose from the wealth of im-ages, she used only two or three of the eighty-five or so that ap-peared in her earlier book. Donna made selections based on “which ones would best tell the story” and on superior quality. “Writing this book certainly put my history ‘sleuthing skills’ to the test,” she says. “I worked tremendously hard on being sure, following many leads, connecting with new people and new sources.”

The Internet helped Donna find Johnny Brummett in Washington. His parents built the San Gabriel Motor Court around 1935, and the

family lived there for several years. Unsurpris-ingly, Johnny had a great picture for the book. Donna’s connection with Bill Atlee was more circuitous. Back in the 1980s, a letter came to The Williamson County Sun from Colorado

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with some pictures that Bill’s father, Luis, had photographed. “Sleuth Donna” found the old address via Google, ob-tained a phone number, and connected with an Atlee relative visiting from another state. This woman suggested that Donna call Bill, who happens to be a writer and historian in Sun City!

Donna’s daughter, Grace, helped identify another stubborn mystery picture of a white-streaked monolith towering over a horse-drawn vehicle somewhere along the river. Grace contacted an out-of-town Southwestern alumnus “who always hiked the river.” His information, combined with other research, brought Donna practically into the backyard of longtime friends.

“Evolution of the Railroad District”

was the hardest chapter for Donna because that area underwent radical changes over the years—residences, rail-based commerce, neglect, rebirth—

Early Georgetown merchant John Leavell built this imposing Queen Anne home c. 1880 at 803 College Street. (Author’s collection) Remodeled extensively in 2010, the Leavell house is uniquely situated, with a commanding view down Eighth Street to the square. (Donna Josey photograph)

Photographed around 1900, Georgetown’s cotton yard filled almost an entire block in the railroad district. (Author’s collection) Today, this same corner is viewed from the Georgetown Public Library at Ninth and Forest Streets. (Donna Josey photograph)

and images were difficult to identify. West of Austin Avenue to “the ridge,” a geographic upheaval high above the South Gabriel, it now hosts the library, police station, Williamson County An-nex, neat cottages, and parking.

Two other chapters of the book show-case roads and bridges, metaphors, per-haps, for Georgetown’s onward march. Donna opens her book by quoting diarist J. H. Kuykendall’s 1853 thoughts about the Georgetown area: “This is an admirable section and must soon at-tract attention.” And so it has.

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BYEMILY TREADWAYPHOTOS BY CARLOS BARRON

“We Are Sound” is the tagline for one of George-

town’s most unusual businesses with quite the ear-catching name, Funky Rustic. The name comes from an episode of the British comedy Lovejoy in which ac-tor Ian McShane says, “I like the natural look … funky rustic I call it.” Funky Rustic president Alex Brandon says, “The reason we chose the name is because [we think it represents] the laidback nature of the Austin area and how the Texas country inspires us to focus on our craft before the bot-tom line.”

Funky Rustic’s craft is, accord-ing to its website, to “create new and exciting audio for a variety

Funky RusticGeorgetown company specializes in sound design

was among the first to make me want to write music for games.” Now an award-winning compos-er, Alex is a highly sought-after writer and speaker in the gaming community. He currently serves as vice president of the Game Audio Network Guild, of which he is a founding member.

Presently, Alex is hard at work on Wasteland 2, the next inXile game. “I should clarify that I’m working on the sound effects, not the soundtrack,” Alex specifies. “I have done soundtracks myself, but this one is being done by Mark Morgan, who did the original Fallout games. But I’ve been tak-ing his music and playing it and integrating it into the game.”

Many may think sound effects means the same few bars of music with the occasional beeps,

of media.” Funky Rustic provides voiceover for radio and TV com-mercials for clients such as Dell Computers and National Geo-graphic. Alex had the opportunity to edit the voices of Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench for the James Bond 007: Bloodstone video game. He has also directed voice for actors Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson and worked with musicians as varied as Seattle’s Northwest Sinfonia and David Bowie’s guitarist Reeves Gabrels.

Much of Funky Rustic’s work, however, is in the video game industry. Funky Rustic has worked on such popular and familiar titles as Sonic Boom, Bejeweled 3, and Skyrim. Alex says that one score in particular, the original 1987 Metroid music score, “inspired me from the early days of games and


pings, and explosions generally associ-ated with video games, but for his cur-rent project, Alex recently recorded the Texas Lutheran Children’s Choir at Tex-as State University’s Fire Station Studios in San Marcos. Alex has a sound booth in his office, but it’s big enough for only one person, not a whole choir.

