European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Look written by col. Red Reader Hove inner tired Many readers in Weir Point. Reeder turned Down a $5,000 contract with the giants to toy in the army. Red Reeder West Pointer born at reveille by Walter Hennessey new York Bureau red Reeder a much decorated combat Veteran who has devoted nearly half his life to the training of to Point cadets has a stack of letters Tram Young men eager to join the Lon Gray line because they have read about the . Military Academy in his books. It s very flattering to get such mail and i Hope that some Day they will be Able to realize their ambition Reede told a visitor to the famed service school which has turned out some of the nation s top military leaders since be fore the War of 1812. But i certainly Don t attempt to glamorize this place in my writing. Wot Point is Tough. It s As Tough mentally As the marines Are physically. When a Cadet comes Here for his plebe mar. He is half boy and half Man. Noth ing has Ever been More rewarding Tome than witnessing the process that makes a Young Man into a s the real pay around if anyone should know West Point an the corps of cadets. It s Reeder. A Man who has Given 32 of his 64 years to the Academy in such varied roles As Cadet instructor and assistant football an baseball coach. At present he is the Academy s assistant director of athletic Sand is As much a fixture there As Michle stadium. Now. Reeder has turned out an a growing autobiography which be Calls Bora at reveille published by Danu Stoma and Pearce. It is a warm often Namorah Story at an army brat who Crew up on military reservations from Hawaii to Maine the son and namesake of an army officer who died a colonel after fighting in two books aptly titled since Russell Potter Reederjr. Was born at it. Leavenworth. Kan., March 4. 1w2, just As sunday March 20, 1966 the saluting gun boomed out for , in the dining room of his comfortable red Brick Home on the Westpoint grounds Reeder looked Back on his experiences and sipped a couple of glasses of cold Buttermilk and a cup of Tea us he talked about is colourful Ca reer. Bui Don t get the idea he has slowed Down any. He bustles Over the walks and athletic Fields on an artificial leg aftera combat wound suffered in the nor Mundy invasion travels with the Cade baseball tear which he helps coach seven months a Yea Rand tools along the winding Bear Mountain roads in his Blue has just come from a staff meet ing and suggested that his Quarter would be the Best place to talk. If we go Over to the athletic office he said lashing a wide almost Boyish Grin the phone won t give us a minute in the shelves around the Reeder study were come of the 21 books he has done in recent years most of them for Young people. Including a six volume eries about the life of a West Point Cadet be Calls Clint Lane. When Cadet Lane s in trouble wit the brass that s really to during my own Cadet Days be laughed. When he s doing what he s suppose to be doing i modelled him after a for Mer Cadet i admired very much Nam of Pat shortly after the first volume appeared Tluck West Point plebe Reeder said he started hearing from youngsters who read it and set their sights on West Point. As the number of books increased so did big mall perhaps some of his Young correspond in never realized they were writing Toa former Cadet and army sports hero Reeder captained the 1026 Cadet base Ball team and was a football drop kick specialist who saw action in both the Pacific and european Heaters during world War u. He was widely praised Aster author of a combat manual drawn from first hand experience on Guadal canal and later led his regiment in the so age fighting of the Normandy hedge rows. Along the Way. They Hung the distinguished service Cross. Silver Star. Pur ple heart. Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star on him. He also won the crop de Guerre with Palm. Frenchly Iun d Hon cur and seven other med als. A single round from a Gorman so Maui met or ripped open his left leg and Arm on a Doy plus five closing out a com Mand career which had extended Back to his 1126 graduation from West Shell Cost col. Red Reeder the leg and a sure thing promotion to brigadier general. It was a tune when a Man needed friends. Fortunately red Reefer had them in platoon strength from the Quick witted lieutenant who saved his life with a deftly led Tourniquet to the gis and generals including the chief of staff himself who sat at his bedside in Waller Reed army Hospital in washing ton and offered encouragement. Reeder bad six operations there in is months. Every time i looked Down at the endow the bed and saw Only one foot stick ing up from under the covers i d feels iry for myself said Reeder. Bui then i got a Roommate. The Doc tors told my wife Dort they were going to bring in another West Point graduate a major who lost his leg and refused total to anyone. He cold shouldered the doctors and would t even talk to his wife when she came to see him. I got so wrapped a trying to reach that Guy that i was Abw to forget some of my own problem., after the major snapped out of it they brought in an old football team mate of mine. Brig. Gen. Laverne 0. Blondy saunters an air Force Man woo had been in a plane crash. He a in bad shape taut i think i Nauy helped him some. Too. With All the Confidence i was handing out. I Felt like i was work ing for the army medical then Reeder related about his Westpoint it seems that a. Gen. Maxwell Taylor then Academy superintendent bad written him saying you can help the cadets. But the offer was turned Down As Reeder was Able to accept gratefully when a Friend showed him place of brawn scratch paper from Brig Gen of Oruc Honnen Cadet Comman Dant. It read ill take him in a ireeder took charge of a Cadet regi ment and later was assigned his present duties in the athletic department. He re Rcd from Active duty in 1m7. In the meantime be discovered his hair for writing. Aside from the Cadet books he produced numerous Al ump on the civil War one of which is a Slid in a Cadet military history Texas recommended Reading. I m quite proud of that he explained opening the thick volume and indicating a note describing his Book the Story of the civil War As the of Paghi the stars and stripes 11
