Kitsap Veterans Life, March 28, 2014

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(Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about the Anonymous Battle as told to Veterans Life by those who were on the ground in Vietnam at the time.)

Looking back 44 years ago when he was a young 18 year old grunt in the Army, Vietnam Veteran Paul Evans simply said, “We formed our own bond because of how we were treated when we got back.”

Evans, now 62, remembers being the baby of Charlie Co., 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Calvary Division. Evans had been in the field for only two weeks when he found him-self in the middle of the Anonymous Battle occurred on March 26, 1970.

Evans arrived in coun-try on Feb. 21, 1970, from Travis Air Force Base. He was assigned to a replacement company for the 1st Cavalry and after an initial stint as a perimeter guard, Evans was assigned to Charlie Company, 2/8 Cavalry.

That unit was assigned to Tay Ninh, along the Cambodian border northwest of Saigon.

“The unit had a bunch of walking wounded and I thought, ‘Oh, Lord, what did I get myself into?’”

Evans was a rifleman in Charlie Company when they found them-selves on top of North Vietnamese bunkers by the Cambodian border. He closed his eyes, visu-alizing that day long ago, and began to describe his recollection.

“I had a hard time adjusting to the jungle. It was hot that day and muggy. We went from point platoon to rear marching in a single column when it hit. I was by an anthill. It was

loud. I was scared and laying face down on the ground.”

During those first few moments, Evans heard a lot of small arms fire.

He recalled two of the men in the point team were taken out. Confused by all the com-motion, Evans remains thankful for their field first sergeant, Sgt. Dawson, who pulled him up, literally, by the back of his pants, and set him straight.

“I was scared. I didn’t know what to do besides fire.”

So that is exactly what Evans did, spraying the jungle with a constant stream of rounds out of his M-16. Added Evans, “Yes, I was the baby of the unit and I was known for clowning around. But in battle, I straightened up, got pissed off, and fought.” Evans and the other men in Charlie Company

were pinned down for eight hours fighting the North Vietnamese. He recalled what smelled like freshly cut timber in the air. After hours of fighting, as dark-ness approached, Evans remembered seeing a tank driving through the jungle. The tank, with Aunt Jemima embla-zoned on it, was Alpha Troop arriving to their rescue.

“They told us to settle down.” Evans said, “They said they were going to get in and get us out and then they went to fight.”

And that’s exactly what Alpha Troop did.

At the end of the bat-tle, two of Alpha Troop’s men were dead and 40 were wounded. In yet another show of heroics, Alpha Troop loaded up the Charlie Company survivors, the dead and the wounded, into tanks and armored personnel carriers (APC).

Said Evans, “Captain Hobson, my CO (Commanding Officer) was running around giv-ing orders. He had a cut on his face from shrap-nel. We were told to get on the vehicles so we could get out of there.”

Evans jumped onto the top of an unarmed APC and noticed the wounded men inside the vehicle. A respite from the constant barrage was near.

Alpha Troop took the men of Charlie Company to a clearing away from the bunkers and fed them a hot meal.

“They didn’t make us do guard duty; they told us to rest,” Evans recalled. “The next morning they fed us a hot breakfast and after that we drove to FSB (Fire Support Base) Illingworth.

Evans served in Vietnam for 10 months,

from Feb. 20, 1970, until Dec. 27, 1970. He remained in the Army for a total of eight years and then after his dis-charge, served for one year with the Texas Army National Guard.

On June 24, 1979, Evans reenlisted, this time with the Navy, as an Aviation Bosun Mate. He served 12 years in the Navy on active duty, finally retiring in May of 1991.

Living in Olalla with his wife Debra Evans, whom he calls the love of his life, they were married on an auspi-cious March 26, 1992. On that day, Evans just happenedto read a maga-zine that was seeking Anonymous Battle sur-vivors.

He responded. To his amazement, it was (retired) Capt. John Poindexter, Alpha Troop’s commander, and the savior of so many lives during the Anonymous Battle. He was seeking to have those brave men who fought relent-lessly in the Anonymous Battle acknowledged by the United States Government for their service and actions on that day.

Evans hesitated sev-eral times when asked about the medals he had received for his service, especially when discus-sion turned to his Bronze Star. “I don’t feel like I deserve it,” he said.

The men of Charlie Company attended a Charlie Company reunion in 2012 in Branson, Mo. They keep in touch via email, phone and Facebook.

“I was a grunt,” Evans said, reflecting on Vietnam, adding, “I was a proud grunt.”

(To read the first part of this series, go to www.kitsapveteranslife.com.)

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Paul Evans in January of 1971 returning from Vietnam.

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Charlie Company at a 2010 reunion in Oklahoma.

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The South Vietnam-Cambodian border where Evans fought.

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Spring has finally arrived! With it comes our April issue focused on female veterans and those who dedicate their services to women who have served. While most of our issue highlights the impact women have had in and around the military, some special features will be of interest to all veterans.

Writer Jessica Ginet continues her three-part series on The Anonymous Battle. The stories shared are straight from the mouths of Vietnam veterans who were on the ground at the time of battle.

Reporter Dannie Oliveaux spoke with the national president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Armithea “Sissy” Borel about her recent visit to Kitsap County. Borel shared her desire to see membership grow, along with her love of visiting with veterans and their families from across the country.

Writer Seraine Page follows up on the same note to see what local Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars really do. Local units note that membership is dwindling, but offer a variety of ways women of all ages can get involved. The units are open to any women who have a relative who is serving or has served in the military.

Throughout her story, Leslie Kelly writes about Drea Bowen, a hero of different sorts. While Bowen never served, she is looking to help those who have, specifically female veterans who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. Bowen is working on a pilot equine program geared toward helping female vets heal from PTSD through horse therapy. The story offers details to those who wish to get involved with helping or receiving therapy.

Reporter Chris Chancellor offers insight on former Air Force member Nancy McDaniel and her jour-ney to becoming an author. McDaniel wrote a book focused on the military sites, lighthouses and memo-rials of Puget Sound. McDaniel traveled throughout Puget Sound to collect information for her book to share local military knowledge.