He laughingly calls his office a “man cave,” but he explains that all three computer screens are truly necessary to his job. One screen provides the game timeline with the timing information. On another screen, Alex uses a linear tool to create sound. “I have a sound li-brary that I access through a hard drive, which has terabytes of sound effects.”

The third screen allows him a view of video games that average gamers never see. Advances in technology now allow him to hook up to a gaming company’s server and get a development build of the game. “You can work right in the en-gine for the game…. Six or seven years ago you couldn’t do this. The internet speeds and technology just weren’t

like any other job, it can also be frus-trating. The business side, consisting of phone calls, Skype meetings, and email, has to be managed. Invoices have to be submitted. Funky Rustic’s CEO is Jea-nette Brandon, Alex’s wife. She handles the company’s finances and day-to-day business decisions while Alex attends events, participates in meetings, and vets business proposals. Recently, a small company in Australia submitted a proposal to Alex. He liked the look of it, and a Skype meeting occurred at a time that worked for both parties: 6 p.m. Texas time, 9 a.m. Australia time.

Alex has had the opportunity to work with musicians and artists around the globe. He’s been in the extraordinary position to travel through imaginative, make-believe worlds on his own fear-less quest to explore and create. Gam-ers may not be aware that Alex was one of the first to set foot on the virtual playing fields, but he has certainly left his mark on those worlds. And a funky one at that.

available.” But now whole game levels are available for Alex’s perusal.

Essentially, Alex is one of the first to beta test a new game. He gets to ex-plore it and play, but he also has to add the last integral pieces. Like a movie without background music or a musi-cal score, what would a video game be without sound? “I go through environ-mentally first,” he says. Background noises are added. In Wasteland 2, wind rustles the leaves, and an unknown assailant’s footsteps are audible along with the hum of a distant radio tower. Then sound effects are created for each character action and interaction. “You could probably spend one thousand hours playing this game and not find all of the things [I’ve put in],” Alex says. But he plans and designs sound for every eventuality.

Most of the time Alex’s job is fun, but

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Ben Snowden: Brother, Friend, SoldierRemembering a hometown hero

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don’t know who Ben was. But John Snowden remembers his younger brother—a daring boy who became a man, who became a hero.

Ben grew up on the family farm off County Road 110. Picking cot-ton, feeding animals, and doing chores instilled a strong work ethic in the young daredevil. “Ben was always taking risks,” John recalls. My dad had an old 1946 Buick. Ben took it out on CR 110, on the straightaway, and drove 100 miles an hour. He was prob-ably 15 years old at the time.”

Not long after, Ben boldly walked into the Marine recruiter’s office in Austin. John had joined

up a few weeks before, and Ben was determined to follow. There was only one problem—he was two years too young. The recruiter sent him home, but Ben’s desire to serve remained.

“The day he turned 17, Ben got our dad to sign for him, and he went out and enlisted in the Army,” says John. In 1954, Ben kissed his mother and little sister Carra and said goodbye to civilian life.

The boy who always pushed the envelope became a man of focused intent. He attended Airborne School and Ranger School—each a step towards his ultimate goal. In 1963, Ben be-came a member of the Green Be-rets. “He was very happy that he’d finally got on—he was in Special Operations, a very elite group,” John explains. “He felt like he had

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arrived, as far as an enlisted man in the military.”

Ben served with the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and did three tours in Southeast Asia. His missions were shrouded in secrecy, but through them he


established important relationships with indigenous people groups—a key factor in fighting the North Vietnamese and their allies. Ben was looking toward another tour of duty, but that wasn’t to be. He died a few months before his thirtieth birthday; his men and fellow Spe-cial Forces soldiers took it hard.

“He was such a personable guy. Everybody enjoyed being around him. Same way with his soldiers—they loved him,” says John. The day after Ben’s funeral, four of his Green Beret buddies—who’d flown a helicopter to Georgetown for the fu-neral—flew back the next morning just to have breakfast with Ben’s mother and John. They sat in her home, sharing personal stories about their friend.

It wasn’t until decades later, when Ben’s last mission was declassified, that John learned his brother died a hero. On June 15, 1967, Ben rode Chase—radio operator—on an H-34 Choctaw helicop-ter tasked with getting a Green Beret team on the ground in Laos. The team came under heavy fire from the North Vietnamese. Ben ordered the Choctaw back to save them, despite the danger. Unable to land, it hovered above the rough terrain. Ben was hit multiple times in the chest as he leaned his 6'6" body out the side, reaching down to lift up his fellow soldiers.

