European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 3 the stars and stripes monday May 25,1987 news updates China fire spreads Beuing a a massive 18 Day old fire spread slowly to the South on sunday As firefighters worked to build firebreaks to hold in Back. The fire in the dating ailing Forest in northeastern China near the sino Sovil Border continued to head toward inner Mongolia a government official said. He said he did not know How far it was from inner Mongolia but it Mill was quite far  some 10,000 firefighters were trying to build firebreaks around the Southwest Edge of Blaze in Heilongjiang province he said Jet Crew s burial Warsaw Poland a with their Pilot s coffin leading the Way the Crew of the lot pol ish airlines right no. 50ss was buried saturday in ceremonies at tended by thousands of mourners exactly two weeks after their Ilii Shin jetliner crashed in names killing 183 people. 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To 40-48 or rat monday 9 in Umnus k Suttor of Tori Tolj no i  a  Rucoi Tod Bon 4am 4pm j by pm i. To Hail 64 a Mauu Dilu i7 5 Only woman killed by enemy fire honoured by town s Vietnam vets by Thomas Ferrah United press International in a Small courtyard behind Ault Nan Hospital in Canton Ohio stands a Bronze statue of army 1st a Sharon Lane the Only american service woman killed by enemy fire in the Vietnam War. On monday memorial Day a Wreath is to be placed at the statue by a Veter ans group renamed in i98s in Honor of Lane a representative of Unsung he Roines women veterans particularly wartime nurses. Some Guys dropped out of the Chap Ter saying in was t right to be named for one person said Bill Madden vice president of the Sharon Lane memorial chapter no. 199 of the Vietnam Veter ans of America in Canton. But we believe we did the right thing said Madden. We changed our name because we feel the woman Veteran is the forgot Len Warrior. We wanted to show respect to  Lane a 1961 graduate of South can ton High school and a 1965 graduate of Aultman Hospital school of nursing was killed in a Rockel attack on the 312th evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai on june 8, 1969. It was a month before her 26th birthday. Last year a women s Center at Ault Man Hospital Wai named for , Sharon Lane is a Symbol of a changing attitude one slowly beginning to recognize the contribution of women in military service of America s 27.j million vets 1.25 million Are women according to a Cen sus Bureau Survey in 1980, the first time the Agency asked women if they had been in the armed services. A 1982 study by the general account ing office found that although women Nave served in the military since at least world War i they have traditionally received fewer benefits and less recognition than males. Subsequently the Veter ans administration increased their benefits and redesigned a hospitals to better accommodate them. Last fall Congress passed a Bill to build a memorial o women veterans and an Effort is under Way to place statue of a servicewomen in Washington d.c., at the Vietnam veterans memorial. Lane is among the estimated 8,000 to 10,000 women about 85 percent of them nurses who served in Vietnam. She waste Only one killed by enemy action but seven others also died there one from a stroke one of pneumonia and five in non combat aircraft crashes. A few Yean after Lane got her nursing degree she thought she was t getting enough out of life recalls her Mother Kay Lane. She wanted something  was her Choice to go into the  on june 4, 1969, Lane wrote her parents a letter about life As a combat nurse it was her final letter Home. Four Days later in the rocket attack Sharon Lane was decapitated. Dear mom and dad got your letter of april the 28lh, mom yesterday june 3. Today i go dad s of april 26th. Never know whal s going on with the mail. Working in ice intensive care unit again today got to 102 degrees and ice is air conditioned. They have a Lotof realty sick patient. Had three die yesterday. They still have four on respirators. None Loo Good either this unit the 312th evacuation hos Pital has treated 10,000 patients since we arrived last september unbelievable Register office had a poll going to see what Lime and what Date me 10,000thpatient would be admitted. It was yester Day morning. Haven t heard who won he Money yet. They put plastic or rubber floor tile Down in the mess Hall the evening before last. Looked real Nice till yesterday noon when it got hot. The tar came up be tween the tile and it got stuck All Over the place How did the homemade ice Cream turn out Start nights tomorrow so 1 Donl have to set up Early tomorrow. Nice thought. Sliwi very quiet around Here. Haven t got ten mortared for a couple of weeks now. We Are getting some new nurses