There’s all kinds of vets. Jean Sherbesman is a different kind of vet. Writer Leslie Kelly shares Sherbesman’s story of being in the Royal Women’s Air Force. The England native also married into the American military life when she met her Navy husband.

Columnist Thom Stoddert shares information on how legislation really works when it comes to bills about veterans. In his column, readers will find information on just how the volunteers of the Veterans Legislative Coalition get bills of interest pushed through the legislature.

In her story,“Third generation vet has deep roots in Kitsap,” Leslie Kelly shares the interesting details of one Korean War vet’s life. Tracyton-area resident Doug Clare recalls the early days of Kitsap County and his military experiences. He even remembers when Wheaton Way was just a dirt road.

As always, we want to hear your thoughts, experiences and stories. If interested in sharing your military experiences, contact us about writing for our publication or just sharing your story with one of our staff writers.

Feel free to contact Seraine Page at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you.

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By DANNIE OLIVEAUXArmithea “Sissy” Borel,

national president for the Veteran of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary, made a visit to Kitsap County recently.

Borel arrived in Port Orchard on March 23 to visit residents in the Washington Veterans Home at Retsil. While there, she enjoyed an ice cream social with veterans and staff. Later in the day she toured VFW Post 2669 in Port Orchard and the Veterans Memorial Wall.

On March 24, she made a trip to Lakewood and toured the Lake Golf Course. Borel returned to Bremerton to visit the Evergreen Park 911 memorial and dinner at VFW Post 239 with several elected officials.

Borel, 62, was born in the tiny town of Starks — a small town of 300 in the southwest-ern portion of Louisiana. She was one of five children that attended school in the town and graduated in 1969.

“My family was very close to each other and am very glad to say we still are,” she said.

Borel became involved in the VFW Ladies Auxiliary in 1993, after her father — a military veteran — died. Her mother invited her to join Post 4759 in Starks.

“I felt that I needed to give something back to society after having such a wonder-ful father for so many years and for my brother Shelton

Ashworth’s life being spared from a mine explosion while he served our country in Vietnam in 1970,” said Borel.

It was long after becoming a Ladies Auxiliary member that Borel started asking ques-tions about the programs sponsored by the VFW.

“I started asking questions about the programs our orga-nization had and what we as members can do for our vet-erans, their families and our communities,” Borel said.

While at the post, Borel was elected as an officer in the Ladies Auxiliary and served as president on several occa-sions. She has also served as guard, conductress, chaplain, junior and senior vice presi-dent of District 5, along with attending state conferences and conventions.

“I asked more questions and was soon asked to run for the department offices also,” Borel said.

She served as the state president in 2004 to 2005.

“I would have stayed another term,” said Borel. “It didn’t feel like I was able to accomplish all I wanted to during just one year.”

In 2013, Borel was elected as the organization’s national president.

Borel said she is humbled to represent approximately 500,000 women who serve veterans daily as members.

“These ladies — the grass roots of the organization — are the most amazing and

giving people I have ever met,” said Borel. “I know and appreciate the fact that it’s the work that each person does together and not just the work of one that makes our organi-zation the success it is today. I am very lucky to have many of the past national presidents as mentors as I serve.”

Since becoming the

national president, Borel has visited 48 states and will visit the remaining two in the near future. During her visits, she has met with the state presi-dents.

“The state presidents that I have to work with are fan-tastic and very hard working ladies,” said Borel. “We have two states that have achieved

100 percent in membership with all the others vowing to not stop until they reach that goal also.”

Borel said most of the Auxiliary’s membership is comprised of mostly World War II, Korean, Vietnam and Desert Storm female relatives.

“We are working hard to recruit the family members of the Iraq and Afghanistan, and all ladies who have family who have served on foreign soil or here in the ‘War on Terrorism,’ she said.

She said the largest hurdle is that most women don’t know that they are eligible to become members of the Ladies Auxiliary.

“We must get the word out to all ladies,” Borel said.

Borel said her personal feeling is that if a woman has a family member who gives her the eligibility to join the Auxiliary, that woman should want to honor that person’s service by serving other vet-erans and their families and continuing to be a voice or advocate for their benefits and entitlements.

“What greater purpose can anyone have?” she asked.

Borel said as she finished her term as national president, she looked back on goals she set for herself.

“My main goal was to meet the membership and thank as many as I could personally,” said Borel. “I also wanted to cut costs in any way possible and give back to the Ladies

Auxiliaries who desperately need funds to work our pro-grams and provide aide to our veterans.”

She said the organiza-tion needs to implement the complete use of technology and work smarter and more efficiently than they are doing now.

Borel headed a “Celebrating America’s Freedom Event,” where the incoming president chooses a different area of the United States where freedom was fought and won, and the women go there to host a patriotic program.

During her term, Borel said the organization has contin-ued its involvement in stand-ing up for veterans’ benefits and entitlements by writing, calling and visiting govern-ment officials; sending care packages, letters and much needed items to soldiers over-seas and at their home bases; hosting deployment and welcome home parties; pro-vided needed items to veteran hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities; raising money for scholarships for students; and providing Americanism programs in schools.

She said the group also worked hard to raise funds for cancer research.

Despite all the travel and work, her memorable moments are visiting the veterans.

“Having the opportunity to thank them, talk with them, hold their hand or even hug them was an absolute joy for me,” said Borel. “I have enjoyed many ‘war stories’ and will always remember the spark in their eyes as they shared their stories. I can’t forget the fact that at each visit there was time to social-ize with the membership and that was always very special to me. I hope each veteran that I have met knows how much I appreciate them for the great service they pro-vided for our country and the freedom they give each of us.”

Borel had the privilege of visiting Taiwan and exchanged ideas with the Minister of Veterans Affairs. While serving as the nation-al vice president, she visited an VFW Ladies Auxiliary in Germany and was honored to dedicate a monument to the American soldiers in Schweinfurt.