For his act of gal-lantry, Master Ser-geant Ben D. Snowden was posthumously awarded the Silver Star in November 2012. John watched as Ben’s widow, Betty, accepted the award the follow-ing March. He knew all the attention would’ve bewildered a man who

was modest about such accolades. “If Ben had gone to his Silver Star cer-emony when 200 people were there, he would have looked around and said, ‘What the hell are all of you doing here? I was just doing my job.’ That’s how he was.”


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Keeping Up with the LightsWhat goes into the Lighting of the Square each holiday season?

Several thousand people watch in anticipation as the mayor begins the countdown for the Lighting of the Square

for the holidays. It’s a magical experience—the Georgetown Square, which was all business the day before, suddenly trans-forms into a holiday wonderland. Without spoiling the magic, Shelly Hargrove, Main Street Manager, describes the work that goes into lighting up the Most Beautiful Town Square in Texas.

WHO PUTS THE HOLIDAY LIGHTS UP, AND HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

We use a professional lighting company. It takes them three to five nights. We don’t want them to block off parking during business hours, so they work at all hours of the night and sleep during the day. We’ve used professionals for the past three years.

WHAT DID THE CITY DO BEFORE HIRING PROFESSIONALS?

We bought lights and wrapped the trunks of the corner oak trees ourselves with bigger bulbs, C-7s—the ones you see on the

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tops of buildings. And it looked really… not good. That’s when we decided to let professionals handle it.

HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST?The first year, it cost us around

$30,000. This year, we’ll spend about $48,000.

WHO COVERS THOSE EXPENSES?City Council agreed to fund fifty

percent of the cost, and the Main Street Advisory Board, which is made up of seven community volunteers, was charged to raise the rest.

Linda McCalla, who was the first Main Street Manager, really kicked off professionally light-ing up the downtown corner oak trees. Her vision was to fundraise in the private sector—we don’t do any media blitz or big PR releases to raise money. It’s all about per-sonal relationships.

ONCE THE LIGHTS ARE UP, THEN WHAT?

It’s like a comedy of errors because you’re constantly trying to troubleshoot to keep it look-ing good every night. Chunks of lights will be out on a line and


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have to be replaced. We have squir-rels that chew through the cords, and then we have to redo the lines. Any bad weather blows them out of the trees. If the outlets at the base of the trees get too much water in them, they will completely shut down the whole tree, and we’ll have to go and hit the reset button. It happens a lot. During the holidays, I feel like a little elf or gnome behind the scenes, running around screaming, “We have to fix this before tonight!”

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There are people who believe in one moment that can change the course of a life, in one instant when the path shifts from the expected to the unknown. The doctor places a tiny bundle in the arms of a man now called “Daddy,” or a driver looks down at her phone for a split second, not seeing the other car.

Corporal Edward “Ed” Hark Jr. knows his moment down to the minute. Sitting on his back porch with Rainbo, his twenty-year-old orange tabby, curled at his feet, Ed recounts the events of that fateful morning.

DREAM JOBAs a child, Ed wanted to be one thing when he grew up—a Marine.

During World War II, his father enlisted in the Marines but was injured before starting boot camp. The 4–F label was the death knell that de-stroyed any hopes of Ed Sr. becoming a Marine. “He always talked about how he wanted to be a Marine,” Ed says. Wearing the crisp dress blues was a dream father and son shared, a dream the son determined would become reality.

Ed enlisted in the Marines in 1962 as a non-commissioned officer. “I was a grunt—a grunt Marine. It’s a fond term, a term of endearment,” says Ed. After boot camp, he spent two years aboard the USS Long Beach and was later stationed at Camp Lejeune.

Life was good. Ed had achieved his dream and made Dad proud. His beautiful new bride, Kathy, was expecting their first child, and Ed couldn’t wait to meet his daughter. But with the stroke of a presidential pen, peacetime became wartime. Chaos had erupted halfway around the world, and America was sending grunts to Vietnam.

War, wounds, and hope—How Vietnam changed Ed Hark for the better


IN COUNTRYRemnants of winter evaporated the

moment Ed’s transport plane landed in Da Nang on December 1, 1965. Sweat poured down his face in the triple-digit heat and oppressive humidity, soaking his green fatigues and dripping on his polished boots. Welcome to Vietnam.

Ed was assigned to H Company, Sec-ond Battalion, Ninth Marines. As part of the weapons platoon, his job was to accompany other platoons on mis-sions and operate M-60 machine guns and rocket launchers. They patrolled through dense jungle and rice pad-dies, encountering enemy forces nicknamed “Charlie” or the hidden surprises Charlie left behind.

