European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 30, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 a Day of remember America s War dead Ca Swib Ivle Washington on the polished Black Wall of death it is the last name on line 105 of panel 11wrobert . His parents tame from Georgia a couple of year Sago to see it. La really and truly Upsel his father recalled Doris Rabb Robert s Mother he could hardly stand first la. Robert Rabb was an Amy helicopter Pilot who was shot Down and died in Vietnam near the laotian Border on May 5,1970. He was 13 years old. While War filled the final chapter of his lift twas a Small part of he total. Before he was a Soldier Robert Rabb was a son a brother a boy scout a student a basketball player a Friend a . His name is Only one of so 156 names on the Vietnam veterans memorial. He is Only one of countless legions of americans who died in their ration s wars. He was just a boy from Small town .a., who was killed As he entered manhood. In that sense perhaps his Short life was not All that special. But today is memorial Day a Lime for remembering those like Robert Rabb. We educated you boys and then sent you Over there to gel killed said Doris Rabb. The Cream of the crop. Gone Robert Rabb was born on ocl. 16, 1946. He grew up in Darin the scat of Mclntosh county on the Georgia coast. Darin is a Small place with one blinking traffic Light and docks where shrimp boats lie up a Sion s throw from Highway 17, the Lown s main drag Mclntosh county has Long been known As a Tough place. Lately its hidden inlets have been used for drug smuggling. In the 1950s, when Robert Rabbas a boy there were clip joints where Isle on their Way to Honda would be cheated in crooked games of Chance. Long before that in was Fth Aven far pirates. Many a boy spent Lime slapping mosquitoes and searching for treasure on Black Beard s Island just across the Marsh from Danen. The Rabbs ran the dry cleaners in a town where everybody knows everybody. Robert Rabb loved the Tidewater marshes and mud Flats and Pincy Woods of Mclntosh county. He climbed Moss draped Oaks that have stood there for centuries. He Swan in the Sapele River. He knew the secret fishing drops and secluded Deer stands where a boy can plot his path in life As he sits and Waits for a Bass or a Buck. We always said that Robert was t interested much in girls right up to High school his Mother said. He d rather be Hunting or fishing. I in loved to go out with his he was a boy Seoul quiet and polite a Good Southern boy who said yes a am Anil Keisir to grown in a soft drawl. Robert looked up to his older brother wave. A Lali strapping youth Wayne was a Good basketball player. Robert was considerably smaller but when he followed Wayne to High school he went out for and now Many Mclntosh county families Send their children to Glynn Academy in Brunswick for their secondary education. It involves a half hour drive to and from school every Day but the preparation for College is believed to be better. At Olynn Academy Rabb played a team Basket Ball and served on the student Council. He wore Madras shirts and Wetmur. Shoes and cruised Sho Ney s on saturday nights. He graduated in 1964. He a cello North Georgia College in Damon a an institution with a Rich military tradition and Strong Roth program. He met Peggy there a pretty girl from Cairo ga., and they started dating. He graduated in 1968 and was commissioned in the army he went to flight school and Learned to Fly the big Huey helicopters. Robert and Peggy were married in 1969, Only a few months before he went to Vietnam. For a while it. Rabb had a desk Job then he started flying into s strange his Mother remembers that her son had t really had to go to Vietnam. Robert s ambition was to be a lawyer and he had been accepted at the University of Georgia Law school she said. He could have gotten a defer ment from Active duty. We encouraged him logo to Taw school. But he said you have spent enough Money on me. I la go do my duly and then come Back and let Uncle Sam pay for Law school " following Active duty he would have been eligible for educational benefits under the go Bill. Peggy was just a Lovely Pelion. They had every thing going for them Rabb s Mother said. She had visited a just before we heard. She had been shop k no for clothes getting ready to go Sec Robert Ina Waii on a phone Call shattered their plans. Ill never forget that Day said Doris Rabb. First came a voice on the phone and then a solemn Young Soldier to their House. Hint it. Rabb had been shot Down and was missing in action. They waited and hoped for two months. It was horrible just horrible his Mother Mccalle were afraid to go out of the House because the Telephone might ring with some but then the downed copter was found. The re Mains were sent Back and Robert Rabb was buried. Lawns is years ago. Since then Wayne Rabb. Robert s older brother died in an Accident Peggy Robert s widow Remar ried his father died last year. Doris Rabb still lives in Darin and works at the museum at fort King George. I was at a Little Gill s birthday parly ones and the