Borel and her husband, Tony, who have been mar-ried for almost 40 years, have five children, 15 grand-children and five great-grandchildren.

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It was the “funny little green hats” that got Jennifer Viestenz inter-ested in learning about the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Her grandfather — a World War I vet — was being treated in a vet-eran’s hospital when she noted the men in the hats who visited him when he was sick. It was the respect and loyalty from the VFW members that got her attention.

“It made me decide that’s what I wanted to do,” she said. “As citizens, we need to give back to our veterans.”

As a result of the kindness she wit-nessed in her early 20s, Viestenz decided to join the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW. Viestenz is now actively involved as Washington State President of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. As the granddaughter of a veteran, and a wife of a retired sailor, she was able to become a mem-ber of the auxiliary.

“We have so much to offer to our community, not just veterans,” she said.

The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars was estab-lished back in 1914 with a simple goal in mind: “The members of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars set out to serve the veterans of this country and our com-munities in honor of the sacrifices and commit-ment of every man and woman who has served in uniform,” states the Ladies Auxiliary web-site.

Across the state of Washington, all 76 Ladies Auxiliaries participate in the con-cepts of scholarship, Americanism, cancer aid and research, and

extension. Worldwide there are 5,000 auxil-iaries with members spanning the globe.

The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars is open to any female who is tied to a service member. If a woman’s husband, father, grandfather or brother has served, she is eligible to become a part of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. Those who are widowed or are fos-ter or stepdaughters are also eligible.

Not everyone is aware of the benefits offered to women who join their local Ladies Auxiliary VFW, said the state president. The benefits include every-thing from a variety of health insurance plans to a Sears Commercial Club Rewards Program. Additional benefits include travel discounts, cancer grants and free prescription cards.

While the VFW often has a reputation for being a bar filled with old vets and nothing more, Viestenz and others will disagree. In Bremerton, the VFW Post No. 239 Ladies Auxiliary alone has 285 members who work toward disintegrating that reputation.

Once a month the group meets to discuss upcoming activities and needs of the local com-munity. For VFW Post

No. 239 Ladies, that often means donating school supplies, host-ing holiday dinners or sending care packages

overseas to deployed troops.

Ultimately, the goal is to provide support to veterans and the com-munity through events and fundraisers. While membership has been declining, it is the hope of Viestenz and others that community youth — especially in mili-tary communities like Bremerton — sign up.

“We need the younger vets and their wives to give us ideas of what to do to help younger vet-erans,” she said.

One of the most dif-ficult challenges of hav-ing an aging population as the foundation of membership is trying to recruit new and young-er members, Viestenz said. Members must be at least 16 years old, but there are also even younger junior units that allow girls to stop in to any post to send off troop care packages.

Added bonuses for youth include schol-arship opportunities and writing contests for monetary prizes. Additionally, Junior Girls ages 13-16 who are in good standing and serve their post can apply for scholarships to go toward a future col-lege education.

The youth program was the fifth program adopted by the Ladies Auxiliary VFW in 1935.

And while all the programs are important to female members, providing veteran and family support is often a favorite due to mem-bers’ strong military connections.

“I think our most worthy thing is working with the veterans,”said 30-year member Marjorie Hammill, a VFW Post No. 239 Ladies Auxiliary mem-ber.

Hammill joined because her husband is a disabled Vietnam veteran.

“He’s belonged for a long time,” she said. “He belongs; I belong.”

Hammill said it is events like the children’s parties and visiting the Retsil Veterans Home that makes being a member worthwhile. Watching donations roll in from various mem-bers and the community is a reminder to her of why it is important to

let people know what the Ladies Auxiliary is all about.

“It just seems like we have something all the time (to do),” said Hammill. “We do a lot for our children and a lot for our veterans all the time.”

Annual member-ship in Washington State costs between $15 to $30 per year. Life memberships are also available, and the cost depends on the appli-cant’s age as of Dec. 31 the year of the applica-tion.

For more information on the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, visit www.ladiesauxvfw.org; email [email protected] or call 816-561-8655.

Ladies Auxiliary units stay busy all year long

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Officers of The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Post No. 239 prepare for a monthly meeting. The orga-nization is tied to VFW Post No. 239, and is for women who have ties to service members. Members are all ages.

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National VFW President Sissy Borel, left, visits the Veterans Memorial in Port Orchard last month on a trip to the Kitsap Peninsula. VFW State President Jennifer Viestenz, right, showed off the Veterans Memorial to Borel.

Local auxiliary devotes time to helping veterans

“l think our most worthy thing is working with the veterans.” – Marjorie Hammill


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Drea Bowen never served in the military. But she wants to help those who have — specifically female veterans who suf-fer from post traumatic stress disorder.

“Women veterans have a difficult time re-integrating back into the life they had before they served, or before they went to war,” said Bowen. “Some of that is due to the fact that women in gener-al operate from their heart and soul. In combat, they have to disconnect from that in order to complete their mission.”

Helping women become whole again is what Bowen hopes to do through her Human Equine Alliance for Learning (HEAL) pro-grams. A certified HEAL therapist, Bowen has been using horses as a way to help heal women for sev-eral years.

In the past, she has worked with women who suffered abuse, who were recovering from breast cancer and youth who have been bullied or who are at-risk.

Now, she and two other therapists who work with at her Silverdale-area horse farm, are offering a program for women who are veterans or those who are still active duty, but suffering from traumas.

Currently she is hosting open houses to connect with therapists and oth-ers who work with women veterans. She hopes to find about eight female

veterans for a pilot pro-gram. She’s planning the first pilot program for female veterans on May 29, June 5, 12 and 26. The program will offer up to eight women veterans the opportunity to heal through equine therapy using methods of bond-ing with horses to deal with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD.)

In its most simple form, the therapy includes learning how to be in the moment, Bowen said.