A week after Ed landed in Vietnam, around his twenty-first birthday, he and Second Platoon were out on his first long patrol. Calm but alert, they made their way through a field toward a small tree line. It wasn’t so bad—that was, until they ran into Betty.

“The guy next to me tripped a booby trap—a bouncing Betty mine. It blew up and knocked me unconscious. I took shrapnel in the face and, fortu-nately, in my flak jacket and hands, but it nearly split the guy next to me in half,” Ed remembers. “That was very traumatic for me. I thought, ‘Okay, I’ve got about another year of this.’”

But he didn’t.

TICK, TOCKOn April 15, 1966, Ed and his fel-

low Ninth Marines helicoptered in to secure a military outpost. South Vietnamese soldiers had abandoned the ARVN Thirty-ninth Ranger outpost stocked full of weapons and muni-tions. As the helicopters spiraled down, the ground crawled with men trying to pick the outpost clean. The Marines landed without incident and secured the fort and remaining stockpile. Ed knew the likelihood of the Viet Cong coming back was high, but he wasn’t scared.

“When I was in the jungle with the Ninth Marines, I felt as safe as I was anywhere else in Vietnam,” explains Ed. “We were a good, sharp infantry unit that looked out for each other.”

Their skills and training were put to the test the next day, just a few hours before dawn. Scavengers had returned under a moonless sky. Approximately

The force of the impact stopped his watch and marked the moment his life changed—4:16 a.m. on 4/16/1966. Ed took a round to the face; it destroyed his left eye, left cheekbone, and a few teeth before lodging in the roof of his mouth. His right eye was hit, too. Ed was blind and still in the middle of a life-or-death battle.

Now unable to see his targets, Ed reloaded pistol and rifle magazines for Bugsy until they ran out of ammo. The firefight lasted a grueling two and a half hours, ending when U.S. air support arrived and evened the odds. Never once did the Viet Cong break the Ninth Marines’ perimeter, but the cost for Ed’s unit was heavy: ten dead, thirty-seven wounded.

SEEING THE LIGHTEd woke up in the hospital two days

later, facing a dark reality—his left eye was gone. The loss of his sight in one or both eyes meant a medical discharge from the Marines. This was his dream career; what was he going to do now? How was he going to provide for his family? As waves of depression threatened to crash over him, his doctor offered a surprising take on Ed’s condition. “You lost your left eye, and your right eye got hit, too. We saved

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The doctor’s words sparked a change in Ed’s perspective. “That was the beginning of a good, healthy outlook about it,” says Ed. “I think I sort of held that, remembering all the tough times that I went through and the guys that didn’t get the breaks that I got.”

After being discharged, Ed spent thirty years working in the trucking industry. His ready smile and positive attitude haven’t diminished over the years. Now retired, Ed volunteers with the Marine Corps League, an organiza-tion that supports and assists Marines and their dependents in times of need.

Ed’s mission now is to be there for the Marines lying in a hospital, still reel-ing from the effects of their own life-changing moments, to let them know that they’re not forgotten and, maybe, to be the voice that shines light into their dark reality.

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G E T T I N G T O K N O W

Some people imagine the Daughters of the American Revolution as ladies wearing hats and socializing over tea. But

the members do more than get together to compare genealogi-cal charts. The National Soci-ety Daughters of the American Revolution is a nonprofit (and non-political) service organization for women founded in 1890. Its mission, as stated on its website, is “promoting patriotism, preserv-ing American history, and secur-ing America’s future through bet-ter education for children.” DAR members volunteer at schools and historical sites; restore cem-eteries, documents, and artifacts; initiate programs to help veterans, and so much more.

Georgetown has two active DAR chapters that perpetuate the society’s mission. A peek into both chapters shows that being passionate about patriotism takes many forms.

BEING A PATRIOT MEANS BEING THERE

One woman towers above the others, while another, petite, exudes a maturity that belies her youth. One shyly tells her story. Another dramatically recites a poem expressing her feelings. They are among the six proud

graduates of an intensive seven-week program at the Women’s Trauma Recovery Center in Temple that provides treatment to female veterans who have endured sexual trauma.

In the audience at the gradu-ation is a group of women who are there to provide emotional support to the veterans. They are members of the Robert Gilbert Livingston Chapter.

