European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday december 14, 1985 eligibility expanded for Vietnam memorial by Kathryn Baker associated press a Dho Toa woman searches for her Ion s name of memorial. No other War memorial is so personals me Long Black Wall that reflects the names of the dead with the lace of come daily to the Vietnam veterans memorial searching Lor the name of a blend acquaintance loved one. They leave Lowers and letters. But most important they see the name or touch it. The memorial was built with private donations hut the military provided the names. Last summer maybe in August or september a year ago. We had some friends that were going Back to Washington. D.c., so we asked them to look up my son s name on the memorial said Leo Broadhead. Who lives in Edmond. Okla. They did and they found out it was not on there so they told us about this that it was not on his son air Force it. Larry Broadhead was killed in 1969 when his bomber crashed As it was taking Oil irom Guam Lor a combat Mission. So my Wile wrote to he department of defense. We figured Well it was just a mistake Broadhead said in a Telephone interview. It was not a mistake. We got a letter irom the Secretary of the air Force s Ollice staling he was not eligible to be on the memorial because it was just an aircraft Accident and he was t killed in the combat Larry Broadhead was flying his 88th combat Mission said his lather. He was co Pilot on a b-52 loaded Wilh More than 100 bombs and a full Supply of Luel. About 15 seconds after Takeall it rolled Over and went into the Ocean Broadhead said. The Crew of six was lost. Because of the darkness no one saw what happened. Broadhead is certain there was something wrong with the plane. Ii was a Good Crew he said. Broadhead. A retired air Force lieutenant colonel served Wilh his son and the rest of the Crew James l. Sipes of Kansas City Russell Plait Las Cruces. . Maurice e. Lundy Kansas City Thomas r. Mccormick Johnson cily. Tenn. Howard Deal. Detroit. When he graduated irom the University of Utah i went Down and commissioned ail the Roth boys of his class commissioned pm. So we were pretty close All the Way through said the lather. Before Leo Broadhead retired from the air Force he spent six months in Thailand. He used his influence to get Larry s Crew sent there. We spent 45 Days together. He was Hying b-52 combat missions and i was Hying Kc-135 combat Broadhead said. So White we were there on his Day Oil he d go Fly with me and on my Day Oil i d Golly with at the end of their stint in Thailand he dropped Larry Oil in Guam and went on to Hawaii. They notified me about 2 o clock in the morning in Hawaii that he was Broadhead said. Anyway we got this letter Back irom the Secretary of the air Force. It was very very cold letter just stating he was t eligible to be on it. Of course when i read this letter i was furious about this thing and i d made up my mind at that Lime i was going to do something about with help irom some congressmen especially sen. Don Nickles. A okla. Broadhead did something about it. Last month the Vietnam veterans memorial fund the private organization that built the memorial announced thai 96 names including Larry a would be added next memorial Day. The defense department expanded the eligibility to include those killed on missions in route to or irom the combat zone not just those killed inside he zone. Larry Broadhead s widow Barbara lives in Houston Wilh the couple s iwo children a boy and a girl now 16 and 18. Mrs. Broadhead was pregnant with their son when Larry was killed. I just Hope it gets done she said alter she Learned that the names would be added. It Means a lot to my Nodine it Che k mtr no amount of moff Loup Ejof. Miffy it Umno in ofkvhu1hh6a pm Lutaf. Hokan of foot in truth \lfncauk3oaa.amt about Couk \ Foft \ or Luj tub mum Oei lha Ofui. Okay 7v , salesmen 35 footless creature 30 Lien. Kobert 37 Boot part 38 society Gal 40 director Preminger 42 Small amount 44 company Symbol 46 pleased 50 Menlo Park vip 52 Corrida hero 54 Sharp tooth 55 newsy occurrences 50 fixes 57 cruel Down 1 beget2 blueprint avg. Solution 3 keen 4 boor5 make a Temple to 6 whirled 7 comes to Earth 8 califor Nia fort 9 Thrush s Cousin 10 author Ferher 11 tinted 12 frequently 18 21 pined time 26 i Nib Cole i t Abb seamenjski__2baglsene.c. Sojor n . 12-14 Ana. To yesterday s Puzzle 23 Here to Henri 24 United s rival 25 Alley 26 european Honey suckle 23 common rating scale 30 Yoko 3 exploit 33ak.a.lke 34 . Employee 39 Fiir haired one 41 monsters 42 metric prefix 43 Bonanza son 45 change of a five 47 Spring period 48 pretentiously aesthetic 49uno doubled s t bad deed 53 eggs 12-14 Nubert