“When these women have memories that are traumatic, instead of going back to that, they learn how to be in the present,” Bowen said. “It’s a matter of self-regula-tion.”

In these stressful moments, Bowen said, the women recall the bonding they have had with the horses and use that feel-ing to create neurological pathways to stay in the present.

“We are social animals,” she said of women. “So are horses. By experienc-ing simple things like exercising the horse and grooming or walking with them, there’s a mindful awareness that women learn. And then, they can connect to that and be in that when the stressful memories surface.”

Bowen said, through her own education, she’s learned to do that to regu-late the stress in her own life. She said she’s also very well aware that for female veterans who suf-fer PTSD, there is a poten-tial for trauma to surface.

“Our mission is not to

create an environment to trigger those wounds,” she said. “But that is a possi-bility. That’s why the vet-erans in our pilot program will all be working with a clinical therapist so that they have someone to talk with about that.”

Equine work, rather, is a method veterans can use to stay in the moment and not go to the dark places, unless they are with a talk-therapist and in a situation where that is the aim, she added. If they don’t already have a therapist, they can find

one through Bowen’s pro-gram.

Many people ask Bowen “Why horses?”

The answers are sim-ple, she said. Horses don’t judge. They respond to each other and to humans. And they are in a natu-ral environment. These are the things that make horses a great way to re-integrate women with who they are as people.

One of the issues Bowen knows the program will have to deal with is sexual abuse that has happened to women while in the

military.“ T h a t ’s

a very real t h i n g , ” she said. “ A g a i n , t h e s e women will be work-ing with therapists, in addition to the work with our horses. But we will be to help the women learn ways to stay in the moment in order to deal with stress and trauma.”

The pilot program is a way for Bowen to deter-mine what the true needs of women veterans are, she said. Once the pilot is completed, Bowen is hop-ing to offer more sessions for veterans, and eventu-ally some separate ses-sions for male veterans, as well.

The pilot sessions are from 5:30 to 8 p.m. for four weeks. Cost is $100, but there are some schol-arships available.

Brenda Newell, LCSW, and Michele Kaster, LMHC, are the therapists who work with Bowen under the program name “Heart of the Herd.” Any female veterans wanting to be a part of the pilot program can call her at 360-509-2948. Enrollment applications will then be sent to potential attend-ees.

Bowen is hopeful that as the program grows, some of the participants will come back and volun-teer to help other women veterans suffering with PTSD.

“Our real goal is to help

w o m e n m o v e t h r o u g h the heal-ing pro-cess,” she said. “We are natu-rally social beings. It’s critical for us to have that con-

nection. That’s what will move us toward getting our lives back together again.”

To learn more, go to www.DreaB owen.com. Services are extended to women veterans expe-riencing PTSD as well as active duty military women who are seeking support with reintegrating all aspects of themselves back into life at home.

Bowen also is seeking input from women in the military and female vets for ideas on what to name the program. The women attending the pilot program will be sorting through submissions and choosing a name during the pilot series.

“We want to involve the women who are in the trenches so it repre-sents what is meaning-ful to them,” she said. “Wounded Warriors, Horses for Heroes (other national programs) didn’t feel quite right to us.”

She said she welcomes all ideas and the woman with the winning submis-sion will win free par-ticipation in an upcom-ing retreat or series. Submissions can be sent to [email protected].

Equine therapy aims to help female veterans

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An equine therapist, Drea Bowen is helping female veterans.

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In less than two years, Brandman University alumnus Mike Tassin has expanded Operation: GoodJobs in Tacoma, taking on the role of vet-erans services manager at the Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier region (formerly Tacoma Goodwill). In that time, Tassin has not only grown the initial pro-gram in Tacoma to help an increasing number of veterans learn new skills and find jobs, but he’s

also grown the staff, and established new partner-ships with area compa-nies that want to hire veterans.

“The most rewarding in all this is the ability to use a number of qualities I possess, and I get to set the rules,” says Tassin, himself an Army veter-an. “If something’s not working, we can change it. There’s not a lot of red tape.” Tassin oversees programs, counsels vet-erans, helps them with their financial situa-tion and connects them with various resources.

In fact, a staff mem-ber briefly interrupted our interview to get the ‘okay’ to buy tools for a veteran starting a job in construction. So far, 441 veterans have enrolled in Operation: GoodJobs, with 270 placed in jobs.

Tassin is partnering with several local com-panies that want to hire veterans, including Wells Fargo and Starbucks. For example, one of the new partnerships includes a community store with Starbucks located at the intersection of Highway 12 and South Tacoma

Way in Lakewood. Starbucks donates 10 cents of each transac-tion at the store to the Operation: GoodJobs program in Tacoma.

It takes more staff members to manage the growing range of services and programs. And true to the mission, Tassin hires people with a pas-sion for helping mili-tary veterans. His staff of seven and two interns is made up of veterans or spouses of military service members. “We’ve built a great team,” says Tassin. “I can’t do all this

stuff by myself, and these people live it.” For his efforts, Goodwill hon-ored Tassin at the end of last year with the Innovation Award for his team’s innovative approach to help vet-erans and attract new funding sources to the program.

Tassin credits his edu-cation for a lot of his success. He completed his bachelor’s degree in human services at Western Washington University, and earned his master’s in psychol-ogy with an emphasis

in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University College, now Brandman University.

If there’s a downside to the program’s expansion, Tassin notes that he’s a little further “removed from clients, and forced to focus more on num-bers.” But there’s a reme-dy for that, too. He’s now a licensed therapist, and counsels clients at a small private practice in Lacey.

“It’s what keeps me grounded and in touch with those I serve,” says Tassin.

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She always possessed a natural curiosity. When Chimacum’s Nancy McDaniel was stationed in the Air Force, whether it was in the United States or abroad, she and her husband, retired fighter pilot Glenn L. Davis, traveled to locations that were rich in military his-tory. Many of those sto-ries were chronicled in details by others. But when McDaniel returned

to the Northwest after she retired in 1997 from Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, she found few details when it came to military history in Washington state.