The program’s graduates “run the gamut from very quiet people to those very open and outspoken,” says Pam Friedman, co-chair of the chapter’s Veter-ans Project, which was begun by Betsy Kaufman in 2008, when the chapter began donating Christ-mas gifts to the WTRC. In 2011, Cindy Blankenship, a retired Army veteran, reorganized the proj-ect to donate comfort bags monthly. Lydia Pierce began leading the project in 2012. The Veteran’s Proj-ect is just one of the many activities of the chapter.

The women who are in the trauma recovery program, says Chapter Regent Barbara Elrod, may have been abused “a

long time ago or recently. They’re different ages and from different military branches.”

Barbara explains that the comfort bags are intended to let women entering the program know that they are valued. “These women go through a very inten-sive psychological program to help them come to terms with their abuse.” Inside the bags are, among other amenities, bath tow-els, loofahs, body wash, powder, lotion, make-up and nail prod-ucts, hand sanitizer, pill minders, and fuzzy socks.

Graduation day, Pam says, “is very positive and upbeat—very emotional at times.” Graduates express “their hopes and dreams for their new futures in stories,

Think the DAR is just a social organization? Think again. Two DAR chapters in Georgetown demonstrate that patriotism is a hands-on endeavor.

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(Left to right) Sally Hunt, Lydia Pierce, Barbara Elrod, Rene Piotrowski


songs, poems, and letters, as well as in speaking to the group.” Afterwards, DAR members talk with them “woman to woman. We tell them that we feel for them and that we want to help them.”

Pam adds, “We are very proud that they have served our country. It doesn’t mat-ter that this has happened to them. They have served. They are patriotic, brave, and strong.”

SPREADING PATRIOTISM AROUND

When members of the Daniel Coleman Chapter received their Commemo-rative Partners starter kit from the Vietnam War Commemoration, they got excited.

“One of the items in the kit was a full-sized Vietnam Commemorative Partners flag. We decided that march-ing with the flag on full display was an excellent way to begin our efforts as Vietnam Commemorative Partners,” says Chapter Regent Rene Piotrowski.

Commemorative Partners must conduct two yearly events to recognize, thank, and honor Vietnam veterans and their families. So the chapter marched in the Sertoma Round Rock 4th of July parade with the new flag to honor Americans who lost or risked their lives in Vietnam.

DAR members feel a calling to keep the legacy of servicemen alive and to support the men and women of today’s military through various programs.

One of the programs in which Daniel Coleman chapter members participate is Helping a Hero, which constructs homes designed to meet the needs of wounded veterans and their families. “Volunteers from the chapter made certain that the home was clean the day before the event,” Rene says, “and [they] served refreshments baked by chapter members at the ceremony the next day,” when the family received the keys to the home. “It was a very mov-ing experience for all who participated because these valiant men and their families have given so much so that we can have the freedoms our great coun-

try provides.”Members contribute to other proj-

ects for veterans and current service members, too. They collect wish list materials for the Veterans Hospital in Temple and help with donations for Fisher House, which enables families of wounded soldiers to stay by their bedsides. The DAR Project Patriot Committee supports service person-nel in current conflicts abroad. Rene says her chapter sends money and care packages for that effort, and they col-lect donations for active duty military through Blue Star Mothers of William-son County.

PASSING DOWN PATRIOTISM Both chapters recently partnered to

bring the Williamson Museum’s Revolu-tionary War Traveling Trunk to schools. Inside the trunk teachers find materials to “bring history to life and engage stu-dents in hands-on activities,” explains Danelle Houck, education program coordinator at the Williamson Museum. The items “range from colonial cos-tumes to a replica of the Declaration of Independence,” Danelle says, and include a Betsy Ross flag and items from colonial life like a copper mug, a pewter creamer, and paper currency. In addition, the trunk contains items and information that help students connect to “events occurring in Texas during the American Revolution.”

Promoting patriotism both past and present is the passion of DAR mem-bers—and they express that passion through all kinds of activities, whether it’s through a trunk of histori-

cal treasures or a bag full of supplies to fortify a woman soldier in need. It’s a legacy that women pass down from generation to generation, says Barbara. “My sister, my daughter, and I all joined together. A lot of us have mothers who were members—it becomes a family’s source of pride.”

“We honor our patriots by being DAR members,” says Sally Hunt, Vice Regent of the Robert Gilbert Livingston Chap-ter. “The patriotism we each have holds us all together.”

Any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal descent from a Revolutionary War patriot can become a member of DAR. Chapter genealogists help potential DAR members search for ancestors through an online DAR database available to members. The DAR national headquarters in Washington, D.C., houses one of the largest genealogical libraries open to the public.

For more information on the Robert Gilbert Livingston chapter, go to www.texasdar.org/chapters/RobertGilbertLivingston/index.htm.