this week. Read a Book last night and missed a Good Lee Marvin movie at the men Well Slop for now. Getting sleepy. See a sooner Shar in 1973 the City Council of Canton an Industrial town of about 90,000 Resi dents decided to build a memorial to the Hometown heroine. It raised j8.872 in contributions and placed a s-foot-4 statue of Lane atop a Marble base inscribed with the names of110 Stark county servicemen killed in Vietnam. The statue bears the words bom to Honor Ever at peace the Vietnam veterans chapter in can ton dedicated itself to Lane and All women who served in Vietnam on me Morial Day 1985, in officially becoming the Sharon Lane memorial chapter no. 199 of the Vietnam veterans of America the Chap Ter wrote we Hope this Small Effort will help these women receive More recognition in the future. These women fought the War by helping mend broken bodies heartland spirits sometimes with just a smile soft wort or gentle touch. Everyone who passed through an evac station hat a memory or Story of a nurse. Perhaps she gave him Hope or courage. Perhaps she helped write & Teller Home. Perhaps she made his dying just a Little easier. God bless you we thank you. Welcome  Vietnam vets families Salute War dead Houston 1jpi retired army Gen. William Westmoreland led a two mile Chain of 200,000 Vietnam veterans and their families saturday in an emotional Parade honouring thuse who fought and died in Southeast Asia. Westmoreland who directed Ameri can military forces in Vietnam during the mid-1960s, walked 31 blocks through the muggy 85-Degrce weather before mounting a reviewing stand As veterans some on snitches some with their children on their shoulders marched by. Many of the marchers estimated at 200,000 by Parade organizers wore fatigues while others were in full dress uni form. Several wore red ribbons that read "powsm1as. You Are not  another unit represented the air Force of South Vietnam which lost its civil War with North Vietnam in 1975.marchers waved the old Flag of South Vietnam yellow with three red stripes. Older veterans from both world wars and the korean War joined the procession in cars. Another 15,000 people lined the Parade route in addition to the marchers organizers said. The Parade ended in Hermann Park where a copy of the Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington d.c., is in display. Parad Goen waved american flags yelled thanks and held Welcome Home Vietnam vets signs As the Veter ans and their families filed past this is great said Robert Powell of Houston a Veteran of the army s 25lti inf div. A j jut a shame they a find l do it 20 years  army Veteran Taylor Edwards of Bay town Clad in a Blackt shirt decorate with a purple heart and Bronze Star also deplored the delay in paying tribute to Vietnam veterans. This was a wonderful occasioned wards said. I m sure it makes everyone out Here feel our efforts weren t wasted. But Why did they wait so Long to Haveit Sarah Villareal of Deer Park brought her two children to see their father for Mer army staff sgt Earnest a Jeareal March past. It s All he s talked about for the but three weeks she said. It s a special Day for us and All thai served in  korean War Monument planned  a part y a duty Philadelphia a veterans of the korean War Are building a Monu ment so they will be remembered. The forgone War was not Vietnam but Korea. Any american who fought and died should have a better Fate than to be forgotten said sex Marine Charles Edward Mac Mccarren a Phila Delphia insurance executive who is chair Man of a Campaign to build the International korean War memorial. These Guys gave so much and got so Little. There should be some Symbol to show Chat Freedom is never free. Its Price is sacrifice Mccarren said. Some wonder Why it has taken More than 30 Yean since the War s end in 1953, for veterans to get together on a memorial. Mccain said when the War was Over All of us came Home picked up where we left off went Back to school went Back to raising  the group plans to raise $5 million in private donations for a memorial to be tries from the United nations whose sol Diers fought the North koreans and chinese. The memorial will show 15 soldiers fighting in the Snow. Tie scene was inspired by the Battle of the Chopin Reservoir where 15,000 trapped marines battled 120,000 chinese and subzero temperatures to escape to the sea. Built in los Angeles. Ground a taking at of clix do Weldon the sculptor who cry ated he 1 to Kitna memorial in Waihing Angels Gate Park is scheduled for june25, the 37lh anniversary of the North korean invasion of the South. Work is i peeled to Lake Twoy eare. The memorial will Honor the 16 com ton d.c., will build the Monument. It will probably be More dramatic and More moving than any others have done de Weldon said