McDaniel saw a void.“I always enjoyed kind

of the history of the state,” she said, who was raised in Chimacum and earned her bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Puget Sound. “When I was a kid, we would head over in a camper or truck to Fort Simcoe in eastern

Washington. We always would hit the historical sites.”

McDaniel, 60, then embarked on a decade-long project dedicated toward research before publishing “A Sound Defense,” which examines military sites, lighthouses and memorials of Puget Sound in her 340-page book that was printed last year. The book is divid-ed into a dozen chapters with each focusing on a specific county. McDaniel said she felt that was the best way to keep the book interesting to both “the military and histori-cal person,” which is her primary clientele for this project.

Unlike her childhood sightseeing adventures, McDaniel drove through-out the Puget Sound region with a purpose. She interviewed count-less subjects, who often referred her to others that possessed histori-cal photos. McDaniel said she gathered enough information to write “vol-umes” on each county’s military history, but had to cull much of that infor-mation to keep the book coherent and concise.

She said perhaps the most painstaking process was finalizing several maps in the book.

“I guess it’s like birthing a baby,” she said, referring to finally seeing the fin-ished product. “I never birthed one, but I guess it’s kind of like that.”

Some of that process unveiled women’s his-tory. McDaniel chroni-cled the Mount Rainier Ordance Depot, which served Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, as part of her

Pierce County chapter. As McDaniel detailed, MROD worked on nearly 1,000 vehicles per week as workers “replaced parts, cleaned engines, replaced belts, and reassembled them for deployment.”

That opened opportu-nities for young women when Secretary of War Henry L. Stinson asked in September 1942 that the number of women work-ing in support of defense industries double. Clover Park High School in Lakewood became one of the first to respond, McDaniel noted, when it established a women’s mechanic-training pro-gram. She stated that eight-week program “cul-minated in students tak-ing a basket filled with vehicle parts and assem-bling an engine.”

Those students then were given a key to start the engine. McDaniel said if they were successful — and 99 percent were — they were given a job on the assembly line at

$1.50 per hour. McDaniel said she believes that is when the public’s view of American women as June Cleaver, the fictional homemaker from “Leave it to Beaver,” began “to fade a bit.”

“They were repairing everything from Jeeps to building bombs,” she said. “It kind of changed the world as far as women in the workplace.”

McDaniel said that is one of the more popu-lar stories she shares during her speaking engagements. Since the book was published, she said she shares some of those stories, ones from her previous book, “The Snohomish Tribe of Indians — Our Heritage, Our People,” which was printed in 2004, and her own career as a Medical Service Corps Officer to groups.

“There was a whole fab-ric that was built out here and someone needs to talk about it,” McDaniel said. “It might as well be

me.”McDaniel has an array

of interests. While she was stationed in Texas, she and her husband ran race horses. She also dabbles in artwork that ranges from abstract to nature.

But her thoughts never stray too far from the mili-tary. Both McDaniel and her husband remain active in the American Legion and still wear their uniforms when they visit Canada for an annual event hosted by the 49th Marines.

In the meantime, McDaniel will continue to share stories and hopes to sell more of the 1,000 books that were printed. She said about half have been purchased.

“It’s history and that his-tory is going to be good again next year,” she said. “It’s not like an apple where you’ve got to sell it when it’s ripe.”

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There will be a Stand Down for all area vet-erans at the Sheridan Community Center in Bremerton on Saturday, April 26.

The event will be hosted at the Sheridan Park Community Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and veterans are required to have an ID to enter. Veterans should bring their DD214 or dis-charge papers to the event for faster entry.

Retired, active duty, reservists or National Guard members are required to bring a current ID.

Free services include legal advice, clothing give-aways, groceries, employ-ment referrals, housing options, vision screening, haircuts and more.

The event address is 680 Lebo Blvd. in east Bremerton.

Local veterans are also reminded that there will be a Ride to Tahoma on Memorial Day weekend. More details will come next month.

Women veterans summit is Sept. 20

“Dare to Dream-A Celebration of the Warrior Within” will be Sept. 20 at the Spokane Convention Center. The event is for women vets of all ages, including National Guard and Reserve and transi-tioning members.

The event will be at 334 West Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. In the upcoming months, more information will be available regarding speakers, workshops and registration. Contact Barb Logan at [email protected] or 360-725-2227. Or go online to www.dva.wa.gov for updated information.

Funding complete on MSC Veteran’s Housing Project

Multi-Service Center (MSC) in Federal Way recently announced that funding for the project is complete. The center expects to break ground on the project in early fall and anticipates the building will be ready for occupancy by the end of 2015.

Robin Corak, MSC’s CEO, said that the MSC began seeing an increasing need for services for veter-ans in South King County a few years ago.

“We are thrilled to

be able to offer service enriched housing for those men and women who have served our country and are now needing assistance with obtaining safe, stable housing in South King County,” Corak said. “In addition to older veterans, MSC anticipates that we will see a new and growing demographic of veterans such as individuals return-ing from having served in Iraq and Afghanistan. King County veterans have identified housing and employment assistance as being amongst their great-est needs.”

The roughly $13 million housing facility is being developed in partnership with Shelter Resources Incorporated and will be located at 294th and Pacific Highway in Federal Way. The project will offer 44 one-, two-, and three-bed-room units to veterans and their families.

All units will be fully furnished and 27 units will be eligible for rental subsidies through the Washington State Department of Veteran’s Affairs in collaboration with King County Housing Authority. Residents will pay rent based on poverty level guidelines.

Vital services will be offered on-site, including housing case management, employment assistance and child advocacy. In addition, classes in education, finan-cial management, technol-ogy skills and job readiness may be offered on-site. MSC will work closely with other entities that provide much needed services to veterans.

Retired Army Ranger publishes children’s adventure book

ROCKLIN, Calif. - After 28 years in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger and public affairs officer, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Ray Cordell published “Airborne Bunny.”