For more information on the Daniel Coleman chapter, visit www.texasdar.org/chapters/DanielColeman or email [email protected].

Daniel Coleman Chapter Regent Rene Piotrowski displays Vietnam Commemorative Partners flag.


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I enter the ring, I try to stay so focused that I don’t even think about being judged,” says Olivia. Luke heeds Paula’s advice: “I can control what I do in the ring, but I can’t control the other competitors,” he says.

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Don’t Be Square Three events to entice holiday shoppers to The Square

Thirty years ago, plywood dominated downtown Georgetown’s façades. Today, the city’s cap is adorned with such feath-

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weekly and monthly affairs take place seasonally. Visitors descend. Locals appear. Businesses thrive. Awards multiply.

Kay Briggs embodies that very process. For two years, she lived less than two miles from down-town Georgetown without so much as stepping foot in the heart of the city. In the six years since her first excursion there—as a Second Saturday Market Day ven-dor—the artist, business owner, and community leader has hardly been out of sight of the square.

“I thought, ‘What a wonderful little town! How have I missed this?’” says the owner of Pink Poppy ARTisans Boutique on 8th Street, previous owner of Diva Chicks on 7th Street, and former manager of a business on Austin Avenue. “That’s what started my career and my life in George-town.”

This month, three events de-signed to entice holiday shoppers to support local businesses are the result of efforts by Kay and her colleagues on committees of

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The second annual LADIES NITE OUT is Thursday, November 20, from 5 to 9 p.m. This part-shopping, part-party, all-fun event on the Square includes food, drinks, a fashion show, strolling musicians, and a photo booth for women blinged out to the theme of A Winter White Nite. Limited-edition goody bags for $10 include store samples, coupons, an event map—and a bracelet for men, their pass into the Man Cave at Roots Bistro that night.

Proceeds help fund the second event, LIGHT UP THE SQUARE, on Friday, November 28, which ush-ers in the third event on Novem-ber 29: the SHOP SMALL SPREE.

The Shop Small Spree is the brainchild of the MSAB’s Eco-nomic Restructuring Committee (ERC) and features four business-es whose owners are members of the DGA and Chamber. “This is the first truly cooperative event


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The shops’ identities will be revealed at 10 a.m. at the Georgetown Convention & Visitors Bureau on cards akin to passports. Participants whose cards are signed at all four stores will be entered in a drawing for a gift basket of coupons from downtown merchants. The draw-

More information about the events can be found online at www.mainstreet.georgetown.org/play, about the DGA at www.thegeorgetownsquare.com/index.html, and about the Chamber at www.georgetownchamber.org/.

“Our square is vitally important to the economy of Georgetown. We want to see how

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Texas State Veterans Home. To-gether, they’re known as the Hall of Heroes Memorial Museum, a curated testament to the count-less hours of service, sacrifice, and achievement marked in American military history.

While the exhibit has decked the Veterans Home’s walls for nearly seven years, it represents a life’s work of curating for retired Army and Navy serviceman J. C. Fischer, who began his patriotic collection as a teenager in the 1950s.

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Sam, where my father worked,” recalls J. C. “Their unit insignias were no longer needed, so they’d have to take them off and throw them away.”

Drawn to the insignias’ intricate designs, J. C. fished a few out of the garbage to take home and study. With the aid of a library book, he learned that each em-blem symbolized the history of the unit and when it came into being. “Some of the units date back to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Indian Wars,” J. C. explains. “I found it fascinating.”

His collection grew steadily throughout his own time in the military and burgeoned when it took up residence at the Texas State Veterans Home in Temple. Today, the museum boasts 1,900 different Distinctive Unit Insignias, about 1,000 different military medals, and more than 50 historical pictures and military documents dating as far back as the Revolutionary War, all dona-tions to J. C.’s collection. It’s worth mentioning that the collection lacks only 20 to 25 distinct med-als, including the Aztec Medal from 1847 and the Mexican War Veteran’s Badge from 1846.

Many of the medals were awarded to military women, and two of the museum’s awards were named on the back for women, an honor reserved for many of the highest level of recognition. One of those medals was given to a woman with whom J. C. served in Vietnam.

“A corner bunker got knocked down by a B-40 round, killing two or three men,” says J. C. as he tells the story behind the medal. “With her bare hands, she took that damaged barrel out of the ma-chine gun, put a new barrel in it, and put it back in operation on its tripod. Then she sat in the corner and waited until she got help.”

