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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 15, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 the British Light aircraft Carrier Ark Royal leaves the Estuary of the River Tyne in fifth Ark Royal begins final sea trials a photo Northeast England for final sea trials before being turned Over to the Royal Navy in the fifth British warship to Bear the name Ark the vessel will carry vertical Takeoff sea harriers and sea King Viet vets who died outside War zone to be honoured Washington not the names of More than 300 Vietnam veterans who died outside the official combat zone will be carved into the Glossy Black Marble of the Vietnam officials said these veterans have been done an Indus said Don who is behind the just because of an arbitrary there not on the according to the 330 veterans were left off the shaped Monument be cause they died outside the official combat zone Laos and nearby coastal the Twoy Earold which now bears names of dead or is visited by thousands of people every the delicate engraving work will begin As soon As the defense department draws up a list of the names to be Many on the list will be aircrew members who were killed when their bombers crashed in route to this was an unfortunate said Paul a spokesman for if you died in a combat you should be on that the senator became involved when an Oklahoma couple complained that their Larry had been left Broadhead and five other air Force offi cers died on May when their b52 bomber crashed 12 minutes after taking off from the fully loaded with was on its Way to Broad of left a wife and two until last Mary his had believed that his name was on the but some friends of ours went to Washington in and i asked them to take a picture of larrys inscription on the me she they came Back and told me his name want she and her a retired air Force colonel who also served in approached the air Force about their they sent us a cold letter and said Larry want eligible to be on the memory Broadhead we were very i remember that i his name should be on she All these men who their names should be on even if they have to build another the names originally placed on the me Morial were taken from official lists of casualties in the combat because Broad head had died More than Miles he was not Nickles was and his staff met with the Vietnam veterans memorial the private group that raised million to erect the an agreement was quickly reached to add the the fund was very said they want to be As inclusive As they if you were a combat casualty in the Viet Nam you should be on that memory were glad to do said Jan president of the i dont see that this is anybody the fund has asked the memorials architects to determine where the names should be we can probably get close to 500 More names on the said William one of the architects involved in the he said they would probably be carved along the Bottom of the two 200 Foo Long Walls that make up the army fog fag lost during Wii turns up in Virginia a a retired Serviceman who thought he lost his dog tags in Germany during world War ii just cant figure How one of them turned up 43 years later in a pile of Virginia Otis said a Man found the identification tag recently and wrote to Hope this letter reaches i found your army dog tag in a Load of dirt delivered to my Home wrote David ill Send you the dog tag if you get this a former infantryman who fought in Europe from 1943 to replied in and Lutton sent him the tag with another it was with great pleasure to know i was Able to Contact Lutton wrote the Sec Ond Long said he remembers missing the tags sometime during the but he thought they were lost in i just cant figure it he an air Force apparently tracked Down the address of Longs Ivey where Long still Early in the dog tags also carried the name of the Serviceman Long retired in 1961 after 20 years in the service and spent the next 20 years working at the Milan army ammunition now that Ive retired the second my wife and i Hope to make that trip to see he texan fears Friend beaten to death in Mexico Minneapolis up bodyguards of one of Mexico most notorious drug dealers May have beaten and perhaps killed a former Minneapolis journalist and a Texas the father of the texan said in a newspaper Felipe father of Alberto a said Friday that officials told him two employees of a Guadalajara restaurant witnessed the beating of two men believed to be his son and John a former Minneapolis and Iowa journalist who had gone to Mexico to work on a a doctor from fort flew to Mexico shortly after the men were re ported missing my impression is that the boys Are he said in a Telephone interview from Mexico City with the Minneapolis Star and the embassy told me that they think there is a possibility that the boys Are from what i was told by mexican i really dont think twin cities philanthropist Percy Ross last week gave walkers and a plane ticket to Mexico City to search for her Radelat said mexican officials told him Rafael a drug dealer suspected of ordering the murder of a drug agent was having a private party at a Guadalajara the younger Radelat and Walker were having supper nearby and stuck their Heads inside the door when they heard he bodyguards reportedly took the identification of Walker and and pushed them inside the the boys had american so they thought they were drug the six men started beating and hitting they fell to the and the men kicked Radelat said he was the described As bloody and barely were seen being taken Radelat said he was last week car Quintero and seven others were arrested in Costa Rica follow ing a Brief Exchange of gunfire with aviation Pioneer Dies Santa a John a founder of the forerunner of United has died at the age of  
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