The book’s main charac-ter is based on the stuffed animals many troops take with them to war as a good luck charm or to remind them of home and family.

Cordell was inspired to write “Airborne Bunny” for his son, Ranger, because several friends had chil-dren who struggled with fear, unable to sleep alone in their rooms. “A neigh-bor’s child found comfort in an Army doll I gave him as a gift,” Cordell said.

“That gave me the idea to create a character that has been trained by the best, those who keep the world safe.”

The story introduces us to Airborne Bunny, who has trained with the military over the course of generations, and has now taken on the role of protecting young boys and girls who are afraid of being alone in their rooms at night.

“I spent decades leading, guiding and training young men and women who pro-tect our country, and now I’m taking on a tougher challenge in raising a tod-dler,” Cordell joked. “But in all seriousness, Airborne Bunny is a symbol of the soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines who are on guard 24/7 so that each of us can sleep safely in our homes at night.”

Cordell became a father shortly after retirement, and those who have known him throughout his mili-tary career are shocked to learn that this “hardcore” soldier has become a chil-dren’s book author.

“No one is more sur-prised than me,” Cordell said. “Fatherhood is an overwhelming influence. So I went to the basics of successful soldiering — adapt and overcome! Become one with the envi-ronment in which you find yourself and influence that environment to support your mission.”

“Airborne Bunny” is available on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and iTunes. For more information, go to www.airbornebunny.com or call 443-370-3291.

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By Thom StoddertThe Pierce County

Sheriff ’s Chaplain is very much more than a spiritual person ministering to the sheriff ’s deputies that work in the communities around Tacoma.

Rick Bulman is a for-mer combat Marine who served in Vietnam and now serves the residents of Pierce County in a variety of capacities. He is heavily involved with the deputies and their family matters, the people of Pierce County, and several veterans’ groups, focusing on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

He has two priorities; first is to God; second, to the military, including active duty service members, vet-erans, and law enforcement.

For Bulman, the line between civilian and the military is often blurred. Law enforcement officers often experience the same symptoms and issues that combat vets have. When there has been a “criti-cal incident,” usually with a fatality, working with the survivors is just like dealing with a unit that has suffered combat casualties.

Chaplain Bulman’s career

started while still in the Marine Corps, when he realized that he had issues left over from Vietnam. This led him to involvement in Point Man International, a faith-based veteran’s group that worked a lot with PTSD victims and re-adjustment issues.

In time he was working with other veteran groups, most focused on soldiers just returning from the present conflicts. He also learned that PTSD often affects members of law enforcement.

You might say he is the perfect man for the job — he’s been there, done that, and is still at it for both communities.

The formal preparation for his job for the Pierce County Sheriff consisted of hours of training to be able to work with grief strick-en survivors and added to this, the debriefing of law enforcement officers, mem-bers of the fire departments, and the search/rescue teams.

Many of whom have just taken part in events with fatalities while they were also endangered. It wasn’t long before Rick understood many of these people are

also veterans, themselves, members of the National Guard with histories of deployments.

The training Bulman received has been qualified under the auspices of vari-ous international accrediting agencies. His education is ongoing, reinforced by sem-inars, schooling, and licens-ing. Thus he is indirectly being trained to provide help for veterans through Point Man International and other organizations.

He is also part of the ICS, a program instituted by presidential order after the first attack on the World Trade Center. This program allows various civil agencies to communicate with each other and form an organiza-tion, modeled to deal with a specific crisis with flexibility and appropriateness under the management of Federal Emergency Management Agency.

All of this puts Rick on call 24/7.

But on his days off, Chaplain Rick performs marriages. Once a Marine, always a Marine, then a spe-cialist and volunteer giving back to the community like so many vets do.

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If you ask Jean Sherbesman about herself, she’d tell you that she doesn’t have a story. She’d tell you she’s had a good life, with two wonder-ful and loving husbands and two beautiful and talented daughters.

She’d tell you that she’s proud of her daughters and her five grandchildren and her one great-grandson. She’d say there’s been down sides and up sides and that overall, she’s been very fortu-nate and has few regrets.

And that would be all. Unless you happened to

ask a few more questions. That would be when you’d learn just how interesting her life has really been.

Sherbesman, who turns 92 this month, has lived in Silverdale since 1972. She ended up on the Kitsap Peninsula after she married a man named Bill from Seattle, who served in the U.S. Navy and was among the first Americans who landed at Nagasaki within 48 hours of the atomic bomb being dropped on Aug. 9, 1945. After the Navy, he worked as a civilian in the Navy supply yard and eventually ended up at Bremerton.

She hailed from a small rural village, Brixworth, in Northhampshire, England. She had a brother and two half-sisters and her family “had plenty” although she despises the term “upper-class.”

“I hate the very thought of classes,” she said, still with a bit of English accent to her voice. “Class doesn’t make an

individual.”Her childhood memories

are mostly of the boarding school she attended. She lived at school, only com-ing home for two weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, and six weeks in the summer. She had friends at school but felt distant from her family.

“I just didn’t see that much of them,” she said. “I don’t really think boarding school gave me much of anything. I would consider it a negative.”

But when she graduated in July of 1939, she returned home to be with her family and begin her adult life.

“I hadn’t a clue what I wanted to do,” she said. “But it didn’t really matter much anyway. Because it wasn’t long before the war began.”

The following September, World War II was a reality for her.

“The tension and the fear … we were so hoping it wouldn’t happen,” she said. “England was a very small country and very unpre-pared for war.”

As did others, her family gathered around the radio and listened.

“I remember my dad cry-ing,” she said. “That was the hardest thing for me to see.”

The war changed her plans. She had to grow up much faster than she wanted.

“It was a time in life when we thought we would be care free … young women just out of boarding school with life opening up to them — able to make whatever we wanted of our lives,” she said. “All of a sudden that was taken from us. There was nothing but the war.”

For a time, she tried nurs-ing. She worked at a hospital in Oxford, but admitted that she was “a bit of a wimp.”