J. C. explains that “there’s a special medal for every war we’ve had, and each branch of ser-vice has its own distinct medal for bravery and service. A lot of American people still don’t know what a serviceman does in the military, and they don’t know how a serviceman is rewarded. They know about the Purple Heart, but a lot of lesser medals that men and women get are not televised…. If anyone cares to see them, I’ve got almost all of the possible medals on display.”

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My family has been bitten by the bird-ing bug. What start-ed out as one finch feeder hanging on

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Momma birds sit on their eggs for hours on end; then once the nestlings hatch, naked and unable to feed themselves, the parents (dads, too!) get busy finding food to fill their babies’ ever-hollow stomachs. Though the babies can’t see, they instinctively stretch

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connect what I see in nature to my life as a mother. What can I learn from these creatures that I can apply to motherhood? As I watch birds parenting, I am re-minded that when our babies are born, they require concentrated care and feeding, just like the nestlings. Most of us don’t have to hunt for food, yet we provide for our baby’s sustenance—often every two hours during the night. The thought of those days makes me happily weary.

When my daughter was born, even before she was born, I went on the hunt for every book I could find on how to mother an infant. I stayed up nights and worried about whether I could be and do all the things the books said I should: read to the baby at least twice a day, put patterned baby bumpers in the crib to stimulate her thinking, play classical music to increase her mathematical ap-titude. I laugh as I write this, but back then, you couldn’t have told me that I was going overboard and that these things might not really be necessary. Babies have

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Starting with a Blank Canvas (or Two)An exercise in creativity, team work, and trust

As my partner and I were ushered into the large, tile-floored art studio, I was struck with one resounding

thought: The canvases are blank.In my imaginings of Painting

with a Twist’s instructor-led group painting lessons—better known as “paint and sip” classes, since students are welcome to bring their own snacks and (adult) beverages—I’d always envisioned that the canvases came penciled with outlines for students to fol-low, perhaps something akin to children’s connect-the-dots or paint-by-the-numbers books.

“We have bottle openers, ice, and cups in the back, if you need them,” said our instructor, a lo-cal artist employed to offer us step-by-step instruction painting Austin’s famous bat bridge. “We’ll start our Congress Bridge sets in about ten minutes; before then, make sure to grab a smock—once this paint dries, it’s not coming out.”

Couples around us buzzed with booze and excitement. Tonight, we would become artists.

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Once class began, our instruc-tor welcomed us with an informal survey. “How many of you are here for the first time?”

Justin and I, along with more than half of the class, raised our hands.

“Excellent!” she continued. “To-night you’ll learn how to shade, blend paints, and create art. And I’ll let you in on something: All of you can do this. Just follow along to the best of your ability, and if you get stuck, let one of us know.”

I shot an excited smile at Justin and squeezed his hand. We’ve got this.

And, amazingly, we did! Within minutes, Justin and I were learn-ing to blend paints to look like a smoldering sunset; by 30 minutes, we were brushing on ripples and dabbing on clouds; and at the 45-minute mark, we took a break to blow dry our work in prepara-tion for the next phase: adding de-tail like shrubs, stars, and bats.

By the time we finished our co-created “masterpiece,” we had reached a freeing blend of artistic independence and co-dependence, working on our own respective halves while periodi-cally ensuring that our joint paint-ing was aligned.

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Our painting from that fun-filled date night is a reminder that, sometimes, even novices can cre-ate masterpieces.

RACHEL’S CHALLENGE: Make plans to get creative. For inspiration and DIY (do it yourself) creative projects, check out the website pinterest.com.

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Quiet curls of scent waft from the kitchen, beckoning us to come and taste a spoonful. Home-style soups send the mind back to childhood memories—watching a grandmother pre-pare a favorite recipe for the family, taking a stockpot full of comfort to a healing neighbor, gathering around the fire pit

with a bowl of chili. A warm bowl of soup heats the cheeks and delights the palette.


Corn and Roasted Red Pepper SoupIngredients:1 Tbsp butter1 yellow onion, chopped1 can whole corn, drained1 can low-sodium chicken broth

(or, for a vegetarian soup, substitute vegetable broth)

½ cup red bell peppers, roasted and chopped

1¼ cups water¼ tsp ground cumin¼ cup cream2 Tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped2 tsp lime juiceCorn tortillas, cut into strips and baked, for garnishSour cream for garnish

Preparation:1. In a large saucepan, melt butter. Add onion and cook for 5 minutes.2. Transfer onions to a blender and add 1 cup of the corn, ¼ cup chicken

broth, and all but 1 Tbsp of the roasted red pepper. Blend until smooth.