Mother called her a very satisfactory daughter said Doris Rabb. That s sort of the Way i thin about Robert. He was always a very satisfactory the nation will pause today for picnics and parades and to remember the Robert Rabbs who gave their lives for their country Fawn Hall resists questions in drug dealing suit _. A Titi. Artin i a own Hir Toltl in Natiw the suit accuses 29 defendants of Alexandria a. A Fawn Hall fended off a lawyer s questions for two hours sat urday As part of ? lawsuit in which a Liberal polity group has charged that several run Contra figures were involved in drug dealing. In a testy session the former Secre tary to fired National Security Council aide Oliver North made a deposition in which she denied knowing several people involved in the suit. She was accompanied by her lawyer Plato Cacheris. Hail who is not a defendant in the Case also denied knowing about or said she had forgotten details of several meetings and documents on which she was questioned. At one Point when lawyer Philip Hirschkop asked her about Solcs North took after meetings she snapped i Don t sit around and watch my the session held in Hirs Flikop s office in a Washington suburb was open to the Public. The civil lawsuit was filed two years ago by the Christie Institute which is based in Washington. The Institute is representing two american journalists Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan who Are Becking s22 million for injuries Avirgan suffered when a bomb exploded at a May 19s6 news conference held in Nicaragua by former Contra Leader Eden Pastora. Three reporters were killed in the blast. The f a series of conspiracies including plans to provide weapons to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua smuggle cocaine into the United slates to finance Contra operations and assassinate a . Ambassador in Costa Rica to collect a Bounty. The defendant include Richard v. Secord and Albert Hakim who also fac criminal charges of theft and conspiracy in the Iran Contra affair. Thomas Green attorney for Secor Dand Hakim attended the deposition. The trial in the Christie suit is scheduled to begin june 26 in to fired a iu1i Don t Sil an Boss. Thre reporters wer Mica i us of. . American freed by Cuba in 1984 faces 2 charges. I. I .1 a _ i. A Vrtis in Hie uni twin a harped if Lake Park Fla. A one of 48 prisoners released by cuban president Fidel Castro when Jesse Jackson visited Cuba in 1984 has been charged with kid napping and aggravated Battery police said. Robert Samuel Young 39, was arrested Al 6 30 . Friday after More than a dozen Palm Beach county flier its deputies and police circled a House where he and his Girlfriend Kathleen Kunzig were holed up said sheriffs la. Donald Ganzel. Young was being held without Bond in the Palm Beach county jail on warrants charging kidnapping and aggravated Bat Tery a jail spokeswoman said. Kunzig 33, also was being held with out Bond on a Broward county warrant charging armed kidnapping according to a spokeswoman at the Palm Beach county stockade. Young was one of 22 americans freed from cuban prisons after Jackson made a humanitarian Mission to Cuba. Twenty six cubans were also forced Young had been jailed in Havana for three years on a drug smuggling charge the Miami Herald . Jackson campaigning saturday in new Jersey was asked about Young s arrest and replied i Don t know any thing about that. I Haven t had any Contact with them since 1 got them the kidnapping charges Stem from last August when a Man was ambushed after he repossessed a Sailboat when Young defaulted on a si5,000 loan said fort Lauderdale police detective Steve Robitaille. The ambush was allegedly carried out by Young Kunzig and two other men. Young shot the Man twice and tortured him for two hours until he revealed where the repossessed boat was docked Robitaille said fort Lauderdale police arrested Young in september but he fled several weeks later after posting si25,000 Bond the detective said. Bobby is a bad Guy said Robitaille who has been Hunting for him since he disappeared last fall. He s definitely somebody to be afraid Young also is a suspect in the 1984 murder of John Panzavecchia said Young has not been charged in that Dreu and Jon Spear Ranian Cicma s shooting police said widow Candy Panzavecchia told police. Castro has often been accused of re Cas Young and Kunzig were with her Hus ing violent prisoners United states band when he was filled. A ostensibly humanitarian grounds. Miami homicide detectives Nelson an Spear. Panzavecchia s in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 30 1948 Secretary of state George c. Marshall said current soviet peace move Artof a cynic Ropwr a Campov to offset the sincere Effort on our part to f 30 years ago today. Statehood Bills. 20 years ago today. May 30 i96s Eugene Mccarthy Defeated Robert f. Kennedy and Richard Ninon beat Ronald Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller in the Oregon president primary. 10 years ago today. May 30 1 978 former Cia director George Bush told a news conference the Agency Strath was Necea Arric grated some of