“In those days, nurses training meant cleaning the floors and the bed pans,” she said. “And I didn’t get along very well with the head matron.”

She recalled having to wear a calico dress that but-toned up the front and had buttons all the way down both sleeves. She wore a white apron over it and had starched cuffs and collar that had to be attached individu-ally. And the white cap.

“It was dreadful,” she said. “And when the (air raid) sirens would go off in the night, we had to get up and put on all that before we could report to work.”

After six months, Sherbesman and the matron agreed that she should not be a nurse.

She returned home to her

village and did her part for the war effort. She stood watch throughout the nights.

“I’d go on patrol in the streets of the village watch-ing for planes above,” she said. “You could tell the dif-ference between our planes and the German planes because the German planes had a different rhythm to the engines. They had a pulse to them.”

Although she had a gas mask, she remembered feel-ing very vulnerable because she didn’t have a tin hat like others on patrol.

“I put a cloth on my head and then I put one of my mother’s sauce pans on my head,” she said. “When the men in charge saw that, they all laughed at me.”

One night, she watched nearby Coventry light up with bomb fire.

“We saw it being bombed,” she said. “We saw the German planes fly over and then we saw them flying back.”

With love of her country in heart, she decided to join the land army.

“But my father wouldn’t hear of that,” she said. “He was very Victorian. So I joined the Royal Women’s Air Force.”

Like in the U.S., recruits went to boot camp.

“That was a eye-opener for me,” she said. “I’d been in all-girls schools that were very prudential,” she said. “In boot camp there were girls from all walks of life. The first night I sat up all night on my bed with my mouth and my eyes wide open. I heard things I never even knew existed. It was a real education.”

Much of the time was spent marching and drilling

and doing chores. Because there was a paper short-age and very limited supply of toilet paper, one of her chores was to tear up maga-zine pages for use as toilet paper by the generals.

“Another girl and I tore it into two-inch by two-inch squares,” she said. “We thought we’d be punished for making them that small, but nobody ever said anything to us.”

Sherbesman’s assignment was to be a plotter, some-one who stood at a table with a large grid and tracked enemy aircraft so that the controller who was above them could warn pilots to intercept them.

“It could be exciting, espe-cially when you would hear the ‘tally-ho,’ and then vic-tory calls,” she said. “It wasn’t so good when we lost a pilot.”

For a time she served on Isle of Mann, where there were also American troops. At one point Germany was expected to invade England via Isle of Mann.

“We had to practice our defense maneuvers,” she said. “We crawled through the ditches on our bellies. And we shot rifles. They kicked like a mule.”

When the war ended in mid-1945, Sherbesman returned home and prompt-ly entered King’s College in London to study physical therapy. Following that she moved to Canada to work with polio patients.

“They were still ration-ing in England,” she said. “You couldn’t buy anything. I wanted to see the world. Canada had an outbreak of polio. So that was going to be my first stop.”

She was in Alberta and Saskatchewan for a

year, before moving on to Seattle. She caught the eye of a patient named Bill and he asked her out. But she couldn’t date a patient.

“So he got well real fast and we began dating,” she said.

Eight years later in 1960, they married and began their life together. Their daugh-ters, Susan and Karen, and their families live close by. Karen is a nurse practitioner and Susan has a career in law enforcement.

Sherbesman lost her hus-band Bill in 1988. Following that, she met a man named Bert and in 1992 they were married. Bert also was a Navy man, a flyer in the Navy Air Force serving in Guam and the Philippines. He died in 2010.

She never made it around the world, although she did visit Australia and New Zealand, two places that were on her list. Maybe that’s why she thinks she doesn’t have a story to tell.

Instead, she says she has just a few words of wisdom.

“I’ve learned not to put my values in things,” she said. “Things are replaceable, but you can lose them at any time.”

Instead, it’s the people you meet that really matter, she said.

“I remember the last time I saw my father, he had a mes-sage for me,” she recalled. “I’d gone to see him in 1960 and taken my new husband Bill with me. Father was so proud of this old bottle of brandy he had. It was a dusty old bottle that he brought out from the cellar. He insist-ed we all have some, even the housekeeper and her hus-band.

“He made a toast and said he had no regrets, he was proud of all his children and he’d had a wonderful life. I thought, ‘wow, that’s great to be able to say that at the end of your life.’”

Her father died six months later at age 86.

Sherbesman has spent the rest of her years in the U.S., being a wife and mother, working some as a physical therapist, outliving two hus-bands, and now, a Hospice volunteer when she can.

It’s not been the excit-ing life traveling the world that she planned. But just as her father was, she’s happy, proud of her children, thinks she’s had a great life, with few regrets.

And that is Jean Sherbesman’s story.

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A good idea is given to a member of the Washington State Legislature. Then spon-sors, other legislatures, are found. Then it gets compli-cated; the good idea is writ-ten and re-written into a bill. The bill goes into commit-tees for debates, public com-ments/hearings, and finally a series of votes whether the

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The VLC is led by the very capable Jim Sims, a retired Marine and other veterans, all with a deep commitment to the active duty members, veterans, and their families. They meet each week when the Legislature is in progress during the year and other times for training. Though the VLC is very professional, a thick skin is an absolute requirement from all the inter-service jokes passed around. Despite all the ver-bal abuse the Marines receive they are often the first volun-teers found to meet with the elected officials and encour-

age them to vote in favor of a particular issue.

So what are some the b i l l s / b e n -efits that have been worked on?

S e n a t e House Bill (SBH) 1858 and 1859 are c omp an i on bills that pro-vide college credit for mil-itary experience. It reads in part, “Recognizes the train-ing and experience gained through military service and eliminates the barriers for allowing service members to successfully reenter the civil-ianworkforce.” An example would be Navy Corpsmen or Army field medics who gen-erally have far superior skills and experience than civilian counterparts would have this

recognized for further civilian col-lege training, thus saving the service m e m b e r time, money and resourc-es.