3. Pour remaining broth, water, and cumin into the saucepan. 4. Add corn and pepper purée and mix well. Cook over low heat for 5

minutes.5. Add cream, remaining corn and roasted peppers, cilantro, and lime

juice. Cook 1 minute.6. Serve with crispy tortilla strips, cilantro, and a dollop of sour cream on

top.

Rustic French Onion SoupIngredients:1 stick butter6 yellow onions, sliced thin1 cup white wine8 cups low sodium beef or

vegetable broth2 cloves garlic, minced6 thick baguette slices6 oz. Gruyère cheese, grated

Preparation:1. Preheat oven to 400° F.2. In a large, oven-proof stock pot, melt butter. Add onions and cook on

medium heat for 20 minutes until caramelized.3. Cover the pot tightly with lid and place in oven for 45 minutes, stirring

twice during the cooking process so the onions don’t burn.4. Remove pot and place it back over medium heat. Add white wine to

deglaze the pot, scraping up onions and bits on the bottom of the pot. Cook for 5 minutes.

5. Add broth and minced garlic. Reduce heat to low. 6. Simmer for 30 minutes.7. Toast baguette slices. Pour onion soup into bowls or ramekins. Place a

crispy baguette slice on top and then sprinkle generously with grated Gruyère. Broil until cheese is bubbling.

Chicken Dumplings in Chili BrothIngredients for the dumplings:3 chicken breast fillets, uncooked

and chopped1 egg white1 small red chili, seeded and

chopped2 Tbsp fresh basil, chopped1 Tbsp fresh ginger, grated

Ingredients for the broth:6 cups low-sodium chicken broth1 large red chili, sliced6 chives, chopped¼ cup Chinese cooking wine or sherry2 Tbsp soy sauce

Preparation:1. In a food processor, combine chicken fillets, egg white, chili, basil, and

ginger. Process until mixture is minced together.2. Form the dumplings by rolling 2 Tbsp of the mixture into a ball and

place on a cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining mixture.3. In a saucepan, combine chicken broth, chili, cooking wine, and

soy sauce. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes or until liquid is simmering.

4. Place half of the dumplings into the broth and stir.5. Cook, covered, for 5 minutes; then remove the dumplings. Continue in

the same way with the remaining dumplings, cooking small batches at a time.

6. To serve, place dumplings in a shallow soup bowl and pour broth over them. Garnish with chives and fresh lime juice.

CioppiniIngredients:3 Tbsp olive oil1 large fennel bulb, sliced thin1 onion, chopped3 shallots, chopped2 tsp salt4 garlic cloves, chopped¾ tsp dried red pepper flakes¼ cup tomato paste1 28-oz. can diced tomatoes1½ cups white wine5 cups fish stock1 bay leaf1 pound manila clams, scrubbed1 pound mussels, scrubbed and

debearded1½ pounds halibut or sea bass, cut

into 2-inch pieces1 pound uncooked large shrimp,

peeled and deveined

Preparation:1. Heat oil in large pot over

medium heat. Add fennel, onion, shallots, and salt. Sauté 10 minutes.

2. Add garlic and ¾ tsp red pepper flakes. Sauté 2 minutes.

3. Stir in tomato paste and tomatoes with juices, fish stock, and bay leaf. Cover and bring to a simmer.

4. Reduce to medium-low heat and cook for 30 minutes.

5. Add clams and mussels. Cover and cook about 5 minutes, until shells begin to open.

6. Add shrimp and fish. Simmer on low heat until the fish are cooked through, about 5 more minutes.

7. Be sure to discard any mussels or clams that do not open. Season the soup with salt.

8. Serve immediately with lemon wedges and parsley as garnish.


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The Caring Place needs your help to provide coats for kids and meal assistance to those in need this holiday season.The Caring Place will once again offer assistance to families this holiday season. The Coats for Kids program ensures that qualifying families can obtain a new winter coat for their children 18 years old and under. The Caring Place also provides HEB gift cards to qualifying families through its Holiday Meal Assistance program.

Distribution for both the Coats for Kids and the Holiday Meal Assistance programs runs from November 3 through November 26, 2014, Monday – Friday from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in The Caring Place Annex at 2001 Railroad St. in Georgetown (except for Thursday, November 13, 2014 when there will be no distribution). Recipients do not need to be clients of The Caring Place to receive holiday assistance; however, some documentation is needed to qualify. Please contact Nella Buffmire at 512-943-0726 for specific information about qualifications and required documentation.

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Georgetown View Magazine/ November 2014