M a n y times service m e m b e r s , v e t e r a n s , and fam-ily members moved to Washington

state from elsewhere and in order to continue their education (that was inter-rupted by the demands of the military,) was forced to pay out-of- state tuition while waiting the one year resi-dency requirement. Anyone who has ever been to a col-lege in this state knows that unless they are considered a resident the cost per school credit is significantly higher. Yet Senate Bill (SB) 5318,

“Expands the definition of “resident student,” for pur-poses of eligibility for resi-dent tuition, to remove the one-year waiting period for veterans and active members of the military.” Education is not the only issue supported by the VLC.

SB 5834, would require more help for veteran owned businesses. It reads, “Encourages state agencies to award five percent of pro-curement contracts to veter-an-owned businesses.” This bill goes along with SSB 6049, “Provides employers with a credit against the business and occupation tax or public utility tax for hiring unem-ployed veterans. The enormi-ty of these bills to help vets, especially the younger ones to start their own business, and become reliant would be a real benefit to them and Washington State.

Something we all are try-ing to get out from under so to make our lives easier is tax relief. SSB 6446 would make

it easier to get lower rates on property taxes. It reads, “Increases combined dispos-able income amounts for property tax exemptions for service-connected disabled veterans, senior citizens, and persons with a disability.”

These are just a few of the proposed laws before the state Legislature being supported by the Veteran Legislative Coalition with help from the Washington State Department of Veteran Affairs.

Visit the Washington State Legislature website (www.leg.wa.gov) and do further research on any individual bill other bills of interests. It is a very user friendly website to access information.

Then contact your rep-resentative for Washington State and ask him or her to support the particular legis-lation.

The website gives contact information for all state rep-resentatives and senators.

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Tracyton-area resident Doug Clare remembers when Wheaton Way was a dirt road.

He recalls when he was young and his mother drove his father to work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She hated the brick streets and feared slid-ing into the water.

And he remembers when he was a firefighter at Bangor and responded to calls on the ammunitions dock, fear-ing the whole place might go up in a big, loud bang.

Clare is one of the remaining descendants of the Samuel Norvel Clare family, a founding family of Bremerton.

Anyone who’s ever heard of the swampy area known as Clare’s Marsh or Clare Street will recognized the Clare name. It was Samuel and his wife, Josephine, who left Canada in 1889 and made their way to Whidbey Island. At the time they had three children, including Doug’s father, Chester. On Whidbey, the family grew by three more children and within a few years, they moved to Seattle.

Five more children were born in Seattle and the family dreamed of finding a place where they could have a farm and room to

spread out. So, once again in 1903 they moved to Kitsap County and settled on a 60-acre farm on the outskirts of what was Bremerton.

Today, that area is where Lions Field is located. And eventually, the family moved to near where Wheaton Way and Sheridan Avenue inter-sect.

Times were difficult then, as World War I set in, and following that, the Great Depression. Clare recalls the stories about his grand-mother making and selling pies to the shipyard workers for 10 cents. He was born in 1929.

“The farm was a diffi-cult life,” he said. “It was a good life, but all of my Dad’s brothers and sister and my Dad had to work the farm. They helped cut hay and they had cattle to tend to.”

Having originally come from Ireland a generation prior, his grandfather also tried to grow potatoes on the farm.

“That didn’t work very well,” Clare said. “I think there was only one year that they were any good. But I’ve heard the stories of my grandfather loading them up on the ferry and taking them to Seattle to sell.”

He also recalls the sto-ries his father told of the Navy putting out the call for anyone who had a team of horses to come down and

help build the roads into the shipyard. A photograph of that hangs on his living room wall.

Today, Clare is retired from years and years of fire-fighting. It was a skill he learned after he served in the U.S. Army. He gradu-ated from Central Kitsap High School in 1944, during World War II.

He attended just about every elementary school around because “there were so many new kids moving in and out all the time with the Navy, they kept chang-ing the boundaries,” he said.

He did odd jobs for a bit. But on Feb. 12, 1951, he was drafted in the Army and completed basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas.

“Infantry,” he said. “We were the foot soldiers.”

He learned to shoot and in his group at Fort Riley he was the second-best sharp-shooter. From basic, he was sent to Japan for four months for advanced infantry training where they did nothing but “drill, drill, drill,” he said.

“They made you mad so that you wanted to fight,” he said.

And then he was sent to fight in Korea during the Korean War. They shipped out of Seattle.

“There were 6,000 of us going over and only 2,000 came back,” he said. “We were snipers in the foxholes.

We were based at the bot-tom of Mount Fuji and it wasn’t much fun.”

He served a year in Korea and when he returned to the Pacific Northwest, he went to work in the same ship-yard where his father had worked. He was a ship fit-ter until he joined the fire department. In 1960, he went to work with the fire department at Bangor and then in 1976 he transferred to Indian Island. He retired from fire service in 1979, after 22 years.

“It was a clean living,” he said. “You’d see a bad fire once in awhile. But overall it

was just good work.”He married in 1959, was

divorced in 1969, and he had two sons. His youngest died, but the other one lives in Seattle.

His grandmother stayed on the homestead until 1924.

“It was the Depression,” he said. “My grandfather had left her and she owed $2,400 on the house. So she just walked away and left it.”

Because of its wet char-acter, it’s retained the name Clare Marsh.

As for the house where Clare lives now, his parents bought it in 1964. In 1970,

when his mother died, he took over the house. His parents had farmed in the Poulsbo area for years before moving to Tracyton in 1964.

And Clare’s niece, Virginia Jaxon, stays at the house to care for her uncle.

“Things have changed quite a bit over the years,” Clare said. “When I was a boy, we’d go down to the beach to dig for clams. We’d take a team of horses with a hoe and run up the surface. And then someone would run behind us and pick up the clams. You couldn’t do that today.”

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(Jack B. James: “The Jackal” is a contributor to Veterans Life. He served as CDR, USN, Ret., US Navy SEAL.)

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